| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 189 |
"Dorna the Proud wears a necklace of fifty silver tarn disks!" "Dorna the Proud is bold indeed," I cried, "to flaunt the very coins whereby her rival—your true Tatrix—was delivered into the chains of a slave girl!" There was a mutter of indignation, some angry shouts from the barricade... |
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| 11 | 54 |
"Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask. |
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| 11 | 55 |
"Does the law recognize beasts?" asked the woman whose name was Dorna the Proud. |
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| 11 | 56 |
It was almost as if she challenged her Tatrix, and I wondered if Dorna the Proud was content to be Second in Tharna. |
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| 11 | 58 |
The Tatrix did not choose to respond to Dorna the Proud. |
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| 11 | 68 |
"You are a slave!" hissed Dorna the Proud from behind that expressionless mask. |
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| 11 | 72 |
"No, Beloved Tatrix," said Dorna the Proud. |
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| 11 | 91 |
I thought Dorna the Proud stirred uneasily in the curule chair. |
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| 11 | 117 |
"Strength is the attribute of beasts," said Dorna the Proud. |
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| 11 | 143 |
"To the urt with him!" sneered Dorna the Proud. |
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| 11 | 151 |
Only the Tatrix herself and Dorna the Proud sat straight. |
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| 11 | 171 |
"What think you, Dorna the Proud?" asked Lara of she who was Second in Tharna. |
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| 11 | 172 |
But instead of answering, Dorna the Proud seemed strangely silent. |
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| 11 | 174 |
"Mercy, Great Dorna!" screamed Ost. |
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| 11 | 175 |
Dorna repeated the gesture, slowly, cruelly. |
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| 11 | 213 |
"A Tatrix must be cruel," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 215 |
Dorna stiffened at the rebuff. |
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| 11 | 246 |
"Bloody the yoke," urged Dorna. |
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| 13 | 61 |
As he examined my yoke and chain, he said, "Dorna the Proud has wagered a hundred golden tarn disks on this block. |
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| 13 | 137 |
Beside her I saw the silver mask of Dorna the Proud. |
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| 13 | 138 |
"Slay him," said Dorna the Proud, gesturing to the unconscious Kron. |
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| 14 | 137 |
I heard, too, the voice of Dorna the Proud urging the warriors to their task. |
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| 16 | 29 |
It was Dorna the Proud. |
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| 16 | 31 |
Dorna stopped, about five yards in advance of Thorn and the two warriors, who had not moved at all. |
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| 16 | 32 |
The Tatrix acknowledged the salutation of Dorna the Proud with merely a regal nod of her head. |
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| 16 | 33 |
"All Tharna is yours, Warrior," cried Dorna the Proud, "if you but relinquish our noble Tatrix! The city weeps for her return! I fear there will be no more joy in Tharna until she sits again upon her golden throne!" I laughed. |
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| 16 | 34 |
Dorna the Proud stiffened. |
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| 16 | 38 |
"Is that all?" asked Dorna the Proud, puzzled. |
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| 16 | 41 |
Dorna glanced at the Tatrix. |
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| 16 | 43 |
"Indeed, Warrior," said Dorna. |
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| 16 | 46 |
"Less," said Dorna the Proud, "would insult our Beloved Tatrix". |
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| 16 | 51 |
Dorna the Proud bowed in gracious acquiescence. |
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| 16 | 54 |
"Yes," I said, sensing the affront that had been offered to Dorna the Proud. |
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| 16 | 65 |
She turned and walked majestically to Dorna and the warriors. |
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| 16 | 81 |
The Tatrix and Dorna the Proud screamed. |
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| 16 | 88 |
In that moment both the Tatrix and Dorna the Proud plunged sharp instruments, pins of some sort, into my back and arm. |
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| 16 | 95 |
I heard Dorna the Proud say, "Kill the tarn". |
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| 16 | 107 |
The Tatrix had apparently lost interest in me, for she turned to Dorna the Proud and Thorn, Captain of Tharna. |
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| 16 | 110 |
Haughtily the Tatrix addressed Dorna and Thorn. |
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| 16 | 114 |
Neither Dorna the Proud, nor Thorn, Captain of Tharna, answered her. |
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| 16 | 118 |
The voice of Dorna the Proud drifted across the pillar. |
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| 16 | 122 |
"Because," said Dorna the Proud, and I could tell that behind that silver mask, she smiled, "you are not going back to Tharna". |
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| 18 | 14 |
"Dorna the Proud," said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough. |
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| 18 | 39 |
"Two of those who are highest in Tharna, Dorna the Proud, and Thorn, a Captain, went to the Pillar of Exchanges, but the Tatrix was never returned. |
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| 18 | 41 |
Only her tattered robes and the mask of gold were found, by Dorna the Proud and Thorn, Captain of Tharna". |
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| 18 | 43 |
"Now," said he, "Dorna wears the mask". |
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| 20 | 49 |
I wondered what vengeance would have satisfied the hatred borne to Lara, the Tatrix, by Dorna the Proud. |
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| 20 | 52 |
I knew the hatred of men is but a feeble thing compared to the hatred of women, and I wondered how much it would take to slake the thirst for vengeance of such a woman as Dorna the Proud. |
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| 23 | 154 |
"No," I said, "you fought for Dorna the Proud, pretender to the throne of Tharna—a usurper and traitress". |
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| 23 | 164 |
There I was seized by Dorna the Proud and Thorn, her accomplice, and sold into slavery. |
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| 23 | 166 |
"I fought for Dorna the Proud," said the boy. |
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| 24 | 131 |
It was clear to the defenders of the palace, which formed the major bastion of Dorna's challenged regime, that the issue would be decided that day and by the sword. |
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| 24 | 154 |
If Dorna the Proud had ruled upon that rampart rather than Thorn, a Captain, and a member of my own caste, I was certain that a bolt from some crossbow would have pierced my body without warning. |
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| 24 | 155 |
When at last I stood unslain on the black cobblestones at the foot of the double rampart I knew that though Dorna the Proud might rule in Tharna, though it might be she who sat upon the golden throne of the city, that it was the word of a warrior that ruled on those ramparts above me. |
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| 24 | 168 |
And I ask it in the name of the codes of your own caste, for your swords are pledged to the true Tatrix—Lara—not Dorna the Proud!" I could sense the reaction of the men behind the rampart. |
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| 24 | 171 |
Dorna is Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 24 | 186 |
"I returned this girl—your Tatrix—to the Pillar of Exchanges where I gave her into the hands of Thorn, this Captain, and Dorna the Proud. |
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| 24 | 187 |
Then treacherously I was set upon and sent to the Mines of Tharna, and Dorna the Proud and Thorn, this Captain, seized Lara, your Tatrix, and sold her into slavery—sold her to the slaver Targo, whose camp is now at the Fair of En'Kara, sold her for the sum of fifty silver tarn disks!" "What h... |
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| 24 | 196 |
"He wanted to protect the secret of his plan to abduct the Tatrix and put Dorna the Proud upon her throne". |
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| 25 | 31 |
I had not known that a woman such as Dorna the Proud could have cared for a man. |
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| 25 | 34 |
"I think not," I said, wondering, "and you, Dorna the Proud, are now my prisoner". |
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| 25 | 36 |
At the side of Thorn knelt not Dorna the Proud, but the girl Vera of Ko-ro-ba, who had been his slave. |
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| 25 | 38 |
Dorna the Proud has made good her escape". |
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| 25 | 47 |
"This is not Dorna the Proud but Vera of Ko-ro-ba, who was the slave of Thorn". |
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| 25 | 48 |
"Where is Dorna?" demanded Kron. |
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| 25 | 67 |
Inside the basket was a woman whose carriage and figure I knew to be that of Dorna the Proud, though she now wore only a simple silver mask of Tharna. |
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| 25 | 109 |
Then Dorna the Proud looked at me those yards across the roof. |
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| 25 | 115 |
It did not seem it could have been a matter of caste obligation for this obligation had been owed not to Dorna but to Lara. |
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| 25 | 116 |
He had broken the codes of his caste to support the treachery of Dorna the Proud. |
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| 25 | 120 |
"Surrender," I called to Dorna the Proud. |
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| 25 | 123 |
I knew that Dorna would have little chance alone on Gor. |
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| 25 | 127 |
Dorna threw back her head and laughed. |
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| 25 | 131 |
I looked behind me and I could see that Lara now stood near, watching Dorna, and that behind her Kron and Andreas, followed by Linna, and rebels and soldiers, had ascended to the roof. |
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| 25 | 132 |
The silver mask of Dorna the Proud turned on Lara, who wore no mask, no veil. |
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| 25 | 134 |
"I sensed this in you," said Dorna. |
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| 25 | 140 |
The body of Dorna the Proud recoiled as if struck by five blows. |
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| 25 | 144 |
"Do not forget Dorna the Proud, for we have an account to settle!" The hands in their gloves of silver jerked back savagely on the one-strap and the wings of the tarn burst into flight. |
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| 25 | 149 |
Dorna the Proud, thanks to the sacrifice of Thorn, her captain, had made good her escape, though to what fate I dared not conjecture. |
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| 25 | 158 |
If this miserable fate were to be hers, the imperious Dorna the Proud, stripped and sweating, her back exposed to the ox whip, would learn in harness that a peasant is a hard master. |
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| 25 | 159 |
But I put from my mind these thoughts as to what might be the fate of Dorna the Proud. |
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| 26 | 17 |
As she ascended once more the throne no proscription notices were posted but a general amnesty was granted to all, both those who had espoused her cause and those who had fought for Dorna the Proud. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 189 |
We saw the ship ahead of us trying to come about, but, before she could make four points of the Gorean compass, our ram struck the corner of her stern, skidding through and freeing itself, the ships, the Dorna's port oars inboard, grating together, and then the Dorna was clear, free, and we were dri... |
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| 13 | 520 |
It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn... |
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| 14 | 2 |
The Dorna, a tarn ship, is not untypical of her class. |
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| 14 | 6 |
The Dorna, like most other tarn ships, is single-banked; and yet her oar power is not inferior to even the trebly-banked vessels; how this is I shall soon note. |
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| 14 | 7 |
The Dorna, like most tarn ships, is a long, narrow vessel of shallow draft. |
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| 14 | 16 |
The Dorna's ram, a heavy projection in the shape of a tarn's beak, shod with iron, rides just below the water line. |
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| 14 | 20 |
The bow of the Dorna is concave, sloping down to meet the ram. |
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| 14 | 24 |
Tarn ships are painted in a variety of colors; the Dorna, of course, was green. |
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| 14 | 25 |
Besides her stem and stern castles the Dorna carried two movable turrets amidships, each about twenty feet high. |
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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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| 14 | 39 |
The Dorna used oars of varying lengths; her oars, like those of many tarn ships, varied by about one and one-half foot Gorean, oar to oar; the most inboard oar being the longest; the outboard oar being the shortest. |
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| 14 | 52 |
The Dorna carried twenty groups of three to a side, and so used one hundred and twenty oarsmen. |
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| 14 | 64 |
At any rate, whatever the reasons or rationale, the single-banked tarn ship, of which the Dorna is an example, is the dominant type on Thassa. |
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| 14 | 93 |
From the stern castle of the Dorna, then, with a long glass, that of the builders, I observed, far across the waters, the masts of the ram-ships, one by one, lowering. |
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| 14 | 131 |
The Dorna had now come about and, at half beat, was moving southeast, directly away from the pursuing ships. |
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| 14 | 134 |
These twelve ships, including the Dorna, incidentally, were my swiftest. |
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| 14 | 174 |
I had little doubt the Dorna was swifter than the ship that had pursued her. |
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| 14 | 179 |
The iron-shod ram of the Dorna splintered into her stern a foot below the water line. |
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| 14 | 180 |
"Back oars!" came the cry from the oar-master, and the Dorna, rocking and shuddering from the impact, chopped her way backward. |
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| 14 | 210 |
When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna,... |
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| 14 | 212 |
Angrily the Dorna shook herself loose. |
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| 14 | 234 |
"She carries one hundred and thirty-two oars," he said, "but she is a heavier ship, and her lines are not as good as those of the Dorna". |
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| 14 | 246 |
The two tarn ships, the Dorna and the other, faced one another, motionless, save for their response to the swells of Thassa. |
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| 14 | 250 |
I had little doubt that the Dorna, a somewhat lighter ship, with better lines and shorter keel, would be more responsive to her helm than the other ship and that, sooner or later, as the circles grew smaller, she would be able to wheel and take her foe in the stern quarter or amidships. |
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| 14 | 258 |
I had proved the Dorna, and her oar-master. |
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| 14 | 298 |
I ordered the mast raised on the Dorna. |
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| 14 | 320 |
There was a cheer from the men on the deck of the Dorna. |
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| 14 | 330 |
The Dorna, by contrast, carried a free crew of two hundred and fifteen men, most of whom were well trained with weapons. |
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| 14 | 331 |
In an Ahn I stepped across the plank thrown from the rail of the Dorna to that of the flagship of the treasure fleet. |
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| 14 | 407 |
"Take then those that were with her," I said, "and distribute them to the extent of their number among our other ships, the twenty most beautiful to our twenty tarn ships now with the fleet, and the most beautiful of that twenty to the prow of the Dorna, and the other twenty set at the prows of twen... |
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| 14 | 471 |
The Dorna, for the time, will remain here. |
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| 14 | 472 |
The seventeen ships are not to enter battle unless accompanied by the Dorna, and under no conditions, if battle ensues, are any of my ships to move more than four pasangs from the fleet". |
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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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| 14 | 477 |
Men sat ready at the oars of the Dorna, should I come aboard her. |
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| 14 | 478 |
Others, with axes, stood ready to chop away the lines that now bound the Dorna to the flagship. |
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| 14 | 482 |
If they came within two pasangs, I would board the Dorna. |
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| 15 | 15 |
The ships, in a splendid, long line, filing behind me, the Dorna first, then the tarn ships, then the round ships, under oars, moved slowly through the city, following the triumphal circuit of the great canal, passing even before the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
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| 15 | 35 |
Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c... |
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| 15 | 36 |
And bound at the prow of the first forty ships, following the flagship, beginning with the Dorna, and then the tarn ships and the first ten and largest of the captured round ships, was a high-born beauty, once intended to be the maiden of Cos' Ubara, now, like herself, destined only for the brand an... |
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| 17 | 1 |
How Bosk Conducted the Affairs of Port Kar Upon Thassa I stood in the swaying basket at the height of the mast of the Dorna, the glass of the builders in hand. |
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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 | 24 |
I strode to the stern castle of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 30 |
The Dorna was thus leading a relatively close formation of sixteen tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 42 |
I recalled the Dorna, under similar circumstances, had done great damage. |
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| 17 | 54 |
The Dorna dropped back. |
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| 17 | 88 |
The Dorna rested, rocking on the waters, her oars inboard. |
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| 17 | 89 |
I kept in reserve fifty-five tarn ships, which, simultaneously with the fifth wave, that of the flanking fleets, would draw within signal distance of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 109 |
The wind was very cold now, and the Dorna shook in it, the windward waters striking at her hull. |
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| 17 | 158 |
"Look!" The voice came from a seaman, he, too, with a glass, high on the prow of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 175 |
Astern of the Dorna, not hurrying, at half beat, came fifty tarn ships, their masts high, storm sails bound to their long, sloping yards. |
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| 17 | 178 |
And simultaneously with the initiation of the pincers attack the balance of my fleet, the reserves, fifty-five tarn ships, should draw within signal distance of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 193 |
* * * * For better than three Ahn I had sat in the basket at the masthead of the Dorna, whipped by the wind, my fingers numb on the glass of the builders, observing the battle. |
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| 17 | 208 |
The Dorna fought her anchors. |
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| 17 | 214 |
I could see, now, approaching the Dorna, from the east, the reserves, the fifty-five tarn ships, and the ten wide-beamed round ships, lumber ships from the arsenal, whose cargoes were unknown even to my highest officers. |
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| 17 | 216 |
The command ship of the reserves heaved to within hailing distance of the Dorna. |
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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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| 18 | 1 |
How Bosk Returned to His House When we struck the icy, wind-driven decks of the Dorna my men rose at their benches and, cheering, waved their caps. |
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| 18 | 13 |
The Dorna now heaved and pitched like a snared sleen. |
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| 18 | 17 |
I did not think the Dorna would long live in such a sea unless she might run before it. |
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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 | 41 |
The Dorna knifed ahead, leaping between the waves that rose towering on either side. |
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| 18 | 56 |
And so, then, I asked myself, might we not then sing for them, and for ourselves as well, and could there not be, in some way that was hard to understand, but good, truth in songs? I went to the tarn that I had ridden back to the Dorna. |
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| 18 | 117 |
How else, I asked myself, had he been able to take an oar on the longboat in the canals when I had gone to the hall of the Council of Captains, or been able to board the Dorna, or taken his place in the longboat that had ferried me to the round ship? I, too, was not unfond of the boy. |
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| 18 | 132 |
In a few moments the tarn spread his wings before the black wind and, caught in the blast, was hurled before the Dorna, and began, in dizzying circles, to climb in the wind and sleet. |
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| 18 | 134 |
Far below I saw the Dorna, lifting and falling in the troughs of the waves, and, separated from her, the ships of the fleet, round ships and tarn ships, storm sails set, oars dipping, flying before the storm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 322 |
"It is the Dorna," said one of the girls. |
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| 24 | 330 |
I was in Sirik, fastened to a ring, chained in the hold of the Dorna, the ship of the dreaded pirate and slaver, Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 347 |
Were I to hunt the world's end I would prefer to do so with the Dorna or the Tesephone, a sleek ship whose moods and gifts I well knew. |
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| 4 | 511 |
I thought I might rather ply toward the horizon beckoning betwixt Cos and Tyros in the Dorna or the small, swift Tesephone. |
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| 5 | 34 |
"You must take the Dorna," said he, "or the Tesephone". |
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| 5 | 45 |
"You must take another ship, the Dorna or the Tesephone, or you may take my flagship, the Thassa Ubara". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 75 |
Similarly, it would not be wise to take one of my own ships, say, the Dorna or the Tesephone, south. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 18 |
The Dorna was a ship, a tarn ship, a ram ship, shallow-drafted, straight-keeled, single-banked, lateen-rigged, carvel-built, painted green, difficult to detect in the rolling waters of Thassa, out of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 174 |
"What do you think of her, my dear Dorna?" asked the man in the chair. |
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| 11 | 195 |
"Keep your head down," said she who had been called Dorna. |
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| 11 | 208 |
"Lick the pan," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 213 |
But I could set myself to please the men! Take away her switch! Let us compete as equals! "Lift your head," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 216 |
Dorna, with an angry swirl of her silks, spun away, to return to the small table under the roofed defense work. |
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| 11 | 231 |
But are not such, in the final analysis, owned every bit as much as we? And is not one man's high slave no more to another than the least of his bond maids, laboring shackled in his stables, her use a perquisite for rude grooms, and is it not the case that even for the very same man she who is this ... |
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| 11 | 272 |
Dorna, the high slave, was a little before me, and to my right. |
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| 11 | 298 |
"Do not concern yourself with her," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 311 |
"She has no status, even as a slave," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 316 |
"They are the coldest of the cold," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 325 |
"I have heard that of a slave named 'Dorna,'" said another. |
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| 11 | 327 |
Dorna looked away, angrily. |
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| 11 | 347 |
"They are all cold," insisted Dorna. |
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| 11 | 359 |
"They are all meaningless, hot-bellied sluts!" said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 362 |
"Slave belly!" snapped Dorna. |
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| 11 | 364 |
"No," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 369 |
"They are the lowest of the low!" said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 377 |
Dorna laughed. |
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| 11 | 387 |
"See her being fed by hand!" said Dorna to those about. |
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| 11 | 389 |
"Feed, little Earth beast!" laughed Dorna. |
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| 11 | 390 |
Suddenly the occupant of the chair turned toward Dorna and regarded her. |
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| 11 | 393 |
Then the proud Dorna knelt beside me and, putting forth her head, angrily, in fury, was fed as I. |
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| 11 | 398 |
In order that the matter be lost on no one, the occupant of the chair, of the last three pieces of meat, casting each to the floor of the dais, cast the first to the six-legged beast, which lapped it up instantly with its tongue, scarcely a scrap to such a maw, the second to me and the third to Dorn... |
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| 11 | 399 |
Dorna and I, then, on all fours, from where we had retrieved that largesse which had been granted to us, cast to the floor of the dais, looked up at he who occupied the chair. |
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| 11 | 405 |
Dorna was regarding me with fury. |
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| 11 | 427 |
Dorna, angrily, descended the steps of the dais behind the thronelike chair and went again to the table beneath the roofed defense work. |
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| 11 | 445 |
Dorna handed me the goblet. |
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| 11 | 446 |
I could be every bit as good as a woman of this world, I was sure! I did not even look at Dorna. |
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| 11 | 451 |
"Drink the wine, slut!" hissed Dorna. |
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| 11 | 456 |
Let Dorna fear then for her place on a chain! I would happily, eagerly, compete with her for the privilege of kneeling before such men! I lifted the wine a little upward and toward the man in the chair. |
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| 11 | 463 |
"Do not spill any," warned Dorna. |
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| 11 | 465 |
"Hurry, slave," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 468 |
"Hurry," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 478 |
I looked again to Dorna, but she was merciless. |
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| 11 | 483 |
Dorna swept the goblet from my hand and took it away. |
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| 11 | 496 |
"There are various collars," said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 502 |
Dorna wore a "common collar". |
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| 11 | 504 |
"A used collar?" said Dorna. |
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| 11 | 533 |
"Oh, no, Master," said Dorna, quickly. |
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| 11 | 545 |
Dorna looked down at me, in fury. |
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| 11 | 552 |
Dorna, I think, was not unaware of the fact that I fell well within the regard of him in the great chair. |
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| 11 | 553 |
"You think that a collar with an Earth-girl name would be suitable?" he asked Dorna. |
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| 11 | 583 |
"Yes, Master!" said Dorna, eagerly. |
10 |
| 11 | 586 |
In a moment or two Dorna had returned to the dais with a collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 604 |
The collar was then returned to Dorna and she came down the steps of the dais and stood near me, where I knelt. |
10 |
| 11 | 612 |
"Read it!" said Dorna, holding the collar before me. |
10 |
| 11 | 617 |
"Stupid illiterate slave!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 625 |
"Down on all fours, slut," said Dorna to me. |
10 |
| 11 | 627 |
Dorna walked about me, in front of me, and handed the collar, opened, as it was, to the jailer, he who had brought me here, to the terrace. |
10 |
| 11 | 629 |
Dorna then crouched down, and, combing it a little with her fingers, brought my hair forward, before my shoulders. |
10 |
| 11 | 633 |
Dorna then rose to her feet and stood a bit before me and to my right. |
10 |
| 11 | 635 |
"She is," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 645 |
I heard Dorna laugh. |
10 |
| 11 | 648 |
Dorna turned away, angrily. |
10 |
| 11 | 662 |
Dorna laughed. |
10 |
| 11 | 776 |
Dorna laughed. |
10 |
| 11 | 796 |
"See the Earth slut!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 798 |
"Listen to her!" laughed Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 808 |
Dorna made an angry noise. |
10 |
| 11 | 854 |
"How worthless she is!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 922 |
"She is an Earth slut," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 941 |
"See the whipped slave!" laughed Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 944 |
"How are you, kajira?" inquired Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 946 |
"Do women kneel thusly, before masters, on your world?" inquired Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 948 |
"I do not know!" "Did you?" asked Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 954 |
"But now you do," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 972 |
"Earth slave!" sneered Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 975 |
Dorna turned about and hurried up the steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 979 |
"She is the lowest of the low, is she not! Master?" asked Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 981 |
Dorna then leaned down, confidentially to him, and whispered something. |
10 |
| 11 | 1012 |
"Excellent!" cried Dorna, releasing my hair and stepping away from me, looking down at me with triumph. |
10 |
| 11 | 1038 |
I regarded him, but he was looking at Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1050 |
"No!" cried Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1062 |
"I am Dorna," she said. |
10 |
| 11 | 1067 |
"Does Dorna want to go to the ring?" he asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 1070 |
"Dorna does not want to go to the ring," she whispered. |
10 |
| 11 | 1074 |
"Yes! Yes!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1078 |
Dorna and I were the only two women on the terrace. |
10 |
| 11 | 1080 |
"Please, no, Master!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1083 |
"No, Master!" cried Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1087 |
"No, Master, please!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1096 |
"I will try to improve my behavior, Master!" "Does Dorna want to keep her silk?" he asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 1099 |
"Dorna wants to keep her silk!" she cried. |
10 |
| 11 | 1104 |
At this Dorna turned white and flung herself to her knees at the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1233 |
"Have my ears pierced, Master!" suddenly said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1240 |
"Let my beauty, if beauty it be," said she, "be enhanced with earrings!" There was laughter behind her, but Dorna paid no attention to it. |
10 |
| 11 | 1252 |
Dorna then, clearly, was not a state slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 1268 |
"Dorna begs to have her ears pierced," she said. |
10 |
| 11 | 1269 |
"Dorna, who is Master's humble and abject slave, begs to have her ears pierced". |
10 |
| 11 | 1270 |
"But it has already been decided," said he, "that Dorna will have her ears pierced". |
10 |
| 11 | 1272 |
"Dorna does not wish," said he, "to be returned to her former master?" "No, Master!" she said. |
10 |
| 11 | 1273 |
"What does Dorna wish?" asked he. |
10 |
| 11 | 1281 |
"See Dorna on her knees," said a man. |
10 |
| 11 | 1288 |
"I beg to be pleasing to Master," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1289 |
"Hear Dorna begging to be pleasing to a man," said a man. |
10 |
| 11 | 1292 |
Doubtless Dorna could not have helped, on one level or another, to have been aware of the comments of the men. |
10 |
| 11 | 1316 |
"Take this slave away," he said, indicating Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1319 |
"Slave," said he to Dorna, indicating a location near the wall, where a flat trap had now been thrown back, revealing a stairwell. |
10 |
| 11 | 1320 |
"Yes, Master," said Dorna to the man. |
10 |
| 11 | 1333 |
I did recall that he in the chair had speculated to Dorna, before his displeasure had been incurred, that she would not be displeased with my disposition. |
10 |
| 11 | 1337 |
Dorna was now no longer on the terrace. |
10 |
| 11 | 1346 |
But the matter is clear on this world, at least with women such as I, and she, Dorna. |
10 |
| 11 | 1438 |
I wondered if he in the chair might sometime, recalling me, have me sent to him, perhaps, as he had suggested with Dorna, in earrings and a single veil, if that. |
10 |
| 11 | 1485 |
Had not the female, Dorna, a high slave, clearly exhibited jealousy of me? Perhaps I would be first girl in the slave quarters. |
10 |
| 11 | 1594 |
Shortly thereafter the fellow who had conducted Dorna away, she preceding him with alacrity, returned to the terrace. |
10 |
| 11 | 1596 |
Seeing he who had conducted Dorna away I thought immediately of her. |
10 |
| 11 | 1624 |
"Dorna is now a pierced-ear girl?" asked he in the chair of the fellow who had returned to the terrace. |
10 |
| 11 | 1641 |
"Dorna," said he, "has been a slave longer than you so it is fitting that it would be her ears which would first be pierced". |
10 |
| 12 | 796 |
What would be done with me? I recalled that the man in the chair had speculated that Dorna, the high slave, would not be displeased with my disposition. |
10 |
| 16 | 550 |
I wondered where the slave, Dorna, was, whom I had met on the surface of the tower. |
10 |
| 24 | 385 |
She was the slave I had met long ago on the surface of one of the towers, she whose name was "Dorna". |
10 |
| 24 | 424 |
The slave, Dorna, may not even have seen them coming. |
10 |
| 24 | 442 |
"Oh!" cried the slave next to me, in pain, Dorna, kicked like a common slave, though she wore scarlet silk and a golden collar. |
10 |
| 24 | 452 |
Then I was flung angrily to my left side, and I fell there, on my chain, almost beside Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 484 |
Dorna lay where she was. |
10 |
| 24 | 533 |
Dorna still lay quite near me. |
10 |
| 24 | 537 |
I saw a heavy, bootlike sandal, the sort worn by warriors, which can sustain long marches over stony soils, which provides protection from the slash of coarse grasses and the strike of leech plants, nudge Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 539 |
Again the bootlike sandal moved against Dorna's body, prodding it. |
10 |
| 24 | 541 |
"Master?" whimpered Dorna, questioningly. |
10 |
| 24 | 544 |
He was not looking at me, but at Dorna, at his feet. |
10 |
| 24 | 556 |
"Have they gone?" whispered Dorna, frightened. |
10 |
| 24 | 591 |
"Master is bloodied," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 611 |
"Master?" asked Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 614 |
Dorna shuddered, it seemed, in relief. |
10 |
| 24 | 615 |
"And many," he said, "in receiving their death strokes, cried out 'Glory to Ar!'" Dorna was silent. |
10 |
| 24 | 619 |
"I do not understand," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 657 |
"Yes, Master," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 697 |
Dorna had lost no time in obeying. |
10 |
| 24 | 715 |
But then, as an option, might he not, under the same circumstances, and perhaps preferably, and perhaps more amusingly, see fit to return her to Tharna? Dorna, I was sure, would do her best to please her master. |
10 |
| 24 | 974 |
I thought of the slave girl, Dorna. |
10 |
| 29 | 91 |
So, too, I recalled, did Dorna. |
10 |
| 39 | 50 |
His brace of yellow-clad slaves, and Dorna, as well, had been sent, braceleted and coffled, as an evening's gift to one of the off-duty shifts of the wall guard. |
10 |
| 39 | 51 |
I did not think Dorna was much pleased with being coffled with the lesser slaves, or with being charged with the recreation of common soldiers. |
10 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 862 |
"The Dorna! The Dorna!" I ran to the rail. |
10 |
| 8 | 885 |
"The Dorna, the Dorna!" they cried. |
10 |
| 22 | 33 |
"I am Dorna, Dorna, of Tharna". |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 38 | 76 |
Dorna, Dorna the Proud, stood high in Tharna, was indeed the highest of the "Silver Masks," and was covetous of the Golden Mask, that of the Tatrix. |
10 |
| 38 | 136 |
"Do you not know who I am? I am Dorna, Dorna the Proud, first of the Silver Masks of Tharna! You will be roasted alive on spits, and your flesh cast to sleen! You will be thrown alive to leech plants! You will be fed to tharlarion, boiled in honey, caged with starving urts!" "Take her to her cell," ... |
10 |
| 40 | 9 |
She was now simply "Dorna," and 'Dorna', of course, was a mere slave name, put on an owned beast at the discretion or whim of masters. |
10 |
| 46 | 119 |
When I had been returned to the cages of the Golden Chain from the Skerry of Lars, I had, of course, recalled the beautiful slave, Dorna, once, in her freedom, called Dorna the Proud, once the highest of Silver Masks in Tharna, second only to the Golden Mask, Lara. |
10 |
| 8 | 882 |
"The Dorna!" cried our men. |
10 |
| 8 | 892 |
The assailant ship, the Dorna, then turned slowly away. |
10 |
| 8 | 906 |
"The Dorna does not linger, to pick up survivors," said a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 914 |
I saw the ship, that called the Dorna, depart, its mast now raised and its lateen-rigged sail billowing. |
10 |
| 15 | 88 |
"Do you not find that interesting, Lady Dorna?" "Not particularly," said a woman's voice, as cold as the blade of a knife. |
10 |
| 15 | 114 |
"Come, Addison," said she who had been addressed as Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 15 | 125 |
And I hated the woman who had been with him though I had never even seen her, the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 62 |
It seemed clear to me that the Lady Dorna, like Bruno of Torcadino and the man with the scar, though now independently, sought the former Lady Julia Leta, presumably to return her to Ar's Street of Coins, that an example might be made of her which would serve to deter others from succumbing to simil... |
10 |
| 22 | 66 |
Even if the Lady Dorna were successful in her endeavor, as Bruno of Torcadino and the man with the scar had not been, at least until now, I expected she would be disappointed in the return realized on her investment of time and money. |
10 |
| 22 | 67 |
"Where is Adraste now?" said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 79 |
"What does that matter?" asked the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 83 |
"Men are despicable," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 93 |
How far away was Earth! I sensed that the Lady Dorna had risen to her feet, and was busied at the table to the side, that with the fire tray, a packet, or so, and the decanter, a rather large decanter, filled with some transparent liquid. |
10 |
| 22 | 94 |
"Noble Addison," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 105 |
He had not given me the "Sula" command, perhaps because the Lady Dorna was present. |
10 |
| 22 | 114 |
At the same time the Lady Dorna had shaken some powder from a packet into the small fire tray. |
10 |
| 22 | 146 |
I heard the snap of a fire-maker and became aware that the Lady Dorna was igniting some of the powder she had deposited in the small fire tray. |
10 |
| 22 | 148 |
"Put her on her knees," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 152 |
I was aware that the Lady Dorna was approaching, holding the small fire tray by its handle. |
10 |
| 22 | 155 |
"You are on your knees," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 157 |
"When one wishes the truth from a woman," said the Lady Dorna, "you should put her on her knees. |
10 |
| 22 | 160 |
"You are going to tell us the truth," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 22 | 164 |
With the palm of her hand the Lady Dorna gently wafted the fumes toward me. |
10 |
| 23 | 14 |
Where was the Lady Dorna? Where was Addison Steele? Where was I? I was sure I was still in Port Kar, but I had no idea where. |
10 |
| 23 | 31 |
Would it not be terrible to place a slave in such garmenture, and then arrange to have her, so compromised, discovered? Who could so hate a slave? Perhaps a free woman? Perhaps the Lady Dorna? I pulled at the clothing, and feared I knew what it was, and then I rose and went closer to the small lamp ... |
10 |
| 24 | 148 |
I was on my knees before an irate Dorna of Tharna, a free woman beside herself with rage. |
10 |
| 24 | 150 |
"Nothing," snapped Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 166 |
"You!" called the Lady Dorna, addressing the nearest slaver's man, he to whom she had spoken earlier, shortly. |
10 |
| 24 | 168 |
He did not look anxious to deal with the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 176 |
"She seems somewhat less than pleased," he said to the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 189 |
"Then she should be cheap," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 194 |
"What do you want for her?" asked the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 196 |
"I know she cannot speak," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 198 |
I do not think he was much pleased with the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 217 |
"I have bought her," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 24 | 238 |
What was he doing with the Lady Dorna and the individual who had concealed himself behind the ornate screen in the apartment, presumably the "fee giver"? In what strange, dark plots might Addison Steele be involved? Clearly he was a minion of dark forces. |
10 |
| 24 | 252 |
The Lady Dorna would shortly return, angry, coins in hand. |
10 |
| 25 | 8 |
Despite my uneasiness, my trepidation, and such, I was muchly pleased that I had been purchased, even by such a man, before the return of the seemingly murderously intent Dorna of Tharna. |
10 |
| 26 | 41 |
I could not have screamed had I wished, and not merely because of what had been done to me in the apartment of Dorna of Tharna. |
10 |
| 27 | 3 |
Several days ago, after my miseries in an apartment, at the mercy of Dorna of Tharna, Addison Steele, and, I thought, a mysterious third party, which had remained generally concealed behind an ornate screen, I had awakened somewhere along the Canal of the Sea Sleen. |
10 |
| 29 | 59 |
And how disappointed I had been with him, and how ashamed I had been for him, when I had discovered he was involved with the hateful Dorna of Tharna, and perhaps another, in a clandestine scheme to seize the former Lady Julia Leta of Ar and return her, doubtless for some reward, to a stern, vindicti... |
10 |
| 29 | 63 |
But now I must wonder if Addison Steele had abandoned the Lady Dorna of Tharna and her possible colleague, and had joined Bruno of Torcadino, or if he was feigning the service of each, thus betraying both. |
10 |
| 29 | 64 |
It did not seem likely to me that Bruno of Torcadino and the Lady Dorna of Tharna, and her possible colleague, would join forces. |
10 |
| 32 | 64 |
I recalled the powders and fumes of the apartment of Dorna of Tharna. |
10 |
| 32 | 85 |
I wish to induce a fear in Bruno of Torcadino that he may lose you, and even that others may be interested in your acquisition, either for the procuring of information, or, as in the case of the Lady Dorna of Tharna, the removal of a witness. |
10 |
| 33 | 296 |
In that moment, seeing the man in the boat, turned about, his face illuminated in the light of the bow lantern, I realized I had seen him before, in the apartment of Dorna of Tharna, the Proud. |
10 |
| 33 | 429 |
I drew my sopped hair down, about my face, for I feared that he spoken of as Pa-Kur might recognize me from the apartment of Dorna, of Tharna. |
10 |
| 33 | 481 |
"Do you think I do not recognize you, from the domicile of Dorna, once of Tharna? Look up". |
10 |
| 33 | 484 |
I did not understand why he had spoken of the Lady Dorna, as "once of Tharna". |
10 |
| 34 | 76 |
As far as I knew I had revealed nothing in the apartment of Dorna of Tharna, but Ho-Tosk apparently believed I had fully satisfied my interrogators, but yet, amazingly, he did not seem concerned with the matter. |
10 |
| 36 | 70 |
One of the ships of Bosk of Port Kar, incidentally, was the Dorna. |
10 |
| 36 | 72 |
I did not know, of course, if there might be any relationship between the name of the ship and the Lady Dorna whom I had encountered so unpleasantly some weeks ago. |
10 |
| 36 | 75 |
Ships are often given a feminine name, and, for all I knew, 'Dorna' might be a familiar woman's name on this world. |
10 |
| 37 | 96 |
I broke into a wild, desperate run, away, anything to escape she who styled herself Dorna of Tharna. |
10 |
| 37 | 99 |
I could easily outrun Dorna, encumbered as she was in the voluminous splendor of the multicolored robes of concealment. |
10 |
| 37 | 103 |
"Fugitive slave!" screamed Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 107 |
"You do not understand! She wants to kill me!" I was miserable as I, now held by the arms, facing her, saw Dorna hurrying toward us. |
10 |
| 37 | 110 |
"My gratitude, noble masters," said Dorna, breathing heavily, her street veil reacting to the intensity of her breathing. |
10 |
| 37 | 117 |
"I fear I am too gentle and permissive a mistress," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 119 |
"Can you read, noble masters?" asked Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 122 |
"No, no, forgive me," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 128 |
"See the collar," exclaimed Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 129 |
"It reads 'I am Mira, owned by Dorna of Tharna. |
10 |
| 37 | 134 |
"You should not tell lies, Mira," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 140 |
"Please hold her for me, noble masters," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 143 |
"I will be only a moment," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 150 |
"No, no!" said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 157 |
"Please hold her, and wait," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 172 |
"I think I shall withdraw," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 175 |
"I see," came from somewhere within Dorna's veiling, a brief utterance suggesting both interest and speculation. |
10 |
| 37 | 180 |
"Noble guardsmen," said Dorna, "these two noble masters have been of great assistance to me. |
10 |
| 37 | 182 |
I am the Lady Dorna of Tharna. |
10 |
| 37 | 185 |
"My slave's collar shows her mine," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 186 |
"It reads, 'I am Mira, owned by Dorna of Tharna. |
10 |
| 37 | 188 |
"I will need a man to bring her to my domicile," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 190 |
"It is nearby," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 193 |
"Is that necessary?" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 195 |
"I am a free woman," said Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 205 |
"And this," he said, indicating the Lady Dorna, "is her mistress. |
10 |
| 37 | 208 |
"Probably you should keep her shackled and leashed," said Miles to the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 209 |
"An excellent suggestion," said the Lady Dorna, uneasily. |
10 |
| 37 | 214 |
"Hold," said the Lady Dorna, "I think we can dispense with the formality". |
10 |
| 37 | 216 |
"You have my word that she is mine," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 220 |
"No, no, officer," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 223 |
"I thought it might be," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 225 |
The Lady Dorna went to the edge of the walkway. |
10 |
| 37 | 227 |
"Would a tarsk-bit be sufficient?" asked the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 230 |
I do not think the Lady Dorna realized that Miles had now moved behind her. |
10 |
| 37 | 232 |
"Very well," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 234 |
"Do not be absurd," said the Lady Dorna, angrily. |
10 |
| 37 | 237 |
"Very well," said the Lady Dorna, in fury, reaching into her purse, slung at her hip. |
10 |
| 37 | 238 |
Apparently the Lady Dorna now had coins at her disposal, a least to the sum of two silver tarsks. |
10 |
| 37 | 243 |
"Have no fear," said the Lady Dorna. |
10 |
| 37 | 256 |
Do they understand what it is to be in a collar? Do they understand our torment, its depth, its urgency, its rage, its heat, and pervasiveness? How it puts us at their feet! Do they not understand that the strongest of a slave girl's bonds, more stringent than the coarseness of swathed ropes, more o... |
10 |
| 37 | 257 |
At that point the subordinate seized the Lady Dorna's veils, wadded them, and thrust them back, deeply into her mouth, and then secured them behind the back of her neck. |
10 |
| 38 | 1 |
The Incarceration of Dorna the Proud, Once High Silver Mask of Tharna "It will begin shortly," said Florian. |
10 |
| 38 | 63 |
It was four days ago that the men of the House of Bosk had abducted she whom I had understood to be the Lady Dorna of Tharna, the colleague of the dreaded Pa-Kur, high amongst the Assassins. |
10 |
| 38 | 64 |
It had come as a great surprise to me when the hooding and veils of she whom I had taken to be the Lady Dorna of Tharna were torn aside, and her splendid robes drawn down to her shoulders, to discover that the beauty of her lovely neck was much set off and enhanced by the locked, close-fitting circl... |
10 |
| 38 | 65 |
Dorna was collared! I think it would be helpful, even advisable, at this point, to pause, to supply certain details, historical and otherwise, in the light of which ensuing events might be better understood. |
10 |
| 38 | 82 |
Amongst these, I suppose, was Dorna the Proud. |
10 |
| 38 | 122 |
His ship, interestingly, the Dorna, had departed from the arsenal sea gate several days ago, before I was brought to his holding. |
10 |
| 38 | 133 |
As mentioned, it had come as a great surprise to me to discover that she whom I had taken to be the Lady Dorna of Tharna, when her hooding and veils were torn aside, and her robes pulled down to her shoulders, was collared. |
10 |
| 38 | 138 |
Dorna's cell was comfortable, if not large: it was well-lit, and airy. |
10 |
| 38 | 162 |
One item in the cell of Dorna I neglected to mention. |
10 |
| 38 | 163 |
It was a holding pole, which, in the case of Dorna, served as a feeding pole. |
10 |
| 38 | 164 |
Whereas holding poles differ amongst themselves, depending on accouterments, such as belly chains, neck collars, and bracelets, and the purposes to which they may be applied, the device in Dorna's cell was rather typical. |
10 |
| 38 | 168 |
The pole in Dorna's case served primarily as a feeding pole. |
10 |
| 38 | 183 |
When a slave would attend on Dorna, a man, usually Florian or Miles, was always present, even when they were not putting her at the pole or relieving her of its restraints. |
10 |
| 38 | 185 |
"I will not eat!" had cried Dorna, kneeling, fastened to the pole, her wrists shaking the bracelets high above her head. |
10 |
| 38 | 191 |
I knew little of the plans and intentions of the masters, but I suspected they had something in mind, and would not care to spend a great deal of time with Dorna. |
10 |
| 38 | 219 |
I gasped, waiting, standing to the side, with the tray of drink and provender for Dorna. |
10 |
| 38 | 221 |
Dorna was fuming but had the wisdom not to provoke Florian further, at least at that time. |
10 |
| 38 | 225 |
"Get on your knees, slave!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 38 | 228 |
I then began to serve Dorna. |
10 |
| 38 | 232 |
It was not so much that Dorna might have called this act to the attention of her jailer, whoever he might be, as that I found satisfaction in my obedience. |
10 |
| 38 | 236 |
It was on her third day of captivity that I think I learned why slaves were not left alone with Dorna, why a male of the house was always present. |
10 |
| 38 | 237 |
Florian had been called away, as I understood it, and I found myself alone with Dorna. |
10 |
| 38 | 251 |
Dorna shrank back in her restraints. |
10 |
| 38 | 252 |
"I think it will be best for you, sweet, pleasant prisoner," said Florian to Dorna, "if the noble Pa-Kur does not know your location. |
10 |
| 38 | 258 |
"He loves me!" said Dorna. |
10 |
| 38 | 260 |
Dorna regarded Florian. |
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| 38 | 264 |
"No, no!" said Dorna. |
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| 38 | 274 |
Dorna had wanted me dead, and I feared her, and did not trust her. |
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| 38 | 283 |
After Dorna would feed, Florian, Miles, or another, would free her of her restraints. |
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| 38 | 284 |
It was difficult for Dorna to control her temper, with the masters, and certainly the slaves. |
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| 39 | 93 |
"What is the meaning of this? Let me go! Free me! What are you going to do? Stop! Stop!" One of the guards entered, one I recognized from the canal boat, carrying Dorna in his arms. |
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| 39 | 99 |
It did not occur to me immediately, but I conjectured, a moment later, given the terror of Dorna, and the situation below me, the fire, the pole, the pool, and such, what must be occurring. |
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| 39 | 101 |
I regarded the material in which Dorna was wrapped. |
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| 39 | 105 |
There was, in any case, no mistaking the terror of Dorna. |
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| 39 | 125 |
Dorna looked wildly about her. |
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| 39 | 132 |
"Yes, Master," said Dorna. |
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| 39 | 133 |
"And thus, you are privy to the most secret plans, programs, and schedules of Pa-Kur and his associates, particularly pertaining to possible designs having to do with this house?" "Yes, Master," said Dorna. |
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| 39 | 164 |
"Mercy, Masters!" begged Dorna. |
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| 39 | 180 |
Below, Dorna was writhing and screaming. |
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| 39 | 182 |
"It burns, Masters!" wept Dorna. |
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| 39 | 189 |
I think Dorna then fell unconscious. |
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| 39 | 233 |
"He has done you no harm," said Dorna. |
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| 39 | 237 |
"The destruction of what property?" said Dorna. |
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| 39 | 242 |
"Never!" said Dorna. |
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| 39 | 245 |
"I will never speak!" cried Dorna. |
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| 40 | 8 |
This had to do, I gathered, with information obtained yesterday from the interrogation of Dorna the Proud, though so lofty an appellation was scarcely appropriate for a collar girl. |
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| 40 | 37 |
How I despised him! And how I longed to be beneath his table! As I mentioned earlier, this dinner, or feast, at least as far as its tone and nature were concerned, seemed to have something to do with what had been learned from the interrogation of the slave, Dorna. |
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| 40 | 133 |
I recalled that Florian had removed me from the observation chamber before the crucial portion of Dorna's interrogation had begun. |
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| 40 | 318 |
I wondered about Dorna. |
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| 40 | 325 |
In the light of this view, particularly as I recalled her treatment of me, I was prepared to view the beating of Dorna with complete equanimity. |
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| 40 | 356 |
Did the feast not signal that? Much intelligence of interest had apparently been gained from the interrogation of Dorna. |
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| 40 | 363 |
There had been much relief in the holding following the revelations of Dorna, particularly as Bosk of Port Kar, master of the holding, was absent. |
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| 40 | 367 |
I myself had undergone the ordeal of the tunic of fire and the fumes of truth, in much the same way as had Dorna. |
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| 40 | 368 |
Dorna, then, and her confederates, would be well aware that the tunic of fire and the fumes of truth could not be resisted. |
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| 41 | 193 |
It was Addison Steele! Why was I startled? Was it not to be expected? Was he not a minion of Pa-Kur? Had he not been present, in the retinue of Pa-Kur, at the interview with the metal monster in the marshes? Had he not been present in the apartment of Dorna the Proud, an ally of Pa-Kur, when I had b... |
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| 46 | 126 |
Too, what secret knowledge, or such, could she have now that would be relevant to the designs of Pa-Kur? Was she not now worthless to him, save perhaps as collar meat? Surely, in any market, he could buy kajirae who might do quite as well as Dorna, squirming, moaning, whimpering, thrashing, gasping,... |
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| 46 | 130 |
Indeed, had he managed to escape the marshes alive? In any event, Dorna was no longer the property of the Golden Chain. |
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| 47 | 215 |
"When I was on the errand which would bring me to the apartment of Dorna, where I was to be interrogated, my life was threatened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 57 |
The hill-like mound of flesh which had risen under the Dorna, reacting to its inadvertent, bloody intrusion, had shrunk down, considerably, almost immediately, a moment after the Dorna's plunge amongst the mercenaries. |
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| 53 | 82 |
"While the Dorna sees, while the Dorna lives," he said, "we will not leave her". |
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| 53 | 87 |
"The Dorna sees, the Dorna lives," I said. |
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| 53 | 193 |
Though the Dorna and Tesephone were still abreast, the line was fastened to the stern of the Tesephone and the prow of the Dorna. |
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| 53 | 275 |
The Tesephone leapt forward, slipped past the Dorna, tautened the line between herself and the Dorna, was arrested by the line, and then, smoothly, forcefully, began to draw against it, giving impetus to her fellow. |
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| 53 | 276 |
At the same time, the rowers of the Dorna bent to their oars, and the Dorna, partly towed, partly under its own power, fell into place behind the Tesephone. |
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| 57 | 215 |
We were then joined not only by those men we had sent to assist the Dorna, but by several from the Dorna herself. |
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| 58 | 45 |
"Dear friends," I said, "the enemy has recently shown, by preferring boarding to ramming, that he would like to obtain our ships, the Dorna and the Tesephone, as prizes, and doubtless most the Dorna. |
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| 63 | 5 |
The Tesephone, smaller and quicker, more responsive, than the larger Dorna, lay a pasang out, south, beyond the harbor, that she might warn the Dorna of danger and, if necessary, cover her flank. |
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| 2 | 29 |
"I beached the Dorna and Tesephone upwind," said Thurnock, with a look at Aktis, suggesting this decision might have been judiciously motivated. |
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| 3 | 1 |
We Set Course for Thera; I Speak with Aktis; We Encounter a Surprise at Sea I stood on the stern castle of the Dorna, Builder's Glass in hand, above the twin rudders, the small, swift Tesephone, shallow-drafted, capable of negotiating rivers, abeam. |
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| 3 | 11 |
The Dorna, even disguised, even temporarily divested of its ram and shearing blades, still appeared too much a ship of war, which, indeed, it was, a knife ship. |
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| 3 | 13 |
Too, I feared the Dorna, even disguised, might be recognized. |
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| 3 | 15 |
It was my pretense that the Dorna, now referred to as the Korinna on the Cove of Harpalos papers, was a knife ship converted to freight duty, a pretense now accepted by the Cove authorities, due I suspect, first, to a judicious distribution of gold amongst them and, two, due to the fact that Therans... |
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| 3 | 149 |
The Dorna rocked softly. |
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| 4 | 29 |
On the stem deck of the Dorna, surmounting the stem castle, we counted the beats. |
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| 5 | 63 |
"The Dorna has the lines of a knife ship. |
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| 5 | 66 |
"The Dorna and Tesephone are sleek and swift," I said. |
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| 5 | 83 |
The Dorna was a fifty-oar ship, commonly using three men to an oar; the Tesephone was much smaller, a twenty-oar ship, using two men to an oar. |
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| 8 | 2 |
Both the Dorna and Tesephone were beached, prows waterward, near an inlet below, not noticeable from the sea itself. |
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| 8 | 68 |
"Break camp, strike tents, extinguish fires, gather the men, get the Dorna and Tesephone into the water, masts and sails down. |
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| 8 | 121 |
The Dorna and Tesephone were already in the water. |
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| 9 | 17 |
A single vessel, and perhaps even two, would be unlikely to engage the Dorna and Tesephone". |
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| 14 | 6 |
The Dorna, a formidable ship of war, fifty-oared, capable of a devastating strike, commanded by Tab, was in our lee. |
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| 15 | 1 |
Disturbing Reports have been Received; Tab Learns of the Fair of the Farther Islands; The Tesephone will Depart with the Tide In my tent, high amidst the crags of the Cove of Harpalos, I angrily thrust aside the reports of several selected men, chosen from the crews of the Dorna and Tesephone, thes... |
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| 15 | 60 |
"Return to the Dorna," I said. |
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| 21 | 128 |
Sips from the contents of one of the bottles, I was sure, would have killed those who drank on the Tesephone, and sips from the other, I was sure, would have killed those who drank on the Dorna. |
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| 22 | 47 |
Your larger ship, the Dorna, is no round ship. |
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| 22 | 50 |
Indeed, I gather from an overheard conversation that the Dorna, recently lying near to the ruins of Nicosia, has a ram mounted, and shearing blades. |
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| 22 | 111 |
"Later we are to join the Dorna, near Nicosia," I said. |
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| 24 | 39 |
The Dorna and the Tesephone were beached nearby. |
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| 25 | 18 |
I had dispatched the Dorna to the Cove of Harpalos, which location was to be favored because of its congenial harbor authorities, no friends of Cos; its proximity to Sybaris, the apparent headquarters of the corsairs; and its precincts having been previously, fruitlessly, searched by the corsairs. |
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| 29 | 13 |
"And find themselves in them," said Captain Tab, currently assigned the captainship of the Dorna, fifty-oared, larger and more formidable than the light, swift Tesephone, sped by twenty oars. |
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| 29 | 14 |
The Dorna, in my view, was the match for any of the seven ships in the corsair fleet. |
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| 35 | 173 |
"The Dorna returned to port yesterday, after a third hunt, once more with her game bag empty". |
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| 35 | 174 |
"I would match Tab and the Dorna against any single ship of the corsair fleet," I said. |
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| 36 | 38 |
Fortunately for the slaves, neither the Tesephone nor the Dorna saw action on the voyage to Daphna. |
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| 39 | 47 |
"Let us leave as soon as possible, join Tab and the Dorna at the Cove of Harpalos, and make our way to Mytilene. |
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| 39 | 54 |
"The Dorna, at the Cove of Harpalos," said Thurnock, "can cast her moorings within an Ahn of the Tesephone's arrival". |
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| 39 | 59 |
What a liability she would be to the Dorna. |
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| 39 | 61 |
The Dorna, of course, was already painted green, a color often favored by pirates, as it is difficult to detect at a distance. |
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| 48 | 49 |
I had done this so that our departure for the Dorna and Tesephone, both waiting in their secret hiding place, a departure which was imminent, might be accomplished, if not in stealth, at least discreetly. |
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| 48 | 160 |
"The Dorna and Tesephone wait, concealed to the south". |
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| 48 | 203 |
"Then, after dark, we will join Tab and Sakim at the Dorna and Tesephone". |
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| 49 | 20 |
"The Dorna and Tesephone are gone!" I unshuttered the dark lamp, and waved it horizontally four times, and then rotated it forward, slowly, three times. |
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| 49 | 27 |
"There are furrows in the sand where the Dorna and the Tesephone were launched," said Clitus. |
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| 49 | 35 |
"We are their quarry," I said, "their nemesis, their coveted foe, the core of the defense of Mytilene, more so than the Dorna and Tesephone. |
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| 49 | 38 |
"But the Dorna and Tesephone are gone," said Thurnock. |
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| 49 | 53 |
"Where then are Captains Tab and Sakim, where the Dorna and the Tesephone?" asked a man. |
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