| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 174 |
Or perhaps I should bless the fighting spirit of that plumed giant, my war tarn, that terrible thing the Older Tarl had called a tarn of tarns. |
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| 8 | 12 |
In the streets there is civil war, fighting between the factions that would master Ar. |
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| 15 | 31 |
Some of the most hideous fighting in the siege would undoubtedly take place far under the earth in the cramped, foul, torchlit confines of those serpentine passageways, some of them hardly large enough to permit a man to crawl. |
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| 19 | 118 |
From far below, the distant shouts of fighting in the streets drifted upward. |
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| 19 | 162 |
As we fought, the men of Ar, fighting brilliantly for their city, their honor and loved ones, pushed back the men of Pa-Kur again and again, but from the interior of the cylinder swarmed more men of the Assassin. |
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| 19 | 170 |
In our fighting we had been all but oblivious of the world around us. |
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| 20 | 15 |
The large contingent of mercenaries who had flocked to his banner were kept as work slaves for a period of one year, to fill in the vast ditches and siege tunnels, to repair the extensive damage to the walls of Ar, and to rebuild those of its buildings that had been injured or burned in the fighting... |
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| 14 | 112 |
Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S... |
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| 19 | 39 |
Those not killed in the savage fighting, much of it in the darkness of the shafts, were locked into leg shackles and herded into storage chambers, and the men of the chain did not treat their former oppressors gently. |
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| 23 | 205 |
We could read the sullen defiance, the resolve, the capacity to kill in those eyes, bloodshot with loss of sleep, the desperate carriage of those gray-clad bodies, hungry and vicious with the strain of street fighting. |
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| 24 | 158 |
Thorn's eyes were clearer now than I remembered them, and the large body which had been tending to corpulence had, in the stress of the fighting, hardened into muscular vigor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 4 |
One was thrown on its back, so violent was its rush, and the other stood wildly for a moment towering over me like a rearing giant stallion, its huge claws slashing the air, fighting the collar that held it from me. |
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| 28 | 177 |
Together the humans and the Priest-Kings of Misk made a remarkably effective fighting team. |
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| 30 | 188 |
Kusk and his delegation went over to Misk while the fighting still hung in stalemate and there was no question, at that time, of their decision being motivated by considerations of personal interest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 325 |
Tuka, as best she could, squirmed in the bonds, fighting them. |
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| 8 | 374 |
Elizabeth was silent and, fighting her tears, lay quietly waiting to be freed. |
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| 10 | 416 |
"They are fighting elsewhere!" she cried. |
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| 10 | 573 |
"Kill him!" But now, almost like a drunk man, Kamras was fighting for his life and the Tuchuk, like a bear, scarcely moving more than arm and wrist, followed him about, shuffling through the sand after him, touching him again and again with the blade. |
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| 21 | 309 |
Suddenly I saw the faces of the men fighting me turn from rage to fear. |
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| 23 | 56 |
Hundreds of the wagons were burning and fighting was taking place among them. |
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| 23 | 86 |
That night I met with Harold, whose men had been fighting among the wagons. |
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| 24 | 22 |
During the day and night, taking hours of sleep where we could, sometimes on the rugs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, sometimes on the stones of the streets by watch fires, Harold and I, at Kamchak's orders, performed a variety of tasks, sometimes joining in the fighting, sometimes acting as liaiso... |
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| 25 | 188 |
"Fighting and such, I suppose," she said. |
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| 25 | 281 |
"I heard," said the girl, seriously, "from a slave—whose name was Hereena—that tomorrow there will be great fighting". |
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| 25 | 285 |
"If there is to be fighting tomorrow," she asked, "will you take part in it?" "Yes," I said, "I suppose so". |
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| 25 | 427 |
"Then why do you not remain with me?" "Tomorrow," I said, "I think there will be heavy fighting". |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 87 |
We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ... |
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| 6 | 15 |
A blue line appeared across the chest of one of the slaves fighting between the tables, on a square of sand some twelve feet in dimension. |
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| 13 | 240 |
Food for the tarns, which is meat, for that is their diet, is thrust on hooks and hauled by chain and windlass to the various perches; it might be of interest to note that, when any of the birds are free, meat is never placed on the hooks or on the floor below; the racing tarn is a valuable bird and... |
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| 14 | 134 |
I knew the House of Portus was the greatest remaining rival to the House of Cernus, fighting it for the control of the slave trade in Ar. |
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| 15 | 80 |
Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position. |
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| 15 | 92 |
The crowd is fond of seeing various types of weapons used against others, and styles of fighting. |
10 |
| 15 | 109 |
Murmillius always fought alone, never in teams, and in more than one hundred and fifteen fights, sometimes fighting three and four times in one afternoon, he had never lost a contest. |
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| 15 | 293 |
The two girls stopped fighting. |
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| 17 | 157 |
Condemned criminals and men of low caste, fighting for gold or freedom in the arena, he treated with the harsh courtesies obtaining among sword brothers. |
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| 17 | 473 |
Virginia stood there, helpless, her fists clenched, fighting back tears. |
10 |
| 17 | 789 |
I had played the game often and was considered, even among skilled Goreans, an excellent player; yet I found myself fighting for my life with my beautiful, excited opponent. |
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| 19 | 470 |
Then, fighting the chain and bracelets, she was dragged stumbling down the steps. |
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| 20 | 17 |
"The men we apprehended after severe fighting, trying to cut their way to you when you lay in the dungeon. |
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| 21 | 378 |
Then to my surprise I saw, with us, fighting, a common Warrior, not a Taurentian, one whose helmet was not laced with gold nor his shield bound with silver, nor his shoulders covered with the purple of the Ubar's guard. |
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| 22 | 397 |
The small bow, interestingly, has never been used among tarnsmen; perhaps this is because the kaiila is almost unknown above the equator, and the lesson of kaiilaback fighting has not been much available to them; perhaps it is because of tradition, which weighs heavily in Gorean life, and even in mi... |
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| 22 | 398 |
I suspect, however, that the truest reason is that tarnsmen, never having learned respect for the small bow, tend to despise such a weapon, regarding it as unworthy a Warrior's hand, as being too puny and ineffective to win the approval of a true Gorean fighting man. |
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| 22 | 528 |
I whipped out the Tuchuk bow and, in the instant, found myself wheeling and fighting in the midst of more than a dozen tarnsmen, while many others, wheeling about, attempted to press in upon me. |
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| 1 | 35 |
Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t... |
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| 10 | 274 |
The fighting ship, incidentally, the long ship, the ram-ship, has never been, to my knowledge, in Port Kar, or Cos, or Tyros, or elsewhere on Gor, rowed by slaves; the Gorean fighting ship always has free men at the oars. |
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| 1 | 20 |
The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from the saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare or in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept se... |
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| 3 | 258 |
I shook my head, clearing my eyes, fighting for breath, and looked into his eyes. |
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| 6 | 118 |
She screamed, rolling and fighting the mesh. |
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| 8 | 113 |
Having no large number of men at my disposal, it seemed best to me to let the men of Port Kar themselves do most of my fighting. |
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| 8 | 249 |
In the darkness, presumably, they had seized upon it and, either amidst the shouting and the blind fighting, or perhaps afterwards, in a terrifying quiet, the prelude perhaps to yet another putative attack, had climbed over the side and, poling away desperately, had made their escape. |
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| 9 | 507 |
Somewhere I heard the squealing and thrashing of two of the giant urts fighting in the water, among the floating garbage. |
10 |
| 9 | 607 |
He lay there on his back, blood moving from his mouth, the chest of his tunic scarlet, fighting for breath. |
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| 10 | 330 |
But how would he have come to know this? And how could he have come to understand that Bosk, fighting man and merchant, was the same as he who once had been a warrior of the towered city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning? Doubtless he wished to summon me to his presence, that he might recall me... |
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| 11 | 35 |
More captains, their back to the room, fighting, falling, were retreating through the door. |
10 |
| 11 | 67 |
"Doubtless there is fighting there," said the first captain. |
10 |
| 11 | 106 |
Many of these basins, near which, in red-painted wooden boxes, are stored large numbers of folded leather buckets, are expressly for the purpose of providing a means for fighting fires. |
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| 14 | 48 |
This brings many more free fighting men, the oarsmen, into any action which might be required. |
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| 14 | 59 |
To be sure, there are many factors involved here, and one might suppose triple banks following the model of the single-banked, three-men-three-oars-to-a-bench type, and so on, but, putting aside questions of the size of vessel required for such arrangements, we may simply note, without commenting fu... |
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| 14 | 329 |
Moreover, these twenty to twenty-five men are often largely simply sailors and their officers, and not fighting men. |
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| 15 | 212 |
The boy looked at me, fighting back tears. |
10 |
| 15 | 399 |
Then, as though in terror and fury, as though she now first understood herself in the snares of a slave, she leaped to her feet, fighting, to the music, the thongs. |
10 |
| 15 | 611 |
Men scrambled wildly, laughing and fighting for the coins. |
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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 | 47 |
The predesignation of fighting pairs, incidentally, and my injunctions to refuse to engage singly if possible, even withdrawing from equal odds, I am told, was new in Gorean naval warfare, though the pairing principle, on a more informal basis, is as old as the triangle tactic, which may be remember... |
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| 17 | 145 |
I knew only that I was cold, and that I was alone, and that, far in the distance, men were fighting, and so, too, would others. |
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| 17 | 368 |
It would carry, besides its oarsmen, who were all free, fighting men, some one hundred bowmen, and another hundred men, seamen, artillery men, auxiliary personnel and officers. |
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| 18 | 214 |
In fighting as we were, one did not use a deep thrust, that the blade might be more swiftly freed. |
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| 18 | 227 |
"Withdraw!" cried Lysias, wildly in the fighting. |
10 |
| 18 | 228 |
His men backed away, fighting, and we, and those others who had come to help us, pressed them back even as they retreated through the great door to the high-roofed hall. |
10 |
| 18 | 301 |
The waiting, and then the fighting, and the waiting again, had been so long, so long. |
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| 18 | 326 |
There was food and water there, enough for another week of fighting. |
10 |
| 18 | 929 |
"In fighting the Others," said Samos, "one cannot be human enough". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 110 |
I struggled weakly against the bonds, fighting to stay conscious. |
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| 3 | 121 |
I struggled weakly to speak, fighting the gag, the drug. |
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| 7 | 83 |
There was sharp fighting in the thicket. |
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| 8 | 379 |
They were wild men, of the Caste of Warriors, who spent much of their time in the taverns of Laura, fighting and gambling and drinking, while slave girls, excited and with shining eyes, served them and pressed about them, begging to be noticed and ordered to the alcoves. |
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| 12 | 673 |
I saw men fighting between the wagons, some falling. |
10 |
| 17 | 87 |
Rask of Treve was struggling with himself, castigating himself, denouncing himself, I think, fighting not to care for me, a mere slave. |
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| 17 | 457 |
How could I be sad when somewhere he was proud and alive, and free, doubtless once again bold and violent, fighting, raiding, feasting with his cup companions and his beautiful slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 243 |
The man cried out with rage, trying to struggle to his feet, fighting his chains. |
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| 5 | 294 |
Sheera, her head down, her hair now forward, was fighting the chain and slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 6 | 966 |
I struggled with myself for several Ahn, fighting myself. |
10 |
| 8 | 254 |
Another, futilely, weakly, was fighting slave snares, held like a trapped animal in the cruel, taut cords. |
10 |
| 9 | 128 |
I fought the thongs, growling like an animal, fighting to free myself. |
10 |
| 10 | 187 |
"No!" She reared up, fighting the thongs. |
10 |
| 18 | 84 |
In the midst of the panther girls, now futilely fighting her bonds, was Verna. |
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| 20 | 130 |
The man who held the torch at the gate was facing the fighting in the center of the stockade. |
10 |
| 20 | 152 |
I saw, in the light of two torches, men fighting, still in the center of the stockade. |
10 |
| 20 | 156 |
"Stop fighting!" cried Sarus. |
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| 20 | 157 |
"Stop fighting!" Still blades clashed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 152 |
The outer corners of the second of the two drawn squares are marked with hazel wands; there is thus a twelve-foot-square fighting area; no ropes are stretched between the hazel wands. |
10 |
| 10 | 156 |
The motivation of this custom, I gather, is to enable strong, powerful men to obtain land and attractive women; and to encourage those who possess such to keep themselves in fighting condition. |
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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. |
10 |
| 11 | 202 |
There was little to be gained by fighting an action the length of Torvaldsland, and little to be lost by not doing so, which could not be later recouped when power in the south had been consolidated. |
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| 13 | 172 |
Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea... |
10 |
| 15 | 26 |
We saw, at one point, two Kurii fighting over a body. |
10 |
| 17 | 257 |
I saw a man, fighting the frenzy, tear handfuls of his own hair from his head. |
10 |
| 18 | 39 |
Shoulder to shoulder, fighting, I saw Bjarni of Thorstein Camp and the young man whom I had championed on the dueling ground in the Thing. |
10 |
| 18 | 144 |
The man turned, and, taking his weapon, fled back to the fighting. |
10 |
| 18 | 148 |
We ran madly toward the fighting. |
10 |
| 18 | 177 |
There was, instantly, fierce fighting, in and among, and over, the bodies of the tethered bondmaids. |
10 |
| 18 | 204 |
Our lines buckled but, again, after minutes of terrible fighting, they fell back. |
10 |
| 18 | 333 |
More than once today had I seen this fellow Tarsk at work in the fighting. |
10 |
| 18 | 508 |
He, and his men, had participated in the fighting. |
10 |
| 21 | 225 |
Little would please Chenbar more than to meet you with daggers on the fighting circle of Tyros. |
10 |
| 22 | 148 |
I recalled that in my first delirium, fighting the poison, long ago, I had wept, and, in my fevered ragings, had begged for her comfort, that she love me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 106 |
About this imaginary pole, it constituting a hypothetical center of gravity, she moves, undulating, swaying, sometimes yielding to it in ecstasy, sometimes fighting it, it always holding her in perfect place, its captive. |
10 |
| 1 | 132 |
"I want to be a man! I always wanted to be a man!" She squirmed in the harness, fighting its restraints. |
10 |
| 1 | 139 |
"Never," she wept, fighting the straps. |
10 |
| 2 | 159 |
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ... |
10 |
| 5 | 40 |
It seemed she tried to hold herself immobile, as though fighting her own body, but yet that it forced her to dance, betraying her as a slave girl to the gaze of masters. |
10 |
| 11 | 619 |
Twice we skirted pockets of fighting men. |
10 |
| 11 | 621 |
Once, looking through an alley, to the street at its end, we saw mounted men fighting. |
10 |
| 21 | 325 |
I held to the fur at its arm, fighting to keep my balance. |
10 |
| 23 | 118 |
In a Gorean engagement on foot, incidentally, assuming uniform lines, this drift is almost inevitable, because each man, in fighting, tends to shelter himself partially, as he can, behind the shield of the man on his right. |
10 |
| 23 | 138 |
It would scarcely do for the Tajuks and the Zevar and Arani to begin fighting among themselves. |
10 |
| 24 | 7 |
There was hard fighting, however, in the vicinity of Ibn Saran's own men, those of the Salt Ubar and his allies, those who had fought with Tarna. |
10 |
| 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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| 24 | 181 |
"There will soon be fighting in the kasbah". |
10 |
| 24 | 746 |
But to their horror riders were already within the yard, fighting with defenders. |
10 |
| 24 | 966 |
The door burst open and two men, back to me, backing through the door, embattled, fighting, others outside the door, entered the room. |
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| 25 | 193 |
We could hear men fighting in the distance, somewhere in the corridors beyond. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 995 |
I think he was fighting his feelings for me, his desire for me. |
10 |
| 10 | 53 |
I had heard there was fighting between Ar and Cos, it having to do with the alleged support by Cos accorded to Vosk pirates. |
10 |
| 12 | 407 |
Outside the hall we could hear fighting and shouting. |
10 |
| 13 | 355 |
Suddenly I screamed fighting the looped, heavy coil of the whip. |
10 |
| 20 | 269 |
I shrank back, fighting for air. |
10 |
| 22 | 264 |
I and the free woman, who did not deign to speak to me, remained many hours in the hold, as the fighting and maneuvering continued for several hours, through the afternoon and night. |
10 |
| 22 | 556 |
I saw two men fighting in the water. |
10 |
| 26 | 596 |
"Your days of fighting your femininity are at an end," I told her. |
10 |
| 26 | 737 |
Elicia squirmed on the furs, the Earth girl in her suddenly fighting to retain her self-image. |
10 |
| 26 | 753 |
She was fighting the Gorean slave girl in herself. |
10 |
| 27 | 184 |
I crawled between the legs of fighting men. |
10 |
| 27 | 223 |
Then Thurnus and Bran Loort were fighting back to back, the goblet of Thurnus left in the hands of Clitus Vitellius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 615 |
We rolled in the darkness, fighting on the floor of the booth. |
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| 6 | 496 |
Gorean girls, however, who are aware of the cultural implications of their collar, and its meaning, usually spend little time, once it is helplessly locked on their throats, in fighting their womanhood. |
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| 8 | 194 |
Too, such women, in their frustrations, so desperately fighting their femininity, made excellent agents. |
10 |
| 11 | 3 |
As I had anticipated there had been little actual fighting. |
10 |
| 11 | 59 |
Defensive archery, directed upward from the ground, fighting against the weights of gravity, is reduced in both range and effectiveness. |
10 |
| 14 | 265 |
He was pulling a bent over, stumbling, screaming, fighting figure behind him, his hand in her hair. |
10 |
| 21 | 272 |
Too, slavery, by removing certain inhibitions and demands alien to a female's deepest nature, generally results in an increase in her beauty and energy; she is no longer as constricted and miserable, and needs no longer spend energy fighting to suppress herself and her natural desires, surely a grot... |
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| 35 | 1210 |
The fighting in the complex had been sharp and bloody. |
10 |
| 35 | 1216 |
Most had been slain, fighting to the last. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 328 |
I saw her gasping, and, half fighting, half kissing at them, squirming in their arms. |
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| 2 | 1 |
I Attend the Market of Vart The girl screamed, fighting the sales collar and the position chain. |
10 |
| 6 | 285 |
The blond-haired girl was still fighting herself. |
10 |
| 11 | 227 |
Fighting was fierce but brief. |
10 |
| 18 | 84 |
The askari petitioned, however, to be permitted to die instead fighting the enemies of the ubarate. |
10 |
| 23 | 366 |
"Fighting!" said Ayari. |
10 |
| 23 | 434 |
* * * * "Why are you not with the other askaris, fighting in the east?" asked Ayari. |
10 |
| 24 | 34 |
"War cries, ahead and to the right," I said, "men fighting". |
10 |
| 24 | 260 |
There would then be a sudden lunge, and the snapping of the great jaws, the fighting for the prey. |
10 |
| 29 | 228 |
They will even drive one another away from their local tharlarion, fighting in contests of intraspecific aggression, over the plated territory of the monster's back. |
10 |
| 32 | 731 |
"Struggling, trying to pull back, fighting the wrist leashes, screaming, inch by inch," she said, "I was drawn toward the pool. |
10 |
| 46 | 47 |
"There will be great fighting," he said, "like never before on the river". |
10 |
| 51 | 11 |
There is an incredible, effusive release of energy and happiness when a woman stops fighting herself. |
10 |
| 53 | 326 |
Each would be used to fighting alone, terrible and solitary, hunting its own kills in the ancient manner. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 230 |
I heard them fighting, tearing at it. |
10 |
| 5 | 70 |
But, sometimes, it seemed to me that perhaps it was pointless to keep fighting and torturing myself. |
10 |
| 7 | 472 |
Then, one day, chained, writhing under his angry whip, she laughs and cries with joy, knowing that he is fighting his feelings for her. |
10 |
| 12 | 373 |
I have not mentioned, either, slaves with professional competencies, such as medicine or law, or fighting slaves, in effect gladiators, men purchased for use as bodyguards or combatants in arranged games. |
10 |
| 13 | 75 |
"They are always fighting". |
10 |
| 13 | 733 |
I knew nothing of fighting, but I had discovered, it frightening me, that there was in me, somehow, strength which I had not understood. |
10 |
| 13 | 736 |
"Are you a fighting slave?" asked someone. |
10 |
| 13 | 822 |
"You have been fighting!" I glanced quickly at the silk slave fastened by the neck to the slave ring on the other side of the girl at the nearer ring. |
10 |
| 13 | 851 |
"It was there that he was fighting". |
10 |
| 13 | 856 |
You have been fighting. |
10 |
| 18 | 311 |
"Which of these," she asked, "is the favorite of the fighting slave, he named Jason?" "Telitsia, this one," said Kenneth, puzzled. |
10 |
| 19 | 23 |
My feet seldom moved more than some twenty inches apart; earlier in my training my ankles had been shackled; now, kinesthetically, habitually, without thinking, I tended almost invariably to maintain a sensible measure between my feet; I stayed, too, generally on my toes; this reduces friction and e... |
10 |
| 19 | 26 |
They had, over the years, devoted time and intelligence to the training and development of fighting slaves. |
10 |
| 20 | 83 |
I had survived the eighteenth fighting period. |
10 |
| 20 | 105 |
It had been that match which had established my precedence among the fighting slaves of the stables in the vicinity of Vonda. |
10 |
| 22 | 489 |
"He is a fighting slave, is he not?" inquired Brandon. |
10 |
| 22 | 521 |
"Do you think she would make a suitable snack of love flesh for a fighting slave, Jason?" asked the Lady Florence. |
10 |
| 25 | 47 |
"That is no ordinary fighting slave," I told Kenneth. |
10 |
| 25 | 50 |
He is a famous fighting slave of Ar". |
10 |
| 25 | 71 |
"He is one of the finest fighting slaves of Ar," said Kenneth. |
10 |
| 25 | 77 |
"Why then am I fighting?" I asked. |
10 |
| 25 | 204 |
"Odds of two to one in favor of Jason! Four to one? Ten to one in favor of Jason!" The bar then rang and the first fighting period was terminated. |
10 |
| 25 | 207 |
It was in the fourth fighting period. |
10 |
| 25 | 220 |
Kenneth and Barus drew me from the fighting area. |
10 |
| 25 | 277 |
I felt Kenneth's hand on my arm and I felt myself being guided from the stall toward the slave wagon in which I and my fellows, other fighting slaves, were brought to the bouts. |
10 |
| 25 | 278 |
"The fighting is faraway," I heard a man say. |
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| 25 | 302 |
It was a converted tharlarion wagon and, with bars and extra planking, was unusually stout, probably because its purpose was to transport fighting slaves. |
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| 25 | 308 |
We were male slaves, and fighting slaves. |
10 |
| 26 | 89 |
"Today, earlier," I said, "I defeated Krondar, a fighting slave of Ar, purchased by Miles of Vonda". |
10 |
| 27 | 237 |
"The fighting slave?" he asked. |
10 |
| 34 | 108 |
"You are Jason, the fighting slave, are you not?" asked the man who had approached me. |
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| 34 | 308 |
You once defeated the fighting slave, Krondar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 61 |
Fighting was fierce. |
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| 4 | 145 |
I did not think my tasks would be either expedited or facilitated by being recognized as a former fighting slave. |
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| 8 | 165 |
I picked up my winnings from the fighting. |
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| 24 | 397 |
At last we could stop fighting ourselves and pretending to be what we were not. |
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| 26 | 150 |
"Only myself," she said, "and Krondar, a fighting slave". |
10 |
| 26 | 158 |
"He is fond of Krondar, and a fighting slave may be useful upon the river". |
10 |
| 26 | 161 |
Indeed, I had once fought him in the pit of leather and blood, when I, too, had been a fighting slave. |
10 |
| 26 | 162 |
Krondar was a veteran of the fighting pits of Ar. |
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| 26 | 213 |
"You are Jason," said he, "who was once a fighting slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 117 |
An oared fighting ship is seldom helpless. |
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| 5 | 33 |
Then he had turned and was fighting the pirates. |
10 |
| 5 | 36 |
We had ten or more men fighting on the pirate vessel in the vicinity of her stem castle. |
10 |
| 5 | 229 |
"It would be the third day of fighting," said a man. |
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| 6 | 29 |
Elsewhere I saw men fighting in the water. |
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| 8 | 355 |
"Is the battle nearly over?" We could hear the occasional sounds of fighting outside, from some hundreds of yards off, across the water. |
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| 9 | 150 |
Given the men of Ar we had, though only two fighting ships, and the Tuka, crews enough to man at least five vessels. |
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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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| 9 | 458 |
"Krondar, the fighting slave," I said, "and Miles, of Vonda". |
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| 10 | 44 |
We thought it otherwise with Krondar, the fighting slave. |
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| 16 | 53 |
Men were fighting on the wharf now. |
10 |
| 16 | 347 |
"I was once a fighting slave," I told him. |
10 |
| 16 | 351 |
"It is amusing, is it not," I asked, "that the great Ragnar Voskjard is now naught but the prisoner of an ex-fighting-slave?" "Free me," he begged. |
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| 19 | 227 |
Then, sobbing, fighting for breath, she could only endure. |
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| 20 | 403 |
"He intends to purchase fighting slaves," said Miles, "and then free them, and organize matches among free men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 146 |
Then, in an instant, in their chains, they scrambled in the mud after the garbage, twisting and shrieking, caught and restricted in their chains, scratching, and rolling and fighting, for the least of the tidbits cast to them by a free man. |
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| 13 | 709 |
'Yes, Sir,' I whispered, fighting for breath. |
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| 14 | 260 |
She had been on the brink of yielding, a nerve's width away, but had been fighting her feelings and herself, apparently shamed to yield as a slave to another man in my presence. |
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| 16 | 283 |
"Fighting is against the Teaching," said the other fellow, he with the second lance. |
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| 16 | 290 |
"You would let others do your fighting for you," I asked, "and you would have abided the outcome?" "Yes," said the fellow with the first lance. |
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| 17 | 221 |
Infantrymen, here and there, were fighting cavalrymen for their mounts. |
10 |
| 17 | 252 |
Some, in a small group, together, made their way northward, through the fighting. |
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| 18 | 86 |
He who refuses to fight, of course, permits others to do his fighting for him. |
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| 19 | 86 |
"They are sometimes known, too, from the sign, as the Fighting Hearts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 219 |
Its horns are not yet cracked from fighting and age. |
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| 5 | 223 |
This polishing apparently has the function of both cleaning and sharpening the horns, two processes useful in intraspecific aggression, the latter process improving their capacity as fighting instruments, in slashing and goring, and the former process tending to reduce the amount of infection in a h... |
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| 24 | 57 |
The Yellow Knife jerked his kaiila to a halt, it rearing up, fighting the jaw rope, clawing at the air, and Cuwignaka, almost at the same time, leaped to its back, behind the Yellow Knife. |
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| 25 | 123 |
"But there will be fighting there," said Hci. |
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| 27 | 1 |
Fighting "They are coming! They are coming!" we heard. |
10 |
| 27 | 53 |
"I think they have had their stomach filled at the moment with fighting," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 28 | 1 |
Fighting Continues "See?" asked Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 28 | 250 |
"There seems little enough for them to gain in further fighting," said a man. |
10 |
| 28 | 260 |
Red savages, on the whole, prefer to avoid fighting in darkness. |
10 |
| 28 | 268 |
One may, as in many such cases, then, wonder whether night combat is discouraged because of such beliefs, or whether such beliefs may not have been instituted to discourage night fighting, with all of its confusions, alarms and terrors. |
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| 28 | 357 |
Behind me there was fighting. |
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| 29 | 189 |
"The fighting is the business of warriors," said Grunt. |
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| 30 | 153 |
Hci, resigned, no longer fighting, calmly, not moving, sat astride his kaiila, his arms lifted to the moons of Gor. |
10 |
| 32 | 45 |
I speculated that it might have fallen in the fighting, and lost consciousness, from the loss of blood, and then, later, awakened. |
10 |
| 32 | 90 |
I saw two soldiers fighting over one. |
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| 34 | 443 |
It is not uncommon for a warrior to keep his shield in its case or cover when not fighting. |
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| 37 | 455 |
"I am tied!" she cried, fighting to thrust the tether from her ankle. |
10 |
| 37 | 561 |
It struggled to perhaps a hundred feet in the air and then, bit by bit, the log swinging, fighting, it began to lose altitude. |
10 |
| 39 | 355 |
She was now sitting in the grass, her fingers fighting the knot. |
10 |
| 44 | 484 |
Yet I think that more than a hundred and fifty Yellow Knives might already have perished, victims of that steep, dreadful trail, crowded from it, driven from it, trampled upon it, and some even falling under the weapons of their own fellows, fighting for space on the rugged ascent. |
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| 47 | 198 |
Similarly, due also to a lack of competition, and the merciless selections of war, they had not yet become to the tarn as the normal warrior in the Barrens is to his kaiila, namely, a member of a matched fighting unit. |
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| 47 | 200 |
Secondly, I had had the men and their tarns train as fighting units, not only the man and his mount, but the men and their mounts, in pairs and prides, as well. |
10 |
| 47 | 237 |
Interestingly, as nearly as I could determine, no fighting had taken place in my absence. |
10 |
| 47 | 427 |
Fighting took place at a dozen places on the trail. |
10 |
| 47 | 449 |
Threading his way among the fighting groups on the trail, slowly making his way upward, was he who had been the third of the three war chiefs at the summer camp. |
10 |
| 51 | 21 |
Subtracting the nine beasts which had been slain in the fighting, probably mostly by Fleer, who seemed to have less apprehension concerning their appearance than several of the other tribes, I had arrived at a probable figure of eight Kur survivors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 397 |
Most of the time, however, she sat or lay, almost catlike, on the disk, watching the fighting. |
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| 8 | 527 |
Why did he not release me now? Why did he still keep me braceleted, like a slave? Could he not see that I was almost overcome with emotion? Could he not see my misery, my distress? Could he not see how overwrought I was? Could he not see the difficulty I was having, fighting myself? We were approach... |
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| 8 | 554 |
Why would he not release me now? Why could he not be of help to me? Could he not see how I was fighting myself! I wondered if she who was helpless in his bracelets was a slave. |
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| 11 | 230 |
"I want the fighting stopped. |
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| 32 | 173 |
He was fighting himself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 375 |
At the fair, as you know, fighting, enslavement, foul play, and such, are not permitted. |
10 |
| 10 | 196 |
Up to now, of course, as a free woman, given her conditioning and what was expected of her in her culture, she had undoubtedly, possibly even agonizingly, resisted her sexuality, fighting to control and suppress her slave drives. |
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| 13 | 187 |
It rolled in the scattered, bloody sand, twisting and fighting, the sleen hanging to it. |
10 |
| 13 | 261 |
It now, now that it was no longer fighting for its life, seemed exhausted and weak. |
10 |
| 14 | 404 |
I pushed on, fighting to make my way through the bodies. |
10 |
| 20 | 363 |
I saw it standing, fighting and tearing, in the midst of men. |
10 |
| 21 | 249 |
"We have been fighting them through the night". |
10 |
| 21 | 265 |
"I put them where they should be at this time, about their proper business, fighting fires in the city". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 184 |
There are, of course, tactics for fighting in the darkness, such as misdirection, the casting of pebbles to encourage an opponent to make a move, the use of back kicks, giving extension to one's striking capacity while providing a minimum exposure of vital areas, the attempt to lure a blow from a di... |
10 |
| 4 | 191 |
"Yes," he said, "but usually to buy our captures, picked up generally in raids or fighting". |
10 |
| 4 | 580 |
Boabissia, now permitted to kneel upright, squirmed, fighting the fiber. |
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| 5 | 459 |
A girl may begin by fighting the chain which holds her to the ring at the foot of the master's couch, but she will soon hold it lovingly, and kiss it softly. |
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| 12 | 68 |
"I hope it does not follow from that that fighting is impossible," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 74 |
"Then you cannot expect me to begin fighting," he said. |
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| 12 | 129 |
There would be great fighting". |
10 |
| 12 | 131 |
"That does not mean, however, that somewhere else in the city, even now, there might not be fighting. |
10 |
| 23 | 4 |
He was having difficulty falling, however, unconscious though he might be, for the press of folks about the far end of the velvet rope, leading to the Central Cylinder, fighting for places on it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 895 |
"Sword! Sword!" said the leader of the beasts, near the fighting animals, beckoning to the bearded man, pointing to the fighting beasts. |
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| 6 | 680 |
The snap had been so loud, so frightening, and the leather burned me so terribly! I had thrown my head back, gasping, sobbing out, wildly, fighting the ball in my mouth, in the hood. |
10 |
| 19 | 121 |
He put down his head for a moment, fighting with himself. |
10 |
| 20 | 156 |
They are taken for granted, usually, by all the citizens, and their remote origins, sometimes doubtless the outcome of internecine strife, of class war, of street fighting and riots, of bloody, house-to-house determinations in the past, and such, are seldom investigated, save perhaps by historians, ... |
10 |
| 20 | 331 |
And, if necessary, by fighting. |
10 |
| 29 | 898 |
The fellow who had been with the bearded man, at the instigation of his commander, hurried to the fighting animals, to try and strike the sleen. |
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| 29 | 952 |
In this moment the leader of the beasts, which at times had been sitting back, almost catlike, observing, and at other times had been crouching, and moving about the fighting animals, waiting to strike, seeing its opportunity, leapt to the fray, seizing Borko's collar from the back, but, I think to ... |
10 |
| 29 | 992 |
The other fellow, not the bearded man, had been lacerated, probably in an attempt to interfere in the tangle of fighting beasts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 56 |
Some terribly bitter fighting takes place at such times. |
10 |
| 2 | 72 |
"The fighting at Ar's Station, by report, has been lengthy and fierce," said the man. |
10 |
| 2 | 170 |
"Too," said he, "the fighting, in which civilians have participated, has been lengthy and bitter. |
10 |
| 8 | 586 |
"He is naked! He is fighting!" "Oh?" I said. |
10 |
| 9 | 14 |
It was difficult to believe that fighting took place daily in the vicinity of the walls, indeed, sometimes at night. |
10 |
| 9 | 150 |
In the last few weeks, too, given the fighting at the rafts, and in the harbor, predictably, river sharks, usually much farther to the west, had made their appearance. |
10 |
| 10 | 92 |
Those who were not of Cos, and were mercenaries, fighting only for their fees, and some loot, perhaps a female or two, and gold, would presumably not be much moved by appeals to Cosian heritages or patriotism. |
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| 11 | 299 |
"Do you really not know how long and bitter has been this siege? Do you not know how lengthy and terrible has been the fighting? Do you not know the losses of Cos, as well as ours? Do you really think we do not know what fate would await us if we opened the gates?" I was then held even more sternly,... |
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| 12 | 206 |
Once I had to strike another girl away from my place, fighting her for it. |
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| 13 | 20 |
The defenders, sometimes fighting street by street, and building to building, and those who could reach it, had now withdrawn to the citadel, bringing with them what belongings and supplies they could. |
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| 16 | 34 |
Such things are generally not much good in this form of fighting except for secret ascents, say, at night, when they are not noticed, or there are too many of them to deal with. |
10 |
| 17 | 116 |
Also, I have seen two pairs of men fighting, those of each pair side by side, as though fellows, and yet they are enemies, and each engages another foe. |
10 |
| 17 | 118 |
Too, sometimes such animals may be found calmly standing about, or grazing, while the fiercest of fighting surges about them. |
10 |
| 17 | 159 |
Many seemed at their ease, watching the walls, the ladders, the grapnel men, what they could see of the fighting. |
10 |
| 17 | 161 |
Sometimes Cosians and defenders, fighting, were on the very bridges being pried upward. |
10 |
| 17 | 264 |
I had used him, and the other, he between the command post and the west, the other between the command post and the east, as messengers, hoping in this way to keep them within the semblance of interior lines, out of the thickest fighting. |
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| 17 | 285 |
They had been fighting behind a breastwork of fallen bodies, those of both Cosians and defenders. |
10 |
| 17 | 484 |
Immediately following this signal the defenders on both the left and right began an orderly withdrawal, rear lines first, front lines backing, fighting, down the stairways closest to them, the two gate stairways, one to the west of the gate, the other to the east of the gate. |
10 |
| 18 | 62 |
Doubtless many would march before Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, in some grand triumph, though in the fighting he would not have stirred from his palace in Telnus. |
10 |
| 18 | 221 |
Some tried to descend with one hand, fighting with the other. |
10 |
| 18 | 254 |
I hurried about the fighting there and detailed men from the right, as well, to the gate. |
10 |
| 18 | 268 |
These two lines, converging, the fighting in the center, by the gate, between them, led to the walkway, and then out on the walkway, for better than forty yards. |
10 |
| 18 | 332 |
I had been behind the fighting, directing it. |
10 |
| 18 | 335 |
Some of the Cosians, many just coming forth from the citadel, not yet entered into the fighting, indeed, not being readily able to reach it, for their fellows, had turned aside to attend to the females there. |
10 |
| 18 | 385 |
"To you fellows sweating in the front ranks, or to suppliers, officers, and agents? Who says there will be any distribution to you fellows, at all? If there is, will you get your pick? Will the best women be distributed? What of hundreds of wenches already on their way to Brundisium, and Cos and Tyr... |
10 |
| 18 | 435 |
His fellow, the other young fellow from the wall, the one with the shield, who had protected him in the fighting, was at his side. |
10 |
| 19 | 76 |
These upswirling discolorations marked places, I supposed, where, below, unseen, a few yards beneath the surface, the long fish, pulling and fighting, snapping and tugging, stirred the mud. |
10 |
| 20 | 63 |
"What do you think? Do you think I would have given an order I would not be willing, under similar circumstances, to obey? My body, as it is wounded, will serve as a shield in the fighting. |
10 |
| 20 | 184 |
From such fighting came the formation of the Vosk League". |
10 |
| 21 | 40 |
"You might perhaps have joined with those of Cos," had said a fellow, "in the fighting. |
10 |
| 21 | 1425 |
"My lads left Port Cos in a hurry," said Calliodorus, "and we did not know if there would be fighting, or not. |
10 |
| 24 | 93 |
I went back over various things in my mind, the Crooked Tarn, the camp of the Cosians, the trenches, the approach to the wall, my captivity, my escape, the fighting at Ar's Station, the escape from the piers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 755 |
My eyes half closed, crouching, fighting my way through the sand and wind, I lunged toward it. |
10 |
| 47 | 221 |
"What would I have to gain by fighting?" "Coward!" I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 661 |
The fighting was over". |
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| 23 | 336 |
"After all, that will give us something to do in leisure moments, fighting off armies from all directions, fending away clouds of mercenaries, battling bands of brigands, attempting to turn back innumerable waves of eager, lustful ruffians, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 612 |
"Yes, yes!" she had cried, wide-eyed, gasping, fighting for breath, drenched with sweat, lying before me on her belly, on the stone. |
10 |
| 24 | 97 |
"There may still be fighting". |
10 |
| 29 | 428 |
We have plans for you, slave!" She whimpered, futilely, fighting the gag. |
10 |
| 31 | 646 |
It is useful in cramped spaces, in close quarters, in room-to-room fighting. |
10 |
| 33 | 34 |
The other had died in the tunnels, in the fighting. |
10 |
| 37 | 48 |
War sleen, watch sleen, fighting sleen, and such, when freed, would normally retain the collars, which are often plated and spiked, for the protection of the throat. |
10 |
| 37 | 399 |
Some did twist about to tear at him, as might have fighting dogs. |
10 |
| 46 | 132 |
I treated you with coldness and cruelty! But each instant I was fighting myself, wanting to seize you, to sweep you into my arms, to crush you to me!" The room seemed to rush about me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 186 |
How abhorrent, at her age, at her age, and he a man, the enemy! And she remembered vaguely, scarcely with full consciousness, and fighting, even in her animation and delight, to keep the insistent glimmerings from rising forcefully and undeniably before her, how, many years ago, she, then in her lat... |
10 |
| 11 | 298 |
And so she served shyly, sometimes fighting strange sensations in her body. |
10 |
| 24 | 478 |
It was as though two or three men, unseen, might be tearing at the concealment, she fighting them, she trying to restore it. |
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| 27 | 1709 |
As nearly as Ellen could tell, they had not figured in the fighting. |
10 |
| 27 | 2986 |
Her wrists were cut, fighting the narrow, encircling bracelets which held her small hands so perfectly, so futilely, behind her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 148 |
It is not unusual for Kurii, incidentally, to quarrel over prey, fighting for it, tearing it apart, each withdrawing then with its secured portion, to crouch down and feed, alert, watching the others. |
10 |
| 2 | 284 |
Will they not feed now, perhaps even fighting for scraps? Where are the Priest-Kings, Cabot wondered, wildly. |
10 |
| 18 | 33 |
Indeed, observers unaware of these things sometimes think two Kurii are fighting, and not courting. |
10 |
| 21 | 267 |
The beast fights were largely amongst fighting humans, variously armed. |
10 |
| 21 | 641 |
"He is fighting," said Peisistratus. |
10 |
| 21 | 646 |
"He is fighting," said Peisistratus. |
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| 33 | 107 |
When there is fighting, slaves are often chained, that they will helplessly await the outcome of war, and their disposition, and free women, too, are often sequestered, that they may not by their presence compromise defenses or complicate ensuant adjudications. |
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| 41 | 54 |
It is a valuable beast, a fighting sleen. |
10 |
| 41 | 98 |
Cabot set his hands between the teeth of the trap and, sweating, straining, eased them a little open, and his hands were covered with blood and torn hair, and the sleen watched him, and Cabot, grunted, fighting for breath, and opened the teeth a bit more, and a little more, and then the sleen, with ... |
10 |
| 50 | 24 |
Has her master not, for example, of late become less patient and more strict with her, as though he might be fighting something within himself, something unwelcome, which he was unwilling to acknowledge? Surely she must now strive to do nothing which might cause him to rid himself of her. |
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| 56 | 185 |
Cabot could hear the sounds of fighting, of grappling, the hiss of weaponry, the striking of blades, axes, doubtless, into shoulders and flesh. |
10 |
| 61 | 26 |
"They themselves were of course far removed from the fighting, secure in positions of safety, and thus had little to fear personally. |
10 |
| 64 | 154 |
"Begone, beast, monster," said Cestiphon, angrily, and the Lady Bina, sobbing, clutching the sheet about her, fighting her shackles, moved away, as swiftly as she could. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 76 |
It can be worth an arm to try to separate fighting sleen. |
10 |
| 5 | 601 |
We lost many, surmounting such obstacles, fighting our way toward the open". |
10 |
| 5 | 765 |
"When the fighting began, and it became clear how desperate it was," said a fellow, "and how the city would be lost to us, we sought, in a brief surcease of battle, to sack up what coin we might, and other valuables, and prepared to fight our way toward the pomerium". |
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| 5 | 820 |
"Several, in the fighting, learned they were on the proscription lists, copies of which were posted on the public boards," said another. |
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| 16 | 142 |
It is thus useful in door-to-door fighting, in stalking, in ambush, and so on. |
10 |
| 17 | 74 |
Above, in the sky, suddenly, the gigantic, tumbling, fighting knot of birds and men broke, like a burst of alarmed jards, startled in their feeding, and hundreds fled. |
10 |
| 17 | 115 |
Some of my men, dismounted, apparently oblivious of the fact that elsewhere fighting might still be raging, were gathering them in. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
Fighting Continues; We Report to Lord Nishida; The Stable I brought the tarn down, to the field of training, followed by Tajima and Pertinax, and Ichiro, my first, or lead, signalman. |
10 |
| 18 | 176 |
It might be noted that on the planet Earth war would seem to be counterproductive along these lines, as, on the whole, the healthy and robust do the fighting and the sickly, weak, and frail remain behind to replicate their genes. |
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| 18 | 330 |
I suspected she was fighting irresistibilities within herself, longings to feel his switch, curiosities as to what it might be to kneel naked before him and press her lips upon his bared feet, what it might be to writhe in his arms, helpless, and owned, as only a woman may be owned, owned to the tin... |
10 |
| 20 | 42 |
He had worn a yellow armband to insure his safety from his own cohorts, an armband later removed, in an attempt to blend in with our men, an attempt unsuccessful as he had been well noted in the fighting. |
10 |
| 20 | 55 |
If a general melee was in store, involving close fighting with several men, taking and giving ground, even a frightened, bounding kaiila might suffer, terrified in the rush of men, the shouts, the movement of blades, the fending of strokes, the thrust of spears, the slashing of glaives, the flight o... |
10 |
| 23 | 32 |
Interestingly, though he had hurt Saru deeply, one had the sense he was fighting more with himself than a slave. |
10 |
| 30 | 11 |
In a fighting ship this mast is lowered before battle. |
10 |
| 32 | 14 |
Some mercenaries, I supposed, who did not die on the beach, would be forced back, wading, fighting, into the river, to die there and be washed downstream. |
10 |
| 43 | 61 |
Some other uses, which might be mentioned in passing, for mere purposes of illustration, would be that of the bodyguard, and that of an animal used for sport, as in racing, or fighting. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 183 |
We were fighting back. |
10 |
| 2 | 273 |
I squirmed a bit, fighting the ropes, but my struggles were unavailing. |
10 |
| 3 | 175 |
During the course of the uprising, the restoration, even in the midst of fighting, angry crowds had sought out traitors and collaborators, and brought them, bound and screaming, to improvised impaling spears. |
10 |
| 3 | 644 |
Fighting was then about me. |
10 |
| 3 | 956 |
At other times scraps were tossed to the ground, which the slaves, sometimes fighting for them, might retrieve as they could, in the moonlight. |
10 |
| 4 | 67 |
As it seemed they waited for me to speak, I told them, briefly, of the events in Ar, the return of Marlenus, the fighting, the withdrawal of troops, the proscription lists, the flight of fugitives, and such. |
10 |
| 9 | 31 |
There must be fighting in corridors, or elsewhere. |
10 |
| 9 | 155 |
"There is fighting, confusion!" "To the high cot!" cried a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 164 |
"The first tarn hold! Only it opens to the sky!" "That is where the fighting will be!" said a man. |
10 |
| 9 | 206 |
It was there the serious fighting, after that in the corridors and companionways, would take place. |
10 |
| 9 | 245 |
Some fighting was taking place on the open deck. |
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| 9 | 251 |
I saw Tarl Cabot, and his confrere, Pertinax, and the fellow, Tajima, a fine rider, fighting, to protect tarns. |
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| 9 | 344 |
A number of mutineers, however, desperately, fighting, were backing up the ramp toward the open deck. |
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| 9 | 383 |
We heard no sounds of fighting on the deck. |
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| 12 | 21 |
It is one thing to draw an oar, and do one thing or another about a ship, even to be of its fighting complement, and quite another to read the weather, and water, and the stars, to plot courses, to keep a steady helm in a hard sea, to manage lines and rigging, and such. |
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| 16 | 217 |
Lord Okimoto, on the other hand, was well aware of the sizable complement of fighting men on board, a small army, who would, in any likely contest, as on an open field, far outnumber the enemy Pani in the small boats and on the warning ship, perhaps by as many as four or five to one; and was, accord... |
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| 16 | 243 |
Tarl Cabot was forward, on the port side, with his friend, Pertinax, and the Pani tarnsman, Tajima, fighting with our Pani against boarders, who were heaviest in that quarter. |
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| 16 | 248 |
What struck me as odd was not that they had not joined in the fighting for us, but, rather, slipped through the engaged men, looking about, across the largely open deck. |
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| 16 | 250 |
I was some seven or eight feet behind Lords Nishida and Okimoto, for I had already moved toward the fighting at the forward port quarter. |
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| 16 | 263 |
I was startled to see Seremides, hobbling on his crutch, near the forward port rail, where fighting had taken place. |
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| 16 | 266 |
As few could not, by simple movement, a subtle alteration of position, a simple variance of attack, quickly dispatch a foe so handicapped, I thought Seremides must be a fellow of great courage, to have dragged himself to the deck, and worked his way, painfully, awkwardly, his body suspended on his c... |
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| 23 | 42 |
Whereas we had lost no tarns in the recent tragedy of the ill-advised landing, we had suffered a severe loss of men, Pani and otherwise, in the fighting, in the defile, and later, on the beach. |
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| 23 | 94 |
"I gather from Lords Okimoto and Nishida that their movements in the war, in the fighting, were often anticipated. |
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| 25 | 71 |
If nothing else, the ambush and fighting in the defile and at the beach would make that clear to the generals of Lord Yamada. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 17 | 306 |
I then saw another slave, looking down the tiers toward a vendor, which slave suddenly stiffened, fighting a blindfold wrapped about her face. |
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| 17 | 529 |
To be sure, we might be cast to one or more, as a punishment, or, perhaps, put at the disposal of one, as a reward for, say, a successful fighting slave. |
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| 20 | 79 |
"Then you would let him find me as I am, still bound?" I asked, my wrists angrily, futilely, fighting the cording, my ankles, as I was sitting, jerking back, again and again, in frustration, rattling the shackle chain looped about the central bar. |
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| 26 | 143 |
Surely I would not have done well as a female fighting slave, those large, misshapen female creatures, some bred, who strike and mangle one another for the entertainment of bettors, and free women. |
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| 41 | 19 |
As indicated, men had been recruited, or impressed, by each faction and some, forced into battle, had been slain in the fighting. |
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| 41 | 25 |
In any event, after some fifteen days, the fighting had diminished to an occasional skirmish in the halls. |
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| 52 | 306 |
Was he fighting his own feelings? Might that be? Was he afraid of himself, and his feelings, standing before one who was no more than a kneeling, helpless, collared, branded animal? Did he now fear that he might care for a mere slave? How absurd! What had he to fear? The collar was on my neck, and h... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 39 |
Of fighting men then, discounting the tarnsmen withdrawn into the mountains, at their camp, Lords Nishida, Okimoto, and Temmu had less than thirty-five hundred men. |
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| 3 | 31 |
It was unlikely that groups would have escaped, more likely single persons, if they, in the fighting and confusion. |
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| 7 | 155 |
"Were I Lord Yamada," I said, "I would bide my time, letting hunger do my fighting". |
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| 9 | 51 |
And officers, familiar with the manuals, sweating in the midst of fighting, exhausted, hoarse, their arm weary, looking about themselves, discover they are now surrounded by disorganized, swarming men, innocent of, or forgetful of, codes, excited, frightened, violent, celebratory, reckless men who h... |
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| 11 | 269 |
I did not think any Ashigaru would have paused in the tumult of the fighting to attend to the discomfiting of so dangerous a beast. |
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| 46 | 405 |
"There are field slaves, draft slaves, female fighting slaves, racing slaves, many sorts". |
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| 60 | 322 |
Fighting bodies were no longer interposed between Yasushi and Tajima and the foe at their portion of the bridge, nor, at the other portion of the bridge, that closer to the gate and the raked sand, between Lord Yamada and Nodachi and the foe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 417 |
I stood, unsteadily, fighting to keep my balance. |
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| 15 | 252 |
I was not a peasant woman, not a large, coarse woman, not a brothel mistress, not a female fighting slave. |
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| 33 | 606 |
I lay beside a box, against it, fighting for breath. |
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| 45 | 209 |
I heard the girls scrambling behind me, fighting for the scraps. |
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| 45 | 235 |
I heard the girls behind me, fighting for scraps. |
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| 61 | 392 |
I leapt to my feet and raced amongst men, some fighting, toward the perimeter of the field. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 38 |
"And there is theft, fighting, killing, looting, all well-lit by the flames," said a fellow, bitterly. |
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| 6 | 44 |
"Assist, rather, in fighting the flames," said a man. |
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| 14 | 165 |
A sudden transformation of relief shook Adraste, and she gasped and threw back her head, covering her mouth, fighting to repress laughter. |
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| 37 | 97 |
I had no desire to be cast from the height of the delta wall into the jaws of waiting, clustered, thrashing tharlarion, churning about, anticipating fighting for a part of the wall's offering. |
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| 41 | 42 |
"Fighting continues". |
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| 41 | 90 |
"We are told nothing," said Ianthe, "but some of us have seen fighting, and one hears the enemies crying out, informing one another, issuing orders". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 97 |
"There was fighting. |
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| 4 | 135 |
"We three alone escaped, unnoted in the fighting, hiding below. |
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| 7 | 119 |
Consider the fighting, from building to building, from room to room. |
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| 22 | 46 |
Your crews are not common oarsmen and mariners, but fighting men, well armed. |
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| 22 | 49 |
They are knife ships, fighting ships. |
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| 34 | 58 |
"Surely it, and other paths, given the battle of the road, the fighting near Zeuxis, and such, would be under surveillance". |
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| 41 | 227 |
"Too, we are dealing with mercenaries, not disciplined troops, used to labor, as in building ditched and palisaded fortress camps, as well as fighting. |
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| 44 | 57 |
Similarly, they prefer to enter a town or city, whenever possible, by means of a surreptitiously opened gate or a deliberately abandoned parapet than by a storming of stoutly defended walls and a fighting of their way across ditches filled with their fallen fellows. |
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| 45 | 112 |
Thrasymedes and I had distributed Mytilene's common supplies amongst three well-separated storage areas, three lest one or two areas become accessible to enemies during street fighting, should the walls be successfully breached. |
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| 49 | 145 |
"At first sight of them, lest landing parties should disembark and trap us ashore, we put to sea, intent on fighting our way to open water". |
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| 52 | 15 |
But, masts down, it can be difficult amongst the waves of gleaming Thassa to detect the presence of a swift, shallow-drafted Gorean fighting ship. |
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| 53 | 153 |
"And he has many fighting men ready to do so," I said, "skilled soldiers, evacuated from Chios". |
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