| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 95 |
I nodded, imagining a palace, empty save for one man sitting alone on his throne, clad in his robes of state, waiting for the angry people outside the gates to break through and work their wrath. |
10 |
| 3 | 187 |
During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest. |
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| 8 | 3 |
The soldier, beginning at the high, ornate collar of the girl's robes, began to break the braided loops, ripping them loose from their hooks; methodically he tore her robes apart and pulled them down and over her shoulders; in half a dozen tugs the heavy layers of her garments had been jerked downwa... |
10 |
| 13 | 37 |
Some animal must be trying to break the hunting circle. |
10 |
| 13 | 41 |
As it is, when the larl loses its hunt, the animals which escape are those which haven't tried to break the circle, those which allow themselves to be herded easily. |
10 |
| 15 | 24 |
It was unthinkable that they should top the walls of Ar, but with their battering rams they would attempt to break through at the lower levels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |
He was quiet and pleasant, though sometimes he seemed remote, or lonely, somehow unwilling to break through that protective shield of formality behind which the educated Englishman, at heart perhaps as sentimental and hot-blooded as any man, attempts to conceal his feelings. |
10 |
| 14 | 147 |
It seemed the metal would tear the flesh from my hands, break the bones of my fingers. |
10 |
| 18 | 87 |
"Tomorrow night," I said simply, looking in Ost's direction, "we will make our break for freedom". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 206 |
There was a long silence I did not feel I should break. |
10 |
| 9 | 213 |
I found myself tempted to break her head against the foot of the stone couch, for she was worthless, treacherous, seductive, cruel, vicious, worthy only of the collar, irons and the whip! She shook her head numbly as though denying charges I had not voiced. |
10 |
| 12 | 178 |
"Punish the Matok," said Sarm, "but do not break its bones nor injure its organs". |
10 |
| 15 | 4 |
"The workers of the Fungus-Trays," said Misk, "break off both ends of the torch and climb about on the trays with the torch in their teeth". |
10 |
| 16 | 166 |
My old hatred of Vika now began once again to infuse my blood, and my hands ached to grip her and shake her until her bones might break and then throw her to my feet. |
10 |
| 29 | 13 |
Here and there where a human or Priest-King would dart into the open the cone nearest to him would focus on him and the human or Priest-King, like the buildings and the walls, would seem to break apart into powder. |
10 |
| 31 | 98 |
We were considering these matters when suddenly the entire floor of the compartment in which we sat seemed to buckle and break apart. |
10 |
| 31 | 107 |
"He is going to break apart the planet". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 149 |
They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break. |
10 |
| 8 | 319 |
She must then have counted about three beats to herself, and then she began to break her running pattern, moving to one side and the other, making it difficult to approach her swiftly. |
10 |
| 8 | 488 |
I released the bola, risking all, hurling it not to the expected rendezvous of the second left but to a first right, unexpected, the first break in the two-left, one-right pattern. |
10 |
| 11 | 120 |
"What were you?" Then he turned his kaiila suddenly toward them and they would break and run screaming and laughing and then, like a flock of birds, take up once more the pursuit. |
10 |
| 12 | 153 |
She had had to break the seal on the bottle to open it. |
10 |
| 17 | 64 |
I still had seen nothing break the surface to breathe, and now I was determined that my unseen foe must indeed be aquatic. |
10 |
| 26 | 138 |
"Break through the wall," said Kamchak. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 9 |
I gathered this was in case someone on the other side would attempt to break the mirror. |
10 |
| 13 | 97 |
And then my hands closed on her waist and she cried out in rage, struggling, trying to break free. |
10 |
| 13 | 292 |
On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap... |
10 |
| 13 | 321 |
Mip on his tarn, Green Ubar, seemed a swift, dark movement against the white sand and tiers, the shadow coursing behind them, seeming to break geometrically over the tiers. |
10 |
| 18 | 533 |
I wished that I might break the steel from my wrists and seize his throat. |
10 |
| 21 | 284 |
It is hard to break or attack the picket. |
10 |
| 21 | 296 |
The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 |
On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon... |
10 |
| 2 | 1 |
The Cries of Marsh Gants I saw the girl ahead, through a break in the rushes, some fifty yards beyond. |
10 |
| 3 | 3 |
They are generally about eight to nine feet thick and have an exposed surface above the water of about three feet; as the rence stems break and rot away beneath the island, more layers are woven and placed on the surface. |
10 |
| 8 | 41 |
* * * * Silently, swiftly, with the stamina and skill of the rence girl, Telima, unerringly taking advantage of every break in the marsh growth, never making a false thrust or motion, brought our small craft soon into the vicinity of the heavy, slowed barges, hampered not only by their weight but by... |
10 |
| 8 | 806 |
"I should take you," I said, "and break your spirit!" "Yes," she said, "I expect you could do that, if you wished". |
10 |
| 11 | 45 |
From the outside some men tried to climb the barricade, and break it down. |
10 |
| 13 | 246 |
I released the man's hand, not having chosen to break it. |
10 |
| 15 | 142 |
He had not been an easy slave to break to his collar. |
10 |
| 17 | 194 |
I had watched my first wave break in dozens of places the long lines of Cos and Tyros, and had seen the ships of the great fleet turn to face them, and had witnessed their vulnerability to the slender second wave of ships, each wreaking destruction beyond what might be expected of their sizes and we... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 125 |
I could attract the attention of the individuals in the apartment below or, if necessary, with a chair, or implement, or whatever might be found, break through the glass to their apartment. |
10 |
| 13 | 592 |
I feared only that the rope might break. |
10 |
| 15 | 1033 |
"You may break position," she said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 312 |
"You will never break us!" hissed one of them to him. |
10 |
| 2 | 546 |
In such a sea literally, in spite of their beams and chains, they can break in two, snapping like the spines of tabuk in the jaws of frenzied larls. |
10 |
| 8 | 262 |
I shook my head wildly, seized Arn by one arm, and dragged him through the break in the hut. |
10 |
| 9 | 150 |
I myself saw them break camp. |
10 |
| 16 | 121 |
I did not think it would take long now for Vinca to break her. |
10 |
| 18 | 263 |
Weeping, the two girls sprang to their feet and ran to the edge of the forest and, trying not to enter into its shadows, rapidly, weeping, began to break branches and gather wood. |
10 |
| 18 | 288 |
They fled to the darkness of the trees and began to break and gather wood. |
10 |
| 20 | 224 |
"Do not break formation!" cried Sarus. |
10 |
| 21 | 161 |
With the hammer and chisel Vinca and the paga slaves, perhaps aided by Cara, would have managed to break or open the hand chains of one of the men of Marlenus, or one of my men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 32 |
"I am still attempting to break the Jarl's Ax's Gambit," I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 386 |
I had intended to permit her to smolder for a time, she much aroused, and then later, when she had been much heated with need and desire, when, cruelly deprived, she had been aching to break into flame, throw her to my furs, but, unfortunately, I had forgotten about her. |
10 |
| 10 | 80 |
A man in direct fee with the Jarl is, in effect, a mercenary; the Jarl himself, from his gold, and stores, where necessary or desirable, arms the man; this expense, of course, is seldom necessary in Torvaldsland; sometimes, however, a man may break a sword or lose an ax in battle, perhaps in the bod... |
10 |
| 11 | 313 |
"You must still learn to break the Jarl's Ax's Gambit". |
10 |
| 14 | 234 |
"I have not yet learned to break the Jarl's Ax's Gambit," I rejoined. |
10 |
| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
10 |
| 18 | 165 |
They were to be used to break our lines. |
10 |
| 18 | 218 |
Men, too, where they could break away from small battles, individual combats, found their way to our lines. |
10 |
| 18 | 229 |
"We cannot break the square". |
10 |
| 18 | 245 |
"Perhaps they will break the square for us". |
10 |
| 18 | 246 |
But the square did not break. |
10 |
| 18 | 272 |
"We shall break the square," I told Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 18 | 650 |
"We shall break the teeth from their jaws," he said. |
10 |
| 22 | 4 |
"I think," said I, smiling, "I will take ship south with Ivar Forkbeard, for I have yet to learn to break the Jarl's Ax's Gambit". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 266 |
Later, when a master wished, he would, when it pleased him, to her horror, break her totally to his will. |
10 |
| 4 | 428 |
When we would break camp, I would lift her to the kurdah, placing her within. |
10 |
| 7 | 250 |
"Do not break your position," said Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 7 | 668 |
"Open the collar," I told him, "rather than merely break the links. |
10 |
| 8 | 45 |
One man tried to break and run. |
10 |
| 11 | 47 |
The danger is primarily that the kaiila may, struggling, and falling, break their limbs". |
10 |
| 12 | 368 |
I do not even know if it would be wise to break you, to make you cringe and grovel". |
10 |
| 13 | 5 |
I fell, unable to break my fall because of the manacles confining my wrists at my waist, fastened to the loop of chain, burning in the sun, about my waist. |
10 |
| 13 | 20 |
The path is broken by a kaiila, whose long, haired legs, with broad pads, break through, and lift themselves free, of the crusts. |
10 |
| 13 | 278 |
She wept, but did not break the position of the slave dance. |
10 |
| 21 | 349 |
I saw it again, once briefly, in a break in the storm. |
10 |
| 25 | 163 |
The men of the Tahari are not patient with those who break wells. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 899 |
Swiftly then did I reassume the position which I had dared to break, and again I knelt, though this time in an agony of terror, before the strange, mighty man, his legs spread, his arms crossed, who stood before me. |
10 |
| 2 | 929 |
I did not break position. |
10 |
| 2 | 933 |
I was afraid to break position. |
10 |
| 2 | 937 |
I was afraid to break position. |
10 |
| 5 | 201 |
Gorean warriors seldom break this bond. |
10 |
| 7 | 385 |
She would then sign a document of enslavement which, after her signature was affixed, she would be powerless to alter or break, for she would then be only a slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 189 |
The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu... |
10 |
| 9 | 291 |
"Do not break the position of the pleasure slave," warned the largest of the girls, she, Sandal Thong, a long-armed, freckled giantess of a peasant wench. |
10 |
| 9 | 342 |
"Do not break the position of the pleasure slave!" she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 603 |
"Do not break her neck, Master," pleaded Verr Tail. |
10 |
| 9 | 1294 |
I tried again to break the circle and was again caught and flung again to its center. |
10 |
| 9 | 1714 |
"It did not even break his back," said Thurnus. |
10 |
| 12 | 550 |
If the box were not open I might be able to break it, or its small lock, and thus obtain the keys. |
10 |
| 16 | 81 |
She is chained in such a way as to preclude movement which might tear at the mesh or break it, thus making possible the entry of urts, which might eat at her, lowering her price, and to preclude her tearing hysterically with her hands and fingernails at her own body, bloodying herself, perhaps scarr... |
10 |
| 18 | 152 |
I heard glass break below. |
10 |
| 25 | 38 |
We might, in time, break through it, but we have no assurance that we would not tap a false memory, set within her mind to deceive or mislead us. |
10 |
| 25 | 124 |
From the practical point of view, if a cipher is used briefly and for a given short message, it may be impossible to break. |
10 |
| 28 | 359 |
I shook with fury, but did not break the position. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 633 |
They break from glaciers, usually in the spring and summer, and drift in Thassa, moving with the currents. |
10 |
| 3 | 1051 |
"Break her to your collar," said the slaver's man. |
10 |
| 3 | 1052 |
"I do not want to take the time to break a girl in," he said. |
10 |
| 4 | 608 |
If I could get him off his feet I might then manage, even in the darkness, regaining my feet first, to break his diaphragm or crush his throat beneath my heel, or, with an instep kick to the back of his neck, snap loose the spinal column from the skull. |
10 |
| 11 | 7 |
We had little difficulty with the guards and work crews east of the break in the wall. |
10 |
| 12 | 126 |
"Break camp," he had told them. |
10 |
| 12 | 337 |
The animals seem generally unwilling to break the imaginary boundary which might be projected between cairns. |
10 |
| 12 | 343 |
At the end of the cairns, of course, they turn about, milling, and many are slain, until some, wiser or more panic-stricken than others, break loose and, nostrils wide, snorting, trot to freedom and the moss of the open tundra. |
10 |
| 15 | 137 |
They did not yet understand how a woman screaming in a cell might break her body against the bars trying to touch a guard. |
10 |
| 21 | 11 |
Often, in the morning, one must break through a layer of ice in the drinking bucket. |
10 |
| 26 | 18 |
I sensed Imnak turning about, and then again he was at the tabuk-horn uprights at the sled, glimpsed momentarily in a break in the clouds. |
10 |
| 26 | 205 |
"Its struggles will break the wall, or put out the lamp," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 214 |
The structure of the drift, thus, is less likely to contain faults, strata and cleavages, which would result in the blocks being weaker and more likely to break apart. |
10 |
| 27 | 51 |
If the sinew should break I would not have wished to be near that fierce, compressed, stout strip of sharpened baleen. |
10 |
| 32 | 95 |
"Oh, I could have your mind torn open, and could break you, or kill you, as anything can be torn and broken, or killed, but, in the end I, at best, would know only what you believed to be true, and that may or may not be true". |
10 |
| 32 | 99 |
"I think I could not break you," he said. |
10 |
| 34 | 85 |
One does not want it to freeze on one's body, but, even more dangerously, one does not wish one's furs to become wet and then freeze, thus robbing them of their thermal efficiency and, indeed, increasing the likelihood of a break or tear in the hides. |
10 |
| 36 | 159 |
She lifted her body to me, her eyes pleading, but did not break position. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 212 |
She did not break position, but she gasped. |
10 |
| 11 | 345 |
She had not been given permission to break position. |
10 |
| 13 | 29 |
"And do not break that position," I said, "until given permission". |
10 |
| 23 | 257 |
The sound, of course, does not well break the surface of the water. |
10 |
| 23 | 271 |
I had little doubt that soon, perhaps in moments, with sufficient leverage, we could lift and break the log, snapping it apart, breaking through the remaining inches of the wood. |
10 |
| 24 | 277 |
I heard wood crack, but not break. |
10 |
| 32 | 211 |
In their feeding they break down and destroy the branches and trunks of fallen trees. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 312 |
"On Gor," she said, "we would not even break our male slaves as the men of Earth are broken". |
10 |
| 7 | 97 |
I knew he could break my arms and legs with ease, if he chose. |
10 |
| 7 | 113 |
Do not break her bones". |
10 |
| 11 | 305 |
"I did not dare to break the seal," she said. |
10 |
| 12 | 28 |
Such garments, I suspected, were a softened heritage, rather than a break from such a heritage, from the repressions of an earlier era in Earth history, repressions now denied but repressions undeniably lingering. |
10 |
| 13 | 76 |
"If hostilities should break out," said the Lady Melpomene, "it might not be well to be a woman of Vonda caught in this city". |
10 |
| 13 | 323 |
I did not think it would go easily with her if hostilities should break out openly and she be seized in Ar. |
10 |
| 13 | 328 |
Too, of course, it would not be well to be a woman of Ar in Vonda, should hostilities break out. |
10 |
| 13 | 873 |
I wanted to break in his face. |
10 |
| 19 | 13 |
It may seem surprising but a strong man, determined, and working against time, can break through a training beam in a matter of only a few Ehn. |
10 |
| 19 | 15 |
One may, of course, break through walls with such devices or bend iron. |
10 |
| 23 | 39 |
I hate such men! It will be especially delicious to break and humble you". |
10 |
| 25 | 105 |
"Krondar will probably kick you a few times, that your ribs may be broken, or pull you by the hair to your knees, that he may break loose your teeth or shatter your jaw, but you will live". |
10 |
| 26 | 273 |
"Orgus!" I did not break my stride. |
10 |
| 27 | 400 |
"Do not break position," I warned her. |
10 |
| 27 | 410 |
"Do not break position, Lady Florence," I warned her. |
10 |
| 28 | 98 |
"Do not break position," I said. |
10 |
| 32 | 105 |
She did not dare to break position. |
10 |
| 32 | 166 |
"Do not break position," I warned her. |
10 |
| 34 | 291 |
"You may break position," he told them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 49 |
But I did not break his back. |
10 |
| 11 | 366 |
If the traveler was too short for the bed, he would disjoint and break their bodies until they fitted it; if they were too long for the bed, he would cut their feet from them, until they, again, fitted the bed. |
10 |
| 14 | 30 |
I had found her this morning, near noon, when I had been on my luncheon break. |
10 |
| 18 | 105 |
"No man could ever break my will," she said. |
10 |
| 18 | 113 |
"Break my will," she said. |
10 |
| 22 | 117 |
How powerful are the forces of socialization! How rare the individual who has the intelligence and strength to examine inflicted orthodoxies! How few can detect the subtle encompassing walls, let alone break or scale them. |
10 |
| 26 | 273 |
"Why didn't you break his neck?" asked one of the men about. |
10 |
| 30 | 360 |
Should she come again into my power let her try to break the chains in which I would put her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 59 |
The Voskjard had not been able to break the chain. |
10 |
| 10 | 63 |
Our speculations in this matter proved correct and we used this break in the chain to move to its western side. |
10 |
| 10 | 79 |
By dusk we had come to the northern break in the chain, that produced by the second portion of the Voskjard's fleet. |
10 |
| 16 | 34 |
I saw a dozen pirates break and run for their ships. |
10 |
| 16 | 467 |
"You must consider such things as whether or not, should you do this, you could rise to your feet before I could, say, break your neck or back, or take the sword and cut your head away. |
10 |
| 19 | 932 |
She had not been given permission to break position. |
10 |
| 20 | 312 |
They, by actually putting a physical bond on her, and one which she knows she is powerless to break or escape, one in which she is absolutely helpless, bring her slavery home to her in a clear and unmistakable manner. |
10 |
| 20 | 794 |
You had dared, it seemed, to break the code of hypocrisy. |
10 |
| 20 | 1290 |
She then retained this position, not having been given permission to break it, while I went to the tiles at the foot of the table and gathered up the two golden straps with which, earlier, she had simulated the footwear she had worn at the restaurant. |
10 |
| 21 | 686 |
"You may break position," I said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 949 |
Sometimes it is possible to thrust the arrow through the body, break off the point and then withdraw the shaft backwards. |
10 |
| 8 | 541 |
"Do not break the peace! Sheathe your steel! There is a sale in progress". |
10 |
| 8 | 551 |
I was afraid he might break her little, collared neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 1080 |
None of them, I noted, to my satisfaction, had dared to break position. |
10 |
| 13 | 898 |
If she is positioned in a certain manner, she is not to break position without permission. |
10 |
| 13 | 1568 |
"Do not break position," I told her. |
10 |
| 14 | 210 |
I feared he would break her arm. |
10 |
| 17 | 259 |
"Taking advantage of the confusion, momentary, among the red savages, following their failure to break the line of the infantry, Alfred ordered his men through his own infantry lines, and led them again to the southeast. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 376 |
"Let us destroy his lodge and break his weapons. |
10 |
| 9 | 443 |
She then, commonly, is not permitted to break this lip position until either she kisses or is kissed. |
10 |
| 9 | 452 |
I then kissed her, and this permitted her to break the slave-lips position. |
10 |
| 12 | 422 |
Perhaps it is too obvious to mention but a point served by this original use of the couch is to break down the new slave's fear of the couch and encourage her to see it in a favorable light, indeed, as a place of relative safety, comfort and favor. |
10 |
| 12 | 485 |
"May I break this position?" "No," I said. |
10 |
| 28 | 183 |
To break the position otherwise is to be instantly slain. |
10 |
| 30 | 12 |
"We must then, sheltering the women and the young, try to break through their lines". |
10 |
| 34 | 316 |
It is not then within your power to break, alter or amend it in any way. |
10 |
| 37 | 80 |
Also, of course, if, unfortunately, she should be seized, it might give us some time to encourage her captor, with blows, and lances and cries, to release her, before it could break and she could be carried off. |
10 |
| 39 | 338 |
Not only will it be unnecessary to break it but it will be of great use, in a brace harness, in training the two tarns we have already caught". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 344 |
I knew I could never break that grip. |
10 |
| 3 | 796 |
"You may break position," he said. |
10 |
| 26 | 256 |
"Do not break position," I warned her. |
10 |
| 26 | 379 |
"It will be a difficult field to break into," said another man. |
10 |
| 27 | 161 |
We dared not break position, so well trained we were, but we cried out with pleasure. |
10 |
| 33 | 499 |
I have here, however, and I now break the seal, clothing which is actually that of the former Tatrix of Corcyrus. |
10 |
| 34 | 139 |
"You may break position," he said. |
10 |
| 36 | 431 |
Such men, I suspected, maturing, would break away the walls of the kennels and pots in which the weak and fearing, and hating, would wish to confine them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 80 |
They might, for example, give one an opportunity to try out new identities, to relieve boredom, to break up routines, to release tension, and so on. |
10 |
| 2 | 811 |
"May I break position, Master?" she asked. |
10 |
| 7 | 174 |
"May I break position?" I heard the lash fall upon her. |
10 |
| 14 | 100 |
I wondered how long it would take to break his neck. |
10 |
| 20 | 353 |
Men shuddered, but did not break their circle. |
10 |
| 21 | 463 |
If they chose to enter, they would have had to break through doors. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 453 |
I did not strike him hard enough to break the vertebrae. |
10 |
| 4 | 456 |
From such a position one can, rather with impunity, with an unarmed handle, break the neck to the side or crush the head. |
10 |
| 16 | 322 |
How terrible I am! I was not taught so! How could I feel such things! How terrible I am! I was naked, I could not break the chain. |
10 |
| 18 | 66 |
She realizes, almost instantly, of course, perhaps to her initial dismay, that she cannot break such bonds, and that she is their helpless prisoner. |
10 |
| 19 | 99 |
"I shall break his neck". |
10 |
| 19 | 274 |
I would also, when the opportunity presented itself, an opportunity which I would see to it would present itself, break his arms and legs. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 92 |
It was like a lion before me, a lion whose teeth could rend me, whose paw, with a blow, could break my neck. |
10 |
| 6 | 133 |
Our strongest bond, of course, that which would hold us if none other, that which we could never hope to break, was our condition itself, that we were slaves. |
10 |
| 6 | 383 |
The others, I would suppose, were as grateful as I to break position. |
10 |
| 8 | 229 |
The kneeling position, of course, which the master's, or free person's, permission, either tacit or explicit, is usually required to break, is commonly an initial position. |
10 |
| 8 | 361 |
It seems they had not been fully decided, at least at one point, whether to sell us as a unit, a given ten-lot, or to break the ten-lot and sell us individually. |
10 |
| 9 | 459 |
We cannot break them. |
10 |
| 10 | 774 |
Too, I had not been given permission to break position. |
10 |
| 11 | 861 |
I wondered what the men who had worked at the library would think if they could see me now, their so-much-taken-for-granted Doreen, her beauty now at the disposal of masters, men who could break them in pieces. |
10 |
| 11 | 1061 |
"Your use master, in handling you, might break them". |
10 |
| 13 | 906 |
I did not want to be touched as though I might break. |
10 |
| 24 | 794 |
Perhaps in rage he would break my neck with his foot. |
10 |
| 26 | 137 |
"You may break position, Tuka," said Aulus. |
10 |
| 29 | 946 |
I thought it might want to break Borko's neck, but then I realized it was only trying to expose the throat. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 571 |
I was afraid, for a moment, that her neck might break. |
10 |
| 8 | 730 |
Its force, even arrested at the last moment, can break the back of a full-grown tabuk. |
10 |
| 16 | 525 |
Break away the stone there! Open a great gap! You there, bring tarn wire!" "Who are you?" cried a man. |
10 |
| 17 | 256 |
But then men were screaming and leaping from it, up and down its length, and I saw it turn on one upright, doubtless more from their movements and the shifts in weight than from anything of my doing, and then it fell back, and I heard it snap and break. |
10 |
| 18 | 469 |
We had to defend that break in the wall for Ahn. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1208 |
It is easier, for one thing, to break the outline of such a tent. |
10 |
| 3 | 171 |
In the morning I would break camp. |
10 |
| 3 | 339 |
It is difficult to break the guard of a man who is purely on the defensive. |
10 |
| 4 | 37 |
"Break the wood!" cried a fellow. |
10 |
| 7 | 5 |
Eagerly the men of Ar then pressed through the break in the rence. |
10 |
| 13 | 392 |
If you break and scatter they will hunt you down, one by one, in the marsh. |
10 |
| 13 | 478 |
If I could get beyond the men of Ar I was sure I could break the yoke to pieces, splintering it on the logs of the raft, thus freeing my hands, then in a moment discarding the harness and slipping away. |
10 |
| 14 | 129 |
"Tharlarion can break rence," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 254 |
More injuries, I think, were suffered as the result of their thrashing about, the swift movements of those gigantic tails, the strokes of which could break legs, and hurl a fellow yards away, than from the laceration of numerous, white, curved, hooklike teeth, than from the pounding closings of thos... |
10 |
| 15 | 26 |
The rear column, interestingly, had been the first to break, but its retreat had been stopped by rencers, apparently in great numbers. |
10 |
| 15 | 31 |
"You must try to break out of the delta!" I had said. |
10 |
| 17 | 31 |
Stones were used to break our ranks. |
10 |
| 18 | 75 |
"If you do," I said, "I will break your neck". |
10 |
| 19 | 929 |
"Do not break position," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 933 |
"Do not break position," I warned her. |
10 |
| 19 | 951 |
"Do not break position," I warned her. |
10 |
| 19 | 1052 |
I did not mean to break position. |
10 |
| 28 | 216 |
"One important item is to break the outlines of the human body. |
10 |
| 29 | 97 |
Sometimes he would hold his hands no more than two or three inches apart and break the branch. |
10 |
| 31 | 265 |
"Break it in two, Ina," I said, "and give our guest the largest half". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 243 |
Moreover I thought he could really reach at least three of them, the first with a thrust, and the second two, each with a slash to the neck, first to the right, the blade withdrawn, and then to the left, before they could adequately break and scatter. |
10 |
| 14 | 541 |
"You may break position," I informed her. |
10 |
| 16 | 224 |
"We will break every bone in his body," said another. |
10 |
| 19 | 1112 |
Certainly she had not received permission to break position. |
10 |
| 19 | 1235 |
"You may break position," I said. |
10 |
| 20 | 435 |
She moved uneasily, tensely, but did not break position. |
10 |
| 20 | 500 |
"Do not break position," I warned her. |
10 |
| 20 | 539 |
She must not, of course, break position. |
10 |
| 23 | 392 |
"So we now break our agreement," I said. |
10 |
| 24 | 374 |
Marcus, I conjectured, could probably cut through the neck vertebrae of two of them before they could break. |
10 |
| 27 | 138 |
Lavinia sobbed, but she could not, of course, break position. |
10 |
| 27 | 141 |
Again Lavinia sobbed, a sob which shook her entire body, but again she could not break position. |
10 |
| 27 | 153 |
"You may break position," I said to the slave. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 117 |
I did not break position. |
10 |
| 7 | 1 |
I did not break position. |
10 |
| 8 | 134 |
I attempted, instantly, to govern my emotions, to marshal them, and break them, and align them in accordance with the dictates to which I had been subjected all my life. |
10 |
| 8 | 426 |
How mighty were the bars! How strong they were, and perfect! I pressed my cheek and body against them, happily, joyfully, gratefully, knowing that I could never break them. |
10 |
| 10 | 42 |
I hoped the leash would not break. |
10 |
| 11 | 1459 |
I did not break position to adjust it. |
10 |
| 14 | 1585 |
His voice, in all its power, seemed almost to break. |
10 |
| 16 | 313 |
I looked up at him, knowing that I dare not yet break position. |
10 |
| 29 | 768 |
To be sure, her master would doubtless to some extent protect her, seeing to it that the crowd did not exceed the proprieties customary to such occasions, for example, that they not be permitted to mutilate her or break her limbs. |
10 |
| 31 | 445 |
"He will break his legs," said a man. |
10 |
| 33 | 46 |
A trailer is usually a smaller beast, and one more easily managed, but it is, when all is said and done, a sleen, and trailers not unoften, at the hunt's end, their instincts preponderating, break loose for the kill. |
10 |
| 37 | 84 |
"Break the seal, open the sack," said the leader of the strangers. |
10 |
| 37 | 280 |
The fellow, he at whose heart the steel was poised, trembled, but he did not break and run. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 75 |
She did not break position. |
10 |
| 8 | 99 |
She dared not break position. |
10 |
| 10 | 387 |
"Were you given permission to break position?" he asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 570 |
If she should drop a plate or break a glass, or spill a beverage, or even move awkwardly, she knew she might expect to be tied to a ring and beaten. |
10 |
| 11 | 725 |
She wanted to cover her eyes with her hands and weep, but was afraid to break position. |
10 |
| 12 | 480 |
What could that response mean, other than the fact that one was at last brave enough, courageous enough, to break through the shackles of Earth conditioning, to admit explicitly to oneself and others that one was a sexual creature, a human female with genuinely human female needs. |
10 |
| 13 | 174 |
Thus she cannot break and run, an action which might prompt the beast's pursuit behavior". |
10 |
| 13 | 213 |
"Sometimes they break through," said Laura. |
10 |
| 15 | 586 |
"Do not break position," he growled. |
10 |
| 15 | 811 |
"You may break position," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 185 |
Ellen was going to break position angrily, and speak crossly to the girl, thinking herself the victim of a joke, when it occurred to her that the "Man" command might have been appropriately motivated. |
10 |
| 16 | 632 |
Come for me, my Master, I beg you! "You may break position," said Targo, with a sigh. |
10 |
| 16 | 927 |
"May we break position, Master?" asked one of the girls. |
10 |
| 17 | 98 |
"You may break position," said the boy. |
10 |
| 18 | 783 |
"Take that!" And then she was frightened that she might break threads in the garment, or cause a tiny rent to appear in the fabric. |
10 |
| 18 | 787 |
I would like to rip the garment of the brute, Selius Arconious, to pieces, but if I so much as break a thread I may be punished. |
10 |
| 19 | 516 |
And what if the narrow ropes by which the basket was suspended from the harness should break? She would not have dared to protest, of course, even if she had been permitted speech. |
10 |
| 26 | 648 |
One of the moons was visible through a break in the clouds. |
10 |
| 26 | 684 |
"Then," said a man, "we will disperse with the hundreds of others, who will break camp tomorrow". |
10 |
| 27 | 165 |
"Do not break," said Portus Canio. |
10 |
| 27 | 736 |
I could break them no more than the chains men are so fond of putting on me! Do not such things show me that I am a female? Do they not show me the nature of men and women, and who it is who is at the mercy of whom, and who are the masters, and who the slaves! Sometimes Ellen loved to be bound, for ... |
10 |
| 27 | 1566 |
"I do not think, in any event, I would break into a run in the vicinity of sleen," said Portus Canio. |
10 |
| 27 | 3513 |
"Let us break camp," said Fel Doron. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 196 |
"No! No! No!" "Do not break position," warned Peisistratus. |
10 |
| 5 | 226 |
"Beast!" she wept, but feared to break position. |
10 |
| 5 | 279 |
"When we leave," he said, "you may break position". |
10 |
| 18 | 88 |
The branches would be likely to break beneath a larl and the sleen, a ground animal, is reluctant to climb. |
10 |
| 33 | 181 |
"It is hard for them!" "I fear it will break up," said Grendel. |
10 |
| 39 | 3 |
Some held a large log, to be used to break through the gate or wall. |
10 |
| 39 | 62 |
This cry, if nothing else, seemed to break the spirit of the besiegers, and determine them to action, for they then began to spring up, and mill about, uncertainly. |
10 |
| 43 | 386 |
She did not, however, break position. |
10 |
| 74 | 21 |
On rough ground other formations were more effective, smaller, coordinated groups of men, groups which, to the movements of standards, the blasts of horns, could break apart from other groups, rejoin, slip to the rear, be replaced with fresh groups, and so on. |
10 |
| 74 | 23 |
They were not like a great chain whose links, shattered by rises or defiles, break apart into disjointed segments, with openings, gaps, between them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 579 |
Is the seal, I wondered, so securely fastened? Is it truly so hard to break? How many women themselves have feared to open that book and read what is written there. |
10 |
| 12 | 351 |
Every chain can snap, every rope break. |
10 |
| 13 | 293 |
A word from her could demote an officer of Ar, a phrase exile a councilor, or break or banish a merchant, and another could reduce another woman, even one of high station, to the collar. |
10 |
| 14 | 202 |
"Some is," I said, "and, I assure you, as you are slight, and he is large and strong, he could break you in two". |
10 |
| 22 | 350 |
She had not been given permission to break position. |
10 |
| 22 | 478 |
"Break position," he said. |
10 |
| 22 | 480 |
"Why did you have her break position?" I asked, innocently. |
10 |
| 28 | 9 |
Twice the road was washed out and a bridge of felled, roped trees must span it, a bridge that would sometimes break and be swept away, given the current and the weight to which it was subjected. |
10 |
| 30 | 34 |
In this respect they ship more water, but they are more elastic in rough seas, and thus less likely to break apart. |
10 |
| 33 | 157 |
"Thassa," I said, "will tear the sails from your ship, snap her masts, break her keel, crush her sides, lift her a hundred feet, two hundred feet, into the air, and then drop her like a broken toy, plunging to the waves below. |
10 |
| 35 | 53 |
"Break camp, and flee," I urged. |
10 |
| 35 | 63 |
"There is still time," I said, "to break camp, to withdraw". |
10 |
| 38 | 588 |
They could not use their hands, either to break their fall or to assist in maintaining their balance. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 68 |
Those hands, I did not doubt, might close about a man's throat, might break a man's neck. |
10 |
| 2 | 128 |
It ships more water, but with its elasticity, with its capacity to shift, to twist and bend, it is less likely to break up in a heavy sea. |
10 |
| 3 | 641 |
This was, it seems, a serious attempt to break out of the city, one now involving perhaps more than a hundred men, accompanied by women, mostly stripped, and on ropes. |
10 |
| 6 | 73 |
How pleasant it might be, she now a slave, to break her to the collar, to have crawling to my feet, begging a caress. |
10 |
| 7 | 214 |
"It is true," said Andronicus, "that the ship may break apart". |
10 |
| 8 | 31 |
This had proved fortunate for, as later became clear, the massive press of ice on each side might snap apart even timbers as fearsome as those of the great ship of Tersites, might break them apart as easily as a child might snap the twigs of a play fortress. |
10 |
| 8 | 36 |
"The ship is strong! She will neither bend nor break. |
10 |
| 8 | 61 |
Even from the height of tarn flight there was seen no break in the ice. |
10 |
| 8 | 96 |
Certainly one did not wish to risk a body, slipped from the ice, being dragged under the water and the hull before we might hurry it back to the ice, and break the stiff, frozen furs from its shuddering body. |
10 |
| 9 | 303 |
Too, he would have had to break into the Kasra area, no simple task, and even were he successful in accomplishing this, she, as the other slaves, would still be on her chain. |
10 |
| 11 | 29 |
It will lunge into the mass, to break it apart, that single victims may be separated and tracked, but the schooling instinct, like that of flocking birds, swiftly returns the fish to the group. |
10 |
| 12 | 43 |
She may send you gentle winds and shelter you in her great arms, bearing you up, or should she please, break you and draw you down, destroying you, to mysterious, unsounded deeps. |
10 |
| 13 | 145 |
"We must try to break free?" I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 242 |
He was still a strong man, and a harsh blow, as she knelt, might break her arm or shatter an elbow. |
10 |
| 22 | 175 |
I feared the defensive lines might break. |
10 |
| 22 | 177 |
One man in flight, followed by another, and another, can break a line. |
10 |
| 22 | 205 |
This withdrawal tactic is designed to encourage a line to break forward, in pursuit, after which its irregularity may be exploited by an even, frontal counter and pursuit. |
10 |
| 27 | 150 |
"Perhaps they will break out paga," I said. |
10 |
| 31 | 59 |
"We can break the locks on her kennel, and take her with us". |
10 |
| 37 | 17 |
"Do not break her back," I warned, for he held her with possessive address, with ferocity. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 12 |
How could he know that, if he were not going to assure himself of it, with, say, a swift blow, a grasping paw on the throat, an embrace which might break a back? The tiniest sound, the scuttling of an urt, the fluttering of a vart, come over the walls from the countryside, almost made me scream with... |
10 |
| 22 | 122 |
We will break the tusks loose from the jaws. |
10 |
| 23 | 106 |
"The weather must break," said Lykos. |
10 |
| 23 | 111 |
"I think the weather will break," said Lykos. |
10 |
| 23 | 112 |
"It must break". |
10 |
| 23 | 128 |
The weather is sure to break". |
10 |
| 42 | 24 |
What might be a simple cuff from a man might break my neck if it were delivered by a Kur. |
10 |
| 48 | 95 |
One blow from such a paw could break a neck or back. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 123 |
You may teach a bird that flight is evil, and break its wings, but its heart will always remember the sky. |
10 |
| 5 | 26 |
I tried to break this odd spell in which I felt myself bound. |
10 |
| 6 | 387 |
One does not break "position" without permission. |
10 |
| 27 | 43 |
A branch might break free in the storm. |
10 |
| 29 | 85 |
It had gone through the tunic, and entered my skin, enough that I could clearly feel it, but not enough to do much more than break the skin. |
10 |
| 41 | 135 |
"He could break one of us in two," said Tula. |
10 |
| 41 | 221 |
For example, if a slave should spill a beverage, or drop a utensil, while serving, let alone break a plate or a bowl, she may expect a whipping. |
10 |
| 43 | 386 |
The slaves paled, but did not break position. |
10 |
| 43 | 419 |
"We are going to break camp". |
10 |
| 43 | 428 |
They had not been given permission to break position. |
10 |
| 44 | 77 |
With a blow he could break my neck. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95 |
Its strike, the sun behind it, could break the back of a running kaiila. |
10 |
| 1 | 240 |
Would not rushing about, when all is hopeless, and known to be such, be undignified, even shameful, an act of desperation, contemptible, base, and disgraceful, like the bound tarsk squirming and squealing on the sacrificial altar? If our foes break into the holding and discover, to their dismay, onl... |
10 |
| 10 | 14 |
Its hunting strike can break the back of a tarsk, ten hands at the shoulder. |
10 |
| 13 | 137 |
He is too weak to break even the paper fetters of propriety. |
10 |
| 21 | 296 |
"'We shall break him in rank, remove from him the honor of the banner,' exclaimed my captor. |
10 |
| 23 | 70 |
"I have no desire to break an arm or neck". |
10 |
| 25 | 124 |
Indeed, the waters of the pool still stirred, and more than once I saw the glistening back of an eel break the surface, and then snap away with a spattering of water. |
10 |
| 27 | 16 |
Rather, too, as the pike and halberd, it may be used both to break an enemy's ranks and, when necessary, to keep him at bay. |
10 |
| 27 | 22 |
Certainly one of these hornet-like projectiles, almost invisible in flight, can blind a man, break a head, and cut him open. |
10 |
| 30 | 224 |
We will then break through the back of the hut, and leave thusly. |
10 |
| 32 | 48 |
"In darkness," he said, "we will rush forth, and break, and scatter!" "There will be watch fires," said a man. |
10 |
| 38 | 107 |
"We cannot break through the palings," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 38 | 133 |
I thought my back might break, but Haruki crawled through the opening, and I threw myself free of the heavy paling which then fell back, as it could, into place. |
10 |
| 38 | 143 |
Break through, here, where the tarsks fled!" I heard men grunting. |
10 |
| 42 | 196 |
"No, no, Gregory! Do not leave me!" "Do not break position," I warned her. |
10 |
| 42 | 203 |
"Do not break position," I warned Saru. |
10 |
| 42 | 205 |
"Permit me to break position!" "Very well," I said. |
10 |
| 46 | 465 |
The magician then indicated that the girl should rise from her knees, for she had not been given permission to break position, pick up the large bowl of rice, and accompany us. |
10 |
| 49 | 89 |
Coming about the screen, the knife, and outer garments, of the Ashigaru in hand, I encountered the slave, still in bara, as she had not been given permission to break position. |
10 |
| 61 | 48 |
"You might be able to break through, and withdraw north". |
10 |
| 61 | 49 |
"Break through?" said Lord Okimoto. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 221 |
"You may break position," said the dealer to me. |
10 |
| 13 | 151 |
It is easy to break a woman to the will of masters. |
10 |
| 54 | 103 |
"Old habits," said Lord Grendel, "are hard to break. |
10 |
| 59 | 81 |
Who, knowingly, would give paga to a larl? Who, knowingly, would break through the thin crust concealing a seething volcano? Lord Grendel had spoken of ancient gates, behind which lurk ancient things, things best shut away, things best left unstirred. |
10 |
| 62 | 98 |
Neither Paula nor I had been granted permission to break position. |
10 |
| 62 | 124 |
"You may break position," said Drusus Andronicus. |
10 |
| 68 | 495 |
"May its gates break from their hinges," said a man. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 494 |
"You may break position," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 9 | 106 |
A girl learns not to break position without permission. |
10 |
| 11 | 11 |
Fresh rence is added to the surface of the villages, as older, submerged layers deteriorate, break apart, and rot. |
10 |
| 35 | 83 |
I did not break position to look after him. |
10 |
| 37 | 138 |
I was afraid he would break my neck. |
10 |
| 38 | 129 |
How is one to conduct oneself, when the flames break out, when the earth trembles and shakes, when the predator appears? Men differ. |
10 |
| 42 | 213 |
"Say nothing, give no token of distress," he whispered to me, "or I will break your neck". |
10 |
| 42 | 214 |
He was a large man, and I had little doubt he could easily break my neck, or back, or strangle me in the crowding and stirring, his act possibly escaping notice. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 273 |
"Slave," I said to the kneeling, humiliated, distraught slave, "you may break position. |
10 |
| 8 | 68 |
"Break camp, strike tents, extinguish fires, gather the men, get the Dorna and Tesephone into the water, masts and sails down. |
10 |
| 13 | 144 |
"Now," I said, "shatter the vessels, break open the kegs and barrels, empty the contents of all containers. |
10 |
| 17 | 237 |
"Break position," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 251 |
"As Master pleases," she said, a small break, again, in her voice. |
10 |
| 37 | 57 |
I saw the water break once as a small, slender, spined tharlarion surfaced, and then dove again. |
10 |
| 37 | 224 |
"And," said Thurnock, "break walls". |
10 |
| 42 | 52 |
Behind our men torches were lit, by means of which any who might break our lines and attempt to escape, say, into the town, might be dealt with. |
10 |
| 49 | 9 |
The column behind, at a horizontal movement of the opened lamp, would break ranks, fanning out, forming an extended skirmish line. |
10 |
| 58 | 106 |
She would need a long, clear course to accumulate enough speed to break through the timbers of a fifty-oared vessel". |
10 |
| 58 | 261 |
"Break it out," I said. |
10 |
| 59 | 321 |
"Shall I break his neck now?" asked Thurnock. |
10 |
| 59 | 350 |
"Shall I break his neck now?" asked Thurnock. |
10 |
| 59 | 371 |
"You may break his neck". |
10 |
| 59 | 441 |
If that is insufficient, he can break her to the whip". |
10 |