| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 263 |
It is not unknown for a tarn to attack and devour his own rider. |
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| 5 | 169 |
Now the other two men of the patrol were circling for their attack. |
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| 9 | 151 |
His face was white beneath his helmet as he wildly attempted to parry my devastating attack. |
10 |
| 9 | 154 |
Rather, he suddenly launched a vicious attack, forcing me to defend myself as best I could. |
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| 13 | 51 |
Then, as swiftly as it had come, that nightmarish instant of immobility passed and I set my spear to take the jolt of the larl's attack. |
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| 15 | 25 |
Tarnsmen would make the attack at the summit of the walls. |
10 |
| 15 | 26 |
When it came time for Pa-Kur to attack, bridges would be constructed over the ditches. |
10 |
| 15 | 147 |
"And Marlenus invariably of the attack". |
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| 18 | 160 |
To them, my presence was unauthorized, and my Assassin's garb, far from being a safe-conduct, was an incitement to attack. |
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| 18 | 163 |
They would associate me with the tarn attack. |
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| 19 | 11 |
He swore violently when I told him of the proposed fate of Talena, yet refused to accompany me when I announced that I would attack the Cylinder of Justice. |
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| 19 | 151 |
This led me to puzzle as to whether this was the weaker part of my defense and where his attack would come, or if it was a blind to keep my mind from another area until suddenly he drove through for the kill. |
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| 19 | 157 |
I began to press forward in attack, exposing myself more, but beating back his defense by the sheer weight and number of my blows. |
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| 19 | 158 |
Pa-Kur withdrew coolly, meeting my attack effortlessly, letting me weary my sword arm; hating him, I admired him; wanting to destroy him, I acclaimed his skill. |
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| 19 | 159 |
When my attack lapsed, Pa-Kur did not press his own. |
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| 19 | 160 |
He clearly wanted me to attack again. |
10 |
| 19 | 165 |
Pa-Kur and I engaged again and again, I pressing the attack, he withstanding it and waiting. |
10 |
| 19 | 167 |
Seeing her and the fear for me in her eyes, I seemed to gain redoubled strength, and for the first time it seemed to me that Pa-Kur was not meeting my attack as surely as he had previously. |
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| 19 | 191 |
I met the attack cleanly, and after a minute of fierce interplay both Pa-Kur and I realized I could withstand the best he had to give. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 39 |
Its attack, if it should detect my presence, would be noisy, a whistling rush, a clumsy squealing charge. |
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| 7 | 2 |
The man on the right would not draw his blade but wait until the first warrior had made his attack and would then strike from the side with the spear. |
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| 7 | 5 |
I suddenly turned on the warrior on my right with the spear and with the swiftness of the mountain larl sprang at him, evaded his clumsy, startled thrust, and drove my blade between his ribs, jerking it free and turning just in time to meet the sword attack of his companion. |
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| 14 | 134 |
It did not take long for them to understand that the tarn, for whatever strange reason, was not going to attack me, and, whatever they considered my chances, it took only a moment longer to determine that it was my intention to free the bird. |
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| 14 | 152 |
"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ... |
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| 14 | 167 |
In several cases tarns have devoured their own masters, and it is not unusual for them, when loosed for feeding, to attack a human being with the same predatory zest they bestow on the yellow antelope, the tabuk, their favorite kill, or the ill-tempered, cumbersome bosk, a shaggy, long-haired wild o... |
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| 15 | 231 |
But the tarn did not attack the meat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76 |
Accordingly, the pirates and outlaws who beset the trade routes to ambush and attack the caravans on the way to the fair, if successful, often have more than inanimate metals and cloths to reward their vicious labors. |
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| 8 | 141 |
The only two cities, other than Ar, which I knew that Treve did not periodically attack were mountainous Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, and Ko-ro-ba, my own city. |
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| 10 | 104 |
"It would have been foolish to attack you," I said. |
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| 22 | 38 |
"Is there some central organ that I might attack?" I queried. |
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| 24 | 13 |
The creature seemed to be puzzled and made no move to attack. |
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| 24 | 27 |
This withdrawal on its part, of course, would not in the least prevent it from using its great jaws to attack, but it would, I supposed, somewhat narrow the area of its sensory awareness. |
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| 27 | 156 |
Once more Sarm leaped to attack and this time a green-flowing wound sprang into view on the right side of Misk's thorax in the neighborhood of one of the brain-nodes. |
10 |
| 27 | 220 |
I hoped I would be able to see his attack. |
10 |
| 29 | 61 |
In a moment there would be no avenue of attack which would not mean sure death. |
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| 29 | 82 |
The third ship moved erratically, one side black and wrinkled with the scar of my attack. |
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| 30 | 68 |
Not long after the failure of his gravitational disruption attack Sarm had spread throughout Misk's portions of the Nest various disease organisms, many of which had not had a free occurrence in centuries. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 134 |
Actually I was later to learn that the jeweled belt is worn to incite envy and accrue enemies; its purpose is to encourage attack, that the owner may try the skill of his weapons, that he need not tire himself seeking for foes. |
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| 13 | 1 |
The Attack In the morning, to my dismay, Elizabeth Cardwell was not to be found. |
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| 13 | 235 |
"The camp is under attack!" he cried. |
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| 15 | 19 |
"I wonder," I said, "why the tarnsmen have not struck at the wagons—with fire arrows—why they do not attack the bosk themselves, slaying them from the air, forcing you to withdraw to protect the beasts". |
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| 15 | 63 |
When he returned that night from the wagon of Kutaituchik to his own wagon he strode angrily to the sleen cage where he had confined Aphris with Elizabeth during the putative attack. |
10 |
| 17 | 99 |
I looked about, searching for whatever it was that would attack me. |
10 |
| 17 | 108 |
I waited for the attack of the monster. |
10 |
| 18 | 95 |
I took the attack of the second guardsman by rolling on my back and flinging up my blade in defense. |
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| 21 | 117 |
In attempting to defend against this attack both her father and her two older brothers had been beaten to death. |
10 |
| 21 | 281 |
I gritted my teeth and met the attack of another man. |
10 |
| 21 | 286 |
I kicked him from the blade barely in time to meet the attack of two more men. |
10 |
| 22 | 161 |
"The wagons and bosk are under attack," he said. |
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| 23 | 26 |
If the Paravaci attack our wagons, we will fight. |
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| 23 | 39 |
"If the Paravaci attack us," said Hakimba, "then we will fight". |
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| 23 | 85 |
In the morning, however, they would presumably avoid the herd, find a clear avenue of attack, and strike, perhaps even through the wagons, pinning us against our own herd. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 210 |
The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's Scribe, one of the leas... |
10 |
| 21 | 306 |
One man lunged for me, but stumbled across another fallen Taurentian and his fellow, moving forward, fell across him; rather than attack the men who had fallen, on whom the attack would be expected, I struck the remaining man, he standing, the leader, engaging him singly in the moment and felling hi... |
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| 2 | 5 |
Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins, had led a league of tributary cities to attack Imperial Ar in the time when its Home Stone had been stolen and its Ubar forced to flee. |
10 |
| 3 | 121 |
The Vintner, however, did not seem to notice, but made the standard aggressive response, pressing his attack forward by moving Second Spearman to Initiate Five. |
10 |
| 3 | 149 |
The Vintner had taken his three-move option late in the game to build up an incredibly devastating attack. |
10 |
| 3 | 211 |
None of us, including the Vintner, had so much as suspected the attack. |
10 |
| 4 | 87 |
We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ... |
10 |
| 5 | 388 |
"We could not now resist a general attack, nor protect Earth, but the Others will not believe it". |
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| 16 | 102 |
"I will not attack you". |
10 |
| 16 | 120 |
"I will take off the bracelets, but in order that you may attack me if you wish. |
10 |
| 21 | 263 |
"Attack!" He died first, being the first to reach me. |
10 |
| 21 | 270 |
I moved swiftly drawing one Warrior or another after me, and he who was swiftest died first; I turned and spun, accepting or not accepting an attack, always to isolate a man; vaguely, as though far off, I heard the screaming of Philemon in the Ubar's box, the shouting of Taurentians; in a moment's r... |
10 |
| 21 | 281 |
It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,... |
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| 21 | 284 |
It is hard to break or attack the picket. |
10 |
| 21 | 291 |
Moving back warily I remained as close as I could to the picket, but out of reach, hoping to draw yet another Warrior prematurely into attack. |
10 |
| 21 | 335 |
"And," grunted Murmillius, laughing, turning back an attack, "I wager the girls of the Street of Pots". |
10 |
| 21 | 337 |
Murmillius, with a marvelous thrust, as though weary of sustaining the attack of his man, dropped him. |
10 |
| 21 | 364 |
I turned in an instant's respite from the attack. |
10 |
| 22 | 389 |
Such men doubtless had been used in the attack on the caravan of the Hinrabians. |
10 |
| 23 | 151 |
It was a superb attack but I met it and drew blood twice more, once from the left side, once from the chest. |
10 |
| 23 | 167 |
He set himself as though to receive my attack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 11 |
Ironically, it is not of much use against an organized attack of well-armed warriors, such as those of Port Kar, and those against whom it might be fairly adequate, other rence growers, seldom attack communities like their own. |
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| 8 | 109 |
These defensive conditions dictated that the offense, putatively the male population of one or perhaps two rence communities, say, some seventy or eighty men, would most likely attack at either the first or the last of the barges, where they would have but one front on which to attack and little, or... |
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| 17 | 177 |
Following the fourth wave, its own attack timed to occur half an Ahn after that of the fourth wave, would come the fifth wave, the two small fleets of tarn ships, of forty ships apiece, masts down, who would initiate their pincers attack from the north and the south. |
10 |
| 8 | 111 |
In this situation, then, it was natural, expecting an attack on either the first or the last barge, that the officer, he of the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, would concentrate his men in the first and last barges. |
10 |
| 8 | 249 |
In the darkness, presumably, they had seized upon it and, either amidst the shouting and the blind fighting, or perhaps afterwards, in a terrifying quiet, the prelude perhaps to yet another putative attack, had climbed over the side and, poling away desperately, had made their escape. |
10 |
| 9 | 115 |
It was subject to attack by forces beached to the west from the tarn fleets of Port Kar, through the marsh itself by the barges of Port Kar, or from the east or north, depending on the marches following the disembarkation of Port Kar forces. |
10 |
| 9 | 116 |
Further, it was open to attack from the air by means of the cavalries of mercenary tarnsmen of Port Kar, of which she has several. |
10 |
| 11 | 244 |
"Sevarius!" "Are not Cos and Tyros to attack?" I demanded. |
10 |
| 11 | 250 |
"All are going to attack". |
10 |
| 14 | 110 |
I wanted it to appear that I was suddenly undecided as to whether or not to attack, as though I was confused, startled. |
10 |
| 14 | 284 |
Using, on the whole, elementary triangle tactics, wherein an attack by two ships, from different quadrants, is made on a single ship, which can face but one of the attackers, my ships had, in a short time, less than an Ahn, destroyed seven of the ten ram-ships left behind at the treasure fleet. |
10 |
| 16 | 201 |
It was dangerous to attack us now. |
10 |
| 17 | 49 |
The first two waves of my attack consisted, thus, of fifty task forces of sixteen tarn ships apiece and, following each of the task forces, at an interval of half an Ahn, another pair of tarn ships. |
10 |
| 17 | 58 |
Thus the round ships might, hopefully, be able to envelop their formation, surround it, and attack on the flanks, with their not inconsiderable barrage of flaming javelins, heated stones, burning pitch and showers of crossbow bolts. |
10 |
| 17 | 81 |
I did not think I had the ships to make this pincer attack truly devastating, but, in the turmoil of a battle at sea, without the clearest understanding of the position and numbers of the enemy, such flanking attacks might have unusual psychological value. |
10 |
| 17 | 85 |
The flanking attack, of course, was mounted as late as it was because, until the fleet of Cos and Tyros had shortened their lines and concentrated their ships, to meet our earlier moves, it would have been impractical. |
10 |
| 17 | 170 |
But, behind them, low in the water, almost invisible, masts down, came the second wave of my attack. |
10 |
| 17 | 178 |
And simultaneously with the initiation of the pincers attack the balance of my fleet, the reserves, fifty-five tarn ships, should draw within signal distance of the Dorna. |
10 |
| 17 | 382 |
I did not expect a great deal of damage to be done by these shattering bombs of burning oil, but I was counting on the confluence of three factors: the psychological effect of such an attack, the fear of the outflanking fleets, whose numbers could not yet well have been ascertained, and, in the conf... |
10 |
| 17 | 401 |
The defenders had not been prepared for such an attack. |
10 |
| 18 | 180 |
She was trying to tell me that there were men about, to attack me. |
10 |
| 18 | 524 |
We heard the trumpets of the attack, the running feet, the climbing, the clashing of weapons, the shouting of men. |
10 |
| 18 | 551 |
"The next attack," said Samos, indifferently, "will be the last". |
10 |
| 18 | 578 |
"Very well," I said, "then it will be necessary, before the next attack, to bind you to the foot of the ladder below". |
10 |
| 18 | 580 |
We heard the trumpets signaling a new attack. |
10 |
| 18 | 671 |
I met his attack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 96 |
That summer my father, though only in his forties, died of a heart attack. |
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| 10 | 109 |
"Attack!" he shouted in Gorean to the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 297 |
It seemed clear that it had been the object of an effective, devastating attack, quite possibly by the silverish ship which had later landed, that from which the unusual men, and the tall, golden creature had emerged. |
10 |
| 10 | 636 |
In its attack frenzy it is one of the most dangerous animals on Gor. |
10 |
| 12 | 499 |
It was I who instigated their attack". |
10 |
| 12 | 646 |
Accordingly, unless they wished to destroy the very goods they sought, their attack must be measured, and carefully calculated. |
10 |
| 12 | 648 |
"The attack is over," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 182 |
They were applying themselves to the work of the tarnsmen of Treve, attack, plunder and enslavement. |
10 |
| 15 | 324 |
Then, in the streets of Ko-ro-ba, you incited slave girls to attack me. |
10 |
| 18 | 99 |
"Is it an attack?" I heard from below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 811 |
One may sometime lead the individual to expect an attack in one area, and then strike in another". |
10 |
| 7 | 73 |
I hoped to be able to scout Verna's camp before nightfall, so that we might arrange our attack, with nets, for dawn. |
10 |
| 7 | 139 |
If the attacker reached her camp, all hopes of a surprise attack would be lost. |
10 |
| 7 | 380 |
"I would prefer," said Rim, "to join in the attack on Verna's encampment. |
10 |
| 8 | 10 |
With the element of surprise, and my plan of attack, I did not think we would need many men. |
10 |
| 8 | 20 |
We had weighed various modes of attack. |
10 |
| 8 | 53 |
We had decided on a simpler mode of attack, that would utilize the first light of day, taking the girls before they had fully awakened, or could realize what was happening to them. |
10 |
| 8 | 141 |
I did not wish to lose the time for another, perhaps futile, dawn attack. |
10 |
| 9 | 254 |
But we knew that, sooner or later, you would find our camp, and you, and others doubtless with you, would attack". |
10 |
| 11 | 14 |
His attack was fierce, devastating, sometimes reckless. |
10 |
| 11 | 250 |
One must force through an attack that is overwhelming and shattering. |
10 |
| 11 | 801 |
I had been driven before his attack, stumbling and reeling before him. |
10 |
| 13 | 48 |
"Attack!" he cried to his men. |
10 |
| 13 | 330 |
"An attack!" she whispered. |
10 |
| 14 | 28 |
Then, at a given signal, the panther girls within, abetted by the men of Tyros from without, would have, with clubs and ropes, and the butts of their spears, sprung to the attack. |
10 |
| 14 | 36 |
The attack had apparently taken the camp by complete surprise, and had been devastating and successful. |
10 |
| 14 | 46 |
I supposed that the men of Tyros, those who had been engaged in the attack, now numbered somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty-five. |
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| 17 | 23 |
They did not know but what this event had been the prelude to a full attack. |
10 |
| 20 | 107 |
"The enemy! The enemy!" "Attack!" cried the man with the torch. |
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| 22 | 194 |
She had saved his life in the stockade, interposing her body and weapon, the crossbow, between him and the maddened, desperate attack of Sarus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 64 |
The Forkbeard made great use of diversions and feints, and double strategies, in which an attack is double edged, being in effect two attacks, an open one and a concealed one, either of which, depending on a misplay by the opponent, may be forced through, the concealed attack requiring usually only ... |
10 |
| 14 | 134 |
"Attack! Are you docile tarsk that you dare not attack? Men of Torvaldsland, attack!" But no man moved. |
10 |
| 4 | 119 |
I now had a Singer on a central square, but he had freed his Ax Four, on which he might now situate the Jarl for an attack on the Jarl's Woman's Ax's file. |
10 |
| 11 | 19 |
It is apparently physiologically impossible for a Kur to attack without its shoulders hunching, its claws emerging, and its ears lying back against the head. |
10 |
| 11 | 63 |
But, too, its anatomy permits it to function, in flight and attack, much as a four-legged beast. |
10 |
| 11 | 214 |
It was possible, of course, that the Kurii would attack Torvaldsland when well within it, without large forces marshaled against them. |
10 |
| 12 | 8 |
Messages such as 'Attack,' 'Heave to,' 'Regroup,' and 'Communication desired' have each their special combination of sounds. |
10 |
| 14 | 133 |
"Attack!" cried Ivar Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 15 | 31 |
The attack had been simultaneously launched, obviously, on the hall and the surrounding Thing-Camps. |
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| 15 | 32 |
Even more to our astonishment than the Kurii, and their numbers, about, was the presence of men, wearing yellow scarves, among them, men whom they did not attack. |
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| 17 | 31 |
In the night of the attack he, at the Forkbeard's encampment near the Thing-Fields, with an ax, had slain a Kur. |
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| 17 | 58 |
The signal would be a shield signal, taking the morning sun, a flash, and then the attack. |
10 |
| 17 | 156 |
The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ... |
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| 18 | 3 |
Simultaneously with the attack from the slopes the girls in the cattle pen, following the orders of masters, conveyed to them by Hilda, crying out, fled in their hundreds from the pen, streaming throughout the camp. |
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| 18 | 17 |
The nature of the attack, and its extent, would not be clear to them. |
10 |
| 18 | 66 |
I met the attack of the Kur squarely. |
10 |
| 18 | 118 |
Svein Blue Tooth was at the pens, leading the attack that had broken the rally. |
10 |
| 18 | 119 |
The rally had been led by the Kur who had been foremost in the attack on his hall. |
10 |
| 18 | 227 |
"Let us again attack the square!" cried a man. |
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| 18 | 570 |
I had little doubt that he could beat the arm of a man to weakness, and then, when it was slowed, tired, no longer able to respond with sureness, with reflexive swiftness, in a great attack, he would hack through to the body. |
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| 20 | 78 |
It had been he who had been first in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth, the night of the attack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 245 |
One would not, surely, produce a state of apprehension and heightened awareness in the enemy prior to an attack". |
10 |
| 1 | 785 |
Kurii, cautious, like sharks, did not wish to commit their full attack until assured of its success. |
10 |
| 1 | 787 |
Most, we conjectured, they feared a ruse, a display of pretended weakness that would lure an attack, then to be decimated. |
10 |
| 5 | 293 |
Indeed, in such a situation, militarily, so small an escort as a hundred men would seem rather to invite attack. |
10 |
| 5 | 328 |
* * * * We did not have to wait long for the attack of the Kavars. |
10 |
| 7 | 197 |
His right, booted foot stamped forward, his body turned to the left, minimizing target, his head to the right, maximizing vision, his rear foot at right angles to the attack line, maximizing leverage, assuring balance. |
10 |
| 7 | 276 |
"Attack at the blood!" cried Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 7 | 398 |
"You will now attack?" I asked. |
10 |
| 7 | 406 |
"It could be a trick to lure an attack into a trap". |
10 |
| 7 | 706 |
You have saved me this afternoon from the beast's attack, and tonight you free me, rescuing me from the brine pits of Klima. |
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| 10 | 84 |
And they cried out, in their attack, 'For Nine Wells and Suleiman!'" "I see," I said. |
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| 11 | 433 |
Indeed, to my surprise, word of the attack, putatively by Aretai, on the Bakah oasis of Two Scimitars, of some days ago, had not yet seemed to reach Red Rock. |
10 |
| 11 | 438 |
It was not odd, of course, for Red Rock not to have yet heard of the attack. |
10 |
| 11 | 440 |
No one had yet journeyed to them who knew of the attack, or knew of it and would tell them. |
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| 14 | 188 |
He cannot see to escape; he can not see to attack; he cannot be sure, usually, even of the number and position of his captors, whether they face him, or are attentive, or such; sometimes a hooded prisoner, even unbound, is told simply to kneel, and that if he moves, he will be slain; some captors, t... |
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| 17 | 18 |
He who had been steersman with us yesterday, during the attack of the Old One, held the sweep that governed the movements of that open, sluggish platform which constituted our vessel. |
10 |
| 19 | 180 |
I slipped into the ditch and slowly, in order not to provoke the beast to attack, lifted the two bags to the surface. |
10 |
| 20 | 95 |
But it did not attack. |
10 |
| 21 | 305 |
This would eliminate a world, but, with it, Priest-Kings, and leave Earth unsheltered, vulnerable, to the attack fleets of the steel worlds. |
10 |
| 23 | 142 |
If offended, and not deeming it honorable to attack the allies of the Aretai, they might simply withdraw their forces and return to their own land, more than a thousand pasangs away. |
10 |
| 24 | 21 |
Our extended, thinned lines would invite attack; it would be difficult, too, even if our investing lines were not broken in force, to prevent the escape of small parties at night. |
10 |
| 25 | 230 |
Again I met her attack, toying with the beauty. |
10 |
| 25 | 242 |
Again she lifted the scimitar; again she tried to attack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 484 |
The men of my master had been outnumbered, surely, by the many soldiers of the camp, but at the point of attack their numbers were superior, overwhelming. |
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| 5 | 485 |
Twenty men may breech a wall held by a hundred men, if the twenty men but attack where the wall is defended by only two. |
10 |
| 5 | 493 |
I had seen the men of my master removing insignia from their garments before the attack. |
10 |
| 7 | 133 |
"Surely," said she, "you did not attack my retinue merely to carry off a girl to wear your collar". |
10 |
| 8 | 83 |
I saw it turn Chanda, and, snarling, begin its attack. |
10 |
| 8 | 147 |
It will attack almost anything, but its preferred prey is tabuk. |
10 |
| 9 | 1985 |
She, with the two sleen, had boldly aided him in circumventing the concerted attack of Bran Loort's cohorts when they had been individually bested. |
10 |
| 22 | 224 |
"The convoy," said one, "is under attack". |
10 |
| 27 | 240 |
"It is not proper that you should attack with steel those who defend themselves with wood". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 138 |
Normally, though it is swift to attack an object moving about in the water, like a swimmer, it will not attack a vessel. |
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| 4 | 240 |
Yellow, of course, may ignore the attack, and simply thrust deeper into red territory. |
10 |
| 4 | 245 |
This exposes the advanced Ubar to the immediate attack of the Initiate at Initiate One. |
10 |
| 4 | 278 |
Red would now advance his Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion, to develop his Ubar's Initiate and, simultaneously, expose the yellow Spearman to the Initiate's attack. |
10 |
| 4 | 349 |
Ubar Five would have been impractical because at that point the spearman would have been subjected to the attack of red's Ubara and Ubar. |
10 |
| 4 | 351 |
He would support this Spearman, consolidate the center, and then begin a massive attack on red's weakened Ubar's side. |
10 |
| 4 | 353 |
This would free his Ubar's side's pieces for the attack on red's Ubar's side. |
10 |
| 4 | 355 |
This seemed too short a thrust for an attack. |
10 |
| 4 | 361 |
At this point it was protected by the Spearman at Ubar Four, and could soon, in league with other pieces, begin the inexorable attack down the file of the Ubar's Tarnsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 362 |
Scormus of Ar was mounting his attack with care. |
10 |
| 4 | 384 |
His attack must be momentarily postponed. |
10 |
| 4 | 394 |
Scormus might now renew his attack. |
10 |
| 4 | 405 |
The attack, of course, was not on the Ubar's side but on the side of the Ubara, where Scormus had placed his Home Stone. |
10 |
| 4 | 410 |
The attack had begun. |
10 |
| 4 | 601 |
But he had not elected to attack. |
10 |
| 4 | 715 |
He struck him as he wished, not to kill but in the feigning of a mortal attack". |
10 |
| 6 | 134 |
But what did she know of the codes? I met his attack, turning it, and he fell, shield loose, at my feet. |
10 |
| 6 | 185 |
"Command us, and we shall attack," said one of the men. |
10 |
| 10 | 75 |
"It is difficult to defend against tarn attack, the sheets of burning oil to the sails". |
10 |
| 11 | 56 |
We would have little protection from attack from the air. |
10 |
| 11 | 58 |
Such an attack would necessitate the scattering of my men, their seeking cover. |
10 |
| 15 | 88 |
Arlene could not now attack her. |
10 |
| 22 | 139 |
Its attack instincts are apparently not triggered by that configuration, or perhaps there is no stimulating smell or familiar pressure patterns, such as it would commonly associate with its prey or a vulnerable object, in the water, from the passage of the craft and the stroke of the paddle. |
10 |
| 23 | 93 |
It then crouched down, fangs bared, to again attack. |
10 |
| 25 | 122 |
A sufficiently hungry snow sleen will turn and attack its driver. |
10 |
| 27 | 33 |
It did not seem likely that we could sustain the attack of five snow sleen without a shelter. |
10 |
| 27 | 34 |
Instinctively such animals, when in packs, tend to circle and attack simultaneously from different directions. |
10 |
| 27 | 36 |
It is not a shape which releases their normal attack behaviors. |
10 |
| 30 | 151 |
"Is it true," I asked, "that you, in attaining the black of your caste, once slew your friend?" I pressed the attack, but in a courteous fashion. |
10 |
| 30 | 262 |
I kicked a sword to Ram, and he seized it, meeting and defending himself against an attack. |
10 |
| 32 | 77 |
"I do not think they can meet an attack in force," he said. |
10 |
| 34 | 33 |
But if it did so, I would soon freeze; too, the cut fur, sliced by the whip, would belie the deception of a sleen attack. |
10 |
| 35 | 70 |
As it was the operator could speculate on possibilities such as a transmitter malfunction, an accident, or an attack of wandering ice beasts. |
10 |
| 35 | 1109 |
They were detaching many of the snow sleen from the sleds, to be used as attack sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 156 |
Msaliti had already attempted one attack on his life, that in which Jambia, the assassin, died by the osts, that same attack in which he sought to implicate you". |
10 |
| 1 | 693 |
Urt hunters swim slave girls, ropes on their necks, beside their boats in the dark, cool water of the canals, as bait for urts, which, as they rise to attack the girl, are speared. |
10 |
| 4 | 134 |
"She is the one who cooperated in the attack upon you?" asked the praetor, indicating the bound girl. |
10 |
| 4 | 506 |
I cuffed two back and two others crouched, ready to leap again to attack. |
10 |
| 4 | 513 |
The other girl who, too, crouching, had been ready to attack, backed now uneasily away. |
10 |
| 6 | 133 |
"If they were to attack Schendi ships, it does not seem likely they would do so in these waters". |
10 |
| 17 | 49 |
"You will attack Shaba and slay him. |
10 |
| 17 | 53 |
"Bila Huruma will not connect my attack with you in any way?" I asked. |
10 |
| 20 | 95 |
But Kisu did not, upon receipt of my message, attack. |
10 |
| 24 | 84 |
I saw they did not move to attack. |
10 |
| 24 | 104 |
"Perhaps they will come again in a few days, to again attack the workers at the canal. |
10 |
| 32 | 222 |
They will, however, upon occasion, particularly if provoked or challenged, attack with dispatch. |
10 |
| 43 | 2 |
"I do not think it will attack a canoe," said Kisu. |
10 |
| 44 | 215 |
"Did you see the attack?" I asked. |
10 |
| 44 | 223 |
"We thought you knew of the attack," said one of the men, "and had fled, thus escaping". |
10 |
| 47 | 1 |
The Attack of the Marchers; We Conclude Our Business in the Village of the Mamba People Within the stockade of the Mamba people there was much light and noise. |
10 |
| 48 | 20 |
It had been he, with his confederate, Sasi, who had attempted to attack me in Port Kar, along the side of the canal leading to the pier of the Red Urt. |
10 |
| 48 | 32 |
Our ships were subjected to almost constant attack and ambush. |
10 |
| 52 | 146 |
"And if you attack me, then I must either slay you or have you slain". |
10 |
| 53 | 274 |
I turned to meet the attack of another Kur. |
10 |
| 53 | 287 |
The beast turned to attack its new menace, and he who had been the interposing figure, now behind it, as it had turned, thrust his own stabbing spear deep into its back, as had the askari. |
10 |
| 53 | 291 |
Then each, Kisu, the rebel, and Bila Huruma, Ubar of the equatorial empire, side by side, addressed themselves to thwarting the attack of new Kurii. |
10 |
| 53 | 321 |
"Attack in fives, one engage, four strike!" "He is improvising tactics," said Ayari. |
10 |
| 54 | 145 |
"It was his intention to return it himself," said Bila Huruma, "but the attack of the beasts, so sudden and unexpected, intervened". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 183 |
I had been held by the two men at the edge of the barrier, to see the attack on the first piece of lowered meat. |
10 |
| 4 | 246 |
Masculinity may be best attacked by an attack on male sexuality, and the more pervasive and pernicious it is the better. |
10 |
| 13 | 72 |
"It is feared there will be an attack by Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9 |
Too, tomorrow, as the cavalries mass for attack, the guard on the corridor itself will be abandoned". |
10 |
| 4 | 374 |
"It was feared there would be an attack of tarnsmen from Ar," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 49 |
"They fear that their post will be subjected to attack". |
10 |
| 23 | 108 |
With one foot I moved aside the low table, watching Kliomenes, that he not attack me as I step upon the table, maintaining an uneven balance. |
10 |
| 23 | 133 |
Since I had limited myself only to defense, and had not risked the exposures of attack, I had been in little danger, at least for a time. |
10 |
| 23 | 139 |
One who limits oneself solely to defense, and is unwilling to attack, obviously can never win. |
10 |
| 26 | 263 |
"I shall attack him if you wish, Master," said Krondar, "but I cannot beat him". |
10 |
| 29 | 125 |
"If there is to be an attack at the chain," said Aemilianus, "I am willing to lend you ships from Ar's Station, to strengthen your defenses". |
10 |
| 33 | 191 |
"And the fleet of the Voskjard can, at will, attack at any given point". |
10 |
| 33 | 196 |
"You said, earlier," I said, "that you did not think we could stop an attack in force upon the chain". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 222 |
They had taken heavy toll of the enemy before he had turned the wedge to face them, and then, as confused, he, struck by our unexpected attack, that of the independent ships and those of Ar's Station, had turned to face us, the Tais and her sisters had renewed their attack on his flank. |
10 |
| 3 | 91 |
Here and there, at the chain, again and again, pirate galleys were striking at the great links, and then backing away, and then again, patiently, renewing their attack. |
10 |
| 4 | 200 |
That ships such as those of Ar's Station and of the independent towns, mostly refitted merchantmen, would dare to leave the security of their lines to launch their own attack, not bolstered by the ships of Port Cos, had not entered its ken. |
10 |
| 4 | 259 |
The members of the pair circle about, so as to attack at right angles to one another. |
10 |
| 5 | 161 |
In the distance involved, at full strike, with the lost port rudder, we could not have come about in time to attain the attack course. |
10 |
| 5 | 174 |
She did not attack. |
10 |
| 5 | 177 |
"Shall we not attack?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 5 | 242 |
She had been the lead ship of the Voskjard's first wedge attack. |
10 |
| 6 | 41 |
Off the starboard bow lay a galley of the Voskjard, rocking on the water, seemingly somnolent, but we knew, in an instant, if we exposed our flank to her, she would come alive, springing to the attack. |
10 |
| 6 | 52 |
"We cannot take another attack," said a man. |
10 |
| 6 | 57 |
"There will be another attack," said a man. |
10 |
| 6 | 99 |
"I had not thought we could survive that attack," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 6 | 139 |
"It is the attack," said a man, reading the notes. |
10 |
| 7 | 61 |
Yet I knew that in the end even the mighty larl, if chained, must eventually succumb to the attack of endless streams of hissing urts. |
10 |
| 8 | 416 |
The self-frustrating futility of their attack, obstinate and unimaginative, had, at long last, apparently been brought home to its commander. |
10 |
| 8 | 419 |
Doubtless this attack would be postponed until morning, that the slaughter might lose nothing of its effect, some survivors perhaps being enabled, in small boats or in the water, to slip away under the cover of darkness. |
10 |
| 9 | 17 |
"We cannot withstand an attack in the morning". |
10 |
| 9 | 37 |
"I think she means to attack". |
10 |
| 9 | 69 |
"The Tamira plans to attack". |
10 |
| 9 | 90 |
"It may be assumed by many ships that the attack has been ordered". |
10 |
| 9 | 105 |
My feet slipping on the sand bar I thrust my shoulder against the hull of the Tuka, which had been the lead ship in the first major attack against us three days ago. |
10 |
| 9 | 335 |
"Surely it does not mean to attack three ships," said the officer. |
10 |
| 9 | 338 |
"Why should it be preparing to attack now?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 341 |
"If it is going to attack, it must now do so". |
10 |
| 10 | 215 |
These would have been sufficient to hold the fortress against a significant attack, but once the enemy, in numbers, as we were, were within, the defense of the holding would be a lost cause. |
10 |
| 12 | 131 |
"Signal our fellows in the marshes! Let the attack flags be raised!" There was a cheer upon the walls. |
10 |
| 12 | 133 |
Red attack flags, torn by the wind, snapped on their lines. |
10 |
| 12 | 201 |
"I withdrew them to Port Cos, on the pretext of fending a threatened attack on the town. |
10 |
| 15 | 83 |
There the pirates, at the edge of the concourse, some hundred yards from the office of the wharf master, set back on the concourse, had gathered, preparatory to their attack on the town. |
10 |
| 16 | 319 |
The few men on the decks did not attack me. |
10 |
| 20 | 594 |
When a city is under attack these platforms are usually discarded, and quickly. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 318 |
"An unexpected touch can trigger the attack reflex". |
10 |
| 1 | 358 |
The ul will not attack a tarn. |
10 |
| 1 | 652 |
If such creatures should come to clearly understand the nature of the Priest-Kings, and the current restrictions on their power, in virtue of the catastrophic Nest War, I had little doubt but what the attack signals would be almost immediately transmitted to the steel worlds. |
10 |
| 1 | 804 |
To attack whites, intruding into their lands, once the war lance has been lifted, even long-term blood enemies will ride side by side. |
10 |
| 1 | 1040 |
"The first one," said Samos, "has his lance in the attack position". |
10 |
| 1 | 1044 |
From this position he could rapidly bring the lance to the attack position. |
10 |
| 1 | 1058 |
"The first mounted hunter is prepared to attack," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 1132 |
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe... |
10 |
| 1 | 1139 |
"The first of the mounted hunters is dead," said Kog, "he who had had the lance in the attack position. |
10 |
| 2 | 55 |
"From the hide we saw that the mounted hunters were apparently preparing to charge Zarendargar when they were interrupted by the man's attack". |
10 |
| 2 | 205 |
"I think that I would favor granting the license," said Samos, "but that I would also insist on the restriction of the subsidy to such an amount that an attack by every mercantile subcaste in Port Kar on the public coffers will not be encouraged. |
10 |
| 4 | 211 |
"They did not, for example, attack at dawn. |
10 |
| 5 | 59 |
"Attack him," said the officer to one of the men nearby. |
10 |
| 14 | 1191 |
I did not fail to note, incidentally, that several, often mutually hostile tribes, had cooperated in the attack, with its attendant destruction and killing. |
10 |
| 14 | 1310 |
It was possible, of course, that they had been destroyed in the attack on his column and the wagon train. |
10 |
| 15 | 29 |
For example, a message which commonly means that kailiauk have been sighted may, by prearrangement, be understood to communicate an intention of attack to a collaborative force". |
10 |
| 15 | 79 |
The fellow did not drop his lance into the attack position, grasping it firmly, anchoring it under his right arm. |
10 |
| 15 | 218 |
He did not come so close to us that he could not, easily, drop his lance into the attack position. |
10 |
| 16 | 4 |
I remembered the grisly aftermath of the attack on the Hobarts' men. |
10 |
| 16 | 19 |
"The attack presumably did not take place at dawn," said Grunt, "and, presumably, it would not have occurred late in the day". |
10 |
| 16 | 22 |
"And the attack would not take place late in the day," I said, "because of the possibility of survivors escaping under the cover of darkness". |
10 |
| 16 | 43 |
The attack, then, it seemed clear, would have occurred in the morning, probably during, or shortly after, the hitching up of the draft tharlarion. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
It seemed reasonably clear this attack had occurred within the Ahn. |
10 |
| 16 | 154 |
"It is going to attack," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 342 |
The first attack had presumably taken place there, on that part of the column. |
10 |
| 16 | 355 |
Too, I do not know if their style of warfare is well fitted to attack a defensive column, orderly and rallied, on its guard". |
10 |
| 16 | 368 |
Indeed, many savages, for medicine reasons, might have been reluctant to attack them, as they did not appear to be beings of a sort with which they were familiar. |
10 |
| 17 | 165 |
Surely it would be insanity to attack us. |
10 |
| 17 | 169 |
"Ten days ago, today, as I have counted this," she said, "the attack took place. |
10 |
| 17 | 213 |
The planning that had gone into the attack revealed intelligent and careful thought. |
10 |
| 17 | 226 |
Gorean infantry, with staggered lines and fixed pikes, their butts anchored in the earth, could usually turn an attack of light cavalry. |
10 |
| 17 | 253 |
The savages seemed, on the whole, reluctant to attack them". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 310 |
The primary purpose of the staggering of the attack-wave riders is to bring a target which may have escaped from the attack lane of one rider almost immediately into the attack lane of another. |
10 |
| 47 | 409 |
"Hold! Do not fall back! Attack! Attack!" He cried out in Gorean. |
10 |
| 47 | 412 |
"Attack! Attack!" cried Alfred. |
10 |
| 1 | 256 |
Shortly thereafter we were apprehended by a mixed group of unlikely allies, representatives of Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila, who, in virtue of the Memory, as it is called, had joined forces to attack the wagon train and soldiers. |
10 |
| 1 | 332 |
In being Canka's slave I had a status and place in the Isbu camp which, in its way, sheltered me from the type of sportive attack to which a lone, free white man might be otherwise exposed. |
10 |
| 7 | 643 |
Similarly, interestingly, enemy tribes, during this period, perhaps in virtue of an implicit bargain, that their own festival times be respected, do not attack them, or raid them. |
10 |
| 7 | 654 |
Secondly, it is supposedly bad medicine to attack during the times of festivals. |
10 |
| 14 | 75 |
After the joint attack and massacre of a few weeks ago, the Lady Mira had been captured and, presumably because she had been found with soldiers, sent to a Waniyanpi compound. |
10 |
| 14 | 78 |
Small bands of warriors, the sorts which make up common war parties, would not be likely to attack a force of that size. |
10 |
| 19 | 8 |
"You must have heard," I asked, "of the alleged attack by Canka on Mahpiyasapa?" "Yes," he said, bitterly. |
10 |
| 19 | 64 |
"I feared he might attack me with his knife. |
10 |
| 19 | 119 |
Tribes do not attack one another at such times". |
10 |
| 19 | 127 |
"Also," said Cuwignaka, "presumably even a large war party would hesitate to attack a camp of this size". |
10 |
| 19 | 217 |
"Even if you are right," I said, "even if the camp should be in danger, even if attack was imminent, no one will believe us. |
10 |
| 21 | 50 |
This section of the camp was no longer under direct attack. |
10 |
| 22 | 3 |
The rider on the kaiila, bent low, his lance in the attack position, charged, dust scattering back from the pounding paws of the kaiila. |
10 |
| 22 | 26 |
"It is under attack by both tarnsmen and Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 22 | 104 |
"That was doubtless the center of the attack," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 24 | 3 |
The other Yellow Knife dropped his lance into the attack position, cried out in rage and kicked his heels back into the flanks of the kaiila. |
10 |
| 24 | 28 |
It would doubtless maneuver in such a way as to keep Cuwignaka on its left in its charge, even changing its attack trajectory, if necessary, to do so. |
10 |
| 25 | 17 |
"Was it your intention to attack the two Yellow Knives by yourself?" "Yes," said Hci. |
10 |
| 25 | 77 |
Too, consider the deployment of archers in the corridors of aerial attack, to protect your riders. |
10 |
| 25 | 99 |
It was probably done when the attack of the Kinyanpi began. |
10 |
| 25 | 111 |
Too, I had little doubt that Iwoso, long before the attack, working in secret, in anticipation, had prepared a beaded collar for her mistress. |
10 |
| 25 | 112 |
Iwoso, for her part in the attack, would now be an important woman among the Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 26 | 10 |
I buffeted aside the attack of a Yellow-Knife lance, it furrowing the hide of the shield I bore. |
10 |
| 26 | 21 |
This sort of thing occurs in the animal world, incidentally, as when the cry of the male larl freezes game for the coordinated attack of his mate, the she-larl. |
10 |
| 26 | 32 |
I saw Cuwignaka fend away an attack against Hci, thrusting his kaiila, his shield lifted, literally between that of Hci and his assailant. |
10 |
| 27 | 39 |
They would then, too, if they maintained their early attack pattern, strike into the ropes strung between lodges. |
10 |
| 27 | 41 |
Sharpened stakes, too, fashioned from lodge poles, supported by shorter, crossed poles, archers at their base, could be oriented to the trajectory of the attack. |
10 |
| 27 | 51 |
"Do you think the Yellow Knives will coordinate their attack with that of the Kinyanpi?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 27 | 61 |
"I think it will be the last time the Kinyanpi will attack a Kaiila camp so incautiously," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 98 |
I did not know, either, how many were in the original attack. |
10 |
| 27 | 100 |
I would have guessed some two hundred riders would have struck in the first attack, that which had taken the camp by surprise. |
10 |
| 27 | 104 |
The attack, of course, I told myself, might have been primarily an excursionary probe, a venture to determine the nature and strength of our defenses. |
10 |
| 27 | 115 |
"Then why did so few attack?" I asked. |
10 |
| 27 | 119 |
Now, no more than Cuwignaka, did I understand the nature of the recent attack. |
10 |
| 28 | 5 |
"They are preparing for an attack," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 28 | 39 |
That we had turned the attack of the Kinyanpi had inspirited him. |
10 |
| 28 | 58 |
It had been the central target of the initial attack of the Kinyanpi, the Flighted Ones. |
10 |
| 28 | 62 |
It was fortunate that Mahpiyasapa, with Grunt, had been outside the camp at the time of this attack. |
10 |
| 28 | 72 |
Many things, incidentally, puzzled me about this attack, generally. |
10 |
| 28 | 77 |
Another peculiarity of the attack lay in the nature of its engineering. |
10 |
| 28 | 82 |
Lastly, it seemed almost incomprehensible, given the nature of the beliefs of the red savages, that the attack had been mounted on a people at the time of the festivals. |
10 |
| 28 | 128 |
Rather the stripping of these women, most of whom would presumably be slaves from the inner parts of the camp, was, in large measure, a security precaution, the camp being under attack. |
10 |
| 28 | 215 |
They would not repeat their earlier mistake of a direct, low-level attack against our defenses. |
10 |
| 28 | 219 |
Similarly, if we attempted to protect ourselves from aerial fire, by lifting our shields, we would be exposing ourselves to the Yellow Knives' plane of attack. |
10 |
| 28 | 220 |
Presumably we would await the attack of the Yellow Knives under the ropes and netting. |
10 |
| 28 | 221 |
This would make overhead archery more difficult for the Kinyanpi but would also give the Yellow Knives the momentum of attack. |
10 |
| 28 | 298 |
At full speed, pennons flying, lances lowered, bucklers set, in sweeping, measured, staggered attack lines, waves of riders struck the camp. |
10 |
| 28 | 309 |
Its problems are further complicated, also, of course, by the imminent arrival of even further attack waves. |
10 |
| 28 | 312 |
As a target's attention tends to be absorbed in avoiding one attack it is less prepared to react efficiently to another. |
10 |
| 28 | 343 |
Even so small a detail as the earlier, small-scale attack of the Kinyanpi now became clear. |
10 |
| 28 | 348 |
Their feathered lances were dropping into the attack position. |
10 |
| 29 | 41 |
Then he fended himself from a lance attack. |
10 |
| 30 | 135 |
I saw a Yellow Knife wheel his kaiila about and drop his lance into the attack position. |
10 |
| 31 | 7 |
"It was I who feigned an attack on Mahpiyasapa. |
10 |
| 32 | 41 |
The savages, it seemed, were reluctant to attack them. |
10 |
| 32 | 168 |
Iwoso then crouched down and, taking a braided, rawhide rope from her waist, presumably the same one I had seen her with earlier, even before the first attack on the camp, tied it about the neck of the helpless, terrified slave. |
10 |
| 35 | 179 |
Similarly, the lack of activity on the part of the vision seeker may not be stimulatory to the sleen's attack response, Akihoka tells a story about his own vision seeking. |
10 |
| 39 | 292 |
A man's shield can protect him in only one plane of attack. |
10 |
| 42 | 73 |
It was clearly their intention to attack. |
10 |
| 42 | 77 |
If it was the feather of Wakanglisapa, then why should they not attempt to capture it, to secure its mighty medicine for themselves? The five riders then broke their formation by swerving to the side and began to circle, to build up momentum, and then, soon, they had brought their birds onto an atta... |
10 |
| 42 | 93 |
It reminded me for a moment of the ears of a sleen, laid back in its attack. |
10 |
| 44 | 522 |
One had perished in the first attack. |
10 |
| 44 | 835 |
"Do you think the Yellow Knives will attack again, today?" asked Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 44 | 896 |
"The next attack will doubtless occur at dawn," said Hci. |
10 |
| 45 | 27 |
"Surely, normally, we would not have expected an attack at night, and surely not from this quarter". |
10 |
| 45 | 37 |
Then we will attack". |
10 |
| 45 | 43 |
"Perhaps the true attack is to come elsewhere". |
10 |
| 47 | 77 |
"Soldiers," called a man, running along the escarpment, "roped together, are beginning to climb the back face of the mountain!" "It is to be a coordinated attack," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 47 | 413 |
He took a step forward but none, clearly, intended to follow him, "Attack!" he cried. |
10 |
| 47 | 440 |
Too, sacrilege had been performed, in the attack on a summer camp. |
10 |
| 49 | 7 |
Concerning their complicity in the matter of the attack on the summer camp there is no doubt". |
10 |
| 51 | 14 |
It was that Kur which had been threatening the Waniyanpi, and whose attack I had frustrated. |
10 |
| 51 | 19 |
Thus I had been unable at that time to determine whether or not Kog and Sardak had been among the Kur survivors of the attack. |
10 |
| 54 | 162 |
Grunt, retracing his steps, had located the scene of the attack. |
10 |
| 54 | 265 |
One of Mahpiyasapa's wives, with a switch in her gnarled, mutilated hand, the woman with whom I had once spoken outside of his lodge before the attack on the summer camp, was supervising her in her duties. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 198 |
"That is clear from his attack on the palanquin". |
10 |
| 15 | 390 |
"Do you think the camp is under attack?" asked a man. |
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| 15 | 419 |
Certainly the camp was not under attack, nor did there seem to be any fire. |
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| 25 | 21 |
If it had been, then I would have been bound and gagged within it, that I might not be able, by fingernails or teeth, to attack seams or cut through the leather. |
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| 30 | 409 |
Two carried axes and began to attack the door. |
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| 33 | 472 |
The specific signals between masters and sleen, signals which, in effect, convey such commands as "Attack," "Hunt," "Stop," "Back," and so on, are usually verbal and private. |
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| 33 | 679 |
How, except for such power, could a barbarian woman, such as Sheila, the former Tatrix of Corcyrus, come to power in a city such as Corcyrus? I suspect, also, that the true motivation of the attack on the mines of Argentum was not to fill the coffers of Corcyrus, already a prosperous city, but to su... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 |
Similarly, although a somewhat more central location of the Home Stone exposes it to more lines of attack, it also increases its mobility, and thereby its capacities to evade attack. |
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| 2 | 459 |
It would, in effect, launch a second attack, and one which might force yellow to bring pieces to the Ubar's side of the board, thereby weakening the position of the Ubara's Builder's file, making it more vulnerable, then, of course, to the major attack. |
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| 1 | 17 |
In this position, as at the Ubara's Initiate One, it is subject to only three lines of attack. |
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| 1 | 18 |
Other legitimate placements subject it to five lines of attack. |
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| 1 | 439 |
An attack, I thought, would be premature. |
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| 1 | 1013 |
This movement of the Builder produced a discovered attack on his Home Stone by my Ubara's Initiate. |
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| 1 | 1015 |
The Initiate's attack, of course, continued the threat on the Home Stone. |
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| 2 | 455 |
Normally, at this point, one continues with the advancement of the Ubara's Initiate's Spearman, supporting the attack being generated on the adjacent file, that of the Ubara's Builder. |
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| 2 | 967 |
I jerked my body suddenly to the side, to evade the grasping left arm, seeking to hold the target in place for the short, low right-handed thrust of the knife, or the throat attack, if the assailant was right-handed, and of the assassins or the warriors. |
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| 2 | 1111 |
"All things considered, such as the coins in his wallet, robbery seems to me, at least, to be a very unlikely motive for this attack". |
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| 3 | 203 |
It did not seem appropriate to me to attack her, and perhaps kill her. |
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| 8 | 140 |
This was less likely than a sleen attack. |
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| 8 | 141 |
Though panthers and larls can be extremely dangerous to men they will usually attack men only if they are disturbed or other prey is not available. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Similarly urts of the sort which live on garbage cast into the canals will often, unhesitantly, attack swimmers. |
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| 8 | 159 |
They normally attack in a pack. |
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| 10 | 515 |
She began to attack the food voraciously. |
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| 12 | 54 |
It could also give you time to build an even stronger attack". |
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| 12 | 262 |
Similarly, even if I had had the option in the circumstances, which I did not, I could not have brought my Builder to that square for defensive purposes without exposing it to the attack of the same piece. |
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| 12 | 272 |
"Your Home Stone is under attack," he reminded me. |
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| 12 | 285 |
If he did advance it in that fashion, promoting it presumably to a Rider of the High Tharlarion, to bring the Home Stone under immediate attack, and prevent me from advancing my own Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, finishing the game, I would take it with my Builder. |
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| 13 | 284 |
For some reason, not clear to me at that time, the urts seldom attack them. |
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| 14 | 352 |
Indeed, the lack of the pack odor apparently triggered the attack response. |
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| 14 | 355 |
Clearly, it played a role in calling forth the attack response, or in transmitting its message to the other members of the pack. |
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| 16 | 1181 |
The player's move brought Temenides' Ubar's Spearman under immediate attack by the player's Ubara's Initiate. |
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| 19 | 3 |
They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own... |
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| 19 | 13 |
It is usually strung only in times of clear municipal peril, as when, for example, the city may be expecting an attack or is under siege. |
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| 20 | 9 |
I did not think it would attack. |
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| 20 | 248 |
Even if they had been regrouped and set, the distance was so short and the attack of the beast so precipitous and swift that there had been no time to align their weapons in a practical, properly angled, defensive perimeter. |
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| 20 | 293 |
Suddenly, to my amazement, they relinquished their attack and, together, bristling and snarling, slunk back, one after the other, through the small, grated opening through which they had emerged. |
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| 20 | 343 |
Too, the ears were not laid back, which is an almost invariable sign among Kurii of readiness to attack, of intent to do harm. |
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| 22 | 202 |
To be sure, my primary motivation in entering Brundisium had been to investigate my own business, to try and discover who or what it was that had been responsible for the attack on me in Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 197 |
When the cavalry is disorganized, shattered and torn by missile fire, and turns about to retreat, the defenders, fresh and eager, initiate their own attack. |
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| 3 | 199 |
This formation makes it possible for a given army, choosing to attack only limited portions of the enemy, portions smaller than itself, to engage an army which, all told, may be three times its size, and, not unoften, to turn the flank of this much larger body, producing its confusion and rout. |
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| 3 | 200 |
Too, if the attack fails, the advanced force may fall back, knowing that the balance of their army, indeed, its bulk, rested and fresh, not yet engaged, is fully prepared to cover their retreat. |
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| 3 | 202 |
The common military response to aerial attack from tarnsmen is the "shield roof" or "shield shed," a formation the same as, or quite similar to, a formation once known on Earth as the testudo, or "tortoise". |
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| 3 | 205 |
The common Gorean defense against tharlarion attack, if it must be met on open ground, is the stationary, defensive square, defended by braced spears. |
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| 3 | 386 |
"The entire train then," I said, "or at least these wagons, is open to attack. |
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| 14 | 63 |
This seemed to me, however, politically astute, particularly since the city was not currently under attack. |
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| 15 | 258 |
"Also you were anticipating the possibility of an attack," I said. |
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| 15 | 268 |
"But I did not think you would attack me," he said to me. |
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| 15 | 270 |
Too, you would have, at least now, no adequate motivation for such an attack. |
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| 15 | 273 |
"For one, even if I succeeded in such an attack, I would not be likely to escape from the Semnium alive". |
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| 15 | 287 |
"Your entrance through the aqueducts, and using both, rather than one, as an insurance attack, was brilliant," I said. |
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| 15 | 642 |
"Presumably Ar's Station, if subjected to attack, could be relieved by a small force," he said, "and a countermarch to the coast could cut off the Cosians from their base in Brundisium". |
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| 15 | 826 |
"Recently, on the Genesian Road, north of Torcadino, there was an attack on a portion of the Cosian supply trains, a massacre. |
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| 16 | 1530 |
In a few Ehn, as we were making our way through a corner of the camp, we would presumably encounter some contravallation, some outer lines or ditches, set up to protect the besiegers against possible attack by an outside, relieving force. |
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| 16 | 1761 |
"There is no contravallation here," I said, "no defending, outer ditches, nothing to protect the camp against outside attack". |
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| 26 | 1916 |
Similarly, if one lives in a well-walled, well-defended city, one which is likely to resist attack and siege, such as Ar, one is less likely to risk the slaver's noose. |
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| 26 | 1931 |
Those are usually regarded as more exclusive, and safest from attack. |
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| 29 | 112 |
They could always attack, surely now that Achiates was gone, and we were alone, as they wished, and fill out their reports, if necessary, in any way they saw fit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 29 |
A disadvantage of such camps is that they are more vulnerable to attack than if they were located in, say, housings or courts within a city's walls. |
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| 24 | 609 |
"If we are outside the defense perimeter or near its edge," I said, "is there not a danger that the chain might find itself under attack?" "For what?" she asked. |
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| 29 | 383 |
"Too, sleen seldom attack groups," said the leader. |
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| 29 | 587 |
Perhaps it was confirming my scent, prior to its attack. |
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| 29 | 768 |
Perhaps then, while you have the strength, you will wish to attack". |
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| 29 | 1528 |
Both Callisthenes and Sempronius, after having been arrested for a moment, startled, almost in shock, at the abruptness, the swiftness, of the stranger's attack, hurried toward the swordsmen, but then they stopped. |
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| 33 | 299 |
Perhaps this had suggested to the beast, by sight, and perhaps even by smell, that its presence was undetected, unsuspected, that we were unready, that we thought ourselves safe, that that was the moment to attack. |
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| 34 | 129 |
"You used me to lure the beast in, to the attack," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 393 |
Few men will knowingly interfere with the progress of such a person, let alone threaten or attack them. |
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| 1 | 470 |
For example, if the besieged do not have enough men to man the extent of their walls, their lines must be thinned to the point where in a multipoint attack penetration is invited. |
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| 3 | 49 |
Needless to say, a hunting tarn is extremely dangerous, and although its favorite prey may be tabuk, or wild tarsk, they can attack human beings. |
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| 6 | 814 |
I did not think the burly fellow could well attack with the other fellow between us, not, at least, without cutting him out of the way. |
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| 8 | 660 |
More than once it had carried me above adversaries, their attack speed prohibiting so swift an adjustment in their trajectory. |
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| 9 | 134 |
I had thought that perhaps I might have been able to ascend the walls of Ar's Station on one of the scaling ladders, in a morning attack, but I had soon thought the better of it. |
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| 9 | 149 |
Whereas they normally feed on garbage and small fish it is not unknown that they attack swimmers. |
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| 9 | 254 |
Lay down the whip, and we will attack you, and undermine you, and use your own laws, institutions and rhetorics to destroy you, inch by inch. |
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| 9 | 350 |
It was only another attack, far off. |
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| 10 | 26 |
Then later, concerted with an attack, these supports may be burned or, more dangerously, struck away. |
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| 10 | 27 |
The coordination between the collapse of the wall and the attack can be sharpened when the supports are struck away, the same signal, say, the blast of trumpets, initiating both actions. |
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| 11 | 228 |
"Once Cos has engines again she might attack Torcadino, if only to punish Dietrich. |
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| 11 | 259 |
The implicit absurdity of this document, suggesting that Ar would stand about with almost the totality of her might while we are under attack, that we have been, in effect, abandoned, makes it clear that the relieving forces of Ar must actually be quite close, perhaps only a day or two away". |
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| 13 | 206 |
"I would expect the attack to begin in the morning," I said. |
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| 14 | 189 |
"They signal the attack". |
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| 15 | 979 |
"It is the attack," I said. |
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| 17 | 32 |
At two of the bridges tiles and bricks, some two feet in length and six inches in height and width, met the attackers, not so much to stay the force of the attack as litter the bridge itself, that rushing men, not suspecting them, might stumble and fall. |
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| 17 | 144 |
It more exposes the tower to the defenders, who might then tear the hides from it and smear it with flaming tar, or enter and attack it at their own choosing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 723 |
"Attack, attack!" cried the leader of the strangers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 3016 |
"Command them to attack!" "Attack! Kill! Kill!" said the sleenmaster, hoarsely, scarcely able to speak. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 466 |
It was clearly unwilling to turn and attack the pet, for that would expose it to Grendel's attack. |
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| 44 | 9 |
"It could be an attack of power weapons," said Lord Grendel, "a test of such an attack, a warning, one does not know". |
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| 56 | 186 |
"Rise from the trenches, attack, attack, Kur brothers!" called Lord Grendel, and his cries were echoed, from trench to trench, and coursed down the lengths of trenches, and Cabot, and the humans, confused, bewildered, were aware of mighty bodies, howling with cries of war, scrambling out of the tren... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 120 |
"One attack was beaten away, but there will be, I gather, others, in greater force, most likely, I would suppose, on foot through the forests, muchly inaccessible to tarn attack, and you will be unable to escape". |
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| 38 | 29 |
The shield roof in an infantry is usually proof enough against even the arrows and missiles of tarn attack, but the tarn attack is commonly coordinated with an infantry advance. |
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| 40 | 18 |
Massed infantry has little to fear from tarn attack unless, as suggested, it be combined with an attack on foot, with similar forces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 86 |
The sea sleen will attack a human in the water, which it will see as food, but it is unlikely to attack one on the ice. |
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| 8 | 89 |
Some sea sleen hunt in packs, and these will attack other sea mammals, even large sea mammals, such as whales, which they will attack in swarms, in a churning, bloody frenzy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 93 |
The earlier attempt on the part of Kleomenes and his hunters to dissuade us from proceeding farther into the Voltai and the attack, if it were an attack, and not an unanticipated consequence of the hunting, of the wild tarsk at the Wagons, suggested that, at that time, the blind Kur had not made con... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 |
I learned later of the nature of the attack, the silent, signaling smoke arrows coordinating the four prongs of the attack, from four passes, the following blasts of conch horns, and the rolling of drums, the streaming into the valley of armed men, the small, narrow, rectangular banners of Lord Yama... |
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| 6 | 10 |
Perhaps they had sought to arrange an attack there, hoping to duplicate the attack, so fearsomely successful, on the first encampment. |
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| 32 | 37 |
Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who, concealed, shifted about and distributed their fire? Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who applied themselves efficiently, under conditions of limited vision, on a covered bridge, in a pass, or at the rear door of an inn not far from the North R... |
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| 61 | 590 |
He had later figured in the attack on Tarncamp, after which, the attack successfully resisted, he had, in flight, taken refuge in a tharlarion stable, and held the slave, Saru, as a hostage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 51 |
We had returned to Sybaris, and, particularly, more than once, to this tavern, for it was here we had first learned of the supposedly consummated attack on Nicosia, several days prior to the actual attack. |
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| 44 | 115 |
"A token attack," I said, "a nominal attack, with much beating of drums, a great blasting of war horns, and a bold brandishing of gleaming standards". |
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| 48 | 29 |
"An attack on one village is an attack on no single village alone," said Aktis. |
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| 48 | 31 |
To attack one Home Stone is to attack all Home Stones. |
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| 49 | 68 |
This leaves us with an attack by sea, but there is no evidence of such an attack, no bodies or equipment, no signs of disruption or bloodshed. |
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| 60 | 167 |
"Attack, attack!" screamed Ctesippus. |
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