| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 278 |
I would purchase a strong man from the market chain on the slave wharf, and then, saying nothing, set him free. |
10 |
| 13 | 48 |
"Put him in a market chain," said Lurius, "and sell him at the slaves' wharf". |
10 |
| 13 | 228 |
On the slaves' wharf I was, with little ceremony, added to the market chain. |
10 |
| 13 | 237 |
To one side, leaning against a heavy, roped post, supporting part of the structure of the slaves' wharf, cross-legged, there sat a fisherman. |
10 |
| 13 | 271 |
He then picked up his trident in his right hand and, not looking back, took his way from the slaves' wharf. |
10 |
| 13 | 513 |
My treasures were soon increased considerably, and the number of ships in my fleet, by captured prizes, was radically augmented, so much so that I could not begin to wharf them within the lakelike courtyard of my holding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 39 |
She went below the wharf and, standing on stones, washed her feet in the water. |
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| 5 | 73 |
When she was off the wharf to which the Tesephone was moored, I saw her cast a look over her shoulder, and begin to run between the bales and boxes near the warehouses. |
10 |
| 5 | 167 |
Where was Rim? "Captain!" called Rim, from the wharf. |
10 |
| 5 | 174 |
He snapped his fingers at her, pointing to the planks of the wharf at his feet. |
10 |
| 5 | 197 |
"Why have you asked me to the wharf?" I inquired. |
10 |
| 5 | 205 |
Angrily, I strode behind him, following him from the wharf. |
10 |
| 5 | 206 |
To my surprise, he led me to the wharf slave market. |
10 |
| 5 | 354 |
Two men at the bow thrust against the wharf with their poles. |
10 |
| 5 | 355 |
The wharf, as though it, and not we, were moving, dropped back from us. |
10 |
| 5 | 361 |
Several had paused in their work, to watch the Tesephone moving away from the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 201 |
We could now see the crew of the Rhoda casting lines to the men at the wharf. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 328 |
We brushed through the scrabbling workers and saw before us the wharf, and the serpent, sleek and swift, of Ivar Forkbeard, at its moorings. |
10 |
| 3 | 362 |
I turned and ran back to the wharf. |
10 |
| 8 | 234 |
We saw men running down the boards of the wharf, carrying lanterns. |
10 |
| 8 | 252 |
A gangplank was slid over the gunwale to the wharf. |
10 |
| 8 | 255 |
He spoke to them shortly and then, in the light of the lanterns, strode down the wharf. |
10 |
| 8 | 265 |
A wharf crew then busied themselves about the ship. |
10 |
| 9 | 474 |
This morning, at dawn, the serpent would leave the small wharf, dipping oars, gliding through fog on the inlet, the result of the cooler land winds moving over the somewhat warmer water of the encroaching Torvaldstream. |
10 |
| 22 | 1 |
I Take Ship From the North Slave girls, naked, carrying burdens, loaded the ship of Ivar Forkbeard, the Hilda, moored at the wharf of the Thing-Fields. |
10 |
| 22 | 2 |
We stood on the wooden boards of the wharf. |
10 |
| 22 | 49 |
Samos and Sarus turned about and left the wharf. |
10 |
| 22 | 210 |
Poles thrust the Hilda from the wharf. |
10 |
| 22 | 216 |
I turned back to the wharf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 422 |
"I learned of this from a captain, one known to him, with whom he spoke recently upon the salt wharf". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 4 |
I avoided the tar on the planks of the wharf. |
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| 20 | 7 |
I passed the throne of the wharf praetor, he in his robes, with the two scribes, for the settling of disputes which might occur on the quays. |
10 |
| 20 | 147 |
He struggled again to his feet and continued on, in the coffle, trudging along the hot wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 159 |
The prisoners, the men of Ar, disappeared down the wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 222 |
He spurned me from him with his foot, forcing me back to the hot planks of the wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 283 |
A male slave, his wrists chained, separated by some eighteen inches of linked metal, pushing a wharf cart passed me. |
10 |
| 20 | 336 |
Behind some boxes, on the boards of the wharf, he threw me down, under him. |
10 |
| 20 | 340 |
The wharf cart had been empty. |
10 |
| 20 | 361 |
He was approaching from down the wharf, carrying a sea bag, in the guise of a sailor. |
10 |
| 20 | 362 |
I wanted to run toward him, crying out, the length of the wharf, and throw myself to his feet, weeping, covering them with kisses. |
10 |
| 20 | 367 |
He stopped to buy a cake from a vendor on the wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 478 |
I knelt before him, on the boards of the wharf, eyes lifted, holding him. |
10 |
| 20 | 640 |
I recalled the fellow who had had the red-haired girl who had bested me in combat on the wharf. |
10 |
| 21 | 95 |
From the wharf, moorings were cast off. |
10 |
| 21 | 96 |
I saw three sailors, with long poles, edging the ship from the wharf. |
10 |
| 21 | 101 |
Slowly, gently, the ship began to move from the wharf. |
10 |
| 21 | 137 |
I looked at the wharf, which seemed to drift gently away from us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 140 |
Yesterday, after I had left the blond-haired barbarian at the wharf, I had taken lodging at the Cove of Schendi, a rooming house in the vicinity of wharf ten which caters to foreign sailors. |
10 |
| 3 | 41 |
The crew and male passengers of the Blossoms of Telnus had also been sold by Bejar to Vart, but these had been auctioned by Vart in the morning, on the wharf blocks, as work slaves. |
10 |
| 4 | 4 |
We stood in the vicinity of the high desk of the wharf praetor. |
10 |
| 4 | 13 |
"I have been robbed! What are you doing about this?" "Be patient," said the wharf praetor. |
10 |
| 4 | 30 |
"Vart's man," said he, "delivered her to the wharf, where he knelt her among the cargo to be loaded on the Palms of Schendi. |
10 |
| 4 | 60 |
New data had been furnished to him from a wharf runner, who had her sales information in hand, brought from the records of the house of Vart. |
10 |
| 4 | 102 |
There seemed to be something going on now at the post of the wharf praetor, so I returned to that area. |
10 |
| 4 | 348 |
The markets were, for the most part, save the wharf markets, deeper in the city. |
10 |
| 4 | 706 |
The rack was opened and the girl collapsed, shuddering, on the wharf. |
10 |
| 5 | 266 |
I had seen him, too, later, in the vicinity of the desk of the wharf praetor. |
10 |
| 5 | 338 |
"On the wharf, the slaver, Vart, said that he had gotten a silver tarsk for her". |
10 |
| 6 | 326 |
The warehouse of Ulafi is near wharf eight". |
10 |
| 6 | 540 |
We passed the high desks of two wharf praetors. |
10 |
| 6 | 592 |
Seamen hurled mooring lines to men on the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 594 |
Coils of rope slung over the side cushioned the strakes of the ship, lest she grate herself on the boards of the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 596 |
The gangplank was run from an opening in the starboard rail, swung open, to the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 597 |
The number of the wharf was eight. |
10 |
| 6 | 598 |
I saw two slavers stop at the wharf, looking up at the slaves suspended from the rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 604 |
Two men from the desk of the nearest wharf praetor, he handling wharves six through ten, a scribe and a physician, boarded the ship. |
10 |
| 6 | 616 |
Two slave girls, white, barefoot, in ragged brown tunics, with golden rings in their ears, one chewing on a larma, came to stand on the wharf near the prow. |
10 |
| 6 | 627 |
Then she looked down with contempt at the ragged girls on the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 638 |
The two girls suddenly looked at one another and, sobbing, turned and fled from the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 698 |
"Put that one," said Ulafi to a seaman, indicating the bound, blond-haired girl, "in sirik and chain her to a ring on the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 712 |
Too, surely she could remember the feel of the scimitar of discipline on her ankles at Port Kar, at the desk of the wharf praetor. |
10 |
| 6 | 770 |
She did so, in her chains, kneeling on the hot boards of the wharf at Schendi. |
10 |
| 7 | 142 |
I threw my sea bag beside the sea chest, braceleted Sasi's hands before her body about the ring, left the room, locked the door, dropped the key in my pouch and made my way downstairs, to return inconspicuously to the vicinity of wharf eight, where the Palms of Schendi was disembarking her cargo. |
10 |
| 7 | 150 |
He gathered up the sirik and he took, too, unlocking it, the chain and padlock which had held her, by the sirik, at the wharf ring. |
10 |
| 7 | 152 |
Uchafu, by the leash, pulled the braceleted, blindfolded girl to her feet, and pulled her after him, leading her from the wharf. |
10 |
| 7 | 159 |
The blond-haired barbarian, as she knelt frightened, in the mud, with the other girls, still wore her blindfold, that which Uchafu had placed on her at wharf eight. |
10 |
| 8 | 25 |
All she had seen of Schendi was the harbor and wharf. |
10 |
| 57 | 2 |
She knelt on the hot boards of the wharf at Schendi. |
10 |
| 57 | 24 |
Janice put her head down to the boards of the wharf. |
10 |
| 57 | 149 |
I looked to my left, on the wharf. |
10 |
| 57 | 173 |
The chain was lovely on her throat, fastening her, kneeling, to the ring on the wharf. |
10 |
| 57 | 269 |
Like Evelyn I had bought Sasi yesterday, without her knowledge, for delivery to the wharf this morning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 28 |
"The market was on what wharf?" I asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 30 |
"The market was on what wharf?" I asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 32 |
"The market was on what wharf?" I asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 6 |
I watched, a bale of rep fiber on my shoulder, near the rep wharf. |
10 |
| 19 | 22 |
I then turned him about again and, holding him by the back of the neck, ran him to the edge of the wharf where, seizing his ankle, and holding his neck, I upended him into the water below. |
10 |
| 19 | 25 |
When he stood in about a foot of water, among pilings, near the next wharf, he struck down madly at his legs with his left hand, striking two dock eels from his calf. |
10 |
| 19 | 112 |
"My thanks, Fellow," said the merchant, and, smiling, turned about and made his way back among the boxes and bales on the crowded wharf. |
10 |
| 30 | 13 |
She had been humiliatingly and publicly stripped and knelt on the boards of the wharf at Victoria, before large numbers of her fellow citizens, inactive and frightened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 59 |
"Oars outboard!" I could see the pirate ship to my left, across the wharf, moored on the opposite side, its mooring ropes cut, backing away from the wharf. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
He stood upon a wharf in Victoria, to the left of the blade upon which I was bound. |
10 |
| 15 | 36 |
He, and some of the others, I gathered, then strode down the wharf, away from the ship. |
10 |
| 15 | 51 |
I then heard them, and the rest, leave the side of the moored vessel, moving down the wharf toward the concourse. |
10 |
| 15 | 83 |
There the pirates, at the edge of the concourse, some hundred yards from the office of the wharf master, set back on the concourse, had gathered, preparatory to their attack on the town. |
10 |
| 16 | 9 |
"Then, Lads," cried Policrates, "take Victoria! She is yours!" Then, at that very instant from atop the frame building housing the office of the wharf master the alarm bar began to ring. |
10 |
| 16 | 53 |
Men were fighting on the wharf now. |
10 |
| 16 | 60 |
Then the ship on which I was bound, poles thrusting against the wharf, slid to my right and backward. |
10 |
| 16 | 73 |
An outjutting oar struck against the wharf. |
10 |
| 16 | 75 |
Then the ship was out from the wharf. |
10 |
| 16 | 76 |
I saw pirates throwing down their weapons, and kneeling on the wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 15 |
She had found them in holding cages, near the spice wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 91 |
When they were finished they would be put naked in slave cloaks and, fastened together in throat coffle, conducted back to their holding cages near the spice wharf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 145 |
One might well be set upon as soon as one tried to haul oneself unto a wharf. |
10 |
| 20 | 448 |
Only the Tais, then, remained at the wharf. |
10 |
| 24 | 611 |
Much of the crowd, in a few Ehn, then, had followed the procession of officials and officers, and refugees, and properties, from the wharf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 183 |
I recalled, for example, his intense attraction toward the slave, Yakube, in Port Cos, on the wharf there. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 42 |
"Our ships are now free, to wharf here, or to return to our lairs on Gor, or our secret places, our islands and dens, on Earth". |
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| 80 | 7 |
You and your ships, Peisistratus, of course, may continue to wharf upon our shores, as you wish, for purposes of shelter, supplies, repair, the temporary housing of your goods, or whatnot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 77 |
Similar boarding ports were on the starboard side, which was now near the wharf, lying against its cushions of rolled leather, these to prevent damage to either ship or wharf. |
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| 37 | 66 |
In some fifteen Ehn she was alongside her long, readied wharf. |
10 |
| 37 | 68 |
I trusted that she would not move with the current, and drag the cleats free of the wood, or draw the wharf itself, splintering, from its pilings. |
10 |
| 38 | 3 |
A sturdy, planked ramp led upward from the wharf. |
10 |
| 38 | 163 |
We had arranged it so, for I had come early to the wharf, to observe more of the lading. |
10 |
| 38 | 177 |
On the wharf, their progress arrested, Cecily and Jane knelt, as was appropriate for slaves in the presence of free persons. |
10 |
| 38 | 247 |
I could see the column forming now, east of the wharf, on the beach. |
10 |
| 38 | 310 |
The men who had fired the camp, and some stragglers, were now hurrying down the wharf, to board. |
10 |
| 38 | 318 |
"The wharf itself may soon be afire," said Pertinax. |
10 |
| 38 | 340 |
"I fear for the wharf," said Pertinax. |
10 |
| 38 | 504 |
The boat which had come from the other side of the river had now drawn up on the beach, below the wharf. |
10 |
| 38 | 507 |
"I fear for the wharf," said Pertinax. |
10 |
| 38 | 509 |
Indeed, the far end of the wharf was beginning to burn. |
10 |
| 38 | 511 |
"Look," said Pertinax, pointing to the right, to the end of the wharf farthest from us, away from the flames, that nearest the bow of the great ship. |
10 |
| 38 | 521 |
Behind the stern of the ship, some fifty yards back, the wharf was now clearly afire. |
10 |
| 38 | 553 |
The eastern third of the wharf was now afire. |
10 |
| 38 | 573 |
A command was barked, and there was a snap of the whip, and the coffle, the left foot of each figure first moving, began to move, approaching, paralleling the beach side of the wharf, several yards of which were now ablaze. |
10 |
| 38 | 576 |
At various points along the wharf there were steps leading to its surface from the shore. |
10 |
| 38 | 591 |
At last some, mercifully, were lifted and carried upward by oarsmen, and set on their feet, on the wharf. |
10 |
| 38 | 600 |
The fire on the wharf was roaring, some seventy yards to the east, only several yards away, now, from the stern of the great ship. |
10 |
| 38 | 670 |
The wharf behind us was raging with fire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 98 |
"Poles!" cried Pertinax, and men seized up the launching poles, used in thrusting a galley from a wharf, cushioning her approach to a wharf, holding her away from rocks, or such. |
10 |
| 29 | 62 |
Arrow fire would flow from the ship to the wharf, and from the wharf to the ship. |
10 |
| 31 | 8 |
All morning and into the afternoon coffles of slave girls, ours, those brought on the great ship, and local girls, lovely, but of a low-Pani sort, kept in the castle for the pleasure of the Pani warriors, roped together, had descended to the wharf and then, laden with treasure, had been conducted up... |
10 |
| 2 | 245 |
The common galley usually carries three wharfing poles, for pushing away from a wharf, until oars can obtain their purchase. |
10 |
| 2 | 247 |
They are also used to adjust wharfage, until the lines are snug to the wharf cleats. |
10 |
| 24 | 3 |
Some Pani folk, shuffling, heads down, ill-clad, had threaded their way past us to where lay the wharf, against which, last night, we had moored the great ship. |
10 |
| 24 | 5 |
At the wharf, under the direction of higher Pani, in trip after trip, they would gather burdens, hundreds of bundles, bails, and boxes. |
10 |
| 24 | 6 |
These were lowered in nets, swung out by booms, to the wharf. |
10 |
| 24 | 25 |
Did not the great ship, in its way, seductive and beckoning, constitute a temptation? I lingered on the wharf, past the fourth and fifth contingents. |
10 |
| 24 | 26 |
Interestingly, nothing was permitted to leave the ship through the galley nests, which, if opened, might have provided a convenient access to the wharf. |
10 |
| 24 | 48 |
I looked up from the wharf toward the castle. |
10 |
| 24 | 59 |
A large cage, containing an enormous sleen, snarling and obviously discomfited, was slung over the rail, and lowered toward the wharf. |
10 |
| 24 | 67 |
Once on the wharf, the first girl of one ten was fastened to the last girl of the preceding ten, and so on, until there was a single line of slaves, some two hundred, all joined by the left wrist. |
10 |
| 24 | 82 |
Having reached the wharf in the second contingent, disembarked, I, and some others, of both the first and third contingents, had waited about. |
10 |
| 24 | 90 |
The slaves, being aligned on the wharf, each ten being fastened to the next ten, looked fearfully up the heights, at the rearing, surmounting castle far above. |
10 |
| 24 | 102 |
Accordingly, I had been pleased when I had detected her in the net, being lowered to the wharf with other girls, and had noted that she, the last of her ten, would be attached to the first of the next ten. |
10 |
| 24 | 132 |
Men were about the wharf and the slaves' coffle must proceed between them. |
10 |
| 24 | 145 |
I watched her proceed toward the end of the wharf, the walled-in trail. |
10 |
| 24 | 195 |
Would you, for example, spend time imparting information to kaiila, tarsks, and such? Too, what was her interest, that of a slave, in the whereabouts of a free man? What might Pertinax be to her or she to him? A bit later I gathered that her indiscretion had caught up with her, for I heard her cry o... |
10 |
| 24 | 204 |
On the other hand, I had heard a fellow remark, as one of the large cargo nets swung out from the rail again and once more began its descent to the wharf, "That is the last ten, the last of the slaves". |
10 |
| 24 | 315 |
Looking up toward the rail from the wharf, I saw Seremides, watching the Pani below. |
10 |
| 24 | 317 |
On the wharf, I saw Tereus. |
10 |
| 24 | 318 |
A mariner, assigned the wharf watch, in charge of order here, posted to discourage loitering and prevent pilfering, spoke to Tereus, and he began to ascend the trail. |
10 |
| 24 | 321 |
Some of the lesser Pani were already returning to the wharf. |
10 |
| 24 | 336 |
I had turned about, finally, to join others, to make my way upward, when I heard my name called, "Callias!" I turned about, and, to my surprise, one not pleasant, I saw Seremides hobbling toward me, the crutch striking on the wharf planks. |
10 |
| 24 | 358 |
"He was ordered from the wharf". |
10 |
| 24 | 367 |
"I was roped, raging, and lowered to the wharf, helpless, while they laughed, like a bag of sa-tarna". |
10 |
| 25 | 8 |
The thrice-walled grounds of the castle of Lord Temmu, all in all, must have occupied more than a full square pasang, extending broadly over a wide plateau, which, on one side, fell straight to the sea, and was accessible otherwise, as from the cove, by steep trails, one of which was walled, that fr... |
10 |
| 25 | 45 |
One of these ships, to my great interest, had put in at the wharf a week ago, for water and supplies, and then, a day later, set out to sea again. |
10 |
| 25 | 54 |
I myself suspected that Tersites had at last given eyes to the ship because he was terrified for her, and hoped that she might now, moored at the wharf, be able to see her danger, danger more from men than the sea. |
10 |
| 26 | 140 |
Even the slaves who brought the water and other supplies were not permitted near the baskets and nets, but must kneel on the boards of the wharf, until dismissed, to climb, roped together by the neck, the narrow walled-in path to the castle grounds. |
10 |
| 26 | 142 |
The gate to the wharf area, leading to the walled-in trail, was open, and the coffle, weary and footsore, neck-roped, their burdens delivered, were being herded within, by their young herdsmen. |
10 |
| 26 | 148 |
The burdens they had borne, while not heavy for a man, would have been heavy for a woman, and the climb back to the castle from the wharf, given its twistings and its tortuous steepness, would be time consuming and difficult for either a man or woman. |
10 |
| 26 | 187 |
"I heard men speak," she said, "on the wharf. |
10 |
| 29 | 68 |
The wharf will run with blood. |
10 |
| 29 | 97 |
I was more startled when I saw the other two gates between the courtyard and the steep, downward trail to the wharf already stood open. |
10 |
| 29 | 100 |
"There will be terrible bloodshed on the wharf," I said to Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 30 | 31 |
It will be recalled that the trail to the wharf was walled-in. |
10 |
| 30 | 35 |
When they reached the foot of the trail they found it barricaded, before the wharf, a barricade manned by several Pani, drawn from the ship, a barricade, given the narrowness of the passage, easily defended by a few against many. |
10 |
| 30 | 39 |
At best, from the trail, they might see the wharf, and the great ship moored there, on a dozen lines, the ship they were unable to reach. |
10 |
| 31 | 37 |
"They will not act," said Seremides, "until the ship's garrison is withdrawn, to the wharf, or trail". |
10 |
| 31 | 39 |
"The trail, the wharf, will be guarded," he said. |
10 |
| 32 | 8 |
Already the Pani with their vessels of oil, and their torches, had begun the descent of the wharf trail. |
10 |
| 32 | 16 |
The trail, with its tortuous twisting, taking advantage of the side of the mountain, was better than a pasang in length, but, it seemed in a moment, I saw the wharf. |
10 |
| 32 | 46 |
The ship moved a bit from the wharf at the bow, moving to port, but there was a jerk and a vibration of line, and the ship was stopped, pulling against the line. |
10 |
| 32 | 53 |
Men, clinging to it, Pani, climbing it, had fallen to the water, between the wharf and the ship. |
10 |
| 32 | 73 |
The wharf was now yards away. |
10 |
| 33 | 367 |
"Yes," he said, "briefly, at a wharf, at the foot of a walled-in-trail, in a sheltered cove". |
10 |
| 37 | 727 |
I could see lights on the River Dragon, moored at the nearby wharf. |
10 |
| 37 | 729 |
I did see a pair of guardsmen at the land end of the wharf, and a number of Pani were taking up stations near the now-closed warehouse. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 127 |
They are buying them from the shelves, from the wharf cages, the dock markets, and the house markets. |
10 |
| 6 | 426 |
The lights of the tavern were soon behind us, and the wharf streets, in this section of the city, are narrow, crooked, and dark. |
10 |
| 8 | 525 |
The first ship was already a hundred yards from the wharf. |
10 |
| 15 | 419 |
It was already in the water, moored against the wharf, when I arrived. |
10 |
| 19 | 37 |
"It must now be brought back, to the wharf, to be stowed aboard the great vessel". |
10 |
| 37 | 198 |
We located the ship, and we have determined it might soon depart its wharf. |
10 |
| 41 | 395 |
"Or, say, from a wharf, a dock?" I said. |
10 |
| 43 | 138 |
I am sure the ship will depart the wharf soon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 10 |
Then, on the third day, word was brought to him that the great gate at the height of the wharf trail, leading upward from the sea to the holding, stood open. |
10 |
| 9 | 52 |
Whatever may be the case the trail upward was crowded with hurrying, jostling, panting men eager to make it through the gate at the summit of the wharf trail before it might be shut against them by their own officers. |
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| 21 | 88 |
Could it, unaided, make its way to that board on which the dice were to be cast, the islands beyond the Farther Islands? If not, is the game not done? And if perchance such a ship, a large ship, a transport for men and tarns, as no other before it had done, might brave the perils of Thassa, what the... |
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| 61 | 1 |
How Matters Turned Out; I Look Eastward It was a bright morning, with a pleasant wind, and I stood on the heavy planks of the great wharf, that at the foot of the long trail which led upward, within its walls, to the holding of Temmu, far above, almost obscured by clouds. |
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| 61 | 2 |
At the wharf, restless at its moorings, was the River Dragon, with its large, battened sails and high poop, brought across Thassa from Brundisium, on the continent, by Captain Nakamura. |
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| 61 | 334 |
* * * There was much bustle on the wharf, I was jostled. |
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| 61 | 399 |
"Where is Nezumi?" I asked, standing on the wharf, in the bustle, men moving about me, Pani and barbarians. |
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| 61 | 533 |
Lord Okimoto had commanded at Shipcamp, from whose wharf the ship of Tersites had taken the Alexandra downstream to Thassa. |
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| 61 | 573 |
The wharf was crowded. |
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| 61 | 601 |
But there are vendors from the local villages, at the end of the wharf, and I wish to purchase small articles". |
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| 61 | 606 |
I watched him make his way through the crowd toward the land end of the wharf, toward a cluster of townsmen, merchants, and peasants, each with their case or sack of goods. |
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| 61 | 608 |
Water would be licking higher now on the pilings of the wharf. |
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| 61 | 900 |
* * * "Ho!" I called, on the crowded wharf, noting his approach. |
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| 61 | 908 |
"It took a bit of time with the vendors at the wharf's end," he said, "to find a suitably attractive switch". |
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| 61 | 996 |
"I want to feel the broad, solid planks of the wharf beneath my feet," I said. |
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| 61 | 1032 |
The guardsman signified that two docksmen lift the body and remove it from the wharf. |
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| 61 | 1034 |
"How could Daichi dare to attack this man, publicly, on a crowded wharf?" "Perhaps," said a fellow, "the bones and shells foretold success". |
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| 61 | 1042 |
I looked about the wharf. |
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| 61 | 1045 |
Waters were now high on the wharf's palings, only a few horts below the planks. |
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| 61 | 1077 |
"Accordingly," he said, "we abandon her here, on the wharf". |
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| 61 | 1122 |
"You could leave me here, alone, braceleted, helpless, on a wharf, at the World's End?" "Why not?" I asked. |
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| 61 | 1147 |
"Commander!" said a mariner, having descended the gangplank, which few now climbed, and pattered toward me, his sandals slapping on the warm, broad planks of the wharf. |
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| 61 | 1251 |
I saw the wharf, water risen almost to the planks, begin to slip to the side. |
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| 61 | 1287 |
The wharf was slipping sway. |
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| 61 | 1289 |
I looked up from the wharf to the lofty holding of the shogun, Lord Temmu. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 497 |
Too, the house of Portia would find it difficult to ship from the wharf of Terence in Victoria, as there is no such wharf". |
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| 9 | 8 |
To be sure, my cage was only one of several on the wharf. |
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| 9 | 215 |
Its occupant, on all fours, was ordered forth, and, bending down, the dealer fastened a leash about her neck, following which he led her, she on all fours, to a space on the wharf, amongst the cages. |
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| 9 | 226 |
In the late afternoon, surprising me, there was a sudden cessation of activity on the wharf in our vicinity, and, as precipitately, a lull in conversation. |
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| 9 | 229 |
The hitherto-crowded aisle, the linear center of the wharf, now seemed abandoned. |
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| 9 | 261 |
He then turned away, and continued on his way, down the wharf. |
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| 9 | 262 |
When he had passed, as though a sigh had escaped a single man, the activities on the wharf resumed, and, once again, the bustle and hum of conversation, of cries and calls, rang out, about us. |
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| 9 | 272 |
Still I failed to understand the effect his presence had had on the wharf. |
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| 9 | 299 |
Few free women wandered unescorted on the wharf, but they occasionally made their appearance. |
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| 9 | 302 |
It was on the wharf that I saw my first Gorean free women. |
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| 9 | 309 |
Too, if I had been more aware, and more familiar with Gor, I would have noted that the slaves, as much as possible, went to great lengths to avoid finding themselves in the proximity of such women, often turning about, and hurrying away, or slipping to the side, sometimes even hastening to conceal t... |
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| 9 | 314 |
As she passed by, I called out, "Dear sister, pray attend me!" She looked about, startled, intently, expectantly, scanning the wharf. |
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| 9 | 556 |
The day, again, was bright, and the boards of the wharf, as I could tell, placing my hands through the bars, once again, were, like the cage and bars, warm to the touch. |
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| 9 | 682 |
It trailed back, on the wharf. |
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| 9 | 684 |
The two assistants to the dealer then lifted the cage and carried it to the edge of the wharf. |
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| 9 | 686 |
The cage was swung back, and then heaved from the wharf. |
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| 9 | 690 |
Some seconds later, three or four, sinking, the cage grated on sand, at the bottom of the river, near the pilings of the wharf. |
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| 9 | 723 |
I was conscious of men and women moving over the wharf, as before, above me. |
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| 9 | 751 |
I also smelled food cooking, probably in pans, set on the small wheeled stoves some vendors moved about the wharf. |
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| 9 | 795 |
A bit later, the cage, shedding water, was drawn up to the wharf, and then dragged across the boards, and placed where it had been before. |
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| 9 | 796 |
There was a slight breeze over the wharf, moving amongst the boxes, and bales, and cages, and, though the day itself was warm, I shivered with cold. |
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| 9 | 805 |
Men walked to and fro about the wharf. |
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| 10 | 36 |
It had been drawn in chalk, crudely, on the boards of the wharf. |
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| 10 | 85 |
Could this be I? In the office, and in my former life, generally, in all of its quotidian commonplaces, in all of its prosaic routines, banalities, repetitions, and boredoms, it had never occurred to me that I might one day be standing naked on a wharf, on another world, a slave, goods, being sold. |
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| 10 | 273 |
"Let us not speak further of this, not here, not on the wharf," said the first man. |
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| 10 | 291 |
"But not so in open wharf markets," said the man. |
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| 11 | 5 |
I had not been soon sold from the wharf. |
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| 13 | 55 |
I had been sold in Victoria, from the wharf market, and later, following being ferried across the Vosk and transported in one of four slave wagons south, ankles chained, with five others, to a central bar in the wagon bed, had been again sold, in Torcadino, as a work slave to a mill. |
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| 23 | 226 |
I had seen this man before, this large-handed, lean, hard man, on the wharf at Victoria, from my cage, he passing by, feral, wary and taciturn, men withdrawing from his path. |
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| 26 | 240 |
If so, it is presumably on one of the wharves or in one of the wharf warehouses. |
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| 31 | 171 |
Well did I remember that I, long ago, on a wharf in Victoria, had been subjected to the Slaver's Caress. |
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| 35 | 172 |
I recalled the free woman from the wharf in Victoria. |
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| 40 | 6 |
I well remembered the free woman, slender, possibly lovely, veiled and robed, on the wharf in Victoria, who had, in her rage, at some conjectured insult, screaming, lashed the bars of my cage, for better than an Ehn, while I shrank back within it. |
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| 41 | 116 |
"The wharf!" she said, suddenly. |
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| 41 | 207 |
I was startled to see the free woman, she clad in shimmering white and yellow, she with the parasol, she whose acquaintance I had briefly and unpleasantly made long ago on a wharf in Victoria. |
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| 48 | 133 |
I had reason to suppose that, from long ago, from a wharf on the Vosk. |
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| 49 | 198 |
I knew her well, from a wharf in Victoria, from a street in Ar. |
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| 49 | 220 |
"Does the Lady Portia still ship from the wharf of Terence?" he asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 102 |
"There is a fire on the wharf," he said, "a warehouse fire. |
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| 6 | 132 |
Even putting aside municipal rivalries, wars, vendettas, blood feuds, and such, it is not difficult to understand, given that quarters are close on a ship, and discipline unquestioning and severe, sometimes for weeks or months at sea, that strong men, brawny, vital oarsmen, and such, come ashore, fr... |
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| 8 | 212 |
Then I felt the boards of the wharf, thick, rough, and warm, beneath my feet. |
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| 29 | 75 |
At that point the game ship drew up beside the wharf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 171 |
"How are things at the wharf?" I asked. |
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