| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 46 |
The lance strikes the shield once for the commander of a Ten; twice for the commander of a Hundred; three times for the commander of a Thousand. |
10 |
| 21 | 267 |
"You will suffer for this!" the commander of the guard was crying. |
10 |
| 22 | 50 |
"It means," remarked Harold, looking about the courtyard, "that you have the rank of a Commander of a Thousand". |
10 |
| 22 | 60 |
Indeed it was true, for the next level beneath a Ubar among the Wagon Peoples is that of the Commander of a Thousand. |
10 |
| 22 | 71 |
"As a commander," said Harold, "you may take what you want of any of this". |
10 |
| 22 | 80 |
"You are the commander of a Thousand," said Harold. |
10 |
| 22 | 86 |
"A beauty," said he, "Commander!" He nodded to his shoulder. |
10 |
| 22 | 95 |
"Yes, Commander!" they both cried, releasing her. |
10 |
| 23 | 200 |
Harold, willingly enough, volunteered to remain in the camp until the commander of a Thousand could be sent from Turia to relieve him. |
10 |
| 24 | 1 |
The Wagon of a Commander Turia was now largely under the control of Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 24 | 43 |
"Surely, Commander," he said, "you have duties elsewhere". |
10 |
| 24 | 78 |
"A Tuchuk," he informed me loftily, "may—if he wishes—rest comfortably on even the horns of a bosk, but only a Koroban is likely to recline on a marble floor when he might just as well sleep upon the pelt of a larl in the wagon of a commander". |
10 |
| 24 | 175 |
I bounded down the stairs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, and sped through the inner and outer courtyard and out into the street, leaving the startled guards trying to salute me as a commander. |
10 |
| 24 | 178 |
"Such haste," he said, "is not seemly in the commander of a Thousand". |
10 |
| 24 | 181 |
"But it is the wagon of a commander," said Harold, as though puzzled, "so anyone could tell you where it is". |
10 |
| 25 | 66 |
"I am a commander". |
10 |
| 25 | 244 |
"Can it be," she asked, "that the commander of a Tuchuk Thousand does not know what to do with a girl such as I?" I reached toward her, to take her into my arms, but I found the bowl of wine in my way, deftly so. |
10 |
| 25 | 262 |
"I am the commander of a Thousand," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 5 |
More than an hour ago I had left the commander's wagon, being roused by one of the guards outside. |
10 |
| 26 | 28 |
I turned to a commander of a Hundred, he who was in charge of the men I had trained with the crossbow. |
10 |
| 28 | 68 |
"Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 159 |
It was the twelfth Ahn before the commander of the first pursuing ship understood either that he had been tricked or that he was not likely to overtake our ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 251 |
Doubtless this was reasonably clear, also, to the commander of the other vessel. |
10 |
| 17 | 55 |
I would have preferred to go with them, but, as a commander, I could not. |
10 |
| 17 | 382 |
I did not expect a great deal of damage to be done by these shattering bombs of burning oil, but I was counting on the confluence of three factors: the psychological effect of such an attack, the fear of the outflanking fleets, whose numbers could not yet well have been ascertained, and, in the conf... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 449 |
Had I been the commander of the two ships I would have laid to offshore, coming in only when necessary for water or game. |
10 |
| 18 | 484 |
There was, of course, another reason why the commander of the Rhoda and Tesephone would keep within sight of the shore. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 119 |
The commander of a military Kur, thus, might better be thought of as the "brain" or "mind," but continues, in their languages, to be spoken of as the "blood". |
10 |
| 17 | 129 |
The commander, or Blood, of a March wears only a single, simple reddish ring. |
10 |
| 17 | 140 |
Such a commander is said to stand "outside the rings". |
10 |
| 18 | 131 |
No wonder the commander of the Kurii had left his forces here, disappearing. |
10 |
| 18 | 259 |
I expected he stood as a commander from one of the steel worlds themselves, sent to unite and command native Kurii. |
10 |
| 20 | 179 |
"I have here three objects," I said, "acquired on the skerry, the head of a Kur, he who was commander of the Kur army, a spiral ring of gold, taken as loot from his carcass, and a slave girl". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 273 |
It was dominated by the kasbah of its pasha, Turem a'Din, commander of the local Tashid clans, on its rim to the northeast. |
10 |
| 11 | 288 |
It was used as the vantage point for the Aretai commander at that time, Hammaran, who also launched at a crucial point in the struggle, his picked cavalry, and bodyguard, from that height, turning the battle's tide. |
10 |
| 11 | 289 |
The Tashid commander of the time, Ba'Arub, died on the shelf of red stone, with ten men, trying to reach Hammaran. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 8 |
On our side of the wall was the compound, with the hall of the commander, the long houses of the guards and hunters, and the roofed, wooden pens of the laborers. |
10 |
| 11 | 44 |
He, with his men, some forty, who had taken refuge in the wooden hall, that serving as the headquarters of the wall commander, filed tensely between the ranks of my men. |
10 |
| 12 | 505 |
No longer was she a commander among the agents of Kurii. |
10 |
| 35 | 1336 |
"I wish you well, Commander," I said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 565 |
"This is information which I have received but recently from the Sardar, but it is based on an intelligence thousands of years old, obtained then from a delirious Kur commander, and confirmed by documents obtained in various wreckages, the most recent of which dates from some four hundred years ago. |
10 |
| 1 | 574 |
"One was temporarily lost upon the planet Earth some three to four thousand years ago, it being taken from a slain Kur commander by a man named Gyges, a herdsman, who used its power to usurp the throne of a country called Lydia, a country which then existed on Earth". |
10 |
| 53 | 430 |
The salute of the Kur commander had been acknowledged and returned. |
10 |
| 53 | 449 |
The Kur commander raised his paw. |
10 |
| 53 | 455 |
They obeyed their commander. |
10 |
| 53 | 477 |
I admired the Kur commander, that he had been able to instill in his fierce beasts such discipline. |
10 |
| 53 | 489 |
The Kur commander took the chain from him and looped it over his head. |
10 |
| 53 | 491 |
The Kur commander than gave orders to one of his beasts. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 87 |
I myself, in my unsuccessful ruse, betrayed, presumably by the Earth-girl slave, Peggy, had posed as a commander of scout ships, supposedly sent ahead by the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 113 |
He was a good commander. |
10 |
| 7 | 32 |
"Who was the commander of the Mira?" I asked him. |
10 |
| 8 | 416 |
The self-frustrating futility of their attack, obstinate and unimaginative, had, at long last, apparently been brought home to its commander. |
10 |
| 9 | 27 |
I did not think Reginald would be quick to report his loss to the fleet commander. |
10 |
| 12 | 81 |
The identity of the third man on the deck of the stem castle of the lead galley, we learned, in the exchange of identifications, was Alcibron, who had been the commander of the Tuka. |
10 |
| 20 | 20 |
It was he who, in effect, had organized the resistance of the river towns to the pirates, and had had the good sense and fortune to recruit the redoubtable Callimachus of Port Cos as his field commander, a man without whose military skills and reputation on the river our projects might have been doo... |
10 |
| 20 | 48 |
This was not the type of party at which, say, the free women of the enemy, captives, stripped, not yet even given the dignity of the collar, clad only in their hair and beauty, are forced to wash and lick the feet of victors, to serve their viands and pour their drinks, to wait upon and clear tables... |
10 |
| 20 | 114 |
"To the Vosk League!" said Aemilianus, commander of the naval forces of Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 20 | 1163 |
"It is my honor and pleasure to inform you that one amongst us has agreed to act as the commander of these forces. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 738 |
"Zarendargar," said Samos, "is a well-known commander of the steel worlds, a war general. |
10 |
| 2 | 181 |
"He impressed me as a fine commander, and a good soldier," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 1174 |
Alfred had seemed to me as though he might be a good commander. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 642 |
"Their commander, too," said Hci, "may favor holding them in reserve". |
10 |
| 48 | 72 |
"In virtue of the power vested in me as a commander in the Sleen Soldiers, and in accordance with the wishes of my father, Mahpiyasapa, civil chieftain of the Isbu Kaiila," said Hci, "I pronounce you both free". |
10 |
| 52 | 11 |
"They respect you as a commander," I said, "else they would not permit you this option". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 281 |
"Another would be," I said, "my respect for you, as a commander, as a soldier". |
10 |
| 15 | 677 |
"No sane commander in such a situation could issue orders to enter the delta in force," I said, "certainly not without obtaining guides, accumulating transportation, organizing supplies and support, treating with the natives of the area, and so on". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 898 |
The fellow who had been with the bearded man, at the instigation of his commander, hurried to the fighting animals, to try and strike the sleen. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 116 |
Then at last I had been given a sealed letter for the commander at Ar's Station, whose name was Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 5 | 496 |
I wondered how I might approach Ar's Station and deliver the message of Gnieus Lelius, the regent of Ar, to the commander at Ar's Station, Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 11 | 37 |
"Are you Aemilianus," I asked, "commander in Ar's Station?" "I am," he said, looking at me. |
10 |
| 11 | 167 |
"Does it not seem unusual to you that Artemidorus, a tarnsman, an astute commander, should transmit military documents in so careless and open a fashion?" "Perhaps he is overconfident or arrogant," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 827 |
"The commander is a clever man," said the fellow. |
10 |
| 15 | 829 |
I did have respect for Aemilianus as a commander. |
10 |
| 16 | 506 |
I would have thought Aemilianus, commander of the citadel, would have come to the wall, but I did not see the helmet with the crest of sleen hair. |
10 |
| 17 | 134 |
It was his intention, I gathered, rather after the moment, to have had the honor of slaying the commander on the wall. |
10 |
| 17 | 441 |
Too, I thought I might buy some time for them by seeming to offer the Cosians an enviable prize, the capture of the wall commander. |
10 |
| 17 | 493 |
Doubtless we would seem prizes in diverse ways to the Cosians, the commander of the wall and a female who might hopefully, when unhooded, be found to have a face to match the excitements of her figure. |
10 |
| 17 | 494 |
Too, if she were in the keeping of the wall's commander did this not, in itself, suggest that she might be worthy a cord and nose ring? Too, my sword was sheathed. |
10 |
| 17 | 604 |
Come, Commander!" The citadel then was being abandoned. |
10 |
| 18 | 10 |
"Hail, Commander!" then cried the fellows there, spying Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 18 | 23 |
"They are waiting for the camp commander," said another. |
10 |
| 18 | 26 |
"As you will, Commander," he said, his voice thick with emotion. |
10 |
| 18 | 70 |
"Commander," I said to him, "many of your people are within missile range from the wall". |
10 |
| 18 | 98 |
"Carry the commander to the piers". |
10 |
| 18 | 124 |
"It is the camp commander!" cried a fellow. |
10 |
| 18 | 125 |
"Commander?" asked the officer. |
10 |
| 18 | 146 |
At the gesture of the commander on the wall two of the fellows flanking him, crossbowmen, had set quarrels into their bows. |
10 |
| 18 | 168 |
"Take the commander, shielded," I said, "to the piers". |
10 |
| 18 | 178 |
The commander was no longer visible. |
10 |
| 18 | 479 |
The camp commander, he in charge of the Cosian forces at Ar's Station, had resumed his coign of vantage. |
10 |
| 19 | 6 |
Indeed, the walkway for a dozen yards, closer to the landing, was covered by these boats, until the camp commander sent his own crossbowmen out on the walkway, to keep them their distance. |
10 |
| 19 | 168 |
I come on behalf of Aristimines, Commander of Cos in the north. |
10 |
| 20 | 34 |
"And what would you have done, had you been commander in Ar's Station?" I shrugged. |
10 |
| 20 | 65 |
"We need Aemilianus, our commander," said a man, "not a body for a shield". |
10 |
| 20 | 72 |
"No, Commander," said he. |
10 |
| 20 | 206 |
, the parts of the stone came into the keeping of Calliodorus, at that time acting first captain in Port Cos, and Aemilianus, who was at that time commander of the naval forces of Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 20 | 267 |
"My thanks, Commander," said Aemilianus, softly. |
10 |
| 20 | 268 |
"It is nothing, Commander," said Calliodorus. |
10 |
| 20 | 298 |
"How many ships have you?" asked Aemilianus, a commander's question. |
10 |
| 21 | 9 |
"Yes, Commander," said a man. |
10 |
| 21 | 81 |
"How is my old friend Callimachus, commander of the forces of the Vosk League?" asked Aemilianus of Calliodorus. |
10 |
| 21 | 283 |
"Commander," begged the girl. |
10 |
| 21 | 302 |
"My commander can see," she then said, lightly, "that the only collar I wear is a portion of my chaining, and that I am not branded". |
10 |
| 21 | 323 |
"But you can see, Commander," she said, suddenly lifting her hands to her head, "that my hair has been cut, and shortly, too!" She rubbed her hand over the brush of hair on her head. |
10 |
| 21 | 325 |
"Surely you do not believe that, Commander," she said. |
10 |
| 21 | 327 |
Shall she be brought forward to testify as to the circumstances in which, and the time at which, your hair was shorn?" "No, Commander," said the girl. |
10 |
| 21 | 329 |
"No, Commander," she said, defeated. |
10 |
| 21 | 331 |
Is this disputed?" "No, Commander," she said. |
10 |
| 21 | 434 |
"Commander!" she protested. |
10 |
| 21 | 444 |
"I had no idea, Commander, that you or the others were here," she said. |
10 |
| 21 | 498 |
"What then is your decision upon the charges, Commander?" she asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 502 |
"Commander?" she asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 504 |
"Of course, Commander," she said. |
10 |
| 21 | 510 |
"Commander?" she faltered. |
10 |
| 21 | 684 |
"Yes, Commander," she said. |
10 |
| 21 | 890 |
"Commander!" she cried, tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 21 | 1485 |
"Commander," said I. |
10 |
| 24 | 158 |
"Speak, Commander," said a man. |
10 |
| 24 | 194 |
"Speak, Commander," urged the young warrior, Marcus. |
10 |
| 24 | 256 |
"Is that the extent of the dispatches, Commander?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 24 | 258 |
"Commander!" protested the man. |
10 |
| 24 | 261 |
"Please, Commander," said a man. |
10 |
| 24 | 265 |
"Commander!" said a fellow. |
10 |
| 24 | 330 |
"But if you were the Cosian commander in the north," I said to Aemilianus, "you would surely, if possible, avoid engaging the main body of Ar". |
10 |
| 24 | 341 |
"With all due respect, Commander," said Marcus, "Ar's position in the north is ideal for destroying the expeditionary force". |
10 |
| 24 | 353 |
"No sane commander would elect such a route," said Marcus. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 346 |
Young Marcus, with the consent of his commander, Aemilianus, formerly of Ar's Station, now amongst the refugees at Port Cos, had been given permission to track the movements of the Cosians in the north, and to convey this information to the major land forces of Ar, which were currently located at Ho... |
10 |
| 1 | 363 |
Perhaps Policrates, the camp commander, was unwise in the ways of war. |
10 |
| 1 | 376 |
But in spite of the invitation seemingly flagrantly offered by Policrates, the camp commander, general of the Cosian forces in the north, said once to have been a pirate, rescued from the galleys by Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, a cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the forces of Ar had not struck, ... |
10 |
| 3 | 96 |
Perhaps he could treat with Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, commander of the main forces of Cos on the continent, if it were not too late, for a safe withdrawal from Torcadino. |
10 |
| 3 | 401 |
Had he been as clever as his commander, Policrates, I do not think he would have done so". |
10 |
| 3 | 485 |
"I charge you, in virtue of the authority of my commission in the forces of Ar's Station, colony to the state of Ar, to conduct us into the presence of Saphronicus, your commander, at Holmesk. |
10 |
| 14 | 89 |
"And so, too," I said, "would any competent commander". |
10 |
| 14 | 92 |
"I think he is a very able commander". |
10 |
| 14 | 128 |
"But have you," I asked, "who are the commander of the vanguard, you who are in the very best position to do so, detected any clear evidence as yet of even so minimal a presence?" "There has been broken rence," he said. |
10 |
| 17 | 42 |
Their every move in the delta, for days, had probably been reported to the Cosian commander, perhaps Policrates himself, said once to have been a pirate, by tarn scouts. |
10 |
| 32 | 198 |
"I am Plenius, subaltern to Labienus, commander of the vanguard," said Plenius. |
10 |
| 39 | 104 |
She had once been Lucilina, the preferred slave of Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, commander of the Cosian forces in the south. |
10 |
| 40 | 67 |
Myron had weaknesses as an officer, and as a man, but he was, in my opinion, an excellent commander. |
10 |
| 47 | 170 |
I assumed, of course, surely a reasonable assumption, and apparently a correct one, that he was the agent of Saphronicus, commander of the forces of Ar in the north. |
10 |
| 49 | 16 |
It is my speculation, however, that Labienus, commander of the vanguard, made his report. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1067 |
He was an excellent commander and, from what I had gathered, there need be no haste in the matter. |
10 |
| 3 | 1069 |
In any event, an excellent commander, he would presumably bring them fresh to the gates of Ar. |
10 |
| 16 | 176 |
"Who was commander of the vanguard?" I asked. |
10 |
| 22 | 239 |
"Glory to Seremides, first minister to the Ubara, high captain, commander of the Taurentians, to Myron, polemarkos of Temos, to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos!" I said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 287 |
I saw a fellow drawn forth from the huddled group and thrown before the officer, or commander, of the intruders. |
10 |
| 24 | 364 |
There were cries of misery as another fellow was dragged out of the group and, before the commander of the intruders, put to the sword. |
10 |
| 24 | 366 |
The commander, impatiently, angrily, swept his arm toward the wall. |
10 |
| 24 | 411 |
An impatient gesture from the commander of the intruders ordered her, too, to the wall. |
10 |
| 24 | 440 |
The truth or the sword was the choice offered to those hapless prisoners drawn forth from the group and put before the commander. |
10 |
| 24 | 461 |
The intruder who had come from those stationed at the stairway rushed before the commander, pointing back toward the stairway. |
10 |
| 24 | 462 |
I saw then the commander, with several men, hurrying in that direction. |
10 |
| 24 | 467 |
In any event, the commander had hurried toward the stairway. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 777 |
The true ruler is, I suppose, the military governor, Myron, polemarkos of Temos, commander of the occupational forces, or perhaps actually distant Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos. |
10 |
| 19 | 34 |
Myron, the polemarkos, was the commander of the Cosian, and mercenary, forces in the city. |
10 |
| 19 | 668 |
She recalled that Myron, who was polemarkos, commander of the occupation forces, had supposedly entered the city. |
10 |
| 20 | 73 |
His arrangements, of course, may be overruled, or revised, by the camp commander, the highest officer with the march. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 52 |
Several of the Kurii seemed disconcerted by the loss of the officer, or commander. |
10 |
| 56 | 239 |
"Do not be weak, commander," said a Kur. |
10 |
| 56 | 264 |
"I cannot do so, commander," said a Kur, "as he has returned, with his men, to the gathering". |
10 |
| 56 | 266 |
"He has departed, commander," said the Kur. |
10 |
| 62 | 33 |
"And how may I figure in your plans, and for what recompense?" "When the forces hesitate to acclaim me commander," said Flavion, "I want your support". |
10 |
| 62 | 48 |
I had supposed you would be interested in something other, something as simple as an assassination, a knife in the night, plunged into the heart of a commander". |
10 |
| 63 | 17 |
"Dear Lord Grendel, beloved commander," said Flavion, "believe me, I know nothing of this!" Lord Grendel shook with rage, his fangs emerged, his ears darted back, smoothly against his head. |
10 |
| 63 | 36 |
"This," said another, "is our commander, in whose hands lie our fates?" "Where is Cestiphon?" asked Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 63 | 96 |
"He is commander". |
10 |
| 63 | 169 |
"What is wrong with our commander?" said a Kur. |
10 |
| 73 | 63 |
He was a great commander. |
10 |
| 73 | 212 |
Nonetheless, as this was not known to Cabot and Lord Grendel, or not known for certain, Lord Grendel, by means of intermediaries, guards, and such, made certain that the slave was well aware of the victory of Lord Arcesilaus, the appearance of Lord Grendel in the capital, that of a human commander, ... |
10 |
| 74 | 83 |
"I understand that you are a commander, that you have been important in the war, that you may have many duties to attend to, that you must have many duties to attend to, but now you have returned". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 360 |
"I am commander, I am captain," I told Tajima. |
10 |
| 16 | 65 |
To be sure, some mercenaries will die for a given commander. |
10 |
| 16 | 159 |
A change of wind, a rising of dust, a prolonged battle, in which the angle of the sun changes, the loss of a commander, the loss of a standard, an unexpected, unpredictable wave of alarm in the ranks, an unfounded rumor of entrapment, the failure of a wing to hold, the hesitation or confusion of res... |
10 |
| 16 | 191 |
In dealing with men an able commander must be sensitive, as well as he can, to the possible consequences of his decisions and appointments, consequences which may affect the efficiency of his force, and to what might be thought of as the realities of the heart, such things as perceptions of propriet... |
10 |
| 16 | 270 |
"If the commander of an army had fallen," said Lord Nishida, "would that not be an ideal time to attack?" "Surely," I said, and shuddered. |
10 |
| 19 | 185 |
What I did hope was that the foes within, if any were there, would suppose that the attending commander, in this case myself, preferred discretion to a hazardous intrusion into darkness. |
10 |
| 20 | 23 |
"This is not the work for a commander," said Tajima. |
10 |
| 20 | 79 |
In the Gorean phalanx the field commander leads the right wing, which tends to drift to the right, this resulting from the natural tendency of each man to take advantage of the protection of the shield of the man on his right, as well as his own shield. |
10 |
| 20 | 83 |
The typical Gorean commander, perhaps unwisely, does not "lead" from a position of safety, from interior lines, so to speak, but leads from the front. |
10 |
| 25 | 19 |
"Well, Commander," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 52 |
"Well, Commander," I was assured. |
10 |
| 25 | 88 |
"Well, commander," I was told. |
10 |
| 25 | 113 |
"Commander," said a voice. |
10 |
| 25 | 116 |
"I would proceed no further, Commander," said one, "until light". |
10 |
| 25 | 129 |
"Enemies, Commander," said one, "may linger". |
10 |
| 25 | 169 |
"Yes, Commander," he said. |
10 |
| 28 | 157 |
"Well, Commander," he said. |
10 |
| 28 | 233 |
"Yes, Commander," said the guards. |
10 |
| 28 | 370 |
"He who is captain, commander, of the cavalry?" she said. |
10 |
| 35 | 20 |
"This is Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry, victor at the battle of Tarncamp, of whom I have spoken," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 35 | 24 |
"The victor at Tarncamp," I said, "was Tarncamp's commander, your colleague, Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 38 | 268 |
On what grounds, comprehensible to one such as he, might a would-be assassin be freed? Had I been in league with him? I suspected that one of less stature in the camp, one who, say, was not the commander of the cavalry, might have fared rather poorly following such an act. |
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| 41 | 64 |
"Yes, Commander," said the first of the two mariners. |
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| 41 | 70 |
"Commander?" he said. |
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| 41 | 75 |
"Stop, Commander! Do not!" I heard the officer of the watch cry out, and then I saw the flash of the mighty rudder to my right, and entered the cold waters of gleaming Thassa. |
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| 42 | 24 |
"Commander!" I heard, as though from far off. |
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| 42 | 26 |
"It is attacking the commander!" "No!" I cried, hoarsely. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 185 |
I would learn later he was a commander amongst them. |
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| 7 | 24 |
One such was the lovely Cecily, girl of the commander, Cabot; another was called Jane, the slave of his friend, Pertinax. |
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| 7 | 110 |
Perhaps she for whom it seemed that the commander's friend, Pertinax, might be alert was confined within, on her chain. |
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| 7 | 270 |
I saw again, amongst them, as I had on former days, Tarl Cabot, himself, commander of the tarn cavalry, and his friend, Pertinax. |
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| 8 | 407 |
He had been, of course, the captain of the Taurentians, and had been close to Myron, the polemarkos of Temos, commander of the occupation forces in Ar. |
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| 9 | 80 |
The tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, was apparently the commander of the tarn cavalry. |
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| 9 | 503 |
"I would have regretted losing the commander of the tarn cavalry," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 14 | 28 |
Our galley was captained by the warrior Pertinax, a friend, it seemed, of the commander of the tarn cavalry, Tarl Cabot. |
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| 15 | 267 |
"Commander," I said. |
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| 15 | 271 |
"I will do my best, commander," I said. |
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| 15 | 275 |
"Yes, commander," I said. |
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| 16 | 36 |
"Speak to the commander," said Lord Okimoto to Tyrtaios. |
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| 16 | 37 |
"I am informed, commander, by Lord Okimoto," said Tyrtaios, "that the ship, as seems obvious, is a warning ship, and that it is perhaps one of several. |
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| 16 | 68 |
"The commander of the tarn cavalry would speak with you," I said. |
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| 16 | 290 |
"I fear," said Lord Nishida, "the difficulty the commander has in mind is quite different". |
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| 17 | 40 |
I have upon occasion mentioned an officer named Pertinax, a friend, it seems, of Tarl Cabot, the commander, or captain, of the tarn cavalry. |
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| 17 | 125 |
If Lord Nishida knew of the interest of Pertinax in his slave, he had not, at least as yet, as far as I knew, brought his disapproval, doubtless subtly, to the attention of Tarl Cabot, the commander of the tarn cavalry, who then, presumably, as Pertinax's friend, and commanding officer, would advise... |
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| 17 | 168 |
As I had frequently served with the commander, largely at his assignment, prior to the fate of Seremides, whom I no longer regarded as a threat, I decided to stand near to him, at the rail. |
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| 17 | 173 |
"Tal, Commander," I said. |
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| 17 | 239 |
"Yes, commander," I said. |
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| 17 | 247 |
"Commander?" I said. |
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| 19 | 3 |
"Nothing, commander," I called down, to the deck. |
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| 21 | 244 |
Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry, had now joined Lords Okimoto and Nishida at the rail. |
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| 21 | 297 |
"The commander," he said to Lord Nishida, "exceeds his authority". |
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| 21 | 299 |
"The commander," said Lord Okimoto, "is circumspect". |
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| 22 | 62 |
"Flee, Commander!" wept a man, drawn aboard. |
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| 22 | 89 |
"Commander?" I called. |
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| 22 | 92 |
"With commander's permission," I said, "I, too, am going ashore". |
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| 22 | 97 |
"Neither then, commander," I said, "will I". |
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| 22 | 102 |
Save whom you can!" "Yes, commander," said Philoctetes. |
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| 22 | 104 |
"Yes, commander," called Philoctetes. |
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| 22 | 299 |
On the other hand, I had the sense that the commander of the opposing forces had now come to the end of his patience, such as it might have been, and, contemptuous of care and delay, finished with military sobriety, and conscious of his numbers, intended to conclude matters with one crude, costly, i... |
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| 23 | 15 |
I was now in attendance on Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry. |
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| 23 | 67 |
"I fear you mistake my meaning, commander," I said. |
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| 24 | 17 |
Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry, and his men, were not with us. |
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| 26 | 189 |
He is Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry, in the forces of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and, I suppose, now, of Lord Temmu". |
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| 35 | 161 |
"Rather, I bring you greetings from Lord Nishida and from Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu". |
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| 36 | 193 |
"I am pleased," said the stranger, "to have had conveyed to me the greetings of Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry". |
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| 37 | 575 |
"Now a gift of true worth," she said, "is presented by a slave to her master, with the affection and regard of Lord Nishida and Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 947 |
I had made clear my business, that I was to deliver a message to the Ubar, or to some high officer, who might then convey it to him, and the note was then taken from me by an officer, not of high rank, perhaps the commander of a ten, who read it, laughed uproariously, slapped his thigh, and then, to... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 13 |
Tyrtaios would be a practical commander, whose expenditure of men and supplies would be rational, and judicious, and cold. |
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| 14 | 109 |
"I could, Tarl Cabot, the commander of the tarn cavalry could, and doubtless several others, but not so many". |
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| 15 | 448 |
Doubtless some know; perhaps the ponderous Lord Okimoto, the camp commander, whom I had seen four times; perhaps the strange, lame, twisted little man they call Tersites, who was much about, whom I had often seen. |
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| 43 | 488 |
"You are an excellent commander," said Axel. |
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| 43 | 1198 |
Genserich seemed a good commander. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 130 |
"As appointed commander of the cavalry I was willing, under unusual circumstances, hoping to advance the cause of the house of Temmu, to exercise my own judgment, to act on my own initiative, to act independently of the chain of command, but all that was while I held the post and rank of commander, ... |
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| 1 | 185 |
As song to the poet and gold to the merchant would not this place, so lofty and beautiful, with its aspects and promises, call to the ruler, the leader, the soldier, the robber, the brigand, the warrior, the slayer, the commander, the Ubar? I thought so. |
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| 1 | 222 |
"The commander," said Lord Nishida, "will do what is possible. |
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| 1 | 278 |
"And your commander, to whom you seem so loyal," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 1 | 281 |
"Ela," said Lord Okimoto, "the commander should have sought safety earlier, his departure unnoticed in the fog. |
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| 1 | 283 |
"The commander's place is with the cavalry," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 1 | 313 |
"Then I have failed as a commander," I said. |
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| 1 | 393 |
"The commander is impatient," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 1 | 420 |
"Perhaps the commander proposes the first of a series of lesser engagements, compounding ever greater dismay and terror," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 1 | 426 |
"Perhaps the commander wishes us to put starving men, unsupported, into the field," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 1 | 432 |
"The commander thinks of raids," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 1 | 450 |
"Perhaps," said Lord Nishida, "we should permit the commander to retire to his quarters, to rest, for he returns at nightfall to his camp". |
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| 1 | 514 |
"The commander clearly understands, I trust," said Lord Okimoto, "the cavalry is not to be committed, or engaged, without direct orders from Lord Temmu". |
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| 2 | 123 |
"Tal, Noble Foes! I greet you! I am Tarl Cabot, commander of the cavalry of Lord Temmu. |
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| 2 | 171 |
Was this not a treason compared to which my lapse in the marshes was meaningless? I was still the commander of the tarn cavalry, however torn and depleted it might be. |
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| 2 | 181 |
I was once again Tarl Cabot, an officer, the commander of the tarn cavalry of Lord Temmu. |
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| 4 | 19 |
"Tarl Cabot is a poor captain, a poor commander," I said. |
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| 4 | 22 |
"He is our captain, our commander," said Tajima. |
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| 5 | 18 |
"Now, Commander," he said. |
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| 8 | 48 |
"It gives me great pleasure to be of service to my commander, and my daimyo, and shogun," he said. |
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| 9 | 96 |
"Ho!" I called to Ichiro, not yards from me, to whose supple, tem-wood lance was affixed the commander's pennon, and about whose shoulder hung the war horn of command. |
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| 11 | 100 |
"Because I am commander," I said. |
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| 11 | 108 |
"I have come myself, alone, unbidden, that I may report to my captain, my commander". |
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| 11 | 141 |
"Which, it seems," said Tajima, "the commander failed to convey to the cavalry". |
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| 11 | 143 |
"Perhaps the commander is weak," said Tajima. |
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| 11 | 298 |
"I seek the counsel of my commander," said Tajima. |
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| 12 | 122 |
"You are commander," he said. |
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| 12 | 127 |
"I am no longer commander," I said. |
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| 12 | 133 |
"I have then failed as commander". |
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| 14 | 51 |
"He expected to deliver you to me, and merely appoint a new commander of the demon birds. |
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| 14 | 76 |
"Fortunately for Lord Temmu," said General Yamada, "they are confirming that Tarl Cabot, commander of the cavalry, is alive". |
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| 14 | 94 |
"What if," I asked, "the cavalry had accepted a new commander?" "Do not even think of it," said Lord Yamada. |
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| 20 | 383 |
There they will reassure the cavalry of the safety and health of its commander, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, bear to it my good wishes and assure it of my friendship. |
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| 20 | 384 |
It is then my hope that the cavalry, in the light of the despicable treatment of their commander, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, betrayed into the hands of a putative enemy, but an actual friend, the dreadful perfidy of the house of Temmu, the righteousness of my cause, and the wisdom of an alliance, one bot... |
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| 22 | 28 |
As I read the situation, the cavalry is estranged from the house of Temmu, given its betrayal of its commander. |
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| 24 | 151 |
Who will betray the good will of a benefactor? It will doubtless, at least, slow the responses of junior officers, disengaged from, and uncertain as to, the will of their commander". |
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| 24 | 163 |
The House of Temmu betrayed their commander. |
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| 40 | 3 |
"And, Commander san," said Ichiro, "he has not been taken elsewhere". |
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| 40 | 6 |
"We see none, Commander san," said Ichiro, bannerman of the cavalry. |
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| 40 | 137 |
"Is that not conspicuous, Commander san?" said Ichiro. |
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| 42 | 5 |
"Ichiro, can you speak with authority?" "I fear not, Commander san," said Ichiro. |
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| 42 | 15 |
"What am I to do, Commander san?" asked Ichiro. |
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| 42 | 22 |
"I fear, Commander san," he said, "even if I speak loudly, he will require some certification of the genuineness of this request". |
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| 42 | 87 |
"Ichiro," I said, "when you first approached the whip master on the ruse of acquiring slaves to serve a pleasure feast, did he express surprise or skepticism?" "No, Commander san," said Ichiro. |
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| 43 | 196 |
"What is wrong, Commander san?" said Ichiro. |
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| 44 | 27 |
"I am pleased," said Lord Nishida, "that you have been reinstated as commander of the tarn cavalry". |
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| 57 | 62 |
One expects the wise commander to press an advantage, allowing his foe no respite. |
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| 57 | 66 |
He tended to be a cautious and defensively minded commander. |
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| 57 | 72 |
The role of the cavalry in all this was not clear, and it had remained a substantially independent force since the betrayal of its commander to the house of Temmu's foe, Lord Yamada. |
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| 60 | 229 |
A commander has obligations which take precedence over his personal preferences. |
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| 60 | 265 |
I would have chosen Lord Yamada as the commander of our small force, but he had ranked himself at the side of Nodachi. |
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| 61 | 101 |
Lord Nishida, I thought, was a better commander, one capable of more judiciously balancing risks. |
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| 61 | 179 |
"It is nothing, Commander," he shouted. |
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| 61 | 586 |
How marvelous for a woman to be so desired! How can a woman be more a female than in a collar? "Licinius Lysias," I said, "he of Turmus!" "Tal, Commander," he said. |
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| 61 | 588 |
"Yes, Commander," he said. |
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| 61 | 599 |
"I shall, shortly, Commander," said he. |
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| 61 | 605 |
"And I, you, Commander," he said. |
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| 61 | 682 |
"You are Tarl Cabot," she said, "a tarnsman, the commander of the cavalry". |
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| 61 | 685 |
The commander of the cavalry is now a Pani tarnsman, the warrior, Tajima". |
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| 61 | 752 |
Seremides, commander of the Taurentians, would try to buy his freedom, delivering me to the enemy, sacrificing me to the wrath of Marlenus. |
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| 61 | 1147 |
"Commander!" said a mariner, having descended the gangplank, which few now climbed, and pattered toward me, his sandals slapping on the warm, broad planks of the wharf. |
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| 61 | 1215 |
"Hurry, hurry, Commander!" cried the mariner. |
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| 61 | 1223 |
"Yes, Commander!" said the mariner. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 900 |
"I would have him within the rings!" "He is gone, Commander," said a Kur. |
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| 61 | 913 |
"I am commander. |
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| 65 | 223 |
In the meantime, keep the circle closed!" "It will be done, Commander!" answered the second voice, that which had been supposedly associated with road patrols, with guardsmen of Ar, and the supposed guards of the caravanserai itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 77 |
"Report to your commander," he said. |
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| 5 | 64 |
A judicious commander wishes to assure himself of victory, and that is best assured, where practical, by bringing an overwhelming force to bear". |
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| 33 | 29 |
"Eiron, of the Fields of Chios," I said, "commander of the Peasant Army". |
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| 33 | 67 |
"Surely not, Commander!" cried Thurnock. |
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| 33 | 68 |
"No, Commander!" cried Clitus. |
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| 33 | 73 |
"Who is Commander?" I demanded of those about me. |
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| 33 | 74 |
"You, Commander," said Thurnock, in seeming disappointment. |
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| 38 | 6 |
Here he is only the commander of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, of only some twenty heavy vessels, and a miscellany of minor vessels. |
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| 42 | 94 |
What soldier does not fight well, bravely and gallantly, for a commander he deems invincible?" "Proceed," said Thrasymedes. |
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| 43 | 149 |
Their leadership's recourse to siege engines, that walls might be demolished, and mining, that the town might be taken from within, both suggested that scaling, which in many cases, at least where larger numbers were involved, would have been a commander's first choice, was here an undesired alterna... |
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| 45 | 1 |
The Attack in the Night; A Spy Escapes; We Take Stock of our Stores; We Confirm Plans; We Reflect on the Nature of Historiography I lay alone in the commander's quarters. |
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| 45 | 83 |
"Commander?" said a man. |
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| 45 | 107 |
"Where is the commander?" I heard. |
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| 46 | 117 |
"Commander," I heard. |
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| 46 | 119 |
"Commander," a man said, "an anomaly!" "What?" I said. |
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| 46 | 137 |
"Yes, Commander," he said. |
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| 47 | 22 |
"Commander," said a man, "the leader of the Peasant coalition would speak with you". |
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| 48 | 51 |
"Commander!" said a man. |
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| 49 | 62 |
"Conjecture, Commander," said a man. |
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| 53 | 218 |
Was he not a familiar of Archelaos, governor of Thera? Would he not be the plausible commander of the corsair fleet? "Laios?" I asked. |
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| 53 | 284 |
"Well done, Commander," said Sakim. |
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| 58 | 184 |
"The commander must be a fool," said Thurnock. |
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| 59 | 153 |
"It is not every day," said a fellow near me, "that the fleet of the notorious Bosk of Port Kar is sunk and its very commander, the cruel and monstrous Bosk of Port Kar himself, is apprehended". |
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