| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 148 |
The pair was eventually sold to a collector for ten gold pieces; I trust the security of his Pleasure Gardens is superb, else he might waken to a knife at his throat and the demand for a tarn, and, perhaps eventually, in the rags of a slave, a seat on the bench of a cargo galley. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 43 |
He had been a slave, doubtless, and, doubtless, judging by the collar, and the large hands and broad back, had served on the galleys, but he had been an unusual slave, a bred exotic, doubtless originally intended by the slave maters for a destiny higher than that of the galley bench. |
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| 8 | 391 |
The other man had now stood easily, stepping from the bench. |
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| 11 | 553 |
"To send a captain is equivalent to sentencing him to the bench of a slave on the round ships of Cos or Tyros". |
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| 13 | 332 |
I put down my pan of bread, onions and peas, sliding it under the bench. |
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| 13 | 442 |
I reached under my rowing bench. |
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| 13 | 444 |
I sat down on my bench and ate. |
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| 14 | 34 |
The oars are set in groups of three, and three men sit a single bench. |
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| 14 | 55 |
The use of the extended rowing frame, permitting the leverage necessary for the great oars, and the seating of several oarsmen, each with his own oar, on a given bench, conserving space, are important in this regard. |
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| 14 | 56 |
If we suppose a trebly-banked ship with one hundred and twenty oarsmen, say, in three banks of twenty each to a side, I think we can see she would have to be a rather large ship, and a good deal heavier than the single-decked, three-men-to-a-bench type, also with one hundred and twenty oarsmen. |
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| 14 | 59 |
To be sure, there are many factors involved here, and one might suppose triple banks following the model of the single-banked, three-men-three-oars-to-a-bench type, and so on, but, putting aside questions of the size of vessel required for such arrangements, we may simply note, without commenting fu... |
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| 15 | 266 |
I looked down the long table, and, far to my right, sitting alone at the end of the long bench behind the table, was Luma, my slave and chief scribe. |
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| 18 | 6 |
"I expect," said the oar-master, "that in the rag of a slave he will eventually find his place at the bench of an arsenal round ship". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 81 |
He went to a side of the room and picked up a small bench, which he brought forward and set before me. |
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| 10 | 82 |
He then sat on this bench and, for some time, regarded me. |
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| 10 | 84 |
Then he rose from the bench and went again to the side of the room, where there was a pile of cut logs. |
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| 10 | 102 |
He sat on the bench, and I stood before him. |
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| 10 | 124 |
He stood near the bench. |
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| 10 | 142 |
I watched him as he went again to the side of the room, and brought forward a small table, and another small bench. |
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| 10 | 506 |
Suddenly, with fury, he, with his full strength, slapped me across the side of the face, literally knocking me from the bench and against the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 487 |
"This one," said one of the girls, "will look well chained at the bench of a galley". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 138 |
Tersites of Port Kar, the controversial inventor and shipwright, had advocated more than one man to an oar but, generally, the southern galleys utilized one man per oar, three oars and three men on a diagonal bench, facing aft, the oars staggered, the diagonality of the bench permitting the multipli... |
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| 2 | 136 |
There were twenty benches to a side, with two men to each bench. |
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| 2 | 165 |
At night the men sleep on the deck, in waterproof bags, sewn from the skins of the sea sleen; in such a bag, also, they store their gear, generally beneath their bench. |
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| 2 | 329 |
Such men, these, would be the hardest of the hard, for only the largest, the swiftest and finest might win for themselves a bench on the ship of a captain, and the man great enough to command such as they must be first and mightiest among them, for the men of Torvaldsland will obey no other, and tha... |
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| 4 | 105 |
The giant, he who might have been nearly eight feet in height, and had in the temple wrought such furious slaughter, sat now, almost somnolently, on a rowing bench, sharpening, with slow, deliberate movements, with a circular, flat whetstone, the blade of his great ax. |
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| 6 | 518 |
He stepped over the bench, and followed them. |
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| 6 | 552 |
I looked to one side; there, at a bench, lethargic, somnolent, like a great stone, or a sleeping larl, sat Rollo, he of such great stature, with grayish skin. |
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| 6 | 574 |
I looked down at Thyri, kneeling beside my bench. |
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| 9 | 86 |
"She has a rowing bench inside her gown," said Olga. |
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| 9 | 197 |
Pudding and Gunnhild knelt on the bench, snuggling against him, one on either side. |
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| 9 | 334 |
He rose to his feet and shoved back a long table, and a bench, on the other side of the fire pit. |
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| 13 | 7 |
They marked the seat, or bench, which might be placed between them as the high seat, or rightful seat. |
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| 13 | 208 |
Then he took his way to the bench opposite the high seat, stopping here and there to exchange pleasantries with the men of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 21 | 3 |
She was naked on the rough bench of the north. |
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| 22 | 115 |
I indicated to her the bench beneath which she might put it. |
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| 22 | 207 |
Thyri, who had boarded earlier, stood near the bench of Wulfstan, where, already, he gripped an oar. |
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| 22 | 293 |
Go to the waterproof, sleenskin sleeping bag by my bench. |
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| 22 | 306 |
I thrust it beneath the bench. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 404 |
She rose to her feet and went to kneel beside Hassan, who was sitting at a bench before a table. |
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| 11 | 449 |
One of the inn boys, in an apron, sitting on a bench near the large, cylindrical sand clock, glanced at it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 550 |
They will have much sport with him before he is chained to a bench". |
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| 20 | 565 |
"Remember it was she who put you in chains, who puts you upon the bench of the galleys!" He regarded me, not speaking. |
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| 21 | 11 |
Better that I, if I could, be chained to a bench, an oarsman slave, than he. |
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| 22 | 176 |
"We are lost men!" cried a sailor, rising in terror from the bench. |
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| 28 | 82 |
I sat back on the long wooden bench. |
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| 28 | 86 |
The bench is at the right side of the tunnel as the slavers' men are mostly right-handed. |
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| 28 | 122 |
We moved down another place on the bench. |
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| 28 | 174 |
Each time we had moved one or two positions on the bench we knew that one or two of our sisters had been sold. |
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| 28 | 187 |
Her fingernails dug into the wood of the bench. |
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| 28 | 224 |
He glanced back at the slender, frightened girl, in the bit of white fluff, still in chain and collar, on the bench. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 113 |
We relieved the caught beauties of the coffle and chained them, four to a bench, to certain of the thwarts of one of the galleys. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 |
I now sat on a heavy bench, some five feet in length, before a stout, rectangular table. |
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| 7 | 42 |
I rose from the bench and walked about the cell. |
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| 7 | 61 |
I rose from the bench again and gripped one of its legs in my fist. |
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| 7 | 66 |
I laughed, and lowered the bench slowly to the stones. |
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| 7 | 67 |
I sat down again on the bench and fed myself another piece of meat. |
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| 7 | 168 |
I untied the whip from her neck and, taking it, walked back to the table and bench. |
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| 7 | 169 |
I put it on the bench. |
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| 7 | 170 |
I sat down on the bench. |
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| 7 | 270 |
I returned to the bench and sat down. |
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| 7 | 303 |
I put the key, with the wire, and the bracelets, on the bench. |
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| 7 | 793 |
She, sobbing, crawled to the bench where I had left the whip. |
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| 7 | 794 |
She took it from the bench in her teeth and, carrying it in her teeth, crawled to me. |
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| 7 | 1023 |
I looked to the bench, where lay the slave whip. |
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| 12 | 137 |
"Chain him at a rowing bench," called another. |
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| 13 | 734 |
I recalled lifting the bench in the cell in the House of Andronicus. |
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| 26 | 205 |
I went to the side of the room and picked up a bench. |
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| 26 | 222 |
His sword was but half from its sheath when the bench piled into his gut. |
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| 26 | 223 |
Then I lifted the bench and broke it across his back. |
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| 26 | 231 |
"You are strong, Jason," said the Lady Florence, looking at the broken bench, "very strong". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 18 |
Inside, sitting on a wooden bench, behind stout, closely-set bars, miserable, clutching sheets about themselves, some with glazed eyes, sat some ten girls. |
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| 9 | 21 |
One girl rose from the bench, her left ankle pulling against the chain and shackle that held her with the others, and dropped the sheet to her waist. |
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| 18 | 64 |
"Had you found the topaz," I asked, "what would have been done with me?" "You might have looked forward," said he, "if fortunate, to a lifetime chained at the bench of a state galley". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 146 |
How attractive, how inviting, they must appear to the predators of the Voskjard! A mighty rock, then, suddenly, not more than ten feet from my bench, plummeted through our deck, splintering the wood upward, exploding it upward, in a shower of sharpened fragments. |
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| 6 | 16 |
I kept my bench, my hands on the oar. |
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| 6 | 103 |
"There is shouting on the stern deck of the Olivia," said a man, rising at the bench. |
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| 6 | 105 |
"There is commotion there," said another, standing now on his bench. |
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| 6 | 110 |
I stood up on the rowing bench, clinging to the top of the rowing frame. |
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| 10 | 40 |
When freed on the Tina he had first expressed his desire to be put ashore, when possible, to make his way to Turmus, but, upon learning that a certain slave, one called Florence, was confined within the high walls of the holding of Policrates he had begged instead to be granted a place on a bench an... |
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| 16 | 314 |
I could see the bench inside had been abandoned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 87 |
Each place on the bench is fitted with ankle and wrist stocks, and for each bench, if the barge was being used for its customary purpose, the transport of female slaves, there would also have been a simple, convenient plank collar. |
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| 2 | 78 |
I moved on the low wooden bench, one of several aligned perpendicularly to the interior port wall of the enclosed barge. |
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| 2 | 83 |
There was room for five women on each bench. |
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| 2 | 84 |
With my heel I kicked some light, siriklike slave chains back under the bench. |
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| 2 | 258 |
I rose from the low bench and went to the door and opened it, emerging near the stern of the barge. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 14 |
It was some fifty feet in diameter, with an earthen bench or projection about the interior edges. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 190 |
His legs failed him and he sprawled back, over the bench, and then, half catching himself, slipped to the tiles of the inn floor. |
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| 21 | 216 |
"Who knows? You might even be permitted to live, perhaps as a blinded, tongueless slave chained to the bench of a Cosian galley". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 906 |
The chain under the bench, on her ankles, moved, too, as her feet moved under the bench. |
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| 3 | 51 |
This type of box serves both as the driver's seat, or bench, and as a literal box, in which various items may be stored, usually spare parts, tools and personal belongings. |
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| 3 | 53 |
He lifted the lid of the wagon box, which lid served also as the surface of his seat or bench, and dropped the empty sack within, and then shut the box. |
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| 7 | 98 |
Boabissia struck down at the lid of the wagon box, serving as her bench, with her small fists. |
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| 16 | 13 |
The woman on the bench, groaning and ravished, on her belly on it, clutching it, her legs chained on either side of it, was now alone. |
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| 16 | 32 |
The woman on the bench moaned, holding it. |
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| 16 | 33 |
Elsewhere I saw another woman being removed from a similar bench, and being returned to the common chain. |
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| 16 | 37 |
A new female was brought to the further bench. |
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| 16 | 40 |
Her wrists were similarly secured, the length of chain running under the heavy, fixed-position marble bench. |
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| 16 | 53 |
The woman on the bench near to me whimpered. |
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| 16 | 371 |
The woman near me, on the marble bench, grasped it more tightly. |
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| 16 | 375 |
The ankle chain and wrist chain he left lying over the bench, in front of her. |
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| 16 | 376 |
He then took her by the hair and drew her from the bench. |
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| 16 | 392 |
He sat her on the bench, straddling it. |
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| 16 | 395 |
Then her ankles were shackled, the chain running under the heavy fixed-position bench. |
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| 16 | 396 |
Then her wrists were enclosed in the wrist rings, the chain from them, too, running under the bench. |
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| 16 | 397 |
He then put her down on the bench. |
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| 16 | 407 |
I glanced at the female on the bench. |
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| 16 | 413 |
The female stirred on the bench. |
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| 16 | 424 |
I put the woman on the bench again from my mind. |
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| 16 | 425 |
I wondered what Boabissia would look like on a bench, in such a predicament. |
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| 16 | 438 |
"Oh!" said the woman on the bench, stiffening, my hand on her. |
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| 16 | 445 |
Quickly she drew herself forward on the bench, frightened, an inch or so. |
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| 16 | 517 |
She shook her head, the padlock scraped on the marble bench. |
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| 16 | 521 |
She suddenly half reared up on the bench. |
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| 16 | 551 |
She clutched the edges of the bench and squirmed a little. |
10 |
| 16 | 591 |
"I do not know," she wept, clutching the bench. |
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| 16 | 603 |
I stepped from the bench, looking at the other women. |
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| 16 | 615 |
I turned about, facing the bench. |
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| 16 | 616 |
"Yes," I said to the woman on the bench, "she has something of your beauty". |
10 |
| 16 | 620 |
"You are both quite beautiful," I said to the woman on the bench, returning to her. |
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| 16 | 669 |
She lay extremely still, almost rigid, tensely, on the bench. |
10 |
| 16 | 761 |
The woman groaned, clutching the bench. |
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| 16 | 836 |
She was aching on the bench, and primed to yield. |
10 |
| 16 | 843 |
She clutched the marble bench again. |
10 |
| 16 | 883 |
I could dash her brains out on the marble bench. |
10 |
| 16 | 886 |
The padlock again lay on the marble bench. |
10 |
| 16 | 888 |
Beneath the bench the chain linking her ankles moved on the floor of the Semnium. |
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| 16 | 941 |
The female on the bench had now been returned to the common chain. |
10 |
| 16 | 942 |
She had been the last placed on that bench this night. |
10 |
| 16 | 943 |
When I had finished with her I had sat for a few Ehn on the bench, beside her, and had put my hand down before her. |
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| 16 | 968 |
"Did you wish it was you, and not I, who was chained on your belly on the bench, helplessly put out for the pleasure of strangers?" "No!" she said, angrily. |
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| 18 | 44 |
"Do you see the fellow at the end of your bench?" he asked. |
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| 18 | 51 |
The fellow nodded, and sat back on his bench, leaning back against the railing. |
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| 18 | 52 |
I resolved that I must watch out for the fellow at the end of the bench, Ephialtes. |
10 |
| 18 | 299 |
After a time, she returned, too, to her place on the bench. |
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| 19 | 223 |
I did look back to make sure the fellow was still on the bench where I had placed him. |
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| 24 | 87 |
They can be taken anywhere, anytime, and as one pleases, in a garden, on a bench, against a wall, in a doorway, on a carpet, across coils of rope, over a saddle, cast upon bales of produce, beside a highway, in the gravel or mud, on a street, on a polished hardwood floor, on the tiles of a plaza, in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 234 |
"If you had first met me in a slave market, I on a slave shelf or bench, chained there, a property, waiting to be purchased, would you have considered buying me?" "Certainly," I said. |
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| 21 | 713 |
I think that any man might have been impressed with her, whether he found her as a free prisoner on the deck of the Tais or in some slave market, chained on a bench, awaiting a buyer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 588 |
He had put them on a bench in a wheeled cage, honorably clothed, near the checkout desk, where they might importune men to pay their bills. |
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| 1 | 589 |
This proving unavailing he had had them stripped and searched by powerful free women and then returned to the cage, on the bench much as before, though now unclothed and absolutely coinless. |
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| 24 | 80 |
She stopped, a few feet before the first bench, on the right. |
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| 24 | 94 |
She went slowly toward the bench, almost as though mesmerized. |
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| 24 | 104 |
Almost as though in a trance, she turned about and sat on the bench. |
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| 24 | 115 |
"You are now in wrist stocks, held on the bench," I said. |
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| 24 | 121 |
The ankle stock is a simpler device, as the rear board is part of the bench. |
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| 24 | 125 |
"However, the wrist stocks may be removed from the bench and serve as its own bond, if one wishes. |
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| 24 | 144 |
I then inserted the rear board in the iron framework above the bench. |
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| 24 | 181 |
"You are probably one of the very few free women," I said, "who have ever sat upon such a bench". |
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| 25 | 8 |
I put down the gants on the bench, near her, in one of the other places. |
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| 25 | 9 |
There are five places on each bench. |
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| 25 | 111 |
She looked up at me, her wrists still in the wrist stocks, these stocks keeping her, in virtue of the slots and fastenings, on the bench. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 351 |
I had often begged to be put forth for use, to lie chained between the tables for the use of guests, to be fastened even to a bench in the garden, my use a gratuity for those who worked there, or to be sent, gratefully, ecstatically, back-braceleted, a sheet over me, to the quarters of guards, but t... |
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| 13 | 1162 |
His small legs were under him on the bench. |
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| 13 | 1235 |
He turned about on the bench, and sat there, for a time, regarding the brunette. |
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| 13 | 1238 |
He then slid from the bench and, bent over, the great body on those tiny legs, went to the ring and chain. |
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| 22 | 83 |
I watched him sit there on the bench by the table, his head in his hands. |
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| 28 | 24 |
To the left of the praetor's officer, to our right, as we faced him, below him, on the floor level, on a bench, behind a table, was a court's clerk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 307 |
So, too, the sight of a place she remembers, a grassy knoll, a place behind a shed, a ditch, a stall, the surface of a long, narrow wooden bench, the floor, fur-strewn, at the foot of the master's couch, she not permitted on its surface, that privilege usually reserved for free companions, or perhap... |
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| 19 | 538 |
The basket, as it was a cargo basket, had no seat or bench. |
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| 21 | 230 |
"You will soon be slave, branded with the mark of the quarries of Tyros, or perhaps we will mark you for the bench of a merchant galley, where, drawing your oar by day or night, hungry for a crust of bread or a sip of water, you will have time to ponder your foolishness". |
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| 22 | 571 |
Confused, frightened, she put the pitcher on the bench near the vat, where others already reposed. |
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| 24 | 70 |
She then, at a gesture, put the pitcher on the bench, beside two others. |
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| 27 | 464 |
"Tal!" called Portus Canio, pleasantly enough, from before the bench of the wagon box, where he stood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 102 |
"Its leader is the cattle human from the time of the slaughter bench, he who noted the Lady Bina, he who understood in his simple, doltish, stupid way her role in leading others to the slaughter bench, he who would have her blood!" "No!" cried Flavion, in dismay. |
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| 80 | 81 |
For example, if the master sits upon a bench at table, his dish will be upon the table, whereas the slave's dish, as she kneels near him, is likely to be on the bench itself; similarly, if the master reclines on a supper couch, the slave, kneeling, is likely to have her dish upon the couch's step, w... |
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| 12 | 25 |
I did spare you the squealing at the slaughter bench". |
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| 16 | 46 |
How will Kurii regard her, after this evening? Will she be torn to pieces? Will she be dragged to the shuttle port and eaten alive? Will they remand her to the cattle pens, she fully aware, awaiting perhaps for weeks her turn on the slaughter bench? Perhaps they will give her to Peisistratus, for hi... |
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| 24 | 149 |
The master takes the first bite of shared food; if he should be seated, say, on a bench or chair, the slave commonly eats at his feet, kneeling beside him; sometimes she is fed by hand, particularly the first bites of food; sometimes she must eat from dishes on the floor, her head down, on all fours... |
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| 32 | 281 |
The Gorean male, if not seated on a chair, or bench, or reclining on a supper couch, commonly sits cross-legged. |
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| 32 | 282 |
The Gorean free woman may sit upon a chair or bench, or recline on a supper couch. |
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| 32 | 284 |
The female slave, commonly, is not permitted to sit on a chair or bench, and is certainly not permitted on the surface of a supper couch. |
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| 42 | 52 |
"Where are they being taken?" "I fear," said Cabot, "to the slaughter bench". |
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| 43 | 1 |
In the Vicinity of the Slaughter Bench As Cabot climbed the ladder the shrieks of the Lady Bina came to him. |
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| 43 | 37 |
"You have led the last of the cattle to the slaughter bench. |
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| 43 | 210 |
The massive thing, perhaps six hundred pounds in weight, was in the area from which the ropes and hooks had approached the slaughter bench. |
10 |
| 43 | 477 |
He then went back, near the slaughter bench, where Lord Grendel stood. |
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| 45 | 53 |
It may be recalled that the Lady Bina, before leaving the area of the slaughter bench, had demanded, and received, the garment of Lita, the slave, in order that she not be unclothed. |
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| 55 | 213 |
Then Cabot, for the first time, heard the sound which had been noted earlier by Lord Grendel and Statius, and, at almost the same time, saw a small, struggling body in the grasp of one of the cattle humans, and he then heard the sound again, and again, as the small body was lifted and shaken in fury... |
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| 63 | 70 |
"He would have had her on the slaughter bench," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 63 | 126 |
He did have his hatred, of course, and his memories, and a single-minded program in mind, to deal with a bell human, a human who would have led him, and others, to the slaughter bench. |
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| 64 | 107 |
Her first escape, that following her acquisition from the place of the slaughter bench, prior to the ambush of the arsenal, had been arranged by Flavion, that all suspicion would fall upon her, whilst he himself, in a putative scouting excursion, had earlier informed Kur patrols of the plan. |
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| 79 | 592 |
"Can you conceive the ignominy of this? Commonly, even in low-caste households, a slave is not permitted to sit on a bench or chair, and certainly would not be permitted to recline on a supper couch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 134 |
It is a time rather for the taverns and halls, for fires and brew, for paga and kaissa, for brawls and slaves, and the waiting for En'Kara, when, one's resources likely having been depleted, one will seek out captains and merchants, and seek perchance a new bench, a new oar. |
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| 35 | 115 |
"In deference to your sensibilities," he said, "he has been spared, for chains, and the bench of a galley". |
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| 38 | 289 |
I had gathered he was to be chained to a bench, presumably in one of the galleys. |
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| 38 | 382 |
The only furniture, so to speak, in the cabin was a small bench, some three feet in length. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 178 |
Several days ago, an altercation had taken place between this Tyrtaios and a man named Decius, with respect to a bench-place in the mess. |
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| 14 | 107 |
I rose at the bench and cried, though it might be insubordination, to Pertinax, "Do not unsheathe your blade!" He slammed the blade, half free, back in its sheath, looked at Seremides before him, unflinching, and said, "Welcome aboard, noble Rutilius". |
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| 15 | 44 |
Licinius Lysias, who had survived the sinking of the galleys of Seremides and Pertinax, rose at the bench, and pointed backward, toward the great ship. |
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| 22 | 56 |
Across from me, alone on his bench, as I was, was Philoctetes. |
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| 22 | 88 |
"Callias!" called Cabot to me, and I rose at the bench, amongst the swarming men. |
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| 22 | 105 |
There were now three or four men at a bench, which should hold two, and the galley was crowded amidships, and fore and aft. |
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| 24 | 329 |
Early in the voyage, when a galley was launched, he had often been chained to his bench. |
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| 24 | 330 |
As we had no bench slaves on board, such fellows usually found on round ships, I supposed him a recreant of sorts, spared for his strength at an oar. |
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| 24 | 331 |
Later he had sat his bench not otherwise than the rest of us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1961 |
Sometimes they would have the girl kneel at the bench, put back her head, her eyes closed, tightly, and open her mouth, widely. |
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| 9 | 327 |
We are on our knees as easily, and naturally, and as appropriately, as the free person is on his feet, or sits on his bench or chair, or reclines, at ease, on his supper couch. |
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| 16 | 159 |
The Metal Worker, if that were indeed his caste, was on the Teamster's bench, which was, too, the lid of the wagon box. |
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| 18 | 1007 |
Lykos was standing on the wagon bench of the first wagon, with a Builder's glass, scanning the horizon. |
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| 18 | 1117 |
I, and others, including Jane and Eve, went to the first wagon, where Lykos was again standing on the wagon bench, the glass of the Builders once more in his hands. |
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| 20 | 211 |
"I," said the Lady Bina, who had been present, I gathered on her cushion on the wagon bench, but muchly quiet, "have something of interest to convey as well, but I must ask you to hold the matter in confidence for a time". |
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| 35 | 129 |
He rose from the bench and went to a shelf to the side, from which he drew forth a large leather envelope, and returned to the table. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 110 |
I am told that in public eating houses, not brothels or taverns, slaves, when admitted, and not chained to rings outside, may kneel beside their master's bench, and while he eats from the plates, and such, on the table, if it be his will, may be given a bowl of slave gruel, which will be placed eith... |
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| 10 | 83 |
Accordingly, I had taken pains to be muchly visible on deck, eating and sleeping there, taking my turn on the bench, and so on. |
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| 49 | 154 |
"Even if to the slaughter bench," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 2 |
I sat in the shade, on a bench, near the small bridge which spanned the tiny brook wending its way amongst the rocks, the tiny terraces, the shrubberies, the flowers, and trees of the garden. |
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| 21 | 131 |
I rose up from the bench and prepared to exit the garden, returning to the palace. |
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| 52 | 48 |
"I hope it will," I said, sliding onto the bench before the console. |
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| 58 | 52 |
In such a situation the master commonly sits, either cross-legged, or on a bench or chair, while the slave kneels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 165 |
I had the sense, then, he had climbed to the wagon bench. |
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| 24 | 41 |
My master sat on the wagon bench, beside the driver. |
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| 24 | 57 |
It was only later that I realized that my master may not have cared to have the driver know our destination, nor the nature of the fellow with whom he had so pleasantly shared the wagon bench. |
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| 46 | 259 |
The driver, in the darkness, stood on the wagon bench. |
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| 46 | 270 |
He then placed the weapon on the wagon bench, and descended, lightly, to stand beside me. |
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| 46 | 304 |
He then lifted me to the wagon bench. |
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| 46 | 307 |
"I will kneel below the bench," I said. |
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| 46 | 309 |
He then sat upon the bench. |
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| 60 | 17 |
Near the vat, on a bench, there were several large, figured, ceramic bowls, each with two handles, some with black figures on a white background, and some with black figures on a red background. |
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| 63 | 205 |
Drusus Andronicus and Kurik were on the wagon bench, taking turns with the reins. |
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| 66 | 2 |
We spoke softly, that we not disturb the masters, Drusus Andronicus and Kurik, of Victoria, who rode together on the wagon bench, Drusus Andronicus handling the reins. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 59 |
Even this early there were two hawkers in evidence, though they were now conversing and not yet moving about, one with small cups strung on a cord and a bulging shoulder-strap bota, now laid beside him on a bench, and another with a tray of assorted offerings, dried larma slices, nuts, dates, tastas... |
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| 30 | 55 |
Bruno of Torcadino took a seat on the lowest bench, and on one of the aisles. |
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| 31 | 7 |
"What are you doing?" asked the fellow, for Bruno of Torcadino had lurched upward, bracing himself with the crutch, from the bench. |
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| 31 | 131 |
A short time later Bruno of Torcadino joined me on the bench. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 91 |
"I would return to the bench, if I may," he said. |
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| 3 | 142 |
"May I, Captain," said Aktis, "return now to the bench?" "Do so," I said. |
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| 11 | 42 |
The attendant turned about, and signaled, subtly, to two large fellows lounging on a wall-bench behind and to the left of the paga vat, who then, rising, began to approach the table. |
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| 26 | 17 |
Under such conditions, the oarsmen, facing the stern, unable to see behind them, must resist the almost irresistible impulse to look behind them, even to leap from the bench. |
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| 37 | 72 |
Soon we sat side by side on a bench near a vendor's cooking cart. |
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| 37 | 79 |
We had set the three mugs beside us on the bench, waiting for them to cool. |
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| 37 | 114 |
He then turned about, left the barge, and went to the bench at his canopied hiring table. |
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