| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 95 |
I nodded, imagining a palace, empty save for one man sitting alone on his throne, clad in his robes of state, waiting for the angry people outside the gates to break through and work their wrath. |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
Some contained worn sleeping mats of cold, moldy straw, some contained a few rusted metal utensils, such as kettles and pails, but most were completely empty, revealing no signs of life or use at all. |
10 |
| 18 | 112 |
In this chamber, though empty of human beings, was a monstrous tarn cot, in which some twenty gigantic, half-starved tarns huddled separately on the tarn perches. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 23 |
It bore no insignia and its crest plate was empty. |
10 |
| 5 | 13 |
And as my cry parted from my lips there was a great flash of lightning and the valley between the hills stood stark and white and I saw the valley was empty. |
10 |
| 5 | 17 |
The valley empty. |
10 |
| 9 | 154 |
Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last empty and cold. |
10 |
| 15 | 44 |
It was blue and empty. |
10 |
| 17 | 101 |
But most managed to stand upright, catching their balance, and, almost as one man, that wretched degraded huddle of slaves turned its frightened, empty eyes upon me. |
10 |
| 20 | 14 |
On the wall there was an empty scabbard. |
10 |
| 20 | 23 |
I thrust my weapon into the empty scabbard, buckled the sword belt and, in the Gorean fashion, looped it over my left shoulder. |
10 |
| 20 | 92 |
What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 162 |
I looked about myself, at the empty streets, the empty windows, the silence of the once bustling complex. |
10 |
| 2 | 51 |
One such read, "The mountains are empty. |
10 |
| 2 | 57 |
But I knew that the mountains were not empty, for I had evidence of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 5 | 78 |
I gestured to the massive portal which, empty of a door or gate, led only too clearly into the corridor beyond. |
10 |
| 7 | 18 |
Almost all of the chambers I passed, and I passed many, seemed to be empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 63 |
The empty throne loomed silent and awesome. |
10 |
| 7 | 74 |
The corridor behind me was empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 101 |
A howl of bitter rage escaped my lips as I saw that the passageway was empty. |
10 |
| 9 | 78 |
I looked about the room, at the chests against the wall dim in the reduced light of the energy bulbs, at the walls, at the shattered device in the ceiling, at the broken sensors, at the great, empty portal that led into the passageway beyond. |
10 |
| 20 | 46 |
The room in which we found ourselves was substantially empty, and not too much different in size and shape from the room in which my processing had been initiated. |
10 |
| 21 | 8 |
As far as I could tell the chamber seemed empty. |
10 |
| 27 | 80 |
Even with the abdomen empty her legs could not support its weight and she lay on the dais with her jointed legs folded beside her. |
10 |
| 27 | 114 |
But on the platform before which these golden creatures stood there lay the Mother, perhaps blind, almost insensate, the large, feeble thing they revered, weak, brownish, withered, the huge worn body at last wrinkled and empty. |
10 |
| 28 | 92 |
Moreover, the Vivarium Attendants were gone and the other cages were empty and so it would only be a matter of time before she would starve. |
10 |
| 35 | 25 |
"It is empty for Priest-Kings," he said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 88 |
"No!" But Kamchak was pulling her by the bracelets toward an empty sleen cage mounted on a low cart near the wagon, into which, still braceleted, he thrust her, then closing the door, locking it. |
10 |
| 17 | 110 |
Then, angrily, thinking perhaps the pool was empty, or I had been made fool of, I cried out to Saphrar. |
10 |
| 20 | 80 |
I then climbed up a wooden ladder to the next level, which was empty, and then another level and another, and another. |
10 |
| 26 | 101 |
The clear ground between the walls and the first buildings was similarly empty, though here and there I saw some litter, pieces of boxes, broken arrows, patches of cloth. |
10 |
| 26 | 378 |
For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 85 |
The eyes were not pleasant to look upon, for they seemed empty of iris and pupil, and were simply ovoid glazes of massed scar tissue, ridged and irregular. |
10 |
| 10 | 5 |
"Sometimes it is guarded, but now it is empty". |
10 |
| 11 | 18 |
The cages of female slaves were mixed in with those of the male slaves, presumably on no other basis than what cage happened to be empty at a given time. |
10 |
| 11 | 42 |
Elsewhere in the room there were some slave cages, but they were now empty. |
10 |
| 12 | 46 |
The last two perches remained empty. |
10 |
| 13 | 239 |
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ... |
10 |
| 13 | 310 |
The stadium was empty now. |
10 |
| 13 | 320 |
I waited on the height of the stadium, looking down into that vast, open structure, empty and white. |
10 |
| 15 | 78 |
He had even showed me, at night in the empty Stadium of Tarns, certain tricks of racing, about which he seemed to know a great deal, doubtless because of his connection with the Greens. |
10 |
| 15 | 390 |
The horn spoon lay to the side of the empty gruel bowl. |
10 |
| 17 | 141 |
But, as this lawlessness grew, and it became such that men would not walk the bridges without arms, the frenzy over the races and the games grew more rabid; it became rare on the streets and bridges to pass a person who would not, either for himself or for someone he knew, wear a faction patch, even... |
10 |
| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
10 |
| 19 | 125 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 22 | 469 |
Now two poles of each set were empty. |
10 |
| 23 | 5 |
My eyes had not permitted any to dispute my passage, and, indeed, the halls of his house were now largely empty. |
10 |
| 23 | 7 |
I had walked through the largely deserted halls, empty save for a scurrying slave or a furtive man-at-arms, gathering his belongings, preparing to make away. |
10 |
| 23 | 62 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 6 |
The circle of the dance was empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 23 |
Her eyes seemed vacant, empty. |
10 |
| 8 | 5 |
I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc... |
10 |
| 8 | 173 |
I lay there for a time, feeling the rence beneath my back, staring up at the gray, empty sky. |
10 |
| 8 | 195 |
I then took the helmet from my things on the rence craft, that without insignia, with empty crest plate, and lifted it until it cleared the side of the barge. |
10 |
| 8 | 298 |
Its crest plate was empty. |
10 |
| 9 | 437 |
I felt empty. |
10 |
| 10 | 11 |
The Ubars were represented on the council, to which they belonged as being themselves Captains, by five empty thrones, sitting before the semicircles of curule chairs on which reposed the captains. |
10 |
| 10 | 12 |
Beside each empty throne there was a stool from which a Scribe, speaking in the name of his Ubar, participated in the proceedings of the council. |
10 |
| 11 | 9 |
And I saw, too, that the Scribe who normally sat his attendance at the right arm of the empty throne of Henrius Sevarius, the Fifth, in the council chamber was gone. |
10 |
| 11 | 20 |
The scribe at the central table, that before the empty thrones, stood numb behind the table. |
10 |
| 11 | 497 |
"Let there be peace in the council," said the scribe behind the great table, that before the now-empty five thrones of the Ubars of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
These years seem to me now oddly empty, even frivolous. |
10 |
| 2 | 25 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 2 | 66 |
The room was empty. |
10 |
| 2 | 76 |
The house was empty, and the patio on the terrace. |
10 |
| 3 | 345 |
It was almost empty. |
10 |
| 4 | 207 |
One tube, accessible, close to us, on the right, about at my eye level, was empty. |
10 |
| 5 | 86 |
They were empty. |
10 |
| 5 | 128 |
It was empty, save for some cups. |
10 |
| 6 | 22 |
Around me, soft, undulating, glistening with dew in the dim light, I could see nothing but grassy fields, seemingly endless fields, rolling and rolling, sweeping away from me on all sides toward horizons that might be empty. |
10 |
| 8 | 89 |
On some of the barges moving upstream I saw empty slave cages, not unlike the one in which I was secured. |
10 |
| 8 | 735 |
The monster was now sitting quietly beside the mountebank, licking its jaws, half-asleep, its eyes empty and vacant, blinking. |
10 |
| 11 | 1280 |
In Ko-ro-ba the scabbards of Haakon of Skjern and his men would, by the order of the city, be empty. |
10 |
| 11 | 1281 |
What was there to fear of a Haakon of Skjern with an empty scabbard? I could not understand the uneasiness of Targo, and certain of his men. |
10 |
| 12 | 173 |
I wondered, briefly, if these frustrated, lonely, empty women challenged men in order, on some subconscious level, to provoke, ultimately, a ferocious reaction, a putting of them, in one way or another, in the collars they needed, in the collars in which they belonged. |
10 |
| 15 | 891 |
The tarnsmen, in their flights, did not have much luck, and many were the times when they returned, their saddle packs empty, their saddles bare of helpless beauties lashed across them. |
10 |
| 17 | 108 |
On Earth millions of women live empty, unrewarding lives. |
10 |
| 17 | 401 |
"One, with an empty scabbard, was identified as that of Haakon of Skjern. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 530 |
The frames to which the male slaves had been tied were now empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 349 |
Hura's band would find only an empty camp, and perhaps some signs of struggle. |
10 |
| 8 | 81 |
Our hut was empty. |
10 |
| 8 | 84 |
"The camp is empty," said another. |
10 |
| 12 | 130 |
And I, and my men, would return to our businesses, empty handed, our heads bearing the shaved degradation swath of panther girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 132 |
We returned, laughing stocks, empty handed, while he would go back to Ar as its victorious Ubar, again successful. |
10 |
| 14 | 16 |
About some of the fires there was the remains of a feast, and empty bottles. |
10 |
| 18 | 27 |
The horizon was empty. |
10 |
| 18 | 133 |
The great circle of the horizon was empty. |
10 |
| 22 | 272 |
"The throne of the Ubara of Ar," he said, "is empty". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 |
The hall was large, and empty and silent. |
10 |
| 11 | 158 |
"We seek empty lands to the south, to farm," said the Kur. |
10 |
| 16 | 155 |
The couch was empty. |
10 |
| 16 | 172 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 16 | 215 |
"The chamber is empty," said Ivar. |
10 |
| 17 | 48 |
These were the men without meaning, so full and so empty, so crowded, so desolate, so busy, so needlessly occupied. |
10 |
| 22 | 58 |
Thyri returned down the gangplank, a yoke on her shoulders, from which dangled two empty baskets, on ropes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 429 |
"May your water bags be never empty. |
10 |
| 1 | 431 |
"May your water bags be never empty," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 877 |
"May your water bags be never empty. |
10 |
| 1 | 879 |
"May your water bags be never empty," I said. |
10 |
| 2 | 180 |
We took a salt wagon, empty, to Tor from Kurtzal. |
10 |
| 7 | 242 |
"The cell is empty," said one of the men, whispering. |
10 |
| 7 | 739 |
"May your water bags be never empty," said Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 7 | 744 |
"May your water bags be never empty," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 248 |
"And the threat is not empty". |
10 |
| 10 | 246 |
"May your water bags be never empty. |
10 |
| 10 | 248 |
"May your water bags be never empty," we rejoined. |
10 |
| 12 | 639 |
The seraglio, then, seemed empty, silent. |
10 |
| 14 | 398 |
It was now empty. |
10 |
| 16 | 38 |
Empty sacks are placed on slack hooks, below the machinery, to be returned to the pit. |
10 |
| 17 | 82 |
The waters were dark, seemingly empty. |
10 |
| 20 | 143 |
"May your water bags be never empty. |
10 |
| 20 | 145 |
"May your water bags be never empty," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 529 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 22 | 98 |
I turned my back to him and, slowly, insolently, walked to fetch the kaiila with the empty saddle. |
10 |
| 24 | 348 |
The outer room was empty. |
10 |
| 24 | 620 |
That room had been open and empty. |
10 |
| 24 | 630 |
Soon, Vella closely before me, her wrists bound before her, the tether looped about her forearm, I left her quarters, and entered into the larger room, now empty. |
10 |
| 25 | 595 |
I, Hassan, leading, carried Tarna to an empty cell on the fourth level. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 133 |
The wagon which I had seen earlier, the supply wagon, was now almost empty, the food supplies perhaps being diminished as the peregrination neared its end, and the poles and tenting, of course, being used in the sheltering for the camp. |
10 |
| 5 | 633 |
Then the camp was empty, save for the wounded, and the slave girls, of which I was one. |
10 |
| 5 | 673 |
When the four maids were coffled there was, thus, an empty wrist ring both at the head and the rear of the line. |
10 |
| 7 | 44 |
It was a long wall of wilderness, an empty, unpopulated, desertlike area without water and beneficent vegetation a thousand pasangs deep. |
10 |
| 7 | 187 |
"You will note, Lady Sabina," said my master, "that the first wrist ring of the coffle is empty. |
10 |
| 9 | 1469 |
It was dark, empty. |
10 |
| 12 | 283 |
The platter was now empty. |
10 |
| 16 | 160 |
We had then been permitted to ascend to the deck, to empty the wastes and seepage. |
10 |
| 20 | 132 |
No longer was my life empty. |
10 |
| 20 | 340 |
The wharf cart had been empty. |
10 |
| 22 | 189 |
The helmdeck was deserted, the benches empty. |
10 |
| 28 | 154 |
At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1194 |
Beside them, on the platform, were two pairs of opened, empty ankle loops, two pairs of opened, empty wrist cuffs, two opened, empty collars, and some chain, and two platform tunics, discarded. |
10 |
| 4 | 119 |
Each player must complete forty moves before his clock is empty of sand, under penalty of forfeit. |
10 |
| 4 | 538 |
Indeed the market had been almost empty, save for the displayed wares and their merchants. |
10 |
| 15 | 372 |
What if I should not please him? Would he not then simply abandon me, leaving me behind, a masterless girl, a lonely, forlorn slave on a world empty of men strong enough to be a woman's master?" I supposed it was hard for one who was a slave to be in a world in which there were no masters. |
10 |
| 20 | 8 |
For weeks we had waited at the empty permanent camp. |
10 |
| 20 | 13 |
"I did not think Karjuk would come to an empty camp," said Imnak, "but I did not know. |
10 |
| 20 | 15 |
"The camp is not now empty," I had told Imnak. |
10 |
| 34 | 56 |
The sack which had held the meat lay empty on the sled. |
10 |
| 34 | 73 |
The sack which had been filled with meat was empty. |
10 |
| 36 | 286 |
I lifted it to the empty room, in both a toast and a salute. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 306 |
The chamber of irons was empty, but coals glowed softly in the brazier, from which two handles protruded. |
10 |
| 7 | 35 |
In spite of the fact that he was not at full inventory he crowded his girls, leaving several of the small, open-sided, palm-thatched shelters, those about the outer wall, a low, boarded wall, empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 77 |
I looked about, over the shelters near us to those at the far wall, which were empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 78 |
"You have empty shelters over there," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 54 |
A similar sort of thing is done sometimes when a master brings home a new girl to a house which is completely empty, if necessary, by prearrangement, and new to her, and orders her to enter alone. |
10 |
| 14 | 62 |
But few women could be more slave than she, entering fearfully the strange, empty house, and preparing herself for her master's pleasure. |
10 |
| 43 | 19 |
She also had, about her waist, a belt, with a dagger sheath, though the sheath was now empty. |
10 |
| 57 | 209 |
There were as yet two empty slave cages on the deck of the Palms of Schendi, cages for which I had arranged. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 522 |
"The apartment was empty. |
10 |
| 1 | 525 |
The superintendent claimed it had been empty for a week. |
10 |
| 2 | 143 |
The syringe was then empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 133 |
As nearly as I could tell, it was empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 1057 |
She pressed her lovely body against them and extended her arms and hands between them, to the silent, empty corridor. |
10 |
| 19 | 73 |
These were empty, but filled with clean straw. |
10 |
| 27 | 54 |
"Empty the water," I said. |
10 |
| 34 | 33 |
Another slave wagon, empty, its canvas high on its frame, was entering the camp. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 469 |
The tavern was now empty and closed. |
10 |
| 4 | 246 |
Outside the streets were empty, and quiet. |
10 |
| 5 | 101 |
I then, the goblet of paga in my left hand, her hair in my right, dragged her beside me, her slender chains rustling, to the nearest empty alcove. |
10 |
| 8 | 138 |
He does not know, as I do, that your eye is no longer as sharp as once it was, that your hand has lost its cunning, that you are now ruined and fallen, that the scarlet is now but meaningless on your body, naught but a remembrance, an empty recollection of a vanished glory". |
10 |
| 8 | 141 |
The sitting man looked into the goblet, now empty, on the table. |
10 |
| 8 | 144 |
His eyes seemed empty. |
10 |
| 24 | 59 |
She stood lovely, and straight, her hands now empty, the towels and oils, and other articles on the floor near us. |
10 |
| 28 | 23 |
When she had been sent from the tavern it had been empty. |
10 |
| 29 | 185 |
"Empty grain ships, towed, their identity concealed in the darkness, might suggest such a fleet," mused Callisthenes. |
10 |
| 29 | 225 |
"We are sent ahead, the scout ships of his fleet!" We had only four ships with us, and three were, substantially, empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 9 |
"Steady! Hold!" Many of our benches were empty. |
10 |
| 8 | 22 |
I assumed the cabin was empty. |
10 |
| 9 | 156 |
I did not doubt but what she was now, too, empty. |
10 |
| 9 | 191 |
With her hands in this position, a girl can exert almost no leverage, and it may be determined, too, that her hands are empty. |
10 |
| 14 | 67 |
"I did not come east upon the river to return with empty coffers," said Ragnar Voskjard. |
10 |
| 15 | 85 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 16 | 318 |
The stem castle was empty. |
10 |
| 16 | 322 |
The stem castle was empty. |
10 |
| 17 | 205 |
"Empty!" she said, scornfully. |
10 |
| 17 | 229 |
"She need not return with the coin box empty". |
10 |
| 17 | 274 |
She was a female, with her own nature, rich, complex, and deep, with thousands of years behind her of sexual selection and genetic coding, of choices and love, not a piece of vacuous clay to be twisted into a grotesquerie by the intolerant and unhappy, not an empty vessel to be mindlessly filled wit... |
10 |
| 18 | 574 |
Then I would feel the leash stinging against the back of my legs and my keeper would order me up, and ahead, to try harder, warning me of the displeasure of my master, should I return with an empty coin box. |
10 |
| 19 | 807 |
But these gratifications, ultimately, are shallow and empty, and we, in our hearts, know that. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 378 |
How odd it would be if man had no nature, but was unique in the universe, in being an empty vessel to be filled with ideology, an amorphous handful of clay to be molded into shapes, however bizarre, by the self-serving sculptors of society. |
10 |
| 14 | 746 |
"In the hands of women," I said, "the mastery becomes an empty mockery". |
10 |
| 16 | 201 |
Their eyes were spiritless and empty. |
10 |
| 16 | 250 |
"A teaching which cannot, even in theory, be disconfirmed is not true, but empty. |
10 |
| 17 | 612 |
Such a belief is not strong, but empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 414 |
They find themselves in a large room, usually empty, or rather empty, save for an imposing couch. |
10 |
| 20 | 74 |
Empty the lodge". |
10 |
| 35 | 55 |
"Alas," he said, "the water bag is empty". |
10 |
| 37 | 465 |
It seemed empty, save for the high, billowing clouds. |
10 |
| 40 | 890 |
Then the tray was empty, save for one object, a segment of a dried root, about two to three inches long and a half inch wide. |
10 |
| 43 | 313 |
Without haste, muchly concealed in the robe, I moved the kaiila out into the broad, empty lane between the Yellow-Knife lodges, almost a busy, triumphal way. |
10 |
| 44 | 387 |
"They are mostly empty," said Hci. |
10 |
| 44 | 711 |
How absurd now seemed her words, uttered hitherto with such seeming authority, but they had been empty of authority. |
10 |
| 47 | 335 |
The barricade was empty. |
10 |
| 47 | 337 |
Then the barricade was no longer empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 365 |
"Is it really empty?" I asked. |
10 |
| 6 | 380 |
I knew only that I felt empty, miserable and unfulfilled. |
10 |
| 6 | 545 |
"I sometimes feel so empty, so miserable, so uncomfortable, so meaningless, so restless". |
10 |
| 8 | 303 |
I looked behind myself, following them, at the dark cells, most of them empty, along the corridor. |
10 |
| 12 | 78 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 14 | 83 |
If its lowering and raising had not been noticed, I did not think that now anyone would be likely to find anything amiss until morning, when it would be lowered and found empty. |
10 |
| 28 | 47 |
I carried a round, empty silver platter, about eighteen inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 30 | 265 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 30 | 421 |
We looked at the empty threshold. |
10 |
| 30 | 435 |
We watched the empty threshold, the door hung awry on its hinges. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 113 |
His scabbard was empty. |
10 |
| 2 | 716 |
"It is no use, kind sirs," said Boots Tarsk-Bit, returning, carrying the two empty coin bowls. |
10 |
| 2 | 717 |
"They are empty". |
10 |
| 2 | 984 |
I rolled to the side, my hand going instinctively for the blade in my sheath, but the sheath, the weapon earlier surrendered at the check point through which I had entered the piazza, was empty. |
10 |
| 2 | 1336 |
"I have had respect and dignity for years," she said, "and they are empty! I have had my fill of respect and dignity! For years I have been betrayed and deluded by those trivializing, vacuous, negative verbalities! I do not want respect and dignity! Obviously they are not the answer. |
10 |
| 7 | 62 |
Some of the collars which had held women near her earlier were empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 69 |
"I have seen some empty collars about, on the other platforms," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 73 |
The matter of the empty collars was not an easy one to interpret. |
10 |
| 7 | 74 |
If there are no empty collars then customers may think that no one else is interested in the merchandise, perhaps that something might be wrong with it, and then go elsewhere. |
10 |
| 7 | 75 |
If there are only a few girls left, and many empty collars, they may get the impression, perhaps mistakenly, that nothing much of interest is likely to be left. |
10 |
| 7 | 77 |
If you see a female locked in her platform collar, with its chain, of course, and in a while you see the collar empty, it is not irrational to suppose that she has been sold. |
10 |
| 12 | 607 |
Presumably she was on her way to empty it, outside the camp. |
10 |
| 14 | 151 |
Then it was only necessary, later, to pick up our trail outside the city, at the termination of one of the conduits, where it would empty into one of the long, half-dry drainage ditches about a half pasang outside the walls. |
10 |
| 14 | 298 |
Then the animals seemed to draw apart about him and he was left standing as though in a dry pool, an empty place, an isolated, lonely place surrounded by tawny waters, waters which seemed somehow, inexplicably, to have drawn back about him, waters with eyes and teeth, ringing him. |
10 |
| 14 | 436 |
Then it seemed I stood in a clear place, an open place, an empty place, a central place, almost like a dry, lonely pool, separated out from, isolated in the midst of, those tawny bodies. |
10 |
| 16 | 76 |
To be sure, there was an empty place at the right hand of Belnar, the ubar of Brundisium. |
10 |
| 18 | 370 |
The corridor was long and seemingly empty, on both sides of the door, save for such things as closed doors, presumably locked, slave rings, niches here and there, vases, and decorative plantings. |
10 |
| 18 | 381 |
"The hall is empty," said another. |
10 |
| 18 | 453 |
You can see that it is empty". |
10 |
| 18 | 521 |
The corridor was empty. |
10 |
| 20 | 150 |
Do not die here, in this empty place, in this moonlight, on this foreign sand. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 53 |
He lifted the lid of the wagon box, which lid served also as the surface of his seat or bench, and dropped the empty sack within, and then shut the box. |
10 |
| 4 | 383 |
The insignia of men, like male garments, become empty mockeries when permitted to women. |
10 |
| 13 | 307 |
One feels sometimes sorry for free women, with their confusions, their unhappiness, the meaninglessness, the shallowness, of their forlorn psychological habitations, the lonely, empty corridors of their lives, their boredom, their hostilities. |
10 |
| 13 | 313 |
The woman does not exist outside of herself, as a facade, empty within, fabricated according to the specifications of manipulators and self-serving strangers, interested in her only to the extent of adding the minim of her tiny weight to the progress of their dismal engines. |
10 |
| 25 | 547 |
On the other hand, it did seem a bit of an empty mockery. |
10 |
| 26 | 20 |
Some were doubtless empty. |
10 |
| 26 | 22 |
On the other hand many of the alcoves which were in total darkness were not empty. |
10 |
| 26 | 26 |
In some of the other alcoves, of course, those not empty, there were presumably slaves, girls waiting alone in the darkness, in their chains, knowing that they would be at the mercy of whoever might enter the alcove. |
10 |
| 26 | 311 |
With the sword and quiva, protecting myself first with one and then the other, and probing about, using them alternately, and generally keeping away from the source of the sound, I determined to my satisfaction that the alcove was empty save for myself and the source of the sound. |
10 |
| 26 | 1803 |
"It seemed empty and meaningless. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 145 |
The aisle was empty. |
10 |
| 10 | 380 |
As nearly as I could tell they were empty at that time. |
10 |
| 11 | 372 |
Aynur's bowl was empty. |
10 |
| 11 | 529 |
Aynur's bowl was no longer empty. |
10 |
| 11 | 864 |
Tula's was empty. |
10 |
| 24 | 35 |
Sometimes they would even empty the bag out before them, into the dirt or sand. |
10 |
| 27 | 147 |
No longer could she find it in her heart to pretend to be free, to play again the role of a free woman, to enact once again what, in her case, could now be only a hollow mockery, an empty farce of freedom. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99 |
"Empty your wagon out," I told the two. |
10 |
| 6 | 126 |
There were some empty spaces on the floor, for example, space 98, to my left, as I would face the front of the room, but, on the whole, the level was very crowded. |
10 |
| 6 | 128 |
I suspected that the empty spaces, or most of them, had been vacated by fellows who had left early. |
10 |
| 8 | 433 |
Now I shall be forever empty unless I am permitted to live my truth, what I truly am". |
10 |
| 8 | 766 |
These chains were now empty. |
10 |
| 12 | 303 |
Presumably to have put the pan forward earlier, before receiving the order, or permission, would have been regarded as presumptuous, and perhaps have resulted in its remaining empty for the day. |
10 |
| 16 | 103 |
This area, at least at the moment, perhaps because of its height, and its position over the gate, the ground below soon to be blocked by the ram, the men working it protected by its sturdy shed, was empty. |
10 |
| 20 | 409 |
Fifteen ships, mostly of Port Cos, were now at the piers, which, now, except for armed men, were mostly empty. |
10 |
| 24 | 1073 |
It was now empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 133 |
And it is empty!" "It is my surmise," I said, "that it has been empty for weeks". |
10 |
| 1 | 1121 |
I had doubled back through the environing tents, most of which were empty, presumably thanks to the sounds of the paga enclosure and various hastily spreading rumors, such as that of Borton's generosity, that there was to be a parade of slaves, and that a curvaceous woman was now dancing her slavery... |
10 |
| 3 | 6 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 12 |
Like the road, it seemed empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 51 |
The road below seemed as empty as ever. |
10 |
| 3 | 73 |
The road was empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 85 |
It, too, was empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 106 |
I looked down at the empty road. |
10 |
| 3 | 122 |
The road was empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 129 |
The underground kennels and sunken cages, too, were empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 153 |
It was empty. |
10 |
| 13 | 109 |
The cabin was, in effect, empty, save for some benches and other paraphernalia. |
10 |
| 17 | 247 |
From the feel of this I was sure the raft was empty. |
10 |
| 19 | 699 |
"It would not do for rencers," I said, "to find this pole empty. |
10 |
| 46 | 146 |
I caught one of the fellows who had followed us against some empty, tiered kennels. |
10 |
| 46 | 189 |
I looked into the backs of several slave wagons, most of which were empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 7 |
"Without such things," said the first, "our protests of love and brotherhood would be empty". |
10 |
| 9 | 430 |
My life was empty. |
10 |
| 17 | 183 |
"The trunk is not empty!" cried a fellow. |
10 |
| 17 | 207 |
"Why do you show us an empty trunk?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 17 | 209 |
"Alas, woe!" cried the ponderous fellow, running his hands about the empty space now exposed to view. |
10 |
| 17 | 413 |
"The trunk was real magic," he said, "as we saw it carried on, kept off the floor, and opened, and shown empty!" "In the case of the trunk," I said, "you will recall that it was carried on, and opened in a certain way, in a certain order, and then that it was closed in a certain order, as well". |
10 |
| 27 | 966 |
I then set the decanter to the side, empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 138 |
Surely, considering one's weakness, and the presumed power of one's captors, this would be an endeavor more likely of success than the utterance of empty threats, of meaningless protests, the enunciation of futile demands. |
10 |
| 7 | 987 |
"I thought the garden was empty". |
10 |
| 8 | 536 |
Could there be very different sorts of human beings? Were some, in effect, hollow? If so, perhaps it was natural for them to suppose that others must be as empty as they. |
10 |
| 8 | 816 |
With what fury we might, from within our sheets, twisting upon our sleeping mats, look upon another mat nearby, but one which was unoccupied, one which was empty. |
10 |
| 9 | 9 |
At the signal one puts the empty bowls and the wastes vessel near the bars, and then assumes the indicated position, one of prone helplessness, facing the back of the cell. |
10 |
| 10 | 195 |
Most were empty. |
10 |
| 13 | 609 |
These were empty. |
10 |
| 13 | 1195 |
I hoped that I might, in time, be adjudged not only worthy of a blanket, but even of a kennel, for there were five such, and two were empty. |
10 |
| 14 | 67 |
They were empty now, save for us. |
10 |
| 14 | 397 |
She pushed back the empty dish, the drained goblet. |
10 |
| 14 | 1672 |
This expanse was now empty. |
10 |
| 14 | 1678 |
The expanse was now empty. |
10 |
| 14 | 1679 |
It was not always empty. |
10 |
| 19 | 406 |
The twenty or so golden bowls which had come empty to the docking area were now leaving it heavy with coin, with jewels and jewelry. |
10 |
| 19 | 1192 |
I looked about the docking area, now empty. |
10 |
| 24 | 206 |
Save for the intruders the terrace was now mostly empty. |
10 |
| 37 | 666 |
"The passage seems to be empty," he said, "as far as the light carries". |
10 |
| 37 | 833 |
I supposed that the nest might be empty now. |
10 |
| 37 | 834 |
But it would not be likely to long remain empty. |
10 |
| 40 | 31 |
At such times perhaps one stands in crowds, the crowds of oneself, together with one's infancy, one's childhood, one's youth, one's past, one's present, one's weakness, one's strength, in the lonely, crowded, empty silence. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 551 |
Ellen did not want to be caught with an empty pitcher and the vat empty, perhaps for Ehn, even an Ahn, until its supply might be replenished. |
10 |
| 2 | 44 |
She then stopped, and, in a moment, stepped back into an empty row, the next closer to the exit, still not taking her eyes from him. |
10 |
| 2 | 50 |
She was then again, it seemed, in the aisle, near the exit, at the edge of the empty row. |
10 |
| 2 | 53 |
Why was she in the aisle? Why had she left the empty row? Why had she not exited the auditorium? Was she putting herself before him? Did she want him to see her? Surely not. |
10 |
| 13 | 619 |
"Perhaps Master has a slave ring at the foot of his couch?" "It is now empty," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 124 |
Men desire complete slaves, it seems, and this means total, vital, feeling, thinking females at their feet; that is apparently what one wants there; few if any men, it seems, desire a mere body, a puppet, a doll, an empty slave; who could be satisfied with such? Where would be the triumph, the pleas... |
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 |
| 18 | 267 |
* * * * And so Ellen reached down and picked up the heavy basket of meat, which she must carry to the feeding area, a section within the housing for tarns, and set forth, piece by piece, climbing the wall railings, impaling it on the hooks, for the mighty birds, seven of them, due to return with the... |
10 |
| 19 | 22 |
She was in an opened, empty cage, nearby, on her knees, with a bucket of water, and a brush, scrubbing, cleaning, the flooring there. |
10 |
| 19 | 88 |
They did examine the empty cage areas, among them the cage where Ellen, head down, not looking up, her hair forward, scrubbed the boards carefully, lengthwise, as was required, going with their grain. |
10 |
| 19 | 102 |
Ellen went to her belly and, across the wet floor, through the opened gate of the empty cage, across the dry, straw-strewn floor, squirmed to his feet. |
10 |
| 21 | 137 |
To the right of the stream was an empty cisternlike, low, walled enclosure, a constructed pool, of some twenty feet in diameter. |
10 |
| 22 | 81 |
But Ellen knew she must now hurry back to the vat of ka-la-na, for her vessel was nearly empty. |
10 |
| 22 | 687 |
The crate, she was sure, was empty. |
10 |
| 24 | 11 |
Yet little of it reached the vat at first for, at the order of Callimachus, the serving slaves filled their empty pitchers from the cascading stream itself, and then rushed to serve. |
10 |
| 25 | 18 |
There were two empty manacles on the chain before Ellen. |
10 |
| 25 | 132 |
Some, on the other hand, were white-faced and apprehensive, particularly those in the lanes nearest the empty lanes closest to the block area. |
10 |
| 25 | 804 |
Perhaps! Then show dear Mirus what he gave up, what a fool he was to let something like me slip away! If he would have me now he will pay and pay! He will pay dearly! I do not care if he would empty his purse! But he will not bid upon me because he would look like a fool to do so, after letting me g... |
10 |
| 26 | 183 |
The thought crossed her mind that the sexual needs of her sisters on Earth, in their countless thousands, in their millions, in the loneliness of their empty, sterile freedoms, were similarly, commonly left unsatisfied. |
10 |
| 27 | 878 |
By the time the riders in that chaotic moment were apprised of the cry of their fellow, and turned from their brief, agitated, intent scanning of the empty sky, Arconious was four or five feet from them, backing away, moving toward the wagon. |
10 |
| 27 | 1058 |
In his hand, but empty now, was the second crossbow. |
10 |
| 27 | 2668 |
"Am I to return empty-handed?" asked the officer. |
10 |
| 28 | 299 |
"Perhaps she is already a slave, and even now waits in terror, on her throne, in the loneliness of her chamber, in the empty halls of the Central Cylinder, startled by the least sound, even imagined, fearing to be claimed by her master". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 77 |
It had taken the forces of Agamemnon a moment after the blast of light to align their weapons and begin to empty a thousand charges into the valley, but, to their amazement, a moment later, it seemed that the valley was empty. |
10 |
| 1 | 63 |
The corridors are commonly empty and silent. |
10 |
| 1 | 501 |
But the corridor, of course, was empty, and silent. |
10 |
| 1 | 1089 |
Tarl Cabot rested back, against the wall of the container, and looked out, into the empty hallway. |
10 |
| 1 | 1093 |
The hallway might be empty, and silent, but there were doubtless, somewhere, surveillance devices, cameras, microphones, or such, to them undetectable, perhaps no more than a few microns in width. |
10 |
| 31 | 12 |
The role of the free woman to her would now be shallow, empty, and meaningless. |
10 |
| 42 | 9 |
"Many of the pens are empty," said the slave. |
10 |
| 42 | 35 |
"Most of the pens are empty," said the slave. |
10 |
| 47 | 51 |
The gate of the arsenal was open, and, as he soon determined, the arsenal itself was empty. |
10 |
| 47 | 56 |
Are you not more than man, more than Kur?" Cabot lifted his head, suddenly, peering outward from the threshold of the barren arsenal behind him, now no more than an abandoned storeroom, its racks and shelves empty. |
10 |
| 47 | 64 |
"It is empty?" said Lord Grendel, regarding the bareness behind Cabot. |
10 |
| 47 | 85 |
"Your quiver is empty". |
10 |
| 51 | 1 |
A Cave is Found Empty "He is not here," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 51 | 7 |
It had not been difficult for Lord Grendel and his human ally, Tarl Cabot, to locate the cave in which they had left Lord Arcesilaus, but, upon entering the cave, they had found it empty. |
10 |
| 56 | 160 |
"Their chains will remain empty," said Statius. |
10 |
| 65 | 7 |
"Lord Grendel and I found the cave by Lake Fear empty". |
10 |
| 67 | 125 |
"You have continued to guard the camp," observed Cabot, "though it is empty. |
10 |
| 69 | 127 |
"When the palace was forced," said another Kur, "it was found empty". |
10 |
| 81 | 31 |
Each was now empty. |
10 |
| 81 | 215 |
"The capsules, below, are empty," said Cabot. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 26 |
Several of the mats were empty, but I conjectured there might be some sixty or so girls in the house. |
10 |
| 19 | 180 |
I did not suppose that any foe within would be so simple as to suppose we thought the stable empty, as no search had been made. |
10 |
| 22 | 168 |
It is not uncommon for them to awaken in a stout, canvas slave sack, in which they can barely squirm, or bound hand and foot, say, on a carpet in an empty tent, or chained to a ring in the darkness. |
10 |
| 28 | 241 |
I thought the forests empty of men, but one did not know, and I had been assured that there were spies in the camp of Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 33 | 91 |
In any event, when our foes attacked in the morning they would find an empty camp, picked clean as though by centuries of looters. |
10 |
| 38 | 437 |
Her shallow, empty, pretentious life on Earth had changed overnight, so to speak, she retiring one evening, smug in her beauty, indulged and practiced in the pleasures of despising, attracting, and tormenting men, and awakening, to her astonishment and terror, unclothed, pressing her small hands aga... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 |
The dancing sand was empty. |
10 |
| 1 | 73 |
The other tables were empty now, as their occupants had left, or had gathered with us, about the stranger's low table. |
10 |
| 1 | 149 |
Clearly she was uneasy, and did not understand the meaning of her summons, this late, the tavern muchly empty, the group gathered about the small table, the stranger, in rags and mariner's cap, before whom she knelt. |
10 |
| 1 | 427 |
"More paga," said the stranger to the girl, extending the damp, empty goblet to her. |
10 |
| 3 | 959 |
It was a Metal Worker's shop, and it was empty. |
10 |
| 5 | 4 |
For those remaining in Telnus, a refundable fee would have been deducted from our pay, this entitling us to housing in the port dormitory, and the right to a meal, once daily, at the common tables, this an insurance against an empty purse, a hungry stomach, and a lodging on a winter street. |
10 |
| 9 | 21 |
It was apparently then empty. |
10 |
| 10 | 25 |
The streets are empty. |
10 |
| 18 | 174 |
She turned about, to look at me, more startled than reproachful, and I pointed to the rail, and she turned about again, and went to it, to empty the pails. |
10 |
| 19 | 71 |
The stem castle deck was empty. |
10 |
| 19 | 99 |
The helm deck and stern-castle deck were empty. |
10 |
| 22 | 251 |
I saw more than one quiver empty, a last arrow spilled beside a fallen bow in the moist, scarlet dust. |
10 |
| 34 | 102 |
Who would want an empty slave ring at the foot or one's couch? And there are many in the market, assuredly, and affordable, whose trim ankle would fit well within the ring. |
10 |
| 36 | 145 |
"The cove was empty," said the stranger. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 10 |
Conceive then, if you can, a world such as that from which I was obtained, a world without Home Stones, a world so meaningless, so forlorn, so petty, so empty. |
10 |
| 4 | 142 |
My life was boring and empty, and largely mapped out for me. |
10 |
| 4 | 449 |
You will be alert to the needs of the guests, an empty plate, a glass in need of refilling. |
10 |
| 5 | 107 |
Rawlinson? Where were my sorority sisters? The house, a large house, seemed empty. |
10 |
| 5 | 108 |
Then I was suddenly very afraid, for I was now sure it was empty. |
10 |
| 8 | 1030 |
The portal was empty. |
10 |
| 15 | 75 |
There were, of course, empty stalls, to which produce might be brought near dawn, come before light from the local villages. |
10 |
| 15 | 76 |
But there were also, here and there, baskets, boxes, occasional chests and cabinets, presumably empty, and some bare, tiered shelves, which might be lodged against the back of a stall, or, often enough, behind a spread mat or rug. |
10 |
| 15 | 118 |
I then began, again, my progress, bit by bit, toward the praetor's platform, and the empty coin stalls. |
10 |
| 22 | 52 |
Many women of my old world would have scorned me for this, castigated me for being what I was, myself, would have insisted instead that I share their views and values, would have dictated to me, with terrible social and economic sanctions for noncompliance, would have demanded that I emulate them, a... |
10 |
| 27 | 318 |
You will find three empty cages there, with the gates ajar, against the left wall, as you enter. |
10 |
| 27 | 343 |
"Were we all so different," I asked, "even Mistress?" "You were pretty," she said, "but petty, too, and empty, shallow, a nothing, a sly, selfish, cunning, opportunistic, calculating, vain, egotistical, little chit. |
10 |
| 34 | 118 |
He then yanked her to her feet by the hair, and held her head to his right hip, following which he dragged her, stumbling, to the nearest empty cage. |
10 |
| 48 | 47 |
The container was empty except for some wires, what appeared to be small boxes, and a small disk-like object with screening upon it. |
10 |
| 49 | 410 |
When they attack the meeting site they will find it empty, but they, themselves, will be surrounded and attacked. |
10 |
| 50 | 62 |
A number of men, apparently several, masked and armed, perhaps two hundred, had converged on a given barn outside the city, had broken into it, and found it empty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 43 |
Her life was largely boring, empty, and meaningless. |
10 |
| 15 | 497 |
"It is empty," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 24 |
I hurried forward, with hundreds, thinking to see, for the first time, a great trade fort which might control the trade of the Alexandra, but I stopped, stunned, as others, at the forest's edge, for below, seemingly small in the distance, was what I knew must, from the distance, be the remains of an... |
10 |
| 19 | 59 |
"Clouds, the moons obscured, darkness, an empty dock, the absence of random patrols". |
10 |
| 21 | 368 |
The bottle lay on its side, in the dirt, empty. |
10 |
| 21 | 456 |
"On Gor," said he, "such things are not likely to travel with an empty purse". |
10 |
| 41 | 355 |
Aeson rose up, took the empty bottle, in its net, from me, wished the sleen master and his fellow well, and wandered away. |
10 |
| 43 | 504 |
All I had cared for, of course, was the mere capture of the quarry, which objective had obviously been attained, but, for some reason, the victory seemed, if not empty, at least incomplete. |
10 |
| 47 | 92 |
Accordingly, if her backtrail remained empty, that would be taken to mean either that no pursuit was in progress or, more likely, that her flight had been successful. |
10 |
| 50 | 504 |
There were empty blanket spaces but, too, there were several slaves within. |
10 |
| 52 | 94 |
Doubtless that was because they thought the stockade was empty. |
10 |
| 52 | 678 |
There was only the empty river, quiet in the morning sun, and the cries of some birds, fishing, skimming its surface, sometimes diving under the water, and there was smoke, here and there, drifting about. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 150 |
Those in the castle area, of those supposedly informed, would assume the camp was at the convergence of the two designated streams, at least until there was a reason to believe otherwise, perhaps in virtue of a fruitless raid, loosed upon unoccupied tents, pitched on an empty field. |
10 |
| 3 | 52 |
I saw little advantage in them, save to lure in intruders, which might then, after attacking empty bed rolls, be fallen upon. |
10 |
| 6 | 17 |
But when the soldiers of Lord Yamada, with the first light, with fixed banners and brandished glaives, crying out, swarmed to the shore, they found the beach empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 5 |
After Tyrtaios and the officers and Ashigaru of Yamada who had accompanied him had withdrawn from the holding, I had made my way to the indoor housing area for slaves, and, to my surprise, found it empty. |
10 |
| 7 | 11 |
The chains were now empty, and there was little indication that the room had been recently occupied. |
10 |
| 7 | 67 |
Each was empty. |
10 |
| 11 | 126 |
Their rice sacks are empty. |
10 |
| 11 | 263 |
"I trust," I said, "it is no more important than the first thing, the empty prattle about iron dragons". |
10 |
| 20 | 544 |
"There is an empty grave," said Tatsu. |
10 |
| 20 | 546 |
"There is no empty grave!" "Forgive me, great lord," said Tatsu. |
10 |
| 20 | 599 |
"See if there is an empty grave". |
10 |
| 21 | 40 |
"An empty grave was found," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 68 |
And, indeed, one had been found empty. |
10 |
| 21 | 116 |
Sent to the garden to pry information from a manipulable male, one likely to be eager to please so beautiful a woman, she had returned, to her chagrin, empty handed to the supper, having succeeded in little more than having found herself regaled with what she viewed as absurdities and ravings. |
10 |
| 23 | 131 |
"Tell me about an empty grave," I said. |
10 |
| 30 | 738 |
"Drunken tarsks! Two Ahn you are late at the checkpoint! Who will vouch for you? Who will bring you to the camp, and conduct you safely to the rice wagons? Your spoil is at the door, the cart is empty! Dally at an inn, will you! Do you not know there are bandits about?" I noticed the innkeeper move ... |
10 |
| 35 | 69 |
"Its saddle would have been empty," I said. |
10 |
| 36 | 87 |
"The saddle of the returning tarn was empty," I said. |
10 |
| 37 | 68 |
"The empty saddle, undamaged, uncut, not bloodied, and such, will suggest that Tajima abandoned the tarn, and would try to reach the holding of Temmu or the encampment of tarns on foot. |
10 |
| 38 | 9 |
Almost at our feet, two others, with empty rice bowls, tore at the dirt, scraping it away from the foot of the paling. |
10 |
| 39 | 35 |
His tarn returned to its cot, the saddle empty. |
10 |
| 43 | 7 |
"It is empty," I said. |
10 |
| 43 | 11 |
"That it is empty will not arouse suspicion," I said, "as we are planning to leave the camp". |
10 |
| 49 | 120 |
The corridor was empty, and muchly dark. |
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| 50 | 83 |
Tajima looked about, as though to reassure himself that the corridor was empty, and that there was no danger of being overheard. |
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| 55 | 11 |
The main corridor stretched out on both sides, and, as far as we could tell, was empty. |
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| 55 | 32 |
"I think the corridor is empty," said Pertinax, peering into the gloom. |
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| 55 | 62 |
"In pursuing her you would pass opened chambers, which might not, as the others, be empty. |
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| 55 | 105 |
"But they are empty," I said. |
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| 55 | 125 |
"The pens, and cages, and slave boxes, were empty, too," said Tajima. |
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| 55 | 144 |
"Most cells are empty," I said. |
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| 56 | 24 |
"I am alone!" Now, that seemed quite likely to me, after Pertinax, Tajima, and I had explored so much of the palace, which now seemed barren and empty, unkempt, and deserted. |
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| 60 | 105 |
"The empty grave!" cried Lord Yamada. |
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| 60 | 150 |
Still, a thousand men would be a sufficient force when opposed to empty roads and abandoned fields. |
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| 60 | 416 |
"You have not come to loot an empty palace, nor steal from the destitute". |
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| 61 | 504 |
Were not defenseless lands spread out before him? Was not the very palace of his mortal enemy empty and desolate? Had not the iron dragon itself flown on his behalf? Then he found himself confronted by the ultimatum of an upstart, a mere barbarian. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | 64 |
Indeed, guards had checked the wagon, and determined that it was empty, quite empty. |
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| 1 | 42 |
I had not, at that time, in full consciousness, save in dreams, and intrusive thoughts, realized that I was of the slave sex, and that I required a master, that I would be empty, incomplete, forlorn, meaningless, desolate, and useless without one. |
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| 1 | 56 |
Were humans not essentially unreal, a fraud, unlike the lion and the hawk, more honest forms of life? Were human beings not a counterfeit currency of sorts, masquerading as a genuine life form? Were they not shallow sociological artifacts, nothing in themselves, only clay waiting to be shaped, simpl... |
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| 5 | 185 |
We stood and turned, and I gasped, for I saw a row of cells, which had been behind us, and, here and there, some small cages or kennels, empty. |
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| 9 | 806 |
The cage to my right was empty. |
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| 14 | 110 |
"The men will now discuss serious matters," said our first girl, Selena, "the affairs of the day, trade, crops, jurisprudence, markets, ambitions, intrigues, politics, subjects empty-headed free women would find boring. |
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| 15 | 244 |
"He will soon discover the wagon is empty," he said. |
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| 19 | 59 |
In the darkness I heard the snap of a fire maker, and, a moment later, by means of its tiny flame, the tharlarion-oil lamp was alight, and I saw the room about, flickering, yellow, eerie, and empty. |
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| 21 | 2 |
The street, as far as I could see, was empty. |
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| 24 | 67 |
They were empty. |
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| 25 | 62 |
The eyes of the fellow were wide, and then empty, and he expired without a sound, and was thrust from the supper table to the sand. |
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| 26 | 132 |
I held the empty sack, four times folded. |
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| 40 | 240 |
Epicrates then replaced the empty pouch on its string about my neck. |
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| 45 | 78 |
My serving dish was shortly empty, and I knew I should withdraw to the kitchen, either to have it layered with more syrupped tospit slices, or supplied with another provender, perhaps rice, white, or brown, or red or purple, from Cos, or a plate of cheeses, from local dairies, served with warmed bre... |
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| 46 | 48 |
Then I saw a crack of light, vertical, and then it became a shaft of light, and, as the portal was opened, I saw a room beyond, severe, and plain, and, for the most part, empty. |
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| 49 | 307 |
She, head down, placed the tray on the table, at the empty place. |
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| 49 | 446 |
Paula, at a nod from Drusus, leapt to her feet and took the decanter from me, for the wine swirled within it, placing it on the tray, which was in the empty place at the table. |
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| 52 | 213 |
My performance had been feigned, my words empty, my actions lies. |
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| 52 | 336 |
I shook with tears, miserable and desolate, empty and lost. |
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| 54 | 129 |
"And they will find it empty," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 57 | 47 |
Two of the guards then examined the wagon, determining that it was empty. |
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| 58 | 63 |
I had no idea what he was talking about, as the wagon had been empty when we had left it. |
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| 60 | 149 |
He retained the goblet, but it was, I think, empty. |
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| 61 | 180 |
The stands were now largely empty. |
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| 61 | 403 |
And how would one escape, slave clad or stripped, branded and collared? And where could one escape to, in a world in which one could be but one thing, a slave? And why had my master wanted me to reach the wagon? I knew it to be empty. |
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| 61 | 472 |
"The wagon was empty," I said. |
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| 61 | 655 |
Surely it had been empty, as had been intended, upon our arrival at the feast, a situation that had been confirmed by suspicious guards, but it had been arranged, clearly, certainly not with my knowledge, for I was a slave, that the Lady Bina and Eve would make their way, in another wagon, to the sc... |
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| 66 | 7 |
Is that not to the advantage of those who fear nature, who regard it as threatening their ambitions? But why should the goals of one be imposed as demands on others? Why is prescription superior to need and desire? If one desires to submit, to kneel, to serve, and love, why should one not do so? Who... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 165 |
You will then, your stomach empty, be washed, whipped, and brought again to the ramp. |
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| 2 | 205 |
There were many empty places in the tiers. |
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| 3 | 265 |
When we had concluded our little encounter, so empty and meaningless, we would go our separate ways. |
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| 4 | 14 |
The intermediate cage was empty, and we could see one another, though not easily, through the bars. |
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| 10 | 109 |
Euphrosyne passed me, on her way to the kitchen, with an empty tray. |
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| 21 | 11 |
Only a few steps from the pantry, however, distraught and confused, the tunic in my hand, I turned about, wildly, and rushed back to the pantry, to beg him for some intelligence as to what this whole mad business, so curious and mysterious, might be about, but the pantry was empty. |
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| 24 | 8 |
The shelf was not full as five rings were empty. |
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| 24 | 164 |
Seven rings which had formerly been occupied were now empty. |
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| 27 | 75 |
"Let us hope it is not empty". |
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| 32 | 28 |
Had I been able to speak, I would have called out, to inquire, or inform an interloper that the apartment was not empty, or cried out, to utter a warning or sound an alarm, anything to somehow rid myself of an unwelcome, unseen presence outside the door, anything to discourage an intrusion. |
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| 33 | 314 |
They proffer empty promises and drain your resources. |
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| 36 | 39 |
The chair at the literal head of the table, a large, sturdy, armed chair, was empty. |
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| 39 | 52 |
"It is large, but empty," I said. |
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| 40 | 42 |
The captain's chair, at the head of the table, was empty, because the master of the holding, Bosk, of Port Kar, was at sea. |
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| 46 | 172 |
We must give them something to think of other than empty goblets". |
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| 46 | 177 |
"And will they play to an empty floor?" asked the Vat Master. |
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| 46 | 327 |
"Paga, paga!" said a fellow at one of the tables, striking his empty goblet on the table. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 94 |
He did not stop at the paga vat but carried the empty goblet through the beaded curtain to the side. |
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| 11 | 192 |
"Gone! The pouch is empty! Return to your tables!" "Gratitude to our benefactor!" cried a man. |
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| 13 | 144 |
"Now," I said, "shatter the vessels, break open the kegs and barrels, empty the contents of all containers. |
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| 16 | 7 |
"Why do you want to see such a thing, so empty, so small, so flat, and barren?" "I am curious," I said. |
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| 20 | 169 |
I looked about, at the shredded walls of the long tent, now so barren, now so empty. |
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| 24 | 54 |
It was empty. |
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| 25 | 9 |
I then returned my attention to the empty fairgrounds. |
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| 27 | 79 |
In one 'Urn Game', even numbers of red and black ostraca are placed in an empty urn. |
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| 31 | 25 |
Shortly thereafter they had entered the palisade, where they found not an armed resistance nor startled, terrified villagers, intimidated villagers, but nothing, only crowded, dry empty huts, stripped even of pots and pans. |
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| 32 | 68 |
The center of the column was shattered and, in moments, as corsairs fled, the road was empty save for dust, bodies, and loot bags. |
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| 35 | 173 |
"The Dorna returned to port yesterday, after a third hunt, once more with her game bag empty". |
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| 44 | 104 |
"But surely the minions of Archelaos are unwilling to return to Sybaris empty handed," said Thurnock. |
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| 47 | 17 |
Some four Ahn after the beginning of the evacuation, the beach was empty save for bodies and equipment. |
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| 49 | 19 |
"The beach is empty," said Thurnock. |
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| 49 | 84 |
His victory on the beach would have been slight and, for most practical purposes, empty. |
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