| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 128 |
Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of Sa-Tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees. |
10 |
| 12 | 7 |
I cleared my head as best I could, and into my uncertain field of vision moved a dark object, which became the black helmet of a member of the Caste of Assassins. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
He was an instructor in English history and I, intending to work for some three years to save money toward law school, had accepted an appointment as an instructor in physical education, a field which, to my annoyance, Cabot never convinced himself belonged in the curriculum of an educational instit... |
10 |
| 2 | 10 |
Far to my left I saw a splendid field of Sa-Tarna, bending beautifully in the wind, that tall yellow grain that forms a staple in the Gorean diet. |
10 |
| 6 | 197 |
It was his business to observe the entire field, for I might not be alone, and to cover the retreat of his fellows with his spear should the need arise. |
10 |
| 7 | 139 |
She turned quickly, following her master, and I remained standing alone in the field. |
10 |
| 10 | 23 |
I respected the quiet, efficient guardsmen of Tharna, and I had already encountered her skilled warriors in a field far from the city. |
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| 12 | 49 |
"I will be sent from the city, to the Great Farms, where I will carry water to Field Slaves". |
10 |
| 12 | 99 |
"It means one is made welcome in Tharna," said the girl, "and this means one is sent to the Great Farms to be a Field Slave, to cultivate the soil of Tharna in chains until one dies". |
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| 12 | 101 |
"For how then would the ranks of Field Slaves be replenished?" "I see," I said, now understanding for the first time something of the motivation behind the hospitality of Tharna. |
10 |
| 12 | 127 |
It was decreed that I must lose my silver mask, don the camisk and be collared, and be sent to the Great Farms to carry water to Field Slaves". |
10 |
| 20 | 46 |
I wondered too at her treachery, her strange hatred of me, for somehow it seemed not to fit well with the lonely girl on the ledge, who had stood quietly gazing at the field of talenders while a warrior had gorged himself on the kill of his tarn. |
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| 20 | 117 |
The tarn had struck a field of some sort, which perhaps acted on the mechanism of his inner ear, resulting in the loss of balance and coordination. |
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| 22 | 60 |
Remember that once you looked upon a field of talenders and I was too dull and foolish to speak to you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
It had been caught in the shield of the Priest-Kings, invisible, not to be evaded, undoubtedly a field of some sort, which had so acted on the bird, perhaps affecting the mechanism of the inner ear, that the creature had become incapable of controlling itself and had fallen disoriented and confused ... |
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| 1 | 42 |
Moreover I have never been too clear as to the grounds on which the disputes of scribes are to be adjudicated, and it is not too infrequently that both disputants leave the field each fully convinced that he has had the best of the contest. |
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| 2 | 99 |
He does not hurl himself to the ground in order that he will remain conspicuously in the larl's field of vision and thus be the object of its wounded, maddened onslaught. |
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| 6 | 11 |
First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. |
10 |
| 9 | 241 |
I could not conjecture the nature of the creature's experience but I knew that I stood within the center of its sensory field. |
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| 16 | 135 |
"It is a simple matter," said Misk, "to disrupt a magnetic field". |
10 |
| 17 | 68 |
I would have thought that some type of cells for avoiding collisions when the accelerator strips are depressed might have been useful or that a bumper of gas, or a field of some sort, might have been practical improvements but Sarm felt that such refinements would be excessive. |
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| 17 | 126 |
On a green field somewhere, I had no idea where, a man in the garments of the Caste of Builders, emerged from what was apparently an underground cave. |
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| 20 | 201 |
After her kiss of gratitude, which might last a good deal longer than she had anticipated, she would find herself forced to kneel and be collared and then, stripped, her wrists confined behind her back in slave bracelets, she would find herself led stumbling away on a slave leash from the field of h... |
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| 24 | 30 |
On the other hand I could hope that somehow the sensory field of the antennae might be similarly, at least partially, restricted by their withdrawal beneath the casing of the fused, horny wings. |
10 |
| 25 | 61 |
My limbs shaking, clouds of yellow and red fire moving in tangled afterimages across my field of vision in the darkness, I struggled to my feet. |
10 |
| 28 | 241 |
To be so inhibited among a field of foes, none of whom suffered from the same inhibition, seemed to me a good way to get one's head burned off. |
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| 33 | 55 |
He knew! He knew as well as I that the gravitational field of the planet was being reestablished. |
10 |
| 35 | 18 |
"Wait here!" I shouted and I ran across the field and climbed the knoll on which it stood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 115 |
"Have you not," I pressed, "noted the difference in the gravitational field of this place—have you not noted the slight difference in the appearance of the sun?" "It's not true!" she screamed. |
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| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
10 |
| 10 | 220 |
The walls were crowded, and I supposed many upon them used the long glasses of the Caste of Builders to observe the field of the stakes. |
10 |
| 10 | 395 |
In short, in their various ways, something like seniority and skills determines, of two or more Turians, or two or more warriors of the Wagons, who will take the field. |
10 |
| 10 | 538 |
I now realized Kamras had only wished to drive Kamchak from the field, a chastened and humiliated man. |
10 |
| 13 | 135 |
There was a large circular stone platform in the center of the field. |
10 |
| 13 | 141 |
Indeed, I supposed there must be one haruspex at least for each of the many altars in the field. |
10 |
| 13 | 148 |
Kamchak and I dismounted and, from outside the circle, watched the four chief haruspexes of the Wagon Peoples approach the huge altar in the center of the field. |
10 |
| 15 | 10 |
In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour... |
10 |
| 23 | 125 |
Together we looked out over the field. |
10 |
| 23 | 160 |
On the field we met and, as comrades in arms, we embraced one another. |
10 |
| 23 | 190 |
In the morning the warriors remaining of the two Thousands who had ridden with Harold and I would, with the help of other Tuchuks surviving among the wagons, move the wagons and the bosk from the field. |
10 |
| 23 | 194 |
The Kataii main force and the Kassar main force camped separately some pasangs from the Tuchuk camp and the field and would, in the morning, return to their own wagons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 244 |
"As you probably have suspected, noting the difference in gravitational field," said Flaminius, "this is not Earth". |
10 |
| 17 | 145 |
The progress and startling rise of the Steels as a faction dated from the first day of the races, when, in the eleventh race, Gladius of Cos, astride a great tarn, initiated the Steels as a faction with a surprising, but resounding, win over a strong field of competitors. |
10 |
| 17 | 210 |
He was given a full military funeral; his ashes had been scattered from tarnback over a field where, as a general some years before, he had led the forces of Ar to victory. |
10 |
| 20 | 511 |
"Impossible," whispered Cernus, trembling, staring at the small pieces of wood, the intricate pattern, the field of red and yellow squares. |
10 |
| 21 | 302 |
Then the picket charged but, as I had intended, across the field of their own fallen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 86 |
My own flag bore the design of the head of a black bosk against a background of vertical green bars on a white field. |
10 |
| 11 | 92 |
It was white with vertical green stripes on its field and, over these, in black, the head of a Bosk. |
10 |
| 13 | 349 |
It bears on its field the head of a bosk!" One of the slaves, chained before me, whispered over his shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 112 |
Accordingly, particularly with inexperienced girls, one supposes that criteria other than beauty and charm, and poise, often determine one's initial chances in such a competitive field. |
10 |
| 3 | 475 |
In the yellow circle of light I could see the grass of the field, bearing the marks of my tires. |
10 |
| 4 | 159 |
"This is a technique of field-light camouflage," said the large man. |
10 |
| 5 | 23 |
I was in a field of some sort, but there were trees, tall and dark, in the distance. |
10 |
| 5 | 176 |
I turned away from the forest and began to run across the field, blindly toward the horizon, over the grass. |
10 |
| 7 | 181 |
No delicate, sauced portion of filet mignon which I had savored in any Parisian restaurant compared to that hot, steaming chunk of bosk, half raw, running with juices, that I had seized from the grass of a Gorean field, beside the wagon of a slaver. |
10 |
| 7 | 413 |
For the first time in my life I suddenly understood, kneeling in the grass in a Gorean field, the thundering, devastating realities of social institutions. |
10 |
| 10 | 274 |
I remembered awakening, lying in a Gorean field, some hundred yards or so from the black wreckage of the slavers' ship. |
10 |
| 10 | 276 |
When I had awakened in the field, it had been gone. |
10 |
| 11 | 1096 |
The element of the tarnsman is not the green glades, and the branches; it is the clouds, the saddle and the sky; his steed is the tarn, his field of battle, strewn with light and wind, higher than mountains, deeper than the sea, is the very sky itself. |
10 |
| 11 | 1434 |
I dreamed that I had escaped, and that I was free, running and walking in the high grass of a Gorean field. |
10 |
| 11 | 1443 |
We were alone, in the high grasses of the field. |
10 |
| 12 | 78 |
The caravan, wagon by wagon, made its way slowly toward Ko-ro-ba's Street of the Field Gate, which is the southernmost gate of the city. |
10 |
| 12 | 86 |
Foot by foot we moved toward the Street of the Field Gate, and then, at last, came that street. |
10 |
| 12 | 97 |
Our wagon pulled over to one side of the broad avenue, Ko-ro-ba's Street of the Field Gate. |
10 |
| 12 | 364 |
We felt the wagon again begin to move, once again resuming its journey toward the Field Gate. |
10 |
| 12 | 368 |
* * * * Angrily, in the field, in the sunlight, more than a pasang from the wagons, on the route to Ar, I picked berries, snapping them from their twigs and throwing them into the bucket. |
10 |
| 13 | 542 |
Then, in the sunlight of the bright morning, late, almost at noon, I fled from the thicket, across the grass of the open field. |
10 |
| 13 | 556 |
I stood in the bright, knee-high grasses of that windblown, flowing field. |
10 |
| 13 | 645 |
"You flushed her well into the field," said the warrior. |
10 |
| 13 | 791 |
I was, after all, only a dirty little slave, a fugitive, a pilferer of meat from peasant villages, picked up in an open field. |
10 |
| 13 | 867 |
Then its talons locked over the shield and it smote its wings, ripping the shield straps, half tearing my captor from the saddle, and the tarn was away, the shield then dropping like a penny, turning, toward the field below. |
10 |
| 14 | 377 |
"The camisk," she said, "is perhaps better as a field garment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 29 |
I did not, on nearing Lydius, fly the flag of Bosk, that bearing the head of a bosk, black, across a field of vertical green bars, the famous flag of Bosk, from the Marshes. |
10 |
| 22 | 6 |
At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 144 |
The free duel permits all weapons; there are no restrictions on tactics or field. |
10 |
| 10 | 146 |
If the combatants wished, however, they might choose another field. |
10 |
| 10 | 387 |
Accordingly there would be little field dunging to be done, there being no fields in the first place and no dung in the second; too, due to the absence of verr or bosk, butter would be in scarce supply. |
10 |
| 10 | 695 |
Together we hurried from the field where I had won the talmit in archery, and a girl, to the place of the assembly. |
10 |
| 11 | 2 |
It stood on the small hill, sloping above the assembly field. |
10 |
| 11 | 69 |
The men of Torvaldsland, in the assembly field, looked to one another. |
10 |
| 11 | 95 |
"What do you want?" called one of the men from the field. |
10 |
| 11 | 116 |
The Kur had heard and understood their speech, though he stood far from us, and above us, on the platform of the assembly, that platform cut into the small, sloping hill over the assembly field. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
It filled the field. |
10 |
| 11 | 170 |
The men in the field grunted their understanding. |
10 |
| 11 | 222 |
There was an angry murmur from the men in the field. |
10 |
| 11 | 239 |
There was great laughter in the field. |
10 |
| 11 | 284 |
I think there was not a man in the field who was not, for that instant, frozen in terror. |
10 |
| 11 | 288 |
Then the entire field was aflame with the shouts of angry men. |
10 |
| 11 | 303 |
In leaving the Thing-Field I saw, in the distance, a high, snow-capped mountain, steep, sharp, almost like the blade of a bent spear. |
10 |
| 11 | 304 |
I had seen it at various times, but never so clearly as from the Thing-Field. |
10 |
| 11 | 305 |
I suppose the Thing-Field might, partly, have been selected for the aspect of this mountain. |
10 |
| 14 | 179 |
I recalled its words on the platform of the assembly, in the field of the Thing. |
10 |
| 17 | 79 |
The field shelters of the Kurii are made of skins and furs, arched over bent saplings. |
10 |
| 17 | 85 |
If in a field they will sometimes even burrow into the ground, almost like a sleen, and cover the opening with grass and sticks from the bottom. |
10 |
| 18 | 196 |
The girls, those who could, fled the field, to return to the pen in which the Kurii had originally confined them. |
10 |
| 18 | 403 |
I saw Hrolf, from the east, the bearded giant who had joined our forces, asking only to fight with us, leaning on his spear, soberly, surveying the field. |
10 |
| 18 | 404 |
In another place we saw a framework of poles set on the field. |
10 |
| 18 | 664 |
I looked about at the field of battle, under the dark sky. |
10 |
| 19 | 4 |
Down a hall of men, standing in the field, came the Kur. |
10 |
| 22 | 221 |
I saw, too, Bjarni, of Thorstein Camp, who lifted his spear to me, and beside him, too, the young man, his friend, Hrolf, of the Inlet of Green Cliffs, he, too, lifting his hand, whom I had, it now seemed long ago, championed at the dueling field. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 446 |
The light by virtue of which I saw was shifted in its spectrum; it was, I suspect, originally in the nonvisible portion of the spectrum, perhaps in the infrared portion of the spectrum, which could penetrate the field, but was shifted in such a way by the diversion field that I, within the orbit of ... |
10 |
| 21 | 445 |
The field about me, I conjectured, diverted and reconstituted these waves in their original patterns; thus, a given wave of light in the normal visual spectrum which might strike me and be reflected to the visual sensor of another organism did not now strike me but was diverted; similarly patterns o... |
10 |
| 21 | 447 |
It was thus, I conjecture, that I could not be seen by those outside the field and yet that I, within the field, could experience the world visually which lay beyond it. |
10 |
| 21 | 442 |
The ring concealed a light-diversion device, encircling the orbit of its wearer with a field. |
10 |
| 22 | 28 |
I assumed it could generate its field for only a finite period. |
10 |
| 22 | 41 |
Even though I might stand, unseen, in the shelter of the ring's field, the sand, disturbed, might reveal my movements, my presence. |
10 |
| 23 | 22 |
"Do you know where will be the field of their war?" I asked him. |
10 |
| 23 | 39 |
Two days later we arrived in the vicinity of the field. |
10 |
| 23 | 40 |
Some five hours from the field, I slashed the ropes that tied his ankles beneath the kaiila and, thrusting up on his left foot, sprawled him in the gravel, turning him then to his stomach. |
10 |
| 23 | 52 |
In the field below, or the plain, there might have been some ten thousand riders. |
10 |
| 23 | 179 |
There came to that parley in the center of the field the pashas of the Ta'Kara and Bakahs, and of the Char and Kashani; and, too, riding deliberately, strapped in the saddle, there came Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, with him, Shakar, captain of the Aretai, and their guard, and, with them as we... |
10 |
| 23 | 181 |
Lastly, riding abreast, swiftly across the field, I saw the pashas of the Zevar and the Arani, and the young khan of the Tajuks, join the group. |
10 |
| 23 | 233 |
They lowered their arms and fell to their knees in the gravel and sand of the field. |
10 |
| 23 | 281 |
They were taken from the field. |
10 |
| 24 | 18 |
We did not have enough water to maintain our men in the field. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 139 |
I felt the breezes of the field on my exposed body; I trembled; every bit of me seemed alive. |
10 |
| 2 | 252 |
The bearded man was looking outward, away from me, over the field. |
10 |
| 2 | 530 |
The bearded man lifted the other man to his feet, and, together, the bearded man supporting the other, they left the field. |
10 |
| 2 | 654 |
It was not my fault I could not speak to him! But then, as he looked about the field, and the rock, I, in that large, rude circle torn in the turf, put my head down, alone, miserable. |
10 |
| 2 | 671 |
Then, without looking at me, he left the field. |
10 |
| 2 | 674 |
I looked about at the field, at the signs of battle, the discarded shields, one deeply punctured and cut, the scattered weapons. |
10 |
| 3 | 534 |
One story is that an ancient Ubar of Ar, capturing the daughter of a fleeing, defeated enemy in a field of dinas there enslaved her, stripping her by the sword, ravishing her and putting chains upon her. |
10 |
| 3 | 535 |
As he chained her collar to his stirrup, he is said to have looked about the field, and then named her "Dina". |
10 |
| 6 | 38 |
Tabuk's Ford receives its name from the fact that field tabuk were once accustomed, in their annual migrations, to ford the Verl tributary of the Vosk in its vicinity. |
10 |
| 6 | 41 |
The field tabuk now make their crossing some twenty pasangs northwest of Tabuk's Ford, but the village, founded in the area of the original crossing keeps the first name of the locale. |
10 |
| 7 | 959 |
I found him sitting alone, on a rock, surveying a grassy field. |
10 |
| 9 | 200 |
Clearly they were field slaves, or kettle slaves, or work slaves. |
10 |
| 9 | 1315 |
The ropes on my wrists and ankles, serving as leashes, were cut from the coils of rope brought to the field. |
10 |
| 9 | 1375 |
I was jerked to my feet by the ropes on my wrists and stumbling, dragged among them, was conducted from the sul field. |
10 |
| 9 | 2339 |
"From now on," she said, "you are no longer simple field slaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 178 |
I had been tamed since the first Gorean male had touched me, long ago, when I had worn a chain and collar in a Gorean field. |
10 |
| 12 | 450 |
"It seems there was a distraction, a burning field some pasangs to the south. |
10 |
| 24 | 11 |
At the mast line snapped two flags, that of Port Kar and another, that with vertical green bars over a white field, superimposed on which was the head of a gigantic bosk. |
10 |
| 28 | 134 |
Most groups, however, are sold for field and kitchen work. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 10 |
When a girl is taken she is bound hand and foot and thrown to a girl pit, of which there are two, one in each city's end of the "field". |
10 |
| 3 | 11 |
These pits are circular, marked off with a small wooden fence, sand-bottomed, and sunk some two feet below the surface of the "field". |
10 |
| 3 | 13 |
The object of the male is to remove his opponents from the field and capture the girls of the other city. |
10 |
| 3 | 23 |
The win is determined when the young men of one city, or those left on the field, have secured the full hundred of the women of the "enemy". |
10 |
| 6 | 868 |
The squealing was wild now, as they caught sight of the bound girl in the field. |
10 |
| 12 | 281 |
I had not realized, until too late, that I had been traversing the field of play. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 531 |
"Of course," I said, "it is the ring which I obtained in the Tahari, that ring which projects the light diversion field, which renders its wearer invisible in the normal visible range of the spectrum". |
10 |
| 1 | 541 |
One press on the switch on the Tahari ring had activated the field, a second press had resulted in its deactivation. |
10 |
| 6 | 572 |
When a field is exhausted the farmer clears a new area and begins again. |
10 |
| 12 | 669 |
In a moment he had seemed to swirl and then, the light-diversion field activated, had vanished from my view. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1099 |
I recall, as things began to become dim, the last thing in my field of vision, her lovely ankle. |
10 |
| 11 | 417 |
Also, it might be noted that most Gorean warfare is carried out largely by relatively small groups of professional soldiers, seldom more than a few thousand in the field at a given time, trained men, who have their own caste. |
10 |
| 13 | 315 |
It would be extremely unusual, for example, for a Gorean city to have more than five thousand men in the field in a given time. |
10 |
| 34 | 56 |
But such was not to be expected in a temporary field camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 20 |
It was he who, in effect, had organized the resistance of the river towns to the pirates, and had had the good sense and fortune to recruit the redoubtable Callimachus of Port Cos as his field commander, a man without whose military skills and reputation on the river our projects might have been doo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 226 |
The girls were as quiet as tiny, silken field urts in the presence of forest panthers, being conducted in their cage between the ranks of the soldiers. |
10 |
| 13 | 785 |
I awakened, I do not know how much later, in a grassy field on this world, chained by the neck with other girls". |
10 |
| 14 | 1359 |
"On the way to the country of the Kaiila, I would like to examine the field of the killings, the massacres," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 303 |
"We have been brought here to cleanse the field," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 314 |
"The field is mostly cleared," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 333 |
"And you must understand," said Grunt, "the savages clear the field of their own dead". |
10 |
| 16 | 351 |
"That they did not fall on the field does not mean that they did not fall," said Grunt. |
10 |
| 16 | 416 |
We are to keep him alive until we leave the field, and then leave him here, to die". |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
I joined my party on the crest of a small rise, at the eastern edge of the field of battle. |
10 |
| 18 | 25 |
They were to keep him alive until they left the field, as I recalled. |
10 |
| 19 | 440 |
Grunt and I had seen it almost immediately upon coming to this portion of the field. |
10 |
| 19 | 789 |
I could see Pumpkin, and his Waniyanpi, down there, still clearing the field. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 36 |
When Grunt and I had come to the field of the massacre we had learned from Pumpkin, the Waniyanpi slave, Waniyanpi being used to clear the field, that the bodies of nine such beasts had been found. |
10 |
| 2 | 60 |
Many seem to feel that literacy is something to conceal if one is a warrior; that literacy is for, say, poets, or scribes, and not something appropriate for those trained to the mud of the field or the reins of the tarn, for those whose province it is to do war, to command, to fight and rule. |
10 |
| 4 | 12 |
Prior to that, even on the field of battle, weeks ago, he had shortened it, and ripped it at the left thigh, to give himself greater freedom of movement. |
10 |
| 14 | 163 |
Near it they are led to hooded, stripped Waniyanpi women, selected for breeding, from the other compound, lying bound in a maize field. |
10 |
| 14 | 182 |
The reason that Waniyanpi breeding takes place in a maize field, incidentally, seems to be that, in the medicine beliefs of the red savages, the example of their breeding is supposed to encourage the maize to flourish. |
10 |
| 14 | 299 |
"We met," I said, "a few weeks ago, in the vicinity of the field of battle. |
10 |
| 26 | 49 |
It made no sense to me that she should be loose on the field. |
10 |
| 28 | 53 |
"They remain in the field?" he had asked. |
10 |
| 28 | 227 |
The engagement was brief, perhaps only four or five Ehn, and the Yellow Knives, howling and whooping, in full flight, speeding away, forsook the field. |
10 |
| 28 | 240 |
We looked back, those three or four hundred yards, across the field. |
10 |
| 29 | 65 |
Then great wings smote the air above us, the air tearing at our clothes, raising dust in affrighted clouds on the field. |
10 |
| 32 | 40 |
I had learned later from the former Lady Mira of Venna, whom her red masters had decided to make a Waniyanpi slave, that a small group of Kurii had apparently made its way, at least largely unopposed, from the field. |
10 |
| 32 | 43 |
I also knew of the survival of one Kur whom I had encountered, personally, on the field, preventing it from attacking a party of Waniyanpi. |
10 |
| 32 | 48 |
It had then withdrawn from the field. |
10 |
| 33 | 8 |
At one edge of the field a crude wooden platform had been erected, some seven or eight feet high, its surface reached by a ladder. |
10 |
| 33 | 29 |
In a few moments we had reached the edge of the maize field, near the platform. |
10 |
| 33 | 57 |
Approaching, along the side of the maize field, coming from the direction of the palisade and buildings in the distance was a group of Waniyanpi. |
10 |
| 40 | 402 |
"Hidden, near the edge of the maize field," said Carrot. |
10 |
| 42 | 19 |
She, with three others, Inez, Corinne and Priscilla, had been taken from Grunt by Yellow Knives in the vicinity of the field where the battle had taken place between a coalition of red savages and the soldiers of Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni. |
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| 51 | 13 |
I had met it once before, when it had returned to the field to feed. |
10 |
| 51 | 15 |
As we had not been similarly armed, it alone, afoot, and I with Grunt, he with an armed crossbow, and as it had not rushed upon me, I had not contested its withdrawal from the field. |
10 |
| 51 | 17 |
I had later learned from he who was then Pumpkin, then one of the Waniyanpi, that nine bodies of beasts had been found on the field. |
10 |
| 54 | 9 |
Grunt and I had seen him once before, long ago, in the vicinity of the field of a massacre, where a wagon train had been destroyed. |
10 |
| 54 | 167 |
Near the field of the massacre and near the place where the soldiers and red savages had fought they, with two girls, Ginger and Evelyn, whom they had muchly desired, as long ago as Kailiauk, were taken from Grunt by Sleen warriors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 333 |
"He is considering the desirability of investing in the area, and perhaps forming his own company to enter the field". |
10 |
| 26 | 379 |
"It will be a difficult field to break into," said another man. |
10 |
| 33 | 686 |
Outside of Corcyrus, in a great field, have been found burned grass and three large, deep, geometrically spaced depressions, as though something of great heat and weight, perhaps some giant, heated steel insect or fiery mechanical bird, had alighted there. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 20 |
She was veiled, and clad, too, in robes of concealment, sumptuous robes which seemed incongruous in the open terrain, the grassy field, in which I found myself. |
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| 3 | 85 |
Most female slavers, incidentally, are not involved in field captures. |
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| 6 | 1034 |
"Apparently," said Boots, "you are under the delusion that this is a free woman, one that may simply be picked up, like a larma in a field, for whatever purposes you might please". |
10 |
| 16 | 692 |
"It seems that only one of us can leave the field alive". |
10 |
| 20 | 201 |
"Should I walk over there, perhaps to some inconspicuous corner, and there engage in desperate swordplay, in order not to obviously share the field with you?" "That will not be necessary," it said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 198 |
He was also the initiator of the oblique advance in Gorean field warfare, whereby large numbers of men may be concentrated at crucial points while the balance of the enemy remains unengaged. |
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| 3 | 201 |
Most impressive to me, perhaps, was Dietrich of Tarnburg's coordination of air and ground forces, and his transposition of certain techniques and weapons of siege warfare to the field. |
10 |
| 3 | 208 |
He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals. |
10 |
| 3 | 209 |
From these engines, hitherto employed only in siege warfare, now become a startling and devastating new weapon, in effect, a field artillery, tubs of burning pitch and flaming naphtha, and siege javelins, and giant boulders, fell in shattering torrents upon the immobilized squares. |
10 |
| 4 | 51 |
They are fierce and redoubtable warriors in the open field. |
10 |
| 8 | 1 |
Evidence of a Disquieting Event Is Found; Women Have Come to the Field "There is smoke ahead," said Mincon, pulling back on the reins, halting the wagon. |
10 |
| 15 | 162 |
How odd it seemed that I should meet this man here, in such a place, rather than in a feast of state, on the ramparts of a fortress, or on a bloodstained field. |
10 |
| 20 | 94 |
I wondered why this was, I a voyager and soldier, more fond of the tumultuous sea and the wind-swept field than the street and plaza. |
10 |
| 25 | 1346 |
There is no doubt that slaves without private masters, say, slaves in work gangs, slaves in mills and factories, in the mines, in the laundries, in tower service, in street work, in great holdings, in large households, field slaves, state slaves, and such, may experience terrible loneliness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 57 |
"Is it so difficult to detect? Too, can you not, really, at least now, more importantly, sense differences in the gravitational field?" I shuddered. |
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| 25 | 165 |
Your skin is like a field of scarlet dinas". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 888 |
Coins, or letters of credit, might be concealed about a wagon, but it is not easy to conceal quantities of flour, salt, jerky, paga and such, not to mention the miscellany of diverse items for the field supply of which one can usually count on the sutlers, such things as combs, brushes, candles, lam... |
10 |
| 11 | 266 |
Your conjecture that Cos could not field such land forces assumes that these forces must consist of her own troops. |
10 |
| 16 | 110 |
I considered the approaching towers, the thousands of men I could see in the field, the ladders being carried, the supporting engines. |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
In the field they may serve as foundations for camouflage, for example, effecting concealments from tarnsmen. |
10 |
| 17 | 62 |
Some are fine enough to set for field urts and others stout enough for tharlarion. |
10 |
| 17 | 121 |
I remember one fellow telling me about a man who had died near him, in a field. |
10 |
| 19 | 40 |
Dietrich of Tarnburg, for example, though one often thinks of him in terms of innovations such as the oblique advance and the use of siege equipment in the field, is also, in my opinion, based on my studies of his campaigns, for example, in the commentaries of Minicius and the "Diaries," which some ... |
10 |
| 19 | 42 |
I do not know if this is true or not, but his diaries, if, indeed, they are his, suggest that he was not a stranger to the field. |
10 |
| 19 | 45 |
It seems to me, for example, that a common soldier would not be likely to supply a detail such as the loosing of water by a confused, terrified tharlarion in the field. |
10 |
| 24 | 1003 |
Its military significance declined with the development of large-scale tarn transport, capable of supplying troops in the field. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 370 |
There were several thousand Cosians, and mercenaries, in our camp, but the forces of Ar, by repute, were in the neighborhood of some fifty thousand men, an incredible force for a Gorean community to maintain in the field. |
10 |
| 13 | 217 |
A fellow, for example, who has seen several fall near him, in his own tiny place of war, often as narrow as a few yards in width, has a tendency to suppose these losses are typical of the entire field, that they characterize the day itself. |
10 |
| 17 | 38 |
"We were massacred like penned verr!" "The field was theirs?" said a fellow, disbelievingly. |
10 |
| 45 | 150 |
Better to take the field with laughter, with a joke, with a light thought, with a buoyant heart, or to go forward with sternness, or in fury, or with hatred, or defiance, or calculation, but never with self-pity, never with sadness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 72 |
The army of Cos was the largest ever brought to the field on Gor, and it was now, after the fall of Ar's Station, abetted by numerous reinforcements from the north. |
10 |
| 4 | 73 |
Furthermore, it had had the winter to restore its siege train, the original train burned in Torcadino, fired by Dietrich of Tarnburg, and, because of its recent success in the field, west of Ar, it could draw on thousands of square pasangs for its logistical support. |
10 |
| 8 | 567 |
On the wall, in the trough of the breach, we saw four men rolling a heavy stone toward the field side of the wall. |
10 |
| 8 | 953 |
He who has been on the field of battle knows the misery, the terror, the tenseness, the racing of the blood, the pounding of the heart, the exhilaration, the meaningfulness. |
10 |
| 11 | 408 |
"You prefer a fellow at sword point, in an open field, at noon?" I asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 422 |
"Set me a formation, or a field, or a city. |
10 |
| 11 | 435 |
These were the field diaries attributed by many to Carl Commenius, of Argentum. |
10 |
| 19 | 1 |
The Field Slave "That is she," I whispered to Marcus. |
10 |
| 19 | 334 |
In the softness of the dust, then amongst the vines, moving across the field, our tharlarion in stately gait, we approached the girl, she at the large wooden tank, filling the vessels which would be slung over her yoke. |
10 |
| 19 | 336 |
Her hair had been cropped rather closely to her head, as is not uncommon with field slaves. |
10 |
| 19 | 390 |
"You are a field slave," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 394 |
"Your hair has been cropped, as is not unusual for a field slave," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 416 |
The major reason for cropping the hair of field slaves, both male and female, and certain other forms of work slaves, is to protect them from parasites. |
10 |
| 19 | 435 |
She certainly did not seem to me a field slave. |
10 |
| 19 | 439 |
"That seems a rather fine name for a slave," I said, "particularly for a field slave". |
10 |
| 19 | 518 |
"And only a field slave," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 520 |
Female work slaves, field slaves, stable slaves, and such, like kettle-and-mat girls, are usually considered the lowest of slaves. |
10 |
| 19 | 524 |
"But now that you are slave, even a field slave," I said, "you are better prepared to compete with other slaves for the attention of a man than would be a free woman". |
10 |
| 19 | 547 |
"A field slave?" I asked. |
10 |
| 19 | 865 |
"But twice I was tied to a stake, for the field slaves". |
10 |
| 19 | 876 |
She was, after all, a relatively new slave, and had been a house slave, apparently primarily consigned to domestic duties, serving table and such, and was now a field slave, whose primary services would presumably lie in such labors as the carrying of water and the hoeing of suls. |
10 |
| 19 | 930 |
"But surely you are not so enamored of the labors of the field slave," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1119 |
"Field slave," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1290 |
Too, a girl is sometimes given to field slaves that way, cords attached sometimes to the ends of the yoke, that she may be pulled about, turned this way and that, and, in general, moved about and controlled as the slaves wish, until they weary of the sport and choose to have their way with her. |
10 |
| 19 | 1316 |
"Turn about, and be about your labors," said I, "field slave". |
10 |
| 19 | 1321 |
"Away, field slave!" I said, with a gesture. |
10 |
| 19 | 1407 |
"She is a field slave," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 1473 |
"Are you so unmoved by the charms of your little field slave?" "I?" I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 212 |
I thought of her, struggling under the weight of the yoke and buckets, as had Lavinia, staggering to bring drink, herself a slave, to other slaves, the robust, bronzed field slaves, gangs of them, toiling in the fields of Appanius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 652 |
It must have had a wingspan of some forty feet in breadth! It is difficult to convey the terribleness, the size, the speed, the savagery, the power, the ferocity, the clearly predatory, clearly carnivorous nature of such a thing! But the most incredible thing, to my mind, was that I saw, in the mome... |
10 |
| 9 | 257 |
I was not a peasant lass, surprised in a field, nor a rich woman, one indigenous to this world, stolen from her boudoir. |
10 |
| 10 | 494 |
In the conquest of cities, of course, or in elaborate raids, in which perhaps outlying villas, or cylinders, are struck, by several men, one may take more time, sorting out captures into field girls, kitchen-and-laundry girls, kettle-and-mat girls, tower slaves, pleasure slaves, and such. |
10 |
| 11 | 1396 |
"It is enough," said another, "that it be a suitable orchard from which slave fruit may be plucked, a suitable field from which may be harvested crops of slaves, a place of suitable herds, from which may be selected slave meat". |
10 |
| 14 | 99 |
"We are worked as though we might be field slaves!" I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 193 |
So let her be a laundress, a field slave, a factory slave, chained to her loom. |
10 |
| 19 | 803 |
Also, they are usually low girls, stable slaves, field slaves, kettle-and-mat girls and such. |
10 |
| 37 | 532 |
But then to her surprise, and, one supposes, consternation, the Earth woman finds herself enfolded helplessly in mighty arms and kissed in turn and kissed as she had never dreamed she might be kissed, with such ferocity, and mastery and power, and ownership, and then as she reels, giddy and dazed, s... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 207 |
Perhaps, she thought, she should run after him, to apologize, she, in her fifties, and despite her status as an academician, one not unknown in her field, surely one with suitable publications, one with, too, impeccable credentials. |
10 |
| 10 | 106 |
It was not unlike the sort used by many hunters in the field, in their base camp, for the temporary confinement of their catches. |
10 |
| 21 | 18 |
Seen in a field, for example, free men will commonly investigate the sight of such a slave, and, if she is not known to them, set upon her, apprehend her, and demand an accounting. |
10 |
| 25 | 814 |
He was as impecunious as a field urt. |
10 |
| 27 | 1055 |
In the distance, but turning now, obviously withdrawing, but not abandoning the field, were four more tarns, each with a tarn basket slung beneath it. |
10 |
| 27 | 1692 |
One had approached a moment ago, however, given the relative quiet of the field, that to which the spokesman had indicated his capitulation. |
10 |
| 27 | 3039 |
Kardok examined the field. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 111 |
They are companions to discipline; they are hardened to short rations, long watches, and the march; they are inured to the exigencies of camp and field; and trained to fight, and kill, preferably swiftly and cleanly. |
10 |
| 1 | 577 |
In the field, in the early morning, you will remove your clothing and kneel, and lift your wrists to us, to be braceleted. |
10 |
| 1 | 581 |
At last, early one morning, in an open field, trembling, shaking, chilled, exhausted, unable to run further, she sees them about her, discernible in the half light and fog of the early morning. |
10 |
| 2 | 206 |
What if there should be some sort of field which might be activated by anything of its size, or genetic constituency? It backed away from the container, and stood up, again, as such beasts commonly stand. |
10 |
| 21 | 202 |
"They would think otherwise of humans did they meet them in the field of battle," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 26 | 222 |
It may be from the "Field Diaries," an anonymous Gorean publication, often attributed to Carl Commenius, he of Argentum. |
10 |
| 39 | 47 |
Although much depends on the city, and world, it is my understanding that many Gorean warriors, and certainly Kurii, do not, in field situations, exchange salutes or wear insignia. |
10 |
| 39 | 98 |
At this point those Kurii who had remained in the field broke and ran, two more felled before they had cover, one by Cabot and another by his unseen cohort. |
10 |
| 44 | 43 |
Kurii in the field needed not be supplied, as they could feed, raw or cooked, on the bodies of their enemies. |
10 |
| 55 | 195 |
Suddenly Lord Grendel's ears lifted, and he turned to the field, and he began to gaze intently toward the mingled cattle humans, and he began to tremble, uncontrollably. |
10 |
| 56 | 71 |
"Aii!" cried Cabot, suddenly, in pain, and shouts of dismay rang through the field, from both Kur and human, for the world was suddenly, instantly, flooded with an intense light. |
10 |
| 56 | 216 |
"What then brought them to the field?" "To do honor to Lord Arcesilaus," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 56 | 220 |
Statius, as other Kurii from the trenches, had been active in the field. |
10 |
| 56 | 229 |
Then Cabot looked about, at the broad field. |
10 |
| 61 | 111 |
"I fear he will find a ready field for the sowing of such seed," said Statius. |
10 |
| 63 | 1 |
What Took Place in the Field "The Lady Bina has escaped!" cried Archon, rushing forward. |
10 |
| 63 | 88 |
"There, there!" cried a Kur, pointing to the wide, long field separating the near side of the habitats from the forward lines. |
10 |
| 63 | 133 |
There was the sound of the Lady Bina's bell and her scream was heard in the field. |
10 |
| 63 | 163 |
He stood there, in the field, silent, in the grass, amongst bodies, those of cattle humans and Kurii, holding her. |
10 |
| 64 | 6 |
But the habitats were quiet, and the field below was largely deserted, save for some cattle humans who had drifted back, to scavenge. |
10 |
| 65 | 67 |
"I think not," said Lord Grendel, gazing beyond the rampart, to the field betwixt the habitats and the lines of the insurrectionists. |
10 |
| 67 | 107 |
He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone. |
10 |
| 79 | 472 |
It does not matter whether you are beaten or not, cuffed or not, clothed or not, chained or not, kept as a house slave or a field slave, kept as a pot girl or a pleasure slave, pampered or well ruled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 357 |
He who writes poetry and sips tea, and waits expectantly for a flower to blossom, may, in a frenzy, on the field of battle, take head after head. |
10 |
| 14 | 175 |
That is merely a name for a battle sword, one to be used in the field". |
10 |
| 15 | 440 |
Some who excelled in the dojo were the first to fall in the field. |
10 |
| 16 | 160 |
Too, despite who holds the field, who decorates the trophy tree at the day's end, a general engagement is often lost, in effect, by both sides. |
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. |
10 |
| 16 | 291 |
A hundred maneuvers we had planned and practiced on the field of the sky, feints and encirclements, and sallies and lures, massings and dividings, but these maneuvers were untested in battle, and our men were for the most part new to the saddle. |
10 |
| 17 | 40 |
Smaller groups, obviously, with a given quantity of supplies, can be kept much longer in the field. |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins. |
10 |
| 17 | 79 |
I feared for a moment reserves might be entering the field. |
10 |
| 17 | 81 |
What would be the purpose when its enemy was understood to be overwhelmingly overmatched? How many tharlarion would it take to press to the earth a single, scampering field urt? And, clearly, Torgus had seemed pleased. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
Fighting Continues; We Report to Lord Nishida; The Stable I brought the tarn down, to the field of training, followed by Tajima and Pertinax, and Ichiro, my first, or lead, signalman. |
10 |
| 18 | 40 |
I would keep men on the field, for I was not sure of the number of enemies that might be left in the area. |
10 |
| 18 | 367 |
Similarly, as in several periods in the Middle Ages on Earth, prisoners were done away with, there being no satisfactory provisions for their incarceration, particularly in the field, no prisoner cages, or such. |
10 |
| 18 | 512 |
The women, then, of whatever station, whether low-born or high, whether of high caste or low, together with camp slaves, are herded to the center of the blackened, smoldering camp, where all must, at a word, disrobe themselves, both bond and free, to be assessed, as though in a field market. |
10 |
| 20 | 79 |
In the Gorean phalanx the field commander leads the right wing, which tends to drift to the right, this resulting from the natural tendency of each man to take advantage of the protection of the shield of the man on his right, as well as his own shield. |
10 |
| 20 | 81 |
In this way the phalanxes tend to turn in the field, rather like a wheel of war. |
10 |
| 22 | 379 |
It is common then, when the blood has been shed, when the weapons are quiet, when one lifts one's head and surveys the field, and realizes one is alive, to think of the softness of women, eagerly, even angrily and aggressively. |
10 |
| 25 | 173 |
I would encounter the guard group at the far end of the track, and then, a bit later, after circling the training area, the field, cots, and sheds, retrace my steps. |
10 |
| 26 | 291 |
She may be a camp slave, a paga girl, a field slave, a caged brothel slut. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 687 |
This act is scorned in the codes, of course, but it is not without precedent in the field. |
10 |
| 9 | 325 |
It seemed clear to me that the tide of war on this strange field, a lower deck on a great ship, was not favoring the mutineers. |
10 |
| 12 | 330 |
Passwords, and such, of course, are familiar in martial environments, at any time, but particularly at night in the field, in darkness, and so on. |
10 |
| 16 | 217 |
Lord Okimoto, on the other hand, was well aware of the sizable complement of fighting men on board, a small army, who would, in any likely contest, as on an open field, far outnumber the enemy Pani in the small boats and on the warning ship, perhaps by as many as four or five to one; and was, accord... |
10 |
| 22 | 196 |
As the line had begun to constrict and hold, bodies, ours and theirs, had begun to encumber the immediate field. |
10 |
| 22 | 222 |
I now realized the reason for holding the line as it was, for the bodies with which the field in our vicinity, before us and behind us, was strewn were lifted up, held up, even piled on one another. |
10 |
| 22 | 237 |
I thought no single marksman, given the liberty of his judgment, would have continued to fire arrows with such little effect, but, I gathered, this action, with its largely futile waste of missiles, was in accord with the command of the drum, the captain of which, most likely, was well behind the li... |
10 |
| 26 | 5 |
I would not have cared to meet such fellows in the field. |
10 |
| 27 | 155 |
"Surely we dare not meet the enemy in the field," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 30 | 6 |
"On the continent the desertion of a single man is usually punished by his death, the desertion of a unit, its impermissible flight from the field, not routed, its refusal to engage, or such, by decimation, putting to death every tenth man, this determined by lots". |
10 |
| 36 | 380 |
In the field, leaves, and grass, may be used. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 441 |
These were similar to war tharlarion whose charge can shatter phalanxes, breastworks, palisades, and field walls. |
10 |
| 35 | 69 |
The next phase, which I have referred to as that of extermination, or virtual extermination, would be that of the now-augmented numbers of Kurii turning on the considerably war-reduced human population of Gor, perhaps in a hundred coordinated nights of massacre, perhaps in a set of campaigns, in whi... |
10 |
| 37 | 217 |
"Titanic forces could be locked in battle," said Desmond of Harfax, "forces compared to which men are small, weak, and fragile things, little more than field urts scampering about in the grass, amidst the tread of trampling tharlarion". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 266 |
"We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawals under fire, ... |
10 |
| 11 | 38 |
The rations of Gorean warriors, in the field, I am told, are often austere. |
10 |
| 15 | 125 |
I am charged to clear the field". |
10 |
| 15 | 134 |
The fellow who had arrested our progress, then, with a snap of wings and a shower of dust, departed the field. |
10 |
| 15 | 139 |
Fellows from the margins of the field went to the targets and retrieved the arrows. |
10 |
| 15 | 148 |
Shortly after the exercise, the flights apparently departed for some rendezvous, the fellow who had cleared the field returned. |
10 |
| 15 | 433 |
Too, it had its nearby training field, where I and others had witnessed the exercise in which waves of tarn riders had flown against an array of targets. |
10 |
| 21 | 62 |
"They can detect the tread of a field urt through grass at a dozen paces". |
10 |
| 43 | 64 |
If the ship can be located and destroyed before its departure, this force need no longer be maintained in the field". |
10 |
| 43 | 85 |
"I fear," said Genserich, "that your employer must continue to maintain, presumably at considerable expense, his men in the field, at the mouth of the Alexandra". |
10 |
| 43 | 211 |
The other two might do as pot girls, kettle-and-mat girls, field slaves, mill girls, that sort of thing". |
10 |
| 43 | 1145 |
I am apparently little better at this than estimating arrayed forces in the field". |
10 |
| 47 | 73 |
On the board one may lose pieces; in the field one may lose cities. |
10 |
| 52 | 932 |
I had never been this close to a tarn before, not even on the training field east of Tarncamp, en route to Shipcamp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 47 |
In the field manuals the common lesson is to pursue an advantage to the end, to follow up on the victory, never to stop with an incomplete victory, but the field manuals are written with the care and leisure which might accompany kaissa. |
10 |
| 30 | 312 |
I could understand her desire to bathe, for her body bore not only some residue of Tajima's early ministrations in the camp where we had first made contact, his application of dirt, ashes, soot, and such, designed to confirm her status as a field slave, but now, as well, the stains and flakage of dr... |
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| 52 | 141 |
Depending on the use made of the dial, altering the default setting on the camera, either the field was reduced and the image magnified, or the field was enlarged and individual images were reduced. |
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| 1 | 150 |
Those in the castle area, of those supposedly informed, would assume the camp was at the convergence of the two designated streams, at least until there was a reason to believe otherwise, perhaps in virtue of a fruitless raid, loosed upon unoccupied tents, pitched on an empty field. |
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| 1 | 255 |
"We have lost in the field. |
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| 1 | 329 |
"And in the field, and on tarnback, in the sky," I said. |
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| 1 | 426 |
"Perhaps the commander wishes us to put starving men, unsupported, into the field," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 1 | 430 |
Too, even for a shogun of the power of Lord Yamada, it is demanding and expensive to maintain large numbers of men in the field, to supply and support them, and impractical, if not hazardous, to attempt to do so without sufficient resources". |
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| 2 | 1 |
I Visit a Field; The Night is Dark; I Must be Otherwise Engaged It was cold when I departed the holding. |
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| 4 | 166 |
The field sword may be kept in its rack, in the hall, but the companion blade is commonly at hand. |
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| 4 | 178 |
I saw but one foe, helmeted, with a field sword grasped in two hands, across the tiny fire. |
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| 9 | 48 |
They are composed in tents by lamplight, after a day's march or skirmishing, even in winter quarters, or even in exile, or retirement, as is thought to have been the case with the Field Diaries commonly attributed to Carl Commenius of Argentum. |
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| 9 | 67 |
He was standing; his eyes were wild and fierce, and, over his head, clutched in two hands, he held his field sword. |
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| 10 | 34 |
He had, in effect, his armies in the field, and largely concentrated in the area of the holding. |
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| 11 | 4 |
As soon as the tarn had been seen the small warning gong had sounded its single note, and I had left the tent I employed as the field headquarters of the cavalry. |
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| 11 | 184 |
The point is to choose one's field and time, and apply force judiciously. |
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| 12 | 322 |
I doubt that the forces of the house of Temmu could meet those of the house of Yamada on the open field". |
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| 17 | 122 |
"Then you would not object to my putting her in the pens, with other field slaves?" "No," I said, "but I am surprised, given her coloring and such, that you would do so". |
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| 19 | 86 |
"They are simple field slaves". |
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| 19 | 108 |
"Attend me, field girls, miserable urts, barbarian beasts," said the Ashigaru. |
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| 20 | 397 |
The first feeding of field slaves is usually at dawn, or earlier, before they are sent into the fields. |
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| 23 | 210 |
Under certain field conditions, naturally enough, one prefers stealth and silence. |
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| 24 | 115 |
"Thus," I said, "when one is about, in the field, the barracks, the dojo, or such, one might have at one's elbow, for all one knows, such a one, an executioner". |
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| 27 | 109 |
Indeed, several might have been distributed amongst the shogun's daimyos, for diverse purposes, field slaves, slaves to a daimyo's wives, personal pleasure slaves to warriors, to officers, and even to the daimyo himself. |
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| 29 | 252 |
"Inappropriate, however," said Tajima, "for a field slave". |
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| 29 | 271 |
Indeed, in my view he had cropped it rather short, even for a field slave. |
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| 29 | 314 |
"It is the tunic of a field slave," said Tajima. |
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| 29 | 320 |
She now stood before us, in the sleeveless, brief rag of a field slave. |
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| 29 | 370 |
"Now," I said, "one could not tell her from a field slave". |
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| 29 | 371 |
"She is less than a field slave," said Tajima. |
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| 29 | 375 |
"Disguised as a field slave," I suggested. |
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| 30 | 11 |
She was still barefoot, of course, and the garment was still the tiny rag of a field slave. |
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| 30 | 56 |
* * * "That is a field slave, is it not?" had growled a stout peasant, seemingly a high man in one of the villages at which we had taken shelter. |
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| 30 | 64 |
I gathered he might be in charge of the village's field slaves. |
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| 30 | 131 |
She had not even known enough to draw back her shoulders, that the loveliness of her breasts would be accentuated beneath the thin, scarcely concealing rag of the field slave. |
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| 30 | 205 |
"How many field slaves were there?" asked Tajima. |
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| 30 | 217 |
"Our wages," I proposed, "and some consideration for the application of Nezumi in the wading field". |
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| 30 | 294 |
After our small repast, which she cooked and served, naked, utilizing some simple vessels and bowls extracted from the packs of Haruki and Tajima, she was allowed to feed, and don again the rag of the field slave. |
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| 30 | 727 |
I did not think her hair was all that miserable now, as Tajima had tried to remedy the vengeful butchery of his earlier barbering, or, at any rate, not all that miserable, at least for a field slave. |
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| 31 | 186 |
Arashi had one of the swords, a field sword, and, grasping the tasseled handle in two hands, divided the air with it, twice. |
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| 32 | 84 |
His blade, a field sword, that purloined from Tajima, was loose in his hand. |
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| 32 | 96 |
He brought up his own field sword and blocked the fierce blow which might have taken his head. |
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| 32 | 149 |
Yasushi handed his field sword to Tajima, and regained his own weapon. |
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| 32 | 171 |
The inn girls wore inn tunics, sleeveless and revealing, and Nezumi less, the tunic of a field slave. |
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| 34 | 27 |
She is a lowly, cropped-hair, collared field slave". |
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| 34 | 39 |
But even if it is so, that these are the four you sought, of what interest or importance would they be, for anyone, a free warrior, zealous for a shogun's rice; a field slave; a foreigner, probably a deserter from the camp of Temmu; and a peasant?" "Why does Yasushi, a march constable, concern himse... |
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| 34 | 49 |
If you present this motley four before him, hazarding the claim that this ronin warrior, who wishes only to see him, is a tarnsman, indeed, the one who abducted his daughter, and that a field slave is his daughter, I fear for your head". |
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| 34 | 58 |
He need only look at the field slave, and see that she is not Sumomo. |
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| 34 | 60 |
"And what if the field slave is Sumomo?" asked Kazumitsu. |
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| 34 | 75 |
He will see immediately that the field slave is not Sumomo". |
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| 35 | 5 |
One would not put an attractive slave, even a cropped-hair field slave in a pen with more than fifty virile males, unless as a punishment. |
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| 35 | 59 |
Tied to the top, back railing of the cart was the coffle rope, with its seven occupants, their hands tied behind their backs, six in the tunics of inn slaves, and one, the last, in the tunic of a field slave. |
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| 36 | 32 |
"His men," I said, "have their field packs". |
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| 36 | 41 |
She is a common field slave, and certainly not the gracious, exalted daughter of the shogun". |
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| 44 | 19 |
If she were housed in the holding of Temmu, it seemed likely that she, even with cropped hair and in the garment of a field slave, would be recognized as the former Sumomo, and dealt with accordingly. |
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| 46 | 176 |
But now, gripped in two hands, he carried a different sword, the heavier, longer of the two swords often carried by a warrior, the field sword. |
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| 46 | 191 |
"I did not understand that! If a nondescript peasant, a lowly one, can do it, so can anyone! Bring another grain of rice!" The magician, with one movement of the field sword, severed the knot of hair which held the slave's head back, against the post. |
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| 46 | 202 |
With a cry of rage the officer drew his field sword, poised it, and struck at the post. |
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| 46 | 229 |
"No!" said Izo, the hitherto skeptical officer, furiously, "no!" His field sword was still in hand, indeed, gripped in two hands. |
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| 46 | 405 |
"There are field slaves, draft slaves, female fighting slaves, racing slaves, many sorts". |
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| 47 | 290 |
Katsutoshi almost quivered with tension, in an on-guard position, facing Nodachi, two hands on his field sword. |
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| 53 | 10 |
Is one not always behind the phenomena, so to speak? Is the world not always conveniently at hand, about one as usual? Is one not always, for example, the center of the visual field? Suppose, then, your sensory experiences were somehow dissociated from their common site. |
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| 58 | 1 |
We Will Arm Ourselves "I think," said Nodachi, a field sword across his legs, as he sat cross-legged in the trophy room, "Lord Yamada is in the palace". |
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| 58 | 226 |
* * * "I think," had said Nodachi, a field sword across his legs, as he sat cross-legged in the trophy room, "Lord Yamada is in the palace". |
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| 59 | 30 |
The other was Katsutoshi, whom I recalled from the village, where Nodachi had twice divided a grain of rice, once with the companion sword, and once with the field sword. |
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| 59 | 191 |
He was no master of the companion sword, nor would he have been of the field sword. |
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| 60 | 23 |
I had expected that to be the choice, rather than the larger, longer, heavier field sword, usually wielded with two hands. |
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| 60 | 27 |
Lord Yamada thrust his field sword into the sand, and so, too, did Nodachi. |
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| 60 | 198 |
The glaive, of course, outreaches even the field sword. |
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| 60 | 205 |
In the pause which followed Nodachi's swift, almost casual, felling of Lord Akio's two men, that small, eager, ill-fated vanguard unwisely addressing themselves, woefully unsupported, to their foray, both he and Lord Yamada had replaced their companion swords in their sashes and drawn up their field... |
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| 60 | 206 |
The blow of the field sword can fell a small tree, or cut away the head of a glaive. |
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| 60 | 309 |
The matter is done! We had held the bridge well, our narrow, wooden field of battle giving our smaller number the equalizing advantages of height and narrowness of access. |
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| 60 | 409 |
"You are Arashi, the bandit?" asked Lord Yamada, striding forward, field sword gripped in two hands. |
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| 61 | 349 |
She was no longer in the rough tunic of a field slave, but in the slight silk of a pleasure slave, brief, and yellow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 156 |
In the sa-tarna field, I had once helped myself to a dipper of water from the field bucket and I had been foot switched, put to my belly, my legs held up by two slaves, the switch applied to the soles of my bare feet until I wept with pain and begged for mercy. |
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| 49 | 111 |
In short, the truce standards were raised, and hundreds of men, from each army, came onto the field, gathered up the birds in their helmets and the basins of their shields, and returned to their respective camps, where the birds were nursed, being warmed and fed, and, two days later, on a common sig... |
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| 60 | 35 |
I saw, on the field, rather toward the house, not far from where we had entered the field, chained to a stake, by hands, body, and legs, my master, Kurik of Victoria. |
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| 9 | 163 |
Each helmet, of leather and metal, crested with a mane of animal hair, with its y-shaped opening, muchly enclosed a face, a face that might, in a moment, I supposed, be fearsome, and menacing, that might, peering out, aware of risk and war, of danger, of the moment that might part life from death, s... |
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| 13 | 34 |
It is not pleasant to be a kitchen slave, a field slave, a mill slave, and such. |
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| 13 | 58 |
Had this something to do with me? Was I somehow different? If so, how, in what way? Once, when I was laboring in a field, sickle in hand, with others, harvesting sa-tarna, a great shadow, as of a cloud, raced across the golden grain. |
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| 13 | 67 |
I saw two of the peasants seize up their bows, large things, at hand even in the field. |
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| 40 | 61 |
To be sure, I had no illusions as to the standing of Epicrates in his field. |
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| 49 | 109 |
Thousands of tiny defts, a small, flocking, gray, migratory bird, undistinguished in its plumage and not noted for its song, on their way to the shores of the Cartius, had been caught in the storm, as well, and, paralyzed with cold, with wings coated with ice, unable to continue their journey, had f... |
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| 54 | 137 |
"But we do have a weapon," said Lord Grendel, "a most fearsome weapon, one that I, in their place, would not care to encounter, particularly on this narrow field of battle". |
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| 60 | 29 |
The grass here and there had been soaked with blood, and parts of verr, organs and limbs, skin and heads, were scattered about the field. |
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| 60 | 227 |
Decius Albus was then conducted across the small, bloody field, and assisted in climbing to his box, and, shortly thereafter, he sank into the curule chair at its center. |
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| 60 | 261 |
At that point, opposite the stands, where there was a line of soldiers closing off the field, something, apparently unexpected, at least by most, was taking place. |
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| 60 | 271 |
Even Decius Albus, half supported by Drusus Andronicus, was on his feet, staring blearily across the field. |
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| 60 | 283 |
The two seeming beasts, one bound with chains, the other with its ax, approached the center of the small field, opposite the stands, near the stake to which Kurik of Victoria had been fastened. |
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| 61 | 16 |
He then called down to the field. |
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| 61 | 29 |
"Do so!" responded Surtak, and, simultaneously, at a flick of the paw of Lord Grendel, the chains, like liberated snakes, leapt from his body, and Lord Grendel handed him his own ax, which he had borne to the field. |
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| 61 | 89 |
A blond kajira was thrust stumbling onto the field, her forearm over her eyes to protect them from the glare of sunlight. |
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| 61 | 103 |
Tyrtaios had not approached more closely, but had remained some yards away, muchly at the point to which he had withdrawn, shortly after noticing the arrival on the field of what seemed to be two Kurii, one chained, one with an ax. |
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| 61 | 143 |
Several Kurii in the stands began to descend to the field. |
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| 61 | 182 |
Most Kurii had poured down to the field, many eager and snarling. |
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| 61 | 184 |
From it he surveyed the field. |
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| 61 | 187 |
The soldiers, armed, held their posts, as before, now uneasily, in two lines, closing off the two open edges of the field, that opposite the house, and that opposite the stands. |
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| 61 | 258 |
One or two of the formerly inert Kurii, who had passed out, or been asleep, had now been roused from their drunken stupor, and were standing, confused, and unsteady, on the field. |
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| 61 | 271 |
For a moment nothing seemed to move on the field. |
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| 61 | 286 |
Others descended through the tiers and sought to escape, away from the stands and field. |
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| 61 | 314 |
"Discipline!" The two lines of soldiers, closing off the open ends of the field, wavered. |
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| 61 | 317 |
Had they not now noted, this taking place before their very eyes, rampaging Kurii, unprovoked, attacking unarmed men? Who then, or what then, is friend or foe? Might they be the next to fall to those fangs? Surely Kurii had threatened them at the margins of the field. |
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| 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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| 61 | 332 |
Several knots of war, in moving, violent tangles, roiled in the field. |
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| 61 | 336 |
Elsewhere in the field, and at its edges, men faced one another, many in a threatening manner. |
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| 61 | 392 |
I leapt to my feet and raced amongst men, some fighting, toward the perimeter of the field. |
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| 61 | 398 |
And Kurii fronted the field before the stands. |
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| 61 | 494 |
About the edges of the field several soldiers maintained their position. |
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| 61 | 496 |
Isolated men, backing away from one another, were in the field. |
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| 61 | 500 |
The field seemed strangely quiet. |
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| 61 | 506 |
But then he lowered his hand, looking past us, toward the perimeter of the field, opposite the stands. |
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| 61 | 517 |
"Back, back!" chided the free woman, robes, yellow, red, and purple, flowing serenely between the lines of soldiers, and approaching us across the field. |
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| 61 | 616 |
She looked back, to where the Kurlike thing that had accompanied her to the field waited, bearing the large, flat box. |
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| 61 | 668 |
On this field power is owned by the beasts". |
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| 61 | 684 |
Lucilius then increased the volume on his translator, presumably that its message might carry throughout the field, even to the soldiers at the two manned perimeters. |
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| 61 | 742 |
"If I were you," she said, "I would choose a different field, and a different battle". |
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| 61 | 801 |
You may then, if you wish, do as you please, drenching the field in blood, cutting one another to pieces, and so on. |
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| 61 | 874 |
Offending males may expect to be summoned to a bridge, or field, at dawn; an offending or careless woman is subject to the risk of finding herself naked, chained at a slave ring. |
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| 61 | 927 |
"We shall withdraw from this soiled, ignominious field," said Surtak. |
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| 61 | 974 |
The Kurii then left the field, following Surtak. |
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| 62 | 178 |
He has doubtless learned much from the field off the Viktel Aria. |
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| 62 | 183 |
How is she safe? What of the noble Lord Grendel and his friend, Eve? What is to become of them? What of Surtak, and minions loyal to him? Will they remain in the vicinity of Ar, or depart? What of dreadful Lucilius, who fled the box of honor, on the field? What has become of him? Has he joined force... |
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| 64 | 103 |
From the slave pool, waiting, standing in the water, I looked out, across the field, away from the caravanserai, into the now-unoccupied overflow area. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 62 |
When a battle has been successfully fought, and the enemy driven from the field, it is not uncommon for the victors to mark the field in such a way as to commemorate their victory. |
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| 1 | 34 |
"You wear the field garment, the trading garment, of the Merchants," he said. |
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| 20 | 92 |
It is commonly used with troops which have behaved in a cowardly or dishonorable fashion, failed to engage under orders, fled the field of battle, and so on. |
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| 20 | 97 |
It was undoubtedly clear then to the leader, and his men, that a field of fire had been cleared between them and the arrows of Aktis. |
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| 41 | 6 |
Several times in the early days of the siege, the enemy had attempted to apply a tactic brilliant in the manuals but hazardous in the field. |
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| 41 | 17 |
Cos and Tyros are essentially naval powers, and, traditionally, rely on continental mercenaries when faced with warfare in the field. |
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| 42 | 93 |
Is not the reputation of a Dietrich of Tarnburg worth a thousand troops? Whose hand does not shake on the pieces if, across the kaissa board, he sees a Centius of Cos, a Scormus of Ar? An army believing itself doomed does not hurry to the field. |
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| 43 | 147 |
I stood, for a time, looking back across the field, at the many burning tents. |
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| 44 | 15 |
Thus, the advantages of what might prove to be overwhelming numbers in the field are likely to be nullified at the wall. |
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| 45 | 177 |
"Those last to leave the field are those who tell the tales," I said. |
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| 46 | 61 |
"Certainly," said Thurnock, "in our blankets and furs, in their kennels, in the mud of tarsk pens, in the furrows of the field, and they will soon beg for our touch". |
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| 48 | 1 |
The Field of Battle; The Feasting of Jards; Tarchon; The Lyre; We Prepare to Leave the Vicinity of Mytilene Three days later a small party, of which I was one, examined the battleground about Mytilene. |
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| 48 | 68 |
Earlier there had been such clusters of jards elsewhere on the field, as well, from a distance looking like restless, crawling heaps. |
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| 48 | 99 |
Thrasymedes turned to the side and called to two men who, their faces half covered with scarves, had been clearing the field of the dead. |
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| 48 | 185 |
"Defeated, sustaining dreadful losses, driven from the field," said he, "they flee to Sybaris, to lick their wounds, perhaps even to disband in humiliation and chagrin". |
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| 49 | 43 |
Allies, armed peasants, hold the field". |
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| 58 | 156 |
"I would prefer to die in a field at harvest time amidst ripening, golden sa-tarna," said Thurnock, "but this will do". |
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| 59 | 100 |
"You might do well in a peasant's field," I said. |
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