| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 85 |
He then backed away from me on his eight legs, but never taking the pearly gaze of his several eyes from me. |
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| 6 | 147 |
It backed away to about four or five paces, slowly, unsteadily. |
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| 7 | 9 |
She looked at me, stunned, and backed away, being careful to avoid Nar by a safe distance. |
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| 10 | 164 |
Kazrak laughed again, winked at me, and backed with mock ceremony from the tent. |
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| 10 | 203 |
Once or twice mounted warriors of the caravan had accosted her, but on reading her collar had backed grumblingly away, enduring with good humor her jibes and taunts. |
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| 12 | 114 |
The bird lifted his foot and backed away, still uncertain as to what to do. |
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| 18 | 90 |
Then, in frustration, I backed slowly away, hoping to see some lever or perhaps some suspicious crevice higher in the escarpment, something that might play its role in opening the passage I was sure lay hidden somewhere behind that seemingly solid mass of stone. |
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| 19 | 169 |
Pa-Kur and I backed away from one another, each quickly trying to see what was happening. |
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| 7 | 18 |
But Thorn backed away and signaled to the other warrior to lower his spear. |
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| 10 | 61 |
Reluctantly the animal released its grip and backed away, crouching down, watching me with its long, oblique blazing eyes, like slits of molten gold in the torchlight. |
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| 15 | 170 |
She had backed away from me, and now her back touched the obdurate granite of the cliff wall. |
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| 17 | 110 |
He backed away, the whip arm falling. |
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| 22 | 219 |
"Take your pick, Master," he said, and backed out of the tent, shaking his head. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 63 |
She rose to her feet and backed away, her hands at the shoulders of her robe. |
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| 11 | 9 |
Then it backed away perhaps some twenty feet. |
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| 22 | 80 |
Then, clutching me securely, he scampered away across the ceiling and backed down the wall. |
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| 24 | 15 |
It backed up a bit and withdrew its head further beneath the shell of its fused, golden wings. |
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| 27 | 126 |
He backed away from her. |
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| 32 | 304 |
The larl backed away but the portal, in spite of Parp's efforts, now refused to close. |
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| 3 | 9 |
He and the others turned their mounts and backed away a handful of yards, regarding me. |
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| 7 | 19 |
Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe... |
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| 7 | 102 |
He then backed away from her. |
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| 13 | 25 |
The sleen were trying to get at her and she had backed away against the wagon, watching them warily. |
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| 20 | 60 |
I backed rapidly along the bridge and another quarrel sped past me, striking sparks from the stone tower behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 544 |
The slave girl had backed off, looking as though she might topple off the bridge in sheer terror. |
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| 6 | 86 |
She poured the diluted wine into my cup, bowed her head and with a shy smile, backed gracefully down the stairs behind me, then turned and hurried away. |
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| 14 | 138 |
We found ourselves in the hallway giving access to the large one-way glass, backed by metal grillwork. |
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| 15 | 38 |
Virginia served me, bowed her head and backed gracefully down the stairs behind me, then turned and hurried away. |
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| 15 | 47 |
Elizabeth, angry, backed down the stairs and hurried away. |
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| 17 | 610 |
I approached Sura, who backed against the wall, closing her eyes, turning her head to one side. |
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| 18 | 18 |
I had backed to the chest, resheathed my sword, and drawn forth the knife which had been thrown. |
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| 19 | 425 |
Elizabeth backed to the other girls and took each by an arm, and together they came to the front of the block. |
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| 21 | 300 |
I backed among the bodies of the fallen Taurentians. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 52 |
The dark-haired girl rose to her feet, laughing, and she, and the others, backed away. |
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| 7 | 67 |
Then the second barge backed away from the island, turned and followed the first, and then so, too, did the others. |
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| 7 | 102 |
She backed away, her hand before her mouth. |
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| 11 | 15 |
But Lysias then, weapon at the ready, backed away, and then turned and fled through a side door, leading from the council hall. |
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| 18 | 228 |
His men backed away, fighting, and we, and those others who had come to help us, pressed them back even as they retreated through the great door to the high-roofed hall. |
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| 18 | 258 |
She backed warily away from me. |
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| 8 | 220 |
The bosk, now, bellowing and snuffing, and scuffing at the wood with their hoofs, were being backed toward the harness. |
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| 10 | 623 |
I was on my feet, backed against the wall. |
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| 11 | 420 |
I backed away from him, and turned and, stumbling, striking into the wall of cages, fled down the hall. |
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| 11 | 1183 |
I rose to my feet, irritated, and backed away. |
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| 13 | 70 |
I backed away, toward the narrower, open end of the "V," which pointed downstream. |
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| 13 | 198 |
It backed into the fence of wands and she caught it there, against the sticks, and, in a moment, it thrashing and squirming, she lifted it from the water and carried it triumphantly to the shore. |
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| 15 | 41 |
He then lifted me, bound, in his arms, and backed from the camp. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 113 |
The Tesephone hesitated, backed a foot, and then, gently, rocked. |
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| 5 | 238 |
They had been backed against it. |
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| 15 | 64 |
She then backed away from her. |
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| 22 | 796 |
Ilene backed away, the switch still in her hand, to stand to one side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 372 |
The serpent backed from the pier and, in the harbor, turned. |
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| 7 | 212 |
Among them, eyes terrified, crooked-backed, was a cringing, lame thrall. |
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| 13 | 150 |
Light was furnished from the cooking fire but, too, from torches set in rings on the wall, backed with metal plating; too, here and there, on chains from the beams, high above, there hung large tharlarion-oil lamps, which could be raised and lowered from the sides. |
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| 14 | 177 |
The spear's shaft gouged a trench six inches deep behind him, and then stopped, and the Kur, biting in the air, eyes like fire, backed away, and fell backward; Ivar leaped away as another ax sought him. |
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| 18 | 85 |
Hunched over, snarling, it backed into the tent, where I followed it. |
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| 12 | 168 |
Their word, imperiously delivered, with the confidence of unquestioned command, doubtless backed by the whips and scimitars of male guards outside, served as law to the inmates of Tarna's seraglio; when they spoke, men obeyed; when they spoke sharply, men feared; in the seraglio, backed by the power... |
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| 2 | 56 |
He bowed, grinning, the bag, swollen and bulging, damp on his shoulder, and, hooking the cup on his belt, backed away. |
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| 3 | 172 |
I backed away, crouching. |
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| 3 | 307 |
He backed away. |
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| 5 | 107 |
She staggered backward, frightened, stumbling, until she was backed against the backward-leaning trunk of a flahdah tree. |
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| 7 | 226 |
His men, frightened, sped into the cell behind him, and, white-faced, backed themselves against the wall in a line behind him. |
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| 8 | 272 |
She backed away. |
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| 10 | 184 |
She lowered her eyes and, taking the tray with black wine and sugars, rose gracefully to her feet, backed away, turned, and left the room. |
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| 11 | 648 |
They backed away, then turned and ran. |
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| 12 | 601 |
They stood, naked, each backed against one of the slender, lofty, cool marble pillars which supported the roof of the seraglio; their wrists were fastened behind them, about the pillars. |
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| 19 | 181 |
Hassan took them and, when I was clear of the ditch, we backed away from the beast, watching it. |
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| 21 | 427 |
I backed away. |
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| 21 | 553 |
I backed away, stumbling a bit, back in the debris and wire. |
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| 22 | 97 |
He lifted his lance; he lowered it; then he did not charge; he backed his kaiila away. |
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| 24 | 173 |
I backed away a few feet from her. |
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| 25 | 236 |
Suddenly she found herself backed against a pillar. |
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| 5 | 229 |
The two who had been touching leapt apart, the girl crying out with misery and throwing herself to her knees at the foot of her mistress; the man backed away, angrily, startled. |
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| 5 | 391 |
He backed away, and studied the robes I wore. |
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| 7 | 443 |
She backed slightly against him. |
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| 9 | 679 |
I had backed away from him, in the sand of the training pit where we had been working. |
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| 12 | 121 |
I backed gently against him, and lifted my head, turning it to him. |
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| 12 | 479 |
Then I backed away from them. |
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| 20 | 52 |
I backed away from him. |
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| 22 | 179 |
The new ship had backed away from us, and seemed turning its prow away. |
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| 22 | 516 |
The attacker backed his oars and the ram, its work done, splintering more wood, withdrew and settled away from us. |
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| 27 | 190 |
I covered my head and backed away. |
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| 27 | 205 |
Then we saw Bran Loort backed against the wall, with what must have been twenty angry men of Ar encircling him. |
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| 27 | 755 |
He backed away, giving me some five feet of slack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1358 |
She backed away a bit and then, on her belly, crawled to me. |
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| 8 | 173 |
She backed away from me a few feet, and regarded me. |
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| 10 | 132 |
The guard backed away from me. |
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| 14 | 28 |
Imnak backed away, expectantly. |
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| 28 | 190 |
I backed away from the bars. |
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| 28 | 223 |
She then backed away, on her knees, and then again put her head to the floor, and then stood up and withdrew, backing away, her head down. |
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| 30 | 109 |
The man in the center of the sand backed uneasily away from us. |
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| 30 | 274 |
A man backed away from me, shaking his head. |
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| 34 | 111 |
I backed away from it. |
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| 34 | 135 |
I backed away, further. |
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| 35 | 276 |
She winced, backed against the steel wall. |
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| 35 | 554 |
She backed away. |
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| 35 | 1149 |
She backed away, shaking her head. |
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| 1 | 326 |
In a bit of yellow slave silk, backed into a corner, belled and barefoot, a collared girl danced, swaying slowly before the five men who loomed about her, scarcely a yard away. |
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| 3 | 123 |
She backed further against the wall, drawing her legs up, pressing her knees closely together. |
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| 4 | 429 |
Not unrelieved, though I do not think she understood much of what was said to her, the blond barbarian backed away. |
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| 4 | 436 |
The blond-haired barbarian backed away, not challenging them. |
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| 4 | 513 |
The other girl who, too, crouching, had been ready to attack, backed now uneasily away. |
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| 8 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Golden Kailiauk "Hurry! Hurry, clumsy slave!" cried the small, scarred man, crooked-backed, his right leg dragging behind him. |
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| 11 | 141 |
I backed into the dark street and then, a few feet away, saw a low, sloping roof. |
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| 16 | 11 |
Eyes blazing it backed away, twisting, small legs, with the stubby, clawed feet, stabbing at the water. |
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| 16 | 19 |
Then, thrashing, squirming, hissing, it backed off in the shallow water. |
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| 20 | 6 |
He backed away from me. |
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| 24 | 94 |
The four men backed away and then turned and fled. |
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| 29 | 36 |
It did not move until I nudged it with a stick, and it then backed rapidly away. |
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| 53 | 373 |
I backed away. |
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| 3 | 311 |
She stood up and backed away a bit, and stood there, regarding me. |
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| 7 | 123 |
Half crouching over she backed away from me, until she was stopped by the bars, which confined her with me in the cell, one of many such cells deep beneath the House of Andronicus. |
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| 13 | 585 |
"What are you doing there?" I backed quickly away from the girl. |
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| 22 | 536 |
Melpomene rose to her feet and backed away a few feet from me, and lifted her hands over her head, the wrists back to back. |
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| 27 | 74 |
She backed away from me, toward the back of the stall. |
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| 27 | 145 |
"Please, no!" She was backed against the rear of the stall. |
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| 32 | 420 |
She backed away, frightened, to the end of her tether. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 21 |
I backed away. |
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| 8 | 61 |
I backed away, and then felt the tables behind me, against my legs. |
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| 8 | 96 |
He then backed away. |
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| 8 | 154 |
I backed away from the table. |
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| 12 | 99 |
She backed away, holding the clothing about her. |
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| 22 | 207 |
Then the blade lowered and the man sobbed, and backed against the wall, and lowered himself, sitting to its base, the sword on the stones beside him. |
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| 26 | 208 |
I stepped away from Krondar, and backed up a step. |
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| 27 | 10 |
I backed against the lumber. |
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| 28 | 245 |
There was a small sound at the door, and the newcomer, instantly, backed against the wall, watching us. |
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| 28 | 302 |
Aemilianus backed up a step. |
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| 32 | 55 |
She then rose again to her feet, backed away, and then, on the tiles, again knelt. |
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| 32 | 232 |
He had now backed away, and was regarding me, warily. |
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| 32 | 332 |
He backed away, a step. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95 |
Then we had backed away, some seventy-five feet from the chain. |
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| 1 | 171 |
And the Tina backed away again from the chain, her bow facing it. |
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| 4 | 163 |
The ships of Port Cos, led by the Tais, backed from the subsiding, shattered hulks they had smitten. |
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| 4 | 197 |
We backed from the wreckage. |
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| 4 | 202 |
We backed from the wreckage, much of it flaming. |
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| 5 | 167 |
We backed slowly away. |
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| 5 | 218 |
The ship of the Voskjard which had been lying to, preventing us from joining the fray, now backed away from us. |
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| 8 | 31 |
I backed from her and then, turning, tried the door. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 62 |
I resheathed my blade and the fellow, white-faced, backed away. |
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| 7 | 78 |
I and the others backed against the wall of the compound of Ram Seibar. |
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| 11 | 132 |
Then Ginger backed from the line. |
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| 15 | 121 |
He then backed his kaiila away from her. |
10 |
| 15 | 179 |
The Fleer backed his kaiila from Ginger, the animal almost crouching back on its haunches. |
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| 15 | 211 |
The Fleer backed his kaiila from the red-haired girl. |
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| 16 | 144 |
I backed the kaiila a step or two from the beast. |
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| 16 | 169 |
The beast then backed away from us, snarling. |
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| 19 | 196 |
Then she looked up at him, and backed away, his, stripped save for the beaded collar knotted at her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 216 |
Then I rose to my feet and, facing them, backed away. |
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| 18 | 265 |
I backed off a bit, on my knees, and then rose to my feet, and then withdrew from the presence of the fellow who was patiently working on the stone. |
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| 30 | 41 |
One or two of the beasts backed from the line. |
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| 30 | 139 |
The animal almost backed to its haunches. |
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| 35 | 46 |
"Let us continue on," said Kisu, and, again, the river before us, broad between the moist, tangled green thickets of the banks, backed on each side by the enclosing jungle, we dipped our paddles into the muddy, sluggish water. |
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| 37 | 551 |
Cuwignaka and I backed off. |
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| 40 | 78 |
Radish, suddenly, frightened, backed away. |
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| 47 | 368 |
They then backed away from one another again, and again began to circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 391 |
As they thrust at one another and fended blows, moving with great speed and skill, in their swift passages, under the watchful eye of the referee, backed by two independent scorers, I could scarcely conjecture what would be involved in actual swordplay, with steel unencumbered with sheaths. |
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| 8 | 104 |
I backed away a foot or two. |
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| 10 | 39 |
He backed against a wall. |
10 |
| 12 | 122 |
He then backed down the stairs. |
10 |
| 15 | 39 |
I backed away from him. |
10 |
| 27 | 16 |
I rose to my feet and, facing him, head down, backed away a few paces. |
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| 35 | 2 |
I jerked the bit of slave silk tightly, defensively, about my body, and backed from the soldier. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 99 |
He looks out through a narrow, gauze-backed, rectangular opening in the robes. |
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| 2 | 570 |
"Hold," said the officer to the paunchy fellow, who, it seemed, had backed away, turned, and was about to disappear between the stage and the Kaissa booth. |
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| 12 | 43 |
This was backed by a Scribe at Ubara's Scribe Four. |
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| 14 | 343 |
I then, my legs brushing against urts, backed from the pack. |
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| 17 | 14 |
He backed further away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 297 |
Panting, Sorath backed away. |
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| 22 | 246 |
She had backed away. |
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| 22 | 256 |
Feiqa backed away another step. |
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| 23 | 13 |
Two other fellows backed away. |
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| 25 | 1063 |
She rose to her feet, her head down, backed away a step or two, and then turned and hurried back to her place with the other girls. |
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| 26 | 1149 |
She backed off a bit, and went to her belly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 237 |
I backed away, my hand at my breast. |
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| 8 | 63 |
We had mostly backed out, for the cages were narrow, and then remained there, in the dirt, in the gray light of the early morning, on all fours. |
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| 10 | 768 |
"Go, now!" The beast then backed off a few feet, and turned. |
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| 14 | 28 |
I backed down, my head down, to the foot of the dais, and then stood there, erect and graceful before my master, as would be expected of a female slave. |
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| 19 | 92 |
I backed a little into the alleyway, between the two buildings. |
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| 19 | 114 |
I backed down the alleyway, before him, watching him. |
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| 24 | 224 |
I rose to my feet, half crouching, and backed warily away from him, until I was beyond the line of the chain, and then, wildly, I turned about, and tried to run. |
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| 29 | 49 |
We had been backed on our knees to a railing, until the backs of our necks were in contact with it. |
10 |
| 29 | 69 |
I had then been taken to the railing, knelt, backed against it, and roped to it. |
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| 29 | 574 |
"Defend me!" But he, both hands on the hilt of his sword, holding it at rest now, pointed downward, backed away. |
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| 29 | 580 |
"Do not let him kill Tuka!" But Mirus held her by one arm, and backed away. |
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| 29 | 906 |
The other cohort of the small fellow, frightened, backed away. |
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| 29 | 1542 |
I do not think steel had crossed more than three or four times before the stranger had leapt back, and then backed away. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 |
The three men looked at one another, and then backed away. |
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| 1 | 263 |
I then bent over, and backed under the rear of the wagon. |
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| 6 | 598 |
He backed away a step, however, when he saw that he did not come up to the newcomer's shoulder. |
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| 10 | 284 |
I backed away, unnoticed, toward the nearest sapping trench. |
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| 17 | 569 |
The great interior gate, leading into the courtyard, like the outer gate, in the wall, from which it was separated by a covered way, some forty feet in length, had been backed with debris. |
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| 17 | 659 |
I backed toward the eastern corridor. |
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| 17 | 666 |
I then backed quickly through the portal of the eastern corridor. |
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| 17 | 683 |
Then he, and the others with him, backed down the passage down which I had flung the coins. |
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| 18 | 247 |
Another, though, from the other side, caught him, and he backed against the wall, then turned, scratching at it, spitting blood. |
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| 18 | 329 |
These mostly backed along, protecting their retreat with their shields, making their way in a file between the fellows still in position on the walkway, on each side of it, those I had placed there to afford protection to the women and children. |
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| 18 | 331 |
I held my ground, as men of Ar's Station, one by one, backed past me, onto the walkway. |
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| 18 | 354 |
I saw one free woman backed against the wall, a sword at her belly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 361 |
The fellow on the leader's left backed a little away, putting another stride between himself and Marcus. |
10 |
| 3 | 402 |
The fellow before me backed away. |
10 |
| 4 | 7 |
It backed away, propelled by its heavy, diamondshape, paddlelike appendages, its tail snapping behind it, splashing water. |
10 |
| 4 | 51 |
He was later deposed by the popular Marlenus of Ar who, having returned to the city, was backed by the populace. |
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| 10 | 67 |
The beast lowered its body to the sand and then, pushing back in the sand, backed away. |
10 |
| 13 | 500 |
He pressed the blade forward a little, and I backed against the raft. |
10 |
| 18 | 187 |
I backed away, toward the water. |
10 |
| 18 | 197 |
I backed into the water. |
10 |
| 19 | 210 |
The ul then rose higher out of my reach, hovering, then backed, in flight, onto the beach, and alit. |
10 |
| 19 | 758 |
It, hovering, backed over the marsh. |
10 |
| 19 | 810 |
It was suddenly in the water and I freed myself of the wing and backed away. |
10 |
| 19 | 880 |
She backed away, about two yards, on her knees. |
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| 44 | 239 |
She was backed, kneeling, against a small sapling. |
10 |
| 46 | 29 |
I advanced on one and he swiftly backed away. |
10 |
| 46 | 31 |
I spun about, and another fellow, who had now approached more closely, backed away. |
10 |
| 46 | 46 |
The fellow spit up blood, backed away, turned, and fell into the dust. |
10 |
| 46 | 145 |
Another, backed against a slave pole, her hands chained together behind it, over her head, sucked in her belly and pressed, terrified, back against it. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 28 |
There we had backed her into a slave locker, reached by a catwalk, on all fours, inserted the coin, a tarsk bit, turned and removed the key. |
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| 7 | 158 |
Several of the men in the street backed away, returning to the crowd. |
10 |
| 10 | 199 |
The six lads backed away. |
10 |
| 10 | 254 |
Both of them then backed away. |
10 |
| 22 | 10 |
She backed against the wall, her hand, clutching the note, at her breast. |
10 |
| 22 | 201 |
He backed away a step. |
10 |
| 26 | 312 |
She then backed away from him, toward the center of the couch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 |
The height of the wall, now that I backed from it, I could see was surmounted by incurved blades. |
10 |
| 9 | 173 |
Another reason I thought there might be a man about is that the authority accorded to women usually derives from men and, in the final analysis, is backed by men. |
10 |
| 11 | 424 |
I backed down the steps of the dais, on all fours, and then, at its foot, rose to my feet. |
10 |
| 17 | 31 |
Quickly I backed away, on my stomach, from the peasant, and then rose up, on my knees, to kneel, head down, before the pit master. |
10 |
| 19 | 690 |
The fellow with the water bag had now arrived at the free woman's position, and we slaves, those still there, backed away a little. |
10 |
| 19 | 1121 |
I backed away. |
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| 24 | 26 |
Then I turned and backed toward the wall, in a rattle of chain, for a gigantic shadow, frightening me, fleeting and wild, had been cast upon the wall. |
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| 24 | 56 |
I backed away a bit toward the wall. |
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| 24 | 186 |
I backed against the wall, to which I was chained. |
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| 24 | 509 |
Then she backed away from him, a foot. |
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| 37 | 228 |
We were now again against the wall, put there by the men, backed against it, side by side, hands bound behind us, the cord on our neck holding us together, frightened. |
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| 46 | 45 |
I backed away from him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 42 |
She backed up the aisle. |
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| 2 | 250 |
The older woman backed away, chagrined, embarrassed, and mingled in the crowd, trying to be unobtrusive, mixing in with milling patrons, with those dallying in the lobby, with those waiting for friends, or perhaps for arranged transportation. |
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| 3 | 44 |
Then, suddenly, she cried out in dismay, and backed toward the bed, until she felt its obdurate, solid frame against the back of her thighs, beneath the gown, which could be opened from the back. |
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| 4 | 298 |
Tutina then backed away, gracefully, her head down, humbly. |
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| 7 | 233 |
She backed away, until she was stopped by the back wall of the cell. |
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| 10 | 227 |
She backed down the steps of the dais, crawling, and then went, crawling backward, to where her garment lay on the floor and then knelt beside it, in position, looking at him. |
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| 15 | 96 |
She backed down the stairs and then knelt again before the dais, as she had before, in obeisance. |
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| 16 | 93 |
She was on a narrow cement shelf, backed by a building on which it abutted, rather like a porch. |
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| 18 | 562 |
She saw how he looked at her, and she backed against the wall, near the door. |
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| 18 | 606 |
She backed away, frightened. |
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| 20 | 54 |
She could hear, somewhere behind her, the grunting of a ponderous draft tharlarion, presumably being harnessed, or backed into its traces. |
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| 23 | 4 |
Ellen swiftly went to the first obeisance position before Mirus, and then crawled forward a foot, her head still down, and pressed her lips fearfully to his sandals, then backed away a few inches, and kept her head down. |
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| 25 | 899 |
Ellen, frightened, backed toward the auctioneer's assistant. |
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| 25 | 957 |
Quickly Ellen backed to him, that she might not cease to face the men, until she sensed that he was a foot or so behind her, to her right. |
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| 26 | 994 |
* * * * Scarcely had Ellen backed away, on her knees, bent humbly, head down, from the fourth guardsman, that she might not rise to her feet at his side, this perhaps being taken as insolence, he supine and bound, than she heard, vaguely, obscurely, not really registering it at first, as she now rec... |
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| 27 | 3013 |
He backed away, putting his arms before his face, crying out. |
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| 30 | 7 |
After the wine was poured she rose up and body bent, head down, eyes cast down, backed gracefully, silently, away, withdrawing to the side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 607 |
Was she not confined in the container the blonde would have fully expected, with another snarl, that she would have fainted, or backed away, and then suddenly turned about, and fled. |
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| 2 | 206 |
What if there should be some sort of field which might be activated by anything of its size, or genetic constituency? It backed away from the container, and stood up, again, as such beasts commonly stand. |
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| 10 | 35 |
"Would not a mere switching, or lashing, or even a scolding word, backed by the whip, be sufficient to encourage her to be less awkward, less careless? Do not females understand such things?" The deportment of slaves is to be seemly, of course, for they are in collars. |
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| 11 | 106 |
She then rose to her feet and backed away, and then turned, and hurried to the counter, to replenish the contents of the goblet. |
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| 19 | 117 |
The machine then, as Cabot backed away, went to the bodies of each of the hunters, and, taking the head of each in the massive metal jaws, bit it away. |
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| 21 | 475 |
"Grendel has backed near the platform. |
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| 41 | 63 |
The slave backed away, further. |
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| 44 | 154 |
She backed away, a foot, and regarded Grendel. |
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| 47 | 144 |
Lord Grendel thrust up the weapon with his wing, and then, spinning about, close to his foe, who floated before him, had one hand loose from the wing harness and tore the weapon from the Kur's grasp, and the Kur recovered control of the wings, and backed away, warily. |
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| 55 | 215 |
He instantly flung his prize, rolling to the grass, bell jangling, from him, and backed into the herd. |
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| 57 | 71 |
"Come, I will show you!" said Flavion, and led Grendel, and others, about the camp, to a small, low, open shelter, backed against palings. |
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| 70 | 30 |
Ramar backed away, belly low. |
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| 77 | 298 |
"You are human! I am Kur!" At that moment there was a terrible sound, a crashing and splintering of wood, and then another such crashing and splintering, and then another, and Cabot backed away, and looked wildly behind him. |
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| 78 | 160 |
"Remember the Lady Bina," Lord Grendel had whispered to the fallen, shuddering Kur, and then he had straightened up, and backed away, and lifted his head to the far ceiling of the world and howled, as a primeval Kur might have howled, a cry of rage, of hatred, of victory, and satisfaction. |
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| 78 | 161 |
Cabot backed away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 200 |
I put the ring, on its loop, down on the sand, and backed away from it. |
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| 5 | 262 |
Sullius Maximus backed away a step or two, looked briefly back, to the round ship, some hundred yards offshore. |
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| 10 | 146 |
Tajima then backed away from him, and, smoothly, drew forth his own weapon, which he gripped with two hands, and assumed what, for such a weapon, was apparently an on-guard position. |
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| 15 | 105 |
One has to introduce a hierarchy amongst female slaves, backed by the power of the master. |
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| 25 | 251 |
I sensed then that the owner of that voice had backed away, turned, and hastened into the forest. |
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| 34 | 85 |
"Thank you, Master," she said, rose lightly to her feet, backed away a step or two, and then turned, and left the room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 249 |
She rose gracefully, backed away deferentially, and then turned, and hurried to the serving table. |
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| 3 | 104 |
She then rose up, and facing me, for she knew that much, backed away. |
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| 3 | 681 |
The fellow looked at the mercenary, in his helmet, with his shield, and a spear whose reddened blade had recently drunk the blood of a foe, and then backed away. |
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| 5 | 149 |
Seremides backed away, warily, his weapon poised, the point moving like the head of an excited, coiled ost. |
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| 9 | 247 |
Below, clearly enough, in the interstices of combat, men backed away from one another to look wildly about, struggling to regain their breath. |
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| 9 | 337 |
One of the monsters backed into the cage, beak snapping with menace, and the tarnkeeper at the gate swung it shut, hooking the latch in place. |
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| 12 | 62 |
Still I backed against the mast, and drew the hood of my cloak over my head. |
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| 12 | 625 |
She then pressed her lips again, fervently, to my boots, and then rose to her feet, backed away, head down, and then turned and ran, weeping, from the lantern light, disappearing in the darkness. |
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| 14 | 311 |
I backed away as I could, slipping, half sinking through the vines, while he, similarly hampered, cursing, pursued me, foot by foot. |
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| 15 | 254 |
She rose up, backed away a little, and then hurried aft. |
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| 16 | 319 |
Our men backed to the moving hull of the great ship, turning, grasping the rope rungs of the boarding nets. |
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| 25 | 417 |
I opened the door of the kennel, and Alcinoë backed out. |
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| 26 | 152 |
She was backed against the wall, the palms of her hands back, against the stone. |
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| 26 | 263 |
The slave had scarcely risen to her feet, backed away, head down, turned, and hurried toward the shed which housed her kennel, when I became aware of another figure near me. |
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| 32 | 20 |
The Pani, descending the trail, arrested in their descent, by angry sheets of fire, backed away, for the heat, and could not proceed. |
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| 36 | 251 |
I trembled, for I had seen that simplicity, that ease of grip before, neither clenched nor tight, neither loose nor careless, in a guardsman's blade, moving toward a fellow backed against a wall. |
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| 36 | 288 |
Men backed further away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 328 |
Two or three men, from the market, who had been loitering outside, in the warm night, backed through the door, warily. |
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| 10 | 35 |
With a last, wary look about the room, before which the men shrank back, he backed through the portal, and I could not gain my feet, and was dragged from the room, my shoulder abrading on the wooden floor, and then I was on the stones of the street. |
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| 10 | 1004 |
How long might such a behavior, or fit, endure? I backed away, on my hands and knees, terrified. |
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| 10 | 1092 |
After a time, I backed away from the edge, and then, on my hands and knees, carefully made my way to the security of the tower and the descending stairwell. |
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| 12 | 11 |
"Step aside, girl," said a woman's voice, and I backed away, my head lowered. |
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| 12 | 129 |
More than one free woman wrapped a veil more closely about her face, and backed away. |
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| 13 | 23 |
I threw down the cloths, and backed away. |
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| 15 | 232 |
I rose to my feet, and, not taking my eyes off the large, crouching, dark shape across the stall, opened the gate, and backed through. |
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| 18 | 519 |
She then backed away, smiling, and then turned about, making her way to the paga vat. |
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| 18 | 919 |
I backed away, on my knees. |
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| 21 | 86 |
I backed against the wagon, clutching my tunic to me. |
10 |
| 24 | 128 |
Trachinos and Akesinos backed away, a little, drawing their weapons. |
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| 29 | 30 |
The guard, backed now by the second Kur, the armed Kur, motioned that Lord Grendel should retreat to the rear of his cell, which he did. |
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| 29 | 58 |
He then backed through the gate and swung it shut. |
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| 29 | 264 |
I crept back and, as though frightened, retrieved the tray, the plate and tankard, and then rose to my feet, and backed toward the gate, which was opened for me, and I exited the cell, following which the gate was again closed. |
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| 32 | 105 |
I scarcely noted, in the celebratory milieu, that the machine had backed away, vanishing down the dark corridor behind the dais. |
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| 40 | 31 |
It then backed away, looked about the room, and exited through the gate. |
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| 42 | 39 |
I backed away a little. |
10 |
| 42 | 58 |
I backed away a few more steps. |
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| 46 | 22 |
In any event, while I backed against the wall, fearing to move, the beast passed me, moving to my right, where it would, in effect, some yards out, cross the slope before the portal. |
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| 48 | 333 |
And Lucius backed away, and Grendel observed him, the ax in his right hand. |
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| 52 | 84 |
It backed the domicile, which had four floors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 28 |
Then she had backed away, embarrassed. |
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| 13 | 181 |
The fellow backed away from me, and surveyed me, and spoke, over his shoulder, to his fellows, of which there were two, one of whom was keeping the notes, or records. |
10 |
| 21 | 357 |
The two backed away, a pace, eyeing one another. |
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| 25 | 217 |
I stood up, and backed away, my leg bleeding. |
10 |
| 28 | 18 |
Axel backed away a little, shortening the leash. |
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| 29 | 80 |
What were they doing here? The small caravan had passed, and I backed away, a step, would turn, and would resume my flight, moving to the north, and then, again, follow the Alexandra west. |
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| 37 | 248 |
Darla backed away, in misery, but she stopped, at the edge of the camp. |
10 |
| 39 | 513 |
Then he, too, backed away, slowly. |
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| 41 | 327 |
As he extended his hand, I gratefully returned the whistle to him, and rose up, backed away a pace or two, and again knelt, where I had positioned myself for the masters' convenience. |
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| 42 | 54 |
Master," I said, and rose to my feet, backed away, and then turned, and went again with the bowl ladle, its handle wrapped in cloth, to the cauldron over the fire. |
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| 43 | 759 |
She sprang up, backed away, and laughed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 33 |
Would the cards not be marked, the dice weighted? Might a hand not surreptitiously move a piece, or insert another? And who is to say on what tiny matters, a sedative pellet scarcely visible, a sliver of iron in the foot, might hang the performance of even the mighty tharlarion? Too, to my dismay, I... |
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| 12 | 35 |
She backed away, with short steps, her hands now in her sleeves, her eyes cast down. |
10 |
| 12 | 73 |
He, sitting cross-legged, the small table to his left, made a tiny gesture with his left hand, and Saru quickly backed from the room. |
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| 13 | 500 |
She backed away, frightened. |
10 |
| 13 | 507 |
They backed away, and then turned, and slipped from the room, gracefully, with the grace of slaves. |
10 |
| 21 | 360 |
I backed away. |
10 |
| 29 | 317 |
She backed away into a corner of the shed where the light of the tiny lamp scarcely reached. |
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| 32 | 15 |
Haruki and I backed against the dragon screen which fell, and, stumbling, ruining it, fell behind it, and then struggled up, past the low table, our backs to the side of the inn. |
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| 32 | 64 |
At the side of the eating hall, backed against the wall, now unthreatened, perhaps forgotten in the distress and tumult, were Tajima and the constable, Yasushi. |
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| 59 | 180 |
Katsutoshi put his foot upon the blade, and Tajima backed away. |
10 |
| 59 | 241 |
He backed away, a pace. |
10 |
| 59 | 279 |
He backed away, bleeding. |
10 |
| 60 | 102 |
Lord Yamada backed away. |
10 |
| 61 | 698 |
"A well-turned calf," I said, and dropped the hem of the robes, and backed away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 13 |
I backed away, head down, as I had been told, and then approached the next guest. |
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| 20 | 193 |
Certainly, backed into the doorway, and kneeling, we would have been easy prey for such a thing. |
10 |
| 26 | 194 |
She then backed away, a step or two, as did I, and turned to leave. |
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| 30 | 205 |
This he placed on the floor of the alcove, while the girl, her head lowered, backed away. |
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| 33 | 694 |
Then, oddly, it crouched down, and, eyes toward me, backed rapidly away, snarling, and then it turned and slipped through the still-open portal in the large gate and disappeared into the night. |
10 |
| 45 | 11 |
With a gesture I was dismissed, and I rose, and backed away. |
10 |
| 45 | 74 |
She backed away, head down. |
10 |
| 45 | 254 |
"Haste, through the kitchen! You have but ten Ehn to relieve yourselves, wash, and crawl to your cages!" Drusus, of the service of Decius Albus, then released me, and I backed away, on my knees. |
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| 48 | 79 |
She then rose, bowed her head, and backed to the door, where she turned, and began to descend the steps. |
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| 53 | 16 |
Still, again, the pomerium may date back to a territorial claim, usually backed by war, in which the pomerium line is scratched in the earth by the point of a sword or the tip of a spear. |
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| 53 | 200 |
Lyris rose up to her full height, snarling, and I backed away, frightened, against my master, who, to my misery, thrust me from him. |
10 |
| 60 | 260 |
"Wait!" said Tyrtaios, suddenly, and backed away some yards, and pointed to our right. |
10 |
| 61 | 259 |
A Kur lunged forward, but stopped, snarling, and backed away, threatened by the ax of Surtak. |
10 |
| 61 | 283 |
Some men, wiser, backed slowly away, threatened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 210 |
Sensing that I was dismissed, I then rose, backed gracefully away, and, head down, turned, and went out, onto the landing. |
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| 10 | 270 |
I rose to my feet and backed away, and then looked back, for only a moment, and then hurried back to the girl wall, where we wait to be picked out by a customer, or sent to a given table by the Vat Master or the taverner's deputy. |
10 |
| 11 | 345 |
I backed against the wall to my right, away from the canal, that I might not fall. |
10 |
| 11 | 412 |
I backed further, more against the wall. |
10 |
| 18 | 52 |
I rose to my feet, backed away, turned, and hurried to the paga vat. |
10 |
| 24 | 33 |
It was a common shelf market, backed against a wall, its surface reached by shallow steps from the street. |
10 |
| 27 | 137 |
As Bruno of Torcadino freed his crutch from the chest of the second man, the third man, in the moment, rose up, scrambled to the side, backed off, and drew a sword. |
10 |
| 32 | 45 |
I felt his fingers touch the side of my throat, gently, above the collar, and then he withdrew his hand, and straightened up, and backed away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 38 |
Thurnock had arranged a target on deck, of layered leather, backed with wood. |
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| 29 | 4 |
She rose, gracefully, backed away some feet, head down, and then turned, and hurried from the room. |
10 |
| 43 | 86 |
He then backed away, eyes wide. |
10 |
| 59 | 295 |
He dropped it to the floor and backed away. |
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