| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 110 |
Disregarding my misgivings, I took the hand, to draw the unfortunate creature to its feet. |
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| 16 | 19 |
The human resources on which Pa-Kur could draw seemed inexhaustible, and, as important, he had at his command a considerable force of tharlarion cavalry, an arm almost lacking to the men of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 111 |
Cabot simply took the weapon, seeming to draw it easily from the startled grip of the fat man. |
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| 7 | 2 |
The man on the right would not draw his blade but wait until the first warrior had made his attack and would then strike from the side with the spear. |
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| 15 | 7 |
In the whistling wind, as the need arose, I had called the straps to her, "One-strap!", "Six-strap!" and so on, and she would draw the strap. |
10 |
| 15 | 31 |
He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft. |
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| 18 | 117 |
"Pull!" I cried, and the hundred slaves in the long room began to draw on the chains. |
10 |
| 18 | 177 |
At last, one by one, the inert bodies stirred, their lungs opening to draw in the damp, cold air of the mine. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 17 |
The point of this restriction, I suppose, is to draw a clearer distinction between her status and that of a Free Companion. |
10 |
| 10 | 10 |
Oddly enough, few of the Priest-Kings whom I questioned on this matter seemed to draw the distinction clearly between hearing and smelling. |
10 |
| 20 | 66 |
I did not draw my sword. |
10 |
| 21 | 44 |
I heard Mul-Al-Ka draw in his breath quickly beside me. |
10 |
| 31 | 167 |
I did not even draw my sword. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 |
I stood back and made no move to draw my weapon. |
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| 4 | 21 |
It shifted delicately, feinting, and then withdrawing, trying to draw the cast. |
10 |
| 4 | 35 |
I saw him draw one of the quivas from a saddle sheath, loosen the long, triple-weighted bola from his side. |
10 |
| 12 | 260 |
We had slept late that day and finally when Kamchak managed to be up and around, after a late breakfast served rather slowly by Elizabeth, and had recollected Aphris and had opened the end of her sleeping quarters and she had crawled out backward and had begged, head to boot, to be allowed to draw w... |
10 |
| 12 | 419 |
At times he would permit her to draw back again, but never to the full length of the chain, and each time he permitted her to withdraw, it was less than the last. |
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| 16 | 117 |
Immediately we heard the sound of several men leaping down to the street and the draw cords on the wire net—probably of the sort often used for snaring sleen—began to tighten. |
10 |
| 23 | 22 |
I sensed, however, that he was angry when I spoke of the probable complicity of the Paravaci with the Turians, striking when and how they did, even during the Omen Year, presumably to draw the Tuchuks away from Turia. |
10 |
| 23 | 109 |
Bloody, covered with sweat, gasping, we saw the living Paravaci draw back, falling back between the newly forming lines on the gradient above. |
10 |
| 26 | 356 |
Saphrar screamed in agony and moving beneath the yellow glistening surface of the pool I saw several of the filamentous fibers encircle his legs and begin to draw him deeper into the pool and beneath the surface. |
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| 26 | 371 |
The torch was brought, and the pool seemed to discharge its vapor more rapidly, and the fluids began to churn, and draw away from our edge of the pool. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 100 |
Players, when playing among themselves, with men of equal strength, frequently play for a draw when they do not have the first move. |
10 |
| 5 | 385 |
And, we suppose, the Others would suspect that only humans whose brains had been disposed to believe certain things, in virtue of our science, would be permitted to fall into their hands, once again as a move intended to draw them into a trap". |
10 |
| 7 | 145 |
Each was marked and sealed, but in each, at two points, there were valve openings, through which in flight I supposed two tubes might pass, one perhaps for oxygen and another gas used to sedate the occupant, and one to draw the carbon dioxide from the cylinder. |
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| 14 | 172 |
The girl in chains strode to her and seized her by the collar, at which point the kitchen slave began to whine and weep, trying to draw back, to turn her head away. |
10 |
| 15 | 58 |
Her head went farther back, as her hands moved on the arms of the Warrior, as though once to press him away, and then again to draw him closer, and her head then touched the furs, her body a cruel, helpless bow in his hands, and then, her head down, it seemed she struggled and her body straightened ... |
10 |
| 15 | 121 |
Four times Claudia Tentia Hinrabia had attempted to kill one of the girls but the others would easily overpower her; and the Hinrabian must endure her bath and her perfuming; when finished the girls would lock her raiment in a chest and then draw a slave hood over her head, locking it in place, and ... |
10 |
| 17 | 318 |
But when he permitted her to draw back her lips there were tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr... |
10 |
| 18 | 285 |
It seemed to draw it open, and then, wildly, to thrust it back, keeping the door locked; and then I heard the bolt rattling in its brackets as though something had seized it and trembling was trying to hold it in place. |
10 |
| 18 | 471 |
"Do not draw your weapon," said Cernus. |
10 |
| 20 | 343 |
I wondered who the young man might be if Qualius, whom I knew to be a superb player, did not even speak as though he might force a draw with him. |
10 |
| 20 | 378 |
Sura did not draw back from that fearful, grotesque countenance that faced her. |
10 |
| 21 | 291 |
Moving back warily I remained as close as I could to the picket, but out of reach, hoping to draw yet another Warrior prematurely into attack. |
10 |
| 24 | 415 |
I did not draw my weapon, but my mere gesture had caused a hundred swords to leap from the sheath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
10 |
| 3 | 174 |
And we do not have cords of strength enough to draw such bows". |
10 |
| 5 | 49 |
I tried to draw back. |
10 |
| 6 | 180 |
Spitting teeth, his face a mask of blood, he tried to draw his sword. |
10 |
| 8 | 14 |
I was not a rencer and, when possible, when using the bow, I intended to stand; indeed, it is difficult to draw the bow cleanly in any but a standing position; it is not the small, straight bow used in hunting light game, tabuk, slaves, and such. |
10 |
| 8 | 231 |
I knew, further, that she could not, even were the weapon strung, draw it to the half, but further I knew that, at the range she might fire, the arrow, drawn even to the quarter, might penetrate my back. |
10 |
| 11 | 113 |
They had surely served to draw the captains of Port Kar into the ambush prepared for them outside the hall of the council. |
10 |
| 12 | 21 |
Thurnock stopped long enough to draw his great bow. |
10 |
| 13 | 341 |
Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly. |
10 |
| 13 | 388 |
The men, many of them, could no longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw. |
10 |
| 14 | 201 |
I was willing to spend one ship to draw two or three enemy ships from the battle, if battle there was to be. |
10 |
| 14 | 205 |
As I had expected, he had now begun to draw substantially ahead, since I had reduced to half of maximum beat. |
10 |
| 14 | 419 |
She tried to draw back. |
10 |
| 15 | 385 |
When she went to draw her arms back to her body there was just the briefest instant in which she could not do so, and she frowned, looked annoyed, puzzled, and then was permitted to move as she wished. |
10 |
| 15 | 667 |
He did not draw his weapon. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 18 | 12 |
Men ran to signal ships among the reserves, that they might draw toward our engaged fleet, recalling it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 253 |
I was vaguely aware that now a gentle force seemed to draw my body against the tube differently. |
10 |
| 6 | 236 |
I wondered where the draft animals, presumably oxen, were, who would draw the heavy wagon. |
10 |
| 7 | 487 |
They tend the bosk, clean the wagons, draw water and gather firewood. |
10 |
| 8 | 214 |
Then they leaped to the pier and, with smaller ropes, fastened to the same cleats, began to draw the barge close to the pier. |
10 |
| 8 | 657 |
From my hair, to my delight, he seemed to draw forth a silver tarsk. |
10 |
| 8 | 1048 |
No, something in me cried, no! I am Elinor Brinton! I am not a slave girl! I am not a slave girl! I tried to draw away, but his hands on my arms held me. |
10 |
| 10 | 447 |
I took another draw on the cigarette. |
10 |
| 11 | 1092 |
It was because of him that El-in-or, the barbarian girl, with the other girls, had been harnessed to his one remaining, partially burnt wagon, and had been forced, and under the switch, to draw it, as draft animals. |
10 |
| 15 | 39 |
They then did not choose to draw their blades. |
10 |
| 15 | 686 |
I saw Rask, with a heavy glove, draw forth one of the irons from the fire. |
10 |
| 17 | 464 |
I do not understand all of what I have written, in the sense of knowing its implications, or what knowledge others, better informed, may draw from it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 15 |
I saw him draw tight the curtains of the alcove behind him. |
10 |
| 5 | 221 |
Many of the slaves could not even draw back from the bars. |
10 |
| 7 | 173 |
I did not draw my bow. |
10 |
| 8 | 249 |
I tried to draw the bow. |
10 |
| 8 | 250 |
I could not draw it. |
10 |
| 14 | 223 |
At a sign from Hura the man from Tyros thrust the iron back into the brazier, to draw it forth again at her signal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 54 |
It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of Priest-Kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 4 | 238 |
She could not draw it away. |
10 |
| 5 | 113 |
He said to Gorm, "Take the first bondmaid and draw her up the mast". |
10 |
| 9 | 297 |
She lay on her side, in misery, across great blocks of ice; she could lift her head and shoulders no more than six inches from the ice; she could draw her ankles toward her body no more than six inches; small chips of wood, in which the ice is packed, clung about her body; she was bound, hand and fo... |
10 |
| 10 | 57 |
This contest was called a draw. |
10 |
| 11 | 262 |
I saw the claws on the right paw briefly expose themselves, then, swiftly, draw within the softness of the furred, multiple digited appendage. |
10 |
| 14 | 14 |
I could not even draw my weapon. |
10 |
| 14 | 41 |
Few men could as much as draw their weapons. |
10 |
| 14 | 100 |
"Let us use our axes!" Trying to draw back from the Kurii, approaching slowly, great, bloody axes ready, terrified men pushed back, further and further. |
10 |
| 14 | 224 |
I saw the lips of Kurii draw back. |
10 |
| 18 | 130 |
"Across the camp is the true rally, hundreds of Kurii! All falls before them! This was a ruse to draw men here, permitting Kurii to regroup in numbers elsewhere!" My heart leaped. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 460 |
As the "wheel" of men turns about its axis, the camp, at intervals the men draw arrows in the dirt or sand, or, if rocks are available, make arrows, pointing to the camp. |
10 |
| 3 | 173 |
I hoped to draw the center man forward, to where he might, if I should move to the right, block the man on his own right, or if I moved to the left, block the man on his own left. |
10 |
| 10 | 190 |
I did not think it would take her long to remove her clothing, draw her warm kaiila-cloth blanket about her and, drawing her knees up, fall asleep on the straw of her cell, which, under pain of death, she would shut behind her, locking it. |
10 |
| 11 | 105 |
They are taught written Taharic by their mothers, who draw the characters in the sand, during the day, in the shade of the tents. |
10 |
| 11 | 547 |
Each would draw back one of the bars. |
10 |
| 20 | 66 |
It would last a human a day, then he must draw on his own tissues. |
10 |
| 21 | 436 |
I saw its lips draw back; it steadied the weapon in the whipping wind with both paws; I thrust at the circular switch on the ring about my neck. |
10 |
| 21 | 487 |
A diversion would be ineffective, for what could draw the Kur from his position? If the blood of the slaughtered humans about had not been sufficient to override his obedience to the dark imperatives of the steel worlds, I did not think anything I might contrive could lure him forth. |
10 |
| 21 | 489 |
He would assume, perhaps, I might attempt to draw fire with a decoy, thus slipping into the ship. |
10 |
| 21 | 493 |
A likely plan, it seemed to me, would be to thrust the inert body into the portal, and draw the fire of the Kur within. |
10 |
| 24 | 465 |
They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e... |
10 |
| 25 | 317 |
I jerked on the rope, as though to draw Tarna to her feet, in order to lead her to the presence of the Pashas. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 968 |
It is one of the excruciating delights of the mastery to expose oneself fully to, and yet skirt, the dangers of the girl's beauty, to keep oneself strong, to draw the absolute fullness of pleasure from her, and yet to resist her wiles, to get everything from her, and yet to keep her on her knees, fu... |
10 |
| 4 | 440 |
I hated the bells, so many, so tiny, hung about my body, which I could not remove, which would draw them to me. |
10 |
| 4 | 443 |
They would draw men to my body. |
10 |
| 8 | 259 |
If Thurnus were to draw the blade toward him, the tendon would be severed. |
10 |
| 9 | 2420 |
"I am too weak to draw the cart, Master," I told him. |
10 |
| 9 | 2426 |
"I cannot draw the cart, Master," I told him. |
10 |
| 10 | 20 |
It is not hard to draw the cart on such a road. |
10 |
| 15 | 254 |
I went to draw water from the cistern. |
10 |
| 21 | 9 |
How I would if I could have tried to pit my small strength against the heavy oar which he would now draw. |
10 |
| 22 | 32 |
Near the stern of the ship men who had been trolling a line now began, sweatily, bracing themselves, to draw it in. |
10 |
| 26 | 421 |
She could draw her feet up no further. |
10 |
| 27 | 295 |
He did not even draw the curtain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 225 |
The carts she had been trained to draw so meaninglessly, so laboriously, had been filled with the stones of ignorance and hatred. |
10 |
| 3 | 325 |
I speculated on the effect which the draw for yellow might have on the odds in the match. |
10 |
| 3 | 338 |
Scormus of Ar and Centius of Cos would reach into the helmet and each draw forth one Spearman. |
10 |
| 3 | 346 |
I was confident now I would have my bet placed before the draw. |
10 |
| 3 | 347 |
If Scormus should draw yellow, and I were to place my bet after this fact was generally known, I would stand to win almost nothing, even should I wager a good deal. |
10 |
| 4 | 75 |
That of Ar was on the right, for Scormus had won yellow in the draw; it had been his hand which, under the scarlet cloth, had closed upon the tiny, wooden, yellow spearman in the helmet, the possession of which determined the first move and, with it, the choice of opening. |
10 |
| 4 | 184 |
Indeed, he was so well versed in the gambit, from both the perspective of yellow and red, that he would doubtless play now for a draw. |
10 |
| 4 | 239 |
The purpose of the Center Defense is to draw the yellow Spearman from the center. |
10 |
| 6 | 36 |
They were approaching the pond, presumably to draw water. |
10 |
| 8 | 154 |
That is done, even if only unconsciously, to draw attention to your figure, accenting and emphasizing it". |
10 |
| 11 | 250 |
Imnak's whip cracked and she who had been Barbara Benson, a middle-class girl, and she who had been the rich, upper-class Audrey Brewster, now Thimble and Thistle, cried out and began to draw their master's sled. |
10 |
| 18 | 43 |
Imnak and another man began to draw on the line, to pull us to the very side of the monster. |
10 |
| 22 | 233 |
"Let us draw it home now behind us". |
10 |
| 23 | 26 |
A running snow sleen can draw a sled far faster than a human being. |
10 |
| 30 | 252 |
More men fell, struggling to rise and draw their weapons. |
10 |
| 33 | 10 |
No sleen would draw the sled, of course. |
10 |
| 34 | 34 |
It might kill me now, but then it would have to draw the sled itself, my rent body upon it, to the place or distance at which it was to be abandoned. |
10 |
| 34 | 40 |
"How can I draw the sled with such weight upon it?" I asked. |
10 |
| 34 | 53 |
The beast was indeed heavy, and it was not easy to draw the sled, its weight upon it, over the roughness and jagged contours of the ice. |
10 |
| 36 | 96 |
"I suppose she could draw a sled," said one red hunter. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 676 |
All would suspect she was a decoy of some sort, a lure to draw forth Shaba". |
10 |
| 2 | 122 |
She tried to draw back, but his left hand, behind the small of her back, held her in place. |
10 |
| 5 | 701 |
As she knelt before me, within the cage, I saw her straighten her back and draw back her shoulders, lifting her breasts. |
10 |
| 6 | 668 |
Shoka then retrieved the pole and extended it outward, to draw the blond-haired girl back to the rail. |
10 |
| 12 | 75 |
If one attempts to cut the strings or draw the bells up, of course, a noise is made, one usually sufficient to waken the occupants of the house". |
10 |
| 14 | 638 |
"Draw your conclusion," I told her, "out loud". |
10 |
| 16 | 8 |
I had felt the draw of his chain against my own collar. |
10 |
| 18 | 139 |
When I was near Bila Huruma I was to draw the dagger, slay Shaba and then, by prearranged plan, be immediately apprehended by askari guardsmen, to be placed under arrest. |
10 |
| 21 | 31 |
"How do you judge the draw?" asked Ayari. |
10 |
| 21 | 36 |
"I know the draw of a light galley. |
10 |
| 23 | 240 |
We then began, smoothly and firmly, exerting heavy, even pressures, to draw the chain back and forth under the log. |
10 |
| 23 | 459 |
Without speaking further, or attempting to draw his dagger, he leaped from the planks into the water, falling, scrambling up, and plunging away into the darkness. |
10 |
| 32 | 333 |
In a rather different sense of 'animal', we sometimes draw a distinction between human beings and animals, that is, we take the category of animals and divide it in two, calling one sort of animals, ourselves, human beings, and letting what is left over, the other sorts of animals, count as the anim... |
10 |
| 52 | 183 |
His hand darted to the hilt of the dagger sheathed at his hip, but he did not draw the weapon. |
10 |
| 53 | 195 |
I saw Msaliti draw his knife and slip to the side. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 893 |
Let lions be taught it is their function to draw the carts of sheep. |
10 |
| 11 | 380 |
I began to draw on my undergarments. |
10 |
| 11 | 466 |
I sat down and began to draw on my shoes and stockings. |
10 |
| 12 | 138 |
"Let him draw an oar!" "Bring forth the next slave for sale!" called yet another. |
10 |
| 13 | 502 |
Her hands fastened as they were, behind her, she could not draw the garment closed. |
10 |
| 16 | 212 |
I saw the veil draw inward. |
10 |
| 21 | 32 |
We watched Taphris, on her hands and knees, carry a stick to the edge of the flame ditch and, shutting her eyes, drop it in, then quickly draw back. |
10 |
| 22 | 465 |
I heard the women, the Lady Leta and the Lady Perimene, draw in their breath. |
10 |
| 23 | 109 |
I heard her draw her slave tunic over her head and drop it to one side. |
10 |
| 30 | 61 |
Girls, too, can be taught to use the leash to enhance their seductiveness, appearing to draw away, then approaching, using it about their body, kissing it, taking it in their mouth, fingering it, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 172 |
"I will draw the oar for free". |
10 |
| 8 | 74 |
I saw the blade draw back. |
10 |
| 8 | 82 |
He had not deigned, however, to draw the blade. |
10 |
| 8 | 87 |
"Do you force me to draw my blade?" asked the tall man. |
10 |
| 8 | 95 |
"I do not force you to draw your blade". |
10 |
| 10 | 113 |
I stepped more closely to her and, standing before her, held the sheet behind her, preparing to draw it about her. |
10 |
| 18 | 9 |
"Do not draw your weapon," I had been told. |
10 |
| 22 | 42 |
"If I were you," said the man near the woman in the crowd, "I would draw back in the crowd and hide. |
10 |
| 23 | 95 |
"Draw!" cried Kliomenes, leaping across the table, and whipping out his blade. |
10 |
| 23 | 106 |
"Draw," smiled Policrates. |
10 |
| 26 | 211 |
"Draw your weapon," said he. |
10 |
| 26 | 215 |
"Draw your weapon," said he. |
10 |
| 26 | 227 |
"Draw your weapon," said Miles of Vonda. |
10 |
| 26 | 237 |
"Draw," said Miles of Vonda. |
10 |
| 27 | 8 |
I had no opportunity to draw my sword. |
10 |
| 32 | 314 |
Their rate of fire, of course, is much superior to that of the crossbow, either of the draw or windlass variety. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 506 |
She will not meet the eyes of the free woman; she is scarcely likely to leave her knees or lift her head; her body is bent and seems smaller; she seems to wilt and tremble; she tries to draw down the hem of her tunic; she grasps the edges of her tunic and tries to draw them closed, to conceal better... |
10 |
| 1 | 80 |
I doubted that any of the enemy galleys would be so foolish as to draw abeam of the chain. |
10 |
| 2 | 71 |
The pirate boats, at the chain, need only draw back". |
10 |
| 4 | 38 |
The chain had held long enough, however, to permit us to draw southward along the chain and group. |
10 |
| 4 | 117 |
I watched the Tais draw away from the disabled vessel. |
10 |
| 4 | 237 |
"Draw back to the south guard station. |
10 |
| 5 | 157 |
"They will draw alongside of her! She is to be boarded and taken!" "To the rescue of the Portia!" cried the officer on the stem castle. |
10 |
| 7 | 52 |
I treaded water, and watched the longboat draw away. |
10 |
| 8 | 334 |
I pulled it from her, lest she, in her fear, be tempted to draw it about her, ever so little. |
10 |
| 9 | 100 |
"Draw alongside the Olivia, Callimachus," I begged. |
10 |
| 11 | 157 |
She may even draw commendations from his mother, pleased that he has purchased such a modest, useful girl. |
10 |
| 16 | 180 |
I saw the spear blade draw back to thrust. |
10 |
| 16 | 339 |
Swiftly he attempted to draw his blade. |
10 |
| 19 | 461 |
With my hand under her chin I then indicated to her that she should draw herself up from her heels. |
10 |
| 20 | 1146 |
He would draw forth from her by his skills rhapsodies of movements, cries, moans, utterances and admissions, a music to the ears of both the conquering master and the delicious, yielding slave, she who finds, and can find, her most glorious victory only in her most complete and devastating defeat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 71 |
I did not give her permission to draw back under the covers, nor was she so bold or foolish as to request that permission. |
10 |
| 1 | 174 |
In both cases, of course, for a right-handed individual, the scabbard is at the left hip, facilitating the convenient and swift across-the-body draw. |
10 |
| 1 | 404 |
When the eyes of the creature had reflected back the light, the light, too, had suddenly reflected back from its fangs, and I had seen, too, the long, dark tongue move about on the lips, and then draw back into the mouth. |
10 |
| 1 | 611 |
I saw the lips of the two creatures draw back. |
10 |
| 1 | 639 |
It did, however, draw its lips back slightly, observing my attention. |
10 |
| 1 | 1037 |
To be sure, the skillful hunter will strike no more deeply than is necessary, and his trained kaiila will slow its pace sufficiently to permit the kailiauk to draw its own body from the lance. |
10 |
| 5 | 55 |
"Draw your weapon," said the officer. |
10 |
| 5 | 57 |
When a Gorean tells you to draw your blade, it is generally not wise to spend a great deal of time discussing the matter. |
10 |
| 12 | 111 |
In the lodges of Warrior Societies, for example, as a portion of the amusements accompanying a feast, a girl may be richly used in one, her hands tied behind the back of her neck, in the draw cords, looped once or twice about her neck, of the sack drawn over her head. |
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| 13 | 1221 |
She did not draw it on. |
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| 14 | 98 |
If I gave away goods, or traded them too cheaply, this would suggest that I was delivering cheap or inferior merchandise, an inference it would not be in our interest for the red savages to draw. |
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| 19 | 653 |
Canka had permitted her to keep the garment, such as it was, to draw a distinction between her, who could speak Kaiila, and the others, who could not. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 20 |
Almost at the same time, suddenly, about a bend in the draw, turning, lurching, its shoulder striking the side of the draw, its feet almost slipping out from under it, in its turn, in the soft footing, covered with dust, its eyes wild and red, foam at its nostrils and mouth, some twenty-five hundred... |
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| 6 | 128 |
We then, between us, carried the head up, out of the draw, and, some fifty yards or so from the draw, placed it on the level. |
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| 1 | 254 |
It has been my considered judgment that Canka, in doing this, had hoped to draw attention to the location, that he hoped by this device to attract others to the spot, who might free the lad, or perhaps to mark it for himself, that he might later, accepting exile and outlawry at the hands of the Isbu... |
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| 5 | 1 |
Cuwignaka and I Will Go to the Draw "Help me," said Wasnapohdi, "please". |
10 |
| 5 | 214 |
"Over there," said Hci, to us, pointing east by southeast, "there is a draw. |
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| 5 | 215 |
In the draw there is a fallen bull, a Smooth Horns, no more than some six winters in age. |
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| 5 | 237 |
"We will go to the draw," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 6 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Draw It was nearly dusk. |
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| 6 | 6 |
We were in a long, narrow, generally shallow draw. |
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| 6 | 16 |
It carried through the draw, the deep thudding, magnified by, intensified by, that narrow corridor, open to the sky, of dirt and rock. |
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| 6 | 23 |
My kaiila squealed and, as I headed it off, it tried to climb the side of the draw, scrambling at it, then slipping back, falling, rolling, to the side. |
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| 6 | 26 |
The draw was now filled with dust. |
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| 6 | 31 |
As my beast scrambled up, regaining its feet, I mounted it, and turned it away, down the draw. |
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| 6 | 32 |
Cuwignaka and I, then, not more than a few yards ahead of the animals, which, in a body, buffeting and storming, tridents down, their heads low, as the kailiauk runs, came streaming, flooding, bellowing, torrentlike, about that bend in the draw, raced to safety. |
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| 6 | 33 |
* * * * We stood in the grass, about a hundred yards from the draw. |
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| 6 | 36 |
The mass of the animals which, stampeded, had come running through the draw, was now better than a pasang away. |
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| 6 | 39 |
"Let us return to the draw," said Cuwignaka, mounting up. |
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| 6 | 40 |
I joined him and, slowly, our kaiila at a walk, we returned to the narrow draw. |
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| 6 | 43 |
"The animals were probably isolated in the other end of the draw," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 6 | 44 |
"Then a bull was cut out and run down the draw, to be felled where we found him". |
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| 6 | 47 |
"Sometimes animals take shelter in a draw, or, running into one, begin to mill, and, for a time, will stay there, sometimes until morning". |
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| 6 | 54 |
We then, on our kaiila, entered the draw, straightening ourselves on our kaiila as they descended the sloping entrance between the dirt sides. |
10 |
| 6 | 64 |
I surveyed the gouged floor of the draw, the trampled, half-buried meat, the remains of the travois. |
10 |
| 6 | 66 |
The carcass itself, most of it, had been moved several feet and flattened, and lay half sunk in the dust of the draw. |
10 |
| 6 | 76 |
"When we are finished," said Cuwignaka, "we will take it out of the draw. |
10 |
| 6 | 80 |
We looked down to the bend in the draw. |
10 |
| 6 | 92 |
Hci looked about the draw. |
10 |
| 6 | 116 |
"That is to be taken out of the draw," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 119 |
Hci then, not hurrying, rode past us and made his way up the draw, some pebbles slipping back, on its slope, from the movement of his kaiila's paws. |
10 |
| 6 | 126 |
"If we are going to get it out of the draw, let us do so now". |
10 |
| 6 | 137 |
"This was important, apparently, to both you and Hci, that it should be brought up from the draw, that it should be placed on the level, that it should be put, I gather, in the sun". |
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| 12 | 306 |
I saw her body, as she said this, tighten, and draw back. |
10 |
| 15 | 71 |
I tensed, for I feared that Canka would draw his knife and rush upon Hci. |
10 |
| 15 | 211 |
"I think now I have a little satisfaction for Hci's trick in the draw, and the losing of the meat," chuckled Cuwignaka. |
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| 18 | 198 |
I did not know if I could draw Mahpiyasapa out of the council, or if it would be wise to do so, but I was confident that I could, somehow, if he were there, make contact with Grunt. |
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| 22 | 41 |
I tested the draw of the knife. |
10 |
| 22 | 42 |
The sheath hold was firm but the draw was smooth. |
10 |
| 22 | 45 |
I would use the over-the-back draw. |
10 |
| 33 | 381 |
She would then, of course, have been whipped, and made to draw more than her share of the weight. |
10 |
| 33 | 394 |
We continued to draw the travois through the tall grass. |
10 |
| 34 | 351 |
The young lad who had been once of the Waniyanpi had insisted on helping to draw it. |
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| 34 | 444 |
It is removed from the case, or cover, also, of course, when it is sunned, set forth to draw in power and medicine from the yellow, life-giving, blazing star of two worlds, Sol or Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone. |
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| 39 | 190 |
"You might be harnessed to a wagon, to help draw loot," I said. |
10 |
| 39 | 432 |
"Let us draw the travois ourselves," said Hci. |
10 |
| 39 | 434 |
"Cuwignaka and I will draw it, after we have tied the reins of this tarn to one of the poles," I said. |
10 |
| 39 | 502 |
We would draw the travois together. |
10 |
| 41 | 97 |
Thus, you are not accustomed to draw a distinction between what is to be interpreted, so to speak, and its interpretation. |
10 |
| 43 | 317 |
The heads of the girls were off the ground, held off the ground, when we were in motion, by the construction of the sack with its handles, and the draw of the rope. |
10 |
| 47 | 163 |
The tarn itself, it might be noted, does not draw another breath until the impact or the vicinity of the impact, if the strike fails to find its mark. |
10 |
| 47 | 254 |
I had no time to draw the bow. |
10 |
| 50 | 49 |
But she did not, then, draw her knees together. |
10 |
| 52 | 7 |
Only the four officers had been permitted to draw lots. |
10 |
| 54 | 89 |
Among them, stripped naked, his hands tied behind him, riding backwards on a kaiila, his ankles bound together on a long strap, it running between them under the belly of the kaiila, rode the officer who had won the draw. |
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| 56 | 93 |
"In this fashion I sought to draw the Death Squad into the Barrens where they might be dealt with and sought, too, to enlist your aid in my battle with them". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 33 |
It facilitated an immediate draw. |
10 |
| 30 | 81 |
Free persons might drink from, or draw water from, the upper bowl. |
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| 31 | 349 |
He would play it out, or draw it in, as it pleased him, varying his perspective, and my distance from him, as I squirmed, and writhed and posed, from as little as an inch or two to the full length of the leash, something in the neighborhood of a full fifteen feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1009 |
"Let us stop playing, and adjudicate the game as a draw," I suggested. |
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| 2 | 442 |
This is because a skillful player, primarily by judicious exchanges and careful position play, can often bring about a draw. |
10 |
| 2 | 443 |
Less risk is involved in playing for a draw than a win, of course. |
10 |
| 2 | 445 |
A full point is scored for a win; in a draw each player obtains a half point. |
10 |
| 5 | 115 |
"What are you doing?" she asked, trying to draw back. |
10 |
| 5 | 167 |
"I shall draw the curtains behind me". |
10 |
| 6 | 653 |
"I see that I shall have to draw you forth and beat you," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 209 |
The fellow's draw was swift and smooth. |
10 |
| 10 | 733 |
In the case of Boots, such distinctions would occasionally prove difficult to draw. |
10 |
| 12 | 79 |
On the master's level, it might be mentioned, it is not unusual for red, because of the disadvantages attendant on the second move, to play for a draw. |
10 |
| 12 | 207 |
"I will offer you a draw, if you like," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 218 |
"I must insist that you accept a draw". |
10 |
| 12 | 220 |
"This is the first time in my life," he said, "that I have ever offered someone a draw as a gift". |
10 |
| 12 | 370 |
Now you draw forth papers from your wallet. |
10 |
| 14 | 167 |
Draw it on as you kneel". |
10 |
| 14 | 172 |
"Perhaps you should draw back, that you not be injured in the charge of the sleen," I suggested. |
10 |
| 14 | 298 |
Then the animals seemed to draw apart about him and he was left standing as though in a dry pool, an empty place, an isolated, lonely place surrounded by tawny waters, waters which seemed somehow, inexplicably, to have drawn back about him, waters with eyes and teeth, ringing him. |
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| 16 | 653 |
Tremble! Shudder! Quake in terror, for I, Petrucchio, draw upon you!" He then began to try to pull his great wooden sword from its lengthy sheath, dragging behind him. |
10 |
| 17 | 13 |
The sound of such a draw is unmistakable. |
10 |
| 20 | 358 |
I saw the lips draw back again about the fangs, but this was no smile. |
10 |
| 21 | 3 |
"No, do not draw". |
10 |
| 21 | 16 |
"Do not draw," he said. |
10 |
| 21 | 115 |
"Do not draw". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 24 |
The theory is not only that it is well to practice the draw frequently, as the first to draw may be the first to strike, but also to be familiar with it on a daily basis lest its parameters alter from time to time, due to such things as contractions and swellings of the leather, these having to do w... |
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| 2 | 106 |
"Who but such as you can live in these times?" I gave her some bread from my pack, from a rep-cloth draw-sack, and a bit of dried meat, paper thin, from its tied leather envelope. |
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| 12 | 24 |
My right hand was on the hilt of my sword, my left on the sheath, its straps wrapped about it, to steady the draw. |
10 |
| 12 | 28 |
I did not draw the weapon. |
10 |
| 15 | 533 |
It seemed that this might be the first time that she had ever been subjected to such caresses, those which she must endure, whether she wished to or not, those possessive, insolent caresses appropriate to a meaningless slave, caresses which would irresistibly draw her, if the master pleased, and sol... |
10 |
| 16 | 70 |
Do not draw attention to yourselves". |
10 |
| 16 | 920 |
I continued to draw her gently, and as implacably as though she were bound and on a leash, up the long stairwell of her need and helplessness. |
10 |
| 16 | 1090 |
She shuddered, facing away from me, hearing the draw of my steel. |
10 |
| 16 | 1404 |
This tightened the draw, but the hiding place, considering the few options at my disposal, seemed a sensible one. |
10 |
| 19 | 22 |
"I would not have noticed the matter had I not, as a matter of habit, this morning, tested the draw of the blade". |
10 |
| 19 | 26 |
The practicing of the draw, and the associated testing of sheath resistance, is a small, but seldom neglected detail, in the practice of arms. |
10 |
| 19 | 477 |
Had I not checked the draw this morning, as is my wont, I might not have known the papers were missing until I had arrived at the checkpoint. |
10 |
| 24 | 639 |
Sometimes in an ovation or triumph women of the enemy, four or more, naked, preferably of high birth, and ideally the daughters of the conquered ubar, not yet enslaved, are used to draw the chariot of the conqueror. |
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| 24 | 644 |
They will be used to draw his chariot, or carry his palanquin. |
10 |
| 24 | 646 |
That fate, too, of course, as indicated, awaits the women who have been used to draw the conqueror's chariot. |
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| 25 | 739 |
"Speak," I said, "or will it be necessary to draw you forth from the cage and whip you?" "I was the Lady Mina," she said, "of the villas of Noviminae, near Lydius. |
10 |
| 26 | 225 |
Presumably such a draw would not take place in the close quarters of an alcove, where there was little room for its wielding. |
10 |
| 29 | 99 |
There was not much room in the doorway to draw, let alone to wield the weapon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 |
To be sure, it was merely that I was kneeling to draw forth a book. |
10 |
| 6 | 793 |
I supposed they would be strong, virile men, to draw oars. |
10 |
| 8 | 46 |
We did not wish her behavior to draw down the wrath of the men on us all. |
10 |
| 10 | 81 |
I did so, quickly, that I might not seem to dally, or he draw it from me, but then, as he held it in place, permitting me to continue, more slowly, more lingeringly. |
10 |
| 10 | 537 |
Indeed, he usually stands so close to her that it would be easy for him to put his hands on her, and draw her to him, taking her in his arms. |
10 |
| 11 | 575 |
When a fellow had paid his tarsk bit Mirus would reach into the copper bowl carried by Tula and draw forth from it one of the small, about three inches long and an inch wide, thin, flat, brittle, glazed, baked-clay ostraka. |
10 |
| 11 | 677 |
I could not draw my hands together to cover myself. |
10 |
| 11 | 956 |
Each time I would draw back from them, but my belly, my hips, would seem to propel me again toward them, or toward yet another. |
10 |
| 11 | 1066 |
I saw Mirus, near the front of the floor, draw a red ribbon from his wallet. |
10 |
| 11 | 1079 |
But I saw him draw forth from his belt a half hood. |
10 |
| 11 | 1142 |
"There is only one who is first," called Hendow, "but we will draw forth fourteen more ostraka!" There was a cheer. |
10 |
| 17 | 216 |
Too, of course, as a practical matter, this further assured that the draw would be at the front of the collar. |
10 |
| 26 | 170 |
"Please, Master!" Then I saw him draw forth a tharlarion whip. |
10 |
| 26 | 225 |
So I might dance? So soldiers might draw lots for my use? So I might serve Pietro Vacchi? But what then? Would the man following not "bide his time" as Tupita had said? Would there not come a time, sooner or later, if he were patient, and I did not doubt but what he was patient, very patient, when h... |
10 |
| 27 | 11 |
Girls, thus, and perhaps some stripped free women among them, would draw the wagons. |
10 |
| 28 | 279 |
"Yes," she whispered, and I saw her draw back, frightened. |
10 |
| 29 | 83 |
I had inadvertently, it seems, let my knees draw a bit too closely together. |
10 |
| 29 | 230 |
Almost instantly another of the men had begun to draw his sword, but the beast, before the blade was half from the sheath, on all fours, scrambling, tearing the grass behind it, moving with incredible swiftness, not like anything on two legs, seized him and tore open his throat with a single slash o... |
10 |
| 29 | 232 |
"Do not draw your swords!" cried the small fellow. |
10 |
| 29 | 233 |
"Do not draw your swords! It is harmless. |
10 |
| 29 | 234 |
It is harmless!" The beast then regarded the men, who shrank back from it, their hands at the hilts of their swords but not daring to draw them. |
10 |
| 29 | 240 |
Do not draw your weapons. |
10 |
| 29 | 1261 |
I saw Tupita draw back from Mirus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 |
I did not draw my sword. |
10 |
| 8 | 288 |
It would draw water into that dreadful recess. |
10 |
| 13 | 35 |
It had had a sudden wild ring about it, as though she might suddenly, to her dismay, have felt ropes settle about her body, and draw tight. |
10 |
| 13 | 95 |
Her presence on the left, thus, is not likely to interfere with his draw or the movements of his sword arm. |
10 |
| 14 | 32 |
"There now," said the warder, amusement in her voice, "that is like the slave girl you are!" Lady Claudia, interestingly, made no move to draw her knees back together. |
10 |
| 15 | 872 |
But before he could draw twice on the leash, giving the prisoner her signal, she thrust her head down, to his feet, reaching for them, as she had earlier for mine. |
10 |
| 16 | 6 |
Lady Publia then began to squirm madly on my shoulder, considering such might be her last opportunity perhaps to draw attention to herself. |
10 |
| 16 | 45 |
The effectiveness of such a device, however, given the weights involved, and the loss of force in the draw, is much compromised by the necessity of extreme proximity to the target. |
10 |
| 16 | 173 |
Then we will draw away somewhere, I removing this mask, you retaining your rags and veil". |
10 |
| 17 | 57 |
At the bridge of the huntsmen loops of tarn wire were cast over the armed, halted efflux which the foe, to his horror, trying to extricate himself, felt draw tight and then he, too, snared, was dragged from the bridge. |
10 |
| 17 | 99 |
The draw bridge hung down, leading now only to the air. |
10 |
| 17 | 497 |
These things, I assumed, would draw much pressure from the stairways. |
10 |
| 17 | 637 |
They would, of course, attempt to swing it in further, gain leverage, and then try to draw it back again. |
10 |
| 18 | 409 |
"Draw back," said the officer, angrily. |
10 |
| 18 | 425 |
"Draw back with me," I said, softly, backing away. |
10 |
| 20 | 81 |
"Draw my own sword," he begged. |
10 |
| 20 | 173 |
I saw some other ships draw alongside the chains, and men swarm out onto the rafts. |
10 |
| 21 | 1515 |
"Even were I other than I am," he smiled, "I do not think I would have wanted you to draw your sword against us". |
10 |
| 24 | 616 |
"It was a good voyage," said the keeper, reaching out with a staff and hook to draw Publia, by the chain from which her harness was suspended, close to the rail. |
10 |
| 24 | 819 |
"For some," I said, "you might give your purse, and even draw your sword, to take them from the auction block". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 463 |
I put down the cup of paga, and tested the draw, an inch or so, of my blade. |
10 |
| 1 | 1082 |
"I did not see him draw!" said a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 17 |
I turned my head to the side, that the rope would draw against the side of my neck. |
10 |
| 10 | 15 |
There are various ways in which they may be encouraged to draw out, not tearing the skin. |
10 |
| 13 | 207 |
There seemed little, if anything, to draw against!" "Only a shadow," wept a man, "a movement in the rence, a suspicion, and then the arrows, and the arrows!" "What were the casualties?" asked the officer. |
10 |
| 13 | 485 |
Once I had to draw it over a bar. |
10 |
| 13 | 526 |
I then began to draw it westward, deeper into the delta. |
10 |
| 19 | 294 |
She could not bring them forward because of the barrier of the upper crosspiece, over which her arms were hooked, nor could she draw them backwards, for their linkage by the belly thongs. |
10 |
| 19 | 702 |
I shall, accordingly, draw it up from the sand". |
10 |
| 19 | 1074 |
I did not think she could easily draw it, as I had, yoked and harnessed. |
10 |
| 31 | 64 |
They would understand, and correctly, that such a lad, large, strapping and strong, might even now be able to draw the great bow, and if not now, then in a year or two. |
10 |
| 37 | 131 |
Indeed, as with necklaces, beads, and such, in general, it is their intent, one amongst several intents, of course, to bedeck and adorn, to embellish and ornament, to set off, and draw attention to, her loveliness, to make her even more beautiful. |
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| 43 | 91 |
He reached to his sword, but I put my hand on his hand, that he not, in rage and frustration, draw, and perhaps finish off poor Ephialtes. |
10 |
| 44 | 23 |
"Do not draw," warned the fellow. |
10 |
| 44 | 24 |
I did not draw. |
10 |
| 44 | 219 |
She would not be likely, at this point, to draw more than a silver tarsk in the market". |
10 |
| 45 | 79 |
I tested the draw of the blade in the sheath. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 299 |
In the press there was not even room to draw the sword, let alone wield it. |
10 |
| 4 | 19 |
I put my hand on Marcus' wrist, not permitting him to draw his sword. |
10 |
| 4 | 73 |
Furthermore, it had had the winter to restore its siege train, the original train burned in Torcadino, fired by Dietrich of Tarnburg, and, because of its recent success in the field, west of Ar, it could draw on thousands of square pasangs for its logistical support. |
10 |
| 17 | 405 |
As the weights descend within the poles the cords move and draw the pallet up under the canopy". |
10 |
| 19 | 1211 |
I removed my left hand from the small of her back, where I had held it, that she might not draw back more than I would permit. |
10 |
| 22 | 2 |
"I shall draw back," I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 182 |
Perhaps, while he was waiting, in order to while away the time, it was his intent to draw her aside, into a doorway, and thrust her back against the door or wall, for a bit of brief sport. |
10 |
| 22 | 224 |
"Draw!" I said. |
10 |
| 22 | 378 |
Indeed, she could not, as she held the veil, even draw her hood more closely about her features. |
10 |
| 22 | 650 |
This is because the sheath of the knife or sword is, by right-handed men, commonly worn on the left, facilitating the across-the-body draw to the right. |
10 |
| 22 | 655 |
The scabbard is held with the left hand and the draw takes place with the right. |
10 |
| 26 | 131 |
Why, then, should she not draw attention to herself , as she can, and in ways likely to be stimulatory not only to his sexuality but to hers, as well? Certainly slave garments, like bracelets, cords, ropes and chains, whips, the switch, hoods, blindfolds and gags, are arousing to the slave as well a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 87 |
I would later be taught ways in which it is suitable to draw attention to oneself, and ways in which it is not suitable to draw attention to oneself. |
10 |
| 2 | 86 |
It was merely that I did not want to draw attention to myself. |
10 |
| 4 | 705 |
Then I felt the chain grow taut before me, and draw on the ring on the front of my collar, and I, too, on all fours, joined that procession moving down the corridor, and, in turn, so, too, did those behind me. |
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| 7 | 639 |
"What are you doing here?" demanded she who was first amongst us, Aynur, of the tall, long-haired fellow to whose lips, to whose face, to whose shoulders and body, but a moment before, I had been pressing kisses, only, in terror, hearing her approach, to try to draw back, but not being permitted to ... |
10 |
| 7 | 793 |
I made as though to draw my wet silk hastily over my body. |
10 |
| 8 | 10 |
How foolish I was! I had forgotten to draw the shade last night. |
10 |
| 8 | 33 |
Had I forgotten to draw the shade? I must awaken. |
10 |
| 8 | 94 |
I must, foolishly, have forgotten to draw the shade last night. |
10 |
| 8 | 101 |
How foolish I was! I had forgotten to draw the shade last night. |
10 |
| 10 | 262 |
I tried to draw breath in, wildly, through my nostrils, even about the rag in my mouth. |
10 |
| 11 | 1853 |
I felt a hand reach to the hood, to its top, which would doubtless draw it away. |
10 |
| 13 | 306 |
The free woman tried to draw herself higher into the cage. |
10 |
| 13 | 1178 |
The slaver then, of course, agrees to draw the occupant forth for more careful examination. |
10 |
| 13 | 1382 |
Sometimes, of course, I would suppose that he had planned this earlier, looking forward to the time when he might draw me forth. |
10 |
| 17 | 7 |
I heard the pit master draw his belt free of his tunic. |
10 |
| 18 | 74 |
Tarnsmen draw lots and the winner sets out to obtain the particular woman. |
10 |
| 18 | 98 |
The tarnsman then, and his companions, those who failed to draw the winning lot in the hunting game, are feasted, with their officers, at the table of the very ubar or administrator himself. |
10 |
| 18 | 151 |
In some cities, as I understand it, the state involves itself in such matters; for example, in some cities it is a matter of public ordinance that slave tunics may not be longer than a certain amount; this ordinance is presumably motivated not only by a desire to draw a clear distinction between the... |
10 |
| 23 | 118 |
Had my response been quick enough? I saw him draw back his hand. |
10 |
| 29 | 250 |
She tried, in fear, to draw it a little away, but he held it. |
10 |
| 31 | 643 |
It would take a moment, of course, to free the bow, to draw it, to set it, to extract a quarrel from the quiver, to arm it. |
10 |
| 33 | 85 |
I saw him turn and draw down the gate. |
10 |
| 34 | 87 |
The bows had served, in their way, as shields, the urts snapping at them, clinging to them, permitting the defender to draw and hack at their stretched necks with his sword. |
10 |
| 37 | 185 |
"Draw," said the leader of the strangers. |
10 |
| 37 | 319 |
We screamed, and tried to draw back, but were held in place. |
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| 37 | 434 |
"Draw back, reload!" said the lieutenant. |
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| 38 | 176 |
"I may even tease out a draw," said the first. |
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| 38 | 203 |
"What, Masters," she asked, "—what, Masters—what if there is a tie, a draw, Masters?" "Then we share you," said one of the fellows. |
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| 38 | 274 |
The game between the two guards, unexpectedly, I gathered, did turn out to be a draw. |
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| 38 | 276 |
The draw turned, apparently, on a single Spearman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 254 |
Then she felt him lift her to her feet, and draw her from behind the table, and away from the booth. |
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| 10 | 224 |
There were the gentle kisses, some prolonged, some as light and quick as the shiftings of sunlight and shadow among stirring leaves, some as bright and unexpected as the pattering of momentary, shimmering drops of rain, some as tender as the falling of the petal of a flower, and the other kisses, th... |
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| 11 | 377 |
He produced a small leather pouch and, loosening its draw strings, opened it. |
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| 14 | 80 |
She tugged a bit at the cut sides of the tunic, to draw it further down the thighs. |
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| 16 | 48 |
She reached to draw it down, but could not find it. |
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| 16 | 60 |
She moved to draw up her legs and cover herself with her hands and arms, but, suddenly, was aware of some sort of impediment on her left ankle. |
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| 16 | 827 |
The man's tunic was scarlet, and he wore a sword belt slung across his body, from the right shoulder to the scabbard at his left hip, facilitating the right-handed draw. |
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| 16 | 888 |
Surely even that world, finding itself on the brink of species suicide, might be expected to draw back in horror. |
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| 20 | 6 |
She felt the draw, the tension, the pull of the chain on the collar, before her and behind her. |
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| 20 | 611 |
The leech plant can draw a considerable amount of blood in a short time. |
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| 26 | 254 |
"That was a ruse, it seems, a hoax, to draw bandits fruitlessly to our tents, where they might be discovered and snared, while in the subtlety of Cos the gold made its way safely, elsewise, to the coffers of Myron, polemarkos at Ar". |
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| 26 | 454 |
Ellen sensed that her master was then standing before her, the leash presumably in his hand, she gathering that from the tiny draw on the hood's strap ring. |
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| 26 | 627 |
Then there was no longer a sense of the leash draw on the hood ring, and so Ellen stopped, and knelt. |
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| 26 | 904 |
Draw their seed forth, and leave no traces, for we do not wish them to be slain in the morning, signs of pleasure about their bodies". |
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| 26 | 1444 |
She tried to draw back, a little, but he drew her head, by the hair, a few inches closer to his body. |
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| 26 | 1457 |
"Did not Master draw me to him?" she asked. |
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| 26 | 1588 |
And the same bells which serve so well to draw attention to a lovely, demurely tunicked slave in the sul market, her shopping basket balanced with one hand on her head, serve as well, doubtless, to record in their jangling her leapings and squirmings in the arms of her master. |
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| 27 | 44 |
She had then been permitted to draw it on. |
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| 27 | 562 |
"And you draw the juice out through the hole?" speculated another. |
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| 27 | 575 |
They did not move to draw them. |
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| 27 | 881 |
Hands of the riders moved toward their weapons, but they did not draw them. |
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| 27 | 1073 |
"Two will no longer draw the bow," said Portus Canio. |
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| 27 | 3216 |
"I will beg a tarpaulin and place my wounded fellow upon it, and draw him in that fashion to Brundisium. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 82 |
Cabot took the sheath and dagger from Archon and tried to draw the blade. |
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| 16 | 70 |
Archon would have seen to it that something of a trail, a dislodged pebble, a crushed leaf, a snapped twig, a bit of fur seemingly snagged on a branch, would draw the party in this direction. |
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| 18 | 23 |
But he did draw her to him, as he was human, and, holding her head so she could not move or escape, he placed his lips upon hers. |
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| 20 | 68 |
"No," said Peisistratus, "innocence or guilt must be clear, so a clear, significant majority is required, and in a trial such as this, involving charges of high treason, guilt must be exceedingly clear, this requiring that nine out of every ten jurors draw the knife". |
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| 20 | 85 |
"Let the jury draw their daggers or not," challenged Pyrrhus. |
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| 24 | 243 |
"Now make her a leash, and draw her away, behind you," said Cabot. |
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| 36 | 1 |
Cabot Leaves the Cave; He is Accompanied by a Shapely Beast of Burden "You draw it easily," said Cabot. |
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| 36 | 20 |
It requires great strength even to string the bow, let alone to draw it and fire the projectile. |
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| 43 | 25 |
Cabot would not have time to activate the bow, to loose it from his shoulder, arrow it, and draw it. |
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| 64 | 172 |
"Lady," suggested Peisistratus, "draw the sheet about you". |
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| 72 | 11 |
"Draw his fire, find his position!" he heard Flavion screaming. |
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| 73 | 208 |
After all, they traverse the streets, draw water at the fountains, bargain in the markets, kneel at the laundry troughs, and so on. |
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| 74 | 106 |
His skill, as suggested earlier, was remarkable, but he declined to draw attention to it, perhaps being somewhat embarrassed by it, and certainly feeling that the ax was a more respectable, Kurlike weapon. |
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| 74 | 109 |
He could, reportedly, draw a bow with most peasants. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 299 |
"Draw back," I said to her. |
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| 3 | 471 |
"You may now draw back," I said, "but you will remain in the vicinity, kneeling. |
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| 5 | 1010 |
I did not draw my weapon, nor did any of the others. |
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| 5 | 1058 |
Those of the scarlet are trained in such a draw. |
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| 5 | 1059 |
One does not indicate that one will draw. |
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| 7 | 87 |
I was pleased to see Pertinax draw Constantina to him, on the leash. |
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| 10 | 552 |
"Please draw down the sheet to her shoulders". |
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| 15 | 263 |
"That should draw in bounty hunters," I said, "like zarlit flies to honey, urts to cheese, sharks to blood". |
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| 20 | 110 |
"Draw back," I said. |
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| 20 | 207 |
"If you draw your blade across her throat," I pointed out, "you are a dead man". |
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| 22 | 299 |
"Would you draw against me?" I asked. |
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| 23 | 194 |
I saw her draw back a little and kiss his feet, tenderly. |
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| 25 | 22 |
I supposed it was well that I had learned what I had, but truth can draw blood. |
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| 25 | 64 |
To her horror, she soon realizes, too, that her recruiters will not attempt to reclaim her, for that might draw attention to themselves and their intentions. |
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| 25 | 126 |
Both modalities facilitate the swift, across-the-body draw. |
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| 26 | 76 |
"Then I do not parley," I said, and made to draw away. |
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| 37 | 68 |
I trusted that she would not move with the current, and drag the cleats free of the wood, or draw the wharf itself, splintering, from its pilings. |
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| 38 | 537 |
Men stood by, with ropes and weights, on pulleys, to draw the ramp within, after which the port would be drawn up, similarly moved, and closed. |
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| 38 | 577 |
"Draw back a bit, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," said Lord Nishida. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 21 |
There it would be weighted, its back rings fitted with draw chains, and the whole fixed in its pulleyed frame, to be dropped and raised, again and again, and, by means of the draw chains, pulled against the ice. |
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| 13 | 34 |
The mystery of the parsit was solved, of course, as this wilderness of efflorescent plant life in the sea, floating like a vast park of life, drew myriads of small creatures, and these would draw the parsit, and the parsit would draw the shark, the grunt, and the unusual tharlarion. |
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| 1 | 116 |
The newcomers cast down the bows and, together, reached within their robes to unsheathe blades, the common gladius, but the cloaks, hitherto so convenient in concealing their caste, their intent, their weapons, cost them an unencumbered draw, and the stranger was at them, table flung aside, daggers ... |
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| 3 | 466 |
The barefootedness of the slave also tends to draw a further distinction between her and the free woman, for the free woman, even of low caste, almost always has footwear of one sort or another, even if it is only a wrapping of cloth. |
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| 3 | 847 |
Then I feared the tunic, ample as it might be, might in my sleep have crept up my thighs, and I reached to draw it down, but, even as I thought of this, I became aware of a weight on my left ankle. |
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| 3 | 1021 |
'You dared to draw back my tunic in my sleep, you dared to examine me?' I cried. |
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| 4 | 179 |
It had been a lovely draw, silent, and smooth. |
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| 4 | 180 |
I had not noticed the draw until it was completed, the blade free of its housing. |
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| 5 | 98 |
It does, slightly, slow the draw. |
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| 5 | 332 |
I saw several of the men about look at one another, and then draw their weapons. |
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| 8 | 24 |
In my turn, I helped draw the used ax, that which had just been replaced, freed of its weight and chains, to the open deck. |
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| 8 | 32 |
Thassa had reserves on which she might draw, the vast pressures of her solidifying surface. |
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| 8 | 98 |
In the water, it can be difficult, hands slipping, no purchase gained, to draw oneself back on the ice. |
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| 9 | 104 |
It takes a moment, of course, to draw a bow, and it requires strength to keep the bow drawn. |
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| 12 | 21 |
It is one thing to draw an oar, and do one thing or another about a ship, even to be of its fighting complement, and quite another to read the weather, and water, and the stars, to plot courses, to keep a steady helm in a hard sea, to manage lines and rigging, and such. |
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| 12 | 43 |
She may send you gentle winds and shelter you in her great arms, bearing you up, or should she please, break you and draw you down, destroying you, to mysterious, unsounded deeps. |
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| 13 | 33 |
One could almost walk upon the vines, but one could draw a small ship's boat, or raft, through them, hoping eventually to reach free water. |
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| 14 | 42 |
He should coordinate his efforts with the draw of the companion galley, ours. |
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| 14 | 289 |
Draw me free!" As the vines were thick there, it was possible, on one's belly, half in the water, half out, to reach him. |
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| 15 | 20 |
When called to flight, Turgus' galley was to fall to Pertinax, and if the entire cavalry were put aflight, I was pleased that the galley's command would fall to Philoctetes, a mariner of Cos, for whom I would be eager to draw oar. |
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| 15 | 125 |
Whereas Warriors, or men, might weep, as under the snake, which would draw tears from rocks, or weep as might larls in raging grief, if a city falls, a fellow is slain, or a Home Stone dishonored, this was unseemly. |
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| 16 | 113 |
Buckets, on ropes, were thrown to port, to draw water, to fight flames. |
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| 16 | 209 |
"Draw away!" urged Lord Nishida. |
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| 21 | 108 |
The continental custom, on the other hand, makes it possible to draw the other off balance, and, obviously, if one is right-handed, one is more at risk from a fellow who might favor the left hand. |
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| 21 | 121 |
I saw men draw away from him. |
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| 22 | 49 |
"To the galleys?" "Any who can draw an oar," said Cabot. |
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| 22 | 323 |
The strike of the Tuchuk bow, short, of curved horn, requiring much strength to draw, is heavy, and, at close range, terrible, capable, like the thrust spear, of penetrating the typical four-layered shield. |
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| 24 | 259 |
Perhaps some Peasants might buy them, to hoe suls, to pick beans, to swill tarsks, to draw the plow, to warm their feet in the winter. |
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| 33 | 203 |
"And you came to Brundisium?" "Those who draw the oar," he said, "do not set the helm". |
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| 36 | 240 |
"It is a ruse to draw Cineas forth?" I said. |
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| 36 | 371 |
It tends to draw predatory fish away from the piers, and it provides a convenient way of disposing of large forms of garbage, the bodies, say, of dead animals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 110 |
I could lift my knees, draw back a bit, and sit up. |
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| 8 | 666 |
"Oh!" she protested, trying to draw back, but she could not free herself of the grip. |
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| 9 | 75 |
"They encourage men to drink, to eat, to spend, to wager, to linger at the tables, to draw further cards, to cast the dice just one last time, and such". |
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| 10 | 34 |
I felt the leash draw taut and my head was pulled up, and I must, along the length of the leash, regard the beast. |
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| 17 | 151 |
Too, of course, it helps to draw a sharper distinction between us and free women, as though the scantiness of our tunics, and the obviousness of our lovely, slender, locked collars, compared to the richness of their robes, and veils, and half veils, were not enough! I saw a lovely-legged, long-haire... |
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| 19 | 22 |
Roll over, in the dirt! On your back now, squirm, to your side, draw your knees up. |
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| 23 | 15 |
Peasant boys, from childhood, are trained in the use of bows, preparing them for the day when they will have the strength to draw the great bow, on which day they are accounted men, suitable for mating with free women. |
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| 23 | 164 |
In this way, if one member of the party fell, there would be others to draw him to safety. |
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| 27 | 403 |
Enter it, and draw shut the gate. |
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| 32 | 87 |
These darts caught in the chest of the Kur, who wrestled to draw them forth, but, a moment later, he was drawn stumbling forward, toward the dais, as the cables were being reeled back into the machine. |
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| 32 | 115 |
"Go to your cage," he said "and draw shut the gate". |
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| 32 | 118 |
I would then draw shut the gate. |
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| 34 | 19 |
You draw forth one small scrap of paper, look at it, and then write something in a square on one of the larger sheets, and then you put the small scrap of paper aside, and keep doing this". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 8 |
I think I may have mentioned that slaves often draw small carts, for their masters, commonly peddlers, and that some free women utilize female slaves to draw their carriages. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 27 |
"Until our oarsmen, exhausted and aching, could no longer draw an oar," said Sakim, "and our friends, with ten shifts of oarsmen, their pursuit never abated, could draw abeam, cast out their hooks, and swarm aboard". |
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| 57 | 30 |
He must strive to draw our ships together, or draw back and bring his beak or ram into play. |
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