| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 226 |
He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of Priest-Kings to men, that the planet Gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies. |
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| 3 | 72 |
On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o... |
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| 4 | 12 |
It was the wild nature of the tarn, the call of the distant hills, the open sky, against the puny conditioning he had been subjected to, against the will of tiny men with their private objectives, their elementary psychology of stimulus and response, their training wires and tarn-goads. |
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| 7 | 85 |
About three or four pasangs distant, through the thinning swamp trees, I could see the verdant meadows of Ar's Sa-Tarna land. |
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| 9 | 86 |
I listened carefully, hearing the distant clank of a shod tharlarion on the road. |
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| 11 | 27 |
The venture might be risky, particularly if I had to steal the tarn and elude pursuit, but, all things considered, an escape on tarnback seemed to me far safer than trying to cross the Vosk and make our way on foot or tharlarion through the hills and wilderness to the distant cylinders of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 12 | 87 |
The tarn, a brown tarn with a black crest like most wild tarns, streaked for that vague, distant smudge I knew marked the escarpments of some mountain wilderness. |
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| 12 | 107 |
Soon my swift captor had reached his mountains, and the vague, distant smudge that I had seen had become a lonely, frightening, inaccessible wilderness of reddish cliffs. |
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| 18 | 54 |
"Where," I asked, "shall Pa-Kur take the daughter of the false Ubar to be executed?" The officer pointed to a distant cylinder. |
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| 19 | 28 |
I entertained no hope now but to die with the girl unjustly condemned on the distant, gleaming tower. |
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| 19 | 65 |
I was conscious of distant shouting in the streets far below. |
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| 19 | 118 |
From far below, the distant shouts of fighting in the streets drifted upward. |
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| 20 | 5 |
I have refused to return to England, and I will remain in this country from which I departed, years ago, for that distant world which holds what I most love. |
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| 20 | 25 |
With some fifty followers, who loved him even more than their native walls, he fled on tarnback to the Voltai Range, from whose peaks he could always look upon the distant towers of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 3 |
Ko-ro-ba lay in the midst of green and rolling hills, some hundreds of feet above the level of the distant Tamber Gulf and that mysterious body of water beyond it, spoken of in Gorean simply as Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 15 | 43 |
Though I scrutinized the sky behind me, looking for those tiny specks that would be distant tarns in flight, I saw nothing. |
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| 19 | 35 |
We heard his body hit the sides a dozen times, and his frightened scream fading, only to be silenced by the distant, hollow splash in the water far below. |
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| 19 | 67 |
I could imagine the terror of those poor creatures cringing in those traps beneath the ground waiting to hear the distant rush of water through the tunnels. |
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| 19 | 139 |
Perhaps both of us wondered that friendship should exist between members of such different castes, but perhaps both of us knew, though we did not say so, that in the hearts of men arms and song are never far distant. |
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| 26 | 41 |
I have seen private apartments with tapestries from the mills of Ar upon the walls; and my sandals have sometimes found underfoot richly colored, deeply woven rugs from distant Tor. |
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| 26 | 69 |
In such a case she is considered no differently, and treated no differently than if she were a girl brought in on tarnback from a distant city. |
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| 26 | 131 |
The beacon fires are set upon her walls, and I can hear the cry of distant guardsmen that all is well in Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 122 |
Suddenly there was the sound of a distant, reverberating gong, a dull but penetrating sound which carried from somewhere even into the Hall of Priest-Kings. |
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| 4 | 136 |
Then again came the sound of that great unseen gong, that distant sound, dull, penetrating, reverberating even in the vastness of the great hall in which we stood. |
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| 4 | 146 |
Once more the distant and unseen gong rang out, and once more the Hall of Priest-Kings seemed filled with its ominous vibrations. |
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| 6 | 21 |
But perhaps they were not Ta grapes, for Cos was far distant, and even if carried by tarns, the grapes would probably not seem so fresh. |
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| 6 | 137 |
Then came the second rumbling stroke of the distant gong, and Vika seemed to tremble in my arms. |
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| 6 | 151 |
And then came the third and final stroke of that distant gong and at the same instant the energy bulbs in the room dimmed and I understood that now somewhere in the long corridors of that vast edifice there walked the Priest-Kings of Gor. |
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| 8 | 40 |
It might be possible, of course, to use some type of penetrating beam which if subtly enough adjusted might permit the reception of signals through walls and then relay these to a distant screen, but I doubted that such a device, though perhaps within the capacities of the Priest-Kings, would be use... |
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| 8 | 107 |
Treve was alleged to lie above Ar, some seven hundred pasangs distant, and toward the Sardar. |
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| 8 | 153 |
The results of these raids might be returned to Treve or sold, perhaps even at the Fair of En'Kara, or another of the four great Sardar Fairs, or, if not, they could always be disposed of easily without question in distant, crowded, malignant Port Kar. |
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| 24 | 31 |
I slipped my sword into its sheath and knelt beside Vika's body, not taking my eyes off the creature who stood about four yards distant. |
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| 27 | 16 |
Outside I thrust the red plastic garment I had worn into the first disposal chute I found whence it would be whisked away pneumatically to the distant incinerators that burned somewhere below the Nest. |
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| 27 | 87 |
It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world. |
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| 27 | 111 |
I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the Flame Death. |
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| 28 | 13 |
Therefore it was much to my surprise when I heard a distant singing in the tunnel that grew louder as I approached and soon I slowed the transportation disk and waited, my weapon ready. |
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| 30 | 2 |
I heard the words from somewhere, vague, distant, and I tried to move but could not. |
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| 31 | 182 |
I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black... |
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| 31 | 199 |
The steel bar fell from Sarm's appendage and slid from the top of the dome to fall with a distant crash far below in the rubble. |
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| 32 | 51 |
I put my arm about her shoulders, holding her as she wept, her face lifted to the distant blue sky. |
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| 32 | 177 |
He stood shuddering in the drifting rock dust, amid the crashings of distant rocks. |
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| 33 | 40 |
I wondered if the shaven heads, traditional for centuries with Initiates, held some distant connection, lost now in time, with the hygienic practices of the Nest. |
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| 35 | 115 |
He looked down at the distant campfire. |
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| 1 | 44 |
There, some pasangs distant, I saw columns of smoke rising in the cold air, where fields were burning. |
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| 2 | 55 |
But now I could hear, carried on the wind blowing toward distant Turia, the bellowing of the bosks. |
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| 4 | 61 |
He looked about him, at the distant bosk herds, lifted his head to see the sky once more. |
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| 7 | 110 |
Elizabeth had looked, tears almost in her eyes, at the department head, but he seemed suddenly to her soft, pudgy, distant, sweating, nothing. |
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| 8 | 6 |
I did manage, however, from the back of the kaiila, which I learned to ride, to catch a glimpse of distant, high-walled, nine-gated Turia. |
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| 8 | 15 |
My main interests, my primary objective, surely lay not in distant Turia, but with the wagons. |
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| 8 | 264 |
I saw a flash of copper, perhaps a tarn disk from one of the distant cities, and one of the warrior's girls, an attractive Turian wench, Tuka, began to remove her fur. |
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| 9 | 85 |
I suppose that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples. |
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| 9 | 179 |
I heard Saphrar whisper to Kamchak, whose eyes glowed as they rested on the figure in white and gold on the distant stairway. |
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| 10 | 1 |
Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia. |
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| 10 | 219 |
On the heights of distant Turia itself I could see the flutter of flags and pennons. |
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| 10 | 273 |
I wondered how many of the proud beauties of Turia would this night tearfully serve barbarian masters; and how many of the wild, leather-clad girls of the Wagons, like Hereena, would find themselves this night naught but bangled, silken slaves locked behind the high walls of distant, lofty Turia. |
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| 11 | 83 |
"I do not speak to slaves," said he, and the merchant, on the palanquin, moved away toward the walls of distant Turia. |
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| 14 | 52 |
The nearest tarn cavalries as far as I knew were to be found in distant Ar. |
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| 15 | 12 |
Also, perhaps not unimportantly, many of Turia's mercenary tarnsmen found themselves engaged in the time-consuming, distasteful task of supplying the city from distant points, often bringing food and arrow wood from as far away as the valleys of the eastern Cartius. |
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| 15 | 15 |
Kamchak, on kaiilaback, would sit in fury regarding the distant, white walls of Turia. |
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| 15 | 49 |
Already the herds had been eased westward, away from Turia toward Thassa, the distant sea. |
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| 17 | 35 |
It might be gilled, like Gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millennia ago by Priest-Kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps native to Gor, perhaps brought... |
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| 20 | 161 |
This, I knew, was the morning on which the wagons moved away from Turia, toward distant Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 21 | 7 |
The smoke of the wagon must easily have been seen from the distant walls of Turia. |
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| 22 | 138 |
During the meal, from time to time, messengers, from various parts of the city, and even from the distant wagons, hours away by racing kaiila, would approach Kamchak, speak with him and hastily depart. |
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| 23 | 100 |
It would be, of course, only a matter of time before our barricade would be forced or outflanked, perhaps from five pasangs distant, in an undefended sector. |
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| 23 | 107 |
About a pasang distant we could see new forces of the Paravaci forming on the crest of a sweeping gradient. |
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| 23 | 137 |
I listened, but seemed to hear only the maddeningly intensifying thunder of the Paravaci kaiila sweeping towards us, but then I heard, from the far left and right, the sound of distant bosk horns. |
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| 26 | 339 |
Then, saying no more, Kamchak, the rest of us following, left the room, guiding ourselves by the distant, frustrated howls of disappointed sleen. |
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| 28 | 68 |
"Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot... |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
In the early part of the eighth Gorean hour the distant white walls took the sun and blazed like light in the green hills. |
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| 1 | 49 |
The ashes, Kuurus judged, since the body had been wrapped in the scarlet leather of a tarnsman, would be scattered from tarnback, perhaps over distant Thassa, the sea. |
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| 2 | 203 |
Many are engaged in the border disputes as far distant as the Cartius. |
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| 2 | 281 |
I know this business well, the costs of information, organization, planning, acquisition, transportation and security, the care and feeding and training of the animals, the guards, the costs of the auctions, the taxes on sales, the deliveries to distant cities—and the staff of the house I spe... |
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| 3 | 14 |
As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the Free Companion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who had been torn from her at t... |
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| 7 | 187 |
In a moment the tarns left the rocky ledge, and in another moment or two, in the distance, I could see the lights of distant Ar. |
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| 9 | 22 |
Many of these, of course, are simply put in pens and retained there until removed for sale; some lots are wholesaled to minor slavers, usually coming in from distant cities to pick up merchandise, which tends in Ar to be abundant and, on the whole, reasonably priced. |
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| 15 | 95 |
Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen. |
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| 19 | 69 |
I would suppose that the Slavers, many of them sophisticated, rather cosmopolitan men, who come to Ar from many distant cities, must find such mosaics delightful; I am sure they have seen similar representations in their own cities, only there it is perhaps a wench of Ar who kneels, frightened, obed... |
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| 19 | 80 |
Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;... |
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| 19 | 303 |
The Tuchuks, one of the distant Wagon Peoples, tend to be, to those of northern Gor, a people of mystery and intrigue; to those of the southern plains, of course, they tend to be little more than efficient, fierce and dreaded foes. |
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| 19 | 474 |
Then, as she was dragged away, the sound of the whip and of her cries grew more distant, and then I could hear them no more. |
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| 21 | 75 |
There was a distant roar again from the crowd in the tiers far above. |
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| 21 | 79 |
I heard a distant trumpet, the warning trumpet. |
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| 22 | 450 |
Yet, unfortunately, though the man ahead of me was a veteran rider he had ridden little at the Stadium of Tarns, being from distant Tor. |
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| 23 | 65 |
I could hear shouting outside in the streets but, because of the thick walls of the House of Cernus, it seemed distant. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 66 |
I had been used in the fastening of the bridges, and in the drawing up and tying of rence craft on the shore, as other rencers, from distant islands, arrived for festival. |
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| 7 | 22 |
She stared at the distant barges. |
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| 8 | 35 |
The arrow from the great yellow bow, that of supple Ka-la-na, had passed through the head of the man, losing itself a hundred yards distant, dropping unseen into the marsh. |
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| 9 | 111 |
The nearest solid land, other than occasional bars in the marshes, to Port Kar lies to her north, some one hundred pasangs distant. |
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| 10 | 32 |
Both measures doubtless bear some distant relation to the length of the foot of an adult human male. |
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| 11 | 271 |
It occurred to me then, with a shudder which I did not betray, that such a man could serve only the Others, not Priest-Kings, those Others, in the distant steel worlds, who surreptitiously and cruelly fought to gain this world and Earth for their own ends. |
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| 14 | 113 |
Over the faint music coming from the distant ships, now approaching, I could hear her war trumpets and, with the glass, observe her flags. |
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| 14 | 229 |
From time to time I observed the distant ship growing farther and farther away. |
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| 14 | 292 |
I communicated with my other ships by flag and trumpet, some of them conveying my messages to others more distant. |
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| 14 | 481 |
The enemy fleet, the twelve ships, was now, by estimate from the lookout, with his glass, some four pasangs distant. |
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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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| 16 | 421 |
I could see the canals far away, over the heads of the people, crowded even to the distant waters bordering the great piazza. |
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| 17 | 236 |
From both the north and the south, like distant black slivers knifing through the cold waters of Thassa, masts down, came the fleets of the fifth wave. |
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| 17 | 436 |
"Fight!" he screamed to his distant ships. |
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| 18 | 49 |
And I recalled another victory, in another time, on a distant world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 204 |
From the distant forest I heard again the roar of some great animal. |
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| 6 | 436 |
But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;... |
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| 8 | 539 |
I returned to my work, Elinor Brinton, one slave girl among others, primitively washing the clothes of masters at the edge of that swift stream on a beautiful, distant world. |
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| 8 | 1059 |
The Earth girl struggled, finding herself in the arms of a barbarian on a distant world. |
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| 11 | 93 |
The piercing of the ears of women, only of slave girls, of course, was a custom of distant Turia, famed for its wealth and its nine great gates. |
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| 11 | 758 |
Odd, I thought, how Elinor Brinton, she who had been so rich, so elegant, so arrogant, she who had been of Park Avenue, she who had owned the Maserati, was now, on a distant world, only this, a common slave, naked, on her belly in straw, steel plating beneath it, behind heavy bars, caged, merchandis... |
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| 11 | 1274 |
Skjern is an island in Thassa, muchly distant from Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 11 | 1279 |
Their weapons, for they were a goodly number of warriors from a distant state, were surrendered at the great gate, to be returned to them upon their departure. |
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| 12 | 60 |
How good it was to have the stench of the pens behind us! How good it was to be out of the slave wagon! I, Elinor Brinton, formerly a rich girl, now a slave on a distant planet, was happy. |
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| 12 | 445 |
I hoped I would not be a slave girl in a distant border fort. |
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| 12 | 562 |
We were perhaps a pasang and a half from the distant wagons. |
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| 14 | 90 |
Miss Elinor Brinton, incredibly, incomprehensibly, found herself kneeling in a barbarian tent, on a distant world, myself, being prepared for her collaring. |
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| 15 | 820 |
Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, had been branded as a liar, a thief and a traitress, and a bold tarnsman, from a distant world, her master, had put into her flesh, insolently, the mark of his own city. |
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| 16 | 102 |
Do not scorn me, nor mock me, until you yourself, perhaps, on a distant world, someday wear a collar, until you, yourself, as a slave, have known the touch of such a man as Rask of Treve. |
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| 17 | 481 |
And surely Rask, a captain of Treve, cannot bring the tarn cavalries of Treve to distant Port Kar, for a mere slave girl, and, too, such action would mean long and bloody war. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
I wore a white robe, woven of the wool of the Hurt, imported from distant Ar, trimmed with golden cloth, from Tor, the colors of the Merchant. |
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| 1 | 323 |
"Take him," said Samos, "to one of the large rooms, well appointed, in which we lodge slavers of high rank, of distant cities". |
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| 3 | 11 |
I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e... |
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| 5 | 8 |
They had splashed beneath the water and then, in a moment, their snouts and sleek heads had poked upward, shining and dripping, and then, they, all six of them, noses like compass needles, smelling the land, had turned in the water and, tails whipping, leaving snakelike curves in the water, had sped... |
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| 6 | 912 |
The shrill scream of a sleen, perhaps a pasang distant, carried to the camp. |
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| 12 | 161 |
Perhaps it is merely that her voice reminds him of that of a veiled, free woman, who once, in a distant city, treated him badly, one whom perhaps he once courted and who scorned him. |
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| 13 | 74 |
I saw the distant churning in the water, and saw, far off, the narrow head of a river shark, lifting itself, water falling from it, and the dorsal fins, black and triangular, of four others. |
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| 18 | 26 |
There were no sails, no distant particles of yellow canvas, bespeaking the ships of Tyros, that cluttered that incredible vast margin, the meeting place of the great elements of the sky and the sea. |
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| 18 | 433 |
What turbulence there was was remote, seemingly far removed from us, a matter only of clouds silently whipped in distant, unfelt winds, like rivers, invisible in the sky, breaking their banks, hurling and flooding in the night, carrying the intangible debris of darkness before them, soon to extingui... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |
No longer was it set with festive yellow and scarlet cloths, woven in distant Tor; no longer did it bear the freight of plates of silver from the mines of Tharna, nor of cunningly wrought goblets of gold from the smithies of luxurious Turia, Ar of the south. |
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| 1 | 100 |
He had well served Priest-Kings, had Tarl Cabot, that young, brave, distant man, so fine, so proud, so much of the warriors. |
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| 2 | 11 |
She had a scarlet vest, embroidered in gold, worn over a long-sleeved blouse of white wool, from distant Ar. |
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| 2 | 215 |
When the high initiate stands facing the altar, before the circle of gold, he faces the distant Sardar, the abode of Priest-Kings. |
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| 6 | 499 |
He might know the haunts of Kurii; he might know dialects of the north, some of which are quite divergent from standard Gorean, as it is spoken, say, in Ar or Ko-ro-ba, or even in distant Turia; the habits and customs of the northern halls and villages might be familiar to him; I had no wish to be t... |
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| 10 | 320 |
I saw, by the cut of their robes, they were from distant Turia. |
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| 11 | 11 |
Evolution, on some distant, perhaps vanished world, had adapted this life form for both diurnal and nocturnal hunting. |
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| 13 | 424 |
There was not a man in the hall but knew that his kinsman, a distant cousin, Finn Broadbelt, whom the Forkbeard had slain, had fallen in fair duel, and that wergild should not have been levied; and there was not a man in that hall but knew that the Blue Tooth had decreed, even were such justified, a... |
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| 17 | 20 |
On a distant world, lit by the same star, at a comparable time, men turned in their beds, mercury vapor lamps burned, lonely, heavy lorries rumbled down streets, keeping their delivery schedules, parts of yesterday's newspapers fluttered down lonely sidewalks. |
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| 17 | 42 |
The distant light in the great cities, unknowing, soon to be occupied with the concerns of their days, piercing the haze of daily, customary poisons, first struck the heights of the lofty buildings, reflecting from the rectangular windows, like sheets of burnished copper reflecting the fire of the s... |
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| 18 | 665 |
New coded instructions, doubtless, had already been exchanged among the distant steel worlds. |
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| 21 | 99 |
The Kur, it seemed to me, in virtue of its distant, doubtless harsh evolution, was well fitted to be a dominant form of life. |
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| 22 | 228 |
In my pouch there was a sapphire from distant Schendi. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 38 |
Within minutes of the rain beginning to fall we had to dismount, to drag and pull our struggling, frightened kaiila toward the distant, higher ground. |
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| 11 | 249 |
"The oasis, which is some seventy pasangs distant, is reflected in the mirror of air above it, and then again reflected downward and away, at an angle". |
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| 11 | 411 |
Caravans with goods tend to travel the western, or distant eastern edge of the Tahari; caravans do, it might be mentioned, occasionally travel from Tor or Kasra to Turmas, a Turian outpost and kasbah, in the southeastern edge of the Tahari, but even these commonly avoid the dune country, either movi... |
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| 12 | 75 |
Then she turned in the saddle and, with her scimitar, indicated her distant kasbah. |
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| 13 | 70 |
Many salt caravans, incidentally, travel only between the districts and the local oases, while others travel between the local oases and the distant points, often culminating with Kasra or Tor. |
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| 13 | 71 |
Some caravans, of course, journey through from the distant points to the salt districts, accepting the danger and inconvenience of trekking the dune country, but thereby avoiding the higher charges of picking up salt from the storehouses in the local oases. |
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| 13 | 225 |
One girl held back our head, and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweets and drys, from distant Ar. |
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| 16 | 5 |
I could see two other rafts, illuminated in the darkness, one some two hundred yards away, the other more than a pasang distant over the water. |
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| 16 | 92 |
Ultimately, then, food is brought into the pits, generally in the form of organic debris, from hundreds of sources, many of them hundreds of miles distant; this debris is carried by the fresh-water feeds, through minute faults and fissures, and even porous rock, until it reaches the remains of the a... |
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| 16 | 178 |
The long-bodied, ghostly creature, hunting in the black waters, followed still the rhythms of its dark clock, set for its species a quarter of a billion years ago in a vanished, distant, sunlit world. |
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| 17 | 17 |
Far into the pit, distant from the salt docks, we slowed the raft, and steadied it with the long poles, holding it as nearly as we could in place. |
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| 17 | 191 |
The Old One circled away and again lay out from us in the water, some fifty to sixty feet distant, seeming to watch. |
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| 24 | 74 |
But did she not know that on her own neck, as much as theirs, there was a collar? In the room I noted, on a small table to the side, even decanters, doubtless filled with choice wines, perhaps even ka-la-nas of Ar, or Ta-wine, from distant, terraced Cos. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 97 |
I saw nothing but the grass, it moving in the soft, unhurried wind, the distant horizon, the unusually white clouds and blue sky. |
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| 2 | 681 |
The man was distant now. |
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| 12 | 69 |
The distant menace of the master's displeasure has its influence and effect, naturally, on the social arrangements of the kennels. |
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| 2 | 224 |
Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a... |
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| 15 | 493 |
She may always dread, if she wishes, that in the night men will come again for her, hooding her, and carrying her to a distant city, to be again put on the block of a steaming market, that once again her throat will be encircled by a steel collar and that she will kneel at the feet of a new master. |
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| 26 | 133 |
There was a distinct modulation in the hunting cries of the distant sleen pack. |
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| 28 | 174 |
The complex, then, that in which I was prisoner, I conjectured, might well have a clock similar to those used on Kur ships, and in the distant steel worlds, a clock doubtless once developed for use on their former world, doubtless long since destroyed in their internecine wars. |
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| 37 | 16 |
Then the lights in the sky were gone and the polar night had returned, save for a long, shimmering volume of yellowish smoke that reared from the distant ice. |
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| 37 | 128 |
I took one last look at the distant, churning, steaming waters, erupting and boiling, where the polar sea, as though offended and startled, hissing in indignation, recoiled from the fiery touch of a mechanism contrived paradoxically by the wit of rational creatures. |
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| 1 | 13 |
It bears a distant resemblance to the printed letter 'K' in several of the Western alphabets of Earth, and I suspect, in spite of several differences, it may owe its origin to that letter. |
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| 1 | 33 |
On it was the small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from distant Turia, the Ar of the south, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it. |
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| 6 | 557 |
Many merchant houses, from distant cities, have outlets or agents in Schendi. |
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| 6 | 558 |
Similarly sailors, from hundreds of ships and numerous distant ports, are almost always within the city. |
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| 8 | 118 |
I watched the white-skinned, dark-haired girl, collared, serving cups to a distant table. |
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| 18 | 47 |
Men might then become, as many wished, as cattle and flowers, and be free to spend their days in placid grazing, until they died beneath the distant, burning, unsought suns. |
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| 23 | 46 |
He wore a long black robe, embroidered with golden thread, and a flat, soft cap, not unlike a common garb of Schendi, hundreds of pasangs distant. |
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| 33 | 92 |
"This is the woman, Tende," called Kisu, facing his distant enemy, shouting against the roar of the falls, pointing to Tende. |
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| 34 | 100 |
It had been this morning, shortly before noon, that we had surmounted the height of the falls, that almost on the summit of which Kisu, in the face of the distant, oncoming forces of Bila Huruma, had danced a naked slave, she to whom he at his pleasure had given the name 'Tende'. |
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| 53 | 522 |
I saw the narrow column of Kurii disappear among the distant buildings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 254 |
His face, colorfully scarred, was marked in the rude heraldry of those distant, savage riders. |
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| 24 | 121 |
How distant she is from the squirming, gasping slave! One would not expect the free woman, for example, to beg and plead, to writhe and scream with need. |
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| 25 | 367 |
I watched the approaching riders, some pasang or so distant, some four or five hundred feet in the air. |
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| 33 | 2 |
"That is it!" I indicated to her, in the shallow valley between the two sloping hills, some half pasang from the southern road, the blue and yellow canvas of the distant tents. |
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| 25 | 84 |
"I suggest," said Callimachus, "that the security of the river is of greater concern to them both than the distant wars of their allies". |
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| 25 | 184 |
On the table, too, she placed small spoons, of silver, from Tharna, for use with the black wine, and, at each place, a kailiauk-horn-handled eating prong, from distant Turia. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 225 |
With them, too, I saw ships with the banners of Tafa, Ven, Tetrapoli and even distant Turmus. |
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| 17 | 282 |
What a superior, snobbish little bitch she had been! How I had wanted her! And how distant, how remote, she then was from me. |
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| 18 | 426 |
When his caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master. |
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| 20 | 614 |
What will it be? Will it be bound on her back over the saddle of a tarnsman aflight over green fields, or in a blue-and-yellow-canvassed slave wagon, her fair ankles chained about a central bar, or perhaps in a coffle being marched with a thousand others in heat and choking dust between cities, to a... |
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| 20 | 985 |
Sometimes, when one sees a fearful girl refusing the smallest of sweets and exercising, almost in desperation, one may suspect, in amusement, that the day on which her master plans to check her measurements is not far distant. |
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| 20 | 1589 |
How could free women forgive them that? Why cannot a man see that they are nothing, only despicable sluts? Why should he prefer such an appetitious, shapely thing, a mere animal and property, obedient and submissive, desperately needful and helplessly sensual, fearing his whip, hoping to please him ... |
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| 21 | 897 |
"How strange I once would have thought it, on Earth, so long ago," she said, "had I been told that I would find my fulfillment only on a distant world—and chained by the neck to the slave ring of a master". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 663 |
Then again it was as it had been, regal, savage, distant, unmoving and alert. |
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| 2 | 398 |
How could I explain to Samos the dark affinity I shared with one whom I had met only once, in the north, and long ago, with one who, clearly, was naught but a beast? I recalled the long evening I had once spent with Zarendargar, and our lengthy, animated conversations, the talk of warriors, the talk... |
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| 9 | 32 |
The mobility afforded by the kaiila and the abundance of the kailiauk doubtless made this choice possible, the choice of the widely ranging hunter, the proud and free warrior, over the farmer, denied distant horizons, he who must live at the mercy of the elements and in bondage to his own soil. |
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| 10 | 36 |
I had little doubt but what the distant riders could overtake us, and easily, before nightfall. |
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| 14 | 455 |
Another reason for bringing white female slaves into the Barrens in tunics is that this, apparently, in the eyes of the red savages, seems to certify them as authentic white females, so to speak, namely, females from the far-off "white world," women from the distant white civilizations. |
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| 14 | 706 |
It reminded me of a distant and sick world, the world of tittering, of embarrassment and dirty jokes. |
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| 19 | 38 |
I wondered if the former debutante from Pennsylvania had ever dreamed, in the bed in her mansion, that she would one day kneel in the grass of a distant world, a helpless slave brazenly posed for the assessment of masters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 182 |
Indeed, is it not that in dreams one may even enter the medicine world itself? In dreams is it not the case that one might sit about the fires of the dead, conversing with them? Is it not the case that in dreams one may understand the speech of animals? And is it not the case that in dreams one may ... |
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| 9 | 8 |
"I awaken naked, in a man's collar, on a distant world," she said. |
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| 11 | 44 |
This convention has a heritage, clearly, it seems to me, which traces back to an animal other than the kaiila, an animal, indeed, indigenous not to Gor, but to a distant world, one from which came the ancestors of the red savages. |
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| 56 | 78 |
"The rendezvous is distant. |
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| 56 | 129 |
I watched it until it disappeared, a distant speck in the blue skies over the vastness of the Barrens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 23 | 148 |
It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced... |
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| 32 | 74 |
Who would know her better than I? My two retainers, those two of all the others who have remained faithful, and with me, those who escaped with me from the house in Ar, have been entered into the palace in the guise of envoys from distant Turia. |
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| 36 | 430 |
Such men, I suspected, would hear the distant baying of nature, and the lure of the forest and jungle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 697 |
More often, however, in almost all cities, discovered, these fair pranksters are simply bound and gagged and smuggled out of the city, to be vended in distant markets. |
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| 10 | 437 |
Too often, however, it seemed they were merely sold to peasants in distant villages as sex and work slaves. |
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| 14 | 323 |
I suspected it could be heard in distant Brundisium. |
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| 16 | 44 |
Another advantage of choosing a distant city is that there are not likely to be citizens of that city in the audience, who might take exception to the performance, though, to be sure, most Goreans understand what is going on and tend to enjoy the farce immensely, even if the captain is supposed to b... |
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| 16 | 174 |
He then drew from his pack a glass of the Builders, used for identifying distant objects. |
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| 22 | 335 |
I stepped away from the grassy height from which we surveyed the vast, distant fleet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 406 |
Too, with it, or its residue, she might be able to make her way to a distant village, far from the trekking of armies, where she could use it as a bride price, using it, in effect, to purchase herself a companion, a good fellow who could care for herself and her child. |
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| 5 | 129 |
After the judge's decision has been enacted, its effect carried out upon her, reducing her to the status of goods, sometimes publicly, that she may be suitably disgraced, sometimes privately, by a contract slaver, that the sensitivities of free women in the city not be offended, she is hooded and tr... |
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| 16 | 737 |
"I gather it has been distant," I said. |
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| 25 | 773 |
We then began to move slowly toward a distant wood, that of Nina. |
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| 26 | 1403 |
On the other hand, perhaps you would be simply shipped out of the city to a distant market, there to be put on the block for your first sale". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1487 |
Inger, from distant Skjern, had been taken by Torvaldslanders. |
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| 19 | 45 |
It seems that in the distant past of Gor these kinship allegiances were, in effect, political allegiances, or generated political allegiances, which, later, interestingly, as life became more complex, and populations more mobile, became separated. |
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| 22 | 77 |
I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ... |
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| 27 | 137 |
Perhaps they would be too distant, too abstract, for him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 555 |
But it then seemed quiet, and there was little noise except for the wind and rain, and the distant rumble of thunder. |
10 |
| 9 | 348 |
We listened for a time to the distant trumpets, watched the small spots of light in the distance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 274 |
In this way, they will usually prove superior to isolated interlopers and, if need be, one may be dispatched to report or summon aid, while the other, or others, may attend to other duties, perhaps those of a pursuit or search, or maintaining a distant contact with the enemy. |
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| 19 | 150 |
But what if they do not share a Home Stone? And what if another, such as he, from elsewhere—? Well, let her guard herself, lest she find herself in a distant place, one unfamiliar to her, on a large, rounded block, stripped, ankle deep in sawdust, being vended to the highest bidder. |
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| 19 | 1240 |
Perhaps she hates her embonded sister because she senses the slave lives in a world denied to her, a distant, honest, wonderful world, one of submission and obedience, one of intimacy and service, one at last of radical, unabashed sexuality, one of pleasure and joy, one of love and fulfillment, one ... |
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| 46 | 356 |
It would then be swarming with visitors and patrons, many of them wholesalers from distant towns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 734 |
"From a distant land," said another. |
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| 7 | 422 |
Too, far off now, like the sounds of Thassa breaking on a distant shore, we could hear the crowds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 208 |
I now saw that some of the lights, indeed, were on the distant walls of the city. |
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| 19 | 74 |
The flash of the mirrors, the sight of the smoke signal, the glimpse of a fire, such things, it might be recollected, convey their message at the speed of light, far faster than a tarn can fly, incomparably more swift, even, than the flighted sound of a distant bar. |
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| 19 | 127 |
It was a response to a presumed insult on the part of an administrator of a distant city, something to the effect that those of this city, whose name I did not yet know, were at best cowards and petty thieves, capable of no more than making off with an occasional slave. |
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| 29 | 794 |
The other is in a distant city, where negotiations may be conducted, the authenticity of our negotiators attested to by the possession of the second slipper. |
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| 37 | 74 |
He had been little more than a remote, inert form, as simple as rock, as distant as a far-off mountain, sitting cross-legged, chained, on the stone floor of a cell in the lower corridors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
Obviously time counts the rock and the flower, the atom and the molecule, similarly, and yet the rock may witness the passing of several calendars, and the atom may in itself remain much the same as it was long ago, in the fiery midst of some distant, exploding star. |
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| 1 | 122 |
But this reality was later made clear to her, by incontrovertible laws, and deeds, which did not so much confirm the hypothetical strictures of a perhaps hitherto rather speculative law, one extending to a distant world, as replace or supersede them, in an incontrovertible manner, with immediate, un... |
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| 10 | 325 |
Many masters, for example, never see the slaves they own, who may be employed in distant shops or fields, and, of course, the slaves may never see the masters who own them. |
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| 13 | 248 |
They should be no more than a hundred yards or so away, and yet, at the same time, it seemed they were scarcely within the distant walls. |
10 |
| 16 | 777 |
The true ruler is, I suppose, the military governor, Myron, polemarkos of Temos, commander of the occupational forces, or perhaps actually distant Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos. |
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| 17 | 925 |
Beyond that there were only a distant, now-seemingly-unreal world and conventions having to do with an invented, mechanistic time, devised for purposes of convenience, purposes irrelevant to the natural courses of nature. |
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| 17 | 1061 |
Distant now were her seminars in gender studies. |
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| 18 | 170 |
She did not know if this was because those of Earth, both men and women, tended to live unwittingly in eccentric, unnatural cultural prisons, products of monstrous, lingering historicalities, denying themselves and their natures, submitting mindlessly, uncritically, to pathological, stunting, life-s... |
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| 23 | 44 |
Might not that sight, or vision, then, as though accompanied with a clap of thunder, change him forever, showing him a possibility which might transform him from an indoctrinated, manipulated, obsequious political puppet striving to please those who secretly hate and despise him into a male, one sud... |
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| 24 | 96 |
They were not like most of the other circles, which were in the open, where naked slaves swayed to distant music for the delectation of masters. |
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| 24 | 535 |
It seemed to be dim, distant, faint, intangible, gray, and dull. |
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| 24 | 789 |
She recalled that she had done this, not only on Gor, but even on Earth, as a frustrated female intellectual, more than once, in anguish, and curiosity, and embarrassment, in the privacy of her apartment, the shades drawn, far above the distant pavement, far above the dismal, crowded, gray streets b... |
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| 25 | 43 |
The lead girl, whom Ellen understood to be 115, was then put in leading position, bent over, a hand in her hair, and, as she whimpered, she was conducted from the area, amongst various cages, shelters, tents and stakes, toward distant sounds of men, shouts and calls, and the rest of the chain follow... |
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| 25 | 168 |
It was an Earth question, a question from another world, a distant, superficial, polluted, noisy, unnatural, artificial world, a question from another ethos, one not one with nature, but one at war with nature; it was not a biological question, not a natural question, not a Gorean question. |
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| 25 | 175 |
She could hear the sounds of the crowd, it seemed far off, like distant surf, vague cries, calls, shouts, crashings, rumblings, responses. |
10 |
| 25 | 776 |
And are not such expressions merely disparaging expressions, from a distant Puritanical world, fearing life and beauty? Have they not been invented by the homely and inhibited, the ugly and inert, as weapons against the proud, the beautiful, the soft and vulnerable, the eager and passionate, to conc... |
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| 27 | 379 |
There was no mistaking it, that scent, though now it was distant, and faint, a whisper on the wind. |
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| 28 | 323 |
The men clasped hands, and embraced, and then Bosk of Port Kar, Port Kar a port on the Tamber Gulf, rumored to be a den of cutthroats and pirates, and Marcus, of Ar's Station, once an outpost of Ar on the distant Vosk, took their leave. |
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| 29 | 96 |
She cast one last look at the distant towers of Venna, and thought again of the former Lady Melanie of Brundisium, she sold at the festival camp, now doubtless a lovely, suitably embonded, obedient chattel behind those far walls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 639 |
Her diction was precise, but distant and aloof. |
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| 2 | 242 |
She had, largely through her upbringing, primarily by servants, occasionally abetted by a distant father and a supercilious, frigid, unhappy mother, and a desire to be faultlessly au courant, quite ambivalent attitudes toward the male sex of her species. |
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| 5 | 16 |
It seemed strange to him to see above him, so distant, what he took to be trees, and dwellings, viewed as though from overhead, and yet he was clearly below them, or, perhaps, equivalently, above them. |
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| 21 | 26 |
"But it sounds not like music, but rather like throbbings, like the wind in the forest, like rushing streams, subtle, distant, sometimes cries, as of seized, frightened animals, such things". |
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| 47 | 42 |
Then, sensing the possibility, he stood on the steel, his head pointing toward the opposing cap, far distant, almost invisible, at the other end of the world. |
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| 63 | 91 |
"He heard the bell below, from a half pasang distant," said Statius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
"You had seen only Earth," I said, recalling that distant, desecrated, half-ruined world from my past, "and the Steel World, once ruled by Agamemnon". |
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| 5 | 149 |
Let them remain, rather, in their distant, isolated, metal worlds, confined to an alien wilderness, an archipelago of debris between Mars and Jupiter, the Reefs of Space, the Asteroid Belt. |
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| 16 | 94 |
But one of the most effective and inaccessible of spies is the distant, reconnoitering tarnsman. |
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| 25 | 211 |
I still did not know what might lie in the dark background of these strange matters, whether the meshes about us had been woven in the Sardar or on one or another of the distant Steel Worlds. |
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| 27 | 54 |
I took it then that whatever destination might lie at the end of the road to the east was some three or so days distant, on foot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 506 |
How else might one hear the tones of distant trumpets, the tramp of vanished armies, ford rivers where now lies cracked earth, witness distant sunsets, and stand wondering on the shores of vanished seas? Pani warriors, those of the high Pani, so to speak, I learn from the stranger, are almost all li... |
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| 3 | 669 |
"Some think the jungle is faraway, that it is east of Schendi, as distant as the valley of the Ua, but it is not. |
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| 5 | 13 |
Her steep, narrow streets, her lights, her taverns, her slaves, perfumed and painted, their wrists and ankles jangling with bells, with tender lips and well-rounded, warm arms, were far distant. |
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| 11 | 64 |
"Then," said Aëtius, pleased, "we are near land!" To be sure, it might yet be hundreds of pasangs distant. |
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| 14 | 82 |
By now I supposed the tharlarion, and its relentless pursuer, or pursuers, might be a pasang or more distant. |
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| 14 | 213 |
The nearest galley, I conjectured, from the faint sounds I heard, men calling out, was two hundred yards distant. |
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| 20 | 128 |
"And if," said Alcinoë, "the woman was free, and even of high caste, I would have arranged for her to be in a collar by nightfall, and, chained, hurried from the city, to some mean and distant market, from which, after piercing her ears, she would be sold for a pittance". |
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| 32 | 15 |
I heard alarmed blasts, twice, the second more distant, on one of the Pani's conch horns, perhaps kept on the parapet. |
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| 33 | 79 |
"They are beautiful," she said, "and they speak of distant, different, exciting worlds, worlds in many ways natural and beautiful". |
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| 33 | 111 |
"In your studies," I said to the slave, "doubtless you learned of certain aspects of those worlds you described as different, distant, and exciting, those worlds in many respects quite different from that which you knew, worlds in many respects natural and beautiful". |
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| 33 | 253 |
"Strange it is how a slave, transported, might find her master on a new, unsuspected world, one far different from her own, on which she must kneel and wear a collar, and a master might find his slave, placed at his feet, brought to him from a far-distant, scarce-realized world". |
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| 36 | 15 |
One could conceive then, eventually, of the navies of warring shoguns extending their concerns beyond their embattled local waters, and beginning to compete for trade routes and access to distant ports. |
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| 36 | 505 |
By the magic of such marks, the sorcery of small signs, we converse with those we have never met, touch dreams we could not otherwise share, at a glance rekindle flames which first burned in distant hearts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 187 |
Much from the Lady Bina and from the translator I did not understand, that having to do with distant worlds, exotic engineerings, unusual weaponries, strange customs and holidays, diverse races and cultures, troubled histories, and such, and with mysterious projects, factions, and wars, seemingly cu... |
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| 18 | 489 |
"It spoke to you of things which stirred you, things for which you longed, but which you feared, spoke to you of a distant, or forgotten, world, one a thousand times more real, I suspect, than that which you knew. |
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| 18 | 996 |
On the other hand, she, herself, was reluctant to exchange the delights and comforts of Ar for the hardships of some distant, possibly hazardous journey far from civilization. |
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| 18 | 1086 |
Suddenly I stopped, for, visible from where I stood, under the high channel of the aqueduct, on a distant hill, I saw a sharp flicker of light. |
10 |
| 20 | 253 |
I could see snow on some distant peaks. |
10 |
| 23 | 89 |
Shortly thereafter a vast, loose quantity of mud, some fifty paces wide, and perhaps fifteen deep, moved past us, before us, downward, slowly, then more rapidly, to plunge into the valley below, perhaps a quarter of a pasang distant. |
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| 28 | 30 |
I suppose most of the other girls thought me indolent or lax, or my work slovenly, but Jane and Eve, at least, realized that this hostility had nothing to do with those matters for which I was commonly castigated, but was of long standing, dating back, even, to a distant venue, one on another world. |
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| 29 | 13 |
Though the guard seemed quiescent, even distant, I knew that those huge shaggy forms, sometimes almost like an enormous ball of muscle and fur with eyes, could spring alive in an instant, raging and snarling. |
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| 43 | 87 |
"Doubtless it was in such a ship," I said, "that he was to be envoyaged to the distant world, one of metal, where he was to plead the cause of Agamemnon, acquire resources, and enlist allies". |
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| 49 | 27 |
The truth of the matter doubtless lies on a distant steel world, in some archive of experiments. |
10 |
| 49 | 57 |
Consider a crossbow set in place, with its quarrel in the guide, a crossbow trained on a distant target. |
10 |
| 53 | 19 |
Apparently, both Earth and Gor, at least for the time, owe their precarious security to the informed self-interest of Priest-Kings, who prefer for Kurii, on the whole at least, to be restricted to distant, relatively innocuous habitats, concealed amongst the remote "river of stones". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 51 |
More than one woman began a voyage free and concluded it being sold in a distant port. |
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| 29 | 10 |
Something was to my left in the forest, behind me, between myself and the broad ribbon of the Alexandra, now some half pasang distant. |
10 |
| 43 | 56 |
Some other force, apparently, wished to destroy the ship, thus precluding its voyage and any possible influence it, and its complement, troops, or such, might eventually bring to bear on certain distant, critical events. |
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| 50 | 661 |
Perhaps, I thought, the clue to the mystery might lie in the distant, formidable Sardar Mountains, of which the legendary or fabled Priest-Kings were supposedly denizens. |
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| 51 | 27 |
"Seek your diversions less distant," said Tyrtaios. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 441 |
"Fields are few and distant, and many are held by archers and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 7 | 274 |
I shuddered, for I had been landed at such a place long ago, a cold, narrow beach, bleak and stony, deserted, distant from settlements, bordering the northern forests, landed from a slaver's ship, one which had exited the locks of a steel world. |
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| 12 | 37 |
Saru, the former Miss Margaret Wentworth, now far from the mahogany corridors of wealth and power, those which she had once frequented, in her small, manipulative way, in a far city on a distant world, wore a silken kimono, and obi, and figured sandals. |
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| 20 | 467 |
Such a man would no longer look upon such as she as some distant and unobtainable object, a goddess, a denizen of remote stars, something far above and beyond him, but now as something quite real, something which she truly was, a live, breathing female, a lovely prey animal at hand, an animal design... |
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| 23 | 196 |
"The distant daimyos are being summoned". |
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| 27 | 173 |
"Then," said Haruki, "it is likely some means of communication linked the palace with a more distant point". |
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| 43 | 88 |
Jane, Cecily, and Saru wore the common kef, familiar on the distant continent. |
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| 44 | 318 |
It is a contrivance, somehow controlled, either from within or from some distant point. |
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| 44 | 319 |
On a distant world, a far world beyond the moons, a steel world, inhabited by fierce denizens, I saw such things, animated by an ensconced brain, its body the device itself". |
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| 45 | 1 |
Friends Converse on a Hilltop, A Distant Palace in View "You once said you had seen the iron dragon," I said to Haruki. |
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| 45 | 131 |
Do distant horizons not call to the hearts of men?" "I do not think you bestowed your sword casually," said Tajima. |
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| 52 | 74 |
Long ago, in a distant place," I said, "I utilized something much like this". |
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| 58 | 67 |
So, I thought, that high lady, so superior, distant, and frosty, must now begin to cope with a possibly dismaying realization, that she has the belly of a slave. |
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| 58 | 148 |
"She," said Tajima, "is not one of your distant, exalted free women on the continent, one of mighty towers and high cities, resplendent in the rich, colorful robes and veils of concealment, one possessing a Home Stone. |
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| 61 | 425 |
Given the higher rank and the usual circumspection of Lord Okimoto, on which I had counted, I had managed to halt their march, at least temporarily, and purchase some days of truce, while messages were being exchanged between their road camp and the distant holding of the northern shogun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 12 |
"But who knows from what seeds myths might first have sprung? Perhaps the smoke of legend hints at the fire of distant, forgotten fact. |
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| 9 | 360 |
Perhaps you are from Ti, or mountainous Thentis, or distant Turia. |
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| 11 | 62 |
From where we worked I could see the lofty aqueduct by means of which water was brought to Torcadino from the distant Voltai range, hundreds of pasangs away. |
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| 15 | 105 |
Too, it is not unusual for them to have secret chambers and passages, at least one of which is likely to lead, by means of a tunnel, to another house, or structure, perhaps a quarter of a pasang distant. |
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| 15 | 307 |
And why was I surreptitiously removed from Market of Semris? I was not a free woman, selected for a collar in some distant town or city, whose abduction might involve considerable risk. |
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| 54 | 111 |
"Those approaching, I conjecture," he said, "are some one hundred paces distant". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
Those limited to the First Knowledge think of "Earth" as a distant, barbarous land. |
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| 10 | 94 |
Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high cities o... |
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| 10 | 95 |
The free woman then, bound and gagged in a slave sack, is removed from the tavern, and transported out of the city, to some distant venue where she will be suitably marked, collared, and sold. |
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| 11 | 380 |
He had been polite, and smiled, but had seemed distant, and aloof, perhaps preoccupied. |
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| 24 | 228 |
Why would the Lady Dorna, a free woman, want to have an innocent slave cast to tharlarion? Was she angry that I had not revealed secrets to her, that Adraste was the former Lady Julia Leta, scion of a minor banking family, the Claudian Marcelliani, their house on Ar's Street of Coins? And why was it... |
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| 28 | 15 |
When he had done so, and I had thought him far distant, I might have screamed, and screamed, to attract attention, and plea for my return to safety, to the Golden Chain, but I could utter no sound. |
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| 29 | 21 |
In the north, muchly distant, in the vicinity of Torvaldsland, and in the waters of Torvaldsland itself, small, isolated, uninhabited skerries are often used as dueling places. |
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| 46 | 284 |
This might have grown ugly, save one fellow insisted on the greater beauty of the slaves of distant Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 21 |
"To be sure," I said, "the greatest of teachers cannot supply the strength to draw the great bow, the eye to mark the distant target, the mind, which instantly, without thought, processes the subtleties of distance, the moisture of air, the stir of wind". |
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| 14 | 62 |
"So soon, that the island is so distant," I said. |
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| 18 | 73 |
That was not a matter of myth, at least to those possessed of the Second Knowledge, but of distant, remote fact, fact dating back to what must have been fearful times. |
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| 22 | 81 |
Why would Lurius interest himself in such unimportant, distant matters? The winnings of the corsair fleet, with its plundering of small villages, and the sacking and sinking of an occasional merchantman, could bring no more than tarsk-bits, so to speak, into the treasury of Cos. |
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| 43 | 122 |
Yet the flashing ring of struck steel was bright under the moon and surely that sound would carry well beyond the catapults, even were it not noticed amongst the distant tents. |
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| 43 | 125 |
My four archers drew, and ignited, from the flaming wicks of unshuttered dark lanterns, one by one, five arrows, each tufted with oil-soaked, shredded cloth, which fiery missiles they launched toward the distant tents. |
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| 48 | 14 |
Danger was obvious, distant perhaps but real. |
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