| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 164 |
He was a blond Viking giant of a man, a bearded fellow with a cheerful, craggy face and fierce blue eyes, who strode about as though he owned the earth on which he stood. |
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| 5 | 1 |
Lights of the Planting Feast I mounted my tarn, that fierce, black magnificent bird. |
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| 5 | 69 |
But she was, of course, a girl of mountainous Thentis, famed for its fierce tarn flocks. |
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| 6 | 118 |
I imagined the girl alone on the back of the fierce tarn, unskilled in the mastery of such a mount, without even a tarn-goad to protect herself, if the bird should turn on her. |
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| 6 | 192 |
"Where is the tarn?" I repeated, more interested at the moment in the fate of my fierce mount than in the ridiculous piece of rock I had risked my life to obtain. |
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| 7 | 2 |
She stepped away from Nar, as if apprehensive that those fierce mandibles might threaten her again. |
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| 13 | 26 |
It paused, lifted its wide, fierce head, some two or three feet in diameter, and uttered the hunting scream once more. |
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| 17 | 104 |
Still, the days in the tarn cot, gigantic though it was, must have been confining for that Ubar of the Skies, my tarn, and I knew he would relish flight, the chance to pit his wings once again against the fierce winds of Gor. |
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| 18 | 3 |
I felt sorry for him, knowing that that sight, if any, would crush the heart of the fierce Ubar. |
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| 18 | 86 |
I began to examine the wall with fierce closeness. |
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| 18 | 113 |
As soon as they saw us, they lifted their heads, as if out of their shoulders, and regarded us with fierce attention. |
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| 19 | 113 |
Not even a scream came from that fierce blue combustive mass that had been a human being, and in a minute the flame had departed, almost as quickly as it had come, and a dust of ashes scattered from the top of the cylinder in the wind. |
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| 19 | 191 |
I met the attack cleanly, and after a minute of fierce interplay both Pa-Kur and I realized I could withstand the best he had to give. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 58 |
Yes, and by now I should have been challenged a dozen times by Ko-ro-ba's night patrols! A monstrous chain of lightning exploded in the night about me, deafening me with the shock and roar of its thunder, splitting the darkness in violent fragments, breaking it to pieces like a clay bowl struck with... |
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| 13 | 160 |
Had I won my freedom? Was it thus in the Amusements of Tharna? Or had the fierce, proud Tatrix now recognized the cruelty of the Amusements? Had that heart hidden in those cold, glistening robes of unfeeling gold at last relented, shown itself to be susceptible of compassion? Or had the call of just... |
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| 14 | 54 |
It was perhaps the foolish affection which a tarnsman feels for these dangerous, fierce mounts, almost as much a threat to him as to anyone else. |
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| 14 | 149 |
The tarn thrust its head over me and uttered a piercing, fierce scream, a terrible cry of rage that must have shaken the hearts of all within the confines of the arena. |
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| 14 | 164 |
Indeed, I did not even have a tarn-goad, without which most tarnsmen would not even approach their fierce mounts. |
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| 15 | 24 |
I was one of those men, a tarnsman, who would prefer the saddle of one of those fierce, predatory titans to the throne of a Ubar. |
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| 20 | 78 |
The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 |
I regretted freeing the tarn, for it was a fine bird, powerful, intelligent, fierce, courageous, loyal. |
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| 1 | 73 |
I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, animals s... |
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| 1 | 105 |
I have been unable to learn the fate of my father, my friends, my warrior companions, and my beloved Talena, she who was the daughter of Marlenus, who had once been Ubar of Ar—my sweet, fierce, wild, gentle, savage, beautiful love, she who is my Free Companion, my Talena, forever the Ubara of... |
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| 2 | 132 |
I hesitated for a moment and then the fierce war cry of Ko-ro-ba burst from my lips in the clear, chill air of the Sardar and I threw myself into the open, my spear arm back, my shield high. |
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| 4 | 59 |
I began to feel all the hatred of all the years that I had nursed against the Priest-Kings now uncontrollably, slowly, violently growing in my body, wild, fierce, those foliating scarlet vines of my fury that now seemed to encircle me, to enfold me, to engulf me, swelling, steaming, now writhing afl... |
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| 7 | 42 |
This sweet, fierce, liquid speech is the common bond that tends to hold together the Gorean world. |
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| 8 | 101 |
Her warriors were said to be fierce and brave, her women proud and beautiful. |
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| 8 | 114 |
A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai. |
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| 9 | 217 |
Vika lay at my feet, a streak of blood at the corner of those lips that bore still the marks of my fierce kiss. |
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| 14 | 89 |
I did not even have a sword, and I was sure that, in any battle with Priest-Kings, I would constitute but a moment's work for their fierce mandibles and the bladed, hornlike projections on their forelegs. |
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| 28 | 8 |
Thinking to overcome us with little difficulty, the forces of Sarm, mounted on transportation disks, swept through the tunnels and plazas, but the Priest-Kings of Misk, hidden in rooms, concealed behind portals, firing from the ramps and the roofs of buildings in the open complexes, soon took fierce... |
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| 28 | 163 |
The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to... |
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| 30 | 88 |
My first knowledge of this came one morning when suddenly I awakened in my chains to the fierce bite of a leather lash. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 |
My business was with the Wagon Peoples, not the Turians, said to be indolent and luxury-loving; but I wonder at this charge, for Turia has stood for generations on the plains claimed by the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 10 |
But why was it I who came? Why not Priest-Kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? Priest-Kings cannot stand the sun. |
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| 2 | 38 |
And if I should manage to seize it, how could I carry it away? I had no tarn, one of Gor's fierce saddlebirds; I had not even the monstrous high tharlarion, used as the mounts of shock cavalry by the warriors of some cities. |
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| 2 | 90 |
It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the lusher reache... |
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| 2 | 142 |
Their long ears were laid back against the fierce, silken heads. |
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| 2 | 175 |
At that time I could read only the top scar, the red, bright, fierce cordlike scar that was the Courage Scar. |
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| 3 | 5 |
At the last instant, the lances of four riders but a hand's breadth from my body, the enraged, thundering kaiila, hissing and squealing, at a touch of the control straps, arrested their fierce charge, stopping themselves, tearing into the deep turf with suddenly emergent claws. |
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| 3 | 30 |
Once, long, long ago, Ko-ro-ba and Ar had turned the invasion of the united Wagon Peoples from the north, and the memories of these things, stinging still in the honest songs of camp skalds, would rankle in the craws of such fierce, proud peoples. |
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| 4 | 66 |
I studied his heavy face, the fierce scarring that somehow ennobled it, the dark eyes with the epicanthic fold. |
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| 5 | 100 |
It was thus I first learned the name of the man whom I understood to be Ubar of this fierce people. |
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| 6 | 2 |
Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka... |
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| 6 | 14 |
I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
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| 8 | 22 |
Even in the time I had been with the wagons I had gathered that it was only the implicit truce of the Omen Year which kept these four fierce, warring peoples from lunging at one another's throats, or, more exactly put, at one another's bosk. |
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| 8 | 41 |
The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i... |
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| 8 | 213 |
Kamchak was a skilled instructor in these matters and, freely, hours at a time, until it grew too dark to see, supervised my practice with such fierce tools as the lance, the quiva and bola. |
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| 8 | 221 |
But if I had indeed acquired skills with those fierce articles, such skills, in the current contests, were to be tested to the utmost. |
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| 9 | 10 |
I took a large swallow of fierce paga, washing it down as rapidly as possible. |
10 |
| 10 | 449 |
In all my time among the wagons I had not seen one of the Gorean short swords, so fierce and swift and common a weapon among those of the cities. |
10 |
| 12 | 30 |
But, I then reminded myself even more strongly, there would be no choice—there had been no Ubar San for a hundred years or more—the Wagon Peoples, fierce and independent, did not wish a Ubar San. |
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| 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... |
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| 16 | 322 |
Tuchuks do not make good spies, for they tend to be, albeit fierce and cruel, intensely loyal; and there are few strangers allowed in the wagon of a Tuchuk Ubar. |
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| 20 | 139 |
She, a girl of the plains, familiar with fierce kaiila, herself a proud, spirited wench, brave and daring, was yet—like many women—utterly for some reason terrified of a tarn. |
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| 21 | 29 |
My heart felt grateful to the stern, fierce warrior, though he had been in the past days harsh and strange, half drunk with hatred for Turia. |
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| 25 | 844 |
She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from... |
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| 26 | 68 |
The fighting would be fierce, but it did not seem that the outcome would be in doubt, even from the beginning—particularly now that the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel had left the city, the saddle packs of their tarns bulging with Turian gold. |
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| 26 | 102 |
Kamchak stopped inside the compound and looked about, his dark, fierce eyes looking from building to building, examining with great care the roof tops and windows. |
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| 26 | 438 |
He added, "It was wise of them, for the Wagon Peoples are among the farthest and most fierce of the Goreans, living free hundreds of pasangs from all cities, save Turia". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 183 |
It bespeaks the barbarian, the promise of pleasures so wild and fierce a man of the cities could scarcely conceive of them". |
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| 12 | 137 |
If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt... |
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| 13 | 326 |
Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,... |
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| 14 | 112 |
Once as I walked about I heard the wild cry, a howling roar, of an animal, apparently large and fierce; I supposed it to be the Beast of which Ho-Tu, and others, seemed so frightened; they seemed to know as little of it as I; when I heard the cry an involuntary shiver coursed my spine; I felt the ha... |
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| 16 | 256 |
Then the tarn threw back its head and once more screamed, wild, eerie, fierce, savage, a cry that might have struck terror into the heart of a larl, but I did not fear it. |
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| 16 | 267 |
I reached up and touched the fierce, curved beak of that mighty bird. |
10 |
| 16 | 268 |
And then I held it, and pressed my cheek to its fierce surface. |
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| 17 | 532 |
To my astonishment there were tears in his fierce, dark eyes. |
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| 18 | 404 |
He crawled to his knees, squinting against the torch, trying to shelter his eyes with manacled clawlike hands from the sudden, fierce, painful blaze of fire that his world must have then been for him. |
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| 19 | 303 |
The Tuchuks, one of the distant Wagon Peoples, tend to be, to those of northern Gor, a people of mystery and intrigue; to those of the southern plains, of course, they tend to be little more than efficient, fierce and dreaded foes. |
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| 21 | 324 |
Foe upon foe fell from those two fierce blades. |
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| 22 | 86 |
The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst... |
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| 22 | 142 |
Its feathers lacked the fiery sheen of the young tarn; its beak was not the gleaming yellow of the other birds, but a whitish yellow; its breathing was not that of the other birds; but its eyes were those of the unconquerable tarn, wild, black, fierce; gleaming with pride and fury; determined that n... |
10 |
| 22 | 205 |
Then the bird, which had in its time won a thousand races and more, addressed itself again to that fierce and familiar path in the Stadium of Tarns. |
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| 22 | 232 |
He put his arms about the neck of the dead bird, laying his cheek against that fierce, whitish-yellow beak, and he wept. |
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| 22 | 432 |
The bird, beautiful, fierce, talons lifted, wings beating, hanging almost motionless before the ring, faced us. |
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| 22 | 530 |
Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt... |
10 |
| 24 | 395 |
Those fierce eyes in that mighty face regarded me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 68 |
Another warrior approached her from behind, with a whip, and with four fierce strokes had cut the rence tunic from her body and she knelt on the rence matting that was the surface of the island, crying out in pain, begging to be bound. |
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| 9 | 44 |
There was something of an uproar as a large, fierce-looking fellow, narrow-eyed, ugly, missing an ear, followed by some twenty or thirty sailors, burst into the tavern. |
10 |
| 9 | 48 |
The fierce fellow, bearded, narrow-eyed, missing an ear, who seemed to be the leader of these men, seized one of the paga girls, twisting her arm, dragging her toward one of the alcoves. |
10 |
| 9 | 539 |
How ugly he was, with his fierce beard, the narrow eyes, the ear gone from the right side of his face. |
10 |
| 14 | 153 |
I had flown the flag of Bosk, from the marshes, boldly, trusting that this incitement would encourage prompt and fierce pursuit. |
10 |
| 17 | 202 |
I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades. |
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| 18 | 144 |
Once the bird fell so low that the boy's feet and the bottom of the rope on which he stood splashed a path in the churning waters, and then the bird, responding to my fierce pressures on the one-strap, beat its way up again and again flew, but then only yards over the black, rearing waves, the roari... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 316 |
The girl struck, with her small fierce strength, again and again, over and over, viciously, fiercely, as hard as she could, again and again. |
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| 7 | 85 |
Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly,... |
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| 8 | 169 |
Far away, through the sky, from the east of Laura, following the forest line, there came a flight of tarnsmen, perhaps forty of them, mounted on the great, fierce, hawklike saddlebirds of Gor, the huge, swift, predatory, ferocious tarns, called Brothers of the Wind. |
10 |
| 8 | 910 |
I was suddenly stung, smartly, with the fierce slap of a sword belt. |
10 |
| 8 | 1147 |
She seemed magnificent and fierce in the brief skins and golden ornaments. |
10 |
| 8 | 1175 |
How beautiful she was, and proud and fierce, in the brief skins and gold ornaments. |
10 |
| 9 | 199 |
I was nothing with these proud, free, dangerous, brave women, these independent, superb, unfearing, resourceful, fierce felines, panther girls of the northern forests of Gor. |
10 |
| 11 | 134 |
Perhaps the Tuchuks, one of the fierce Wagon Peoples, traditional enemies of Turia, her conquerors, had spared her for such reasons, that they might have outlet for their goods and a source for goods they could not well manufacture, or acquire, for themselves. |
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| 11 | 762 |
Besides, for all I knew, they might be even more terrible, and fierce, than those of the black ship. |
10 |
| 11 | 1083 |
Four caravans had fallen spoils to the fierce, swiftly striking tarnsman of Treve. |
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| 11 | 1117 |
It was said that he was a fierce, long-haired man, a tarnsman, a warrior. |
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| 11 | 1245 |
We had had trained into our bodies mysteries of movements of which even we, for the most part, were no longer aware, subtle signals of appetite, of passion and of obedience to a masculine touch, movements which excited the fierce jealousy, the hatred, of free women, particularly ignorant free women,... |
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| 13 | 901 |
It had already stopped bleeding, the fierce wind having clotted the blood in a ragged line. |
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| 13 | 1044 |
The eyes were darkly fierce, his hair a pelt of shaggy sable. |
10 |
| 14 | 211 |
I suspected there were few men as fierce and terrible as those of Treve, dreaded throughout Gor, and yet they enjoyed their wine warmed and were fond of so simple a thing as smoothing the hair of a girl. |
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| 14 | 715 |
His eyes were fierce, amused, mine were frightened. |
10 |
| 15 | 193 |
How magnificent he seemed, how mighty among those mighty warriors, he, their fierce leader. |
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| 15 | 281 |
* * * * Four days after Inge and Rena, and other new girls, had been brought to the secret war camp of Rask of Treve, the tarnsman, and his fierce men, again returned from the work of warriors. |
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| 15 | 946 |
I knew that my body was a slave body, and that it was owned, and that it stood in constant jeopardy of fierce, swift punishment by a strong master, whether it might deserve that punishment or not. |
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| 15 | 1238 |
It was the fierce, bearded fellow, who had accosted me as I had fled to the kitchen shed. |
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| 15 | 1264 |
They were silent, their fierce eyes bright. |
10 |
| 16 | 108 |
Why did he not send for me? Had I not pleased him? I could do more for him, more! The moons were now high in the night sky, the looming three, dominating, fierce moons of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 375 |
Sheera fastened her two, fierce dark eyes on me. |
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| 2 | 400 |
The fierce women had doubtless raped them many times. |
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| 3 | 78 |
We also passed a chain of male slaves, brought downriver from Laura, shaven-headed wretches, taken somewhere in the forests by fierce panther girls. |
10 |
| 5 | 101 |
Where was there for her to run? In the forests there were sleen and panthers, and fierce tarsks. |
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| 8 | 275 |
Panther girls are swift, fierce hunters. |
10 |
| 9 | 130 |
"How fierce the slave is," exclaimed Verna, in mock fear. |
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| 9 | 360 |
And I, who was to have been such a hero, so clever, so noble and brave, so victorious, now myself lay helplessly bound in a clearing in the great northern forests, the prisoner of fierce panther girls. |
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| 9 | 427 |
Now, moaning, crying out, the she-beasts of the forest, the panther girls, hands lifted, clawing, began to stamp and dance beneath the fierce brightness of the wild moons. |
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| 11 | 14 |
His attack was fierce, devastating, sometimes reckless. |
10 |
| 11 | 27 |
Scormus was fierce, arrogant and brilliant. |
10 |
| 11 | 369 |
I thought of the fierce sleen, with their fangs and blazing eyes, long-bodied, six-legged, like a furred lizard. |
10 |
| 11 | 747 |
Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a capture, a woman... |
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| 11 | 755 |
He was fierce and highly intelligent. |
10 |
| 12 | 59 |
She had been a proud outlaw woman, fierce, resenting men, hostile toward them. |
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| 12 | 149 |
My being alone in the forest, my thoughts fierce and angry within me, had been good. |
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| 14 | 125 |
The brazier, fierce with heat, stood not two yards from Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 14 | 252 |
It might have been a rite not of women, but of she-panthers! How starved must be the lonely, hating panther women of the forests, so gross is their hostility, so fierce their hatred, and yet need, of men. |
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| 16 | 14 |
I had heard fierce words being exchanged between them. |
10 |
| 18 | 229 |
I then heard, again and again, the fierce, snapping crack of the slave lash. |
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| 18 | 453 |
They must be, to survive in the bleak, fierce northern waters, wind-whipped and skerry-studded. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 155 |
She knew that she belonged to them, such fierce and mighty beasts, and that she, and her beauty, lay at their mercy, that she, and her beauty, were theirs to do with as they pleased. |
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| 6 | 389 |
The Kurii I knew were beasts of fierce, terrible instincts, who regarded humans, and other beasts, as food. |
10 |
| 18 | 177 |
There was, instantly, fierce fighting, in and among, and over, the bodies of the tethered bondmaids. |
10 |
| 18 | 224 |
Similar lines, fierce, obdurate, protective, extended about the formation, on all sides, forming the edges of the Kurii war square. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 32 |
When rain does fall, however, sometimes it is fierce, turning the terrain into a quagmire. |
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| 11 | 32 |
I had, at first, welcomed the clouds, and thrown back my burnoose to feel the swift, fierce rain pelt my face. |
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| 13 | 75 |
Nominally a sheriff of the Tahari merchants, he, ensconced in his kasbah, first among fierce warriors, elusive and unscrupulous, possesses a stranglehold on the salt of the Tahari, the vital commerce being ruled and regulated as he wills. |
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| 13 | 376 |
It is fierce. |
10 |
| 14 | 504 |
Elation coursed through me, fierce, uncontrollable, for I was alive. |
10 |
| 14 | 542 |
I cried out in sudden pain, the unbelievable white light, hot, fierce, universal, merciless, shuddering in the scalding air of the encircling, blazing crusts, from horizon to horizon, exploding, stabbing, searing like irons at my face and eyes. |
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| 15 | 186 |
"Klima," said T'Zshal, slowly, "may seem to you a fierce and terrible place. |
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| 17 | 33 |
How is it, I wondered, that such a man can survive a night, that such a man dare turn his back upon the fierce, envious sleen among whom, with whip, and laughter, he walks. |
10 |
| 17 | 35 |
He may, if he choose, stake out, or whip or slay a man who fails his quota of gathered salt, or strikes a fellow, administering fierce, dread discipline as the whim may seize him, and yet, should he himself be slain, his slayer is not punished, but accedes to his authority and, in his place, becomes... |
10 |
| 18 | 10 |
He lay upon the couch, stripped to the waist, not deigning to hide the fierce, sewn wounds which encircled his body. |
10 |
| 21 | 292 |
I sensed there might be different parties among them, creatures so menacing, so fierce, so aggressive, so proud, so imperialistic, so uncompromising, factional and belligerent. |
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| 23 | 133 |
It had been held by the fierce Tajuks, a culturally united but mixed-race people, many of whom were characterized by the epicanthic fold. |
10 |
| 23 | 193 |
The veiled figure, robed in white, with the lance and pennon, nodded his head, accepting the command of these thousands of fierce warriors. |
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| 25 | 228 |
I had crossed steel with hundreds of men, in practice and in the fierce games of war, who could have finished her, swiftly and with ease, had they chosen to do so. |
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| 26 | 196 |
They would be fierce allies. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 462 |
Now I knelt bound and nude, helpless, utterly exposed and vulnerable, in the vicinity of fierce men, skilled and strong, who with intent and menace, with edged, bared steel, addressed themselves to the savageries of war. |
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| 3 | 515 |
And, too, there had been the cry of "Kajira canjellne," which had seemed to play some ritualistic role in the fierce contest which had brought me, helpless, into his uncompromising power. |
10 |
| 4 | 845 |
Fierce was the discipline to which they subjected me. |
10 |
| 4 | 979 |
In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein... |
10 |
| 4 | 989 |
I looked with dread down the narrow corridor forced between the walls of fierce thorn brush, into the darkness beyond. |
10 |
| 5 | 757 |
He subjected her mouth and lips to a kiss which could have been only the prelude to fierce slave rape. |
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| 8 | 19 |
"Gentle! Gentle, Fierce One!" coaxed Thurnus. |
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| 8 | 169 |
It is a very fierce and marvelous spectacle. |
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| 9 | 1548 |
It had been the hot, fierce, innocent sport of strong young men, powerful and excited, who held brief-tunicked, branded girls, in rope collars, in their arms, nothing more. |
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| 9 | 1561 |
But what had been done today to me was clearly different in its intent and gravity from the casual, expected, fierce exhibitions of male aggression to which embonded girls such as I must become accustomed. |
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| 9 | 1571 |
The Gorean peasant, like Goreans in general, has a fierce sense of honor. |
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| 9 | 1765 |
There was a fierce ringing of wood. |
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| 9 | 1767 |
Blows, numerous and fierce, were struck and parried. |
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| 12 | 413 |
They were fierce, swift men, efficient, terrible. |
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| 12 | 717 |
There there were several tarns, great fierce saddle birds of Gor. |
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| 15 | 350 |
Worlds are locked in war, a fierce, silent war, unknown to you, unknown to millions. |
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| 18 | 49 |
There were scenes of hunting, of caravan raiding, of girl taming; scenes were fixed there of the great bosk herds and the strings of the wagons of the fierce plains nomads; in one place there was fixed a painting of the walls and towers of Turia, and riders of the Wagon Peoples on hills, looking tow... |
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| 27 | 653 |
"It is strange," he said, "I have faced wild sleen and the steel of fierce enemies. |
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| 27 | 666 |
"Whip me!" "A warrior," he said, "must be hard and fierce". |
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| 27 | 667 |
"Be hard and fierce with me," I said. |
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| 28 | 97 |
When the crowd, fierce in its impatience, demanded it, he would, shrugging, roll me free of them, in two turns, I finishing, lying on my back again, knee lifted, hands over and behind my head, the backs of my hands on the block, the palms exposed, like the rest of me, helplessly. |
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| 29 | 71 |
I could not protect myself from the fierce ardor to which I must submit. |
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| 2 | 326 |
Others said, similarly, that the end of the world was sheer, and that a ship might there plunge over the edge, to fall tumbling for days through emptiness until fierce winds broke it apart and the wreckage was lifted up to the bottom of the sea. |
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| 2 | 401 |
They were cunning, and fierce, and terrible. |
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| 5 | 39 |
Can you not recognize that as a ruse to mislead you northward, while Kurii pursue unimpeded their fierce schemes at the world's end?" "Perhaps," I said. |
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| 6 | 552 |
Suddenly emerging from the water at the very side of the tharlarion there was the large, fierce figure of a man. |
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| 11 | 51 |
Of the original force of Sorgus, some ninety-five men, fifty had succumbed to the fierce rain of steel-tipped arrows which had struck amongst them. |
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| 13 | 98 |
"You are certainly fierce enough with Thimble and Thistle," I said. |
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| 26 | 17 |
"We must stop!" I heard the sleen in the traces squeal ahead of us, the noise torn in the fierce snow and wind. |
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| 26 | 216 |
The hunting cries of the sleen were now fierce and distinct. |
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| 27 | 51 |
If the sinew should break I would not have wished to be near that fierce, compressed, stout strip of sharpened baleen. |
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| 31 | 124 |
"That is a slender thread with which to restrain such fierce, titanic instincts," I said. |
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| 31 | 265 |
"Then, on the steel ships," I said, "the killings, and the fierce matings, no longer take place". |
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| 32 | 71 |
"With this depot we need bring in, in the fierce strike, little more than the hibernated marches". |
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| 32 | 173 |
"What can compare," it asked, "with the joy of real victory? Of true victory? When one has risked one's life openly and then, after a hard-fought contest, has one's enemy at one's feet, lacerated, and bleeding, and dying, and can then tear him in victory and feast in his body, what can compare with ... |
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| 38 | 111 |
She might then be sent, formerly of Kassau, now trained, perfumed and silked, to one of the fierce Torvaldsland rovers. |
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| 11 | 227 |
Fighting was fierce but brief. |
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| 13 | 572 |
Rather than submit to this stain upon his honor he, the Ubar of glorious Ar itself, had sworn against her, upon his sword, and upon the medallion of his office, as well, the fierce oath of disownment. |
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| 27 | 111 |
He leaped across the fire bowl toward her and savagely struck her head to the left with a fierce blow of the flat of his hand. |
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| 29 | 60 |
Suddenly I struck her, a fierce blow which flung her, mouth bloodied, to her side in the dirt. |
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| 31 | 7 |
If that were known the bidding might be fierce upon her, the villagers being eager to capitalize on any dissatisfaction with her, hoping thus to acquire her as a cheap piece of trade goods, perhaps for transmittal into the interior. |
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| 32 | 174 |
In the fierce winds which often lash the jungle it is not unusual for these shallowly rooted trees, uprooted and overturned, to come crashing down. |
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| 53 | 477 |
I admired the Kur commander, that he had been able to instill in his fierce beasts such discipline. |
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| 3 | 38 |
"You are a woman," I said, half turned from her, stung by the fierce stroke of her whip. |
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| 6 | 19 |
Her eyes were dark and shrewd, fierce, objective, appraising, merciless. |
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| 26 | 245 |
"How fierce you look, in the helmet," she said, shrinking back. |
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| 32 | 394 |
I continued to hold her, and kiss her, and then, as she was so beautiful, I entered her and, in fierce silence, exulted within her. |
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| 1 | 61 |
Fighting was fierce. |
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| 1 | 100 |
Suddenly there was the fierce crack of a slave whip and the girl, terrified, scurried from me. |
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| 24 | 744 |
I must soon leave the holding of Policrates, theoretically to journey downriver to the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, that his fleet might be soon launched, that the two fleets, in fierce force, might overwhelm the garrisons of Ar's Station, and then of Port Cos, that the river, for hundreds of pasangs... |
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| 1 | 145 |
Too, now, from the pirates' galleys, protecting their longboats, there sped a fierce counterfire. |
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| 2 | 25 |
But they were met, as dark shapes at the bulwarks, screaming and cursing, by fierce defenders, thrusting them back with bucklers, darting steel into their bodies. |
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| 2 | 44 |
"We were as fierce as they," I said, wonderingly, "as swift, as vicious". |
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| 9 | 358 |
The Tais, dark, low in the water, beautiful, scarred and lean, fierce, one of the most dangerous fighting ships in the navy of Port Cos, under the command of Calliodorus, captain in Port Cos, swept about the stern of the Tuka and the bow of the Tina. |
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| 16 | 278 |
Not far off I could hear the clash of weaponry betokening yet another fierce ingress of boarders upon the deck of some vessel of hapless buccaneers. |
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| 20 | 808 |
His right hand, in a backhand blow, lashed forth, fierce and powerful, striking her from her knees to her side on the tiles. |
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| 6 | 89 |
I opted, accordingly, taking them for my authorities in the matter, for a weapon similar in design to theirs, one which had, apparently, proven its usefulness in the abrupt, sudden and fierce engagements characteristic of war on the vast grasslands of the Barrens. |
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| 13 | 493 |
How horrifying, doubtless, to kneel head down, helpless, naked, chained, awaiting the fierce stroke of a man's claiming lash. |
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| 1 | 143 |
There were members of his own society who feared to ride with him, so swift, so fierce, so careless of danger he was. |
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| 30 | 9 |
Here and there, at points on our perimeter, Yellow Knives and soldiers, in fierce, brief exchanges, tested our strength. |
10 |
| 32 | 57 |
In my own concerns, in my own purposes in the Barrens, to locate and warn Zarendargar of his danger, I had given too little thought to the obvious role of the fierce Kurii in the military politics of the vast grasslands east of the Thentis mountains. |
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| 44 | 15 |
I suspect that there were few things which the sly, clever Iwoso feared in this world, but, high among them, I had little doubt, were the scarred face and fierce heart of Hci, of the Isbu Kaiila. |
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| 44 | 440 |
His eyes were fierce. |
10 |
| 44 | 449 |
The stakes, anchored by the timbers, were tied together like fierce wooden stars. |
10 |
| 44 | 596 |
Yet, impelled with force from the small, fierce bows of the red savages at short range, they, too, would be dangerous. |
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| 47 | 379 |
Once more the beasts charged and met with fierce impact. |
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| 2 | 82 |
Who was that fellow, for example, who poured paga on one's head? And who, the free woman might wonder, was that fellow who gave her so sudden, so unexpected, so fierce a pinch? Indeed, perhaps she is fortunate that her very veil was not lifted up and her lips pressed by those of a stranger, or was i... |
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| 2 | 287 |
Who would accept the Comic Father if he did not have his Turian accent, or the Desirable Heiress if she did not speak in the soft accents of Venna, north of Ar? What would the Timid Captain be if he did not, beneath his long-nosed half-mask, have those fierce mustaches to twirl, the formidable woode... |
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| 6 | 536 |
They are fierce looking fellows". |
10 |
| 6 | 879 |
"We must soon begin our fierce pursuit," Chino informed the audience. |
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| 6 | 948 |
"I think," said Chino to Lecchio, at the other side of the stage, "that it is nearly time for us to begin our fierce pursuit". |
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| 6 | 956 |
"Our fierce pursuit begins," announced Chino to the audience, and he and Lecchio began to describe a circle about the stage, carefully, bending over, hesitating now and then, apparently tracking the lovely fugitive. |
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| 16 | 294 |
They huddled together under this fierce gaze, drawing back. |
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| 16 | 603 |
"True," asserted Petrucchio, "but I am in spite of my fierce appearance sometimes a gentle fellow, one who is often hesitant to wreak broadcast massacre too impulsively, particularly on so balmy a day. |
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| 16 | 729 |
Then she again cried out sharply, in pain and protest, and then again, Lecchio having seen to it that a certain portion of her anatomy had renewed its unwilling acquaintance with his fierce switch, was quite docile, and quite silent. |
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| 16 | 764 |
"Move, Lana!" said Lecchio, speeding her into motion with a swift stroke of the fierce, supple switch. |
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| 20 | 244 |
Suddenly, at the utterance of a hissed syllable, coupled with a fierce, directed gesture from the beast, a movement almost like throwing a weapon violently underhanded, one of the animals, fangs bared, lunged fiercely toward the men. |
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| 20 | 250 |
Another sleen then, another living weapon, with another fierce syllable and gesture, was launched by the beast. |
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| 21 | 181 |
What an absurd, frail, pathetic, splendid figure he must have cut there, with that silly sword and those fierce mustaches. |
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| 21 | 232 |
There was then a repetition of that fierce pounding. |
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| 3 | 484 |
He angrily returned to his place on the wagon box and with an angry cry and a fierce snap of the whip put his ponderous draft beast once more into motion, taking his place between two other wagons. |
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| 4 | 23 |
They are a fierce folk and it would take a courageous town indeed to suggest the suitability or propriety of such an arrangement. |
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| 4 | 51 |
They are fierce and redoubtable warriors in the open field. |
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| 4 | 412 |
"But I am a free woman!" she cried, with a look of hatred cast at Feiqa, who shrank back, trembling, beneath her fierce gaze. |
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| 5 | 25 |
"You drive a fierce bargain," he observed. |
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| 24 | 347 |
She looked at him, startled, not daring, under his fierce gaze, to raise her hands, to lift her garment. |
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| 25 | 1225 |
"Oh," she said, reprovingly, "that is such a fierce name". |
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| 26 | 1428 |
"Surely they are fierce enough," she said. |
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| 3 | 28 |
In those eyes, in that fierce gaze, I had been unable to detect reservations, inhibitions, hesitancies or guilt. |
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| 3 | 816 |
I dared not meet those fierce eyes which so frightened me, which seemed somehow to look through me, burning through me like fire, bringing unwelcome, frightening torches to my secret darkness, penetrating to my deepest and most closely guarded secrets, to what lay in the most secret belly and heart ... |
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| 4 | 91 |
I knew that I had found him physically disturbing, and deeply and profoundly so, even on Earth, and had felt helpless and weak before him, but now those feelings, now that I saw him as he was on his own world, so splendid and powerful, so uncompromising, so fierce, so vital, so masculine, masculine ... |
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| 4 | 268 |
What if such men simply did not permit a woman to steel herself into inertness, what if it were literally incumbent upon her to feel, and irreservedly, perhaps even under the threat of discipline, of fierce punishment, or worse, in all her hot, sweet, vulnerable openness? As it was, taken unawares, ... |
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| 6 | 38 |
I should have rejoiced, I suppose, that he had gone his way, he who was so fierce and had hated me so keenly, doubtless never to lay eyes on me again, content doubtless now to merely ponder, upon occasion, with amusement, the fate to which he had consigned me, but, to be honest, I would not have min... |
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| 6 | 150 |
To be sure, interestingly, I did not really object to these various things, neither to the anomalies, if anomalies they were, nor to what might be the more typical or standard subjugations, rigors and strictures, fierce and terrible though they might be, to which I was subjected. |
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| 6 | 429 |
Too, more than once one of the guards at the house had angrily tested the security of the iron belt on me, and then, finding it secure, had thrust me from him, then taking another girl in hand, one not in such a belt, for the satisfaction of his fierce needs. |
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| 10 | 304 |
It was not a human noise, but the cry of something terribly large and fierce. |
10 |
| 10 | 690 |
"Good lad!" said my master, roughly fondling that great, fierce head. |
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| 11 | 644 |
And how fierce they seemed. |
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| 13 | 903 |
I wanted to know that I was in the hands of a man who was capable of being excited, and whom I excited, who found me truly marvelous, to whose fury of power I appealed, whose fierce and voracious appetites I triggered. |
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| 13 | 1030 |
His eyes were fierce. |
10 |
| 14 | 388 |
I cried out, grasped, fixedly held, put to his fierce, disciplinary purposes. |
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| 20 | 185 |
Accordingly, for various reasons, such as lack of citizenship, an inability to properly exercise it, resulting in effective disenfranchisement, or, most often, a fierce independence, repudiating allegiance to anything save one's own village, the farmers, or peasantry, are more likely to suffer from ... |
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| 20 | 275 |
"Delay him," called the fellow, a fierce, projected whisper. |
10 |
| 24 | 322 |
It was my desperate hope to turn their wrath, and their desire for vengeance, seemingly at the beginning so adamant, so fierce and unrelenting, to interest, and desire, and passion. |
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| 29 | 4 |
It was almost as though the right side of his face had been abraded by some terrifying, fierce passage, by some swift, lengthy, terrible friction, as of being dragged over rock. |
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| 29 | 627 |
It had the same stature, and shoulders, and mighty arms, but it was now a bronzed, leaner Hendow, one even more terrible and fierce than I had known, one who held now in his hand a bloodied sword. |
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| 29 | 872 |
"Do it again! Make them seem to speak!" The leader of the beasts, then, in fury, and in some inhuman, snarling, barbarous, fierce tongue, something like the roar of a lion, the hiss of a sleen, the snarl of a panther, yet clearly, frighteningly, an articulated stream of sound, some form of modulated... |
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| 29 | 1374 |
He was so terrible, so fierce. |
10 |
| 29 | 1575 |
He was tall, fierce and hard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 574 |
The storm was fierce. |
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| 2 | 72 |
"The fighting at Ar's Station, by report, has been lengthy and fierce," said the man. |
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| 5 | 501 |
As I pondered these matters the door to the paga room burst open and the fellow, fierce and bearded, who had been in the baths now appeared, in the uniform of the company of Artemidorus of Cos, which, indeed, I had supposed must be his. |
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| 6 | 709 |
She did not dare to meet that fierce gaze. |
10 |
| 24 | 737 |
But even if the image on the coin had been that of the swift, silken kaiila or the fierce, wide-winged tarn well might the slaves have understood that decisions pertaining to them had not even been left to the will of masters but rather to the winds of chance. |
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| 24 | 755 |
Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and Priest-Kings, live their lives without much concern for Priest-Kings, and seem to hope that the Priest-Kings will return the favor, w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 220 |
Although opposition to this plan was at first fierce the high council agreed at last. |
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| 3 | 42 |
Indeed, at least in my second usage of her, purchased with a second tarsk bit placed in the shallow copper bowl beside her, she had been put through fierce, severe, uncompromising slave paces. |
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| 4 | 70 |
It was not that I doubted that those of Ar, suitably rallied and led, might effect a stout and fierce resistance, but that I had some concept, as many did not, Marcus, for example, of the arithmetic of war. |
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| 12 | 36 |
Then, perhaps after a fierce snap of the disciplinary device, she scurries to the furs, joyfully, to await him, he who may chain her helplessly for his pleasure, should he wish, her master. |
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| 23 | 32 |
His gaze was intense, fixed and fierce. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 454 |
Their use, I think, if they are used at all, should be reserved for fierce animals, such as the six-legged beasts I had seen, or perhaps for powerful warriors, or brawny, recalcitrant male slaves in the quarries or mines, captives or animals whose control may require such fierce devices. |
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| 7 | 398 |
His eyes were fierce. |
10 |
| 8 | 852 |
Suddenly from my right emergent out of the dusk so quick so fierce so fast so large its head perhaps two feet in width the head large triangular its eyes blazing lunging toward the bars big the thing a hideous noise bars body pressing scratching I leaping back, screaming, it biting at the bars the f... |
10 |
| 10 | 126 |
Many men, it seemed, and men such as these, such fierce, strong men, men like predators, like carnivores, might want me in their shackles! "You are from the slave world?" he asked. |
10 |
| 10 | 994 |
They are also territorial and fierce. |
10 |
| 23 | 187 |
Indeed, I suspected that it might be he and not she who would be forced to impose fierce constraints upon himself. |
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| 24 | 346 |
But if it were mere massacre that was upon the mind of these men, if simple butchery was their intent, why did they not fall upon the huddled, kneeling group as a whole? Why did they not, in some two dozen fierce, merciless strokes, make the terrace run red with blood? Indeed, why had they bothered ... |
10 |
| 31 | 637 |
But none cared, it seemed, to be the first to tread within the orbit of that fierce satellite, that primitive, improvised weapon. |
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| 37 | 1064 |
But it might have been to his advantage had he paid closer attention to the figure in the water for suddenly the thing behind Abnik rose up in the water and, at the same time, we saw the quarrel of a bow emerge and the cable snapped forward and the quarrel took the lieutenant in the side of the thro... |
10 |
| 44 | 112 |
Why would he have ordered that? Our eyes met and I quickly lowered my eyes and head, before that fierce gaze. |
10 |
| 45 | 116 |
His eyes, within the mask, were fierce. |
10 |
| 45 | 127 |
How fierce were his eyes! That he had worn the mask suggested to me that perhaps it had not been intended that I recognize him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 117 |
How she would have terrified weak men, administrators, colleagues, and such, by the presentation of such a fierce mien, suggesting implacable resolution, and full readiness to have instant and embarrassing recourse to various devices, procedures, pressures, laws and institutions engineered to impose... |
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| 11 | 456 |
"Do you know her disposition?" "She was sold south to Turia, but the caravan was ambushed by Tuchuks, a fierce nomadic people. |
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| 15 | 313 |
She dared not meet his eyes, his gaze was so fierce. |
10 |
| 16 | 13 |
How vigorous and remarkable, and diverse, and expressive, seemed that strange tongue, at once so lively, bright and fluent, even delicate, and then suddenly so explosively rude and brutal, at one moment loud, at another soft, at one moment rapid, even careless, at another measured and stately, at on... |
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| 16 | 700 |
These considerations were nothing that Ellen understood at the time, and even if she had understood them, there was nothing in them, of course, to lessen the actual, miserable, fierce burning of the lash. |
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| 16 | 835 |
Instantly a fierce torrent of abuse from the chained women rained upon the occupants of the shelf, to which the occupants of the shelf did not dare to reply. |
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| 16 | 1417 |
Earlier in the day the sun had been fierce. |
10 |
| 17 | 1097 |
She could feel wind whipping about at this height, and twice the fellow carrying her stopped in his climb when the wind was particularly fierce. |
10 |
| 17 | 1197 |
It is rude, and primitive, uncompromising, frightening, natural and merciless, fierce. |
10 |
| 19 | 742 |
He must also have wanted, she thought, an ignorant girl, one unversed in the politics of Ar, one who will understand little of what is being done, of what she is being used to accomplish, one who, even under torture, her flesh writhing on the rack , drawing back, screaming, from the heat of fierce, ... |
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| 20 | 392 |
That sound, you see, the fierce, sudden crack of the whip, is not unknown to slave girls. |
10 |
| 20 | 823 |
She could barely speak before this man, so large and fierce he seemed. |
10 |
| 22 | 250 |
Suddenly she heard a fierce movement in the air, behind her, an unexpected but unmistakable swift hiss, and, almost at the same time, below the small of the back, she felt a stinging stripe, the swift, sharp blow of a supple switch, a yard in length. |
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| 25 | 212 |
To be sure, some masters, perhaps aware of the latent dangers of such tendencies to laxness make it a practice to be particularly severe with beautiful slaves, and then the beauties are kept in so fierce and orderly a discipline that it requires great courage for them to do so much as lift their eye... |
10 |
| 25 | 536 |
That was doubtless a more than adequate justification, if one were required, for the fierce, rushed herding. |
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| 26 | 1437 |
Few women on Earth, she suspected, other than slaves, had any inkling as to what it was to be so wanted, to be the object of such fierce desire, that of a master for a slave. |
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| 26 | 1620 |
She jerked futilely, in fierce frustration, at the constraints on her wrists. |
10 |
| 27 | 1608 |
She suddenly heard the fierce scratching of a tharlarion's paws in the turf and she saw Mirus, low in the saddle, racing toward her. |
10 |
| 27 | 2243 |
How quickly she had learned to do that, how naturally! The grasslands are commonly dry, but this was in the spring, and storms sometimes erupt, and, when they do, it is often with a sudden rage, a blackening of the sky, a rising of wind, a rushing of clouds, a shattering of lightning, a beating, pou... |
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| 27 | 2476 |
If the sun is fierce the masters will often chain us to a ring in the shade. |
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| 30 | 593 |
I am deeply grateful to my master for permitting me to write this, and to that unusual, complex gentleman, Bosk of Port Kar, scholar and warrior, master of weapons and slaves, sometimes so fierce and terrible, sometimes so thoughtful and gentle, uncompromising but understanding, for suggesting that ... |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 74 |
"Lord Pyrrhus," bellowed a voice from the pit, with a fierce shaking of chains. |
10 |
| 21 | 560 |
"Our large, fierce friends, I fear, have miscalculated," said Cabot. |
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| 66 | 60 |
He shut his eyes against the fierce sting of flighted ice. |
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| 1 | 209 |
In turn, the revolutionaries, primarily the rebel Kurii, primarily on behalf of their human allies, had set a number of heavy, metal traps, more than two-hundred pounds in weight, baited with haunches of tarsk, traps fastened by heavy chains to large stakes sunk deeply into the ground, and in one su... |
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| 1 | 273 |
Squirming in terror on the flooring outside the container, on its metal plating, amongst the clawed feet of Kur raiders, fearing to be destroyed, even eaten, by what to her were fierce and incomprehensible beasts, she had cried out "Masters!" This had surprised me. |
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| 5 | 558 |
'" "Then," said another, "as the story has it, he lifted his head, and his whole mien changed, and his body seemed to become larger and filled with power, and his eyes took on a strange, fierce, wicked gleam, and he said, quietly, and not in his slow, innocent, puzzled, childlike voice, but in anoth... |
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| 5 | 900 |
"There was then fierce blade work," said a fellow. |
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| 5 | 903 |
They would await the outcome of the fierce altercation. |
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| 5 | 1071 |
The new arrivals might have noticed the semblance of a dispute on the sand, but such things might be common amongst fee fighters, rough men, fierce, and dangerous, undisciplined. |
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| 12 | 272 |
Eventually the younger bird will grow stronger and fiercer and the older bird weaker and less fierce, and, sooner or later, a new Ubar, over the body of its torn, quivering foe, will scream its conquest, and its claiming of the flock. |
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| 15 | 428 |
"The spirit of fire is fierce," smiled Pertinax, "whether it is large or small, and the spirit is like fire, and can be large or small". |
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| 22 | 587 |
"Is that not what you have always wanted," I asked, "from the first moment you laid eyes on her, her as a slave?" "I think your desire was so fierce," said Tajima. |
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| 38 | 31 |
Catapult stones, too, were brought aboard, in hundreds, and "heavy arrows," almost spears, which might be sped either singly, as from ballistae, or, from a springal, in showers, their flight propelled by a single fierce blow, that from a horizontal spring-driven board. |
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| 3 | 752 |
As it grew dark I felt a sudden piercing, a fierce, doubled puncturing, in the calf of my right leg and I screamed in pain. |
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| 3 | 778 |
'Make no sound, kajira,' I heard, a fierce whisper at my ear, 'and do not struggle. |
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| 7 | 154 |
Fierce, green Thassa has met her match in my ship, met her master! Tersites teaches men how to sail in all seasons and weathers! Tersites goes where he wills; he asks no permissions, solicits no favors, dreads no threats, and fears no rebuke. |
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| 12 | 377 |
Almost at the same instant I sensed something pass my head, like a sudden, fierce whisper in the air. |
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| 19 | 40 |
Perhaps at first she might be terrified, or dismayed, to discover herself become so helpless, the victim and prisoner of needs so fierce and commanding, so uncompromising and uncontrollable, but later, though helpless in their throes, she, as her sisters, would rejoice in the thrashing ecstasies of ... |
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| 32 | 12 |
Something went past, like a bird, a fierce whisper of wind, the rushing of a fletched shaft toward the starlit sky. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 554 |
It seems that a former Ubar, one named Marlenus, had returned from banishment or exile, or some prolonged absence, had rallied the city, and, in several days of fierce and bloody fighting, had cast out the invaders. |
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| 10 | 129 |
Once a fellow appeared, a shadow, in a doorway, but was greeted with so sudden, and fierce, a snarl, that he quickly withdrew. |
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| 11 | 153 |
"Some months ago," she said, "hunters in the Voltai, seeking larl, found an unusual beast in their net, almost man-like, but larger, covered with hair, large-jawed, fanged and clawed, fierce, twisting, and howling. |
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| 18 | 971 |
There were five free men with the wagons, Astrinax, who was much as our caravan master; Desmond, thought to be a Metal Worker, in whose care I was; Lykos, whom I supposed a mercenary; fierce, bearded Trachinos, clearly skilled with the gladius, at whose background I could scarcely guess; and his fel... |
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| 18 | 1087 |
"Ho, slave," said a voice behind me, that of fierce, bearded Trachinos. |
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| 21 | 1 |
"Please," I said, turning my head away, and I felt his mouth on the side of my neck, above the collar, and then at the side of my face, fierce, under my ear. |
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| 48 | 246 |
There was a sudden fierce, almost deafening, crackling sound, and a great blast of light, and the Kurii who held the container reeled away from it, and the Lady Bina and I screamed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 64 |
Suddenly, briefly, we heard a succession of thunderous snapping noises from above the canopy, and we looked up, and leaves fluttered about us, and we were cast into a flight of shadows, as though swift, fierce, jagged clouds would blot out the sun, one following another, but these shadows were cast ... |
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| 17 | 17 |
Surely he must know I loved him, that I was his, his even from another world, his by all the fierce, uncompromising rights of nature. |
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| 20 | 94 |
I, however, unlike, I am sure, several of the others, took the mighty crash, which seemed to shake the very logs of the long kennel, as no more than a natural thing, a simple, if impressive, disturbing, harsh, violent manifestation of suddenly fierce, unusual weather. |
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| 25 | 201 |
There was a fierce rustling to my right, reflecting the agitation of the growth. |
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| 29 | 71 |
I recognized the large, strong, fierce women as Panther Women, or, as the men will have it, Panther Girls, for they seem to think of all women in terms of the collar, either presently or in the future. |
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| 30 | 73 |
"There was a long, fierce rain last night," I said. |
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| 36 | 6 |
"Panther Women, who tend to be large and fierce for women, often hold smaller, weaker women as slaves". |
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| 43 | 944 |
Cast away your weapons and kneel!" Axel's lifted hand trembled, and his eyes glittered with a fierce, feral blaze. |
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| 48 | 119 |
I could scarcely follow their movements, so rapid they were, so swift and fierce was the tumult of their engagement. |
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| 50 | 159 |
And few women of my former world, I supposed, had ever found themselves the object of a passion so intense, so fierce, and demanding, that it could be satisfied with nothing less than their absolute possession, their ownership, with nothing less than their being the belonging of their master. |
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| 50 | 215 |
My left cheek, my head struck to the side, stung with the sudden, fierce, angry, open-handed slap of his smiting right hand, and I might have reeled and fallen, save that his left hand, its grip close to the leash collar, held me upright, in place. |
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| 50 | 601 |
So I decided to show the masters! I would run, I would escape! They would never catch me! And I would hate you, hate you with all my heart, for you had scorned me! And I knew I must flee at the first opportunity, as who knew when the great ship might depart? Who could escape if chained in one of its... |
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| 52 | 765 |
"And how high might you have gone if the bidding were close, and fierce?" "That is my business," he said. |
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| 52 | 831 |
His scowl was fierce. |
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| 52 | 860 |
I have acknowledged a mighty wanting of you, fierce as the tides of Thassa, and as irresistible and inalterable, that I have fought to free myself from this inexplicable, terrible wanting, and have failed to do so. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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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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| 23 | 303 |
"In him is the blood of Yamada, and it may be as dark, as narrow, as implacable, as fierce and cold, as his". |
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| 26 | 62 |
Pani of the peasant classes tend to be polite, stolid, resigned, and reconciled, at least until a breaking point is reached, at which time they may become as secretive and clever as the urt, as subtle as the ost, as dangerous as the cornered sleen, as fierce as the enraged larl, discovering the clai... |
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| 32 | 58 |
I could hear a fierce crackling from above. |
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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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| 44 | 319 |
On a distant world, a far world beyond the moons, a steel world, inhabited by fierce denizens, I saw such things, animated by an ensconced brain, its body the device itself". |
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| 45 | 69 |
In temperament the Kurii tend to be imperialistic, tenacious, ambitious, and fierce, and the Priest-Kings, on the whole, tend to be pacific and nonaggressive, content, on the whole, to defend their world, rather than seek out Kurii in their strongholds and methodologically destroy them. |
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| 47 | 278 |
Those eyes, dark, fierce, and glittering, were very much alive. |
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| 52 | 75 |
I needed not speak to them of the great nest in the Sardar, nor of the Nest War, nor of the fierce aerial battles within those mighty chambers, nor of transportation disks and flame tubes. |
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| 60 | 41 |
Suddenly Lord Yamada, startling me, rushed at Nodachi, and there was a brief, fierce, exchange, and both men stepped back. |
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| 60 | 87 |
He then addressed a medley of blows to Nodachi so swift and fierce, so varied, and so deftly met that Tajima cried out in awe. |
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| 61 | 966 |
Engaged in manual labor, he had grown lean and powerful, quick and agile, fierce and severe; he had studied with Nodachi, the swordsman; he had learned the tarn, the lance and bow, and manhood; he had taken for himself the proud name, Pertinax. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 384 |
Surely the bidding would be fierce, fervid. |
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| 17 | 32 |
How vulnerable we were, in our tiny tunics, our single garments, with no nether closure, our bodies so briefly and degradingly bared, before those fierce, looming beings in their resplendent robes and veils! I no longer saw the free woman. |
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| 30 | 362 |
Many are the arts of love, harsh and gentle, fierce and tender, commanding and solicitous, and love's artists are patient and talented. |
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| 33 | 584 |
A fierce burst of sound emanated from the first beast, it which had dropped from the darkness of the rafters, and his two confederates approached more closely. |
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| 33 | 612 |
That was easily comprehensible, a simple matter of an explicable, fierce collision of forces. |
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| 34 | 106 |
Let us suppose there was once a lovely world on which the factions of a fierce form of life, technologically gifted, and ruthless, unchecked, disrupted, poisoned, and sterilized a world, perhaps shattering it, perhaps inadvertently, ignorantly, forcing it from its very orbit, into its star, to be co... |
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| 40 | 291 |
To be sure, it has a fierce, dangerous mien". |
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| 49 | 106 |
A blizzard, with its bitter cold, fierce winds, and blinding snow enveloped the two armies, not only postponing hostilities, but rendering the most tentative efforts at reconnaissance impractical. |
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| 55 | 16 |
The great chain, in its air-lacerating hiss, like a hurtling flail, an almost invisible scythe, each link an ax, struck two Kurii from the bridge, plunging, twisting, through the air, howling, to the street far below, and the four others fell back upon themselves, jumbled, half-fallen, impeding one ... |
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| 61 | 62 |
Postpone your differences, at least until the fierce larls of the blood recline. |
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| 61 | 153 |
Aelius had climbed toward the box but, before he could enter it, Lucilius, two hands on the great haft, wielded the ax, and the sundered head of Aelius spun far away, a small, dark cloud raining blood, and blood from the decapitated corse, sped by the fierce pressure generated by the frantic poundin... |
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| 61 | 262 |
Kurii, a life form that tends to be large, agile, swift, fierce, and powerful, tend to be contemptuous of humans, which they commonly regard as an inferior life form. |
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| 61 | 502 |
I saw the eyes of the soldiers about us, but feet away, eyes narrowed, watchful, alit within the apertures of those fierce-seeming helmets, the openings so like a "Y" in shape, the lowered spears, the points threatening us, moving slightly, like the heads of a ring of osts. |
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| 61 | 662 |
But a snarl of rage burst forth from the shaggy throat of Lucilius, and he, with a wide, violent, fierce, backward sweep of his long arm, struck Decius Albus back in the box, a blow that, I feared, might have broken his neck. |
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| 69 | 177 |
I did not think I had ever seen an expression so wild, so possessive, so claimant, so fierce, so exultant. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 194 |
In any event, angrily, I resolved to do better than well, and show the tiers goods for which bids would be fierce, goods which could be removed from the block only dearly. |
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| 7 | 88 |
He was bearded, fierce- eyed, wolf-eyed, and mighty of mien. |
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| 7 | 90 |
Too, this looming figure, so fierce in aspect, had but one leg. |
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| 8 | 247 |
Had I not felt it before? Is it not an experience sufficiently familiar to an attractive, negligible female slave? I had been stung sharply below the small of my back, with a sudden, forcible blow, delivered with the fierce, swift flat of a man's hand. |
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| 12 | 12 |
And no wonder we so fear them! Returning to my story, I had been so certain of my view of the men of Earth that I had assumed that Addison Steele was no different from so many others I had known on my former world; I had approached him on the Thieves' Way South as though he might be a typical man of... |
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| 22 | 141 |
It seemed to me as though I must be enveloped in a blaze of flame, but there was no flame, only, apparently, a sudden, fierce interaction of substances, freed or precipitated, I supposed, by the administration of water. |
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| 25 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Apartment of the One-Legged Man There were two fierce snaps of metal. |
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| 27 | 53 |
In the place of the handicapped Bruno of Torcadino, menacing and large, watchful and threatening, fierce with the great crutch, there now seemed something lost, needful, and pathetic. |
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| 27 | 134 |
It was fierce, swift, and heavy. |
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| 30 | 100 |
What play, what declamation, what dance, what song, what song drama will be awarded a city's prize, a golden tripod and its sack of coins? Who is most skilled with the bow, the peasant bow or the riflelike crossbow, or the casting of darts or javelins? And races are popular, those of slaves, male an... |
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| 33 | 551 |
At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q... |
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| 37 | 90 |
"Hold, slave!" I heard, a fierce, commanding woman's voice. |
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| 39 | 166 |
Even yards above the floor of the chamber, where Florian and I were at the observation panel, one could hear the crackling¸ the fierce whisper, of precipitating, interacting chemicals. |
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| 39 | 188 |
Well above the floor of the chamber below I could still hear the crackling from the cloths, though now it was less fierce. |
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| 41 | 94 |
The intruders had not managed to seize the holding in a single, fierce sweep of force. |
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| 1 | 66 |
We were on Chios, the closest of the three 'Farther Islands', Chios, Thera, and Daphna, those islands beyond Tyros and Cos, once taken as marking the end of a world, beyond which lay only terror and mystery, and the devouring, waiting, stirring vastness of turbulent Thassa, the sea, fierce summoner ... |
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| 1 | 243 |
"They roundly and repeatedly proclaimed the glory of their vile, fierce, merciless, scarlet-haired captain," he said. |
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| 7 | 127 |
What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the Priest-Kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like a bird of prey, "let us give glad heed to ... |
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| 7 | 132 |
Listen with your blood, your fierce, pounding blood, dear Admiral. |
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| 35 | 98 |
"Yet," I said, "they respond to stimuli, benign or intense, and the hot iron, a fierce, fiery goad, elicits more response than pans clanking under water or the pressing of a paddle or oar". |
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| 43 | 85 |
As it was, my blade, so lightly engaged in my earlier stroke, leapt up and easily parried the savage downward stroke of the mercenary's blade, a fierce, heavy, frenzied stroke which might have cut away the head of a saddle tharlarion. |
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| 45 | 74 |
"Die!" I heard, a fierce whisper, and then there was the sound of a frenzied stabbing and cutting into the materials arranged on the bed, followed almost immediately by an expostulation of rage, frustration, disappointment, and fear as the assailant realized his error and possible jeopardy. |
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| 56 | 81 |
"Or the fierce bosk," said Sakim, looking at me. |
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| 57 | 191 |
"Back, back," cried a mercenary officer on our deck, looking behind him, and men began, sustaining our determined, fierce attack, to back away. |
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| 62 | 13 |
Bombastico straightened up, and looked properly chagrined, and fierce. |
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| 63 | 35 |
Regard the fierce serenity of my visage, my look of intent and far horizons!" "Impressive," said Clitus. |
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