| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 168 |
I was asking for a broken leg or ankle, if not a neck. |
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| 3 | 20 |
One of his sandals had a broken strap that had been carelessly knotted back together. |
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| 4 | 68 |
The spirit of the tarn must not be broken, not that of a war tarn. |
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| 5 | 26 |
Yet if the Home Stone of Ar, the very symbol and significance of the empire, could be removed from Ar, the spell of Marlenus might be broken. |
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| 6 | 77 |
Then, to my astonishment, I heard a mechanically reproduced sound say, "Who are you?" I shuddered, believing that my mind had broken at last. |
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| 6 | 134 |
Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open. |
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| 7 | 38 |
One monstrous platformlike shoe had broken from her small foot and flopped beside her ankle, still attached by its straps. |
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| 7 | 42 |
"It's broken," I said. |
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| 8 | 78 |
The heavy manacles had broken in the side of his skull. |
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| 12 | 171 |
The antelope's back had been broken, apparently in the tarn's strike, and its neck and head lolled aimlessly to one side. |
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| 13 | 59 |
He was now bent and crooked, like a broken, blasted shrub in his yellow shroudlike robe. |
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| 15 | 93 |
"I found the frame," Kazrak said, "half a pasang from the Vosk, broken. |
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| 15 | 166 |
"If the Assassin should take the city," I said, "the rule of the Initiates will be broken, and eventually the horde with its loot will scatter, leaving a garrison". |
10 |
| 15 | 186 |
How many would rally to the banner of an outlaw? No, the power of the Initiates must first be broken". |
10 |
| 17 | 26 |
Disease had broken out. |
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| 17 | 38 |
In surrender, on the other hand, the shield straps and the shaft of the spear are broken, indicating that the vanquished has disarmed himself and places himself at the mercy of the conqueror. |
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| 19 | 32 |
By night Ar would be in flames, its coffers broken open, its gold and silver in the bedrolls of the looters, its men slaughtered, its women, stripped, lashed to the pleasure-racks of the victors. |
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| 19 | 210 |
There was only the sheer wall of the cylinder, broken once by a tarn perch some twenty feet below. |
10 |
| 20 | 45 |
Men can die, but not of a broken heart, for if that were possible, I would now be dead. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 177 |
Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning. |
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| 15 | 67 |
Sometimes when the tarn strikes a tabuk, the animal's back is broken. |
10 |
| 15 | 82 |
It was the answer I had expected, though undoubtedly her body was almost broken, her flesh bruised to the bone. |
10 |
| 16 | 108 |
The warrior whose arm had been broken knelt on the marble flooring of the pillar, bent over, rocking back and forth, the injured arm held against his body. |
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| 20 | 8 |
Almost all of them had been broken into by the slaves, and whatever they held had been taken or scattered. |
10 |
| 20 | 29 |
Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men. |
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| 20 | 31 |
A door on one of the sheds, its lock broken, swung loose on its hinges, banging in the wind. |
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| 20 | 33 |
Its straps were broken but they could be knotted together. |
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| 23 | 93 |
The tarn's shadow glided over the blackened frames of buildings, over broken pens from which livestock had been driven, over orchards that were now no more than felled trees, their leaves and fruit brown and withered. |
10 |
| 23 | 99 |
Perhaps some broken utensils, the ashes of campfires. |
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| 25 | 116 |
He had broken the codes of his caste to support the treachery of Dorna the Proud. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 32 |
Men had broken their own bones on the timber spokes of the Sardar windlasses. |
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| 7 | 52 |
I had sensed that Vika had defeated and broken many men, and I sensed that the Priest-Kings might be curious to see how I might fare with her. |
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| 8 | 83 |
The sensors had been shattered, their lenses broken and the wired apertures behind them a tangle of black, fused wire. |
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| 9 | 78 |
I looked about the room, at the chests against the wall dim in the reduced light of the energy bulbs, at the walls, at the shattered device in the ceiling, at the broken sensors, at the great, empty portal that led into the passageway beyond. |
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| 9 | 223 |
Her face was tear-stained; her voice a broken sob. |
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| 12 | 172 |
"Would the Mother object if the Matok's arms and legs were broken?" "Yes," said Misk. |
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| 19 | 26 |
It was obvious that the compartment was being fixed in such a way as to suggest that it had been broken open. |
10 |
| 20 | 113 |
The attendant on the disk had now broken open the blue plastic wrapper that held, fresh and folded, the garment of a Chamber Slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 3 |
At the entrance to the chamber, from a rack, Mul-Al-Ka had taken a Mul-Torch and broken off its end. |
10 |
| 23 | 34 |
Her body and arms and legs, though cut and injured, were neither torn nor broken. |
10 |
| 27 | 160 |
The thought crossed my mind that Misk, in spite of his apparently broken and helpless condition, had actually lost very little body fluid. |
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| 28 | 4 |
Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away. |
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| 28 | 248 |
My senses were reeling but now in the distance I could hear cries and shouts, the screaming of the dying, the unutterably horrifying noises of the broken, the torn and maimed. |
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| 31 | 111 |
Though the path it had to travel was broken and littered the cushion of gas on which the disk flowed lifted the vehicle cleanly, though bucking and tilting, over the debris. |
10 |
| 31 | 182 |
I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black... |
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| 32 | 4 |
I looked to the body of Sarm, golden and broken, lying among the rubble on the floor, half covered in the powdery dust that hung like fog in the room. |
10 |
| 32 | 18 |
Still Misk tugged at the broken body of Sarm among the rubble. |
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| 32 | 27 |
Together Misk and I, as the blue lavalike mass began to hiss over the rubble bubbling towards us, forced aside the great block of stone and Misk tenderly gathered up the broken carcass of Sarm in his forelegs and he and I sped toward the opening, and the blue molten flux of burning, seething, hissin... |
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| 32 | 59 |
"We have made many trips," said Al-Ka, "and so have others in the other ships, for the Nest is broken in a dozen places and open to the sky". |
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| 32 | 205 |
The door had been broken away and there was rubble in the shaft. |
10 |
| 32 | 211 |
When the door opened I found myself once more in the Hall of Priest-Kings, though the great dome above it was now broken and portions of it had fallen to the floor of the hall. |
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| 32 | 333 |
The body of Parp, half torn apart, neck and limbs broken, fell from the jaws of the larl. |
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| 33 | 3 |
Whereas it had taken four days for me to climb to the lair of Priest-Kings in the Sardar it was on the morning of the second day that Vika and I sighted the remains of the great gate, fallen, and the palisade, now little more than broken and uprooted timbers. |
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| 35 | 33 |
It would be long before the powers of the broken Nest could be restored, before the Scanning Chamber could function again, before the vast damages done to the Nest could be repaired, but men and Priest-Kings were even now at work, side by side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 113 |
Downstairs the wooden screens that had separated the shop from the street had been splintered apart; the counter had been broken and the ovens ruined, their oval domes shattered, their iron doors twisted from their hinges; even the top stones on the two grain mills had been thrown to the floor and b... |
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| 2 | 58 |
I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges. |
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| 4 | 40 |
Sometimes legs are broken. |
10 |
| 5 | 10 |
I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon. |
10 |
| 7 | 151 |
The girl's neck, where the collar had been sewn, was red and sweaty, broken out. |
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| 17 | 26 |
Nothing had yet broken the surface. |
10 |
| 17 | 30 |
Yet, if it had been a tharlarion or a Vosk turtle, it might well have broken the surface for air. |
10 |
| 20 | 98 |
"Who are you?" "Do not ask questions," snapped Harold, "here is the girl—take her!" The guard shrugged and as he took Hereena from Harold I winced as the young man felled him with a blow that might have broken the skull of a bosk. |
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| 21 | 82 |
She was crying angrily at them and waving her broken basket. |
10 |
| 21 | 108 |
She carried a broken market basket. |
10 |
| 23 | 204 |
There was no sign of either Aphris or Elizabeth, either about the wagon, or in the overturned, broken sleen cage in which, when I had last seen them, Kamchak had confined them. |
10 |
| 23 | 215 |
The floor was littered with broken glass. |
10 |
| 24 | 30 |
Certain cities, burned by the Wagon Peoples more than a hundred years ago, were still said to be desolate ruins between their broken walls, silent save for the wind and the occasional footfall of a prowling sleen hunting for urts. |
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| 26 | 101 |
The clear ground between the walls and the first buildings was similarly empty, though here and there I saw some litter, pieces of boxes, broken arrows, patches of cloth. |
10 |
| 26 | 313 |
He knelt down near the fragments, disgust on his face, fingering the stiff, leathery ruptured egg, some of the golden pieces broken from it. |
10 |
| 26 | 463 |
I would have done it myself had it not been broken, to see what you would have done, to see if you would have been enraged at your loss, or if you would have been overcome with grief, on behalf of Priest-Kings". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 74 |
The little thing, misshapen with its large head, scrambled limping and leaping like a broken-legged urt to the counter behind which stood the man in the grimy tunic, who was wiping out a paga bowl. |
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| 2 | 80 |
His hands looked as though they might have been broken. |
10 |
| 2 | 365 |
"Be silent, Slave Girl," I warned her, and she heeded my injunction, for she then, for better than an Ahn, served in a silence that was exquisite, broken only by our breathing, her small moans and cries. |
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| 4 | 8 |
The black of the garment of Cernus was broken only by three stripes of silk sewn lengthwise on his left sleeve, two stripes of blue enclosing one of yellow. |
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| 5 | 15 |
In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually... |
10 |
| 12 | 10 |
The wing of one bird was apparently broken, for the netmen, after binding it, quickly cut its throat, the blood falling through the net, staining it, soaking into the sand below in a brownish red patch. |
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| 13 | 224 |
The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese. |
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| 17 | 829 |
Even the bones are broken open and splintered, the marrow sucked out". |
10 |
| 18 | 327 |
I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on... |
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| 18 | 436 |
There were few teeth left in his mouth; most had rotted and, apparently, snapped away, or had been broken off by him and discarded. |
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| 19 | 270 |
The silence was broken by a bid. |
10 |
| 20 | 254 |
I thought it strange that that man should have been found with Hup, only a fool, Hup whose bulbous misshapen head reached scarcely to the belt of a true man, Hup of the bandy legs and swollen body, the broken, knobby hands, Hup the Fool. |
10 |
| 22 | 246 |
He was dropped broken into the path of following tarns, torn, and fell again to the lower bar of the ring and then to the net. |
10 |
| 24 | 110 |
Only the day before their purple cloaks and helmets had been taken from them before the great gate; their swords had been broken and they had been conducted by common Warriors, to the music of flute girls, a pasang beyond the walls of Ar, and ordered from her environs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 66 |
Over her shoulder were slung the four birds she had caught in the marshes; their necks were now broken and they were tied together, two in front and two over her back. |
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| 5 | 86 |
After the council had broken up, one of the men who had been seated there came to regard me. |
10 |
| 6 | 83 |
More than one warrior of Port Kar lay sprawled on the matting about him, his head broken or his chest crushed. |
10 |
| 6 | 87 |
Ho-Hak, sweating, breathing deeply, wildly, his great ears flat against the sides of his head, the iron, riveted collar of the galley slave, with its broken, dangling chain, about his neck, clutching his oar pole, stood with his legs planted widely apart on the rence, at bay. |
10 |
| 7 | 38 |
About the island there was much litter, the garbage from the feast, the remains of destroyed rence huts, broken boxes, torn rence sacks, shattered marsh spears, gourds, scattered marsh vine, spilled rence reeds, bodies. |
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| 7 | 82 |
I saw the pole to which I had been tied, the circle of the feast, the ruins of huts, the litter and the broken things, and the scattered things, and the bodies. |
10 |
| 7 | 94 |
I saw, thus, her bending down and taking up of the broken shaft of a marsh spear, about a yard long, its three prongs intact. |
10 |
| 7 | 138 |
Before I left I noted, among the broken rence and other paraphernalia, some throwing sticks and such, the tunic of rence cloth which she had slipped off before me the night previously, before commanding me to serve her pleasure, before we had heard the cry "Slavers!" I picked it up and carried it, w... |
10 |
| 7 | 180 |
Then, turning over the slashed side of some broken matting, that had been part of the side of a rence hut, I found another body, that of a child. |
10 |
| 8 | 422 |
It was she who had done this to me, who had cost me myself, teaching me my ignobility and my cowardice, who had broken the image, casting it into the mud of the marsh, that I had for so many years, so foolishly, taken as the substance and truth of my own person. |
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| 9 | 125 |
Two of the ship's lanterns had been broken. |
10 |
| 9 | 126 |
There was glass, and spilled paga about, and two broken tables. |
10 |
| 10 | 197 |
The injured galley then is like a broken-winged bird, and at the mercy of the other ship's ram as she comes about, flutes playing and drums beating, and makes her strike amidships. |
10 |
| 11 | 18 |
Chairs lay knocked over, furniture was broken. |
10 |
| 11 | 444 |
When there was silence, it was suddenly, unexpectedly, broken by the voice of Bejar, the dark-skinned captain with the long, straight hair. |
10 |
| 13 | 430 |
Others were snapped off or half broken, the inboard portions of their shafts, with their looms, snapping in a stemward arc, knocking slaves from the benches, cracking against the interior of the hull planking. |
10 |
| 13 | 431 |
I heard some men cry out in pain, ribs or arms broken. |
10 |
| 15 | 788 |
"One of the girls in the kitchen," she said, "has a broken comb, one that Ula threw away". |
10 |
| 17 | 160 |
"She has broken through!" I lifted the glass to the west. |
10 |
| 17 | 389 |
I feared for the instant I might have broken Chenbar's back. |
10 |
| 18 | 77 |
Then I had water brought for the tarn, in a leather bucket, the ice broken through that coated the water like a lid. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 215 |
Seizing up my handbag and the small suitcase I fled through the broken door. |
10 |
| 5 | 74 |
The heavy glass, or quartz or plastic, in the ports was, in many places, broken through. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
Barefoot, on the steel plating, buckled under my feet, the bolts broken, I entered the ship, holding my breath. |
10 |
| 7 | 91 |
The bosk, unfortunately for Targo, had either broken free or been cut free. |
10 |
| 10 | 619 |
The head of a sleen, eyes blazing, its long needlelike teeth snapping, thrust through the small, broken window, the shutters splintered to the side. |
10 |
| 11 | 167 |
Once Inge had broken down in training, and wept, and we had been denied our little delicacies. |
10 |
| 12 | 262 |
Standing below this pole, obviously exhibited as a trophy of the hunt, alone on the cart, her skins knotted about her neck, her wrists bound behind her back, her hair fastened over the pole, holding her in place, was a beautiful panther girl, stripped, her weapons, broken, lying at her feet. |
10 |
| 13 | 587 |
In an instant it had jerked tight, pinning my arms helplessly to my sides, and I felt my body, my back almost broken, jerked from the grass. |
10 |
| 17 | 397 |
"He had broken free," said Bosk. |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
There was from the broken cover of clouds, like a bolt of dark, beating lightning, the thunder of the wings of a tarn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 542 |
Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small... |
10 |
| 2 | 555 |
Their faces were red, and broken out. |
10 |
| 2 | 617 |
"Very well," she said, haltingly, as though her will, only that of a girl, had been broken. |
10 |
| 5 | 318 |
"She is a raw girl," I said, "not broken to a collar, untrained". |
10 |
| 7 | 152 |
Crushed leaves, broken twigs, turned stones, bent grass, footprints, all spelled the trail clearly to the detecting eye. |
10 |
| 8 | 281 |
I heard the cries of pursuit, the sounds of branches being broken and rudely thrust aside. |
10 |
| 9 | 155 |
"Speak," said Verna to Mira, "what else you saw, before their camp was broken, before their tarns took flight". |
10 |
| 12 | 209 |
The wall which had been built about the camp had been broken and thrown down. |
10 |
| 14 | 6 |
Its pilings, forming its stockade, had been broken in various places, and burned in others. |
10 |
| 14 | 12 |
There was no sign of the gate's having been splintered or broken. |
10 |
| 14 | 13 |
Bending over I found a string of cheap beads, formed from the shell of the vosk sorp, broken. |
10 |
| 15 | 25 |
Many slave girls, particularly if broken to the collar, find men extremely attractive, and are eager to serve intimately those they find most pleasing. |
10 |
| 15 | 242 |
* * * * The next morning, early, the camp of the men of Tyros had been broken. |
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| 15 | 372 |
In this fashion the trail would be broken and clear and, if anything of value had been discarded in the flight, we might, if we wished, gather it up and, following, bring it with us. |
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| 18 | 64 |
Either the chains must be broken or the trees cut. |
10 |
| 18 | 167 |
* * * * During the afternoon I observed the slave girls, tied in pairs, by the neck, each pair under the guard of a man of Tyros and a panther girl, gathering driftwood and, from the forest's edge, broken branches. |
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| 21 | 139 |
"They flee!" Hura and her women, and Mira, too, who had, surreptitiously, the attention of those within the stockade being distracted, been nearing the gate of the stockade, suddenly had broken into flight, like a bevy of tabuk, rushing into the darkness. |
10 |
| 21 | 165 |
As they had come they had broken themselves clubs. |
10 |
| 21 | 167 |
About the wrists of many, though separated, still clung iron manacles; about the throats of many, too, still clung collars of iron, some with dangling, broken lengths of chain. |
10 |
| 21 | 273 |
The glittering surface of the water, broken by the stroke of the oars, seemed to swirl. |
10 |
| 22 | 19 |
Today the camp would be broken, the stockade destroyed. |
10 |
| 22 | 78 |
The sheerness of the fall was broken only by a tarn perch, some feet below. |
10 |
| 22 | 114 |
"The fever is broken," said Sheera, her hand on my forehead. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 141 |
Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? ... |
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| 3 | 215 |
Standing on the broken fragments of the circle, Ivar Forkbeard cried out, his ax lifted, and his left hand, too, "Praise be to Odin!" And then, throwing his ax to his left shoulder, holding it there by his left hand he turned and faced the Sardar, and lifted his fist, clenched. |
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| 5 | 193 |
The other two arrows struck, ringing, the plate of the temple of Kassau, and hung, broken, in the boskhide awning that covered the Forkbeard's loot, both that of gold and flesh, and then another javelin fell behind us, into the sea, and the bowmen returned to their benches. |
10 |
| 5 | 207 |
The bondmaids, their bodies sweaty, broken out from rash and heat, struggled to their knees, their heads back, and drank the fresh air. |
10 |
| 5 | 266 |
Many transactions are also done with fragments of gold and silver, often broken from larger objects, such as cups or plates, and these must be individually weighed. |
10 |
| 5 | 270 |
A lovely brooch, for example, wrought by a northern craftsman, would be seldom broken or mutilated. |
10 |
| 7 | 223 |
Even large bones had been broken, snapped apparently in mighty jaws, the marrow sucked from them. |
10 |
| 9 | 66 |
One must follow its rhythm, and, as soon as the surface is broken, expel air and take a deep breath. |
10 |
| 9 | 369 |
I collected nine tarn disks and two pieces of broken plate, plundered two years ago from a house on the eastern edge of Skjern. |
10 |
| 10 | 543 |
"I had her for a broken coin," he said, "half a silver tarn disk of Tharna. |
10 |
| 11 | 282 |
It seized it, ripping it from the man, and, with a single snap of its teeth, bit the shaft in two, snapping it like I might have broken a dried twig. |
10 |
| 13 | 80 |
There were also considerations to the effect that the rune-priests would be distressed if the oaths were broken, and that the gods, too, might not look lightly upon such a violation of faith, and might, too, more seriously, evidence their displeasure by such tokens as blights, plagues, hurricanes an... |
10 |
| 13 | 227 |
Had Ivar Forkbeard broken into song I would have given little for our chances. |
10 |
| 13 | 406 |
His word was to him as his land, and his sword, as his honor and his ship; it would be kept; it would be neither demeaned nor broken. |
10 |
| 14 | 17 |
I saw a man-at-arms lifted, back broken, in the black, furred, tentacled hand of one of the marauders. |
10 |
| 14 | 141 |
The other strap was broken. |
10 |
| 15 | 375 |
I thought it broken. |
10 |
| 15 | 398 |
I did not know if the arm were broken or not. |
10 |
| 15 | 425 |
It was not broken. |
10 |
| 17 | 70 |
Not far away from him was even Ketil, of his high farm, the wrestler whose arm I had broken. |
10 |
| 18 | 118 |
Svein Blue Tooth was at the pens, leading the attack that had broken the rally. |
10 |
| 18 | 180 |
Bondmaids, half crushed, some with broken bones, screamed. |
10 |
| 18 | 191 |
They bent to lift and support one of their sisters in bondage, whose leg was broken, binding fiber still knotted about the ankle. |
10 |
| 18 | 384 |
We stepped over broken axes, shattered poles, torn leather, from the lodges of the Kurii. |
10 |
| 18 | 524 |
Thorgard of Scagnar, raiment torn, bloodied, a broken spear shaft bound behind his back and before his arms, his wrists pulled forward, held at the sides of his rib cage, fastened by a rope across his belly, herded by men with spears, stumbled forward. |
10 |
| 19 | 2 |
It held, in sign of truce, over its head, the two parts of a broken ax. |
10 |
| 19 | 10 |
At the feet of the two leaders the Kur laid the pieces of the broken ax. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 116 |
The architecture of Tor, in concentric circles, broken by numerous, narrow, crooked streets, was a function of the radius from its wells. |
10 |
| 7 | 260 |
Had they now rushed to their comrade, again the formation would be broken, and the Kur, by now, had assuredly changed his position. |
10 |
| 7 | 731 |
If it had been drugged with a quick-acting agent, the quarter of an Ahn I had purchased, delaying my escape, in demanding that the collar be removed, rather than the links broken, would have given the drug time to be evident in the behavior of the beast. |
10 |
| 10 | 46 |
I saw two walls broken, the high walls of red clay used to shade courtyards and as a protection against raiders. |
10 |
| 10 | 59 |
"The well is broken," said the merchant. |
10 |
| 10 | 71 |
A well had been broken. |
10 |
| 10 | 282 |
"A well was broken," said Hassan. |
10 |
| 12 | 217 |
"Are you mad? I am your seraglio mistress! No!" The garment, hooks broken, fell to her ankles. |
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| 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. |
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| 16 | 56 |
The light of our lamps flickered on the surface, yellowly, in broken, shifting refractions. |
10 |
| 17 | 213 |
I saw the man whose leg was broken. |
10 |
| 17 | 311 |
The lance, shaft broken, was found floating near the raft. |
10 |
| 21 | 196 |
About the snout, the nostrils, the mouth and lips, were tiny fissures, broken open, filled with sand. |
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| 24 | 21 |
Our extended, thinned lines would invite attack; it would be difficult, too, even if our investing lines were not broken in force, to prevent the escape of small parties at night. |
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| 25 | 28 |
Broken open, it proved to lead to a dark tunnel. |
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| 25 | 161 |
She had broken wells. |
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| 26 | 511 |
I noted that she had not broken position, even when I had closed the doors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 816 |
The fields were broken now, with occasional trees, many of them flat-topped. |
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| 2 | 905 |
I had both spoken without permission, and broken position without permission. |
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| 2 | 935 |
But in my heart I knew I had not broken position because he had not given me permission to do so, because he had not released me from his command. |
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| 3 | 10 |
It was fastened with two hooks, which might be swiftly broken and torn away. |
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| 3 | 226 |
It was broken off some four feet from the ground, and the fallen trunk, from that height, inclined downward. |
10 |
| 3 | 336 |
Her face was flushed and broken out. |
10 |
| 3 | 355 |
The white-barked tree, fallen, within the camp enclosure, broken off some four feet from the ground, the trunk then inclining to the ground, was near. |
10 |
| 3 | 433 |
The men then left me and I continued to lie, head down, roped and helpless, on the broken, inclined trunk of the white-barked tree. |
10 |
| 4 | 232 |
She then, with the point of the scissors, at two points, ripped the hem she had earlier sewn out a bit, that in these two places it might appear the threads had broken; the hem then, in these two places, was irregular on my legs. |
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| 6 | 160 |
Her brother's arms and legs had he broken. |
10 |
| 9 | 1703 |
I had little doubt that one or more had been broken; the second fellow lay inert in the dirt, blood at the side of his head. |
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| 9 | 2445 |
"The drought is broken," said Tup Ladletender to me. |
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| 12 | 566 |
The box containing the keys had been broken open, perhaps by men, looking for jewelries. |
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| 19 | 17 |
My body was broken out from the moisture and heat of the slave sack. |
10 |
| 24 | 292 |
The convoy had been broken and it had scattered. |
10 |
| 25 | 112 |
"Can all codes be broken?" asked Samos. |
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| 25 | 116 |
Codes, in effect, cannot be broken. |
10 |
| 25 | 126 |
From the theoretical point of view, the unique-sequence cipher cannot be broken. |
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| 27 | 137 |
I knew the drought had been broken. |
10 |
| 27 | 214 |
I saw teeth flying, and blood, and a jaw broken. |
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| 27 | 216 |
More than one, I think, must have received a broken leg. |
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| 27 | 224 |
Bran Loort held the staff and, behind him, using half of the broken table, Thurnus protected him, fending blows and thrusting out, now and again, with the shattered table. |
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| 28 | 239 |
The girl in the house tunic, seemingly not yet broken in, not yet humbled and trained to the collar of pleasure, might have whetted the appetite of the buyers for an even more virginal, innocent form of merchandise, but, on the block, as I gathered from the remarks of the auctioneer and the response... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 650 |
They were not yet broken in, and I felt my men might kill them. |
10 |
| 3 | 1050 |
She is not broken to the collar". |
10 |
| 3 | 1233 |
And if a girl is not fully broken to the collar, one can always teach her. |
10 |
| 4 | 636 |
I think the man's neck had been broken by the blow of my hands under his chin, but he had still been alive. |
10 |
| 4 | 774 |
I went to the front of the booth, to the front margin of its selling area, bordering the walkway, and thrust back a shred of dangling canvas, it sewn to a broken pole, and then turned to regard them. |
10 |
| 6 | 421 |
An iron collar, with broken chain, was at his neck. |
10 |
| 6 | 573 |
In the distance I could see the four guardsmen, moving swiftly, trying to catch up with the girl who had broken away from them in the rash vanity of her hunt, desiring to be first upon the prize. |
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| 6 | 574 |
She had apparently broken the hunting line without informing them. |
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| 6 | 577 |
I saw the man take the tube of reed he had broken off and thrust it in her mouth; then the knife he carried, hers, lay across her throat; I saw her eyes, wild, in the moonlight, and then he, another bit of reed in his mouth, pulled her quietly below the surface. |
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| 7 | 183 |
I had broken her swiftly to my collar. |
10 |
| 10 | 276 |
The coffle, in virtue of the arrangements of chains and ankle rings, could be broken up into smaller work units. |
10 |
| 10 | 381 |
Suddenly it was as though a dam had broken. |
10 |
| 11 | 4 |
Once the wall had been broken, Drusus, of the Assassins, had departed with several men. |
10 |
| 11 | 5 |
Several guardsmen, too, their discipline broken, had sought supplies and fled south. |
10 |
| 11 | 6 |
The wall broken there seemed little point to them to remain and die. |
10 |
| 15 | 322 |
"It was only a longing dream," she whispered, "the yearning of a girl for a true man, one proud and free and strong, one not dishonest, one not broken, one not robbed of himself, one who could by his might and strength make me as much a woman as he was a man". |
10 |
| 19 | 8 |
When she had broken the ice from a place on the boot, she would place her mouth over that place, breathing upon it, softening and melting the residue of ice there. |
10 |
| 23 | 109 |
The Kur flung the pieces of the broken lance to the side. |
10 |
| 23 | 330 |
I recalled her puzzlement, which I think was genuine, in the hall to the south, that which had formed her own headquarters near the now-broken wall. |
10 |
| 25 | 28 |
Sometimes we bridged, carefully, leads of open water, broken open by the groaning, shifting ice, soon to close again, almost beneath our feet. |
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| 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 |
| 33 | 13 |
He must be sure, however, to leave enough to be found, some bones and furs, the broken sled, some chewed traces. |
10 |
| 35 | 7 |
He lay still, the neck broken. |
10 |
| 35 | 89 |
The metal was broken loose and twisted crookedly upward. |
10 |
| 38 | 46 |
We wanted their hands free to help with the sled, when it became necessary to haul or push it over rough ground or through heaps of ice or broken snow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 284 |
If one of us were captured and tortured, he could not, if broken, reveal what he did not know. |
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| 1 | 629 |
He had broken the seal on them. |
10 |
| 2 | 105 |
They would be broken. |
10 |
| 6 | 186 |
We could see the shore now, with its sands and, behind the sand, the dense, green vegetation, junglelike, broken by occasional clearings for fields and villages. |
10 |
| 6 | 608 |
Plague, some years ago, had broken out in Bazi, to the north, which port had then been closed by the merchants for two years. |
10 |
| 6 | 615 |
But our eyes were not yellowed nor was there sign of the broken pustules in our flesh. |
10 |
| 8 | 197 |
I rolled up the sleeve of my tunic and saw there, on the flesh of the forearm, like black blisters, broken open, erupted, a scattering of pustules. |
10 |
| 13 | 70 |
Too, I thought that it might be to the girl's advantage to be broken in by me, one more aware than would be most Goreans of the limitations of Earth girls. |
10 |
| 19 | 59 |
The flesh had turned a blackish orange and, in places, had broken open, the skin peeling back like burned paper. |
10 |
| 23 | 278 |
Suddenly the log splintered upward, the last remaining inches broken away. |
10 |
| 23 | 447 |
Probably the mud raft had broken loose and the worker was intent upon returning it, if unwisely, in the darkness. |
10 |
| 24 | 118 |
From the heaped mud on the raft, unobtrusively, protruded three hollow stems, of broken marsh reed. |
10 |
| 25 | 114 |
"The women of Earth, collared and broken to the whip," I said, "make superb slaves". |
10 |
| 28 | 23 |
We put the goods in one of the sacks we had had and saved from the fishermen's village, and threw the broken lock and opened box again into the river. |
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| 33 | 5 |
There is the mightiness of the river, like a great road, twisting and turning, occasionally broken with green islands, sometimes sluggish, sometimes shattered by rapids and cataracts, sometimes interrupted by flooding cascades of water, sometimes a few feet in height and sometimes towering upwards h... |
10 |
| 54 | 6 |
The great building, with its tall columns, some broken, fallen aside, in its ruins, lay behind us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 249 |
Thus the male must be hobbled, broken and crippled. |
10 |
| 4 | 312 |
"On Gor," she said, "we would not even break our male slaves as the men of Earth are broken". |
10 |
| 11 | 333 |
"The seal is broken on the bag," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 732 |
His back had not been broken. |
10 |
| 19 | 40 |
Our hands would be wrapped in leather that they might not be easily broken. |
10 |
| 25 | 59 |
Thus I think he would not be entirely displeased were you to be humiliated and crushingly defeated in the pit, perhaps even broken, disfigured and maimed. |
10 |
| 25 | 65 |
When you fall broken and bloody at the feet of Krondar, unable to move and at his mercy, will that not be a sweet vengeance for him, against you, and, in its way, against the Lady Florence?" "Doubtless," I said. |
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 | 215 |
"You do not command me!" "Do you want your neck broken?" I asked. |
10 |
| 26 | 231 |
"You are strong, Jason," said the Lady Florence, looking at the broken bench, "very strong". |
10 |
| 26 | 264 |
Chests had been broken open. |
10 |
| 30 | 58 |
They may be useful, too, of course, in broken or wooded areas, where a fleeing girl might attempt to find cover, or in dangerous places, where she might be stolen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 52 |
That his jaw was broken was an accident. |
10 |
| 9 | 84 |
"Accordingly," he said, "she is not yet fully broken to the collar". |
10 |
| 11 | 367 |
Perhaps the bed of Procrustes is the truth and men must be broken or cut to pieces that they may fit it. |
10 |
| 11 | 376 |
All we make by that method is broken or mutilated human beings. |
10 |
| 13 | 193 |
It was a yellowish stone, with an intricate and unusual brownish discoloration at the point where it had apparently been broken from a larger stone. |
10 |
| 18 | 106 |
"That is the sort of thing which is usually said by a woman who is yearning for her will to be broken, by a strong man," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 123 |
"My will, broken, will lie before you as yielding, as supine and vanquished, as my body," she said. |
10 |
| 19 | 93 |
It appears to be broken. |
10 |
| 23 | 257 |
"She is a new slave," said Policrates, "and is not yet fully broken to her collar". |
10 |
| 23 | 294 |
"I meant that she was not yet fully trained, not yet broken fully to the collar". |
10 |
| 24 | 185 |
I know that they say that I am not a good slave, and that I am not well broken as yet to my collar, but I will try to please you well". |
10 |
| 32 | 344 |
I feared my legs were broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 |
The Chain has been Broken in the North The long galley, some eighty feet Gorean, sped toward the chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 36 |
The catapult on the enemy's stern castle had broken loose from its large, rotating mount. |
10 |
| 3 | 105 |
We came upon the wreckage of a pirate galley, broken in two, deserted. |
10 |
| 3 | 106 |
It had broken, attempting to ride over the chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 140 |
"The chain has been broken," he said. |
10 |
| 4 | 7 |
It had been broken in the north, but here, closer to the southern shore of the Vosk, it had held. |
10 |
| 16 | 311 |
I seized a broken oar from Spined Tharlarion, its blade gone, its shaft swinging loose in the thole port. |
10 |
| 20 | 1188 |
"Over a hundred years ago," said Tasdron, "it was carried away by pirates, and broken. |
10 |
| 20 | 1196 |
"It has been broken," said Tasdron. |
10 |
| 20 | 1668 |
"Perhaps they are not as weak and broken as you surmise". |
10 |
| 20 | 1836 |
Has she not broken their implicit pact, uttered that which is unspeakable, neither to acknowledge that love could exist between such disparate beings as they, a free man, a lordly fellow, one with a Home Stone, and a mere beast, an animal, collared, a degraded, meaningless slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 529 |
Similarly the shaft of the spear had not been broken. |
10 |
| 1 | 1156 |
His lance is broken. |
10 |
| 14 | 1233 |
"We have not broken the laws," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 1319 |
"As far as I know, I have not broken their laws," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 1321 |
"You may be attacked at their pleasure, whether or not you have broken their laws". |
10 |
| 16 | 37 |
Chests had been overturned and broken open. |
10 |
| 16 | 116 |
They, too, seemed broken. |
10 |
| 16 | 120 |
Given their distance from the other wagons and their distribution in the grass I took it that they had broken their column and sped away, as best they might. |
10 |
| 18 | 94 |
"But the lance is not broken," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 174 |
"Surely we have broken no law," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 186 |
"If there were such a law," asked the youth, "would you have broken it?" "Yes," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 188 |
One's weapons could be broken. |
10 |
| 2 | 6 |
She had the helpless passion of a woman broken to slavery. |
10 |
| 5 | 213 |
In a few minutes it would be difficult for anyone but a skilled tracker, looking for broken stems, to determine that they had gone that way. |
10 |
| 6 | 62 |
The poles were broken and splintered; the crosspieces were shattered; the hides were rent. |
10 |
| 18 | 372 |
No bones, it seemed, were broken. |
10 |
| 21 | 4 |
In its strike I think his back was broken. |
10 |
| 24 | 34 |
The blow was such that I feared, for a moment, his head struck to the side, that his neck might be broken. |
10 |
| 27 | 83 |
Two other birds hung in the netting, one with its neck broken and the other with a wing half torn away. |
10 |
| 32 | 60 |
"The Kaiila are broken," said Cuwignaka, bitterly. |
10 |
| 32 | 83 |
In the center of the great circle the huge fire blazed from a kindling of broken lodge poles. |
10 |
| 37 | 88 |
It may be strangled; it may be crushed beneath the knees, with the hunter's weight; or it may be put on its belly, its back to be broken by a swift blow of the foot. |
10 |
| 44 | 491 |
Arms were broken in the shield straps. |
10 |
| 46 | 140 |
Arrow screens were broken and dropped. |
10 |
| 47 | 172 |
The first tarn, that highest, was struck full in the back, the man broken between the two bodies. |
10 |
| 47 | 173 |
Its back was broken and perhaps the neck of the man in the same blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 227 |
Then this silence was broken by the voice of Ligurious. |
10 |
| 6 | 459 |
Surely he might be broken in rank for that, or whipped, or even slain! I wondered why he had not kissed me. |
10 |
| 30 | 415 |
Within, two brackets, on one side, the right, had been literally broken away from the wall. |
10 |
| 32 | 158 |
To be sure, mercifully, such sets are usually soon broken up. |
10 |
| 33 | 110 |
Their arms and legs are broken". |
10 |
| 33 | 464 |
"As you will note," said Hassan to Claudius and the high council, "the seal on this bundle has not been broken. |
10 |
| 33 | 554 |
"See which bears the true seal of Corcyrus!" The broken seals were brought to Claudius. |
10 |
| 33 | 557 |
"The seal broken from the package of Ligurious," he said, "is the seal of Corcyrus". |
10 |
| 34 | 126 |
In them I saw that the spell which she had exercised over him was broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 7 |
Her body, broken out and mottled, was like a map, one recollective of my attentions. |
10 |
| 14 | 265 |
"And there is," he said, adding in another noise, "our leader!" He had indicated a large, dark-furred, broken-tusked urt, a gigantic creature for this type of animal, with small eyes and a silvered snout. |
10 |
| 14 | 378 |
Might there not be a reason why grass is green, and the sky blue? Might there not be a reason for the movement of the winds and the rotation of the night sky, and a reason, say, why men are as they are, and women as they are? I suddenly leapt to the beast whose neck I had broken. |
10 |
| 14 | 442 |
It had one tusk broken at the side of its jaw. |
10 |
| 14 | 474 |
I then turned, and climbed through the broken, serrated edges of this natural stone bowl, found myself in the open fields, and began to run, with the long, slow warrior's pace, that pace in which warriors are trained, that pace which may be maintained, even under the weight of weapons, accouterments... |
10 |
| 18 | 238 |
Her face was red, and broken out. |
10 |
| 19 | 182 |
"They appear to be broken," he said. |
10 |
| 19 | 183 |
"They are broken," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 95 |
I was pleased that I had not broken my neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 7 |
It was now broken and charred. |
10 |
| 3 | 210 |
The shield shed was broken. |
10 |
| 3 | 213 |
The squares were broken. |
10 |
| 4 | 242 |
In this fashion the worse that was likely to happen was that the loser would have his head broken open. |
10 |
| 8 | 56 |
Stalks of veminium broken beside the road had now dried. |
10 |
| 8 | 73 |
Wrappings, sackings and broken vessels lay strewn about. |
10 |
| 11 | 350 |
Her face was red, and broken out. |
10 |
| 13 | 16 |
Too, we could hear shouts, and other sounds, such as furniture being broken. |
10 |
| 14 | 124 |
Whereas I knew little about such matters, I suspected that a critic was about as useful to a poet as a broken leg to a runner. |
10 |
| 19 | 438 |
"Think how sorry you would have had to have been, had you broken my neck before you discovered your error". |
10 |
| 22 | 60 |
In places there were long diagonal cracks in them, marking stress points in the structure where the plaster had broken. |
10 |
| 26 | 1941 |
They can be easily defended, and, if wished, broken away, this isolating the cylinder in such a way as to transform it, in effect, into an almost inaccessible, well-provisioned fortress or keep. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b... |
10 |
| 8 | 24 |
It was muchly broken and trampled. |
10 |
| 9 | 478 |
Do I hear more? To be sure, she is only semitrained, and perhaps not yet fully broken to the collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 643 |
I think any of them could have broken me in pieces, like the lovely ostraka. |
10 |
| 11 | 1031 |
"Let us have the drawing!" Hendow nodded to Mirus, and Mirus summoned Aynur to the center of the floor, and near the front, with her copper bowl, laden with the halves of broken ostraka. |
10 |
| 24 | 64 |
I could be strangled in an instant, the cartilage in my throat broken, ruptured, by strong hands. |
10 |
| 24 | 65 |
Similarly, in an instant, my neck, or my back, thrown over their knees, could be broken. |
10 |
| 29 | 702 |
He spoke quickly, after only his legs were broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 |
"The axle is broken," said one of the men to the driver. |
10 |
| 1 | 385 |
Its axle had been broken. |
10 |
| 13 | 178 |
Were they really spurious, and had they really been intended to bring about the surrender of Ar's Station why would they not have been more realistically conceived, that they might have been more likely to achieve such a purpose? For example, why would they not have been in some cipher, one which mi... |
10 |
| 17 | 40 |
At the termination of another bridge we had broken away an opening in the walkway, enlarging a gap about stairs. |
10 |
| 17 | 586 |
In this covered way, men passing him, from various parts of the citadel, presumably taking their way to the harbor area, on a piece of stone, broken from the inside of the way, his head in his hands, sat Aemilianus, bleeding. |
10 |
| 18 | 5 |
All about were tangles of floating debris, broken oars, rope-bestrewn yards, and smoke-stained barrels and crates. |
10 |
| 18 | 269 |
The men in these lines crouched down, their shields between themselves and the wall, creating an open fence of shields, a poor, broken cover, given the paucity of their numbers, but better than none. |
10 |
| 19 | 38 |
It is not simply that the squares are more tactically flexible, being capable of functioning on broken terrain, and such, but also that they facilitate substitutions in the front lines, permitting the swift injection of fresh troops at crucial points. |
10 |
| 19 | 144 |
I saw a piece of the broken walkway, half submerged, off to the right. |
10 |
| 19 | 225 |
The piece of broken walkway which had been to the right was now back, a few feet from the torn end of the walkway, floating in the inner harbor. |
10 |
| 20 | 191 |
The stone was broken, however, into two pieces. |
10 |
| 24 | 845 |
It has a rather hard shell but the shell is brittle and easily broken. |
10 |
| 24 | 848 |
Once the shell has been broken through or removed, irrevocably, there is, you see, exposed, soft, vulnerable, juicy and helpless, the interior, in the fruit, the fleshy endocarp, in the woman, the slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 490 |
"The winter camp has been broken?" I asked. |
10 |
| 4 | 43 |
"The reeds are broken in two places," said a man. |
10 |
| 7 | 2 |
"The rence is broken there!" There was a cheer from the several craft about us. |
10 |
| 13 | 104 |
The cabin was not completely dark, as the windows at the sides had been broken in. |
10 |
| 13 | 105 |
Some, perhaps, might have been broken before. |
10 |
| 13 | 106 |
But I had little doubt that it was due to the men of Ar, themselves, in the vigor of their attack, that others had been destroyed, and that the door in the back, that awry in the threshold, through which we had entered, had been broken. |
10 |
| 14 | 128 |
"But have you," I asked, "who are the commander of the vanguard, you who are in the very best position to do so, detected any clear evidence as yet of even so minimal a presence?" "There has been broken rence," he said. |
10 |
| 17 | 83 |
"They have broken through!" speculated a man. |
10 |
| 19 | 977 |
She had not, however, broken position. |
10 |
| 24 | 44 |
One could see dimly within it, the moonlight, in some places, filtering in through the dilapidated shutters, in other places, streaming in, unimpeded, where the shutters had been broken or removed. |
10 |
| 28 | 220 |
If this contact is broken this is to be communicated as quickly as possible to the others. |
10 |
| 28 | 668 |
It saddened me that his mind had broken. |
10 |
| 29 | 61 |
The powerful tail, which in its sweep might have broken a leg or struck a fellow yards into the water, barely moved. |
10 |
| 43 | 5 |
In this fashion, we hoped that anyone, at least the idly curious, would assume we had broken camp and departed eastward, presumably to make a junction with one of the delta roads. |
10 |
| 46 | 361 |
Indeed, perhaps a limb was broken. |
10 |
| 46 | 382 |
It must have been severely bruised, if not broken. |
10 |
| 46 | 383 |
If it were broken it could be set, and she could then be returned to the cage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 529 |
Indeed, with Ar vulnerable and helpless, nullified militarily, if the power of Cos should collapse, a new barbarism might ensue, at least within the traditional boundaries of Ar, a lawless barbarism broken here and there by the existence of minor tyrannies, places where armed men imposed their will. |
10 |
| 9 | 641 |
The light cord, little more than twine, but strong enough not to be broken by a woman's strength, had been knotted about her neck and then carried forward to the woman before her, where it was tied similarly, and thence forward again, suitable lengths being unwound and cut from a long spool. |
10 |
| 10 | 193 |
Another fraction of a hort, the least additional pressure, and his wrist would be broken. |
10 |
| 10 | 267 |
The fellow's wrist had not been broken. |
10 |
| 16 | 233 |
"I think his broken bones, his bruises, his blood, his groans, his gibbering, his accounts of what occurred, his terror, such things, would better serve the Delta Brigade than his death". |
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| 19 | 1226 |
Had I struck her heavily, with the force easily summonable by a strong man, I might have broken her neck. |
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| 24 | 188 |
"Master?" "You had broken the couching laws," I said, "delicious slut. |
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| 25 | 132 |
I did not think that anything had been broken. |
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| 26 | 344 |
In her last words her voice had almost broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 72 |
We were sometimes frightened that the portals of the house might be breached, that the hinges of barred gates might be broken from the stone, that the garden might be entered, and we might be found, helpless in the garden, like luscious fruit in an orchard whose supposedly impregnable walls have bee... |
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| 8 | 454 |
I, of course, was "cell broken". |
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| 8 | 771 |
Our group, as it had been, would be broken up. |
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| 11 | 851 |
This conditioning program, and its effects, now, bit by bit, fragment by shattered fragment, had been broken away from me. |
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| 13 | 1173 |
I was in a fairly standard, common-model, single-girl cage, one involving a design compromise between display and security, security not from the point of view of containing the occupant, which a lighter cage would be fully effective in doing, but security against being broken into by thieves. |
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| 13 | 1268 |
How I had yielded to him, as such a slave! He had made me his! I had been conquered and enraptured, destroyed and renewed, rent in fragments and made whole, freed and enslaved, broken and created. |
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| 31 | 522 |
From the shackles on his left and right ankles there hung, their links on the stone, broken chains. |
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| 31 | 592 |
The block of stone, broken from the wall, torn out of it, still fixed to the plate and bolts, and chain, had burst forth, showering mortar in the room. |
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| 31 | 612 |
The weakened link, that which could have been slipped earlier, it having been opened, but that not known to him, now parted so that the chain was broken. |
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| 31 | 666 |
And then the stone struck against the side of the portal and the stone burst from the portal, a cubic foot of wall there broken from its place, but the stone, too, on the chain, shattered, splitting at the bolts, and fell in two halves away. |
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| 32 | 7 |
One of the lanterns, even, though its glass was broken, was lit. |
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| 32 | 11 |
On the broken skull within, on its forehead, distorted by the breakage, was a tiny black dagger, set there this morning. |
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| 34 | 122 |
Shackles, of course, and links of chain, if one wishes, may be forced apart, or even broken, given proper tools and sufficient strength. |
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| 37 | 44 |
It was sealed, and the seal, with its dangling string, had not been broken. |
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| 37 | 85 |
The seal was broken away by he who had been the custodian of the bag, and the bag was opened. |
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| 38 | 33 |
"A bar was found broken from the stone, and another, beside it, bent to the side," said the officer, his fingers poised over a piece on the board. |
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| 38 | 41 |
"A ruined bow was found at the spot, the metal, and quarrels, used as tools, also the blade of a sword, and of a knife, blunted, broken from their hilts, these things used in furrowing stone, in scratching out the mortar". |
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| 44 | 245 |
The cruelties, the artificialities, had been broken away from her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 36 |
But the women who were now her teachers, three of them, different from before, only one of whom spoke English, and that a broken English, had laughed at her, thinking she must be very stupid. |
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| 13 | 61 |
And the bridges, given their construction, could be easily broken, thus isolating the individual fortresses from other, similar fortresses, which might have fallen to an enemy. |
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| 13 | 231 |
"They have broken through!" cried the girl on the height of a nearby rack, she who had originally called their attention to the agitation in the distance. |
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| 17 | 1017 |
One false blow of the hammer and she knew that her head or throat, with such blows, could be broken as easily as one might crush an egg underfoot. |
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| 18 | 521 |
When Ellen arrived at the designated door, she saw that it hung awry on its hinges, was half broken, and boarded over. |
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| 18 | 700 |
"We are both from America!" She then, suddenly, as though something had broken within her, tears running down her cheeks, fell weeping into the arms of the other girl. |
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| 19 | 600 |
Even the best of them may be insufficiently weak, insufficiently devirilized, insufficiently tamed, insufficiently broken on the wheel of a woman's will. |
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| 20 | 279 |
Why, Ellen wondered, had Tersius Major broken the line. |
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| 24 | 237 |
There is a broken comb there. |
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| 26 | 1383 |
We must count on their confusion, until the camp is broken, and thousands are scattered in a hundred directions". |
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| 27 | 10 |
By the time, several pasangs away, the nature of the diversion was understood, the flighted tarns being regained, or it being understood that most, if not all, had been riderless, it had become morning and the vast camp, bit by bit, shortly after dawn, had been broken, the thousands of men, their go... |
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| 27 | 2305 |
She was fortunate, not to have been seriously injured, as, in the turning of the wagon, an arm might have been torn from its socket or an arm or wrist broken. |
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| 27 | 2996 |
Another man, then seized, was broken across the knee of one of the beasts. |
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| 27 | 3488 |
"For the love of Priest-Kings," cried Tersius Major, "give me something to drink, something to eat!" "You have broken the law of Priest-Kings," said Portus Canio. |
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| 30 | 719 |
They have not been broken and tamed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 300 |
It is interesting to consider how easily the continuities of tradition or civilization may be broken. |
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| 1 | 355 |
Which female wishes to found inferior to another? Even a female not yet broken to her collar will strive to be found not less pleasing than another. |
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| 1 | 905 |
Then, humiliated, lost to honor, broken as a warrior and man, shamed and degraded, mocked, they might do with him as they pleased, perhaps doing away with him in some grisly, amusing fashion on some holiday, or even turning him loose, if they wished, naked in some wilderness, to live as he could wit... |
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| 13 | 67 |
In this way the neck may be broken. |
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| 33 | 122 |
Another large head, similar to the first, though perhaps of a different species of aquatic tharlarion, had broken the surface. |
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| 34 | 59 |
He felt another log beneath his feet then, that of the lower tier of logs, and then it, too, seemed to move from side to side, and, other ropes broken apart, it slipped sideways under the raft, and was swept away, somewhere. |
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| 40 | 129 |
With power weapons, Gor, and Earth, might be broken into fragments, each too small to hold an atmosphere, but here an atmosphere may be the more easily lost, escaping through vast ruptures, ruptures easily consequent upon the charges of the larger power weapons". |
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| 44 | 181 |
Such blows might easily have broken the neck of a human female. |
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| 65 | 64 |
"I have sent a delegation, lifting above their heads the broken spear," said Lord Grendel, "that they may be permitted through the enemy lines and conveyed to the palace, that a determination may be made in the matter. |
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| 65 | 73 |
The leader of the delegation cast aside the broken spear. |
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| 67 | 59 |
But as recorded, shortly after the strange message heard within the world, Cabot became less concerned with the obviousness of his trail, hitherto so obviously broken through the snow. |
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| 67 | 111 |
He thought in sorrow of the beauty of the Lady Bina, and how she was now little more than a broken, torn, hideous, shapeless thing. |
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| 68 | 5 |
"We lift the broken spear," called the second. |
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| 68 | 7 |
There was no carried broken spear, of course, but the meaning was clear, that a truce was sought. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 11 |
Here, in this part of the forest, there was a great deal of shrubbery, brush, broken branches, fallen timber, debris of various sorts. |
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| 12 | 260 |
In a tarn strike on a tabuk the animal's back is usually broken by the strike, and then the beak, like a shearing engine, slashes through the back of the neck. |
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| 13 | 271 |
And finally the slave, sobbing, and groveling, trembling and shuddering, bruised, miserable, her pride broken, her spirit vanquished, well informed now that whatever she might once have been, she was now no more than a slave, wholly submitted, and helpless, crawled to the feet of the Ubara, kissing ... |
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| 14 | 29 |
Understandably, a reasonable amount of care was taken in the dojo to reduce injury and, certainly, to prevent death, the holding of strokes, and such, but, nonetheless, bloodshed was not infrequent, and broken limbs, wrists, and arms, were not unknown. |
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| 17 | 83 |
Our fleeing foes had now broken apart into a rout of single flights. |
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| 17 | 89 |
There is little pleasure for the warrior in pursuing broken, terrified men, defeated and almost defenseless, though he can recognize the military value in doing so, following up the victory. |
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| 23 | 210 |
Some, before the hunt, would use a woman, briefly, ruthlessly, unfeelingly, leaving her shuddering, crumpled, and broken, sobbing, at their feet, before honing the selected blade, one of six, before painting the dagger on their forehead, that crowds might part uneasily before them, that taverns migh... |
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| 27 | 3 |
By evening the debris of these areas would cool into blackened wood and warm, gray ash, and these residues of the conflagration, extinguished, would be scattered about, broken up, and dragged by designated work gangs into the forest. |
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| 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. |
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| 38 | 253 |
Needless to say this considerably depresses the market, and it is, accordingly, often the case that these coffles must be broken up and widely dispersed, or marched far afield, sometimes better than a thousand pasangs, to more favorable markets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 206 |
A similar danger is to pursue a broken foe, or an apparently broken foe, while the foe's marshaled reserves, ready at hand, or even hidden at hand, as in trenches, or amongst trees, are ready to strike from the flank. |
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| 6 | 68 |
"Then she is broken in, nicely?" "Yes," said Cabot. |
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| 6 | 71 |
"Any woman is good," said Cabot, "once she is broken to the collar". |
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| 7 | 138 |
This is clear in a hundred ways, from their brand, their collar, their clothing, if permitted clothing, their behaviors, their demeanors, their diction, their deference, their expressions, their place in society, and, once they are broken to the collar, their softness, their radical femininity, thei... |
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| 9 | 98 |
The arrow had been broken in the fellow's fall, against the stairs. |
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| 9 | 134 |
We saw that the weapon room had been broken into. |
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| 9 | 136 |
Some of the bows and spears, ax hafts, and such, had been broken, or splintered. |
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| 9 | 177 |
He held his arm, which was, as it turned out, broken. |
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| 9 | 240 |
In the narrowness of the aisles some had broken a wing and, with beak and long, curved, vicious talons, as thick as a man's wrist, in their confusion, rage, and pain, attacked anything within reach, the thick wooden bars of cages, one another, the bodies of men. |
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| 10 | 89 |
She had lifted her and broken her apart in her mighty fist. |
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| 10 | 90 |
Surely, any moment now the great vessel would settle, water pouring in through broken timbers. |
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| 10 | 102 |
Before the ship, as far as I could see, the ice had broken. |
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| 12 | 396 |
As I had heard no cry after the first moment of the descent, I suspected he had been dead when he had entered the water, perhaps from a broken neck. |
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| 14 | 195 |
When Durbar got his hands upon the beams Seremides kicked out, viciously, and Durbar, I think his neck was broken, slipped away, beneath the water. |
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| 21 | 486 |
It had been broken away, probably by a hammer. |
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| 21 | 525 |
The great door, so often secured and locked, was now, the lock broken, swung back. |
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| 24 | 57 |
Some had been broken into, for food. |
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| 28 | 182 |
Words rushed out of her, as though a stream had broken forth from behind some obstruction, sweeping debris to the side, and, released at last, it rushed forth, threatening its banks, in a churning, grateful torrent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1835 |
Too, the bridges may be broken, this preventing access to the towers, turning each into a solitary, soaring, nigh-impregnable citadel. |
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| 9 | 81 |
I did know that men bet on tarn races, which could be dangerous at the rings, sometimes a body broken, a limb lost, a wing torn away, and that some cared for arena sports, sword games. |
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| 10 | 976 |
"I do not think anything is broken," said the beast. |
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| 11 | 125 |
Some of the bodies were crushed, others had the neck broken". |
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| 15 | 183 |
I feared then I was to be strangled, or that my neck was to be broken. |
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| 15 | 229 |
Surely I was not going to exit the stall where the one side had once stood, until broken away by the beast, for that opening was behind it. |
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| 15 | 298 |
I had a sense of its power, from the stall, the broken wood, from the strength of Lord Grendel, as one of its sort, from killings in the streets of Ar, from the improbable, sightless blow it had delivered, which had struck a large, grown man stumbling, reeling, yards to the side. |
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| 18 | 648 |
Even the proudest and most recalcitrant of slaves, usually a recent free woman, of high caste, is quickly broken in such a device, and emerges a readied, humbled, and trembling slave, fearful only that she will not be found fully pleasing, and in all ways. |
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| 23 | 59 |
It now seemed clear the seal had been broken earlier, and then, after the contents had been tampered with, had been restored, or at least given the appearance of having been restored. |
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| 45 | 53 |
Might the knives of expanding ice in fissures have broken loose stones, some like small mountains? I wondered if, in its long past, the Voltai had witnessed the passage of oceans of ice at its feet, oceans which might bear ships of stone. |
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| 45 | 212 |
Each took the hand of the other in his mouth, and I shuddered, as those massive, fanged jaws closed about the other's hand, but not even the skin was broken. |
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| 45 | 214 |
Each might have torn away the hand of the other, but not even the skin was broken. |
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| 46 | 128 |
As it is, several arms and legs have been broken, and men have been swept aside, dashed into walls. |
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| 48 | 366 |
I feared an arm might be broken. |
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| 49 | 65 |
She had been muchly lacerated, torn, broken, and disfigured. |
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| 50 | 62 |
A number of men, apparently several, masked and armed, perhaps two hundred, had converged on a given barn outside the city, had broken into it, and found it empty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 42 |
It could not be! Then, at last, frightened, I had turned, broken away, and hurried, indeed fled, between the counters, the goods, the shoppers, to the other side of the store. |
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| 6 | 435 |
I had not broken the neck of the first, nor the back of the second. |
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| 7 | 290 |
No wonder, I thought, that she might have broken in the strain, and irrationally, so foolishly, tried to run toward the stairs. |
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| 15 | 378 |
I supposed it must have been a large piece of ice, broken free, that it would be in the river, here in the Alexandra, this far south. |
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| 21 | 356 |
I feared the two beasts were to pounce upon him, given the regard in which they seemed to hold the small vessel, but they stopped suddenly, angrily, apprehensively, for, having broken the seal and removed the bottle's stopper, Tyrtaios held it, as though to spill its contents on the ground. |
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| 25 | 60 |
I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah, parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron lfuit... |
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| 35 | 64 |
I realized clearly that Tuza, had she wished, might have broken open the skull of her victim, killing her instantly, but had controlled the blow, for, it seemed, she had other plans for the leader of the band of Darla. |
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| 37 | 139 |
It was as though some image, some proud, contrived, clay encasement of a reality had finally broken apart, separating, revealing, hitherto hidden within, something quite unlike the image, or encasement, something not hard but soft, not artificial but real, not false but true, and needful. |
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| 41 | 298 |
"Even when new," said Axel, "not everyone could sound it, and it is now broken". |
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| 41 | 326 |
"Even when new," said Axel, "it required strength to sound it, and it is now broken". |
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| 47 | 6 |
I had anticipated difficulty in picking up the foolish slave's trail, which might have begun anywhere, but, eventually, from stirred leaves, a dislodged stone, a broken twig, a bent branch, such things, I had expected to be able to do so. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 156 |
Several times, at night, enemies from below, dark-clad, agile night fighters, had forced pitons into the cliff, but these had been broken free during the day, by Ashigaru, lowered from the walls above. |
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| 7 | 217 |
"You are angry?" "Would that the siege might be broken," I said. |
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| 15 | 47 |
Anchored in the top of the wall were pieces of broken glass, shards of pottery, and blades, and, strung about the wall, were dangling strips of metal which would be difficult to elude, and which, if not eluded, would produce a jangling of disturbed metal unlikely to pass unnoted. |
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| 19 | 192 |
On the Prison Moon, a largely automated prison, it had been intended by the Priest-Kings that I should be defeated and broken as a warrior, by means of an ingenious torture consisting of the counterpoising of desire and honor. |
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| 24 | 154 |
"The chain of command is broken. |
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| 26 | 54 |
I had not broken his neck. |
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| 44 | 245 |
I saw some sparks of light, and noted more broken arrows falling from its sides, to the ground below. |
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| 57 | 54 |
The beast in the hearts of men had broken its tether, and was now afoot, free, prowling, and ravening. |
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| 60 | 141 |
"The gate is broken through," I said. |
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| 60 | 145 |
"How is it that you have broken the gate?" "Guards were adamant," said Lord Akio. |
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| 61 | 979 |
It was as though something had suddenly changed within her, as though a barrier had fallen, as though a wall of ice had broken apart, and, melting, revealed a lush, arable, inviting terrain beyond, green in its grass and warm in its sun. |
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| 61 | 1167 |
She was on her knees, some feet behind, broken, shuddering, conquered, lips trembling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 462 |
Too, how could I dare to appear before them, as I was? How could I explain my appearance, lightly gowned, my wrists in handcuffs? Would they take my plight seriously? Would they dismiss it, would they scorn me, with wise looks, would they find it amusing, no more than an embarrassing contretemps? An... |
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| 13 | 152 |
I knew myself, though once of Earth, to be broken to the will of masters. |
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