| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 61 |
Reluctantly the animal released its grip and backed away, crouching down, watching me with its long, oblique blazing eyes, like slits of molten gold in the torchlight. |
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| 28 | 176 |
It unnerved the Priest-Kings to pass unknowingly within feet of, say, a pale, agile fellow from the Fungus Chambers, who might be crouching in a nearby ventilator shaft with a heat torch, who might have burned their antennae for them if he had pleased; or to suddenly find themselves surrounded by a ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 21 | 319 |
Under the wagon with us, crouching, terrified, were three Turians, civilians, a wine vendor, a potter and a girl. |
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| 6 | 24 |
"Point!" called the man-at-arms, he with the whip, and the two slaves separated again, each going to their corners and crouching there in the sand, breathing heavily. |
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| 7 | 102 |
Almost immediately the first man, he who wore the tiny Thief's brand, returned to the panel and crouching down, held out a small, obviously heavy box, to Cernus, who, in spite of the fact that he was the master of the House of Cernus itself, took it in his own hands. |
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| 11 | 64 |
The guard, with a heavy stick he carried, struck the bars viciously before her face and she cried out, jerking back and crouching at the rear of the cage. |
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| 14 | 154 |
Then crouching over, with first one hand and then the other, she tried madly to push and slip the encircling, resisting steel over her other hand. |
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| 14 | 173 |
The chained girl, half crouching, scrutinized the collar and laughed, and then, with disdain, her hands in the slave's collar, flung her to one side, where the slave lay, fearing to rise. |
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| 17 | 367 |
He laughed and she screamed and tried to escape but he took her by the hair and, crouching over her, pressed her back weeping to the sand. |
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| 18 | 9 |
Then crouching, the goad blazing in his hand, he approached me warily. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 97 |
Then, holding the pronged spear before her, crouching down, she threatened me. |
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| 8 | 585 |
She struggled to her feet, half crouching, half mad with fear, and the pain from being bound at the prow. |
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| 13 | 247 |
He stood unsteadily, half crouching over, looking at me with disbelief, his hand thrust into his left armpit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 120 |
Crouching down, they were looking about, over the hill. |
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| 9 | 108 |
The other girls stood ready, some half crouching. |
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| 11 | 821 |
I laughed, and laughed, and then, crouching, hid in some brush, trying to protect myself from the rain. |
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| 12 | 475 |
Verna's girls, the fifteen of them, stripped, were housed, crouching and kneeling, in small, metal slave cages. |
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| 15 | 810 |
Crouching inside the box, I saw the door shut, and heard the two heavy, flat bolts sliding into place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 145 |
I waited, crouching now on the branch. |
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| 14 | 175 |
I, crouching down on the grass, with my two hands and teeth, finished the remainder of the animal. |
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| 14 | 213 |
* * * * On the branch of the tree, high, in the darkness, crouching, I saw the man of Tyros, with his leather glove, reach to the handle of the slave iron, protruding from the brazier. |
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| 14 | 225 |
I looked down into the circle, with its fires, with its men staked out, with the men of Tyros sitting about its edges, with Marlenus helpless beside the brazier, the man from Tyros, with the leather glove, crouching beside it, with the panther girls, beautiful, numerous, lithe, in their skins and ne... |
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| 19 | 128 |
"Kill him!" screamed Hura, her dark hair before her eyes, crouching at the edge of the circle, to which, after my kiss, I had spurned her. |
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| 20 | 165 |
The girls looked about, crouching and cowering. |
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| 20 | 203 |
Within their circle, naked and helpless, crouching, huddled together, the women of Hura moaned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 192 |
"My Jarl," whimpered Thyri, crouching beside me, touching me. |
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| 15 | 349 |
Their ears were laid back; they were cautious; they leaned slightly forward, shambling, crouching. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4 |
The kaiila, both of them, with the swiftness, the agility of cats, spun, half crouching, squealing in frustration, and again lunged toward one another. |
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| 3 | 171 |
They separated, intelligently, and, crouching, edged toward me. |
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| 3 | 172 |
I backed away, crouching. |
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| 5 | 347 |
She turned to face him, terrified, crouching in the gravel. |
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| 9 | 63 |
The girl then, again, now half crouching, looked about at the men, from face to face. |
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| 11 | 657 |
They turned about, crouching, by the wall, trying to cover themselves. |
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| 12 | 659 |
I took her ankle, and crouching, kissed it, on the top, and then pressed my lips to the bottom of her foot, near the instep, then beneath and behind the shin, then again, twice, near the bottom of the foot, at the instep. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 30 |
I turned, still crouching. |
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| 2 | 394 |
Perhaps a mistake had been made? Perhaps there had been a misunderstanding? The stranger, crouching in the grass, his shield beside him, the butt of the spear in the grass, the weapon upright, its point against the sky, nodded. |
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| 4 | 111 |
Yet how fantastically weak and joyous and alive and happy it made me feel! My master, crouching down, examined the slave flower on my thigh. |
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| 4 | 827 |
On the cliff above me, I could see, crouching, the guard. |
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| 7 | 312 |
Two peasant lads, one standing, one crouching, were, by hand and eye, appraising her flesh. |
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| 7 | 687 |
I shrank back in the shadows, crouching among the pilings of a hut. |
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| 9 | 127 |
He laughed at me derisively and then, crouching beside me, threw my ankles into the stock and closed it, one of the two four-inch blocks of wood on each side of my ankles, and flung the hasp over the staple, which would hold the blocks shut. |
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| 15 | 206 |
"She has not yet even experienced the first slave orgasm," said Tellius, crouching beside me, looking up. |
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| 22 | 677 |
He dropped to one knee, crouching beside me. |
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| 26 | 169 |
The warrior then went to the side of the tub, crouching near what had been the side to her right. |
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| 26 | 391 |
He then, crouching behind her, crossed her ankles and, with the long, loose end of the leash, tied them together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 579 |
"See," said Samos, crouching down, holding the lamp about a foot above the floor, "here is Kassau, and the Skerry of Vars". |
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| 4 | 583 |
Inside, crouching over a fallen man, the merchant, was the attacker, robed in swirling black. |
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| 6 | 613 |
He then retied her hands behind her back and, crouching beside her, crossed and bound her ankles. |
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| 26 | 188 |
Crouching inside the ring, among supplies, Poalu began working near the lamp. |
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| 26 | 282 |
I thrust it into the face of another sleen, its head up, crouching to spring at the wall. |
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| 27 | 145 |
Crouching down I edged toward the opening. |
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| 31 | 55 |
Crouching down I took a bit of water in the palm of my hand and drank. |
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| 35 | 784 |
She came beside me, and a bit behind me, and, crouching, put her head down, deeply. |
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| 36 | 254 |
I then took the chain between her legs and, crouching behind her, snapped the two ankle rings shut on her fair ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 509 |
One of the two crouching girls leaped toward me and I struck her to one side with the back of my hand. |
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| 4 | 513 |
The other girl who, too, crouching, had been ready to attack, backed now uneasily away. |
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| 21 | 6 |
I struggled to a crouching position, the iron ring, with its chain, heavy on my neck. |
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| 23 | 460 |
The chained slaves who drew the platform and were sitting and crouching forward, on its surface, had, cautioned by Ayari, remained silent. |
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| 24 | 291 |
She was crouching, trembling, head down, in the bottom of the canoe. |
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| 24 | 306 |
He put Tende to her back, crouching beside her. |
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| 31 | 15 |
"Look," said a man crouching beside her, holding her leg, indicating her brand. |
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| 32 | 699 |
Sometimes under the blows or in fearful anticipation of them she twisted or changed position, once sitting, sometimes crouching, once on her stomach; most of the blows were across her back, but two had been delivered frontally, and two to her left side, and one to her right side. |
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| 34 | 459 |
The hands of the small, naked slave girl hidden in the dungeon, crouching on the damp, narrow, stone stairs, pressed upward against the iron door which had been bolted shut above her. |
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| 34 | 753 |
I took her by the upper arms, crouching near her. |
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| 34 | 893 |
"Aiii," I whispered, softly, and, not releasing her, holding her head to me, reared to my feet, half crouching. |
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| 51 | 174 |
I took her by the hair and pulled her, she half crawling, then half crouching and walking, to where lay the dark-haired girl and Alice. |
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| 53 | 192 |
I saw Kisu, a raider's spear over his head, held in both hands, rush toward a crouching Kur, one just leaped into the courtyard. |
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| 53 | 268 |
I then slashed away the bonds of the huddled, crouching slave girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 123 |
Half crouching over she backed away from me, until she was stopped by the bars, which confined her with me in the cell, one of many such cells deep beneath the House of Andronicus. |
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| 19 | 198 |
I then lifted her into the wagon, kneeling her on the boards, and followed her into the wagon, crouching near her. |
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| 23 | 49 |
"Do not bother to kneel," said Kenneth, crouching at the end of the stall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 |
She fell at the side of the sand and, crouching, turned about, looking back. |
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| 5 | 98 |
Swiftly the girl rose to her feet and, half crouching, put her head by my hand. |
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| 7 | 69 |
A leather worker pushed past me, crouching beside the slave. |
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| 24 | 538 |
Angrily then, my hand still in her hair, I jerked her head forward and, still keeping her on her knees, crouching over her, I thrust her face beneath the water. |
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| 24 | 555 |
Crouching near her I toweled dry the steel loop on her throat. |
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| 26 | 182 |
Outside, looking about, I saw a burly, crouched figure, one crouching near some bundles by the tavern wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 33 |
I, crouching, peered over the side. |
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| 8 | 164 |
Then, knowing she had betrayed herself, she slipped, frightened, half crouching, from the berth. |
10 |
| 9 | 304 |
I took her by the arm and, lowering my head and crouching, pulling the girl with me, leapt downward into the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 181 |
I clung to the blade, crouching on the flat blade mount. |
10 |
| 16 | 209 |
In a moment, crouching, I was on the deck of the ship. |
10 |
| 16 | 414 |
Forty feet away, down the deck, amidships, sword in hand, half crouching, blade ready, slowly approaching, I saw Kliomenes. |
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| 19 | 127 |
Similarly a free woman may look upon a wall and see there merely the side of a room, but the slave girl may see there an obdurate barrier, beyond which she cannot run, against which she could be thrown and stripped, a barrier at the foot of which, crouching in terror, she would have to await the ple... |
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| 19 | 1068 |
I lowered the whip, and, crouching before her, continued to regard her. |
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| 21 | 275 |
She was half kneeling, half crouching, near the far corner of the large couch. |
10 |
| 21 | 326 |
I then took her by the hair, and twisted her about, so that she lay on her side, I crouching beside her. |
10 |
| 21 | 846 |
I then, crouching beside her, my hand in her hair, controlling her, gave her to drink from the goblet, letting her finish the last ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1099 |
"Surely the dark guest, as we may call him, that crouching behind the kailiauk, has seen him". |
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| 2 | 340 |
In the bow of the boat, crouching there, nude and shivering, she coiled, in careful circles, in the shallow, wooden rope bucket beside her, the central length of the rope, that between her neck and the bow ring. |
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| 8 | 125 |
The side blocks were now deserted, the men having drifted forward, except by their occupants, now forgotten, kneeling or crouching upon them, their necks in their collars, fastened by their chains to the block rings. |
10 |
| 8 | 731 |
The girl leaped suddenly to her feet and, crouching over, with the fullness of her small strength, began to tear wildly at the chain. |
10 |
| 15 | 179 |
The Fleer backed his kaiila from Ginger, the animal almost crouching back on its haunches. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 183 |
Then she opened her eyes, and shrank back, for Cancega, with a shallow, rounded box, was crouching before her. |
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| 4 | 61 |
He had been crouching near me, in the half darkness, the white dress marking his position, partaking, too, of the pemmican. |
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| 12 | 162 |
I then took her by the hair and, crouching beside her, threw her, twisting her, to her side in the grass. |
10 |
| 12 | 409 |
Crouching on it, she looked at it, and its edges. |
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| 29 | 84 |
"Away!" In the slaughter it seemed that only Grunt, and Wasnapohdi, too, protected by him, crouching behind him, her head down, the jaw rope of a kaiila clutched in her two hands, had not been killed. |
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| 29 | 145 |
"Wasnapohdi," cried one of the warriors, "is it you?" Wasnapohdi, from her crouching position, fell immediately, seemingly unable to help herself, to her knees in the grass. |
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| 30 | 180 |
We made our way then, through the shadows, sometimes running, sometimes crouching down, sometimes crawling, from the scene of the slaughter. |
10 |
| 39 | 308 |
Hci came up to join us, from where he had been crouching down in the grass. |
10 |
| 50 | 12 |
Bloketu and Iwoso stood while Cuwignaka and Hci, crouching down, looped thongs about their ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 239 |
"Now, face us, crouching slightly, your hands at your hair," said the man. |
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| 2 | 95 |
I rose to my feet and, crouching down, my muscles aching, stepped from the limousine. |
10 |
| 2 | 300 |
Puzzled, crouching down, I did so. |
10 |
| 6 | 373 |
I wondered if he might, touching my lips, I in his arms, helplessly held there, suddenly rape my lips with his kiss, and then, unable to help himself, hurl me to his feet, crouching over me then ferociously, to remove my robes and force me to his service. |
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| 6 | 434 |
She then returned to where he stood on the sand, talking with men, and, crouching down, or kneeling or standing, as was most efficient at the time, lovingly, kissing him meanwhile, softly and timidly, wiped his body clean of sand and sweat with her long hair. |
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| 8 | 73 |
The guard, crouching beside me, had taken my left ankle in his left hand and run his right hand beneath my foot. |
10 |
| 8 | 189 |
* * * * "Slowly, more humbly," cautioned the trainer, half crouching over, watching carefully, moving slowly beside the girl. |
10 |
| 8 | 316 |
He might have remained crouching in his hole, thinking what thoughts he might, but I do not think he would have dared to touch me. |
10 |
| 12 | 38 |
At one point, crouching down, then kneeling, as we passed, by hangings at the side of the corridor, was a slave girl. |
10 |
| 15 | 270 |
I shuddered, crouching between the boxes. |
10 |
| 16 | 327 |
He then, slipping, crouching down, putting out his hand, scrambled up the slope. |
10 |
| 24 | 56 |
A guardsman climbed into the back of the wagon, crouching down, doing this work. |
10 |
| 30 | 411 |
The sleen now, arrested in their hunt, crouching down, tails lashing, their chain leashes firmly grasped by their keepers, lay on the flagstones of the courtyard, waiting. |
10 |
| 30 | 444 |
She stood, half crouching, terrified, at the foot of the stairs. |
10 |
| 30 | 465 |
"No!" she screamed, crouching there. |
10 |
| 36 | 908 |
He left the chair and, crouching beside me, not hurrying, freed me of the ropes. |
10 |
| 36 | 1088 |
I did so and there, unceremoniously, he crouching down, behind me and to my left, I was collared. |
10 |
| 36 | 1410 |
Then I felt myself drawn to his lips, and I was drawn half into the chair, and then he, holding my head, not releasing it, turned, and I felt myself moved backwards and to the side, to my knees, before the chair, and then he was crouching before me, and then I felt myself being lowered backwards to ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 953 |
I approached her and, crouching down beside her, put my fingertips to the side of her throat, by the collar. |
10 |
| 6 | 70 |
"Oh!" she cried, suddenly, as though in the most acute embarrassment, and, crouching down, hastily pulled her skirt down about her ankles. |
10 |
| 6 | 515 |
"Oh!" she cried in horror, cringing and half crouching down, trying to cover herself as well as she could, in maidenly distress. |
10 |
| 6 | 1073 |
"Assume," said he, "standing, partly crouching, the position of a free woman, zealous to conceal her beauty". |
10 |
| 7 | 138 |
I watched him while he, crouching down beside her, wired a circular, white tag, a holding disk, to her collar. |
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| 9 | 7 |
The torch, Boots crouching down, was passed slowly over their bodies. |
10 |
| 13 | 268 |
He suddenly scurried back to his straw, crouching on it, looking up at me. |
10 |
| 20 | 303 |
"The head is the head of Belnar!" cried a man, crouching down near it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 35 |
Then with both of her hands she thrust it in her mouth and, bending over, shouldering and thrusting, fought her way back to where, crouching down, watching for others, she could eat it alone. |
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| 8 | 101 |
In one place there was a dead tharlarion, and the women, some crouching on it, were cutting it into pieces with knives, putting pieces of meat in their mouths, and hiding other pieces in their dresses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 199 |
For example, we were taught how to serve at a table, deferentially, skillfully, unobtrusively and, for the most part, silently, and how to move and walk, and kneel and rise, gracefully, and even such tiny, interesting things, as how to pick up a fallen object, by crouching down, retrieving it, rathe... |
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| 6 | 447 |
After they were stripped and in chains, and crouching fearfully, with branded thighs, their necks in collars, fearing the whips of men, that would be soon enough for me, if ever! We were, at least as of now, regardless of what might be the fundamental and ultimate truth in these matters, quite diffe... |
10 |
| 6 | 662 |
But he was talking, it seemed, to the other girls, for I felt myself literally lifted up and lifted back toward the gate, the chain pulling against the left side of my neck as it was pulled away from the right side, dragging Gloria, doubtless on her knees, or half crouching, after me. |
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| 11 | 264 |
"How are you, Doreen?" asked small Ina, crouching down, solicitously, beside me. |
10 |
| 11 | 1173 |
But this was not training! Then to my surprise he drew back from me, crouching then, or kneeling, I think, beside me. |
10 |
| 11 | 1205 |
He then, apparently crouching near me, took me with extreme gentleness into his arms. |
10 |
| 11 | 1415 |
He was then, I think, crouching near me. |
10 |
| 13 | 771 |
But he was then crouching before me, and had swept me into his arms. |
10 |
| 14 | 383 |
He then, crouching near me, reaching about me, put the whip to my lips. |
10 |
| 24 | 224 |
I rose to my feet, half crouching, and backed warily away from him, until I was beyond the line of the chain, and then, wildly, I turned about, and tried to run. |
10 |
| 27 | 334 |
Outside the bars, on the dirt, it lifted me in its arms and, half crouching, carried me into some trees. |
10 |
| 29 | 1 |
The Meadow "Not enough! Not enough!" cried the small, twisted fellow, with the yellowish, sallow complexion, crouching down, his back to us, pointing to the blanket spread there on the ground. |
10 |
| 29 | 57 |
That had been a frightening ascent, crouching in the bucket, supported by it, swaying back and forth, clinging to the rope, while being drawn upward. |
10 |
| 29 | 339 |
He then, crouching down by the blanket, took the leader's wallet and removed several coins from it. |
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| 29 | 952 |
In this moment the leader of the beasts, which at times had been sitting back, almost catlike, observing, and at other times had been crouching, and moving about the fighting animals, waiting to strike, seeing its opportunity, leapt to the fray, seizing Borko's collar from the back, but, I think to ... |
10 |
| 29 | 1137 |
"Should you recover, you would follow her again, would you not?" he asked Mirus, crouching down by him, eagerly. |
10 |
| 29 | 1255 |
The huge beast, that which had survived, who had been the leader of the others, rose up from where it had been sitting, resting back on its haunches, in the grass, half crouching now, to look. |
10 |
| 29 | 1350 |
"Can you walk, Master?" begged Tupita, crouching near Mirus. |
10 |
| 31 | 278 |
He rose to a crouching position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 2 |
He beckoned, coaxingly, to Lady Claudia, who was still near the outside wall, crouching there now, in the straw, numb with fear. |
10 |
| 15 | 110 |
In the same moment I had freed the sword of one of them and I turned, crouching, snarling, to face the man near Lady Claudia. |
10 |
| 15 | 811 |
"And what of you, my little vulo," he said, not unkindly, crouching beside Lady Publia. |
10 |
| 15 | 985 |
Under their cover the ladder brigades followed and the grapnel men; behind these came scalers, crouching, protected under the shield roofs of infantry men. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
He was crouching beside a pile of stones, building stones, and tiles. |
10 |
| 17 | 304 |
I unbuckled the sword belt from about her, and then, crouching beside her, turned her to her stomach. |
10 |
| 17 | 719 |
The fellow, crouching, now faced us, sword drawn. |
10 |
| 18 | 174 |
The bearers, then, crouching down, behind four fellows holding shields between them and the wall, hurried toward the walkway. |
10 |
| 18 | 271 |
Crouching down many did, and, it seemed, all with children. |
10 |
| 20 | 135 |
Women and children huddled toward the center of the piers, crouching down. |
10 |
| 21 | 1207 |
They are usually quite short, and within them the girl learns to move carefully, crouching down to retrieve fallen objects, for example, rather than bending over. |
10 |
| 24 | 637 |
The keeper was now crouching by Publia. |
10 |
| 24 | 900 |
I had put down the sea bag and, crouching before her, lifted back the beads about her body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1094 |
I had not been able to make out what he had been howling upward, crouching there, chained, what with the wind, and the beating of the tarn's wings. |
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| 2 | 3 |
I was crouching behind her. |
10 |
| 3 | 185 |
It spun about, immediately, moving laterally, crouching, every sense alert, its pack discarded. |
10 |
| 10 | 1 |
Morale is High "Lie still," said the fellow crouching next to me. |
10 |
| 16 | 18 |
Even in moving about they usually did so in a crouching position. |
10 |
| 16 | 19 |
The crouching figure makes a smaller target. |
10 |
| 18 | 113 |
I then, crouching behind him, slipped the linkage of the manacles about his neck, that he might be kept where I wished, also returning the blade to his throat. |
10 |
| 19 | 755 |
My eyes half closed, crouching, fighting my way through the sand and wind, I lunged toward it. |
10 |
| 28 | 229 |
It is important then to soften the sound of such relief, by, say, urinating into sand, by crouching, by using slanting surfaces, such things". |
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| 28 | 320 |
The men had gathered about her, some crouching, looking down at her. |
10 |
| 28 | 580 |
The fellow was now crouching beside her. |
10 |
| 34 | 9 |
Only one fellow was within, and he was crouching near a small fire, in a hearth, at one end of the hut, tending a pot of stew, away from the door. |
10 |
| 47 | 11 |
In the fourth place, out of five such places, there was a terrified, crouching girl. |
10 |
| 47 | 74 |
I had no time to cut at him, he helpless there, as I whirled back in time to warn a third fellow away from Ina, who was crouching behind me. |
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| 48 | 289 |
He then pulled her half to her feet, she bent back, and then, he crouching over her, lowered her, gently, to her back. |
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| 48 | 553 |
He put the belt down, on a pack, and, crouching beside her, touched her at the waist. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 19 | 1424 |
One does this by crouching and lifting up, trying to do most of the work with the legs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 326 |
Too, one learns how to do little things, such as, crouching down, to retrieve fallen objects. |
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| 10 | 66 |
I looked up, frightened, crouching before him then on all fours. |
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| 10 | 301 |
I held the tunic in my mouth with both hands, crouching down. |
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| 10 | 325 |
Perhaps they did not wish them torn off by the beast! In the pens we kajirae, kneeling or crouching down, had sometimes put our hands through the bars of our kennels, trying to touch a guard, to call ourselves, whimperingly, to his attention, but this experience suggested, uneasily, a quite differen... |
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| 32 | 9 |
The lieutenant, carefully, crouching beside the fellow, spreading the metal, removed the helmet from the first victim of the peasant, he whose head had been struck by the stone on the chain. |
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| 34 | 184 |
Then he returned to his place by the wall, crouching down there, watching the portal. |
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| 37 | 119 |
"Here," said the leader of the strangers, crouching down, thrusting the blanket to the snouts of the beasts. |
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| 37 | 634 |
He then, the light behind him, put aside his bow and, crouching down, struggled to lift the gate. |
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| 37 | 668 |
The man put down his bow and, with great caution, crouching down, strove to raise the gate. |
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| 37 | 1087 |
The officer of Treve, crouching down beside the body, carefully removed the helmet. |
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| 37 | 1157 |
Gito was far down the passage, crouching down. |
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| 44 | 54 |
He was crouching a little behind her and to her right. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 547 |
Then, a moment later, as Tutina withdrew, taking with her the alcohol and swab, she sensed the young man crouching beside her. |
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| 11 | 4 |
Ellen, crouching down, set forth the plates of hors d'oeuvres and the tiny glasses of sherry on the coffee table before her master, Mirus, and his guests, a man and a woman. |
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| 11 | 641 |
There, bending down, crouching gracefully, under her master's eye, she cleared the smaller table. |
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| 13 | 653 |
"It is easier to carry it in this fashion," said Ina, crouching down behind the basket and, lifting it up, she placed it on her head, steadying it with her two hands. |
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| 15 | 110 |
The guard freed the key from her collar and, crouching behind her, removed the bracelets. |
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| 17 | 1114 |
A figure was then crouching before her, and she, in the hood, felt the leash removed from the leash ring, and, a moment later, the thong binding her wrists was removed. |
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| 18 | 25 |
"Yes, my Master," said Ellen, and, crouching down, for one must move carefully in so brief a garment as a slave tunic, picked up the basket of meat. |
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| 18 | 839 |
She wondered what the woman in the palanquin would look like, stripped, eyes wide, terrified, confined in such a sack, crouching there, her fingers hooked through the apertures. |
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| 20 | 294 |
Ellen crouched down in the basket, and pulled the blanket about her, concealing herself as well as she could, crouching below the side, covered with the dark blanket, and peered out through the wicker. |
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| 20 | 334 |
She clutched the blanket about her, angrily, crouching in her tiny tunic in the swaying basket. |
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| 22 | 636 |
Crouching down she watched the men pass. |
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| 22 | 694 |
More frightening to her was that there was now something with the men, two shambling, gigantic shapes crouching near them. |
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| 23 | 1 |
What Occurred Within the Tent and Later Outside of It Ellen was thrown to the rug within the tent, and she raised herself to her hands and knees, blinking, illuminated in the light of the lantern, it too close to her, the only light within the tent, and found herself in the midst of six men, and, w... |
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| 24 | 736 |
One of the guardsmen, then, crouching beside her, bending her leg, lifting it by the ankle, pressing it closely against her body, so closely she whimpered, undid the bells. |
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| 27 | 1021 |
Selius Arconious flung himself toward Ellen, dragged her to the earth and covered her body for an instant with his own, crouching over it, looking up, wildly. |
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| 27 | 3006 |
Kardok himself leaped upon a soldier and sank his teeth into the man's shoulder, anchoring them there, and with his hind legs, tearing, as they both fell, tore open his abdomen, and then rose up, crouching, snarling, over the body, looking about, one leg, soaked with blood, looped with wet gut. |
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| 27 | 3014 |
But the beast hesitated for, suddenly, the two gray hunting sleen, rented for mere coin at Brundisium, had placed themselves, crouching, shoulders hunched, ears laid back, snarling, between the sleenmaster and itself. |
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| 27 | 3018 |
Kardok, crouching apart, roared with rage, as the sleen and the beast fell together, rolling, and biting and tearing, so mixed together and so soon covered with blood that one could scarcely distinguish amongst them. |
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| 27 | 3194 |
"What of him?" asked one of the soldiers, indicating Tersius Major crouching down fearfully in the midst of the discarded pistols. |
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| 27 | 3484 |
At this juncture Portus Canio and Fel Doron, wiping their hands on their thighs, rose, too, and approached Tersius Major, crouching down amongst the weapons, on his knoll, in the descending darkness. |
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| 27 | 3510 |
"It seems," said Mirus, looking at Tersius Major crouching down amongst the emptied pistols on the knoll, "the Priest-Kings are silent". |
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| 30 | 339 |
And he threw her to his feet and, crouching beside her, she first, startled, on all fours, and then thrust to her belly, tore away her tunic, shred by silken shred, flinging these narrow, delicate, yellow, rent scraps behind him, they fluttering away to alight, scattered, like startled flowers, on t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 62 |
"Our friends," said Cabot, indicating with a slight gesture of his head the two crouching, hulking forms behind them, "do not seem much interested in the entertainment". |
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| 19 | 54 |
He then saw it, as must have the Kurii, as well, tawny and sinuous, amongst the trees, half crouching. |
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| 21 | 125 |
The crouching male, with the length of rope grasped in one paw, scarcely moved. |
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| 21 | 464 |
The sixth challenger now moved about Grendel, circling, who, weaponless, unwilling to reach for a weapon, and thus expose himself for a blow, turned, crouching, to keep his foe before him. |
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| 21 | 504 |
There was then a roll of drums, and all eyes turned to the seventh challenger, who now rose from his crouching position, to a height of some ten feet. |
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| 33 | 191 |
Cabot extracted his makeshift spear from its ensconcement within the ropes of the raft, and held it, crouching down. |
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| 39 | 77 |
Several looked about, uneasily, crouching down, turning their heads about, ears lifted. |
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| 42 | 103 |
The first Kur, he who had been farthest down the ladder, then leapt to the floor, and, crouching, viewed Cabot and the girl. |
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| 44 | 161 |
The female Kur drew back, frightened, and was then small, crouching before him. |
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| 44 | 173 |
Cabot noted that the nondominants hung back, crouching down, save for one who stood half erect, watching, but making no move to interfere. |
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| 48 | 36 |
Their eyes turned to the figure of their leader, large, as silent as rock, crouching back on his haunches, in Kur repose. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 148 |
She tried to turn her head away, and down, but, by the hair, I, crouching, held it so that she must look at me. |
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| 15 | 177 |
I turned to face Seremides, crouching on the deck. |
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| 22 | 223 |
A given body, held erect, constituted a post, barrier, or hurdle, behind which a column of crouching men might shelter themselves. |
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| 26 | 172 |
Then she sank down, half crouching, half kneeling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 165 |
Then I stiffened, for one of the fellows was crouching beside me, on the left. |
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| 8 | 1674 |
Menon was crouching near Marcella, who was shaking. |
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| 10 | 10 |
It took only a startled, miserable instant to recall the occasion of my loss of consciousness, and one of the first sights to greet me were the eyes of that enormous, crouching beast, regarding me, peering out from within that dark, loose, blanket-like robe and hood within which he concealed, as he ... |
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| 13 | 17 |
The beast was crouching in one corner of the area, concealed from the street by the wall surmounting the roof. |
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| 15 | 232 |
I rose to my feet, and, not taking my eyes off the large, crouching, dark shape across the stall, opened the gate, and backed through. |
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| 32 | 64 |
Then, after a bit, at the conclusion of the machine's address, he resumed the crouching position, so common to Kurii at rest. |
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| 42 | 72 |
Crouching down, watching him, I moved warily toward the yoke; when I had it in one hand, he made a sudden move toward me, and roared, and I went to my stomach, shrieking, covering my head with my hands. |
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| 45 | 193 |
Tiresias was crouching over his kill, divesting it of harnessing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 16 |
How different we are from men, from such men! How he was seeing me! Did he conjecture me naked, frightened, crouching at his feet, at a ring, bound for whipping, on a platform, exhibited before buyers? I fought the mad impulse to kneel before him, lowering my head. |
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| 5 | 149 |
I must have remained in that position for several minutes, and then I sensed a man crouching near me. |
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| 7 | 168 |
He twisted her rudely, abruptly, about, and downward, and she was then at his feet, he crouching over her, his hand in her hair. |
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| 11 | 161 |
A few yards away a guard was crouching, bracing himself on a spear. |
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| 19 | 17 |
No longer did it rest, half opened, poised like a crouching sleen at the hilt of his belt knife. |
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| 25 | 333 |
Not three yards away, its motion arrested, there was a paused, crouching sleen, a wild sleen. |
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| 43 | 911 |
Even crouching its head was as high as that of a tall man. |
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| 48 | 42 |
But then it emerged the brush, crouching, no taller than my waist. |
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| 52 | 121 |
We stopped several paces from the gate, and I sank to my knees, gasping for air, on the grass between the stockade gate and the head of the stairway leading down to the river, and he was crouching beside me, his head down, coughing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 12 |
How tentative they were, and furtive! Crouching and hesitant, a step at a time, they crept, bit by bit, to the great threshold, and peered within. |
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| 17 | 51 |
I had thought of the frightening, martial grace of a swordsman faraway, a short, unkempt, thickly bodied, ugly man known as Nodachi, Sword, ugly save when his blade was drawn, and his unprepossessing persona seemed somehow enlarged and transformed, transformed into something different, something awe... |
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| 20 | 558 |
At its side, crouching, was Lord Akio. |
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| 27 | 25 |
In battle, if troops are massed, the kaiila can be penned in, and immobilized, this rendering it susceptible to a common form of attack, being stabbed from beneath in the belly, by a crouching, lunging foe, following which the animal becomes unmanageable, is likely to throw the rider, and may eventu... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 93 |
He was crouching near me, behind me. |
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| 33 | 89 |
Then he turned to the beast, it crouching back in the crate. |
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| 33 | 180 |
I looked into the recesses of the crate, at the crouching life form near its back. |
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| 33 | 187 |
To be sure, it was crouching down, apprehensively. |
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| 45 | 21 |
There were perhaps forty men present, and, on a high dais, at the end of the room, crouching, facing the diners, six Kurii, including the she-Kur that had so impressed Lord Grendel. |
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| 50 | 9 |
Lord Grendel, crouching in the Kur fashion, was nearby. |
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| 60 | 5 |
Also, on the tiers, mixed in with the men, crouching, I saw several Kurii, in bright harnessing. |
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| 60 | 23 |
Decius Albus seemed expansive, pleasant, jovial, and communicative, almost obsequious, in addressing himself, via their translators, to the two crouching, hirsute guests with whom he shared the honor of his box. |
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| 61 | 264 |
In any event, I cried out in misery as I saw a Kur, in the absence of Surtak, rush upon Drusus Andronicus, doubtless intent to sweep him aside and seize the slave, Paula, crouching behind him. |
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| 64 | 159 |
Part of our circle, so to speak, the fire pit to one side, restfully crouching, as might Kurii, was Lord Grendel and, beside him, touching him, making tiny loving sounds from time to time, was Eve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
I could see my interlocutor, he now crouching, in the light of the yellow moon. |
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| 31 | 2 |
They had approached it, this group, some four hundred we conjectured, cautiously, as inconspicuously as possible, and had then, say, a hundred yards from the gate, crouching down in the grass, waited for the signal of attack, and then the rushing forward, the shouting, and the brandishing of weapons... |
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| 32 | 24 |
The son of Seleukos, headman of the village of Seleukos, recently pillaged and burned, with two of his village cohorts, crouching down in the grass, were within whispering range. |
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