| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 223 |
For a moment it looked like a falling star, but then it suddenly became clear and substantial, like a broad, thick disk of silver. |
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| 5 | 177 |
I was suddenly aware, dizzily conscious, that one of the enemy tarns was sinking downward, flopping wildly, falling into the recesses of the swamp forest below. |
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| 6 | 62 |
In the sickening instant of falling I realized I had not fastened my own saddle belt in the wild flight from the roof of the Ubar's cylinder. |
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| 7 | 173 |
A marvelous cascade of hair, as black as the wing of my tarn, loosened behind her, falling to the ground. |
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| 12 | 104 |
Falling, I twisted madly, unsupported in the air, a wordless cry of anguish in my throat, and watched in horror as the ground seemed to rush upward to meet me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 69 |
Outside there was a light snow falling, soft as colored felt in the lonely neon lights of the street. |
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| 4 | 2 |
It was a nightmarish journey, and a foolish one, trying to rush on through the night to find my city, bruising, falling, scraping myself in the darkness, yet driven on by such a torment of doubt and apprehension that I could allow myself no rest until I stood again on the lofty bridges of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 12 | 29 |
She wore only a single garment, a long, narrow rectangle of rough, brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her knees and belted at the waist with a chain. |
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| 14 | 156 |
Some spears fell in lazy loops below us, short by far, falling back again into the gala-colored sand of the arena. |
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| 14 | 200 |
The descent was as smooth and silent as the falling of a rock, the opening of a hand. |
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| 17 | 110 |
He backed away, the whip arm falling. |
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| 18 | 118 |
My hands bled on the grating, the blood falling back in my upturned face, but I would not release the bars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 31 | 182 |
I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black... |
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| 9 | 199 |
In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he... |
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| 12 | 258 |
"Follow me," said the first man and turned, and I followed him, leaving the room, the second man falling into stride beside me. |
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| 17 | 1 |
The Scanning Room Though the moss in the case was soft I had great difficulty in falling asleep that night, for I could not rid my mind of the turbulence which had been occasioned in it by the disclosures of Misk, the Priest-King. |
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| 25 | 130 |
She struggled to her hands and knees, her head hanging down, her hair falling over her head to the floor of the shaft. |
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| 29 | 50 |
The second craft shot wildly toward the ceiling of the complex and shattered on the stone ceiling, falling back to the ground in a shower of wreckage. |
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| 29 | 56 |
While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the fourth ship a... |
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| 31 | 100 |
Misk covered my body with his own and then with his great strength, reared up, stones falling from his back like water from the body of a swimmer. |
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| 31 | 112 |
In a few moments, though the disk was damaged by falling stone and I could barely see through the powdery drifts of rock hanging in the collapsing tunnels, I had come to the Power Plant and leaped from the disk and raced to its doors. |
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| 32 | 69 |
In the distance we could hear dull explosions and the crash of falling rock. |
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| 32 | 199 |
I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun. |
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| 32 | 318 |
And Parp uttered a great sob, his head falling against the shoulder of his daughter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 43 |
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness. |
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| 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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| 7 | 261 |
Elizabeth Cardwell took the meat in her two hands, confined before her by slave bracelets and the chain of the Sirik, and, bending her head, the hair falling forward, ate it. |
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| 9 | 134 |
In donning the camisk the girl will tie the camisk behind the back of her neck; the rather vertical bar then falls before her, and she will then pull it to the sides, and tie it behind her back, this providing some shielding, though not much, for the beauty of her bosom; the farther part of the bar,... |
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| 10 | 451 |
I gather that the Wagon Peoples, if they wanted sabers or regarded them as valuable, would be able to acquire them, in spite of the fact that they have no metalworking of their own; there might be some attempt to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Wagon Peoples, but where there are gold... |
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| 14 | 57 |
A few arrows from those who followed us looped weakly up after them, falling then among the wagons. |
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| 21 | 341 |
I heard the hiss of crossbow quarrels and one rider and his mount stumbled off the wagon top, falling and rolling to one side, others bounding over him. |
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| 23 | 109 |
Bloody, covered with sweat, gasping, we saw the living Paravaci draw back, falling back between the newly forming lines on the gradient above. |
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| 25 | 732 |
She shrugged in her collar and put her head to one side, her hair falling to the rug. |
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| 25 | 935 |
He decided, falling asleep, that he would keep them both slave for a few days, if only to teach them a lesson. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 14 |
"Kajuralia," said he, nearly falling over backwards, being rescued by one of his fellows, who seemed fortunately to be falling in the opposite direction at the same time. |
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| 2 | 148 |
No one heard the striking of sword steel, but all saw the turning body of the man with the missing teeth falling sprawled over the low table. |
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| 3 | 1 |
The Game When I deemed it wise to depart from Vella, I knotted her yellow slave livery about her neck and cried out, "Begone, Slave!" and then slapped my hands together at which juncture she let forth a howl as though she had been struck, and then, blubbering hysterically and crying out, she scrambl... |
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| 12 | 10 |
The wing of one bird was apparently broken, for the netmen, after binding it, quickly cut its throat, the blood falling through the net, staining it, soaking into the sand below in a brownish red patch. |
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| 13 | 354 |
"This afternoon," I said, "at the races, I saw a rider cut the safety straps and free himself from a falling bird". |
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| 15 | 362 |
Many houses would doubtless have put them up for sale in En'Kara, but Cernus, as I had heard, was saving them for the Love Feast, which occupies the five days of the fifth passage hand, falling late in the summer. |
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| 15 | 387 |
The slave girl sitting on the furs, for the kalika is played either sitting or standing, bent over her instrument, her hair falling over the neck of it, lost in her music, a gentle, slow melody, rather sad. |
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| 15 | 397 |
"Caste sanctuary!" cried Portus, shaking himself free of the guards and stumbling forward and falling on his knees before the wooden dais on which sat the table of Cernus. |
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| 17 | 535 |
She was kneeling on the stones, bent over, her head down, the hair falling forward, clad only in the bit of red silk, her wrists braceleted behind her back. |
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| 17 | 583 |
Her black hair was quite marvelous, long and unbound, falling as it did over her shoulders; her eyes were dark and deeply beautiful; her body, as the slave masters had intended, was tormentingly magnificent; the features of her face and lips showed to my eye, which had become more discerning in the ... |
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| 17 | 606 |
My hand closed on her wrist and she cried out in pain, the goad falling to the floor, rolling. |
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| 18 | 316 |
Some startled slaves leaped up, each chained by one ankle to her ring; but most slept, drunk; one or two, too drunk to notice me, were sitting against the wall, their left ankles chained to their slave rings, a bottle of Ka-la-na in their grasp, their hair falling forward. |
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| 23 | 227 |
There Ho-Tu, with his hook knife, had cut his own throat, falling across the body of Sura. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 144 |
The arrow seemed lost, as though among the clouds, and so far was it that it seemed vanished in its falling. |
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| 4 | 98 |
The rence knife flashed through a stem and then I cut the tufted, flowered head, it falling in the water, and threw the stem on the rence craft, with the numerous others. |
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| 4 | 171 |
She struck together, over a copper bowl, a bit of steel and flint, the sparks falling into some dried petals of the rence. |
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| 5 | 216 |
Then, falling to my hands and knees, lowering my head, I crawled into the hut. |
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| 5 | 222 |
I did so, fumbling in the darkness, striking together the flint and steel, sparks falling into the small bowl of dried petals of the rence. |
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| 6 | 22 |
But we found rencers running toward us, men, and women, and children, their hands outstretched, stumbling, falling. |
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| 7 | 63 |
Then, as the oar-master again cried out, they entered as one into the water; and then, as he cried out again, each oar drew slowly in the water, and then turned and lifted, the water falling in the light from the blades like silver chains. |
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| 8 | 90 |
Sometimes merely the movement of a tharlarion or the flutter of a marsh gant, something completely unrelated to us, would summon a great falling and hissing of bolts into the marsh. |
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| 8 | 166 |
I was no longer worthy of the red of the warrior, no longer worthy of serving the Home Stone of my city, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning; it seemed to me then that there were only winds and strengths, and the motions of bodies, the falling of rain, the movements of bacilli, the beating of hearts... |
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| 9 | 500 |
Then, suddenly, falling to my hands and knees, I threw up into the dark waters. |
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| 9 | 659 |
His lips moved, but then he coughed, and there was more blood, and he stiffened, and then, his head falling to one side, he was only weight in our arms. |
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| 11 | 35 |
More captains, their back to the room, fighting, falling, were retreating through the door. |
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| 11 | 144 |
The coup intended to destroy them, swift as the falling of the assassin's blade, had failed. |
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| 11 | 330 |
Lysias stood scowling before Samos, his helmet in the crook of his arm, his long cloak falling behind him. |
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| 15 | 41 |
I stood among the falling flowers, my hand lifted to the crowds. |
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| 15 | 652 |
In fury, I rushed on, sometimes falling, sometimes striking against the walls. |
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| 18 | 134 |
Far below I saw the Dorna, lifting and falling in the troughs of the waves, and, separated from her, the ships of the fleet, round ships and tarn ships, storm sails set, oars dipping, flying before the storm. |
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| 18 | 614 |
There was a great screaming from the siege ladders, and I heard men crying out with death, and terror, and heard the scraping of the ladders and then their falling back, showering bodies on those crowded below, waiting to scale them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 914 |
Ute reached it first, laughing, falling to her hands and knees and putting her head down to the grass, her hair falling over the sandal of one of the two guards waiting there. |
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| 2 | 19 |
With my head down, hair falling to the rug, on my hands and knees, I shook my head. |
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| 2 | 112 |
In the sun, the air stinging my eyes, particles of soot and ash falling on me, I knotted one end of the rope of sheets securely about a small iron railing that surmounted a waist-high wall around the patio and terrace. |
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| 8 | 899 |
Sometimes, before falling asleep, or even in my dreams, I had fancied myself in their arms. |
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| 9 | 68 |
I recalled with shame how I had, near the fire, placing my guard's hand in my binding fiber, encouraged my own ravishment as a slave girl, and how I had knelt, my hair falling about his face, to kiss him. |
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| 9 | 534 |
The door shut behind me, two beams falling into place, barring it. |
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| 11 | 778 |
I had run madly away, through the dark trees, stumbling, falling, rolling, getting up and running again. |
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| 12 | 505 |
The water ran over the small, circular floor of the cage, and some of it dripped out, falling to the ground. |
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| 12 | 673 |
I saw men fighting between the wagons, some falling. |
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| 13 | 622 |
Terribly afraid of falling, I did so. |
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| 13 | 873 |
The tarns then, rearing up in the sky, facing one another, began to tear at one another with their beaks and talons, and then, talons locked, they began, beaks snapping and tearing, to twist and roll, turning, locked together, falling, climbing, tumbling, wings beating, screaming in rage. |
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| 15 | 1479 |
I was hurled stumbling and falling to the rugs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 14 |
Their heads were down, their blond hair falling forward. |
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| 2 | 539 |
Gorean galleys commonly carry several sails, usually falling into three main types, fair-weather, "tarn," and storm. |
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| 2 | 598 |
Her teeth closed on the meat and she cried out in her throat, a gasp, a tiny cry, glad, inarticulate, uncontrollable, and began to bite at the leg, swiftly, tearing at it, her head to one side, the blond hair falling over my wrist. |
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| 3 | 106 |
It is not unusual to encounter a fellow with a jacket of sleen fur, falling to his knees, sewn in the circle stitch of Scagnar, who wears upon his forehead a silken headband of Ar. |
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| 5 | 380 |
She fell to her knees on the deck, head down, hair falling forward, revealing the collar at her neck, and wept. |
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| 6 | 131 |
"But I expect," I said, "that she will have little difficulty in falling in with Verna's band". |
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| 8 | 228 |
"Run!" We fled, stumbling, falling, from the hut. |
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| 9 | 322 |
But now it did not seem that she would stand beside me among falling flowers on the bow of the Tesephone, on some great holiday declared in Port Kar, as we returned in triumph to that city, making our way through its flower-strewn canals, beneath the windows and rooftops of cheering throngs. |
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| 11 | 315 |
Sometimes, when a city is being sacked, high-born free women, fearful of falling into the hands of chieftains of the enemy, have themselves branded and collared, and don slave tunics, and mix with their own slave girls, to prevent their identity from being known. |
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| 13 | 74 |
I saw the distant churning in the water, and saw, far off, the narrow head of a river shark, lifting itself, water falling from it, and the dorsal fins, black and triangular, of four others. |
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| 14 | 306 |
Suddenly the drum stopped and Hura stopped, her body bent backward, her head back, her long black hair falling to the back of her knees. |
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| 18 | 6 |
He had then stumbled down the beach, falling twice, until he came to the shallows and the sand, among driftwood, stones and damp weed, washed ashore in the morning tide. |
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| 18 | 35 |
His men, fifty-five men of Tyros, some falling, made their way down the beach, across the stones, to the edge of the water. |
10 |
| 18 | 194 |
There was a great cheer as, in the falling darkness, the torch thrust down into the oil-soaked wood. |
10 |
| 19 | 93 |
I led the way to the stockade, the men of Sarus falling into step beside me. |
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| 20 | 69 |
Another man of Tyros reeled away from me, stumbling, falling against the chained slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 339 |
Then, a moment later, we heard the falling of another wall. |
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| 4 | 31 |
Sometimes they use the shadows of the gunwales, falling across the thwarts, judging their angles. |
10 |
| 5 | 335 |
Then he looked aft, at the small boats falling behind. |
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| 7 | 296 |
It slumped forward, over the couch half falling across the body of a hysterical bondmaid. |
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| 9 | 72 |
The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away. |
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| 9 | 362 |
Within an Ahn, Hilda the Haughty, to the jeers of men, the taunts of bondmaids, on her hands and knees, head down, hair falling forward, crept to the circle of the bondmaid, which Ivar Forkbeard had drawn in the dirt of the hall floor, between the posts. |
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| 10 | 80 |
A man in direct fee with the Jarl is, in effect, a mercenary; the Jarl himself, from his gold, and stores, where necessary or desirable, arms the man; this expense, of course, is seldom necessary in Torvaldsland; sometimes, however, a man may break a sword or lose an ax in battle, perhaps in the bod... |
10 |
| 11 | 231 |
The human being was regarded, by Kurii, as falling within the scope of application of such terms. |
10 |
| 14 | 149 |
Too, they pressed in from the sides, axes falling. |
10 |
| 14 | 205 |
Some men, tangled in the bodies, screamed, the axes falling upon them. |
10 |
| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
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| 18 | 55 |
Its head half to one side it rose to its feet and ran for a dozen yards before it slipped, falling sideways, rolling into the fur and burning leather of one of their lodges. |
10 |
| 18 | 294 |
Screaming men, axes raised, emerged from the dust, running, falling upon the devastated Kurii. |
10 |
| 18 | 323 |
"Thank you, my Jarl!" she wept, leaping to her feet, and falling into step on his left, two steps behind him. |
10 |
| 18 | 428 |
Behind him stood a blond slave girl, naked, her hair falling to her waist. |
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| 22 | 224 |
Then he threw her back to the deck, where, on her stomach, and elbows, head down, hair falling to the deck, she lay. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 838 |
She gasped for breath; her body was beautiful, her breasts lifting and falling, as she drank deeply of the air. |
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| 2 | 284 |
I cuffed her, and she turned, weeping, to her stomach, her head down, her tears falling in the straw. |
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| 2 | 554 |
She wore a halter of leather; she wore a belt of leather; two strips of leather girded her, falling to her knees; about her calves, crossing, leather straps bound heavy sandals on her feet. |
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| 7 | 205 |
Even a light stroke of such a blade, falling across an arm, would drop through the flesh, leaving its incised record, a quarter of an inch deep, in the bone beneath. |
10 |
| 8 | 48 |
I saw a water bag being slashed, the water dark on the side of a kaiila, it shifting and rearing, the water falling, soaking into the dust. |
10 |
| 11 | 47 |
The danger is primarily that the kaiila may, struggling, and falling, break their limbs". |
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| 11 | 402 |
She knelt before him, and kissed his feet, her hair falling over them. |
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| 11 | 517 |
I saw a palm tree falling. |
10 |
| 14 | 656 |
He staggered toward the compounds, running, half falling, down the long slope. |
10 |
| 17 | 227 |
Almost at the edge of the raft the great body lifted in the water, turning to its side, jaws dropping open, lunging, falling, biting, onto the beams, thrashing. |
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| 18 | 110 |
Two men, with yoke bags, falling before their body, on each side, stepped forward. |
10 |
| 19 | 63 |
He moved the bag of water he carried to his left shoulder, it falling before and behind. |
10 |
| 21 | 313 |
The Kur, commonly, emerges from its lair with the falling of darkness. |
10 |
| 21 | 358 |
It was a weapon, pressed to the temple of a world, set to be discharged with the falling of darkness. |
10 |
| 21 | 545 |
I was lifted in the air and hurled against the wall of the ship, and I fell back from the wall, falling some ten feet to the remains of a twisted, ruptured bulkhead, slipped from it and fell another five feet into a debris of scrap and wire. |
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| 24 | 798 |
Males who satisfy their nature are vital and joyful, and, statistically, live long; those who deny their nature are miserable and, statistically, shorter lived, their tortured body chemistry falling prey frequently to hideous diseases". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 685 |
"Wait! Please, wait!" Gasping for breath I fled after him, stumbling, sometimes falling. |
10 |
| 4 | 513 |
I heard men falling, stumbling, getting up, pursuing me. |
10 |
| 7 | 157 |
He then ripped the sleeves from the undergarment, and they hung about her wrists, loose, kept from falling by her wrists and the slave bracelets confining her at the tree. |
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| 9 | 1888 |
Ladletender, too, raised his arm, his sleeve falling back. |
10 |
| 11 | 190 |
I turned the handle on the tiny door and, falling to my belly, squirmed through. |
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| 16 | 53 |
Suddenly, in the dim light, falling through the opened hatch, I could see the musty tiers and their helpless, fair occupants. |
10 |
| 16 | 243 |
"The smell!" screamed one of them, and then she was thrust stumbling, half falling, through the opening. |
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| 21 | 152 |
The oars, in unison, twenty on each side, dipped into the waters of the harbor, drew and lifted, the water falling from them in bright droplets, splashing back into the harbor. |
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| 27 | 191 |
I saw Bran Loort seize a man by the collar and loft him into the air, the fellow flying backward, then falling, crashing, skidding across two tables. |
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| 28 | 349 |
I cried, tears falling to the wood of the block, mixing in the sawdust. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 89 |
Scormus lifted his hands to the crowd, the sleeves of his robe falling back over his arms. |
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| 4 | 428 |
He lifted his arms to the crowd, the sleeves of the player's robes falling back on his shoulders. |
10 |
| 6 | 941 |
She knew that it was only her master's hands on her which prevented her from falling to the ground, hundreds of feet below. |
10 |
| 11 | 351 |
She screamed, and he spun back, falling from the platform to the turf. |
10 |
| 11 | 375 |
They had no wish to meet me falling upon them from the tarn's ambush, the sun. |
10 |
| 21 | 10 |
Often, however, in the night and near morning, the lamps extinguished, and the guests departed, it can become quite cold in such dwellings, often falling below the freezing point. |
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| 22 | 302 |
Thus, when the paddle is lifted the water, falling from its blade, does not run back down the lever and into one's sleeve. |
10 |
| 30 | 265 |
I was then conscious of a whitish gas falling from the ceiling. |
10 |
| 35 | 120 |
"It is my intention, Imnak," I said, "to locate and detonate the device concealed in this complex which is intended to prevent the supplies here from falling into the hands of enemies". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 677 |
"We must attempt to regain the ring," said Samos, "or, at worst, prevent it from falling into the hands of the Kurii". |
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| 11 | 304 |
They looped it about a slave ring, set there in the wall, one of four, about a yard above the floor, and tied it there, the long, free ends falling loose, coiling, to the floor. |
10 |
| 14 | 455 |
Behind her, her hair came, falling, to the sweetness of her shoulder blades. |
10 |
| 14 | 601 |
Miserable, she did so, her hair falling before her face, trembling, her sweet breasts pendant. |
10 |
| 23 | 459 |
Without speaking further, or attempting to draw his dagger, he leaped from the planks into the water, falling, scrambling up, and plunging away into the darkness. |
10 |
| 32 | 2 |
The girls cried out in anguish, slipping, trying to keep the canoe from falling. |
10 |
| 34 | 470 |
Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ... |
10 |
| 53 | 362 |
I slipped free as the animal screamed and reeled about, then fell, falling among the stones and wood, scratching at the stone. |
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| 55 | 10 |
We felt a shock wave of great heat and saw trees falling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 199 |
The first of the beasts leaped upward toward me, falling short by several feet, falling back, scrambling, among the others. |
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| 4 | 17 |
I do not want them falling to their knees by you, to seize you, to fawn upon you, to hold you, to lick and kiss you". |
10 |
| 4 | 134 |
Then she lay back on the tiles, watching me, her sweet breasts rising and falling with her breathing. |
10 |
| 4 | 204 |
The hair of both Lola and Tela was long, falling well to the small of their backs. |
10 |
| 7 | 70 |
I remembered Earth, with its pettiness, its greed and vanity, its smugness, its pretensions, its pollutions and poisons, its teeming, crowded, miserable populations, and its endemic fears, fears such as that of not having enough energy to spin the wheels of an exorbitant and largely unnecessary tech... |
10 |
| 13 | 670 |
The breasts of some were rising and falling with excitement. |
10 |
| 20 | 91 |
Then spitting blood from my mouth, my legs covered to the knees with sweat and sand, pounding, laughing, exultant, terrible, I saw the post shatter away, falling from me. |
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| 34 | 61 |
We heard the lash falling on a girl, doubtless the one recently tied at the post. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 221 |
"Please, no, Master!" wept Florence, falling to her knees beside him, clutching at him. |
10 |
| 30 | 280 |
I saw her lower her head, the dark hair falling upon my body. |
10 |
| 30 | 394 |
"Yes, Master," said the girl, hurrying forward and falling to her knees before him. |
10 |
| 31 | 166 |
A golden shaft of light filtered downward, falling gently into the chamber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 62 |
In moments I and the others, now some seven men, cutting at pirates, severing ropes, separated the two vessels and, as they slipped loose of one another, leaped onto the stern of the Tina, falling upon the pirates who had boarded her there. |
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| 7 | 18 |
More than one, at the waterline, or on her decks, it falling among crowded men, had been smitten with stones cast from the catapults of their own ships. |
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| 8 | 175 |
Then, suddenly, she darted past me, falling to her knees at the side of a great sea chest. |
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| 17 | 925 |
She then got to her feet, the long leash falling before her. |
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| 19 | 779 |
"Oh!" she cried out, in misery, the lash again swiftly falling upon her. |
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| 20 | 324 |
Imagine, then, that a woman, falling slave, suddenly realized that she was now, in effect, subject to them! Consider her fears, her curiosity, her arousal! A woman, often, particularly if stripped, seeing a chain and knowing that it is to be placed upon her, will feel uncontrollable sexual desire, h... |
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| 20 | 712 |
"Yes, Master," she said, stopping, turning, and falling to her knees. |
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| 20 | 754 |
"Thank you, Master!" She rose to her feet, and ran to me, falling to her knees before me and putting her head down to my feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 969 |
The snow has stopped falling. |
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| 5 | 72 |
I supposed such forces might indeed enter the Barrens and wreak some havoc, perhaps falling upon some Dust-Leg villages. |
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| 5 | 159 |
I wondered what she might look like in dancing silk and a steel collar, perhaps kneeling before me, the shadow of my whip falling across her body. |
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| 14 | 869 |
"Oh," she cried, eyes closed, squirming helplessly, rearing half upward, trussed, then falling back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 240 |
This is to protect the infant's head in the event of the cradle falling, say, from the back of a running kaiila. |
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| 4 | 281 |
It signifies a mist, or a slowly falling rain. |
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| 6 | 23 |
My kaiila squealed and, as I headed it off, it tried to climb the side of the draw, scrambling at it, then slipping back, falling, rolling, to the side. |
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| 9 | 587 |
The buying and selling, and trading, and bestowing, and such, of women tends to increase, course, the possibilities of a fellow's chances of obtaining a slave whom he really wants, whom he would die for, as indeed they tend to improve the probabilities of the girl, as well, falling into the hands of... |
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| 12 | 43 |
Lagging beasts were incited to new speeds, treated to the admonishments of hissing leather, falling across their backs, flanks and rumps. |
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| 26 | 2 |
His kaiila in the clash of shield and lances had lost its footing, spinning and falling back to its haunches. |
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| 26 | 29 |
There a Kaiila warrior leapt upon him, knife rising and falling. |
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| 27 | 88 |
Another perished similarly, lances thrust upward through the ropes and cloth, until, bleeding, wounded again and again, he could be pulled down, falling to the ground, there to die under knives. |
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| 30 | 206 |
Then would be the time of the falling upon the slain, the time of the knives, the time of the trophies. |
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| 34 | 90 |
"One is falling back. |
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| 35 | 113 |
Then lightning again illuminated the stormy sky and the driving torrents of rain, and then the lightning and rain were gone, and then there were great ringing blows, and the great hammer of Kron, of the metal workers, lifting and falling, smote on a mighty anvil, showering sparks in the night, which... |
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| 35 | 216 |
I heard small stones slipping and falling backward, down the slope. |
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| 37 | 560 |
Struggling, wings beating, screaming, the bird, lunging and falling, and climbing again, fought the weight. |
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| 40 | 523 |
Suddenly she broke loose from him and turned about, almost falling. |
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| 40 | 535 |
Radish lost no time in falling to her knees. |
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| 42 | 36 |
I then, as he did so, hurled the line I carried to him, it falling across the back of his tarn where he seized it, wrapping it about his fist. |
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| 43 | 216 |
Is this not the sort of thing which is involved in the ringed candles, in the tiny stream of water in the clepsydra, in the falling sand in the Ahn glass, in the alternation of day and night, and in the calendar of the stars? I stirred up the fire again, so that I might better see what I was doing. |
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| 43 | 284 |
The stressing and jerking of the straps, which Iwoso could feel through the back of her neck, was the result, merely, of my looping part of one strap about the other and then jerking against it, the second strap end, of course, falling free as soon as I released it, leaving only the first knot in pl... |
10 |
| 44 | 484 |
Yet I think that more than a hundred and fifty Yellow Knives might already have perished, victims of that steep, dreadful trail, crowded from it, driven from it, trampled upon it, and some even falling under the weapons of their own fellows, fighting for space on the rugged ascent. |
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| 44 | 497 |
Slowly, with difficulty on the narrow trail, some backing down, some turning, some falling, the Yellow Knives on the lower lengths of the trail, pressing back among their fellows at the foot of Council Rock, freed the lower ascents, enabling their trapped fellows on the upper reaches of the trail, t... |
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| 47 | 178 |
He was released, falling through the clouds below us, disappearing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 56 |
I stood there for a moment, the shadows of the bars and crosspieces falling across my face and body. |
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| 8 | 460 |
He conducted me to a pool of light, at the foot of a shaft of light, falling from a high, barred window. |
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| 12 | 35 |
Falling in behind Ligurious were some five or six men, not my guards, who were dressed much as he was. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 149 |
Her breasts, rising and falling, moved nicely under the silk. |
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| 8 | 95 |
His attention had been distracted by a tiny sound, the sound of a falling pebble, to one side. |
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| 8 | 254 |
Then the other, he who had been the confidant of the leader, pitched forward, falling near the fire. |
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| 8 | 278 |
A falling out occurred here in which I was forced to defend myself. |
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| 9 | 475 |
"It is only that it would be difficult to move in them without falling". |
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| 21 | 8 |
"Yes, Master," she said, swiftly falling to her knees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1529 |
She looked up at me, puzzled, I then, after regarding her for a time, suddenly, with the back of my hand, struck her fiercely back from the mat, she twisting and falling back, flung to the side from her knees, almost half on her feet for an instant, then losing her balance, then falling back into th... |
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| 3 | 2 |
The women crowding about the back of the wagon, many with their hands outstretched, the sleeves of their robes falling back, cried out in consternation. |
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| 16 | 695 |
Tears fell from the woman's eyes, falling to the marble. |
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| 22 | 323 |
There was a tiny falling of light, in a narrow, descendant shaft, into the room. |
10 |
| 23 | 4 |
He was having difficulty falling, however, unconscious though he might be, for the press of folks about the far end of the velvet rope, leading to the Central Cylinder, fighting for places on it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 247 |
"Ai!" I cried, suddenly, recoiling, jerking back, falling to my side, in a rattle of chain. |
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| 8 | 126 |
I then, moving forward, getting my feet under me, climbed stumbling, falling, splashing, up the end of the container, and pulled myself, at last, gratefully, onto the descent ramp. |
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| 11 | 981 |
As the music concluded I performed floor movements, and the eyes of the men blazed, and fists pounded on the tables, and then the music was done and I lay before them on my back, my breasts rising and falling as I fought for breath, my body sheened with sweat, my hands beside me, palms up, my knees ... |
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| 16 | 168 |
A man held her from behind, keeping her from falling, by the upper arms. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 328 |
I went then again to the left side of the road and, when a wagon trundled by, unknown to the driver, I put my pack in it, and, again, as I had before, held to its right side with my left hand, to keep from falling in the road. |
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| 2 | 191 |
Water was running from the long roof of the two-part structure, perhaps two hundred feet in length, falling some thirty or forty feet down to the court. |
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| 5 | 357 |
Swiftly, crying out with misery, stumbling, falling, she tried to scramble to her feet. |
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| 5 | 358 |
Then, as swiftly as she could, falling twice more, partly crawling, weeping, she strove to reach the door of the kitchen. |
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| 5 | 362 |
She could not risk falling. |
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| 9 | 52 |
Too, her weight, slight as it was, might have made the difference between falling to pursuers and eluding them. |
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| 16 | 175 |
"It may be our only hope at escape," I said, "you falling to Cosians, I perhaps managing to mingle with them". |
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| 17 | 135 |
This occurred to me as he spun about, blood gushing from beneath his helmet, falling back down the steps. |
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| 17 | 420 |
The young fellow, seeing her difficulty, took her leash close to the collar, that he might, if necessary, steady her, and keep her from falling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1103 |
"Spy! Spy!" "Seize him!" I suddenly lost sight of Temione, buffeted aside, falling amongst the men. |
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| 4 | 17 |
"I cannot reach him!" cried a fellow with a sword, standing unsteadily, almost falling, in one of the light rence craft. |
10 |
| 14 | 294 |
Then he had been felled, falling among the beasts. |
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| 18 | 166 |
I lifted my chained wrists from about the neck of Titus and he, swiftly, falling, half crawling, moved away, scattering sand. |
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| 19 | 61 |
She threw her head back wildly, her hair falling back over the top of the pole, about at the base of her neck, looked up at the sky, and again screamed. |
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| 19 | 741 |
She was wading, falling, getting up, wading again. |
10 |
| 19 | 792 |
I saw her falling toward the marsh below. |
10 |
| 19 | 893 |
She then began to wash her limbs and body, and face, the water splashing and falling about her. |
10 |
| 43 | 22 |
Similarly, the light falling through the perforations forms a pattern of dots on her body, also in the form of the Kef. |
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| 47 | 30 |
Too, he had not counted on falling. |
10 |
| 47 | 261 |
But then I saw the bowmen, ten or more of them, almost as though in a dream, turning and sprawling, sinking, stumbling, falling into the dust. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 656 |
My holding to them kept me from falling. |
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| 8 | 852 |
Suddenly from my right emergent out of the dusk so quick so fierce so fast so large its head perhaps two feet in width the head large triangular its eyes blazing lunging toward the bars big the thing a hideous noise bars body pressing scratching I leaping back, screaming, it biting at the bars the f... |
10 |
| 13 | 292 |
I was afraid of falling. |
10 |
| 13 | 325 |
Another beast leaped upward, falling just short of her, its snout actually within the opened cage. |
10 |
| 13 | 1329 |
Even in the little I had seen of it I had found myself falling in love with this world, with its honesty, its truth and beauty. |
10 |
| 19 | 289 |
A clawlike hand was revealed, the sleeve of the robe falling back to the elbow. |
10 |
| 31 | 138 |
"No, Masters!" cried Fina, thrusting herself forward, falling to her knees in the damp corridor. |
10 |
| 40 | 71 |
"Forgive me, Master!" I said, falling to my knees. |
10 |
| 42 | 156 |
I heard them clinking again, presumably being returned to a wallet, falling in with others. |
10 |
| 46 | 214 |
"Yes, Master," I said, falling silent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 367 |
The two birds wheeled, and spun in the air, falling, climbing, screaming, falling. |
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| 10 | 224 |
There were the gentle kisses, some prolonged, some as light and quick as the shiftings of sunlight and shadow among stirring leaves, some as bright and unexpected as the pattering of momentary, shimmering drops of rain, some as tender as the falling of the petal of a flower, and the other kisses, th... |
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| 12 | 84 |
She heard a girl crying out, a few tubs from her, and, looking over, she saw blond, blue-eyed Nelsa flung on her belly over the water, she gripping the sides of the tub, desperately, to keep from falling into the water. |
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| 15 | 109 |
Ellen went to first position, as nearly as she could, braceleted, the cloth of the cut tunic falling between her widely spread thighs. |
10 |
| 17 | 504 |
She wished, just before falling asleep, pulling a little at her bonds, that Targo had given her a blanket, or a mat. |
10 |
| 17 | 902 |
Many Goreans, incidentally, fear falling in love with their slaves. |
10 |
| 18 | 642 |
Too, she did not wish to be smothered, or strangled, or suffer an unfortunate, fearful accident, for example, falling from the platform to the street so far below. |
10 |
| 19 | 578 |
She felt a sickening moment of abject terror, and the dizzying, terrifying sensation of being unsupported, of falling. |
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| 22 | 98 |
Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau... |
10 |
| 22 | 389 |
He then turned about, almost falling, and staggered away. |
10 |
| 24 | 864 |
Ellen, who well understood her condition, needed not be reprimanded or kicked, nor required a suggestion, or command, to be repeated, but squirmed immediately, prostrate, on her belly, to Selius Arconious, and, putting down her head, her hair falling about his sandals, kissed his feet. |
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| 25 | 815 |
She need not fear falling into his hands. |
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| 27 | 2088 |
There was suddenly a sound, a striking, as of a fist struck quickly, sharply, yet softly, into a chest, and the soldier atop the tharlarion wagon, he surveying the prairie, stiffened, stood unnaturally still for a moment, and then, half turning, knees buckling, tumbled from the surface of his post, ... |
10 |
| 27 | 2293 |
She clung to the wheel to which she was fastened, and it spun beneath her, and she turned with it, and then, to her misery, she felt the wagon rock backward, and it was falling away, toward the ground, and she nearly slipped from the wheel to which she clung, and then, as the wagon heavily righted i... |
10 |
| 29 | 123 |
Her wrists were then bound together, tightly, separated only by looping cordage, but in such a way that a length of rope was left free in front, extending from her wrists, falling to the ground. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 530 |
"They are turning!" The light which before had streamed into the arena was now lessening, as though night were falling, gradually, but at an unnatural pace. |
10 |
| 21 | 571 |
"In the falling of darkness I see the hand of Agamemnon," said Peisistratus. |
10 |
| 34 | 19 |
"Why should the temperature be falling?" asked Cabot. |
10 |
| 34 | 71 |
"Here!" In the darkness, in the cold, blinding water, he thrust the slave to the log, and, with loops of wet rope, loose from the log, fastened her to it, and then he thrust his own arm amongst the ropes, and clung to the log as it pitched about, rising and falling, and sometimes rolling over, takin... |
10 |
| 39 | 46 |
Cabot, who had noticed the Kur who had seemingly issued the order, put him next to the dust, he spinning about, and falling against the wall. |
10 |
| 48 | 7 |
"Take this," said Cabot, pressing a rind of sul into her hands, and she put down her head and fed on it, kneeling, gratefully, her hair falling about her wrists. |
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| 50 | 2 |
"Please, no, Master!" she cried, falling to her knees before him, and pressing her head to his feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1158 |
Then the chain moved, presumably frightened to remain where it was, presumably fearful of falling behind, and, the chain jerking against the side of her neck, she stumbled forward. |
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| 8 | 22 |
The Pyrrhic dances were used primarily as training exercises, but also figured in parades and martial displays, men shouting, spears clashing rhythmically on shields, the spear hedge rising and falling, wheeling about, a thousand spears in unison, this all to music. |
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| 9 | 191 |
The camp seemed to be, more than anything, a lumber camp, for logging was in process in the vicinity, and one, not unoften, heard the striking of axes, the crash of falling trees. |
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| 12 | 208 |
"But what if the safety strap is cut in battle?" "One then seizes, as one can, if one is in danger of falling," I said, "one of the saddle rings". |
10 |
| 16 | 277 |
I seized the mounting ladder of my tarn, hastened to the saddle, strung the ladder, fastened the safety strap, and yanked back on the one-strap, and, in a moment, the field of the training plaza, with its numerous, riddled targets, was falling away, beneath me. |
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| 22 | 51 |
Too, if he had had time to think, which seemed unlikely, the last thing he would wish to risk would be falling into the hands of vengeful captors. |
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| 28 | 36 |
The girls were cold, and rain was falling. |
10 |
| 28 | 48 |
Rain was falling, cold and pelting, almost blinding. |
10 |
| 32 | 25 |
The sun caught the falling, showering metal, again and again, and it was as a rainfall of gold. |
10 |
| 32 | 26 |
One could easily hear the weight of the falling metal, even yards away. |
10 |
| 38 | 365 |
We saw the oars dipping, water falling from the blades. |
10 |
| 41 | 26 |
"It is falling behind," said one of the mariners. |
10 |
| 42 | 16 |
It seemed there was only the eternal rushing of the water, the lifting and falling, again and again, and the cold, and the large body beside me, to which I numbly clung. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 269 |
Tears ran down her cheeks, some falling to the floor, between her knees. |
10 |
| 4 | 116 |
"If the world had an edge," said Lord Nishida, "would not Thassa have drained away, falling into the void?" "Perhaps there is a wall," I said. |
10 |
| 5 | 239 |
"Hold," said Lord Nishida, lifting his hand, the sleeve falling back about his wrist, as he did so. |
10 |
| 6 | 115 |
We stood there at the rail for a time, in the falling snow. |
10 |
| 7 | 216 |
"There is, too, the brink, the falling away place, where the world ends," said Thoas. |
10 |
| 8 | 469 |
Night was falling. |
10 |
| 12 | 28 |
The motion of the ship, whether its side to side rolling, or yaw, or its plunging, the lifting and falling of the bow, its pitch, is exaggerated at the height of the mast. |
10 |
| 12 | 227 |
She turned arrogantly about, but cried out, dragged backward, off balance, half falling, my hand in her hair. |
10 |
| 14 | 86 |
"Wait!" "Out oars!" cried Seremides, angrily, and, his rope falling amongst his oarsmen, the oars of his galley slid outward. |
10 |
| 16 | 93 |
Almost at the same time, another arrow, trailing a spume of smoke, ascended from the ship, paused at the height of its trajectory and then, trailing its tail of smoke, descended, falling into the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 320 |
The enemy rushed forward, but only some yards, before turning back, stumbling over falling bodies, riddled by arrows. |
10 |
| 16 | 323 |
Some of the enemy managed to reach the nets, as well, and began to climb, but, after a few yards, they dropped back in the water and swam to the wreckage of the galley, and that of some small boats, from which they were drawn to the deck of the warning ship, now falling back. |
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| 19 | 122 |
The sails, I feared, in the falling, flaming debris, would have been ignited, had they been dry. |
10 |
| 19 | 146 |
And later, as the ship had sought to effect its escape, I had seen her react, stung by the falling, fiery cinders. |
10 |
| 22 | 300 |
Men began to run toward us, some falling, stumbling, pushed from behind, jostled, some weapons down, some not lowered. |
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| 33 | 328 |
He caught my arm, once, and kept me from falling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 405 |
Already, in the scarlet swirl of memory, rising and falling like some warm fluid, I was uneasy. |
10 |
| 18 | 1041 |
"Please, Master!" cried Jane, falling to her knees. |
10 |
| 48 | 43 |
"What of yours?" cried Desmond of Harfax leaping to the dais, thrusting the central container to the floor, and falling upon it with his knife. |
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| 49 | 67 |
In any event, one snowy morning, several of us watched the departure of the small, remarkable ship, emerging from its housing, rising through the falling snow, then fading from sight, a ship with no crew, and with but one passenger, Tiresias, whom we all wished well. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 166 |
She leaped to her feet, darted with a scattering of straw past the fellow in blue, and, scrambling, sobbing, stumbling, falling once, leaping up again, fled toward the stairs, at the top of which, high above, was the dark, barred gate. |
10 |
| 25 | 409 |
The rain was then falling heavily. |
10 |
| 29 | 2 |
I had not run more than fifteen or twenty Ehn when I stopped, suddenly, almost falling. |
10 |
| 29 | 3 |
I heard the sound of a switch, falling on a body. |
10 |
| 39 | 65 |
"We are fools," she said, falling to her knees. |
10 |
| 39 | 606 |
I heard a scrambling in the dirt behind me, and stopped suddenly, almost falling, for the beast was now before me, between me and the river, head down, snarling. |
10 |
| 41 | 65 |
I thrust my wet hair back about my head, and, keeping my hands behind my head, put my head far back, and lifted it to the late-afternoon sky, my back arched, the water streaming from my body, sparkling in its droplets falling to the river. |
10 |
| 43 | 1022 |
She wept, her tears falling into the dirt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 408 |
"The falling leaf descends, completing its journey at its own pace". |
10 |
| 2 | 108 |
The ground was covered with a soft snow, which was still, gently, falling. |
10 |
| 2 | 120 |
It would be poor atonement, but might it not do? I lifted my head and stood in the falling snow. |
10 |
| 2 | 145 |
"I am here! Greet me!" It would be doubtless unpleasant to return to one's city, routed and defeated, clad in ashes and rags, to face its councils, to be denied bread, fire, and salt, but better, I thought, that than flight, or falling upon one's sword, for then one might return to war. |
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| 4 | 218 |
Then let us do contest here, in the falling snow. |
10 |
| 16 | 85 |
Two trusted servitors were then informed of the falling of the lot, that, in the case of an emergency, Lord Yamada might be expeditiously informed. |
10 |
| 20 | 374 |
I heard rain gently falling on the leaves of the trees in the garden. |
10 |
| 20 | 502 |
Beyond the opening, one could see the light of the colored lanterns reflected in the falling drops. |
10 |
| 20 | 525 |
I noted the rain, still falling outside, the lantern light illuminating the droplets, and then returned my attention to Tatsu. |
10 |
| 25 | 150 |
"She is falling!" said a man. |
10 |
| 25 | 215 |
I feared she would tumble to the side, falling to the pool. |
10 |
| 29 | 413 |
She sobbed, tears falling to the floor of the hut. |
10 |
| 30 | 654 |
I suspected, by now, the lightning, set to the bowstring of the heavy, dark, surging, turbulent clouds, was prepared to flash, the thunder to roll forth, to the beat of its drums, roaring like an avalanche in the Voltai, precipitating its tons of falling rocks to the valley below. |
10 |
| 32 | 5 |
I heard buffeting, falling, and cries of anger, and a slamming and barring of the rear entrance. |
10 |
| 32 | 113 |
They parted easily, almost falling away from the blade. |
10 |
| 44 | 219 |
Then I cried out, "Clear the parapet!" At that very moment the wall of the parapet a few feet to my right burst apart, stones rising in the sky, a hundred paces, and then falling, gracefully. |
10 |
| 44 | 245 |
I saw some sparks of light, and noted more broken arrows falling from its sides, to the ground below. |
10 |
| 46 | 35 |
The slave cried out with terror, broke away from the peasant, and tried to force her way through the crowd, even to falling to her hands and knees, and crawling, but she was in short order seized, held, and returned to her master, indeed thrown to the ground before him. |
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| 46 | 192 |
Her head, she unconscious, fell forward, some cut hair falling about the post. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 68 |
I was not sure I could stand, without falling. |
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| 19 | 13 |
I could well conjecture the light of the door lantern falling on the glistening cobbles, the water, reflecting the light, rushing down the gutters, the water diverted at the intersection by the stepping stones, high enough to protect a woman's robe hems and slippers, spaced widely enough to allow fo... |
10 |
| 32 | 29 |
A rain, scarcely noticeable, was falling. |
10 |
| 33 | 838 |
He pointed to his bootlike sandals, and I put my head down, my hair falling about his feet, and, tenderly and gratefully, permitted to do so, began to lick and kiss his feet, those of my master. |
10 |
| 45 | 68 |
He now had his hands lifted from the bowl, water falling from them. |
10 |
| 53 | 47 |
Who, leaving a house, would be afraid of going out and falling off a sidewalk? Yet, I think it could be understood that if that sidewalk were some hundred or more yards above ground the entire complexion of the matter would be altered. |
10 |
| 54 | 97 |
"One such weapon," said Lord Grendel, "could, in a matter of two or three Ihn, turn this bridge, and the cylinders it connects, into plunging, falling, air-scalding molten metal and stone". |
10 |
| 57 | 238 |
I saw the reeling Kur, no longer howling, enter the festive structure, look about, and then leap up, seizing the latticework of the bower, and then falling back to the ground amidst a confetti of flat, narrow boards that could not have begun to hold his weight. |
10 |
| 62 | 75 |
For example, many Goreans limited to the "First Knowledge" do not realize their world is one of many, and think that "Earth," of which they have heard, and from which many barbarian slaves are obtained, is merely a remote country or land falling outside "known Gor". |
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| 63 | 258 |
"There was a wagon," I said, "that lingered behind, neither exceeding our pace, nor slackening its pace, and falling behind". |
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| 69 | 32 |
Too, of course, there is always the danger, if one manages to elude one master, of falling into a more severe, more grievous bondage, which is almost certain to be inflicted on an apprehended fugitive slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 164 |
Such creatures, too, given their biological rhythms, are supposedly most active and dangerous early in the morning and toward dusk, in the morning after a night of hunger, one supposes, and, prior to the falling of darkness, to obtain enough nourishment to carry them through a foodless night. |
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| 8 | 881 |
It was low in the water, painted a mottled green, scarcely visible at first, almost lost in the swells, moving swiftly, so swiftly that, propelled by the mighty levers of its oars, rising and falling, in unison, shedding water, it was like a living spear. |
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| 10 | 264 |
The newcomer then turned toward me and I instantly lowered my head, hair falling about my face, pressed the goblet back, low, firmly, against my body, feeling the metal pressing into my belly, and then I lifted it to my lips and kissed it, deferentially, and then, my head down between my extended ar... |
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| 14 | 131 |
She grasped the sides of the basin, her head down, presumably to steady herself, to keep from falling. |
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| 27 | 150 |
I could be behind you so swiftly, you could not turn without losing your balance, falling, being at my mercy". |
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| 29 | 4 |
What cared I for the origins of some young mysterious swordsman? Such may rise, like a luminous sun, and, as soon, decline like a falling star. |
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| 33 | 551 |
At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q... |
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| 38 | 60 |
He slowed his pace, presumably that I would be in less danger of falling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 23 |
In short, after several mishaps or mistakes, such as great stones falling short, falling amidst advancing mercenaries, or mercenaries arriving too early at the wall and being afflicted with their own fire, or mercenary contingents lagging or holding back to avoid such fates, thus subverting the whol... |
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| 8 | 111 |
"Perhaps now you would care to join me, in quaffing a celebratory goblet of paga?" He howled with misery, turned about, and, half falling, continued to make his way down the slope. |
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| 19 | 8 |
Few blades in the islands can divide a loose, falling, unresisting net. |
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| 26 | 91 |
After a time the enemy ship was falling behind. |
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| 37 | 13 |
It was early, but work on Gor commonly follows the sun's day, not the conventions of clocks, whether of turning gears, ribbons of falling sand, or draining water. |
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| 41 | 34 |
In passing, it might also be mentioned that the heavy blocks used as ammunition, striking at the walls, or falling within the walls, particularly given their size and shape, were useful, in filling and repairing breaches. |
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| 45 | 77 |
There was a sound of abrupt movement, of a falling, a rising, and a dashing toward the door. |
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| 47 | 8 |
This plenitude of striking force was applied both singly and randomly and, occasionally, in thick volleys, falling like a dark, torrential rain of death. |
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| 56 | 51 |
Then it returned to the water, falling, like a mountain, and the residue of this great splash descended like rain on the Dorna and Tesephone, and the closest of the five corsair ships. |
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| 60 | 219 |
At the cry of the minion, Laios and Ctesippus, startled, looked back, over their shoulders, and Laios howled in horror, the net and its half-freed contents falling about his head and chest. |
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| 63 | 53 |
I looked astern, seeing the harbor at Sybaris falling behind. |
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