| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 |
My weapons shared the boat, with a gourd of water and a tin of bread and dried bosk meat. |
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| 1 | 78 |
The pith is also used, upon occasion, as a caulking for boat seams, but tow and pitch, covered with tar or grease, are generally used. |
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| 7 | 207 |
Then I began to gather rence, drawing it from the surface of the island itself, long strips, with which a boat might be made. |
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| 8 | 24 |
Two slaves stood aft in the small, square-ended, flat-bottomed boat, poling. |
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| 13 | 8 |
I took a longboat ashore, and sent the boat back to my galley. |
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| 15 | 62 |
"Take this lady," said I to them, "in a long boat to the largest of the round ships, one rowed by captured officers of the treasure fleet, and chain her there, with other treasures, in the rowing hold". |
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| 16 | 328 |
Our boat mixed oars with another, and then we shoved apart and continued on our way. |
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| 17 | 259 |
The boat was lowered to the water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 532 |
* * * * "Ho there," cried the fellow leaping from the long boat, "it is only a wench". |
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| 18 | 537 |
Others left the boat, too, and looked about. |
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| 18 | 648 |
"Throw her in the boat," he said. |
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| 18 | 649 |
The bound slave girl was thrown rudely into the boat. |
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| 18 | 652 |
Then they, with the leader, lifted themselves into the boat. |
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| 21 | 224 |
"Lie in the boat, my captain," whispered Thurnock. |
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| 21 | 239 |
Thurnock climbed into the boat, and, leaning toward me, helped me to follow him. |
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| 21 | 241 |
"Lie in the boat, Captain," said Thurnock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 262 |
The peasant tilled his fields, the fisherman went out in his boat, the merchant risked his capital. |
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| 5 | 303 |
The Forkbeard threw off the fur, revealing the proud Aelgifu, bound hand and foot, gagged, lying in the bottom of the boat. |
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| 8 | 176 |
"You have no ropes to lower me to your boat," she said. |
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| 8 | 210 |
He wanted her to be able to cry out; her cries, of course, would be muffled; they would not be discernible on the height of the fortress; they might, however, be heard by Gorm and those in the boat; too, he wanted her to be able to thrash about; this, too, would help Gorm to locate her in the darkne... |
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| 8 | 217 |
We gave Gorm time to find her and fish her out, throwing her in the boat and binding her ankles. |
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| 8 | 218 |
Then the Forkbeard stood on the sill of the tall window, poised, and then he dived into the darkness; after about an Ehn, giving him time to surface and swim to the boat, I followed him. |
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| 8 | 309 |
The oars, gently, noiselessly, entered the water, and the boat moved away, into the darkness. |
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| 13 | 342 |
A boat was waiting. |
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| 13 | 343 |
Like a fish I was retrieved and made prisoner, forced to lie on my belly in the boat, like a common maid. |
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| 18 | 613 |
From Black Sleen we saw a small boat being lowered, rowing toward him. |
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| 20 | 170 |
Then I went down to meet the boat, finding my way among the rocks. |
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| 20 | 186 |
Then I threw her into the boat, between the feet of the oarsmen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 37 |
I had been carried and transported for a time in a small boat, and, for a time, in a cart. |
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| 22 | 247 |
They drew me into the boat. |
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| 22 | 539 |
Men fought to right the capsized boat. |
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| 22 | 715 |
We saw one boat fleeing from her in which was a free woman. |
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| 24 | 305 |
"The men," said one of the women, "were taken from the boat and chained, and put in a round ship". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 269 |
"There would be a boat waiting". |
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| 2 | 731 |
I saw the silken head of an urt in the canal, a few feet from the boat. |
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| 2 | 759 |
Another urt's head, sleek and glistening, surfaced near the boat, then it submerged. |
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| 5 | 139 |
"Is my boat ready?" I asked. |
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| 18 | 8 |
Five men, besides myself, waited in the large skin boat, the umiak. |
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| 18 | 13 |
Usually such a boat is paddled by women, but no women were now within it. |
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| 18 | 23 |
Through the drilled hole in the bone, some four inches below the slate point and some four inches above the base of the head, was passed a rawhide line, which lay coiled in the bottom of the boat. |
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| 18 | 25 |
Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale. |
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| 18 | 30 |
The monster, as though it stood on its flukes, towered forty feet above us, the line like a tiny thread, billowing, leading downward to the boat. |
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| 18 | 35 |
The boat was half awash. |
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| 18 | 38 |
With leather buckets four men began to hurl water from the boat. |
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| 18 | 44 |
The other hunters in the boat, discarding their buckets, seized up their lances, slender hunting tools, with fixed heads, commonly used not in throwing but in thrusting. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 774 |
"Greetings, Captain," said Thurnock, from the boat. |
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| 1 | 776 |
I stepped down into the boat and took the tiller. |
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| 1 | 777 |
The boat was thrust off into the dark water, and, in moments, we were rowing quietly toward my house. |
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| 4 | 341 |
I did not think it likely she would risk stealing a boat. |
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| 4 | 343 |
Also, though she did not know it, a she-urt in a boat would surely provoke instant suspicion. |
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| 4 | 344 |
Where would such a girl obtain a boat, if she had not stolen it. |
10 |
| 4 | 388 |
These boats are generally shallow-drafted, narrow, and single-oared, the one oar being used to both propel and guide the boat. |
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| 6 | 350 |
One then brings one's boat about and, by wind or oar, proceeds upstream. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 282 |
I was aware then of a lantern, and a small boat, behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 |
Two men fell from the boat into the water. |
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| 2 | 100 |
The arrows were discharged at almost point-blank range into the other boat, as we struck against it. |
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| 2 | 108 |
We struck down with an oar, driving back a man trying to reach into the boat. |
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| 16 | 16 |
But a moment later the charging citizens, like thundering, horned kailiauk, like uncontrolled, maddened, stampeding bosk, pikes and spears leveled, chains flailing, swords flashing, boat hooks, and axes and shovels upraised, struck the dumbfounded, disarrayed throngs of astonished buccaneers. |
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| 16 | 25 |
An outraged citizen thrust down, driving the vertically mounted point of a boat hook into the fellow's face. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 238 |
A similar result is obtained, usually, more simply, in an open boat, the girls being hooded and bound hand and foot, and then being thrown between the feet of the rowers. |
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| 2 | 289 |
A hundred or so feet away there was the small boat of an urt hunter. |
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| 2 | 292 |
One end of it is tied on her neck and the other end is fastened on the boat, to the bow ring. |
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| 2 | 301 |
Some hunters use a live verr but this is less effective as the animal, squealing, and terrified, is difficult to drive from the side of the boat. |
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| 2 | 307 |
Thus, in such a situation, she may not have time to return to the boat. |
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| 2 | 338 |
I looked beyond Samos to the boat and urt hunter in the canal. |
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| 2 | 339 |
The girl climbed, shivering, into the bow of the boat, the wet rope on her neck. |
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| 2 | 340 |
In the bow of the boat, crouching there, nude and shivering, she coiled, in careful circles, in the shallow, wooden rope bucket beside her, the central length of the rope, that between her neck and the bow ring. |
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| 2 | 401 |
The urt hunter, with his girl and boat, rowing slowly, was taking his leave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1151 |
"Your men and boat are waiting," he said. |
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| 1 | 1156 |
One of Samos' men cast the line into the boat. |
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| 2 | 1768 |
"Put him in the boat, with the others," said a voice. |
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| 3 | 76 |
"We took you, one by one, drugged, to the boat. |
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| 6 | 288 |
The device of the invisible cloth, or invisible object, a stone, a sword, a garment, a house, a boat, supposedly visible only to those with special properties, is a commonplace in Gorean folklore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 137 |
It was difficult to see how my projects would be furthered if, while attempting to identify myself and explain my mission, I were to be cut open with a boat hook. |
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| 17 | 45 |
The fishermen had a net with them, doubtless brought up from their small boat in the harbor. |
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| 19 | 24 |
I saw one fellow of Ar's Station, standing in a small boat, scream with hatred and strike down at one of the shapes with a pike. |
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| 19 | 26 |
I saw another fellow, a fellow of Cos, spend a quarrel on a fish that was scouting his boat. |
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| 19 | 77 |
A small boat struck gently against the piling near us, to the left. |
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| 19 | 83 |
We lowered these two into the boat. |
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| 19 | 85 |
The small boat rocked, and was almost swamped. |
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| 19 | 87 |
The rest of us, seven men, watched the small boat pull away from the walkway. |
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| 19 | 119 |
"You two in this boat," I said to two of them, as another of the small craft touched against the piling. |
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| 19 | 120 |
The oarsman stood up, a fisherman, and extended his hand, to help the two fellows into the boat. |
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| 19 | 121 |
We had overloaded the last boat. |
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| 19 | 122 |
We, the five of us remaining on the walkway, watched this second small boat pull away, moving slowly toward the piers. |
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| 19 | 138 |
In a few moments another small boat arrived. |
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| 19 | 142 |
The two fellows then stepped down, carefully, into the small boat. |
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| 20 | 1 |
The Piers I climbed from the small boat to one of the piers. |
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| 24 | 171 |
"But these things were brought by the dispatch boat this morning?" said a man. |
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| 24 | 183 |
"Hail Port Cos!" cried a fellow in a small boat, off the bow to starboard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 |
The officer's boat, too, the fishing craft, propelled by poles, approached, he and others, as well. |
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| 9 | 73 |
"Do not approach the boat," warned the fellow behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 635 |
The boat was rowed, or maneuvered, with its back oar, to a different point on the shore, and, when the area had been sufficiently reconnoitered by the two lads, she was lifted from the boat, and led into the trees. |
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| 20 | 592 |
"Get a rope from the boat," said the older lad. |
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| 20 | 602 |
A bit later she was placed in a small, flat-bottomed boat, on her belly, under a tarpaulin. |
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| 20 | 603 |
In the boat were two wide, shallow, wooden buckets, each half filled with wet, glistening leeches, taken from the water, often from the stems of water plants, such as rence. |
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| 20 | 604 |
Before being put on her belly in the boat, Ellen's face, she on her knees, was almost thrust into these two buckets, one after the other, filled with twisting, inching, churning leeches, that she might see them. |
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| 20 | 618 |
Ellen was then put to her belly in the bottom of the boat, hands tied behind her, the rope on her neck, under the tarpaulin. |
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| 20 | 631 |
Once, out on the lake, they had apparently been hailed by another boat, doubtless from their village, which must be close. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 52 |
"A boat, a raft," said Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 12 |
The other two oarsmen, oars outboard, and the helmsman, his hand on the tiller, nursed the boat, keeping it, as it was turned, muchly parallel to the shore. |
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| 38 | 361 |
"The boat departs from the southern shore". |
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| 38 | 403 |
The approaching boat was now midriver. |
10 |
| 38 | 504 |
The boat which had come from the other side of the river had now drawn up on the beach, below the wharf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1369 |
We were then, helplessly, embarked on this great boat. |
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| 13 | 3 |
We had clambered aboard the vessel, from a small ship's boat, cutting through the masses of snarled, ropelike, blossomed vines which encircled it, covering it, almost obscuring it. |
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| 13 | 33 |
One could almost walk upon the vines, but one could draw a small ship's boat, or raft, through them, hoping eventually to reach free water. |
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| 13 | 48 |
Why this ship and not another? I did know that he and Lord Nishida had surveyed it, from a ship's boat, this morning, as they had others, on other mornings, with the glass of the Builders. |
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| 13 | 79 |
Our small ship's boat, with four oarsmen, was tied alongside. |
10 |
| 13 | 154 |
He then went to the rail, and lowered himself to the waiting ship's boat, and I followed him. |
10 |
| 14 | 327 |
It must be a search party, in a small boat. |
10 |
| 14 | 367 |
In moments I, and two oarsmen, had put Seremides in the ship's boat. |
10 |
| 22 | 130 |
He looked about himself, in the din, fatigued, frightened men, many wounded, moving past us, toward the water, the hope of a boat. |
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| 22 | 138 |
Board the galley, or a small boat, return to the ship". |
10 |
| 22 | 144 |
A man, bleeding, ran past us, toward the water, toward a small boat. |
10 |
| 22 | 152 |
In the light of a lantern, held by a fellow on a small boat, I saw a fellow's arm disappear beneath the water. |
10 |
| 23 | 55 |
Moreover, interestingly, two of the fellows who had shared his boat, insisted that he had been whole at his oar, and that he had been the first to seize a rope, and climb toward the rail, far above. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 312 |
He must then have freed the boat from its mooring, for he was wading beside it, thrusting it into the river, and then he entered the boat, took his seat, freed the oars, set them in place, and began to row. |
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| 52 | 281 |
"There should be only one boat here," said my captor, as we uneasily, "my boat," approached two, small, two-oared boats. |
10 |
| 25 | 80 |
I hoped to find a small boat, and make use of it. |
10 |
| 44 | 18 |
I resolved to go far enough inland to elude pursuit, and then, when sure of my escape, somehow cross the river, perhaps stealing a boat, perhaps building a raft, bound with vines, or even clinging to debris. |
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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. |
10 |
| 50 | 345 |
In a few more Ehn, I felt the bottom of the boat grate against the shore. |
10 |
| 50 | 346 |
The oars were drawn inboard, and my captor left the boat, and, wading, drew it high, onto the beach. |
10 |
| 50 | 347 |
As I lay supine, apparently as my captor wished, I could see little but the inside of the boat, and the sky. |
10 |
| 50 | 349 |
So, I thought, I have, at last, managed to cross the river! He then reentered the boat and undid the ropage which had bound my ankles and legs. |
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| 52 | 18 |
I supposed a boat, or boats, would be waiting. |
10 |
| 52 | 246 |
"Then we must hurry to our boat". |
10 |
| 52 | 248 |
"My accouterments," said my captor, "are in the far boat, there, along the shore". |
10 |
| 52 | 283 |
He reached into the boat and gathered up a pack. |
10 |
| 52 | 292 |
My captor put down his pack on the beach, and stepped away from it, and away from the small boat. |
10 |
| 52 | 431 |
"But in the small boat". |
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| 52 | 443 |
Axel lifted Asperiche from the boat and put her half in the chill water, at the beach's edge, and she began to cry out, and shudder, and was then lifted up, wide-eyed, and placed on her back, not far from me. |
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| 52 | 569 |
"I would have struck you down from behind, you unsuspecting, as you entered the boat". |
10 |
| 52 | 950 |
He did lift and cast aside the tarpaulin which had been in the boat brought by Axel, which had covered the unconscious form of Asperiche. |
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| 52 | 951 |
He then threw three oars out into the river, and, with the remaining oar, punched an opening in the bottom of each boat, following which he thrust them out into the current, and then hurled the last oar after them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 900 |
Men began to fight in the boat and cast one another from the boat. |
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| 26 | 59 |
Could I have done so I would have cried out, for something rose up under the canal boat, lifting it a foot from the water, and tipping it to the side, and then, scraping the bottom of the boat, it slithered away, to the right. |
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| 33 | 69 |
When we had availed ourselves of a canal boat, we were far more aware of tharlarion in the vicinity, turning in the water, emerging and submerging, sometimes circling the boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 379 |
I saw one of the bowmen on the boat discard his bow and slip over the side of the boat. |
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| 33 | 649 |
I suspected it had come from the side of the canal boat, from the right side of the canal boat, in the darkness, and somehow, in the mix of waters, that of the exiting freshwater flow of the Vosk, draining through the marsh, and the incoming, rising tide of the Tamber, had turned and moved behind me... |
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| 42 | 225 |
We made our way boat by boat, on this planking, twice turning corners, and then reached a walkway. |
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| 42 | 232 |
He then motioned to two men from the boat, and they helped Talena down into the boat, to a place under the canopy. |
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| 43 | 158 |
There was a sudden rending of wood and the iron-reinforced prow of our canal boat rose out of the water, climbing the gunwales of the other boat, and then, after a terrible moment, plunged back into the water, scattered planking and timbers on each side. |
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| 8 | 155 |
Fish thrashing at the end of a line, might be half eaten before they could be brought into a boat. |
10 |
| 8 | 858 |
"The corsair," I said, "is putting down a long boat". |
10 |
| 8 | 865 |
"I see nothing!" Suddenly I did see that the long boat which was being lowered into the water, tilted wildly, and splashed down. |
10 |
| 8 | 896 |
The long boat was swarming with men, in the craft and clinging to it. |
10 |
| 8 | 897 |
I saw more than one fellow in the boat slash with a knife at those trying to climb into it. |
10 |
| 8 | 899 |
The long boat was low in the water, the waves lapping at its gunwales. |
10 |
| 8 | 903 |
I saw the long boat turn, tip, and capsize, twenty or more men then clinging to the inverted hull, another twenty or so about it. |
10 |
| 8 | 905 |
Men in the water, some cursing, struggled to right the boat. |
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| 8 | 920 |
The long boat had now been righted, and some twelve or so men, perhaps as many as fourteen or fifteen, had climbed aboard. |
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| 8 | 937 |
I looked out at the horror some yards away, at the rocking, awash, beleaguered long boat, the struggles, the knives and clubs, the bloodied waters, the screaming men, the stirrings about of inquiring sharks. |
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| 11 | 88 |
The usual arrangement is a hunter, in a small boat, accompanied by a slave girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 91 |
This rope is several yards long and is fastened to a stout ring in the boat. |
10 |
| 11 | 93 |
The girl, serving as bait, swims near the boat. |
10 |
| 11 | 95 |
When an urt is sighted, the girl moves closer to the boat. |
10 |
| 11 | 105 |
As the girl is attached to the boat by the rope, she is seldom in great danger. |
10 |
| 11 | 106 |
She may even be dragged to the boat, the urt still clinging to her body. |
10 |
| 17 | 81 |
"Every time it is open, to admit a ship or a rence boat, something could enter the city". |
10 |
| 21 | 68 |
Another small boat slipped by, this one moving west on the canal. |
10 |
| 21 | 70 |
Another small boat was passing under it, approaching. |
10 |
| 21 | 72 |
The boat which had been far off, approaching, passing under the bridge, now passed by. |
10 |
| 21 | 122 |
"Wait! Do not enter the water! Do not enter the water!" A small canal boat was close. |
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| 26 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Marshes I now knelt, bound, in the bow of the small canal boat, and Bruno of Torcadino, in the stern, quietly, slowly, manipulated the single oar. |
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| 26 | 9 |
At times we made our way through rence, it brushing the sides of the boat. |
10 |
| 26 | 10 |
In many places the rence is well above, sometimes several feet above, the sides of the boat. |
10 |
| 26 | 23 |
Would one explain one's intentions to a verr, a tarsk, a slave girl? He had rented a small canal boat. |
10 |
| 26 | 55 |
We had not, as I previously noted, lit the small lantern on the prow of our canal boat. |
10 |
| 26 | 81 |
Perhaps, I thought, it is just as well that Bruno of Torcadino had refrained from lighting the small lantern on the prow of the canal boat. |
10 |
| 26 | 101 |
But scarcely had the small boat reached the wall of rence than Bruno of Torcadino's hand rested on the oar. |
10 |
| 26 | 109 |
I wondered if it might not have been something else, another canal boat, or, say, one of the small Rencer ships, made of woven rence. |
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| 26 | 116 |
He set his hands to the oar, and the boat moved. |
10 |
| 26 | 117 |
I heard the rence brush against the sides of the boat. |
10 |
| 27 | 9 |
In the canal a canal boat passed. |
10 |
| 29 | 22 |
In the morning, usually in a small boat, the disputants or contestants are brought to the skerry with a serving of meat and drink. |
10 |
| 29 | 23 |
In the evening, the boat returns to the skerry for the survivor. |
10 |
| 33 | 18 |
The previous few nights Bruno of Torcadino had essayed this journey, as previously, in a canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 23 |
The canal boat is too large. |
10 |
| 33 | 26 |
Why can we not do so, as well? A canal boat is easily seen and avoided, a rence craft not so. |
10 |
| 33 | 68 |
The difference, I suspect, was in our vessel, the rence craft as opposed to a canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 70 |
Sometimes they brushed against, or prodded, the boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 71 |
One had risen up under the boat, tipping it. |
10 |
| 33 | 93 |
Then I could see, in its own lights, one at the stern, one at the bow, a large canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 94 |
In the canal boat were some seven or eight men, mostly sitting. |
10 |
| 33 | 100 |
Two men were in the stern, one standing, propelling and guiding the boat with its single oar and one near him, cloaked and hooded, sitting. |
10 |
| 33 | 107 |
The man in the bow, not looking back, lifted his hand, and the oarsman ceased to ply his oar, and the boat drifted a few yards forward into the lakelike clearing in the rence. |
10 |
| 33 | 112 |
For about an Ehn the boat rocked in place. |
10 |
| 33 | 124 |
Some yards before the canal boat the waters stirred, swelling up, and then parted, revealing, shedding water, a rising, monstrous head. |
10 |
| 33 | 129 |
The grip of such jaws could tear loose the side from a canal boat, or bite a rence craft in two. |
10 |
| 33 | 130 |
In the light of the forward lantern on the canal boat I saw the reflection of light on metal teeth and fangs. |
10 |
| 33 | 136 |
It could easily evade and outdistance the canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 141 |
It had responded to the signal of the man in the bow of the canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 146 |
Very gently, I remaining still, Bruno of Torcadino moved our rence craft closer to, but to the right side and behind, the canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 147 |
None in the canal boat, as far as I could discern, were aware of our presence. |
10 |
| 33 | 167 |
"Much cannot be helped, great lord," said the fellow in the bow of the canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 172 |
Despite the might and horror of the object to which he addressed himself, there was neither reluctance nor apology, nor cringing, nor fear, in the tone of the man in the bow of the canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 182 |
"I make no excuses," said the man in the bow of the canal boat. |
10 |
| 33 | 186 |
The two lights on the canal boat, one at the stern, one at the prow, were reflected in the water, shimmering there, and were reflected, as well, from the metal plates or scales, of the hideous monstrosity but yards away. |
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| 33 | 187 |
I wondered if it were wise to have the lanterns on the boat lit. |
10 |
| 33 | 189 |
Perhaps the difference was the size of the canal boat, the number of men aboard, or even the complacency, or confidence, of those aboard. |
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| 33 | 209 |
Who would have dared to conceal the most coveted of jewels in the setting of a metal collar? And who, while thousands sought her in secret places, would dare to place her where she would least be suspected, in public, in a public tavern, almost within his purview, as a common slave?" "Few would know... |
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| 33 | 211 |
"With him," said the man in the bow of the boat, "I have an ancient score to settle". |
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| 33 | 219 |
"On this world," said the man in the bow of the boat, "there is a quaint social artifact, taken seriously be some. |
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| 33 | 224 |
"It is overcome in the third of the Nine Steps of Blood," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 235 |
"But fallible," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 241 |
"Who is wanted as a traitor to Ar, a betrayer of its Home Stone, a fugitive from proscription," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 245 |
"We needed only keep him under surveillance," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 249 |
"It will require men to storm that place," said the man in the boat, "several men". |
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| 33 | 253 |
"To whence?" asked the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 258 |
"And the common thread amongst them, soon suspected, would be the undoing of our hopes," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 261 |
I was terrified in the bow of the tiny rence craft, so near now to the canal boat, and the dread thing of such terrible mien, illuminated in the light of the two lanterns. |
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| 33 | 268 |
"Not every brigand will do," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 274 |
"Much has already been arranged," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 278 |
"I think neither easily nor too remotely," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 281 |
"Surely none," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 284 |
"It takes time to craft a crossbow, the stock and trigger, the sheaves of metal, the cable," said the man in the boat, "but, once built, its quarrel may be loosed in an instant". |
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| 33 | 286 |
"The quarry in our power," said the man in the boat, "much, thereafter, could be restored". |
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| 33 | 288 |
"From now, some days," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 290 |
"Time takes time, expedition is afoot," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 292 |
The man in the boat spun about, suddenly. |
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| 33 | 293 |
Consternation shook within the boat. |
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| 33 | 296 |
In that moment, seeing the man in the boat, turned about, his face illuminated in the light of the bow lantern, I realized I had seen him before, in the apartment of Dorna of Tharna, the Proud. |
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| 33 | 305 |
"Quarrels," said the man in the boat, and quarrels were set in the guides of bows. |
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| 33 | 306 |
"Do not fire," said Addison Steele, clutching the rail of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 316 |
"Prepare," said the man in the boat. |
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| 33 | 323 |
"Aim!" said the man in the boat, and I saw the crossbows of his followers align themselves, most on Bruno of Torcadino, two upon me. |
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| 33 | 328 |
Our most secret and finest plans may be in jeopardy!" "We need not fear what they know," said the man in the boat, "if it perishes in the marshes". |
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| 33 | 331 |
"Bows down," said the man in the boat, his voice sullen with rage. |
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| 33 | 357 |
"Aim!" cried the man in the boat, he who had been addressed by the name 'Pa-Kur'. |
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| 33 | 367 |
Some men, with torches and drawn swords clambered over the side of the canal boat and were wading about. |
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| 33 | 368 |
Two others, with armed crossbows, surveyed the water from the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 384 |
I realized I was being forced back toward the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 388 |
It was the fellow who had slipped over the side of the boat a few moments ago. |
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| 33 | 427 |
I was half carried, half dragged, to the side of the canal boat, and men reached down and hauled me aboard. |
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| 33 | 428 |
I knelt amongst the feet of the men, my head down to the deck of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 430 |
"What of he who named himself Bruno of Torcadino?" demanded Pa-Kur of his men, who were now muchly returned to the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 516 |
One light was at the stern of the canal boat, the other at its bow. |
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| 33 | 551 |
At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q... |
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| 33 | 553 |
I had slipped through the gouged, splintered wood, to the side, the boat tilting. |
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| 33 | 555 |
The canal boat was then behind me, listing. |
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| 33 | 662 |
In the attack of the Ul, the night before, the canal boat of the Assassin, Pa-Kur, had been muchly damaged. |
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| 33 | 668 |
Some of the canal boat's debris, given currents and such, had apparently taken much the same course that I had followed in my flight. |
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| 35 | 16 |
A moment later the propelling oar moved, and the canal boat was underway. |
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| 35 | 42 |
I was lifted from the canal boat and felt stone tiles beneath my feet. |
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| 37 | 33 |
How should I know where I was? I had been brought here, hooded, in a canal boat and only relieved of the hood on the walkway. |
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| 37 | 69 |
One then steps from the boat directly into the house. |
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| 37 | 151 |
"I am sure there is a guard boat with guardsmen about," said Florian. |
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| 37 | 155 |
I did not recollect seeing such a boat. |
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| 37 | 161 |
"What luck! Approaching even now is a guard boat". |
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| 37 | 170 |
Miles raised his hand, waving, summoning the guard boat to the edge of the canal. |
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| 37 | 176 |
The boat came gently to the side of the canal. |
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| 37 | 201 |
I suddenly recognized one of the fellows still in the boat. |
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| 37 | 215 |
"Lady?" asked the other fellow who had emerged from the boat, who seemed the senior of the two who were now on the walkway. |
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| 37 | 219 |
"Do you seek to bribe guardsmen of Port Kar?" asked a man in the boat, bearded, with a silver slash on his helmet. |
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| 37 | 245 |
He raised his hands from the canal boat, toward her, and she bent down, extending her hands, parallel, to hand him the coins. |
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| 37 | 261 |
The subordinate meanwhile slapped slave bracelets on her held wrists, and the officer pulled her down, into the canal boat, and put her to her stomach. |
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| 37 | 264 |
His two men descended from the walkway, slipping into the boat. |
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| 37 | 267 |
I was facing the boat. |
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| 37 | 268 |
I felt Florian's sandaled foot against my fundament, pressing, and he gave me a vigorous push, and I, so impelled, half stumbled, half fell, into the canal boat which, even then, as Florian boarded, was drawing away from the walkway. |
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| 39 | 93 |
"What is the meaning of this? Let me go! Free me! What are you going to do? Stop! Stop!" One of the guards entered, one I recognized from the canal boat, carrying Dorna in his arms. |
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| 39 | 109 |
Two more men entered the room below, Miles, whom I knew from the holding, and he who had been the seeming officer on the canal boat, whom I shall refer to as "the officer". |
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| 42 | 1 |
An Alarm is Given; A Ruse is Enacted; The Bridge of Boats; A Large Canal Boat Casts Off "I hear it!" said Cella. |
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| 42 | 206 |
"That slave is naked," said a man, interposing himself between a canal boat and Vas of Anango. |
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| 42 | 228 |
Tethered at the side of the canal, near them, was an oared, half-covered, half-canopied, canal boat containing some nine or ten men. |
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| 42 | 244 |
Her lips silently framed the question, "Zia?" In the meantime, Seremides had apparently said something to one of the men in the boat because he had ascended to the walkway. |
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| 42 | 248 |
In a moment she was bound and gagged, and thrust under the half-canopy of the boat. |
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| 42 | 269 |
At a gesture from Seremides, Vas of Anango lifted me up, and, with a jangle of bells, cast me into the arms of a fellow on the canal boat. |
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| 43 | 10 |
A small, single-oared canal boat, of the sort typical of Port Kar, was passing us. |
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| 43 | 45 |
Another canal boat slipped past us, presumably on its way toward the delta wall, perhaps even to the delta-gate market. |
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| 43 | 55 |
"There," said the man whom I took to be the leader of our crew, pointing forward, "the Southern Gate!" A long canal boat, much like ours, was near the Southern Gate, at a pier to its right. |
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| 43 | 61 |
"That boat," said the man, pointing. |
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| 43 | 68 |
"This boat is not armored," said the man. |
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| 43 | 85 |
"When I hired this boat, I anticipated the possibility of such a contingency. |
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| 43 | 86 |
This boat may not be armored, but it is heavily timbered, and the bow is reinforced with iron". |
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| 43 | 87 |
"The boat is going to pass us," said an oarsman, looking about. |
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| 43 | 99 |
It was true, another large canal boat, which had apparently been lurking outside the Southern Gate, now made its appearance, to the left. |
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| 43 | 116 |
This occurrence was not missed by several of the oarsmen who, naturally, all faced the stern of the boat. |
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| 43 | 124 |
Now, stroke!" The boat lunged ahead. |
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| 43 | 130 |
Then we were beyond the turning, crippled boat, pathetic, like a bird with a broken wing. |
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| 43 | 163 |
Then the boat shook and rolled, free in the troubled, stirring waters of the Tamber Gulf. |
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| 43 | 166 |
"The first boat comes about, pursues!" I looked back. |
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| 43 | 167 |
The shearing on the one side of the boat of Decius of Venna had snapped oars but not torn open the strakes. |
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| 43 | 168 |
Half the oars on the uninjured side of the boat had been repositioned to provide the craft with a symmetry of leverage. |
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| 43 | 175 |
The canal boat was buffeted to one side, and was washed back, and then, again and again, it was lifted, and then fell back, dropping between waves. |
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| 43 | 215 |
Somewhere behind, I supposed, the handicapped canal boat of Decius of Venna struggled in our wake. |
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| 43 | 216 |
I wondered if it had stopped to take aboard the men in the water, the crew of the boat which had sought to block our passage through the Southern Gate. |
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| 43 | 225 |
The canal boat was not only tormented by the rain and spray, but, from the splash of the waves, had shipped water. |
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| 43 | 264 |
I awakened to a cheer, and, half an Ahn later, our canal boat scraped against wood. |
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| 45 | 35 |
Euphrosyne and I, as one, leapt through the rear curtains of the canopied area, were amongst the stern thwarts of the boat, and scrambled over the rail, and onto the pier. |
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| 45 | 38 |
But, ela, no way was open before us! We had scarcely sped three or four mad, wild, desperate yards when we were intercepted by the gathered men, seized by the arms, and faced back, toward the moored boat. |
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| 45 | 147 |
I caught sight of Decius of Venna, emerging from one boat, followed by men, and Addison Steele, from another, with Florian, of the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, and Miles, too, of that holding. |
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| 46 | 406 |
"Then strip her, and bind her, hand and foot and put her on the floor of the waiting canal boat, that bearing the design of the holding of Bosk. |
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| 46 | 513 |
Euphrosyne was doubtless on the floor of a canal boat, moored nearby, supine or prone, stripped, and bound hand and foot. |
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| 46 | 682 |
A bit later, Addison Steele hailed a passing canal boat with its pilot. |
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| 47 | 223 |
"I managed to seize a piece of drifting wreckage, from Pa-Kur's canal boat," I said, "and utilized it to free myself". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 302 |
"This will buy a boat, a fine boat, of the workmanship of Naxos, two boats," she said, "one for Xanthos, one for his father". |
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| 18 | 123 |
"A small boat, a light boat," I said. |
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| 51 | 164 |
As it turned out, its intentions, despite an undoubted adherence to orders, were frustrated, three, massive, whiplike coils of the monstrous hith wrapping themselves about the boat and, tightening, reducing in as little as a dozen Ihn the boat and certain occupants to little more than floating debri... |
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| 18 | 122 |
"I was picked up the next day by a ten-oared fishing boat". |
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| 23 | 78 |
"I have a small, fine boat," said Xanthos. |
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| 48 | 100 |
"Take this carrion," said Thrasymedes, "put it in a cart, take it to the beach, get it on a boat, and see that it is disposed of at sea". |
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| 51 | 147 |
The boat seemed to float on a scarlet sea. |
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| 51 | 148 |
Several dorsal fins began to cut toward the boat. |
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| 51 | 154 |
Ctesippus now stood in the boat, shuddering, drenched and dripping. |
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| 51 | 160 |
"The boat could hold several more occupants," I said. |
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