| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 18 |
Beneath this mask, there was, on a high dais, a monumental throne of gold. |
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| 11 | 248 |
"No," screamed the Tatrix, and, to the astonishment of all, herself descended the broad steps of the dais. |
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| 11 | 262 |
She turned and fled to the dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 19 |
In this great dome there was nothing save that at its very center there was a high dais and on this dais there was a large throne carved from a single block of stone. |
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| 4 | 20 |
It seemed to take us a long time to reach the dais. |
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| 4 | 23 |
"Wait here," said Parp, who pointed to an area outside a tiled ring which surrounded the dais. |
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| 4 | 25 |
Parp puffed his way up the nine steps of the dais and climbed onto the stone throne. |
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| 4 | 32 |
Then, smartly, Parp cracked his pipe a few times against the side of the throne, scattering ashes and unsmoked tobacco about on the floor of the dais. |
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| 4 | 73 |
I took the weapon and tossed it toward the foot of the dais. |
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| 4 | 76 |
At the foot of the dais there was a bit of soot and some droplets of melted bronze. |
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| 4 | 143 |
I picked up my helmet and tossed it toward the dais. |
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| 12 | 47 |
Sarm, who stood in the long room on an oval dais, seemed satisfied with this transaction. |
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| 12 | 84 |
Sarm then turned from me and with his left, forward supporting appendage depressed a recessed button in the dais on which he stood. |
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| 12 | 85 |
Hardly had his delicate foot touched the button than a panel slid aside and two handsome men, of the most symmetrical form and features with shaven heads and clad in the purple, plastic tunics of slaves, entered the room and prostrated themselves before the dais. |
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| 12 | 86 |
At a signal from Sarm they leaped to their feet and stood alertly beside the dais, their feet spread, their heads high, their arms folded. |
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| 12 | 140 |
I wondered about what Misk meant by 'processing' but Sarm's words irritated me, as did the two grave, handsome fellows who had so spontaneously groveled before his dais. |
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| 12 | 228 |
Once more the two slaves, this time apparently without emotion, folded their arms and stood, legs apart, beside the dais. |
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| 27 | 80 |
Even with the abdomen empty her legs could not support its weight and she lay on the dais with her jointed legs folded beside her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 10 |
There were many Tuchuks, and some others, crowded about the dais, and, standing upon it, about Kutaituchik, there were several men who, from their position on the dais and their trappings, I judged to be of great importance. |
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| 7 | 8 |
A large dais had been built, vast and spreading, but standing no more than a foot from the earth. |
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| 7 | 9 |
This dais was covered with dozens of thick rugs, sometimes four and five deep. |
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| 7 | 14 |
At the edge of the dais Kamchak and I had stopped, where our sandals were removed and our feet washed by Turian slaves, men in the Kes, who might once have been officers of the city. |
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| 7 | 15 |
We mounted the dais and approached the seemingly somnolent figure seated upon it. |
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| 7 | 16 |
Although the dais was resplendent, and the rugs upon it even more resplendent, I saw that beneath Kutaituchik, over these rugs, had been spread a simple, worn, tattered robe of gray boskhide. |
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| 7 | 26 |
I was conscious that only we three on that dais were sitting. |
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| 7 | 46 |
I turned to see a stout man-at-arms step to the dais, carrying in his arms, folded in the furs of the scarlet larl, a girl. |
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| 7 | 192 |
I prepared to fight for my life, selling it as dearly as possible on the dais of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, for what Gorean would dare reject the command of Priest-Kings? I stood up, unsheathing my sword. |
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| 7 | 257 |
The warrior leapt from the dais and, in a few moments, returned with a handful of roasted bosk meat. |
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| 8 | 84 |
When her interrogation had been completed, and she had collapsed on the dais of Kutaituchik, crying out in misery, "La Kajira. |
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| 8 | 86 |
As I had followed him from the dais I had seen Kutaituchik, the interview ended, absently reaching into the small golden box of kanda strings, his eyes slowly beginning to close. |
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| 8 | 115 |
On the dais of Kutaituchik I had feared that she might not be able to survive, that she was too weak for the world of Gor. |
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| 13 | 127 |
While near Kutaituchik's wagon, on the dais, he also conferred with several other high men among the Tuchuks. |
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| 14 | 61 |
They lay tumbled about, several on the dais near the wagon. |
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| 16 | 130 |
We knelt before a low dais, covered with rugs and cushions, on which reclined Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 16 | 143 |
Beside him there rested, lying on the dais, spear, helmet and shield. |
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| 16 | 160 |
Trembling with rage, the hooded figure resumed his place on the dais. |
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| 23 | 17 |
I was nearly slain by arrows when I dropped the tarn amidst the startled blacks of the Kataii, but my black jacket with the emblem of the four bosk horns, emblem of the Tuchuk courier, soon proved its worth and I was led to the dais of the Ubar of the Kataii. |
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| 26 | 156 |
Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar. |
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| 26 | 157 |
On the floor below the dais were Saphrar of Turia, frantic, clutching the purple-wrapped object, and the Paravaci, he who still wore the hood of the Clan of Torturers, he who would have been my assassin, he who had been with Saphrar of Turia when I had entered the Yellow Pool of Turia. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 67 |
One of them carried a large pitcher of the diluted Ka-la-na wine and stepped behind us, climbing the two steps to the broad wooden dais on which our tables were set. |
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| 15 | 397 |
"Caste sanctuary!" cried Portus, shaking himself free of the guards and stumbling forward and falling on his knees before the wooden dais on which sat the table of Cernus. |
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| 17 | 279 |
Relius put out his cup but before the girl could pour the wine she seemed suddenly to fly off the back of the dais, the seat of her tunic firmly grasped in the small hand of Virginia Kent. |
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| 17 | 344 |
Ho-Sorl bounded over the table and caught her four paces from the dais, spilling the milk about. |
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| 19 | 82 |
Philemon led the way to the box of Cernus, the largest and most impressive in the amphitheater, shielded on both sides and the back from the rest of the boxes and seats by heavy wooden screens; there, on a marble dais on which sat a low, thronelike chair of marble, I was forced to kneel. |
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| 20 | 10 |
Now, unhooded, but chained, I knelt bloody before the dais of Cernus. |
10 |
| 20 | 11 |
A few feet from me, wretched, dazed, chained like I before the dais of Ar's Ubar, knelt Elizabeth Cardwell, her only garment the chain of Cernus, with its medallion of the tarn and slave chains, about her throat. |
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| 20 | 47 |
She ran timidly and knelt before the dais. |
10 |
| 20 | 99 |
He strode from the dais to stand over her. |
10 |
| 20 | 111 |
He then returned to his place on the dais. |
10 |
| 20 | 160 |
Cernus rose behind the table on the dais. |
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| 20 | 407 |
One of Cernus' guards threw Hup the pastry he had been eyeing and Hup squealed with pleasure and sat on the dais, putting his chin on his knees, shoving the pastry in his mouth. |
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| 20 | 452 |
Hup, singing some mad little song of his own devising, bounded back to the table, turned a somersault, and crawled up on the dais, whence he seized another piece in his small, knobby fist and pushed it one square ahead. |
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| 20 | 468 |
Hup, the Fool, blinked, sitting on the tiles before the dais. |
10 |
| 20 | 521 |
The little fellow was sitting on the edge of the dais, swinging his feet. |
10 |
| 20 | 524 |
Hup could not reply but he stood there before the dais, as straight as he could, with tears in his eyes. |
10 |
| 20 | 553 |
Cernus looked down on Elizabeth, chained at the foot of the dais. |
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| 23 | 142 |
Once Cernus, moving backward, defending himself, fell over the dais, and my sword was at his throat. |
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| 24 | 148 |
Soon we had emerged in the great domed chamber set with lights and stones in which, on a high, stepped dais, sits the marble throne of the Ubar of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 60 |
She rose to her feet, and, small gloved hand in the hand of Chenbar, descended the steps of the dais on which sat the thrones of Lurius and Chenbar, and stood before me. |
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| 13 | 64 |
The girl turned and was escorted, again by Chenbar, her gloved hand in his, to her seat on the dais. |
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| 13 | 76 |
The girl, enraged, took again her seat on the dais. |
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| 15 | 442 |
He lifted, heavily, to the dais on which my chair and table sat a heavy leather sack filled with golden tarn disks of double weight, of Cos and Tyros, of Ar and Port Kar, even of distant Thentis and remote Turia, far to the south. |
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| 15 | 641 |
I cried out with rage and seized the great table, flinging it, scattering dishes and paga, from the dais. |
10 |
| 15 | 644 |
Luma, fastened by the neck to the table, was jerked from the dais, and thrown over the table to the tiles of the hall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 16 |
On the wooden dais, draped in purple, set on the contest fields, in heavy, carved chairs, sat Svein Blue Tooth and his woman, Bera. |
10 |
| 12 | 18 |
About them, some on the dais, and some below it, stood his high officers, and his men of law, his counselors, his captains, and the chief men from his scattered farms and holdings; too, much in evidence, were more than four hundred of his men-at-arms. |
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| 12 | 48 |
There were steps leading to the dais. |
10 |
| 12 | 49 |
"He who calls himself Thorgeir of Ax Glacier," proclaimed Svein Blue Tooth, "let him approach!" Ivar Forkbeard eagerly bounded up the stairs toward the dais. |
10 |
| 12 | 57 |
Ivar Forkbeard, Thorgeir of Ax Glacier, now stood, hooded, on the top stair of the dais, before his enemy. |
10 |
| 13 | 46 |
Svein Blue Tooth had not been much pleased on the fields of the contests, on his purple-draped dais, when Ivar Forkbeard had announced his identity. |
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| 13 | 63 |
He, with his high officers, retired to the back of the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 68 |
They edged more closely about the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 69 |
I ascended the steps of the dais and stood at the back of the Forkbeard, hand on the hilt of the sword, to protect him if necessary. |
10 |
| 13 | 78 |
Meanwhile the debate at the back of the dais went on. |
10 |
| 13 | 143 |
Svein Blue Tooth, high jarl of Torvaldsland, followed by his woman, and high officers and counselors, and other followers, then took his way from the dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 119 |
There were men within, seated about a central figure, on rugs, on a dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 133 |
We were thrust before the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 140 |
The man on the dais, sitting cross-legged, regarded us. |
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| 13 | 147 |
"I did not think a woman could hold you," smiled the man on the dais. |
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| 13 | 157 |
"She is an excellent tool," said the man on the dais, finishing the fruit, rinsing the fingers of his right hand in a small bowl of veminium water, and drying them on a cloth to his right, "but only, when all is said and done, a woman. |
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| 13 | 190 |
"You are a bandit," pointed out the figure on the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 206 |
On the dais, with him, were several men, low tables of food, fruit, stews, tidbits of roast verr, assorted breads. |
10 |
| 13 | 208 |
About the dais, kneeling, waiting to serve, were slave girls, some in high collars, clad in strands of slave silk. |
10 |
| 13 | 216 |
They regarded the figure on the dais, veiled, sitting cross-legged. |
10 |
| 13 | 229 |
"Feast," said the man on the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 251 |
Again the man on the dais clapped his hands. |
10 |
| 13 | 267 |
"She was with several men," said the man on the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 289 |
What a beautiful piece of slave flesh Alyena was, so vulnerable, so feminine, but how could she have been otherwise when owned by Gorean men? The man on the dais languidly lifted his finger. |
10 |
| 13 | 301 |
The finger of the man on the dais, him veiled in red, prepared to fall. |
10 |
| 13 | 314 |
"No," said the man on the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 398 |
"Well," said the man on the dais, "it is late, and we must all retire. |
10 |
| 25 | 19 |
Haroun spun about, his burnoose swirling, and, angrily, leaped to the dais of the Salt Ubar, and strode upon it, like a frustrated larl. |
10 |
| 26 | 238 |
In what had been the kasbah of Ibn Saran she had been thrown naked to the foot of the dais on which, cross-legged, sat the great Haroun himself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 3 |
It is built on four levels, a large, open court, wooden floored, an encircling dais, some twenty feet deep, and, over the dais, two encircling balconies, each some ten feet deep. |
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| 14 | 207 |
Busebius conducted the visitors, his honored guests, to a private corner of the tavern from which, on the raised dais there, they might well view the room, the musicians, and the dancer. |
10 |
| 14 | 259 |
"You six will serve," he said, indicating the men on the dais. |
10 |
| 19 | 43 |
I was led toward a dais on which a large, corpulent man sat, one of enormous weight, reclining on cushions. |
10 |
| 19 | 48 |
I saw that at the foot of the dais, before me, before where I now knelt, released by the men who had held me, there was a low table, and, on this table there were strands of thread and, in small cups, beads, wooden slave beads, beads of various colors, of many colors. |
10 |
| 19 | 120 |
He placed it on the dais before him. |
10 |
| 19 | 131 |
Suddenly he pounded his heavy fist on the dais with pleasure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 1234 |
I went to sit, cross-legged, before the dais, but Zarendargar indicated that I should share the dais with him. |
10 |
| 8 | 126 |
There was a dais at one end, on which, in a rough-hewn curule chair, she had sat. |
10 |
| 8 | 127 |
There was a rug of sleen skin beneath the chair, and another before the dais. |
10 |
| 10 | 135 |
In making our way to the cook shack we passed the large, wooden dais on which the whipping frame had been erected. |
10 |
| 10 | 140 |
A matching ring was bolted in the beams of the dais, under the upper ring. |
10 |
| 35 | 1224 |
On the furred dais, as before, I saw Zarendargar. |
10 |
| 35 | 1238 |
He indicated, holding it, the small metallic device which had lain beside him on the dais. |
10 |
| 35 | 1255 |
The dais on which I sat was stiff with dried blood. |
10 |
| 35 | 1318 |
The great Kur lay back on the dais, his eyes closed. |
10 |
| 35 | 1331 |
I poured him a glass of paga, and left it near him on the dais. |
10 |
| 36 | 272 |
At the chamber of Zarendargar I pressed open the portal with my foot and lifted the weapon, to fire at the figure which would be recumbent upon the blood-soaked, furred dais. |
10 |
| 36 | 280 |
I walked slowly to the stained, furred dais. |
10 |
| 36 | 283 |
But on the dais there was another glass, it, too, filled with paga. |
10 |
| 36 | 299 |
I looked within, once, at the blood-stained dais, and the steel wall, at the foot of which, mingled, lay the fragments of two glasses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 12 |
On the platform, shaded by a silk canopy, was a low dais, covered with silken cushions. |
10 |
| 23 | 146 |
Tende rose gracefully to her feet and descended from the cushions and dais, to stand at the edge of the platform, over Kisu. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 114 |
On a cement dais, at one side of the square, I saw a man selling naked, chained slave girls. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 115 |
The pirate before the dais signaled to some men and they removed the coins, the jewelry and pearls from before the dais. |
10 |
| 30 | 7 |
I had then been chained, hand and foot, on my back, to four iron rings set in the tiles, before the dais on which reposed his curule chair. |
10 |
| 30 | 121 |
"Yes, my Master," said the short, dark-haired girl, and she, smiling, barefoot, descended the marble stairs of the dais and, taking her place on my left, lowered herself gracefully to lie on her side beside me. |
10 |
| 30 | 130 |
Bikkie wore, like one or two of the other girls still on the dais, only threads of leather, some dozen or so, depending from a leather sheathing encasing the locked, steel collar on her throat. |
10 |
| 30 | 192 |
She ran immediately to the tiles before the dais on which reposed the large, curule chair of Policrates. |
10 |
| 32 | 53 |
She knelt before him, on the dais, and put her head down. |
10 |
| 32 | 105 |
How futile, how ineffective, was the expedient of the chain! Kliomenes regarded the flat coffers of coins on the tiles before his dais, the jewelry, the bowl of pearls, and the girl. |
10 |
| 32 | 106 |
"Is this," he asked, "truly an equal division of the spoils of the Flower of Siba?" "We have something of the better of it, in my opinion," said the pirate before the dais. |
10 |
| 32 | 116 |
"And what of this?" asked the pirate before the dais, taking the girl by the hair and forcing her head up and back, bending then her body back, so as to reveal the bow of her enslaved beauty. |
10 |
| 32 | 126 |
Kliomenes then looked at me, and I was thrust forward, stumbling, toward the dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 148 |
* * * * I sat upon a great curule chair, on a broad, three-stepped, carpeted dais in the house which I had borrowed from a friend, a citizen of Victoria, for the past few days. |
10 |
| 18 | 169 |
A curtain was thrust aside at the end of the long room, and I saw her in the threshold, barefoot, her ankles belled, her feet almost lost in the piling of the deep carpet leading to the dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 173 |
Timidly, and as though she could scarcely believe what was occurring, the girl in the yellow pleasure silk approached the dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 175 |
Then she stopped at the foot of the dais, trembling, belled, looking up at me. |
10 |
| 18 | 177 |
Immediately the girl in the yellow pleasure silk fell to her knees and put her head to the carpet at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 186 |
I snapped my fingers and the girl kneeling before the dais lifted her head. |
10 |
| 18 | 252 |
Head down, then, on all fours, to the small sounds of the slave bells on her wrists and ankles, and collar, she slowly ascended the three broad steps of the carpeted dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 301 |
I then dried my hands on her hair, and she knelt back, kneeling on the broad carpeted dais before me, in the position of the pleasure slave. |
10 |
| 18 | 691 |
She trembled, lying transversely on the carpeting near the edge of the dais, before the curule chair, her hands beside her head, her fingers clutching at the piling. |
10 |
| 18 | 697 |
Her body and left leg lay on the dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 698 |
Her right leg, and her right arm and hand, were on the broad stair, leading to the height of the dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 716 |
I cast aside the whip and, with two hands, seizing her by the waist, I lifted her foot from the dais; she was bent backwards in my hands, her head and feet down. |
10 |
| 18 | 718 |
Then I threw her back upon the dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 723 |
Later, I had her again, more methodically, her head hanging down, over the dais, on the broad stair leading to its height. |
10 |
| 18 | 724 |
Then, later, I pulled her supine to the height of the dais, and, not hurrying, spending much time looking into her eyes, and studying her expressions, had her before the curule chair. |
10 |
| 18 | 732 |
The slave whom I had so richly used knelt, frightened, confused, on the height of the dais. |
10 |
| 18 | 733 |
"Quickly, Slave," commanded Lola, "come stand before me, at the foot of the dais, your head down". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 |
The fellow, approaching, coming up the long aisle toward the great dais, on which my throne reposed, had indeed a bold stride. |
10 |
| 5 | 19 |
I straightened myself on the great throne of Corcyrus, on the high dais, in the great hall of the palace. |
10 |
| 5 | 23 |
About the throne, here and there, spilled on the steps of the dais, in the manner of Corcyrus and some other cities, was a tasteful display of riches, rich cloths, golden coins and some chained female slaves. |
10 |
| 5 | 27 |
Doubtless new riches would soon grace the steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 5 | 110 |
"I see rich cloths here," he said, indicating the cloths spread tastefully about the steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 5 | 174 |
He flung it to the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 5 | 235 |
I remembered the sight of the silver tarsk from Argentum, in the hand of Miles of Argentum, and the way it had looked, on the soft carpeting of the dais, on one of the broad steps leading up to the throne. |
10 |
| 12 | 59 |
Ligurious turned me, so that I faced the door to the great hall, where, on the lofty dais, reposed the throne of Corcyrus. |
10 |
| 12 | 88 |
I ascended the steps of the dais, conducted by Ligurious. |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
The mob, with the soldiers, swirling about the heavy beam, now dropped, which had been used to breach the doors, flooded toward the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 7 |
At the foot of the dais, shaking fists, shouting angrily, some restrained by soldiers, the crowd stopped. |
10 |
| 13 | 16 |
He ascended the first two steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 72 |
Too, he had had her summoned to the dais by her palace name. |
10 |
| 13 | 73 |
She had tried to read in his countenance, in that brief, wild instant, before she was removed from the dais, her fate, but she had been unable to do so. |
10 |
| 13 | 81 |
Then he stood on the dais, almost with Miles of Argentum. |
10 |
| 13 | 107 |
Drusus Rencius released me, and turned about, and, descending from the dais and making his way through the crowd, left. |
10 |
| 13 | 143 |
The uniforms the men had worn were not unlike that in which I had just seen Drusus Rencius, and not unlike those of certain others about the dais, soldiers. |
10 |
| 13 | 162 |
Then, in his arms, I was carried rapidly down the steps of the dais and down the aisle, between the halves of the parted crowd. |
10 |
| 31 | 217 |
The angle would be similar to that which he had had from the floor of the great hall, or from the lower steps of the dais, looking up at me on the throne. |
10 |
| 32 | 4 |
I walked barefoot on the tiles to the vicinity of the dais and throne. |
10 |
| 32 | 48 |
I was then turned about and put on my back before my captor, on the tiles at the foot of the dais on which reposed the throne of Argentum. |
10 |
| 32 | 110 |
He then looped a thong from my ankles to a slave ring near the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 35 | 7 |
"Yes, Master," I said, and knelt, on the broad stair leading up to the serving dais in the private dining room in the palace at Argentum. |
10 |
| 35 | 13 |
On this same stair, and on the floor below, and on the surface of the dais itself, before the long, low, small table, I had been ordered to writhe, to the music. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 215 |
"Those who are granted audiences wear the Gnieus Lelius Generosity Ribbon which encircles them and is tied about the rope, actually a velvet cable, leading to the dais. |
10 |
| 23 | 139 |
One could now see the chair on the dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 3 |
I had been summoned into his presence, and had performed obeisance at the end of the long carpet, leading to the dais. |
10 |
| 10 | 4 |
I had then, when permitted, approached the dais, head down, on all fours. |
10 |
| 10 | 5 |
I had climbed, on all fours, up the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and now lay, on my belly, half on its surface, the lower part of my body, my right knee flexed, across the final two steps before its height. |
10 |
| 10 | 499 |
"Crawl back down the steps, facing me," he said, "and then kneel at the foot of the dais". |
10 |
| 10 | 507 |
It struck my body and fell before me, to the rug, at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 10 | 576 |
I returned then to the foot of the dais, to stand there before Hendow, of the tavern of Hendow, on Dock Street, in Brundisium. |
10 |
| 10 | 603 |
He stood on the dais, looming above me. |
10 |
| 10 | 606 |
He then descended from the dais, and stood near me. |
10 |
| 10 | 621 |
He had indicated the second step leading to the height of the dais. |
10 |
| 10 | 775 |
"Kneel at the foot of the dais," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 781 |
He retrieved the whip and ascended to the height of the dais, where he took his place in the great chair. |
10 |
| 10 | 858 |
Quickly I fell to my knees before Hendow, he in the great chair on the dais, and put my head to the carpet, the palms of my hands, too, on the carpet, beside my head, performing slave obeisance. |
10 |
| 10 | 861 |
Mirus looked back to the dais. |
10 |
| 14 | 1 |
Punishment I knelt on the rug at the foot of the dais, that surmounted by the curule chair of my master, Hendow, of Brundisium. |
10 |
| 14 | 16 |
I climbed the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and knelt before him. |
10 |
| 14 | 27 |
"You may now return to the foot of the dais, and stand," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 28 |
I backed down, my head down, to the foot of the dais, and then stood there, erect and graceful before my master, as would be expected of a female slave. |
10 |
| 14 | 38 |
Standing as I was, and at the foot of the dais, I feared he would have little difficulty in reading my body. |
10 |
| 14 | 262 |
I stood before him, at the foot of the carpeted dais, naked, in my collar. |
10 |
| 14 | 305 |
I removed the whip from the box and rose to my feet, and returned to the dais, where I climbed the stairs and knelt before Hendow. |
10 |
| 14 | 307 |
I then rose to my feet and withdrew to the foot of the dais, where I stood. |
10 |
| 14 | 312 |
On the dais, standing, he loomed over me. |
10 |
| 14 | 392 |
I think he may then have ascended the dais, and perhaps resumed his place in the curule chair. |
10 |
| 14 | 402 |
He was on the dais then, certainly. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 5 |
I knelt, on tiles, to be sure, before a curule chair, on a stepped dais. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 136 |
There was a dais a few feet before me, and on this dais, resplendent in robes of concealment, beautifully veiled, on a curule chair, there sat a regal figure. |
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| 9 | 7 |
Talena, with certain aides and counselors, and guardsmen and scribes, was on a dais, it mounted on the surface of the platform, a few feet away, rather to its left, as one would face it. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
A guardsman, on the surface of the platform, before the dais, draped the robe of the penitent about the shoulders of the woman before Talena. |
10 |
| 9 | 152 |
As I have mentioned, there were scribes on, or near, the dais with Talena. |
10 |
| 9 | 296 |
Claudia looked up at Talena, on the dais. |
10 |
| 9 | 377 |
Claudia stood in fury before the dais, her fists clenched. |
10 |
| 9 | 567 |
Another woman, similarly, later, whom Talena seemed prepared to dismiss, she reconsidered and selected, apparently at the request or suggestion of one of the Cosians on the dais. |
10 |
| 9 | 786 |
In a few moments the dais, and then the platform, was cleared. |
10 |
| 28 | 58 |
I wondered if she would be uneasy, or perhaps even terrified, realizing the folly in which she was now enmeshed, daring to ascend the dais, not to lie on its steps as a half naked slave, collared, at a Ubar's feet, an item of display, but to sit upon the throne itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 254 |
I looked up at him, the palms of my hands on the first step of the dais, my knees on the flagging below the dais. |
10 |
| 42 | 125 |
It is they who decide on which step of the dais, so to speak, we may kneel, or even if we may approach the dais at all. |
10 |
| 11 | 9 |
At the far side of the large area, away from the door, near the outer circumference of the circle, was a stone dais, reached by some three steps, on the top of which was a thronelike chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 13 |
There were only a few individuals on the terrace, and these were on, or near, the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 18 |
Perhaps he had received some sign from the dais to do so. |
10 |
| 11 | 45 |
I then stood some fifty feet, or so, before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 57 |
I was sure that he had commented favorably concerning me to his fellow on the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 89 |
I could not move! The beast, descending lightly from the dais, had bounded toward me. |
10 |
| 11 | 108 |
"Come closer," invited the man on the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 109 |
I stopped, warned by his eyes, a few feet before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 141 |
I then lay before the dais, supine, gasping for breath, covered with sweat, even in the coolness of the elevation and wind. |
10 |
| 11 | 153 |
I lay before the dais, trembling. |
10 |
| 11 | 158 |
This decision, I had sensed, had been welcomed by those about the dais, with doubtless one exception. |
10 |
| 11 | 170 |
She put the pan down, on the stone flagging, before the dais, a bit to the right of its center, as I faced it. |
10 |
| 11 | 200 |
Then the man who had been behind me had ascended the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 207 |
I was only a kajira, feeding at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 233 |
He regarded me, and I looked up at him, from all fours, from the floor below the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 253 |
The next tidbit of meat he tossed to the first step of the dais, where I retrieved it. |
10 |
| 11 | 258 |
The next tidbit he threw to the floor of the dais, before his chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 259 |
I crawled to the floor of the dais and put down my head and picked up the bit of meat. |
10 |
| 11 | 398 |
In order that the matter be lost on no one, the occupant of the chair, of the last three pieces of meat, casting each to the floor of the dais, cast the first to the six-legged beast, which lapped it up instantly with its tongue, scarcely a scrap to such a maw, the second to me and the third to Dorn... |
10 |
| 11 | 399 |
Dorna and I, then, on all fours, from where we had retrieved that largesse which had been granted to us, cast to the floor of the dais, looked up at he who occupied the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 423 |
"Return to the foot of the dais, and stand," said the man in the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 424 |
I backed down the steps of the dais, on all fours, and then, at its foot, rose to my feet. |
10 |
| 11 | 427 |
Dorna, angrily, descended the steps of the dais behind the thronelike chair and went again to the table beneath the roofed defense work. |
10 |
| 11 | 447 |
Who needed to look upon her? I stood naked before the dais, and looked up at he who sat in the thronelike chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 586 |
In a moment or two Dorna had returned to the dais with a collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 591 |
She then showed the collar to others about the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 600 |
She then hurried back to the dais and the man in the chair opened the collar and slipped off the keys and string. |
10 |
| 11 | 601 |
He handed the keys to one of the fellows near the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 604 |
The collar was then returned to Dorna and she came down the steps of the dais and stood near me, where I knelt. |
10 |
| 11 | 644 |
I was naked on all fours, before the dais, on a barbaric world, a collared slave girl. |
10 |
| 11 | 758 |
Then I cried out as the jailer pulled me up to all fours by the hair and then, his fist in my hair, hurried me back to the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 759 |
I was now on all fours, at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 835 |
Then I was left whimpering on the floor before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 842 |
I lay before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 975 |
Dorna turned about and hurried up the steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 995 |
She returned both hands to my hair and held my head back, forcibly, cruelly, before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1040 |
He pointed to the floor of the dais, before the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 1051 |
"No!" She leaped to her feet and turned about, fleeing, stumbling down the steps of the dais and then, at its foot, half bent over, turned about, facing the man in the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 1077 |
I was frightened, kneeling before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1104 |
At this Dorna turned white and flung herself to her knees at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1108 |
She looked small, and piteous, and female, at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1145 |
"No! No!" She suddenly, wildly, crawled up the steps of the dais, and flung herself to her belly before the man in the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 1386 |
How astonishingly paradoxical seemed my situation! Here on this world, where men seemed so proud, so untamed, so unbroken, so free, so mighty, so hot-blooded, on this world seemingly so primitive, so splendid and barbaric, on this world of leather, and silk and iron, not of plastics and synthetic fi... |
10 |
| 11 | 1450 |
It was strange to be kneeling so conspicuously before the dais, but neglected. |
10 |
| 11 | 1529 |
In an instant, with rapid steps, sure-footedly, the jailer had reached me, lifted me up, turned about and returned me, trembling, wild-eyed, to the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1557 |
I was then carried down from the wall and deposited, again, before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1731 |
I lay there before the dais, helpless, but now, apparently, quite safe. |
10 |
| 11 | 1777 |
I struggled to my knees and knelt before the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1778 |
I put my head down to the floor before the first step of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1821 |
I no longer knew where I was with respect to the dais, even whether near it or not. |
10 |
| 11 | 1829 |
I had put the tunic aside, a few feet before the dais, shortly after I had come to the surface of the tower. |
10 |
| 12 | 210 |
Indeed, but a bit before, I had performed for men, before the dais, providing them not only with a glimpse of my beauty, if beauty it was, but with an authentic, detailed, lengthy, provocative display of it, an exhibition designed to leave little to conjecture concerning at least the externals of wh... |
10 |
| 40 | 4 |
It was here that the great chair had been set on the dais. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 109 |
That was surely where Mirus had angrily spurned her from the dais, with a thrust of his bootlike sandal, and she, helplessly bound, turning and rolling, twisting, in pain, had tumbled rolling to the rug at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 6 | 6 |
The curule chair was the only furniture in the room, and it was on a dais. |
10 |
| 7 | 2 |
She took her place within the yellow circle, in that lofty room, before the dais, on which reposed the curule chair. |
10 |
| 8 | 76 |
He then stood up and, approvingly regarding her, stepped backward a pace, and then turned and ascended the dais, and resumed his place in the curule chair. |
10 |
| 8 | 183 |
She felt very vulnerable, in the tiny garment, all she wore, save for the anklet, kneeling on the marble floor, before the dais. |
10 |
| 9 | 210 |
Then, inch by inch, she approached the dais, ascended the steps, and was then before him. |
10 |
| 10 | 204 |
He stood then above her on the dais, in a simple, belted brown tunic. |
10 |
| 10 | 221 |
Slowly, head down, she crawled to him, and then, after crawling up the steps of the dais, she lifted her head to him. |
10 |
| 10 | 227 |
She backed down the steps of the dais, crawling, and then went, crawling backward, to where her garment lay on the floor and then knelt beside it, in position, looking at him. |
10 |
| 15 | 29 |
She was a few feet before the dais. |
10 |
| 15 | 72 |
Before the dais, before the chair, she knelt and put her head down to the rug, in obeisance. |
10 |
| 15 | 93 |
The slave then rose gracefully to her feet, ascended the dais, and knelt before the chair. |
10 |
| 15 | 96 |
She backed down the stairs and then knelt again before the dais, as she had before, in obeisance. |
10 |
| 15 | 433 |
She was then kneeling on the rug before the dais, on which reposed the curule chair, her head to the rug, the palms of her hands on the rug, too, on either side of her head. |
10 |
| 15 | 588 |
In a few moments she lay on her right side on the rug, at the foot of the dais, sobbing. |
10 |
| 15 | 599 |
He came down from the dais and crouched beside her. |
10 |
| 15 | 633 |
He lifted her in his arms and carried her to the height of the dais, where he put her down, gently, on her knees, to the left of the curule chair, as one might look out from it, to the right of the curule chair, as one would face it. |
10 |
| 15 | 833 |
Then, rising angrily from the chair, with his bootlike sandal, he thrust her forcibly, rolling, down the steps of the dais to the floor at its foot. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 6 |
At one end of the room, opposite the portal through which Cabot and Peisistratus had entered, was a low, stone dais. |
10 |
| 8 | 8 |
Behind this dais was a curtained opening. |
10 |
| 8 | 21 |
Shortly thereafter the curtains at the end of the room, behind the dais, were drawn open by two Kurii. |
10 |
| 8 | 28 |
It crawled slowly onto the dais, on which it crouched. |
10 |
| 8 | 34 |
The two Kurii who had parted the curtains for the entrance of the metal beast now crouched near it, on the dais, one on each side. |
10 |
| 8 | 35 |
"Behold," came from a translator, presumably that of one of the beasts flanking the object on the dais, "Agamemnon, The Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, Theocrat of the World". |
10 |
| 8 | 42 |
"Tal," said Cabot, to the object on the dais. |
10 |
| 8 | 190 |
Where is she?" One of the Kurii flanking the metal object on the dais spoke softly to Agamemnon, or the machine through which he spoke. |
10 |
| 8 | 207 |
At this point the ponderous machine, with the small sound of rippling, overlapping plates, and the scratch of metallic claws on the dais, turned about, and left the room. |
10 |
| 8 | 209 |
The two Kurii then left the dais, and redrew the curtains behind them. |
10 |
| 74 | 50 |
Lord Arcesilaus sat on a dais, at the head of a hundred tables, with Lord Zarendargar, Lord Grendel, and Statius; and Archon, of the forest humans, and Cestiphon, of the killer humans, sat with them. |
10 |
| 80 | 144 |
And he was muchly welcomed by those on the dais. |
10 |
| 80 | 152 |
He then raised his hand, lifting it toward the outer gate, well beyond the foot of the long, wide stairs leading upward to the dais. |
10 |
| 80 | 209 |
The small figure then, flanked by her two attendants, was upon the dais. |
10 |
| 80 | 245 |
"You are in the presence of a free woman!" said Cabot to Cecily, and Cecily quickly put her head down, to the dais. |
10 |
| 80 | 307 |
There were cries of anger and dismay, both from Kurii and men on the dais. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 199 |
This group stood, then, before the platform, or dais. |
10 |
| 10 | 209 |
Perhaps she was unaware that she was now within the pavilion, and standing before the dais of Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 10 | 330 |
I noted the interest, too, of the two contract women on the dais behind Lord Nishida, and to his left. |
10 |
| 10 | 656 |
The contract woman on the left, as one looked toward the dais, said, "Does she not smell, Lord Nishida?" "She will have to be scrubbed," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 10 | 715 |
"The whip will teach her, and quickly," said Tajima, with, oddly, a glance at Sumomo, the contract woman who was on the right, as one would look to the dais. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 367 |
On the dais Lord Grendel had approached the table on which reposed the last container, that which had been on the right side of the dais, as one would face the dais. |
10 |
| 32 | 39 |
It was poised on the dais, alertly, and then sank downward, resting its belly on the dais. |
10 |
| 37 | 143 |
Shortly thereafter, frighteningly, apparently emerging from a deep recess behind the dais, taking its place on the dais, was a large machine, behaving as though it were alive. |
10 |
| 48 | 1 |
It was a distraught Desmond of Harfax who was led before the dais, for on the dais, on three tables, were three containers. |
10 |
| 48 | 272 |
Lucius then turned back to the dais and pointed to the last container, that on the table to the right, as one would look to the dais. |
10 |
| 16 | 314 |
I recalled the small cell, facing the market area, behind the bars of which I, with others, as merchandise to be vended, were publicly displayed to passers-by, and then my sale, being turned about, exhibited naked, on the small cement sales dais. |
10 |
| 32 | 2 |
I heeled him into the large room, and, when he crouched down, at ease, before the broad dais, I knelt behind him, on his left. |
10 |
| 32 | 5 |
I did not know how deep the room was, for, at the front of the room, at the back of the dais, there was a heavy, drawn curtain. |
10 |
| 32 | 6 |
To our right, crouched on the dais, at its edge, before the curtain, was Lucius, whom I recognized, partly from his size, and partly from the glint of the golden chain from which hung his translator. |
10 |
| 32 | 19 |
There were already some twenty Kurii in the room when Grendel entered and took his place, a prominent place, near the front of the room, before the dais. |
10 |
| 32 | 35 |
Then it darted forward, onto the dais, and I screamed. |
10 |
| 32 | 67 |
By means of these sticks, striking and jabbing, Tiresias was guided to the foot of the dais, where he stood, lost, and forlorn, turning his head about, as though he were trying to see through the seared holes in his face. |
10 |
| 32 | 87 |
These darts caught in the chest of the Kur, who wrestled to draw them forth, but, a moment later, he was drawn stumbling forward, toward the dais, as the cables were being reeled back into the machine. |
10 |
| 32 | 90 |
I only looked back in time to see that the silver chain, now dripping blood, had been removed from what lay about on the dais, and was being, by Lucius, put over the head of the other Kur. |
10 |
| 32 | 105 |
I scarcely noted, in the celebratory milieu, that the machine had backed away, vanishing down the dark corridor behind the dais. |
10 |
| 37 | 141 |
"Grendel, near whom I knelt, was prominently placed, before a dais at the front of the room. |
10 |
| 37 | 142 |
Timarchos and Lysymachos emerged from behind a curtain at the back of the dais, which curtain they then drew aside. |
10 |
| 48 | 43 |
"What of yours?" cried Desmond of Harfax leaping to the dais, thrusting the central container to the floor, and falling upon it with his knife. |
10 |
| 48 | 44 |
He struck it twice before Timarchos seized him, lifted him, and threw him, knife in hand, a dozen feet from the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 46 |
The container he had attacked lay open, on its side, on the dais, its lid on the floor beside it. |
10 |
| 48 | 63 |
I wondered if Agamemnon was even ensconced in one of the three containers on the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 114 |
In any event, several Kurii hurried to interpose themselves between the newcomers and the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 151 |
The dais was now undefended. |
10 |
| 48 | 152 |
At one side, the left, as one faced the dais, lay Timarchos and Lysymachos. |
10 |
| 48 | 160 |
They then came to stand with Lucius, before the dais, with two others of his cohorts. |
10 |
| 48 | 164 |
These were away from the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 168 |
The silver-chain Kur, back amongst them, crouched down, warily, looking toward the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 170 |
Lucius turned about, to face the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 172 |
"You have lost!" The two containers, one on the left, the other on the right, as one would face the dais, had been damaged. |
10 |
| 48 | 218 |
"I have waited long for this day," said Lucius, "years of secret thoughts, of hypocrisy, and deception, months of planning, days of strife, weeks of withdrawal, of hiding in tunnels, and waiting, and then, by means of an unexpected, bold, and glorious stroke, victory!" He then signaled to his two co... |
10 |
| 48 | 240 |
"Be careful," he said to his fellows at the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 247 |
When we could see again, we could see skulls, and blackened bones, and flesh, like soiled, burned rags strewn about the dais and the adjacent flooring. |
10 |
| 48 | 252 |
The container had been blasted open, and it lay on the floor of the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 255 |
Lucius turned angrily to the last container, that on the right, as one would face the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 271 |
"No!" cried the Kur, and perished beneath two axes, those of the Kurii who had hitherto guarded the door to the audience chamber, who had then joined Lucius at the dais. |
10 |
| 48 | 359 |
He then ran to the dais and leaped upon it, his knife raised. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 69 |
In passing by the open gate, with its two large panels, swung back on each side from the palisade wall, I could see the pavilion within was largely open, rather like an extensive dais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 13 |
Nodachi had entered through the main portal, facing the dais, walked to the dais, bowed, and politely announced himself. |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
The Dais "I bring you words of conciliation, of forgiveness, and joy from your lord, Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands," said Tyrtaios. |
10 |
| 6 | 4 |
Several were about, sitting, cross-legged, on the deep, broad dais, of smooth, shining, lacquered wood. |
10 |
| 6 | 5 |
Tyrtaios stood on the dais, rather before us, as he addressed us. |
10 |
| 6 | 6 |
With him, behind him, and about, not on the dais, were some officers and several Ashigaru of Lord Yamada. |
10 |
| 6 | 7 |
In the center of the dais, rather toward the back, like a large, patient stone, sat Lord Temmu. |
10 |
| 6 | 9 |
I had little doubt that some on the dais, or about, other than those of my command, realized the camp was not at the assigned site. |
10 |
| 6 | 47 |
Lord Temmu sat in the center of the dais, cross-legged, toward the rear. |
10 |
| 6 | 52 |
Several minor officers were standing about the dais, before it, on the left and right. |
10 |
| 6 | 54 |
At the back of the dais, unobtrusive, demure, in their elegant kimonos, and obis, were several contract women. |
10 |
| 6 | 168 |
At a gesture from Tyrtaios they brought the hampers forward, and placed them on the dais, across its front. |
10 |
| 6 | 201 |
Lord Nishida turned his head to face Lord Temmu, who sat, cross-legged, near the back of the dais. |
10 |
| 7 | 70 |
On the dais I had noted that no slaves were present. |
10 |
| 7 | 99 |
I now well understood the reference to goods which had been exchanged for food, presumably limited supplies of such, which I had heard on the dais. |
10 |
| 8 | 27 |
One seldom comes easily to the dais of a shogun. |
10 |
| 10 | 192 |
"I propose we labor on behalf of the house of Temmu, but independent of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 229 |
"An emissary from the palace of Lord Yamada, Tyrtaios, the mercenary, has come again to the dais," said Tajima. |
10 |
| 12 | 142 |
We were not on the dais, but within the castle, in a large room near the back portal of the castle, where I had brought the tarn down. |
10 |
| 17 | 192 |
"They might be ambitious, they might plot, they might desire to sit upon the dais of the shogun". |
10 |
| 34 | 23 |
You intercepted him on his way to the dais. |
10 |
| 42 | 108 |
Add in now, in addition to Lord Akio's presumed uncontested ascent to the shogunate, his likely jealousy, envy, and hatred of Lord Yamada, and his long-thwarted ambition to ascend to the dais of the shogun, his possible interest in the shogun's daughter, now a vulnerable, available slave. |
10 |
| 50 | 208 |
"We come from the dais of the shogun". |
10 |
| 57 | 222 |
"Let the shogun sit uneasy upon his dais," said Pertinax. |
10 |
| 58 | 275 |
"Lord Yamada will be in the room of the great dais," said Nodachi, "in the prime audience chamber, where taxes and tributes are presented, where vassal daimyos are received". |
10 |
| 59 | 5 |
The dais was a foot or so above the level of the general flooring. |
10 |
| 59 | 6 |
The boards of the flooring, and those of the dais, were of dark, polished wood, and the walls, also of dark wood, were ornamented by numerous characters, designs, and images of light wood, inlaid in the darker wood. |
10 |
| 59 | 11 |
The dais itself was sternly severe. |
10 |
| 59 | 23 |
Lord Yamada sat cross-legged on the dais, richly and formally robed, as though holding court, as though he might be expecting a loyal daimyo or some petitioning ambassador, and not vengeful, deadly enemies, perhaps hundreds, to appear before him. |
10 |
| 59 | 98 |
He then threw her to her knees before the dais. |
10 |
| 59 | 109 |
At this point, the leash loose, Kameko leaped to her feet, ran to the dais, ascended it, and put herself to the feet of Lord Yamada. |
10 |
| 59 | 131 |
He then put out his hand for the object which Katsutoshi had brought to the dais. |
10 |
| 59 | 136 |
He then threw the slave from the dais, and she rolled to the feet of Pertinax. |
10 |
| 59 | 171 |
Both Tajima and Pertinax whipped out companion swords, taken from the trophy room, and stepped between Nodachi and Katsutoshi, who descended, lightly, from the dais. |
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| 59 | 311 |
Nodachi then stepped between us, between Tajima, Pertinax, the slave, and I, and Katsutoshi, and advanced to a place before the dais. |
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| 59 | 314 |
"I," said the shogun, "did not come to the dais easily. |
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| 60 | 33 |
I recalled his remark about steps leading to the dais, many of which were covered with blood. |
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| 60 | 36 |
What loyalty he had inspired, I thought, that Yasushi and Katsutoshi had stood with him on the dais, waiting, in that large, lonely, untenanted audience chamber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 34 |
"To the noble Lord Grendel!" called a large, handsome, long-armed, reclining, red-robed fellow at one of the two tables closest to the dais, lifting a wine goblet toward the dais. |
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| 45 | 17 |
There were several supper couches, with their narrow tables, aligned, facing one another, in two long lines, these two lines parallel to the walls, and oriented toward the end of the room, where there was a high dais. |
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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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| 45 | 36 |
The Kurii on the dais, too, lifted their goblets, and Lord Grendel modestly inclined his head, briefly, acknowledging this attention. |
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| 45 | 42 |
How could the master of the house, if present, not be in the highest place? But only Kurii, the "high ones," so to speak, occupied the dais, except, of course, for Lord Grendel. |
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| 45 | 43 |
Perhaps they, these "high ones," did not care to share the dais with representatives of what they might regard as an inferior species. |
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| 45 | 56 |
Lord Grendel was conducted to the high dais, and I was set about my duties by the first girl. |
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| 45 | 60 |
He had greeted Lord Grendel upon Lord Grendel's admission into the house; he was on the right side of the room, on the couch nearest the dais; and he had first lifted his goblet to him, during the feast, a prerogative of the feast host. |
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| 45 | 79 |
"But what slave," I wondered, "is chained behind the couch of handsome, mighty Drusus, so important here, he not now in a collar and tunic, not now imposing on a naive slave, but in fine supper raiment, and so near the dais?" "I would see such a slave," I thought. |
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| 45 | 80 |
I determined the first girl was not watching, and made my way about the tables, so that I might be behind the couches on the right, those nearest the dais. |
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| 45 | 184 |
There was a stirring on the dais, and I gathered that the supper was at its end, or nearly so. |
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| 45 | 258 |
"I think Lord Grendel awaits you," he said, gesturing toward the dais. |
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| 45 | 261 |
I rose to my feet, and turned toward the dais. |
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| 45 | 264 |
"Thank you, Master!" I cried, tears in my eyes, and turned, and hurried toward the dais, thrusting the meat in my mouth, tearing at it with fingers and teeth. |
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| 49 | 4 |
"Welcome!" called a large, coarse-featured man in white and gold, rising from his curule chair on its dais, and hurrying down to embrace Kurik of Victoria, warmly. |
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| 49 | 6 |
He then drew back, smiling, and gestured to a lacquered table below the dais, which was round, and circled by six curule chairs, of identical fashioning. |
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| 49 | 155 |
Decius Albus then turned about, and clapped his hands, twice, and a portal opened behind the dais, and three individuals entered the room, two men and a woman, a free woman, and approached the round table, that appointed with identical chairs. |
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| 49 | 295 |
The portal behind the dais then opened again, and a slave entered, bearing a tray, on which were five, and only five, small glasses, and a small decanter of some ruby beverage, which, I gathered, must be that to which the Lady Alexina had alluded. |
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| 50 | 82 |
I had never seen a Kur behave so, even on the dais, at the supper, when she had lifted the cup to the lips of Lord Grendel. |
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