| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 73 |
Approaching me, stepping daintily for all its bulk, prancing over the strands, came one of the Swamp Spiders of Gor. |
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| 8 | 50 |
"This one I'll leash myself," he said, drawing a leading chain from his pouch and approaching the girl. |
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| 9 | 46 |
If there were refugees, they must have been behind us, and few merchants were approaching Ar. |
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| 13 | 10 |
To the southwest I could see dimly the evening light reflected from the spires of Ar, and to the north, approaching from the Vosk, I could see the glow from what must be thousands of cooking fires, the night's camp of Pa-Kur. |
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| 13 | 46 |
The bird struck the ground between the diseased victim and the approaching larl. |
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| 18 | 1 |
In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea... |
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| 19 | 55 |
The approaching swarm of Pa-Kur's horde was visible, and the dust rose a thousand feet into the air. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 41 |
As I was pondering these matters, I observed, approaching me, but not seeing me, in the distance, moving across a green meadow, a dark figure, that of a woman. |
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| 6 | 116 |
I wondered if the girl approaching was beautiful. |
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| 6 | 179 |
Approaching across the meadow, ankle deep in the wet grass, were four warriors, helmeted and carrying spears and shields. |
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| 14 | 139 |
Already one or two had leapt over the wall from the stands and were approaching. |
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| 16 | 5 |
The solid pillar would not allow entrance to men on the ground, and approaching tarns would be easily visible for miles before they could reach it. |
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| 25 | 28 |
I could hear the sounds of approaching men in the corridors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 110 |
The Gorean night above, often black and beautiful with stars, now seemed to be approaching with swift stealth. |
10 |
| 11 | 2 |
Another Priest-King, mounted on a low, oval disk which seemed to slide up the ramp, was approaching. |
10 |
| 32 | 178 |
He surveyed the humans gathered about him, the heavy golden hemisphere of the approaching Beetle. |
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| 35 | 7 |
I could smell the cold tang of approaching winter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 64 |
They were approaching. |
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| 2 | 94 |
I could now see as well, though separated by hundreds of yards, three other riders approaching. |
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| 3 | 129 |
It was like a sea or a vast natural phenomenon slowly approaching. |
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| 7 | 27 |
I was pleased that there were no prostrations or grovelings involved in approaching the august presence of the exalted Kutaituchik. |
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| 8 | 45 |
At last, seventeen days after the first snows, the edges of the herds began to reach their winter pastures far north of Turia, approaching the equator from the south. |
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| 8 | 318 |
She must have been counting to herself because only an instant or so after Conrad had spurred after her she looked over her shoulder, seeing him approaching. |
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| 9 | 168 |
"Behold my ward," he was saying, indicating the approaching girl. |
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| 10 | 215 |
On long lines of tharlarion I could see warriors of Turia approaching in procession the Plains of a Thousand Stakes. |
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| 10 | 259 |
Now the excitement of the throng seemed mostly to course among the warriors of the Wagon Peoples as they rose in their stirrups to see better the swaying, approaching palanquins, each reputedly bearing a gem of great beauty, a fit prize in the savage contests of Love War. |
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| 10 | 272 |
Now, looking on the approaching palanquins, I supposed that so once, in veil and silks, had ridden the lovely Tenchika, and so, too, as far as I knew, might have ridden the lovely Dina, had she not fallen earlier and otherwise to the chains of Kassar warriors. |
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| 10 | 547 |
"Watch out!" I cried, for now Kamras had recovered, and was once again approaching. |
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| 13 | 19 |
I spied Elizabeth Cardwell approaching the wagon, two leather water buckets fastened to a wooden yoke she carried over her shoulders. |
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| 15 | 8 |
Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea... |
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| 18 | 47 |
To my horror I saw it change its shade as it neared the surface, more closely approaching the light. |
10 |
| 18 | 102 |
We heard running feet approaching, those of several men, the clank of arms, the high-pitched, enraged screaming of Saphrar of Turia. |
10 |
| 20 | 89 |
One guard was even then approaching the trap. |
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| 20 | 125 |
Harold once more had Hereena over his shoulder and was boldly approaching the tarns. |
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| 21 | 232 |
It was approaching the main gate of Turia. |
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| 21 | 261 |
They were approaching with great rapidity. |
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| 23 | 76 |
Thousands of animals were already turned toward the approaching enemy and beginning to walk toward them when the Paravaci suddenly realized what was happening. |
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| 25 | 572 |
"Try this!" she said, approaching me, and this time, my head in her small hands, she lingered with her lips upon my mouth, warm, wet, breaths meeting and mingling in the savoring touch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 157 |
Kuurus had not finished the bowl of paga when he sensed a man approaching. |
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| 3 | 32 |
But this man now approaching was not an amateur, nor an enthusiast. |
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| 12 | 9 |
I could see the netmen expertly moving across the broad stands approaching them, loops in their hands to tie together the bird's beak, to bind its curved, wicked talons. |
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| 12 | 14 |
Already the birds had turned the twelve-ring track and were again approaching. |
10 |
| 14 | 159 |
I turned and saw a female slave, in a rep-cloth kitchen tunic, stained with food, approaching, bearing a tray of fruit with a flask of wine. |
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| 15 | 147 |
The staff, incidentally, had been increased in the last month, largely due to the increasing number of slaves being processed by the House but perhaps also, in part, in preparation for the approaching spring, which is the busiest season on the Street of Brands, for then, after the winter, slave raid... |
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| 17 | 28 |
I found myself wishing that masters belled their girls for Kajuralia, so that they might be heard approaching. |
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| 17 | 153 |
After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp... |
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| 21 | 344 |
I noted that one Taurentian after another, in a line, approaching, slipped to the sand. |
10 |
| 22 | 25 |
Approaching him we heard a wild tarn scream, of hate and challenge, and we stopped. |
10 |
| 22 | 96 |
"We must ride, Ubar of the Skies," said I, approaching the bird. |
10 |
| 22 | 286 |
The platforms, bearing the tarns for the ninth race, were being wheeled onto the track area, approaching the starting perches. |
10 |
| 22 | 317 |
I saw men from the betting tables conferring, some of them then approaching the board. |
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| 22 | 415 |
Already the other birds in the race, nine of them, were approaching the first turn. |
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| 22 | 557 |
"Ubar of the Skies," cried I, "fly! Fly now as you have never flown before!" We flashed through the end rings and, on the straight-away, saw, ahead, the Yellow and the Red approaching the left side rings. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 239 |
I had expected, that very day, or this night, to receive word that the fleets of Cos and Tyros were approaching. |
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| 14 | 113 |
Over the faint music coming from the distant ships, now approaching, I could hear her war trumpets and, with the glass, observe her flags. |
10 |
| 14 | 469 |
"Thurnock," said I, "signal seventeen of my twenty ships to present themselves to our approaching friends. |
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| 14 | 476 |
Seventeen soon began to move around the fleet, or come about, to face the approaching twelve vessels. |
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| 14 | 483 |
I had the admiral freed of his leg irons and he and I, from the stem castle of his own ship, regarded the approaching ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 485 |
The Lady Vivina, prepared for the prow, stood nearby, a sailor's hand on her arm, she, too, watching the approaching ships. |
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| 16 | 129 |
I heard feet running in the corridor, approaching. |
10 |
| 17 | 5 |
The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from... |
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| 17 | 214 |
I could see, now, approaching the Dorna, from the east, the reserves, the fifty-five tarn ships, and the ten wide-beamed round ships, lumber ships from the arsenal, whose cargoes were unknown even to my highest officers. |
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| 18 | 597 |
I heard the climbers approaching even more closely. |
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| 18 | 635 |
Men were fleeing from my holding but, even more important, approaching down the canal, oars flashing, mast down, came a tarn ship, and then another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 445 |
Some traffic passed me, approaching me. |
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| 8 | 83 |
Those approaching were drawn by land tharlarion, plodding on log roads along the edges of the river. |
10 |
| 10 | 422 |
"Sometimes the sleen will follow a quarry for pasangs, before making its strike, lurking, approaching, withdrawing, then at last, when satisfied, attacking from the darkness". |
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| 11 | 227 |
When I opened my eyes, blinded with tears, I saw the leather worker approaching my face with a tiny, steel ring, partly opened, and a pair of pliers. |
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| 11 | 716 |
But, unlike Inge, I was a superb, and exciting, slave! I heard the sandals of the guard approaching, outside, on the grating before the tier of cages. |
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| 11 | 1234 |
I heard a girl move on the straw in the next cage, approaching the bars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 219 |
The initial response of the other four girls, until they had seen the approaching women were not of their band, was one of intense relief. |
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| 15 | 228 |
They, too, were distracted by the approaching women. |
10 |
| 18 | 191 |
I could not well fire into the palisade without approaching near the water, without leaving the shelter of the forest. |
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| 22 | 20 |
I observed the retinue approaching me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
I heard footsteps approaching. |
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| 7 | 100 |
Approaching him, her kirtle held high in two hands, it filled with verr dung, was blond, collared Thyri. |
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| 13 | 308 |
From the doors to the hall, swung wide, now approaching, came four figures, Ottar, who had accompanied the Forkbeard to the Thing, two of the Forkbeard's men, with spears, and, between them, clad in rich robes of concealment, such as are worn in the south, even to the veils, the figure of a girl. |
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| 14 | 100 |
"Let us use our axes!" Trying to draw back from the Kurii, approaching slowly, great, bloody axes ready, terrified men pushed back, further and further. |
10 |
| 15 | 79 |
Within yards of us, strung out, approaching, was a column of pairs of men, each wearing a yellow scarf. |
10 |
| 15 | 337 |
Approaching were the two Kurii. |
10 |
| 22 | 159 |
Then, laughing, giggling, thrilled to be soon underway, approaching between two lines of seamen, came his slave girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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| 4 | 435 |
Their burnooses whipped behind them as they mounted the crest of the hill and, the animals half sliding, descended the other side, approaching us. |
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| 4 | 438 |
I saw no one approaching from other directions. |
10 |
| 5 | 798 |
Can one not hear the boots of totalitarianism approaching, ringing ever more clearly, ever nearer, on the terrified, deserted streets? Was a woman, I wondered, really better off on Earth? Was she happier there, I wondered, posing as a pseudo-male, amidst the remnants of ruined men? I wondered how ma... |
10 |
| 16 | 238 |
I saw lights across the water, another raft, approaching. |
10 |
| 22 | 13 |
The men approaching, leading four pack kaiila, were ignorant. |
10 |
| 22 | 33 |
It seemed not improbable to me that there might be a recognition signal, to be given by the approaching riders in the vicinity of the ship, to be answered by a countersignal, before they would bring the kaiila in. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 266 |
The other fellow was approaching at an even, unhurried pace. |
10 |
| 2 | 282 |
The approaching man stopped singing about twenty yards from us, and stood grinning in the grass. |
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| 2 | 1045 |
Did they contain enemies, with steel, approaching even now? Might we be set upon, ambushed or attacked? There was a rustle in a thicket of brush, at which the man had been directing his attention. |
10 |
| 2 | 1147 |
Approaching, in the darkness, we saw some twenty torches. |
10 |
| 2 | 1173 |
We, in the light of the torches, watched the approaching retinue. |
10 |
| 4 | 488 |
I heard another man approaching, doubtless groping. |
10 |
| 7 | 701 |
Two more young men were approaching, one holding aloft a torch. |
10 |
| 9 | 1824 |
She carried a metal goblet, and, slowly, in stately fashion, descended the steps to the ground, approaching Thurnus. |
10 |
| 12 | 583 |
I heard men on the other side, approaching. |
10 |
| 20 | 361 |
He was approaching from down the wharf, carrying a sea bag, in the guise of a sailor. |
10 |
| 22 | 171 |
Now not only the flag of Port Kar but another flag, too, snapped on its line at the stem castle of the approaching vessel, hurling toward us, like a swift knife, its oars flashing. |
10 |
| 22 | 223 |
Too, in the distance, between some of them, I could see other ships, approaching. |
10 |
| 22 | 543 |
I did not see the second ship, from behind me, from amidships, approaching. |
10 |
| 24 | 8 |
A ship was approaching, a medium-class galley, with twenty oars to a side, dipping unhurriedly. |
10 |
| 26 | 856 |
In time I heard steps approaching, climbing stairs to the level of the compartments. |
10 |
| 27 | 735 |
I heard feet approaching the iron door, from the other side. |
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| 29 | 52 |
We were but a short way from the Towers of Warriors, on the third of its approaching high bridges, when again Clitus Vitellius turned and faced me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 731 |
When I had last seen them two slaver's men had been approaching them, one with a knife and the other with some brief, white, platform tunics. |
10 |
| 6 | 27 |
From a distance, approaching, I could see a small retinue, not more than some fourteen persons. |
10 |
| 6 | 36 |
They were approaching the pond, presumably to draw water. |
10 |
| 13 | 1 |
Imnak Broaches to me a Topic of Some Importance; We Encounter Poalu One of the problems in approaching tabuk on the tundra is the lack of cover. |
10 |
| 14 | 263 |
A large crowd was approaching, yet in such a way as to give Imnak room. |
10 |
| 22 | 220 |
We nosed our kayaks on each side of the beast, approaching it from the rear. |
10 |
| 35 | 193 |
The girl approaching me down the corridor was very beautiful. |
10 |
| 35 | 736 |
Then, on a given level, four below the central level, we saw four men approaching. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 217 |
"I didn't see the man approaching," she said, desperately. |
10 |
| 6 | 38 |
"We are approaching Schendi," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 185 |
We had lain to after more closely approaching the port of Schendi in the evening of the preceding day, the day in which we had seen the fleet of the black slavers of Schendi. |
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| 29 | 14 |
She restrained herself from approaching me more closely. |
10 |
| 32 | 45 |
Approaching us, in single file, led by Tende, came the slaves, carrying supplies. |
10 |
| 44 | 91 |
Approaching her now, moving swiftly across the web, was a gigantic rock spider. |
10 |
| 51 | 165 |
"Please do not bind me," wheedled Janice, approaching me, looking up at me, running her finger on the left shoulder of my tunic. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 248 |
We heard two men talking, approaching. |
10 |
| 21 | 433 |
If one encounters, as in side tunnels, approaching the main tunnel, a fully knotted, dependent wall of strings, then one knows that a left-and-right branching is imminent. |
10 |
| 24 | 23 |
I then heard the footsteps approaching me. |
10 |
| 25 | 367 |
I watched the approaching riders, some pasang or so distant, some four or five hundred feet in the air. |
10 |
| 30 | 61 |
Girls, too, can be taught to use the leash to enhance their seductiveness, appearing to draw away, then approaching, using it about their body, kissing it, taking it in their mouth, fingering it, and so on. |
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| 34 | 106 |
"You, there!" said a voice, that of a slaver's man, approaching me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 126 |
The dancer now, as the music was mounting in crescendo, was again approaching me. |
10 |
| 4 | 643 |
But she had gone only a step or two when she saw some five other men at the end of the street, also approaching her. |
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| 23 | 283 |
The whip dance was now approaching its climax. |
10 |
| 25 | 182 |
"Masters," said Peggy, approaching the table, kneeling beside it, bearing a tray. |
10 |
| 27 | 166 |
"Assistance! Assistance!" Glancing back I saw a lantern approaching. |
10 |
| 30 | 349 |
"Master," said Bikkie, approaching me. |
10 |
| 32 | 202 |
Give us room," said Kliomenes, approaching. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 69 |
I could see several galleys, some two to three hundred yards away, approaching the chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 45 |
We saw other galleys, too, approaching the chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 63 |
"Ships of Port Cos are approaching!" cried another man. |
10 |
| 4 | 129 |
"They are approaching at only half stroke," said a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 144 |
"There is a ship approaching!" I heard a man cry. |
10 |
| 12 | 27 |
We watched the oars of the approaching ships. |
10 |
| 16 | 286 |
Scarcely had I ascended the heavy planking than, approaching rapidly, bearing down on me, I saw a medium galley, thrusting itself between the flagship of Policrates and Spined Tharlarion, the flagship of Ragnar Voskjard. |
10 |
| 16 | 290 |
Sputtering, lifting my head, spitting water, trying to clear my eyes, I saw another shape approaching. |
10 |
| 16 | 414 |
Forty feet away, down the deck, amidships, sword in hand, half crouching, blade ready, slowly approaching, I saw Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 305 |
The urt, being an air-breathing mammal, commonly makes its strike at the surface itself, approaching the quarry with its snout and eyes above the water, its ears laid back against the sides of its long, triangular head. |
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| 5 | 16 |
In the center of the road, approaching, between, and with, the lines, drawn by two tharlarion, was an ornately carved, high, two-wheeled cart. |
10 |
| 10 | 116 |
I looked back at the approaching dust. |
10 |
| 16 | 184 |
"It had been approaching you, unseen. |
10 |
| 17 | 2 |
I dismounted swiftly and easily, approaching her, from the kaiila. |
10 |
| 18 | 156 |
Approaching from three directions were groups of mounted warriors, some fifteen or twenty in each group, lofty on their kaiila, barbarous in their paint and feathers. |
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| 18 | 184 |
Scanning, I noted the approaching groups of riders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 122 |
A rider, a red savage, was approaching rapidly. |
10 |
| 23 | 87 |
I saw no sign of approaching Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 25 | 2 |
A rider was approaching, the feathers on his lance streaming behind it, the lance upright. |
10 |
| 27 | 47 |
The ground-based archer, on the other hand, the defender, has the solid earth beneath him, and he, because of his nearness to the openings in the network, or loosely linked canopy, can both track the approaching enemy and fire through it with ease and efficiency. |
10 |
| 27 | 49 |
It is difficult to hit a particular window, particularly at late notice, while one is moving at high speed, but it is not difficult to see what is approaching through one and to fire through it. |
10 |
| 28 | 315 |
This type of formation is generally not useful against an enemy which is protected by breastworks, pits or stakes, or a settled infantry, its long pikes set, fixed butt down in the turf, the weapons oriented diagonally, the points trained on the breasts of the approaching mounts. |
10 |
| 32 | 158 |
"The lance dancers are approaching," I observed. |
10 |
| 33 | 57 |
Approaching, along the side of the maize field, coming from the direction of the palisade and buildings in the distance was a group of Waniyanpi. |
10 |
| 43 | 428 |
Across the prairie I could see riders approaching, some four or five in the lead, and others, drawn out, behind them. |
10 |
| 43 | 445 |
The riders were now again approaching. |
10 |
| 43 | 462 |
I kept my eye on the approaching tarn. |
10 |
| 44 | 194 |
Hci, interestingly, was not very far away and, in a moment or two, he was approaching Iwoso's post. |
10 |
| 44 | 350 |
"But even now I tricked you," she said, "by distracting you from seeing the approaching dust, by pretending to sexual need!" "The dust," I said, "was visible long before you noticed it, before you initiated your clever, diversionary stratagem". |
10 |
| 46 | 171 |
"Yellow Knives on kaiila approaching the lower barricade!" called Kahintokapa, from above. |
10 |
| 47 | 276 |
Ubar of the Skies was approaching from behind and on the right. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 199 |
"Let me relieve Mistress of the coverlet," she said, approaching me. |
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| 3 | 291 |
"These other rings," I said, indicating the rings about the couch, "are they also slave rings?" "Yes," she said, approaching lightly, gracefully, "in their way, but most of them are only anchor rings, to which, say, chains or cords might be attached". |
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| 5 | 1 |
Miles of Argentum; Drusus Rencius Speculates on What I Might Bring as a Slave; I Have Obtained Greater Freedoms "The arrogant knave now approaching the throne," said Ligurious, whispering in my ear, "is Miles, an ambassador, and general, from Argentum". |
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| 5 | 2 |
The fellow, approaching, coming up the long aisle toward the great dais, on which my throne reposed, had indeed a bold stride. |
10 |
| 5 | 17 |
I took an immediate dislike to the fellow approaching. |
10 |
| 6 | 176 |
There were some five wagons approaching the city, in a line. |
10 |
| 6 | 191 |
"Its canopy is up, and it is approaching the city". |
10 |
| 8 | 142 |
As we passed the stranger, he approaching us, he was on our right. |
10 |
| 8 | 143 |
Goreans commonly pass in this fashion, the sword arms of right-handed individuals being thus on the side of the approaching stranger. |
10 |
| 8 | 527 |
Why did he not release me now? Why did he still keep me braceleted, like a slave? Could he not see that I was almost overcome with emotion? Could he not see my misery, my distress? Could he not see how overwrought I was? Could he not see the difficulty I was having, fighting myself? We were approach... |
10 |
| 8 | 573 |
We had then passed the stranger, approaching, in the alley. |
10 |
| 10 | 51 |
One man, one of two who had been approaching us from the side, threw me back against a wall. |
10 |
| 12 | 9 |
"It seems a Sa-Tarna wagon was fleeing before the approaching enemy, seeking to reach the city before being overtaken," said a man. |
10 |
| 13 | 12 |
Down the aisle, now, approaching, his sword in his right hand, his helmet in the crook of his left arm, came a large, sturdy figure. |
10 |
| 13 | 181 |
I could see men approaching, with rope. |
10 |
| 14 | 198 |
I saw a lantern approaching, held by one of two guardsmen. |
10 |
| 15 | 183 |
Too, I saw a lantern approaching behind me. |
10 |
| 16 | 135 |
I could hear others approaching, too. |
10 |
| 22 | 96 |
Not feet away I saw a lantern approaching the back of the wagon. |
10 |
| 23 | 148 |
It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced... |
10 |
| 30 | 40 |
I looked back at the crowd, some two or three blocks away, approaching. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 785 |
Then, rising up a little and approaching further, still on her hands and knees, she turned her head, delicately, and kissed the edge of the table, her lips touching partly the surface of the table, partly its side. |
10 |
| 4 | 30 |
A rider, mounted on a high tharlarion, flanked by two footmen, had been approaching. |
10 |
| 4 | 160 |
"Yes, Mistress," I said, rising and approaching with the vessel of Ka-la-na. |
10 |
| 6 | 786 |
"Very well," he said, "but watch out for those two fellows approaching. |
10 |
| 8 | 110 |
I then circled about the camp, approaching from the other side of the wagons. |
10 |
| 12 | 533 |
I could also see the insolent Bina approaching. |
10 |
| 13 | 196 |
I saw soldiers now, warily, with leveled crossbows, and with spears, approaching the creature. |
10 |
| 13 | 269 |
He had been approaching the table quite closely. |
10 |
| 14 | 289 |
"I am staying here! I am not approaching! I will not hurt you! Do not enter the pack!" Nim Nim had been caught in a state orchard. |
10 |
| 21 | 368 |
"Do not kill me!" cried Flaminius, twisting in the cords, seeing me approaching through the apartments, the steel of my sword bared. |
10 |
| 21 | 681 |
Outside, in the garden, off in the distance, on one of the bridges, I saw some men approaching. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 36 |
I could now see the approaching riders. |
10 |
| 9 | 37 |
Too, one could now hear clearly the drumming of the approaching beasts. |
10 |
| 9 | 38 |
The force approaching us, it seemed, wore the blue of Cos. |
10 |
| 25 | 579 |
I saw the woman approaching a fellow at a table. |
10 |
| 26 | 30 |
I could hear something approaching me down the tunnel. |
10 |
| 26 | 180 |
I then listened to the whistles approaching more closely. |
10 |
| 26 | 571 |
I saw the light approaching more closely. |
10 |
| 26 | 1145 |
"There are various forms of bellying," I said, "and bellying may be suitably and pleasingly combined with other forms of floor movements, approaching the master on all fours, turning to your sides and back, writhing before him, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 294 |
The fellow was approaching. |
10 |
| 8 | 278 |
"Look up," had said the man, then, and then "Stand," and then, after a moment, "Kneel," to one of the women, after another, approaching me, down the line. |
10 |
| 9 | 115 |
In a few moments I was several yards along the shoot, and approaching a level. |
10 |
| 10 | 660 |
I could now hear, from some distance down the tunnel, the sound of something approaching. |
10 |
| 11 | 151 |
Someone was approaching. |
10 |
| 11 | 979 |
I knew the music was approaching its climax, and the dance must be concluded. |
10 |
| 14 | 328 |
"No, Master!" Then I saw him approaching me suddenly, descending the steps, swiftly for so large a man, his arm drawn back. |
10 |
| 20 | 276 |
The approaching fellow was some ten to fifteen yards away, to my left. |
10 |
| 29 | 394 |
Two beasts were approaching, doubtless the companions of the one with us. |
10 |
| 29 | 1066 |
The approaching fellow hesitated, understandably enough, in seeing the beast. |
10 |
| 29 | 1507 |
I could then see, approaching over the grass, a solitary figure. |
10 |
| 33 | 187 |
"Accordingly," he said, "if someone did not wish to be observed in approaching the camp, he might come from that direction which lies more behind you, where there are trees and brush". |
10 |
| 33 | 319 |
Approaching the fire with an armful of sticks, from the pile to one side, gathered earlier in the woods by Tupita and myself, I saw the eyes of the beast turned upon me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
Who knows the intentions or nature of the approaching stranger? In Gorean, as in many languages, the same word is used for stranger and enemy. |
10 |
| 1 | 459 |
The ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it. |
10 |
| 2 | 195 |
I had gathered, however, that the siege at Ar's Station might be approaching a critical point. |
10 |
| 5 | 498 |
If I appeared to be with Cos I might have considerable difficulty in approaching the defenders of Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 5 | 500 |
The siege at Ar's Station, I had gathered, might be approaching a critical juncture. |
10 |
| 8 | 137 |
"Were you approaching me, intentionally?" I asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 1 |
I Assume Command "Where have you been?" called a fellow outside the cell, approaching. |
10 |
| 16 | 110 |
I considered the approaching towers, the thousands of men I could see in the field, the ladders being carried, the supporting engines. |
10 |
| 16 | 317 |
Behind the slowly approaching towers, partly in their cover, advanced hundreds of men. |
10 |
| 16 | 322 |
There were dozens of supporting grapnel and ladder crews, however, now approaching between the towers. |
10 |
| 17 | 3 |
The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width. |
10 |
| 18 | 480 |
In the boats, approaching from the piers, the same boats which had come earlier to help evacuate the landing, there were men with torches and axes. |
10 |
| 19 | 226 |
"Stop!" I ordered the approaching Cosians. |
10 |
| 19 | 266 |
I saw some small craft from the landing approaching, with crossbowmen in them. |
10 |
| 20 | 130 |
"The Cosians on the rafts and boats are approaching," said another. |
10 |
| 20 | 140 |
In a moment or two I had adjusted it, and had it trained on the flagship of the approaching flotilla. |
10 |
| 20 | 177 |
Out in the harbor itself the small boats and rafts of Cosians which had been approaching to attack were now hurrying to the shore, to one side or another, to take shelter near the most convenient guard station. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 750 |
Temione moved before the fellow, here and there, in one direction or another, twirling about, walking, approaching, withdrawing, approaching. |
10 |
| 1 | 530 |
"Roast tarsk!" announced Philebus, proudly, approaching the burly fellow, gesturing to one of his helpers, who was accompanying him, bearing a tray of steaming meat. |
10 |
| 1 | 739 |
Now she was approaching the burly fellow. |
10 |
| 1 | 1258 |
"What is it?" he asked a fellow approaching. |
10 |
| 3 | 178 |
On that road, that dirt road, that narrow road, almost a path, long and dusty, the dried grass on each side, a figure was approaching. |
10 |
| 13 | 349 |
"It is an attack pattern!" Could they not see that? Did they not understand what was happening? Could they not understand the rationale of that steadiness, the menace of the motionlessness of those great wings? Could they not see that what was approaching was in effect a smoothly gliding, incredibly... |
10 |
| 13 | 462 |
Another man was approaching. |
10 |
| 14 | 173 |
"Captain," said a fellow, approaching. |
10 |
| 15 | 65 |
In a few moments I heard some men approaching. |
10 |
| 17 | 222 |
There could now be no mistaking the steadily increasing volume of sound approaching from the west. |
10 |
| 18 | 39 |
I had, however, from the rence, seen the clouds once more approaching from the west, even vaster, even darker. |
10 |
| 19 | 117 |
Its shadow was then over the water, rapidly approaching, and, in a moment, its clawed feet striking down into the sand, it alit on the beach, much where it had been before. |
10 |
| 19 | 740 |
Then I again saw her plunging through the marsh, pushing her way through rence, approaching the edge of the island. |
10 |
| 19 | 751 |
The ul had reached its head down, its jaws gaping, when it saw me approaching, some yards away. |
10 |
| 19 | 753 |
It watched me approaching. |
10 |
| 19 | 1094 |
"I can demonstrate my value," she said, approaching me. |
10 |
| 30 | 5 |
Trees, generally not common in the marshy delta, were more common now, as we were approaching its southern edge. |
10 |
| 31 | 356 |
"What of that one?" I asked, indicating Ina, now approaching us, holding the bowl, carefully. |
10 |
| 32 | 279 |
At our request, they found for him a uniform of Cos, probably one which they had been given as a diplomatic gift, or one of several for use in approaching Cosian patrols. |
10 |
| 33 | 1 |
Night Marcus and I moved very slowly, our faces darkened, on our bellies, through the grass, approaching the fellow's position from opposite sides. |
10 |
| 39 | 121 |
This evening I had seen a line of mercenaries, perhaps a hundred in all, with some slaves, mostly pack slaves, some eight or ten of them, approaching Brundisium. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 205 |
"Make way!" A house marshal was approaching, carrying a baton, with which he touched folks and made a passage amongst them. |
10 |
| 1 | 333 |
In a moment we could see the lifted golden circle, on its staff, approaching. |
10 |
| 3 | 583 |
I noted a fellow approaching the circle, who had behind him, heeling him, an unusually lovely slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 107 |
No longer now, the bars now quiet, did I even hear the drums and trumpets of the approaching Cosians. |
10 |
| 9 | 843 |
The whip cracked again, this time quite close, as the fellow with the device had been approaching, stopping here and there. |
10 |
| 10 | 91 |
Some twenty men, stripped, in heavy metal collars, these linked by heavy chains, their hands behind their backs, presumably manacled, prodded now and then by the butts of guards' spears, were approaching. |
10 |
| 13 | 16 |
Approaching, singing, was a group of youths, in rows, a sports team, marching together. |
10 |
| 15 | 113 |
We could hear footsteps approaching, rapidly. |
10 |
| 15 | 122 |
Another fellow was in the street, approaching, but suddenly detected us, shadows among shadows. |
10 |
| 19 | 1054 |
Milo approached my palanquin when I had the curtains back, begging for forgiveness for approaching me, proposing even that he be beaten by my bearers for his boldness, but that he could not help himself, that for days he had struggled with himself, but now, regardless of what sorry consequences migh... |
10 |
| 21 | 110 |
On the other hand, in Lavinia's case, clearly the guards would not wish to risk her approaching the Ubara too closely, even back-braceleted. |
10 |
| 22 | 672 |
I observed her approaching. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 229 |
I heard the tread of those heavy sandals approaching. |
10 |
| 4 | 255 |
I could hear the chain approaching, slowly, pausing briefly by each item in the line, its links moving against one another. |
10 |
| 4 | 376 |
He was close! In whose power were we? I heard voices before me, down the line, in order, approaching, and heard, shortly thereafter, one after the other, gasps, and soft cries. |
10 |
| 4 | 616 |
One or another of the men were coming down the line, approaching from behind. |
10 |
| 6 | 141 |
I moved before the men, first before one and then before another, approaching, withdrawing, sometimes as if unwilling, or shy, sometimes almost as if daring to be insolent or rebellious, but not quite, or not really, of course, for if such things are misunderstood one may quickly feel the lash. |
10 |
| 7 | 542 |
But I had not meant to excite him! But then again I felt him surgent within me and found myself again, even as I heard approaching voices, put to his purposes. |
10 |
| 12 | 791 |
Something was approaching! I became suddenly conscious, terribly so, of my helplessness and vulnerability. |
10 |
| 12 | 810 |
Now I could hear tiny sounds, unusual sounds, in the approaching passage. |
10 |
| 18 | 10 |
I could see the tarns, in the distance, one by one, approaching. |
10 |
| 19 | 38 |
Unauthorized strangers risk their lives by even approaching such places. |
10 |
| 24 | 52 |
"There must be a tarn caravan approaching the city!" "It would have its escort," said a man. |
10 |
| 24 | 138 |
Too, they seemed at a fairly low altitude, approaching parallel to the ground. |
10 |
| 24 | 148 |
"Move! Move!" The flight did indeed seem to be approaching with great rapidity. |
10 |
| 24 | 152 |
If the approaching riders had banners they had not yet unfurled them. |
10 |
| 24 | 429 |
The farther fellow went to his right, the nearer one to his left, approaching us. |
10 |
| 37 | 471 |
Urts on the other side of the barrier, the men approaching, the corridor dark, necessitating the bringing of light into it, he had apparently, probably with his own body, if not blood, lured urts back, close to the gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 224 |
"Excuse me," said the older woman, approaching the blond, younger woman, she holding her wrap about her. |
10 |
| 4 | 168 |
Though she had scarcely managed to take her eyes from the couple during the performance, and had sat there, breathing quickly, heart beating rapidly, tense, nervous, excited the whole time, she had had no intention of approaching them again. |
10 |
| 13 | 682 |
"Walking away, turning, approaching. |
10 |
| 13 | 688 |
"Walking away, turning, approaching," said Ina, "you seem perhaps no more than a burdened slave, but you can drive them mad with passion, and the wanting of you". |
10 |
| 15 | 22 |
Ellen walked down the long rug, approaching the chair. |
10 |
| 16 | 1277 |
The other girls, too, Targo approaching, began to appeal to the crowd, uttering the attraction call of the common girl for sale. |
10 |
| 17 | 66 |
"What is going on here?" asked Barzak, approaching. |
10 |
| 20 | 71 |
She had seen him approaching, moving along the lines, stopping to confer with officers and drovers. |
10 |
| 20 | 155 |
She heard an approaching tharlarion, from behind her, on her right. |
10 |
| 20 | 286 |
Were they loosed to be retrieved by allies? As these thoughts raced through Ellen's head she noted, approaching from her present left, what would have been the right before her tarns had begun, leaderless, to veer about, and circle, a storm of wings, perhaps as many as thirty tarns. |
10 |
| 21 | 215 |
Approaching the pool was the line of prisoners, or slaves, which contained Portus Canio and Fel Doron. |
10 |
| 21 | 224 |
Then Ellen noted two other figures now approaching the pool. |
10 |
| 22 | 632 |
She heard some men approaching. |
10 |
| 23 | 295 |
Only a little later, as she knelt before the tent, trembling, she saw a lantern approaching, and heard the trundling of a cart. |
10 |
| 24 | 502 |
She put forth her hand, as though to fend away someone who was approaching her. |
10 |
| 24 | 708 |
She did see, this frightening her, and she quickly put down her head, the scribe who had interviewed her in the exhibition cage, and three guardsmen, with him, not one but three, all approaching. |
10 |
| 25 | 59 |
Ellen was aware that a small chain was being formed, which was approaching her cage. |
10 |
| 26 | 381 |
She heard someone approaching, and lay very still. |
10 |
| 26 | 658 |
Ellen then observed two more men approaching the group. |
10 |
| 27 | 186 |
"They do not seem to be approaching, Master," said Ellen. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 17 |
Cabot's interlocutor surely wore Kur harness, though he was not armed, not even with the small throwing ax, or night ax, commonly used in approaching isolated sentries, and such. |
10 |
| 29 | 254 |
He then approached Lita, who, seeing him approaching, knelt. |
10 |
| 29 | 301 |
"It is approaching, slowly, coming out of the water". |
10 |
| 30 | 95 |
Most commonly it is no more than the placing of herself before him as his slave, perhaps putting herself to her knees, her head down, contritely, to his feet, perhaps ministering to them with her lips and tongue, perhaps placing his foot gently upon her head, perhaps approaching him penitently, on a... |
10 |
| 33 | 192 |
He saw a stirring in the water, as of a large body but a yard or so below its surface, approaching smoothly, unhurried. |
10 |
| 47 | 57 |
Approaching the arsenal, hundreds of yards away, were two figures, one seemingly several yards in advance of the other. |
10 |
| 55 | 288 |
There was, at that moment, a cry of Kur elation, and greeting, and Cabot and Lord Grendel turned about to see Statius approaching, dragging behind him, by means of a stout rope on her neck, stumbling, filthy, terrified, only the remnant of a stained tunic left to her, her wrists pinioned behind her ... |
10 |
| 56 | 122 |
"They do not wish to risk approaching us," said Statius, "while we have weapons, however few and inadequate they might be". |
10 |
| 80 | 70 |
"Lord Grendel, I believe, is approaching the gate". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 728 |
"No," I said, standing up, approaching them. |
10 |
| 3 | 798 |
That might delay the arrival of a ship, one approaching from the west, say, from Tyros or Cos. |
10 |
| 4 | 61 |
In approaching the shore, I had left an easy trail leading to the beach, but had then doubled back, and waited in the shelter of some trees, a few yards back, and to the side, from which point of relative concealment I could both survey the beach and monitor my original trail. |
10 |
| 9 | 176 |
The use of the girl comes with the price of the drink, and thus which girl is summoned to the table, or which, approaching the table, is accepted, has an import which might not be obvious to the stranger to such establishments. |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
We had not been on the track for more than a handful of Ihn, however, moving rapidly but circumspectly, lest crossbowmen be about, when we heard shouts before us, and we saw some dozen or so of the Pani Ashigaru, with their glaives, approaching. |
10 |
| 18 | 301 |
"Tajima is now approaching," said Pertinax. |
10 |
| 18 | 508 |
And later those in the camp rejoice, seeing the dust approaching, which they take for the rapid, joyful return of their forces, triumphant. |
10 |
| 22 | 420 |
We saw some torches, down the road, approaching, from the central camp. |
10 |
| 22 | 531 |
The Ashigaru approaching from the central camp were now closer. |
10 |
| 22 | 532 |
Saru, on her hands ands knees before Pertinax, cast a glance toward the approaching torches. |
10 |
| 25 | 201 |
Most mariners, however, believed that the world was spherical, surmising this from a plenitude of considerations, that one first discerns the masts of approaching ships, that Gor's shadow, round, is occasionally cast on a moon, that not all stars are visible at all latitudes, as would be the case if... |
10 |
| 28 | 121 |
A time was approaching in which the temperamental vagaries of restless Thassa would predictably begin. |
10 |
| 30 | 164 |
It was not made for approaching, difficult to detect, low on the horizon, for the raid and swift departure. |
10 |
| 38 | 403 |
The approaching boat was now midriver. |
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 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 296 |
Bring your ropes!' On the roof, we knew the rebels were approaching. |
10 |
| 3 | 683 |
I said nothing, but I supposed that the mercenary, before approaching the fellow, would have examined the sky behind him. |
10 |
| 12 | 318 |
I then realized that whoever was approaching had access, or his informant had access, to the watch order. |
10 |
| 14 | 119 |
I sensed a rising under my feet, something stirring, something approaching, from far below, water moving away from it. |
10 |
| 14 | 132 |
Other fins were approaching, knifing through the blossoms. |
10 |
| 16 | 146 |
The small ships were approaching rapidly. |
10 |
| 22 | 263 |
Some new fellows were behind us, almost as shadows, and, down at the beach, some others, I sensed, might have been approaching. |
10 |
| 22 | 287 |
Too, was it not obvious that the enemy was massing, and approaching? I heard a stirring to my left. |
10 |
| 24 | 297 |
Now she was approaching, coffled. |
10 |
| 25 | 11 |
A small group of skilled climbers, approaching at night, might have reached the foot of the walls, but it seemed that an ascent of the plateau by any large group, certainly undetected, would have been unlikely. |
10 |
| 27 | 26 |
A column was indeed approaching. |
10 |
| 27 | 45 |
I could see the tops of banners, approaching, up the trail, then helmets, then men. |
10 |
| 35 | 38 |
The fleet of Lord Yamada was approaching the cove, when the great ship slipped away". |
10 |
| 35 | 61 |
He was approaching the lowered gangplank, one end resting on the pier, the other fastened, roped, to the bulwarks, on each side of the opened gate. |
10 |
| 36 | 257 |
"Do you not think he would have been wiser to move differently amongst the tables, to feign interest, here and there, approaching ever more closely?" "I would suppose so," I said. |
10 |
| 36 | 289 |
I saw the two fellows, in the talmits, approaching. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 716 |
Outside, approaching, I saw the slaver's man, he stripped to the waist. |
10 |
| 8 | 751 |
I saw a small, wiry fellow, with a straggly beard, in soiled blue and yellow robes, approaching. |
10 |
| 8 | 1168 |
Two others, however, I noted, were crossing the street, approaching. |
10 |
| 8 | 1538 |
I saw Marcella approaching, in the narrow aisle. |
10 |
| 10 | 1070 |
Accordingly, last week, seeing one of the two approaching rapidly on the connecting bridge, I turned about to flee, only, to my consternation, to see the other, who had been following me. |
10 |
| 15 | 159 |
I had tried to be silent, but it was approaching. |
10 |
| 17 | 546 |
Sometimes they do not identify their caste, as when, say, approaching free women. |
10 |
| 18 | 788 |
I heard steps approaching. |
10 |
| 18 | 1135 |
"It is no trick of the light behind us, nor to the left, approaching," said Master Desmond. |
10 |
| 18 | 1138 |
From the left a small group of riders, on bipedalian saddle tharlarion, were approaching. |
10 |
| 18 | 1142 |
The wagons, down the road, behind us, approaching from the direction of Venna, might not reach the six hundredth pasang stone until dark. |
10 |
| 24 | 108 |
"Commonly it pounces from behind, and bites through the back of the neck, or, approaching frontally, sinks its teeth in the shoulder, and, with its rear legs, disembowels the prey". |
10 |
| 26 | 22 |
"Others," said the Lady Bina, observing the approaching figure, small in the distance, stumbling, seemingly forcing itself to move, "can trail nearly as well as a sleen". |
10 |
| 26 | 36 |
"What a fool she is," said Desmond of Harfax, regarding the pathetic, approaching figure. |
10 |
| 38 | 26 |
It is the machine!" Approaching down the corridor, moving carefully, the stalk-like eyes rotating about, scanning, came the machine, accompanied by two shield-bearing, ax-carrying Kurii, Timarchos and Lysymachos. |
10 |
| 45 | 124 |
"Tal," I said, again, approaching more closely. |
10 |
| 45 | 174 |
I was sure that he was approaching. |
10 |
| 46 | 29 |
I heard others approaching, and, too, even the voices of kajirae. |
10 |
| 47 | 78 |
Leaning forward I saw, approaching, Desmond of Harfax, followed by two Kurii, who occasionally bared their fangs threateningly, and growled, as men started to surge closer to their charge. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 474 |
Two fellows, officers, were approaching from one of the ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 168 |
To be sure, we had kept to a particular trail, one, I had gathered, of several, and had been approaching, not attempting to exit, Tarncamp. |
10 |
| 15 | 136 |
In a moment they were gone, arrows launched, but, wheeling about, they returned from the opposite direction, and again loosed their missiles, and then wheeled about, again, and, approaching from the original direction, loosed another volley of missiles, and then sped away. |
10 |
| 15 | 550 |
I could be lashed for even approaching a paga vat. |
10 |
| 16 | 203 |
I have not seen in your eyes the unexampled, terrifying predatory lust of the approaching lari, the keen, piercing glance of the tarn. |
10 |
| 21 | 428 |
"Our friend is approaching," said Tyrtaios. |
10 |
| 25 | 112 |
I had then sensed a second guard, approaching. |
10 |
| 29 | 11 |
I could see four or five bodies through the trees, approaching, afoot. |
10 |
| 37 | 8 |
"Or is it," said Tuza, approaching, "merely an escaped slave, wandered in from the forest?" "Release me!" demanded Darla. |
10 |
| 38 | 61 |
Arrivals were approaching from the direction of the river, which was south of our position. |
10 |
| 38 | 62 |
I suspected the several newcomers, of which the approaching fellows were doubtless a part, had originally crossed the river to the east. |
10 |
| 39 | 43 |
Shortly thereafter, approaching from the east, I saw Hiza, the upper part of her body wrapped in a slave net, stumbling toward the camp. |
10 |
| 41 | 181 |
I recalled that their first errand with this object had been interrupted by the appearance of a collared sleen approaching the camp. |
10 |
| 43 | 547 |
"Dear guests," said Aeson, approaching us, carrying two small, black, metal pails. |
10 |
| 43 | 897 |
"It is approaching!" cried the first guard. |
10 |
| 50 | 467 |
How could I interest him, as a slave desires to interest a master? Had I been a free woman, perhaps I might have tortured him, and made him long for me, flirting, approaching and then backing away, demanding attentions and bargains, teasing, and taunting, implicitly bespeaking my favors, and then, p... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 43 |
Picked units of Yamada's infantry, it was conjectured of some two hundred troops each, undetected, or unreported, by scouts, approaching through four narrow passes, had surprised, and stormed, the cots and ancillary structures of Lord Temmu's tarn cavalry. |
10 |
| 4 | 67 |
"They were approaching," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 3 |
It had been but a few Ehn since our lookouts had spotted the approaching tarn, which soon alit in a flurry of wind and dust, on the small assembly ground amongst the cots and tents of the new encampment. |
10 |
| 14 | 75 |
He watched the two tarns approaching in the distance, small against the yellow moon. |
10 |
| 16 | 12 |
I had not gone far when I saw a figure approaching. |
10 |
| 20 | 540 |
"The bones and shells speak of danger to the house of Yamada, of an avenger, a dark figure, one approaching, a lost son, a son of the very blood of the house of Yamada, one who returns, one on whose left shoulder is borne the sign of the lotus". |
10 |
| 24 | 106 |
Another path lay through flowers; it was this path, from the courtyard gate, which was being utilized by the recently emerged group, that now approaching the stands. |
10 |
| 24 | 111 |
"I cannot see the faces of the approaching Ashigaru," I said. |
10 |
| 25 | 267 |
It was approaching rapidly. |
10 |
| 36 | 27 |
To be sure, approaching the pen was the special officer. |
10 |
| 38 | 132 |
"Find Tarl Cabot!" cried a voice, from somewhere in the midst of the approaching lanterns. |
10 |
| 41 | 29 |
On the other hand, it is possible that Lord Yamada's seeming dalliance was otherwise motivated; perhaps negotiations of some sort were underway; perhaps certain pieces in his game of war were being rearranged with scrupulous care; perhaps it was merely that the advance of his might, approaching now ... |
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| 42 | 46 |
I fear they might have been unkind to Haruki, but they had little opportunity to do so, as Tajima and I, armed with the tent pegs, or stakes, if you will, approaching from different sides, struck them, from behind, heavily. |
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| 43 | 179 |
Two wagons were approaching. |
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| 44 | 199 |
Lord Okimoto passed me the glass, and I trained it on the approaching speck, still far off. |
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| 46 | 175 |
The magician was indeed approaching. |
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| 47 | 18 |
I viewed you at the gate, with the Builder's glass, on the walks, approaching through the garden, even to the great portal itself. |
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| 47 | 146 |
We had contacted him and informed him of our plan before approaching the palace. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | 105 |
We saw torches approaching through the wagons, approaching the yard where we had camped. |
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| 11 | 92 |
Too, they, though obvious barbarians, natives of this rude, barbarous sphere, had the effrontery to regard me, of Earth, as the barbarian! I saw the miller's man approaching, with his basket of grain, followed by the dark-haired flute girl. |
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| 13 | 70 |
The tarn was now no more than fifty feet or so above the grain, approaching rapidly. |
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| 20 | 150 |
A fellow, in the gray of the Metal Workers, was approaching, moving south on Emerald. |
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| 20 | 155 |
The thing following the Lady Bina ceased to heel her and moved quickly to her right and placed itself, moving beside her, and a little before her, between her and the approaching fellow who, apparently surprised, and perhaps alarmed, hurried to his left, giving the unusual couple a wide berth. |
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| 28 | 114 |
To my misery I saw Kurik of Victoria approaching us. |
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| 28 | 117 |
"Is someone approaching?" asked Tyrtaios, as though he might not be certain of the matter. |
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| 29 | 31 |
Two men were approaching. |
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| 33 | 700 |
Doubtless its presence had dissuaded the beast from approaching me more closely. |
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| 33 | 716 |
"Our friend may have thought the better of approaching you more closely, the barrier of fire, the risk of remaining longer in the house". |
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| 51 | 138 |
"Tal, dear Alexina," said the Lady Bina, pleasantly, approaching us. |
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| 53 | 32 |
"How many in the approaching party?" asked Kurik. |
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| 54 | 72 |
"Grendel," said Kurik, "I can see, behind us, approaching on the bridge, Kurii". |
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| 54 | 76 |
"The two groups will trap us between them," said Kurik, "those by our weapons, and those approaching". |
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| 54 | 111 |
"Those approaching, I conjecture," he said, "are some one hundred paces distant". |
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| 55 | 21 |
Lord Grendel, the chain dangling in his grasp, was regarding the Kurii who had been approaching from behind. |
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| 55 | 66 |
There had been five Kurii behind us, those who had been approaching, but when I dared to look, the bridge was clear of bodies, save for one inert body, which I saw Lord Grendel, snarling, thrust from the bridge. |
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| 61 | 507 |
Two figures were approaching, that of a small free woman, and, one might suppose, her pet. |
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| 61 | 517 |
"Back, back!" chided the free woman, robes, yellow, red, and purple, flowing serenely between the lines of soldiers, and approaching us across the field. |
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| 61 | 552 |
The awe with which the free woman was regarded, approaching, was doubtless not only enhanced by the sumptuousness of her robes, but by her very presence, for, as it might be recalled, no free women were present at the "festivities". |
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| 62 | 94 |
The two men stood, approaching us more closely. |
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| 63 | 309 |
"To the right," called the coffle guard, and the girls began to cross the road, approaching the well and nearby shade. |
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| 68 | 295 |
At that point we heard two men approaching, moving rapidly, a sound of bootlike sandals, a jangle of accoutrements, of weapons and chains. |
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| 68 | 363 |
"Would you prefer to fall into the hands of guardsmen?" Then, emerging from the darkness, there came a small figure, approaching us, its hands clasped behind the back of its head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 47 |
Someone, or something, was approaching, perhaps through a nearby corridor or companionway. |
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| 8 | 638 |
The captain stood at the stern rail, and trained the glass on the approaching ship. |
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| 8 | 695 |
Almost at the same time we heard, from across the water, a similar sound from the approaching ship. |
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| 19 | 25 |
"He is approaching," said Lana. |
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| 21 | 70 |
Another small boat was passing under it, approaching. |
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| 21 | 72 |
The boat which had been far off, approaching, passing under the bridge, now passed by. |
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| 21 | 90 |
Was this some accident? Had I been mistaken for someone else? Who would wish to attack me? Who would wish to kill me, and why, I, a helpless slave? What had I done? Was this some terrible mistake? Was I, unknown to myself, involved in intrigues, plots, or schemes about which I knew nothing? Was I th... |
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| 21 | 124 |
I heard the running feet of men from the other side, approaching. |
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| 22 | 152 |
I was aware that the Lady Dorna was approaching, holding the small fire tray by its handle. |
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| 24 | 167 |
"Lady," he said, approaching. |
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| 37 | 78 |
I had passed the entranceway, approaching it, again, and now, having turned about, I had just passed it, again, on my way back toward where Florian and Miles were dawdling about. |
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| 37 | 161 |
"What luck! Approaching even now is a guard boat". |
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| 45 | 77 |
I did not think it could be seen by the approaching pursuers. |
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| 45 | 97 |
"Look to the sea!" I could now hear men in the approaching boats, shouting to the shore. |
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| 46 | 635 |
In a moment we were approaching the portal of the tavern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 89 |
"I could not risk approaching more closely, particularly as Ctesippus and Laios might recognize me from Sybaris". |
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| 23 | 48 |
The stranger, approaching, climbing the trail, raised his right hand, palm facing the body, in Gorean greeting. |
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| 41 | 3 |
Sometimes, if one is on the wall, and it is still light, one sees it coming, like a large slow bird rising, and then descending, approaching, growing larger and larger. |
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| 51 | 126 |
One of them had put out longboats, four longboats, which were now approaching the scattered, splintered wreckage of the first vessel. |
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| 57 | 9 |
We surveyed the ship approaching our starboard side. |
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| 58 | 152 |
The fourth enemy ship, which lay a quarter of a pasang ahead, off our bow, was now approaching. |
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| 58 | 180 |
With the glass of the Builders I had no difficulty in making out individual figures on the approaching ship. |
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| 59 | 2 |
She was approaching. |
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| 59 | 209 |
He shook his fist at the approaching float. |
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| 62 | 191 |
"I see Tab approaching, and Sakim, and men," said Thurnock. |
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