| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 157 |
An owl hooted once, perhaps a hundred yards to the right. |
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| 3 | 170 |
I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards. |
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| 3 | 253 |
One stroke of those wings would hurl me yards from the top of the cylinder. |
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| 5 | 170 |
They swept toward me, about five yards apart, to close on either side of me, to force the wings of my tarn up and hold it for the moment they would need, trapped motionless between their own mounts. |
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| 7 | 104 |
The daughter of the Ubar followed, some yards behind. |
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| 7 | 119 |
I frantically looked about, caught sight of a half-submerged log some yards away, protruding upward out of the marsh water. |
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| 7 | 128 |
Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of Sa-Tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees. |
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| 12 | 31 |
Before the tarn disk could begin its fall, the quarrel pierced it, carrying it, I would judge, some two hundred and fifty yards out into the river. |
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| 14 | 161 |
In the first streak of the early light I saw a few hundred yards away what I had hoped to find—the saddle and twisted body of the tarnsman. |
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| 15 | 2 |
Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharlarion wagons abreast on their... |
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| 15 | 3 |
Every fifty yards along the walls rose towers, jutting forth so as to expose any attempt at scaling to the fire of their numerous archer ports. |
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| 15 | 10 |
Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range, a gigantic ditch was being dug by thousands of siege slaves and prisoners. |
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| 15 | 18 |
Behind the great ditch, separated from it by some hundred yards, there was a smaller ditch, perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, also with a rampart formed from the excavated earth. |
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| 15 | 20 |
In the walls, every hundred yards or so, was a log gate. |
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| 18 | 103 |
Inside, the tunnel, though dim, was not altogether dark, being lit by domelike, wire-protected energy bulbs, spaced in pairs every hundred yards or so. |
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| 18 | 183 |
I turned the bend in the stairs and, several yards above me, observed a wide doorway, jammed with chests and furniture. |
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| 19 | 33 |
The Cylinder of Justice was a lofty cylinder of pure white marble, the flat roof of which was some hundred yards in diameter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 68 |
A bolt of lightning shattered on the road not fifty yards before me. |
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| 6 | 196 |
The officer was the third man in the formation, and the other warrior hung several yards in the rear. |
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| 7 | 12 |
The other warrior, behind him, his spear poised, had approached to within ten yards. |
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| 10 | 30 |
At last, a hundred yards ahead, cold in the morning light, I saw the palace, actually a rounded fortress of brick, black, heavy, unadorned, formidable. |
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| 13 | 24 |
It was an oval enclosure, perhaps a hundred yards in diameter on its longest axis, and enclosed by walls about twelve feet high. |
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| 16 | 31 |
Dorna stopped, about five yards in advance of Thorn and the two warriors, who had not moved at all. |
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| 17 | 16 |
I had learned that only a month before, in a mine not five hundred yards from this one, there had been a disturbance created by a single prisoner. |
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| 20 | 37 |
I had only reached the shelter of a line of trees when I saw, some thousand yards behind me, descending on the Compound of the Mines, like clouds of wasps, the tarnsmen of Tharna. |
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| 20 | 39 |
I had seen its shadow and feared it was wild, and had prepared to sell my life dearly, but the great beast, my own plumed giant, who may have haunted the Pillar of Exchanges for weeks, settled on the plains no more than thirty yards from me, its great wings shaking, and stalked to my side. |
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| 20 | 100 |
When we had reached an altitude of perhaps a hundred yards from the ground, as suddenly as it had come, the strange effect passed. |
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| 20 | 134 |
The great bird stalked away from me, about fifteen yards, and then turned, looking at me again. |
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| 21 | 34 |
I could feel its heat ten yards away. |
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| 21 | 84 |
After all, did a slave not expect the iron? And the whip? I saw the other girls some thirty yards away, in camisks, the cheapest of slave garments, laughing and talking to one another, disporting themselves as pleasurably as free maidens might have. |
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| 23 | 82 |
It lit some fifty yards from us and we ran to its side, I first and Lara after me, she still apprehensive of the beast. |
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| 24 | 137 |
The rampart was thrown between the walls where they stood at perhaps fifty yards from each other. |
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| 24 | 146 |
And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace. |
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| 24 | 148 |
About a hundred yards from the rampart I put down the shield and spear, signifying a temporary truce. |
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| 25 | 109 |
Then Dorna the Proud looked at me those yards across the roof. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 110 |
The path on which I trod turned a few yards ahead. |
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| 4 | 14 |
I found myself on the brink of entering what appeared to be a great and perfect dome, having a diameter I am sure of at least a thousand yards. |
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| 5 | 82 |
In this passageway, placed regularly but staggered from one another, about fifty yards apart, were numerous portals like the one I had just passed through. |
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| 8 | 159 |
Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one. |
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| 24 | 31 |
I slipped my sword into its sheath and knelt beside Vika's body, not taking my eyes off the creature who stood about four yards distant. |
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| 25 | 53 |
In the vicinity of the portal itself I remembered, when I had had the Mul-Torch, seeing a ventilation shaft some twenty or thirty yards inside the passage and fixed in the ceiling of the passage some nine feet from the floor. |
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| 27 | 260 |
In an instant I was again on guard, my vision cleared, but I saw that Sarm was now some fifteen yards or more away and was slowly turning and turning in what must have been some primitive, involuntary dance of agony. |
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| 28 | 41 |
"I admire them," said Al-Ka, "for they can see a thousand yards in the darkness by the light of a single Mul-Torch and they can live on a handful of fungus and a swallow of water a day and they are very brave and proud". |
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| 28 | 247 |
Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the Priest-King leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below. |
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| 29 | 46 |
I was within two hundred yards when I opened fire, attacking from the rear, away from the destructive cone in its bow. |
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| 29 | 56 |
While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the fourth ship a... |
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| 29 | 97 |
A few yards from the flooring of the plaza I brought the craft again into order and, again throwing open the speed valve, darted into the midst of a complex of buildings, where I stopped, hovering a few feet above the street passing between them. |
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| 30 | 195 |
Once I heard the hiss of silver tubes not more than a few hundred yards away. |
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| 31 | 46 |
Sarm hurled the silver tube at my head and I ducked and heard it clatter across the tiles of the plaza for perhaps a hundred yards. |
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| 31 | 152 |
At last I stood not more than a dozen yards from the Priest-King. |
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| 31 | 172 |
The bar he wielded was a fearsome weapon and with it he could strike me from the walkway, hurling me perhaps two hundred feet to the opposite wall, before I could get within yards of him. |
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| 32 | 65 |
They met perhaps a hundred yards from where I stood and I saw the Priest-King place a foreleg on the shoulder of each and together they stood and waited for the final crumbling of the Nest. |
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| 32 | 143 |
Another boulder fell clattering down a hundred yards from us and bounded past. |
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| 32 | 153 |
At that moment, through the drifting rock dust, I saw the heavy, domed body of one of the Golden Beetles, perhaps fifty yards away. |
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| 32 | 203 |
Moving as though in a dream, my foot touching the ground only perhaps once in thirty or forty yards, I climbed the circling ramp upward toward the elevator. |
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| 32 | 207 |
It seemed I was trapped in the Nest, but then I noted, perhaps fifty yards away, a similar door, though smaller. |
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| 32 | 292 |
He seemed to float down to the floor and, touching one sandaled foot to the ground only every twenty yards or so, began to leave the chamber in slow dreamlike bounds. |
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| 35 | 12 |
About two hundred yards above the camp, toward the Sardar, whose crags could be seen looming in the background against the black, star-shattered night was a strange figure, outlined against one of the white, rushing moons of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 94 |
I could now see as well, though separated by hundreds of yards, three other riders approaching. |
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| 3 | 9 |
He and the others turned their mounts and backed away a handful of yards, regarding me. |
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| 3 | 23 |
At last the Tuchuk detached himself from the other three warriors and pranced his kaiila to within a dozen yards of me. |
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| 4 | 62 |
His kaiila stood some yards away, shifting a bit, puzzled, reins loose on its neck. |
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| 5 | 67 |
Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also... |
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| 6 | 101 |
The bound girl watched helplessly as the woman carried her clothing, all that she had of her old world, to a cooking fire some yards away, near the edge of the wagons. |
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| 8 | 289 |
A black lance was fixed in the prairie about four hundred yards away. |
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| 8 | 402 |
"If you win for us," Albrecht said to her, grinning down from the saddle of the kaiila, "this night you will be given a silver bracelet and five yards of scarlet silk". |
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| 8 | 471 |
By surprising her I had gained perhaps ten or fifteen yards. |
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| 8 | 474 |
To my amazement, as I swung the bola in ever faster circles, never taking my eyes off her, she broke the straight running pattern only about fifty yards from the whip circle, and began to dodge, moving always, however, toward the lance. |
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| 8 | 577 |
Elizabeth, unmoving, faced me, some fifty yards away. |
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| 10 | 95 |
I leaped into the saddle and waved to the girl, who had run a few yards and then turned. |
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| 10 | 187 |
The two lines are separated by about fifty feet and each stake in a line is separated from the stake on its left and right by about ten yards. |
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| 10 | 196 |
I heard some musicians, come out early from Turia, playing a light tune behind the Turian stakes, about fifty yards or so away. |
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| 10 | 197 |
In the space between the two lines of stakes, for each pair of facing stakes, there was a circle of roughly eight yards in diameter. |
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| 10 | 221 |
The warriors of Turia extended their formation about two hundred yards from the stakes until in ranks of four or five deep they were strung out in a line as long as the line of stakes itself. |
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| 10 | 234 |
I straightened up and saw that the lines of the tharlarion lancers had, with much pounding and trampling of the earth, with shouting, with the hissing of the great beasts, stopped short, abruptly, some fifteen yards or so behind their line of stakes. |
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| 10 | 258 |
"Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 13 | 134 |
In the grassy area, perhaps about two hundred yards in diameter, there were literally hundreds of small, stone altars. |
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| 14 | 36 |
In the light of the Gorean moons we saw slaughtered bosk, some hundreds of them, and, some two hundred yards away, withdrawing, perhaps a thousand warriors mounted on tharlarion. |
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| 18 | 116 |
About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden. |
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| 21 | 346 |
I could hear screaming some hundred yards away. |
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| 24 | 176 |
A few yards beyond the gate I hauled my kaiila up short, rearing and pawing the air. |
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| 26 | 256 |
He then waved them, and the others, with the exception of Harold and myself, and the sleen keeper and his animals, back several yards. |
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| 27 | 221 |
"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main... |
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| 28 | 10 |
Within something like fifty yards we heard a frightened squawk and saw Tuka thrown to the ground with a tackle that might have done credit to a qualified professional player of the American form of football. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 |
The procession and those who had been earlier at the pyre now stood back from it, some fifty yards or so, for the oil-impregnated wood will take the torch quickly and fiercely. |
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| 7 | 60 |
About a hundred yards from the shelf the ship stopped, stationary, more than two thousand feet from the ground below. |
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| 12 | 108 |
"Candies!" whined a small voice some yards below me. |
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| 12 | 125 |
I found a seat several yards away, and, after a bit, noted Hup making his way down another aisle in the opposite direction. |
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| 13 | 61 |
"Look," I said, pointing to the far end of the curving pool, some hundred and fifty yards away, "if I do not catch you before you reach the edge you will have your freedom for the day". |
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| 13 | 90 |
I now sensed her but feet from me, swimming desperately, the pool's edge long yards away. |
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| 13 | 119 |
There were many small nooks and glades, here and there, some more than forty yards from the pool, where a man might rest. |
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| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
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| 16 | 165 |
I had hardly walked more than fifty yards through the crowd when I heard a frightened scream, that of a girl, coming from the dark ramp down which Phyllis had disappeared. |
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| 16 | 250 |
I was now some forty yards from the birds. |
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| 18 | 323 |
There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters of flour, sugars and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments. |
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| 18 | 364 |
They were dark, save that each, at intervals of some thirty yards, was lit with a small tharlarion-oil lamp. |
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| 19 | 30 |
I fell down several times but the cart did not stop; each time I managed to regain my feet, though sometimes I was dragged for several yards before, nearly strangling, I managed to get up once more. |
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| 22 | 124 |
Some seventy or eighty yards away I saw the box of the Ubar and, upon the throne of the Ubar, Cernus, of the House of Cernus, in the imperial purple of the Ubar. |
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| 22 | 174 |
He pointed to a spot about a hundred yards away, on a small wall, built itself on the dividing wall, near the pole of the wooden tarn heads. |
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| 22 | 561 |
"Faster! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" Then, approaching the last of the left side rings, Ubar of the Skies, striking for the heart of the ring, burst between the startled Red and Menicius, who led him by perhaps four yards. |
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| 22 | 563 |
The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
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| 1 | 37 |
I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. |
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| 1 | 45 |
I heard another bird, another marsh gant it seemed, some fifty yards away, but this time to my left. |
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| 2 | 1 |
The Cries of Marsh Gants I saw the girl ahead, through a break in the rushes, some fifty yards beyond. |
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| 2 | 47 |
From the safety of the yards of marsh water separating me from my enemies I could have been immediately slain, lost in a thicket of the two- or three-pronged marsh spears. |
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| 2 | 58 |
This was answered from various points about us, most of which were several yards away. |
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| 5 | 192 |
After a time I saw one girl leave the circle, her head back, hair flowing down her back, breathing deeply, and scarcely was she through the circles of rencers, but a young man followed her, joining her some yards beyond the circle. |
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| 6 | 95 |
In the marsh, some yards away, rence craft were burning on the water. |
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| 6 | 101 |
Near the oar pole to which I had been bound, some yards from what had been the circle of the dance, a number of rencers, stripped, men and women, lay bound hand and foot. |
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| 6 | 173 |
Then, some twenty yards to my left, and ahead of me, I saw a single torch. |
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| 7 | 1 |
I Will Hunt Lost among the rushes and sedge, out in the darkness of the marsh, some hundred yards from the rence islands, two of which were burning, Telima, bound, and I, a garland of rence flowers bloodied in my hair, watched the movement of torches, listened to the shouts of men, the screams of wo... |
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| 7 | 65 |
Then, some fifty yards away, it turned slowly, prow now facing away from the island, toward Port Kar. |
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| 8 | 35 |
The arrow from the great yellow bow, that of supple Ka-la-na, had passed through the head of the man, losing itself a hundred yards distant, dropping unseen into the marsh. |
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| 8 | 43 |
At times we were but yards from the barges. |
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| 8 | 130 |
And then I heard one cry out "They are aboard! We are boarded! Fight!" Telima had poled us some thirty yards out into the marsh, and I stood there, arrow to string, in case any should bring another torch. |
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| 8 | 144 |
When the rence craft was lost, some hundred yards from the barges, among the reeds and sedge, I had her secure the craft. |
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| 8 | 277 |
With the first length of binding fiber I tied her wrists behind her back; I then carried her and placed her, on her knees, on the second of the broad steps leading up to the tiller deck, two steps below that in which is fixed the chair of the oar-master; she now knelt below that chair, and to its le... |
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| 9 | 231 |
"Kill him!" But the other man, bleeding, shaking his head, had now crawled from the patch of sand and now, some yards off, had collapsed among the tables, quite as unconscious as the first. |
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| 10 | 48 |
On one chair, some fifteen yards away, somewhat lower and closer the thrones of the Ubars, sat an officer, whom I recognized. |
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| 11 | 374 |
"Antisthenes accepts the proposals," said a man in the third row, some yards from me. |
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| 12 | 7 |
Now, from the height of one of the investing walls, some hundred yards from the high bleak wall of one of the holdings of Sevarius, said to be his palace, I, with Thurnock, Clitus, and others, by the light of Gor's three moons, observed the opening of a postern gate. |
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| 12 | 8 |
At the base of the wall, extending for some twenty yards, there was a tiled expanse, which suddenly dropped off, sheer, into a canal, itself some ninety feet wide; we had closed off the canal, where it might give access to the city or sea, by sea gates. |
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| 12 | 28 |
One of the bodies Thurnock had struck lay dark, sprawled on the tiles, some fifteen yards from the gate; the other lay, inert and twisted in the shadows, at the very portal itself. |
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| 12 | 70 |
I, and the others, followed him to another of the watch fires, one some fifty yards from the one at which I had warmed myself. |
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| 13 | 293 |
The sails would not be dropped from the yards until the ship was clear of the harbor. |
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| 13 | 315 |
The main mast was a bit forward of amidships, and the foremast was some four or five yards abaft of the ship's yoke. |
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| 14 | 90 |
Although I had had the masts, with their yards, taken down and lashed to the decks, and the sails stored below, I had the flutists and drummers, not uncommon on the ram-ships of Thassa, strike up a martial air. |
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| 14 | 128 |
A javelin, with tarred, burning blade, fell hissing into the water, some hundred yards away. |
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| 14 | 140 |
This time it fell only fifty yards astern. |
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| 14 | 144 |
I watched a burning javelin from the lead ship of the pursuers arc gracefully and smoking through the air and drop hissing into the water some fifteen yards to my right, abeam of the stern. |
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| 14 | 178 |
We were within fifty yards of her before a seaman on her stern castle, looking back, screamed the warning. |
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| 14 | 187 |
The nearest was not more than a hundred yards before the one we had just struck. |
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| 14 | 247 |
We were separated by some four hundred yards. |
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| 14 | 267 |
As it plunged through Thassa we had slipped, as swiftly as a sleen, from its path, knifing by a hundred yards past his port bow, and soon leaving him astern. |
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| 17 | 29 |
Astern there were, each separated by about one hundred yards, four tarn ships of Port Kar, and behind this four, there was another, and behind that another, and behind that another. |
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| 17 | 175 |
Astern of the Dorna, not hurrying, at half beat, came fifty tarn ships, their masts high, storm sails bound to their long, sloping yards. |
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| 17 | 219 |
And between them, heavy, their hulls buffeted by the wind, even their small storm sails now furled to their yards, came the ten round ships, the lumber ships from the arsenal. |
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| 17 | 242 |
I leaped from the ladder to the deck of the Dorna and waved my hand to Antisthenes, some hundred yards away on the stern castle of the command ship of the reserves. |
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| 17 | 431 |
I could see some, a hundred yards away, climbing the wales of tarn ships, some clinging to their oars. |
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| 18 | 144 |
Once the bird fell so low that the boy's feet and the bottom of the rope on which he stood splashed a path in the churning waters, and then the bird, responding to my fierce pressures on the one-strap, beat its way up again and again flew, but then only yards over the black, rearing waves, the roari... |
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| 18 | 265 |
Telima, dignity to the winds, turned and fled down the passageway, but, before she had managed to make ten yards, she had been stung twice, and roundly, by the flat of my blade. |
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| 18 | 266 |
Twenty yards beyond, running, she stopped, and turned to look upon me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 326 |
Once, grinding and spurring about graveled side roads, they were within forty yards of me, but I increased the lead, yard by yard. |
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| 3 | 327 |
I thrilled to their pursuit, and would elude them! Finally, when I was more than two hundred yards ahead of them, on a cruelly winding road, I switched off my headlights and drove off the road into some trees. |
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| 3 | 464 |
It was several hundred yards behind me, moving rather slowly. |
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| 3 | 518 |
Then I saw some small lights beyond the trees and brush some fifty yards in front of me, in a sort of clearing in the woods. |
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| 5 | 36 |
Some hundred yards or so from me I saw a mass of torn metal, a ruptured structure of black steel, half buried in the grass. |
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| 5 | 64 |
At last, about twenty yards from the ship, I circled it, fearfully. |
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| 6 | 121 |
Two others of his men had left the wagon and were looking about, some hundred yards or so, on other sides. |
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| 6 | 135 |
One of the men, a grizzled fellow, with one eye, came back from searching the fields some hundred yards or so from the wagon. |
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| 8 | 78 |
A few dozen yards to my right a fish leaped out of the water and disappeared again, leaving behind him bright, glistening, spreading circles. |
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| 8 | 837 |
What had we done? Ute pointed through the bars at one of the groups of wagons, some hundred yards from the compound, toward the forests. |
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| 8 | 904 |
It was more than a hundred yards off, glowing in the darkness, away from the compound. |
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| 9 | 277 |
"Posture!" snapped Verna, from yards behind me. |
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| 9 | 279 |
After some hundred yards I came to the edge of a clearing. |
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| 9 | 280 |
It was some twenty-five to thirty yards in diameter, ringed by the lofty trunks of Tur trees. |
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| 10 | 274 |
I remembered awakening, lying in a Gorean field, some hundred yards or so from the black wreckage of the slavers' ship. |
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| 11 | 801 |
As I ran through the darkness I suddenly saw, before me, some fifty or sixty yards away, four pairs of blazing eyes, a pride of forest panthers. |
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| 12 | 715 |
Another would fly low and to the side of the running girl, and a beat of the tarn's great wings would send her rolling and sprawling for a dozen yards across the grass. |
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| 13 | 309 |
Through the brush, some two hundred yards away, moving in the darkness, we saw two torches. |
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| 13 | 366 |
When I was several yards away, silently, bending over, noiselessly, I slipped away. |
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| 13 | 451 |
Suddenly, some hundred yards away, I heard a man's shout. |
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| 13 | 843 |
When only yards separated us, the other man flung away his bow and quarrel, seizing up his shield. |
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| 13 | 890 |
His tarn spun crazily, and then, a hundred yards away, to one side and below us, turned and fled. |
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| 16 | 8 |
I could see, some dozens of yards away, the backs of tents. |
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| 16 | 187 |
She indicated a kneeling figure several yards away, bent over, facing the other direction. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 34 |
At point-blank range the temwood shaft can be fired completely through a four-inch beam; at two hundred yards it can pin a man to a wall; at four hundred yards it can kill the huge, shambling bosk; it fires nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, some eighty Earth seconds; a skilled bowman, and not an unus... |
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| 1 | 137 |
A few yards away, on the tiles, in her brief silk, the two-handled, bronze paga vessel beside her, knelt the slave girl, waiting to be summoned. |
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| 2 | 92 |
I wanted her free, some yards offshore. |
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| 2 | 110 |
"Poles!" We were a few yards offshore. |
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| 2 | 130 |
I climbed some yards up the beach. |
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| 2 | 139 |
We met some yards up the beach, on the hot sand. |
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| 3 | 246 |
It was not more than a hundred yards from the tavern. |
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| 5 | 74 |
But scarcely had she made five yards when a dock worker, who knew her, seized her by the arm. |
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| 5 | 337 |
When we reached the Tesephone, less than a hundred yards from the slave market, the tide was at a knife's edge of its crest. |
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| 6 | 255 |
I had seen, an Ahn earlier, before we had reached this camp site, a tawny movement in the brush, some fifty yards in front of us, and to our left. |
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| 7 | 4 |
When I did not move, did I stand among the brush and light trees, in the sunlight and shadows, it was difficult to detect my presence, even from a distance of some yards. |
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| 7 | 135 |
Some seventy-five yards through the trees I thought I saw a movement, furtive, the flash of a thigh. |
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| 13 | 30 |
They were struck for a moment, seeing me, standing some hundred and fifty yards from them, regarding them. |
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| 13 | 80 |
The girls had tangled themselves in the brush not twenty yards into the trees. |
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| 13 | 220 |
I saw the shark turn again, this time from some fifteen yards away. |
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| 14 | 125 |
The brazier, fierce with heat, stood not two yards from Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 15 | 56 |
Swiftly, lightly, the panther girls sprang into the tiny clearing not five yards from her. |
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| 15 | 466 |
They were separated by some fifty yards. |
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| 15 | 507 |
I turned my head to one side and saw, some yards away, at the edge of our camp, in her yellow silk, Ilene. |
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| 16 | 187 |
Soon, prowling about in the brush, some yards away, was a sleen, drawn by the smell of the fresh blood, her own, smeared on Mira's slave body. |
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| 18 | 29 |
Somewhere, how far away I knew not, the strike of the hammer of the keleustes governed the stroke of those great sweeping levers, the oars of the Rhoda, and doubtless, not more than fifty yards abeam, those, too, of the light galley, the Tesephone, she of Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 168 |
They placed this wood at a point on the beach some twenty yards above the line of high tide, forming with it a great beacon. |
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| 18 | 307 |
I looked across the beach, some two hundred yards, to the palisade. |
10 |
| 18 | 496 |
I took Cara into the woods, a hundred yards or so from the forest's edge. |
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| 18 | 520 |
Some four hundred yards away from shore, by my conjecture, the two lanterns stopped. |
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| 18 | 605 |
Few of them noticed a log, some yards out in the water, move against the tide, out toward the dark shapes off shore. |
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| 18 | 608 |
Again the men of Tyros, on the beach, did not notice the log, perhaps from some island or jutting point, washing into shore, some yards from them. |
10 |
| 18 | 656 |
I slipped ashore, thrusting the log onto the sand, some two hundred yards away, among large rocks, concealed from the light of the beacon. |
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| 19 | 13 |
"Captain!" We stood some hundred yards from the palisade erected by the men of Tyros, south of it, on the beach. |
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| 20 | 115 |
Some six men of Tyros, near the center of the stockade, some fifteen yards from the gate, were engaged with blades, striking at one another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 297 |
A hundred yards from the wharves we saw a crowd of angry men, perhaps two hundred, blocking the way. |
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| 3 | 330 |
Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w... |
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| 4 | 200 |
A hundred yards away, rolling and sporting, were a family of whales, a male, two females, and four calves. |
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| 5 | 135 |
The ship of Thorgard was now little more than two hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 5 | 151 |
The ship of Thorgard was now only some hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 5 | 163 |
The ship of Thorgard, Black Sleen, was no more than some fifty yards away. |
10 |
| 5 | 281 |
Some hundred yards away, difficult to see, was the longboat. |
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| 6 | 35 |
There was a log palisade some hundred yards from the dock. |
10 |
| 10 | 662 |
The target in the shooting was about six inches in width, at a range of about one hundred yards. |
10 |
| 14 | 13 |
I was carried in the panic-stricken throng a dozen yards in one direction, then, meaninglessly, carried back in the other. |
10 |
| 15 | 30 |
As many as four or five times we crept within yards of feeding Kurii, oblivious to our presence. |
10 |
| 15 | 36 |
Offshore, some few yards, among the other ships, lay new ships, many of them, strange ships. |
10 |
| 15 | 79 |
Within yards of us, strung out, approaching, was a column of pairs of men, each wearing a yellow scarf. |
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| 18 | 55 |
Its head half to one side it rose to its feet and ran for a dozen yards before it slipped, falling sideways, rolling into the fur and burning leather of one of their lodges. |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
Not ten yards before the clash took place, Svein Blue Tooth and his lieutenants before the running line, as the girls, under the whips of Kurii, fled, terrified, seeing the axes, the leveled weapons, toward them, made a sign no bondmaid of the north mistakes, the belly sign. |
10 |
| 18 | 216 |
A hundred yards of bloodied grass, of bodies, of men and Kurii, separated two species of warring animal. |
10 |
| 18 | 364 |
One of the animals must have been within a hundred yards for it came immediately. |
10 |
| 18 | 387 |
We heard a ship's song from two hundred yards to our right. |
10 |
| 18 | 589 |
For more than a hundred yards did he drive him back, blow following blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 600 |
On Thassa, some hundreds of yards offshore, were ships. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 8 |
I came once within one hundred and fifty yards of Ibn Saran; Hassan, or Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, came within twenty yards of him, fighting like a wild animal, but was turned back at last by a wall of bucklers, a hedge of lances. |
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| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
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| 1 | 463 |
This helps to keep the animals together, makes it easier to move in darkness, and in a country where, often, one cannot see more than a hundred yards to the next dune or plateau, is an important factor in survival. |
10 |
| 1 | 464 |
If it were not for the caravan bells, the slow moving, otherwise generally silent caravans, might, unknowingly, pass within yards of men in desperate need of succor. |
10 |
| 2 | 92 |
Sometimes, not even a hundred yards from the warehouses, these men would be met by enterprising cafe owners, praising the advantages of their respective establishments. |
10 |
| 3 | 163 |
I think I was not more than a half pasang from my compartment when, approaching an opened gate, some forty yards ahead, lit by torches in walls, I stopped. |
10 |
| 4 | 456 |
I saw, some hundred yards from the caravan, the riders reined up. |
10 |
| 11 | 290 |
It was said that he came within ten yards of him. |
10 |
| 11 | 297 |
It is said he came within ten yards of Hammaran. |
10 |
| 11 | 335 |
It is said he came within ten yards. |
10 |
| 12 | 51 |
She rode for a hundred yards and reined in the kaiila. |
10 |
| 12 | 266 |
Down the corridor, some fifty yards of tile and hangings, there was the outer door. |
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| 15 | 29 |
In the separate-pipe system, two pipes, separated by several yards, are used, fresh water being forced through one, the salt water solution, the salt being dissolved in the fresh water, rising through the other. |
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| 16 | 5 |
I could see two other rafts, illuminated in the darkness, one some two hundred yards away, the other more than a pasang distant over the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 206 |
I heard men scream, sensed men struck yards from the raft, heard them strike the water. |
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| 17 | 208 |
The tail, like a twig, had struck loose the lamp pole, hurling it, spinning, flaming oil spilling, yards away into the circle of darkness outside the ring of lamplight on the dark, briny water. |
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| 19 | 44 |
In a short time they alighted, several yards from us. |
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| 21 | 327 |
I opened my eyes, and saw, briefly, before me, not more than a hundred yards away, in a fleeting gap in the storm, swiftly closed again by the hastened, stinging sand, crooked, leaning to one side, half buried in the sand, a cylinder of steel; it was perhaps twelve feet in diameter, perhaps forty fe... |
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| 21 | 348 |
On my hands and knees I crawled a few yards in the direction of the ship. |
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| 22 | 46 |
"Water!" The riders stopped, a hundred yards from me. |
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| 22 | 59 |
"Please, water!" I stopped some fifty yards from them. |
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| 22 | 69 |
He was some forty yards away. |
10 |
| 23 | 17 |
When I had gone a few yards, I turned in the saddle. |
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| 23 | 56 |
They were separated by some four hundred yards. |
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| 26 | 222 |
Some two hundred yards from the head of the column, I passed the small Abdul, who had been a water carrier in Tor, and an agent of Ibn Saran. |
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| 26 | 234 |
Some hundred yards from the head of the column, I passed a large white kurdah, on a large, black kaiila. |
10 |
| 26 | 1018 |
The girl usually begins several feet, or some yards, from the master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1151 |
The length of their line of march was perhaps some forty or fifty yards, its width some ten yards. |
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| 2 | 282 |
The approaching man stopped singing about twenty yards from us, and stood grinning in the grass. |
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| 2 | 391 |
He faced the stranger, who still crouched a few yards away. |
10 |
| 2 | 689 |
I stood in the grass, some two hundred yards from him. |
10 |
| 2 | 692 |
He turned again when I was some twenty yards from him. |
10 |
| 2 | 895 |
I thought my head would fly from my neck, with such swift savageness was I struck! The blow was open-handed, taking me on the left side of the face, but it must have been clearly audible for a hundred and fifty yards about; I rolled, stinging, crawling, for more than twenty feet; I threw up in the g... |
10 |
| 2 | 1058 |
My single and only defense was the steel and prowess of the man who stood between me and what, some yards away, rustled in the dark brush. |
10 |
| 3 | 157 |
A few yards away, Eta was roasting the haunch of meat on a spit. |
10 |
| 3 | 236 |
Five men stood in a line, some yards from her, who were to be the contestants. |
10 |
| 3 | 795 |
The tenting was striped on the inside; the small lamp was ornate; on the outside, interestingly, the tenting was a dull brown; among brush and trees it would be easy not to notice it, even if it were pitched but a few yards away. |
10 |
| 4 | 528 |
More than once I heard a contestant, yards away, curse. |
10 |
| 5 | 88 |
This was joined by another stream, some two hundred yards beyond the camp. |
10 |
| 7 | 257 |
One man remained behind, to follow the coffle, some yards to the rear. |
10 |
| 7 | 582 |
Some fifty yards from the line, in the darkness, between the straw huts, on their pilings, I stopped, and, wild, gasping, in the Ta-Teera, looked back. |
10 |
| 7 | 697 |
Shortly after they had passed, the sleen in a pen, some fifty yards off, began to squeal and hiss. |
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| 7 | 704 |
I saw them stop beside a hut several yards away. |
10 |
| 7 | 830 |
Not more than ten yards away I saw Chanda, wild, running. |
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| 7 | 849 |
Once I almost cried out with misery, for the path to my desired destination lay across a dark street, down which, a hundred yards or so away, I could see the center of the village, where, about the village fire, were seated several men, villagers and my master, and his men. |
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| 7 | 867 |
Some figures, three of them, were passing me, some yards on my right. |
10 |
| 7 | 937 |
One did walk within two or three yards of me, carrying a torch, but I lay very still. |
10 |
| 9 | 582 |
After a few yards I thought I might die. |
10 |
| 9 | 1476 |
I heard a sleen squeal from some eighty yards away, behind the huts, in the cage areas. |
10 |
| 11 | 245 |
There was a pounding on bars, from several yards away. |
10 |
| 19 | 20 |
A long rug, some forty yards in length, narrow, red, led toward a large pair of white doors, which opened from the center. |
10 |
| 22 | 146 |
She is turning about!" I could see, from where I stood, the yards lowering, the sails being furled, the masts being unblocked on the other ship. |
10 |
| 22 | 209 |
I was some yards from the sinking vessel when it slipped beneath the water. |
10 |
| 22 | 534 |
Within a hundred yards there may have been as many as four or five ships. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 828 |
"Masters!" called a girl, in Gorean, some yards down the platform, accosting the two men who were passing. |
10 |
| 6 | 279 |
"Yes, Master," she cried happily, running to where I had indicated, a place beside a small tree some fifty yards from the pond. |
10 |
| 6 | 482 |
Then he walked over to the pond several yards away. |
10 |
| 6 | 856 |
The sleen were now within a few hundred yards of the tarn. |
10 |
| 6 | 867 |
"No! They will tear me to pieces!" The sleen were now no more than two hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 6 | 874 |
They were some fifty yards from the girl. |
10 |
| 10 | 316 |
"Captain!" called another guard, from some forty yards away. |
10 |
| 10 | 356 |
I hurled it into the guards, some fifty yards now away. |
10 |
| 10 | 389 |
They fell and some, even, on the backs of the closely massed animals, were carried for dozens of yards, wood floating and churned, tossed on that tawny, storming river, that relentless torrent of hide and horn, turned toward the north. |
10 |
| 10 | 391 |
In minutes the river of tabuk was more than two hundred yards wide. |
10 |
| 11 | 371 |
The four of them, now grouped, in formation, ascended in an arc some hundred yards from me. |
10 |
| 11 | 447 |
I watched the small figure some two hundred yards behind me slowly approach. |
10 |
| 11 | 448 |
When she was some three or four yards from me she stopped. |
10 |
| 12 | 198 |
The ice of Ax Glacier, where we crossed it, had been cut by the countless hooves of the herd of Tancred, leaving a trail of marked ice more than one hundred and fifty yards wide. |
10 |
| 12 | 216 |
They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik... |
10 |
| 13 | 5 |
Some eleven tabuk were grazing on the mosses some one hundred yards from us. |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
The horn bow, unfortunately, formed of pieces of split tabuk horn, bound with sinew, is not effective beyond some thirty yards. |
10 |
| 13 | 20 |
I cursed inwardly, as the tabuk trotted a few yards farther away, grazing. |
10 |
| 14 | 13 |
I looked back a few yards to where Imnak stood, lending me moral support. |
10 |
| 14 | 242 |
It was some two hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 22 | 107 |
The sleen shook itself in the water and then snapped away some yards from the kayak. |
10 |
| 23 | 103 |
I was now within a few hundred yards of the Kur. |
10 |
| 23 | 122 |
"I am ready for you!" The Kur pulled up short, some twenty yards from me, baring its fangs. |
10 |
| 23 | 126 |
Behind me I could hear the red hunters, some hundred yards away, and running toward me. |
10 |
| 26 | 250 |
The sleen were now some two hundred yards away, swift, frenzied. |
10 |
| 28 | 189 |
I heard the movement of a key in a lock, from some yards away, in the door in the larger room within which our cell lay. |
10 |
| 29 | 112 |
He lifted his hand in greeting, fifty yards away. |
10 |
| 34 | 78 |
We were in a wide place, almost a shallow bowl, some hundred yards or so in diameter. |
10 |
| 35 | 969 |
Four darts hissed past, exploding in a succession of bursts some fifty yards from us. |
10 |
| 35 | 979 |
Then, ahead of us, some two hundred yards away, we saw some more men. |
10 |
| 35 | 1200 |
Behind me, some hundred yards or so, were Ram, and Drusus, and Karjuk and Imnak, and numerous red hunters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 16 |
Yards, and gardens and courts, if they exist, are generally within the house, not outside it. |
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| 3 | 58 |
Ahead, some yards, was a girl dark-haired, lying on her belly on the walkway, reaching with her hand down to the canal, to fish out edible garbage. |
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| 4 | 62 |
I went over to the edge of the pier, some hundred yards or so away, to where the Palms of Schendi was moored. |
10 |
| 4 | 609 |
From some eighty or so yards away, from the tiny shop of a metal worker, I heard a girl scream. |
10 |
| 4 | 731 |
I could see the girl, about one hundred and fifty yards away, her wrists crossed and bound before her, tied by the wrists to a heavy ring at the side of the pier. |
10 |
| 4 | 751 |
I could see the lateen sails on Ulafi's ship loosened on their yards. |
10 |
| 4 | 921 |
Canvas fell from the long, sloping yards. |
10 |
| 5 | 332 |
I indicated the blond-haired barbarian in her cage, a few yards forward of the mainmast. |
10 |
| 5 | 614 |
Though it was night Ulafi had not had them furled on their yards. |
10 |
| 6 | 48 |
Slowly the Palms of Schendi swung half to port, and the great yards above the deck, pulleys creaking, lines adjusted by quick sailors, swung almost parallel to the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 96 |
How vulnerable seemed the ship, the masts high, with their sloping yards and billowing canvas. |
10 |
| 6 | 109 |
They were not bringing down their yards and lowering their masts. |
10 |
| 6 | 156 |
I saw Ulafi, on his stern castle, raise his hand to a black captain, some seventy yards away, on the stern castle of his own vessel. |
10 |
| 6 | 209 |
Canvas was dropped from the long, sloping yards. |
10 |
| 6 | 315 |
The yards swung on the masts, capitalizing on the wind. |
10 |
| 6 | 341 |
At its eastern end, of course, at one point, the Nyoka, channeled between stone embankments, about two hundred yards apart, flows into it. |
10 |
| 6 | 521 |
A heavy galley, out of Tyros, forty oars to a side, stroked past us, her yellow lateen sails loose on their yards. |
10 |
| 6 | 536 |
As the Palms of Schendi, her canvas now taken in and the long yards swung parallel with the deck, oars lifting and sweeping, moved past the wharves many men stopped working, setting down their burdens, to wave us good greetings. |
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| 16 | 84 |
The intent of the engineers of Bila Huruma was to set in place two parallel walls, low walls, some five or six feet high, placed about two hundred yards apart. |
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| 20 | 79 |
After a time, when the askaris had withdrawn a few yards, I said to Ayari, "Convey my greetings to Kisu". |
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| 21 | 41 |
We then heard a thrash in the water, as a tharlarion, perhaps the same one which had thrust its snout against the bars of our cage, struck against wood in the darkness, some twenty yards from us. |
10 |
| 24 | 4 |
A canoe, with bleeding askaris, half drifted, half paddled, passed us, a hundred yards away, on our right. |
10 |
| 24 | 17 |
When the askari was some seventy-five yards away we turned about again and continued eastward. |
10 |
| 24 | 181 |
Some forty yards behind I could now hear the water churning. |
10 |
| 24 | 233 |
They were about eighty yards away. |
10 |
| 24 | 243 |
"No," she cried, "no! I am a true slave!" The four tharlarion were now some twenty yards away. |
10 |
| 27 | 3 |
From the scaffolding, a double row of peeled logs, about ten feet apart, with numerous connecting bars and crossbars, fastened together with vines, more than a hundred yards in length, extending out into the flowing waters, hung numerous vine ropes, attached to which were long, conical, woven basket... |
10 |
| 28 | 7 |
The river was generally two to four hundred yards wide at these points. |
10 |
| 32 | 5 |
We could hear the cataract some two hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 32 | 30 |
They went back down the grade some hundred yards to gather up the paddles and sacks, and roped bundles, which contained our various goods. |
10 |
| 32 | 31 |
We moved these things separately, usually a hundred or two hundred yards at a time. |
10 |
| 33 | 83 |
Too, had he been within fifty yards he probably could not have heard him, because of the roar of the falls. |
10 |
| 34 | 83 |
I then rose to my feet and walked a few yards away, to a fan palm. |
10 |
| 39 | 15 |
"Where are the men?" The canoe was now about forty yards from the shore. |
10 |
| 41 | 6 |
From each side of the river, about two hundred yards behind, we saw canoes, dozens, being thrust into the river. |
10 |
| 44 | 2 |
It was a lagoon, opening off the river, some hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 44 | 18 |
I turned and walked a few yards into the forest. |
10 |
| 44 | 65 |
Some fifty yards into the jungle I stopped. |
10 |
| 47 | 37 |
We had then advanced beyond the head of the column by some four hundred yards. |
10 |
| 47 | 57 |
I watched the black, segmented bodies of some fifteen or twenty ants, some two hundred yards in advance of the column, approach the meat. |
10 |
| 47 | 71 |
Behind me I could hear, yards away, a rustling. |
10 |
| 49 | 27 |
About a hundred yards beyond the first body, on the same side of the river, it, too, suspended from a tree branch, hung by the neck, dangling over the water, was a second body. |
10 |
| 50 | 30 |
Before us, more than four hundred yards in width, was a broad expanse of stone, at the eastern edge of the huge lake. |
10 |
| 50 | 31 |
It was a landing, a hundred yards deep. |
10 |
| 50 | 33 |
At the back of the landing, leading upward were flights and levels of steps, extending the full length of the some four hundred yards of the landing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 236 |
I went to the fountain, which was only a few yards away, and, getting down on my hands and knees, putting my head down, from the lower bowl, from which slaves and animals might drink, satisfied my thirst. |
10 |
| 13 | 336 |
Some fifty yards away, in the street, another palanquin passed, borne by draft slaves, some lovely enslaved girls, in brief tunics, chained by the neck to a bar at its back. |
10 |
| 13 | 438 |
Some twenty yards away two palanquins, heading in opposite directions, were stopped. |
10 |
| 16 | 336 |
About fifty yards down the alley was a high-sided tharlarion wagon. |
10 |
| 23 | 100 |
Then, from several yards away, I heard, soft and light, the movement of bare feet on the central board, that guide board set in the floor of the tunnel. |
10 |
| 26 | 308 |
But some fifty yards into the darkness of the tunnel I halted. |
10 |
| 34 | 18 |
I heard the scream of a girl some yards to my left, who was being branded. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 122 |
I continued to watch the dancer, now some yards away, under the low ceiling. |
10 |
| 4 | 700 |
She turned once, after about twenty yards, to look back. |
10 |
| 18 | 80 |
Once outside, and a few yards from the headquarters, I turned about, and faced her. |
10 |
| 21 | 201 |
"Imagine a wall," she said, "of eight feet in height, of heavy stone, a hundred yards in length. |
10 |
| 22 | 47 |
I saw Kliomenes, some seventy yards away, directing his men and the enforced laborers, citizens of Victoria, loading the galleys. |
10 |
| 27 | 118 |
Also it lay no more than four hundred yards from the hiring yard on the wharves, to which I often went in seeking work. |
10 |
| 32 | 192 |
Across the courtyard, some hundred yards or so of deep water, I could see the walkway at the foot of the outer wall, and the stairs leading to the parapets. |
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| 33 | 28 |
To port and starboard, each some fifty yards away, gray and silent, intermittently visible in the fog, each lying to, as was the Tina, were two other galleys, the Mira, out of Victoria, and the Talender, out of Fina. |
10 |
| 33 | 237 |
Then, suddenly, through a rift in the fog I saw, not more than a hundred yards away, across the chain, what seemed a countless number of ships. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
10 |
| 1 | 19 |
They were some forty yards away. |
10 |
| 1 | 32 |
Some fifty yards away I heard another galley strike at the chain. |
10 |
| 1 | 69 |
I could see several galleys, some two to three hundred yards away, approaching the chain. |
10 |
| 2 | 96 |
We had actually passed within a few yards of pirate vessels, anchored in the river. |
10 |
| 2 | 126 |
"Return to the ship!" We let the longboat move past us, some yards to starboard, judging by the sound of the oars. |
10 |
| 4 | 74 |
I saw, some hundred yards away, on the stem castle of the speeding galley, her captain move his arm. |
10 |
| 4 | 152 |
Her immediate support ship, fifty yards astern, could not check her flight. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 5 | 79 |
"That ship," I said, pointing, to a vessel less than some hundred yards away, engaged in war. |
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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. |
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| 5 | 166 |
Our rams, separated by some fifty yards, faced one another. |
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| 5 | 169 |
Even low and shallow-drafted she could no longer veer in a matter of yards. |
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| 5 | 238 |
I had been within a hundred yards of her today. |
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| 6 | 7 |
A man screamed on the stern of the Portia, to starboard, not more than forty yards away, and tumbling, reeling, like a torch, his clothing soaked with flaming pitch, fell into the water. |
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| 7 | 36 |
A longboat was some twenty yards away. |
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| 7 | 53 |
I heard, several yards behind me, the rending of strakes, taken by a ram. |
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| 7 | 66 |
A ship of the Voskjard, a hundred yards away, back from the immediate press of battle, was aflame. |
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| 8 | 355 |
"Is the battle nearly over?" We could hear the occasional sounds of fighting outside, from some hundreds of yards off, across the water. |
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| 9 | 25 |
To be sure, we could see ships' lanterns moving about on the Tamira, some two to three hundred yards across the water. |
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| 9 | 384 |
Some yards away I saw the dark shadow in the darkness which was the Tais. |
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| 10 | 62 |
Accordingly, unopposed, it would have cut the chain rather than engage in the arduous task of beaching and moving over fifty ships some two or three hundred yards overland. |
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| 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. |
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| 17 | 45 |
I turned a corner in the street, and it was then that I saw them, some fifty yards away, approaching, descending, nearing the location of one of the small tharlarion-oil lamps. |
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| 17 | 57 |
"Oh," I said, pausing, stopping, suddenly, a few yards from them. |
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| 20 | 1227 |
He then casually thrust Peggy ahead of him through the door, and she hurried, bound, down to the first landing of the stairs, some yards above the street. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 735 |
The iron bolts of these devices, weighing about a pound apiece, were capable of sinking some four inches into solid wood at a range of some twenty yards. |
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| 2 | 13 |
I saw a man outside on the walk, a few yards away, mending a net. |
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| 2 | 191 |
In negotiating the canals their long, sloping yards were lowered, being then fully or partially inboard, in either case being aligned with the keel. |
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| 9 | 11 |
Similar wands I could see some two hundred yards away, on either side, to the left and right. |
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| 9 | 57 |
Grunt rode some twenty yards ahead, and then pulled back the kaiila, twisting its head back with the reins, wheeling it about to face us. |
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| 14 | 43 |
I looked beyond her, to a few yards away, where several kaiila, of the visiting Dust Legs, were tethered. |
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| 14 | 158 |
A few yards away, near the kaiila, the white slave girl of the Dust Legs kept her head down, not daring to raise it. |
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| 15 | 34 |
The rider had appeared very suddenly, over a small rise in front of us, some twenty yards away. |
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| 15 | 201 |
I hoped that our reactions would not be evident to the Fleer, who was several yards away. |
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| 16 | 101 |
A trail of sugar, some four inches wide, some three or four yards long, drained through the split lid, had been run out behind it. |
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| 19 | 10 |
Two other Sleen, too, then followed, who would bring up the rear, riding behind the column, some yards behind the captives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 42 | 2 |
"Hurry!" "It is no use!" cried Hci, a few yards away, on tarnback, some two hundred yards above the rolling grasslands beneath us. |
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| 1 | 87 |
I scarcely dared to conjecture what it might be like to be even closer, say, within a few hundred yards of them. |
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| 3 | 23 |
A man was now riding slowly forward, alone, toward some trees a few hundred yards away. |
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| 3 | 245 |
He was a few yards away, astride his kaiila. |
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| 4 | 313 |
A few yards ahead of where we waited by the lodge there was a group of mounted kaiila riders. |
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| 6 | 32 |
Cuwignaka and I, then, not more than a few yards ahead of the animals, which, in a body, buffeting and storming, tridents down, their heads low, as the kailiauk runs, came streaming, flooding, bellowing, torrentlike, about that bend in the draw, raced to safety. |
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| 6 | 33 |
* * * * We stood in the grass, about a hundred yards from the draw. |
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| 6 | 83 |
Hci halted his kaiila a few yards from us. |
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| 6 | 128 |
We then, between us, carried the head up, out of the draw, and, some fifty yards or so from the draw, placed it on the level. |
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| 12 | 7 |
"Who are you?" Another two lads, on kaiila, now approached me, remaining, however, some yards away. |
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| 12 | 46 |
Not more than a few yards away, below me, below where I stood on the small rise, the herd was again in a small tight circle, turned in on itself, purposeless, milling, stationary. |
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| 14 | 357 |
I then carried her several yards away, among the lodges. |
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| 18 | 164 |
I passed within a hundred yards of the great dance lodge, formed of towering walls of brush. |
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| 18 | 224 |
"Slave," said a fellow, sitting cross-legged, some yards off, beckoning to me. |
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| 22 | 2 |
We had turned, startled, not more than a few yards from our lodge, from the interior of which Cuwignaka had recovered the lance. |
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| 26 | 7 |
In a few yards he had been unable to cling to the animal and had slipped from its back, under the paws of other beasts. |
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| 26 | 80 |
She was standing still, bewildered, shuddering, a few yards away. |
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| 27 | 62 |
We then turned to face the Yellow Knives, some three hundred yards away. |
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| 27 | 91 |
One rider I saw fall from the back of a tarn, some few hundred yards to the west and north of the camp. |
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| 28 | 3 |
Before the lines of the Yellow Knives, some three hundred yards away, to the west, riders rode back and forth, with feathered lances. |
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| 28 | 56 |
When I had left Grunt I had ridden a hundred yards or so away, to look at the remains of the council lodge. |
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| 28 | 240 |
We looked back, those three or four hundred yards, across the field. |
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| 30 | 4 |
The thin, ragged, linear oval of warriors, some hundred yards in length, opened, admitting us. |
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| 34 | 105 |
In the grass now, standing, some yards away, frightened, the grass to her waist, was a young girl, some sixteen or seventeen years of age, blond. |
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| 34 | 350 |
Behind us, some fifty yards, came the travois. |
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| 37 | 490 |
You will not see it, probably, given your height, and the grass, until it is within a few hundred yards of you. |
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| 39 | 295 |
The bird soared towards us and then, several yards away, turned its wings, braking, and hovered for a moment in the air, its claws dropping, and then landed. |
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| 39 | 306 |
I heard Mira, a few yards behind us, throwing up in the grass. |
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| 42 | 57 |
The leader of the Kinyanpi, when some fifty yards from my tarn, suddenly drew back on the reins of his tarn, and held it in a hovering position. |
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| 42 | 91 |
The lead rider was now in the neighborhood of a hundred yards away. |
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| 42 | 94 |
Another few yards and I must snap the reins of the tarn, kicking back at it, screaming, starting it forward. |
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| 42 | 99 |
The lead rider, when only a few yards away, had jerked back wildly on the reins of his tarn. |
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| 43 | 315 |
I felt the tension in the ropes, on either side of the kaiila, as I entered into the long lane, some two hundred yards in length, the sacks, their weight negligible for the strength of the kaiila, being drawn lightly behind. |
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| 43 | 407 |
A few yards out into the prairie I did stop again. |
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| 43 | 483 |
My own tarn, on a long tether, held by Canka, was only yards behind. |
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| 43 | 499 |
It was two or three hundred yards behind me, above me and to my right. |
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| 44 | 527 |
The man halted his kaiila only yards from the barricade, with its terrible, bloody points. |
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| 46 | 146 |
At our withdrawal our fifth group, some fifty yards behind us, lowered itself from the escarpment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 284 |
The nearest people, a couple, were better than a hundred yards away, to our left. |
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| 8 | 126 |
In a few moments, from a side door, a few yards farther down the corridor, another young man emerged. |
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| 8 | 622 |
"Would that you were a slave!" He then, lifting me from my feet as though I might have been no more than a doll, suddenly, violently, with a cry of rage, flung me from him, yards from him, to the surface of the bed. |
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| 15 | 15 |
In the moonlight, not more than a hundred yards away, I could see the cage slung from its branch. |
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| 15 | 182 |
Then, suddenly, I heard a tarn scream, and not more than two or three hundred yards away. |
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| 15 | 315 |
It must have been fifty yards long. |
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| 15 | 317 |
On these skids, some twenty yards or so in front of me, there were four or five tarn baskets. |
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| 19 | 9 |
It was one of several such small dwellings, with attached stables and yards, in a line, habitations rented out to teamsters and itinerant merchants. |
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| 19 | 16 |
In front of some of the other shacks in the line, in the yards, I could see girls cooking for masters, too. |
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| 22 | 14 |
Also a few yards away there was a tent. |
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| 24 | 98 |
"Now, go there," he said, indicating another table, several yards away, near the wall. |
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| 30 | 78 |
"Forgive me, Master," I said, bowing my head and backing away, then turning and hurrying a few yards further down the avenue. |
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| 30 | 99 |
Then, from some two hundred yards away, I heard the shrill, excited squeal of one of the animals. |
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| 30 | 128 |
A few yards from the gate I stopped and turned again, and looked at it. |
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| 30 | 245 |
After a few yards I looked back. |
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| 30 | 334 |
My first awareness of the nearness of the sleen was that wild, hissing, excited squeal not more than a hundred yards behind me. |
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| 30 | 377 |
There was no opening here to the Wall Road, which must, judging from the proximity of the wall, be only forty or fifty yards behind the building. |
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| 30 | 469 |
He let her do this for a moment or two, until she, looking up at him, realized how absurd and futile it was; then he took her by the upper arms, turned her about, and flung her back, yards back to the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 64 |
With their wagons and tents, often little more than a skip and a jump ahead of creditors and magistrates, they roam from place to place, rigging their simple stages in piazzas and squares, in yards and markets, wherever an audience may be found, even at the dusty intersections of country crossroads. |
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| 1 | 910 |
There, not more than twenty yards from the ship, half submerged, was a large, winged creature. |
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| 1 | 976 |
"The yards are well fortified," he said. |
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| 4 | 47 |
His two footmen were in the background, a few yards away, where the tharlarion was tethered. |
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| 4 | 49 |
They were withdrawn several yards to the rear, behind us, as his men were behind him. |
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| 7 | 358 |
He was a few yards away, around the campfire with Chino and Lecchio. |
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| 7 | 411 |
My own small camp was within two hundred yards. |
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| 13 | 155 |
Several hundred yards behind us, following slowly, moving in pain, awkwardly, her head down, came the slave, Lady Telitsia. |
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| 14 | 230 |
I went to within a few yards of the edge of the pack. |
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| 14 | 247 |
It was some two or three hundred yards across. |
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| 14 | 252 |
I looked over to Nim Nim, a few yards from me, much closer to the pack. |
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| 14 | 408 |
I kept pushing through the urts, toward the other side of the pack, more than a hundred and fifty yards away. |
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| 14 | 464 |
Once, a few yards before me and to my right, I saw a small, elongated head rise up suddenly, peering at me. |
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| 19 | 56 |
I then signaled to my men, a few yards beyond the gate, raising my arm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1040 |
A few yards into the passageway, which was winding, and about a hundred yards long, with some side passages, she stopped, and turned, and faced me. |
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| 1 | 77 |
She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos. |
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| 9 | 245 |
"I will then see you at the wagon yards!" He then turned about and disappeared. |
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| 9 | 269 |
"Ho! Move!" We then drew again into the street and began to follow the rough signs painted on the sides of buildings to the wagon yards. |
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| 10 | 1 |
We Proceed to the Wagon Yards "It is not necessary to look at those things," I said to Boabissia. |
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| 10 | 12 |
"There is no need, to reach the wagon yards, to pass this place," said Mincon, angrily. |
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| 10 | 68 |
"We will be in the wagon yards in a quarter of an Ahn," said Mincon. |
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| 11 | 111 |
"I looked about the yards, and when I found fine-looking, sensitive-looking chaps, splendid-seeming fellows, of apparent refinement and taste, those of a sort I thought might be capable of appreciating my work, I offered them one of my poems, and for no more than a mere token of appreciation, a silv... |
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| 13 | 103 |
Some two hundred yards down the street we could see another segment of the crowd, it, too, doubtless, waiting behind some barrier. |
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| 13 | 113 |
There, some fifty yards away, kneeling, huddled together against the brick wall of a public building, the wall composed of the flat, narrow bricks common in southern Gorean architecture, was a group of some one hundred to one hundred and fifty females. |
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| 16 | 1428 |
I could see, some two hundred yards or so away, pennons of Cos, marking presumably the first row of siege trenches. |
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| 19 | 383 |
We were now a few yards from the checkpoint. |
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| 26 | 1095 |
"Not that! I mean— I mean—!" But I had swept her into my arms and carried her a few yards down the passageway and then into one of the side passages, where, protruding from a rear area, in a heap of litter and debris, mostly banked against a wall, in the midst of other garbage, refuse,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 43 |
The closest was a few yards away, the farthest, in view, more than a hundred yards away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 242 |
The roofed stage of the great theater, usually called that, though technically, it was the theater of Pentilicus Tallux, a poet of Ar, of over a century ago, best known for his poems in the delicate trilesiac form and two sensitive, intimate dramas, was over a hundred yards in width, and some twenty... |
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| 9 | 802 |
I heard, from several yards away, perhaps fifty yards away, the sound startling me even so, the crack of a whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 651 |
Moving from the right toward the left, some yards above the level of the ledge, some seventy or so yards out from it, I saw a gigantic hawklike creature, a monstrous, titanic bird, of incredible dimension. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1101 |
She was then led for several yards across this level, some sort of open, wind-blown, flat surface, and then found herself suddenly out of the wind, and, in moments, some yards within some straw-strewn, wooden-floored room, or area. |
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| 20 | 337 |
Following, some fifty yards or so to the back, and right, and some yards above, was a great shadow. |
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| 27 | 478 |
He was then something like seven or eight yards from the wagon, some two or three yards before the line of his fellows, the beasts and the two sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 57 |
Approaching the arsenal, hundreds of yards away, were two figures, one seemingly several yards in advance of the other. |
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| 77 | 251 |
He was some yards away, behind the ashes of the fire, and the gate was some yards behind him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 191 |
The great ship itself, made possible by Tur wood and bracing, would be something like a hundred and ten yards from stem to stern, and, abeam, some forty yards. |
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| 9 | 193 |
The tarn areas occupied almost the whole of three decks, as noted, each being some seventy yards in length and some thirty yards in width. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 135 |
Shortly thereafter four waves, or ranks, of tarnsmen swept by, the lowest wave perhaps no more than five yards from the ground, the highest perhaps twenty or twenty- five yards from the ground. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 551 |
At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 110 |
The three catapults, mighty war engines, were aligned several yards behind the inner ditch, between the ditch and the camp of the mercenaries, a hundred or so yards beyond. |
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