| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 178 |
"It is the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste," said Kazrak. |
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| 10 | 1 |
The Caravan "Do not harm him," said Kazrak. |
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| 10 | 7 |
As I stood tensely, ringed by the lances of the caravan guards, the wall of tharlarions parted to allow the approach of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste. |
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| 10 | 24 |
One of the mounted warriors said, "Kazrak of Port Kar is the best sword in the caravan". |
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| 10 | 106 |
* * * * The next few days were among the happiest of my life, as Talena and I became a part of Mintar's slow, ample caravan, members of its graceful, interminable, colorful procession. |
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| 10 | 108 |
Mintar's caravan, like most, was harnessed long before dawn and traveled until the heat of the day. |
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| 10 | 110 |
The beasts would be watered and fed, the guards set, the wagons secured, and the members of the caravan would turn to their cooking fires. |
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| 10 | 112 |
In those days I learned to master the high tharlarion, one of which had been assigned to me by the caravan's tharlarion master. |
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| 10 | 200 |
She became interested in the caravan and would spend hours walking alongside the colored wagons, sometimes hitching rides with the strap-masters, wheedling from them a piece of fruit or a sweetmeat. |
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| 10 | 202 |
She became a favorite of the caravan. |
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| 10 | 203 |
Once or twice mounted warriors of the caravan had accosted her, but on reading her collar had backed grumblingly away, enduring with good humor her jibes and taunts. |
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| 10 | 204 |
In the early afternoon, when the caravan halted, she would help Kazrak and me set up our tent and would then gather wood for a fire. |
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| 11 | 1 |
The City of Tents For several days, to the sound of the caravan bells, we made our way through the Margin of Desolation, that wild, barren strip of soil with which the Empire of Ar had girded its borders. |
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| 11 | 3 |
As the caravan mounted a rise, we saw spread far below us, on the banks of the Vosk, a sight of incredible barbaric splendor—pasangs of brightly colored tents stretching as far as the eye could see, a vast assemblage of tents housing one of the greatest armies ever gathered on the plains of G... |
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| 11 | 13 |
The caravan of Mintar did not camp as usual in the heat of the day but moved on, attempting to reach the City of Tents before darkness. |
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| 11 | 17 |
I saw Mintar again, the first time since I had joined the caravan. |
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| 11 | 21 |
That night we brought the caravan into the palisaded keep prepared for Mintar by Pa-Kur, the Master Assassin, who was the Ubar of this vast, scarcely organized, predatory horde. |
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| 11 | 22 |
The caravan was secured, and in a few hours trade would begin. |
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| 11 | 23 |
The caravan, with its varied goods, was needed by the camp, and its merchandise would command the highest prices. |
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| 11 | 28 |
Talena seemed depressed, in odd contrast to her liveliness of the caravan days. |
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| 11 | 49 |
There Talena watched, thrilled, as girls, several of whom she had known in the caravan, were placed on the large, rounded wooden block and sold, one by one, to the highest bidder. |
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| 12 | 72 |
In the glade by the swamp forests, in the grain fields of the empire, on the great highway of Ar, in the regal, exotic caravan of Mintar, I had found the woman I loved, a scion of a barbaric race on a remote and unknown world. |
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| 15 | 57 |
I waited until one of the caravan guards passed. |
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| 16 | 94 |
"Goodbye, Sword Brother," he said, and turned and left the tent, as if he might have been merely going to the tharlarion corrals or to take his post for guard duty, as in our caravan days. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 148 |
Soon, pounding the time on the table with the butt of my spear, I was leading a raucous round of songs, mostly wild drinking songs, warrior songs, songs of the encampment and march, but too I taught them songs I had learned in the caravan of Mintar the Merchant, so long ago, when I had first loved T... |
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| 21 | 12 |
It was a peaceful scene, the cooking fires, the domed tents, the unharnessing of the animals, one I remembered from the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste. |
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| 21 | 74 |
The grizzled man absent-mindedly hummed a caravan tune while waiting for the irons to heat. |
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| 21 | 83 |
I supposed even the other girls, the other freight of the caravan, might think she made a bit too much of things. |
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| 21 | 134 |
From among the domed tents, wearing a swirling robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, with a headband of the same material, there approached a short, fat man, Targo the Slaver, he who was master of this small caravan. |
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| 21 | 139 |
His body had been recently oiled, and I gathered he may have been washed in his tent but moments ago, a pleasure of which caravan masters are fond at the end of a day's hot, dusty trek. |
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| 26 | 38 |
The sound of caravan bells is no longer strange in Tharna and strings of traders have found their way to her gates, to exploit this most surprising of all markets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 78 |
Whereas the males who accompany a caravan are often killed in its defense or driven off, this fate, fortunate or not, is seldom that of the caravan's women. |
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| 1 | 79 |
It will be their sad lot to be stripped and fitted with the collars and chains of slave girls and forced to follow the wagons on foot to the fair, or if the caravan's tharlarions have been killed or driven off, they will carry its goods on their backs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 119 |
Dina had lived for a time on the savings of the family, but had then taken them, sewn in the lining of her robes, and purchased a place on a caravan wagon bound for Ar, which caravan had been ambushed by Kassars, in which raid she herself, of course, had fallen into their hands. |
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| 1 | 32 |
I crossed the Cartius on a barge, one of several hired by the merchant of the caravan with which I was then serving. |
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| 1 | 35 |
The caravan, of course, was bound for Turia. |
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| 1 | 37 |
I left the caravan before it reached Turia. |
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| 9 | 173 |
Saphrar was not related to the girl, but had been appointed by the Turian merchants, on whom he undoubtedly exercised considerable influence, the guardian of the girl following the death of her father in a Paravaci caravan raid several years before. |
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| 10 | 271 |
It was only then that it had occurred to me that both girls might have been acquired in the games; as a matter of fact, however, I later learned that only Tenchika had been so acquired; Dina had first felt the thongs of a master beside the burning wagons of a caravan in which she had purchased passa... |
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| 12 | 44 |
Indeed, in the spring, with the results of caravan raids already accumulating, it is a rare night on which one cannot see one or more such dances performed. |
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| 12 | 210 |
They were in good humor and were laughing and moving their hands about as they regaled one another with accounts of their recent deeds, of which there were plainly a great many, it being the most active season for caravan raiding. |
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| 13 | 180 |
On the way we passed a girl, a girl from Cos taken hundreds of pasangs away in a raid on a caravan bound for Ar. |
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| 27 | 2 |
Kutaituchik avenged, Kamchak was no longer interested in Turia, though he wished the city to be restored, perhaps in order that the Wagon Peoples might have a valuable trade outlet whereby they could manage, if the caravan raids turned out poorly, to barter hides and horn for the goods of civilizati... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 296 |
A caravan of common slave wagons would take a year to go beyond the cities and return". |
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| 5 | 497 |
Papers will be prepared on you and you will be transmitted to the House of Clark in Thentis, whence you will be taken by tarn caravan to Ar, where you will be sold privately, your purchase to be effected by the agents of the House of Cernus, under the instructions of Caprus". |
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| 5 | 616 |
It is true that if she, with other girls, were shipped by wagon to Ar, this schedule would not be met; but we knew that the House of Clark, in the case of select merchandise, under which category Elizabeth surely fell, transported slaves by tarn caravan to the markets of Ar, usually binding them in ... |
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| 17 | 223 |
Then, together, the Hinrabians, with an armed retinue, set forth in caravan for Tor, envoys of which city had granted their petition for refuge. |
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| 17 | 224 |
Unfortunately the caravan, not more than two hundred pasangs from the Great Gate of Ar, was attacked and plundered by a large armed force, but of unknown origin. |
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| 17 | 225 |
Strangely, with perhaps one exception, each of the Hinrabians had had his throat cut, even the women; this was unusual, for the women of a captive caravan, regarded as portions of its booty, are almost always enslaved; the one Hinrabian whose body was not found among the dead, scattered on the plain... |
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| 20 | 40 |
The entire Hinrabian family, in caravan, had been ambushed, months ago, shortly after leaving the vicinity of Ar enroute to the desert city of Tor. |
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| 22 | 389 |
Such men doubtless had been used in the attack on the caravan of the Hinrabians. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 75 |
Fortunately for Targo he had managed to bring his caravan to the edge of a vast Ka-la-na thicket just before the tarnsmen struck. |
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| 7 | 102 |
Fortunately, not more than two days after I had been added to Targo's chain, we encountered a caravan of bosk wagons, traveling southeast toward Ko-ro-ba from Laura. |
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| 7 | 158 |
Our lives became a great deal easier after Targo encountered the caravan wagons. |
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| 7 | 176 |
In the two days since I had been captured, prior to our encountering the caravan, we had had only berries and water, and bits of small game, cooked by the guards and thrown to us in scraps. |
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| 7 | 334 |
The girl knelt in the shade of the wagon until the caravan moved, and then, getting up, leashed, walked beside the wagon. |
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| 8 | 340 |
I recalled that he had once similarly examined me, shortly after we had encountered our first caravan. |
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| 11 | 923 |
"When he is finished he sends his catch back by caravan," he said. |
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| 11 | 1090 |
It had been he, Rask of Treve, who had raided Targo's slave caravan, before, in the fields northwest of Ko-ro-ba, on the route to Laura, a wandering, strangely clad, barbarian girl had been enslaved, whose name was El-in-or. |
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| 11 | 1285 |
Furthermore, in Ko-ro-ba Targo had purchased additional girls, and guards, and his caravan southeast to Ar would be a substantial one, one surely not to be endangered by some forty to fifty tarnsmen. |
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| 12 | 43 |
We were perhaps a pasang from the caravan. |
10 |
| 12 | 78 |
The caravan, wagon by wagon, made its way slowly toward Ko-ro-ba's Street of the Field Gate, which is the southernmost gate of the city. |
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| 12 | 370 |
I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please... |
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| 12 | 436 |
These, where they exist, tend to be placed approximately a day's caravan march apart. |
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| 12 | 437 |
Sometimes, of course, and indeed, most often, the caravan must camp in the open. |
10 |
| 12 | 632 |
We watched them strike the caravan, in waves, and turn and wheel again, discharging their bolts. |
10 |
| 12 | 642 |
"Unchain them!" But they would not be unchained, unless the day went badly for the caravan, in which case they would be freed and, like the bosk, stampeded. |
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| 13 | 116 |
Then she was taken by a master, with others of his slaves, again to the Sardar, again to be sold, to defray business debts resulting from the loss of a caravan of salt wagons. |
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| 13 | 1052 |
I moaned with misery, for suddenly I understood the foolishness of my fantasies in the pens of Ko-ro-ba, and in the caravan of Targo, that I would conquer, that I might, by the withholding of my favors, or the fervor of my favors, reduce a master to bondage, turning him into a needful slave desperat... |
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| 14 | 212 |
Inside, the tent was floored with heavy, soft rugs, from Tor and Ar, perhaps the booty of caravan raids. |
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| 15 | 433 |
Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself. |
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| 15 | 525 |
"I acquired her about a year ago," said Rask of Treve, "from a merchant of Tyros, who was traveling by caravan overland to Ar, with the intention of returning her, for a recompense, to Marlenus of Ar". |
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| 15 | 552 |
I had picked such berries before, with Targo's caravan. |
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| 15 | 1391 |
I turned and, among the furnishings of the tent, found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from the vineyards of Ar, the loot of a caravan raid. |
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| 17 | 212 |
Among those I served were guards, formerly from the caravan of Targo. |
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| 18 | 54 |
I remembered her as I had seen her, in the swamp forest, south of Ar, with Nar the spider, and in the Ka-la-na grove, where I had freed her from the chains of a slave, only to put mine upon her; and in the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchants, in her collar, mine, and slave tunic, with Kazrak, my swo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 122 |
I recalled her from the fields near the Swamp Forest south of Ar, in the caravan of Mintar, at the great camp of Pa-Kur's horde, as she had been upon Ar's lofty Cylinder of Justice, as she had been in lamp-lit Ko-ro-ba, when, with interlocking arms, we had drunk the wines of the Free Companionship. |
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| 16 | 230 |
I had had my slaves, captured panther girls, bring it along, carrying it in our slave caravan. |
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| 17 | 135 |
It was time I visited, once more, the caravan of Sarus of Tyros. |
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| 22 | 864 |
Perhaps she would be carried south in tarn caravan, or by slave wagon, and would be slave in Turia, or perhaps even in the wagons of the Wagon Peoples, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 458 |
No one in the caravan departs from it by more than the length of the wheel's spoke, pertinent to the individual caravan. |
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| 2 | 82 |
There were many walled, guarded warehouses, requiring their staffs of scribes and guards, and, in hundreds of hovels, lived kaiila tenders, drovers, and such, who would, at the caravan tables, when their moneys had been exhausted, apply, if accepted, making their mark on the roster, once more for a ... |
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| 4 | 1 |
Riders Join the Caravan of Farouk The caravan moved slowly. |
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| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
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| 1 | 391 |
Certain cities, like Tor, dealt in slaves, commonly buying unsold girls from caravans, and selling them at a profit to other caravan masters. |
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| 1 | 435 |
His caravan was small. |
10 |
| 1 | 451 |
One would, thus, if not in caravan, move at night. |
10 |
| 1 | 457 |
The number of men in the caravan determines the length of the "spoke". |
10 |
| 1 | 462 |
The caravan kaiila, incidentally, both those which are pack animals and those used as mounts for guards and warriors, are muchly belled. |
10 |
| 1 | 464 |
If it were not for the caravan bells, the slow moving, otherwise generally silent caravans, might, unknowingly, pass within yards of men in desperate need of succor. |
10 |
| 1 | 468 |
He was, of course, muchly beaten, for having left the caravan. |
10 |
| 1 | 620 |
"And only the mad, deeper into the area, depart from marked caravan routes, proceeding from oasis to oasis". |
10 |
| 1 | 799 |
"One would surely need a caravan, and guides," I said, "to survive east of Tor?" "Of course," said Samos. |
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| 2 | 79 |
It was headquarters for thousands of caravan merchants. |
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| 2 | 81 |
Much of the city, of course, was organized to support the caravan trade. |
10 |
| 2 | 83 |
Guards for these caravans, incidentally, were usually known by, and retained by, caravan merchants between caravans. |
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| 2 | 88 |
Actually, of course, as was well known, this was a precaution against the danger of hiring, en bloc, unwittingly, an organized group of men, who might, prior to their hiring, have formed a plan to slay the guards and merchants and make off with the caravan. |
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| 2 | 105 |
The wages for a caravan trip, which often takes months, commonly will last the fellow about ten days, or, if nursed out, some fifteen days. |
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| 2 | 107 |
At the end of this time, after a day or so of some physiological discomfort, usually violent nausea and blinding headaches, it is common to find the man again back at the tables, once more attempting to vend his services to the master of a caravan. |
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| 2 | 192 |
I had failed to contact them in Kasra, as I had planned, but I had learned that they were in the region of Tor, purchasing kaiila, for a caravan to the kasbah, or fortress, of Suleiman, of the Aretai tribe, master of a thousand lances, Ubar of the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
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| 2 | 252 |
When I had arrived in Tor I had, immediately, rented one of the small, hovel-like compartments in the plastered, mud-brick buildings near the street of caravan tables. |
10 |
| 2 | 430 |
They were bound for the brine pits of the Tahari, whence comes most of the caravan salt. |
10 |
| 2 | 470 |
They exist primarily as a service for caravan masters, buying unsold girls, later retailing them to other merchants, who may be short of flesh for the oasis traffic. |
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| 2 | 570 |
"She was bought for two tarsks, from a caravan master named Zad of the Oasis of Farad," he said. |
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| 3 | 61 |
He was camping in the vicinity of the city while purchasing kaiila for a caravan to the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
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| 3 | 79 |
It had been he who had, enroute in a caravan, months before, discovered the rock on which had been inscribed 'Beware the steel tower. |
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| 3 | 138 |
Questioning nomads, doubtless to be found here and there in the wastes, and the inhabitants of various oases, many of them off the main caravan routes, I hoped, eventually, to obtain enough data or information to make it possible to find the mysterious tower of steel. |
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| 3 | 150 |
If it were in the dune country, removed from oases and caravan trails, of course, few, if any, might have seen it. |
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| 3 | 275 |
"Caravan routes may be closed. |
10 |
| 3 | 292 |
"My caravan is small," I told him, "only a few kaiila. |
10 |
| 3 | 318 |
We would join the caravan of Farouk on the trail, probably before noon. |
10 |
| 4 | 43 |
I returned to my place in the caravan line. |
10 |
| 4 | 47 |
I listened to the caravan bells, which sound is pleasing. |
10 |
| 4 | 59 |
From time to time the caravan stopped and, boiling water over tiny fires, we made tea. |
10 |
| 4 | 66 |
At night, when the caravan made camp, I would lift Alyena from the kurdah, and, sweeping her across the saddle and lowering her, drop her to her feet in the gravel. |
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| 4 | 94 |
I listened to the caravan bells. |
10 |
| 4 | 101 |
The outer garment when in caravan, usually the burnoose, is almost invariably white. |
10 |
| 4 | 107 |
I saw the end of the caravan, more than a pasang away. |
10 |
| 4 | 432 |
A man was riding by, the length of the caravan, one of the points. |
10 |
| 4 | 436 |
Guards from our caravan were hastening outward to meet them. |
10 |
| 4 | 440 |
Reassured I was to see points riding out about the caravan, outriders, to guard against such surprise. |
10 |
| 4 | 441 |
I saw Farouk, merchant and caravan master, ride by, burnoose swirling behind him, lance in hand. |
10 |
| 4 | 445 |
I rode down the caravan until I came to Alyena's kurdah. |
10 |
| 4 | 456 |
I saw, some hundred yards from the caravan, the riders reined up. |
10 |
| 4 | 458 |
The caravan guards, on nervous, prancing kaiila, were behind him. |
10 |
| 4 | 460 |
I rode my kaiila out a few steps, toward the men, then returned it to the caravan. |
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| 4 | 462 |
The caravan, I knew, was bound for the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
10 |
| 4 | 465 |
Several of the newcomers fanned out to flank the caravan, at large intervals. |
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| 4 | 467 |
Some twenty of them, with Farouk, and certain guards, began to work their way down the caravan, beast by beast, checking the drovers and kaiila tenders. |
10 |
| 4 | 472 |
I watched the men, on their kaiila, accompanied by Farouk, the caravan master, moving, man by man, towards us. |
10 |
| 4 | 512 |
In making their examination of the caravan they had, with their scimitars, opened the curtains of the kurdahs, for there might have been Kavars concealed therein. |
10 |
| 4 | 558 |
"A pretty slave," he said, and then turned his kaiila away, his men following, to continue his examination of the men of the caravan. |
10 |
| 4 | 560 |
Then he, too, was with the rest, and Farouk, down the caravan line. |
10 |
| 5 | 97 |
She had received it several days ago on the caravan march, four days after we had been joined by the officers and escort sent forth from Nine Wells. |
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| 5 | 243 |
* * * * It had been night, when I had first suspected the nature of the trap, the sixth night after the joining of the caravan of Farouk by the escort of Aretai soldiers. |
10 |
| 5 | 292 |
"If there are so many Kavars about," I said, "and Ta'Kara, you do not have enough men to defend this caravan". |
10 |
| 5 | 330 |
Not much to my surprise the men of the escort of Aretai rushed forth to do battle, but, seeing the numbers of their enemy, which indeed seemed considerable, sweeping down from the hills, wheeled their kaiila and, abandoning the caravan, rode rapidly away. |
10 |
| 5 | 331 |
"Do not offer resistance!" cried Farouk to his guards, riding the length of the caravan. |
10 |
| 5 | 338 |
Kavars rode down the caravan line, ordering drovers to hurry their animals into lines. |
10 |
| 5 | 355 |
"You are a member of the caravan, are you not?" he asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 399 |
"If you were Aretai," I asked, "would you have surrendered the caravan without a fight?" "Of course not," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 405 |
Considering the extent of the terrain, and the likely numbers that the Aretai can muster, it will be difficult for them to encircle you unless you permit them to close with the caravan. |
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| 5 | 475 |
The Aretai were nearing the caravan, a pasang or so away, sweeping down upon it. |
10 |
| 5 | 477 |
Neither group, of course, would find Kavars in the caravan. |
10 |
| 5 | 503 |
The Aretai, from the east, and west, lances down, scimitars high, with much dust, crying out, shouting, swept into the caravan. |
10 |
| 5 | 512 |
"Where are the Kavars!" had cried Shakar, captain of the Aretai, when he had swept into the caravan, his kaiila rearing, his lieutenant, Hamid, behind him. |
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| 5 | 520 |
Recently, too, had Ibn Saran, with a caravan, arrived at the oasis. |
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| 7 | 38 |
And, earlier, months ago, a caravan boy, Achmed, the son of the merchant, Farouk of Kasra, had found the inscription on a rock, "Beware the steel tower". |
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| 7 | 73 |
"It is gone," said Shakar, turning his kaiila, and returning to the caravan. |
10 |
| 7 | 77 |
Then I, too, turned my kaiila, and returned to the caravan. |
10 |
| 7 | 94 |
Supplies are brought in, and salt carried away, by caravan, on which the pits must depend. |
10 |
| 7 | 340 |
"It is excellent, brought in by caravan". |
10 |
| 7 | 629 |
It was not impossible that the penal caravan, with me, and presumably, others, would be intercepted. |
10 |
| 7 | 694 |
It must be, in their opinion, foolproof, far surer than the likelihood, which would be high, of my reaching Klima in penal caravan. |
10 |
| 8 | 35 |
Below, in the valley, between the barren, rocky hills, I observed the small caravan being taken. |
10 |
| 8 | 276 |
I reached to the side, to pick up a length of chain which lay there, one of several, doubtless ready for securing slaves, anticipated perhaps as prizes from the afternoon's caravan raid. |
10 |
| 9 | 12 |
"It was I, Zina," she said, "who, for a tarn disk of gold, betrayed the caravan into your hands, giving you its inventory, its schedule, its route!" Such matters, I knew, were usually carefully guarded in the Tahari, even in times of relative peace. |
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| 9 | 47 |
"I betrayed the caravan to you!" she cried. |
10 |
| 10 | 3 |
The Silk War was a war for the control of certain caravan routes, for the rights to levy raider tribute on journeying merchants. |
10 |
| 10 | 29 |
Others of the men of Hassan led pack kaiila, containing in their burdens goods taken from the caravan plundered four days ago. |
10 |
| 11 | 283 |
We entered the oasis slowly, single file, in caravan style. |
10 |
| 11 | 286 |
The girl, Alyena, rode next to the last in our line, in the position of least status; she was followed by one of Hassan's men, the guard; such a guard is commonly posted; he, from time to time, watches the trail behind the caravan and, of course, prevents the escape of slave girls. |
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| 11 | 308 |
Though there are some token tributes involved, exemptions for Aretai merchants from caravan taxes, and such, the vassal tribe is, in its own areas, almost completely autonomous, with its own leaders, magistrates, judges and soldiers. |
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| 13 | 65 |
The major protection and control of the Tahari salt, of course, lies in its remoteness, the salt districts, of which there are several, being scattered and isolated in the midst of the dune country, in the long caravan journeys required, and the difficulty or impossibility of obtaining it without kn... |
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| 15 | 136 |
Bags that small are seldom carried in caravan, except at the saddles of scouts. |
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| 22 | 18 |
Yet they came in placid caravan. |
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| 26 | 19 |
The march would proceed to Red Rock, thence to Two Scimitars, thence to Nine Wells, thence, by a major caravan route, to Tor. |
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| 26 | 70 |
Zina, who had been taken with Tafa in a caravan raid by Hassan, the bandit, had not been at the two kasbahs in the desert. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 26 |
Once we were passed by a great slave caravan. |
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| 10 | 28 |
It was a caravan of Mintar, the great merchant. |
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| 10 | 29 |
Another time we were passed by a smaller slave caravan. |
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| 10 | 30 |
In this caravan, there were few wagons, and those there were showed scarring and marks of fire. |
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| 14 | 217 |
Raiders had struck the companion caravan, acquiring its riches and carrying off the Lady Sabina, and others. |
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| 18 | 49 |
There were scenes of hunting, of caravan raiding, of girl taming; scenes were fixed there of the great bosk herds and the strings of the wagons of the fierce plains nomads; in one place there was fixed a painting of the walls and towers of Turia, and riders of the Wagon Peoples on hills, looking tow... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 119 |
Too, if she had been transported by caravan or tarn she might, by now, be almost anywhere. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 18 | 426 |
When his caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 24 | 374 |
"The caravan in whose wreckage you were found," said the fellow to Boabissia, "was a slave caravan". |
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| 3 | 224 |
Long ago I had ridden guard in a caravan of Mintar, a merchant of Ar. |
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| 4 | 352 |
We found her, years ago, when she was an infant, beside the road, abandoned in blankets, amidst the wreckage of a burnt, raided caravan". |
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| 4 | 356 |
"From the size of the caravan, we conjecture the loot must have been considerable". |
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| 4 | 601 |
"It was tied about her throat when we found her, years ago, a tiny infant, wrapped in a blanket, in the wreckage of the caravan". |
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| 5 | 283 |
She fingered the small copper disk, on its thong, tied about her throat, that disk which had been found on her in infancy, when she had been found by Alars in the wreckage of a burned, raided caravan, that disk on which a "Tau" and a number had been inscribed. |
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| 5 | 335 |
Many a caravan has saved itself by leaving lovely slaves behind in the desert, to slow the pursuit of marauders. |
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| 16 | 1313 |
"But I was found, as I understand it, in the remains of what had apparently been a large and wealthy caravan. |
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| 16 | 1314 |
Perhaps it was the caravan of my father". |
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| 16 | 1316 |
"At the least, passage in such a caravan would doubtless have to have been purchased, and that suggests affluence". |
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| 16 | 1328 |
"Or a wagon number," I said, "if it was a large caravan, or, more likely, that of a merchant or company with many wagons". |
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| 18 | 131 |
"The caravan in which I was found was by all accounts," she said, "one of immense size, and presumably of great wealth". |
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| 18 | 139 |
Whereas Boabissia's vanity may well have been involved in this, clearly she did not seem to be of Alar blood, and, as I had heard, the caravan in which she had been discovered as an infant had indeed been one of size and presumed opulence. |
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| 18 | 140 |
It thus seemed to me, as well as to Boabissia, though I had not expressed this view to her, that Ar was the most likely point of origin for the caravan in question. |
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| 18 | 147 |
"I was traveling, though only a baby, with a great caravan," she said. |
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| 24 | 1 |
The Origins of Boabissia; She Learns Them "And this was found about your throat as a baby, in the wreckage of a caravan, by Alars?" he asked. |
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| 24 | 159 |
* * * * "And this was found about your throat as a baby, in the wreckage of a caravan, by Alars?" he asked. |
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| 24 | 248 |
"The caravan was a large one. |
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| 24 | 250 |
They might even have been the masters of the caravan. |
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| 24 | 378 |
"I did not know what sort of caravan it was. |
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| 24 | 381 |
"It was not traveling publicly as a slave caravan," said the man. |
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| 24 | 404 |
"It was my caravan," said the fellow. |
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| 24 | 407 |
"Your caravan?" whispered Boabissia. |
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| 24 | 503 |
"I had thought," said the fellow, viewing her, "that the caravan had been a total loss. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 287 |
If others should approach, say, a caravan, we commonly yield the road, kneeling beside it, facing it, in obeisance, until the dust, the bells, passes. |
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| 24 | 52 |
"There must be a tarn caravan approaching the city!" "It would have its escort," said a man. |
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| 29 | 976 |
We did stop for a moment on the terrace, to watch a tarn caravan in flight, one of more than fifty birds, one which had left in the vicinity of sunset. |
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| 29 | 977 |
Those not of this city with such a caravan, in the carrying baskets, would be hooded. |
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| 29 | 979 |
In the cargo of the caravan, too, I was sure, in one of the cage baskets, there would be a slave, also hooded, a girl who had, only this afternoon, been named 'Constanzia'. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 456 |
"Do you know her disposition?" "She was sold south to Turia, but the caravan was ambushed by Tuchuks, a fierce nomadic people. |
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| 19 | 453 |
"A caravan of gold is on its way to Ar," said Portus. |
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| 19 | 458 |
"Your plan, I take it," said Arconious, "is to interfere with, or delay, the arrival of the pay caravan". |
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| 19 | 461 |
"The caravan will be well-guarded". |
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| 25 | 1059 |
Indeed, no rational man, without guards, outside of a caravan, would carry about such wealth! I do not have the coins at hand, but I can give you a note, my note, for more!" There was a roar of laughter from the tiers. |
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| 29 | 9 |
She stepped back a little, as a caravan was passing, and there was a ringing of the bells on a kaiila harness. |
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| 29 | 10 |
Guards flanked the caravan, and regarded her idly, appraisingly, as they rode past, conjecturing, as she wore a collar, her lineaments. |
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| 29 | 17 |
There were pack kaiila aplenty with the caravan, in files, most roped together, but, too, there was a long train of wagons, behind, some open and some closed. |
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| 29 | 18 |
A caravan this size, she conjectured, would not be the property of a single merchant, but doubtless of a number of merchants leagued together, traveling thusly for purposes of safety in what were doubtless unsettled, dangerous, troubled times. |
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| 29 | 19 |
From the pommel of one saddle, seemingly not that of a guard, but perhaps of a civilian or merchant's agent accompanying the caravan, there looped downward a light, graceful chain to the throat of a naked, blond slave. |
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| 29 | 61 |
"Will we enter upon the road when the caravan passes, Master?" asked Ellen. |
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| 29 | 78 |
She waited by the road while the caravan passed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80 | 181 |
Some slaves have been stolen several times, from one city, or caravan, or another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 435 |
There are the slaves of great houses, those ornamenting pleasure gardens, those chained behind palanquins for display, those sold to brothels and taverns, those of the fields, and mines, and laundries and mills, those of the stables and barracks, and inns, those belonging to regiments, to shipping l... |
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| 34 | 78 |
"The importance of the Ubara," she said, "the height and grandeur of her place, your modest status, if I may remark it, Master, that we have heard nothing of the Ubara, that we are here, in a remote location, far from the cylinder cities, the ports, the caravan routes, the trading places, somewhere ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 135 |
It would be slow to come about, and a small galley might easily outdistance her, much as a racing kaiila might easily overtake a caravan of bosk-drawn wagons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 21 |
When a city falls, or a caravan is taken, one will usually add to one's chain what is at hand. |
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| 18 | 204 |
So I had learned, earlier in the day, that Astrinax would visit one of Venna's more patronized taverns, The Kneeling Slave, to search again for two or three fellows to join our small caravan. |
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| 18 | 927 |
"Whose caravan is it?" asked Trachinos. |
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| 18 | 971 |
There were five free men with the wagons, Astrinax, who was much as our caravan master; Desmond, thought to be a Metal Worker, in whose care I was; Lykos, whom I supposed a mercenary; fierce, bearded Trachinos, clearly skilled with the gladius, at whose background I could scarcely guess; and his fel... |
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| 18 | 1073 |
How was it that he might think so of me? Ela, I could not speak! Then I recalled that Astrinax, now with the caravan, long ago, had arranged my purchase from Menon, on behalf of the gambling house. |
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| 19 | 57 |
Indeed, I was not clear as to the reason the arrived caravan might be here. |
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| 19 | 58 |
It was not a Builder's caravan, with its tools and work crews. |
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| 20 | 20 |
More significantly, perhaps, the ten wagons, there were ten, of the caravan of Pausanias had also departed, something like an Ahn before noon. |
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| 20 | 90 |
Desmond of Harfax had untied me, but, too, he had tied me! I had no doubt that he found me of slave interest, but then, so, too, did many men, certainly the drivers of the caravan of Pausanias. |
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| 20 | 140 |
"Our guide," said Astrinax, "is Pausanias, who recently left with his caravan". |
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| 20 | 149 |
"Pausanias, of the caravan," said Astrinax, "had the key, without the lock, so to speak, whereas Kleomenes had the lock, so to speak, but lacked the key". |
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| 20 | 201 |
"What of the caravan of Pausanias?" said Desmond. |
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| 20 | 227 |
"We are to follow the caravan of Pausanias," said Master Desmond. |
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| 20 | 234 |
"The caravan of Pausanias left the Aqueduct Road," said Desmond. |
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| 20 | 239 |
It would take some time to do this, and turn the wagons, to follow the tracks of the departed caravan. |
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| 20 | 260 |
And Astrinax had been largely unsuccessful in recruiting drivers and guards for our small caravan. |
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| 21 | 4 |
It was the fourth day we had been following the caravan of Pausanias. |
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| 26 | 66 |
I was purchased, with three others, by Pausanias of Ar, and brought in caravan to the Voltai". |
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| 27 | 7 |
Far down the table I saw Pausanias, whose caravan we had followed to the vicinity of the Crag of Kleinias. |
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| 29 | 202 |
"The wagon caravan, a small one of three wagons, was organized by the jobber, Astrinax. |
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| 36 | 34 |
Might this not be innocent? Perhaps Kleomenes had expressed an interest in play, which interest had come to the attention of Desmond of Harfax, who had somehow located and supplied a suitable means for exploring this interest? Certainly they knew one another from the time of the caravan. |
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| 52 | 485 |
"I will buy a wagon, a tharlarion, and join a caravan," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 38 | 154 |
"One hunts women where there are women, where game is plentiful, in cities, towns, even peasant villages, on traversed roads, on caravan routes, on pilgrimages to the Sardar, and such, not in the wilderness of the northern forests, not on the scattered, rocky skerries of Torvaldsland, not in the fro... |
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| 11 | 37 |
For what it was worth, the free men with the small caravan did not seem much better off. |
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| 29 | 80 |
What were they doing here? The small caravan had passed, and I backed away, a step, would turn, and would resume my flight, moving to the north, and then, again, follow the Alexandra west. |
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| 29 | 119 |
I was then gagged, as securely and effectively as the two slaves I had seen in the small caravan. |
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| 33 | 69 |
Sometimes, in concert, bands of Panther Women will attack a small caravan in the forest or an outlying trading post on the coast. |
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| 52 | 605 |
"Barbarians," said my master, "are not simply found under a veil when a city is falls or a caravan raided. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 81 |
If a master tired of me, or needed a stronger girl for heavier labors, for I served commonly as a work slave, why should he not simply hood me and take me to some convenient local market, to be disposed of there? Why did he always solicit a traveling slaver, a passing dealer, the master of a caravan... |
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| 63 | 24 |
From somewhere ahead, I heard the sound of caravan bells, coming from the opposite direction. |
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| 63 | 55 |
Letters, and such, may be entrusted to peddlers, travelers, caravan guards, drovers, and such. |
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| 63 | 115 |
"It is another caravan," said Paula. |
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| 63 | 121 |
Some wagons were then aligned behind us, waiting for the caravan to pass. |
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| 63 | 122 |
"It is a caravan of the merchant, Mintar," said Paula. |
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| 63 | 125 |
There would be no doubt as to whose caravan it was. |
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| 63 | 129 |
This was apparently because most brigands or raiders were reluctant to attack a caravan of Mintar. |
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| 63 | 137 |
Once the caravan had passed, a succession of wagons that had been behind us began to move past us. |
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| 65 | 194 |
"Further," said the Lady Bina, "we informed the agents of the great merchant, Mintar, that we anticipated the appearance of caravan bandits". |
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| 65 | 195 |
"We are not caravan bandits!" cried a man, clearly alarmed, looking about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 189 |
In certain ways this was an intelligent choice as the new caravan was small, plain, cheap, nondescript, and obscure. |
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| 13 | 193 |
Unfortunately for the plans of our lovely thief what the caravan offered in the way of obscurity it lacked in the way of security. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 192 |
"Perhaps the prisoner will be taken by sea to Brundisium and from Brundisium, transported not by tarn, but by overland caravan to Ar, that she be publicly exhibited, opprobriously scorned, lengthily humiliated, on her way to face the justice of Ar". |
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