| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 7 |
You may remark my first name, and I assure you that it gave me quite as much trouble as it might you, particularly during my early school years, when it occasioned almost as many contests of physical skill as my red hair. |
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| 3 | 72 |
On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o... |
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| 3 | 135 |
"Ah!" he said, and closed his eyes very slowly and kept them shut for about a minute, during which time he was apparently subjecting the matter to the most intense scrutiny. |
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| 3 | 187 |
During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest. |
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| 3 | 204 |
I did not share his contempt, and occasionally during my rest periods had sought to improve my proficiency with them. |
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| 5 | 139 |
During the day I freed my tarn, to allow him to feed as he would. |
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| 5 | 142 |
During the first day, sheltered in the occasional knots of trees that dot the border plains of Ar, I slept, fed on my rations, and practiced with my weapons, trying to keep my muscles vital in spite of the stiffness that attends prolonged periods on tarnback. |
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| 16 | 47 |
The fate of Marlenus during these days was in doubt. |
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| 19 | 166 |
During this time Talena, though bound hand and foot, had struggled to her knees, and she watched us fight, her hair and the folds of her robe blown by the wind that whipped across the roof of the cylinder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 |
Yet, several months later, I understand that Tarl Cabot stumbled out of these same mountains, alive and well, but apparently under the stress of some emotional shock which had culminated in amnesia—at least for that period during which he had been missing. |
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| 17 | 50 |
"You will inform against no one," said a voice, which I recognized as that of the bull-like Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, he whose life I had spared in the arena during the Battles of Oxen. |
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| 23 | 101 |
The sorties of tarnsmen were more successful, but on the whole the slave bands, now almost regiments, moved only at night and concealed themselves during the day. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 |
It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate... |
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| 8 | 144 |
The cessation of attacks on Ko-ro-ba began during the time my father, Matthew Cabot, was Ubar of that city. |
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| 11 | 35 |
The translator, incidentally, supposing it to be turned on, would provide only the translation of what was said, and the words, unless the volume control was manipulated during the message, would always occur at the same sound level. |
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| 12 | 52 |
Misk during all this time had not moved but had remained standing in that incredible fixity perhaps unique to Priest-Kings. |
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| 17 | 54 |
If these tactics were calculated to have some effect on Sarm, I think they most miserably failed of that effect, for during the entire time I took, which was considerable, he stood motionless in the room, save for an occasional movement of his antennae, frozen in that maddening, immobile but alert p... |
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| 21 | 59 |
The strange procession to and fro up the walls and across the ceiling to Priest-Kings and back down to the floor continued for more than an hour, during which time the Muls who stood below, some of them having returned with a full vessel, never ceased to chant their mournful paean. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 72 |
During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik dangling from the Tur... |
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| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
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| 8 | 53 |
The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c... |
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| 9 | 373 |
Indeed, at certain times during the evening, I had seen her casting furtive glances at it. |
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| 12 | 25 |
And yet how could I succeed? I resolved that the best time to steal the egg would be during the days of the Omen Taking. |
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| 13 | 203 |
The "w" sound, incidentally, is a complex one, and, like many such sounds, is best learned only during the brief years of childhood when a child's linguistic flexibility is at its maximum—those years in which it might be trained to speak any of the languages of man with native fluency—... |
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| 14 | 6 |
During the day the rapid movements of these individually maneuverable units are dictated by bosk horn and movements of the standards; at night by the bosk horns and the war lanterns slung on high poles carried by riders. |
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| 15 | 63 |
When he returned that night from the wagon of Kutaituchik to his own wagon he strode angrily to the sleen cage where he had confined Aphris with Elizabeth during the putative attack. |
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| 16 | 11 |
"Are the girls who attend to the baths during the day as beautiful as it is said?" I inquired. |
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| 16 | 13 |
"Perhaps," he said, "I never saw them—during the day I and the other male slaves were chained in a darkened chamber that we might sleep and preserve our strength for the work of the night". |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
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| 19 | 22 |
Undoubtedly tarnsmen, mounted, would come from time to time during the night to the House of Saphrar. |
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| 21 | 45 |
I was hardly questioned by guards at the gates of Turia, for the city is a commercial oasis in the plains and during a year hundreds of caravans, not to mention thousands of small merchants, on foot or with a single tharlarion wagon, enter her gates. |
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| 21 | 157 |
During this time I climbed out a back window facing another building, and hoisted myself to the flat roof of the shop, returning by the same route when they had gone. |
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| 21 | 173 |
During times of danger or siege, of course, none but military personnel or civilian defenders are permitted on the walls. |
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| 22 | 138 |
During the meal, from time to time, messengers, from various parts of the city, and even from the distant wagons, hours away by racing kaiila, would approach Kamchak, speak with him and hastily depart. |
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| 23 | 21 |
He did not, on the other hand, approve of the fact that the raid had taken place during the Omen Year, which is a time of general truce among the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 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. |
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| 24 | 22 |
During the day and night, taking hours of sleep where we could, sometimes on the rugs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, sometimes on the stones of the streets by watch fires, Harold and I, at Kamchak's orders, performed a variety of tasks, sometimes joining in the fighting, sometimes acting as liaiso... |
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| 25 | 928 |
And from time to time, during the night, each of the girls, Vella of Gor and the little barbarian, Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, begged, and were permitted, to serve the pleasure of their master. |
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| 27 | 68 |
Shortly before Albrecht and Tenchika had been there, and Dina of Turia with her two Tuchuk guards, who had kept her safe from harm during the fall of the city. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
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| 16 | 35 |
I had, during the Waiting Hand, cornered Caprus, angered, demanding that he now turn over what he had, that it would be enough, and that we would fly during En'Kara. |
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| 4 | 230 |
During this time, since Elizabeth was nominally of the staff of Caprus, we could surely find time to be about our work, for which purpose we had arranged to enter the House of Cernus. |
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| 6 | 79 |
Each of the girls considered eligible for this service, at one time or another during the evening, will approach the guest and offer him wine. |
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| 6 | 100 |
It is less common to bind a girl during the day because then there is much work to be done. |
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| 12 | 17 |
During the time of the race the hawkers of candies, sweetmeats, Kal-da, pastries and paga were quiet, standing with their goods in the aisles watching. |
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| 13 | 222 |
There had apparently been no tarns near the central cylinder during the time, and, according to report, no strangers were known to have entered the cylinder. |
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| 13 | 227 |
Mip, for some reason, seemed to like me, and he spoke much during the evening, as we drank together, of the factions, of the organizations of the races, of the training of tarns and riders, of the hopes of the greens and the other factions, of given riders and given birds. |
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| 15 | 76 |
During the season of the races I had often attended them, and, on several occasions, had met the small Tarn Keeper Mip afterwards, with whom I had occasionally sat table. |
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| 15 | 117 |
The bracelets and chain on her wrists, during this time, save in dressing and in the bath, were never removed. |
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| 15 | 118 |
And during such times, before the bracelets and chain were removed, a steel slave anklet would be placed on her left ankle, in order that there be no time that her body would be completely free of slave steel; this anklet she wore even in her bath; it would be removed only after the bracelets and ch... |
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| 15 | 122 |
After two months of such treatment, Cernus, perhaps because he wearied of her body, or because he felt she was now ready, now at the height of her hatreds and miseries, ordered her sent to Tor, where, I heard, she was collared, marked and publicly sold during the ninth passage hand, that preceding t... |
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| 15 | 127 |
The time, during this period, seemed to me to pass with incredible slowness. |
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| 15 | 149 |
I recalled a girl once known, named Sana, who had been sold in Ar during those days, who had become the consort of Kazrak, once Administrator of Ar. |
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| 15 | 176 |
During this time they wore only their collars, and in the case of Virginia and Phyllis the slave anklets on their left ankles. |
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| 15 | 197 |
During this time Virginia would usually remain silent, but she would occasionally volunteer a fact, a precedent or event which would support Flaminius' position, much to the anger of Phyllis. |
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| 15 | 216 |
During the next weeks and months the lessons of Flaminius were never again touched upon, except occasionally, for her amusement, by Sura, who would suddenly cry to one of the girls, at the same time brandishing the slave goad, such a query as "What do you want more than anything?" to which the girl,... |
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| 15 | 358 |
My own duties during these months in the House of Cernus remained light, consisting of little more than accompanying Cernus on infrequent occasions on which he left the house, a member of his guard; in the city Cernus traveled in a sedan chair, borne on the shoulders of eight men. |
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| 15 | 368 |
I gather his planning must have been successful, for sales generally in Ar during the first two months of the New Year were down somewhat from seasonal norms, as though Ar's gold for slaves was being held somewhat, in anticipation of the Love Feast. |
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| 16 | 17 |
The girls had finished their training during the Twelfth Passage Hand. |
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| 16 | 18 |
Little then remained for them except to review their lessons, eat and sleep well, and be in prime condition for their sale in the late summer, during the Fifth Passage Hand, on the Love Feast. |
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| 16 | 22 |
During the days of the Waiting Hand the streets are almost deserted, and in the Houses there is much fasting, and little conversation, and no song. |
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| 16 | 23 |
Rations even in the House of Cernus were halved during this period. |
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| 16 | 206 |
I did know, further, that a tarncot for the Steels had been established during Se'Var and riders had been hired. |
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| 16 | 213 |
Not only is it expensive to buy or rent tarncots, acquire racing tarns, hire riders and Tarn Keepers, and the entire staff required to maintain a faction organization, but there is a large track fee for new factions, during the first two probation years. |
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| 18 | 327 |
I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but, here and there, I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from on... |
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| 19 | 93 |
During this time I was conscious of noise, the movement of men, the filling of the amphitheater. |
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| 19 | 102 |
"Do not raise your voice during the sale," said Cernus, "or your tongue will be cut out". |
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| 19 | 167 |
Occasionally, during the evening, the auctioneer had dropped certain disparaging remarks about barbarians, comparing some of the beauties on the block to such. |
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| 20 | 462 |
"Surely you recognize," asked Scormus, curiously, looking up at him, "the Two Spearman variation of the Ubar's Scribe's Defense, developed by Miles of Cos and first used in the tournament at Tor held during the Second Passage Hand of the third year of the Administrator Heraklites?" Neither Cernus no... |
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| 22 | 329 |
"Menicius of Port Kar," I said, "was in the city of Ko-ro-ba during En'Var of last year". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 |
It was late in the year to cut rence, but some quantities of the rence are cut during the fall and winter and stored on covered rence rafts until the spring. |
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| 5 | 143 |
During most of the feast I had been used in the serving, particularly the serving of the girls who had competed for me, one of whom had won me, which one I did not know. |
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| 7 | 71 |
There was some blood on it, from the blow I had received during the raid. |
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| 8 | 103 |
The barges, during the afternoon, had been eased into a closer line, the stem of one lying abeam of the stern of the next, being made fast there by lines. |
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| 9 | 270 |
I do not recall as clearly as I might what occurred during that night, but certain things have remained with me. |
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| 15 | 119 |
For another thing, the four Ubars, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel and Sullius Maximus, their powers considerably reduced during the time of the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius, had apparently resigned themselves to the supremacy of the Council in the city. |
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| 15 | 140 |
The men ordered him away again, that he might fetch yet another roasted tarsk from the spit which he had been turning slowly over the coal fires during the afternoon. |
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| 15 | 263 |
There was a clear space before my great table, in which, from time to time, during the evening, entertainments had been provided, simple things, which even I upon occasion found amusing, fire eaters and sword swallowers, jugglers and acrobats, and magicians, and slaves, riding on one another's shoul... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 |
He was looking at me quizzically, and once, during an intermission, seemed on the point of speaking. |
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| 8 | 664 |
During this time his beast slept, or seemed to sleep, behind him, curled on the grass, a guard holding its chain. |
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| 10 | 365 |
"I confirmed your identity at the compound," said he, "during the performance of the mountebank, and, of course, surveyed the entire area and planned, in effect, the raid of the panther girls". |
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| 11 | 157 |
We trained, during the day, commonly in private facilities, under the tutelage of pleasure slaves, but, in the evening, we would be returned to the long tiers of cages in the public pens. |
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| 15 | 180 |
Often during the day, and sometimes for days at a time, most of the tarnsmen of Rask of Treve would be aflight. |
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| 16 | 17 |
I recalled that I had sung much during the day, and had been happy in my work. |
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| 16 | 40 |
As I could, during the day, I had made it my business to pass near the tent of Rask of Treve, that he might see me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 102 |
During her beating, and afterward, Marlenus and I had been engaged in playing the game. |
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| 18 | 167 |
* * * * During the afternoon I observed the slave girls, tied in pairs, by the neck, each pair under the guard of a man of Tyros and a panther girl, gathering driftwood and, from the forest's edge, broken branches. |
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| 18 | 344 |
We had trekked during the night and into the morning. |
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| 18 | 447 |
Gorean galleys do not commonly sail at night, and, often, put into shore during darkness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 56 |
I surmised, as is common in Torvaldsland, most of the cattle had been driven higher into the mountains, to graze wild during the summer, to be fetched back to the shed only in the fall, with the coming of winter. |
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| 13 | 192 |
"Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl. |
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| 13 | 213 |
During the meal, for Svein was a rich man, there had been acrobats, and jugglers and minstrels. |
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| 17 | 105 |
During this time, a hundred pasangs to the south, Svein Blue Tooth had set the rallying point of the men of Torvaldsland. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 55 |
"She will dance from time to time during the evening". |
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| 1 | 449 |
One does not, alone, without water, move on the sands during the day. |
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| 4 | 96 |
The movements of the men of the Tahari are, during the hours of heat, usually slow, almost languid or graceful. |
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| 4 | 404 |
Many nomads build a small kaiila-dung fire in the tent, to smolder during the night, to warm their feet. |
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| 4 | 500 |
Water, more than a century ago, had been struck there, during the fourth passage hand, in the third year of the Administrator Shiraz, then Bey of Tor. |
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| 5 | 287 |
Dew, incidentally, is quite common in the Tahari, condensing on the stones during the chilly nights. |
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| 8 | 27 |
The search parties would recuperate during the afternoon and night, I had learned. |
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| 11 | 82 |
During the day one can scarcely look upon it, for the heats and reflections. |
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| 11 | 83 |
During the day it seems menacing, whitish, shimmering with heat, blinding, burning; men must shade their eyes; some go blind; women and children remain within the tents; but, with the coming of the evening, with the departure of the sun, there is a softening, a gentling, of this vast, rocky harsh te... |
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| 11 | 103 |
During the day they do not venture from the shade of the tents. |
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| 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. |
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| 14 | 199 |
These hoods, used on the march to Klima, have a tiny flap, closed and tied with a leather string, at the mouth, through which, several times during the day, opened, the spike of a water bag, carried by kaiila, is thrust. |
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| 14 | 202 |
It was generally dried fruit and bread, and a bit of salt, to compensate for the salt loss during the day's march, consequent on perspiration. |
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| 17 | 18 |
He who had been steersman with us yesterday, during the attack of the Old One, held the sweep that governed the movements of that open, sluggish platform which constituted our vessel. |
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| 21 | 260 |
Many times during the night he fell. |
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| 21 | 271 |
At times during the day, when I lay in the shadow of his body, I thought him dead but, putting my ear to his chest, I detected the beating of the large heart, slow, irregular, sporadic, fitful, like the clenching of a weakening fist. |
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| 22 | 115 |
I slept during the late afternoon, and then, when it was night, and cool, the kaiila fed from their pack supplies, and watered from the stores at the ship, I set forth. |
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| 26 | 261 |
First, she had called out his name at Red Rock, among the flames, during the raid of Tarna's men; secondly, she had fled from his riders, to return to Red Rock, to seek him out, when she had been captured; third, she had, that very evening, upon discovering who might be her master, cried out his nam... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 19 |
During this time he had not spoken to me, and I had followed him at the position and distance which he had indicated. |
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| 3 | 51 |
Then a long-legged dream of a girl, Eta, had stood, timidly, near the entrance to the camp, where thorn brush had been wedged aside, during the daylight hours. |
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| 3 | 146 |
There were sixteen men in the camp, including my captor, though seldom, during the day, were there more than four or five within its confines. |
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| 4 | 27 |
Once during the night had he laughed, softly, richly, holding me helplessly, cruelly, to him, looking down into my eyes, deeply pleased with his ownership of me. |
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| 5 | 16 |
In certain cities, in connection with the free companionship, the betrothed or pledged beauty may wear eight veils, several of which are ritualistically removed during various phases of the ceremony of companionship; the final veils, and robes, of course, are removed in private by the male who, foll... |
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| 5 | 18 |
In some cities the girl is unveiled, though not disrobed, of course, during the public ceremony. |
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| 8 | 159 |
They usually take place, as would be expected, in the spring, during the mating season. |
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| 8 | 160 |
Male sleen, in particular, can be extremely restless and vicious during this period. |
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| 9 | 2234 |
During the day you will feed on what men will throw you. |
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| 16 | 24 |
During the day the tarpaulins are usually laid aside, unless they are tied over the cages to discipline the girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 343 |
It was said the deep keel would slow the ship; that the two masts would take too long to remove in the case of naval combat; that so large an oar would constitute an impractical lever, that it could not be grasped by a man, that the oarsmen could not all sit during the stroke, that if more than one ... |
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| 3 | 299 |
During En'Kara, at the Fair, many of the distinctions among men and castes are forgotten. |
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| 3 | 1137 |
It eats bird's eggs and preys on the leem, a small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter. |
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| 9 | 219 |
Cavities are rare in Goreans, incidentally, because of their simple diet and the general absence of cruel emotional stress, with its physiological and chemical consequences, particularly during puberty. |
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| 12 | 269 |
Their hair is worn loose, interestingly, out of doors, only during their menstrual period. |
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| 12 | 371 |
During the summer plants and flowers will grow almost anywhere in the arctic except on or near the glacial ice. |
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| 15 | 724 |
It would also be proclaimed, of course, in such a situation, along with her weight and collar size, and such things, from the block, during her sale". |
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| 23 | 258 |
"But, too," I said, "tarns, like most birds, will fly in the arctic only during those seasons". |
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| 23 | 482 |
There was snow on his parka, for, apparently, snow had begun to fall outside during the feast. |
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| 34 | 18 |
It had been kept stabilized in its position gyroscopically during the summer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 336 |
The girls relieved themselves during the day, when ordered to do so. |
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| 6 | 567 |
During the rains of the rainy season seeds could be torn out of the ground and fields half washed away. |
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| 6 | 589 |
There are often two major rains during the day, in the late afternoon, when the warm air has reached its precipitation point, and, again, in the late evening, when, due to the turning of the planet, the surface and upper atmosphere, darkened, cools. |
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| 11 | 144 |
They can be closed by a rod from the floor, in the case of rain or during the swarming seasons for various insects. |
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| 13 | 519 |
During the night I had unchained her, save for the steel and chain on her left ankle. |
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| 13 | 523 |
During the night I had taught her some small things, some techniques, little, simple things, for her mouth and hands, and breasts, her hair, her lips, and feet, and tongue. |
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| 13 | 740 |
"Similarly, for the same month," I said, "repeat it to yourself many times during the day". |
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| 14 | 424 |
We had then eaten, from foods which she had, during my rest, I having given her a few coins, purchased in Schendi. |
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| 24 | 61 |
The blue grunt is particularly dangerous during the daylight hours preceding its mating periods, when it schools. |
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| 24 | 63 |
During the daylight hours preceding such a moon, as the restless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path. |
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| 24 | 64 |
During the hours of mating, however, interestingly, one can move and swim among them untouched. |
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| 26 | 11 |
She had tried to speak to me at various times during the past few days, but I had responded little to her, usually confining my responses to curt utterances. |
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| 29 | 221 |
Their capacity to leave the water, in certain small streams, during dry seasons, enables them to seek other streams, still flowing, or pools. |
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| 32 | 157 |
There are commonly two large rains during the day, one in the late afternoon and the other late in the evening, usually an Ahn or so before midnight, or the twentieth hour. |
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| 32 | 162 |
Even during the heat of the day it is hard to find suitable fuel. |
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| 32 | 167 |
Yet, at night, perhaps one is even more aware of the presence and vastness of the jungle than during the day. |
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| 34 | 766 |
I had used her several times during the night. |
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| 47 | 67 |
We had further encouraged the column during the day with additional blood and flesh, taken from further kills made by the small men with their nets and spears. |
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| 53 | 513 |
She and the other girls, during the action, had, one by one, been caught by Kurii and put in throat coffle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 356 |
They would not now be seen during the visit of the guests unless the guests should request to look upon them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 101 |
During daylight hours a small amount of light can filter through such a window and then fall through a matching, somewhat lower window, to the interior of the holding area. |
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| 27 | 32 |
It would have been he who would have, to protect himself during the search of the tavern of Cleanthes, by the guardsmen of Ar's Station, placed the topaz in my pouch. |
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| 28 | 354 |
Each male has a naked slave girl who is in attendance on him during the supper. |
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| 31 | 35 |
It can be hot during the day. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 209 |
This may be because such garments have been associated with Earth females brought to Gorean slave markets, garments which are sometimes permitted the girls during the early portions of their sale, or, perhaps, independently, because they are soft, sensual and slavelike. |
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| 12 | 56 |
The Voskjard, I suspected, during the battle, would have contented himself with reigning in his holding. |
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| 20 | 1276 |
"Your gift to me, your performance, during the course of the black wine," I said, "was very beautiful". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
The coals in the brazier to the left of the great stone couch had burned out during the night. |
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| 1 | 660 |
The larger of the two creatures, during this exchange, was watching me. |
10 |
| 1 | 895 |
"That he, earlier, during the day, saw sign of the medicine helper, but only in the dream interpreted it". |
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| 6 | 37 |
It is speculated that some of these smaller herds may be subherds of larger herds, separating from the major herd at certain points during the season, depending on such conditions as forage and water. |
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| 8 | 112 |
During the course of the evening, from time to time, at irregular intervals, some fifteen or sixteen girls had been offered, in open bidding, to the crowd. |
10 |
| 8 | 143 |
Several of the girls I had seen auctioned off during the course of the evening, incidentally, had been quite extraordinary. |
10 |
| 8 | 145 |
Some of the girls auctioned earlier had also been presented to the buyers initially clothed, to one extent or the other, their clothing then being removed, sometimes sardonically and ceremoniously, during the course of their sale. |
10 |
| 8 | 256 |
I did not think Ram Seibar would wish girls soliciting in his hall, particularly during the course of a sale. |
10 |
| 8 | 496 |
I had noted, during the course of the evening, that more than one of the attendants about, and the auctioneer, too, had noted the presence of the two tavern girls in the crowd. |
10 |
| 9 | 9 |
It is of this height, apparently, that it may be seen above the snow, during the winter moons, such as Waniyetuwi and Wanicokanwi. |
10 |
| 14 | 1350 |
"It is the moon during which the Bento herd enters the country of the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 16 | 43 |
The attack, then, it seemed clear, would have occurred in the morning, probably during, or shortly after, the hitching up of the draft tharlarion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 309 |
These things were given to them as gifts by the Kaiila, in appreciation for the services rendered during the time of the war with the Yellow Knives and soldiers, for providing us with a tarn base within striking distance of Council Rock, and sheltering and supporting our men during the period of the... |
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| 3 | 46 |
"At this time, during the festivals, he is in charge of the whole camp. |
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| 5 | 201 |
Too, as a Sleen Soldier, on the day of a hunt, during their tenure of power, he had matters much more important to attend to than the assuagement of a female's offended vanity. |
10 |
| 7 | 166 |
"During the beating itself, before you were alone, writhing with the pain, what did you find most shameful, most humiliating?" "Must I answer?" she asked. |
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| 7 | 640 |
During the summer festivals, and the time of the great dances, warfare and raiding is commonly suspended on the prairie. |
10 |
| 7 | 642 |
The celebrating tribe, during its own festival period, naturally refrains from belligerent activities. |
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| 7 | 643 |
Similarly, interestingly, enemy tribes, during this period, perhaps in virtue of an implicit bargain, that their own festival times be respected, do not attack them, or raid them. |
10 |
| 7 | 649 |
For example, in ancient Greece the times of certain games, such as the Olympic games, constituted a truce period during which it was customary to suspend the internecine wars of competitive cities. |
10 |
| 7 | 651 |
Two additional reasons militating against bellicosity and martial aggression during the summer festivals might be mentioned. |
10 |
| 7 | 654 |
Secondly, it is supposedly bad medicine to attack during the times of festivals. |
10 |
| 11 | 85 |
"I think he will free you during the feasts and giveaways," said Cuwignaka, smiling. |
10 |
| 13 | 178 |
I had noticed, during the meal, how she had taken food from his fingers, biting and sucking, and kissing, furtively at them. |
10 |
| 13 | 179 |
During the course of the meal she had been becoming more and more excited. |
10 |
| 13 | 191 |
During the feasting times, those generally correlated with the coming of the kailiauk, the locations of the great camps of the various tribes were well known. |
10 |
| 47 | 160 |
It is not impossible to breathe during such a descent, particularly after the first moments, even in the rushing wind, but it is generally recommended that one do not do so. |
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| 54 | 171 |
During their time with the Sleen apparently Max and Kyle Hobart, unable to help themselves any longer, and finding the girls staked out, naked, in a desolate place, presumably as punishment, perhaps for some minor infraction, or some supposed lack of total pleasingness, had raped them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 404 |
"Do you wish to leave now?" Drusus Rencius had asked once, during an interval between passages. |
10 |
| 15 | 281 |
Such girls are sometimes used as beggars, distributed about a city by wagon in the morning, and then picked up again at night, with whatever earnings they may have managed to obtain during the day. |
10 |
| 16 | 125 |
It might be a wagon, or a set of wagons, which had pulled to the side of the road during the storm and now, with the passing of the storm, had resumed its journey. |
10 |
| 20 | 80 |
During the day, when the wagon was moving, my ankles were not shackled. |
10 |
| 20 | 165 |
During the day my wrists were usually chained, often even to the wagon. |
10 |
| 26 | 305 |
At various times during the supper I had tried to be attentive to one man or another, and as a slave, and as my belly had seemed to beg, but, each time, I had been brushed away or dismissed. |
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| 29 | 27 |
Now, during the day, we were generally free to wander about the city as we might please. |
10 |
| 31 | 766 |
"During most of the day," he said, "you will have the run of the palace and the grounds". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 161 |
One form of tagging is fairly common, however, during sales, and that is tagging during auctions, or in preparation for large sales, as when the girls are in exhibition cages, before being brought, usually serially, later, before the public. |
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| 1 | 73 |
During this time few ventures are embarked upon, and little or no business is conducted. |
10 |
| 1 | 74 |
During this time most Goreans remain within their houses. |
10 |
| 1 | 92 |
Who knows what things, visible or invisible, might be abroad during that terrible time? In many Gorean cities, accordingly, the Twelfth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the Waiting Hand, that time to which few Goreans look forward with eagerness, is carnival. |
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| 1 | 174 |
Also, during these seasons, of course, occur the great markets associated with the fairs of En'Kara and En'Var. |
10 |
| 2 | 5 |
Sometimes free women, during the time of carnival, masquerading as slaves, run naked about the streets. |
10 |
| 2 | 124 |
I myself had voted in the council for the checking of weapons before entering the piazza during carnival. |
10 |
| 2 | 309 |
He did not wish, surely, to sell her off the stage during a performance. |
10 |
| 7 | 53 |
I had then conducted Boots to the area where the agents of Samos had his hundred girls on sale, sent out from Port Kar for vending during the Fair of En'Kara. |
10 |
| 16 | 790 |
They were knotted at the left hips, so that the opening was at their left thighs, where, on the thighs, could be seen the circular, adhesive patches they had worn during the play, those patches which, in the conventions of the theater, informed the audience that they were to be taken, for the purpos... |
10 |
| 16 | 1075 |
These women, during the course of a victory feast, are caressed by whips, or beaten by them, until they beg, though free, to serve the tables as slaves. |
10 |
| 18 | 34 |
The fellow who had stood near to Bina during the match, he who would have cut her throat if she had erred in her behavior, speaking before the conclusion of the game, now cut her wrists free of the thongs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 173 |
Too, many such companies are, for most practical purposes, disbanded during the winter, the captain retaining then only a cadre of officers and professionals. |
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| 15 | 794 |
To be sure, developments might occur during the night, events to which pertinent references might be judiciously included. |
10 |
| 21 | 263 |
They are called that, I suppose, because they are open to wagon traffic during the day, and wide enough for two wagons to pass on them. |
10 |
| 21 | 264 |
On many streets in Ar wagon traffic is discouraged during daylight hours because of their narrowness. |
10 |
| 22 | 125 |
There is too much noise and movement for them during the day". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 43 |
We are almost never permitted to speak to one another, and we are never, at all, permitted to speak during the feeding period. |
10 |
| 6 | 282 |
That had occurred during, and I had kept them that way afterwards, the beating on the wagon of the woman, and her screaming. |
10 |
| 6 | 492 |
But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were chained about a m... |
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| 7 | 10 |
The silk is often removed during bad weather. |
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| 8 | 64 |
During the morning and afternoon of the day before, when we had first arrived in Market of Semris, after we were caged, other wagons had arrived, and unloaded their own fair occupants, they, too, in short order, to be caged. |
10 |
| 8 | 368 |
These others, I gathered, had been brought in during the day by wagons, or had perhaps been marched over from some other facility. |
10 |
| 9 | 570 |
Too, the greatest danger of those things is during the early moments, or the final moments, of a sale. |
10 |
| 11 | 1680 |
"You will spend your time during the day," he said, "as before, in the kitchen". |
10 |
| 13 | 907 |
I did not wish to be in danger of drowsing off during the making of love. |
10 |
| 16 | 136 |
She then stood there among them, in a brief tunic of opaque slave silk, such as might be worn during the day. |
10 |
| 17 | 11 |
To be sure, it is crowded in different ways at different times, during the day. |
10 |
| 17 | 49 |
These, too, often meet them outside the house in the morning, and sometimes accompany them about, during the day. |
10 |
| 17 | 53 |
The arrangements for those rentals are usually made during the day, conveniently in the square, or in its vicinity. |
10 |
| 17 | 248 |
My master had taken some out, from time to time, during the afternoon. |
10 |
| 24 | 30 |
During the day I was not allowed to drink from the bag, but only from the tank. |
10 |
| 24 | 34 |
Sometimes the guards, during such times of denying the men drink, would help themselves to the water before them, sometimes spitting it out, or pouring it over their heads and bodies. |
10 |
| 25 | 98 |
Too, to my irritation, he made me work hard during the day, precisely as though I might have been a house slave. |
10 |
| 28 | 266 |
I noticed again, oddly enough, yet interestingly, how one could see the stars from this place, even during the afternoon. |
10 |
| 29 | 58 |
We made little noise during this ascent, terrifying though it might have been, for we had coiled and placed binding fiber in our mouths, this in accordance with instructions called down to us from above. |
10 |
| 29 | 1104 |
He was the fellow who had looked at me, before, during the dealing. |
10 |
| 31 | 58 |
From time to time during the meal Tupita had cast a glance at me, smiling, as though she had some secret. |
10 |
| 31 | 351 |
"Did you not speak at various times during the evening," he asked, "without having requested permission?" "Yes, Master," she said. |
10 |
| 34 | 678 |
During the day, and in her services, let her scarcely be seen, let alone heard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 602 |
During the day, when my legs are open, he even rents me out to strangers for a tarsk bit!" "Does his companion grow more attentive and concerned?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 2 |
"Stir up the fire!" It was early, but most of the fellows who had been sleeping on the floor of the baths during the night had now taken their leave. |
10 |
| 8 | 39 |
It had not been opened to facilitate my departure, of course, but, as a matter of course, during the day, for the convenience of new arrivals. |
10 |
| 8 | 191 |
During the night she had perhaps realized what she had done. |
10 |
| 9 | 142 |
Also, it did not seem to me practical to try to enter the city during the daylight hours from the harbor side because of the besiegers. |
10 |
| 9 | 143 |
Similarly, during the night hours, it seemed the defenders might be unusually alert. |
10 |
| 22 | 57 |
For a time during the evening, both had been at the ring. |
10 |
| 24 | 758 |
All Goreans, on the other hand, are expected to make at least one pilgrimage during their lifetime to the Sardar Mountains, taken to be the home of Priest-Kings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 351 |
This hatred, which seems almost pathological, is doubtless the consequence of his experiences in war, and particularly during the siege of Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 1 | 1130 |
It is difficult enough to find a fellow in such a place during the day. |
10 |
| 3 | 49 |
It was also nice to be able to move openly, during the day. |
10 |
| 10 | 9 |
How much can one of those creatures, even given the hideous distention of its digestive cavity, hold? Yet there had been many during the day. |
10 |
| 11 | 14 |
Sometimes during the day, out of the water, or in shallow water, I was permitted to wear them before my body, usually fastened closely to my belly with a strap. |
10 |
| 13 | 120 |
The men of Ar, of course, were moving during the day, and in numbers. |
10 |
| 13 | 244 |
"It is by means of such cries that rencers communicate during the day," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 25 |
It was not difficult to overhear these things, at night, and during the march. |
10 |
| 17 | 271 |
I did not fear rencers during the time of the migration of the flies, which would presumably, in its several waves, take place intermittently, perhaps being completed in so short a time as a few Ahn, perhaps lasting as long as a few days. |
10 |
| 18 | 43 |
Rencers sometimes even leave their huts during the final waves, racing overhead like scattered clouds. |
10 |
| 19 | 889 |
Surely she would remember that the men of Ar were to make me presentable before I appeared before her, during our little interview, that which had occurred on another island, several days ago, that in which I had learned she was a Cosian spy, that in which I had first noted that her ankles would loo... |
10 |
| 22 | 29 |
For five days, as I had promised, I had tied her during our sleep periods, when not using her, in the same fashion in which I had been kept by the men of Ar, in effect, staked out, foot and neck, supine and helpless. |
10 |
| 28 | 3 |
There will be no stirring from them during the day, and little or no motion within them. |
10 |
| 29 | 15 |
In our camps during the day, we had twice heard the same signal, alerting us to the passage of someone, in both cases, rencers, going about their business, fishing, gathering rence. |
10 |
| 36 | 106 |
They are sometimes allowed in the camps, during certain Ahn, to deliver or sell goods. |
10 |
| 37 | 70 |
It is not unusual to forbid a rent slave, during her use times, when chained at a stake, to rise even to her knees. |
10 |
| 42 | 93 |
"And what were you doing during that time?" I asked. |
10 |
| 46 | 87 |
I could get its fence, about which wholesalers would crowd during sales, bidding on the lots displayed below, in the stock pit, at my back. |
10 |
| 46 | 92 |
Apparently he had left several on duty during the night, or at least posted in the vicinity. |
10 |
| 48 | 575 |
Indeed, in time I expected we could travel with impunity, as vagabonds, toward Ar, presumably even on the Viktel Aria, during daylight hours. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 61 |
During the siege of Ar's Station its Home Stone had been smuggled out of the city and secretly transported to Ar for safekeeping. |
10 |
| 2 | 104 |
Given the anger in Ar at Ar's Station, and the fact that the Home Stone of Ar's Station had been sent to Ar, supposedly, according to the rumors, not for safekeeping, given the imminent danger in the city, but in a gesture of defiance and repudiation, attendant upon the supposed acceptance of a new ... |
10 |
| 8 | 13 |
Similarly, because of considerations such as congestion and noise, and perhaps aesthetics, which Goreans take seriously, wagons are not permitted on certain streets, and on many streets only during certain hours, usually at night or in the early morning. |
10 |
| 8 | 396 |
Too, during intermissions Marcus knelt her at his feet, with her head down. |
10 |
| 11 | 329 |
And during the day we had normal duties, guarding portals and such, or, when assigned them, rounds, usually in public areas, as today, where the inscribing of the delka would be more likely to be noticed. |
10 |
| 14 | 756 |
"Like the Cosian propagandists, infiltrators and spies during the war?" he asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 788 |
I wish to be choiceless, to be overpowered and made to serve!" "Milo must have exhibited some interest in you, or seemed to exhibit some interest in you," I said, "if only during the period of your seduction, when you were being trapped". |
10 |
| 20 | 603 |
If he comes back during the same watch, as he presumably will, the guards will remember him, and expect a show". |
10 |
| 20 | 771 |
This can occur to them while they are on their feet, but more often it will occur during floor movements or when they are on their knees". |
10 |
| 23 | 297 |
Certainly it would be embarrassing, if not absolutely dangerous, to have the substitution discovered during, or at the end of, one's own watch". |
10 |
| 27 | 508 |
"I had gathered during the events of the morning," he said, "that it had not been written by Talena of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
It was during the heat of the day. |
10 |
| 7 | 17 |
I was surprised, and frightened, when I had heard the voices, for it was unusual to hear such during the rest period. |
10 |
| 7 | 947 |
"During the rest period?" "Yes". |
10 |
| 7 | 948 |
"What were you doing in the garden during the rest period?" asked Aynur. |
10 |
| 7 | 952 |
It was not forbidden to be in the garden during the rest period. |
10 |
| 8 | 885 |
It was chilly now in the cell, as doubtless it would be in these mountains, at night, even during a summer. |
10 |
| 11 | 749 |
I had not had to denounce myself before or during the beating. |
10 |
| 13 | 1175 |
Cages of this sort are usually used temporarily, as during daylight hours in enclosed courts, and such, when slavers' men are about. |
10 |
| 13 | 1243 |
I do not think she awakened during this. |
10 |
| 13 | 1368 |
One knows, of course, that one's presence in the kennel is likely to be verified during the night. |
10 |
| 14 | 1437 |
He must then, I surmised, have been reasonably close, in the crowd, during the incident with the free woman. |
10 |
| 16 | 214 |
One does not see the moons in the pens, or in the depths, and, if they were visible, I had not noticed them during the light of the day. |
10 |
| 16 | 570 |
But I had been restless during the night, it had almost been as though I had been waiting for him, hoping for him. |
10 |
| 24 | 238 |
On the terrace, now discarded, lying among bodies, I saw some of the banners of this city, which had been displayed during the approach to the city. |
10 |
| 34 | 69 |
There were more reports during the afternoon. |
10 |
| 37 | 472 |
He had then cried out, as though under attack, and, doubtless at the same time, during that seemingly agonized, hideous cry, fired into the urts at point-blank range, thereby killing or wounding one of them, and initiating the feeding frenzy. |
10 |
| 41 | 39 |
If I had been so chained during the rest period this afternoon, I would not have been able to enter the garden, to approach the wall, to encounter the stranger. |
10 |
| 41 | 88 |
"After this," she said, "if you want to go into the garden during the rest period, you should ask me, first". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 168 |
Though she had scarcely managed to take her eyes from the couple during the performance, and had sat there, breathing quickly, heart beating rapidly, tense, nervous, excited the whole time, she had had no intention of approaching them again. |
10 |
| 11 | 60 |
The new woman, whom Ellen did not know, had glanced at her at various times during the evening, curious, interested, but Ellen had kept her head down, serving silently, deferentially. |
10 |
| 11 | 296 |
But several times during the evening, when his attentions were not completely absorbed by his charming companion, she had sensed his eyes, those of a powerful male, on her youthful, well-turned, stripped body. |
10 |
| 11 | 388 |
She had struggled, during the evening, to understand the conversation. |
10 |
| 11 | 552 |
He went to the long table, and took the chair at the head of the table, which he had occupied during dinner, and pulled it a bit away from the table. |
10 |
| 11 | 585 |
Did they understand that even small labors, like clearing a table, might be performed beautifully, gracefully? Did they understand that anytime, at their various activities, even, say, during their day, at their various forms of work, or play, or whatever, they might be beautiful, and graceful, and ... |
10 |
| 11 | 654 |
It had seemed to her that 'Sir', and such expressions, for whatever reasons they were used during the supper, would not now be appropriate, and might even be offensive, if not inexcusable. |
10 |
| 16 | 771 |
Ellen had thought that likely, but she did not know if she, during her period of unconsciousness, might have been moved to another, perhaps similar city. |
10 |
| 16 | 798 |
Perhaps some who had worked during the day were coming to the market at night. |
10 |
| 16 | 926 |
Ellen supposed that Targo and Barzak might have been in the vicinity during the scene with the guardsmen, but, doubtless wisely, wishing to avoid further unpleasantness, if not actual danger, did not step forward and identify themselves. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
The new slave, Jill, who had been a paga slave at the Iron Collar, had not been burned, but she, too, was treated, to protect her during the day. |
10 |
| 18 | 107 |
Still, in empty cages, or in sparsely occupied cages, while a man stands watch, with a goad, you will have ample opportunity, during long hours, to prove your value as a work slave, removing masses of soiled straw, shoveling excrement, scraping and scrubbing floors, supplying and spreading bundles o... |
10 |
| 19 | 616 |
These were muchly deserted, particularly during the lawlessness of the occupation. |
10 |
| 20 | 186 |
During the day the men, concealed among the trees, took turns watching the skies. |
10 |
| 24 | 304 |
They could be stripped, bit by bit, during the sale, until the buyers have no difficulty seeing what they are paying for. |
10 |
| 24 | 308 |
And she had understood that, whereas it was not unusual to strip a woman, little by little, during her sale, to increase the heat of the bids, that the slaves were always, when all was said and done, exhibited as only slave, raw. |
10 |
| 27 | 2448 |
Some confusion, too, might have ensued during the utilization of the slave, though some of the men, before or after, must have returned to their watch. |
10 |
| 27 | 2858 |
The soldier then took a length of rope and knotted it to the length of rope which was already on her neck, that which Mirus, in his attempt, during the fray, to make away with her, had slashed short, an attempt foiled by Selius Arconious. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 76 |
She had been fastened to it her first day in the camp; she had been fastened, standing, to it, belly facing it, during the duel of Cabot and Flavion, and during the arrival and vengeance of Lord Grendel; and she had been chained to it often enough since then, sometimes with other slaves, usually by ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 387 |
I had removed her from her ring several times during the voyage. |
10 |
| 13 | 305 |
We understood, even in her private chambers, which were locked and guarded, she would keep candles ablaze during the hours of darkness. |
10 |
| 19 | 326 |
I had seen them in markets, awaiting their sale, and during their sale; I had seen them trekked in coffle, transported in slave wagons, reclining in cages, looking out at men who might buy them; I had seen them hurrying in the streets, bargaining with vendors, busy on the quays, laughing, and teasin... |
10 |
| 20 | 4 |
The six fires had been tended during the night, and the net had been raised and anchored to posts. |
10 |
| 20 | 39 |
It was he, it had been determined, who had fired upon he whom he thought was Lord Nishida during the exercises of the preceding morning, and had then fled, to soon return, guiding the horde with which we had done contest, in the sky, on the ground. |
10 |
| 25 | 228 |
During daylight hours the signals were conveyed by banners, detectible at better than a pasang by the glasses of the Builders. |
10 |
| 26 | 122 |
"First," I said, "there would be few who would have had access to the tarn during the evening". |
10 |
| 38 | 255 |
During such times they are exercised and trained, which increases their value. |
10 |
| 38 | 265 |
Licinius Lysias of Turmus, who had made the attempt on the life of Lord Nishida during the training exercise, laden with chaining, was being prodded up the ramp by the butt of a Pani glaive. |
10 |
| 38 | 447 |
During the raid the English girl, hoping to avoid death, had declared herself slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 290 |
It seems that long ago, during the Planting Feast of Ar, a bold tarnsman, thought to be from the north, seized the Home Stone of Ar, which catastrophe brought about the temporary downfall of the Ubar, who fled from the city with chosen men. |
10 |
| 3 | 21 |
I recognized, too, the accents of Ar, as I was familiar with them, from my time in the Ar, during the occupation. |
10 |
| 3 | 159 |
I recognized her, from my duties in the Central Cylinder, during the occupation. |
10 |
| 3 | 170 |
Indeed, the Ubara had used this device to avenge herself on many free women, who might have scorned her during her sequestration under Marlenus, or might merely have been alleged as rivals to the Ubara in the way of beauty. |
10 |
| 3 | 175 |
During the course of the uprising, the restoration, even in the midst of fighting, angry crowds had sought out traitors and collaborators, and brought them, bound and screaming, to improvised impaling spears. |
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| 3 | 250 |
Only later were we to reconstruct what had occurred, the pockets of our resistance, overcome one by one, the decimated retreats, the slaughterings, the terror, the blood, the hunting of traitors and collaborators, the joining of the forces of Ar, maintained during the occupation, to the uprising, th... |
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| 3 | 720 |
"And I feared, too," she said, "to seek the major islands, for during the occupation many of the women of Ar had been collected and sent there on slave ships". |
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| 3 | 1509 |
And sometimes, suitably braced, increment by transitory increment, the victim given food and water, the execution can take several days, during which time the victim is exposed to the jeers and abuse of the public". |
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| 4 | 28 |
He was Seremides of Ar, who had been the master of the Taurentians, the palace guard, during the brief reign of Talena, false Ubara. |
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| 5 | 23 |
"As I understand it," said Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman whom I had encountered the preceding day during my interrogation, "you were not armed when found". |
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| 5 | 123 |
I was a witness, as was the slave, Alcinoë, who might identify him as the former captain of the Taurentians, traitor and arch-conspirator, he who had stood high in Ar during the reign of the puppet Ubara, Talena, one of those who, like Talena and the former Lady Flavia of Ar, her confidante, had ... |
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| 8 | 342 |
I recalled having learned, during my interrogation, that physicians had determined that the slave, Alcinoë, after her time with me in the cell, was almost ready to be put on the block. |
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| 9 | 396 |
I did not doubt, however, that they had been in close communication during the building of the great ship. |
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| 10 | 22 |
During the Waiting Hand, in Cos, as elsewhere, surely in Ar, I do not know how it is in Brundisium, one does little. |
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| 10 | 32 |
Some cities have been attacked during the Waiting Hand, sacked, and burned, citizenries refusing to leave their homes, refusing to take up arms, at such a fearful, inauspicious time. |
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| 12 | 9 |
On the deck, during the day, the weather was warm enough, certainly. |
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| 12 | 98 |
Two, however, Quintus and Lykourgos, had somehow perished in the great forest, during the march from Tarncamp to the Alexandra. |
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| 12 | 336 |
We used them, for example, in the Central Cylinder, in Ar, during the occupation. |
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| 14 | 175 |
I remembered him from the pumps, when, during the time of the great storms they had been manned twenty Ahn a day. |
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| 15 | 196 |
The officers, as the men, eat in shifts, during designated watches, but the officers and the men do not eat together. |
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| 17 | 108 |
Consequently, almost all slave theft, as opposed to the theft of other valuables, takes place during the Ahn of day. |
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| 21 | 205 |
Linguistic drift, at least on the continent, is managed by the standardization promulgated in scribal conferences held during the great fairs, held four times annually in the vicinity of the Sardar. |
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| 21 | 322 |
Those who had been kept below, even during the days of maximum liberty, had been mostly those who, when permitted on deck, had always been hooded. |
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| 24 | 350 |
"Thoas and Andros were slain on the ship, during the boarding, near the Warning Ship," I said. |
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| 26 | 38 |
During the day, of late, the gates of the castle had been open. |
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| 26 | 39 |
Lesser Pani were mostly barred entry, but higher Pani, and we, during the day, if not on duty, came and went rather as we wished. |
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| 37 | 103 |
If the breeding is successful, the mother is hooded during labor, and never sees the child, which is taken from her, to be tended, and cared for, elsewhere. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 747 |
"No man will ever turn me into something like that," I had heard, "some gasping, whimpering, squirming, moaning, begging plaything!" I had taken her seriously until I had inadvertently come upon her in one of the house's bedrooms, late, during a party, naked, on her knees before a male, his belt wra... |
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| 8 | 1435 |
Such reservations, however, are seldom entertained by men of high caste, who welcome an opportunity to obtain a cheap, convenient meal, particularly during the workday. |
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| 10 | 5 |
On the other hand, it was surely not the cruel farce of sul cloth which had been mentioned during the bargaining at the Tarsk Market. |
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| 10 | 184 |
What shall I name her? Too, I had gathered, during my sale, that the Lady Bina had wished to reassure herself that I might be of interest to men. |
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| 10 | 868 |
The usual ensuance in such matters is that the conquered Ubara will be marched naked in the triumph, chained to the stirrup of the victor's tharlarion or kaiila, after which she, and the women of her court, similarly paraded, will serve naked at the victory feast, during which they will be enjoyed, ... |
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| 17 | 524 |
Indeed, during the races, it is often crowded, for many prefer to watch from there, possibly for the better view of the beasts, and the greater proximity to the betting tables. |
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| 18 | 823 |
During the day we remained close to the wagons. |
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| 20 | 163 |
"You are contacted during the night watch?" said Desmond. |
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| 20 | 164 |
"During some night watches," said Astrinax. |
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| 29 | 208 |
Many nights I made contact with Astrinax, during the night watch. |
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| 32 | 82 |
When they were done, the machine, which had shown no sign of interest or emotion during what I took to be the protestations of either, turned slowly toward the Kur who wore the silver chain. |
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| 46 | 76 |
During the day we kajirae were worked; at night we were caged. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 52 |
During my training, how often I had sneaked little glances about me, at the guards, the visitors, prospective buyers, trainers, physicians, and attendants, hoping to see him! I knew myself too poor a slave to be of interest to such a man, perhaps one of skills, position, and wealth, but, still, I ho... |
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| 9 | 404 |
Occasionally I would hear it again during the next few days, as we trekked to Tarncamp. |
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| 14 | 165 |
To be sure, few knew when the laris were to be released, whether during the day or at night, though, as suggested, the night release was more common, probably because desertions took place most frequently under the cover of darkness. |
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| 15 | 466 |
Until Shipcamp, I had known only the two Gorean vessels which had been en route to the north, and the one other, seen during the voyage, when I, with the others, had been permitted on the deck. |
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| 50 | 8 |
I was muchly used, for slave purposes, on the trek back to Shipcamp, especially in the evening and night, but, sometimes, during the day, as well, when, his need upon him, as it seemed so frequently to be, he would throw me to the leaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 156 |
Several times, at night, enemies from below, dark-clad, agile night fighters, had forced pitons into the cliff, but these had been broken free during the day, by Ashigaru, lowered from the walls above. |
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| 11 | 268 |
As the body had not been found, and no reports had been made of his whereabouts, it was supposed he had disappeared during the confusion of the attack. |
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| 13 | 179 |
One would need, of course, some sort of communication between the two houses, which would be easily enough supplied before the siege in virtue of strangers, wanderers, peddlers, merchants, and such, and, during the siege, by envoys, negotiators, messengers, and such, for example, Tyrtaios. |
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| 19 | 226 |
During the occupation it had collaborated with the occupational forces and engaged in profiteering. |
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| 21 | 15 |
Unfortunately I was generally permitted in the garden only during the day. |
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| 22 | 1 |
What Occurred During Tea with the Shogun "Great lord," I said to Lord Yamada, "I am come to beg the life of your daughter, Sumomo". |
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| 22 | 59 |
"Three tarns," he said, "were captured, during the decimation. |
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| 22 | 69 |
Adding in my tarn, secured during my removal from the holding of Temmu, Lord Yamada would have at his disposal only two tarns. |
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| 27 | 105 |
The contents of that pen might have been rather special, being white-skinned slaves obtained for rice in the north, during the siege of the holding of Lord Temmu. |
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| 29 | 456 |
Her bonds, applied to assist in controlling her movements during the application of the iron, were removed, and she was again placed on all fours before her master, Tajima, he of the tarn cavalry. |
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| 48 | 18 |
"It has suffered much during his absence". |
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| 49 | 234 |
"At a certain point on the fifth level, a point known to me," I said, "we will encounter one or more Ashigaru, one during the day, but now, at night, perhaps two. |
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| 61 | 244 |
The bounty on Talena herself, who had been mysteriously removed from Ar, during the restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, was a fortune, such that it might purchase a city, ten thousand tarn disks of gold, each of double weight. |
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| 61 | 427 |
During these days Aiko came to the attention of Lord Yamada, who had returned to his palace, following the fortification of the road camp. |
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| 61 | 596 |
Eventually he was freed of his chains and, during the traumas and exigencies of the ensuing months, particularly once the islands had been reached, and the need for armed men became more desperate, he had been allowed to serve with our mercenary contingents, rather as though he had been originally r... |
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| 61 | 635 |
I had expected to find a slave, one not much different, if at all, from those who had been bartered for a fukuro, or so, of rice, during the miseries of the siege. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 748 |
During the night four more such visitants traversed the cage. |
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| 9 | 749 |
Once, during the night, something smote the cage, twice, prodding it, pushing against the bars, and then it withdrew, unseen. |
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| 16 | 108 |
Months ago he had seemed unaware that heavy traffic on the streets of Ar was prohibited during daylight hours. |
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| 20 | 57 |
On the other hand, such would be highly unlikely during daylight hours in any public place, and certainly so in a "high city," such as Ar. |
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| 26 | 8 |
The city, it seems, was in disarray, and its Ubar challenged, following the temporary loss of its Home Stone, purloined by an unidentified tarnsman during the revels of the Planting Feast. |
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| 28 | 246 |
During that time we are unlikely to see one another". |
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| 31 | 198 |
Surely I had seen the eyes of masters on me, a slave is aware of such things, surely as much as a free woman with a slackened veil or an exposed ankle, when we, I heeling my master, had approached the market, when we had entered the market, when we had climbed the tiers and found our place, even as ... |
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| 32 | 12 |
The many crates, barrels, boxes, bales, and such piled about the walkway and piers during the day were no longer in evidence, having been stowed on the ships or shut away in the warehouses. |
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| 32 | 13 |
Unprotected objects, as is well known, if deemed of value, may find themselves relocated during the hours of darkness. |
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| 32 | 57 |
During the day I supposed that the larger door, the two-leaved gate, would be open, allowing access to and from the interior of the large structure. |
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| 39 | 79 |
Tarnsmen come and go, during the day and night. |
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| 40 | 10 |
The shop of the potter, Epicrates, like most Gorean shops, was open to the street during the day and would be closed at night, usually by means of heavy, folded wooden screens, secured with chains or rods. |
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| 45 | 60 |
He had greeted Lord Grendel upon Lord Grendel's admission into the house; he was on the right side of the room, on the couch nearest the dais; and he had first lifted his goblet to him, during the feast, a prerogative of the feast host. |
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| 46 | 12 |
The primitive Kur, rather like the cat of Earth, was scarcely less dangerous at night than during the day. |
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| 63 | 100 |
Heavy wagon traffic, as noted earlier, is not permitted during daylight hours. |
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| 64 | 26 |
It is said that during the holidays, particularly those associated with the vernal equinox, at which point Goreans begin their year, as many as a thousand wagons might be quartered in the "Hogarth fields," which includes the compass of the caravanserai proper and, beyond that, an extensive overflow ... |
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| 68 | 227 |
In many cities, camisks are not allowed on the streets during the daylight Ahn, as a concession to the sensibilities of free women. |
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| 68 | 251 |
During the moment the door was ajar, I saw lamps within, and some men milling about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 245 |
Merchants may have access to this fortress four times a year, during the great Sardar fairs. |
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| 11 | 238 |
"She much abetted the policies of Cos and Tyros during the Woes of Ar". |
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| 11 | 241 |
This took place during the absence of Marlenus, the city's Ubar. |
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| 11 | 247 |
During the confusion and chaos of the restoration of Marlenus, Talena, and certain others high amongst the betrayers of the city, disappeared. |
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| 13 | 166 |
During a dock fire, sheeted slaves were to be removed from the house of Anesidemus. |
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| 16 | 21 |
"Once in Ar, early in the morning, during the occupation," said the third man. |
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| 17 | 159 |
Indeed, I had heard that name again, during my interview in the alcove, when I, hooded and chained, had knelt before an interlocutor whose identity had been concealed from me. |
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| 25 | 75 |
I recalled that I had been asked about this name during my interview in the alcove, when I had been hooded and chained. |
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| 26 | 37 |
During the day in the canals that sound would most likely not be remarked. |
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| 31 | 40 |
I also knew that his wagering, abetted by the runners, during the "Fencing Matches" and the "Blood Matches" had been unusually successful. |
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| 38 | 81 |
During the revolt, one gathers that some of the "Silver Masks," those not captured and collared, fled the city, presumably, undefended and unprotected, to soon find themselves in foreign chains. |
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| 46 | 408 |
Two or three men profited considerably, given the changing of odds during the dance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 110 |
"One crowd during the day, another at night," I said. |
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| 27 | 90 |
These were not permitted on the floor during business hours, in deference to free women. |
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| 45 | 112 |
Thrasymedes and I had distributed Mytilene's common supplies amongst three well-separated storage areas, three lest one or two areas become accessible to enemies during street fighting, should the walls be successfully breached. |
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| 54 | 164 |
"That will take our fellows time," I said, "time during which they will be exposed to enemy fire". |
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| 59 | 438 |
You will be well worked during the day, and, I expect, well used whenever it pleases your master, day or night, in the furrows, or, chained, on a hut mat". |
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| 63 | 158 |
During the confusion and terror attending the uprising and restoration of Marlenus, Talena had disappeared from Ar. |
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