| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 102 |
There was a small circle on the back of the envelope, and in the circle seemed to be the print of a thumb. |
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| 1 | 105 |
As well as I could, I scrutinized the print in the circle. |
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| 6 | 22 |
In the center of the circle was a low, round platform, some ten paces in diameter, reached by four circular steps that extended about the perimeter of the platform. |
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| 10 | 171 |
She pulled at the circle of steel on her throat. |
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| 13 | 7 |
I took the tarn high, to bring a circle of some two hundred pasangs or so under my view. |
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| 13 | 37 |
Some animal must be trying to break the hunting circle. |
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| 13 | 38 |
One would suppose that the larl might be unconcerned with a single animal escaping its net of noise and fear and would neglect an isolated kill in order to keep the hunting circle closed, but that is not true. |
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| 13 | 41 |
As it is, when the larl loses its hunt, the animals which escape are those which haven't tried to break the circle, those which allow themselves to be herded easily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 104 |
And so Kron and I began to circle one another, slightly bent so that the projections on the yoke might be used to best advantage. |
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| 17 | 49 |
The circle of chain tightened, and Ost scratched helplessly at it with his fingers, his eyes bulging. |
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| 23 | 186 |
No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 78 |
I now understood the purpose of the tiled circle which surrounded the throne. |
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| 4 | 140 |
Wary of the tiled circle I traced its perimeter until I stood behind the throne. |
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| 4 | 142 |
I walked the full ambit of the circle until I stood once more before the throne. |
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| 4 | 145 |
I followed it across the tiled circle which seemed harmless now that Parp had left. |
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| 12 | 1 |
Two Muls On a marble circle of some half pasang in width, in the bottom of that vast, brilliantly lit, many-colored artificial canyon the oval disk diminished its speed and drew to a stop. |
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| 15 | 8 |
A circle of eerie, blue, descending light flickered on the walls of the passage down which I lowered myself. |
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| 16 | 137 |
"The frightened human, when fleeing and disoriented, tends to circle," said Misk. |
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| 18 | 58 |
"Watch this!" I said, and turning my body I swung the transportation disk in a sudden, abrupt complete circle and continued on in the same direction we had been traveling. |
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| 27 | 67 |
Its ceiling was only perhaps a hundred feet high but its length and width were considerable and it was filled with golden Priest-Kings, garlanded in green and wearing about their necks that shining, jangling circle of tiny, silverish tools. |
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| 27 | 149 |
Slowly the Priest-Kings began to circle one another in a ritual more ancient perhaps even than the Feast of Tola, a ritual perhaps older than even the days and objects celebrated by the string of metal tools that hung jangling about the neck of Sarm. |
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| 27 | 152 |
Sarm broke away and began to circle again, and Misk turned slowly, watching him, his antennae still flattened. |
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| 29 | 98 |
The ship of Sarm passed overhead like a hawk and then began to circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 |
Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young... |
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| 4 | 20 |
Warily now the animal began to circle, in an almost human fashion, watching the spear. |
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| 7 | 13 |
There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla... |
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| 7 | 136 |
They approached her cautiously, in a large circle, as though examining the grass for enemies, or others. |
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| 8 | 4 |
The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac... |
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| 8 | 297 |
Near the animal, on the turf, a long bosk whip was laid in a circle, having a diameter of somewhere between eight and ten feet. |
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| 8 | 298 |
The girl begins her run from the circle. |
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| 8 | 299 |
The object of the rider is to effect her capture, secure her and return her, in as little time as possible, to the circle of the whip. |
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| 8 | 301 |
Kamchak gestured and Tuka, barefoot, frightened, stepped into the circle. |
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| 8 | 307 |
Tuka sped from the circle. |
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| 8 | 322 |
It was scarcely ten beats and Conrad had bound the struggling, scratching Tuka, slung her about the pommel, raced back, kaiila squealing, and threw the girl, wrists tied to her ankles, to the turf inside the circle of the boskhide whip. |
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| 8 | 334 |
A Tuchuk warrior slashed apart the thongs with his quiva and Tuka, only too pleased to be free of the circle, leaped up and ran quickly to the side of her master. |
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| 8 | 336 |
The next girl, a lithe Kassar girl, stepped into the circle and Kamchak unstrapped his bola. |
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| 8 | 338 |
To my dismay, as he returned racing toward the circle of the boskhide whip the girl, a fine wench, managed to sink her teeth into the neck of the kaiila causing it to rear squealing and hissing, then striking at her. |
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| 8 | 339 |
By the time Kamchak had cuffed the girl from the animal's neck and struck the kaiila's snapping jaws from her twice-bitten leg and returned to the circle, he had used thirty-five beats. |
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| 8 | 347 |
At a gesture from Kamchak Elizabeth Cardwell stepped into the circle of the whip. |
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| 8 | 352 |
Albrecht was grinning, swinging the bola lightly, not in a circle but in a gentle pendulum motion, beside the stirrup of the kaiila. |
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| 8 | 360 |
She had run in actual competition more than two hundred times; almost always she managed to interfere with and postpone her return to the circle; and forty times, an incredible feat, she had managed to reach the lance itself. |
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| 8 | 362 |
She had misjudged the heartbeat or had not understood the swiftness of the kaiila, never having before observed it from the unenviable point of view of a quarry, because when she turned to see if her hunter had left the vicinity of the circle, he was upon her and as she cried out the bola struck her... |
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| 8 | 389 |
"To the circle," said Albrecht, to the other Kassar girl. |
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| 8 | 391 |
She stepped to the circle quickly, throwing her head back, breathing deeply. |
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| 8 | 400 |
Prior to her entering the circle I had seen her moving about in the background, running a bit, loosening her legs, speeding the circulation of her blood. |
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| 8 | 464 |
I noted that his kaiila was within the whip circle, within which the girl stood. |
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| 8 | 470 |
She was off balance but righted herself and with an angry cry sped from the circle. |
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| 8 | 474 |
To my amazement, as I swung the bola in ever faster circles, never taking my eyes off her, she broke the straight running pattern only about fifty yards from the whip circle, and began to dodge, moving always, however, toward the lance. |
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| 8 | 478 |
"Fifteen!" called the judge, and I streaked on kaiilaback from the circle of the boskhide whip. |
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| 8 | 494 |
Only perhaps a beat or two before the kaiila leapt into the circle had I finished the knots that confined her. |
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| 9 | 487 |
The circle of steel gleamed on the silk at her throat. |
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| 10 | 197 |
In the space between the two lines of stakes, for each pair of facing stakes, there was a circle of roughly eight yards in diameter. |
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| 10 | 198 |
This circle, the grass having been removed, was sanded and raked. |
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| 10 | 404 |
I thought that a humane arrangement—that two men must understand who it is they face before entering the circle of sand. |
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| 10 | 443 |
Two men, from Ar, I took it, came forward with rakes and began to smooth the circle of sand between the stakes, for it had been somewhat disturbed in the inspection of the girls. |
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| 13 | 133 |
Coming over a low, rolling hill, we saw a large number of tents pitched in a circle, surrounding a large grassy area. |
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| 13 | 140 |
There were a large number of tethered animals about the outer edge of the circle, and, beside them, stood many haruspexes. |
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| 13 | 148 |
Kamchak and I dismounted and, from outside the circle, watched the four chief haruspexes of the Wagon Peoples approach the huge altar in the center of the field. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 52 |
Ho-Tu and I began to circle one another. |
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| 21 | 414 |
I looked back down the long valley of stone tiers to the sands far below, seeing there in the circle of the arena, seeming small, Murmillius, Ho-Sorl, Relius, Ho-Tu, the milling, stirring crowd. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 192 |
After a time I saw one girl leave the circle, her head back, hair flowing down her back, breathing deeply, and scarcely was she through the circles of rencers, but a young man followed her, joining her some yards beyond the circle. |
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| 3 | 135 |
There was a cry of awe from about the circle as he strung the bow. |
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| 5 | 161 |
And then to my astonishment the rence girls, squealing and laughing, some protesting and being pushed and shoved, rose to their feet and entered the clearing in the circle. |
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| 5 | 163 |
One or two of the girls, giggling, tried to slip away, fleeing, but young men, laughing, caught them, and hurled them into the clearing of the circle. |
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| 5 | 164 |
Then the rence girls, vital, eyes shining, breathing deeply, barefoot, bare-armed, many with beads worn for festival, and hammered copper bracelets and armlets, stood all within the circle. |
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| 5 | 167 |
She was, I noted, the only girl in the circle who wore an armlet of gold. |
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| 5 | 174 |
Then the other girls, too, began to join her, and at last even the shiest among them moved pounding, and stamping and turning about the circle. |
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| 5 | 178 |
To my astonishment, as the dances continued, even the shiest of the rence girls, those who had to have been forced to the circle, even those who had tried to flee, began to writhe in ecstasy, their hands lifted to the three moons of Gor. |
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| 5 | 181 |
It marks the end of a childhood when a girl is first sent to the circle. |
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| 5 | 195 |
Then, after some Ehn I saw another girl leave the circle of the dance, and she, too, was joined beyond the firelight by a young man and she, too, felt a net dropped over her, and she, too, was led away, his willing prize, to the secrecy of his hut. |
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| 5 | 213 |
I stumbled from the pole, making my way through the buffeting circle of dancers, through the laughing circles of rencers, shouting and clapping their hands, and made my way to Telima's hut. |
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| 6 | 6 |
The circle of the dance was empty. |
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| 6 | 84 |
Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons. |
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| 6 | 101 |
Near the oar pole to which I had been bound, some yards from what had been the circle of the dance, a number of rencers, stripped, men and women, lay bound hand and foot. |
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| 6 | 157 |
I crouched slashing upward in a wide circle and caught it before it could fall about me. |
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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. |
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| 8 | 27 |
The sixth barge began to drift to leeward, a slow half circle, aimless, like a finger drawing in the water. |
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| 8 | 550 |
They had spat upon me, when I had been bound helpless, and then whirled away laughing into the circle of the dance. |
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| 14 | 249 |
Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades. |
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| 17 | 352 |
I was again on tarnback! The bird climbed until I released the one-strap and then it began to circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 320 |
I was only a terrified girl, fleeing from what she knew not, a bewildered, confused girl, a terrified girl, one with a mark on her left thigh, a circle of steel locked snugly on her throat. |
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| 3 | 475 |
In the yellow circle of light I could see the grass of the field, bearing the marks of my tires. |
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| 7 | 177 |
Now, chained, kneeling in a circle, we passed about, one to the other, a bowl of hot soup; then each of us was given a sixth of a round yellow loaf of bread, which we ate with our hands; then, before each of us, on the grass, the guards threw a large piece of cooked meat. |
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| 7 | 201 |
They knelt in a circle, laughing and talking. |
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| 7 | 204 |
When the grizzled, one-eyed guard returned to the bank, now clad in dry clothes, the girls cried out to him, pleading with him, and he leapt into the center of the circle and began, wildly, to regale them with some narrative, which seemed to require much gesticulation. |
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| 7 | 208 |
He bowed to them and, gravely, left the circle. |
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| 7 | 210 |
He shook his head regally, however, and would not re-enter the circle. |
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| 7 | 212 |
Then, she leapt to her feet, to the center of the circle, and she cried out to Targo, oh so prettily, and held out her hands to him. |
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| 7 | 214 |
To my anger, the clothes that had been taken from me were brought to the circle. |
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| 7 | 216 |
How beautiful she was in my clothing! She wore them better than I! Then Targo, protesting, was pulled by two squealing girls to the center of the circle. |
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| 7 | 228 |
Then the two girls who had pulled Targo to the circle leaped on Lana and stripped her, throwing her to the grass before Targo. |
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| 8 | 76 |
Thus the wagon may be brought forward onto the barge and, when the circle is rotated, be removed the same way. |
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| 9 | 31 |
When they had drunk and eaten, they sat about in a half circle, looking at me. |
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| 9 | 181 |
"The circle," said another. |
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| 9 | 182 |
"We must go to the circle!" Verna stopped and turned. |
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| 9 | 186 |
"Very well," she said, "we shall stop at the circle". |
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| 9 | 245 |
"All right," said Verna, "go to the circle". |
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| 9 | 248 |
"To the circle," said Verna, irritably. |
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| 9 | 252 |
"Go to the circle," she told the girl. |
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| 9 | 284 |
The girls of Verna's band stood about the edge of the circle. |
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| 9 | 314 |
"Very well!" The first girl to leap to the center of the circle was she who had first held my leash. |
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| 9 | 319 |
The first girl began to writhe, crying out, stamping in the circle. |
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| 9 | 322 |
Then there were none who had not entered that savage circle, save Verna, the band's leader, proud and superb, armed and disdainful, and Elinor Brinton, a bound slave. |
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| 9 | 324 |
Then, for the first time I noticed, in the center of the circle, there were four heavy stakes, about six inches in height, dark in the grass. |
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| 9 | 334 |
And then the first girl tore away her skins and danced in her golden ornaments beneath the huge, wild moons, on the grass of the circle, before the square. |
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| 9 | 337 |
Then suddenly, to my amazement, Verna cried out in anguish, a wild, moaning, anguished cry, and threw from herself her weapons and tore away her own skins and leaped into the circle, turning, and clawing and crying out like the others. |
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| 9 | 378 |
"Let us kill her," said one of the girls, she who held my leash before, who had been the first to enter the circle of the dance. |
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| 9 | 384 |
Verna strode from the area wherein was found the circle of the dance. |
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| 11 | 303 |
We knelt in a circle, eating from the wooden bowls of bread and stew. |
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| 11 | 780 |
I even found myself, once, when passing through the high Tur trees, at the circle, where the panther girls had danced. |
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| 11 | 782 |
The circle was deserted. |
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| 11 | 1397 |
I recalled Verna, and the panther girls, dancing in the circle. |
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| 13 | 574 |
I knew myself, small on the grasses, far below, to be the center of that circle. |
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| 15 | 976 |
I recalled the circle of the dance in the northern forest, and how even Verna, the proud Verna, had, beside herself with need, writhed helplessly beneath the bright moons of Gor, a female. |
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| 15 | 1198 |
"Wine!" cried another man, about the circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 220 |
A man from the circle darted from it, clutched a fallen torch, and retreated to the circle. |
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| 2 | 432 |
It was, of course, one thing to know this general manner of thing, and another to find Verna's band's camp, or their dancing circle. |
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| 2 | 433 |
Each band of panther girls customarily has a semi-permanent camp, particularly in the winter, but, too, each band, customarily, has its dancing circle. |
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| 2 | 585 |
"I would know," I said to them, "the whereabouts of the camp of an outlaw girl, and its dancing circle". |
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| 2 | 590 |
"You know, or know well enough," I said, "the location, or approximate location, of her camp and dancing circle". |
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| 2 | 619 |
"The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa". |
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| 2 | 646 |
"I wish to learn," I said, "the location of the camp and dancing circle of the outlaw girl, Verna". |
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| 2 | 734 |
"The camp, and dancing circle, of Verna," said the first girl, Tana, "lies north and east of Laura. |
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| 2 | 746 |
You will then be in the vicinity of Verna's dancing circle. |
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| 3 | 106 |
It is not unusual to encounter a fellow with a jacket of sleen fur, falling to his knees, sewn in the circle stitch of Scagnar, who wears upon his forehead a silken headband of Ar. |
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| 6 | 89 |
On the map, as nearly as we could, we traced, with various straight lines, what we would take to be the path to Verna's camp and dancing circle. |
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| 6 | 92 |
"If the girls Tana and Ela knew so well the route to the camp and circle," said Rim, "others, too, must know it". |
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| 6 | 118 |
"Then, selected men will enter the forest, but as though they did not know the location of Verna's camp and dancing circle. |
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| 6 | 264 |
On the map, later, in the stern castle, we had traced out, with greater accuracy than had hitherto been possible, following the directions of Tana and Ela, what should be the location of Verna's camp and dancing circle. |
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| 6 | 721 |
When she had been passed about the circle, stumbling, her hair across her eyes, the fillet gone, she stood again before me. |
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| 6 | 743 |
"We know the approximate location of Verna's camp and dancing circle. |
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| 7 | 22 |
We would not approach Verna's camp and dancing circle by means of the blazed trail. |
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| 7 | 228 |
"Where is the camp and dancing circle of Verna, the panther girl?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 263 |
It now seemed to me even more important to locate, as swiftly as possible, Verna's camp or its dancing circle. |
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| 7 | 319 |
In the center of the camp there was a cooking hole, banked with a circle of flat stones. |
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| 9 | 404 |
The girls now knelt about me, in a circle. |
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| 9 | 437 |
Suddenly, as one, they seized up their light spears, and, swaying, spears lifted, began to circle me. |
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| 9 | 444 |
I lay in the center of the circle. |
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| 10 | 73 |
"Then she betrayed to you the location of the camp and dancing circle?" "Yes," said Marlenus. |
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| 13 | 203 |
It began to circle us. |
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| 14 | 91 |
It was the clearing that would be used at Hura's circle of conquest. |
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| 14 | 99 |
I saw, within the circle, at one point, long-legged Hura and blond Mira, standing together, conversing. |
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| 14 | 124 |
Individuals, panther girls and men of Tyros, now, idly, some still eating food from the supper fires, entered the conquest circle. |
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| 14 | 141 |
Men went about the circle, checking the bonds of the men of Marlenus, staked out. |
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| 14 | 215 |
By this time the men of Tyros, and the panther girls, had all gathered about in the conquest circle. |
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| 14 | 220 |
They took their places about the edges of the circle, sitting cross-legged. |
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| 14 | 221 |
The panther girls of Hura's band, more than a hundred of them, entered the circle. |
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| 14 | 225 |
I looked down into the circle, with its fires, with its men staked out, with the men of Tyros sitting about its edges, with Marlenus helpless beside the brazier, the man from Tyros, with the leather glove, crouching beside it, with the panther girls, beautiful, numerous, lithe, in their skins and ne... |
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| 14 | 251 |
I looked down to the circle. |
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| 14 | 301 |
The coals in the brazier formed a blazing cylinder in the firelit darkness of the circle. |
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| 16 | 20 |
The first man, felled at the conquest circle, had been felled with a pile arrow from the great bow. |
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| 16 | 229 |
It had been abandoned at their first campsite by the conquest circle. |
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| 18 | 55 |
On the other hand, on the orders of Sarus, the seventy-five men had been chained in a large circle, about some ten large trees. |
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| 18 | 57 |
The long set of chains and collars, securing them, had been fastened about several trees, in a great circle. |
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| 18 | 133 |
The great circle of the horizon was empty. |
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| 19 | 111 |
I was the center of a circle. |
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| 19 | 112 |
The women, too, of Hura, stood at the edge of the circle, among the men of Sarus. |
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| 19 | 128 |
"Kill him!" screamed Hura, her dark hair before her eyes, crouching at the edge of the circle, to which, after my kiss, I had spurned her. |
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| 19 | 145 |
The slaves in the stockade, the twenty-two wenches behind the circle of the men of Tyros and the women of Hura, and beyond them, lying on their stomachs, chained, facing the back wall of the stockade, Marlenus and the twenty others, could know little or nothing of what was transpiring. |
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| 19 | 212 |
I looked about, noting the position of the men, and the women of Hura, and where Sheera and Verna, hidden behind the feet of those at the circle, lay bound. |
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| 20 | 163 |
"Form a circle!" "We are weaponless!" cried Hura. |
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| 20 | 164 |
"Let us within your circle!" None knew where within the stockade I stood. |
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| 20 | 175 |
Would the blade, suddenly, without warning, from the darkness leap forward to claim them? "Please let us within your circle!" cried Hura. |
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| 20 | 185 |
"Into the circle," he snapped. |
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| 20 | 186 |
Gratefully the women, weaponless and naked, defenseless, crept within the circle. |
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| 20 | 203 |
Within their circle, naked and helpless, crouching, huddled together, the women of Hura moaned. |
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| 20 | 215 |
"No!" He had no wish to leave the circle. |
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| 20 | 216 |
"There is wood within the circle," said Hura. |
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| 20 | 218 |
Within the circle, obediently, the women, in the light of the torch, gathered wood, mostly the remains of the original fire, which I had destroyed earlier. |
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| 20 | 232 |
They should have understood that the slave girls had been bound and gagged, and that the women of Hura were within their own circle. |
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| 20 | 249 |
And, within the circle, lit by the torches, burned a fire. |
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| 20 | 250 |
The men of Sarus broke their circle and faced me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 114 |
"Go to the bondmaid circle," said Ivar Forkbeard, indicating the circle he had drawn in the dirt. |
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| 9 | 365 |
She entered the circle, and then, within the circle, stood up. |
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| 1 | 218 |
"Within the circle of each man's sword," say the codes of the warrior, "therein is each man a Ubar". |
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| 1 | 435 |
"Within the circle of each man's sword," say the codes of the warrior, "therein is each man a Ubar". |
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| 2 | 210 |
The high altar, of marble, setting on a platform, also marble, of three broad steps, was surmounted by a great rounded circle of gold, which is taken often as a symbol of Priest-Kings. |
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| 2 | 215 |
When the high initiate stands facing the altar, before the circle of gold, he faces the distant Sardar, the abode of Priest-Kings. |
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| 2 | 311 |
Another Initiate, sleek, fat, his shaved head oiled, shining in the light of the candles, carrying a small golden vessel of thickened chrism went to each of the four men of Torvaldsland, making on their foreheads the sign of the Priest-Kings, the circle of eternity. |
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| 3 | 90 |
He then drew with the handle of his ax a circle, some twenty feet in diameter, in the dirt floor of the temple. |
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| 3 | 91 |
It was a bondmaid circle. |
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| 3 | 116 |
To enter the circle, if one is a female, is, by the laws of Torvaldsland, to declare oneself a bondmaid. |
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| 3 | 117 |
A woman, of course, need not enter the circle of her own free will. |
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| 3 | 119 |
Howsoever she enters the circle, voluntarily or by force, free or secured, she emerges from it, by the laws of Torvaldsland, a bondmaid. |
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| 3 | 120 |
Seventeen of the girls, weeping, fled to the circle, and huddled within it. |
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| 3 | 137 |
"Go to the bondmaid circle," said Ivar Forkbeard to the large girl, "but do not enter it". |
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| 3 | 147 |
"Go to the circle and enter it," said Ivar Forkbeard to the girl. |
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| 3 | 161 |
Ivar Forkbeard laughed and reached down and pulled her up by the arm, his great fist closed about her arm within the white woolen blouse, and thrust her stumbling well within the circle. |
10 |
| 3 | 171 |
Two of the men of Torvaldsland had, from their left shoulder to their right hip, that their right arms be less impeded, a chain formed of slave bracelets; each pair of bracelets locked at each end about one of the bracelets of another pair, the whole thus forming a circle. |
10 |
| 3 | 210 |
Then, with his boot and shoulder, he tottered the great circle of gold which surmounted it. |
10 |
| 3 | 214 |
They had understood the circle to be of solid gold. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 3 | 220 |
"The circle?" cried one. |
10 |
| 6 | 211 |
The brand used by the Forkbeard, found rather frequently in the north, consisted of a half circle, with, at its right tip, adjoining it, a steep, diagonal line. |
10 |
| 6 | 212 |
The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line about an inch and a quarter in height. |
10 |
| 6 | 239 |
The Forkbeard, with the heel of his boot on the ground, drew a bondmaid circle. |
10 |
| 6 | 241 |
Then, to the laughter of the men, her head high, lifting her skirt, she stepped to the circle, and stood, facing him, within it. |
10 |
| 6 | 254 |
Moaning, Aelgifu ran from the circle to the branding log, and was thrown over it, belly down. |
10 |
| 9 | 249 |
Gorm, who had now disentangled himself from Pouting Lips, joined the circle about the table, where we sat, others standing. |
10 |
| 9 | 335 |
With his heel he drew in the dirt of the floor a bondmaid circle. |
10 |
| 9 | 362 |
Within an Ahn, Hilda the Haughty, to the jeers of men, the taunts of bondmaids, on her hands and knees, head down, hair falling forward, crept to the circle of the bondmaid, which Ivar Forkbeard had drawn in the dirt of the hall floor, between the posts. |
10 |
| 9 | 368 |
"I am yours!" He gestured to her, and she fled from the circle, to join him, to throw herself at his side, to beg his touch, his bondmaid. |
10 |
| 18 | 562 |
This, too, was done, and the men, and the girl, too, Hilda, moved back, clearing a circle for the two men. |
10 |
| 21 | 225 |
Little would please Chenbar more than to meet you with daggers on the fighting circle of Tyros. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 399 |
The kaiila would be put in circles, ten animals to the circle, and fodder, by kaiila boys, would be thrown into the center of the circle. |
10 |
| 23 | 177 |
I saw the lance with its mighty pennon, that of the rider in white, veiled, dip and circle, and then dip and circle again. |
10 |
| 1 | 373 |
* * * * The belled left ankle of the dancer moved in a small circle on the mosaiced floor, to the ringing of the bells, and the counterpoint of the finger cymbals. |
10 |
| 1 | 798 |
"No," said he, "surely one would circle the area, taking the routes west of Tor, where there is ample water". |
10 |
| 3 | 99 |
The boy then, carrying the chronometer, took it about the circle of the small fire, on the sand of the tent; before each of his kinsmen, he stopped; into the hands of each, he placed the chronometer. |
10 |
| 3 | 105 |
"You will tell the time," said Farouk of Kasra, "by the speed of your kaiila, by the circle and the stick, by the sun". |
10 |
| 3 | 203 |
The crowd in the courtyard stood back, in a circle. |
10 |
| 6 | 6 |
I knelt on the circle of accusation. |
10 |
| 10 | 122 |
"We will put them on the circle of assessment, and I will give you a price on them". |
10 |
| 10 | 125 |
* * * * Tafa was drawn weeping from the circle of assessment. |
10 |
| 10 | 128 |
She was thrown unceremoniously, nude, to the circle of assessment. |
10 |
| 10 | 129 |
She crouched there, under the torches, on the seven-foot scarlet marble circle, angry, frightened. |
10 |
| 10 | 131 |
I wondered how another slave girl, Vella, once Miss Elizabeth Cardwell of New York City, of Earth, who had betrayed Priest-Kings, would look thrown nude upon such a circle. |
10 |
| 10 | 148 |
He stepped to the edge of the circle. |
10 |
| 10 | 159 |
He threw her back to the center of the marble circle. |
10 |
| 16 | 37 |
There are twelve of these pintles, mounted in a large circle; when a given hook drops off one, freed by gravity, another hook is already engaged on another, held there by the weight of the ascending lift sacks. |
10 |
| 17 | 162 |
It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t... |
10 |
| 17 | 208 |
The tail, like a twig, had struck loose the lamp pole, hurling it, spinning, flaming oil spilling, yards away into the circle of darkness outside the ring of lamplight on the dark, briny water. |
10 |
| 19 | 41 |
To my surprise the five birds began to circle. |
10 |
| 21 | 382 |
The circle of the ring was not made for a human finger. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 189 |
The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu... |
10 |
| 27 | 743 |
A yellow circle, in outline, narrow-bordered, the border some six inches in width, the circle itself some ten feet in width, was painted on the cement. |
10 |
| 2 | 44 |
In my particular Earth culture, this circle of inviolate, privately owned space had a radius of some two to three feet. |
10 |
| 2 | 398 |
There, angrily, with the blade of his spear, he traced and dug a circle in the earth. |
10 |
| 2 | 400 |
The bearded man then threw me over his shoulder, and carried me to the circle. |
10 |
| 2 | 406 |
I knelt in the circle. |
10 |
| 2 | 422 |
I knelt in the circle. |
10 |
| 2 | 425 |
I knelt in the circle. |
10 |
| 2 | 436 |
Warily they began to circle one another. |
10 |
| 2 | 437 |
I waited, kneeling, frightened, nude and bound, in the circle. |
10 |
| 2 | 516 |
Bound, kneeling in the circle, it was with sudden, frightening elation that I realized the stranger was the master of the other two. |
10 |
| 2 | 538 |
I knelt within the wide circle, torn by the blade of a spear in the turf. |
10 |
| 2 | 654 |
It was not my fault I could not speak to him! But then, as he looked about the field, and the rock, I, in that large, rude circle torn in the turf, put my head down, alone, miserable. |
10 |
| 2 | 676 |
I stood in the circle torn in the turf. |
10 |
| 2 | 683 |
"Don't leave me here alone!" I fled from the circle torn in the turf, running after him. |
10 |
| 2 | 762 |
A circle had been drawn in the turf. |
10 |
| 3 | 724 |
One of the men, at a word from my captor, untied me, and I crept to Eta, outside the circle of firelight, and hid in her arms. |
10 |
| 4 | 621 |
But this night, we, with our flasks of wine, in our serving, were instructed to remain in the background, in the shadows, to remain back of the circle of the fire, behind the sitting men. |
10 |
| 4 | 625 |
But this night, we rather, as noted, with our flasks of wine, remained back in the shadows, behind the circle of the fire, behind the sitting men, as we had been instructed. |
10 |
| 4 | 692 |
I looked about the circle of the fire. |
10 |
| 7 | 159 |
"Sleen!" He then, too, with his knife, and ripping, in a ragged circle, about her legs, above the knees, shortened the undergarment. |
10 |
| 7 | 694 |
I did not want to be dragged to the circle of the torch, a caught girl. |
10 |
| 7 | 805 |
"To the circle of the torch!" cried a lad. |
10 |
| 7 | 811 |
"Let us take these to the circle of the torch," said one of the lads, "and bind them securely, then hunt the others". |
10 |
| 7 | 886 |
I saw them take her to the circle of the torch. |
10 |
| 7 | 927 |
She was being carried to the circle of the torch. |
10 |
| 7 | 1019 |
I could hear cries, it seemed from far off, from the circle of the torch, where the peasant boys sported cruelly with their captured beauties. |
10 |
| 7 | 1024 |
I did not want to be roped and dragged, a captured slave, to the circle of the torch. |
10 |
| 8 | 93 |
Distracted by the first sleen, that in pursuit of Chanda, I had not even seen this sleen, whose brain was alive with my scent, circle me and approach. |
10 |
| 9 | 1293 |
I spun and ran, but fled into the arms of one of the young males, who roughly threw me back to the center of the circle. |
10 |
| 9 | 1294 |
I tried again to break the circle and was again caught and flung again to its center. |
10 |
| 9 | 1684 |
Villagers had cleared a circle. |
10 |
| 9 | 1778 |
Sandal Thong stood at the edge of the circle, in each fist the leash, a short leash, of a sleen. |
10 |
| 9 | 1788 |
She had removed it when she had stolen away from the circle of the fire. |
10 |
| 9 | 1817 |
They withdrew from the circle of the fire. |
10 |
| 9 | 1819 |
Melina had withdrawn from the circle of the fire, returning to the hut she shared with Thurnus. |
10 |
| 18 | 40 |
Dancers in the Chatka and Curla, and there are several, move between and among the tables; sometimes a dancer, if she is indeed superb, is displayed solo in the center of the scarlet wooden flooring, within the painted, yellow ring of the slave circle. |
10 |
| 22 | 604 |
Then the beast, suddenly, startling me, twisted, and swam a tight, angry circle, its long tail thrashing, and then the water seemed suddenly different, somehow more viscous and greasy. |
10 |
| 27 | 1 |
I Kneel in the Yellow Circle I lay at his feet, like a pet she-sleen, he, Clitus Vitellius, in his compartments, sitting in a curule chair. |
10 |
| 27 | 748 |
"Kneel in the circle, Slave," said the man at the table. |
10 |
| 27 | 751 |
I went to the circle and knelt in its center, on the cement. |
10 |
| 27 | 752 |
The man with the rope entered the circle and loosed the rope from his belt. |
10 |
| 27 | 762 |
I knelt alone in the yellow circle on the cement. |
10 |
| 27 | 765 |
The man rose from behind the table and came to the circle. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 273 |
I regarded the circle of men about. |
10 |
| 3 | 137 |
An initiate in the lead carried a standard on which was mounted the sign of the Priest-Kings, a golden circle, that which has no beginning or end, the symbol of eternity, the symbol of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 6 | 220 |
They rubbed their wrists, and moved their heads, no longer in the iron circle of the collars. |
10 |
| 11 | 374 |
They broke apart and began to circle, separately. |
10 |
| 26 | 109 |
Imnak, with his heel, traced a circle, some ten feet in diameter, in the snow near the sled. |
10 |
| 26 | 110 |
"Trample down the snow inside the circle," he said. |
10 |
| 26 | 111 |
"Then unload the sled and place our supplies within the circle". |
10 |
| 26 | 121 |
He had begun to take snow blocks from the drift and place them in a circle, within the edge of the area I was trampling down. |
10 |
| 26 | 208 |
Its struggles would now be considerably circumscribed and the mighty leverage it could exert would largely be dissipated in the circle of its bonds. |
10 |
| 26 | 275 |
An animal leaped into the snow circle and I, bodily, under it, lifted it over the wall and hurled it among others. |
10 |
| 27 | 34 |
Instinctively such animals, when in packs, tend to circle and attack simultaneously from different directions. |
10 |
| 27 | 111 |
It occurs also, of course, in the south, in the vicinity of the southern polar circle. |
10 |
| 34 | 189 |
I moved away from it, drawing it in a circle from the sled. |
10 |
| 35 | 958 |
Thus, let us circle about and climb upward. |
10 |
| 35 | 963 |
Then we began to circle about, far to our right. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 913 |
Threaded through the tiny hole in the disk was a small knotted, suspension thong, forming a closed circle of about half of an inch in diameter. |
10 |
| 47 | 63 |
Several of these ants then formed a circle, their heads together, their antennae, quivering, touching one another. |
10 |
| 47 | 64 |
Then, almost instantly, the circle broke and they rushed back to the column. |
10 |
| 57 | 139 |
I had then seen them, one by one, heads down, crawl to the slave circle. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 427 |
There can be a point without a circle; but there can be no circle without its central point. |
10 |
| 11 | 403 |
Consider a circle with a point at its center. |
10 |
| 11 | 424 |
Consider again the analogy of the circle. |
10 |
| 11 | 425 |
For the Gorean the Home Stone would mark the point of the circle's center. |
10 |
| 11 | 426 |
It is the Home Stone which, so to speak, determines the circle. |
10 |
| 19 | 242 |
Barus came to the wagon, handing Kenneth a stable collar, a light, hinged circle of iron, with an attached ring, that of the sort which is often used to loop the throats of stable sluts. |
10 |
| 21 | 95 |
The other girls, kneeling in a circle, referred to as sluts by one who was herself obviously only a stable slut, even to the rag and collar, cried out in protest, in outrage. |
10 |
| 21 | 97 |
"Yes, Master," had said Taphris, and she had knelt, taking her place in the circle. |
10 |
| 22 | 10 |
In the hall was an open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. |
10 |
| 22 | 65 |
Between the tables there was a large, tiled scarlet circle, some twelve feet in width, with an iron ring at its center. |
10 |
| 22 | 71 |
Philebus, across the tiled circle, cleared his throat. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 97 |
Attached to the end of the chain, on the other side of the beam ring, now descending, was a wide circle of steel, a steel ring, some six inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 22 | 283 |
"At one time," he said, "I could strike a thousand blows, to the accuracy of a hair, I could thrust a thousand times, within the circle of half a hort, but now—now, see what has become of me". |
10 |
| 32 | 209 |
The men moved back, around us, clearing a broad circle. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 259 |
The members of the pair circle about, so as to attack at right angles to one another. |
10 |
| 16 | 157 |
Try again, big fellow!" I watched the water, giving it time to swirl and circle, and then again, aligning itself, leap toward me. |
10 |
| 19 | 386 |
Accordingly, rather than becoming ashamed of her sexual nature, she becomes quite proud of it, and often becomes competitive with her embonded sisters, vying with them to become the most desirable slave in the house, or in the circle of her friends. |
10 |
| 20 | 49 |
Similarly it was not one of those parties in which a given number of slaves must dance within a circle of free men, of equal number, with whips, stripping themselves to the strokes of the whips and then dancing towards the men. |
10 |
| 20 | 51 |
It is common in this form of dance to make each woman, dancing to each man, go about the circle at least five times. |
10 |
| 20 | 54 |
Only when she has sufficiently pleased a man is she permitted to crawl from the dancing circle to the cushions of her master for the Ahn. |
10 |
| 20 | 962 |
She then, with small, hurried steps, bent over, described a wide circle on the tiles. |
10 |
| 20 | 2086 |
She came and stood quite close to me, within the circle of my space, close, as a slave may stand to her master. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 190 |
Grunt then drew in the grass, with the heel of his boot, a circle, some ten feet or so in width. |
10 |
| 14 | 193 |
Grunt then ordered her to stand in the circle, orders conveyed by Ginger, which, frightened, half crouched over, she did. |
10 |
| 14 | 204 |
"Into the circle! Fight! Fight!" Ginger translated this, but I think Lenna needed little in the way of translation. |
10 |
| 14 | 207 |
Another red warrior leaped into the circle, a bit of rawhide thong loosely in his mouth. |
10 |
| 14 | 215 |
Ulla and Lenna, together, then, lay in the circle, up on their elbows, their legs kicked apart. |
10 |
| 15 | 131 |
On its left flank there was an opaque red circle with a waving red line descending from it. |
10 |
| 15 | 137 |
The opaque circle with the wavy line descending from it was a wound mark, the location of the mark indicating a former wound site, the redness standing for blood, of course, and the descending line for bleeding. |
10 |
| 15 | 226 |
He moved his flat right hand in a horizontal circle, clockwise, as Earth clocks move, not Gorean clocks, in front of his chest. |
10 |
| 15 | 227 |
This meant "all," the circle being complete. |
10 |
| 15 | 231 |
He then moved his hand a bit to the left and, at the same time, touching the thumb with the index finger, made a closed circle. |
10 |
| 16 | 42 |
These fires presumably would have been within the wagon circle. |
10 |
| 16 | 234 |
"Your Teaching, then," I said, "is a circle, unsupported, floating in the air". |
10 |
| 16 | 237 |
It is a golden circle, self-sustained and eternal". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 368 |
Yet, of course, it was clear that if the herd, or portions of it, were to veer or circle their movements might bring them into the vicinity of the travois and women. |
10 |
| 11 | 113 |
Fixed in the earth, buried to a depth of about seven or eight feet, and supported, too, with a circle of heavy stakes, to which it was bound, it was about twenty-two feet in height. |
10 |
| 12 | 32 |
It now occupied, its members bunched and crowded closely together, a small, tight circle. |
10 |
| 12 | 46 |
Not more than a few yards away, below me, below where I stood on the small rise, the herd was again in a small tight circle, turned in on itself, purposeless, milling, stationary. |
10 |
| 18 | 293 |
In the morning, when the sun was high enough to cast a shadow, the shadow, I surmised, would have come to a point on the outer circle. |
10 |
| 19 | 136 |
The inner circle, I think, would have had the edge of the shadow reach it or fall within it about noon". |
10 |
| 20 | 5 |
"She is not permitted to do so!" There was laughter from the young man sitting in the circle. |
10 |
| 28 | 69 |
I looked into the darkened circle outlined by the long poles. |
10 |
| 28 | 161 |
She stood within a small dirt circle, probably drawn with the heel of a moccasin about her. |
10 |
| 28 | 162 |
It was a confinement circle. |
10 |
| 32 | 5 |
"There," I said, "in the great circle, in places of honor, the beasts, you see?" "Yes," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 32 | 19 |
It was squatting in a place of great honor, at the height of the large circle, its weight resting on its feet and the knuckles of its hands. |
10 |
| 32 | 81 |
There was a great circle, in which dignitaries had their places, and many smaller circles. |
10 |
| 32 | 83 |
In the center of the great circle the huge fire blazed from a kindling of broken lodge poles. |
10 |
| 32 | 102 |
He then bounded up and down, turning, in a small circle. |
10 |
| 32 | 173 |
The mistress then resumed her place, sitting down, cross-legged, with the men, in the great circle. |
10 |
| 32 | 184 |
Cuwignaka's attention was again on the great circle. |
10 |
| 37 | 446 |
I sense myself the center of that circle". |
10 |
| 37 | 478 |
"Scan in a low circle, about you," I said. |
10 |
| 40 | 16 |
This roof ranges from five to eight feet in height, from the surface level, as opposed to the interior floor level; it is formed of poles covered with sod; it is supported at the edges of the log walls, against which, on the outside, dirt is banked, and by log stanchions arranged in a circle on the ... |
10 |
| 40 | 254 |
They drew back, rather in a circle about me. |
10 |
| 42 | 77 |
If it was the feather of Wakanglisapa, then why should they not attempt to capture it, to secure its mighty medicine for themselves? The five riders then broke their formation by swerving to the side and began to circle, to build up momentum, and then, soon, they had brought their birds onto an atta... |
10 |
| 43 | 330 |
When I came to the end of the thoroughfare I turned the kaiila in a broad circle, not to foul the lines to the sacks, and began to retrace its length, even more quickly. |
10 |
| 43 | 370 |
I turned the kaiila in a wide circle at the end of the promenade, the bags, like swift, twin plows, taut on their ropes, throwing up two trails of dust. |
10 |
| 44 | 657 |
In a few moments the riders bent eastward and began to circle our position. |
10 |
| 47 | 272 |
Ubar of the Skies, given his rein, began to circle, every sense in that great body tense and alert. |
10 |
| 47 | 355 |
They then began, keeping very low, on all fours, to circle one another. |
10 |
| 47 | 368 |
They then backed away from one another again, and again began to circle. |
10 |
| 55 | 6 |
Thus was the circle of blood closed. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 423 |
In the lid, at each end, there was a circle, about five inches in diameter, of penny-sized holes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 818 |
She then, in accordance with a common Gorean theatrical convention, trekked about the stage in a circle, while Boots withdrew to one side. |
10 |
| 6 | 878 |
As she again retraced the circle on the stage, this time hastily, suggesting her journey, Chino and Lecchio watched her depart. |
10 |
| 6 | 956 |
"Our fierce pursuit begins," announced Chino to the audience, and he and Lecchio began to describe a circle about the stage, carefully, bending over, hesitating now and then, apparently tracking the lovely fugitive. |
10 |
| 11 | 76 |
Grudgingly the crowd stepped back a bit, clearing a half circle around the heavy, braced, upright structure of painted planks. |
10 |
| 13 | 174 |
The three sleen in the pit, snarling, tails lashing, their hunched shoulders scarcely a foot from the ground moved in a menacing, savage, twisting, eager circle about the center of their interest. |
10 |
| 14 | 312 |
In an instant, almost like an electric shock, a movement seemed to course through the animals in the circle. |
10 |
| 14 | 316 |
Another animal in the circle ringing Nim Nim now took up that angry, hideous, ear-splitting squeal, then another, and another. |
10 |
| 14 | 320 |
Every animal in that circle about Nim Nim had now taken up that horrifying squeal. |
10 |
| 20 | 121 |
The sleen were still lurking about, prowling in a circle about us. |
10 |
| 20 | 328 |
The beast now stood within that circle, or ring. |
10 |
| 20 | 353 |
Men shuddered, but did not break their circle. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 11 |
They are ranged in a closed circle, or concentric, closed circles, draft animals, and women and children within. |
10 |
| 27 | 4 |
She knelt inside an outlined yellow circle. |
10 |
| 27 | 6 |
This circle had a diameter of about seven or eight feet. |
10 |
| 27 | 7 |
The border of this circle, delineating it, was about seven or eight inches in width, and was formed of yellow stones set mosaiclike into the smooth scarlet flooring. |
10 |
| 27 | 50 |
"You kneel within a circle of assessment". |
10 |
| 27 | 55 |
The circle, of course, was flush with the floor. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 175 |
In the combing circle we kneel in a circle, each girl combing the hair of the girl in front of her. |
10 |
| 8 | 172 |
We had not been asked to form a combing circle, probably because they were willing to permit us to remain in the vicinity of the fire. |
10 |
| 17 | 35 |
On the high altar in each temple there is supposedly a large golden circle, the symbol of Priest-Kings, a symbol of eternity, of a thing without beginning or end. |
10 |
| 24 | 185 |
I then found myself in the midst of them, kneeling, trembling, small, in the center of that grim circle. |
10 |
| 24 | 308 |
Then I was too near the other side of the circle, and returned, quickly, gracefully, to its center, dancing to first one man and then another. |
10 |
| 29 | 545 |
It circled the well twice, and then circled it again, increasing the size of the circle. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
When groups are traveling together the wagons are often arranged in a circle, end to end, tongues inward, narrowing gaps between the "sections" of the improvised rampart, and chained together, the front axle of one wagon chained to the rear axle of the next, the camp, and the draft animals, and any ... |
10 |
| 1 | 9 |
The circle contains more interior space than any other geometrical figure, so the camp is thus as large as possible, given the number of wagons. |
10 |
| 1 | 13 |
It is fairly typical, however, with some of the less numerous wagon peoples of the north, such as the tribes of the Alars, particularly when separated from one another on the march, though there one might note the circle is often very large and as many as four or five wagons deep. |
10 |
| 8 | 632 |
I was aflight! For a time I muchly gave the bird its head, and then, some pasangs out, drew it about, to sweep the sky in a vast circle, this centering about the inn, far below. |
10 |
| 24 | 754 |
The symbol which represents Priest-Kings, found in temples, and so on, is the circle, usually golden, that which has no beginning or end. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 548 |
"Serve him!" said Borton, laughing, chewing on the joint of tarsk, to the beauty kneeling before him, indicating a fellow he knew across the circle. |
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| 1 | 754 |
It seemed she had expected he must surely recognize her! Doubtless she had been prepared to be again scorned, to be rebuffed, to be ordered from his sight, to be sent away, perhaps even struck, but he had not yet even released her from the prime display area, that before him, near the center of the ... |
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| 18 | 205 |
I tried to circle Plenius, to my left, to get to the side where his eye was swollen shut. |
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| 19 | 723 |
The ul then began to climb, then turn, and circle, scanning. |
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| 47 | 186 |
As fellows came in they naturally drifted to the circumference of the circle, and about it, to see what might be occurring. |
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| 47 | 341 |
The mercenary then went to where Ina lay in the dirt, in the center of what had been the circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 556 |
I noted that the free female had gone a bit about the outside of the circle, and now stood there, back a bit from the circle, where there was a space between some men. |
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| 1 | 333 |
In a moment we could see the lifted golden circle, on its staff, approaching. |
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| 1 | 353 |
An adult Initiate, in his flowing white robe, carried the staff surmounted with the golden circle, a figure with neither beginning nor end, the symbol of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 437 |
When one, turning the ring by means of the knobs, keeping track of the prayers that way, comes to the circular knob, rather like the golden circle at the termination of the Initiate's staff, one knows one has completed one cycle of prayers. |
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| 3 | 87 |
This sort of thing is a sport common at peasant festivals, incidentally, though there, of course, usually far from a city, within the circle of the palisade, the competition is free, the skin and wine being donated by one fellow or another, usually as his gift to the festival to which all in one way... |
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| 3 | 171 |
I passed two fellows wrestling in a circle, others watching. |
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| 3 | 218 |
In one place, hearing a jangling of bells, I went over to a large open circle of fellows to watch a game of "girl catch". |
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| 3 | 335 |
A fellow tore off the tunic of a slave girl and thrust her out, into the circle. |
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| 3 | 342 |
He referred to a redhead, thrust into the circle. |
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| 3 | 345 |
There were now some four or five girls in the circle. |
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| 3 | 351 |
Two more girls entered the circle. |
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| 3 | 357 |
"Perhaps I should put her into the circle," he said. |
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| 3 | 365 |
He referred to a new girl, joining the others in the circle. |
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| 3 | 369 |
The dance in the circle, as one might have gathered, was not the stately dance of free maidens, even in which, of course, the maidens, though scarcely admitting this even to themselves, experience something of the stimulatory voluptuousness of movement, but slave dance, that form of dance, in its th... |
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| 3 | 372 |
Another woman entered the circle. |
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| 3 | 380 |
Another girl, a slim blonde, was thrust into the circle. |
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| 3 | 423 |
She had perhaps begged to be permitted to appear before him in the dancing circle, that she might attempt to please him. |
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| 3 | 425 |
I recalled he had thrust her into the circle, perhaps in this generously according her, though perhaps with some impatience, and misgivings, this chance to make amends for some perhaps unintentional, miniscule transgression. |
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| 3 | 433 |
Her master seized her from the circle then and hurried her from the light, her head down, held by the hair, at his left hip. |
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| 3 | 436 |
Another woman was thrust into the circle. |
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| 3 | 448 |
Her master rushed into the circle. |
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| 3 | 455 |
He then drew her rapidly from the light, into the darkness outside the circle. |
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| 3 | 466 |
Marcus and I watched the women in the circle. |
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| 3 | 530 |
We then returned our attention to the dancing circle. |
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| 3 | 532 |
There were now some ten to fifteen slaves in the circle. |
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| 3 | 559 |
If she found such beauty, such sensuous liberation, such fulfilling joy, such reality, such honesty, the marvelousness of owned women before their masters, offensive or deplorable, why did she watch? What did she see there in the circle, I wondered. |
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| 3 | 561 |
She continued to gaze into the circle. |
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| 3 | 565 |
Perhaps she wished for her robes to be torn off and to be collared, and to be thrust, in her turn, into the circle. |
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| 3 | 573 |
The free woman then turned about and left the vicinity of the circle, hurriedly. |
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| 3 | 574 |
I felt rather sorry for her, but then, I thought, surely the fellow was right, that the circle, or its vicinity, was no place for a free female. |
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| 3 | 583 |
I noted a fellow approaching the circle, who had behind him, heeling him, an unusually lovely slave. |
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| 3 | 632 |
"Tuka, to the circle!" called a fellow. |
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| 3 | 635 |
"Put Tuka in the circle!" called a fellow. |
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| 3 | 641 |
"Clear the circle!" called a fellow. |
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| 3 | 645 |
Teibar gestured to the circle. |
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| 3 | 650 |
She now stood in the circle, relaxed, yet supple and vital, her wrists, back to back, over her head, her knees flexed. |
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| 3 | 670 |
Much it seemed to me, though there might be two hundred men about the circle, she danced for her master. |
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| 3 | 672 |
"Tuka, Tuka!" even called some of the other slaves about the edges of the circle, sitting and kneeling there, unable to take their eyes from her, clapping, too. |
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| 3 | 674 |
I watched her moving about the circle. |
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| 3 | 683 |
She was working her way about the circle. |
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| 3 | 757 |
He called Teibar then waved to the men about, and turning about, took his way from the area of the circle. |
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| 3 | 764 |
After the dance of Tuka, men and slaves departed from the circle, many doubtless to hurry to their blankets and tents. |
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| 3 | 771 |
She had doubtless come to a circle, knowing that fellows in need, ones without slaves, such as I, might be found there. |
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| 3 | 914 |
I walked over to the circle to watch. |
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| 3 | 934 |
There was applause about the small circle. |
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| 3 | 987 |
There, at the edge of the circle, emerged from the darkness, there was a large man, bearded, in a tunic and cloak. |
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| 3 | 1050 |
Men now fled away from the circle. |
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| 7 | 89 |
There he was put on his knees, to one side, the children locking their chains to prepared rings, set in a circle, then withdrawing. |
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| 8 | 942 |
Of what dreadful value are such skills? Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards, to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife? Of what use ... |
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| 14 | 1 |
In the Vicinity of the Public Boards Before the boards, rather in a circle before them, there was a crowd. |
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| 14 | 4 |
We pushed in, toward the center of the circle. |
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| 14 | 126 |
Again anger coursed about the circle. |
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| 14 | 180 |
It is not unusual to see them together, for example, laundering at the stream side or long basins, or sitting about in a circle, mending and sewing, or polishing silver. |
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| 14 | 512 |
"Describe a circle, of some five paces in diameter, on all fours, as you are now," said her keeper, "and return to this place". |
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| 23 | 7 |
There was a line, as well, behind the fellow, awaiting its turn to enter the roped-off circle, and, one by one, express their contempt for the "Traitress of the North" as Ar's Station was now referred to on the boards. |
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| 23 | 56 |
There were some cries of protest, even of dismay, about the outside of the roped-off circle. |
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| 23 | 60 |
Let me not monopolize time better distributed amongst the needs of my fellow citizens of free and glorious Ar! Let not this loathsome particle of disgusting gravel, fitting Home Stone for knaves and traitors, receive the impression that it might be I alone to whom the perfidy of its city is evident!... |
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| 23 | 69 |
Another fellow was now within the circle. |
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| 23 | 246 |
If the substitution is discovered today, on the same day I was within the circle, and I left the city today, this might seem too improbable to be a mere coincidence. |
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| 25 | 57 |
As Appanius, crying out again with rage, again attempted to circle about, so that he could strike the girl, the fellow became tangled in the net and could no longer protect her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1836 |
It is sometimes called the "dance of the displayed slave," though it is not really a dance; sometimes it is called "block movements" or "circle movements," from the fact that such movements are sometimes called for on the sales block or within the exhibition circle; sometimes they are called "cage m... |
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| 13 | 326 |
Some beasts did not leap upward but remained patiently, tensely quiescent in a wide circle in the water, a circle ranging about the cage. |
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| 28 | 7 |
A broad, scarlet marble circle was before the high desk of the praetor's officer, and the Lady Constanzia was conducted to its center, the guards then withdrawing, moving back, several feet, leaving her there, alone, on the circle. |
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| 1 | 65 |
It was my intention to circle about, through the shrubbery, and the tiny, lovely trees of the garden, to the vicinity of the fountain. |
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| 3 | 4 |
It was my intention to circle about, through the shrubbery, and the trees of the garden, to the vicinity of the fountain. |
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| 5 | 111 |
It had been my intention to circle about, through the shrubbery, and the tiny, lovely trees in the garden, to the vicinity of the fountain. |
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| 11 | 9 |
At the far side of the large area, away from the door, near the outer circumference of the circle, was a stone dais, reached by some three steps, on the top of which was a thronelike chair. |
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| 13 | 329 |
Their bodies were oriented in such a way as to face the center of the circle. |
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| 19 | 244 |
The crowd parted to my left and I saw, making its way through the crowd, some sort of standard, a golden staff surmounted by a golden circle. |
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| 19 | 245 |
The circle I would later learn was the sign of the Priest-Kings, the symbol of eternity, that without beginning or end. |
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| 19 | 247 |
Behind these two came another boy, he bearing the standard of the golden circle. |
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| 19 | 284 |
He with the golden standard, that surmounted with the golden circle, was in the center. |
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| 19 | 359 |
This circular gesture, it seems, reminiscent of the circle surmounting the staff, the symbol of eternity, was the "sign of the Priest-Kings". |
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| 24 | 280 |
They were put in a circle, on their knees, huddling there, crowded together. |
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| 28 | 122 |
The Lady Constanzia knelt in the center of the scarlet circle. |
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| 28 | 129 |
She trembled, kneeling on the scarlet circle. |
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| 29 | 2 |
Shafts of sunlight, like golden spears, fell through the high, narrow windows, illuminating the scarlet circle before the high desk. |
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| 29 | 6 |
The high desk stood untenanted before the scarlet circle. |
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| 29 | 14 |
He stopped in the vicinity of the scarlet circle. |
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| 29 | 56 |
The fellow who had but recently entered, in such agitation, so angrily, who had considered, and signed, papers at the desk of the clerk, had, at the call of the clerk to the guard, turned his back and walked through, and outside, the scarlet circle, that before the high desk. |
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| 29 | 57 |
He was now some feet on our side of the circle. |
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| 29 | 58 |
The small female figure was led to the center of the circle. |
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| 29 | 59 |
This time, however, she did not face the desk, but faced the fellow on the other side of the circle. |
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| 29 | 67 |
She was now standing alone, in the center of the circle, her head down. |
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| 29 | 71 |
Angrily, with a swirl of robes, the man turned about and came to the edge of the circle. |
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| 29 | 77 |
The clerk then looked to the fellow at the edge of the circle. |
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| 29 | 126 |
She obeyed and he, for his part, went back to the edge of the scarlet circle, rather on our side of it. |
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| 29 | 127 |
She was then standing in the center of the circle, rather as she had before, save, of course, that she now wore not a temporary collar, a holding collar, but the collar of her master. |
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| 29 | 186 |
He then walked across the scarlet circle, past the kneeling slave, and handed the papers to Henry, who took them, and put them within his robes, as he had his copy of the earlier papers, the court papers. |
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| 29 | 557 |
"Shameless," said the pit master to me, regarding the pair, she in his arms, on the scarlet circle. |
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| 29 | 578 |
He put her to her back on the scarlet circle. |
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| 31 | 629 |
The peasant suddenly swung the great stone on its chain about his head in a wicked whirling circle. |
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| 37 | 153 |
The larger sleen turned in a circle, as though confused. |
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| 43 | 37 |
The C had now become a closed circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 119 |
On her way to the circle she had heard her number called more than once, announcing that she would be danced, and in the ba-ta circle. |
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| 24 | 526 |
Then Ita was again through the parting in the silk, and again danced, again eliciting cries of pleasure from the crowd, again proving her right to perform as a slave before masters, even in so high a circle as the ba-ta circle. |
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| 24 | 743 |
"But I thought it strange," said the scribe, "when I heard your number called in the camp, summoning you to a dancing circle, and, indeed, one so high as the ba-ta circle. |
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| 6 | 1 |
She Is Presented Before the Young Man, Following the First Phase of Her Transformation "The female," said the man, indicating that she should stand within the yellow circle, on the marble floor, in the lofty room, before the curule chair. |
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| 7 | 2 |
She took her place within the yellow circle, in that lofty room, before the dais, on which reposed the curule chair. |
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| 8 | 2 |
She knelt within the yellow circle, on the marble floor, before the curule chair on which he, robed, reclined. |
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| 9 | 4 |
She was prodded forward by Tutina's switch, until she stood within the yellow circle. |
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| 9 | 27 |
She felt herself again the center of attention, as she stood in the circle. |
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| 9 | 68 |
* * * * And so she stood now in the circle, before the curule chair. |
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| 9 | 80 |
"Return to the circle," he said, "and, hands at your sides, turn slowly for us". |
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| 10 | 2 |
She was then thrown to her belly within the yellow circle, before the curule chair. |
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| 13 | 658 |
"Some girls use a folded cloth, folded in a circle, between the basket and the head. |
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| 20 | 277 |
The train in which her basket formed a part departed, too, from the line of flight, also bending to the right, but then, in a few Ihn, it turned back and began to circle about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 39 |
Then, as the circle was nearly completed, there was a sound as of a single blow, abrupt and impatient, on the other side, perhaps a small explosion, and the steel protruded into the hallway, as though it had been struck by a fist, and then there was another such blow, or explosion, and there was a s... |
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| 15 | 36 |
He then drew a circle in the dirt, pointed to the blonde, and then, again, to the people about him, and then, growling, like a Kur, he pointed to the edges of the circle, moving his fingers toward the center. |
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| 15 | 38 |
Then Cabot pointed to the blonde, and drew a circle, and made a growling noise, pointing to the interior of the circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 232 |
"Are javelins in the forest no longer in order; are sticks no longer available to draw a killing circle, a circle of decision, in the camp?" "Away, slave!" said Tuza. |
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| 52 | 904 |
A tiny circle is drawn on the target, and the winner is he whose blade comes closest to the center of that circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 55 |
"So, now," I said, "it is a circle, a wheel, of sorts?" "A circle of terror," he said, "a wheel of death". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 186 |
The focus of my consciousness now seemed small, a circle within a circle, a circle within a circle, that of an encroaching, menacing hue. |
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