| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 64 |
Abruptly I changed course, drawing on the four-strap, guiding my tarn toward the blue, shimmering wave of a mountain range in the distance. |
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| 8 | 50 |
"This one I'll leash myself," he said, drawing a leading chain from his pouch and approaching the girl. |
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| 8 | 58 |
"I see that I must teach you to respect an officer," he said, putting his hand between her throat and the chain, drawing her to him. |
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| 9 | 177 |
These beasts, yoked in braces, were drawing mighty wagons, filled with merchandise protected under the lashings of its red rain-canvas. |
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| 10 | 151 |
"Kneel," I said, drawing out the collar. |
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| 13 | 11 |
As I was drawing on the two-strap, to guide the tarn to Ko-ro-ba, I saw something I did not expect to see, something directly below, which startled me. |
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| 14 | 149 |
Then the tarnsman saw me and shouted in rage, drawing his sword. |
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| 15 | 203 |
"What is it, Ubar, that you hold dearest—your city or your title? Do you seek the welfare of Ar or your private glory?" Marlenus leaped to his feet, hurling the yellow robes of the Afflicted from him, drawing his blade from its sheath with a metallic flash. |
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| 19 | 57 |
"Who are you?" cried Pa-Kur, drawing his sword. |
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| 19 | 70 |
"Are you truly the men of never-conquered, imperishable Ar? Or are you but slaves who will exchange your freedom for the collar of Pa-Kur?" "Down with the Initiates!" cried one man, drawing his sword. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 101 |
"Of course," said the man ingratiatingly, a bit unsteadily, drawing the hood even more closely about his features. |
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| 15 | 151 |
"Because," she said, drawing herself to her full height, gathering the golden tattered robes about her, "I am Tatrix of Tharna". |
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| 23 | 179 |
"Guardsmen," I said, drawing my sword. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 53 |
I, still remaining cross-legged on the platform, reached forward and took her head in my hands, drawing it to mine. |
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| 7 | 73 |
I spun quickly about, drawing my sword in the same motion. |
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| 25 | 71 |
I stood up then unsteadily and walked beneath the shaft and stood there with my head back drawing in the welcome fresh air that blew down towards me. |
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| 29 | 106 |
I could not believe what I saw but there was no mistaking the elevation of the disrupter cone, the calm, almost unhurried manner in which the other ship was drawing a bead on its fellow. |
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| 33 | 60 |
Drawing a small knife from his pouch, the Initiate cut a strand of hair from the animal and threw it into a nearby fire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 34 |
Even with the harnessed might of several huge tharlarion drawing toward the opposite shore the crossing took us several pasangs downriver. |
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| 4 | 10 |
Four times the point struck me drawing blood, but he did not have the weight of the leaping animal behind his thrust; he thrust at arm's length, the point scarcely reaching me. |
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| 7 | 148 |
She looked at him wildly, drawing back. |
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| 12 | 274 |
I reached around and took her right wrist, drawing it behind her body. |
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| 12 | 418 |
Then he would take up a fist of chain, drawing her each time inches closer. |
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| 12 | 506 |
He turned and ran, and I, drawing my sword, ran stumbling after him but in less than a moment or two I found my pursuit cut short by a string of tied kaiila being returned after having been released to hunt on the plains. |
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| 25 | 137 |
She leaned back on her heels, drawing the yellow silken sheet more closely about her shoulders, and looked at me, smiling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 98 |
"I have only this," I said, drawing forth from my belt the wrinkled patch of green cloth. |
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| 5 | 601 |
Beyond the city, the wagon would stop, drawing up in a secluded grove. |
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| 5 | 731 |
Drawing her knees up and almost touching her chin to her chest she managed to look about as abject and abused as a poor wench might. |
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| 11 | 253 |
Virginia gasped, drawing back. |
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| 12 | 227 |
Elizabeth did so, drawing at the loop on the left shoulder of her garment. |
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| 15 | 23 |
Phyllis Robertson now lay on her back, and then her side, and then turned and rolled, drawing up her legs, putting her hands before her face, as though fending blows, her face a mask of pain, of fear. |
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| 18 | 280 |
"I will show you," I said, drawing down the white cloth, revealing the wound. |
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| 21 | 270 |
I moved swiftly drawing one Warrior or another after me, and he who was swiftest died first; I turned and spun, accepting or not accepting an attack, always to isolate a man; vaguely, as though far off, I heard the screaming of Philemon in the Ubar's box, the shouting of Taurentians; in a moment's r... |
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| 22 | 108 |
"My gratitude," I said, drawing the mask over my head. |
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| 22 | 184 |
The crossbowman shrugged, drawing back the heavy cable on the bow. |
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| 23 | 130 |
He reached humbly, brokenly, into his robe, drawing forth a dagger. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 |
The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from the saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare or in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept se... |
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| 3 | 139 |
Then Ho-Hak took, from among the arrows on the mat, the leather bracer and fastened it about his left forearm, that the arm not be lacerated by the string, and took the small tab as well, putting the first and second fingers of his right hand through, that in drawing the string the flesh might not b... |
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| 4 | 207 |
Then she took a long draught of water from a yellow, curved gourd, and then, thrusting the neck of the gourd into my mouth, gave me a swallow, then drawing it away again and laughing, but then giving it to me again, that I might drink. |
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| 5 | 66 |
I had been used in the fastening of the bridges, and in the drawing up and tying of rence craft on the shore, as other rencers, from distant islands, arrived for festival. |
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| 7 | 207 |
Then I began to gather rence, drawing it from the surface of the island itself, long strips, with which a boat might be made. |
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| 8 | 27 |
The sixth barge began to drift to leeward, a slow half circle, aimless, like a finger drawing in the water. |
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| 8 | 116 |
With the noose of marsh vine I dragged him over the side of the hull, lowering him into the marsh, holding him until I felt the tharlarion take him from me, drawing him away. |
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| 8 | 243 |
Had I used a broad-headed arrow, or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound, drawing it out feathers last. |
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| 13 | 446 |
The Rena was now hemmed in by the eight ships, and two, heavy-class galleys, from the arsenal, were drawing alongside. |
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| 14 | 114 |
Whereas I did not know exactly the codes employed by the treasure fleet, I had little doubt that our hesitation was being signaled about the fleet, and then I heard other trumpets, and saw the round ships drawing apart, and tarn ships streaking between them, fanning out in our direction. |
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| 14 | 231 |
My own men were still drawing a strong three quarters beat. |
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| 15 | 655 |
I howled with rage and turned about, striking the walls with my fists and then, throwing off my cloak, spun weeping to face them, in the same instant drawing my blade. |
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| 17 | 4 |
In the hurrying of our formations and the drawing of battle plans, I was not even certain of the numbers of ships engaged in our various ventures. |
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| 18 | 201 |
I met them, moving swiftly, constantly shifting my position, drawing them after me, then pressing one or another of them back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 115 |
I saw the two men in the uniforms of police officers leaving the penthouse, followed by the smaller man, who, as he left the house, was drawing the mask from his head. |
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| 7 | 173 |
To be relieved of the agony of the harness and the strain of drawing the wagon was simply in itself an exquisite delight. |
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| 8 | 118 |
The water was wet and glistening on the backs of the two tharlarion drawing the barge. |
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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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| 9 | 388 |
Then she untied the strap at my ankles, freeing them, and, drawing the strap about the post and through the two rings, released me from the post. |
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| 11 | 1019 |
I wanted to belong to a man, I feared, who would find the true me, drawing her forth and exposing her, as brutally, as callously, as one might a stripped slave, and one who would then, with the whip and collar, if he saw fit, allowing me no escape, brooking no objections, teach me to myself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 601 |
The cord belt she wore, drawing the brief tunic tight about her, dramatized the small, sweet delights of her body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 329 |
"Have you killed a verr here, and a bosk?" "And, in the hall," it said, its lips drawing back from its jaws, "last night a man". |
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| 9 | 338 |
Gratefully, she crawled upon the couch, his section of that fur-covered, dirt sleeping level, and, trembling, shuddering with cold, drawing her body up, drew the furs about her. |
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| 11 | 114 |
"Even now," said the Kur, the skin drawing back from its fangs, "there are those among you who wish our death, who urge our destruction". |
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| 14 | 104 |
I saw the lips of one of the Kurii drawing back. |
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| 15 | 58 |
It might provide the equivalent of drawing a sniper's fire, using a dupe or fool to do so, in order to ascertain his position. |
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| 18 | 89 |
They, collared, shrank back, cowering on the cushions, drawing back to the side of the tent. |
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| 20 | 26 |
"Yes," she said, drawing herself up, beautifully. |
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| 21 | 174 |
Upon my return to Tyros, Sullius inquired if our foes had been wounded, and I informed him that indeed we had struck you, drawing blood. |
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| 21 | 199 |
"On the tenth day, on his arms and legs, and twice, transversely, across his right cheekbone, that his face be scarred and his shame known, I drew the poisoned blade, drawing blood with each stroke". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 605 |
When one wishes to guide the animal to the left one draws the rein left; when one wishes to guide it right one pulls right, drawing the rein over the animal's neck, with pressure against the left cheek. |
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| 5 | 310 |
I moved to my feet, and, kicking loose the pole which held the tent, slipped outside, drawing my scimitar. |
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| 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. |
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| 11 | 14 |
We had made a wall with our packs and crouched behind it, drawing our burnooses about us. |
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| 14 | 172 |
The rider pulled the kaiila up beside me, drawing back on the single rein. |
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| 16 | 265 |
"Greetings," said T'Zshal, drawing him from the water. |
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| 17 | 281 |
But the gill tissue is delicate, like layers of petals, essential for drawing oxygen from the environment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 153 |
There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I... |
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| 4 | 148 |
The slit made the garment, a rather snug one, easier to slip into; the two hooks, when fastened, naturally increased the snugness of the garment, drawing it quite closely about the breasts and hips; deliciously then, from the point of view of a man, the girl's figure is betrayed and accentuated; als... |
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| 9 | 554 |
On the road from Tabuk's Ford I could see the cart of Tup Ladletender, the itinerant peddler, he between its handles, bent over, drawing it. |
10 |
| 9 | 1187 |
Tup Ladletender's cart had now disappeared down the road leading from Tabuk's Ford, he between its handles, bent over, drawing it. |
10 |
| 10 | 8 |
I had only four marks on my body from the animal whip of Tup Ladletender, with which he had encouraged me in my drawing of his cart. |
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| 13 | 84 |
At last a few physicians, drawing upon the accumulated data of hundreds of investigators, had achieved the breakthrough, devising the first primitive stabilization serums, later to be developed and exquisitely refined. |
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| 14 | 388 |
She threw the net over me and, drawing tight its strings, confined me helplessly in it. |
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| 22 | 573 |
It was drawing me downward, away from the mast. |
10 |
| 26 | 419 |
"You are a beast and a barbarian!" she cried to him, drawing back. |
10 |
| 27 | 327 |
Other ways of drawing oneself to the attention of the master are more culturally explicit, and in accord with recognized conventions; of these other ways some are verbal, and others behavioral. |
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| 29 | 33 |
"No, Master!" she said, drawing back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 981 |
"Don't touch me," she cried, drawing back. |
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| 10 | 343 |
Angrily, then, they, too, set themselves to the work of drawing logs out of that cruel turf. |
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| 11 | 213 |
The same thongs which, looped about her stomach and threaded through a ring behind her, holding her to the wall, led to her ankles, drawing them back. |
10 |
| 13 | 169 |
The thought of the steely-eyed Kadluk drawing a bead on me with his harpoon was unnerving. |
10 |
| 14 | 243 |
Imnak led the snow sleen, drawing the sled on the tundra, and I walked beside him. |
10 |
| 14 | 260 |
The snow sleen padded along behind us, drawing the sled over the trodden turf. |
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| 22 | 355 |
"No," said Imnak, drawing his kayak up on the shore, "the world cannot be lonely where there are two people who are friends". |
10 |
| 23 | 161 |
We turned about and, some men drawing the sled, began to trek back to the camp. |
10 |
| 32 | 79 |
"I am sure," he said, drawing back his lips about his fangs. |
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| 34 | 10 |
When I, drawing the sled, had left the complex I had turned and looked upon it. |
10 |
| 34 | 189 |
I moved away from it, drawing it in a circle from the sled. |
10 |
| 35 | 78 |
In short order I managed to find one of the ventilator shafts through which fresh air was drawn into the complex; there was a system of such shafts, some for drawing in fresh air and others for expelling used, stale air. |
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| 35 | 201 |
A chain, some feet in length, was attached to her collar, which slid easily behind her, she drawing it, as she made her way toward me. |
10 |
| 35 | 639 |
I looped the intimacy veil about the back of her neck and crossed it above her breasts and drew it to the sides, over her breasts, and then took both lengths around her body and behind her back, again crossing them, then looping them about the sandal string tight on her waist; I then took the two lo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 123 |
She backed further against the wall, drawing her legs up, pressing her knees closely together. |
10 |
| 6 | 244 |
It had happened, really, neither quickly nor slowly, but as it had happened, she offering her lips, almost inadvertently, hesitating, and then, frightened, dismayed, drawing back. |
10 |
| 6 | 626 |
Then, to my amazement, the blond girl, though her wrists must have hurt her, her weight drawing against them, smiled back at Sasi. |
10 |
| 13 | 690 |
She then tied them, drawing the thongs tight and then fastening them. |
10 |
| 14 | 611 |
"Lie down there, drawing your legs up". |
10 |
| 23 | 156 |
The fellow called out sharply to the chained slaves drawing the platform, pointing ahead with his spear. |
10 |
| 23 | 157 |
They then began to wade forward, drawing the canoes, with the platform of state affixed athwart them. |
10 |
| 29 | 7 |
It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing tho... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 208 |
"Come, Jason," said Kenneth, drawing me to my feet. |
10 |
| 21 | 413 |
It squirmed and half pulled itself from the leathery casing which had contained it, drawing it up, half out of the sand. |
10 |
| 21 | 465 |
I turned about, again, and saw her, drawing her tiny slave rag over her head, carefully descending the ramp, her small feet leaving prints in the incline's dust. |
10 |
| 25 | 226 |
"Back, you collared she-sleen!" they cried to the slave girls, drawing their whips. |
10 |
| 34 | 117 |
I moved forward, drawing the Lady Florence to her feet behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99 |
Here and there, along the chain, we could see other galleys drawing abeam of it, and men, in small boats, with tools, cutting at the great links. |
10 |
| 1 | 109 |
I could see, even as he spoke, several of the pirate vessels drawing back, abeam of the chain, but far enough behind it to prevent our ram from reaching them. |
10 |
| 2 | 2 |
The sound of the oars, softly entering the water, drawing and lifting, was almost inaudible. |
10 |
| 4 | 266 |
He bent the bow, drawing the string back, the arrow at a sharp angle. |
10 |
| 5 | 107 |
Swiftly I gave my aid to drawing two more men from the water. |
10 |
| 6 | 54 |
"They are drawing back," said a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 415 |
As I had thought the pirate fleet was now drawing back. |
10 |
| 9 | 193 |
I reached downward and, with my left hand, closing it about her small wrists, pulled her wrists up, drawing her into a kneeling position, her hands, in my grip, held over her head. |
10 |
| 9 | 307 |
I then, my hand in the girl's hair, drawing her behind me, swam slowly about the bow of the Tuka and to the side of the Tina. |
10 |
| 12 | 91 |
I saw the lead galley drawing alongside the walk near the fortress wall, across the sea yard. |
10 |
| 12 | 174 |
"He," I said, drawing the mask from the head of the courier of Ragnar Voskjard. |
10 |
| 17 | 356 |
"Master?" she asked, drawing back. |
10 |
| 17 | 787 |
He then, ringing his bell, leaning into the traces, attached to two wooden handles, drawing his two-wheeled cart behind him, proceeded up the street. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 183 |
She then, on her hands and knees, crawled to the foot of the couch and, drawing up her legs, curled there on the cold tiles. |
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| 1 | 507 |
This, with two hands, holding it horizontally, across its body, it also displayed, lifting it ceremoniously upwards and towards us, and then drawing it back. |
10 |
| 2 | 7 |
I saw, through the small, slatted window near me, a slave girl drawing water from the canal, with a rope and bucket. |
10 |
| 6 | 83 |
The cavalry crossbow does have an iron stirrup in which the rider, without dismounting, may insert his foot, thus gaining the leverage necessary for drawing the cable back with both hands. |
10 |
| 6 | 84 |
If the rider is right handed he usually inserts his right foot in the stirrup and leans to the right in drawing the cable; this procedure is reversed, of course, usually, if the rider is left handed. |
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| 12 | 156 |
He tossed me the reins of his beast and, drawing his knife from a beaded sheath, slipped from the saddle to the ground. |
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| 13 | 1452 |
"Another way of drawing the distinction is in terms of 'falarina' and 'profalarina. |
10 |
| 13 | 1466 |
"In Gorean, as not in English," I said, "the usual way, however, of drawing the distinction is in terms of 'glana' and 'falarina. |
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| 14 | 655 |
She turned her head to the side, slowly drawing the comb through it. |
10 |
| 14 | 999 |
"What is this?" he asked, drawing his right index finger across his forehead, from left to right. |
10 |
| 15 | 242 |
The sign for "time," predictably, enters into the sign for "before," but, in this case, it is followed by the thrusting forth and drawing back of the right hand. |
10 |
| 16 | 85 |
I heard Grunt arm his bow, drawing back the stout cable, his foot in the bow stirrup, then slotting the quarrel into the guide. |
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| 19 | 710 |
I watched Grunt and Pimples, with the three kaiila, his mount, the kaiila drawing the travois and my own pack beast, wending their way away, through the tall grass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 133 |
The expression, for most practical purposes, signifies a certain type of gap, such as, for example, might occur in the edge of a trade ax, or hatchet, for use in drawing nails, an occupation for which the red savages, of course, have little use. |
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| 12 | 571 |
"That was not so fearful now, was it?" I asked, drawing back. |
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| 14 | 350 |
They were, I take it, her harness mates, responsible with her, I supposed, for drawing one of the travois. |
10 |
| 14 | 402 |
"Look," she said, drawing back, sobbing, putting her hands to the hood. |
10 |
| 18 | 232 |
"Today," said the man, drawing the rawhide string across the stone, "Mahpiyasapa is in sorrow. |
10 |
| 18 | 253 |
"Is it your understanding that Wopeton accompanied Mahpiyasapa?" "That is what I think," said the man, drawing the wet string, sand adhering to it, firmly and slowly, carefully, across the stone. |
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| 27 | 9 |
The feigned retreat, drawing pursuers, strung out and disaligned into ambush, is a favorite tactic of red savages. |
10 |
| 29 | 143 |
Some five warriors, of the Napoktan Kaiila, each drawing a string of kaiila, pulled up near us. |
10 |
| 30 | 48 |
Mahpiyasapa had made a suitable adjustment, implicitly drawing a distinction between true and false medicines, the medicine of the Kaiila presumably being true medicine, and that of the Yellow Knives false. |
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| 33 | 377 |
We continued on our way, northward, drawing the travois through the tall grass. |
10 |
| 43 | 308 |
Then, not hurrying, the robe muchly about me, I moved the kaiila away from the lodge, drawing from the lodge, through the cut in its back, by means of the rawhide ropes attached to their handles, the two sacks. |
10 |
| 43 | 412 |
Then I again urged my kaiila into the night, drawing the two sacks behind me in the grass. |
10 |
| 43 | 417 |
I could not hope, of course, in the ordinary run of things, to outdistance pursuing Yellow-Knife kaiila, certainly not with so short a start and drawing the weight of two such deliciously packed slave sacks. |
10 |
| 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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| 44 | 793 |
"Do not touch me!" she hissed, drawing back. |
10 |
| 47 | 284 |
I jerked free, from the front, where it protruded, the arrow, drawing it through the body. |
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| 56 | 23 |
I took a long strap and tied it about her right ankle and then, drawing it tight under the belly of the kaiila, looped it twice about her left ankle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 437 |
"Of course," he smiled, and adjusted the coverlet, drawing it down, over my knees. |
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| 12 | 55 |
She clutched this sheet about her, drawing it even about her head, and held it together, before her face, effectively veiling herself with it. |
10 |
| 16 | 239 |
He crouched down and, with one finger, near the bottom of the ditch, made a precise marking, or drawing, in the mud. |
10 |
| 21 | 5 |
I had begun by drawing deep, even scratches. |
10 |
| 33 | 78 |
He scarcely bothered to note the opening of the sack, and the drawing forth of its helpless, gagged, bound, stripped occupant. |
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| 36 | 1045 |
"It will be shorter," he said, drawing out a knife. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 736 |
She drew the hair from her mouth, drawing some of it, in loosening it, deeply back between her teeth, with her head back, as though she might have been in the constraint of a gag strap, all this to the music, and then her hair was free, and, with a movement of her head and movements of her hands, be... |
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| 1 | 737 |
It seemed then she withdrew modestly, frightened, behind the hair, drawing it like a cloak or sheet about her, as though by means of this piteous device she might hope desperately to conceal at least some minimal particle of her beauty from the rude scrutiny of masters. |
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| 3 | 127 |
That we were so near the Sardar, incidentally, after a presumed five days of unconsciousness, followed by two days of travel on foot, drawing her wagon, further suggested that she was not likely, really, to be the mistress of a work chain. |
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| 3 | 322 |
She seized me again by the hair, drawing me closely to her. |
10 |
| 5 | 201 |
"Brinlar!" she said, startled, drawing back on the furs, her legs under her, with a movement of chain, against the back wall of the alcove. |
10 |
| 5 | 250 |
"Brinlar," she cried, drawing her legs under her, "what are you doing!" "What do you mean, 'What am I doing!'?" I asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 387 |
"No," she said, quickly, moving in the chains, drawing back. |
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| 6 | 855 |
"Sirs," she asked, "why is it that you are drawing forth coils of stout ropes from beneath your robes?" "Why to bind your pretty arms to your sides, and to put a good rope on your neck, my dear," said Chino. |
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| 8 | 250 |
"What is wrong?" The fellow facing him had suddenly stiffened, drawing his shoulders close together. |
10 |
| 8 | 271 |
"If you are magistrates," he cried, "know that I have come on this camp of brigands and, in cognizance of my jeopardy, was making ready to defend myself!" He looked about, wildly, drawing back another pace or so. |
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| 10 | 500 |
"Why are you drawing your knife?" "To remove the sack from you," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 390 |
I put my foot on the rib cage and, pressing down, then releasing the pressure, then pressing down, and releasing again, I turned the rib cage, drawing the pelt, rip by rip, away from it. |
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| 16 | 30 |
"Ho, varlets, craven churls, away!" cried lanky Petrucchio, drawing his great wooden sword from the preposterous sheath which dragged behind him. |
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| 16 | 294 |
They huddled together under this fierce gaze, drawing back. |
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| 16 | 624 |
"Perhaps we could have a wager," said Chino, drawing out a coin. |
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| 16 | 700 |
"Yes," said Chino, drawing forth from his pack a large pair of cloth-worker's shears. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 419 |
There were three rings there, the central ring, to which Tula had been chained, generally used for tethering, and two smaller, side rings, auxiliary rings, sometimes used for tethering, sometimes used for drawing a second wagon or cart. |
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| 7 | 85 |
These I took to the sides and yanked back, drawing them deeply back between her teeth, and then knotted them tightly behind the back of her neck. |
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| 24 | 638 |
These harnesses are similar to, but are not to be confused with, various other forms of harness which may be used with girls serving as draft animals, for example, fixed between the handles of a peddler's cart, or drawing, say, a conqueror's chariot. |
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| 25 | 1313 |
"Oh, no," she said, drawing back, suddenly, seeming to wipe a tear from her eye, "I must not say such things to you". |
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| 26 | 212 |
"I am drawing my sword," I said. |
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| 26 | 224 |
I had further confirmed this suspicion by the drawing of the blade. |
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| 26 | 713 |
In a few Ehn I turned to the blond captive and ungagged her, carefully removing the gag binding and drawing the wet packing from her mouth. |
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| 26 | 772 |
I then left the alcove, holding the lamp, drawing the bound captive by the hair after me. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 188 |
Once I heard a sort of sudden bellowing snort and hiss, it seemed, from the closeness, and the associated jerk on the traces and movement of the vehicle, from the beast drawing the wagon. |
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| 10 | 330 |
I heard the rattle of harness, sensed the attachment of ropes, the tying of knots, the drawing of them tight, their testing. |
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| 11 | 647 |
"Let us have the drawing," urged a fellow. |
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| 11 | 947 |
I pretended to shrink down within myself, to desire to crouch down, and conceal and cover my nudity, but then I straightened up, fearfully, as though I had heard commands to desist in such absurdities, and then I extended my hands to the sides, to various sides, as though pleading for mercy, to be r... |
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| 11 | 1030 |
"The drawing!" called a man. |
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| 11 | 1031 |
"Let us have the drawing!" Hendow nodded to Mirus, and Mirus summoned Aynur to the center of the floor, and near the front, with her copper bowl, laden with the halves of broken ostraka. |
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| 11 | 1053 |
I trembled, for the moment of the drawing drew near. |
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| 20 | 208 |
I put myself between the handles of the cart and, drawing it, returned into the alleyway. |
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| 20 | 365 |
My master's men, with the cart, one of them drawing the cart, the other thrusting it from behind, emerged from the alleyway. |
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| 20 | 386 |
They then, to my relief, seemingly continued on their way, albeit slowly, one drawing the cart, the other pushing it. |
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| 26 | 1 |
Mercenaries "Pietro Vacchi!" exclaimed Aulus, drawing back his tharlarion, "I should have known it would have been you!" I was terrified at his stirrup, the chain on my neck. |
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| 34 | 380 |
Then, angrily, he lay down on the blankets, drawing them about himself, to sleep. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 95 |
In a few Ehn the two fellows returned, leading a tharlarion drawing another wagon. |
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| 5 | 608 |
She had scarcely attained the kitchen door before another woman emerged, swiftly, yet gracefully, drawing a diaphanous silken wrap about her. |
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| 8 | 580 |
I moved the harness, drawing the straps evenly, and the bird, anticipatory, alerted, stalked to the front edge of the landing platform, outside the portal of the tarn gate. |
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| 9 | 376 |
I then moved her about and treated the garment similarly in the back, drawing the strip back over the cord so that it was now only about eighteen inches long, and then cutting it off a bit below and behind the cord. |
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| 15 | 1026 |
I went to the executioner and drew away his mask, drawing it then over my own head. |
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| 16 | 35 |
They are much more useful, in my opinion, at sea, as in, say, drawing ships within boarding distance of one another, the ropes then usually being attached to chains some ten feet or so behind the hooks. |
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| 17 | 319 |
It would have been foolish for her, of course, hooded, and trussed, to have risen to her feet, perhaps drawing attention to herself, perhaps even in the melee being taken for a target, and utter madness to have done so and moved about. |
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| 17 | 467 |
I then, holding her wrists, and by means of them, moving them back and forth, as she whimpered, and drawing them more closely together, slowly worked her arms more behind her under the ropes. |
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| 17 | 594 |
This time, as it swung back, I could see, along its shaft, the interior of the inclined shed that housed it, and how it was fifty feet long and slung in leather cradles, and the many ropes that controlled it, and the men drawing on the ropes, surely more than a hundred of them under that long shed, ... |
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| 18 | 127 |
The officer turned about and, drawing from beneath his cloak a white sheet, which he had apparently concealed there, lifted it, and approached the base of the wall. |
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| 18 | 385 |
"To you fellows sweating in the front ranks, or to suppliers, officers, and agents? Who says there will be any distribution to you fellows, at all? If there is, will you get your pick? Will the best women be distributed? What of hundreds of wenches already on their way to Brundisium, and Cos and Tyr... |
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| 18 | 399 |
I had the men of Ar's Station then, to my elation, on the walkway, drawing back on either side of me. |
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| 18 | 548 |
We heard the small boats behind us, drawing up, near the pilings beneath the walkway. |
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| 19 | 49 |
"They are drawing back," said a fellow near me. |
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| 20 | 201 |
I could see several galleys now drawing up at the piers. |
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| 20 | 421 |
I saw some of the ships there drawing up their anchors, generally two, one at the bow, one at the stern, and putting about, those that had faced the piers. |
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| 23 | 195 |
Then I stood up, drawing my tunic about me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 767 |
Then she put herself to the dirt before him in what, had she been a dancer, and on a different surface, might have been termed "floor movements," such things as turnings and twistings, rollings and crawlings, sometimes on her hands and knees, sometimes on her stomach; sometimes, too, she would be kn... |
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| 1 | 307 |
"Yes, Master!" she wept, drawing back, as she could, within it. |
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| 1 | 1165 |
"Look," I said, reaching into my wallet and drawing forth a handful of slave beads, "are they not beauties?" He looked at them, in the moonlight. |
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| 3 | 132 |
Not only are they useful in the fields, drawing plows, hoeing, carrying water, and such, but they, too, as they can, are expected to serve the pleasures of their masters, just as would be slighter, more beautiful damsels. |
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| 10 | 65 |
The beast hissed with fury, drawing back. |
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| 12 | 77 |
"It is difficult to traverse the delta unscathed," I said, "particularly when one is naked, in the water, harnessed, drawing a raft". |
10 |
| 13 | 479 |
I moved away, drawing the raft after me. |
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| 15 | 5 |
So I struggled ahead, closed in the hood, manacled, harnessed, drawing the weighty raft through the marsh, through the rence, through the mud, now with several men upon it, some wounded and sick, little more, if anything, than a beast of burden, a despised beast subject to the frequent blows, the la... |
10 |
| 15 | 38 |
Many of these had apparently been lured into the mire by rencers who had permitted themselves to be seen, and pursued, rencers who doubtless knew their way through the area, perhaps even drawing up safe-passage markers behind them. |
10 |
| 17 | 360 |
I tried to separate the strap holding the manacles close to me, drawing on it with my hands. |
10 |
| 18 | 313 |
It had not been easy, being beaten, drawing the raft, and such. |
10 |
| 19 | 1620 |
I then picked up a short, buckled strap, cut from the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh. |
10 |
| 19 | 1622 |
I then lifted up one end, the loose end, of a long strap, also part of the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh, and tied it about the four turns of the strap on her neck. |
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| 28 | 72 |
"No," he said, drawing back. |
10 |
| 31 | 53 |
"Murdering rencer," said a man, drawing his knife. |
10 |
| 42 | 127 |
I then, drawing her gently behind me, on her tether, rejoined Marcus. |
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| 44 | 272 |
That was probably where I had seen him before, probably in a mere glimpse, when I was, at that time, drawing the sodden rence craft for Plenius and the others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 289 |
"Disgusting," said a free woman, drawing her veil more closely about her face. |
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| 2 | 288 |
He then took the forward ends of the cord, again free, and this time crossed them, over the bosom, before placing them again through the loop at the back, drawing them forward and, once more, fastening them, perhaps more snugly than was necessary, before her. |
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| 2 | 313 |
"What do you want?" asked Marcus then, drawing himself up, coldly, looking down at her. |
10 |
| 3 | 60 |
A fellow brushed past me, drawing behind him two slaves, their wrists extended before them, closely together, pulled forward, the lead chains attached to their wrist shackles. |
10 |
| 7 | 252 |
Seremides approached him and, drawing his sword from its sheath, extended it to him, hilt first. |
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| 10 | 191 |
We, too, were buffeted but I seized one of the lads by the wrist and, drawing him quickly across and about my body, and over my extended right leg, flung him to the stones, where I held him, my grip shifted now to the palm of his hand, on his knees, his head down, his arm high, twisted behind him, h... |
10 |
| 14 | 93 |
"Yes," she said, drawing back a little. |
10 |
| 22 | 6 |
One fellow was drawing a two-wheeled cart, loaded with basketry. |
10 |
| 22 | 323 |
"Oh!" said the woman within it, drawing back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 67 |
I could feel the force, small as it was, transmitted through the chain, to the collar, the collar then drawing against the back of my neck. |
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| 5 | 90 |
Sometimes, when there were harsh sounds in the street outside, I looked at some of the others, and saw them regarding one another, fear in their eyes, drawing their silks more closely about themselves. |
10 |
| 8 | 477 |
This movement, drawing the skirt down as I had, conjoined with a shy expression, and an attitude of timidity, can be quite provocative. |
10 |
| 11 | 257 |
He was drawing me upward. |
10 |
| 13 | 165 |
I am not sure why that is, but it seems to be another way of drawing a distinction between slave and free. |
10 |
| 13 | 265 |
By drawing on this cord it seemed the latch could be released. |
10 |
| 14 | 1301 |
"It is enough," said the free woman, drawing back. |
10 |
| 16 | 287 |
Did they sense the danger we might pose to them, if they were weak, or permissive, or lenient? Was that why they were as they were? Was that why they put us in collars and kept us at their feet, because they knew us so well? But how could we be women if they were not men? Or had they profited from s... |
10 |
| 16 | 492 |
In this way, it was, in effect, as though the chain was mounted at the head of the divan, rather than at the side, the hook would carry the weight of the chain, preventing it from drawing against the collar, the length of chain between the hook and collar would rest on the divan, and the amount of p... |
10 |
| 31 | 488 |
He cried out in pain, twisting, drawing back, his arm slashed. |
10 |
| 32 | 30 |
I think there was not one of us who would not then have rather, a thousand times over, been elsewhere, almost anywhere, in the heaviest of chains in the foulest of dungeons; pitching, sick, bound to our pallets, almost immobile, in the holds of stinking slave ships, covered with vermin; sweating in ... |
10 |
| 35 | 114 |
"Out into the hall! Run! Search!" "The lamps in the hall are out," said a man, drawing back into the room. |
10 |
| 36 | 1 |
Fina screamed, drawing back. |
10 |
| 46 | 276 |
He rolled over, and reached to one side, drawing to him his belt, with the sheathed knife upon it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 116 |
"Release me!" she said, imperiously, coldly, drawing her small frame up to its full height, summoning all the rigor, all the severity, of which she was capable. |
10 |
| 7 | 242 |
Immediately she lay down on her right side, drawing her knees up. |
10 |
| 16 | 80 |
All this seemed to take place at the same time, and she opened her eyes wildly for an instant but, drawing back from the painful stabbing of sunlight, shut them in pain, but, in that moment, she had glimpsed a world about her, movements, colors, robes, stalls across the way, displayed goods, awnings... |
10 |
| 17 | 1073 |
Sometimes, on a pronounced declivity, she feared she would again fall, losing her balance, hurtling headlong downward, and, at other times, given an ascending steepness, she struggled, gasping, legs aching, to climb, the leash taut, mercilessly, impatiently, against the ring, drawing her relentlessl... |
10 |
| 19 | 742 |
He must also have wanted, she thought, an ignorant girl, one unversed in the politics of Ar, one who will understand little of what is being done, of what she is being used to accomplish, one who, even under torture, her flesh writhing on the rack , drawing back, screaming, from the heat of fierce, ... |
10 |
| 20 | 369 |
The lead tarnsman loosed, as he could, arrow after arrow into the body of the attacking bird, and then, drawing his sword, for he carried no lance, tried to close with it, to strike it somehow, across the back of the neck, in that tumbling tangle of rage and hunger. |
10 |
| 20 | 771 |
Then she groveled in the dust, weeping, curling up, drawing up her knees, trying to cover her head and face, as she was whipped. |
10 |
| 21 | 230 |
"You will soon be slave, branded with the mark of the quarries of Tyros, or perhaps we will mark you for the bench of a merchant galley, where, drawing your oar by day or night, hungry for a crust of bread or a sip of water, you will have time to ponder your foolishness". |
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| 22 | 652 |
How vulnerable we are! How they make us theirs! They play us like czehars, drawing what music they will from our bodies! How arrogantly, how imperiously they master us, their slaves! And Ellen envied the slave within the tent. |
10 |
| 24 | 477 |
With her own hands, but, it seemed, as though with the hands of another, she drew her veil about, drawing it to one side and then the other, this providing a glimpse, then again they concealed, of her features. |
10 |
| 24 | 493 |
It seemed she fled then about the circle, running here and there, sometimes coming close to the men, who sometimes reached for her, sometimes drawing back, as in fear. |
10 |
| 24 | 495 |
In this it was made clear to all, by gestures and displays, though unobtrusively, by subtly drawing attention to the matter, that her arms and wrists were bare. |
10 |
| 27 | 1053 |
Cosian men at arms, some armed with short bows, such as may be used with convenience from tarn baskets, which may clear the bulwarks and fire amongst the ropes, saddle bows, actually, such as are favored for similar reasons by tarnsmen, were drawing away, afoot. |
10 |
| 27 | 1663 |
She saw the spokesman, his robes torn, drawing back. |
10 |
| 27 | 3262 |
"I will prepare the beast for the fire," said Portus Canio, drawing out his knife. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 309 |
"Masters!" cried the brunette, suddenly, squirming in terror, on the metal floor, and drawing up her legs, the breath of the beast hot on her body, "Masters!" Cabot was startled. |
10 |
| 2 | 355 |
In a moment Cabot, perhaps foolishly, had raced after the Kur who was drawing the sobbing, hapless brunette toward the opening at the end of the corridor. |
10 |
| 3 | 349 |
"What are you going to do!" she cried, drawing back, alarmed, as he approached her. |
10 |
| 24 | 274 |
And the two then parted, Grendel drawing after him a small, well-formed human female, blonde. |
10 |
| 26 | 42 |
"There are other ways," said Cabot, "stumps drawing pictures in sand, even physical responses to cleverly dichotomized questions". |
10 |
| 35 | 35 |
Cabot came up, instantly, half seeing it, behind it, the thing almost a blur, and his left hand went closely, tightly, across its mouth, drawing its head back, stifling any sound, and his knife was at its throat. |
10 |
| 43 | 75 |
"They are dead," Cabot assured him, drawing his attention to his right. |
10 |
| 43 | 420 |
Cabot, from behind, carefully placed the strip of narrow cloth over the eyes of the free woman, and then, drawing it back, wrapped it about her head, and then again, and then secured it at the back of her head. |
10 |
| 47 | 130 |
His priority is thus less than the silent foe who reacts instantly, seeking cover, drawing a weapon, such things. |
10 |
| 80 | 12 |
The festival days are now, as you know, drawing to a close, and it will be a good thing, as I see it, to return to some congenial normality, here. |
10 |
| 80 | 282 |
She then arranged her robes a little differently about her throat, drawing them down, a little. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 7 |
Given the correspondences, drawing on the one-strap exerts pressure at the bottom of the tarn's throat, to which pressure it responds by ascent, and drawing on the four-ring exerts pressure on the ring at the back of the tarn's neck, to which pressure it responds by descent. |
10 |
| 10 | 478 |
I pretended to take this seriously, and she grew bolder, even touching my hand, and then drawing back, as though in embarrassment, or confusion, as though in fear she had gone too far. |
10 |
| 12 | 137 |
And when the Tuchuk did close it was the quiva in flight, and the light, black temwood lance, thrusting and drawing back, and thrusting again, often against a foe on foot, fleeing, being ridden down. |
10 |
| 13 | 129 |
"Ah," I said, "I see you have thought of these things before, perhaps in your dreams, perhaps in the secrecy of your boudoir, perhaps in your imaginings, perhaps in putting the loop of a strap about your left wrist, and, suddenly, dramatically, drawing it tight". |
10 |
| 16 | 8 |
Similarly, it may wheel to the high right and the low right, and to the high left and low left, by drawing on the appropriate straps. |
10 |
| 16 | 10 |
Similar adjustments may be made by drawing on the one and two straps, on the three and four straps, and so on, about the ring. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
I pulled the tarn up, further, and then, briefly, held it almost stationary in the air, drawing back on all the straps simultaneously, the bird then hovering, wings beating fiercely. |
10 |
| 16 | 101 |
For example, I would occasionally have the men cry out, say, "one-strap" at the same time as drawing on the one strap. |
10 |
| 16 | 126 |
Let us suppose that a crossbowman on tarnback had twenty bolts, and, drawing and cocking the cable, and extracting the bolt, and placing it in the guide, and aiming, could fire one every twenty Ihn. |
10 |
| 18 | 23 |
Several understood their peril and abandoned their loot, and slaves, and, drawing their weapons, hurried toward the waiting birds. |
10 |
| 19 | 67 |
I heard men gasp, and sensed them drawing back. |
10 |
| 28 | 308 |
"Yes," I said, drawing back, wearily, "she was a false Ubara". |
10 |
| 38 | 662 |
Several docksmen freed the great ship from its moorings and, as the ropes were drawn upward, leaped to the ramp, and assisted in drawing it inboard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 179 |
She removed the binding fiber, drawing it loose, and then, slowly, carefully looping it, put it to her left, beside her, at her left knee. |
10 |
| 2 | 87 |
Then there was a rift in the fog, like the sudden, whispering drawing aside of a curtain, but briefly. |
10 |
| 3 | 948 |
Apparently, its well was still in use, as I saw a girl drawing water. |
10 |
| 3 | 1095 |
I think it was she whom I had seen drawing water, earlier. |
10 |
| 8 | 83 |
On the other hand, some, seen first beneath the surface, a detectable, sinuous, twisting, moving body, a foot or two below, would suddenly emerge, beside the ship, snouts raised above the surface, with an explosive exhalation of breath, and then a drawing inward of air, these come to open water abou... |
10 |
| 15 | 8 |
Tyrtaios, who was of the retinue of Lord Nishida, had a somewhat similar role, but, if he were latently more dangerous than Seremides, he did not have the temper, and the character of Seremides, which had much to do with intimidation, humiliation, and the drawing of blood. |
10 |
| 15 | 85 |
He tried to crawl toward the crutch but was kicked back, and then, the four of them, with belts, and ropes, apparently brought for the purpose, began to belabor him, fiercely, he at their feet, and Seremides began to whimper, and moan, and he folded his body on the deck, drawing up his knees, and co... |
10 |
| 21 | 509 |
I recalled her from Ar, in her ornate, sumptuous robes, one of which might have cost a laborer a year's wages, sometimes so casual about the hem, lifting it up a bit, as to examine the heel of a slipper, but exhibiting an ankle, or drawing back, against her, or smoothing, about her, a garment, in su... |
10 |
| 21 | 770 |
I began with the one farthest to the right, drawing her head back, by the hair, that I might examine her features in the light of the lamp. |
10 |
| 22 | 5 |
Some men were clambering up ropes, drawing themselves over the rail. |
10 |
| 22 | 150 |
I turned about, and saw the galley of Turgus, oars striking the water, drawing away. |
10 |
| 22 | 294 |
On the other hand, it was easy to read the movements before us, to see the torchlight on helmets and weapons, to hear, drawing closer, the rustle of steel, leather, and accouterments. |
10 |
| 23 | 58 |
Tereus, his fellow, who had found the body, drawing it from the water, in the half light of dawn, had howled with rage and demanded the apprehension and searching of the wretched cripple, Rutilius of Ar. |
10 |
| 37 | 780 |
In some dwellings, of a somewhat better sort, such as mine, the signature-knot fastening is combined with a latch or bolt arrangement, in which the drawing of a latch string, put through a small hole in the door, moves the latch or bolt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 577 |
It lifts the hip nicely, in such a way that the hip-waist curve is nicely emphasized, this drawing attention to the promising delights of her love cradle. |
10 |
| 8 | 1026 |
A lad, drawing a cart, had stopped for a time, to look on, but had then gone ahead. |
10 |
| 9 | 79 |
And it sounded as though she dismissed the bouts of the spinning wheel, the shaken box, the buying of chances, the drawing of cards. |
10 |
| 9 | 405 |
Could one hear a step so soft, the drawing of a cable, the laying of a quarrel in the guide? "You will live," came from the translator. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
"Thank you, Master," I said, drawing my ankles a bit further back, with a rustle of chain. |
10 |
| 16 | 156 |
I could see, over the wagon box, the broad, arched back of the plodding tharlarion which was drawing the wagon. |
10 |
| 16 | 164 |
I was at the back of the wagon bed, to which I had retreated, drawing back along the central bar, to distance myself from the Gorean scrutiny of the unexpected, offensive intruder. |
10 |
| 24 | 128 |
Trachinos and Akesinos backed away, a little, drawing their weapons. |
10 |
| 52 | 221 |
"But you came to understand, I trust," I said, "that she was not some sort of traitress to a species or world, a cognizant conspirator, a cooperating, malevolent, unscrupulous villainess?" "That sort of thing would have serious consequences," he said, "for a free woman, one supposes impalement, and,... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 47 |
On the other hand, some, the highly intelligent, or, perhaps, simply, the more cognitively alive, or aware, in the secret castles of their own mind, ask questions, wonder about alternatives, think for themselves, however secretly, as is prudential in any tyranny, one of edged weapons or edged ideolo... |
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| 6 | 421 |
He bent down, and, drawing the hood and cloak more closely about him, exited the tavern. |
10 |
| 8 | 378 |
Two men passed, drawing a dock cart, laden with weights of cheese, cradled in tur-pah. |
10 |
| 14 | 455 |
If the game seemed arrested, prolonged, or wearying, might not the issue of her possession be resolved easily, simply, by drawing a card or casting a die?" "And the slut would go to the winner". |
10 |
| 25 | 205 |
It was like a tiny, fiercely respiring lung, a small pump, greedy and blind, a living engine without eyes or awareness, jerking and throbbing, fastened in my flesh, drawing blood from my body. |
10 |
| 35 | 83 |
Hiza leaped up, drawing her knife, but Tuza faced her, her own knife drawn, and ready. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 21 |
It was a speculation that Priest-Kings and Kurii, weary of skirmishes, of indecision, of stalemates, of continual intrusions and probes, had proposed, if not agreed upon, a game of men, a drawing of cards or a casting of dice, on the outcome of which depended a coveted prize, the surface of a world. |
10 |
| 11 | 71 |
They strive for the perfections, the nuances, of shades, of colors, which only they can see, of notes which only they can hear, seeking the perfect drawing on silk, the tree that is living, the never-to-be forgotten cloud, the cascading tumble of sparkling water descending a hill, the perfect line o... |
10 |
| 15 | 61 |
"It is not simply a matter of drawing blood," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 79 |
"Behold," he said, drawing back the circular artifact, its rippled blades locked in place. |
10 |
| 19 | 240 |
Perhaps she hoped to stand a bit longer before us, until she shook her hair back, drawing the curtain away, that we might be dazzled. |
10 |
| 20 | 541 |
"There are no sons of the blood of the house of Yamada," said Lord Yamada, drawing from his sash the companion sword. |
10 |
| 32 | 104 |
Arashi winced, drawing back, his shirt bright with blood. |
10 |
| 50 | 233 |
"To this," I said, drawing the tanto from my sash. |
10 |
| 60 | 207 |
We fenced away sporadic, tentative attacks about us, drawing back to the bridge. |
10 |
| 60 | 321 |
With the drawing back of the men of Lord Akio, both ends of the bridge were now open. |
10 |
| 61 | 984 |
"Yes," he said, drawing back the switch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 212 |
She looked at me, startled, drawing back, and put her right hand to her reddened, doubtless stinging cheek. |
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| 8 | 54 |
Instantly, without even thinking, I shifted my weight to my right knee and extended my left leg, fully, drawing the tunic to the hip. |
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| 15 | 313 |
Should a holding device not be formed of sterner, weightier stuff? I then, again, heard the scratching, or drawing, on wood, as though it were being raked by heavy knives. |
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| 26 | 226 |
In the case of the other, we were drawing water, and I had not noticed her waiting. |
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| 30 | 365 |
He could play the body of a slave, producing a rapture of sensations, much as the master of the czehar or kalika can play his lovely instrument, drawing forth its laughter and tears, its moans and cries, its pensive contemplations, its incitements and ardors, its valleys and mountains, its depths an... |
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| 33 | 582 |
"It is too late," said Kurik, facing the beasts, drawing a dagger from his belt. |
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| 33 | 723 |
"Hurry," he said, drawing me with him, hurrying down the alley behind the building. |
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| 36 | 135 |
"Yes," he said, "such as drawing water at the fountain of Aiakos". |
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| 39 | 156 |
"Where is it?" I asked, drawing back, sick with fear. |
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| 45 | 168 |
The collation, or feast, was drawing to its close. |
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| 49 | 271 |
"I am distressed," said Decius Albus, drawing back his hand, as though in disappointment. |
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| 50 | 358 |
"I am a free woman," she said, drawing back, against the wall. |
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| 63 | 239 |
"We are drawing to the side," said Paula. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 98 |
"Here are the remains of the marked sheet," said he whom I took to be first amongst my abductors, at the same time drawing a goodly portion of the sheet from his pouch. |
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| 12 | 73 |
His hands then were at my yellow tunic, pressing against my hips, and then drawing it down, more tightly against my body. |
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| 24 | 119 |
As many shops were now closed, or closing, the shopsmen drawing the folding wooden screens across their shop fronts and chaining them in place, and many individuals were moving about, returning to homes or proceeding to one diversion or entertainment, or another, the street before the Lesser Al-ka M... |
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| 27 | 124 |
"No," said the first man, drawing his knife from its belt sheath, "let us attend to it first". |
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| 33 | 40 |
I had made no effort, either by gesticulation or drawing, to convey to Bruno of Torcadino what I had glimpsed on our first trip into the marshes. |
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| 34 | 113 |
"Yes, Master," I whispered, drawing the object down, over my head. |
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| 37 | 268 |
I felt Florian's sandaled foot against my fundament, pressing, and he gave me a vigorous push, and I, so impelled, half stumbled, half fell, into the canal boat which, even then, as Florian boarded, was drawing away from the walkway. |
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| 38 | 134 |
She, in fury, standing amongst the men, lost no time in drawing her robes up, again, about her throat, and rearranging her hooding and veils. |
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| 45 | 92 |
"The slave," said Vas of Anango, drawing his sword. |
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| 46 | 204 |
In a moment he had joined her, drawing shut the leather curtains behind him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 3 |
Following the sinking of the forward ship, or observation ship, by the maddened living island, which we commonly spoke of as the "Brigand Island," the corsair fleet was reduced to four vessels, two of which were now drawing close, one to attempt drawing alongside the port side of the Dorna, and the ... |
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| 12 | 9 |
In drawing up the false map, which I had arranged to have stolen in The Living Island, I had located the spurious Village of Flowing Gold on Daphna, the least populated of the Farther Islands, in a desolate area, where the raiders might be most easily isolated and discomfited, no civilized enclaves ... |
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| 16 | 57 |
"Ai!" cried Thurnock, drawing back. |
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| 16 | 299 |
"No," I said, drawing a coin from my pouch, "here, rather, is a silver tarsk". |
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| 21 | 133 |
I detected no sudden cast of apprehension in his eyes, no tiny drawing back of a body, no trembling of a hand. |
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| 41 | 54 |
"This says I can," I said, drawing my sword. |
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| 45 | 38 |
Most commonly a gambling takes place, with cards, marked stones, a drawing of straws, and such. |
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| 51 | 53 |
The sight of a galley's oars, such graceful, mighty levers, drawing, and lifting, in unison, water running from the wood in sparkling rivulets, is a beautiful sight, one that those of my former world had not seen in centuries. |
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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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| 63 | 87 |
Aktis was aboard the Dorna, drawing an oar. |
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