| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 100 |
On the back of my tarn, I waited, not knowing if I was to be singled out for the Flame Death, not knowing if I, like the mysterious blue envelope in the mountains of New Hampshire, so long ago, was doomed to explode in a devouring blue flame. |
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| 1 | 51 |
It held a calm, hazy blue radiance. |
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| 1 | 65 |
I widened my search, keeping that strange metal envelope with its blue ambience the center of my movements. |
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| 1 | 84 |
The color of the metal was blue, and something of its ambience continued to characterize it, but the glow was fading. |
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| 1 | 173 |
I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back. |
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| 1 | 174 |
It was an instant's action to hurl them from me, and I gazed, bewildered, awe-stricken, at what seemed to be a furious blue combustion that lit the pines on all sides as if with acetylene flames. |
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| 2 | 23 |
The sky, like that of the earth, was blue. |
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| 2 | 100 |
She was barefoot, and as her eyes shyly met mine, I saw they were blue and deferential. |
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| 2 | 209 |
"Like the envelope of blue metal?" "Yes," he said. |
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| 2 | 226 |
He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of Priest-Kings to men, that the planet Gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies. |
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| 3 | 1 |
The Tarn "Ho!" cried Torm, that most improbable member of the Caste of Scribes, throwing his blue robes over his head as though he could not bear to see the light of day. |
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| 3 | 2 |
Out of the robes then popped the sandy-haired head of the scribe, his pale blue eyes twinkling on each side of that sharp needle of a nose. |
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| 3 | 8 |
"Look," he cried in actual despair, waving his blue-robed arms hopelessly at the messiest chamber I had seen on Gor. |
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| 3 | 17 |
The hottest days would be likely to find him wiping his nose on the sleeve of his blue robes, shivering miserably and lamenting the price of fuel. |
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| 3 | 19 |
His blue robes were worn through in a dozen spots, only two or three of which had been ineptly attacked by thread. |
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| 3 | 32 |
A tear of amusement formed along the side of his sharp nose, and his pale blue eyes twinkled. |
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| 3 | 164 |
He was a blond Viking giant of a man, a bearded fellow with a cheerful, craggy face and fierce blue eyes, who strode about as though he owned the earth on which he stood. |
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| 3 | 177 |
He wiped his nose sagely on the sleeve of his blue robe. |
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| 4 | 131 |
The ceiling was lit as if by stars, and the walls were of five colors, applied laterally, beginning from the bottom—white, blue, yellow, green, and red, caste colors. |
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| 4 | 135 |
In order, the ascending tiers, blue, yellow, green, and red, were occupied by representatives of the Scribes, Builders, Physicians, and Warriors. |
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| 4 | 147 |
I had noted that those blue Viking eyes showed almost no evidence of the previous night. |
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| 5 | 11 |
He lifted his blue-clad arm in a gesture of farewell—rather sadly, I thought. |
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| 5 | 64 |
Abruptly I changed course, drawing on the four-strap, guiding my tarn toward the blue, shimmering wave of a mountain range in the distance. |
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| 6 | 74 |
I fastened my eyes on the blue sky, wanting it to be the last thing I looked upon. |
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| 8 | 15 |
Unresisting, the girl extended her wrists, and the soldier snapped slave bracelets on them—light, restraining bracelets of gold and blue stones that might have served as jewelry if it had not been for their function. |
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| 8 | 108 |
At last she took a relatively unsoiled undergarment, something blue and silk, bare at the shoulders, and drew it on, belting it with a strip of what had been her veil. |
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| 9 | 36 |
She emerged a few minutes later, having washed her hair and the blue silk gown she wore. |
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| 10 | 89 |
Beside one of several long wagons of the sort covered with yellow and blue silk, I removed the bracelets from her wrists and turned her over to an attendant. |
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| 10 | 144 |
A moment later the torn rag of blue silk flew out from behind the hanging. |
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| 10 | 201 |
She even conversed delightedly with the inmates of the blue and yellow wagons, bringing them precious tidbits of camp news, teasing them as to how handsome their new masters would be. |
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| 11 | 48 |
Reluctantly I took Talena to the great tent of blue and yellow silk, and we pressed in among the hot, smelling bodies of the buyers, forcing our way toward the front. |
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| 12 | 30 |
Just as the tiny object, black against the blue sky, reached its apogee, I heard the click of the trigger, the vibration of the string, and the swift hiss of the quarrel. |
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| 18 | 75 |
In spite of the breadth of the pit, perhaps two hundred feet, it was cold at the bottom, and as I looked up, I was startled to note that, in the blue sky, I could see the dim pinpricks of light which, after dark, would become the blazing stars above Gor. |
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| 19 | 113 |
Not even a scream came from that fierce blue combustive mass that had been a human being, and in a minute the flame had departed, almost as quickly as it had come, and a dust of ashes scattered from the top of the cylinder in the wind. |
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| 20 | 60 |
I sent my friend at the college a belated check for his camping equipment, which had been destroyed with the blue envelope in the mountains. |
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| 20 | 68 |
I have puzzled over this, trying to connect it with the mysterious letter, dated in the seventeenth century, ostensibly by my father, which I received in the blue envelope. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
His eyes were clear, and blue, direct and honest. |
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| 6 | 64 |
I had seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 6 | 180 |
By their shield insignia and blue helmets I knew them to be men of Tharna. |
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| 8 | 2 |
The gate had been open and though I had been carefully scrutinized by its guards, tall spearmen in blue helmets, no one had objected to my entry. |
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| 8 | 97 |
I had caught a brief glimpse of a sallow face, with skin like a dried lemon and pale blue eyes. |
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| 9 | 161 |
Behind him in their blue helmets stood three others. |
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| 10 | 15 |
He looked at me, his gray eyes frank in the Y-slot in his somber blue helmet of Tharna. |
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| 11 | 21 |
About the room, here and there, stood stern warriors of Tharna, grim in their blue helmets, each with a tiny silver mask on the temple—members of the palace guard. |
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| 12 | 154 |
He was an unkempt, strong-looking lad, with cheerful blue eyes and a mop of hair like the mane of a black larl. |
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| 13 | 86 |
His eyes were blue like steel. |
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| 13 | 96 |
The pale blue eyes glimmered briefly; then they clouded. |
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| 14 | 177 |
Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning. |
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| 15 | 44 |
It was blue and empty. |
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| 15 | 113 |
I noted that her eyes behind the mask were blue. |
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| 19 | 8 |
Those blue eyes like steel looked about the unyielding faces of the chained slaves. |
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| 19 | 105 |
I saw that those eyes, usually like blue steel, seemed softer than I remembered them. |
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| 20 | 137 |
I watched it until, a tiny speck against the blue sky, it disappeared in the distance. |
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| 21 | 15 |
I saw that the cover of the tharlarion wagon, which had been rolled back, was of blue and yellow silk. |
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| 21 | 23 |
Her eyes were blue. |
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| 21 | 112 |
There was terror in her blue eyes. |
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| 21 | 134 |
From among the domed tents, wearing a swirling robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, with a headband of the same material, there approached a short, fat man, Targo the Slaver, he who was master of this small caravan. |
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| 21 | 140 |
His hair, long and black beneath the band of blue and yellow silk, was combed and glossy. |
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| 22 | 53 |
Her blue eyes seemed filled with wonder, and then they glistened with tears. |
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| 22 | 200 |
"I noted by the blue helmet," he said, "that you were of Tharna". |
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| 23 | 106 |
It was said the rebellion in the city was led by a short, powerful man with blue eyes and short-cropped hair, formerly of the Caste of Metal Workers. |
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| 23 | 134 |
As he felt the wind on the walls reach his head he opened his grayish blue eyes. |
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| 23 | 161 |
The grayish blue eyes slowly opened and gazed at my face for a long time, and gradually recognition transformed the features of the young guardsman. |
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| 23 | 167 |
His grayish blue eyes filled with tears. |
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| 23 | 231 |
His great hammer was slung from his belt and his blue eyes glistened with happiness. |
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| 24 | 89 |
Then regarding me evenly with those steel-blue eyes he said, "We are always of the same chain". |
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| 24 | 139 |
Behind the ramparts I could see the blaze of weaponry and the movement of blue helmets. |
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| 24 | 150 |
Though he wore the blue helmet of Tharna I knew that it was Thorn. |
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| 24 | 202 |
"Back to your post!" Other warriors in the blue helmets and gray tunics of Tharna had climbed to the top of the barricade, to see more clearly what befell. |
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| 24 | 222 |
Yet another man took from his head the blue helmet. |
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| 24 | 263 |
On the steps before the throne there stood a warrior, fully armed, who held in his hands the blue helmet of his city. |
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| 25 | 11 |
Seemingly almost impassive, the golden-robed figure on the throne watched the two warriors moving backward and forward before her, one clad in the blue helmet and gray tunic of Tharna, the other in the universal scarlet of the Gorean Caste of Warriors. |
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| 25 | 59 |
Outside I could see the bright blue rectangle of the open sky. |
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| 25 | 148 |
Then the bird was only a speck in the blue sky over the free city of Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 49 |
Vika's eyes were a sullen, smoldering, taunting blue; the blue of Lara's eyes had been brighter, as clear and, when not impassioned, as soft as the summer sky over Ko-ro-ba; when impassioned they had burned as fiercely, as beautifully, as helplessly as the walls of a raped city. |
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| 32 | 27 |
Together Misk and I, as the blue lavalike mass began to hiss over the rubble bubbling towards us, forced aside the great block of stone and Misk tenderly gathered up the broken carcass of Sarm in his forelegs and he and I sped toward the opening, and the blue molten flux of burning, seething, hissin... |
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| 1 | 46 |
I missed Torm and wondered if I would ever see him again, bounding about excoriating the authors of dusty scrolls, knocking the inkwell from his desk with an imperial sweep of the sleeve of his blue robe, leaping on the table in birdlike fury denouncing one scribe or another for independently redisc... |
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| 1 | 51 |
If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape. |
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| 4 | 2 |
I remember one last glimpse of the Sardar Range, the path I had climbed, the cold, blue sky and two snowy larls, one chained on either side of the entrance. |
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| 4 | 16 |
Beyond the dome I could see the welcome blue sky. |
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| 5 | 17 |
Her eyes were blue, and sullen. |
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| 6 | 9 |
The food which Vika withdrew from the storage apertures was not refrigerated but was protected by something resembling a foil of blue plastic. |
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| 6 | 12 |
The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, ... |
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| 8 | 204 |
She raised her head and her taunting blue eyes regarded me boldly. |
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| 8 | 210 |
I looked into those blue eyes and they looked into mine, and I wondered how many men had been burned, and had died, in that smoldering, sullen fire. |
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| 15 | 8 |
A circle of eerie, blue, descending light flickered on the walls of the passage down which I lowered myself. |
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| 15 | 11 |
I could see the discolorations of slime molds, probably white, but seeming blue in the light, on the walls. |
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| 16 | 2 |
I could see the disklike eyes in that golden head above me and see the flicker of the blue torch on their myriad surfaces. |
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| 16 | 210 |
I was silent and Misk did not speak and the only noise in that paneled metallic laboratory that was the cradle of a Priest-King was the soft crackle of the blue torch I held. |
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| 17 | 141 |
Before my horrified eyes in the observation cube the man seemed suddenly to vaporize in a sudden blasting flash of blue fire. |
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| 18 | 88 |
"Sometimes this is spoken of as the Home Stone of all Gor," said Sarm, as we walked the long, winding, iron spiral that clung to the side of a vast, transparent blue dome. |
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| 18 | 98 |
Sarm stopped on the narrow iron railing circling the huge, glassy blue dome and straightened himself and turned to face me. |
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| 18 | 104 |
At last we had reached the very apex of the great blue dome and I could see the glowing, bluish, refulgent, reticulated hemisphere far below me. |
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| 20 | 101 |
Bending to a panel in the disk he took out three objects: the long, classic, white garment of a Chamber Slave, which was contained in a wrapper of blue plastic; a slave collar; and an object of which I did not immediately grasp the import, a small, flat boxlike object which bore the upraised figure ... |
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| 20 | 113 |
The attendant on the disk had now broken open the blue plastic wrapper that held, fresh and folded, the garment of a Chamber Slave. |
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| 21 | 49 |
The feet had no toes but were rather disklike, fleshy cushions on which they padded silently along, and similarly on the palms of their wide hands there seemed to be a fleshy disk, which glistened in the blue light of the Mul-Torches. |
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| 22 | 25 |
He, hanging there upside down, reflected in the blue torchlight, regarded me calmly. |
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| 22 | 159 |
In the blue torchlight I examined the blade and the light coat of oil that protected it. |
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| 23 | 50 |
It was a long, eerie search, in the blue light of the Mul-Torch, thrusting it into one crevice and another, trying one passage and then the next. |
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| 25 | 159 |
I extended my hands to her and her eyes met mine, blue and beautiful and calm, and she lifted her bound wrists and placed them in my hands and kneeling before me lowered her head between her arms and said softly, very clearly, "I the girl Vika of Treve submit myself—completely—to the m... |
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| 27 | 87 |
It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world. |
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| 28 | 18 |
And as I waited on the still disk in the darkness, my weapon ready, I suddenly saw far down the tunnel the sudden blue flash of an opened Mul-Torch and then its steady blaze, and then I saw another flash and blaze and another and to my amazement it seemed that these fires hung from the very ceiling ... |
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| 28 | 66 |
She crouched in the corner of the case away from the door in the darkness, and through the plastic I saw her in the blue radiance of the Mul-Torch. |
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| 31 | 120 |
I looked up to see Sarm on that narrow passage that traced its precarious way around the great blue dome that covered the power source. |
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| 31 | 123 |
Then I saw him through the sides of the blue dome that covered the power source, far above, a golden figure on the narrow walkway at the crest of the dome. |
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| 31 | 164 |
More stones fell from the ceiling of the chamber now, clattering and bouncing off the surface of the blue, scarred seething dome. |
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| 31 | 176 |
I could not leap to the sides, for there was only the smooth sheer curve of the blue globe and I would slide to my death and fall like one of the stones from the roof above to the dusty, smoking rubble below. |
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| 31 | 198 |
The narcotic odor emanating from that lifted, waving mane shook even me though I stood in the midst of free air on the top of that great blue globe. |
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| 31 | 230 |
He stood thusly on the walkway at the top of the vast blue dome beneath which burned and hissed the power source of Priest-Kings. |
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| 32 | 10 |
Now the bubbling mass inside the purple globe began to burn through the globe itself and there were cracking sounds and rivulets of thick, hissing substance, like blue lava, began to press through the breaks in the globe. |
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| 32 | 40 |
And we looked, all of us, and saw, far above, perhaps more than a mile above, the open blue sky of Gor. |
10 |
| 32 | 51 |
I put my arm about her shoulders, holding her as she wept, her face lifted to the distant blue sky. |
10 |
| 32 | 77 |
I would have liked to have seen once more the surface of the world, the blue sky, the green fields beyond the black Sardar, but rather I said, "I choose to remain here with Misk, who is my friend". |
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| 32 | 86 |
Then together we watched the ship float swiftly upward like a small white star and disappear in the blue distance beyond. |
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| 33 | 54 |
It was now ascending in a gentle swirl to the blue sky of Gor. |
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| 34 | 5 |
There was a tugging at my sleeve and a blubbering and I looked down and nearly poked a scroll in my eye which was carried by the small blue-clad figure at my side. |
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| 34 | 7 |
But the little fellow's sandy hair and pale, watery eyes were hidden in the vast sleeve of his blue robe as he leaned against my side and wept unabashedly. |
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| 34 | 20 |
I looked down at the little scribe, Torm, who had stopped sneezing, and was now wiping his nose on the blue sleeve of his robes. |
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| 34 | 156 |
Perhaps she, my Free Companion, even now lay chained in one of the blue and yellow slave wagons, or served paga in a tavern or was a belled adornment to some warrior's Pleasure Gardens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 172 |
The man facing me had seven such scars ceremonially worked into the tissue of his countenance, the highest being red, the next yellow, the next blue, the fourth black, then two yellow, then black again. |
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| 7 | 13 |
There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla... |
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| 8 | 227 |
A young man, blondish-haired with blue eyes, unscarred, bumped against the girl's stirrup in the press of the crowd. |
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| 9 | 21 |
"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish". |
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| 9 | 22 |
This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air,... |
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| 9 | 24 |
The blue, four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. |
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| 9 | 26 |
The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies. |
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| 10 | 207 |
He had, as I mentioned, blond hair and blue eyes, not unknown among the Tuchuks, but unusual. |
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| 14 | 2 |
War lanterns, green and blue and yellow, were already burning on poles in the darkness, signaling the rallying grounds of the Orlus, the Hundreds, and the Oralus, the Thousands. |
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| 15 | 99 |
* * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh... |
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| 17 | 8 |
The light in the room came, interestingly, from behind a translucent blue ceiling, probably being furnished by energy bulbs. |
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| 17 | 10 |
Around the edge of the pool there were eight large columns, fashioned and painted as though the trunks of trees, one standing at each of the eight cardinal points of the Gorean compass; from these, stretching often across the pool, were vines, so many that the ceiling could be seen only as a patchwo... |
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| 18 | 74 |
Standing now on the high, humped dried thing—lofty on that protective coating—I leaped easily up and seized one of the low hanging vines and climbed rapidly toward the blue ceiling of the chamber. |
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| 18 | 75 |
I heard another hiss and saw a bolt from the crossbow shatter through the crystalline blue substance. |
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| 18 | 79 |
The crossbow bolt went wild, again shattering the blue surface of the dome. |
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| 18 | 80 |
I heard the wild, eerie cry of the luckless man beneath me and then, with my fist, broke the blue surface and climbed through, grasping the iron of a reticulated framework supporting numerous energy bulbs. |
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| 18 | 83 |
There, quiva in hand, uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba, feet first, I leaped from the framework and shattered through the blue surface landing among my startled enemies. |
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| 18 | 104 |
Together we ran about the perimeter of the pool until we came to a tangle of vines depending from the ceiling, up which we climbed, broke through the blue substance, and cast wildly about for an avenue of escape. |
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| 19 | 61 |
I then followed Harold along one of the smooth, stone paths leading among the trees, brushing our way through the clusters of blossoms, skirting the edge of the nearer blue pool. |
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| 19 | 67 |
He made his way across some dark blue and yellowish-orange grass and came to the buildings set against one wall of the gardens. |
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| 21 | 266 |
He had blue eyes, as I had known he would, for I had recognized him from above. |
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| 23 | 123 |
Some of the Tuchuks began to sing the Blue Sky Song, the refrain of which is that though I die, yet there will be the bosk, the grass and sky. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 2 |
"Blue! Blue!" screamed the man next to me, a blue patch sewn on his left shoulder, a pair of glazed blue clay plates clutched in his right hand. |
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| 1 | 35 |
There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a City, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the Caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very large man, broad of back and s... |
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| 2 | 88 |
Then, a moment later, four men, armed, brawny men, with a streamer of blue and yellow silk sewn diagonally into their garments, burst through the door and entered the room. |
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| 2 | 138 |
All eyes turned to face a paunchy man, in a robe of blue and yellow silk. |
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| 2 | 159 |
The man was Portus, heavy, paunchy, in blue and yellow silk. |
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| 2 | 167 |
Kuurus examined him, the paunchy flesh beneath the blue and yellow silken robe. |
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| 2 | 219 |
The heavy man, sitting cross-legged, opposite the Assassin, began to sweat, fiddled with the damp blue and yellow silk covering his knee, and then with a nervous hand lifted a shaking bowl of paga to his lips, spilling some down the side of his face. |
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| 2 | 246 |
He had known, of course, from the gown of blue and yellow silk that the man was a slaver. |
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| 4 | 8 |
The black of the garment of Cernus was broken only by three stripes of silk sewn lengthwise on his left sleeve, two stripes of blue enclosing one of yellow. |
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| 5 | 604 |
Then he would change the white and gold rain canvas to a covering of blue and yellow silk. |
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| 6 | 15 |
A blue line appeared across the chest of one of the slaves fighting between the tables, on a square of sand some twelve feet in dimension. |
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| 6 | 23 |
There was a shout from the men-at-arms and members of the House who sat at the tables as the second slave, he who had scored the first point, managed to leave a long streak of blue down the inside of the right arm of the first slave. |
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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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| 6 | 54 |
The first man seemed numb, the heavy blue streak on his throat, and slipped to his knees. |
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| 12 | 15 |
A bird of the Yellow faction was in the lead, followed by Red, then Blue, Gold, Orange, Green and Silver. |
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| 12 | 45 |
Then, one after another, Gold, Blue, Orange and Silver took their perches. |
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| 12 | 164 |
There was a little wench named Nela, usually in the Pool of Blue Flowers, whom I enjoyed sporting with. |
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| 12 | 166 |
When she was permitted, later in her training, to leave the house more often, I was eager to take her to the races and the baths, though perhaps not to the Pool of Blue Flowers. |
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| 13 | 40 |
Her eyes were blue. |
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| 13 | 45 |
Pool of Blue Flowers. |
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| 13 | 49 |
All the girls in the Pool of Blue Flowers cost the same, except novices in training who would go for ten or fifteen copper tarn disks. |
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| 13 | 114 |
After that we lay side by side for a long time, looking up at the bluish translucent dome of the Pool of Blue Flowers. |
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| 13 | 116 |
The temperature of the Pool of Blue Flowers was cool and pleasing. |
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| 13 | 120 |
I had heard the Pool of the Tropics was an excellent pool in the Capacian; and also the Pool of Ar's Glories, and the Pool of the Northern Forests; there was even, of recent date, a Pool of the Splendor of the Hinrabians; I myself, however, with one arm about Nela, who nestled against me, felt conte... |
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| 13 | 132 |
She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade... |
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| 14 | 27 |
"The Pool of Blue Flowers?" she asked. |
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| 14 | 33 |
"You will take me to the Pool of Blue Flowers sometime, will you not?" "There are many lovely pools in the Capacian," I said. |
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| 14 | 34 |
"But you will take me to the Pool of Blue Flowers, won't you?" she asked. |
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| 14 | 38 |
"While you were sporting about at the Pool of Blue Flowers," she said, "I was spoken to by Caprus". |
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| 14 | 117 |
He wore his long, black, coarse, woolen robe, that which bore the three stripes of silk, two blue enclosing a yellow, on the left sleeve. |
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| 15 | 238 |
Once Virginia had, in our compartment, with Elizabeth and Phyllis, shyly looked up at me, and asked if I knew the name of the blond guard, he with blue eyes, who came upon occasion to observe the training. |
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| 15 | 359 |
The chair was enclosed and, under the blue and yellow silk which covered it, there was metal plating. |
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| 16 | 10 |
That he was now of the Caste of Warriors did not change much with Cernus, of course, save that a strip of red silk, with those of blue and yellow, now adorned his left sleeve. |
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| 18 | 461 |
He reached under himself to hold forth for my inspection a shred of damp, rotted blue cloth, the remains of what had once been his robes. |
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| 19 | 65 |
From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics set in the walls, and on the ... |
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| 19 | 80 |
Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;... |
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| 19 | 134 |
In a moment or two, behind her, a powerful man in a short blue and yellow tunic, the auctioneer, carrying a slender slave goad, almost a wand, climbed to the surface of the block; seeing him the girl turned to flee, and having nowhere to go, fell to her knees weeping at the center of the block, wher... |
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| 19 | 368 |
Never has a slave girl escaped from canaled Port Kar, protected on one side by the interminable, rush-grown delta of the Vosk, on the other by the broad tides of the Tamber Gulf, and beyond it, the vast, blue, gleaming, perilous Thassa. |
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| 22 | 86 |
The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst... |
10 |
| 22 | 154 |
The large-winged tarn had fallen back now, the lead being taken by the rider of the Blue, a small, shrewd man, a veteran rider but one too precipitate. |
10 |
| 22 | 164 |
Mip took advantage of this cutting in closely, following now the rider in blue silk. |
10 |
| 22 | 166 |
The Blue, leading now, expertly blocked Mip at ring after ring. |
10 |
| 22 | 167 |
I noted that the bird ridden by the rider in blue silk was tiring. |
10 |
| 22 | 295 |
The sky was a clear blue, dotted by clouds. |
10 |
| 22 | 442 |
Ahead of us there was Blue, Red, Green and, as Yellow, Menicius of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 22 | 496 |
Then we were struck by another bird, the Blue I think, and then by the bird ridden by the Torian, and then one of the others. |
10 |
| 22 | 527 |
The crowd's protest of fury must have torn its way to the very clouds in the calm, blue sky. |
10 |
| 22 | 538 |
The Silver, the Red and the Blue were still ahead of me, as well as the Yellow, that of my foe Menicius, he of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 22 | 545 |
We passed the Silver, and then the Blue, between the rings. |
10 |
| 24 | 36 |
The right eye was normal, save that it, unlike its fellow, was blue. |
10 |
| 24 | 53 |
"Was a girl named Nela," I asked, "of the Pool of Blue Flowers, among the agents of Marlenus?" "She was chief among them," said Hup. |
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| 24 | 106 |
At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port... |
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| 24 | 489 |
Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance. |
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| 1 | 8 |
A brightly plumaged bird sprang from the rushes to my left, screaming and beating its sudden way into the blue sky. |
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| 2 | 15 |
Her gaze was clear; she had dark blondish hair and blue eyes; her legs were a bit short, and her ankles somewhat thick; her shoulders were a bit wide perhaps, but lovely. |
10 |
| 3 | 117 |
He handed the bow to the blondish girl, she with blue eyes, who had been instrumental in my capture. |
10 |
| 8 | 326 |
I found the child, a boy, perhaps of five years of age, blond like many of the rencers, and blue-eyed. |
10 |
| 8 | 522 |
Thurnock was blue-eyed, Clitus gray-eyed. |
10 |
| 9 | 546 |
She had blond hair, and, as I recalled, blue eyes. |
10 |
| 9 | 631 |
Her blue eyes were pale. |
10 |
| 10 | 98 |
I permitted her, of course, but a single garment, but I allowed it to be opaque, and of the blue of the Scribes. |
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| 12 | 74 |
He had blond hair, and blue eyes. |
10 |
| 12 | 90 |
I thought I saw fear for a moment flicker in his blue eyes. |
10 |
| 15 | 203 |
I looked at the boy, the blondish hair and the frank, earnest eyes, blue, pleading. |
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| 1 | 47 |
When pleading for an extension for an overdue paper I would wear scuffed loafers, blue jeans and a sweatshirt, and hair ribbon. |
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| 4 | 157 |
As I watched it, it seemed that lights began to flicker on its surface, and then it seemed that tendrils of light began to interweave across its steel, and, before my eyes, it began to change in color, turning a grayish blue, streaked with white. |
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| 6 | 51 |
The air was bright and clear, the grass green, the sky a full blue with bright, white clouds. |
10 |
| 6 | 104 |
Its cover, of blue and yellow silk, was torn. |
10 |
| 6 | 105 |
Near the front of the wagon, too, was a short, fat man, clad in a robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 6 | 118 |
The small, fat, short man, he, plump and paunchy in the robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, scarcely looked at me. |
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| 6 | 126 |
It was tied behind his head with a band of blue and yellow silk. |
10 |
| 6 | 240 |
As I mentioned, over the wagon, its cover, of blue and yellow silk, was torn. |
10 |
| 7 | 397 |
Targo had gone out, his blue and yellow robe swirling, part way to meet it. |
10 |
| 8 | 331 |
They were generally blue-eyed, though some were gray-eyed. |
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| 8 | 495 |
It was true that I had never felt as healthy in my life as I did then, nor had the air seemed as clear and pure, the sky so blue, the clouds so sharp and white. |
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| 8 | 526 |
There was only the laughter of the girls, the bubbling of the stream, the work, the blue sky and white clouds, the wind and the bending grass, clean air and, somewhere, the call of a tiny horned gim, the tiny purplish owl-like bird. |
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| 8 | 540 |
I knelt there on the flat rock, pounding and rinsing the fabric, in the fresh air with the bright blue sky overhead. |
10 |
| 8 | 547 |
Then I opened my eyes to the blue skies. |
10 |
| 8 | 704 |
I saw that even Targo laughed, holding his belly in his blue-and-yellow slaver's robes. |
10 |
| 11 | 599 |
She did not then appear to be of the blue-robed, studious scribes. |
10 |
| 11 | 1158 |
Once, there was a visitor to the pens, a tall stranger, partially hooded, who wore robes of blue and yellow silk, those of the Slavers. |
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| 11 | 1435 |
How pleased I was to be free! And then suddenly I turned and, behind me, some eight or ten feet away, standing, not speaking, tall in the blue and yellow robes of the slaver, still partially hooded, the band of leather across his left eye, was Soron of Ar. |
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| 12 | 44 |
I, by standing on my tip toes in the grass, on the low hill on which we were gathering berries, could see the squarish tops of the wagons, with their blue and yellow canvas coverings. |
10 |
| 12 | 428 |
The sky was bright and blue, and the white clouds scudded swiftly by. |
10 |
| 12 | 640 |
Men there tore back the coverings of blue and yellow canvas, that they might be seen. |
10 |
| 13 | 560 |
The sky was deep, and blue, and bright with sunlight. |
10 |
| 13 | 905 |
It was very blue, and there were white clouds. |
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| 13 | 1067 |
I remembered then, the tall figure in the blue and yellow silk, with the leather covering one eye. |
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| 15 | 684 |
The sky was very blue, the clouds were white. |
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| 1 | 21 |
Samos wore the blue and yellow robes of the Slaver. |
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| 2 | 216 |
They were both blond, and blue-eyed, as are many of the panther girls. |
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| 3 | 11 |
I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e... |
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| 5 | 210 |
The boards are alternately painted blue and yellow, the slavers' colors. |
10 |
| 6 | 488 |
The girl facing me was blond, and blue-eyed, like many panther girls. |
10 |
| 7 | 196 |
She was blond, blue-eyed. |
10 |
| 9 | 43 |
Her blue eyes regarded me, contemptuously. |
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| 18 | 25 |
Beyond the breakers, and the white caps, there was only the calm placid line of gleaming Thassa, its vastness untroubled, meeting the bright, hard blue sky in a lonely plane, as unbroken and simple as the mark of a geometer's straight edge. |
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| 22 | 54 |
"Vella!" I would not open the blue envelope. |
10 |
| 22 | 67 |
And small Torm, in the blue robes of the scribe, lifted his cup, to salute the beauty of Talena. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 425 |
Then, to the astonishment of all Torvaldsland, and most to that of Svein Blue Tooth, the Forkbeard, redoubtable, after earning six talmits in the contests, delivered to his hall the very wergild no man had supposed it possible to pay, and had then, arrogantly, before the high seat of the Blue Tooth ... |
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| 11 | 258 |
He conferred with Svein Blue Tooth, and the Blue Tooth smiled. |
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| 13 | 1 |
Visitors in the Hall of Svein Blue Tooth The hall of Svein Blue Tooth was of wood, and magnificent. |
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| 13 | 81 |
Against these considerations it was argued that not even the gods themselves could blame Svein Blue Tooth, under these circumstances, for not honoring a piddling oath, extracted under false pretenses; one bold fellow even went so far as to insist that, under these special circumstances, it was a sol... |
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| 17 | 67 |
Svein Blue Tooth fingered the tooth of the Hunjer whale, dyed blue, on its chain about his neck. |
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| 21 | 27 |
She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she kne... |
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| 21 | 72 |
"Outlawry," said he, "once proclaimed by the hall of Blue Tooth against the person of Ivar Forkbeard, he of Forkbeard's Landfall, is herewith, in this hall, in this place, in the name of Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland, lifted!" There was a great cheer. |
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| 21 | 73 |
"Charges appertaining thereto," roared the Blue Tooth, spilling mead, "are revoked!" There were more cheers among the ashes, the blackened, fallen timbers, of the Blue Tooth's razed hall, amidst which the benches and tables of the feast were set. |
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| 21 | 123 |
"Guests to enter the hall of Svein Blue Tooth!" We looked to where once had stood the mighty portals of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 22 | 218 |
We saw Svein Blue Tooth, the tooth of the Hunjer whale, stained blue, on its chain about his neck. |
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| 1 | 22 |
It was Luma, the chief scribe of my house, in her blue robe and sandals. |
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| 1 | 23 |
Her hair was blond and straight, tied behind her head with a ribbon of blue wool, from the bounding Hurt, dyed in the blood of the Vosk sorp. |
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| 1 | 24 |
She was a scrawny girl, not attractive, but with deep eyes, blue; and she was a superb scribe, in her accounting swift, incisive, accurate, brilliant; once she had been a paga slave, though a poor one; I had saved her from Surbus, a captain, who had purchased her to slay her, she not having served h... |
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| 6 | 423 |
"Finn Broadbelt was the cousin of Jarl Svein Blue Tooth". |
10 |
| 6 | 425 |
Svein Blue Tooth was the high jarl of Torvaldsland, in the sense that he was generally regarded as the most powerful. |
10 |
| 6 | 451 |
"Now," laughed Ivar Forkbeard, "I expect that these nights Svein Blue Tooth rests less well in his furs". |
10 |
| 6 | 453 |
"But there is one thing more which the Blue Tooth demanded of me," said Ivar. |
10 |
| 6 | 459 |
"Thorgard of Scagnar," I said, "has power comparable to that of the Blue Tooth himself". |
10 |
| 8 | 278 |
"I have an appointment with Svein Blue Tooth," said Ivar Forkbeard. |
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| 9 | 300 |
Her teeth chattered; her lips were blue. |
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| 9 | 476 |
He had there, in his opinion, an appointment to keep, with Svein Blue Tooth, a great Jarl of Torvaldsland, who had outlawed him. |
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| 10 | 6 |
He was Ketil, of Blue Tooth's high farm, champion of Torvaldsland. |
10 |
| 10 | 65 |
In the morning talmits would be awarded personally by the hand of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 10 | 77 |
Most of the men at the Thing were free farmers, blond-haired, blue-eyed and proud, men with strong limbs and work-roughened hands; many wore braided hair; many wore talmits of their district; for the Thing their holiday best had been donned; many wore heavy woolen jackets, scrubbed with water and bo... |
10 |
| 10 | 319 |
I saw, too, four slavers, perfumed, in their robes of blue and yellow silk, come north to buy women. |
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| 10 | 408 |
"Bera," said he, "the companion of Svein Blue Tooth". |
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| 10 | 422 |
An officer of Svein Blue Tooth, assisted by two thralls, quickly assessed Dagmar, stripping her, feeling her body, the firmness of her breasts, looking in her mouth. |
10 |
| 10 | 431 |
It had been taken from a sack slung about the shoulder of Blue Tooth's officer. |
10 |
| 10 | 500 |
"What do you know of this girl?" asked the Forkbeard of the officer of Svein Blue Tooth, who was accompanying him. |
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| 10 | 512 |
"Yes," said the officer of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 10 | 517 |
On Earth she had taught ancient history and classical languages at a small college on Earth; to many she might then have seemed a rather blue-stocking, forbidding girl; Gorean slavers, however, with greater perception perhaps then her fellow Earthlings, had seen her potential; she had been, one of s... |
10 |
| 10 | 542 |
"What do you want for her?" he asked the officer of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 10 | 546 |
The officer of Svein Blue Tooth, with a key at his belt, unlocked the padlock which held the girl's collar to the common chain. |
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| 11 | 4 |
On these stones, set in semicircular lines, like terraces, stood high men and minor jarls, and rune-priests, and the guard of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 6 |
On this platform stood Svein Blue Tooth, with two high men, officers, lieutenants, to the jarl. |
10 |
| 11 | 82 |
"How many gather?" asked Svein Blue Tooth, who was on the platform with the Kurii. |
10 |
| 11 | 83 |
Blue Tooth was a large man, bearded, with a broad, heavy face. |
10 |
| 11 | 84 |
He had blue eyes, and was blond haired. |
10 |
| 11 | 92 |
"How many gather?" pressed Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 93 |
About his neck, from a fine, golden chain, pierced, hung the tooth of a Hunjer whale, dyed blue. |
10 |
| 11 | 100 |
"Should this information not be brought to the attention of Svein Blue Tooth?" I asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 101 |
"Blue Tooth is no fool," said the Forkbeard. |
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| 11 | 123 |
Svein Blue Tooth threw back his head and roared with laughter. |
10 |
| 11 | 152 |
"How many of you have gathered?" asked Svein Blue Tooth again. |
10 |
| 11 | 160 |
"Your request seems reasonable," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 221 |
"What will you pay," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "for permission to traverse our land, should that permission be granted?" "We will take little or nothing," said the Kur, "and so must be asked to pay nothing". |
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| 11 | 224 |
"That we will furnish you?" asked Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 227 |
"As provisions?" asked the Blue Tooth, puzzled. |
10 |
| 11 | 234 |
Svein Blue Tooth laughed. |
10 |
| 11 | 238 |
"We have better uses for our bondmaids," said Svein Blue Tooth, "than to feed them to Kurii". |
10 |
| 11 | 246 |
"And if all this be granted to you," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "what will you grant us in return?" "Your lives," said the Kur. |
10 |
| 11 | 259 |
"I have here," called Svein Blue Tooth, "a bucket of Sa-Tarna grain. |
10 |
| 11 | 270 |
"Feed," invited Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 273 |
"Feed," invited Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 286 |
"Do we, free men of Torvaldsland," called out Svein Blue Tooth, "grant permission to the Kurii to traverse our land?" "No!" cried one man. |
10 |
| 11 | 293 |
"Fall back!" cried out Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 296 |
"Tomorrow," called Svein Blue Tooth, "we will award the talmits for excellence in the contests". |
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| 12 | 1 |
Ivar Forkbeard Introduces Himself to Svein Blue Tooth About my forehead were bound two talmits, one which I had won in wrestling, the other in archery. |
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| 12 | 6 |
Two men of Svein Blue Tooth rose to their feet and silenced the crowd with two blasts on curved, bronze signal horns, of a sort often used for communication between ships. |
10 |
| 12 | 16 |
On the wooden dais, draped in purple, set on the contest fields, in heavy, carved chairs, sat Svein Blue Tooth and his woman, Bera. |
10 |
| 12 | 20 |
Svein Blue Tooth rose to his feet, standing before the heavy, carved wooden chair. |
10 |
| 12 | 22 |
About his neck, on its golden chain, hung the tooth of the Hunjer whale, dyed blue. |
10 |
| 12 | 29 |
"This man," called out Svein Blue Tooth, obviously impressed, "has earned in these contests six talmits. |
10 |
| 12 | 31 |
Svein Blue Tooth was of Torvaldsland himself. |
10 |
| 12 | 36 |
"I distinguish myself, and enter into the history of our land," said the Blue Tooth, "in being the high Jarl to award these talmits in the games. |
10 |
| 12 | 42 |
Svein Blue Tooth was obviously pleased that it had been in his Jarlship that six talmits had been won at the Thing by a single, redoubtable champion. |
10 |
| 12 | 45 |
From a leather box, proffered to him by a high officer, who, too, had been the presiding official at the contests, Svein Blue Tooth lifted a fistful of talmits. |
10 |
| 12 | 49 |
"He who calls himself Thorgeir of Ax Glacier," proclaimed Svein Blue Tooth, "let him approach!" Ivar Forkbeard eagerly bounded up the stairs toward the dais. |
10 |
| 12 | 54 |
I studied the face of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 12 | 58 |
I hoped that Svein Blue Tooth would simply hand him the talmits and he might rapidly back down, and we might run for the ship. |
10 |
| 12 | 60 |
It was obviously the intent of Svein Blue Tooth, himself, to honor this great winner, to bind on his forehead, with his own hands, the talmits. |
10 |
| 12 | 61 |
The Blue Tooth reached to brush back the hood. |
10 |
| 12 | 63 |
Svein Blue Tooth laughed. |
10 |
| 12 | 68 |
"What is your name, Champion?" asked Bera, the woman of Jarl Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 12 | 70 |
"That you have disguised yourself tells us," said the Blue Tooth, "that you are outlaw". |
10 |
| 12 | 72 |
"But the peace of the Thing is upon you," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 12 | 77 |
"Great Jarl," said Ivar Forkbeard, "will you swear upon me the oath of peace, for the time of the Thing, your personal oath, sworn upon the ring of the temple of Thor?" "It is not necessary," said the Blue Tooth, "but, if you wish, this oath I will swear". |
10 |
| 12 | 81 |
Svein Blue Tooth grasped it in both hands. |
10 |
| 12 | 87 |
Svein Blue Tooth looked at him, puzzled. |
10 |
| 12 | 90 |
"Come now!" said Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 12 | 92 |
"Very well," said the Blue Tooth, "I swear by the ship's side, the shield's rim, the sword's edge, the fires of my hearth, the timbers of my hall and the pillars of the high seat in my house". |
10 |
| 12 | 94 |
"Will you swear, too," he asked, "by the grains of your fields, the boundary stones of your holdings, the locks on your chests and the salt on your table?" "Yes, yes!" said Svein Blue Tooth, irritatedly. |
10 |
| 12 | 97 |
I assumed he was trying to think of ways to strengthen the Blue Tooth's oath. |
10 |
| 12 | 100 |
"And, too, I swear," said Svein Blue Tooth, "by the bronze of my ladles and the bottoms of my butter pans!" "That will not be necessary," said the Forkbeard, generously. |
10 |
| 12 | 101 |
"What is your name, Champion?" asked Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 8 |
These pillars had been carved by craftsmen in the time of Svein Blue Tooth's great grandfather, and bore the luck signs of his house. |
10 |
| 13 | 26 |
Svein Blue Tooth's holdings, on the other hand, were quite large and complexly organized. |
10 |
| 13 | 27 |
It would not have seemed proper, at least in the eyes of Svein Blue Tooth and others, for a high officer to sit at the same table with a fellow whose main occupation was supervising thralls in the tending of verr. |
10 |
| 13 | 32 |
I describe those appointments characterizing the hall of Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 40 |
High officers, of course, and the Blue Tooth, and members of his family, would retire to private rooms. |
10 |
| 13 | 46 |
Svein Blue Tooth had not been much pleased on the fields of the contests, on his purple-draped dais, when Ivar Forkbeard had announced his identity. |
10 |
| 13 | 47 |
"Seize him and heat oil!" had been the first cry of the Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 49 |
"Seize him!" screamed the Blue Tooth, and had himself clearly intended to lay rude hands on the innocent Forkbeard, but his men had, forcibly, restrained him, they glaring at Ivar Forkbeard with ill-disguised disapproval. |
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| 13 | 50 |
"You tricked me!" cried out the Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 53 |
Svein Blue Tooth, held in the arms of his men, struggled to unsheath his great sword of blued steel. |
10 |
| 13 | 54 |
The high rune-priest of the Thing interposed himself between the violent Blue Tooth and the Forkbeard, who was, innocently, regarding cloud formations. |
10 |
| 13 | 58 |
The veins stood out on the forehead and neck of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 67 |
The men-at-arms of Svein Blue Tooth stirred uneasily. |
10 |
| 13 | 76 |
"Yes, it is I, Ivar Forkbeard!" The men-at-arms of Svein Blue Tooth were now uncomfortably close. |
10 |
| 13 | 79 |
The issues seemed reasonably clear, though I could catch only snatches of what was said; they concerned the pleasures of boiling the Forkbeard and his retinue alive as opposed to the dangerous precedent which might be set if the peace of the Thing was sundered, and the loss of credit which might acc... |
10 |
| 13 | 83 |
At last the Blue Tooth turned to face the Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 13 | 86 |
"The peace of the Thing," said the Blue Tooth, "and the peace of my house, for the time of the Thing, is upon you. |
10 |
| 13 | 93 |
I rather admired Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 101 |
Svein Blue Tooth looked at him in rage. |
10 |
| 13 | 103 |
Blue Tooth was speechless. |
10 |
| 13 | 106 |
The Blue Tooth thrust the talmits toward the Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 13 | 108 |
Then Svein Blue Tooth, as high jarl in Torvaldsland, one by one, tied about the forehead of Ivar Forkbeard the six talmits. |
10 |
| 13 | 111 |
Svein Blue Tooth was, in his way, not a bad fellow. |
10 |
| 13 | 112 |
"By tomorrow night," repeated Svein Blue Tooth to the Forkbeard, "when the Thing is done, be free of this place. |
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| 13 | 115 |
"I frown upon you, and would not let you within the doors of my hall," said Svein Blue Tooth, "because you are the greatest scoundrel and rogue in Torvaldsland!" I could see that this compliment much pleased the Forkbeard, who, a vain fellow, was jealous of his reputation. |
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| 13 | 117 |
"That is preposterous!" snorted the Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 119 |
"No man," said the Blue Tooth, looking suddenly at Ivar Forkbeard, "could pay such wergild as I set for you". |
10 |
| 13 | 121 |
"You have heard," he inquired, "of the sack of the temple of Kassau?" "You!" cried the Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 13 | 122 |
I saw the eyes of the Blue Tooth suddenly gleam with avarice. |
10 |
| 13 | 128 |
Svein Blue Tooth looked at him, startled. |
10 |
| 13 | 129 |
He fingered the heavy tooth, on its chain, which hung about his neck, that tooth of a Hunjer whale, dyed blue. |
10 |
| 13 | 133 |
The Blue Tooth did not gainsay her. |
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| 13 | 139 |
The Forkbeard looked to Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 143 |
Svein Blue Tooth, high jarl of Torvaldsland, followed by his woman, and high officers and counselors, and other followers, then took his way from the dais. |
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| 13 | 144 |
* * * * We had fed well in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 146 |
Splendid was the quality of the ale at the tables of the Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 162 |
The palisade enclosed some two acres; within it were many shops and storage houses, even an ice house; in the center, of course, reared the great hall itself, that rude, high-roofed palace of the north, the house of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 183 |
"If you are washed and readied," said a young thrall, collared, in a kirtle of white wool, "it is permissible to present yourselves before the high seat of the house, before my master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland". |
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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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| 13 | 210 |
The Blue Tooth, I noted, did not look too pleased at the Forkbeard's popularity with his men. |
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| 13 | 212 |
* * * * We had fed well in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 231 |
But she was the woman of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 232 |
I supposed, in time, normally, she would retire, doubtless taking Svein Blue Tooth with her. |
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| 13 | 235 |
I felt sorry for Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 239 |
After the entertainers had been driven from the hall and much food had been eaten, Svein Blue Tooth, who had showed much patience, said to Ivar Forkbeard, "It is my understanding that you believe yourself to have that wherewith your deed's wergild might be met". |
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| 13 | 241 |
Svein Blue Tooth's eyes gleamed. |
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| 13 | 243 |
"The wergild was high," said the Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 249 |
For more than two Ahn gold was weighed, on two pairs of scales, one furnished by the Forkbeard, the other by the house of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 252 |
The eyes of Svein Blue Tooth and Bera, narrow, shining, were filled with pleasure. |
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| 13 | 253 |
"There is forty weight of gold here," said Svein Blue Tooth's man, almost as though he could not believe it, "four hundred stone of gold". |
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| 13 | 255 |
The Forkbeard then went to the heavy leather sack and, ripping the leather away at its throat, poured onto the dirt, lustrous, scintillating, a shower of jewels, mostly a deep blue, but some were purple, and others white and yellow, the carved sapphires of Schendi, each in the shape of a tiny panthe... |
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| 13 | 257 |
Svein Blue Tooth leaned forward, his fists clenched. |
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| 13 | 268 |
Too, the Forkbeard, in dealing with his Jarl, Svein Blue Tooth, would not use false stones. |
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| 13 | 271 |
I had no doubt that the spilled glory heaped gleaming in the dirt of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth was what it seemed, true stones, and an incredible treasure. |
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| 13 | 277 |
Svein Blue Tooth was much impressed. |
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| 13 | 282 |
The Blue Tooth leaned back. |
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| 13 | 288 |
The Blue Tooth's men, not pleased, murmured angrily. |
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| 13 | 291 |
"Silence!" cried Svein Blue Tooth, standing behind the table. |
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| 13 | 294 |
"I do ask the impossible," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 298 |
Even the men of Svein Blue Tooth, perhaps a thousand in the hall, were angry. |
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| 13 | 299 |
Yet the Blue Tooth, boldly, their Jarl, matched his will to theirs. |
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| 13 | 300 |
Which one of them would dare to challenge the will of their Jarl? I admired the Blue Tooth in his way. |
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| 13 | 303 |
The Blue Tooth sat down again in the high seat. |
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| 13 | 309 |
These four stopped before the table, opposite the high seat of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 313 |
"What mockery is this?" demanded the Blue Tooth, sternly. |
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| 13 | 317 |
"It is she," whispered a man at the table of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 319 |
It is she!" "Are you—are you," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "the daughter of Thorgard, Thorgard of Scagnar?" "Yes, my Jarl," she said. |
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| 13 | 327 |
"Once in battle," said Svein Blue Tooth, "I wounded Thorgard of Scagnar". |
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| 13 | 333 |
"It is true," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 337 |
"How were you taken?" asked Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 340 |
"How were you conveyed past guards?" asked the Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 345 |
There was a great cheer from the men in the hall, both those of Ivar Forkbeard and those of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 351 |
"Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland, meet Hilda, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar," said Ivar. |
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| 13 | 352 |
"Hilda, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar, meet Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland". |
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| 13 | 358 |
"Never had I thought to have Hilda, daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar, stand prisoner before me, before the high seat of my house," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 360 |
"I do not understand," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 362 |
"You need not address me as your Jarl, my dear," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 376 |
"You collared her!" laughed Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 378 |
"Superb!" laughed Svein Blue Tooth, rubbing his hands together. |
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| 13 | 382 |
She had a beautiful face, blue eyes, long, loose blond hair. |
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| 13 | 383 |
"Is she pretty?" asked Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 397 |
The eyes of Svein Blue Tooth, and those of his men, glistened as they feasted upon her bared beauty. |
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| 13 | 398 |
"It seems," said Svein Blue Tooth, "that the wergild has been well met". |
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| 13 | 400 |
"In the morning I shall proclaim the lifting of your outlawry," said the Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 402 |
It seemed we would come alive, after all, out of the hall of the Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 409 |
"How is that?" asked the Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 411 |
The Blue Tooth looked puzzled. |
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| 13 | 416 |
"But who has told you that I choose to meet it?" Suddenly the men in the hall, both those of the Forkbeard and of Svein Blue Tooth, began to cheer. |
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| 13 | 419 |
Never in the north had there been such a coup of honor! Though it might mean the death of us all, those who followed the Forkbeard, and that of perhaps hundreds of the men of Svein Blue Tooth, we cheered. |
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| 13 | 422 |
Slowly Svein Blue Tooth rose to his feet. |
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| 13 | 424 |
There was not a man in the hall but knew that his kinsman, a distant cousin, Finn Broadbelt, whom the Forkbeard had slain, had fallen in fair duel, and that wergild should not have been levied; and there was not a man in that hall but knew that the Blue Tooth had decreed, even were such justified, a... |
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| 13 | 426 |
I choose the sleen, the forest and the sea!" Svein Blue Tooth regarded him. |
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| 13 | 435 |
All eyes turned to Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 14 | 1 |
The Forkbeard and I Depart From the Hall of Svein Blue Tooth I saw half of the body of a man spinning crazily past. |
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| 14 | 35 |
Svein Blue Tooth stood on the long table, behind which was his high seat. |
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| 14 | 82 |
Turning I saw Svein Blue Tooth and four others, trying to splinter their way from the hall. |
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| 14 | 99 |
"Clear room!" cried Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 14 | 147 |
Again in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth rang the blood shriek of the Kurii. |
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| 14 | 181 |
"Follow me!" cried Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 14 | 184 |
"Hurry! Hurry!" cried the Blue Tooth. |
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| 14 | 185 |
His garments were half torn from him but, still, about his neck, on its chain, was the tooth of the Hunjer whale, dyed blue, by which men in Torvaldsland knew him. |
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| 14 | 192 |
I saw ten Kurii leap to the back of the hall, to where Svein Blue Tooth and his men had made their opening, to prevent the escape of others. |
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| 14 | 275 |
Then we were standing on the wooden-shingled blazing roof of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 14 | 282 |
I looked over and saw him, in the moonlight, making his way downward, hand by hand, foot by foot, using the clefts, projections and niches in the ornate carvings of the exterior corner beams of the Blue Tooth's hall. |
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| 15 | 8 |
We had climbed down from the roof of the Blue Tooth's burning hall, using the projections and relief of the ornately carved corner beams. |
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| 15 | 19 |
The Forkbeard, after our escape from the stockade of Svein Blue Tooth, had been intent upon reaching his camp. |
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| 15 | 129 |
Beneath this redness burned the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 15 | 270 |
From where we stood we could see the black ruins of Svein Blue Tooth's hall and holdings, the desolated Thing-Fields, the sea, Thassa, with the ships at the beach. |
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| 17 | 14 |
Not far from me was Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 17 | 102 |
After their devastating victory of the night of Svein Blue Tooth's feast, in which his hall was burned, and the Thing encampments laid waste, they had formed their own camp, and set methodically about gathering supplies for their southern march. |
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| 17 | 105 |
During this time, a hundred pasangs to the south, Svein Blue Tooth had set the rallying point of the men of Torvaldsland. |
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| 17 | 106 |
In these days I had much spied on Kurii, living on the land, returning more than once to the Blue Tooth's war camp. |
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| 17 | 223 |
"Tie on the scarves," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 17 | 230 |
"Loosen your weapons," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 17 | 235 |
Svein Blue Tooth had his head down. |
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| 17 | 252 |
I saw then Svein Blue Tooth, the mighty jarl of Torvaldsland, lift his own head, but it did not seem, then, to be him. |
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| 17 | 254 |
The eyes did not seem those of the noble Blue Tooth, but of something else, unaccountable, not understood. |
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| 17 | 282 |
Man by man, heart by heart, the fury gripped the host of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 17 | 298 |
Well did I remember their treachery, well did I remember the massacre, hideous, merciless, in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 17 | 327 |
There was foam at the mouth of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 17 | 332 |
The signal spear, in the hand of the frenzied Blue Tooth, its scarlet talmit wrapped at the base of its blade, was lifted. |
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| 18 | 118 |
Svein Blue Tooth was at the pens, leading the attack that had broken the rally. |
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| 18 | 121 |
The Blue Tooth stepped over the body of a fallen Kur. |
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| 18 | 126 |
"Do not permit Kurii to escape to the south," said Svein Blue Tooth to Ketil, keeper of his high farm, who had been famed as a wrestler. |
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| 18 | 149 |
There, already lifted, we saw the signal spear of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 156 |
"Form lines!" cried Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 157 |
"Form lines!" The Blue Tooth, their Jarl, was with them! Men fought to take their place, under his eyes, in the first line. |
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| 18 | 158 |
The Blue Tooth himself now stood with Rollo, his own hand on the signal spear. |
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| 18 | 171 |
"Charge!" cried Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 173 |
Not ten yards before the clash took place, Svein Blue Tooth and his lieutenants before the running line, as the girls, under the whips of Kurii, fled, terrified, seeing the axes, the leveled weapons, toward them, made a sign no bondmaid of the north mistakes, the belly sign. |
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| 18 | 184 |
"Cut the wenches free," ordered Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 187 |
Svein Blue Tooth, and others, by the hair, hurled bond-wenches to their feet. |
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| 18 | 190 |
"Help her!" ordered the Blue Tooth to two frightened girls. |
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| 18 | 212 |
Had it not been for the force of Svein Blue Tooth, the power of his voice, the mightiness of his presence, Kurii might then have taken the initiative. |
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| 18 | 228 |
"No," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 236 |
"Do you not think they will hunt us in the darkness?" asked Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 248 |
Svein Blue Tooth threw Kur meat into the dirt, in disgust. |
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| 18 | 250 |
"Yes," said Svein Blue Tooth grimly, "they are waiting for night". |
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| 18 | 251 |
I saw the general within their square, the huge Kur whom I had seen before, in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth, it with the golden ring on the left arm. |
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| 18 | 267 |
"They are patient," said Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 272 |
"We shall break the square," I told Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 292 |
Dazed, injured Kurii, their formations disrupted, reeled, only to find, among them, screaming men, the launched horde of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 297 |
"Press them! Press them!" screamed the Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 334 |
In the lines of Svein Blue Tooth, once he had fought not more than six men from my right. |
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| 18 | 625 |
Svein Blue Tooth was there. |
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| 18 | 627 |
"The bridge of jewels worked well," said Svein Blue Tooth to Ivar Forkbeard. |
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| 18 | 631 |
The Blue Tooth shrugged. |
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| 18 | 649 |
What else need one know of a man? "What is to be done with these captive Kurii?" I asked Svein Blue Tooth, indicating the line of imprisoned beasts, some wounded, being driven past us, survivors of the slaughter on the Bridge of Jewels. |
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| 18 | 668 |
Ivar Forkbeard and Svein Blue Tooth might congratulate themselves on their victory. |
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| 18 | 693 |
"In four days, when supplies can be gathered," said Svein Blue Tooth, "we shall have a great feast, for this has been a great victory". |
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| 19 | 5 |
He stopped before Svein Blue Tooth and Ivar Forkbeard, who, on seats of rock, awaited it. |
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| 19 | 20 |
Then the beast went to Svein Blue Tooth and Ivar Forkbeard, and there, from the ground at their feet, lifted again the two parts of the ax. |
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| 19 | 23 |
But Svein Blue Tooth, regal, stood. |
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| 20 | 78 |
It had been he who had been first in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth, the night of the attack. |
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| 21 | 18 |
The fixing of the Kur collar, it had been decided by Svein Blue Tooth, was equivalent to the fixing of the metal collar and, in itself, was sufficient to reduce the subject to slavery, which condition deprives the subject of legal status, and rights attached thereto, such as the right to stand in co... |
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| 21 | 19 |
Accordingly, to her astonishment, Bera, who had been the companion of Svein Blue Tooth, discovered suddenly that she was only one wench among others. |
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| 21 | 20 |
From a line, as part of his spoils, the Blue Tooth picked her out. |
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| 21 | 22 |
Yet was the Blue Tooth fond of the arrogant wench. |
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| 21 | 71 |
"I would speak!" called Svein Blue Tooth, rising to his feet, lifting a horn of mead. |
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| 21 | 76 |
"Svein Blue Tooth and I," said Ivar Forkbeard, rising, spilling Hilda from his lap, "have had our differences". |
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| 21 | 79 |
The Blue Tooth had sought his life. |
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| 21 | 83 |
The Forkbeard then lifted his mead to Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 21 | 84 |
"You are a great man, Svein Blue Tooth," said he, "and you have been a great enemy". |
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| 21 | 85 |
"I shall now," said the Blue Tooth, "if it be within my power, prove to be so good a friend". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 138 |
The grass was richly green, alive, vast; the sky was blue, deeply blue, far deeper than I had known a sky could be; the clouds were sharp and white, protean and billowing, transforming themselves in the pressures of their heights and the winds which sped them; they moved at different heights at diff... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 9 |
To be sure, in barns and such the color yellow usually predominates, whereas in the colors of slavers, exhibited in such places as in the blue and yellow of the canvas covering slave wagons or in the blue and yellow of the tenting of slave pavilions, the blue and yellow is, or tends to be, more equa... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 7 |
Among these, on the flanks, on each flank, there was a society marking, a flat black line, a semicircular, curved blue line above it, the line of the earth, the overarching blue dome of the sky above it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 439 |
They would have been identified as being of the party of Cos, of course, by their recently affixed insignia, in the one case, by the blue armband, in the other case, by the blue scarf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1271 |
On his left sleeve, toward the bottom, there was a blue chevron, a yellow one, and another blue. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 16 |
He did not have the blue and yellow chevrons which sometimes characterizes the lower-left-hand sleeve of the slavers, different, of course, from their more formal regalia, or robes, commonly blue and yellow, their colors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 5 |
He was standing, pinching off the tips of new branches on the Blue Climber, a vinelike plant with large blue bracts amongst its common leaves, and small yellow flowers, clinging to the railing of the small bridge in the shogun's garden. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 524 |
For example, if all women were green or blue, or such, then the distinction between green and not green, or blue and not blue, would be of little practical interest or importance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 374 |
He had been dressed casually with a blue jacket and slacks, and a blue, open-necked shirt. |
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