| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 137 |
Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in... |
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| 6 | 132 |
From a wall of reeds about fifty paces to the right and thirty feet below, stumbling and screaming, came the bundled figure of a human being, running in horror, its hands flung out before it. |
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| 8 | 11 |
He, with fifty tarnsmen, disloyal to the city, seized what they could of the treasury and escaped. |
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| 9 | 114 |
"Now, while the men of Ar fight among themselves for the cylinders, an army is gathering from fifty cities, massing on the banks of the Vosk to invade Ar. |
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| 12 | 31 |
Before the tarn disk could begin its fall, the quarrel pierced it, carrying it, I would judge, some two hundred and fifty yards out into the river. |
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| 15 | 3 |
Every fifty yards along the walls rose towers, jutting forth so as to expose any attempt at scaling to the fire of their numerous archer ports. |
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| 15 | 11 |
When completed, it would be fifty or sixty feet wide, and seventy or eighty feet deep. |
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| 17 | 17 |
The siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall. |
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| 18 | 50 |
"Fifty guardsmen will see to that". |
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| 18 | 62 |
I noted with repulsion that on the roof of the Cylinder of Justice there shimmered a public impaling spear of polished silver, some fifty feet high, gleaming, looking like a needle in the distance. |
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| 18 | 99 |
An enormous slab, perhaps fifty feet square, had slid upward and backward, revealing a great, dim, squarish tunnel beyond, a tunnel large enough for a flying tarn. |
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| 19 | 184 |
Kazrak's tarn had alighted on the roof of the cylinder, and a moment afterward my father's and perhaps fifty others. |
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| 20 | 25 |
With some fifty followers, who loved him even more than their native walls, he fled on tarnback to the Voltai Range, from whose peaks he could always look upon the distant towers of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 68 |
A bolt of lightning shattered on the road not fifty yards before me. |
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| 21 | 202 |
"I doubt," I said to Targo, "that she is worth more than fifty". |
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| 21 | 205 |
Perhaps I had once been in the trade? Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful. |
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| 23 | 82 |
It lit some fifty yards from us and we ran to its side, I first and Lara after me, she still apprehensive of the beast. |
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| 24 | 137 |
The rampart was thrown between the walls where they stood at perhaps fifty yards from each other. |
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| 24 | 187 |
Then treacherously I was set upon and sent to the Mines of Tharna, and Dorna the Proud and Thorn, this Captain, seized Lara, your Tatrix, and sold her into slavery—sold her to the slaver Targo, whose camp is now at the Fair of En'Kara, sold her for the sum of fifty silver tarn disks!" "What h... |
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| 24 | 189 |
"Dorna the Proud wears a necklace of fifty silver tarn disks!" "Dorna the Proud is bold indeed," I cried, "to flaunt the very coins whereby her rival—your true Tatrix—was delivered into the chains of a slave girl!" There was a mutter of indignation, some angry shouts from the barricade... |
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| 26 | 91 |
"And should I ever again be tempted to be proud or cruel," she said, a smile in her voice, "I shall merely remind myself that I was once sold for fifty silver tarn disks—and that a warrior once purchased me for only a scabbard and a helmet". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 41 |
He informed me that in this time he had refuted seven hundred and eight scribes from fifty-seven cities, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the report, as I sometimes suspect that Torm, like most members of his caste, and mine, tends to be a bit too sanguine in recounting his numerous victorie... |
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| 5 | 82 |
In this passageway, placed regularly but staggered from one another, about fifty yards apart, were numerous portals like the one I had just passed through. |
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| 10 | 26 |
The number of familiar, common English phonemes, incidentally, is in the neighborhood of fifty. |
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| 22 | 7 |
I could see the figures of Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta beneath me, perhaps a hundred and fifty feet below. |
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| 32 | 153 |
At that moment, through the drifting rock dust, I saw the heavy, domed body of one of the Golden Beetles, perhaps fifty yards away. |
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| 32 | 207 |
It seemed I was trapped in the Nest, but then I noted, perhaps fifty yards away, a similar door, though smaller. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 474 |
To my amazement, as I swung the bola in ever faster circles, never taking my eyes off her, she broke the straight running pattern only about fifty yards from the whip circle, and began to dodge, moving always, however, toward the lance. |
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| 8 | 577 |
Elizabeth, unmoving, faced me, some fifty yards away. |
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| 9 | 64 |
The Turian feast usually consumes the better part of a night and can have as many as a hundred and fifty courses. |
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| 10 | 187 |
The two lines are separated by about fifty feet and each stake in a line is separated from the stake on its left and right by about ten yards. |
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| 10 | 196 |
I heard some musicians, come out early from Turia, playing a light tune behind the Turian stakes, about fifty yards or so away. |
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| 10 | 257 |
There were between a hundred and a hundred and fifty girls there from each of the four Wagon Peoples. |
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| 12 | 505 |
Flinging the paga bottle aside, a swirl of the liquid flying out of it, I whirled and saw, some fifty feet away, between two wagons, the dark figure of the hooded man, he of the Clan of Torturers, who had been following me. |
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| 18 | 116 |
About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden. |
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| 20 | 16 |
I slipped with one hand and hung there, feet scraping the wall, some fifty feet from the ground, for a nasty moment, but then managed to get both hands on the edge of the wall and hoist myself up. |
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| 20 | 37 |
The tower itself was some one hundred and forty feet in height and had a diameter of about fifty feet. |
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| 28 | 10 |
Within something like fifty yards we heard a frightened squawk and saw Tuka thrown to the ground with a tackle that might have done credit to a qualified professional player of the American form of football. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 34 |
The procession and those who had been earlier at the pyre now stood back from it, some fifty yards or so, for the oil-impregnated wood will take the torch quickly and fiercely. |
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| 4 | 13 |
It was a large room, some seventy feet square and with a ceiling of some fifty feet in height. |
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| 5 | 69 |
"Actually," I informed her, as I continued to weave the cords together in an ever larger and more complex fashion, "this is only a fifty-seven turn knot. |
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| 5 | 631 |
Elizabeth's knot was a fifty-five-turn knot. |
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| 5 | 632 |
Mine was fifty-seven. |
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| 5 | 633 |
She had threatened to invent a knot with more than fifty-five turns but when I had threatened to beat her she had yielded to reason. |
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| 12 | 100 |
Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;... |
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| 12 | 133 |
In English measure the two sides of the track are each about seventeen hundred feet in length, and the measure at the corners would be something under a hundred and fifty feet in width. |
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| 13 | 61 |
"Look," I said, pointing to the far end of the curving pool, some hundred and fifty yards away, "if I do not catch you before you reach the edge you will have your freedom for the day". |
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| 15 | 365 |
But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a... |
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| 16 | 165 |
I had hardly walked more than fifty yards through the crowd when I heard a frightened scream, that of a girl, coming from the dark ramp down which Phyllis had disappeared. |
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| 19 | 142 |
An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately halved. |
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| 19 | 296 |
There was a bid of two hundred and fifty then for the lot. |
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| 19 | 428 |
"Eight hundred and fifty," came another. |
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| 19 | 429 |
Then we heard nine hundred and fifty bid, and then, incredibly, a thousand, and then a bid for the astounding sum of fourteen hundred pieces of gold. |
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| 22 | 486 |
Out of the corner of my eye I saw perhaps fifty tarnsmen on the wall over the high tier on my right, perched there, waiting. |
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| 23 | 72 |
The door burst open and five men entered, Cernus, wild-eyed, suddenly haggard, and behind him Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes, the man who had commanded the fifty tarnsmen who had ridden against me in the Stadium of Tarns, and two Taurentian guardsmen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
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| 1 | 37 |
I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. |
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| 1 | 45 |
I heard another bird, another marsh gant it seemed, some fifty yards away, but this time to my left. |
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| 2 | 1 |
The Cries of Marsh Gants I saw the girl ahead, through a break in the rushes, some fifty yards beyond. |
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| 3 | 1 |
Ho-Hak The rence islands, on which the communities of rence growers dwell, are rather small, seldom more than two hundred by two hundred and fifty feet. |
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| 3 | 12 |
I had heard there had not been general hostilities among rence growers for more than fifty years; their communities are normally isolated from one another, and they have enough to worry about contending with "tax collectors" from Port Kar, without bothering to give much attention to making life mise... |
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| 3 | 77 |
A given rence island usually holds about fifty or sixty persons. |
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| 3 | 141 |
He held the arrow up, pointing it into the sky, at an angle of some fifty degrees. |
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| 5 | 101 |
The girls, perhaps more than forty or fifty of them, stood about me, laughing, looking from one to the other, giggling. |
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| 7 | 65 |
Then, some fifty yards away, it turned slowly, prow now facing away from the island, toward Port Kar. |
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| 8 | 9 |
There were seventy arrows, fifty of which were sheaf arrows, twenty flight arrows. |
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| 8 | 100 |
Counting kills, and other men we had seen, moving furtively, seldom lifting more than a head above the barges' hulls, there might be some fifty men left, spread over the six barges. |
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| 10 | 22 |
In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks. |
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| 11 | 121 |
And have patrols doubled, and extend their perimeters by fifty pasangs". |
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| 11 | 123 |
"Have the patrols doubled, and extend their perimeters by fifty pasangs," I repeated. |
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| 11 | 157 |
If so, they might control, among themselves, a force of about one hundred and fifty ships, most of which were still at sea. |
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| 11 | 201 |
"Yes," he said, "and their perimeters extended by fifty pasangs". |
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| 12 | 70 |
I, and the others, followed him to another of the watch fires, one some fifty yards from the one at which I had warmed myself. |
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| 13 | 254 |
"Fifty copper tarn disks," said the slave master. |
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| 13 | 272 |
The slave master was again counting the fifty copper tarn disks. |
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| 14 | 84 |
Thus, the odds, which might have been prohibitive under normal conditions, of seventy ships to thirty, I suspected I had reduced to something like forty, or perhaps fifty, to thirty. |
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| 14 | 85 |
But even so, I did not regard it as rational to undertake odds of forty, or fifty, to thirty. |
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| 14 | 140 |
This time it fell only fifty yards astern. |
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| 14 | 178 |
We were within fifty yards of her before a seaman on her stern castle, looking back, screamed the warning. |
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| 15 | 35 |
Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c... |
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| 17 | 11 |
Beyond this, we had three hundred and fifty ships furnished by the captains of the council who had not, prior to the time of the showing of the Home Stone, fled. |
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| 17 | 12 |
Of these three hundred and fifty ships, approximately two hundred, happily, were tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 31 |
This was one of fifty such task forces, consisting altogether of eight hundred tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 35 |
We would cut it in fifty places. |
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| 17 | 40 |
With their lines cut in fifty places, for no extended handful of tarn ships, part of a great line, could resist a close-set formation of sixteen tarn ships, I hoped that many of the ships would turn to face the attackers, now in their rear. |
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| 17 | 41 |
Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear. |
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| 17 | 43 |
The original pairs, of the fifty sets of sixteen tarn ships, after cutting the line and fighting, would, if possible, regroup with their sixteen and recut the line again, this time moving toward Port Kar, and repeat these tactics. |
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| 17 | 49 |
The first two waves of my attack consisted, thus, of fifty task forces of sixteen tarn ships apiece and, following each of the task forces, at an interval of half an Ahn, another pair of tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 76 |
My fourth wave consisted of fifty tarn ships, instructed not to lower their masts, which would follow the round ships by an Ahn. |
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| 17 | 89 |
I kept in reserve fifty-five tarn ships, which, simultaneously with the fifth wave, that of the flanking fleets, would draw within signal distance of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 175 |
Astern of the Dorna, not hurrying, at half beat, came fifty tarn ships, their masts high, storm sails bound to their long, sloping yards. |
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| 17 | 178 |
And simultaneously with the initiation of the pincers attack the balance of my fleet, the reserves, fifty-five tarn ships, should draw within signal distance of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 214 |
I could see, now, approaching the Dorna, from the east, the reserves, the fifty-five tarn ships, and the ten wide-beamed round ships, lumber ships from the arsenal, whose cargoes were unknown even to my highest officers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 336 |
He had paid a deposit of fifty golden tarn disks, and on our first morning in the compound, I had seen him pay one hundred and fifty more to the huge, bearded, scowling Haakon of Skjern. |
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| 3 | 451 |
It was four fifty-one. |
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| 3 | 518 |
Then I saw some small lights beyond the trees and brush some fifty yards in front of me, in a sort of clearing in the woods. |
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| 7 | 17 |
He had already, at the fair, paid Haakon a deposit on this purchase, in the amount of fifty gold pieces. |
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| 7 | 18 |
The balance of one hundred and fifty gold pieces would be due when the consignment was delivered. |
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| 8 | 318 |
In the compound adjoining ours, crowded, there were some two hundred and fifty to three hundred village girls. |
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| 8 | 607 |
His new girl, the Lady Rena of Lydius, would net him fifty-five gold pieces if she could be delivered in Ar to her captain from Tyros. |
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| 8 | 811 |
One point is scored for a correct guess, and the game is usually set for a predetermined number of paired guesses, usually fifty. |
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| 11 | 801 |
As I ran through the darkness I suddenly saw, before me, some fifty or sixty yards away, four pairs of blazing eyes, a pride of forest panthers. |
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| 11 | 1285 |
Furthermore, in Ko-ro-ba Targo had purchased additional girls, and guards, and his caravan southeast to Ar would be a substantial one, one surely not to be endangered by some forty to fifty tarnsmen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 215 |
"Do you recall your price?" "Two steel knives," said the man, "and fifty steel arrow points". |
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| 2 | 18 |
We were fifty pasangs north of Lydius, which port lies at the mouth of the Laurius River. |
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| 2 | 545 |
They are not made to lift and fall, to crash among fifty-foot waves, caught in the fists of the sea's violence. |
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| 2 | 632 |
"The camp of Verna," she said, "lies ten pasangs upriver from Lydius, and fifty pasangs north, inland from the Laurius". |
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| 2 | 738 |
There are fifty such trees. |
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| 6 | 255 |
I had seen, an Ahn earlier, before we had reached this camp site, a tawny movement in the brush, some fifty yards in front of us, and to our left. |
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| 13 | 30 |
They were struck for a moment, seeing me, standing some hundred and fifty yards from them, regarding them. |
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| 13 | 34 |
At point-blank range the temwood shaft can be fired completely through a four-inch beam; at two hundred yards it can pin a man to a wall; at four hundred yards it can kill the huge, shambling bosk; it fires nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, some eighty Earth seconds; a skilled bowman, and not an unus... |
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| 13 | 186 |
"Fifty, I think," she said. |
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| 13 | 255 |
There were some fifty men of Tyros, as a prize crew, with the Tesephone. |
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| 13 | 258 |
I suspected that some one hundred and fifty, or more, men were now moving towards the camp of Marlenus. |
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| 13 | 298 |
It puzzled me, somewhat, that the men of Tyros had dared to approach the camp, with only some one hundred and fifty men. |
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| 13 | 305 |
Even granting the men of Tyros the element of surprise and a superiority in number of some fifty or sixty men, their enterprise was not without considerable hazard. |
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| 15 | 466 |
They were separated by some fifty yards. |
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| 17 | 120 |
Fifty-eight new slaves lay at the chain. |
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| 17 | 127 |
I had reduced that number, over several days, to fifty-six. |
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| 17 | 129 |
He now had fifty-five men. |
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| 18 | 29 |
Somewhere, how far away I knew not, the strike of the hammer of the keleustes governed the stroke of those great sweeping levers, the oars of the Rhoda, and doubtless, not more than fifty yards abeam, those, too, of the light galley, the Tesephone, she of Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 35 |
His men, fifty-five men of Tyros, some falling, made their way down the beach, across the stones, to the edge of the water. |
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| 18 | 214 |
Then, on the other side of them, closer to the sea, lay the gagged, helplessly thonged slave girls; then came the blankets and supplies of Hura's twenty-one women; then came the equipment of the fifty-five men of Tyros, almost at the margin of the animal fires. |
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| 18 | 310 |
"There are more than fifty men of Tyros here," said Tina. |
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| 18 | 311 |
"There are fifty-five, excluding Sarus of Tyros, their leader," I told her. |
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| 19 | 429 |
"Fifty-five," he said. |
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| 19 | 433 |
"There are fifty-five of us," said Sarus. |
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| 19 | 455 |
"We are fifty-five men!" screamed Sarus. |
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| 22 | 605 |
I will build a beacon the light of which will be seen fifty pasangs at sea". |
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| 22 | 786 |
Its light would be seen more than fifty pasangs at sea. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 149 |
But when I, half paralyzed and crippled, had left the shore of Thassa I had left behind me a beacon, a mighty beacon formed from the logs of the stockade of Sarus, and it had blazed behind me, visible for more than fifty pasangs at sea. |
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| 3 | 70 |
The spear caromed away and struck the wall of the temple, fifty feet behind me. |
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| 3 | 330 |
Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w... |
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| 4 | 41 |
In a day, a full Gorean day of twenty Ahn, with a fair wind they can cover from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pasangs. |
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| 5 | 163 |
The ship of Thorgard, Black Sleen, was no more than some fifty yards away. |
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| 7 | 150 |
"Fifty strokes," said the Forkbeard. |
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| 10 | 49 |
Prior to his winning the swimming he had won talmits for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood, some fifty feet high, smoothed and peeled; for jumping the "crevice," actually a broad jump, on level land, where marks are made with strings, to the point at which the back heel strikes the ear... |
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| 10 | 163 |
Thorstein Camp, well to the south, but yet north of Einar's Skerry, was a camp of fighting men, which controlled the countryside about it, for some fifty pasangs, taking tribute from the farms. |
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| 12 | 26 |
He had won a talmit for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood; it was some fifty feet high, and was peeled and smoothed; he had won one for "leaping the crevice," which was actually a broad jump, performed on level ground; one for walking the "oar," which was actually a long pole; two in c... |
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| 14 | 180 |
In rage it had cried, "A thousand of you can die beneath the claws of a single Kur!" There were perhaps now no more than a hundred or a hundred and fifty men left alive in the hall. |
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| 17 | 80 |
Each is little more than four or five feet high, with a comparable width, but is fifty or sixty feet in length, some being as long as a hundred feet in length. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 445 |
Only a foot or two below the surface, these temperatures are reduced by more than fifty degrees. |
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| 1 | 825 |
It takes more than a hundred and fifty years for some of this water to make the underground journey, seeping hundreds of feet at times beneath the dry surface, moving only a few miles a year, to reach the oases. |
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| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
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| 8 | 2 |
For better than fifty pasangs about the terrain was apparently combed, again and again, but yielded not even a trail. |
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| 10 | 8 |
At the oases, it is common for the local pashas to exact a protection tax from caravans, if they are of a certain length, normally of fifty kaiila or more. |
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| 11 | 33 |
The temperature fell by more than fifty degrees in a matter of Ehn. |
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| 12 | 266 |
Down the corridor, some fifty yards of tile and hangings, there was the outer door. |
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| 13 | 37 |
The front wall was some four hundred feet in length; the side walls were some four hundred and fifty feet in length. |
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| 14 | 17 |
More than two hundred and fifty men had been originally in the salt chain. |
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| 14 | 26 |
It was difficult to believe then, in the cool of that morning, as early as late spring, that the surface temperatures of the terrain we would traverse would be within hours better than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit. |
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| 14 | 424 |
We had begun with more than two hundred and fifty men. |
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| 17 | 191 |
The Old One circled away and again lay out from us in the water, some fifty to sixty feet distant, seeming to watch. |
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| 21 | 531 |
I fell, dropping, striking objects, sliding for perhaps forty or fifty feet, until stopped by a compartment wall. |
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| 22 | 59 |
"Please, water!" I stopped some fifty yards from them. |
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| 24 | 8 |
I came once within one hundred and fifty yards of Ibn Saran; Hassan, or Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, came within twenty yards of him, fighting like a wild animal, but was turned back at last by a wall of bucklers, a hedge of lances. |
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| 26 | 38 |
The women, for there were insufficient wagons or kaiila for them, would march, in separate groups of fifty, within the columns and toward their center. |
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| 26 | 40 |
Each female slave group was a fifty-bracelet coffle. |
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| 26 | 109 |
At the first group of fifty girls, nude, waiting in wrist coffle, I stopped. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 19 |
Some forty or fifty girls were chained on my side of the room, and another forty or fifty on the other side of the room. |
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| 2 | 895 |
I thought my head would fly from my neck, with such swift savageness was I struck! The blow was open-handed, taking me on the left side of the face, but it must have been clearly audible for a hundred and fifty yards about; I rolled, stinging, crawling, for more than twenty feet; I threw up in the g... |
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| 2 | 1151 |
The length of their line of march was perhaps some forty or fifty yards, its width some ten yards. |
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| 7 | 582 |
Some fifty yards from the line, in the darkness, between the straw huts, on their pilings, I stopped, and, wild, gasping, in the Ta-Teera, looked back. |
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| 7 | 697 |
Shortly after they had passed, the sleen in a pen, some fifty yards off, began to squeal and hiss. |
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| 12 | 285 |
There must have been some fifty men in the hall, and most of the girls. |
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| 13 | 372 |
"The Pleasure Silk bids fifty tarsks," I heard. |
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| 22 | 553 |
I was not fifty feet from a burning ship. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 705 |
Centius of Cos, on the other hand, was an older man; no one knew how old; it was said the stabilization serums had not taken their full effect with him until he had seen fifty winters; he was slight and gray-haired; he was quite different in personality and character from the young Scormus; he was q... |
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| 4 | 146 |
Behind them, more than forty feet high, and fifty feet wide, was a great vertical board. |
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| 6 | 279 |
"Yes, Master," she cried happily, running to where I had indicated, a place beside a small tree some fifty yards from the pond. |
10 |
| 6 | 874 |
They were some fifty yards from the girl. |
10 |
| 10 | 348 |
Hurrying toward us we could now see some forty or fifty guardsmen, weapons at the ready. |
10 |
| 10 | 356 |
I hurled it into the guards, some fifty yards now away. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 11 | 170 |
We had more than three hundred and fifty men for work. |
10 |
| 12 | 198 |
The ice of Ax Glacier, where we crossed it, had been cut by the countless hooves of the herd of Tancred, leaving a trail of marked ice more than one hundred and fifty yards wide. |
10 |
| 15 | 846 |
Commonly only one woman in, say, forty or fifty is a slave. |
10 |
| 26 | 291 |
I could not well count the animals in the uncertain light and shadows, and with their dark minglings and changings of position, but it was clear that there were a large number of beasts there, probably more than fifty. |
10 |
| 26 | 361 |
I do not think he had worked longer, altogether, than some forty or fifty minutes on it. |
10 |
| 29 | 112 |
He lifted his hand in greeting, fifty yards away. |
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| 35 | 969 |
Four darts hissed past, exploding in a succession of bursts some fifty yards from us. |
10 |
| 36 | 143 |
There were four such lines, of fifty or so girls each. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 731 |
I could see the girl, about one hundred and fifty yards away, her wrists crossed and bound before her, tied by the wrists to a heavy ring at the side of the pier. |
10 |
| 6 | 8 |
"Fifty pasangs," said Ulafi. |
10 |
| 6 | 334 |
I could see some forty or fifty sails in the harbor. |
10 |
| 7 | 32 |
There were only, by my conjecture, at the time I was in the market of Uchafu, some two hundred and fifty girls there. |
10 |
| 17 | 15 |
"The money," said Msaliti, in fury, "is being invested in the formation of a fleet of a hundred ships, fully fitted and supplied, and crewed by fifty men each. |
10 |
| 24 | 38 |
"There is an engagement there," I said, "in canoes and in the water, some hundred askaris, some forty or fifty raiders". |
10 |
| 33 | 12 |
I waded after him, some forty or fifty feet out into the current. |
10 |
| 33 | 32 |
If there were crews of fifty on the galleys and from five to ten men in a canoe, the force behind us must have ranged somewhere between five and six thousand men. |
10 |
| 33 | 83 |
Too, had he been within fifty yards he probably could not have heard him, because of the roar of the falls. |
10 |
| 44 | 65 |
Some fifty yards into the jungle I stopped. |
10 |
| 53 | 18 |
Shaba had still with him some fifty men. |
10 |
| 53 | 365 |
I drove my dagger into the belly of one which was pressing past me, and in its rush, it hardly understanding that it was wounded, was carried, dragged, holding to the beast and dagger, for fifty feet among the Kurii. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 56 |
They are all property, property! Can fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, a million, three million, years of nature be mistaken? No, I thought. |
10 |
| 13 | 275 |
The four files, as I counted that nearest to me, were fifty deep. |
10 |
| 13 | 336 |
Some fifty yards away, in the street, another palanquin passed, borne by draft slaves, some lovely enslaved girls, in brief tunics, chained by the neck to a bar at its back. |
10 |
| 16 | 336 |
About fifty yards down the alley was a high-sided tharlarion wagon. |
10 |
| 21 | 424 |
The young beast weighed, I conjecture, some one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty pounds. |
10 |
| 22 | 491 |
Indeed, I was champion of the local stables, those within a perimeter of some fifty pasangs. |
10 |
| 26 | 308 |
But some fifty yards into the darkness of the tunnel I halted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 16 |
A fellow was now standing, some fifty feet across the room. |
10 |
| 9 | 198 |
"Forty-eight!" "Fifty!" Suddenly the girl cried out, startled. |
10 |
| 22 | 17 |
I watched the pirates, perhaps some fifty or sixty of them, unchallenged, moving between warehouses and the wharves, where two pirate galleys were moored. |
10 |
| 22 | 24 |
"We outnumber them fifty to one," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 49 |
"I had sent word to Ragnar Voskjard more than fifty days ago". |
10 |
| 24 | 321 |
"There, with other girls from Earth, more than fifty of us, I was branded. |
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| 29 | 213 |
The sea gate itself was fifty feet in height, large enough, when the barred latticework was lifted, to accommodate a masted cargo galley. |
10 |
| 33 | 28 |
To port and starboard, each some fifty yards away, gray and silent, intermittently visible in the fog, each lying to, as was the Tina, were two other galleys, the Mira, out of Victoria, and the Talender, out of Fina. |
10 |
| 33 | 164 |
It is thought he commands some fifty ships and twenty-five hundred men. |
10 |
| 33 | 168 |
"To be sure," said Callimachus, "and yet some fifty ships can be brought into the river by Port Cos, and some forty-five by Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 33 | 184 |
"And it is estimated that the Voskjard's fleet numbers some fifty ships?" "Yes," said Callimachus. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 |
Some fifty yards away I heard another galley strike at the chain. |
10 |
| 1 | 74 |
There are fifty arrows in each such sheaf. |
10 |
| 3 | 165 |
"Apparently the Voskjard has more than fifty ships," I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 32 |
Acting on the information supplied by Callisthenes we had conjectured that the Voskjard commanded in the neighborhood of fifty ships. |
10 |
| 4 | 152 |
Her immediate support ship, fifty yards astern, could not check her flight. |
10 |
| 4 | 224 |
Yet now we conjectured some fifty ships still faced us, for the chain, clearly, no longer provided a barrier north of his position. |
10 |
| 4 | 226 |
I could not but think, bitterly, that if the Voskjard, truly, had had only some fifty ships, as we had gathered from the intelligences supplied to us by Callisthenes, we, if supplemented by the twenty ships of Callisthenes, yet to appear, would now have outnumbered him. |
10 |
| 4 | 249 |
"And leave Callisthenes to face fifty ships?" asked Callimachus. |
10 |
| 5 | 109 |
Fifty yards astern we saw the jury-rigged ram of the Sita, a converted merchantman of Jort's Ferry, take a ship of the Voskjard in the stern. |
10 |
| 5 | 166 |
Our rams, separated by some fifty yards, faced one another. |
10 |
| 10 | 62 |
Accordingly, unopposed, it would have cut the chain rather than engage in the arduous task of beaching and moving over fifty ships some two or three hundred yards overland. |
10 |
| 10 | 123 |
More than fifty slave girls, their hair coiffured high on their heads, clad in sleeveless, classic gowns of white silk, were aligned on the walk nearest the wall containing the iron door, that leading within to the halls of the fortress. |
10 |
| 10 | 214 |
Accordingly, within the fortress, under the command of Kliomenes, only a small force had been left, some two hundred to two hundred and fifty men. |
10 |
| 12 | 1 |
We Bid Welcome to the Voskjard's Fleet; The Courier of Ragnar Voskjard; The Fleet of Policrates "There must be fifty ships in the channel," said Callimachus, snapping shut the glass of the Builders. |
10 |
| 12 | 9 |
"Surely fifty or better," said Callimachus, "but I doubt that so many will enter the holding". |
10 |
| 14 | 19 |
Of his original three fleets, numbering in the neighborhood of some one hundred and fifty or sixty ships, he must now retain less than twenty. |
10 |
| 17 | 23 |
What free woman would dare to walk upon such a street, particularly at night? Her throat might suddenly feel the capture loop of a slaver and, by morning, branded, gag-hooded and chained, she might be fifty pasangs downriver, on her way to a market in Ven or Turmus. |
10 |
| 17 | 45 |
I turned a corner in the street, and it was then that I saw them, some fifty yards away, approaching, descending, nearing the location of one of the small tharlarion-oil lamps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 409 |
I conjecture the larger weighed about nine hundred pounds and the smaller about eight hundred and fifty pounds. |
10 |
| 1 | 1097 |
"The man, now," said Kog, "is not fifty feet from the mounted hunters. |
10 |
| 6 | 32 |
The tremors in the earth from such a herd can be felt fifty pasangs away. |
10 |
| 6 | 54 |
It is, I would estimate, something over six hundred feet square, perhaps more, perhaps even six hundred and forty or six hundred and fifty feet square. |
10 |
| 7 | 79 |
The kaiila, perhaps a hundred to a hundred and fifty of them, thundered past. |
10 |
| 8 | 46 |
"Is she worth fifty tarsks to you?" asked the slaver's man. |
10 |
| 8 | 54 |
"Fifty tarsks for this freckled, little she-tarsk," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 305 |
Several of the girls had gone from the side blocks, for example, for prices ranging between thirty and fifty copper tarsks. |
10 |
| 8 | 389 |
This was a bid of three silver tarsks and fifty copper tarsks. |
10 |
| 8 | 926 |
A chain which has been borne by fifty girls would, of course, be impracticably heavy for five or six. |
10 |
| 13 | 1109 |
"Kiss me," I told her, "fifty times, and well". |
10 |
| 13 | 1112 |
There were fifty of them. |
10 |
| 15 | 14 |
The signals, of which there are some fifty or sixty, have conventionalized meanings, such as 'We are Kaiila', 'Who are you?', 'Go back', 'We have counted coup' and 'We are returning to camp'. |
10 |
| 18 | 185 |
I counted fifty-one riders, in all. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 128 |
We then, between us, carried the head up, out of the draw, and, some fifty yards or so from the draw, placed it on the level. |
10 |
| 7 | 957 |
These herds, usually consisting of from forty to fifty white females, stripped, are usually kept a pasang or so from camp, with the kaiila herds. |
10 |
| 11 | 111 |
Its high walls, some forty feet in height, built on poles, from platforms, and ceilinged with poles and branches, enclosed a dancing space, cleared, circular and packed down, of about fifty feet in diameter. |
10 |
| 18 | 218 |
Its poles were fifty feet in height and it was covered with more than a hundred skins. |
10 |
| 22 | 254 |
It enclosed a packed-down dancing space of some fifty feet in diameter. |
10 |
| 27 | 44 |
Too, if the Kinyanpi were at heights of even fifty or a hundred feet, it would be difficult for them to fire accurately through the overhead network of ropes and cloths which we had suspended between several of the lodges. |
10 |
| 27 | 95 |
"Forty, fifty?" speculated Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 28 | 305 |
In this type of formation, given the speed of the charging kaiila, the distance between successive waves is about forty to fifty feet. |
10 |
| 32 | 110 |
From between lodges there was emerging a long line, of perhaps forty to fifty men, bearing lances. |
10 |
| 34 | 350 |
Behind us, some fifty yards, came the travois. |
10 |
| 34 | 389 |
"There!" On that rise there were two trees, white-barked trees, some fifty feet tall, with shimmering green leaves. |
10 |
| 40 | 14 |
It was some fifty feet in diameter, with an earthen bench or projection about the interior edges. |
10 |
| 42 | 57 |
The leader of the Kinyanpi, when some fifty yards from my tarn, suddenly drew back on the reins of his tarn, and held it in a hovering position. |
10 |
| 44 | 484 |
Yet I think that more than a hundred and fifty Yellow Knives might already have perished, victims of that steep, dreadful trail, crowded from it, driven from it, trampled upon it, and some even falling under the weapons of their own fellows, fighting for space on the rugged ascent. |
10 |
| 44 | 559 |
"Kahintokapa will count fifty," said Hci. |
10 |
| 44 | 562 |
When the first fifty riders had passed the chosen point on the trail the second barricade, bristling, too, with stakes, on ropes, was lowered to the trail, shutting off the upper segment of the trail as effectively as a gate. |
10 |
| 44 | 563 |
The first fifty riders, not realizing they were cut off, continued upward. |
10 |
| 45 | 57 |
In our lines we had fifty men. |
10 |
| 46 | 83 |
The Yellow Knives, probably some four or five hundred of them, with perhaps some fifty soldiers, were now climbing the trail. |
10 |
| 46 | 146 |
At our withdrawal our fifth group, some fifty yards behind us, lowered itself from the escarpment. |
10 |
| 47 | 330 |
Some fifty to seventy feet from the barricade the procession stopped. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 6 |
My platform was on the left side of the street, looking down toward the square, and at the forward corner, nearest the street, of a public slave market, some fifty feet in length, along the street, and some fifty feet in depth. |
10 |
| 3 | 1067 |
"Fifty," she said. |
10 |
| 3 | 1072 |
Here, as I had just learned, one man might own as many as fifty women. |
10 |
| 12 | 76 |
It seemed odd to me, almost incomprehensible, that Ligurious, a man such as he, who must have had some fifty women at his feet, women such as Susan, women kneeling in terror and awe about him, for he was their total master, should be so much like a callow youth, should be so weak, with this woman. |
10 |
| 15 | 315 |
It must have been fifty yards long. |
10 |
| 30 | 377 |
There was no opening here to the Wall Road, which must, judging from the proximity of the wall, be only forty or fifty yards behind the building. |
10 |
| 36 | 1657 |
"How much!" "I paid fifty silver tarsks for you!" he said, furiously. |
10 |
| 36 | 1658 |
"Fifty!" I cried. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 903 |
Some fifty pasangs northeast of Scagnar he claims that he and his crew saw something turning and spinning in the sky, like webbed glass, the light spilling and refracting through it. |
10 |
| 3 | 108 |
A work gang usually consists of fifty to one hundred men, and some contain as many as five hundred or a thousand men. |
10 |
| 6 | 155 |
That character occurs probably in fifty to sixty percent of the farces constituting the repertory of such a company. |
10 |
| 6 | 1241 |
"There are more than fifty". |
10 |
| 7 | 86 |
I suspect that many of the lots, even large lots, literal bevies of luscious slaves, chained together forty or fifty in a lot, may end up being simply purchased by slavers at rock-bottom prices, for purposes of later speculation". |
10 |
| 14 | 408 |
I kept pushing through the urts, toward the other side of the pack, more than a hundred and fifty yards away. |
10 |
| 16 | 1236 |
If this matter should slip your mind, you will receive fifty". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 113 |
There, some fifty yards away, kneeling, huddled together against the brick wall of a public building, the wall composed of the flat, narrow bricks common in southern Gorean architecture, was a group of some one hundred to one hundred and fifty females. |
10 |
| 3 | 5 |
Probably they had come only recently to the wagons, probably trekking overland from some contacted village, perhaps one from as far away as fifty pasangs, a common range for the excursions, the searches and collections of mounted foragers. |
10 |
| 3 | 65 |
It creaked under perhaps a hundred and fifty Gorean stone of such stores. |
10 |
| 4 | 570 |
I pulled her ankles up, behind her body, at an angle of about fifty degrees, and crossed them. |
10 |
| 13 | 230 |
As her number was 437 and there were only some one hundred or one hundred and fifty or so females in the chain, near the wall, I assumed there was probably one or more collection points elsewhere, perhaps nearer the Semnium, the Council Hall. |
10 |
| 14 | 115 |
"One is a mere fifty liner". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 532 |
"Two and fifty!" "Two and fifty!" called the auctioneer, pleased. |
10 |
| 9 | 251 |
I then heard my height and weight, given in Gorean measurements, thirty and a quarter Gorean stone and fifty-one horts, or approximately, in Earth measurements, one hundred and twenty-one pounds and five foot three and three quarters inches, and a large number of my other measurements being similarl... |
10 |
| 9 | 533 |
"Two and fifty! Do I hear more?" The house was quiet. |
10 |
| 10 | 397 |
"It was two and fifty," I said, "but I do not know, really, what that means". |
10 |
| 10 | 398 |
"Two silver tarsks," he said, "and fifty copper tarsks, not tarsk bits, but tarsks, whole tarsks". |
10 |
| 10 | 454 |
"You bid two and fifty," I whispered. |
10 |
| 11 | 57 |
There were some fifty tables in the room, tables at which, if not placed adjacently to one another, generally four men might sit. |
10 |
| 17 | 70 |
I had cost him only fifty copper tarsks, half a silver tarsk. |
10 |
| 24 | 9 |
I feared to approach this group of fifty men. |
10 |
| 24 | 15 |
The "black chain," as a whole, consisted of several such groups, most of some fifty men. |
10 |
| 24 | 71 |
I had brought fifty. |
10 |
| 24 | 79 |
Perhaps much depends on the individual man, and how much we interest him? Perhaps I had been sold before the agent had come to the market? Too, my former master, Gordon, had paid fifty copper tarsks for me, and that was undoubtedly a great deal of money for him. |
10 |
| 24 | 95 |
The men in the group, fifty of them, half-stripped, sweating, brawny, chained together in ankle coffle, turned to regard me. |
10 |
| 24 | 120 |
There were fifty men on the chain. |
10 |
| 24 | 251 |
I flung myself to my belly in the sand before he whom I most feared, he whose shackle was the last on that chain of fifty strong men. |
10 |
| 25 | 79 |
These chains, or "links," of some fifty men each, had left the camp to the southwest and would, by a roundabout route, join the Viktel Aria some pasangs to the south, toward Ar. |
10 |
| 26 | 85 |
There were two hundred and fifty men, exactly on the chains. |
10 |
| 33 | 3 |
There was a space of some fifty feet of cleared ground behind him. |
10 |
| 33 | 184 |
"There is a clearing behind you, for perhaps fifty feet or more". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1005 |
There must have been at least fifty ropes, and fifty men to a rope. |
10 |
| 1 | 440 |
It was at least fifty yards deep and wide, affording room where even wagons pulled by ten tharlarion might turn. |
10 |
| 2 | 273 |
"Mine is fifty," wept the last of the five women, "but I will make it well worth your while!" "In what way?" I asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 302 |
Many Gorean wines, it might be mentioned, if only by way of explanation, are very strong, often having an alcoholic content by volume of forty to fifty percent. |
10 |
| 8 | 731 |
I let the bird come within fifty yards of the earth before I reined back, and it swooped, low, leveling, over the grass. |
10 |
| 8 | 754 |
In the first pass I hovered the bird for a time, some fifty yards over a portion of the court on the top of the palisaded plateau, one rather behind and to the left of the main inn buildings, as one would face them, entering. |
10 |
| 15 | 150 |
There must have been fifty coils of rope wound tightly about her fair person. |
10 |
| 15 | 756 |
At that moment there was a hideous impact some forty feet or fifty feet from us and on the other side of the interior wall to the left, as one would face the cell door, in what, presumably, would have been the cell adjoining ours, there was a bursting inward of brick and stone. |
10 |
| 16 | 93 |
Turning, about fifty yards behind me, I saw the upright of a single-pole ladder jut from the outside over the wall. |
10 |
| 17 | 594 |
This time, as it swung back, I could see, along its shaft, the interior of the inclined shed that housed it, and how it was fifty feet long and slung in leather cradles, and the many ropes that controlled it, and the men drawing on the ropes, surely more than a hundred of them under that long shed, ... |
10 |
| 24 | 5 |
It was perhaps one hundred and fifty feet high. |
10 |
| 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 |
| 5 | 21 |
On one such bar I and some fifty or sixty men now camped. |
10 |
| 9 | 30 |
Nearby was a barge, one of the larger craft in our makeshift flotilla, carrying perhaps fifty men. |
10 |
| 14 | 17 |
Ar had brought, by most reckonings, some fifty thousand men into the delta. |
10 |
| 19 | 789 |
We were perhaps fifty or seventy feet then from the rence. |
10 |
| 19 | 809 |
It opened its wings to try to climb again, perhaps some fifty feet or so, above the marsh, and did climb, yard by yard, as though it would ascend to the clouds, but then it fell slowly, its wings beating, toward the marsh. |
10 |
| 19 | 1868 |
"Perhaps one of fifty, or a hundred". |
10 |
| 25 | 13 |
By means of such rings, and chains, of course, an indefinite number of girls, well beyond those in the fifty places on the benches, could be transported. |
10 |
| 28 | 492 |
"Fifty thousand men," said he, looking out over the marsh, "entered the delta". |
10 |
| 32 | 267 |
There we were added to chains of more than two hundred and fifty poor fellows, taken in the marshes, their plight the same as ours". |
10 |
| 47 | 87 |
It would have been my supposition that Ina, in many markets, at this time, might have gone for about ninety copper tarsks, up to a silver tarsk fifty. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 229 |
I could see the head of Milo, with its blond curls, over the heads of the crowd, about fifty yards away. |
10 |
| 2 | 69 |
Of over fifty thousand men who had entered the delta it was doubted that there were more than four or five thousand survivors. |
10 |
| 3 | 6 |
The game is usually set at a given number of points, usually fifty. |
10 |
| 4 | 90 |
There were at least ten guards in the vicinity, as well as perhaps fifty to a hundred men. |
10 |
| 7 | 26 |
I think the light of these would have been visible for fifty pasangs. |
10 |
| 8 | 432 |
The bottom of the breach was still some forty or fifty feet high. |
10 |
| 9 | 802 |
I heard, from several yards away, perhaps fifty yards away, the sound startling me even so, the crack of a whip. |
10 |
| 9 | 852 |
We could probably have added forty or fifty more women to the coffle had we wished. |
10 |
| 18 | 316 |
"We have a job for you, and I suspect you are one of the fifty or so men in Ar who might accomplish it". |
10 |
| 18 | 335 |
"If there are some fifty or so fellows in Ar," said the fellow, "who could do this, why did you not ask one of them, or perhaps you have already asked them". |
10 |
| 22 | 475 |
I was about fifty yards behind the group of three fellows, who were sauntering east on Tarn Court. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 223 |
Perhaps, I conjectured, there might be fifty of us in this line. |
10 |
| 4 | 335 |
It was not merely that the line of us, the fifty of us, or so, were well revealed in this position, excellently and uncompromisingly exhibited, but there was involved here more profound meaningfulnesses. |
10 |
| 10 | 140 |
I looked down to the left, and groaned, for there was a precipitate drop there, some forty or fifty feet to another trail below, and below that another such drop to another trail, and thence to another. |
10 |
| 10 | 157 |
Other than this there was only the steepness, the side of the mountain, there on the right, rising up, and, on the left, below the ledge, the drop, forty or fifty feet, to the ledge and trail below. |
10 |
| 11 | 45 |
I then stood some fifty feet, or so, before the dais. |
10 |
| 14 | 1522 |
If I may be permitted to exaggerate a point, for purposes of clarification, one might ask, are there two basic kisses with five hundred variations of each, four basic kisses with two hundred and fifty variations of each, five with two hundred variations of each, ten with one hundred variations of ea... |
10 |
| 19 | 12 |
More than a hundred and fifty tarns had landed in the docking area. |
10 |
| 24 | 98 |
"There were less than fifty, surely," said a man. |
10 |
| 24 | 197 |
There must have been some fifty intruders now on the terrace, some in the saddle, others dismounted. |
10 |
| 24 | 226 |
I would have guessed their number at some one hundred and fifty men. |
10 |
| 29 | 976 |
We did stop for a moment on the terrace, to watch a tarn caravan in flight, one of more than fifty birds, one which had left in the vicinity of sunset. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 11 |
But, after a bit, despite what would have been her choice, her deeper subjectivity, anxiously, frightened, seemingly more informed than she herself, calling out, began to make itself heard; it seems then that her consciousness, patiently, insistently, responding, began little by little to overcome h... |
10 |
| 4 | 373 |
Or perhaps even talkies, but dating back perhaps fifty or sixty years?" "Of course," she said. |
10 |
| 6 | 71 |
"Let it be two hundred and fifty," said the young man. |
10 |
| 7 | 90 |
When you were acquired, you were fifty-eight". |
10 |
| 7 | 91 |
"Fifty-five," she said. |
10 |
| 7 | 92 |
"Fifty-eight," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 19 |
On the broad, circular roof, some fifty yards in diameter, there were numerous, sturdy, tiered racks of poles on which levels of laundry might be dried, and, between these racks, were numerous swaying lines, from which a great deal more wash, like flags, shook, flapped and fluttered in the wind, hel... |
10 |
| 16 | 1401 |
There may have been as many as fifty such rings. |
10 |
| 19 | 456 |
"That is better than fifty days from now," said Arconious. |
10 |
| 20 | 83 |
Ellen estimated that there were between two hundred and fifty and three hundred women in her coffle. |
10 |
| 20 | 295 |
One of the tarnsman, aflight, was within fifty feet of her. |
10 |
| 20 | 304 |
Turning about, Ellen saw the second tarnsman was now following the last tarn, and was some fifty to seventy yards behind it. |
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| 20 | 337 |
Following, some fifty yards or so to the back, and right, and some yards above, was a great shadow. |
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| 20 | 395 |
It was a large coffle, of perhaps some two hundred and fifty to three hundred girls, each stripped, each chained by the neck. |
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| 20 | 926 |
It would be something like fifty tarsk-bits for each lad. |
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| 22 | 297 |
* * * * Earlier in the day, after having been at the pool, and having been fed and watered, she, and those who had been in her ankle coffle, were conducted to an exhibition cage, one of more than perhaps fifty or sixty. |
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| 25 | 129 |
Her conjecture was nearly, if not entirely, correct, as her chain was led into a ready lane, one of several, which was within, say, fifty yards of the block. |
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| 25 | 886 |
"Two silver tarsks, fifty copper tarsks," said the assistant. |
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| 25 | 951 |
Perhaps a hundred, or a hundred and fifty, perhaps high slaves, perhaps exquisitely, lengthily trained pleasure slaves, perhaps skilled dancers, perhaps such, but surely not she! Accordingly, instead of being excited and thrilled, she was apprehensive. |
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| 26 | 858 |
"Not counting the freed prisoners, fifty," said Portus Canio. |
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| 27 | 1052 |
A great bird, a tarn, lay thrashing in the grass fifty yards away, amidst the debris of a tarn basket. |
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| 27 | 1607 |
It would not have been more than fifty feet above her. |
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| 27 | 1670 |
A Cosian, helmeted, rose to his feet, carefully, his bow half drawn, some fifty yards away. |
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| 27 | 1703 |
The tarn and tarn basket which had recently soared over the camp had now landed, some fifty yards away. |
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| 2 | 46 |
Their ears, large, pointed ears, several inches in width at the base, were erected, ears which could rotate nearly 180 degrees without the head moving, ears so keen that they could detect the movement of an urt in the grass at a hundred and fifty feet. |
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| 9 | 18 |
Cabot and his guide emerged on a path, to their left a descent, rather steep, of some fifty feet or so, and on their right a set of caves, and above them, another set, and above that several more sets. |
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| 16 | 8 |
The rocks rose to a height of some fifty feet or so on three sides. |
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| 19 | 12 |
About the clearing, armed with weapons outlawed within the sport world, were at least fifty Kurii. |
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| 21 | 119 |
Some wombs perish after one child; some hardy wombs have produced as many as forty or fifty infants. |
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| 21 | 200 |
The small shaggy forms, many no more than five feet in height, and perhaps no more than a hundred to a hundred and fifty pounds in weight, encircled the huddled, confused cattle creatures. |
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| 21 | 356 |
The cast had been more than a hundred and fifty feet. |
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| 42 | 119 |
It stopped some fifty feet from them. |
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| 47 | 156 |
The body, harnessed within the wings, was now little more than some fifty yards from the ledge, drifting aimlessly, eccentrically, sometimes rolling over, a length of its entrails wrapped about a leg. |
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| 53 | 228 |
Some wombs have survived as many as fifty emergences". |
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| 56 | 45 |
"Three hundred and fifty, perhaps four hundred," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 63 | 142 |
The leader of the cattle humans, blood about his teeth, where he had bitten his prey, was seized in the mighty paws of Lord Grendel, lifted high in the air, and then flung to the earth, this breaking the back and neck of the leader of the cattle humans, who was then, as Lord Grendel had not loosened... |
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| 80 | 20 |
This conversation, and meeting, was taking place outside the palace, on its broad porch, to which led a long flight of wide stairs, some fifty yards in width. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 449 |
There were some fifty men. |
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| 6 | 21 |
I did not know the sign but it appeared here and there, each sign usually visible, some fifty yards or so, from the vantage point of the previous sign. |
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| 12 | 9 |
At that moment, from afar off, perhaps two hundred to two hundred and fifty yards to our right and ahead, there was a terrible roar, surely of a larl, followed, a moment later, by a harrowing scream. |
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| 12 | 196 |
"There are more than a hundred and fifty now," I was told, "and more are due to be delivered". |
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| 14 | 108 |
To be sure, here in Tarncamp I had counted no more than some two hundred to two hundred and fifty of the Pani. |
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| 28 | 229 |
It might be fifty yards or more, back in the trees. |
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| 38 | 521 |
Behind the stern of the ship, some fifty yards back, the wharf was now clearly afire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 114 |
She was only some fifty foot Gorean from stem to stern, some ten feet in her beam. |
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| 2 | 123 |
The fog had parted, again, and we could see the monstrous structure, now some fifty yards abeam. |
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| 2 | 186 |
Clinging to a remnant of the bulwarks, half in water, I saw the hull of the monster towering above me, fifty feet or more, like a several-storied building of wood, a moving insula, wet and glistening, moving. |
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| 3 | 629 |
They were already within fifty yards of the perimeter. |
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| 3 | 1358 |
"Some fifty such as I," she said, "were exhibited and bought, and, chained, taken by galley north, to the great forests. |
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| 9 | 54 |
I would conjecture there were some five hundred of the unusual men, the Pani, on board, divided amongst the commands of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, some two hundred and fifty each. |
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| 9 | 394 |
It was my understanding that each lord had something like two hundred and fifty Pani in his command, that those of Lord Nishida had been housed at a place called Tarn Camp, north of the Alexandra, some pasangs from its headwaters, and that those of Lord Okimoto had been housed differently, but in th... |
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| 15 | 30 |
After the losses of the mutiny we fortunately had still better than two thousand men who might be applied to the work, some four hundred and fifty Pani, distributed between the commands of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and some seventeen hundred mariners and armsmen, mostly armsmen. |
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| 16 | 159 |
"Come against the warning ship!" We were some fifty yards from the warning ship. |
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| 21 | 310 |
"A force of our men, fifty, divided between us, will go first," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 22 | 27 |
Some two thirds of the armsmen and mariners, following some fifty Pani, from the men of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, over several Ahn, beginning yesterday evening, had gone ashore. |
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| 22 | 166 |
Some fifty Pani from the great ship had preceded our hundreds of mariners and armsmen ashore. |
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| 22 | 220 |
Now, however, to a new drum signal, hurrying between suddenly opening, evenly spaced gaps in the enemy forces, we saw what must have been one hundred to one hundred and fifty archers, with the large Pani bows. |
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| 23 | 40 |
Following that time, too, Lords Okimoto and Nishida had retained something like four hundred and fifty Pani warriors in their commands. |
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| 23 | 45 |
Few of the original fifty survived, and of others, of those landed, only some two hundred survived to return to the ship. |
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| 23 | 48 |
That left us with some three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some fourteen hundred mariners and armsmen. |
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| 25 | 65 |
There were fewer slaves now, as some fifty had been taken from the castle's grounds. |
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| 25 | 90 |
The fifty some slaves taken from the compound were an ingredient in these various diplomatic missions. |
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| 26 | 270 |
She indicated a place, across the grounds, near some shrubbery, not far from the large, central portal of the castle, perhaps fifty yards away. |
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| 27 | 104 |
Lords Nishida and Okimoto, as I estimated their warriors, had some three hundred and fifty men. |
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| 30 | 163 |
I thought of the disarmed men, more than eight hundred and fifty, indeed, precisely, eight hundred and seventy, now held in the three prison barracks, hot, windows boarded, guarded by Pani. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2078 |
"The price, now," said Menon, rising, looking down on me, "is fifty, fifty copper tarsks". |
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| 8 | 1111 |
The highest price, so far, had been brought by the former Lady Persinna, who had gone for three and a half silver tarsks, three silver tarsks and fifty copper tarsks. |
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| 8 | 1337 |
"We had hoped to get fifty for her," said the auctioneer. |
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| 9 | 91 |
"I could let her go for fifty tarsks". |
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| 9 | 172 |
"Fifty," he said. |
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| 10 | 1115 |
I was within fifty paces of one of the lower entryways, a back entryway, to Six Bridges when, to my dismay, I saw my two nemeses, one emerging from a doorway to the left, the other from a doorway to my right. |
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| 15 | 80 |
I saw, some fifty or so paces to my left, the platform of one of the two market praetors. |
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| 16 | 268 |
"Fifty," he said. |
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| 16 | 271 |
"Fifty pasangs to Venna," I said. |
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| 23 | 89 |
Shortly thereafter a vast, loose quantity of mud, some fifty paces wide, and perhaps fifteen deep, moved past us, before us, downward, slowly, then more rapidly, to plunge into the valley below, perhaps a quarter of a pasang distant. |
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| 27 | 26 |
I did not know how many Kurii inhabited the Cave, but I would have supposed some forty or fifty. |
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| 27 | 70 |
I would have supposed, rather, that its occupancy was no more than some fifty beasts and less than some seventy or eighty men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 130 |
I looked to my left and saw rows of targets, perhaps forty or fifty. |
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| 15 | 133 |
When I turned back, the specks were no longer specks but clearly spread ranks of flighted creatures, at four levels, and, as I later determined, each rank was followed by its column, the ranks in these columns separated by some fifty yards, or so. |
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| 52 | 825 |
He hurled it from him, perhaps fifty or more feet. |
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| 52 | 974 |
"If our tarnsmen had been about," he said, "that fellow could not have come within fifty pasangs of Shipcamp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37 |
Following the defeat of the exploratory force Lords Nishida and Okimoto had retained some three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some eleven hundred mercenaries and mariners, the latter most recruited in, or in the vicinity of, the great port, Brundisium. |
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| 1 | 71 |
Of the one hundred and forty tarns which we had managed to bring across Thassa to the World's End, we now had fifty one, including the two which Pertinax and I had brought to the castle weeks ago, in reporting to Lord Temmu. |
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| 1 | 80 |
The large arrow quivers, saddle quivers, one on each side, could carry fifty to a hundred arrows. |
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| 1 | 505 |
Before the defeat of the exploratory force, and the investment of the holding, this number had been reduced, by selling and distribution, to some one hundred and fifty slaves. |
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| 7 | 119 |
That I supposed would be something in the nature of one hundred and fifty slaves. |
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| 7 | 271 |
"Surely you do not think it a mere happenstance that you once found yourself on a remote, unmarked beach some fifty pasangs north of the Alexandra". |
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| 8 | 81 |
Of the fifty-one tarns which had survived the raid on the first encampment, we were utilizing forty. |
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| 9 | 86 |
In moments the remnants of the tarn cavalry, limited now to fifty-one mounts, was streaking through the clouds over the holding, making its way, in formation, though without tarn drum, to the encampment of Yamada, to fire as many tents as possible. |
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| 13 | 440 |
"Several slaves, in the number of some one hundred and fifty, were sold for rice," I said. |
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| 17 | 210 |
With a blast of dust, and a snapping of wings, Tyrtaios brought the tarn down some forty or fifty paces away, at the far end, to the right of the archery court. |
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| 19 | 88 |
"Lord Yamada received something like one hundred and fifty slaves from the holding of Lord Temmu". |
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| 21 | 67 |
The morning following the supper the graves, more than fifty of them, had been opened. |
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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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| 36 | 7 |
There were some fifty or sixty prisoners in the pen, all male. |
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| 37 | 62 |
"True," I said, "but there are some fifty or sixty stout fellows here". |
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| 40 | 122 |
"There must have been forty or fifty of them. |
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| 45 | 142 |
"Jane, Cabot's Cecily, Saru, others, perhaps some one hundred and fifty others, all collar beauties". |
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| 57 | 68 |
Lords Nishida and Okimoto had at their disposal, from the continent, something like three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some eleven hundred barbarian mercenaries and mariners. |
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| 57 | 73 |
I conjectured it might fly somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty tarns. |
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| 57 | 75 |
Fifty tarns, of course, might provide invaluable intelligence, telling attacks at carefully selected points, and, equipped with flame vases, threaten any number of structures, even the palace of Lord Yamada itself, with relative impunity. |
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| 60 | 307 |
There must have been forty or fifty men now filing through the gate, many, as several of those with Lord Akio, still in the livery of Yamada. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 156 |
I meant fifty copper tarsks, say, of the weight of the copper tarsk of Brundisium". |
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| 13 | 70 |
The tarn was now no more than fifty feet or so above the grain, approaching rapidly. |
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| 31 | 173 |
The woman sold for a silver tarsk fifty, which, I gather, was a splendid price for such a market. |
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| 31 | 205 |
I no longer saw she who had been sold for a silver tarsk fifty. |
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| 49 | 12 |
There must have been between forty or fifty present. |
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| 54 | 120 |
"Those behind," said Kurik, grimly, "are within fifty paces and approach in confident leisure". |
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| 63 | 341 |
"How many slaves do you think are beaded on that particular 'slaver's necklace'?" "A great many," said Paula, "perhaps one hundred and fifty". |
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| 63 | 343 |
Common coffles usually contain twenty to fifty "beads". |
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| 64 | 174 |
I saw a light flash three times, perhaps fifty yards away, and then, a moment later, it flashed three times again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 421 |
"I want three fifty, three fifty, at least!" said the auctioneer. |
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| 3 | 488 |
"I want three, fifty," called the auctioneer, "at least three fifty. |
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| 4 | 241 |
"She went for a silver tarsk, fifty, fifty copper tarsks," said Fina. |
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| 13 | 136 |
"I heard later, in the cages below," I said, "a silver tarsk fifty, fifty copper tarsks". |
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| 3 | 231 |
"A copper tarsk, fifty," called another fellow. |
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| 3 | 249 |
"I have a copper tarsk, fifty," called the auctioneer. |
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| 3 | 420 |
"Who will make it three, fifty?" "Three, twenty-five!" called a fellow. |
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| 3 | 453 |
Who will bid three fifty, and higher?" But the tiers were silent. |
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| 3 | 490 |
"Three, fifty!" said the auctioneer. |
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| 8 | 766 |
He was no more than forty or fifty yards from us. |
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| 13 | 195 |
No more than fifty pasangs from the caravanserai of Hogarth it was set upon, in a desolate area, by a small pride of rogue tarnsmen, or, possibly, licensed raiders from Treve. |
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| 27 | 47 |
The three men were some forty or fifty paces away. |
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| 36 | 57 |
His holding, five stories in height, was large and its wide sea wall, with parapet, formed a tiny part, some fifty yards or so, of the long, irregular, sprawling delta wall itself. |
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| 42 | 112 |
"Observations taken Ahn ago, from the second floor of the holding, conjectured fifty or sixty, captain," said the man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 72 |
Four of our pursuers were fifty oared and two were thirty oared". |
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| 5 | 83 |
The Dorna was a fifty-oar ship, commonly using three men to an oar; the Tesephone was much smaller, a twenty-oar ship, using two men to an oar. |
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| 13 | 140 |
Shortly thereafter six ships were aflame, four fifty-oared, two thirty-oared. |
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| 14 | 6 |
The Dorna, a formidable ship of war, fifty-oared, capable of a devastating strike, commanded by Tab, was in our lee. |
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| 22 | 70 |
"Seven ships, warships, each a fifty-oared ship, have come to the harbor of Mytilene," he said. |
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| 22 | 76 |
The destroyed corsair fleet had possessed four ships of fifty-oars and two of thirty-oars. |
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| 22 | 77 |
Now there were seven enemy ships, each of fifty-oars, a far more formidable fleet than the one we had managed to destroy by trickery. |
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| 24 | 12 |
We have but two hundred and fifty". |
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| 25 | 4 |
In the harbor there were several small boats, but only a single large vessel, a ship-of-war, one of fifty oars. |
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| 25 | 23 |
"It is one thing," I said, "for four fifty-oared ships and two thirty-oared ships to separate, assuming the appearance of innocent merchantmen, and lose themselves in the harbor at Sybaris, but it seems that seven knife ships, new and armed, might be an entirely different story". |
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| 29 | 13 |
"And find themselves in them," said Captain Tab, currently assigned the captainship of the Dorna, fifty-oared, larger and more formidable than the light, swift Tesephone, sped by twenty oars. |
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| 30 | 13 |
We, on the other hand, had brought two hundred and fifty men from Port Kar, most of whom were with us, saving some posted as spies in Sybaris; some left at the ruins of Nicosia, in the hope that, following the fair, more peasants would seek arms and direction; and some at the Cove of Harpalos, our d... |
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| 30 | 27 |
Suppose the smaller force applied one hundred men where the enemy has applied, or can apply, only fifty. |
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| 35 | 23 |
I had had our some two hundred and fifty men, march in a closed loop, visible only at a certain point, as between two cliffs, or, in our case, between two hills. |
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| 41 | 78 |
On the fourth day of the siege, Thrasymedes and the council attempted to negotiate a withdrawal of the corsairs, offering them fifty stone of gold for their departure and a pledge never to return, and then, later, a hundred stone of gold for their simple departure. |
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| 41 | 215 |
"Classically, ideally, one digs beneath the walls at many points, say, twenty to fifty. |
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| 42 | 9 |
I surmised, from the stealthy, furtive darknesses within the darkness, figures scarcely discernible, that there might be something like fifty in the party issuing forth from the domicile of benign Tarchon, amiable and respected member of the council of Mytilene. |
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| 42 | 22 |
The ditch in question was some fifty yards from the great gate. |
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| 49 | 110 |
If all seemed safe, the larger vessel, the fifty-oared Dorna, would follow. |
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| 51 | 6 |
"Where are the other four?" I had hoped to lead the corsair fleet, all seven fifty-oared ships, away from the Dorna. |
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| 51 | 28 |
I looked at the three corsair ships, each a vessel of fifty oars, the coast of Chios behind them. |
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| 51 | 74 |
Each has fifty oars. |
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| 51 | 119 |
I guessed that there might be two hundred and fifty to three hundred men in the water, as the corsair ships were crowded with evacuated mercenaries. |
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| 52 | 67 |
"Surely the tiny Tesephone did not engage a fifty-oared vessel," said Tab, "let alone manage to sink such a foe". |
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| 53 | 9 |
Five ships, quiet, were within fifty yards of the Dorna and the Tesephone. |
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| 58 | 106 |
She would need a long, clear course to accumulate enough speed to break through the timbers of a fifty-oared vessel". |
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