| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 68 |
I was also instructed in the Double Knowledge—that is, I was instructed in what the people, on the whole, believed, and then I was instructed in what the intellectuals were expected to know. |
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| 3 | 141 |
It was still too rigid, in my opinion, particularly with respect to the selection of rulers from the High Castes and with respect to the Double Knowledge. |
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| 15 | 2 |
Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharlarion wagons abreast on their... |
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| 15 | 253 |
Mintar reached into the pouch at his waist and drew forth a golden tarn disk, of double weight. |
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| 18 | 1 |
In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 24 |
The round shield, concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass, fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm, was similarly unmarked. |
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| 2 | 59 |
It was well balanced, vicious, double-edged and about twenty to twenty-two inches in length. |
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| 3 | 43 |
The whiskers had been scraped from his face, probably by the blade of the broad, double-headed wood ax bound on top of the bundle. |
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| 23 | 4 |
Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen... |
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| 24 | 136 |
Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might storm the first ... |
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| 24 | 142 |
On the roof of the palace beyond the double rampart I could occasionally see the head of a tarn and I heard their screams. |
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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 | 163 |
I spoke loudly so that my voice might carry to all who manned the double rampart. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 24 |
I was considering my next insult when the two arms which held me swung me over a metal cage with a double floor, the higher consisting of narrow bars set in a wide mesh and the lower consisting simply of a white plastic tray. |
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| 17 | 64 |
Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus... |
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| 26 | 158 |
"She is to have a double salt ration each evening," I told him. |
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| 29 | 39 |
Had it truly been Vika of Treve? I raced to the workshop of Misk and flung open the double doors and leaped into the ship and secured the hatch, and in a moment it seemed the floor dropped a foot beneath me and the doors rushed forward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 149 |
They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break. |
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| 5 | 23 |
She wore bells locked on both wrists, and on both ankles, thick cuffs and anklets, each with a double line of bells, fastened by steel and key. |
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| 5 | 56 |
Each is drawn by a double team of bosk, four in a team, with each team linked to its wagon tongue, the tongues being joined by tem-wood crossbars. |
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| 8 | 216 |
I was most fond, perhaps, of the balanced saddle knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to a daggerlike point. |
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| 9 | 82 |
I was pleased to see again, though often done in silk, the splendid varieties of caste colors of the typical Gorean city, to hear once more the cries of peddlers that I knew so well, the cake sellers, the hawkers of vegetables, the wine vendor bending under a double verrskin of his vintage. |
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| 12 | 57 |
Aphris of Turia wore bells and collar, about her neck the Turian collar hung with bells, about each wrist and ankle, locked, a double row of bells. |
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| 16 | 121 |
"We shall double the guard," said a third voice. |
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| 21 | 48 |
As I entered I regarded the lofty double gates, and wondered how long it would take to close them. |
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| 21 | 277 |
The men on the windlass platform were slowly swinging the great double gates shut as much as possible. |
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| 21 | 283 |
The double gate had closed now save for the wagon wedged between the two parts of the gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 362 |
To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev... |
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| 1 | 68 |
Without speaking the man took twenty pieces of gold, tarn disks of Ar, of double weight, and gave them to Kuurus, who placed them in the pockets of his belt. |
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| 1 | 83 |
Yet he had in the pockets of his belt twenty gold tarn disks, and of double weight. |
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| 3 | 154 |
"A tarn disk of gold and of double weight," said I, "to red, should red win". |
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| 3 | 158 |
I took from my belt a tarn disk of double weight, and of gold, and gave it to the Player, who took it in his fingers and felt its weight, and then he put it between his teeth and bit it. |
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| 3 | 162 |
"A double tarn," said I, "to red, should red win". |
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| 3 | 213 |
I then pressed into the hands of the Player the tarn disk of gold, of double weight, and the man held it clenched in his hands, and smiled and rose to his feet. |
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| 4 | 122 |
"Four pieces of gold," said Cernus, "double tarns, will be sent to your rooms". |
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| 5 | 5 |
I had closed the door, which was of wood and heavy, and barred it with the double beam. |
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| 5 | 667 |
I then illustrated, she cooperating, several other common knots, among them the Karian anchor knot, the Pin hitch, the double Pin hitch, the Builder's bend and the Builder's overhand. |
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| 5 | 672 |
I flipped one of the thongs about her wrists, then again, then turned a double opposite overhand, with a twist following the first overhand. |
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| 12 | 214 |
The slave bells, a double row, were locked on her left ankle. |
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| 13 | 203 |
"I liked what you did at the game, when you gave the double tarn to the Player". |
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| 14 | 8 |
On such nights we would double beam the door and sleep in one another's arms. |
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| 22 | 396 |
It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip... |
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| 22 | 405 |
I wore my sword; I carried the killing knife I had taken from the back of Mip; lastly, thrust in my belt, was the double-edged quiva, the Tuchuk saddle knife. |
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| 22 | 418 |
Its prize is the greatest, a thousand double-tarns of gold. |
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| 24 | 230 |
I had been given the thousand double tarns of gold for the victory in the Ubar's race. |
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| 24 | 232 |
Eight hundred double tarns I gave to him that he might begin well his research once more. |
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| 24 | 245 |
Of the two hundred remaining double tarns from the victory in the Ubar's race I gave all but one to free Melanie, who had served in the kitchens of Cernus, and arrange a livelihood for her. |
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| 24 | 247 |
The one double tarn remaining from the victory gold I pressed into the hands of blind Qualius, the Player, who stood at the court of the Ubar, having been, like Hup, of the party of Marlenus. |
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| 24 | 249 |
"Yes," I said, "he who was Kuurus, and the double tarn I give you now I give for your victory over the Vintner long ago near the great gate of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 5 |
I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc... |
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| 1 | 35 |
Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t... |
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| 3 | 316 |
In a moment the woman had returned with a double handful of wet rence paste. |
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| 6 | 145 |
He struck down at me with the double-edged sword. |
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| 11 | 5 |
Feet were pounding toward the great double door, leading to the hallway beyond, leading out to the tiled piazza fronting on the hall of the council. |
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| 13 | 80 |
"I meant only," I said, "that your beauty reminded me of that of girls, serving slaves, nude and double chained in the paga taverns of Port Kar. |
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| 14 | 63 |
Other disadvantages to the double- and triple-banked systems, of course, are that valuable hold space is consumed by oarsmen; and that many of your oarsmen, if not all, are below decks and thus unable to enter into necessary actions as easily as they might otherwise do; further, in case of ramming o... |
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| 15 | 126 |
Accordingly the Council, ringing it with double walls on the land side and blockading it with arsenal ships by sea, chose to wait. |
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| 15 | 442 |
He lifted, heavily, to the dais on which my chair and table sat a heavy leather sack filled with golden tarn disks of double weight, of Cos and Tyros, of Ar and Port Kar, even of distant Thentis and remote Turia, far to the south. |
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| 15 | 612 |
Each was of double weight! "Paga!" I cried and held back the goblet and Telima filled it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 333 |
I drove lights off for several minutes, following the double yellow line in the center of the road by the moonlight. |
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| 8 | 197 |
Many were ornamented, particularly above the great double doors, with carvings and woodwork, painted in many colors. |
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| 8 | 428 |
I gratefully donned the camisk, fastening it tightly about my waist with the double loop of binding fiber. |
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| 8 | 529 |
I felt the binding leather, in its double loop, tight against my body, tied at my right hip. |
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| 8 | 985 |
I took the hand of the guard near whom I knelt, and placed it at my waist, slipping his fingers inside the double loop of binding fiber that belted my camisk, that he might hold me. |
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| 8 | 1007 |
Another of the guards, laughing, untied the double loop of binding fiber which belted her camisk and, drawing the fiber about her body, as she cried out, threw it aside. |
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| 8 | 1017 |
Lana stood proudly beside the fire, her head back and arms down, and extended, at her sides, while the bells, mounted in their double rows, on their straps, were fastened on her wrists and ankles. |
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| 10 | 55 |
He suddenly snapped his fingers and, in the swift double gesture of a Gorean master, pointed to a place on the dirt floor before him, almost simultaneously turning his hand, spreading his first and index fingers, pointing downwards. |
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| 11 | 507 |
The knotted, double thong that fastened us together was only about a foot long. |
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| 12 | 441 |
The walls are double, the interior wall higher, and tarn wire is strung over the compound. |
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| 14 | 155 |
It was a double gate, with, in effect, log bars. |
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| 14 | 157 |
To my surprise I saw that there was another gate, though of solid logs, beyond that one, and that the camp was ringed, actually, with a double palisade. |
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| 16 | 9 |
I could see the points of the double palisade. |
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| 17 | 48 |
They then, in the brief green tunics of the slaves of huntsmen, shouldered their burdens and followed their masters through the double gate of the palisade. |
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| 17 | 387 |
That night, with double chains, he fastened me to the wall. |
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| 17 | 444 |
At night he would double chain me. |
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| 17 | 487 |
But, at night, Tellius, still, keeps me double chained. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 263 |
The guards, with keys, bent to his manacles, and the double-chained iron clasps securing his ankles. |
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| 2 | 739 |
At the fiftieth there is a double blaze. |
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| 3 | 107 |
He might carry a double-headed ax, but at his belt may hang a Turian dagger. |
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| 3 | 199 |
The large, curved, double-bladed, long-handled ax lay beside him. |
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| 6 | 644 |
"Do you think, within the Ehn," I asked, "that you could bring me a tarn disk, of gold, of double weight?" "I have no gold!" she cried. |
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| 6 | 656 |
It was of double weight. |
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| 6 | 674 |
"Whose gold piece is this?" I asked, lifting the double tarn. |
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| 6 | 683 |
"Did you have a double tarn with you?" I asked him. |
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| 15 | 85 |
The fiber which separated them was about eight feet in length, enough to serve as a double leash. |
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| 15 | 410 |
Each was double fastened, and the hands of each were manacled behind his back. |
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| 15 | 783 |
I had had a double profit from my work of last night, my pleasure in teaching her her collar and, commercially, the considerable improvement of my property, the considerable improvement of my investment. |
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| 17 | 7 |
They were thus double chained and separated by about a yard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 64 |
The Forkbeard made great use of diversions and feints, and double strategies, in which an attack is double edged, being in effect two attacks, an open one and a concealed one, either of which, depending on a misplay by the opponent, may be forced through, the concealed attack requiring usually only ... |
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| 1 | 542 |
"Thurnock," said I, "give this physician a double tarn, of gold". |
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| 11 | 49 |
Each, too, carried a great, double-bladed iron ax, which, from blade tip to blade tip, was some two feet in width. |
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| 11 | 90 |
He wore beneath his cloak yellow wool, and a great belt of glistening black, with a gold buckle, to which was attached a scabbard of oiled, black leather; in this scabbard was a sword, a sword of Torvaldsland, a long sword, with a jeweled pommel, with double guard. |
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| 11 | 142 |
It opened its mouth, that horrid orifice, lined with its double rows of white, heavy, curved fangs. |
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| 13 | 449 |
In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps som... |
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| 14 | 42 |
Some men, behind Kurii, fled away, out of the great, opened, double doors of the hall. |
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| 20 | 164 |
Then, by a length of binding fiber, looped double in the ring of her collar, tied her on her knees to the foot of the Kur. |
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| 20 | 182 |
Then, unlooping the binding fiber from my belt, but leaving it looped, double, in her collar ring, with its loose ends, I crossed Telima's ankles and tied them together. |
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| 22 | 166 |
He put the two-piece, hinged, double ankle ring on her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 27 |
In the drilling and flush mining, two systems are used, the double-pipe system and the separate-pipe system. |
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| 15 | 28 |
In the double-pipe system fresh water is forced into the cavity through an outer pipe and the heavier solution of salt and water rises bubbling through the second pipe, or inner pipe, inserted within the larger. |
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| 15 | 31 |
An advantage of the double-pipe system is that only a single tap well need be drilled. |
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| 24 | 977 |
With my boots I rolled the two fallen men from the room, closed the large double door and again turned to face Vella. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 211 |
He took from his dagger sheath the steel blade, narrow, about seven inches long, double-edged, evenly sharpened. |
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| 2 | 413 |
It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap... |
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| 5 | 453 |
It was a double loop, drawn through itself, and tightened. |
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| 8 | 10 |
It turned its head and, with its double row of white fangs, bit at the bars. |
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| 9 | 1314 |
I then stood before them, double wrist-leashed, ropes placed knotted on my wrists. |
10 |
| 11 | 332 |
Both gates, however, were double locked, with square, heavy locks. |
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| 18 | 101 |
There are double iron gates, and only the free may come and go as they please. |
10 |
| 18 | 137 |
I felt a knotted, double strand of leather looped about my left wrist and pulled tight. |
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| 20 | 495 |
* * * * The double gate, of barred iron, shut behind me. |
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| 20 | 506 |
Clitus Vitellius turned to the double gate and tore at the bars, but could not fling them back, for the bolts had slipped into place. |
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| 20 | 545 |
The double gate was unlocked by Strabo, who had recovered his keys. |
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| 22 | 88 |
Most Gorean vessels, on the other hand, like many early vessels of Earth, are double ruddered. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 44 |
It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first girl is put in the coffle, the... |
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| 1 | 199 |
It was double fanged and six-legged. |
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| 5 | 128 |
In a moment I was at the double portal, the first barred, of the house of Samos. |
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| 8 | 5 |
"Double then the fees," she snapped. |
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| 20 | 93 |
It was half underground and double walled. |
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| 22 | 176 |
I thrust the lance point into the rushing, extended, double-fanged jaws and it penetrated through the side of the mouth, tearing, the animal's face a yard up the shaft. |
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| 31 | 45 |
I saw the double row of fangs, inclined backward in the mouth, to move caught meat toward the throat. |
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| 35 | 454 |
The female has a double application. |
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| 37 | 32 |
A single sleen is kept in two traces, or a double trace. |
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| 38 | 174 |
But, untrained, and in an early sale, she would doubtless go for no more than a handful, though perhaps a double handful, of copper tarsks. |
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| 38 | 181 |
The double line looped up to her throat from the left-hand, rear upright of the sled. |
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| 38 | 281 |
She stumbled back, the double coffle line on her neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 431 |
"Perhaps she was with a girl who was abducted for enslavement," said Samos, "and was simply, as it was convenient, put in a double tie with her and brought along". |
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| 1 | 746 |
As we exited from his hall, Samos spoke to one of the guards outside the huge double doors. |
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| 1 | 761 |
Again we clasped hands and then I strode from him, down the hallway toward the double gates leading from his house. |
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| 4 | 89 |
Most Gorean ships were double ruddered. |
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| 11 | 303 |
This double strand they then took some two and a half feet behind her. |
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| 23 | 371 |
The askaris formed themselves into a double column. |
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| 27 | 3 |
From the scaffolding, a double row of peeled logs, about ten feet apart, with numerous connecting bars and crossbars, fastened together with vines, more than a hundred yards in length, extending out into the flowing waters, hung numerous vine ropes, attached to which were long, conical, woven basket... |
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| 34 | 84 |
From the base of one of its broad leaves I gathered a double handful of fresh water. |
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| 35 | 54 |
From the girl's point of view there are few slaves who would not rather do double the labor and be the only wench in the master's compartments. |
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| 53 | 210 |
A manacle, its double bolt thrust back by the key, opened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 270 |
' The lock on the back of the collar had a double bolt, the double bolt, however, responding to a single key. |
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| 11 | 290 |
She twisted the key, freeing the single-action double bolt. |
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| 13 | 388 |
I went to the fountain and, from the lower bowl, scooped up a brimming, double handful of water which I carried, carefully, to the girl. |
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| 13 | 774 |
But, on an impulse, I followed, for a time, behind it and on its left, the double coffle. |
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| 13 | 777 |
I followed the double coffle on its left, for it was on the left side of her body that the exquisite, dark-haired girl's short, loose silk had been hitched up, baring her branded thigh to the hip. |
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| 20 | 214 |
"Was it not a splendid performance? Did he not do excellently?" "Double rations, and wine," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 87 |
The log warehouses for slaves are commonly double-walled and the girls are kept stripped within them, and commonly wear ankle chains, except when the guards wish otherwise. |
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| 26 | 39 |
This type of chaining, a double chaining, is usually done only by a man who is in a strange city, and does not know, fully, what to expect. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 52 |
The galleys of the Voskjard, like most Gorean ships, were double ruddered. |
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| 4 | 3 |
We lay to, twenty-two ships, in a double line. |
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| 5 | 170 |
She had been designed for a double-helm system. |
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| 9 | 6 |
Attached to her collar, floating to one side, on its double rope, was the board and packet. |
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| 17 | 739 |
To the rear of the palanquin, in a double coffle of briefly tunicked beauties, display slaves, their hands braceleted behind their backs, had been the girl who now knelt before me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 181 |
"Oh!" she sobbed, as two men, rather in front of her, one on each side, tossed, each, a double handful of dust upon her. |
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| 22 | 120 |
Her wrists, behind her, were fastened at the small of her back and, by a double thong, looped twice, tightly, about her body, held in place there. |
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| 43 | 430 |
I then threaded one length of the rope through the handles on Bloketu's sack and tied the two ends together, drawing it up from the handles in such a way as to make a long, double loop, the two high portions of the loop well above the handles and adjacent to one another; I then, with the other lengt... |
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| 43 | 460 |
I lifted Bloketu to her feet, holding her with my left arm, the double loop in my right hand. |
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| 43 | 469 |
I flung the double loop over the hook. |
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| 43 | 475 |
Then I had flung the double loop on her sack over the hook on Hci's tarn and she, her scream fading in the distance, was lofted away into the night. |
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| 47 | 392 |
I could see the double row of fangs, streaked with red, the long, dark tongue emergent like a serpent from the spittle and blood, the foam, of the kill. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 86 |
I could see a double line of guardsmen, with shields and spears, exiting through the gates. |
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| 32 | 84 |
The work of Claudius and the high council, of course, will be made somewhat easier by the fact that when the golden sack is opened at the banquet it will be occupied not by the true Sheila, but by you, her dupe and double. |
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| 33 | 823 |
Thus, through Ligurious, an order was placed with the beasts, that a double might be obtained for me. |
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| 33 | 834 |
The slave on my right, she who was brought to Gor as my double, was left behind on the throne, to be captured and, in my place, bear the wrath of the enemy. |
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| 33 | 838 |
Now both of us, she who was the Tatrix and she who was her double, now both no more than slaves, kneel stripped before you, helpless in your chains". |
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| 34 | 203 |
"The major purpose for which I was brought to Gor, I gather," I said, "was to serve as a precautionary double for Sheila, one who might then, particularly in the event of the failure of your plans, serve to confuse or deceive enemies, one who might, say, divert attention from her true whereabouts, o... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 551 |
Many women, after a year or two in bondage, become so beautiful that they can double or triple their price. |
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| 1 | 1023 |
The oar-master, like the helmsmen, of which two are generally on duty at any one time, most Gorean ships being double ruddered, reports to the captain. |
10 |
| 2 | 360 |
His conversation with the merchant provides ample opportunity for double-entendres and talking at cross-purposes. |
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| 6 | 1339 |
"My girls must double as tent girls," he said. |
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| 7 | 201 |
"Would you care to make it double or nothing, on the basis of some wager of your choosing, such as in cups and pebbles?" he asked. |
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| 10 | 354 |
I then checked her collar, and the attachment points of the chain, both at the collar and at the double loop where it was fastened about the axle. |
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| 12 | 759 |
It is drawn on over the head and is normally belted snugly with a double loop of binding fiber. |
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| 16 | 236 |
"Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits," said Lecchio. |
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| 16 | 263 |
"It is only that two days ago, in the morning," said Chino, "in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner, Groppus, by three female slaves masquerading as free women, re... |
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| 18 | 196 |
The first sack had had a cunning opening concealed beneath a double seam, an opening through which a performer might exit or enter, as he pleased. |
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| 4 | 44 |
Besides the ax Alars are fond of the Alar sword, a long, heavy, double-edged weapon. |
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| 12 | 185 |
Soldiers, in double file, wading, moving sometimes even over the heads of Cosian troops, traversed them". |
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| 18 | 155 |
They were bent almost double under towering burdens of branches and sticks, bound together in fagots. |
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| 26 | 304 |
The sword, the quick, short, double-edged Gorean gladius, was drawn back for a thrust. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 159 |
We had entered through one, coming in from the courtyard; another led through double doors to our right, and another, also with double doors, now barred, lay at one end of the room. |
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| 8 | 421 |
In a few moments we were lined up, according to our separate lots, I at the end of mine, facing not the large, closed double doors which led to the area outside, those doors through which the customers had entered, but the other large, closed double doors, those which, apparently, led somewhere else... |
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| 6 | 1 |
Transportation It is all part of the hood, the leather ball, the strap attached at the front of it, and the belt, with its double loop, on the outside, held in place by the hood's belt loops, at its opening. |
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| 6 | 6 |
It was then, by the double loop of the belt, passed twice about my neck, drawn shut. |
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| 8 | 433 |
The double doors before us were opened. |
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| 9 | 184 |
A double chain seemed to be extending upward, toward it, on a pulley system. |
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| 9 | 190 |
The higher hook on the chain had been placed over one strand of the double chain overhead. |
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| 9 | 339 |
The auctioneer put his whip on his belt, held me by the left arm in his right hand, and, with his left hand, reaching up, lifted the chain between my manacles off the lower hook of the short chain, that attached to the strand of the double chain overhead. |
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| 9 | 434 |
But I was a woman of Earth! This could not be happening to me! Then, as the higher chain, the strand of the double chain, took up its slack, my wrists were again pulled up, high, over my head. |
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| 10 | 864 |
"And double them," said Hendow. |
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| 11 | 1012 |
I felt my head pulled up by the hair, a double handful of it grasped in Hendow's fist. |
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| 11 | 1037 |
Sita removed the belt from me, with its double loop. |
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| 13 | 6 |
I wore a double belt of threaded, jangling coins, one strand high, one low, as with the corded belt of metal pieces I had worn in my virgin dance, weeks ago. |
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| 13 | 140 |
I reached behind me to undo the double belt of coins, with its two loops, one high, one low. |
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| 13 | 474 |
He took his hands from my hips and put them further about me, to remove from my waist the double belt of coins. |
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| 17 | 79 |
My master had a double flute slung on his back. |
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| 17 | 161 |
Perhaps they had noticed, too, the double flute on my master's back. |
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| 17 | 179 |
My master removed his long double flute from his back. |
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| 17 | 207 |
With the music of the double flute in the background I modestly removed the ta-teera, putting it to the side. |
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| 17 | 384 |
I was now double collared. |
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| 24 | 138 |
She apparently worked very hard to keep her position with this chain, carrying water, sometimes double bags, frequently and uncomplainingly, and, in the evening, zealously, and desperately, and with subtle and delicious skills, well pleasing the guards. |
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| 29 | 321 |
It had a double ring of teeth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 333 |
Such doors, single and double, are common in inns and taverns, as they may be negotiated by someone whose hands are occupied, as in bearing a tray. |
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| 5 | 534 |
The fellow, I noted, had taken one of the larger tables, a double table, for himself. |
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| 12 | 315 |
These tatters appeared to be the remains of what had perhaps once been a double dress, now shortened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 646 |
I heard a swirl from a flute, the simple flute, not the double flute, and the quick pounding of a small tabor, these instruments now in the hands of Philebus' assistants. |
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| 1 | 1249 |
They were pretty, that double strand of insignificant baubles, those lovely spheres of colored wood strung on binding fiber, enough to bind a slave hand and foot. |
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| 1 | 1284 |
In this sense, locating men, or larls, or sleen, which tend to double back, often to attack their pursuers, is not like locating buttons. |
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| 3 | 134 |
The threat to sell a girl to a peasant is usually more than sufficient to encourage her to double, and then redouble, her efforts to please. |
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| 3 | 252 |
Such, too often, double back. |
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| 14 | 44 |
On Gor there is a double standard for the treatment of men and women, and, in particular, for the female slave. |
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| 26 | 16 |
At other times I had her tied as I usually slept her, her ankles crossed and bound in the center of the length of binding fiber, the same fiber, now in its double strand, being brought up and used to tie her hands together before her body, its separated ends then tying behind her back, to keep her h... |
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| 31 | 573 |
"I am tying your hands behind your back," I said, fastening them there, using the two free ends of the cord as a double cord. |
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| 44 | 330 |
Those not at the poles might double as lookouts, guards and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 354 |
He was followed by some ten or so Initiates, in double file. |
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| 2 | 383 |
He then, whipping a short length of binding fiber from his pouch, with two simple loops, and a double knot, a warrior's capture knot, tied her hands together. |
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| 3 | 887 |
"Larls" would be maximum highs, say, double highs, if two dice were being used, triple highs if three dice were in play, and so on. |
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| 3 | 890 |
The fellow had double "larls". |
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| 8 | 571 |
There was suddenly near us, startling us, another skirl of notes on a flute, the common double flute. |
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| 9 | 665 |
"Czehar music," she said, "and, later, the recitation of poetry by Milo, the famed actor, to the music of the double flute". |
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| 9 | 666 |
The instrument which is played by the flute girls is a double flute, too, but I had little doubt that the player involved would not be a flute girl but someone associated with one or another of the theaters of Ar. |
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| 18 | 116 |
"But he made him pay double, and for the time before, too!" "Interesting," I said. |
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| 20 | 426 |
"But even so," I said, "before being admitted to her presence, you may be double leashed, one on each side, that you cannot touch, or approach, the woman, except as permitted". |
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| 21 | 97 |
"Then I was double leashed," she said. |
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| 21 | 99 |
There are several double leashing arrangements, sometimes with two collars, and sometimes with a single collar, with leash rings on opposite sides. |
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| 21 | 103 |
The point of double leashing is security and control. |
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| 21 | 107 |
In the case of females double leashing is primarily aesthetic. |
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| 21 | 111 |
"I was then conducted by five guards within the double gate of the Central Cylinder," she said. |
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| 21 | 115 |
Inside the double gate, I was hooded, and then I was led through what seemed to be a maze of passageways, and levels, and turnings. |
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| 21 | 571 |
In a few moments I was again in the passageways outside the audience chamber, hooded, and double leashed. |
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| 22 | 694 |
That the female is a slave can double or treble, or more, the sexual interest and vitality of the male. |
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| 23 | 426 |
"I can double this overnight at the gaming tables," he said. |
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| 27 | 345 |
For example, a "double tarn" is twice the weight of a "tarn". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 513 |
Above the track of the platform, swung back now, was a double gate. |
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| 10 | 515 |
In each of the double gates was a smaller opening which was now shut, through which only one person at a time might pass. |
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| 13 | 442 |
I did so, and he took the double strand of the rope looped about my wrists and brought it forward, between my legs, and then looped it up and, separating the strands, passed one over my collar and then tied it to the other. |
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| 13 | 712 |
My collar, the double strand of rope taut, was about a foot from the ring. |
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| 16 | 1 |
The doors to his quarters, double doors, were opened before me, each by a deferential slave girl, her head down. |
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| 16 | 593 |
He carried some thongs, and motioned that I should lie upon my stomach in the vicinity of the double door. |
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| 19 | 93 |
I saw a fellow standing in the stirrups and swinging a huge double strand of pearls about his head, again and again, and then he flung it out, far over the crowd. |
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| 19 | 251 |
Behind him, in double file, side by side, came some twenty other men. |
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| 19 | 404 |
The Initiates then reformed their double line and, bells ringing and smoke wafting about, fragrant, from the censer, took their way from the docking area. |
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| 19 | 490 |
They had her on a double leash. |
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| 24 | 764 |
Some of the women knelt, holding out their hands for mercy, but the lash fell upon them, too, and they put down their heads, sobbing, bending over, almost double. |
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| 24 | 898 |
There is sometimes a double frustration involved in these things, that of the slave whose master will not sell her to one to whom she wishes to belong, and that of the fellow who wishes to own her, to whom she will not be sold, for one reason or another, perhaps for spite, perhaps because the owner ... |
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| 31 | 271 |
"You have played a clever game of double Kaissa," said the leader of the black-tunicked men, "leading us to believe, as though falsely, this was he whom we seek, when it was in truth he, but the game has been penetrated". |
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| 36 | 82 |
"Set a double guard, four men, in two pairs," said the leader of the strangers. |
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| 37 | 36 |
The two groups might precede the men, forming a double wall in the passage, or, if the men wished, one group might precede and the other follow, in this fashion providing protection for both the front and rear. |
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| 42 | 11 |
I complied and, in an instant, with a double loop, they were corded together. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 374 |
* * * * "It is beautiful," said the woman, she in the off-the-shoulder white gown, admiring the twenty weighty double ingots of gold. |
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| 11 | 558 |
There was another portal, one wider and more auspicious, in the room, a double door of some dark wood, that through which the guests and Mirus had originally entered. |
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| 11 | 1055 |
The gold will be waiting in the cell, all the twenty double-weight ingots of it, carefully stacked. |
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| 12 | 273 |
It is not pleasant to wear close shackles or a double-padlocked six-inch chain joining one's ankles. |
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| 27 | 389 |
He had availed himself of one of the weapons, a gladius, light, wicked, short-bladed, double-edged. |
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| 27 | 2135 |
Double the perimeter guard and halve the watches. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 44 |
Into the hallway now emerged ten or more of these large forms, in the hands of some were rifles, in the hands of others heat knives and double-bladed power axes. |
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| 15 | 6 |
Into the camp area, half running, came Tula and Lana, each carrying a supple switch, formed of a narrow, green branch, dragging between them a double leashed, pathetic, gasping, stumbling figure. |
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| 17 | 29 |
The larl, for example, will commonly circle, or double back, and stalk its hunters. |
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| 18 | 84 |
He had then, turning her again to her belly, with one strand of the double-braided leash, fastened her hands, already bound, closely against her belly, and knotted the holding strap behind the small of her back. |
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| 21 | 519 |
A praetor now approached the seventh challenger, and placed in his huge paws a gigantic ax, some ten feet in length, and double-bladed at each end, an ax which, in the grip of one such as he, one of such strength, might have decapitated a larl, and perhaps even, with three or four blows, Gor's might... |
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| 50 | 22 |
Scarcely had she dared hope for this that night when, to the double stroke of a whip, she was dragged in chains from the auction block. |
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| 56 | 219 |
Statius carried a weighty Kur ax, double-headed, and each blade bore blood. |
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| 77 | 294 |
Flavion's great blade again swung in a mighty arc and Cabot caught it on the double head of his own ax, and a blast of sparks burst into the air, and the head of Cabot's ax hung in its bindings, loose, against the haft of his ax. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 384 |
The northern ships commonly have a single steering board, whereas most of the southern ships are double helmed. |
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| 3 | 165 |
It was pointed for thrusting, double-edged for slashing. |
10 |
| 5 | 647 |
"Tarn disks of double weight," said another. |
10 |
| 5 | 672 |
"Of double weight!" laughed another. |
10 |
| 10 | 60 |
For example, a rich man's palanquin, borne by slaves, may be followed by a single or double coffle of display slaves, uniformly tunicked, back-braceleted and neck-chained. |
10 |
| 11 | 11 |
I found the former Miss Wentworth toward the back of the stable, on the right, as one would face the large double gate which gave access to the structure. |
10 |
| 11 | 19 |
The common slave strip is a single, narrow, dangling piece of cloth anchored in binding fiber, double-looped about the waist of the slave. |
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| 11 | 23 |
Sometimes the binding fiber, in its double loop, is looser, that it may ride low on the hips. |
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| 13 | 349 |
A price of ten thousand tarn disks, of double weight, has been placed on the Ubara's head". |
10 |
| 14 | 43 |
The blade is commonly the gladius, which is quick, light, and double-edged, suitable for both the thrust and the slash. |
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| 24 | 3 |
The temporary quarters of Lord Nishida was a double tent, pitched not far from the ashes of his pavilion. |
10 |
| 24 | 25 |
"Is that you, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman?" came a voice from inside the double tent, calling out, pleasantly. |
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| 24 | 33 |
The inner room of the double tent was lit by tharlarion-oil lamps, and I found Lord Nishida sitting cross-legged, at his ease, behind a small table, with a small cup in hand. |
10 |
| 24 | 231 |
I then left the double tent. |
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| 26 | 154 |
"I will offer you five thousand tarns of gold," he said, "of double weight". |
10 |
| 26 | 225 |
"Ten thousand tarns of gold, of double weight," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 279 |
"Seven thousand tarns of gold, double weight!" snapped Seremides. |
10 |
| 26 | 299 |
The slave that was now she was wanted by the high justice of Ar, and might bring a bounty price of ten thousand golden tarn disks, tarn disks of Ar, and of double weight. |
10 |
| 26 | 331 |
Her primary use now, if any, was that of an item of goods which, given an unusual political situation, might be exchanged for ten thousand tarns of gold, of double weight. |
10 |
| 28 | 336 |
Strange, I thought, that so mighty a bounty, ten thousand tarn disks, of gold, of double weight, had not yet been claimed. |
10 |
| 28 | 448 |
"Double the guard," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 30 | 112 |
It did seem to me that in a vessel of this size a double rudder might be impractical, and difficult to mount. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 162 |
She wore the common camisk, a brief rectangle of cloth slipped over the head, belted with a double loop of binding fiber. |
10 |
| 1 | 168 |
The double loop is to allow for an adequate length, enough for a variety of ties. |
10 |
| 1 | 377 |
"Tarn disks of double weight," said another. |
10 |
| 3 | 1017 |
In double clamps, it was held utterly motionless. |
10 |
| 3 | 1064 |
As I lay, supine, and backward sloping, my head low, my wrists over my head, behind my head, on each side, in the clamps, my ankles higher, on each side, in their clamps, my left thigh held immobile in its double clamps, he took my hair in his hand. |
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| 5 | 103 |
The sword was the gladius, double-edged, some eighteen inches of steel, long enough to outreach a knife, short enough, light enough, dexterous enough, to work behind the guard of a longer, heavier weapon. |
10 |
| 7 | 167 |
The ship was six-masted, square-rigged, seven decked, carvel-built, and single-ruddered, not guided by a steering board, or the double rudders of the typical Gorean ship. |
10 |
| 7 | 168 |
The nested galleys, on the other hand, were typical of most Gorean vessels, long or round ships, oar-banked, double ruddered, single-masted, and lateen-rigged. |
10 |
| 8 | 92 |
One caught at a pole and snapped it apart with one swift, wrenching closure of its wide, double-fanged jaws, like a toothed trap door set low in that broad, viperlike head. |
10 |
| 8 | 477 |
In the south, delivered to the justice of Ar, she might bring a double handful of golden tarn disks. |
10 |
| 9 | 33 |
This is done with a double windlass. |
10 |
| 35 | 124 |
"This sack, I take it," said the stranger, "contains ten tarn disks, of double weight". |
10 |
| 36 | 28 |
Demetrion knew little more of the stranger, the Cosian, Callias of Jad, than the fact that he may have cost the harbor, or, better, its administration, a number of golden tarn disks, of double weight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 516 |
It is slipped over the head, and belted snugly, commonly with a double loop of thong or binding fiber, this fastened with a slip knot at the left hip, that it may be convenient to a right-handed man. |
10 |
| 4 | 517 |
The double loop provides enough thong or binding fiber to bind the occupant, helplessly, hand and foot. |
10 |
| 5 | 299 |
I could double or triple forty, or better, even sixty, thousand dollars for my freedom, simply from immediately available resources and accounts. |
10 |
| 9 | 280 |
"Ten golden tarn disks, at least of double weight," said the other. |
10 |
| 10 | 187 |
A double cruelty is involved in this. |
10 |
| 12 | 121 |
* * * * I was readying myself to return to the shop of Epicrates, with the two buckets, freshly filled, when I became aware of a shouting about, and I saw several citizens hurrying to join a cluster of others, gathered near the double doorway of an insula on Clive, not more than a hundred paces from... |
10 |
| 18 | 893 |
He indicated a fellow standing in the shadows, just within the large double doors of the tavern. |
10 |
| 18 | 956 |
We followed them shortly, and the lamp was extinguished behind us, and the large double doors were closed and barred. |
10 |
| 19 | 99 |
The charge for a game can range from a tarsk-bit, which is common, to a golden tarn disk, of double weight. |
10 |
| 20 | 259 |
They had been double chained to the slave post in the Venna camp. |
10 |
| 21 | 99 |
"For most," said Desmond of Harfax, "but for you, a golden tarn disk, of double weight". |
10 |
| 26 | 471 |
Some carried long-handled, double-bladed axes. |
10 |
| 27 | 302 |
I then drew the double thong more tightly about me, and knotted it, closely, at the left hip. |
10 |
| 31 | 144 |
Have you not seen chains of them in Ar, lightly tunicked, back-braceleted, neck-coffled, perhaps double strings of them, chained to the back of a palanquin?" "Where are you taking me?" I asked. |
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| 33 | 20 |
I stood before the wide, double-gated portal, looking out onto the sunlit mountains. |
10 |
| 45 | 199 |
The blade was some fourteen horts in length, and double-edged, but the handle, made for the grip of a Kur, was large for my hand. |
10 |
| 45 | 265 |
Grendel fetched the ax of the second guard, and lifted that long-handled, double bladed, weighty weapon. |
10 |
| 47 | 1 |
A double guard, though it was daylight, had been placed at the mouth of the Cave. |
10 |
| 47 | 98 |
Master Desmond was subjected to no further attacks before we reached the double doors, large, suitable for the passage of Kurii, which led into the audience chamber. |
10 |
| 48 | 41 |
"Would a thousand pieces of gold, tarn disks of double weight, be appropriate?" asked Desmond of Harfax. |
10 |
| 48 | 217 |
The large double door to the chamber, leading out to the hall, was unbarred, and swung open. |
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| 48 | 330 |
Grendel stepped forward, to the center of the room, and Lucius, with a cry of rage, unintelligible in the translator, rushed forward and his ax, bright and double edged, described its swift, terrible arc, and in a moment might have cut away a head and part of a shoulder, but it was suddenly arrested... |
10 |
| 48 | 342 |
"No!" He moved rapidly, unopposed, to the large double door of the audience chamber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 329 |
The double loop of cord was put about my left wrist and jerked tight, and, a moment later, my wrists were secured in place. |
10 |
| 8 | 400 |
From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged. |
10 |
| 14 | 27 |
When it rained it took double teams of tharlarion to draw the wagons, which were often mired, sunk to the axles. |
10 |
| 21 | 70 |
The strike of the double-edged gladius would be first to the left, and then, with the backstroke, to the right, both strokes to the throat, both like a whisper, scarcely heard, but deep enough. |
10 |
| 21 | 90 |
One blow from that huge, long-handled, broad- bladed, double-bladed device might have felled a small tree. |
10 |
| 21 | 311 |
"It is tarn disks, gold, of double weight," came from the device. |
10 |
| 33 | 136 |
Instantly we turned about in the neck rope, with its three knotted double loops, and went to our stomachs, our heads to the left, our wrists crossed behind us, and our ankles, as well. |
10 |
| 35 | 5 |
I moved my neck a little in the coarse, knotted, double loop which encircled my throat, which held me to the others. |
10 |
| 51 | 19 |
Angrily, he drew from his wallet a double tarn of gold, and hurled it against my jacket, where I caught it, and regarded it, incredulously Many Goreans have never seen such a coin, and some doubt that it exists. |
10 |
| 52 | 523 |
Most Gorean vessels with which I was familiar were double ruddered, with two helmsmen. |
10 |
| 53 | 23 |
"It is gold, a double tarn, from the mint of the state of Ar". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 180 |
"Consider the double quiver of the tarn saddle," I said. |
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| 15 | 50 |
On the other hand, I would later learn, interestingly, that this lack of an obvious warning arrangement, first, was intended to encourage an approach through the garden to the courtyard, which would then facilitate the entrapment of intruders between the double walls, those of the courtyard and thos... |
10 |
| 21 | 374 |
Later, my identity recognized, a hand cart was arranged for my eventual return to the palace, following my recovery from this dreadful ordeal, with a double escort, two patrols". |
10 |
| 21 | 396 |
"Your captors would have been wiser," I said, "to have stripped and gagged you, tied your hands behind your back, and then run you on the double leash to the rendezvous, adding to your speed, from time to time, if it were desired, with a stoke of a supple switch". |
10 |
| 27 | 179 |
In daylight, flags may be used, and mirrors, and at night, the movements of double torches, or the light of a single lantern, revealed, and shielded, alternately". |
10 |
| 30 | 344 |
Similarly it might be noted that the snug double belting of the common camisk, usually of cordage, thongs, or binding fiber, is not designed merely to emphasize the woman's figure, and in such a way as to make it clear it is the figure of a slave, but to serve a similar purpose. |
10 |
| 41 | 8 |
"Nonetheless, friend Haruki," I said, "have you located the unimportant, even despicable, slave, in whom Tajima has little, or no, interest?" We moved back a bit amongst the tents, as a squad of glaive-bearing Ashigaru, in double file, sped past. |
10 |
| 46 | 185 |
The sword, held in its double grip, held in both hands, was raised, until both hands were literally behind his head. |
10 |
| 50 | 199 |
In the background, leaning against the wall, was a Kur ax, its haft some seven feet in length, its socketed, double-edged blade some two feet in width. |
10 |
| 61 | 244 |
The bounty on Talena herself, who had been mysteriously removed from Ar, during the restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, was a fortune, such that it might purchase a city, ten thousand tarn disks of gold, each of double weight. |
10 |
| 61 | 725 |
"Ten thousand tarn disks," she said, "of gold, and of double weight". |
10 |
| 61 | 869 |
"That is denied," I said, "by ten thousand tarn disks of gold, of double weight". |
10 |
| 61 | 1193 |
"You would sell me for the ten thousand golden tarns of double weight!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 229 |
He wore, as well, a wide, double-buckled belt, from which a dagger, in its sheath, was suspended, and ankle-high, cord-laced street sandals. |
10 |
| 27 | 24 |
Both forms of ship, too, are usually double helmed. |
10 |
| 32 | 52 |
Its huge gate had two leaves, and, were it opened, it would easily accommodate the passage of a double-harness tharlarion wagon. |
10 |
| 39 | 162 |
In the south it is used for lances, it can bend almost double before snapping". |
10 |
| 40 | 23 |
A reward had been posted for her capture and return to the city, ten thousand gold tarn disks, of double weight, a sum that might buy cities and fertile, well-Âharbored islands. |
10 |
| 44 | 109 |
Its haft was easily five or six feet in length, and it had a large, single, double-edged blade. |
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| 53 | 165 |
"You might have asked ten tarns of gold," said Surtak, "of double weight". |
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| 53 | 205 |
Why should she not? Was she not beautiful, and had not Surtak, high Kur, been willing to spend the untold amount of ten tarns of gold, and of double weight, a sum that might ransom a Ubar's daughter, for her return? Lord Grendel, angrily, disgustedly, motioned that Eve should join our group. |
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| 53 | 253 |
"You would have paid ten tarns of gold, of double weight, to free me!" "I would have paid that much, and more," he said, "to have you where you are now, in my collar". |
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| 61 | 650 |
"A shield, a shield!" cried Decius Albus, "and one, as well, for noble Lucilius!" The large Kur beside him in the box was crouched down, and the broad, double-edged blade of the Kur ax it bore was held across its body, before its chest, covering its heart. |
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| 64 | 182 |
As the first shape approached the light of the fire, the fire was reflected from a broad metal surface, that of the large, double-edged ax it bore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 240 |
The double tarn, of gold, minted in the city of Ar, is usually accepted as the single, most valuable coin on Gor. |
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| 8 | 25 |
The two helmsmen were in their places, as the ship was double ruddered. |
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| 9 | 4 |
I bent over the double basin, one of several in the large, low-ceilinged kitchen of the Golden Chain, one of the five or so prominent taverns in the city. |
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| 9 | 39 |
I had dallied at the double basin one day and the kitchen master, holding me by the hair, had flung me down on the wet floor and used it on me. |
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| 9 | 68 |
"Beware," whispered the girl to my right, she at another of the four double basins, "I hear steps!" I tensed, waiting. |
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| 9 | 100 |
He rose to his feet and placed the shackles on the sill behind the double basin. |
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| 11 | 248 |
It was said that the reward for her capture was ten thousand tarns of gold, tarn disks of double weight. |
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| 15 | 176 |
I recalled that an enormous reward had been posted for her capture, ten thousand tarns of gold, tarn disks of double weight. |
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| 31 | 71 |
It was short, double-bladed, light, and heavily oiled. |
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| 33 | 448 |
"As for a whip," said Pa-Kur, "a sword belt, wide and supple, double buckled, will do". |
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| 38 | 246 |
You will receive your freedom, and a gold tarn disk, of Ar, of double weight! Many men do not see that in a year. |
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| 38 | 271 |
"Too, it is unpleasant, I would suppose, to have your chest cut open and, while you live, have the molten gold of a tarn disk, of double weight, poured upon your heart". |
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| 39 | 139 |
He believes that somewhere in this house is a golden cup, worth perhaps two tarn disks of gold, of double weight. |
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| 47 | 360 |
"The bounty on her head, the reward for her capture," said Addison Steele, "set by the vengeful Ubar of Ar, Marlenus, is ten thousand tarns of gold, tarn disks of double weight". |
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| 47 | 386 |
"Ten thousand tarns of gold, tarn disks of double weight," said Addison Steele, "is a considerable sum". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 132 |
How can these be regulars of Cos? Have they overlooked or forgotten their primary weapons? And consider the variety of swords carried by these men, variously hilted, variously edged, single and double, with diverse reaches. |
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| 26 | 26 |
Most Gorean vessels are lateen-rigged and double ruddered. |
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| 26 | 28 |
The double rudder adds an increment of water resistance, or drag, to the vessel's passage, but this is regarded as a negligible disadvantage which is more than compensated for by the gain in maneuverability. |
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| 26 | 29 |
The double rudder allows quicker, sharper turns. |
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| 32 | 19 |
Had the enemy been disciplined, and had I assumed command following the attack, and I did not know the nature or numbers of the enemy, I would have ordered the retreat of the double-shield wall, that to reach the beach, my supplies, and additional support. |
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| 41 | 111 |
"Desertions are few, happily," said Thrasymedes, "even before the digging of the double ditch". |
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| 41 | 137 |
We were then silent, and looked over the wall, past the double ditch and the now-quiescent engines of war, the three mighty catapults, to the many tents of the enemy, plentiful in the distance, like scattered, disorganized litter. |
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| 42 | 56 |
"It is victory," said Thrasymedes, breathing heavily, two hands grasping the long handle of a double-bladed ax, one blow of which might have split the common shield or cleaved a helmet to the chest, "victory, quick and terrible". |
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| 42 | 132 |
There was a scream from the other side as Thrasymedes, with a single blow of his double-edged ax, cut it off. |
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| 44 | 69 |
"Tal," said Thrasymedes, in a work tunic, his double-bladed ax slung across his back. |
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| 50 | 17 |
Most Gorean vessels south of Torvaldsland are double-ruddered. |
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| 59 | 458 |
I lifted the blade of the short, double-edged weapon, the Gorean gladius. |
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| 60 | 53 |
The slender, serpentine body, a yard long, surfaced for a moment, eyes beady, drawing air, and then slipped beneath the surface, the water raked by its double array of brightly colored spines. |
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| 62 | 91 |
"A reward was offered for her capture and return to Ar," said Archelaos, "a reward of ten thousand tarns of gold, tarn disks of double weight". |
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