| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 54 |
No! We climbed to the second mine! How terrible those moments for the guards and Whip Slaves, to suddenly see, unchained and irresistible, the avalanche of wrath and vengeance that broke in upon them! Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the rocky floors of the guard cham... |
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| 20 | 29 |
Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 64 |
Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 504 |
I was only about a quarter of the way through the bottle and was passing the side of a wagon when I saw a swift flicker of a shadow suddenly leap on the lacquered boards and by instinct I threw my head to one side as a quiva flashed past and buried itself three inches deep in the timber side of the ... |
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| 12 | 510 |
Angry I returned to the wagon and drew the quiva from the boards. |
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| 13 | 198 |
I glared down at the polished boards of the wagon floor. |
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| 23 | 219 |
Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 377 |
I was approached twice by men who had small scrolls to sell, reputedly containing important information on forthcoming races, the tarns to be flown, their riders, their times recorded in previous races and such; I supposed this would be little more than what was publicly available on the large track... |
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| 3 | 50 |
There is also some money for the masters in the annotation of games, printed on large boards near the Central Cylinder, in the preparation or editing of scrolls on the game, and in the providing of instruction for those who would improve their skills. |
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| 3 | 134 |
I myself had seen chess masters on Earth play twenty boards simultaneously and blindfolded. |
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| 9 | 49 |
One of them held the sheet up inspecting it, and I saw that it was a bill, which might be pasted against the wall of a public building, or on the public boards near the markets. |
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| 13 | 219 |
About the walls, here and there, were lists and records, inked on narrow boards; there were also, here and there, hanging on the walls, some memorabilia, such as saddle rings and tarn harnesses, suitably labeled as to their origin; there were also representations of tarns and some drawings of famous... |
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| 17 | 200 |
The name of Cernus, as patron and benefactor, was now what appeared on the placards and the boards of announcements. |
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| 19 | 175 |
Now, however, as I saw her shuffled across the boards, stiff, wrapped in a worn, dark blanket, she looked dull, stupid. |
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| 20 | 356 |
Hup, as though shocked, leaped to his feet, turned a somersault, and bounded unevenly to the table, where he put his chin on the boards, trying to nibble at a piece of bread lying there. |
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| 23 | 178 |
I saw the trail of blood on the boards of the hall, marking the flight of Cernus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 237 |
I further noted that the boards of the wagon, besides being struck and splintered in certain places, were, in other places, darkened, as though by smoke. |
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| 7 | 172 |
Moments after lying down on the canvas, spread over the polished floor boards of the wagon, in spite of the movement and the bumping and jostling, I fell asleep. |
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| 7 | 342 |
I loved to lie on it, after the canvas spread over the hard boards of the wagons. |
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| 8 | 409 |
When I was not being examined, he would dismiss me to the side of the room, where I would kneel, alone, on the boards, until summoned again. |
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| 10 | 5 |
I felt the rough boards at my back. |
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| 10 | 7 |
The back of my head pressed back against the boards. |
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| 10 | 8 |
I felt the boards, too, pressed against the fingertips of my bound hands. |
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| 10 | 35 |
I trembled, terrified, my back pressed against the rough boards. |
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| 10 | 36 |
Elinor Brinton trembled, terrified, naked and bound, her back pressed against the rough boards, a cowering slave girl. |
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| 10 | 111 |
I screamed hysterically and found myself in the corner of the room, screaming, wedged in the corner, on my knees, my hands in front of me, scratching at the boards with my fingernails, weeping, screaming and weeping. |
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| 10 | 434 |
I looked to the boards, shuttered across the window. |
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| 11 | 119 |
She knelt against the wall, the side of her face thrust against the boards, staining them with tears, her entire body shaking. |
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| 11 | 1325 |
I went to Targo, trembling, and knelt at his feet, my head to the boards of the floor. |
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| 12 | 58 |
There are only some folds of canvas to serve as a cushion between your body and the hard boards of the wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 371 |
He threw her to her knees on the boards and she knelt there, bent over, her head in her hands, fully and wildly weeping. |
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| 5 | 209 |
About a half inch is left between each pair of boards, that men, glancing in, might be moved to interest, but would be able to fully satisfy their curiosity only by actually stepping within. |
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| 5 | 210 |
The boards are alternately painted blue and yellow, the slavers' colors. |
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| 6 | 48 |
The shadows were long and flickering on the boards, those of the watering pan, the bits of food, part of a loaf of bread, those of Sheera and myself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 700 |
With a howl of rage I struck the table with the side of my fists, shattering the boards. |
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| 4 | 44 |
It was a board made for play at sea, and such boards are common with the men of Torvaldsland. |
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| 4 | 56 |
I thought that Andreas of Tor, a friend, of the caste of Singers, might have been pleased to learn that his caste was represented, and honored, on the boards of the north. |
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| 6 | 34 |
Then the ship turned a bend between the cliffs, and, to my astonishment, I saw a dock, of rough logs, covered with adzed boards, and a wide, sloping area of land, of several acres, green, though strewn with boulders, with short grass. |
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| 6 | 52 |
I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work; in others fish might be dried or butter made. |
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| 6 | 101 |
The gangplank was then thrust over the rail of the serpent and struck on the heavy, adzed boards of the dock. |
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| 6 | 152 |
We swayed on the adzed boards. |
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| 6 | 177 |
"None of them can please you," she said, "as well as Gunnhild!" He seized her in his arms and raped her lips with a kiss, his hand at her body, then threw her from him to the boards of the dock. |
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| 6 | 309 |
Indeed, the true hall, lofty, high-beamed, built of logs and boards, with its benches and high-seat pillars, its carvings and hangings, its long fires, its suspended kettles, was actually quite rare, and, generally, only the richest of the Jarls possessed such. |
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| 8 | 234 |
We saw men running down the boards of the wharf, carrying lanterns. |
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| 9 | 258 |
Some pounded their plates on the heavy boards of the wooden table. |
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| 10 | 494 |
Some extended their bodies to him; some turned, to display themselves, provocatively; for he was obviously a desirable master; but others affected not to notice him; though I noticed that their bodies were held beautifully as he passed, particularly should he pause to regard them; other girls, perha... |
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| 22 | 2 |
We stood on the wooden boards of the wharf. |
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| 22 | 71 |
"Hurry," said the girl behind her, "or we will be beaten!" The girl moaned, and staggered to the gangplank, and, slowly, foot by foot, her bare feet pressed by the weight deeply into the rough boards, climbed, carrying her burden, to the deck of the ship. |
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| 22 | 303 |
I saw her hair on the sanded boards, in the light of the three moons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 444 |
Set on rocks, boards of metal some two feet in length, and six inches wide, exposed to the sun, are sometimes used by the nomad women in frying foods. |
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| 2 | 173 |
Bent over, carrying a grossly woven bag of kaiila-hair cloth, filled with accouterments, I set foot on the cracked boards of the Kurtzal dock. |
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| 2 | 257 |
I strode to her and threw her to the rough boards at my feet, tearing the haik from her. |
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| 2 | 301 |
Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards before her. |
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| 16 | 52 |
Water drained from it, in tiny irregular streams, spattering back into the sea, and onto the boards of the raft. |
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| 17 | 162 |
It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t... |
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| 24 | 475 |
Do you not think they tremble inside those bulky garments, their precious Robes of Concealment, when a handsome, strong man passes by? Do you not think they ever consider what it would be to kneel naked before him, the boards beneath their knees, feeling the slightest movement of air on their bodies... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 65 |
She sat on the boards, hunched over, her legs drawn up, and slowly wrapped a piece of white cloth about her bleeding calf. |
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| 12 | 660 |
Certainly an illiterate master, say, of the tharlarion drivers, may relish having a former high-caste beauty, perhaps of the scribes or builders, educated and literate, cleaning his stalls and, when commanded, crawling to him over the boards on her belly begging his touch. |
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| 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. |
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| 20 | 228 |
I knelt on the hot, caulked boards, angrily. |
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| 20 | 250 |
With a scream of rage the red-haired girl leaped upon me, clawing and biting, throwing me back to the boards. |
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| 20 | 253 |
I tore at her hair, rolling with her on the boards, and got my fingers in it but she, with the heels of her two hands, struck back my head. |
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| 20 | 336 |
Behind some boxes, on the boards of the wharf, he threw me down, under him. |
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| 20 | 478 |
I knelt before him, on the boards of the wharf, eyes lifted, holding him. |
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| 22 | 221 |
I stood up, unsteadily, on the boards. |
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| 22 | 656 |
He threw me to his feet on the boards. |
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| 24 | 296 |
The man lay me on my side on the boards of the hold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 444 |
She knelt before me on the boards, trembling, her head down. |
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| 3 | 829 |
She knelt on one knee, and flexed and extended her other leg, beautifully, touching the boards of the platform with her toes. |
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| 3 | 1167 |
Their platform tunics, loose, he then let fall to the boards of the platform. |
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| 4 | 53 |
He put the tiny tabuk on the boards at his feet, and then again lifted his arms to the mountains. |
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| 4 | 62 |
I looked at the tiny tabuk left behind on the boards. |
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| 4 | 151 |
There were similar boards, though smaller, at various places about the fair, where men who could not afford the fee to enter the amphitheater might stand and watch the progress of play. |
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| 4 | 152 |
Messengers at the back of the amphitheater, coming and going, delivered the moves to these various boards. |
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| 4 | 172 |
Some men had small peg boards with them, on which they would follow the game. |
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| 4 | 173 |
On these boards they could, of course, consider variations and possible continuations. |
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| 4 | 479 |
It was being played in dozens of variations that very night on hundreds of boards. |
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| 8 | 12 |
I lay on a wooden floor, of heavy, rough boards. |
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| 8 | 14 |
I felt the roughness of the boards with my shoulder. |
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| 11 | 247 |
Interestingly he had also placed much wood on the sled, both boards and poles, for it is of great value in the north. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 |
In their right hands, grasped, were deck stones, soft, white stones, rounded, which are used to smooth and sand the boards of the deck. |
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| 6 | 18 |
The boards almost sparkled white. |
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| 6 | 152 |
The two girls then stood by the rail, lovely, naked, neck-chained together, watching the passing ships, their bare feet on the smooth boards of the deck of the Palms of Schendi. |
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| 6 | 594 |
Coils of rope slung over the side cushioned the strakes of the ship, lest she grate herself on the boards of the wharf. |
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| 6 | 718 |
She knelt there, on the hot boards. |
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| 6 | 770 |
She did so, in her chains, kneeling on the hot boards of the wharf at Schendi. |
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| 12 | 67 |
They are inserted under certain boards and in certain cracks in the ceiling. |
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| 12 | 68 |
When the roof is stepped on the tiny movements in the ceiling boards, and the pressures, release the peas. |
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| 12 | 498 |
Then the second stroke fell upon her and she screamed with misery, her grip lost on the ring, half thrown against the wall, scratching at it with her braceleted hands, the side of her face against the heavy boards. |
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| 33 | 123 |
Often, perhaps to their horror, they found themselves that very night hooded and gagged, locked in close chains, lying on their back, their legs drawn up, fastened in a wagon, chained by the neck and ankles, their small bodies bruised on its rough boards as they, helpless beneath a rough tarn blanke... |
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| 57 | 2 |
She knelt on the hot boards of the wharf at Schendi. |
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| 57 | 24 |
Janice put her head down to the boards of the wharf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 969 |
"Let the heads be shaped by boards. |
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| 19 | 198 |
I then lifted her into the wagon, kneeling her on the boards, and followed her into the wagon, crouching near her. |
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| 21 | 309 |
When I arrived there I found them waiting, kneeling on the boards of their kennels, before their chain rings, in the position of pleasure slaves, back on heels, heads up, hands on thighs, backs straight, knees wide. |
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| 21 | 336 |
I saw that either, at a snap of my fingers, would have thrown themselves on their backs on the boards before me. |
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| 21 | 426 |
At the bottom the tunnel, in its center, is floored by a set of single boards, laid end to end. |
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| 21 | 428 |
One need only keep one or both feet on the boards. |
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| 21 | 429 |
With the help of the boards, and a bit of practice, usually following a torch the first time, it is not difficult to find one's way about the tunnels in the darkness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 144 |
In virtue of the axes of the device and the various gears and pinions, and the joints, braces, fitted, sliding boards, notches and lock points, it can be adjusted to a variety of positions. |
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| 7 | 20 |
It seemed to me not unlikely that it might, if it had such a will, tear loose the very ring in the boards to which it was chained. |
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| 7 | 59 |
To one side, on her back on the boards, her knees drawn up, her left ankle roped to her left wrist, her right ankle roped to her right wrist, there lay a slave girl. |
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| 7 | 73 |
This is formed from two boards into which matching semicircles have been cut. |
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| 7 | 74 |
The two boards are connected and supported by five flat, sliding U-irons; when the U-irons are slid back, the collar is opened. |
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| 7 | 95 |
"Jewelry!" I stepped away to one side and stopped before a blanket spread out on the boards. |
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| 14 | 33 |
She was kneeling, back on her heels, naked, on the hot boards of a slaver's platform. |
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| 14 | 34 |
The boards were rough and splintery, and there were tiny droplets of tar on them. |
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| 14 | 35 |
She was shackled by the wrists, on a short chain, to an iron ring, heavy, whose plate was bolted into the boards. |
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| 19 | 8 |
He struck the bale and stumbled over it, rolling on the boards. |
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| 22 | 21 |
I saw several of the pirates with bottles of paga, swilling from them, as they strutted about, sometimes pausing to cut into a bale of goods or overturn a barrel, kicking it open, permitting its contents to run out, over the boards. |
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| 22 | 67 |
Swiftly, then, she lay at his feet, her back on the harsh, tarred boards. |
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| 27 | 18 |
"Now, slowly, very slowly, place your sword belt and scabbard on the boards," said the voice. |
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| 27 | 19 |
I slowly slipped the belt and scabbard, with the sheathed blade, from my shoulder, and placed them on the boards. |
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| 27 | 102 |
I got to my feet, not hurrying, leaving the sword, with the belt and scabbard, on the boards. |
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| 30 | 13 |
She had been humiliatingly and publicly stripped and knelt on the boards of the wharf at Victoria, before large numbers of her fellow citizens, inactive and frightened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 196 |
In climbing to the platform, and in traversing it, the guards with us, who had now remained outside, had, with the butts of their spears, prodded more than one sinuous tharlarion from the boards, the creature then plunging angrily, hissing, into the marsh. |
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| 1 | 1356 |
Kog hesitated, tearing at the boards with his clawed feet. |
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| 1 | 1365 |
Kog hurled the shield towards us and, like a great, shallow, concave bowl, it skimmed through the air, between us, and broke boards loose behind us. |
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| 2 | 97 |
The planks are further reinforced between each girl with a narrowly curved iron band, the open ends of which are pierced; this is slid tight in its slots, in its metal retainers, about the boards, and secured in place with a four-inch metal pin, which may or may not be locked in place. |
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| 8 | 890 |
It was wooden-floored and the narrow floor boards were laid lengthwise. |
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| 8 | 891 |
About every five feet a linear set of these boards was painted yellow, thus, in effect, making long, yellow lines, parallel to the sides of the structure, on the floor. |
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| 12 | 105 |
In more sophisticated devices, two, or even three, poles or boards are used, which can slide apart, and are fastened at given points by pegs or thongs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 235 |
How much protection might be afforded a girl chained on the boards in the wagon bed of such a vehicle by the single layer of the fabric of a slave tunic, if, indeed, she were permitted one? "Are such wagons padded?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 9 |
I put the small garment on the broad, dark-stained, polished boards of the floor near my feet, behind the screen. |
10 |
| 22 | 100 |
I heard the boards of the wagon bed creak as they were subjected to additional weight. |
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| 23 | 136 |
As I lay at their feet, on the blanket, on the boards of the slave wagon, they were looking down at me. |
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| 23 | 367 |
"I am sorry, Mistress!" Then I lay there frightened, chained, on the blanket, on the boards of the wagon bed, under the overhead tarpaulin. |
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| 25 | 4 |
Before he had taken the sack from its shelf he had ordered me to the floor of the utility room, to my back on the dusty boards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 |
Most Kaissa boards do not have this counter. |
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| 1 | 65 |
With a few boards and masks, and a bit of audacity, they create the mystery of performance, the magic of theater. |
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| 1 | 70 |
Their hand-printed handbills and hand-painted posters, the latter pasted on the sides of buildings and on the news boards, were much in evidence. |
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| 2 | 62 |
I myself threw a golden tarn disk to the boards. |
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| 2 | 368 |
Some tarsk bits rattled to the boards. |
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| 6 | 122 |
"Head to the boards!" snapped the free woman. |
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| 6 | 123 |
Immediately the girl put her head down to the boards. |
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| 6 | 218 |
The Brigella trembled, but she, still kneeling, could not lift her head from the boards. |
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| 6 | 1216 |
She thrust the robes down about her ankles, stepped from them, put them to the side, and then knelt on the boards, beside the Brigella, before the audience. |
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| 12 | 421 |
They are often extremely difficult to decipher because of the use of multiples and nulls, and the multiplicity of boards". |
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| 12 | 422 |
"What is the 'multiplicity of boards,'" I asked. |
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| 12 | 428 |
"Those presumably indicate the 'boards,'" he said. |
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| 12 | 443 |
' Both the sender and receiver, of course, can easily determine this, as they both have the keys to construct the appropriate boards". |
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| 12 | 458 |
"The true power of the ciphers come in, in my opinion," said the player, "not so much with the multiples and nulls but with the multiplicity of boards. |
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| 12 | 463 |
The multiplicity of boards thus permits the shifting of the cipher several times within the context of one message. |
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| 12 | 466 |
"Too, if one wishes," he said, "one need not, in filling out the boards, do so as in the fashion of normal writing. |
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| 16 | 807 |
It was at this table, too, where sat Temenides, a member of the caste of players, one who stood among the high boards of Cos. |
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| 16 | 965 |
Then five coins altogether, five golden tarn disks, and of Ar herself, as it was pointed out, were offered to the player for his Bina, lifted in the furious, clenched fist of Temenides, of Cos, one of the masters of the high boards of Kaissa in that powerful island ubarate. |
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| 16 | 990 |
"Consider my honor! I play among the high boards of Cos. |
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| 21 | 74 |
Once here, I had begun my search, in various rooms, for obvious, unconcealed paraphernalia, of a sort that might be germane to Kaissa, such things as boards and pieces, books, sheaves of papers, and records. |
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| 21 | 88 |
On another paper there was what purported to be a list of tournament cities, and on another a list of names, of individuals supposedly noted for their craftsmanship in the skill and design of Kaissa boards and pieces. |
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| 21 | 89 |
There were also, on other papers, numbered, too, the representations of boards. |
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| 21 | 90 |
Arranged in various ways on these boards were letters, sometimes beginning from a word, sometimes from a random, or seemingly random alignment of letters. |
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| 21 | 107 |
The pieces in the Kaissa room, and the boards there, did not indicate frequent usage. |
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| 21 | 108 |
The wood was not worn smooth and stained with the oil of fingers; the surface of the boards showed little sign of wear, or use, such as tiny scratches or even the subtle indications, the small rubbing marks, of polishings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 112 |
In the back of the wagon Feiqa and Tula knelt small, trembling, their heads down to the coarse sacking covering the boards of the wagon bed. |
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| 22 | 26 |
The stairwell boards were narrow. |
10 |
| 22 | 126 |
The small animal skittered backward, with a sound of claws on the boards. |
10 |
| 22 | 345 |
I trusted this was merely from the disrepair and age of the boards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 664 |
My feet were on warm boards. |
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| 6 | 710 |
The boards beneath my feet seemed thick and hot. |
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| 6 | 786 |
I then felt it in the very boards beneath me, it exciting me with the pressing weight and smoothness of it, its strength, its directness and awesome power, the force of the wind filling and shaping, and thrusting against, this large, extended, exposed canvas surface, transmitting its power through t... |
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| 11 | 62 |
There had even been some handbills distributed by boys about the city, and others, I had heard, had been tacked up on public boards. |
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| 11 | 140 |
I smiled, looking down at the boards of the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 215 |
"Chain them on the boards," cried another. |
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| 1 | 217 |
In it the victim is fastened, by collars and shackles, on structures of parallel, upright boards, vertical platforms, in effect, mounted on posts. |
10 |
| 1 | 227 |
This, like the hanging in chains, the exposure on boards, and such, is a very ancient modality of execution. |
10 |
| 1 | 490 |
The boards of the bridge were slick with water. |
10 |
| 6 | 45 |
Then he pressed her back to the boards. |
10 |
| 6 | 573 |
"Oh!" I had turned her to her belly, on the blanket, spread over the boards. |
10 |
| 19 | 57 |
We stood on the blood-stained boards. |
10 |
| 19 | 63 |
Some of the fellows in the small boats had even drenched the boards behind us with water, to keep the fire from us, while others had hacked away at the pilings. |
10 |
| 19 | 172 |
He dropped the leather purse, drawn shut with strings, to the boards of the walk. |
10 |
| 19 | 212 |
I cut at the other below the shield, above the knee, and he slipped to the boards. |
10 |
| 19 | 236 |
He lay there on the drenched boards, trembling. |
10 |
| 20 | 56 |
He did not tell them to tear boards from the piers themselves, to construct makeshift hurdles and barricades. |
10 |
| 20 | 100 |
A fellow lowered Aemilianus to the boards, amidst the feet about him. |
10 |
| 21 | 1058 |
Both the girls then bent forward and, putting the palms of their hands on the deck, lowered their heads to the boards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 107 |
I then slid the lower board of a hinged pair of boards, with matching semicircular openings, into position, in the slots in the armrests. |
10 |
| 24 | 112 |
I then, with the attached clip, using the hasp and staple, locked the two boards together. |
10 |
| 24 | 143 |
Then I looked about and found one of the pairs of long boards, each board with its matching semicircular openings long enough to cover the five positions on one of the benches. |
10 |
| 24 | 148 |
In this fashion, by means of the matching semicircular openings in the two boards, her neck was fully, and closely, encircled. |
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| 24 | 150 |
As the boards were thick, her chin was forced up. |
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| 24 | 180 |
She looked to the side, her chin held high by the boards. |
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| 38 | 13 |
"You refer," I said to Marcus, "to the supposedly secret news, that which is not to be posted on the boards in the Cosian camp". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 15 |
These boards, however, were along the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, and were state boards, on which official communiqués, news releases, announcements and such, could be posted. |
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| 14 | 1 |
In the Vicinity of the Public Boards Before the boards, rather in a circle before them, there was a crowd. |
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| 6 | 1 |
The Public Boards Marcus and I turned to the street for a moment, to watch a company of guardsmen, at quick march, hasten by, their bootlike sandals, coming high on the calf, resounding on the stones. |
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| 6 | 13 |
"Here it is," said Marcus, calling back to me, "on the public boards". |
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| 6 | 14 |
The public boards are posting areas, found at many points in Ar, usually in markets and squares. |
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| 6 | 16 |
Some boards are maintained by private persons, who sell space on them for advertising, notifications, and personal messages. |
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| 6 | 29 |
"I see," I said, reading the boards. |
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| 6 | 31 |
"There is nothing to that effect here on the public boards," said the other fellow. |
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| 6 | 33 |
"Read to me," begged a fellow looking up at the boards. |
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| 6 | 54 |
"But it is on the public boards!" said another. |
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| 6 | 172 |
"Do not respond to that," I said to Marcus, and drew him back a bit from the public boards, to the edge of the crowd. |
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| 7 | 4 |
It was now two days after we had read the first postings of the conciliatory message of Lurius of Jad on the public boards. |
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| 7 | 460 |
I heard the sound of hammers as the workmen struck boards from the platform. |
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| 7 | 533 |
It now seemed quiet at the park of the Central Cylinder, save for the sounds of the workmen, striking apart the boards of the platform. |
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| 7 | 538 |
"Look," I said to Marcus, indicating some of the boards removed from the platform and piled to one side. |
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| 7 | 540 |
"The boards," I said, "on their upper surfaces, they are smoothed". |
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| 8 | 34 |
But the formation of such convoys, too, are usually advertised on the public boards, this information being of interest to various folks, say, merchants who might wish to ship goods, teamsters, guards, and such, who might wish employment, and folks wishing to book passage. |
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| 8 | 100 |
"Here are public boards," said Marcus. |
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| 8 | 330 |
Certain shops had apparently also been looted, though no mention of this had appeared on the public boards. |
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| 10 | 10 |
This had been admitted on the public boards at last. |
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| 13 | 8 |
"If it is true," I said, "I do not think it will be found on the public boards". |
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| 13 | 165 |
Indeed, a small announcement had even appeared on the boards, in the name of Ubara herself, that slave girls should obey their masters and try to be pleasing to them. |
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| 13 | 243 |
"There is a crowd ahead," I said, "at the public boards". |
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| 13 | 245 |
"Let us see what is afoot," I said, and together we hurried forward, toward the boards. |
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| 14 | 2 |
Whereas there may have been unwelcome information on the boards, the immediate attention of the crowd was not at this moment upon them. |
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| 14 | 23 |
I resolved I must learn more of what was on the boards. |
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| 14 | 104 |
"My master," she said, "is a kind, liberated, noble, enlightened master! He accepts such laws, or laws much like them, as much as if they had been proclaimed by the councils and promulgated by the Ubara herself!" "The actual words of the Ubara," I said, "or at least as reported on the boards, were t... |
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| 14 | 404 |
"What is new on the public boards?" I asked a fellow. |
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| 14 | 432 |
"What is new on the boards?" I asked Marcus. |
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| 14 | 444 |
"Is it on the boards?" I asked. |
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| 14 | 474 |
"Is there more on the boards?" I asked Marcus. |
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| 14 | 645 |
Clutching her tunic about her as best she could, she then rose up and hurried from the place of the public boards. |
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| 14 | 683 |
"Glory to Ar!" I heard the ripping down of a sheet from the public boards and saw a young fellow casting it aside. |
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| 14 | 703 |
I looked again to the defiant delka cut into the boards. |
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| 14 | 704 |
"I do not think I would care to be found in the presence of this delka," I said, "so prominent on the public boards, so freshly cut". |
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| 14 | 720 |
"Here! Here!" They hurried across the avenue to the boards. |
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| 14 | 723 |
"And on the boards," I said. |
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| 15 | 18 |
Marcus and I, knowing the movement was to take place, and, indeed, it had been on the public boards, had come to watch. |
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| 15 | 22 |
It had been he who, some days before, had cut the defiant delka deeply into one of the public boards on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 16 | 134 |
"Perhaps we are loyal fellows of Ar," I said, "who, as is presumably appropriate for those of the new Ar, hate the Delta Brigade, and are opposed to it, who see in it a threat to Ar's ignominious surrender, that is, to harmony and peace, who see in it a challenge to the imperious governance of Cos, ... |
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| 18 | 455 |
"To a scribe to read the public boards!" "No!" said Marcus. |
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| 18 | 457 |
I sometimes had difficulty with the public boards, particularly when cursive script was used. |
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| 19 | 796 |
"Did you not see names written on the call boards in the kitchen?" "No," she said. |
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| 20 | 515 |
"Master!" said Phoebe, suddenly, taken by Marcus and thrust down, forcibly, to the boards. |
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| 20 | 655 |
I seized her, turned her and threw her to her back, with a sound of the chain, beside me, on the blanket, spread over the boards. |
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| 21 | 84 |
Indeed, in a sense she was ignorant of its contents as Marcus and I, with Phoebe's expert assistance, as it turned out, had composed it yesterday evening, while she had been scouting the public boards for us, for any news that might be of interest. |
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| 21 | 85 |
It is best for slaves to approach the public boards in the evening or very early morning, when it is less crowded in their vicinity. |
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| 23 | 7 |
There was a line, as well, behind the fellow, awaiting its turn to enter the roped-off circle, and, one by one, express their contempt for the "Traitress of the North" as Ar's Station was now referred to on the boards. |
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| 28 | 88 |
Yet how unfair was this to the perceptive young, piercing the propaganda, scorning the public boards, recognizing without being told what was being done to them and their city, smarting with shame, burning with indignation, recollective of Ar's glory, the young in whom flowed the blood of their fath... |
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| 28 | 98 |
Those who control the public boards, it is said, control the city. |
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| 28 | 115 |
I had heard the creak of boards on the landing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1116 |
Perhaps then you might be nailed to the great gate or to the public boards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 531 |
There was miscellaneous debris on the floor, a shallow, bent pan, perhaps once used by slaves for drinking, some boards, some papers, and such. |
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| 19 | 88 |
They did examine the empty cage areas, among them the cage where Ellen, head down, not looking up, her hair forward, scrubbed the boards carefully, lengthwise, as was required, going with their grain. |
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| 19 | 378 |
He then carried her out to the general loft area, and put her, bound as she was, on her back, on the boards. |
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| 19 | 495 |
Ellen had lain on the floor amidst this bustle, naked there, on the straw-strewn boards, bound hand and foot, neglected, the small, now-damp, folded tunic clenched between her teeth. |
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| 19 | 505 |
Then she turned her head to the right, the left side of her face then on the boards. |
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| 19 | 645 |
On the roof, amongst boards, and debris, there was a naked slave, chained by her wrists to a ring. |
10 |
| 21 | 142 |
In a moment the bridge was passed, Ellen feeling the worn, spaced boards beneath her feet, and then, on the other side, the grass. |
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| 25 | 235 |
It was not merely that it was a festival camp, for it was not that unusual to sell women on holidays, and at times of celebration, sometimes with special advertising on the public boards, and such; it had to do, rather, with the sales being conducted not by a private house, but by a state, in this c... |
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| 27 | 741 |
Sometimes he had roared then with frustration, and left her on the polished boards of the training room, until, say, an Ahn or so later, calmer, perhaps having in the meantime utilized a house slave, he had returned to free her, and send her to her next class, perhaps one of cooking or sewing, or on... |
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| 27 | 2173 |
She felt the rough boards through the tunic, against her back. |
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| 27 | 2286 |
And at the same time she heard a cry of rage from beneath the boards of the inverted wagon, and the entire surface beneath her, seemed to shudder, and buck, once, twice, exerting force upon the straining ropes fastened to the stakes, and then the wagon rose up, suddenly, the ropes tautening and drag... |
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| 27 | 2919 |
She remembered the boards irrupting from the corner of the wagon. |
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| 30 | 297 |
He then released her from the ring, and she collapsed to the dark, polished, narrow wooden boards beneath it. |
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| 30 | 312 |
"Yes, Master," she said and crawled to the stairs, across the dark boards of the hall, and then, on all fours, her back doubtless rich with stripes, ascended the steps, landing by landing. |
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| 30 | 339 |
And he threw her to his feet and, crouching beside her, she first, startled, on all fours, and then thrust to her belly, tore away her tunic, shred by silken shred, flinging these narrow, delicate, yellow, rent scraps behind him, they fluttering away to alight, scattered, like startled flowers, on t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 326 |
A tear had fallen to the boards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 389 |
Two boards are used, with an opaque barrier between the boards, so neither player can see the pieces of the other. |
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| 5 | 390 |
An adjudicator observes both boards and informs the players whether a move is legal, whether a capture has been made, and so on. |
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| 5 | 820 |
"Several, in the fighting, learned they were on the proscription lists, copies of which were posted on the public boards," said another. |
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| 13 | 170 |
"I saw my name on a proscription list, posted on the public boards," she said. |
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| 13 | 241 |
Too, I thought his capture would be a coup of considerable dimension, and one whose fame would be soon registered on the public boards of a dozen cities, whispered about a thousand campfires, even as far north as the forests, but, here, too, I had, as yet, heard nothing. |
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| 28 | 148 |
Later, after supper, and a cup of hot kal-da, this doing much to restore my spirits and reconcile me to the day's travails, rather than immediately retiring to a damp tarpaulin and the hard, chill, soaked boards of a wagon, a respite to which I had earlier looked forward, I took it upon myself to ma... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52 |
Commonly, however, kaissa boards are simple, straight boards, and the pieces are kept separately, in boxes or sacks. |
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| 1 | 50 |
The trenchers had been gathered in, and the kaissa boards had been folded and put away, the red and yellow pieces in two shallow drawers, fixed in the board, one on each side, one for each color. |
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| 1 | 366 |
Within the city collaborators, their names posted on the public boards, were hunted down, room to room. |
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| 2 | 182 |
I had heard, above the cries and the breaking wood, from the other side of the passing hull, the sudden ringing of springal boards speeding javelins, doubtless ignited, into the enemy. |
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| 5 | 310 |
The boards of the deck were white, and closely fitted, stone cleaned. |
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| 8 | 130 |
She put the black wine to the side on the deck, and put her head to the boards, before me, her hands beside the sides of her head. |
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| 8 | 333 |
When free I despised the needs of slave girls, but then I did not understand how they felt, how helpless they were in the throes of their needs; I did not understand what was going on in their bodies, that made them cry out, and whimper, and scratch at the boards, and moan; I did not understand what... |
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| 13 | 24 |
The deck is split and the boards shrunk. |
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| 26 | 140 |
Even the slaves who brought the water and other supplies were not permitted near the baskets and nets, but must kneel on the boards of the wharf, until dismissed, to climb, roped together by the neck, the narrow walled-in path to the castle grounds. |
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| 37 | 259 |
I thought it made an unusual noise, sliding on the boards. |
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| 37 | 658 |
I might have been concerned here, but the warehouse seemed filled with bulging purses, and the counting boards on several of the long tables were so filled that coins lay loose, spilled beside them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 52 |
Smoke was now billowing from the flaming heap in the center of the room, the tables, the wheels, the boards, the boxes of gaming pieces. |
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| 8 | 1605 |
The boards were greasy. |
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| 10 | 210 |
Certainly she could now manage the public boards and, I gathered, typical scrolls. |
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| 10 | 613 |
Advertisements for such may be found on certain of the public boards. |
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| 10 | 638 |
In any event, whether as a mere aspect of their disguise, or because the pittances of my earnings might actually be important to their economy, I found myself serving as a work slave, a laundering slave, several customers having been located on the public boards by Delia, companion of Epicrates. |
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| 16 | 90 |
"If you were to peep out, between the side boards and the canvas, you might occasionally see a tharlarion ranch". |
10 |
| 16 | 114 |
"I am naked, the boards are hard, the Ahn are long". |
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| 21 | 87 |
The boards were rough and hot. |
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| 41 | 99 |
She could read the public boards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 3 |
She was kneeling beside me, on the boards, in a white tunic, of the wool of the bounding hurt, her wrists braceleted behind her, her leash of common brown leather looping up to my hand. |
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| 14 | 189 |
Among them, too, were thieves, brigands, and cutthroats, some of whose names and descriptions adorned the public boards in more than one city. |
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| 15 | 481 |
I felt the boards of the dock on my knees. |
10 |
| 17 | 61 |
I remained as I was, kneeling on the rough boards of the dock. |
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| 17 | 78 |
How miserable I was, there, kneeling alone on the boards! How I hated him! And all men! Why could they not be like the men of Earth, sweet, understanding, sensitive, weak, confused, timid, eager to please, easily guided, suitably conditioned, manipulable, repudiators of nature, betrayers of their bl... |
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| 17 | 81 |
I then looked about, wildly, at the long dock on which I knelt, the heavy boards stretching before me, diminishing in the distance, the great ship ahead, uneasy at its moorings, at the broad river to the left, the sheds, shops, and forest on the right. |
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| 43 | 676 |
Surely she had seen girls on the dock hooted at, seized, and caressed as workers pleased, and, often enough, as a joke, stripped on the boards. |
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| 47 | 67 |
It is played much like ordinary Kaissa save that there are two boards, separated by a vertical screen, precluding each player from seeing the moves of the other. |
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| 47 | 68 |
An arbiter is at hand who can see both boards. |
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| 50 | 310 |
Please show me mercy!" He then scooped me up, lightly, and carried me to one of the nearby small boats, one with two oars, and put me on my back, roughly, on the boards, at the bottom of the boat. |
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| 50 | 316 |
I tried to struggle up a bit, to see, but his foot pressed me back to the boards. |
10 |
| 50 | 317 |
Yes, I thought, angrily, curiosity is not becoming in a kajira! So I lay back on the boards. |
10 |
| 50 | 327 |
The boards were rough, and hot from the afternoon sun. |
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| 50 | 527 |
My captor tossed a bundle of chain on the boards beside me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 61 |
I stood beneath the boards of the shed roof, which extended some feet into the courtyard. |
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| 9 | 14 |
They cast themselves prostrate before the shogun and, eyes on the lacquered boards, not daring to raise their heads, babbled out their report. |
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| 25 | 210 |
Those feet, I supposed, soft, smooth, and delicate, prior to her journey to the stadium, had encountered no surface harsher or more rugged than the floor of a bath or the polished, lacquered boards of a lady's chamber. |
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| 52 | 29 |
I yanked boards aside and revealed a small room, containing what appeared to be a console of sorts, and, behind it, a large frame, in which were mounted six viewing panels. |
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| 54 | 14 |
And if the Kurii were unresponsive, who would be so rash, at least upon reflection, to reprimand so large, unpredictable, and dangerous a form of life? So, the first time we had opened the door, near the twentieth Ahn on the second night of our stay in the chamber, we had propped up the bodies of th... |
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| 59 | 6 |
The boards of the flooring, and those of the dais, were of dark, polished wood, and the walls, also of dark wood, were ornamented by numerous characters, designs, and images of light wood, inlaid in the darker wood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 75 |
I could hear the shoes, or boots, of the men on the boards. |
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| 9 | 556 |
The day, again, was bright, and the boards of the wharf, as I could tell, placing my hands through the bars, once again, were, like the cage and bars, warm to the touch. |
10 |
| 9 | 795 |
A bit later, the cage, shedding water, was drawn up to the wharf, and then dragged across the boards, and placed where it had been before. |
10 |
| 10 | 36 |
It had been drawn in chalk, crudely, on the boards of the wharf. |
10 |
| 10 | 225 |
I then lay on the warm boards, in bara. |
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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 | 257 |
Then I felt boards beneath my feet. |
10 |
| 15 | 273 |
I could see little from within the basket other than through the opened gate, the boards outside, but there were numerous, tiny openings between the woven fibers. |
10 |
| 20 | 118 |
Near us a shopkeeper drew down a screen of boards, closing his shop. |
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| 33 | 674 |
But the lantern was dashed to the floor, where it shattered in a spattering rainbow of glass and oil, and, a moment later, a hungry torrent of fire, raging, ever enlarging, began its bright feeding, racing across the boards of the floor of the house. |
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| 39 | 28 |
The boards of the flooring were hot. |
10 |
| 39 | 35 |
As I was barefoot, it was painful to stand on the boards. |
10 |
| 49 | 88 |
The best players are entitled to set their boards on the highest bridges. |
10 |
| 49 | 92 |
The Sardar Fairs, so to speak, are treaty grounds, where lethal enemies may sit side by side, observing the great boards, where the match movements are posted. |
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| 52 | 64 |
Lady Bina, in any event, as there was no sign of public concern or agitation at her removal from the House of a Hundred Corridors, as exhortations, alarms, proclamations, offers of rewards for her return or information leading to her return, and such, were not being broadcast throughout the city and... |
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| 57 | 238 |
I saw the reeling Kur, no longer howling, enter the festive structure, look about, and then leap up, seizing the latticework of the bower, and then falling back to the ground amidst a confetti of flat, narrow boards that could not have begun to hold his weight. |
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| 61 | 83 |
My house does not stint on the provender of its festive boards, nor on the richness of its gifts to its retainers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 101 |
The pins and nails of lies try to pin us to the boards of others. |
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| 7 | 3 |
My right shoulder was sore and my right hip, from how I had been placed, on my right side, on the boards. |
10 |
| 7 | 77 |
Sometimes it scraped on the boards. |
10 |
| 8 | 201 |
The slave was now on her belly, on the boards of the deck, and she still held the chain in her hands. |
10 |
| 8 | 212 |
Then I felt the boards of the wharf, thick, rough, and warm, beneath my feet. |
10 |
| 8 | 261 |
I could feel warm boards beneath my bared feet. |
10 |
| 8 | 278 |
Had that movement stopped, or had I been accosted, I would have instantly thrown myself to my knees, my head down to the boards of the dock. |
10 |
| 8 | 477 |
The slave was now on her belly, on the boards of the deck, and she still held the chain in her hands. |
10 |
| 10 | 132 |
These items are not to be confused with the posters which may be placed on walls throughout the city or on the public boards. |
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| 29 | 7 |
Who cares if a Centius of Cos or a Scormus of Ar can push tiny pieces of wood about on a hundred-squared, red-and-yellow board better than ten hundred thousand others? Is it really so superior to the planting of suls and the harvesting of Tur-Pah, the fishing for eels or parsit, the shaping and smoo... |
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| 29 | 48 |
Some men carried sheets on small boards, sheets on which were lists or, at least, characters arranged in dense columns. |
10 |
| 30 | 24 |
Of most interest, to most I gathered, were the large public boards covered with writing, which writing was occasionally changed by a scribe, walking back and forth on a platform, with a sponge and marking stick. |
10 |
| 30 | 25 |
I gathered from the conversations, comments, observations, and such, that these boards listed contestants, matches, and odds. |
10 |
| 30 | 26 |
Bruno of Torcadino stopped before more than one of these boards. |
10 |
| 30 | 28 |
Near these boards, at long tables, men stood in lines, paying money and receiving slips of paper in exchange. |
10 |
| 30 | 46 |
They rent the huts, like inn rooms, charge for shops and concessions, tax purchases, and, in particular, charge a handling fee for processing wagers and maintaining the public boards. |
10 |
| 30 | 80 |
There are boards beneath the sand. |
10 |
| 30 | 110 |
Matches in the first and second phase are posted on the public boards, and are followed by intermissions. |
10 |
| 46 | 292 |
"If it were in the streets, we could nail boards across the portal". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 203 |
Also, take some planks and boards and nail them together, about the size of a large door, such that they may serve as a small raft". |
10 |
| 28 | 16 |
I signaled to Thurnock and Clitus and they heaved the tiny, improvised raft, nailed together from some planks and boards, overboard. |
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| 46 | 9 |
The great hall of Mytilene, where indoor markets, public meetings, and expositions were often held, had lost a wall and a portion of its roof, but the loose plaster, stone, wood, timbers, rafters, boards, and paneling had all been swept, or carried, aside and five long tables, two of them improvised... |
10 |
| 58 | 126 |
There was a brutal shock and a sudden, ear-shattering tearing of wood behind us and Clitus, Sakim, Thurnock, and myself fell to the remaining boards of the stem deck. |
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| 59 | 18 |
Four days ago, I had stood before the public boards, set up near the palace of the governor. |
10 |
| 59 | 20 |
"Noble merchant," said a short fellow, squinting up at the boards, "I am no Scribe, no learned man, nor one familiar with figures and accounts, such as yourself". |
10 |
| 59 | 49 |
Then he pointed again to the boards. |
10 |
| 59 | 76 |
I then turned away from the public boards. |
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| 61 | 1 |
Bombastico "I shall render such a performance," said Bombastico, "as will endure through the ages, as will be so memorable and splendid that it will transform the lore of the theater, so awesomely magnificent that others, should they dare to ascend the boards, made aware of it, will be plunged into... |
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| 62 | 15 |
"I have read such on the public boards," I said. |
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