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| 2 | 34 |
I looked forward eagerly to seeing him again, that rough, Viking giant of a man, that proud, bearded, affectionately belligerent swordsman who had taught me the craft of arms as practiced by the warriors of Gor. |
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| 3 | 8 |
Yet this road, for all the loving craft of the Caste of Builders which had been lavished upon it, was only an unpretentious, subsidiary road, hardly wide enough for two carts to pass. |
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| 3 | 48 |
The shaggy creature, broad, powerful, monstrous in the proud deformation of his craft, stood before me, his feet planted firmly on the road. |
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| 21 | 91 |
My conjecture, confirmed to some extent by the speculations of the Older Tarl, who had taught me the craft of arms in Ko-ro-ba years ago, is that the brand is used primarily, oddly enough, because of its reputed psychological effect. |
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| 29 | 116 |
Then without warning it seemed the stern of my craft vanished and I felt the deck suddenly give way and as half of the craft vanished in powder and the other half crumbled to the buildings below I seized the silver tube from the firing port and leaped downward to the back of the enemy ship. |
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| 17 | 76 |
The receptors on the surveillance craft were equipped to handle patterns of light, sound and scent, which, selectively collected and reconcentrated, were beamed to the Sardar for processing and analysis. |
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| 17 | 78 |
Provisions were available also, as you might suppose, for taping the transmissions of the surveillance craft. |
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| 17 | 85 |
"The projection points for the Flame Death are located in the surveillance craft," said Sarm, "but the coordinates are fixed and the firing signal is relayed from this room. |
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| 28 | 228 |
When one lifts the craft it seems the earth moves from beneath one; when one moves it forward it seems as though the horizon rushed toward one; if one should place it in reverse, it seems the horizon glides away. |
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| 28 | 234 |
Misk would pilot the craft upon occasion but it was, in fact, rather cramped for him and he could not stand within it, a fact that bothered him no end for a Priest-King, for some reason, becomes extremely agitated when he cannot stand. |
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| 28 | 237 |
On the other hand, since Misk did not construct the craft large enough for him to stand in, I suspect he did not really wish to take part in its adventures. |
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| 28 | 238 |
To be sure, a smaller dome would make the craft more maneuverable in the tunnels, but I think Misk did not trust himself to do battle with his former brethren. |
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| 29 | 41 |
I knew nothing of the armament of the ships of Sarm and I knew I had only the silver tube in my own craft, a weapon far outclassed in destructive potential by the gravitational disrupters mounted in the ships of Sarm. |
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| 29 | 47 |
To my joy I saw the metal blacken and burst apart like swollen tin as I passed beneath it and began to climb rapidly toward the belly of the second craft which I ripped open with a sizzling burst of fire. |
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| 29 | 48 |
The first craft began to turn slowly, uncontrollably, in the air and then plunged toward the ground. |
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| 29 | 50 |
The second craft shot wildly toward the ceiling of the complex and shattered on the stone ceiling, falling back to the ground in a shower of wreckage. |
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| 29 | 51 |
The other eight craft suddenly stopped their destructive work and seemed to hover in indecision. |
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| 29 | 85 |
I took my ship up over the craft and tried another burst, which was even weaker than the last. |
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| 29 | 95 |
Now, in the shattered rim of the plastic dome, scarcely protected against the rushing wind, I fought to regain control of the craft. |
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| 29 | 97 |
A few yards from the flooring of the plaza I brought the craft again into order and, again throwing open the speed valve, darted into the midst of a complex of buildings, where I stopped, hovering a few feet above the street passing between them. |
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| 29 | 110 |
This time my own craft seemed sluggish, and it was only too clear that it was not responding properly to the controls. |
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| 29 | 115 |
I floated above the enemy craft but it tipped, keeping me in the focus of its beam. |
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| 29 | 150 |
Feeling what seemed to be a blank area of the ceiling of the control area I fired a blast upward, using the simple expedient of the tube to open a hole in the craft through which light might enter. |
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| 29 | 153 |
The controls on my own craft had been designed for a primarily visually oriented creature. |
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| 29 | 155 |
Once I bumped the craft rather severely into the wall of the complex and I could see the explosion of an energy bulb outside through my makeshift port, but I soon managed to bring the ship down safely. |
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| 30 | 66 |
I gathered there were no more available surveillance craft hangared in the Nest. |
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| 34 | 101 |
I know much of his craft and I shall learn more". |
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| 34 | 109 |
I was pleased that she would go to Ar, where she, though a woman, might learn the craft of medicine under masters appointed by Kazrak, where she might found a new life for herself far from warlike, plundering Treve, where she might work as befitted the daughter of a skilled, courageous father, where... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 26 |
At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, tr... |
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| 16 | 329 |
And then, one day, like the pirates of Port Kar in their long galleys, unannounced, unexpected, Others would cross the seas of space and bring their craft to rest on the shores and sands of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 23 | 50 |
With him he carried the apparatus of his craft, and a canister of fluid. |
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| 2 | 54 |
She was handed the pole with which she had propelled her own craft, which craft was now tied to another of the rence craft of the men who had come from the rushes and sedge. |
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| 2 | 55 |
With the pole she began to propel my rush craft through the sedge, the several other craft accompanying us, on one or the other side, or following. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Hut In the stem of the girl's rence craft, she poling the craft from its stern, I knelt, cutting rence. |
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| 5 | 97 |
There were races, poling rence craft, and skill contests maneuvering the small light craft, and contests with net and throwing stick. |
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| 8 | 144 |
When the rence craft was lost, some hundred yards from the barges, among the reeds and sedge, I had her secure the craft. |
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| 8 | 305 |
I went forward to the foredeck of the sixth barge and there freed the rence craft of its tether to the mooring cleat and climbed over the side, dropping into the small craft. |
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| 1 | 2 |
I reached down from the rush craft and took a palm of water into my hand and touched my tongue to it. |
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| 1 | 4 |
I took the triangular-bladed tem-wood paddle and moved the small craft, light and narrow, large enough scarcely for one man, ahead. |
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| 1 | 11 |
It was difficult to see more than a few feet ahead; sometimes I could see no further than the lifted prow of my small craft, as it nosed its way among the rushes and the frequent rence plants. |
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| 1 | 24 |
I paddled along, gently, kneeling on the rushes of my small, narrow craft. |
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| 1 | 27 |
I looked down at the long, heavy, leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood in the bottom of the rush craft. |
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| 1 | 49 |
I flicked a salt leech from the side of my light rush craft with the corner of the tem-wood paddle. |
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| 1 | 50 |
On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon... |
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| 1 | 57 |
The bargemen of the Vosk will not take their wide, broad-bottomed craft into the delta. |
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| 1 | 84 |
Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf. |
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| 1 | 110 |
I moved the small, light craft through the rushes, past the sign. |
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| 2 | 3 |
She was standing on a small skiff of rence, not larger than my own rush craft, about seven feet long and two feet wide, fastened together, as mine was, with marsh vine; it, like mine, had a slightly curved stern and prow. |
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| 2 | 7 |
It stuns the bird, which is then gathered from the water and tied, alive, in the craft. |
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| 2 | 9 |
I moved the rush craft toward her, but not swiftly. |
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| 2 | 10 |
Then, letting it drift, I put the tem-wood paddle across the craft, resting my hands on it, and watched her. |
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| 2 | 13 |
There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft. |
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| 2 | 24 |
I myself found it difficult to stand in a rush craft. |
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| 2 | 26 |
She had no paddle, but, thrust in the mud near her, was a long pole which she would use to propel her light craft. |
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| 2 | 32 |
"I want only as much of your marsh as the width of my craft," I said, "and that only for as long as it takes to pass". |
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| 2 | 45 |
Instantly there was a great cry from all sides, and, breaking through the rushes and sedge, dozens of rence craft, bound with marsh vine, thrust into view, each poled by one man, with another in the prow, a two- or three-pronged marsh spear uplifted. |
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| 2 | 51 |
I was thrown forward on my face in the rush craft. |
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| 2 | 53 |
The girl stepped lightly onto my craft and stood with one foot on either side of my body. |
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| 2 | 56 |
At one point the girl stopped the craft, and the others did, too. |
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| 2 | 59 |
Soon other rence craft, with their curved prows and sterns, had joined us. |
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| 3 | 7 |
When one wishes to move the island, the tethers are simply chopped away, and the community divides itself into those who will handle the long poles and those who will move ahead in rence craft, cutting and clearing the way. |
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| 3 | 19 |
My ankles had been unbound only long enough to push me stumbling from the rush craft, among the shouting women and men and children, to the throne of Ho-Hak. |
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| 4 | 4 |
"Cut there," said the girl, moving the rush craft into a thicket of rence. |
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| 4 | 10 |
I could sense the rence craft move as the girl shifted her weight in it, balancing it and maintaining it in position. |
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| 4 | 17 |
She had, as the girls do in rence craft, tied her skirt high about her thighs, for ease in moving and poling. |
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| 4 | 27 |
"Over there," she said, moving the rence craft to a new location. |
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| 4 | 36 |
At the edge of the rence island, where her rence craft was drawn up on the shore, as well as several others, together with some rafts for transporting cut rence, she stopped, and turned, and faced me. |
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| 4 | 43 |
Then she had taken a length of marsh vine from a packet on her rence craft. |
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| 4 | 62 |
"Put now the rence craft in the water," she said, "and attach to it a raft for cut rence, Slave. |
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| 4 | 63 |
We must cut rence today, and be quick, be quick, My Slave!" * * * * I cut another rence stem, lopping away the tufted head, and throwing it onto the rence craft. |
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| 4 | 71 |
She moved the craft to a new thicket of rence, and I obeyed. |
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| 4 | 98 |
The rence knife flashed through a stem and then I cut the tufted, flowered head, it falling in the water, and threw the stem on the rence craft, with the numerous others. |
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| 4 | 154 |
She had now turned the stem of the craft toward the rence island, which lay some pasang or two through the swamp, and, as I cut rence here and there, began to pole homeward. |
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| 4 | 163 |
We had returned her rence craft to the shore of the rence island, fastening it there, along with the rence raft. |
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| 4 | 180 |
The rence knife, with which I had cut rence, she had left in the packet in her rence craft. |
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| 5 | 66 |
I had been used in the fastening of the bridges, and in the drawing up and tying of rence craft on the shore, as other rencers, from distant islands, arrived for festival. |
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| 5 | 99 |
At last, after an Ahn or so, the group, the girls, the men watching, the judges, turned their several rence craft toward the island, beaching them and fastening them on the woven-mat shore. |
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| 6 | 95 |
In the marsh, some yards away, rence craft were burning on the water. |
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| 6 | 196 |
Here and there, on the water, apart from the flaming rence island, I could see the flat, black keels of rence craft, which had earlier been cast off and burned to the water, to prevent them from being used for escape. |
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| 6 | 225 |
I heaped more rence on the craft and then, with one foot, thrust off from the islands between which the raft had been fastened. |
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| 7 | 162 |
I would take rence from the island, and marsh vine, and make myself a rence craft. |
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| 7 | 167 |
She, too, would make a craft, take a pole, and find her way deeper into the delta, doubtless to be accepted by another of the small rence communities. |
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| 8 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Marshes I had gathered the rence and Telima, with marsh vine, and her strong hands and skill, had made the craft. |
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| 8 | 13 |
I had told Telima to make the rence craft sturdy, wider than usual, stabler. |
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| 8 | 15 |
I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar. |
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| 8 | 16 |
The arrows lay before me, loose in the leather wrapper opened before me on the reeds of the rence craft. |
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| 8 | 22 |
It is sometimes difficult for even a small rence craft to make its way through the tangles of rushes and sedge in the delta. |
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| 8 | 41 |
* * * * Silently, swiftly, with the stamina and skill of the rence girl, Telima, unerringly taking advantage of every break in the marsh growth, never making a false thrust or motion, brought our small craft soon into the vicinity of the heavy, slowed barges, hampered not only by their weight but by... |
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| 8 | 42 |
I marveled at her, as she moved the craft, keeping us constantly moving, yet concealed behind high thickets of rush and sedge. |
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| 8 | 50 |
The warriors in the craft, climbing on the rowing benches, were crowded amidships and aft, even on the tiller deck, looking back at the barge line behind them, trying to make out the shouting, the confusion. |
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| 8 | 56 |
I stood in the small craft, shielded by rushes and sedge. |
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| 8 | 69 |
Telima, silently, poled us back further among the rushes, skillfully turning the small craft and moving again toward the last barge. |
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| 8 | 101 |
Silently Telima poled our small craft to the fourth barge. |
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| 8 | 110 |
That the punt might be used to bring men behind attacking rencers was quite improbable; further, had it been used, presumably it would have encountered rencers in their several rence craft and been thereby neutralized or destroyed. |
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| 8 | 114 |
Standing below the hull, quite close, in the shifting rence craft, I made a small clicking noise, a sound that meant nothing but, in the darkness, meaning nothing, would be startling, terrifying in its uncomprehended import. |
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| 8 | 137 |
I whispered to Telima to bring the rence craft in again, and put down my bow, taking out the steel sword. |
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| 8 | 142 |
She seemed startled but, as I told her, poled the rence craft away from the barges. |
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| 8 | 145 |
She thrust the oar-pole deep into the mud of the marsh, and fastened the rence craft to this mooring by a length of marsh vine. |
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| 8 | 146 |
In the darkness I felt her kneel on the reeds of the rence craft. |
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| 8 | 153 |
Then I placed her lengthwise in the craft, her head at the up-curved stern end of the vessel. |
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| 8 | 183 |
She unfastened the rence craft from the oar-pole which had served as a mooring and, slowly, drew up the pole from the mud of the marsh. |
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| 8 | 195 |
I then took the helmet from my things on the rence craft, that without insignia, with empty crest plate, and lifted it until it cleared the side of the barge. |
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| 8 | 202 |
I put the bow back on the reeds of the rence craft, and removed the arrows from my belt. |
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| 8 | 222 |
Then I motioned that she should come aboard and, tying the rence craft fast to the small mooring cleat just abaft of the prow, she did so. |
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| 8 | 306 |
I pulled the oar-pole from the mud at its side, and then, standing on the wide, sturdy little craft which Telima had fashioned from the rence I had gathered, I poled my way back to the first barge. |
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| 8 | 308 |
I refastened the rence craft at the first barge, to the starboard mooring cleat just abaft of the prow. |
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| 8 | 666 |
"We have tied it with the rence craft," said Clitus, "abeam of the starboard bow of this barge". |
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| 14 | 15 |
It is common among Gorean seamen to beach their craft in the evening, set watches, make camp, and launch again in the morning. |
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| 16 | 298 |
The tharlarion head of the craft turned toward the canal gate. |
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| 17 | 133 |
The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re... |
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| 18 | 806 |
They would return to their rence craft tied at the foot of the delta wall. |
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| 18 | 818 |
The rencers, one by one, were climbing down ropes over the delta wall, returning to their small craft below. |
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| 18 | 852 |
Disappearing now in the rence of the marshes, under the three moons, were the many small craft of the rencers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 162 |
But the light camouflage technique has considerably reduced sightings of our craft. |
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| 4 | 163 |
Further, of course, we do little more, normally, with the large craft than arrive and depart, at given points. |
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| 4 | 164 |
The smaller craft is used more extensively, but normally only at night, and in isolated areas. |
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| 10 | 298 |
"After the crash," he said, "we detected the approach of an enemy craft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 544 |
They are long, narrow, shallow-drafted, carvel-built craft. |
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| 2 | 548 |
In the usual Gorean galley, lateen rigged, there is no practical way to take in, or shorten, sail, as with many types of square-rigged craft. |
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| 2 | 550 |
The brail ropes serve little more, in the lateen-rigged craft, than to raise the sail to its yard, permitting its being tied there, or to drop the sail, opening it to the wind. |
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| 4 | 196 |
A river craft passed. |
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| 6 | 196 |
The only craft commonly seen in Laura were light galleys, and the ubiquitous barges, towed by tharlarion treading along the shore. |
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| 18 | 452 |
The much smaller craft of the men of Torvaldsland, clinker built, with overlapping, bending planking, are more seaworthy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 596 |
I poled my rence craft toward them, my bow ready. |
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| 1 | 599 |
I found her rence craft, the pole floating nearby. |
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| 2 | 178 |
This adds considerably to the maneuverability of the craft. |
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| 2 | 317 |
It is also used for workmen and artists, who may be employed to practice their craft within the rail, to the enhancement of the temple and the Priest-Kings' glory. |
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| 22 | 206 |
Ottar then, and Gorm, and the other men of the Forkbeard boarded the craft. |
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| 22 | 213 |
Slowly the tarnhead prow of the Forkbeard's sleek craft turned toward the sweep of Thassa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 3 |
The harbor was filled with many craft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 730 |
In a few moments, I sat at the tiller of the longboat, for the simple task of guiding the craft pleased me, and was being rowed to my house. |
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| 2 | 743 |
The canal turned then and I guided the craft about the corner. |
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| 10 | 77 |
"You were not a ram ship," I said, "not a craft set for war". |
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| 12 | 216 |
They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik... |
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| 22 | 105 |
I and the craft, one functional unit, slipped from the animal's back and fell sideways into the water. |
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| 22 | 139 |
Its attack instincts are apparently not triggered by that configuration, or perhaps there is no stimulating smell or familiar pressure patterns, such as it would commonly associate with its prey or a vulnerable object, in the water, from the passage of the craft and the stroke of the paddle. |
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| 22 | 178 |
With two hands on the shaft I forced the twisting body to fall away from the craft. |
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| 22 | 180 |
It circled the craft its mouth hot with blood flowing into the cold water. |
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| 22 | 270 |
I thrust downward with the lance and was half pulled from the kayak, myself and the vessel lifted upward, as the sleen's impaled body reared up almost beneath the craft. |
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| 1 | 251 |
I conjectured that it must have been a marvelous moment when Shaba and his men, toiling with ropes and poles, wading and shoveling, brought their two craft to the clear vista of vast, deep Lake Ngao. |
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| 4 | 7 |
"She was to be shipped on that craft?" I asked. |
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| 4 | 342 |
Even if she could handle a small craft, which I doubted, for she was an Earth girl, probably from an urban area, the risk of discovery would be too great. |
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| 4 | 390 |
There are, of course, a variety of types of craft in the canals, ranging from ramships harbored in the courts of captains to the coracles of the poor, like leather tubs, propelled by the thrusting of a pole. |
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| 6 | 542 |
Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vege... |
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| 16 | 212 |
I could see the craft now. |
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| 21 | 32 |
"The craft are light," I said, "and, being rowed in this water, must be shallow-drafted". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 6 |
Though one is commonly born into a caste one is often not permitted to practice the caste craft until a suitable apprenticeship has been served. |
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| 16 | 19 |
Concern for the future of the caste is thus evinced in this limitation by the physicians on the rights of their women to participate without delay in the caste craft. |
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| 16 | 28 |
She may then, if she desires, enter into the full practice of her craft. |
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| 16 | 130 |
This is often the case with craft products, such as glassware, metalware, particularly gold and silver work, rugs and mats, sandals and jewelry. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 23 |
Many hundreds had fled from Vonda, and most had taken the river southward, paying highly for their fares on the varieties of river craft, barges, skiffs, river galleys, and even coracles, which had brought them to Lara. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 102 |
I, and five others, swords drawn, boarded the other craft, hacking and slashing about us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 259 |
Indeed, he might even be freed, eventually, perhaps for training in a craft, or with weapons, for in the Gorean view, though this is seldom made explicit in deference to free women, there is a sense that the man, appropriately, should be free and the woman, appropriately, should be a slave, that the... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 1279 |
In Gorean sexuality, at least amongst masters and slaves, there is a respect for patience, for exploitable, meticulous leisure, for high intelligence, for attention and scrutiny, for mind and body, for craft and subtlety, for a passion so profound that it fulfills and ennobles biology rather than in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 263 |
"I myself, if he be amenable, will lodge with my friend, Andronicus, with whom I have lengthy discussions on the craft of the actor". |
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| 9 | 265 |
"Craft," said Petrucchio. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 38 |
They regulate their numbers and craft in much the same way that, in many cities, the various castes, such as those of the metal workers or cloth workers, do theirs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 119 |
"You two in this boat," I said to two of them, as another of the small craft touched against the piling. |
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| 19 | 209 |
At the same time some small craft set out from the landing. |
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| 19 | 266 |
I saw some small craft from the landing approaching, with crossbowmen in them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 156 |
But could this have been the case if Cosian forces had earlier entered the delta, in great numbers, to flee the vengeance of Ar? Would they themselves not have taken such craft, or destroyed them, as they could? Where do you think the sympathies of those in Turmus and Ven lie, with Ar, or Cos? Is it... |
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| 4 | 9 |
Within a hundred yards there was a flotilla of small craft, rence craft, flatboats, barges, scows, fishing boats and rafts, perhaps four or five hundred men. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Delta "Through the eye!" I screamed, struggling in the ropes, naked, they tight about my upper body, my hands crossed and bound behind me, fastened closely to my ankles, kneeling in the bow of the small craft, of bound rence. |
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| 4 | 3 |
The fellow had been taken from the rence craft before me, the comparatively small, less than a foot in breadth at its thickest point, triangular-jawed head, on the long, muscular, sinuous neck, lifting suddenly, glistening, dripping water, from the marsh, turning sideways, and seizing the fellow, th... |
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| 4 | 17 |
"I cannot reach him!" cried a fellow with a sword, standing unsteadily, almost falling, in one of the light rence craft. |
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| 4 | 30 |
"Reform! Forward!" He was in the bow of a small fishing craft. |
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| 4 | 40 |
Some were assisted to other craft, some of these now dangerously low in the water. |
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| 5 | 22 |
Their small craft were drawn up about the bar. |
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| 5 | 25 |
After that first night, the small craft had been tied together, some of the ropes fastened ashore, to stakes. |
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| 6 | 3 |
The bow of the rence craft, still dry, nosed through reeds. |
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| 6 | 4 |
Other craft, too, were about. |
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| 6 | 9 |
"A Cosian?" asked a man, in a rence craft nearby. |
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| 6 | 12 |
The officer's boat, too, the fishing craft, propelled by poles, approached, he and others, as well. |
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| 6 | 56 |
Troops of Ar, in their numerous craft, some men even wading, were all about. |
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| 7 | 2 |
"The rence is broken there!" There was a cheer from the several craft about us. |
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| 7 | 3 |
This cheer was echoed, from flotilla to flotilla, of the small craft behind us, as well as to the sides. |
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| 7 | 22 |
I saw a fellow bend down from one of the small craft and lift water to his mouth, and drink. |
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| 7 | 28 |
More water swirled up through the rence of our small craft. |
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| 7 | 30 |
I did not think the small craft would last another day. |
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| 7 | 31 |
Normally a rence craft will last weeks, even months. |
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| 9 | 1 |
The Barge "Move ahead," said the fellow in the bow of the small rence craft. |
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| 9 | 2 |
I struggled forward, pressing against the water, up to my chest, stumbling, pushing through rence, the rope on my neck going back to the small craft. |
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| 9 | 18 |
I struggled to tow the small craft. |
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| 9 | 23 |
The bow of the craft came beside my shoulder, the rope dropping back in the water. |
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| 9 | 30 |
Nearby was a barge, one of the larger craft in our makeshift flotilla, carrying perhaps fifty men. |
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| 9 | 39 |
Too, a small craft would normally bring up the rear of such lines. |
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| 9 | 40 |
A rence craft floundered near us, settling in the water. |
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| 9 | 42 |
Again I struggled to move the small craft forward. |
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| 9 | 94 |
Again I drew the craft forward, straining against the rope, it cutting into the side of my neck. |
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| 9 | 104 |
The poles propelling the craft were golden. |
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| 9 | 106 |
Such a vessel made a startling, unconscionable contrast with the meanness, that wretched, ragged, numerous miscellany, of other craft about. |
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| 9 | 125 |
Again I put my weight against the rope, once more moving the sodden craft forward. |
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| 10 | 86 |
"The rence craft is rotted," he said. |
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| 12 | 155 |
Now Ar has been lured into the delta! It is no mystery, I tell you, or stroke of unaccountable fortune, that hundreds of craft, of various sorts, were available in Turmus and Ven for the delta expedition. |
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| 13 | 22 |
Even from a sober military point of view, of course, given the suppositions of the men of Ar, it was natural to associate the barge with the Cosians, conjecturing it to be, say, one of their transport craft or a vessel of their rear guard. |
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| 13 | 70 |
Too, there were now many of their small craft about, brought from the rear. |
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| 14 | 68 |
Do you truly think it is a simple anomaly that so many vessels, flotillas of light craft, on such short notice, could be obtained in Ven and Turmus? Was that merely unaccountable good fortune? And now do you think it is merely unaccountable ill fortune that these same vessels, in a matter of days, s... |
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| 15 | 48 |
"Do not stand so!" "You will unsettle the craft," said another. |
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| 17 | 196 |
I suspect that the men, on the barges, on the craft, the scows and rafts, those in the marsh itself, had now turned their eyes westward. |
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| 17 | 320 |
Indeed rencers sometimes paddle about amidst them in their light rence craft. |
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| 17 | 323 |
One that has taken human flesh, of course, for example, in attaching a rence craft, or in ascending a rence island, is particularly dangerous. |
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| 18 | 7 |
Rencers usually attack in their rence craft, formed of bound rence, using the almost ubiquitous rence for cover. |
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| 18 | 8 |
The attack unit usually consists of two men, one to pole or paddle the craft and the other to use the bow. |
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| 18 | 285 |
I then put these materials in one of the remaining, wretched rence craft, its bottom already half rotted, drew up the mooring rope, and paddled from the island, my knees in the water, back to where I had left the raft. |
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| 19 | 8 |
The rence craft I had taken from the men of Ar was rotted and treacherous. |
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| 21 | 22 |
"You would make this observation, presumably," I said, "tied on your knees, your wrists fastened to your ankles, in a rence craft". |
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| 21 | 24 |
"That you were in a rence craft would indicate that you were in their power," I said, "and too, you might then be conveniently transported from the place". |
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| 21 | 31 |
Once it was well afire your ankles would be freed from your wrists, and you would be put on your belly in the rence craft, still, of course, bound hand and foot. |
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| 21 | 33 |
"You would also," I conjectured, "prior to having your wrists freed from your ankles, and being put on your belly in the rence craft, have been blindfolded". |
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| 21 | 88 |
"Some, too," said I, "might have preferred a craft with sleeker lines, but I would personally effect nothing critical on that score. |
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| 31 | 522 |
I did not think that the youth would return with his fellows, to attack us, but they probably had rence craft and could move much more quickly than we in the marsh. |
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| 44 | 272 |
That was probably where I had seen him before, probably in a mere glimpse, when I was, at that time, drawing the sodden rence craft for Plenius and the others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 117 |
"Goreans, of the caste of physicians," he said, "long regarded ageing not as a fatality to which they must be naively resigned, but merely as another malady to which their craft might be addressed, one to be remedied". |
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| 81 | 21 |
Cabot suspected that certain ships, larger ships, might remain in orbit, while communication to and from a planetary surface might take place by means of shuttle craft. |
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| 81 | 22 |
On the ship of Peisistratus, however, which Cabot supposed might be typical, there were no shuttle craft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 415 |
"We were brought here, Pertinax and I, by a disk craft, and told to wait for you," she wept. |
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| 5 | 314 |
He waded into the surf and, when he had boarded the small craft, the two fellows with crossbows followed him, and, in moments, their weapons stowed, they, and the other two oarsmen, were propelling the longboat toward the round ship. |
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| 10 | 600 |
At this point the fellow who had left the pavilion a bit ago returned and, with him, was a burly fellow, not of the "strange men," carrying tools, who was, if not of the caste of metal workers, one at least, it seemed, who was familiar with certain aspects of their craft. |
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| 38 | 275 |
Perhaps I had done Licinius no great favor, considering he seemed ill equipped with forest craft, was seemingly unable to live off the land, hold a direction, elude pursuit, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 |
Yet, as our patrol craft had approached it, and we could more discern its make, it was seen to be clearly formed of wood, carvel-built, six-masted, single-ruddered, massively so, square-sailed. |
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| 2 | 49 |
I, once a spear of Cos, even a first spear, leader of nine men, with hundreds of others, after the trouble in Ar, scattered, separated from our commands and units, withdrew to Torcadino, and thence, bribing and spending, and then by recourse to brigandage and banditry, made our way by long marches t... |
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| 14 | 225 |
The possible danger of his activity must have occurred to him, as he soon ceased to propel his craft in that perilous fashion. |
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| 14 | 280 |
"By the Priest-Kings, by the Home Stone of Cos, save me!" I crouched on my small craft and caught at vines, trying to pull the two nailed beams toward him. |
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| 22 | 330 |
Some of our bowmen climbed over bodies, and from the grisly height of such hills, formed of inert or bleeding men, plied their craft, playing, as it is said, tunes on the lyre of death. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 24 |
Sometimes they are merely kept, lying naked, bound hand and foot, in the craft, while the men propel the craft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 314 |
He could not see where the small craft was going without turning about. |
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| 50 | 351 |
He lifted me over the side of the small craft and set me, standing, on the beach. |
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| 52 | 247 |
"Take your place there," said the mercenary, indicating an eight- oared craft. |
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| 52 | 253 |
"Ship her here," he said, indicating the specified craft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 72 |
And this strange, short, thickly built man, so unprepossessing, so commonplace in appearance, so ragged in garments with hair so unkempt, this man so solitary, and lonely, so shy, so quiet, so dignified in speech, sought a kindred perfection, but it had to do with a finely honed blade, with skills, ... |
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| 24 | 5 |
The handle of a tool, a wooden hinge, a gatepost, the prow of a fisherman's humble craft, the threshold of a peasant's simple hut, may be models of carving. |
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| 46 | 261 |
"What is your class, your craft, or trade?" asked Katsutoshi. |
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| 46 | 263 |
"My craft is the sword, and my trade the same". |
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| 59 | 257 |
A fine companion sword, with its balance and edge, is a masterpiece of the smith's craft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 94 |
"I think he was reluctant to present himself directly and brashly before such a renowned master of his craft, as Master Epicrates". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 114 |
On the sloping canal landing, bordering the market, I saw several of the small rence craft tied to rings fixed in the landing, sometimes more than one craft to a single ring. |
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| 7 | 25 |
But here, it seemed, on this moored craft or barge, the hood had been replaced. |
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| 8 | 896 |
The long boat was swarming with men, in the craft and clinging to it. |
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| 11 | 89 |
The hunter is armed with an urt spear, which is essentially a light harpoon with its attached rope, the coils of which are layered in a wooden bucket near the bow of the craft. |
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| 17 | 59 |
Outside the portal, one could see three or four of the small craft used by Rencers. |
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| 17 | 72 |
One of the small rence craft now exited the city, its pilot lowering his head, passing under the chain. |
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| 26 | 12 |
The thickets of rence provided ideal cover for mobile bowmen in their small craft, which could be deployed in their dozens. |
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| 26 | 30 |
Some four or five Ehn past the chain, Bruno of Torcadino stopped plying the oar, and, as the small craft drifted, pulled away the canvas. |
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| 26 | 98 |
Bruno of Torcadino was bringing the small craft about. |
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| 33 | 3 |
"These craft," said Bruno of Torcadino, "are well-woven, light, and sturdy. |
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| 33 | 6 |
That afternoon, Bruno of Torcadino, at the market quay inside and near the Delta Gate, the Delta Market, had purchased a rence craft. |
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| 33 | 13 |
I now knelt in the bow of the small rence craft, my hands and feet free. |
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| 33 | 15 |
Rence craft may be either paddled or poled. |
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| 33 | 19 |
This afternoon, however, he had bargained for and obtained a rence craft. |
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| 33 | 24 |
A rence craft is smaller, and is almost part of the marsh itself. |
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| 33 | 26 |
Why can we not do so, as well? A canal boat is easily seen and avoided, a rence craft not so. |
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| 33 | 62 |
The slender rence craft rested lightly on the water, nestled within the rence. |
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| 33 | 68 |
The difference, I suspect, was in our vessel, the rence craft as opposed to a canal boat. |
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| 33 | 129 |
The grip of such jaws could tear loose the side from a canal boat, or bite a rence craft in two. |
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| 33 | 131 |
To my horror I felt the rence craft move. |
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| 33 | 135 |
The rence craft is light, quick, and maneuverable. |
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| 33 | 146 |
Very gently, I remaining still, Bruno of Torcadino moved our rence craft closer to, but to the right side and behind, the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 154 |
Occasionally canal boats are stranded on a bar and one must disembark and thrust the craft free. |
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| 33 | 155 |
This inconvenience seldom attaches to rence craft because of their shallow draft. |
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| 33 | 247 |
I sensed agitation in the rence craft, behind me, for Bruno of Torcadino, as I shall continue to refer to him, stirred, angrily. |
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| 33 | 261 |
I was terrified in the bow of the tiny rence craft, so near now to the canal boat, and the dread thing of such terrible mien, illuminated in the light of the two lanterns. |
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| 33 | 270 |
Later some must know the broad-winged tarn, others the craft of siege work, mining and ascent, the management of ladders and the planning of waves of attack. |
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| 33 | 284 |
"It takes time to craft a crossbow, the stock and trigger, the sheaves of metal, the cable," said the man in the boat, "but, once built, its quarrel may be loosed in an instant". |
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| 33 | 358 |
I heard the cry "Fire!" almost at the same moment that Bruno of Torcadino capsized the tiny rence craft and plunged us both into the water. |
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| 33 | 361 |
I could hear shouts, and I heard something tear through the rence of the capsized craft. |
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| 33 | 372 |
He prodded the turned, soaked, capsized rence craft with his sword, and thrust his blade through it several times. |
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| 33 | 687 |
If one is not kept, one is nearly concealed with ropes, thrown into a rence craft, and taken back to Port Kar for punishment. |
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| 43 | 19 |
What slave would have it otherwise? One of the men in our craft came from the bow, making his way about the low, sunken, closed, canopied area, and stood over Seremides, who was seated rather amidships, somewhat behind the canopied area. |
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| 43 | 168 |
Half the oars on the uninjured side of the boat had been repositioned to provide the craft with a symmetry of leverage. |
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| 43 | 178 |
Many times, were I not gagged, I might have cried out in alarm, for I saw on either side waves higher than the rails of our craft, as we dropped into troughs, and then, a moment later, pitching, sprang up, seeing only sky, and a storming horizon. |
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| 45 | 48 |
"See the horizon! Ships approach, rowed with earnest purpose! A dozen craft will land within Ehn! The longboat will pull away!" Vas of Anango growled with fury, but, wavering, uncertain, did not approach us more closely. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 194 |
I could see some twenty to twenty-five small craft departing from the islet. |
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| 37 | 56 |
Ships, mostly small craft, would come and go. |
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| 41 | 32 |
Similarly, had they been more practiced in the craft to which they were addressing themselves, they might have availed themselves of more costly cordage, woven from, say, women's hair, which is stronger, more resilient, and more weather resistant than common cordage. |
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| 53 | 59 |
The few serviceable oars of the Dorna were out from the thole ports, almost like narrow wooden legs to keep the tormented craft from pitching on its side. |
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| 53 | 61 |
At the same time I had had the Tesephone brought to a position where it would be abeam of the Dorna should that craft manage to extricate itself from its current position and require assistance, and if it could not do so, we would be close enough to take swimmers aboard. |
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| 57 | 188 |
If one is fortunate, one might people a longboat, a small vulnerable craft, with limited water and food, on a wide, lonely sea. |
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