| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 29 | 116 |
Then without warning it seemed the stern of my craft vanished and I felt the deck suddenly give way and as half of the craft vanished in powder and the other half crumbled to the buildings below I seized the silver tube from the firing port and leaped downward to the back of the enemy ship. |
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| 17 | 328 |
In the pit of sand one of the guards, utterly drunk, was performing a ship dance, the movement of his legs marvelously suggesting the pitch and roll of a deck, his hands moving as though climbing rope, then hauling rope, then splicing and knotting it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 329 |
She did, and then I ordered them both back to the tiller deck of the first barge, making them stand on the rowing deck, below the steps of the tiller deck, to my left near the rail, where I might see them, where they might not, unnoticed, attempt to free others. |
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| 14 | 32 |
Although the Dorna's true beam is sixteen feet Gorean, her deck width is twenty-one feet Gorean, due to the long rectangular rowing frame, which carries the thole ports; the rowing frame is slightly higher than the deck area and extends beyond it, two and one half feet Gorean on each side; it is sup... |
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| 10 | 144 |
On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero... |
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| 17 | 27 |
I climbed the stairs past the helm deck to the captain's deck of the stern castle. |
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| 7 | 14 |
The slaves, like fish, were thrown between the rowers benches, and aft, forward of the tiller deck, three and four deep. |
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| 7 | 55 |
The officer, standing on the tiller deck of the flagship, lifted his arm. |
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| 7 | 57 |
He sits somewhat above the level of the rowers, but below the level of the tiller deck. |
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| 7 | 59 |
The officer on the tiller deck, Henrak at his side, let fall his hand. |
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| 8 | 32 |
The oar-master, crying out, leaped up the stairs to the tiller deck, and angrily seized the helmsman by the shoulders, shaking him, then saw the eyes. |
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| 8 | 34 |
The oar-master cried out in fear, summoning warriors who gathered on the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 50 |
The warriors in the craft, climbing on the rowing benches, were crowded amidships and aft, even on the tiller deck, looking back at the barge line behind them, trying to make out the shouting, the confusion. |
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| 8 | 53 |
The officer, angrily, was shouting the length of the barge to its oar-master, who now stood on the tiller deck, looking back toward the other barges, his hands on the sternrail. |
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| 8 | 73 |
I struck first their helmsmen, and soon none would ascend to the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 106 |
With this arrangement they had greater mobility of their forces, for men might leap, say, from the foredeck of one barge to the tiller deck of the other. |
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| 8 | 235 |
There were no men of Port Kar on the sixth barge, but, as I stepped from the foredeck of the sixth barge to the tiller deck of the fifth, I saw some of their bodies. |
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| 8 | 256 |
"They are all dead!" "Go to the tiller deck," I told her. |
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| 8 | 266 |
I ascended the steps of the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 272 |
I indicated a coil of binding fiber that lay near the foot of the rail, below the tiller deck, on my left. |
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| 8 | 273 |
She put down the great bow, with its arrows, on the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 277 |
With the first length of binding fiber I tied her wrists behind her back; I then carried her and placed her, on her knees, on the second of the broad steps leading up to the tiller deck, two steps below that in which is fixed the chair of the oar-master; she now knelt below that chair, and to its le... |
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| 8 | 278 |
I then sat down cross-legged on the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 283 |
I put the bow beside me, and laid the arrows out on the planking of the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 289 |
On the second prow of the six barges, only a few feet from the tiller deck of the first barge, it had been the tall, gray-eyed girl, who had held marsh vine against my arm, she who had danced with such excruciating slowness before me at the pole. |
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| 8 | 302 |
When I reached the tiller deck of the sixth barge I looked back, surveying the barges. |
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| 8 | 309 |
I then climbed aboard and walked back to the tiller deck, where I took my seat on the chair of the oar-master. |
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| 8 | 310 |
Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot, kneeling on the second broad step of the stairs leading up to the tiller deck, looked up at me. |
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| 8 | 347 |
Both of his ankles were shackled to a beam running lengthwise of the ship and bolted to the deck; the chain on the shackles ran through the beam itself, through a circular hole cut in the beam and lined with an iron tube; the slaves behind him, as the beam, or beams, passed beneath their thwarts, we... |
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| 8 | 424 |
"You have destroyed me!" I hissed to her, and flung her from me down the steps of the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 447 |
They placed him on his knees, on the rowing deck, before me. |
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| 8 | 584 |
I leapt to the deck before her. |
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| 8 | 586 |
With the point of my blade I pointed to the deck. |
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| 8 | 592 |
The tip of my blade still pointed inexorably to a place on the deck. |
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| 8 | 631 |
I turned away and descended the foredeck, and returned between the slaves to the steps below the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 636 |
The large, blond, gray-eyed girl and the shorter girl, dark-haired, who had carried the net, knelt before the chair on the rowing deck. |
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| 8 | 662 |
The blond girl screamed, and the shorter girl, dark-haired, began to sob, putting her head to the deck. |
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| 8 | 688 |
Clitus had already fastened the short rence girl in the coffle, the binding fiber looped and knotted about her neck, the remainder of the coil fallen to the deck behind her. |
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| 8 | 695 |
Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot at the bottom of the stairs to the tiller deck, addressed herself to me. |
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| 8 | 794 |
And then, angrily, loftily, she walked to the deck before me and then, movement by movement, to my fury, knelt before me, back on her heels, head down, arms extended, wrists crossed, as though for binding. |
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| 10 | 146 |
The bulwarks and deck of the ship are often covered with wet hides. |
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| 10 | 300 |
Tur wood is used for galley frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking; Ka-la-na serves for capstans and mastheads; Tem-wood for rudders and oars; and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck planking. |
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| 11 | 88 |
Her mast, with its long yard, was lashed to the deck. |
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| 13 | 292 |
Above us, on the upper deck, I could hear the cries of the seamen, casting off mooring lines, shoving away from the dock with the traditional three long poles. |
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| 13 | 335 |
Above on the deck I could hear running feet, men shouting. |
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| 13 | 339 |
Two seamen came down from the upper deck and seized whips from racks behind the oar-master. |
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| 13 | 383 |
The officer, with a cry of rage, then turned and ran up the stairs to the main deck. |
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| 13 | 505 |
Seeing the officer whose sword I had, I laughed and flung the weapon into the deck at his feet. |
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| 13 | 507 |
Then I vaulted over the rail of the Rena onto the deck of the heavy-class arsenal galley. |
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| 13 | 524 |
Lash it and its yard to the deck. |
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| 14 | 12 |
Her freeboard area, that between the water line and the deck, is five feet Gorean. |
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| 14 | 47 |
The rowing deck, further, is open to the air, thereby differing from the rowing holds of round ships. |
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| 14 | 225 |
He then went down the steps of the stern castle, to the helm deck, and then down to the chair of the oar-master. |
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| 14 | 317 |
I snapped shut the glass of the builders and, by means of a slender rope ladder fastened at the masthead and anchored to a cleat near the mast well below, took my way down to the deck. |
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| 14 | 320 |
There was a cheer from the men on the deck of the Dorna. |
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| 14 | 473 |
"Yes, Captain," roared Thurnock, turning and crossing on the plank to the deck of the Dorna, then taking his way to the shielded flag racks at the foot of her stem castle. |
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| 17 | 18 |
I snapped shut the glass of the builders and descended the narrow rope ladder to the deck of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 19 |
I had scarcely set foot on the deck when I saw, near the mast well, the boy Fish. |
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| 17 | 65 |
They are to be fastened at one end to the round ship and are intended to be dropped, with their ponderous spiked ends, into the deck of an enemy ship, thus nailing, or fastening, the ships together. |
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| 17 | 99 |
Soon seamen were clambering out on the long sloping yard and, assisted by others on the deck, hauling on brail ropes, were tying in the long triangular sail. |
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| 17 | 108 |
I came out on the deck. |
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| 17 | 241 |
I crammed the last of the tarsk meat into my mouth and, chewing, climbed down the narrow rope ladder, fastened to the deck near the mast well. |
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| 17 | 242 |
I leaped from the ladder to the deck of the Dorna and waved my hand to Antisthenes, some hundred yards away on the stern castle of the command ship of the reserves. |
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| 17 | 245 |
To cries of wonder from my men, and those of other ships nearby, the deck planking of the ten round ships was lifted and thrown aside. |
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| 17 | 263 |
Soon I stood on the deck of the round ship. |
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| 17 | 338 |
He stood on the deck of the round ship, opening and closing his wings, looking about himself, and then threw back his head and screamed. |
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| 17 | 378 |
Behind us I could hear shouts and cries, and the sounds of men dropping from their ropes to the deck, and of weapons meeting weapons. |
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| 17 | 380 |
As one set of birds hovered over the deck and their men dropped to its planks, the birds darted away, and another set took their place. |
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| 17 | 383 |
I slipped on the sleet-iced deck of the stern castle and parried Chenbar's blade from my throat. |
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| 17 | 405 |
Crossbow bolts from the other ships began to fall into the deck of the flagship. |
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| 17 | 413 |
Smoke began to drift up through the planking of the deck. |
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| 17 | 429 |
Then flames shot up through the deck planking of the flagship. |
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| 17 | 432 |
Chenbar and I remained alone on the deck of the stern castle of the flagship. |
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| 17 | 434 |
A crossbow bolt dropped past me, striking into the burning deck. |
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| 18 | 21 |
I stood on the icy, wind-struck deck of the Dorna, my back turned to the storm. |
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| 18 | 34 |
The deck was suddenly washed with cold waves, and then the waters had slipped back. |
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| 18 | 73 |
I had meat brought for the tarn, great chunks of tarsk, thighs and shoulders, which I had thrown before it, on the cold deck. |
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| 18 | 88 |
He looked at me, and, flustered, looked down at the deck. |
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| 18 | 89 |
He kicked at the deck. |
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| 18 | 108 |
Then, moving about, on the pitching deck, in the sleet, we matched blades. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 213 |
The two extra crewmen, standing on the deck, threw great looped ropes over heavy iron mooring cleats fastened in the pier. |
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| 8 | 215 |
There is no rear railing on the barges and the barge deck matches the pier in height. |
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| 8 | 217 |
A man came forward and untied the straps leading to the nose rings of the bosk from the bosk ring on the deck. |
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| 11 | 1167 |
It was my hope to become the preferred pleasure slave of a wealthy master, and to reside in one of the high towers of Ar, Gor's largest and most luxurious city, and to have silks and jewels wherewith to deck myself, and no work to do, saving perhaps pleasing my master or guests to whom he might, if ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 2 |
"High on the beach!" His slave, Cara, in a brief woolen tunic, one-piece, woven of the wool of the Hurt, sleeveless, barefoot on the deck, graced by his collar, stood behind him and to his left. |
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| 2 | 24 |
Others, on the deck, hauled on the long brail ropes. |
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| 2 | 69 |
The oarsmen sit their thwarts on the first deck, exposed to the weather. |
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| 2 | 75 |
It is really only the space between the keel and the deck of the first hold. |
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| 2 | 316 |
"Chain them to the deck," I told Thurnock. |
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| 2 | 517 |
The two male slaves I had purchased lay on their sides on the deck, their feet and legs pulled up, their wrists together, in their chains. |
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| 2 | 518 |
"To Lydius!" called Thurnock to the helmsman on the helm deck. |
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| 2 | 534 |
Chain them as they were before, to the deck". |
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| 2 | 562 |
In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained by the neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy, sanded wood. |
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| 2 | 659 |
They were sitting now, on the deck, but not cross-legged. |
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| 2 | 688 |
The girls, chained on the sanded deck of the stern quarter, fastened by their yard of chain, blocked by the kitchen area and behind crates and lashed boxes, could not see what transpired. |
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| 2 | 691 |
The girls were thrown forward on their belly on the sanded deck. |
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| 2 | 696 |
The lower hold is the tiny crawl space, of some eighteen inches, between the deck of the first hold and the curved hull of the ship, divided by its keel. |
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| 2 | 701 |
The girls were carried from the deck. |
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| 2 | 732 |
Only now both of them thrust their heads to the deck at my feet. |
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| 5 | 12 |
They had been, by my orders, sanding the deck before the stern castle. |
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| 5 | 338 |
On the deck Sheera stood, her feet widely apart, to face me. |
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| 5 | 346 |
In a moment, Rim was again on deck, and he, too, stood watching. |
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| 5 | 380 |
She fell to her knees on the deck, head down, hair falling forward, revealing the collar at her neck, and wept. |
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| 6 | 11 |
I saw that there was a pan of water within her reach and, on the planking of the hold deck, some pieces of bread and a vegetable. |
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| 6 | 18 |
She stretched and ran like an exultant little animal on the deck. |
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| 6 | 188 |
On her deck I could see springals and catapults. |
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| 22 | 968 |
I heard Thurnock's steps going down to the deck from the stern castle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 76 |
The Forkbeard said nothing to her, but, the next day, when the sun was hot on the deck, and he released her for her exercise, and he walked about the deck, she, though a free woman, heeled him perfectly. |
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| 22 | 224 |
Then he threw her back to the deck, where, on her stomach, and elbows, head down, hair falling to the deck, she lay. |
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| 2 | 165 |
At night the men sleep on the deck, in waterproof bags, sewn from the skins of the sea sleen; in such a bag, also, they store their gear, generally beneath their bench. |
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| 3 | 392 |
Ivar Forkbeard reached down to the planking on the deck and picked up Aelgifu's shoes and hose, where they had been discarded when they had been removed and her ankles bound. |
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| 4 | 101 |
Some slept on the benches or between them, some under the awning and some not, or on the exposed, elevated stem deck. |
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| 4 | 158 |
She stumbled across the loose deck planking and stood, hair before her face, before us. |
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| 4 | 167 |
Below, some two inches deep, about a foot below the deck planking, about two inches over the keel beam, black and briny, shifted the bilge water. |
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| 4 | 210 |
"I am finished," said the slender girl, returning to where we sat, and kneeling on the deck. |
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| 4 | 219 |
The blond-haired girl rose to her feet and surrendered the scoop to Gorm, who put it away, and then closed the deck planking. |
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| 4 | 220 |
She then went to one of the large, wooden, covered water buckets, roped to the deck, and in it submerged a water-skin. |
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| 4 | 265 |
The slender blondish girl quickly approached him, and knelt before him on the deck. |
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| 5 | 136 |
I could detect its captain, doubtless the great Thorgard himself, on its stern deck, above the helmsman, with a glass of the builders. |
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| 5 | 161 |
A javelin struck in the deck. |
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| 5 | 184 |
There was consternation on the deck of Black Sleen. |
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| 5 | 190 |
The javelin struck the deck. |
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| 5 | 313 |
I helped the Forkbeard and his men lift the longboat to the deck. |
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| 6 | 77 |
Ivar Forkbeard, crying out, leaped from moving oar to moving oar, proceeding from the oars nearest the stem on the port side to the stern, then leaping back onto the deck at the stern quarter and leaping again on the oars, this time on the starboard side, and proceeding from the oar nearest the ster... |
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| 22 | 59 |
She had been carrying tospits and vegetables to the deck locker, to fill it. |
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| 22 | 71 |
"Hurry," said the girl behind her, "or we will be beaten!" The girl moaned, and staggered to the gangplank, and, slowly, foot by foot, her bare feet pressed by the weight deeply into the rough boards, climbed, carrying her burden, to the deck of the ship. |
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| 22 | 294 |
Spread it on the deck, between the benches. |
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| 22 | 301 |
She knelt, turning her head and putting its right side to the deck. |
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| 22 | 302 |
I heard the chain touch the deck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 26 |
The lateral arrangement is more convenient in unloading; the square arrangement provides a more convenient distribution of deck space, supplying superior crew areas at stem and stern. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 21 |
"Put me in a deck cage!" These were small cages, lashed down, sometimes kept on the deck of a crowded slave ship. |
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| 16 | 162 |
The deck is kept clean by the girls in the deck cages. |
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| 16 | 200 |
"How ugly you are, Below-Deck Girl," said one of the girls in a small deck cage. |
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| 16 | 235 |
I and the other four girls, who had been on deck at the same time, were seized by the arms and dragged along the deck. |
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| 18 | 26 |
I smiled to myself, seeing Narla hurry down the ramp to fetch his paga; on the slave ship she, in her deck cage, had once insulted me, demeaning my beauty and referring to me as a "Below-Deck Girl". |
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| 22 | 177 |
I screamed and saw the new ship, suddenly large, seem to lift itself in the water, and then heard the shattering splintering wreckage of wood and the loud swift swirl of water the ship struck and men screaming and saw the lines loose wild the yard and sail leaning awry the deck shifting and becoming... |
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| 16 | 32 |
It is the deck-cage girls who are most often used for the sport of the sailors. |
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| 16 | 37 |
A cage door need only be opened and the girl pulled to the deck, or thrown across the tarpaulins. |
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| 16 | 38 |
"Put me in a deck cage, Master!" I had begged. |
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| 16 | 132 |
"Let me go on deck. |
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| 16 | 145 |
"You each," he said, "in your turn, will have half an Ahn on the deck". |
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| 16 | 160 |
We had then been permitted to ascend to the deck, to empty the wastes and seepage. |
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| 16 | 163 |
The girls in the deck cages are permitted to keep their hair. |
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| 16 | 164 |
The hair of the below-deck girls, mercifully, is shaved off; indeed, our body hair, too, was shaved off, completely. |
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| 16 | 166 |
After we were cleaned we were leashed and exercised for a few minutes on the deck. |
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| 16 | 167 |
Then each of us, for the remainder of our time on deck, the precious half of an Ahn, was chained in a kneeling position, our hands before our bodies. |
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| 16 | 194 |
The deck was white and smooth to my knees. |
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| 16 | 195 |
It had been rubbed with deck stones, and washed down and scrubbed. |
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| 16 | 196 |
The deck-cage girls, on their hands and knees, ankles shackled, attended to this work. |
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| 16 | 199 |
It was precious being above deck. |
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| 16 | 202 |
She was auburn-haired, and, like all the slave girls on the Clouds of Telnus, whether cage girls or below-deck girls, stripped; girls are not permitted clothing on a slave ship. |
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| 16 | 207 |
I would have liked to have stood over her, her control slave, whip in hand, when she had scrubbed on the deck. |
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| 16 | 211 |
It could not be seen from the deck. |
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| 16 | 217 |
Men ran here and there about the deck. |
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| 16 | 219 |
Some lashed down loose objects on the deck. |
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| 16 | 234 |
"Get those slaves below deck," called an officer. |
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| 16 | 242 |
Then the girls from the deck cages, too, were taken to the hatch and rudely ordered to descend into the hold. |
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| 16 | 244 |
The twenty girls from the deck were then with us. |
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| 17 | 34 |
The short fat man led the way toward myself and the auburn-haired girl, who had been in a deck cage. |
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| 21 | 74 |
I knelt near the foot of the gangplank, leading to the deck of a ramship, the Jewel of Jad. |
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| 21 | 82 |
He then thrust me up the gangplank, onto the deck of the ship. |
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| 21 | 100 |
On the small, high stern deck, I saw the captain. |
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| 21 | 122 |
I trembled on the deck. |
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| 21 | 191 |
Then, when I was whimpering, I would be pulled to the deck. |
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| 22 | 1 |
What Occurred Southeast of Cos I walked about the deck of the Jewel of Jad. |
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| 22 | 2 |
The deck was hot. |
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| 22 | 12 |
I loved to walk the deck, and feel the wind and the spray. |
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| 22 | 67 |
For all the restraints placed upon me I might have been a free woman, save that the distinction between us, apart from my tunic and collar, would have been clear when a man snapped his fingers and pointed to the deck at his feet, or whistled for me in the night, and I must run to him, as might a pet... |
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| 22 | 78 |
He was high above the deck. |
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| 22 | 80 |
"Where away?" called an officer, on the high deck, whipping out a small telescope. |
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| 22 | 92 |
The Captain of the Jewel of Jad hurried to the high deck. |
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| 22 | 100 |
Another officer ascended to the high deck. |
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| 22 | 103 |
"It is low in the water," said the second officer, he who had just come to the high deck. |
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| 22 | 149 |
He fled to the high deck. |
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| 22 | 180 |
Then the deck of the Jewel of Jad began to tilt toward the water, where we had been struck, the water pouring into the hold. |
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| 22 | 185 |
The deck was awash. |
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| 22 | 187 |
On the high deck the captain, alone, stood, his hand on the rail. |
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| 22 | 199 |
He began to descend from the high deck, toward me. |
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| 22 | 256 |
"Be silent, Woman!" said an angry man, who was on the deck. |
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| 22 | 266 |
Outside and above decks we could hear shouting, and the sound of sprung ropes, as the canisters of flaming pitch were lofted from the deck catapults. |
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| 22 | 272 |
She had ascended the stairs, going to the deck. |
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| 22 | 275 |
On deck there were dark lanterns. |
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| 22 | 506 |
There was not much other noise on deck. |
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| 22 | 524 |
We climbed to the deck, scrambling, wildly. |
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| 22 | 546 |
I screamed, and fell, thrown to the deck. |
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| 22 | 550 |
The mast of the struck ship, lowered, had come loose from its deck lashings, and had plunged through the railing and slipped into the water. |
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| 22 | 720 |
I climbed to the deck of our quarry, she whom we had sought, the Luciana of Telnus, forcing aside my alarmed men, but moments before she went under. |
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| 22 | 732 |
I remained on our galley, its deck pitching and awash. |
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| 24 | 17 |
To look at him one knew, though it was the deck of a galley he bestrode, that he was of the warriors. |
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| 24 | 282 |
"I would speak with you upon the high deck," said the man to Clitus Vitellius, "and I would speak with you alone". |
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| 24 | 286 |
"Come with me to the high deck," said the man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 359 |
Sometimes, late at night, on deck, under the moons of Gor, I have felt this. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 |
In their right hands, grasped, were deck stones, soft, white stones, rounded, which are used to smooth and sand the boards of the deck. |
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| 6 | 14 |
Later, when finished with the deck stones, they would again rinse and, again on their hands and knees, with rags, dry the deck. |
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| 6 | 48 |
Slowly the Palms of Schendi swung half to port, and the great yards above the deck, pulleys creaking, lines adjusted by quick sailors, swung almost parallel to the deck. |
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| 1 | 497 |
"She could have been, of course, in a deck cage," I said. |
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| 1 | 498 |
These are small cages, fastened on deck. |
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| 1 | 510 |
"She was not stripped until she stood on the deck of the ship of Bejar and was put in chains with the other captured women". |
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| 4 | 957 |
Ulafi, merchant and captain, stood upon the deck of the stern castle. |
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| 5 | 15 |
There were tears in her eyes, as she knelt on the deck. |
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| 5 | 44 |
I looked at the Earth girl, who had been left kneeling on the deck, the second officer having left her there. |
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| 5 | 158 |
I had scrubbed her the first day out from Port Kar, she kneeling in a tub, with sea water and a deck brush. |
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| 5 | 170 |
Yesterday the blond-haired girl had been permitted to walk about the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 333 |
It was chained, at four points, to cleats in the deck, that it not shift its position overmuch in rough weather. |
10 |
| 5 | 406 |
He walked down the deck, toward the stern castle. |
10 |
| 5 | 418 |
These were beside my sea bag, on the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 650 |
After a time, restless, I got up and paced the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 653 |
Two helmsmen stood below him, on the helm deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 681 |
If she had been mine I would have dragged her from the cage and thrown her upon the deck. |
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| 6 | 10 |
The two girls, on their hands and knees on the deck, linked together by a gleaming neck chain, some five feet in length, attached to two steel work collars, these fitted over their regular collars, looked up. |
10 |
| 6 | 13 |
Earlier they had scrubbed and rinsed and, with rags, on their hands and knees, dried the deck. |
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| 6 | 15 |
Had sailors been doing these things they, of course, would have dried the deck by simply mopping it down. |
10 |
| 6 | 92 |
Sea water was not brought to the deck from over the side. |
10 |
| 6 | 100 |
If onagri or springals lay unassembled in the hold they were not yet being brought to the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 107 |
Since I, from my lower elevation, a few feet above the deck, by the mainmast, could see their canvas, I knew that their lookouts, from their superior elevations, could see the Palms of Schendi. |
10 |
| 6 | 118 |
I lowered myself now to the deck, hand by hand. |
10 |
| 6 | 152 |
The two girls then stood by the rail, lovely, naked, neck-chained together, watching the passing ships, their bare feet on the smooth boards of the deck of the Palms of Schendi. |
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| 6 | 170 |
"Yes, Master," they said and, with a rustle of chain, fell again to their knees and, seizing up the deck stones, once more, Shoka near them, vigorously addressed themselves to their labors. |
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| 6 | 198 |
The deck was smoothed and white, ropes were neatly coiled, gear was stashed and secured, hatches were battened, and the brass and fittings were polished. |
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| 6 | 210 |
Oarsmen, at the command of the first officer, a tall fellow named Gudi, he standing now on the helm deck, slid their great levers through the thole ports. |
10 |
| 6 | 212 |
The girls knelt on the deck before the stem castle, their wrists bound before them, lines leading to the rings. |
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| 6 | 369 |
The blond-haired barbarian looked across the deck to Sasi. |
10 |
| 6 | 372 |
The blonde lifted her bound wrists, the line running up to the golden ring in the left ear of the kailiauk head, through it, and back to the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 388 |
"On your bellies," said Shoka to them, and the two girls lay on the deck. |
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| 6 | 419 |
Better than that she would have been chained in the hold, to a ring, or caged on deck, the tarpaulin thrown over the cage, that she might not detract from the splendor of his entrance into his harbor. |
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| 6 | 511 |
It then, from the ring, returned to the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 512 |
The two seamen then held the line at the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 516 |
One sailor held the rope then while the other secured the line to a ring on the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 517 |
He made a loop in the line, passed the free end through the deck ring, brought the end up through the loop, about the line, and down through the loop again, then tightened the knot. |
10 |
| 6 | 536 |
As the Palms of Schendi, her canvas now taken in and the long yards swung parallel with the deck, oars lifting and sweeping, moved past the wharves many men stopped working, setting down their burdens, to wave us good greetings. |
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| 6 | 662 |
One seaman held Sasi's rope taut, above the deck ring. |
10 |
| 6 | 666 |
He placed her on her back on the deck, her ankles still bound, her wrists, still tied, back over her head. |
10 |
| 11 | 229 |
I, and other women, placed in a net, were swung to the deck of the pirate ship. |
10 |
| 11 | 230 |
On its deck we were stripped and put in chains. |
10 |
| 57 | 203 |
He pulled Janice to her feet, holding her head at his hip, and then, leading her behind him, bent over, conducted her up the gangplank to the deck of the Palms of Schendi. |
10 |
| 57 | 209 |
There were as yet two empty slave cages on the deck of the Palms of Schendi, cages for which I had arranged. |
10 |
| 57 | 240 |
Evelyn was led away, drawn by the hair, bent over, to be thrust in one of the small slave cages on the deck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 3 |
The deck of the low river galley shifted beneath our feet, as the ship nosed through the inlet waters toward the secluded stronghold of Policrates. |
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| 29 | 251 |
I, standing on the prow, motioned with my right arm to the oar master, and he, in turn, not on the stern deck, but among the benches, spoke softly to the men. |
10 |
| 29 | 263 |
I saw Callimachus thrown into the water, and the men, suddenly, lifted up with the galley, some clinging to benches, others rolling on the deck. |
10 |
| 33 | 3 |
The single mast had been lowered and lay secured, tied, lengthwise on the deck, between the benches. |
10 |
| 33 | 240 |
I stood, for the moment unable to move, on the deck, at the bow, below the stem castle of the galley. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 26 |
They were emerging from longboats and must climb up and over the bulwarks; they could not, bulwark to bulwark, leap to our deck; the advantages were fully ours; only one reached the deck, and we threw his lifeless body, thrust through in a dozen places, back into the Vosk, after its retreating fello... |
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| 12 | 106 |
In such close harborage it would be possible to walk across the sea yard, moving from deck to deck. |
10 |
| 1 | 72 |
Here and there, on the deck, there were buckets of sand, and here and there, on ropes, some of water. |
10 |
| 1 | 78 |
On the steps of the stern castle, below the helm deck, the oar master would be watching. |
10 |
| 1 | 92 |
A heavy stone, from some catapult, struck down through the deck near me, fired doubtless from some other galley. |
10 |
| 1 | 103 |
A clay globe, shattering, of burning pitch struck across our deck. |
10 |
| 1 | 113 |
A raking of arrows hailed upon our deck, many bristling then, too, in the stem castle. |
10 |
| 1 | 150 |
When the largest one fired I could feel the reaction in the deck boards beneath my feet. |
10 |
| 1 | 156 |
Burning pitch spattering and exploding out of a clay vessel skidded across the deck. |
10 |
| 3 | 14 |
Gear, too, and catapult stones, had been slid to the stern deck. |
10 |
| 3 | 27 |
I flung myself to the deck. |
10 |
| 3 | 30 |
The impact had slid me back on the deck for a dozen feet. |
10 |
| 3 | 34 |
The forward deck of the enemy was already awash. |
10 |
| 3 | 216 |
Then I lay down on the smoothed deck, near the starboard rail, and, near a coil of mooring rope, fell soon asleep. |
10 |
| 4 | 1 |
The Wedge; Rams and Shearing Blades "How many are there?" I heard an officer inquire of Callimachus, above and behind me, on the deck of the stem castle. |
10 |
| 4 | 113 |
I saw men from the Tais board her, moving about on the tilted deck. |
10 |
| 4 | 235 |
"I recommend, Captain," said an officer above and behind me on the stem-castle deck, "immediate withdrawal". |
10 |
| 5 | 16 |
The bowman, below me on the deck, and to my left, unleashed an arrow, at point-blank range across the gunnels. |
10 |
| 5 | 20 |
I leaped onto the deck of the pirate vessel, slashing about myself. |
10 |
| 5 | 32 |
Then he was again on the deck of the Tina. |
10 |
| 5 | 52 |
I passed my blade into the fellow's body, and he fell, turning, from the platform, arrows spilling, like rattling sticks, to the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 57 |
Burning pitch flamed upon the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 59 |
An arrow struck into the deck at my feet. |
10 |
| 5 | 60 |
We sped down the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 70 |
Our deck was run with blood. |
10 |
| 5 | 146 |
How attractive, how inviting, they must appear to the predators of the Voskjard! A mighty rock, then, suddenly, not more than ten feet from my bench, plummeted through our deck, splintering the wood upward, exploding it upward, in a shower of sharpened fragments. |
10 |
| 5 | 185 |
On the deck of the Portia there seemed no more than fifteen or twenty figures. |
10 |
| 6 | 103 |
"There is shouting on the stern deck of the Olivia," said a man, rising at the bench. |
10 |
| 6 | 127 |
Callimachus, alone on the deck of the stem castle, with a glass of the Builders, surveyed the fleet, flung out across the horizon, advancing astern. |
10 |
| 7 | 2 |
I discarded my sword, and seized up a knife from the deck. |
10 |
| 8 | 52 |
Perhaps when she was on deck she was even clothed, not set to scrubbing naked, and such. |
10 |
| 8 | 54 |
Indeed, on deck she might even have been robed and veiled. |
10 |
| 8 | 124 |
A round of paga and a girl is a pleasant way to relax after one's watch on deck. |
10 |
| 8 | 154 |
"When Reginald returned from the holding of Policrates, doubtless you met him, either on deck, or in the cabin, as a naked, kneeling slave, licking and kissing at his sea boots, begging to serve him". |
10 |
| 8 | 361 |
I then heard him laugh again, and then turn about and climb five stairs, which must have led to the main deck, from a short companionway. |
10 |
| 9 | 13 |
In a moment I stood, shivering, on the deck of the Tina. |
10 |
| 9 | 24 |
"There seems light and consternation on the deck of the Tamira," said a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 28 |
"What have we here?" asked a man, lifting a lantern, indicating the girl, who was kneeling on the deck at our feet. |
10 |
| 9 | 35 |
Immediately, kneeling, she put her head down to the deck. |
10 |
| 9 | 288 |
I could hear feet on the deck over our heads. |
10 |
| 9 | 308 |
In moments, helped by crewmen, we had attained the deck of the Tina. |
10 |
| 12 | 60 |
"Who is on the deck of the stem castle?" I asked Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 12 | 81 |
The identity of the third man on the deck of the stem castle of the lead galley, we learned, in the exchange of identifications, was Alcibron, who had been the commander of the Tuka. |
10 |
| 16 | 209 |
In a moment, crouching, I was on the deck of the ship. |
10 |
| 16 | 216 |
He slumped to the deck. |
10 |
| 16 | 220 |
I thrust the sword into the wood above me, where I could seize it, and, putting my feet and hands into the ornate carving of the stem castle, climbed a yard and a half from the deck. |
10 |
| 16 | 232 |
I drew the sword from the wood and leaped down to the deck. |
10 |
| 16 | 248 |
"Doubtless one may be found on deck," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 249 |
Scarcely had we climbed to the deck than the pirate ship to starboard, shifting, grated laterally along the flagship. |
10 |
| 16 | 278 |
Not far off I could hear the clash of weaponry betokening yet another fierce ingress of boarders upon the deck of some vessel of hapless buccaneers. |
10 |
| 16 | 317 |
In a moment I was over the rail and on the deck of Spined Tharlarion. |
10 |
| 16 | 327 |
I hastened down the deck and raced up the stairs to the stern castle. |
10 |
| 16 | 333 |
"Now, on the deck, on your belly, to be stripped and bound". |
10 |
| 16 | 335 |
I grinned, and, loosing the wrist sling of the sword, flung it into the deck beside me. |
10 |
| 16 | 336 |
He looked at the sword, upright in the deck beside me. |
10 |
| 16 | 344 |
I dragged him back by his ankles to the center of the small, high deck of the stern castle, where I put him on his belly. |
10 |
| 16 | 389 |
I waved to the fellows of Turmus, swarming onto the already listing deck of Spined Tharlarion. |
10 |
| 16 | 394 |
I threw him on his belly, on the listing, awash deck, at my feet. |
10 |
| 16 | 404 |
Ragnar Voskjard tried to rise, but my foot, thrust between his shoulder blades, pressed him rudely back to the deck. |
10 |
| 16 | 409 |
I then dragged him, half strangling him, up the sloping deck to the starboard rail, where, with a swift knot, I tied him to one of the uprights supporting the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 414 |
Forty feet away, down the deck, amidships, sword in hand, half crouching, blade ready, slowly approaching, I saw Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 16 | 434 |
Sometimes we were ankle-deep in the water on the deck and, sometimes, near the port rail, we fought in water to our knees. |
10 |
| 16 | 463 |
I thrust the sword into the deck. |
10 |
| 16 | 464 |
"I have placed the sword in the deck," I told Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 16 | 470 |
I picked up the tunic from the deck and, unhurriedly, tore some strips from it. |
10 |
| 16 | 503 |
At that moment the deck of the flagship of Policrates gave a lurch in the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 508 |
He tried to free himself, but succeeded in doing little more than squirm choking on the deck, a stripped, tethered prisoner. |
10 |
| 18 | 635 |
I was thrown to its deck, near the foot of the steps leading up to the height of the stem castle. |
10 |
| 20 | 36 |
At the kennel, incidentally, I had arranged for Shirley to receive the whipping which had been due to her for having lifted her head without permission on the deck of the Tina. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 277 |
Samos stepped forth onto the deck of the barge, at the stern. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 112 |
"It is a severe storm," said Ivar Forkbeard, near me, on the deck of his serpent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 10 |
Aemilianus sat on the deck, rather before the steps leading up to the helm deck and, above that, to the height of the stern castle, leaning against a backrest of canvas and rope. |
10 |
| 20 | 395 |
I saw two of the oarsmen lift her from the height of the plank, down, between the thwarts, and then place her kneeling, behind them, amidships, on the deck. |
10 |
| 20 | 398 |
The two free women who had had the former Lady Publia in their care were courteously directed forward, where, before and about the stern castle and even on the small bow deck, were gathered several women and children. |
10 |
| 21 | 17 |
The others of the wounded sat on the deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 25 |
It was remarkable to see the difference in the fellows from Ar's Station, now that they had had some food and a decent night's sleep, though only stretched out on the crowded deck of a galley. |
10 |
| 21 | 47 |
Back by the port side of the stairs leading to the helm deck, a few feet from where Aemilianus sat, knelt Shirley, his beautiful blond slave. |
10 |
| 21 | 95 |
Then she was sat on the deck, before Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 21 | 107 |
The neck chain was rather long and if she were to stand some of it would have lain upon the deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 111 |
She sat on the deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 133 |
"You may put your head to the deck," said Calliodorus. |
10 |
| 21 | 134 |
The girl did so, putting her palms on the deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 143 |
I put it on the deck beside her, heavy and sodden, with the rest of the gag. |
10 |
| 21 | 217 |
She slipped to her belly on the deck, her hands forward, beneath her shoulders. |
10 |
| 21 | 218 |
She lifted herself a little from the deck, lifting her head, still half concealed in hood, to Calliodorus and Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 21 | 530 |
She squirmed, kneeling on the deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 621 |
Two men took the former Lady Publia, now an unnamed female slave, by the arms and pulled her to one side, where they put her on her belly on the deck, her chained wrists under her. |
10 |
| 21 | 628 |
She looked to one side and saw the former Lady Publia, naked, in sirik, terrified, lying on her belly, on the deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 695 |
The links made a tiny sound on the deck, near her ankles. |
10 |
| 21 | 713 |
I think that any man might have been impressed with her, whether he found her as a free prisoner on the deck of the Tais or in some slave market, chained on a bench, awaiting a buyer. |
10 |
| 21 | 753 |
"It had not pleased me," I said, "that this woman," and here I indicated the Lady Claudia by placing my foot against her, and thrusting her forward, so that she fell to all fours in her chains on the deck, "was to be impaled". |
10 |
| 21 | 769 |
The former Lady Publia, the nameless, chained slave lying on her belly, on the deck, turned her head to look at me. |
10 |
| 21 | 882 |
"Put your head to the deck," he said. |
10 |
| 21 | 1058 |
Both the girls then bent forward and, putting the palms of their hands on the deck, lowered their heads to the boards. |
10 |
| 21 | 1419 |
"We will chain them by their necks to a ring in the deck, aft," said Calliodorus. |
10 |
| 21 | 1440 |
"I will, then," he said, "with your permission, deck the ship with flags, and bunting and banners, and put prominently the flag of Ar's Station on the port stern line, and fly that of Port Cos on the starboard stem line". |
10 |
| 21 | 1474 |
He then climbed the steps behind Aemilianus, to the helm deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 1532 |
I then proceeded farther forward, taking my way beside free women, and some children, and climbed to the tiny bow deck, forward of the stem castle, immediately behind the prow. |
10 |
| 22 | 3 |
Her neck was chained to a ring in the deck. |
10 |
| 23 | 3 |
Her neck was chained to a ring on the deck. |
10 |
| 23 | 189 |
"I love being a slave," she said, "and serving!" * * * * We heard a fellow stirring about, on the deck. |
10 |
| 23 | 213 |
Immediately, before her keeper, she put her head down to the deck. |
10 |
| 23 | 266 |
He then thrust the heavy key he carried into the lock at the back of her hinged collar, and dropped it to the side, near the ring, with the coil of chain, on the deck. |
10 |
| 23 | 280 |
There, standing on the tiny bow deck, I looked downriver. |
10 |
| 24 | 1 |
Port Cos "There," said Calliodorus, standing on the bow deck, "is the pharos of Port Cos". |
10 |
| 24 | 14 |
Two narrow beams, with attachment points for tackle, lay at the sides of the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 61 |
I had seen that even the briefly tunicked slave girls on deck, kneeling together amidships, properties of various masters on board, were eager, happy and excited. |
10 |
| 24 | 98 |
Two slaves were brought forward, to stand on the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 104 |
They were then put prone on the bow deck, one on each side, their manacled wrists extended before them, over their head. |
10 |
| 24 | 119 |
A curule chair was brought for Aemilianus and set on the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 159 |
I did not withdraw from the bow deck, as no one seemed to pay me much attention. |
10 |
| 24 | 163 |
Too, of course, prone on the deck, in their shackles, their shackles and chain-and-leather harnesses attached to the beam chains, were the two slaves. |
10 |
| 24 | 176 |
"Stand," said the keeper of the two slaves, one of the fellows of Port Cos, on the bow deck, to the two slaves. |
10 |
| 24 | 182 |
Then they stood there, softly, beautifully erect, on the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 190 |
One of the fellows on the bow deck waved to them. |
10 |
| 24 | 229 |
"Oh!" said Publia, as one of the fellows of Port Cos lifted her up lightly in his arms and threw her over the rail of the port side of the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 230 |
There was a sound of chain, pulling against the beam ring, the links suddenly growing taut, and Publia, suspended from the beam, in her chain-and-leather harness, hung at the port side, out, about a yard from the rail, her feet now slightly below the level of the bow deck, over the water. |
10 |
| 24 | 248 |
Then, a moment later, her hands pulled high over her head, suspended in her harness, she hung off the starboard rail of the bow deck, as Publia did off the port rail. |
10 |
| 24 | 291 |
I heard the sudden crack of a long, plaited, single-bladed slave whip on the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 313 |
Most of those about Aemilianus then withdrew from the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 436 |
Two of the fellows on the bow deck already had the forward lines in hand. |
10 |
| 24 | 528 |
"What manner of slaves are those?" called a fellow on the pier, apparently, by his garb, a Cosian, to the keeper on the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 603 |
Aemilianus, pausing now and then to wave to the crowd, and partly supported by Surilius, and most of those with him were conducted back from the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 618 |
When Publia had been drawn closer to the rail two other fellows reached out and pulled her to the bow deck where they knelt her, in the shackles, in the harness, still attached to the chain. |
10 |
| 24 | 619 |
In a moment he, and the others, similarly, had retrieved Claudia and she, too, knelt on the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 831 |
Then, my blade over my shoulder, I lifted my hand to the deck officer and took leave of the Tais. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 80 |
On the deck of the barge, toward the stern, I could see that the small, slatted windows on the port side of the barge had been burst in. |
10 |
| 13 | 194 |
The officer looked up, puzzled, and then, paying me no mind, went up the stairs to the stern deck. |
10 |
| 13 | 197 |
"It was as though the rence were alive!" I emerged onto the stern deck, blinking against the sun, where my keeper, who was waiting for me, unlooping the rope leash from the yoke, and, keeping me on a short tether, about a foot Gorean in length, the remaining portion of the leash coiled in his hand, ... |
10 |
| 13 | 326 |
"The delta is so huge," said a fellow beside us, on the deck, looking out. |
10 |
| 13 | 355 |
"He is dead," said a fellow from the deck of the captain's barge, where the lookout had fallen, the fins of a quarrel protruding from his breast. |
10 |
| 24 | 47 |
I then sheathed the sword and went out onto the deck, where the girl waited. |
10 |
| 24 | 157 |
On the other hand, from the deck, which is on a higher level, one can easily look down, and within". |
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| 27 | 336 |
For example, being put on her belly over a table, her wrists tied to the opposite legs of it, is a very different experience for her than being fastened down on the wave-washed deck of a Torvaldsland serpent, subject to the attentions of its crew. |
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| 44 | 273 |
He had probably been on the deck of the barge. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 14 |
The belly itself, of course, remains in contact with the surface on which one lies, the grass, the dirt, the gravel, the deck, the floor, the tiles, whatever the surface may be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | 107 |
He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 101 |
Three ramps were involved, one leading from the third lower deck to the second lower deck, one from the second lower deck to the first lower deck, and one from the first lower deck to the top deck, or open deck, once a great hatch had been rolled back. |
10 |
| 38 | 669 |
I made my way upward, from deck to deck, emerged onto the open deck, and went aft, to the stern castle. |
10 |
| 38 | 100 |
The first area was on the first deck below the open deck, and the second and third areas were on the next lower decks. |
10 |
| 1 | 280 |
Had she not been so, in one way or another, in her dreams, on the smooth, scarlet tiles of a conqueror's palace, on the deep-piled rug within the tent of a desert chieftain, on the deck of a pirate's vessel? In a pathological culture, of course, many things are kept concealed, often those which are ... |
10 |
| 2 | 240 |
If they are, they are taken aboard and chained, sometimes on deck, sometimes in the hold. |
10 |
| 38 | 99 |
Three areas were involved, each on its own deck. |
10 |
| 38 | 372 |
Officers and crew often slept on the deck, under the stars, or at the side of the ship, on land, if it were beached at night. |
10 |
| 38 | 374 |
Slaves often petitioned, most piteously, to be permitted on deck, though it be but to be chained to a stanchion, or caged. |
10 |
| 41 | 69 |
"Ho!" I cried, suddenly, frightened, to the officer of the watch, and climbed the steps past the helm deck, to the stern castle. |
10 |
| 43 | 67 |
It was now toward the tenth Ahn, the Gorean noon, and Lord Nishida and I were met on the main deck, amidships. |
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| 44 | 1 |
I Use a Slave; I Walk the Deck Alone; The Sea is Beautiful; The Ship Proceeds Apace "Is Master troubled?" asked Cecily. |
10 |
| 44 | 126 |
I then dressed, and drew my sea cloak about me, left the cabin, ascended the stairs in the companionway, and went to the main deck, and thence to the stem castle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 2 |
"Deck, deck, deck!" I heard. |
10 |
| 7 | 57 |
It carried from deck to deck. |
10 |
| 7 | 59 |
There were two major keeping areas, for female slaves, off two long corridors, one on the Venna deck, and one lower, on the Kasra deck, these two corridors, as others, apart from them, leading fore and aft, the length of the vessel. |
10 |
| 9 | 37 |
The highest area was on the first deck below the open deck. |
10 |
| 9 | 91 |
As noted, the highest area was on the first deck below the open deck, the lower two areas having access to it by ramps. |
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| 9 | 199 |
The birds were usually saddled and mounted in a narrow, shuttered area, and then led to one ramp or another, the first two ramps each leading to a higher deck, the last to the open deck itself, whence the bird might take flight. |
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| 9 | 204 |
By the side passages, and companionways, and our progress, I took it we had ascended higher than the two lower levels of the housing area for tarns, and were near the upper deck, or open deck. |
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| 12 | 88 |
The deck was now muchly deserted, given the darkness and weather, save for the helmsman, the stem-castle watch, the slave, and two men maintaining the deck watch. |
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| 12 | 554 |
"It is strange, is it not," I said, "that the deck watch failed to note such intruders, and that the alarm bar did not ring until men were pouring onto the deck?" "Do you think it strange?" asked the tarnsman. |
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| 12 | 761 |
By now, given the ringing of the bar, one supposed that Aëtius, and perhaps even Tersites, and the major officers quartered astern, closest to the helmsman, had come to the command deck, the stern-castle deck, whence orders might be most conveniently and immediately conveyed to the helmdeck, some... |
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| 16 | 77 |
In an Ehn he was on the open deck, hurrying to the starboard rail, where he stood beside Cabot, his hands on the rail, looking over, past the galley, to the deck of the seeming derelict. |
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| 16 | 98 |
The boarding party below had been armed, of course, but on the great ship itself, on deck, few were armed, only the officers, some guards, and the deck watch. |
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| 16 | 180 |
At that point a grapnel, attached to a length of chain, and that to a course of knotted rope, looped over the rail, struck the deck, scraped back across the deck, and was caught against the rail. |
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| 19 | 88 |
I saw no change aft, on the helm deck, or the stern-castle deck. |
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| 19 | 99 |
The helm deck and stern-castle deck were empty. |
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| 23 | 66 |
When Tereus withdrew, storming away, in compliance with the instructions of the deck watch, it is said the eyes of Rutilius, glistening, followed him, and that he smiled, and then turned about, and hobbled away, poking at the deck with his makeshift crutch. |
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| 2 | 33 |
The mast and yard, with its furled sail, were then lashed down, parallel to the deck. |
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| 2 | 178 |
There was a wrenching of wood and the cries of men, and the stem and stern of the long ship began to rise out of the water, and the planking amidships, shattering, pressed down, sank into the sea, and then the stem, I clinging to it, collapsed back into the water, and doubtless, on the other side, f... |
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| 2 | 269 |
I was thrown on my belly to the deck between the thwarts. |
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| 2 | 272 |
I lay on the deck between the thwarts, naked, and freezing. |
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| 2 | 276 |
I was pressed down to the deck. |
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| 2 | 284 |
I then lay quietly on the deck, angry and sullen, helpless, as helpless as a trussed vulo, or, I suppose, a female slave. |
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| 3 | 6 |
I had not been on the main deck. |
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| 3 | 1370 |
Only once have I been allowed on the top deck. |
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| 3 | 1546 |
"They are going to kill you!" And then she fled up the stairs to a higher deck. |
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| 4 | 6 |
I had not been on the main deck. |
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| 5 | 1 |
What Occurred on the Main Deck of the Great Ship; Tersites; A Storm is Imminent The sixth passage hand was done, the autumnal equinox had been marked in the scribal calendar of Jad, Se'Kara was done, and, as nearly as I could tell, it was the third or fourth day in the seventh passage hand. |
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| 5 | 19 |
Did they know so little of her moods, of her temper? It was cool on deck, in the open, in the wind, even for the brightness, but I was not uncomfortable. |
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| 5 | 82 |
"Rutilius of Ar!" The men who were crowded about then parted, and stepped back, clearing a space on the deck. |
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| 5 | 222 |
"Let him fear to go on deck after dark," said another. |
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| 5 | 260 |
"Do not go on deck after dark," said a fellow to me. |
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| 5 | 297 |
In a few moments the prisoner was on deck, and given a weapon, rather as mine. |
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| 5 | 310 |
The boards of the deck were white, and closely fitted, stone cleaned. |
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| 5 | 358 |
I looked about, but Seremides had left the deck. |
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| 7 | 6 |
Few dared to go on deck. |
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| 7 | 8 |
Men clung to ropes, crossing the deck, leaning into the wind. |
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| 7 | 18 |
Others, in groups, in good weather, had been exercised on the open deck, performing their movements in unison, to the cries of their keeper, sometimes, shuddering, to the snapping of his whip. |
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| 7 | 29 |
Perhaps she was one of the hooded slaves, or amongst those not brought to the open deck. |
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| 7 | 68 |
A mariner had attempted to do so, in the wind and rain, in darkness, after the twentieth Ahn, but was apprehended by the deck patrol, and, by order of Tersites himself, was put under the lash, the snake, twelve strokes. |
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| 7 | 94 |
On the Kasra deck, the rectangular viewing plate was easily slid back. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Accordingly, I surmised that she might be in the keeping area above, that on the Venna deck. |
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| 7 | 108 |
The contents of the keeping area on the Venna deck were apparently not to be looked upon with impunity. |
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| 7 | 115 |
Having seen many women exhibited, on the public shelves, in the exposition cages, on the block itself, it did not seem likely to me that the women of the Venna keeping area would be more beautiful, or really that much more beautiful, than those I had seen in the Kasra holding area, those heeling pri... |
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| 7 | 121 |
One hatch had been snapped away, and washed overboard, the upper deck awash. |
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| 7 | 180 |
We supposed he had been washed overboard whilst making his way to the helm deck. |
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| 7 | 190 |
"I was to the helm deck. |
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| 7 | 264 |
He stood on the first step of the companionway, and carefully lowered the butt of the stick to the deck, under the water. |
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| 8 | 6 |
Even on deck one could hear the crunch of their boots on the ice below, the striking of the posts downward, each handled by two men, on the ice, the sharp crack of the Torvaldslander axes striking on the horizontal, encroaching wall that seemed about to encircle the mighty ship. |
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| 8 | 24 |
In my turn, I helped draw the used ax, that which had just been replaced, freed of its weight and chains, to the open deck. |
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| 8 | 34 |
We rejoiced that there was again water beneath our keel, and that we might again negotiate a righted deck, but, by morning, as the ice closed in, almost invisibly forming, Ehn by Ehn, hort by half-hort, our joy turned to terror, for one could remark the groaning of timbers, the cracking of stressed ... |
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| 8 | 59 |
One even now struck the deck, its wings snapping, soon to be led below. |
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| 8 | 112 |
And others served here and there about the ship in yet other ways, ways similarly appropriate for slaves, carrying messages, running errands, bringing food and black wine, not paga, to the men, both those on deck and those on the ice below, being lowered on a stirrup rope, to be drawn from the side ... |
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| 8 | 127 |
I pointed to the deck, sternly. |
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| 8 | 130 |
She put the black wine to the side on the deck, and put her head to the boards, before me, her hands beside the sides of her head. |
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| 8 | 327 |
"It could have been anywhere," I said, "perhaps when you were unhooded, after boarding, perhaps while you were awaiting a chain assignment, in a companionway, in a corridor, on one deck or another, perhaps when you slept, in the Kasra holding area, to which he, as a high officer, might have had acce... |
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| 8 | 424 |
"Please," she protested, her head to the deck. |
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| 8 | 498 |
I saw two or three men emerge onto the darkening deck. |
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| 9 | 36 |
They were housed in three large areas, each occupying a substantial portion of its own deck. |
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| 9 | 84 |
We followed him up the companionway to the next deck, and then to the next. |
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| 9 | 89 |
It was on the deck now above us. |
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| 9 | 137 |
I suspected that much of what had not been seized, might have been carried to the open deck, and cast overboard, that it not be available to others. |
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| 9 | 205 |
The two lower areas had large traps, which must be raised, the first to provide its ramp's access to the second level, and that of the second level to provide its ramp's access to the highest level, the ramp of which led, once the great hatch, some yards square, was rolled back, to the open deck. |
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| 9 | 219 |
Through this door, I took it, and perhaps others, the mutineers had entered the high tarn deck. |
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| 9 | 220 |
The great hatch is so arranged that it may be moved by means of either, or both, of two windlasses, one inside the tarn area, the other accessible from the main deck. |
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| 9 | 238 |
The main deck, or most of it, I took it, was in the hands of mutineers, as many ran down the ramp, to try to free a tarn, sometimes to fight with others for the bird. |
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| 9 | 245 |
Some fighting was taking place on the open deck. |
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| 9 | 325 |
It seemed clear to me that the tide of war on this strange field, a lower deck on a great ship, was not favoring the mutineers. |
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| 9 | 344 |
A number of mutineers, however, desperately, fighting, were backing up the ramp toward the open deck. |
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| 9 | 345 |
That deck, at least amidships and forward, I gathered, had been largely, most of the time, in the hands of the mutineers. |
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| 9 | 346 |
The hatch windlass on the open deck, it seems, had been that used in rolling back the hatch. |
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| 9 | 347 |
Many mutineers had come down the ramp from the open deck. |
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| 9 | 354 |
Several mutineers were on the open deck. |
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| 9 | 383 |
We heard no sounds of fighting on the deck. |
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| 9 | 384 |
I took it the deck was cleared. |
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| 9 | 387 |
"Is the honorable Tajima, swordsman," asked Lord Okimoto, once more, politely, "authorized to speak for Lord Nishida?" "I am authorized to speak for Lord Nishida," said a voice from the deck, at the top of the ramp. |
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| 9 | 428 |
"He is on the deck, he meditates, he slew seven," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 9 | 467 |
Suddenly many eyes turned toward the top of the ramp, to the open deck, where, now beside Lord Nishida, there stood a silent figure, clearly of the Pani. |
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| 9 | 497 |
Who, when the enemy appears at the horizon, would be willing to spare even a single slinger, in rags, with his sack of absurdly engraved lead pellets, let alone a spearman, or swordsman? Cabot climbed up the ramp, to the open deck. |
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| 9 | 506 |
"There was war here, on the deck," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 9 | 508 |
The battle on the open deck had surged back and forth, for more than an Ahn, but then, obviously, in the end, the ship's forces had triumphed. |
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| 9 | 509 |
"There were mutineers who fled to the deck, late in the war below," said Cabot. |
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| 10 | 99 |
I fled from my quarters, half-clad in furs, and hurried up the nearest companionway, and the next, continuing until I reached the open deck, and saw hundreds of men, many gathered near the bow. |
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| 10 | 101 |
On the deck, men were pointing forward. |
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| 11 | 72 |
Tarl Cabot then followed Lord Nishida to the privacy of the stem-castle deck. |
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| 12 | 1 |
I am Set Upon; The Deck Watch; A Light It was night. |
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| 12 | 5 |
Far below, on the deck, dimly, I could see the small, tunicked figure, still bound to the second mast, her hands fastened above her head, five strands of rope about her belly, pulling her back, tightly, against the wood. |
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| 12 | 9 |
On the deck, during the day, the weather was warm enough, certainly. |
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| 12 | 38 |
To be sure, in fair weather a high watch is not all that different from a deck watch, or a stem- or stern-castle watch. |
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| 12 | 56 |
Hundreds of tiny impressions marked the deck. |
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| 12 | 59 |
All hands had soon been ordered below deck. |
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| 12 | 60 |
The tarns had been much agitated by the pounding on the deck above them. |
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| 12 | 64 |
It was not a serious hail, but it would keep the deck largely untenanted. |
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| 12 | 79 |
Are they not both females, both fittingly the possessions of men, merely that one is collared and one not? Why does the free woman so hate the slave? Does she envy the trembling slave that lovely band fastened about her throat, proclaiming her beauty and desirability? Does she envy her her happiness... |
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| 12 | 89 |
The first deck watch had been relieved; the second was now on duty. |
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| 12 | 112 |
One advantage of the high watches, as opposed to deck watches, corridor duty, stores guarding, work in the sail room, and such, is that it is difficult to be approached. |
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| 12 | 138 |
There were few on deck, from the Ahn, somewhat past the Eighteenth, from the bars, and from the miseries of the weather. |
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| 12 | 155 |
One knew where its line would be from the platform and ring, rather as one knew a different horizon from the deck, and another from the stem castle. |
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| 12 | 156 |
There was some light on deck, of course. |
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| 12 | 162 |
There were few on deck. |
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| 12 | 266 |
Shortly thereafter, after ascending several companionways, she at my hip, I arrived on the open deck. |
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| 12 | 304 |
The deck seemed muchly deserted. |
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| 12 | 305 |
There would be the helmsman, and a bound slave, the stem-castle watch, and the deck watch, which was by two men, whose names I would soon discover. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 36 |
The one difference in this deck of cards from the deck which I had earlier seen in the keeping of Desmond of Harfax was the attractive speckling on the edges of the deck, a sort of design with which I was familiar from the house of chance. |
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| 41 | 78 |
"The deck is presumably arranged in order, as might be a new deck, a sealed deck," he said, "from White Tarn to Red Ost". |
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| 41 | 162 |
Fourthly, once the message is delivered, the deck is cleaned, and all that remains is a simple deck of cards, to be sure one now ready for a new message". |
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| 50 | 5 |
As I suppose is clear, when one wishes to transmit the message, one takes a deck, rearranges the cards, inscribes the message on the edges of the deck, and then replaces the cards in the usual order. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 813 |
"The better slaves are housed on the next deck, the Venna deck, in the Venna hold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 198 |
When she is not working, why do you not chain her at the foot of the steps to the stem deck?" There was a ring there, which might well serve such a purpose, as well as one aft, at the foot of the steps to the stern deck. |
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| 54 | 5 |
Hardly had Sakim spoken than the lookout on the Tesephone's stern deck called out, "Sails! Five sails astern!" His cry was echoed a moment later by the lookout ensconced on the stern deck of the Dorna. |
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