| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 45 |
"I think that is false," I said. |
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| 14 | 46 |
"I hope it is false". |
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| 17 | 81 |
"The impalement of Talena, daughter of Marlenus, false Ubar of Ar". |
10 |
| 18 | 43 |
"Pa-Kur wishes to know if the false Ubar, Marlenus, still lives". |
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| 18 | 54 |
"Where," I asked, "shall Pa-Kur take the daughter of the false Ubar to be executed?" The officer pointed to a distant cylinder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 110 |
"The soldiers of Tharna and her guardsmen will forsake the false Tatrix and serve the true Tatrix," I said. |
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| 24 | 187 |
Then treacherously I was set upon and sent to the Mines of Tharna, and Dorna the Proud and Thorn, this Captain, seized Lara, your Tatrix, and sold her into slavery—sold her to the slaver Targo, whose camp is now at the Fair of En'Kara, sold her for the sum of fifty silver tarn disks!" "What h... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 145 |
"But what if the mnemonic disks contain some false information?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 97 |
"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples". |
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| 23 | 15 |
Each people, as the Tuchuks had, had its false Ubar, its decoy to protect the true Ubar from danger or assassination. |
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| 25 | 591 |
"I will prove to you," she said, "that your theories are false". |
10 |
| 25 | 731 |
"The theory you mention," I said, grumbling, "about women longing to be slaves, if only for an hour, is doubtless false". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 380 |
"But doubtless those whom you call the Others, being suspicious, much as your kind, suspect that this information is false, designed to lead them into a trap. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 41 |
* * * * Silently, swiftly, with the stamina and skill of the rence girl, Telima, unerringly taking advantage of every break in the marsh growth, never making a false thrust or motion, brought our small craft soon into the vicinity of the heavy, slowed barges, hampered not only by their weight but by... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 326 |
There was surely a time in my life when I could not have believed this, when I would have found it preposterous, absurd, incomprehensible, false. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 718 |
There was already, though before dawn, a dim filtering of light in the forest, the false dawn, the inchoate, fractionated light preceding the true dawn, when Tor-tu-Gor, the common star of two worlds, would, as a Gorean poet once said, fling its straight, warming, undeflected spears of the morning a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 160 |
Yet we do know there are false answers to such a question. |
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| 13 | 81 |
Against these considerations it was argued that not even the gods themselves could blame Svein Blue Tooth, under these circumstances, for not honoring a piddling oath, extracted under false pretenses; one bold fellow even went so far as to insist that, under these special circumstances, it was a sol... |
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| 13 | 268 |
Too, the Forkbeard, in dealing with his Jarl, Svein Blue Tooth, would not use false stones. |
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| 21 | 44 |
But on Gor, as with others of her ilk, such lies and false dignities were not permitted her. |
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| 22 | 275 |
Everything that I had been taught had been false. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 747 |
Their minds seldom think in terms of unwarranted challenges, psychological strategies, false claims". |
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| 1 | 769 |
But I did not think it was false. |
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| 14 | 290 |
"You remember, perhaps," said Hamid, looking up, "the delicious slave, Vella, whom the Kurii found of much use, who testified against you in the court at Nine Wells, who, by her false testimony, assisted in having you sent to the pits of Klima?" "I recall the slave," I said. |
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| 16 | 230 |
He did not turn back, even when I warned him that his direction was false. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 686 |
While the pursuing soldiers followed a false scent, my master's men returned to their camp, from which, later, in a new direction, they might make their departure. |
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| 7 | 34 |
He later retook the throne of Ar, following upon the forcible, civil overthrew of Cernus of Ar, declared a false Ubar. |
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| 7 | 78 |
Her retinue was, even now, hurrying down a false trail in the opposite direction. |
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| 9 | 2129 |
It is true that they are romantic on Earth, but it is not false on Gor either. |
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| 25 | 38 |
We might, in time, break through it, but we have no assurance that we would not tap a false memory, set within her mind to deceive or mislead us. |
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| 25 | 39 |
What I would suspect we would encounter would be overlays of memories, the true with the false. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 132 |
"Is it a false alarm?" said the man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 639 |
"But Priest-Kings could surely determine, as soon as the switch was depressed, that the ring was false," I said. |
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| 1 | 679 |
"Kurii will want the false ring. |
10 |
| 1 | 699 |
The Sardar could then be warned to intercept Shaba with the false ring and deal as they will with him". |
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| 4 | 844 |
In my sea bag, too, was the false ring, which the girl had carried. |
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| 6 | 736 |
The lies of her false civilization cast aside, the veneers of her acculturation rent and discarded, being of no interest to Gorean men, who did not share them, the deepest and most primitive female animal in her would be liberated. |
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| 11 | 270 |
A new false ring may be fabricated, and new notes prepared". |
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| 12 | 2 |
"Do you have the false ring, and the notes with you?" asked Shaba. |
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| 12 | 38 |
"I will bring with me, when I return, of course," I said, "the false ring, that it may be borne to the Sardar". |
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| 12 | 41 |
This confirmed in my mind the soundness of the speculation of Samos that the false ring involved some serious threat or danger. |
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| 12 | 153 |
"And the false ring," pressed Msaliti. |
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| 12 | 159 |
Bring the notes and the false ring. |
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| 12 | 603 |
"Bring with you," said Shaba, "the false ring and the notes". |
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| 12 | 670 |
"Tomorrow," I said, "I shall bring the false ring and the notes". |
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| 14 | 717 |
From the sea bag I drew forth the notes for fortunes, made out to Shaba, to be drawn on various of the banks of Schendi, and the false ring, that which he was supposed to carry to the Sardar in place of the true ring. |
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| 14 | 720 |
If he should actually dare to deliver the false ring to the Sardar he would doubtless there fall into the power of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 14 | 722 |
If he did not choose to deliver the false ring to the Sardar I might then, at a later date, hunt him down, to kill him. |
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| 15 | 116 |
"It is my understanding," said Shaba to me, "that you have brought the notes and the false ring". |
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| 15 | 119 |
"Where is the false ring?" asked Msaliti. |
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| 15 | 133 |
"Cash them before you carry the false ring to the Sardar," said Msaliti. |
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| 15 | 135 |
"But what if I do not carry the false ring to the Sardar?" asked Shaba. |
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| 15 | 149 |
"Remember," said Msaliti, "do not depress the switch on the false ring. |
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| 15 | 152 |
I then realized that what I had suspected must be true, that the false ring was of great danger. |
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| 15 | 160 |
"May I have the false ring?" he asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 161 |
"I think there is little point in carrying the false ring to the Sardar," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 174 |
I handed Shaba the false ring and he slipped it on the chain. |
10 |
| 15 | 189 |
Shaba, the false ring on the chain, again fastened the chain behind his neck. |
10 |
| 15 | 221 |
The ring he had apparently intended to exchange for the true ring would have been the false ring, returning it to us as the true ring. |
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| 15 | 226 |
Shaba now had both the true ring, the Tahari ring, and the false ring, that which Kurii had intended to be delivered to the Sardar in lieu of the true ring. |
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| 15 | 258 |
Shaba had the perfect ring, which was the false ring. |
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| 19 | 105 |
My false identity, that which Msaliti had constructed for me, as an envoy of Teletus would not then, in the circumstances, any longer protect me. |
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| 23 | 383 |
"They will soon discover it is a false alarm," said Kisu. |
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| 23 | 430 |
"By now they must understand it to be a false alarm". |
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| 34 | 306 |
"The trick is to make a charge so obviously false or hopelessly vague that your interlocutor, who is usually concerned to be polite and congenial, makes a fool of himself trying to treat it seriously. |
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| 35 | 96 |
She had sought to have a woman's vengeance on me, rendering false testimony in a court, in virtue of which I had been condemned to the brine pits of Klima. |
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| 55 | 21 |
The false ring would never be delivered to the Sardar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 188 |
"False! False! False!" "I am sorry if I have caused you distress, Jason," she said. |
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| 2 | 252 |
"False! False!" The heavy man smiled at the man behind me. |
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| 5 | 187 |
"False! False!" I cried. |
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| 12 | 116 |
Surely that is false, I thought. |
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| 13 | 22 |
"Such rumors," snapped the Lady Melpomene, "are malicious and false". |
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| 17 | 22 |
That is false. |
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| 23 | 81 |
The stable sluts live in terror of her, fearing that because of her false reports they might lose their ears or feet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 66 |
Compared to it the gratifications of pretense and denial, the insistence on subverting one's blood and virility in the name of a false manhood conditioned by a demented, antibiological society, are pallid indeed. |
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| 29 | 124 |
Do not permit it to lull you into a false sense of security". |
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| 30 | 114 |
"That is false," said Policrates. |
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| 30 | 172 |
Of course, the true courier would not wish it known that he had lost the topaz, that a false courier had gained access to the holding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 566 |
"Incidentally," I said, "I reject not only your contention as being false, and obviously false, but its supposition, as well". |
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| 8 | 339 |
"Luta!" "Respond to the false name," I told the girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 209 |
They are false. |
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| 8 | 210 |
She wore false pearls". |
10 |
| 8 | 213 |
With a gesture of disgust the auctioneer flung the pretentious, offending object, that necklace of false pearls, amongst the cylinders flaming in the copper bowl. |
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| 13 | 344 |
"That is obviously false," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 379 |
I was pleased to learn that she had not worn the false pearls of her own volition. |
10 |
| 14 | 721 |
"Their beliefs then," I said, "seem not only to be obviously false but actually inconsistent". |
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| 17 | 589 |
"Someone is insane," she said, "who believes false things". |
10 |
| 17 | 590 |
"But we all, doubtless, believe many false things," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 591 |
"Theoretically a society could believe numerous false propositions and still, in normal senses of the word, be regarded as a sane, if, in many respects, a mistaken society". |
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| 17 | 625 |
"It is not unknown for men to fight for false treasures," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 48 |
Mahpiyasapa had made a suitable adjustment, implicitly drawing a distinction between true and false medicines, the medicine of the Kaiila presumably being true medicine, and that of the Yellow Knives false. |
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| 2 | 178 |
I took the hoop and, after two false starts, suddenly flung it to my left. |
10 |
| 14 | 98 |
"Surely you cannot expect us to permit the existence of false ideas in the compound?" he asked. |
10 |
| 14 | 105 |
"So what is wrong with having a few false ideas around?" "It is against the teaching," said Pumpkin. |
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| 14 | 115 |
"What if your beliefs are not true, but false. |
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| 15 | 221 |
"He certainly could not know that that is true, and it is, I gather, in all probability, false. |
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| 28 | 336 |
I now realized that was false. |
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| 28 | 341 |
Suddenly, too, starkly plausible, became such untypical anomalies of the Barrens as the meretricious proposal of a false peace, the spurious pretext of a council in order to gather together and decimate the high men of the Kaiila, and even the unprecedented sacrilege of attacking a people at the tim... |
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| 30 | 46 |
"It is false medicine!" called Mahpiyasapa. |
10 |
| 30 | 49 |
A more typical distinction would have been not between true and false medicines, but between weaker and stronger medicines. |
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| 30 | 51 |
On the other hand, if the medicine of the enemy was false medicine altogether, then what had he to fear? The test for the stronger medicine, incidentally, implicitly, appears to be victory or success. |
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| 30 | 59 |
To simply see such belief systems as false or meaningless is perhaps to fail to understand what one is dealing with. |
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| 30 | 72 |
"The medicine of the Yellow Knives is false medicine!" "What manner of medicine beasts are they, those portrayed on the masks?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 30 | 77 |
"The medicine of the Yellow Knives is false medicine," said a man. |
10 |
| 30 | 92 |
"Hold your lines, no matter what happens!" "Your medicine is false," cried Mahpiyasapa to the Yellow Knives, though doubtless they could not understand him. |
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| 40 | 467 |
"Remember the Teaching!" "The Teaching is false," he said. |
10 |
| 41 | 112 |
"Most are presumably false". |
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| 41 | 133 |
"Perhaps, then," he said, "it is your explanation which is false, not mine". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 29 |
He had two sets of weights, one true and one false. |
10 |
| 5 | 49 |
Their evidences are false, their arguments specious, their claims fraudulent". |
10 |
| 6 | 514 |
Where I had needed reality and truth I had been given only lies, propaganda and false values. |
10 |
| 8 | 537 |
I wished I had never known how beautiful they were, and how they were dominated by men, and must obey! I wished that I had never felt these powerful emotions, in all their irresistibility, profundity and depth! But then I knew that this was false. |
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| 15 | 275 |
In such a society it is difficult to establish false identities. |
10 |
| 17 | 303 |
Further inquiries had been made and it was found that he had among his goods a set of false weights. |
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| 29 | 110 |
I had been a free woman, on Earth, tutored in the false myths of my culture. |
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| 31 | 169 |
"Master?" "Would it not be clever," he said, "to plant a false trail to a decoy, and meanwhile conceal the true Tatrix elsewhere, under a different identity, one unlikely to arouse suspicion, one almost inconceivably inappropriate, to conceal her even, perhaps, as a slave?" "I am Tiffany," I said, "... |
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| 33 | 129 |
"But from false clothing!" cried Ligurious. |
10 |
| 36 | 775 |
I would attempt to get him to cure himself of the false Sheila, that the way might then be open for a poor, nameless slave who so much loved him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 78 |
You were each packed in a barrel with salted parsit fish, and over your heads these barrels had a false bottom, which was covered with more parsit fish. |
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| 3 | 271 |
"That is false," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 272 |
"Furthermore, every woman, in her heart, knows it is false. |
10 |
| 16 | 196 |
"False," announced Lecchio, grimly. |
10 |
| 16 | 281 |
"It was false coins they offered me in return for my services. |
10 |
| 16 | 622 |
"You do not wish to be paid in false gold, or stolen gold, do you?" asked Chino, disbelievingly. |
10 |
| 21 | 42 |
The second major reason that the most beautiful women are slaves is that slavery increases the beauty of a woman, and this has to do not simply with the diet, exercise, gracefulness, training, carriage, and such, expected of slaves, but has to do even more, I suspect, with the inward transformation ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 108 |
"It was a false alarm," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 139 |
Too, they are but ill used when put forth to praise what may be actually only frigidity, sexual inertness, sexual anesthesia, an incomplete or stunted development, a neurosis, an ignorance or stupidity, or false pride. |
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| 16 | 776 |
"That is the crime of false yielding," said the mother. |
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| 16 | 849 |
"We are not talking here about weaklings who call themselves 'true men,' trying to disguise their weakness under false titles, but true men". |
10 |
| 16 | 1408 |
A few that might be mentioned are false heels or divided soles in sandals, tiny secret compartments in rings, brooches, ornate hair pins, hollow combs, fibulae, studs, and clasps. |
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| 19 | 205 |
The pack might have had a false lining. |
10 |
| 19 | 248 |
This myth is false. |
10 |
| 19 | 417 |
"Carrying false papers," he said. |
10 |
| 28 | 23 |
"The other girl had a name, or thought she did," she said, "the false girl, that assumed identity, she who the disguised, hiding slave was pretending to be, but that name was taken from her, stripped away like her clothing, leaving behind only the real girl, the depth woman, the basic animal, the sl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 682 |
"False! False!" cried Hendow in fury. |
10 |
| 2 | 97 |
In one sense, of course, I supposed this was terribly false. |
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| 6 | 325 |
What was so marvelous or desirable, really, about her unhappiness and hardness, her cruelty and frustration, that we, lesser women, should find it preferable to love? Why did she so hate us? Did our nature, and softness, contradict her views, showing them false? Perhaps that was it, that she in some... |
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| 8 | 396 |
I assumed that it was false. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 162 |
Many folks coming through here, I gathered, did not identify themselves, or used false names. |
10 |
| 5 | 341 |
There had been something false in her subservience. |
10 |
| 13 | 179 |
Doubtless he had begun to suspect that the report, though perhaps absurd or false, was authentic. |
10 |
| 17 | 320 |
A false step on the narrow battlements might have plunged her to her death. |
10 |
| 21 | 356 |
"For example, I engaged in no business under false pretenses, and I never claimed explicitly to be of a caste other than my own". |
10 |
| 21 | 1012 |
The saying, of course, is false; if he is legally her master then he is legally her master. |
10 |
| 24 | 507 |
No longer must she strive to protect an imposed, false image, but at last was free to be herself, secure in servitude, possessed and treasured, dominated, helpless and loving, the last particle of will removed from her, even the last iota of self-entrapping, troublesome waywardness no longer permitt... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 170 |
In any event, they have never proven the probity of these surprising views, nor is it possible to do so, as they are obviously false, and false propositions cannot be proven, a matter of logic. |
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| 3 | 323 |
They have been used, of course, for infiltration purposes, much like civilian garb, false uniforms, and such. |
10 |
| 27 | 143 |
"Such were false charges, arranged by those who were truly in the fee of Cos". |
10 |
| 37 | 189 |
Given the "paradox of the collar" it is that women find sexual liberation in bondage, a liberation they could never experience when fenced in with meretricious dignities and incarcerated in false freedoms. |
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| 40 | 37 |
I am, thus, merely for our amusement, speaking what is clearly false". |
10 |
| 48 | 18 |
"I am nothing, worthless, only a slave! I must be shameless! No longer am I permitted to claim, profess, and attempt to retain, false dignities! That is for free women! No longer am I a free woman! That is behind me! It is gone, gone! I am now a slave! I am shameless! Yes, shameless, shameless! I am... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 367 |
"I do know that there is false magic, or only apparent magic, and false magicians, or only apparent magicians, but this was different". |
10 |
| 3 | 867 |
My friend, the actor, magician, impresario and whatnot, Boots Tarsk-Bit, once narrowly escaped an impalement in Besnit on the charge of using false dice. |
10 |
| 3 | 869 |
At any rate the charges were dismissed when a pair of identical false dice turned up in the pouch of the arresting magistrate, the original pair having, interestingly, at about the same time, vanished. |
10 |
| 9 | 447 |
"False Ubara!" screamed Claudia, held on her knees. |
10 |
| 11 | 87 |
"False," said the officer. |
10 |
| 11 | 89 |
"False!" said the officer. |
10 |
| 17 | 369 |
"If there are so many false magicians," said Marcus, "then there must be at least one true magician". |
10 |
| 17 | 410 |
Presumably most folks would think, if at all about these matters, in terms of a false bottom, or back, or something, but, as you saw, such considerations would have been immediately dismissed as the construction of the palanquin made them impractical, for example, its openness, and its bottom being ... |
10 |
| 20 | 827 |
"I do not think it would be in your best interest for you to convey to her in any way, inadvertently or otherwise, even in feminine vanity, the hint, to be sure, the false hint, that there might be anything between you and the putative author of the note you bear". |
10 |
| 24 | 332 |
"It is false!" he said. |
10 |
| 24 | 333 |
"False!" "Nonetheless," I said, "it is your slave who is at fault". |
10 |
| 26 | 543 |
"It is true that you belong to the master of Milo," said Tolnar, "but it is false that the master of Milo is Appanius". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 701 |
But I knew that this was false, of course. |
10 |
| 8 | 208 |
I had not been returned to my former condition of meaninglessness, that of nothingness, in which I, denied to my real self, it forbidden to me, must pretend to false identities, must conform to uncongenial stereotypes imposed upon me from the outside. |
10 |
| 11 | 1491 |
"Beware, slave," said the man in the chair, "of making a false step". |
10 |
| 11 | 1530 |
"Beware of making a false step," said he in the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 1533 |
This was not a place where, nor were these men among whom, false steps would be wise. |
10 |
| 28 | 97 |
Testimony from a metal worker, one traveling from Besnit to Brundisium, one who had been engaged in the manufacture of the wares in Besnit, seeing such articles in Harfax, and noting them marked as they were, in a way he knew false, alerted the house of William. |
10 |
| 35 | 32 |
That one does not like a truth does not make it false. |
10 |
| 36 | 49 |
More than one of them, I am sure, suspected that the alarm had been a false one, occasioned by the trepidation of Gito, awakening from some terrible dream. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 139 |
Tell us all about men and women, and social artifacts, and roles, and such things, how conventional everything is, and political and capricious, and how the human species, alone of all the other species, has no nature, and how genetics is meaningless, and biology false, and endocrinology irrelevant,... |
10 |
| 18 | 604 |
"False! False!" "So the little vulo would pretend that she is a figurine of ice, carved in the form of a slave girl?" "I hate you!" "But a touch," he said, reaching out, "ever so gentle, ever so soft, will prove to me, and to any who might be interested, that you are a hot little slut". |
10 |
| 27 | 97 |
Gone then are the false starts and distractions, the conflicts and confusions, the dissonances consequent upon the imposition of false images, of political contrivances engineered by manipulators and haters. |
10 |
| 2 | 175 |
It was probably dyed, false, dyed! She had no right to be with such a man! The young man had followed his companion into the aisle. |
10 |
| 17 | 668 |
"That is obviously false," said the man, "but, in any event, in your case, it is irrelevant, for the slave is not a person. |
10 |
| 17 | 962 |
"Let the traitress Talena, false Ubara, be impaled!" whispered a man. |
10 |
| 17 | 1017 |
One false blow of the hammer and she knew that her head or throat, with such blows, could be broken as easily as one might crush an egg underfoot. |
10 |
| 19 | 43 |
"False Ubara!" cried Portus, in fury. |
10 |
| 27 | 1002 |
She feared that the smallest movement, the tiniest sound, the most diminutive influence, might prove critical, like the smallest jarring, or jostling, like a small thing which might tip a balance, a carelessly dislodged pebble that releases an avalanche, the particle of static electricity which trig... |
10 |
| 27 | 2417 |
Had he been aware before, she wondered, of the latent passion in women, waiting to be called forth by the summons of masters? Had he even, until then, begun to comprehend the joy of living on a natural world, one too wise to take false steps, one unspoiled by millennia of madness, a world on which m... |
10 |
| 29 | 192 |
"All the women of Earth are free!" "That is surely false". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 62 |
There is amongst some species, including Kurii, a common belief that the wild animal is somehow superior to the domestic animal, but this is usually false. |
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| 57 | 145 |
To what tantalizing anxieties, to what false hopes, to what terrifying uncertainties, she will be subjected, not even knowing at what moment she will be roped and carried to the torture table!" But then Lord Grendel had turned away, with Statius, and others, to confer on matters of policy, diplomati... |
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| 57 | 179 |
"Why not?" "I had the disguise," said he, "the false uniform, the purple scarf". |
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| 80 | 138 |
My reservations are largely founded on what, from the Kur point of view, is a false dichotomy or division, between the living and the nonliving, between, say, the living biological and the nonliving molecular. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 101 |
For example, it is impossible to confute nonsense for it is neither true nor false, and that which is neither true nor false cannot be shown to be either. |
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| 1 | 44 |
"That is false," I said. |
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| 2 | 72 |
I take these rumors to be false, as well. |
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| 2 | 106 |
It, too, is neither truth nor false, but it is dangerous, and it can kill. |
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| 24 | 157 |
Too, it is a spy who may be used to convey misinformation, lies, deceits, false plans, and such, to an enemy". |
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| 26 | 221 |
There is an amnesty for any who bring forth for punishment the false Ubara, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, now again Ubar". |
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| 26 | 235 |
"I do not have the false Ubara," I said. |
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| 26 | 327 |
The false Ubara, the puppet Ubara, it seemed, had fallen. |
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| 28 | 304 |
"A false Ubara!" she said. |
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| 28 | 308 |
"Yes," I said, drawing back, wearily, "she was a false Ubara". |
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| 28 | 389 |
But how could someone or something think they had a hold over me, in virtue of one such as she, a false Ubara, now deposed, last seen bound on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, kneeling at the feet of men, fearing apprehension, fittingly placed in the rag of a slave? How could anyone, or any... |
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| 43 | 122 |
He is Seremides, formerly captain of the Taurentians, the palace guard, in the time of the false Ubara, Talena, of Ar". |
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| 43 | 124 |
"He is Seremides," I said, again, "formerly captain of the Taurentians, the palace guard, in the time of the false Ubara, Talena, of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 389 |
"False Ubara," said another. |
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| 2 | 199 |
But such stories must be false, as they were denied by Initiates, the white caste, highest and worthiest of all the castes, as they were intermediaries between Priest-Kings and mortals. |
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| 3 | 173 |
Other beauties of Ar were put in the taverns and brothels, several of which the Ubara owned and managed under the false name of Ludmilla. |
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| 3 | 1214 |
'There have been many false alarms,' said Altheia. |
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| 3 | 1475 |
"You were a haughty she-sleen," I said, "a hypocrite, a false friend, greedy, insolent, self-seeking, cowardly, dishonest, cruel, and power hungry". |
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| 4 | 28 |
He was Seremides of Ar, who had been the master of the Taurentians, the palace guard, during the brief reign of Talena, false Ubara. |
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| 7 | 72 |
I recalled she had claimed to have been raped by me, which allegation was demonstrably false, as proven by her body. |
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| 7 | 224 |
Perhaps your scrolls, what you read, are false". |
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| 18 | 102 |
"You are no Talena, no false Ubara, no unmatched prize," I said, "but the bounty on you, even so, is not negligible. |
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| 21 | 219 |
To be sure, should I return her to Ar, I might collect a nice bounty on her, for she had once been the Lady Flavia, a traitress, once even the confidante of Talena, the muchly sought, false Ubara. |
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| 23 | 86 |
"That seems clear, from the false signals, the matter of the landing," said Cabot. |
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| 24 | 311 |
There was no doubt that the traitress, the former false Ubara, Talena, was lovely. |
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| 36 | 21 |
Certainly this was false, as the captain doubtless surmised, but that is not to deny that some very fine slaves, the equals of any anywhere, are occasionally purchased from Brundisium blocks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 636 |
Could it be that what I had been told was false, that what I had been taught was untrue? Who was I? What was I? I sensed Nora walking about me, and was confident she had in her possession her switch. |
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| 7 | 44 |
Who were others, to tell me who I was? How was this a freedom, to be told how to be? How strangely false and unsatisfying seemed the culture to which I was expected to conform, and that which I was expected to perpetuate! Was I truly an artifact, a meaningless, unhappy puppet of a dismal world, resp... |
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| 8 | 979 |
How then, I wondered, could it be that the former Lady Persinna was even now on that simple cement platform, before buyers? "You know her sycophancy," said the auctioneer, "her privileges, her position in the court of the hated Talena, false Ubara! You know the favors she received, the contracts acc... |
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| 18 | 675 |
She is not allowed the mumbling, the indecipherable gibberish, the ambiguities, the false starts and stops, the slovenliness allowed to the free woman. |
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| 35 | 331 |
"Perhaps the cards are a diversion, a false trail, a distraction of sorts, something to consume time, while the actual messages are conveyed in some other way, as by the kaissa concealments". |
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| 50 | 28 |
To my apprehension, particularly at first, I would deliver and receive these messages as I had at first, when I had been robbed on my way to the wine shop of Amyntas, that robbery which had placed false information in the hands of the conspirators, namely, with the sack tied about my neck, closed wi... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 99 |
How artificial, how contrived, and false now seemed that world. |
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| 25 | 245 |
Why had it seemed to me so false, and so alien, even on my former dismal, unhappy, polluted, awry world? What were its motivations, what ends did it seek, whose programs was it intended to promote? Surely not mine, surely none I recognized or found congenial. |
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| 37 | 139 |
It was as though some image, some proud, contrived, clay encasement of a reality had finally broken apart, separating, revealing, hitherto hidden within, something quite unlike the image, or encasement, something not hard but soft, not artificial but real, not false but true, and needful. |
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| 41 | 258 |
I was also interested to learn that the sleen master and his fellow presented themselves as from a small village near the mouth of the Alexandra, which I knew to be false. |
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| 42 | 166 |
Following a false channel one can run aground. |
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| 47 | 63 |
I was only one man, who had perhaps followed a hundred false trails. |
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| 50 | 182 |
There is a rumor abroad, hopefully false, that mad Tersites and the Pani intend to take the great ship past the farther islands, seeking the World's End. |
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| 54 | 179 |
Is it only that they have failed to sully soil and water, refused to create poisoned atmospheres, refused to reduce and shame themselves, had no interest in ascending prescribed treadmills, placed in the midst of nothing, leading nowhere? Can the steps of a false journey not be retraced? It is possi... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 297 |
Too, he may be used as a conduit by means of which false information may be conveyed to the enemy". |
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| 20 | 512 |
"Our new guests, the noble Tajima and the noble Pertinax, must make ready to return to the encampment of tarns," said Lord Yamada, "to convey my felicitations and suggestions to their fellows, but I think it is only fitting, first, to see if there might be some word to be conveyed to the false shogu... |
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| 23 | 266 |
Otherwise, given the possibilities of spies, birds could be brought from either holding, that of Temmu or that of Yamada, which might then, with false messages, be released to return to either holding. |
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| 40 | 86 |
His shoulder bore the false sign of a lotus. |
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| 42 | 330 |
Is the political agenda here so difficult to determine? Can one not sense what lies concealed behind the veils of rhetoric? Is it so difficult to detect what the advertisements are out to sell, under a hundred false labels? But faraway, and never wholly forgotten, for it lies in the blood, and genes... |
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| 46 | 137 |
Do you, mountebank and peasant, lowly one, despicable fraud, speak my words false?" "I suggest," said the magician, who looked up, I was reminded of the way a larl might raise its head, "the honorable one is mistaken". |
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| 61 | 242 |
He had supported Talena, the "false Ubara" of Ar. |
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| 61 | 559 |
As the whole matter seemed tenuous and obscure, and doubtful, and nothing had come of it, I had dismissed it as false, even absurd, and, at best, as hearsay, founded on ungrounded rumor, if that. |
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| 61 | 728 |
"I suppose it is little enough," I said, "for the apprehension of an arch villainess, who conspired with dissident elements in the city to betray Ar to her enemies, and would then rule, as a puppet, a false Ubara, under the aegis of Cos and her allies". |
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| 61 | 1190 |
"Doubtless thousands from Ar, and her environs, for a thousand pasangs about, will come to see you, to witness the fate of a traitor and false Ubara, to insult her, to jeer her, to mock and curse her, to spit upon her, to add their flaming twig or tiny splinter to her torments". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 325 |
Decius Albus, his robes bloody, standing in the box, ax-bearing Lucilius wild and snarling at his side, while the field was broken into warring factions, men against Kur, Kur against men, men against men, Kur against Kur, remonstrated again and again with his men, "Peace! Peace! Do not threaten our ... |
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| 1 | 242 |
"I think that what you are saying is false," he said. |
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| 31 | 69 |
"Your collar, I beg your collar, your real collar, your true collar, not that on me now, not some false collar, not some dissembling collar, not one of duplicity and subterfuge! I want to wear the true collar of my master! Put slave claim on me!" "You would be mine?" he said. |
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| 40 | 21 |
More to the point, perhaps, was the utility and comfort of such garments, and their popularity, which antedated the troubles in Ar, in particular, the occupation of the Cosian alliance and the tyranny of the false Ubara, Talena, brought to an end by the uprising that restored the current Ubar, a man... |
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| 42 | 192 |
No, your story is grossly false, patently so, but what is not clear is what you or your master might have in mind. |
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| 50 | 182 |
He, Kurik of Victoria, released the arm of his captive, thrust back his hood, and drew away the false beard with which he had concealed his countenance. |
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| 51 | 21 |
Furthermore, we were in the House of a Hundred Corridors, clearly under false pretenses. |
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| 65 | 191 |
I was sure this was false. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 76 |
Do not false friends betray most adeptly? Do they not make the best spies? Who is better situated to perpetrate treason than the false patriot? But my effort to relate to Adraste had been rebuffed. |
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| 5 | 50 |
"It is rumored that Talena, she who betrayed the Home Stone of Ar, Talena, the puppet Ubara, the false Ubara, the traitress, the fugitive, is hiding in Brundisium". |
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| 15 | 32 |
"It is hard to know what is true and what is false," I said. |
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| 15 | 33 |
"It is all false," he said. |
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| 33 | 340 |
I would be acquitted of false charges. |
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| 33 | 345 |
In any event, I feared that Bruno of Torcadino had made a false move. |
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| 34 | 77 |
I gathered then that there was little importance now attaching to the former Lady Julia Leta, of Ar, or, more likely, given Adraste's recent withdrawal from the tavern, that I had been given false information, and that Adraste's former identity was not that of a Lady Julia Leta, of Ar. |
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| 38 | 101 |
Among them, often unnoted, are the meretricious diversion, the false trail, the calculated deceit, the sowing of lies, the deliberate misdirection. |
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| 40 | 154 |
"Impostors, ships, flying false flags," said Miles. |
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| 40 | 344 |
Now I suspected that I had been lied to, given false beliefs not only to mislead me, personally, but beliefs which I, say, under torture or interrogation, might convey to enemies, that they, too, would be misled. |
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| 40 | 347 |
Now, clearly, it seemed likely that I had conveyed nothing but false information, whose only value, if any, was to mislead enemies. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 76 |
How better could one achieve anonymity than under a false identity? How better could one loot and slaughter with impunity than under the name of another? "I fear I will be of little help in these matters," he said. |
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| 4 | 5 |
"I should like to have the false Bosk of Port Kar within range of my bow," said Thurnock. |
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| 5 | 69 |
"The six ships were undoubtedly the fleet of the false Bosk," said Thurnock. |
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| 7 | 147 |
"But," said Archelaos, "let us dismiss false rumors as the wretched canards they are, while, in all justice, acknowledging that it is not inappropriate for worthy folk posted far from civilization to seek to compensate in some manner, however minimal, for their isolation and remoteness. |
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| 8 | 19 |
"It may be false". |
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| 12 | 9 |
In drawing up the false map, which I had arranged to have stolen in The Living Island, I had located the spurious Village of Flowing Gold on Daphna, the least populated of the Farther Islands, in a desolate area, where the raiders might be most easily isolated and discomfited, no civilized enclaves ... |
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| 12 | 28 |
On the false map, drawn with care, I had located the mythical Village of Flowing Gold twenty pasangs inland. |
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| 21 | 81 |
What captain does not wish to be underestimated by the enemy? It seemed likely to me, of course, that he and the governor were enleagued, and that both profited from the depredations of the false Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 23 | 3 |
"Cos lulls the villages into a false sense of security," said Thurnock. |
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| 34 | 17 |
"Surely the leader of the corsairs, or one of their high leaders," said Aktis, "is the false Bosk of Port Kar". |
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| 34 | 34 |
"In your recent parley with the false Bosk of Port Kar," said Thurnock, "before permitting him and his men, weaponless and shorn of valuables, to return to the beach, you claimed you had a Peasant Army of some five thousand men at your disposal, indeed, one being augmented daily". |
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| 34 | 40 |
Even the false Bosk of Port Kar, hungry, thirsting, and terrified, was skeptical". |
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| 35 | 21 |
The tactic mentioned was, in essence, simple, like surprise, diversion, screening, posting agents and spies, cutting lines of communication and supply, planting false information, and such, but was in execution subtle. |
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| 62 | 95 |
Her false identity compromised, she was removed for safekeeping to the stout holding of Bosk of Port Kar, a veritable fortress on the delta". |
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