| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 66 |
His hand drew Talena's dagger from his belt, and, manacled as I was, I could not have prevented the blow. |
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| 19 | 22 |
He had brought his tarn to flight and was descending to the streets below to rally the dispirited citizens of Ar, to call them again to arms, to challenge them to renounce the treacherous authority of the self-seeking Initiates, to strike again their blow for freedom, to die rather than yield their ... |
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| 19 | 111 |
"It is forbidden!" Heedlessly, the insane old man tensed for the blow that would end the life of the girl. |
10 |
| 19 | 128 |
Pa-Kur feinted, not exposing himself, his eyes seeming to watch my shoulder, noting how I parried the blow. |
10 |
| 19 | 132 |
Pa-Kur slid the blow lightly to one side, almost casually. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 130 |
I felt it could have felled a small tree with a single blow. |
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| 8 | 10 |
Even men of a caste as low as that of the Tarn-Keepers were intolerably proud of their calling, for who else could raise and train those monstrous birds of prey? I supposed Zosk the Woodsman was proud in the knowledge that he with his great broad-headed ax could fell a tree in one blow, and that per... |
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| 11 | 105 |
He did not take his eyes from the Tatrix, wanting to strike at the first instant she permitted the blow. |
10 |
| 13 | 121 |
I turned my yoke obliquely, slipping between the horns, blocking the blow. |
10 |
| 13 | 125 |
Once, twice more he charged, and each time I managed to block the blow, withstanding the shock of the crashing yokes, escaping the thrust of the murderous horns. |
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| 14 | 39 |
I saw the great wings snap, smiting the air, the hurricane from their blow spilling slaves into the sand, tangling chains, as the great beast, lifting its head and smelling the open air, struck it with his wings. |
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| 23 | 131 |
One side of the helmet had been cracked open, perhaps by the blow of an ax. |
10 |
| 23 | 137 |
The helmet had largely absorbed the blow but the blade of the striking instrument had creased the skull, accounting for the flow of blood. |
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| 23 | 138 |
Most likely the force of the blow had rendered him unconscious and the blood had suggested to his assailant that the job was finished. |
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| 25 | 82 |
Then I turned so that it was my body that was exposed to the blow of the sword carried by the man in wrist straps. |
10 |
| 25 | 88 |
It now had its eyes fixed on the man with the sword, he who had struck this new blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 178 |
If his first blow missed perhaps I could get close enough to strike but it did not seem probable his blow would miss. |
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| 12 | 180 |
In the same instant I leaped toward them, taking them by surprise and compounding the momentum of my blow. |
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| 27 | 262 |
I returned to the place where I had struck the blow. |
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| 31 | 187 |
I crouched, sword in hand, waiting for the blow. |
10 |
| 32 | 329 |
With a sword it would be a great blow. |
10 |
| 33 | 83 |
Then somewhat to his momentary embarrassment the wind shifted again and the smoke began to blow away from the Sardar and out towards the crowd. |
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| 33 | 86 |
"Now the Priest-Kings blow the breath of my sacrifice as a blessing upon you, letting it travel to the ends of Gor to speak of their wisdom and mercy!" There was a great cry of joy from the crowd and shouts of gratitude to the Priest-Kings. |
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| 34 | 4 |
I felt a sudden blow on my back and nearly lost my breath and twisted to see the gigantic, brawny Older Tarl, my former Master at Arms, who clapped me on the shoulders, his hands like the talons of tarns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 336 |
His hand drew back but the blow never fell, for with a cry of pain he reeled away, the hilt of a quiva pressed against the inside of his forearm, the balance of the blade emerging on the other side. |
10 |
| 10 | 552 |
I scarcely noticed the blow had been smartly parried. |
10 |
| 10 | 555 |
In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow. |
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| 20 | 98 |
"Who are you?" "Do not ask questions," snapped Harold, "here is the girl—take her!" The guard shrugged and as he took Hereena from Harold I winced as the young man felled him with a blow that might have broken the skull of a bosk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 514 |
Once a slave girl bumped into her on one of the bridges and struck at her, thinking she was only slave, but Elizabeth, with a swift blow of her small fist, downed the girl, and managed to seize one ankle and prevent her from tumbling from the bridge. |
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| 6 | 39 |
There was a cry and I looked again to the square of sand and the first slave, with the hook knife in his left hand, had plunged across the sand, taking a stroke across the chest, to strike his own blue line blow at his opponent. |
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| 17 | 297 |
At this point Virginia Kent put down her pitcher of wine, seized Lana by the shoulder, spun her about and struck her a rather severe blow near the left eye. |
10 |
| 18 | 27 |
"You struck him from behind," I said, "the blow of a coward". |
10 |
| 20 | 276 |
He took a sip from one of the goblets and narrowly missed an amused, swinging blow aimed at him by the man whose goblet it was. |
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| 21 | 227 |
The steel struck my own and I parried the blow, moving the blade aside easily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 179 |
I seized him and spun him about, breaking in his face with a blow. |
10 |
| 7 | 71 |
There was some blood on it, from the blow I had received during the raid. |
10 |
| 14 | 61 |
In questions of ramming, I suppose the heavier ship would deliver the heaviest blow, but, even this might be contested, for the lighter ship would, presumably, be moving more rapidly. |
10 |
| 17 | 391 |
As he sank forward I wrenched free my sword hand and, holding the sword still in my fist, struck him a heavy blow across the jaw with my fist. |
10 |
| 18 | 102 |
My blade leaped from its sheath and I parried his blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 255 |
Then, with a swift motion, he leaped behind her and, with the flat of his blade, dealt her a sharp, stinging blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 269 |
The dignity of the proud Telima, I gathered, could not endure another such blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 542 |
He raised his own to strike her but I had my steel beneath his left shoulder blade and had turned again before he could deliver his blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 534 |
I gave Verna another blow with the stick. |
10 |
| 12 | 538 |
"Hurry," said Lana, "or we will be beaten!" I gave Verna one last blow, a stinging stripe across the shoulder, with the stick. |
10 |
| 13 | 840 |
He was met with another war cry, and suddenly, only feet from us, another tarn streaked past, and I heard the forcible, tearing scrape of a broad, bronze spear blade, its blow turned, sliding across the metal-bound, layered, boskhide shield of my captor. |
10 |
| 13 | 846 |
If the other man had not been fastened in his saddle by the great strap the force of my captor's blow would have struck him from the saddle. |
10 |
| 13 | 851 |
Again the other's spear struck, and again the blow was countered by my captor's shield. |
10 |
| 13 | 853 |
Twice more the attacker pressed in, and each time, again, the shield turned the blow, once but inches from my body. |
10 |
| 13 | 884 |
The blow would have cut my face in two. |
10 |
| 16 | 208 |
Doubtless, to be so garbed would have constituted a considerable blow to the exquisite vanity of the high-born, high-caste Talena, even the daughter of a Ubar. |
10 |
| 16 | 209 |
But doubtless even a greater blow was to have been given away by Rask of Treve, and to a woman! I did not doubt but what Verna appreciated the ironies of this situation. |
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| 16 | 247 |
I did not doubt but what that blow had been quite painful. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 275 |
No man was willing to strike the first blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 322 |
Behind us we heard men calling out the name of another man, doubtless that of the guard, he struck unexpectedly by the blow of a stone. |
10 |
| 19 | 314 |
She had felt a man's blow, though a light, swift one, suitable for the disciplining of women. |
10 |
| 19 | 376 |
The women, one by one, did not seem to understand what was happening, but each, in turn, was struck twice, at an interval of a few Ihn, that the pain of the first blow be truly felt and understood before the second was delivered. |
10 |
| 19 | 377 |
At the first blow, the girls fell to their knees, eyes glazed, choking, unable to believe their pain. |
10 |
| 19 | 379 |
Then, one by one, the second blow fell. |
10 |
| 19 | 381 |
Hura regarded Sarus after the first blow, disbelief in her eyes. |
10 |
| 19 | 386 |
She put down her head and again the blow fell. |
10 |
| 22 | 33 |
The shock coursed my body, as might have the blow of a mountain on a mountain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 204 |
I saw Kurii, methodically, blow after blow, striking the fallen, lest any might have sought to hide among the dead. |
10 |
| 18 | 589 |
For more than a hundred yards did he drive him back, blow following blow. |
10 |
| 1 | 25 |
I had dealt Surbus his death blow, but, before he had died, I had, on the urging of the woman, she moved to pity, carried him to the roof of the tavern, that he might, before his eyes closed, look once more upon the sea. |
10 |
| 3 | 69 |
It must be taken behind the point with the swift blow of the forearm. |
10 |
| 7 | 16 |
I caught the blow on its handle, with the handle of my ax, and, lifting my left fist, not releasing my ax, hurled him from his feet to his left. |
10 |
| 7 | 37 |
"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ... |
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| 7 | 39 |
If one can get behind the ax, of course, one can meet it; but it is not easy to get behind the ax of one who knows its use; he need only strike one blow; he is not likely to launch it until it is assured of its target. |
10 |
| 7 | 127 |
The spine, of course, would be immediately severed; moreover, part of the ax will, if the blow be powerful, emerge from the abdomen. |
10 |
| 7 | 128 |
It takes, however, more than one blow to cut a body, that of a man, in two. |
10 |
| 9 | 141 |
But the blow did not then fall. |
10 |
| 10 | 16 |
I caught the blow, turning, on the side of my left thigh. |
10 |
| 10 | 238 |
Then he said to me, "As you are the champion of the challenged, it is your right to strike the first blow". |
10 |
| 18 | 76 |
My blow fell against its left shoulder blade, dividing it. |
10 |
| 18 | 567 |
Suddenly, crying with rage, his beard wild behind him, Thorgard of Scagnar, a mighty foe, now armed, rushed upon the Forkbeard, who fended away the blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 593 |
It puzzled me that the Forkbeard had not yet struck the final blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 606 |
It would have been a simple blow. |
10 |
| 18 | 620 |
When she turned about, the Forkbeard dealt her a mighty blow, swift and stinging, with the flat of his sword. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 50 |
There is little to fear from it, except, in the spring, should it rise and shift to the east, or, in the fall, should it blow westward. |
10 |
| 7 | 90 |
The blow of the assassin, in the confusion, had failed to find its mark. |
10 |
| 7 | 661 |
"Had I wished to kill," hissed Hamid, "the blow would have told". |
10 |
| 11 | 27 |
"Be pleased that now, in the spring, the wind did not blow from the east". |
10 |
| 26 | 1079 |
"Do you care, now, to blow me a kiss from a window in a kasbah," I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 160 |
The blow was vicious. |
10 |
| 2 | 192 |
I shuddered with each blow. |
10 |
| 2 | 895 |
I thought my head would fly from my neck, with such swift savageness was I struck! The blow was open-handed, taking me on the left side of the face, but it must have been clearly audible for a hundred and fifty yards about; I rolled, stinging, crawling, for more than twenty feet; I threw up in the g... |
10 |
| 2 | 1050 |
The jabbing blow had not been gentle. |
10 |
| 3 | 285 |
At the same time that he had cried out this word he had swung the switch and struck Eta a swift, stinging blow below the small of the back, making her cry out, identifying her original position and, with a jangle of bells, starting her into motion. |
10 |
| 7 | 247 |
Lehna struck her savagely across the back with the switch, and the Lady Sabina, whose thin undergarment shielded her from the blow scarcely at all, cried out with misery. |
10 |
| 9 | 89 |
But perhaps she was thought to be ugly for a day or two, until the blow healed, and thus, for ugliness, was put at the back of the line. |
10 |
| 9 | 1736 |
The other young man, he beside Bran Loort, then suddenly struck at Thurnus, but Thurnus, clearly, as I now understood, had been expecting the blow. |
10 |
| 20 | 226 |
He, with the back of his hand, struck me from his path, hurling me by the force of the blow to my shoulder on the boards. |
10 |
| 20 | 539 |
"He is securely manacled," said Strabo, whose face was swollen as a consequence of the blow of Clitus Vitellius. |
10 |
| 28 | 421 |
After the fourth blow I could no longer hold position. |
10 |
| 28 | 425 |
I could not, after the second blow, scream. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 636 |
I think the man's neck had been broken by the blow of my hands under his chin, but he had still been alive. |
10 |
| 14 | 194 |
It sped past me and struck Naartok a cruel blow on the forehead. |
10 |
| 20 | 35 |
I could not make out the song, but it had to do with the mild winds which blow in the summer. |
10 |
| 22 | 294 |
"Will you blow air under its skin?" I asked. |
10 |
| 23 | 105 |
The man had struck it again when it had seized the snow sleen but the blow, again, had not proved mortal. |
10 |
| 25 | 104 |
Indeed, even in the darkness, the total darkness of an overcast sky in the arctic night, when the winds do not blow, he may often find his way simply by feeling with his mittened hands the alignment of ice crystals on slopes and blocks, which are a residue of the earlier passage of such winds. |
10 |
| 30 | 101 |
I had been waiting for the blow. |
10 |
| 30 | 264 |
I heard two more hisses, and part of the benches in one tier burst apart and I saw another dart disappear into the body of a man and I saw his eyes wild and the scarcest instant later he seemed to blow apart. |
10 |
| 35 | 1063 |
"Stand back from the hatch," I said, "lest they blow it in towards us". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 118 |
I blocked the blow and, bringing about the long handle of my own shovel, struck him a heavy blow alongside of the face. |
10 |
| 34 | 139 |
With a large rock, blow by blow, heavily, inch by inch, I drove the long, thick stake into the ground. |
10 |
| 3 | 103 |
"No!" she screamed, wild-eyed, as I suddenly lifted her from her feet and spun about, she knowing herself lifted helplessly into the path of the blow. |
10 |
| 6 | 264 |
How transitory and peculiar are the winds which blow over the plains of biology. |
10 |
| 6 | 610 |
Bazi had not yet recovered from the economic blow. |
10 |
| 20 | 122 |
One slash or blow of the shovel would have finished me. |
10 |
| 20 | 124 |
He stopped, paralyzed by the latter blow. |
10 |
| 20 | 130 |
Such a blow is usually given with a thrust of the butt of a spear, generally in the crowding of close combat when you cannot bring the weapon about. |
10 |
| 20 | 135 |
He did not understand how such a blow could have stopped one of his strength. |
10 |
| 27 | 111 |
He leaped across the fire bowl toward her and savagely struck her head to the left with a fierce blow of the flat of his hand. |
10 |
| 29 | 60 |
Suddenly I struck her, a fierce blow which flung her, mouth bloodied, to her side in the dirt. |
10 |
| 34 | 1080 |
"Faster, Slave Girl!" I struck her with the straps, a sharp blow, that she might understand that she was not to dally. |
10 |
| 37 | 14 |
She would cry alone at night, secured to the slave post, until Kisu, by a word, or kick or blow, would silence her. |
10 |
| 48 | 52 |
He cast a glance at the talunas, trussed kneeling by the log, their heads down, fastened to it, their necks helpless to the blow of the panga, should it descend. |
10 |
| 48 | 69 |
He struck out at me and I blocked the blow and, striking him in the stomach and then across the side of the face, sent him grunting and sprawling to the debris of the jungle floor. |
10 |
| 48 | 122 |
A blow from such a tool would swiftly decapitate a beauty. |
10 |
| 53 | 275 |
I blocked his blow with the panga and was, from the force of it, thrown back a dozen feet. |
10 |
| 53 | 323 |
One askari might fend a committed blow of the panga with the iron blade of his stabbing spear. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 90 |
I lunged against the post, inches from it, blow after blow. |
10 |
| 3 | 219 |
I was certain they could, with a single, wicked blow, half tear my head from my body. |
10 |
| 4 | 190 |
Suddenly Lola struck me in the belly with her quirt, a vicious, lashing blow. |
10 |
| 4 | 208 |
"Yes, Mistress," I said, clenching my body against the blow or blows to come. |
10 |
| 5 | 43 |
"A blow for the clumsy slave," Lola called to Tela. |
10 |
| 5 | 79 |
"You may now administer the disciplinary blow," said the Lady Gina to Tela. |
10 |
| 5 | 80 |
The blow was delivered. |
10 |
| 7 | 604 |
I then understood that she had taken the blow as a token of my mastery over her, an explicit expression of my sovereignty over her. |
10 |
| 13 | 691 |
"Granus struck him a goodly blow," said someone. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
I jerked under the second blow of the snake. |
10 |
| 18 | 115 |
I was, of course, in good condition, and set for the blow. |
10 |
| 20 | 22 |
I grunted, taking a blow in the gut and then another, the fists now, like battering rams. |
10 |
| 20 | 34 |
I blocked the blow. |
10 |
| 20 | 63 |
I took the first blow, staggering to the side. |
10 |
| 22 | 258 |
"Do you dare to obstruct a blow of the whip!" cried the Lady Florence to the girl who lay now terrified and supine, in pain, wild, her hands trying to fend the leather away, at her feet. |
10 |
| 25 | 64 |
"Do not delude yourself," said Kenneth, "he will rejoice in each blow that is struck upon your body. |
10 |
| 26 | 25 |
He must wait for my blow. |
10 |
| 34 | 65 |
The girl screamed with each blow. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 164 |
I delivered the blow, letting it be the fiercest of her beating. |
10 |
| 23 | 114 |
Kliomenes thrust suddenly at me and I parried the blow, smartly. |
10 |
| 24 | 242 |
I may gather, then, that at least until I feel your blow, or the lash of your whip, that you wish to hear me speak. |
10 |
| 27 | 129 |
He struck down with the sword and I, turning, thrust up the block of granite to block the blow. |
10 |
| 31 | 144 |
Anyone, of course, might strike on a bar or blow on a trumpet. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 242 |
It is sometimes referred to as the gratis blow, or the mnemonic blow. |
10 |
| 11 | 81 |
The first blow would have been struck by the brunette. |
10 |
| 19 | 15 |
Yet she had struck the slave by far the cruelest blow. |
10 |
| 19 | 228 |
After the tenth blow she hung helplessly in the bracelets, her full weight on the chain. |
10 |
| 19 | 234 |
One more blow was to be struck. |
10 |
| 19 | 235 |
"Yes, Master," she said, "that blow which is to remind me that I am a slave". |
10 |
| 19 | 238 |
Then again, with unrestrained force, the hardest blow of all, was she struck. |
10 |
| 19 | 241 |
This last blow is often, though not invariably, added to a slave's whipping. |
10 |
| 20 | 808 |
His right hand, in a backhand blow, lashed forth, fierce and powerful, striking her from her knees to her side on the tiles. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 595 |
As I had not been facing him he had apparently been taken by surprise by this blow, by its direction, its nature and force. |
10 |
| 11 | 27 |
She then struck one of the girls, one of the Swedish girls, with a stinging, slashing blow at the side of the neck. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 153 |
The blow of the canhpi had slashed through to the jawbone. |
10 |
| 20 | 76 |
"I am going to blow the whistle of war," he said. |
10 |
| 23 | 88 |
He looked down at the woman who had screamed, and cried, she whom he had silenced with the command of a master and a blow to the side of the face. |
10 |
| 24 | 33 |
Being close enough to sturdily fend the blow brings one, if one is afoot, and shieldless, normally, close enough to risk the strike of the shield. |
10 |
| 24 | 34 |
The blow was such that I feared, for a moment, his head struck to the side, that his neck might be broken. |
10 |
| 29 | 166 |
Then Grunt, with a savage blow of the back of his hand, struck her to the grass at his feet. |
10 |
| 32 | 224 |
You could not dare to blow upon the Herlit-bone whistle". |
10 |
| 33 | 186 |
"I learned it, too, in receiving the blow of a quirt, of a strong man". |
10 |
| 33 | 187 |
This was a blow I had administered to her sometime ago, preparatory to questioning her in the matter of the attacked wagon train and column. |
10 |
| 37 | 88 |
It may be strangled; it may be crushed beneath the knees, with the hunter's weight; or it may be put on its belly, its back to be broken by a swift blow of the foot. |
10 |
| 44 | 295 |
"I do love you, truly!" He then, with the flat of his hand, struck her a savage blow across the face, turning her head in the neck bonds, bringing blood to her lips and mouth. |
10 |
| 44 | 483 |
To this point we had struck not a blow. |
10 |
| 47 | 173 |
Its back was broken and perhaps the neck of the man in the same blow. |
10 |
| 48 | 13 |
He had not perished of the blow from the knob-headed canhpi. |
10 |
| 48 | 32 |
"Yours is the first blow that was ever put upon my body, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 48 | 39 |
He then struck her another blow. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 137 |
There was enough time between the strokes to allow her to feel each one individually and fully, and enhance, maximizing, the irradiations of its predecessors, enough time for her, in the fullness of her pain, imagination and terror, to prepare herself for, and anticipate, fearfully and acutely, the ... |
10 |
| 2 | 922 |
This is a terrible blow to their beauty, vanity and self-esteem. |
10 |
| 2 | 979 |
It does not have the same power as the short blow. |
10 |
| 2 | 982 |
The target, after the initiation of the blow, even if it is not held in place, has very little time, given the mathematics of reflexes, to shift its position. |
10 |
| 6 | 454 |
"If you detect that I am not within it," she said, "then might you not, boldly, infer me bare?" "Oh, telling stroke, bold blow!" he cried. |
10 |
| 6 | 1172 |
"Let it blow away on the winds, traveling to I know not where". |
10 |
| 8 | 220 |
Obviously he was going to be there, after the original blow. |
10 |
| 8 | 253 |
The other, he who had struck the leader, tensed, his sword poised to fend any possible blow. |
10 |
| 16 | 523 |
"I do not think the theater could sustain such a blow," said Chino to the crowd. |
10 |
| 20 | 278 |
I struck the first fellow a rude blow with my fist, my sword in it. |
10 |
| 22 | 65 |
"And what craven sleen struck such a blow?" I asked, angrily. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 278 |
He must be clear that I had not brought my handle back, under the blow, slashing upward to his neck, a blow that can, with the Torvaldsland ax, at least, cut the head from a man. |
10 |
| 1 | 159 |
"Please strike me once more," she said, "that I may this time feel the blow as a slave". |
10 |
| 1 | 164 |
I again then stood behind her but this time I did not strike her immediately, but let her wait, as a slave, that she might anticipate the blow, and grow apprehensive of it, and not know precisely when it would fall. |
10 |
| 4 | 146 |
No matter then which way I face, nor whom I strike, it would be a blow against enemies". |
10 |
| 4 | 274 |
Sorath struck fiercely down at me with the handle and I blocked the blow, smartly. |
10 |
| 4 | 275 |
His blow had been a simple, obvious one, and unless he had intended to use it in wearing down my strength or perhaps breaking the handle I carried, it made little sense. |
10 |
| 8 | 31 |
* * * * The man lifted his hand, weakly, as though to fend a blow. |
10 |
| 16 | 964 |
The mother cried out, softly, and drew her legs up more, but did not attempt to defend herself, nor to return the blow. |
10 |
| 19 | 318 |
"Be pleased that Hurtha does not strike you to the ground with a heavy blow," said Boabissia. |
10 |
| 25 | 1787 |
As I had timed the matter she had not had a breath left at that point to exhale or blow the fluid from her mouth. |
10 |
| 25 | 2134 |
They gave me gentleness and respect when what I needed and wanted was to crawl eagerly to their slave ring in chains, wholly theirs, fearing tardiness might be rewarded with the blow of a whip". |
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| 26 | 184 |
There are, of course, tactics for fighting in the darkness, such as misdirection, the casting of pebbles to encourage an opponent to make a move, the use of back kicks, giving extension to one's striking capacity while providing a minimum exposure of vital areas, the attempt to lure a blow from a di... |
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| 3 | 1039 |
It was not a strangling sensation and then, with my first gasp for air, an obliteration of consciousness, almost like a blow. |
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| 4 | 92 |
It was like a lion before me, a lion whose teeth could rend me, whose paw, with a blow, could break my neck. |
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| 8 | 31 |
"Never!" Then the lash, from behind her, fell upon her, and she sank crying out, reaching behind her, sobbing, to her knees, and then, with the next blow, was flung by its force to her belly in the dirt before the man. |
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| 11 | 76 |
I hoped he would take her to an alcove and put her through her paces! I heard the sound of a blow, probably with the back of a hand, and a cry of pain and saw, to one side, to the right, Ilene, struck back to her left thigh, looking up, frightened, at one of the men, now on his feet. |
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| 11 | 1409 |
My lip had been cut by his blow. |
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| 11 | 1630 |
I still had no clear understanding as to how it was that a girl could bruise herself against the bars of her cage, trying to touch a guard, or crawl naked on her belly to a hated master, if only to feel the blow of his hand or foot. |
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| 14 | 334 |
Then another blow like lightning was on my back and I sobbed at his feet, on my belly on the rug. |
10 |
| 14 | 368 |
He then gave me another blow and I scratched at the carpet in agony. |
10 |
| 14 | 378 |
Twice more then he struck me, and the second blow, as I cried out with misery, sobbing, flung me again to the carpet on my belly. |
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| 24 | 146 |
One of those shovels could with a single blow cut my head from my body. |
10 |
| 26 | 171 |
"No," I begged, "please!" The lash cut down at me! I felt its blow. |
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| 29 | 922 |
Hendow, of course, had realized that in defending Mirus he would have exposed himself to the blow of the antagonist on his left. |
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| 29 | 975 |
I think such a blow might have shattered railings. |
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| 29 | 993 |
Indeed, he may even have struck, perhaps with an uncertain blow, not Borko, but the other beast, who had perhaps then, or the leader, turned on him, biting at him, forcing him back. |
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| 31 | 241 |
In the dance, of course, not a blow had fallen upon me. |
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| 16 | 107 |
Still the ram might attempt its entry there, pounding through the brass facing riveted into the thick beams of the gate, punching, driving it back, snapping the crossbars, forcing back, blow by blow, even the rock and sand behind. |
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| 19 | 29 |
To lift such a device for Ehn at a time, and receive blow after blow upon it, bearing up under them, in time makes the arm desperately tired and sore. |
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| 1 | 337 |
When these are drawn downward the pounding block descends into the mortar block, and the springiness of the pole, of course, straightening, then raises it for another blow. |
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| 6 | 595 |
There was then a blow. |
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| 6 | 601 |
Then the newcomer suddenly, without warning, doubled him with a blow to the gut, and he sank, groaning, to his place. |
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| 6 | 602 |
Another fellow half rose up, and another blow was struck, and the fellow fell back, to the side. |
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| 7 | 33 |
Beneath my cloak, of course, were the belt, scabbard and sword, his wallet, and the rectangular pouch, taken from the tub hook, under the diversion of the sound and blow of kindling to the left, on the tub. |
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| 10 | 60 |
We had herded Klio before us, under the sheet, on all fours, encouraging her occasionally with a foot or the blow of the looped slave leash, not yet on her at that time. |
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| 16 | 81 |
Better these fellows had been running about the windy corners of the markets, looking for the veils to blow about the faces of free women or pursuing slave girls, pulling up their brief skirts, playing "brand guess," or busying themselves playing stones or hoops behind the shops. |
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| 16 | 201 |
I could fling her a dozen feet away at my will, or, if I wished, with a judicious blow, little more than a quick tap on the diaphragm, have her instantly on her back helpless, gasping for breath. |
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| 17 | 38 |
The second catapult cast its load, its boulder, into the midst of startled men and had it not been for their smitten bodies, dashed back, cushioning the blow would have torn its way free through the back of the tall, shedlike tower. |
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| 17 | 204 |
He blocked my blow with his blade. |
10 |
| 17 | 205 |
He blocked my blow again with his blade. |
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| 17 | 206 |
Then he did not block my blow. |
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| 24 | 488 |
Clearly she did not wish another blow from the disciplinary instrument. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 77 |
One is a heavy blow below the base of the skull, as with fists or a foot, another is a blow with the heel of the hand, or the foot, forcing the head to the side, particularly with the body fixed in a position where it cannot move with the blow, as, say, when it is being held immobile. |
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| 1 | 597 |
"Bring me a woman!" This had been a great blow to her vanity, her self-esteem and pride, as she, like most free women, had regarded herself as some sort of marvelous prize. |
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| 3 | 409 |
If there was a blow to be struck first he thought it his prerogative. |
10 |
| 13 | 472 |
Surely some must have heard the sound of that blow! Yet none seemed about. |
10 |
| 46 | 125 |
There was a flash of sparks as I blocked his blow. |
10 |
| 46 | 262 |
I had barely managed to block his blow. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 72 |
Its blow may be a symbol, but its blow is also a blow. |
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| 14 | 655 |
"You had an opportunity here to strike a blow for Cos, to humiliate the men of Ar, to further reduce and degrade them, to force them to submit even to the insolence and arrogance of slaves, to further subdue and crush them, to remind them of their sorry lot, of their political and military weakness,... |
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| 1 | 272 |
And so it was that he had determined to reduce and humiliate her, and make her suffer, but with each cuffing, with each command, with each kick, with each blow of the whip, she became only the more his, and the more loving. |
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| 3 | 203 |
"Good blow!" cried an onlooker. |
10 |
| 3 | 302 |
One blow of the whip is worth six months of coaxing. |
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| 3 | 394 |
Not only is she likely to be lowered on the chain, perhaps even to "last girl," which is demeaning to her, and a great blow to her vanity, but she is likely to be encouraged to greater efforts by a variety of admonitory devices, in particular, the switch and whip. |
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| 9 | 828 |
She had lifted her wrists, as she could, in the manacles, to fend the blow which I had not struck. |
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| 10 | 9 |
"The major blow," said he, "was doubtless the movement of the Home Stone to Telnus". |
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| 12 | 237 |
She was struck to the ground with the force of the blow and at a snapping of his fingers, and his gesture, she struggled again to her knees before us, her mouth bloody. |
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| 14 | 461 |
She shook under each blow. |
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| 16 | 11 |
"Sleen of a traitor to Cos!" said the other mercenary, adding a blow, to which the bearded prisoner once again reacted. |
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| 19 | 1222 |
Normally, or course, one cuffs with a single blow. |
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| 20 | 176 |
But no blow fell. |
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| 23 | 21 |
"That was a nice blow," said a fellow nearby, turning to me, "the concept of a stone jard and likening the Home Stone to unfit mineral carrion". |
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| 24 | 762 |
One tried to stand, just a little, her knees flexed, her hands and arms raised to fend blows, but she was then, blow by blow, stroke by stroke, returned to her knees, and then when another blow fell she cried out for mercy, and threw herself to her belly, her hands over her head, sobbing. |
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| 7 | 1141 |
But the blow did not fall. |
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| 13 | 837 |
It is particularly frightening when, as a part of the punishment, one does not know where the blow will fall, or when. |
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| 13 | 845 |
"Mercy, Master, please, mercy!" But the beating, of course, was done, for the tenth blow was the last. |
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| 14 | 1380 |
And several times I have seen them hastened by a blow or two of a belt or switch". |
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| 19 | 181 |
"Oh!" I said, in pain, suffering the petulant blow of a free woman's slipper. |
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| 24 | 370 |
In two cases a blow was delivered. |
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| 31 | 652 |
The one bowman, his foot locked in the stirrup, looked up only in time to see the great stone whipping toward him; the other was protected by his fellow who received the blow, but, he, too, his foot in the stirrup, fell awkwardly to the side. |
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| 31 | 716 |
Another man lunged forward and again the blow was turned, almost as though one might blink an eye, by reflex. |
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| 45 | 58 |
But the blow did not fall on me. |
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| 46 | 537 |
"The first blow," he said, "will be for disobedience, the second will be for your attempt to take your own life". |
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| 46 | 540 |
The blow fell upon me, and I thought it light, not that it did not hurt, you understand. |
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| 46 | 545 |
The blow was little more than a formality. |
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| 46 | 547 |
I cried out in misery, feeling the second blow. |
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| 46 | 553 |
I did not wish to feel another blow like that. |
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| 46 | 555 |
"Prepare for the third blow," he said. |
10 |
| 46 | 557 |
"For what is the third blow?" I asked. |
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| 46 | 559 |
"Why am I to be given a third blow?" I asked. |
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| 46 | 560 |
"What is its purpose?" "You are to be given a third blow," he said, "because I choose to give you one, and because you are a slave, and that it may serve to remind you of what you are, my little charmer, that you are a slave". |
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| 46 | 568 |
I sensed that the blow, in its way, had been sparing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 177 |
No sooner had she turned about, to make her way to the cell, than she cried out in pain for the first instructrix had struck her a sudden, sharp stinging blow across the back of the right calf. |
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| 11 | 308 |
Even had he impatiently cuffed her to the side, she felt that she might, in gratitude, have crawled back, begging to lick and kiss the hand that had administered the blow. |
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| 16 | 910 |
One of the girls in the coffle, she who was last on the chain, or slaver's necklace, turned about to cast a last contemptuous glance at the shelf, but the guardsman behind her struck her a sharp, stinging blow with the flat of his hand below the small of her back, which resounded throughout the mark... |
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| 17 | 451 |
A sword, or ax, blow at the spinal column, just below the back of the head, is the easiest way to do this, given that one has the leash in hand". |
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| 17 | 955 |
He surveyed the crowd in the market, and then, with an angry kick, and blow of the lance, urged his beast away. |
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| 17 | 1017 |
One false blow of the hammer and she knew that her head or throat, with such blows, could be broken as easily as one might crush an egg underfoot. |
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| 17 | 1119 |
She then received ten lashes of the five-stranded Gorean slave whip, and she wept, and screamed, and protested, and begged, and pleaded, and turned, spinning, jerking, twisting, in the bonds, sometimes bending her knees, lifting her feet from the floor, her full weight then on the wrist tether, and ... |
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| 20 | 160 |
There was the sound of the blow of a whip from somewhere behind her, and the cry of a girl in pain. |
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| 21 | 166 |
Obviously the girls had been brought to the pool to bathe, but it is common for the kajira to thank the master on such occasions, as for a scrap of food thrown before her, a caress, a blow, water in her pan, a blanket, a rag with which she might cover herself, and such. |
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| 22 | 250 |
Suddenly she heard a fierce movement in the air, behind her, an unexpected but unmistakable swift hiss, and, almost at the same time, below the small of the back, she felt a stinging stripe, the swift, sharp blow of a supple switch, a yard in length. |
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| 22 | 261 |
She was humiliated, particularly as the blow had been struck not by a man but by a lad. |
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| 22 | 263 |
Although the blow stung, and was humiliating, Ellen was not displeased with it. |
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| 24 | 847 |
But the blow did not fall. |
10 |
| 24 | 849 |
Selius Arconious had interposed himself, and his hand rested on the arm of the guardsman, staying its blow. |
10 |
| 25 | 515 |
The former free woman, too, received a blow. |
10 |
| 25 | 520 |
She was going to be sold, sold! Her shoulder stung from the blow she had received. |
10 |
| 25 | 578 |
There was a sound of sobbing, a sharp blow of the whip, a cry of pain. |
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| 27 | 2145 |
Such a blow can snap the vertebrae. |
10 |
| 27 | 2572 |
The bootlike sandal of the final soldier to make use of her, in its spurning blow, at her left, had not marked her. |
10 |
| 27 | 2606 |
There was a great bruise on the side of the spokesman's head, where he had doubtless been dealt a grievous blow. |
10 |
| 30 | 263 |
"He paid fifteen tarsk-bits! One for each blow! Thus, he spared me the blows!" "Yes," he said, "I purchased the strokes, but only, you see, in order that I might deliver them myself". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 39 |
Then, as the circle was nearly completed, there was a sound as of a single blow, abrupt and impatient, on the other side, perhaps a small explosion, and the steel protruded into the hallway, as though it had been struck by a fist, and then there was another such blow, or explosion, and there was a s... |
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| 5 | 104 |
Cabot supposed it might have been the first blow she had ever received. |
10 |
| 8 | 33 |
Cabot conjectured the jaws could shake and cut a normal river tharlarion in two, that the tail, with a swift blow, might shatter stone or fell trees. |
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| 9 | 47 |
"He likes her," said Peisistratus, "and he could tear your throat out with one blow of his paw". |
10 |
| 10 | 170 |
Indeed, had he owned her, he would doubtless have put her through similar paces, enforced upon occasion with a sharp blow of the switch. |
10 |
| 10 | 229 |
Too, are not Kur pets often so treated?" "Certainly Kur pets are often so treated," said Peisistratus, "but I am certain, in this case, that Pyrrhus hopes you will be provoked, perhaps to an uncivil word, a protest, an insult, perhaps even a blow". |
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| 19 | 82 |
The larl tried to strike the object from its path with its paw, and there was a raking, scraping sound, but it might as well have struck against a wall of iron, and there was, as a consequence of the blow, which might have struck a man yards from its path, almost no movement in the machine. |
10 |
| 21 | 146 |
"She has accepted his blow," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 21 | 151 |
What Kur female would? What do you think this is all about?" "What if she had not accepted his blow?" "I do not understand". |
10 |
| 21 | 390 |
The second challenger struck downward with his weapon, and Grendel fended the blow but in such a way as not to take the brunt of its weight, but rather to slide it aside. |
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| 21 | 453 |
Whatever the clue might have been, a pressing of a paw into the sand to gain leverage for a blow, an intake of breath prior to striking, a tiny sound of harness, perhaps even the slick, shifting of a grip, to take advantage of a less-moist, drier surface, Grendel threw himself to the side and the mi... |
10 |
| 21 | 456 |
"He needs a clean blow," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 21 | 458 |
"He could decapitate both with one blow," said Peisistratus. |
10 |
| 21 | 461 |
Grendel's left arm, slowly, surely, doubtless with considerable pain to himself, encircled the throat of the Kur he held, and he drew back a mighty fist, and this fist, with a blow that might have felled a tharlarion, he drove into the back of the Kur's neck, better than two inches, breaking the sku... |
10 |
| 21 | 464 |
The sixth challenger now moved about Grendel, circling, who, weaponless, unwilling to reach for a weapon, and thus expose himself for a blow, turned, crouching, to keep his foe before him. |
10 |
| 21 | 469 |
"I fear he has a clean blow," said Peisistratus. |
10 |
| 21 | 489 |
The blow might have shattered walls, felled small trees. |
10 |
| 21 | 582 |
"The winds of power sometimes blow waywardly," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 21 | 651 |
"Lord Pyrrhus strikes a great blow thusly for his cause". |
10 |
| 43 | 320 |
Many a blow, thus, has been prevented by the interposition of a free male between his slave and a free woman, to the fury of the frustrated free woman. |
10 |
| 44 | 97 |
One blow could take the face from a human". |
10 |
| 45 | 194 |
A throat may be bitten through in a moment, a sudden blow may snap the neck, a heart, even, may be gouged out in an instant. |
10 |
| 47 | 122 |
At the same time Lords Grendel and Statius pushed from the ledge and with a blow of the wide canvas wings were each entangled with a foe. |
10 |
| 47 | 139 |
Cabot saw loops of gut loose amongst the beating wings, and Statius' foe, striking Statius' jaws away from his shoulder with a mighty blow, turned about, erratically, and tried to strike away. |
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| 55 | 159 |
"Seldom would they need to fear the blow of a simple stick". |
10 |
| 56 | 211 |
"We gave them the opportunity, if not of redemption, in their own eyes," said Lord Grendel, "at least that of striking a blow for the world". |
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| 63 | 141 |
The blow did not fall because the club was torn from his grasp and then Lord Grendel, the massive club in his hands, began to strike about him, and the cattle humans fled back before these blows, limping, arms dangling, faces a mass of bones and blood. |
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| 66 | 107 |
The wind at the same moment ceased to blow, and the snow to fall. |
10 |
| 77 | 279 |
Such a blow would have cut off two legs. |
10 |
| 77 | 295 |
Cabot lifted the ax, again, the head dangling, and a second blow broke the haft of his ax, and tore it from his hands, and Cabot, defenseless, the head of the ax, and the parts of the ax, in the dirt, yards away, stood at bay. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 72 |
Constantina drew back her hand, as though to strike Cecily, but she stopped, suddenly, angrily, as Cecily, eyes flashing, was clearly prepared to return the blow, or worse. |
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| 10 | 43 |
Whereas I would not have anticipated difficulty in getting behind one such weapon, it would be exceedingly dangerous if there were two such weapons, as an aggressor would be likely to be vulnerable to the blow of the second weapon. |
10 |
| 10 | 170 |
Instantly Tajima had whirled about, his sword ready to fend a blow. |
10 |
| 12 | 227 |
A discipline wand may be used, or even a branch, with a blow to the cheek or beak. |
10 |
| 12 | 231 |
When it flung its head about, it was struck a terrible blow on the side of the head. |
10 |
| 20 | 108 |
There was then the sound of a blow, and we heard her whimpering. |
10 |
| 30 | 48 |
Such blades are designed to shear away a galley's oars, thus crippling her, and preparing her for a ramming, usually amidships, which is a blow of considerable force, easily sufficient to rupture and flood the prey vessel, and occasionally sufficient to snap her in two. |
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| 38 | 31 |
Catapult stones, too, were brought aboard, in hundreds, and "heavy arrows," almost spears, which might be sped either singly, as from ballistae, or, from a springal, in showers, their flight propelled by a single fierce blow, that from a horizontal spring-driven board. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 60 |
"Blow, wind, blow!" The Pani, of course, would wish to burn the ship, that our armsmen would be stranded, here, at the World's End, without recourse, that all hope of escape would fade, and that their eyes must now turn perforce to undesired, unwelcome war. |
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| 9 | 317 |
I fended the blow. |
10 |
| 13 | 26 |
He punched downward with the heel of his sea boot and the board broke under the blow, revealing a brown, spongelike mass of fiber. |
10 |
| 14 | 329 |
"Here! Here!" "Sleen!" hissed Seremides, and, his leisure vanished, he lunged forward, desperately, but the blow was short. |
10 |
| 14 | 342 |
I could not free my arms, either to block or intercept the blow. |
10 |
| 15 | 242 |
He was still a strong man, and a harsh blow, as she knelt, might break her arm or shatter an elbow. |
10 |
| 16 | 252 |
Tyrtaios, alerted by the sounds, turned and blocked a blow that would have cleft the head of Lord Okimoto. |
10 |
| 22 | 299 |
On the other hand, I had the sense that the commander of the opposing forces had now come to the end of his patience, such as it might have been, and, contemptuous of care and delay, finished with military sobriety, and conscious of his numbers, intended to conclude matters with one crude, costly, i... |
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| 37 | 1491 |
"Doubtless," said Callias, "but there are places where that accent might earn you a blow". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1160 |
A moment later I heard the switch being applied to the two slaves, a blow for one, and then a blow for the other, and so on. |
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| 41 | 37 |
The two scouts, advanced, unable to block the charge of several ax-bearing Kurii, were cut down in place, and the machine was struck by blow after blow of the axes. |
10 |
| 4 | 211 |
It was as though I had been struck a blow by nature. |
10 |
| 5 | 262 |
How helpless a woman feels when speech is denied her! Too, he was a powerful man, and I did not doubt that even the suspicion that I might cry out might earn me a blow which might render me unconscious. |
10 |
| 8 | 239 |
It was the result of a blow not from some child's makeshift implement, a plaything, a pretended disciplinary device, but from an actual device of the sort his diversion mimicked, a supple, nicely crafted leather switch, an instrument designed to improve the discipline and service of a female slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 240 |
We most fear the whip but it is not pleasant, either, I assure you, to feel the corrective blow of the switch. |
10 |
| 15 | 12 |
How could he know that, if he were not going to assure himself of it, with, say, a swift blow, a grasping paw on the throat, an embrace which might break a back? The tiniest sound, the scuttling of an urt, the fluttering of a vart, come over the walls from the countryside, almost made me scream with... |
10 |
| 15 | 282 |
At that moment the beast hurled itself forward, with startling, incredible swiftness, and I saw him whom I had earlier sought, him whom I had earlier feared lost, dismembered, on Clive, struck to the side with a reckless, wide, sweeping, indiscriminate, mighty blow, one that might have loosened or d... |
10 |
| 15 | 298 |
I had a sense of its power, from the stall, the broken wood, from the strength of Lord Grendel, as one of its sort, from killings in the streets of Ar, from the improbable, sightless blow it had delivered, which had struck a large, grown man stumbling, reeling, yards to the side. |
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| 23 | 100 |
A cold wind began to blow. |
10 |
| 26 | 320 |
I could still feel his former blow. |
10 |
| 37 | 69 |
"But before we leave we might be able to inflict a crushing blow, one of great strategic importance, on the hopes of Gorean Kurii, on the very conspiracy itself". |
10 |
| 37 | 225 |
"What small blow might affect so great a war?" "Perhaps none," said Desmond of Harfax. |
10 |
| 37 | 226 |
"But I can think of one blow, small, but easily struck, which might possess an immediate effect". |
10 |
| 41 | 22 |
Their coming, weaponless, to the lines of Agamemnon, had been a not inconsiderable blow to the insurgents. |
10 |
| 44 | 64 |
"You have dealt a great blow to the plans of Agamemnon," I said. |
10 |
| 45 | 187 |
The blow, I took it, was not a good one, as Tiresias could not see his target, though he must have been aware, reasonably closely, of its position. |
10 |
| 45 | 190 |
Still I think it was a blow such that few but a Kur could have struck. |
10 |
| 45 | 210 |
I went several feet away from where the fearsome blow had been struck, that which had felled the second guard. |
10 |
| 48 | 60 |
Striking a blow at the heart of the conspiracy, by doing away with Agamemnon, had seemed to him a consideration of paramount importance. |
10 |
| 48 | 61 |
Be that as it may, it clearly was not an easy blow to strike. |
10 |
| 48 | 95 |
One blow from such a paw could break a neck or back. |
10 |
| 49 | 412 |
If this plan proceeds to fruition we will not have ended the conspiracy, of course, which is far reaching, and may have support from various steel worlds, but it should deal it a serious blow". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 440 |
The blow had been unhesitant, efficient, unwavering, swift, clean, firm, deep, to the hilt, exact, powerful, a blow worthy of the dark caste itself. |
10 |
| 21 | 90 |
One blow from that huge, long-handled, broad- bladed, double-bladed device might have felled a small tree. |
10 |
| 31 | 15 |
The blow must be struck soon, before the bird spreads its wings. |
10 |
| 35 | 64 |
I realized clearly that Tuza, had she wished, might have broken open the skull of her victim, killing her instantly, but had controlled the blow, for, it seemed, she had other plans for the leader of the band of Darla. |
10 |
| 41 | 312 |
"Blow it," said Aeson. |
10 |
| 41 | 324 |
"Blow harder," said Aeson. |
10 |
| 43 | 367 |
A swift, unexpected blow across the back of the neck with a gladius would sever the vertebrae. |
10 |
| 44 | 77 |
With a blow he could break my neck. |
10 |
| 52 | 351 |
"The force of his attack, even if struck to the heart, a difficult blow, would carry you to the ground, where you would be an easy mark," said Axel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 |
Report of a Brief Conversation; This Took Place in the New Encampment I blocked the swift, lashing, whiplike blow of the supple bamboo. |
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| 15 | 58 |
"You might turn a blow," I said, "and, at close quarters, strike an opponent". |
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| 21 | 21 |
Instead I had prevailed upon him to demonstrate his prowess, and the seriousness of the weapon, on a young tree, whose trunk had been half severed, as though with the single blow of an ax, which tree, at the behest of Lord Akio, had been subsequently replaced. |
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| 25 | 35 |
"Perhaps a sudden blow, while she is unconscious, the stroke of a glaive," I said. |
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| 30 | 162 |
I had no doubt but what the blow had stung. |
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| 32 | 96 |
He brought up his own field sword and blocked the fierce blow which might have taken his head. |
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| 42 | 54 |
He did not have long to behold them, however, as, thanks to another blow of a peg, or stake, such things having been brought within the tent, wielded now by Tajima, he joined them, to share for a more or less indefinite time their untroubled condition. |
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| 46 | 124 |
"Can you not see how it is done? Are you all such dolts! The blow was short, the grain of rice was already split!" "Ah!" said a man. |
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| 47 | 53 |
"Walls will crumble, the mountaintop will be black, ashes will blow out to sea," said Lord Yamada. |
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| 49 | 54 |
The slave tumbled onto the floor, startled, crying out, and I administered a second blow to the stunned Ashigaru, this one to the back of the head. |
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| 54 | 220 |
Walls will crumble, the mountaintop will be black, ashes will blow out to sea, he had said. |
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| 57 | 303 |
"Oh!" wept the Lady Kameko, recoiling from the blow of a sandal. |
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| 58 | 73 |
As she, after enduring some threats, some shovings, some pushings, some kicks, and more than one blow of the kitchen switch, collapsed weeping on the tiles, Tajima, switch in hand, turned about, and regarded us, annoyed. |
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| 60 | 206 |
The blow of the field sword can fell a small tree, or cut away the head of a glaive. |
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| 60 | 328 |
One of Lord Akio's men raised his sword to strike Haruki, who stood there, a long, four-pronged garden fork, used for turning soil, bloody to the socket, in his hands, but the blow failed to fall, and the bearer of the lifted sword spun away, his blade lost, he grasping at a long Pani arrow in his t... |
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| 61 | 389 |
He slapped a switch down, sharply, on the table, and Nezumi flinched, as though the blow had fallen on her smooth, bared skin. |
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| 61 | 1004 |
One does not long survive such a blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 209 |
Then I was frightened, for I feared he might return the blow, and I did not doubt that such a blow, even if merely with the flat of his hand, that of a male, given his size, his strength, so much more than mine, might strike me to the side of the room. |
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| 65 | 346 |
"One blow," said Lord Grendel, "will take the right foot, a second blow the left foot, a third the right hand, a fourth the left hand". |
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| 1 | 216 |
"The blow was more serious, of course," he said. |
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| 15 | 170 |
I heard the grunting, and hissing, of one large beast, and then that of another, and the sound of a blow, striking on a massive body, and the wagon lurched forward, and I was shaken on the boards of the wagon bed. |
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| 15 | 172 |
I heard another such blow. |
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| 15 | 278 |
I was cuffed, sharply, the blow jerking my head to the right. |
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| 33 | 600 |
I doubted consciousness could endure such a blow. |
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| 33 | 634 |
What sort of blow might be struck here? Surely that surprising beast we had interrogated did not constitute a threat to a family, a party, a state? But who knew? Perhaps. |
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| 33 | 666 |
I supposed him unconscious, so grievous was the blow to which he had been subjected. |
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| 33 | 681 |
It fixed its gaze on a barrel, one amongst several, hurried to it, and broke it open, splintering its lid with a blow of its paw. |
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| 33 | 848 |
Had he not been pulling away from the impending blow it might have broken his neck. |
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| 44 | 112 |
Such a thing, I would learn, could, in a single blow, fell small trees and shatter walls. |
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| 47 | 13 |
I was sure it might, with a single blow, delivered with the strength of a Kur, fell a small tree or shatter a wall. |
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| 49 | 484 |
An occasional slap of a switch or a blow of the whip is good for a slave. |
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| 57 | 81 |
Why else do you think that slaves at such a feast are to serve with two hands on a goblet, or platter, their hands thusly in plain sight?" "I find it hard to believe that a slave would strike such a blow," said Kurik. |
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| 57 | 82 |
"To be sure," said Lord Grendel, "it is usually a free woman masquerading as a slave, expecting to be spirited away once the blow is struck". |
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| 57 | 84 |
"If her blow is successful, she dies, of course, following lengthy tortures. |
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| 59 | 24 |
"Bind him," had said Decius Albus, and three of the four guards remaining with Decius Albus had set upon my master, who struggled wildly, until his arms were pinned back by two of the guards, one to each arm, and the other, standing close to him, struck him a sudden, heavy blow to the body, followin... |
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| 61 | 662 |
But a snarl of rage burst forth from the shaggy throat of Lucilius, and he, with a wide, violent, fierce, backward sweep of his long arm, struck Decius Albus back in the box, a blow that, I feared, might have broken his neck. |
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| 61 | 664 |
I did not know if he had survived the savageness of that blow or not. |
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| 61 | 673 |
"Behold, men of glorious Ar, noble defenders of her walls, valiant holders of her gates," cried Kurik, "the beast has struck your leader, your lord, the noble Decius Albus! The blow was treacherous, cruel, and unprovoked! What could be owed to such beasts but vengeance? Prove yourselves worthy of yo... |
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| 65 | 266 |
"You," snarled Lucilius, the menace clear in Kur, "you unveiled, shameless she-sleen, with one blow of my ax there will be two of you". |
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| 65 | 339 |
Lucilius roared with rage and leapt at Lord Grendel, with a mighty stroke of the great ax, but Lord Grendel crouched down and, lifting his own ax, gripped in two hands, or paws, struck upward, bringing the blade of his own ax into play, against the higher end of the shaft of the descending ax, and t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 145 |
A blow can render a girl unconscious. |
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| 8 | 247 |
Had I not felt it before? Is it not an experience sufficiently familiar to an attractive, negligible female slave? I had been stung sharply below the small of my back, with a sudden, forcible blow, delivered with the fierce, swift flat of a man's hand. |
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| 8 | 692 |
At a gesture from the captain, the hortator struck his drum with a resounding blow from one of his two mallets. |
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| 11 | 332 |
I felt the wind blow the tunic back, against my body. |
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| 27 | 133 |
I heard the sound but did not, my eyes closed, see the blow. |
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| 27 | 147 |
I need only avoid your first blow, feinting and circling, staying outside its compass, for you will have no opportunity for a second. |
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| 30 | 121 |
The delivery of a mortal blow seldom occurs, and would almost certainly be an accident, given the implicit understandings involved. |
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| 45 | 177 |
"And how does it blow?" asked the first man. |
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| 46 | 403 |
Then she recoiled from the first blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 63 |
Then another corsair spun about, turned by the blow of an arrow. |
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| 39 | 60 |
Why not blow trumpets in your stealth, or carry torches to offend a needed blanket of darkness?" "All right," said Thurnock, "we will paint her green, the green of Thassa, green as night is to the sleen, green as high, tawny grass is to the larl". |
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| 41 | 233 |
"Then," said Thrasymedes, "the collapsed wall at that point would be as easy to defend and repair, as in the familiar case of a blow resulting from the strike of one of the great engines". |
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| 42 | 56 |
"It is victory," said Thrasymedes, breathing heavily, two hands grasping the long handle of a double-bladed ax, one blow of which might have split the common shield or cleaved a helmet to the chest, "victory, quick and terrible". |
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| 42 | 132 |
There was a scream from the other side as Thrasymedes, with a single blow of his double-edged ax, cut it off. |
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| 43 | 93 |
He drew back his arm to strike again, a blow he did not live to deliver. |
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| 50 | 28 |
"Stroke! Stroke!" I heard the mallets of the keleustes strike the cadence drum, first one blow, and then, after several Ihn, the next. |
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| 51 | 85 |
At seventy Ihn I tensed, preparing to slash my hand downward, at which signal the oars would be thrust outboard, be poised, would enter the water together, and the keleustes, his mallet already lifted, would deliver his first blow to the metal-headed drum. |
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| 58 | 3 |
You must be able to turn short, in an Ihn to shift course, to backoar at a blow on the drum. |
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| 58 | 114 |
The point of the parry is not to directly block a blow but to move it from its course, to cause it to deviate. |
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| 59 | 88 |
Thurnock and Clitus followed them and each dealt one of the guards a heavy blow, sufficient to render them unconscious, until they should awaken, to find themselves bound, hand and foot, and gagged. |
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| 59 | 460 |
The hilt of the weapon clutched in my right fist, I delivered him a heavy blow. |
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| 60 | 164 |
Before they could free themselves of the net's toils, Clitus drew them from their feet and punched twice with the butt of his trident, the first blow to the temple of one of his foes, the second splintering ribs into the lungs of the other. |
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| 60 | 181 |
"I shall!" cried Ctesippus, striking the man across the back of the neck with his sword, following which blow the head lolled half to the side, dangling, and fell to the planks with the body. |
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| 60 | 234 |
He slashed down at the tharlarion but his blow was blocked by the interposition of the prongs of Clitus' trident. |
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