| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 229 |
Before entering the ship, I stopped at the side of the large, flat rock on which it rested. |
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| 2 | 4 |
I seemed to be lying on some hard, flat object, perhaps a table, in a circular room with a low ceiling some seven feet high. |
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| 2 | 28 |
The building in which I found myself was apparently one of an indefinite number of towers, like endless flat cylinders of varying sizes and colors, joined by narrow, colorful bridges that arched lightly between them. |
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| 2 | 118 |
"In peasant villages on this world," he continued, "each hut was originally built around a flat stone which was placed in the center of the circular dwelling. |
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| 3 | 70 |
For example, the population as a whole, the castes below the High Castes, were encouraged to believe that their world was a broad, flat disk. |
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| 3 | 72 |
On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o... |
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| 3 | 236 |
At last we emerged on the flat roof of the cylinder. |
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| 3 | 237 |
The wind swept across the flat, circular roof, tugging one toward the edge. |
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| 4 | 2 |
I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof. |
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| 10 | 60 |
"Forty-five," he said, his voice flat. |
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| 12 | 144 |
It was unimpressive, small, flat, and of a dull brown color. |
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| 13 | 34 |
Its ears were lying back, flat against the sides of its wide head. |
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| 19 | 33 |
The Cylinder of Justice was a lofty cylinder of pure white marble, the flat roof of which was some hundred yards in diameter. |
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| 20 | 43 |
I awoke, perhaps weeks later, stiff and chilly in the mountains of New Hampshire, near the flat rock on which the silver spacecraft had landed. |
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| 20 | 70 |
Two or three times a year I have returned to the mountains of New Hampshire, to look again on that great flat rock, to spend a night there, in case I might see once again that silver disk in the sky, in case once again I might be summoned by the Priest-Kings to that other world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
Eventually we found what we supposed to be the ashes of his fire, near a large flat rock some nine hours' climb from the highway. |
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| 5 | 109 |
I placed a large flat rock near the head of the cairn and, with the tip of my spear, scratched this legend on it. |
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| 7 | 78 |
"Your name is the most hated on Gor," she said, her voice flat, her eyes not meeting mine. |
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| 9 | 72 |
I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests. |
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| 9 | 90 |
They seemed to me to be without energy, without pride, to be flat, dry, crushed men, men without self-respect. |
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| 10 | 62 |
It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared its three rows of needlelike white teeth at me and squealed in anger; two horns, tusks like flat crescents curved from its jaw; another two horns, similar to the first, modifications of the bony tissue forming the upper ridge of the eye socket, prot... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 15 |
Beyond the Sullage and the bosk steak there was the inevitable flat, rounded loaf of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread. |
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| 11 | 114 |
"Mount the disk, Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," said Misk, gesturing with his foreleg to the flat oval disk which had brought Sarm to our level. |
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| 11 | 123 |
To my annoyance both of the Priest-Kings seemed immobile, leaning alertly forward into the wind, their forelegs lifted high, their antennae lying flat, streaming backwards. |
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| 12 | 5 |
I stepped aside as a flat, sluglike creature, clinging with several legs to a small transportation disk, swept by. |
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| 13 | 96 |
Indeed, even I myself, after my experience of the arthropod on the platform and the flat, sluglike beast on its transportation disk in the plaza, was growing accustomed to finding strange creatures in the Nest of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 14 | 75 |
In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is chopped into rough two-inch cubes; for the third meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement;... |
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| 14 | 179 |
Beneath the case I saw a flat stone with a recessed ring. |
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| 20 | 57 |
Leaning forward they were pushing a large, flat circular disk. |
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| 20 | 101 |
Bending to a panel in the disk he took out three objects: the long, classic, white garment of a Chamber Slave, which was contained in a wrapper of blue plastic; a slave collar; and an object of which I did not immediately grasp the import, a small, flat boxlike object which bore the upraised figure ... |
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| 22 | 5 |
When I reached the ceiling I saw, to my relief, that further bars projected downwards from the ceiling and that the bottom of each was bent outwards in a flat, horizontal projection that would afford me a place to put my feet. |
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| 30 | 6 |
My arms and legs were bound with bands of steel to a flat, narrow, wheeled platform; my throat and waist were similarly locked in place. |
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| 34 | 65 |
"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 214 |
One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean... |
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| 5 | 25 |
The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring; it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist, the girl can turn within it; the common Gorean collar, on the other hand, is a flat, snugly fitting steel band. |
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| 5 | 27 |
The Turian collar is more difficult to engrave, but it, like the flat collar, will bear some legend assuring that the girl, if found, will be promptly returned to her master. |
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| 7 | 1 |
La Kajira The wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, was drawn up on a large, flat-topped grassy hill, the highest land in the camp. |
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| 7 | 7 |
But I did not enter the wagon, for Kutaituchik held his court outside the wagon, in the open air, on the flat-topped grassy hill. |
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| 8 | 300 |
Already a grizzled Tuchuk had his hand, palm flat, on the silken side of the standing kaiila. |
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| 9 | 74 |
One small, flat box, however, Kamchak would not turn over to the stewards of Phanius Turmus, whom he met at the first gate. |
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| 10 | 186 |
The stakes, flat-topped, each about six and half feet high and about seven or eight inches in diameter, stand in two long lines facing one another in pairs. |
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| 16 | 71 |
The Turian wells, incidentally, have no raised wall, but are, save for a rim of about two inches in height, flat with the level. |
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| 20 | 27 |
We soon came, to my satisfaction, to an easily accessible, flat roof and climbed onto it. |
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| 21 | 56 |
I came to the ring of flat, cleared ground, some hundred feet or so wide, which separates the walled compound of buildings which constitutes the House of Saphrar of Turia from all the surrounding structures. |
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| 21 | 84 |
By that time I had rounded a corner and leaped to a window, pulled myself up to the next window, and hauled myself up again and onto the flat roof of a shop. |
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| 21 | 89 |
The sun on the flat roof was hot. |
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| 21 | 157 |
During this time I climbed out a back window facing another building, and hoisted myself to the flat roof of the shop, returning by the same route when they had gone. |
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| 22 | 65 |
By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped... |
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| 22 | 66 |
Incidentally, Gorean coins are not made to be stacked and accordingly, because of the possible depth of the relief and the consequent liberties accorded to the artist, the Gorean coin is almost always more beautiful than the machine-milled, flat, uniform coins of Earth. |
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| 25 | 450 |
Suddenly she drew back in fury and struck me with the flat of her hand, a vicious slap, and then again and again, and again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 48 |
Some, for example, are little more than flat cradles for carrying planking and such; others are long and cylindrical, lined with verrskin, for transporting beverages and such; most heavy hauling, of course, is done by tharlarion wagon; a common sort of tarn basket, of the sort in which I found mysel... |
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| 2 | 16 |
Kuurus pointed to a fruit on a flat-topped wagon with wooden wheels, drawn by a small four-legged, horned tharlarion. |
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| 5 | 146 |
In the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains I had brought the tarn down on the quiet, flat, gray-metal, disklike surface, some forty feet in diameter, of the ship, some two miles above the surface of Gor. |
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| 5 | 220 |
It consists of four circular metal bands, with facing flat plates, which fasten about the two wrists and two ankles of the slave. |
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| 5 | 223 |
But, from a central, guarded panel, and from individual transmitters, those of their owners, a signal may be transmitted which causes the two bracelets and the two anklets to immediately snap together at the flat plates, thus, even at a distance, binding the slave. |
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| 5 | 600 |
Then she had lain down on a flat piece of rain canvas which Al-Ka and I had rolled about her, and, concealed in this fashion, we had carried her to the wagon. |
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| 7 | 8 |
Though doubtless Ho-Tu was well known to the guards at the tarncot, he nonetheless showed them a small, flat rectangle of glazed clay, white in color, marked with the sign of the House of Cernus. |
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| 7 | 67 |
Cernus now, from beneath his cloak, removed a small, flat box, and with his finger pressed a button on this box. |
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| 13 | 267 |
It was reddish brown; the crest was flat now; the beak a pale yellow, streaked with white. |
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| 19 | 19 |
Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain b... |
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| 19 | 46 |
I stumbled again, on one of the large, broad, flat stepping stones, and fell forward and was jerked by the chain tearing at the back of my neck, and struggled again to my feet, hearing through the thick layers of leather in the slave hood the laughter of the guards, as though far away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 59 |
In many places it is too shallow to float even the great flat-bottomed barges and, more importantly, a path for them would have to be cut and chopped, foot by foot, through the thickets of rush and sedge, and the tangles of marsh vine. |
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| 3 | 193 |
Ho-Hak's ears lay flat against the sides of his head. |
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| 3 | 317 |
When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds. |
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| 5 | 65 |
In the early morning the other rence islands, four of them, which had been tethered close by, were poled to the one on which I was kept, and now, joined by flat rence rafts, acting as bridges, they had been tied to one another, now forming, for most practical purposes, a large single island. |
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| 5 | 172 |
Then the man with the drum of hollow rence root began to drum, and I heard some others join in with reed flutes, and one fellow had bits of metal, strung on a circular wire, and another a notched stick, played by scraping it with a flat spoon of rence root. |
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| 6 | 87 |
Ho-Hak, sweating, breathing deeply, wildly, his great ears flat against the sides of his head, the iron, riveted collar of the galley slave, with its broken, dangling chain, about his neck, clutching his oar pole, stood with his legs planted widely apart on the rence, at bay. |
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| 6 | 196 |
Here and there, on the water, apart from the flaming rence island, I could see the flat, black keels of rence craft, which had earlier been cast off and burned to the water, to prevent them from being used for escape. |
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| 8 | 24 |
Two slaves stood aft in the small, square-ended, flat-bottomed boat, poling. |
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| 9 | 452 |
I could see her barely in the light of the coals of the cooking fire, now a flat, reticulated pattern of red and black. |
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| 18 | 255 |
Then, with a swift motion, he leaped behind her and, with the flat of his blade, dealt her a sharp, stinging blow. |
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| 18 | 265 |
Telima, dignity to the winds, turned and fled down the passageway, but, before she had managed to make ten yards, she had been stung twice, and roundly, by the flat of my blade. |
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| 18 | 708 |
His large ears laid themselves flat against his head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 137 |
When I had cried, I went to the flat, metal container, that sprung open and exposed, that from which the ugly, terrible, silken animal had been feeding. |
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| 7 | 392 |
We could see a large, flat wagon, drawn by four huge, beautifully groomed black bosk. |
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| 7 | 403 |
I watched the flat wagon rolling closer. |
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| 8 | 477 |
"Please, no, Master!" He then beat me, soundly, with the stinging flat of his hand, until I cried for mercy and wept. |
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| 8 | 509 |
She squealed with delight and leaped to her feet, standing between the flat rocks in the water, pointing to me. |
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| 8 | 540 |
I knelt there on the flat rock, pounding and rinsing the fabric, in the fresh air with the bright blue sky overhead. |
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| 8 | 554 |
Ute, slapping fabric on the flat rocks and rinsing it in the cold water, began to sing. |
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| 10 | 153 |
He produced two cigarettes from a flat, golden case. |
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| 10 | 237 |
He indicated the small, flat box of cigarettes. |
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| 10 | 496 |
He closed the small, flat golden cigarette box and struck a small match. |
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| 11 | 919 |
He pushed me ahead with the flat of his foot. |
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| 11 | 958 |
He pressed me forward again with the flat of his foot. |
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| 12 | 301 |
It was a circular cage, between some six and seven feet in height, flat-bottomed, with a domed top. |
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| 13 | 175 |
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing Ute did, to my mind, was, with sticks, a flat piece of wood and some binding fiber, make a small fire drill. |
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| 14 | 193 |
The door could be closed with two heavy, flat, sliding bolts, and locked with two padlocks. |
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| 14 | 634 |
She had, in her hand, an eighteen-inch strip of purple binding fiber, about half an inch in width, flat, set with jewels. |
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| 14 | 665 |
In his belt I saw that he had thrust an eighteen-inch strip of black leather, binding leather; it was not jeweled; it was common leather; it was about three quarters of an inch in width; it was supple, that it might well encircle limbs; it was flat, that it might well fit against them; it was of a s... |
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| 14 | 721 |
Among the warriors, the flat of sword blades and the blades of spears rang on shields. |
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| 15 | 290 |
A bowl of water was nearby, and a fire, over which, on an iron plate fixed on stones, there were, heating, five, small, flat-bottomed, rounded, wooden-handled Gorean irons. |
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| 15 | 810 |
Crouching inside the box, I saw the door shut, and heard the two heavy, flat bolts sliding into place. |
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| 15 | 867 |
She heard the flat, heavy bolts slide back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 |
The pieces, weighted, seemed tall on the board, casting their shadows away from the flame, across the flat arena of the game. |
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| 3 | 256 |
Behind her came a flat-topped wagon, of some four feet in height. |
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| 3 | 272 |
On the flat-topped wagon, fastened to one side on a metal plate, already white with heat, was a brazier, from which protruded the handles of two irons. |
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| 3 | 310 |
She then stood beside her judge, barefoot on the flat-topped, wooden wagon. |
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| 7 | 319 |
In the center of the camp there was a cooking hole, banked with a circle of flat stones. |
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| 15 | 330 |
Their shoulders were back, their bellies flat and tight. |
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| 18 | 334 |
I snapped off a large branch, extending from a fallen tree, with the flat of my foot. |
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| 18 | 444 |
From my wallet I took a small, smooth stone and a tiny, flat metal disk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 |
No musicians played; no cup companions laughed and drank, lifting their goblets; on the broad, flat tiles before me, under the torches, barefoot, collared, in scarlet silks, bells at their wrists and ankles, there danced no slave girls. |
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| 4 | 105 |
The giant, he who might have been nearly eight feet in height, and had in the temple wrought such furious slaughter, sat now, almost somnolently, on a rowing bench, sharpening, with slow, deliberate movements, with a circular, flat whetstone, the blade of his great ax. |
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| 4 | 109 |
The lookout stood upon a broad, flat wooden ring, bound in leather, covered with the fur of sea sleen, which fits over the mast. |
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| 6 | 188 |
Nearby, on a large, flat stone, to keep it from sinking into the ground, was the anvil. |
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| 6 | 225 |
On one part of the collar are two, small, flat, thick rings. |
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| 7 | 285 |
Its ears, large, pointed and wide, were laid back flat against its head. |
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| 8 | 71 |
We were almost finished with the vials in the flat, leather case. |
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| 8 | 94 |
I hastily, as though frightened, made as though to close the flat, leather case of vials. |
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| 11 | 14 |
It had a flat snout, with wide nostrils. |
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| 11 | 267 |
It was a round, flat, six-sectioned loaf of Sa-Tarna bread. |
10 |
| 11 | 280 |
It then stood on the platform, its shoulders hunched; I saw the claws expose themselves; the ears were back flat against its head; its eyes blazed. |
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| 13 | 450 |
It threw back its head and opened its jaws, eyes blazing, and uttered the blood roar of the aroused Kur; then it bent over, regarding us, shoulders hunched, its claws leaping from its soft, furred sheaths; it then laid its ears back flat against the sides of its great head. |
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| 14 | 200 |
The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le... |
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| 15 | 388 |
I saw Ivar, on the flat above, wild-eyed. |
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| 15 | 392 |
The two Kurii stood on the flat above, snarling. |
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| 18 | 620 |
When she turned about, the Forkbeard dealt her a mighty blow, swift and stinging, with the flat of his sword. |
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| 18 | 623 |
Then she turned and, sobbing, laughing, cried out joyfully, "I love you, my Jarl! I love you!" He raised the weapon again, flat side threatening her, and she turned and, laughing, sobbing, only one of his girls, fled to the pen. |
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| 20 | 13 |
It is rough, but, on the whole, flat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 324 |
I looked at the flat, leathery snout, the black-pupiled, yellowish-corneaed eyes, the ears flat back against its head, the wide, fang-rimmed orifice of a mouth, large enough to bite the head from a man. |
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| 2 | 356 |
I looked up at skeins of wool hanging from the wooden poles between the flat roofs. |
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| 2 | 609 |
There were steps, broad, flat, worn, in concentric circles, leading down to the water. |
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| 3 | 81 |
That night, when our repast had been finished, and a clothed, bangled slave woman, the property of Farouk, had rinsed our right hands with veminium water, poured over our hand, into a small, shallow bowl of beaten copper, I drew forth from my robes a small, flat, closed Gorean chronometer. |
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| 4 | 7 |
The superstructure of the frame rose about four feet above the frame at its highest point, enclosing, as in an open-fronted, flat-bottomed, half globe, its occupant. |
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| 4 | 56 |
About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched, with lanceolate leaves. |
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| 5 | 286 |
Dew had formed on the large flat stones thereabouts and, in the light of the dawn, had made them, from a distance, seem to glint like silver. |
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| 7 | 162 |
With the flat of his blade he struck more than one of them. |
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| 8 | 55 |
The kaiila, then, freed of reins and harness, with the flat of scimitars, and cries, were driven into the desert. |
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| 8 | 193 |
A small, heavy, curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea. |
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| 11 | 37 |
When it falls, it often falls heavily, and on flat land, in the loose dust. |
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| 11 | 659 |
"Run!" said Hassan, smacking her smartly with the flat of his blade. |
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| 14 | 392 |
The alcoves are usually eight to ten feet deep, with a flat floor and rounded sides and ceiling, the sides about four feet wide at their widest, and the ceiling about four feet in height, at its highest. |
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| 15 | 88 |
Behind him, armed with scimitars, stood two guards, they, too, bare-chested, in flat rep-cloth turbans. |
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| 21 | 134 |
There seemed much water here and there, in flat places, in the distance, rippling, stirring. |
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| 22 | 22 |
I could have rigged a flat travois with shoulder harness, to slip over the sand, loaded with water and food, and could have traveled at night, but I had decided against this. |
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| 26 | 567 |
I thrust her, holding her by her arms from behind, on her knees, belly tight, against the flat iron piece over which the door swings, in closing. |
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| 26 | 586 |
The right side of her face was pressed against the flat iron bar, some two inches high, at the top of the opening, against which the gate, when closed, rests. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 495 |
With a cry of rage the bearded man rushed upon him, thrusting with his shield, his sword flat and low. |
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| 2 | 816 |
The fields were broken now, with occasional trees, many of them flat-topped. |
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| 4 | 80 |
Soon I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan, and the unmistakable odor of coffee, or as the Goreans express it, black wine. |
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| 6 | 109 |
In the center of the hut was a large flat, circular piece of metal, on which, on legs, might sit braziers or the small, flattish cooking stoves, using pressed, hardened wood, common in the villages north and west of Ar. |
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| 8 | 27 |
When I had flung down the vertically sliding gate behind me, two notched projections, bolts, welded to the flat bar at the gate's bottom had slipped into iron-enclosed spring catches, heavy locks, one on the bottom left, one on the bottle right, the gate being thus secured. |
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| 9 | 503 |
Yet I was not taken by the wrists and thrown flat upon the tiles and whipped. |
10 |
| 10 | 10 |
Generally he disciplined me with a cuff of the flat of his hand. |
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| 11 | 35 |
Most Gorean collars, decorated or not, are basically a flat, circular band, hinged, which locks snugly about the girl's neck. |
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| 12 | 757 |
The soldier lifted me lightly from my feet and thrust me, feet first, through a hatchlike opening, with flat door, in the top of the tarn basket. |
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| 12 | 761 |
I looked up, seeing the flat door swung shut. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 492 |
Most of the wagons were common slave wagons, with a parallel bar running down the center of the wagon bed, about which the ankles of the girls were chained; others, however, were flat wagons fixed with an iron framework; two lines of girls kneel back to back on such a wagon, their ankles and necks l... |
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| 2 | 652 |
The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen. |
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| 3 | 502 |
It is painful for a girl to be locked in the framework of a flat wagon but, of course, she is well displayed enroute. |
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| 12 | 463 |
I turned away, angrily, and looked across the flat, cold tundra. |
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| 14 | 92 |
She then rushed forward, striking down at me with the heavy, flat pan. |
10 |
| 14 | 102 |
The object, wooden-handled, with a stone head, is used for pounding blubber to loosen the oil in the blubber, which is used in the flat, oval lamps. |
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| 16 | 6 |
Its ears were flat back against its head. |
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| 22 | 8 |
In a flat, rounded tray directly before me, on the leather, there were coiled several feet of this line. |
10 |
| 22 | 115 |
To be sure, there was the head of the sleen, about a quarter emerged, the eyes and nose flat with the water. |
10 |
| 26 | 234 |
Too, I did not understand why Poalu should be busying herself with melting snow over the flat, oval lamp. |
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| 35 | 6 |
With my left arm about his neck I struck his head to the side with the flat of my right hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 625 |
He reached to one side of the table, to a flat, black box, of the sort in which papers are sometimes kept. |
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| 4 | 717 |
If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets Thassa, the sea. |
10 |
| 4 | 756 |
The metal worker placed her wrists behind her in the wrist clamps, adjustable, each on their vertical, flat metal bar. |
10 |
| 5 | 391 |
The girl then lay there quietly again, her head resting on her left arm, it lying, flat, elbow bent, beneath her on the sheet-metal floor of the cage. |
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| 10 | 7 |
He was sitting, cross-legged, on a flat, rectangular stone, broad and heavy, about a foot high, at the western edge of the large Utukufu, or Glory, square. |
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| 11 | 360 |
He also wore a low, round, flat-topped cap of similar material. |
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| 23 | 46 |
He wore a long black robe, embroidered with golden thread, and a flat, soft cap, not unlike a common garb of Schendi, hundreds of pasangs distant. |
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| 27 | 111 |
He leaped across the fire bowl toward her and savagely struck her head to the left with a fierce blow of the flat of his hand. |
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| 32 | 895 |
On an iron table, to the right of the rack, there was a flat box. |
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| 32 | 904 |
From the flat box he then took a yellow neck belt, two inches in height, and beaded. |
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| 32 | 915 |
The disk then lay flat against my collar bone. |
10 |
| 32 | 977 |
He then withdrew from the flat box the last of the objects which it contained, a slave whip. |
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| 33 | 72 |
There was there, overlooking the falls, a large, flat rock. |
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| 33 | 136 |
Tende then, obedient to her master's command, as Kisu clapped his hands and sang, danced on a flat rock in the Ua river, danced before Bila Huruma, so far away, her master's enemy, from whom she had been stolen. |
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| 1 | 995 |
"Stop the cab!" I demanded, coughing, pounding on the glass shield with the flat of my hand. |
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| 11 | 3 |
I lifted my head, slightly, from the flat stones. |
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| 16 | 327 |
My feet, bare, scraped on the flat stones of the street. |
10 |
| 25 | 295 |
Another common type of wagon used generally in the transportation of women is the flat-bedded display wagon, with its mounted iron framework. |
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| 25 | 299 |
In such cases usually one side of the flat wagon bed is used as an auction platform, a small but suitable scaffolding on which may be well displayed the lineaments of the girl's beauty, and on which may be exacted from her the provocative performances demanded by cruel and merciless vendors of their... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 74 |
The two boards are connected and supported by five flat, sliding U-irons; when the U-irons are slid back, the collar is opened. |
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| 10 | 139 |
About her neck, chained, there was a bronze bell, hollow, flattish, with sloping sides, with a flat top and ring, and a slotted, metal coin box, locked. |
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| 24 | 509 |
I put the flat, leather coils of the whip then to her mouth. |
10 |
| 26 | 265 |
He walked up to me and, with the flat of his right hand, gave me a stinging slap. |
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| 29 | 274 |
Its iron posts were received by rounded holes, six inches in width, drilled in a flat, horizontal sill. |
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| 31 | 4 |
I, sweating, chained, pressed my bare feet against the flat, wooden slats nailed on the large, raised wooden disk, the treading platform, some five feet above the floor, encircling the windlass. |
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| 31 | 104 |
She stepped across the dark, stained, flat board that marked the threshold of the restaurant, out onto the grass, into the sunlight and wind. |
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| 32 | 28 |
He thrust five, low, flat coffers of coins across the tiles, and put beside them a tangle of jewelry and a bowl of pearls. |
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| 32 | 105 |
How futile, how ineffective, was the expedient of the chain! Kliomenes regarded the flat coffers of coins on the tiles before his dais, the jewelry, the bowl of pearls, and the girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 179 |
Then she had leaped to her feet, wildly, clutching, holding over head, what appeared to be two, flat, rectangular sheets of lead, bound together. |
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| 8 | 325 |
Only in her troubled sleep, perhaps, did the Earth girl dream of the slaver's noose or the harsh, flat stones of the dungeon on which she might be forced to kneel. |
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| 16 | 181 |
I clung to the blade, crouching on the flat blade mount. |
10 |
| 17 | 73 |
From the chain there hung two objects; the first was a narrow, bronze bell, flattish and tapering, with a flat top and ring; when she moved it would sound, calling attention to her whereabouts; the second was a metal coin box, which contained a slot for the deposition of coins; the coin box was lock... |
10 |
| 18 | 759 |
Then, using the cord and eyelets, I laced the two ends of the broad, flat binding surface, to which, in the front and the center, the wadding was attached, tightly together behind the back of her neck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 580 |
They are produced in a flat, mechanical fashion. |
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| 1 | 725 |
These are rubbed into the hide, and worked into it, usually with a soft flat stone. |
10 |
| 1 | 929 |
I noted the dots between the flat plane of the earth and the semicircle of the sky. |
10 |
| 2 | 89 |
In such a collar, had it been in place, two planks would be involved, both flat and horizontal, each of which would contain five matching semicircular openings. |
10 |
| 4 | 59 |
It was little more than a sleen cage, of heavy, wooden poles, lashed together, its rear gate fastened with a chain and padlock, set on a flat wagon bed. |
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| 13 | 492 |
I recalled the tiles of a palace, the weight of obdurate, clasping chains, my nudity, the tiny movements of air upon my body, the feel of the flat, colored surface of the tiles beneath my knees, and, too, beneath my forehead, as I knelt, my hair spread upon them, betokening submission, humbly render... |
10 |
| 15 | 226 |
He moved his flat right hand in a horizontal circle, clockwise, as Earth clocks move, not Gorean clocks, in front of his chest. |
10 |
| 17 | 459 |
A collar need not be as light and beautiful as the common, narrow, flat-band collars common in the high cities or the loose, light, rounded loops commonly referred to as Turian collars. |
10 |
| 19 | 595 |
It was in sheets, cut almost as thin as paper, dried in the prairie sun, layered in a flat, leather envelope, a parfleche, originally sealed with a seam of hardened fat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
The vibration, clearly, was registered in the narrow, flat-based rings. |
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| 2 | 142 |
I prefer, of course, both in point of beauty and security, the collars of the cities, for example, the narrow, flat bands, often engraved with the master's name, and sometimes with that of the slave, as well, which fit closely about the girl's neck and lock in the back, the most common sort of Gorea... |
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| 33 | 11 |
Beneath the canopy, one with a string of pans and cups tied together, the other with a wooden spoon and a flat, metal pan, were two Waniyanpi women. |
10 |
| 33 | 12 |
One was shouting and gesticulating, shaking the pans and cups; the other was shouting and pounding on the flat, metal pan with the wooden spoon. |
10 |
| 35 | 3 |
A cold wind swept across the flat summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice. |
10 |
| 39 | 115 |
The baker, who was a kind-hearted man, would sometimes come out and, from a flat sheet, throw them unsold pastries". |
10 |
| 40 | 507 |
She tested the tight, flat leather circles confining her wrists, a small movement, one not intended to be observed. |
10 |
| 43 | 151 |
I then handed Cuwignaka and Hci two, long, flat strips of leather. |
10 |
| 43 | 415 |
I must make it to a certain flat, barren rock. |
10 |
| 43 | 434 |
Certainly it did not seem likely that it would lead to this upjutting, flat-topped, weathered rock. |
10 |
| 43 | 491 |
Several of the Yellow Knives, on their kaiila, were now on the large, flat surface of the rock. |
10 |
| 44 | 295 |
"I do love you, truly!" He then, with the flat of his hand, struck her a savage blow across the face, turning her head in the neck bonds, bringing blood to her lips and mouth. |
10 |
| 52 | 2 |
He had already seized up his sword from the low, flat rock in the midst of the encircling savages, Kaiila, Dust Legs, Fleer and Sleen. |
10 |
| 52 | 23 |
I took up the sword from the flat rock. |
10 |
| 54 | 7 |
Among these, on the flanks, on each flank, there was a society marking, a flat black line, a semicircular, curved blue line above it, the line of the earth, the overarching blue dome of the sky above it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 154 |
This belt consisted of two major pieces; one was a rounded, fitted, curved barlike waistband, flattened at the ends; one end of this band, that on the right, standing behind the woman and looking forward, had a heavy semicircular ring, or staple, welded onto it; the other flattened end of the waistb... |
10 |
| 1 | 26 |
I had then stepped onto the sand, in the wide, flat box, with the beach scene projected onto the large screen behind me. |
10 |
| 1 | 81 |
"You see, however," he asked, "how the depth of the planchet allows a relief and contrast of the design with the background to an extent impossible in a flat, milled coin?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 52 |
It was set with heavy bars, spaced about three inches apart, reinforced with thick, flat, steel crosspieces, spaced at about every vertical foot. |
10 |
| 6 | 156 |
The waistband is closed about her, the left side, its slot penetrated by the staple, over the right side; the flat U-shaped band of iron, contoured to female intimacies, is then swung up on its hinge, between her thighs, where the slot on its end is penetrated by the staple, this keeping the parts o... |
10 |
| 8 | 296 |
"I will be pleasing! I will be pleasing!" I looked through the heavy bars of the cell, some three inches in thickness, reinforced with flat crosspieces, to the opposite wall. |
10 |
| 8 | 424 |
It was locked shut, secured by two flat, steel bars, perpendicular to its long axis, padlocked, in front, in place. |
10 |
| 13 | 182 |
Too, behind them, drawn by two tharlarion, came a flat-topped wagon. |
10 |
| 13 | 189 |
The flat-topped wagon was being drawn near. |
10 |
| 13 | 190 |
I gathered that the cage would be suspended from the ring on the projecting beam on the wagon, that it would hang suspended over the surface of the wagon, some feet from the flat bed of the wagon. |
10 |
| 16 | 333 |
Such bread is usually baked in round, flat loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. |
10 |
| 20 | 1 |
The Stream; The Stone I knelt on a flat rock near the side of a small stream, pounding and rinsing a tunic. |
10 |
| 26 | 108 |
Too, its comforter, blankets and pillow were a welcome change from the flat, straw-filled mat and thin blanket on the cement floor of the dormitory. |
10 |
| 27 | 38 |
The palms of our hands were flat on the floor at our sides and our legs were extended before us, the ankles crossed, as though bound. |
10 |
| 27 | 94 |
The palms of our hands were flat on the floor at our sides and our legs were extended before us, the ankles crossed, as though bound. |
10 |
| 27 | 158 |
The palms of our hands were flat on the floor at our sides and our legs were extended before us, the ankles crossed, as though bound. |
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| 34 | 46 |
"Forgive me, Master," she said, and put her head down to the tiles before him, the palms of her hands flat on the floor. |
10 |
| 36 | 48 |
I stood, tears in my eyes, naked, collarless, on the flat stones of the courtyard. |
10 |
| 36 | 148 |
I had awakened, held in a sitting position, my face, stinging, seeming to explode, being jerked, by blows, first with the flat of a hand, and then with its back, from side to side. |
10 |
| 36 | 614 |
He leapt across the room, and, with the flat of his hand, savagely, struck me from my knees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 239 |
The jailer put the two trays on the floor outside the bars, and, with his foot, thrust them through the low, flat opening, like a flat rectangle, at the base of the latticework of bars. |
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| 2 | 793 |
There were two sorts, refined, adjustable strap racks, with beddings of flat, soft, crisscrossed straps, with sturdy stud-and-eyelet securing straps, and simple net racks, little more than sturdy wooden frames within which was slung a netlike webbing of rope. |
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| 2 | 1256 |
I looked at the man on the floor of the booth, he twisted there, awry, on the closely woven, thin, flat carpet, it spread over the broad, stony tiles of the piazza, he in whose heart I had left his own knife. |
10 |
| 2 | 1306 |
Frightened, she crawled upon it, and then lay on it, on her back, on the broad, soft, flat, smooth, comfortable interlaced straps. |
10 |
| 6 | 649 |
Boots then, with the flat of his hand, with some force, cuffed the girl concealed under his robes. |
10 |
| 7 | 279 |
The collar, the flat, snug, unslippable band on her throat, locked behind the back of her neck, was lovely. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
If the board had been laid flat on the ground, the captive then on her back, the position, immediately, would have been recognized as a common binding position, one in which girls are not unoften put for slave use. |
10 |
| 12 | 172 |
Moving little pieces of wood about on a flat, colored board! How stupid! How absurd! How foolish!" "Perhaps you have some duties to attend to elsewhere," I speculated. |
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| 13 | 4 |
"I had warned you," had moaned Boots, in his camp, "but you would not listen!" Five days ago I had been returning to the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit, coming back from a nearby village where I had gone to fetch Sa-Tarna grain, from which the girls, back at the camp, using stones and flat rocks, sifters a... |
10 |
| 16 | 1081 |
She was beautiful then, her legs extended, her heels slightly lifted from the floor, her back straight, her stomach flat, her small breasts arched, the entire line of her slim, lovely body lifted by her upraised wrists, helpless under the duress of the thongs and ring, tied in place, displayed as st... |
10 |
| 19 | 9 |
Gorean urban architecture, in the high cities, tends to be not so much a matter of flat, spreading, concentric horizontal rings, as in many cities, as a matter of towers and tiered levels, linked by soaring, ascendant traceries. |
10 |
| 21 | 478 |
He was now sitting on the floor, back against the bars, his wrists spread, where I could see them, tied back against them, at junctures of vertical bars with a flat, supportive crossbar, some six inches from the floor. |
10 |
| 21 | 509 |
I had used the flat of my hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 94 |
As soon as I had spoken she crawled over the flat stones to the ashes of the fire, and began to prod among them, stirring them with a narrow stick, searching for covert vital embers. |
10 |
| 2 | 130 |
She knelt near it, on her bare knees, in the tiny, coarse tunic, on the flat, sooted, stained stones, tending it. |
10 |
| 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 |
| 22 | 151 |
We watched a large, oblong, flat-bodied black object, about a half hort in length, with long feelers, hurry toward a crack at the base of the wall. |
10 |
| 25 | 780 |
Then he leaned down and seized me by the hair with his left hand, and pulled my head up, and then, then with the flat of his right hand, cuffed me, and then flung me back where I had been, as though I might have been a mere object. |
10 |
| 26 | 498 |
"It is interesting," I said, "that free women should consider their favors of such magnitude, when they are in fact so shabby, flat, and jejune. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 776 |
I was now much more conscious of it, the irregularities of its surface, the subtle unevenness of texture, the flat, stained spots, the sudden, tiny, abrupt roughnesses, where a shoe might have moved the pile. |
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| 5 | 68 |
On my neck, also, there was now a flat, narrow steel collar. |
10 |
| 5 | 78 |
I did not care for the gruel much, as it was tasteless and flat. |
10 |
| 5 | 221 |
The "U-shaped" vertical bar on this belt was, at the center, hammered flat, shaped and slotted. |
10 |
| 8 | 65 |
Still later that afternoon some groups of small, fat, grunting, bristly, brindled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snouted, rooting animals had been herded in, also with pointed sticks, and they, too, had been guided into identical cages. |
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| 8 | 66 |
We had looked out of our cage, our fingers hooked in the mesh, to other cages, some of them with girls in them, some with the fat, flat-snouted, grunting, short-legged, brindled quadrupeds. |
10 |
| 9 | 381 |
"Yes," I thought, "there was quiet, shy Doreen in the library, going quietly about her duties, there, walking about, returning to the reference desk, over that flat carpet, from the information desk, past the Xerox machines". |
10 |
| 11 | 575 |
When a fellow had paid his tarsk bit Mirus would reach into the copper bowl carried by Tula and draw forth from it one of the small, about three inches long and an inch wide, thin, flat, brittle, glazed, baked-clay ostraka. |
10 |
| 11 | 824 |
Ina came forward, from the back, through the beaded curtain, with a flat, shallow box. |
10 |
| 11 | 867 |
Ina, the flat, shallow box of adornments beside her, was back with them. |
10 |
| 11 | 1034 |
Ina brought with her not only the flat, shallow box but a large towel as well. |
10 |
| 11 | 1497 |
I did not want her to whip me, or switch me, or have the other girls put my ankles over the low bar and tie them there, and then have her spank the soles of my bare feet with the springy, flat board. |
10 |
| 13 | 288 |
I do not like those firm, flat bellies on women". |
10 |
| 13 | 293 |
Firm, flat bellies are less popular in women with Gorean men than among the men of Earth. |
10 |
| 17 | 100 |
It was set with flat stones, intricately fitted together. |
10 |
| 20 | 160 |
He was given, however, only a flat piece of rock with a single character inscribed upon it, the first letter in the name of his native village. |
10 |
| 23 | 161 |
We had now ascended the rise, and were on a flat, open space, before the tent. |
10 |
| 25 | 206 |
Her rag, and the polish, in its flat metal container, were near the shield. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 444 |
There there would be flat places, where wagons might camp. |
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| 4 | 59 |
He held a sack in one hand, containing, I supposed, his bath supplies, and, in the other, held by their straps, a scabbard and blade, and what appeared to be a flat, rectangular pouch. |
10 |
| 5 | 307 |
Gorean bread is almost always baked in round, flat loaves. |
10 |
| 5 | 583 |
Then, as though she might suddenly have understood what she was doing, she lowered herself as flat to the tiles as she could, trembling with fear and shame. |
10 |
| 5 | 620 |
The smaller ones open like flat books, not roll books, and may be closed with tiny latches, or tied shut. |
10 |
| 9 | 269 |
She spooned the porridge into the bowls and set the bread, wedges, from a round, flat loaf, on the trenchers, and knelt back. |
10 |
| 12 | 9 |
I stood in a cell, on huge, flat stones, strewn with straw. |
10 |
| 15 | 372 |
It was a sturdy belt, flat, white, woven of ropelike material, quite capable of supporting the purse she had carried. |
10 |
| 17 | 3 |
The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width. |
10 |
| 17 | 307 |
I pressed it as flat as I could, with my hands and foot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 282 |
It is flat, and it lies flat on its board". |
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| 3 | 705 |
Her collar was typical of Gorean slave collars in the north, a light, flat, attractive, gleaming band, about a half inch to three-quarters of an inch in height. |
10 |
| 8 | 461 |
Here and there upon the walls, among those working, were silked flute girls, sometimes sitting cross-legged on flat stones, rather even with or even below the heads of workers, sometimes perched cross-legged on large stones, above the heads of workers, sometimes moving about among the workers, somet... |
10 |
| 8 | 717 |
I pushed her down to the stones, so that her belly was flat on them. |
10 |
| 12 | 6 |
I then stepped back a bit and forcibly, with the flat of my foot, with four or five blows, kicked back the side of the chest, forcing it some inches inward, breaking it muchly from the ends, tearing it free of the nails and the lid. |
10 |
| 14 | 157 |
It was a standard collar, of a sort familiar in the north, flat, narrow, light, sturdy, close-fitting. |
10 |
| 14 | 335 |
Such a flat, crushed world, without difference and meaning, lies to the ruled and makes liars of the rulers. |
10 |
| 17 | 402 |
"The cords," I said, "are attached at one end to the weights within the poles and, at the other end, to the corners of a flat pallet at the bottom of palanquin, on which the girl reclines. |
10 |
| 19 | 99 |
She had a common band collar, flat, close-fitting. |
10 |
| 19 | 648 |
"The temporary collar was flat and close-fitting. |
10 |
| 20 | 298 |
I indicated a flat leather box to one side. |
10 |
| 20 | 327 |
The other two, with their keys, were in the flat box. |
10 |
| 21 | 27 |
I then fetched the collar, designed to resemble a state collar, from the flat leather box. |
10 |
| 27 | 4 |
I had removed her from the couch and put her on the floor, on the heavy, flat stones, on her side, some feet to the left of the couch, as one faced it, from the foot, her wrists behind her, braceleted, chained to her ankles, her neck fastened by a short chain to a recessed slave ring. |
10 |
| 27 | 347 |
An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces. |
10 |
| 28 | 66 |
No, the slave would not spend a comfortable night, lying on the flat flooring stones, naked, her wrists chained closely to her ankles, kept in place by a neck chain, fastened to a floor ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 35 |
They were of flat, heavy, straplike metal. |
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| 4 | 10 |
The depression for the water, like a sunken bowl, was replenished from a slender, flat trickle of water. |
10 |
| 7 | 332 |
These layers of silk, folded neatly into a flat rectangle, he thrust crosswise in my mouth. |
10 |
| 7 | 1046 |
"And put the tops of your toes flat on the grass". |
10 |
| 8 | 165 |
It was flat at the bottom, rather squared at the sides and rounded at the top. |
10 |
| 10 | 683 |
It was flat, narrow, about a half inch in height, and closely fitting, a common collar. |
10 |
| 11 | 500 |
The most familiar are the "common collar," which, in its varieties, tends to be flat and closely fitting, and the "Turian collar," which, in its varieties, is more rounded, and barlike, and fits more loosely. |
10 |
| 11 | 587 |
The collar was a common collar, flat, bandlike, gleaming, not unattractive, now closed. |
10 |
| 11 | 1015 |
It is done with the flat of the hand, the left shoulder with the right hand. |
10 |
| 11 | 1319 |
"Slave," said he to Dorna, indicating a location near the wall, where a flat trap had now been thrown back, revealing a stairwell. |
10 |
| 13 | 327 |
They lay there, almost flat in the water, mostly submerged. |
10 |
| 13 | 555 |
These bridges were not such as the earlier "bridge," that which had led toward the surface of the turret, or tower, which had been little more than a flat rail. |
10 |
| 14 | 1668 |
In only a few moments I had come to the large, flat expanse over the bridge from the terrace. |
10 |
| 24 | 719 |
It was flat and rectangular. |
10 |
| 24 | 721 |
Depending on the box, it may also contain ink, or powdered ink, to be mixed with water, the vessel included, or flat, disklike cakes of pigment, to be dampened, and used as ink, rather as water colors. |
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| 24 | 723 |
A small knife may also be contained in such boxes for scraping out errors, or a flat eraser stone. |
10 |
| 37 | 585 |
They swim with their ears back, flat against the head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 557 |
A broad, flat wagon was there, too large to fit flat through the smaller door, that leading from the room to the corridor and kitchen. |
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| 25 | 199 |
A second girl, carrying a large, flat, wicker tray, brought wedges of bread, cut from flat, rounded loaves, and gave one to each slave. |
10 |
| 2 | 235 |
So, it seems, she was neither excessively buxom, nor, neither, tall, linear, flat-chested and boyish, a variety often praised and recommended for imitation in cultures which encourage the denial or blurring of sexual differences. |
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| 7 | 28 |
There was a flat mat, on which she might sit, or sleep. |
10 |
| 7 | 149 |
The first instructrix had fetched a supple, springy, flat stick, about a yard long, some two inches in width, and about a quarter of an inch thick. |
10 |
| 9 | 121 |
About their throats, rather, closely fitting, locked, were flat, slender metal bands, slave collars. |
10 |
| 9 | 176 |
More than one of the men present struck their left shoulders with the flat of their right hand. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
Ellen complied, and the woman, then turned about in her chair, began to examine the flat, close-fitting, narrow band on her neck. |
10 |
| 16 | 126 |
No longer did it wear the thin, flat, light, graceful, lovely metal band with which she had become familiar, which she had scarcely been aware she had worn, until perhaps a sharp word or a stroke of the switch had recalled to her attention its significance. |
10 |
| 16 | 129 |
These jutting ends then, with their matching apertures, were hammered flat together. |
10 |
| 16 | 910 |
One of the girls in the coffle, she who was last on the chain, or slaver's necklace, turned about to cast a last contemptuous glance at the shelf, but the guardsman behind her struck her a sharp, stinging blow with the flat of his hand below the small of her back, which resounded throughout the mark... |
10 |
| 17 | 519 |
So then, she wondered, would it be better to grow old, and flat, and withered, and tired, and die on Earth, free in some sense, or was it better to be young and beautiful, and healthy and eager, and richly and vitally alive, even though one might be put in a collar and have a mark burned into one's ... |
10 |
| 17 | 1101 |
She was then led for several yards across this level, some sort of open, wind-blown, flat surface, and then found herself suddenly out of the wind, and, in moments, some yards within some straw-strewn, wooden-floored room, or area. |
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| 19 | 193 |
"Forgive me, Master!" But the officer had put his left hand in her hair, to hold her in place, and he then lashed her face back and forth, striking her twice, first with the stinging flat of his right hand, then with the slashing back of the right hand. |
10 |
| 19 | 349 |
The metal of the collar absorbed the cold and seemed like a flat ring of ice on her neck. |
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| 19 | 537 |
In it, other than herself, there was only a blanket, a small loaf of bread, flat, and round, like most Gorean loaves, and a small bota, presumably filled with water. |
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| 19 | 702 |
How kind he is to a lowly barbarian, a mere Earth-girl slave! After an Ahn or so, she went again to her knees, holding the blanket clasped about her, and reached out for, and picked up, the small, round, flat loaf of bread which lay on the wicker flooring with the tiny bota. |
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| 20 | 602 |
A bit later she was placed in a small, flat-bottomed boat, on her belly, under a tarpaulin. |
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| 25 | 105 |
Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som... |
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| 25 | 941 |
So faraway, so different! And then the strange image came to her of herself, stripped as she now was, but standing on the cool, flat, smooth surface of the desk in the classroom, being exhibited as a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1175 |
The common Gorean slave band, incidentally, even in its simplicity, flat, narrow, and close-fitting, is quite beautiful on a woman. |
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| 10 | 8 |
There was also, to the left, a low, flat box, some four feet square. |
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| 10 | 23 |
With a sweeping scrape of the light chain fastened to her collar, the girl fled to the low, flat box, some four feet square, that with cloths, and rags, and such, in it, terrified, and, trembling, crouched down within it. |
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| 11 | 155 |
They were of a common type, a flat, light, closely fitting band, locked at the back of the neck. |
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| 26 | 74 |
"The arsenals," said Peisistratus, "are not easily accessed, for they are stored at the flat termini of the cylinders, where Kurii may fly". |
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| 27 | 25 |
The collar was a common Gorean collar, of the sort favored in particular in her northern hemisphere, flat, light, sturdy, about a half to three-quarters of an inch in height, close-fitting, locked, the lock at the back of the neck. |
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| 29 | 240 |
She put the berries down, on a flat rock. |
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| 35 | 25 |
These alleged pendants were flat and sharply pointed at one end, and, toward the other end, indented, on two sides, and flattened. |
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| 40 | 156 |
"They are at the flat ends of the cylinder?" asked Cabot. |
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| 43 | 10 |
Only his head and shoulders, as he stood, were emerged through the flat entrance to the upper level. |
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| 46 | 150 |
The ends of the world, then, were the flat caps, or poles, closing the cylinder, at each end. |
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| 46 | 152 |
To ascend to this zone by climbing the flat caps, toward their center, can be dangerous or difficult. |
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| 46 | 167 |
The flat caps, on the other hand, provided no such purchase. |
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| 47 | 4 |
Most of those who had come with him had been unable to adhere to the flat surface. |
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| 67 | 61 |
But shortly after the strange message the snow ceased to be deep and dry, and began to subside into dampness, and, where it had been flat, and hard, and icy, he could see water beneath it, in bubbles, and tiny rivulets at the side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 65 |
She could not remove the light, flat, slender metal band which encircled it, attractively, closely. |
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| 4 | 433 |
It was nicely on her, a typical Gorean collar of the higher latitudes, sturdy, flat, close-fitting. |
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| 5 | 804 |
It would be far preferable to being pilloried naked, subjected to the blows and abuse of irate citizens, being publicly, ceremoniously, whipped, and then being transported out of the city, naked, standing, wrists lashed to an overhead bar, on a flat-bedded, public slave wagon, to the jeers of free c... |
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| 10 | 5 |
He sat cross-legged, within his pavilion, on a low, flat platform of lacquered wood, some twelve feet square. |
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| 11 | 16 |
When a suitable heap had been formed, she would lift it, again with her bare hands, and place it on a low flat cart, which she drew beside her. |
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| 38 | 479 |
"Yes, Master! Yes, Master!" Then perhaps her mouth needs be covered, with the flat of one's hand, that her cries may not be obtrusive. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 155 |
Her collar was a simple, flat metal band, light, close-fitting, with the lock, as is common, at the back of the neck. |
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| 2 | 197 |
Stories had it that they rode within ships, but strange ships, round, flat ships, like disks, disks of metal, which moved like clouds, swift as thought, in silence. |
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| 3 | 164 |
"I was of high caste, of high family, of position and importance, of influence, wealth, and power, and now," she sobbed, "I have this!" Her eyes filled with tears, and she put the fingers of her right hand to the flat, sturdy, metal band which closely encircled her throat. |
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| 7 | 227 |
"The world is flat, as may be easily seen, and, if so, it must end somewhere". |
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| 8 | 50 |
I looked over the rail, at the gray sky, the dim globe of Tor-tu-Gor, at the horizon, the flat, white, frozen desert about. |
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| 8 | 151 |
A metal band had been hammered shut there, and, now flat against the band, in its welded staple, was a smaller ring, to which a chain might be attached, or through which a chain might be run, one by means of which several girls might be secured. |
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| 12 | 146 |
Goblets are weighted, for steadiness, and plates are flat-bottomed, and square, to minimize movement, by maximizing the amount of surface area in contact with the table. |
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| 13 | 30 |
The strange ships were flat-bottomed, and so could navigate rivers, perhaps by poling or towing, and shallow waters, as well as the sea. |
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| 37 | 1509 |
Alcinoë, as she was Gorean, had the honor of bringing forth the vessel and cups, and my slave, as she was a barbarian, and thus subordinate, unless it was otherwise specified, brought forth the small pitcher of cream, the tiny spoons, and the small, flat bowls of sugars and spices. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 616 |
Rawlinson's hands, we leapt up and hurried to the kitchen, to bring forth the fare, the sweets, the candies, the nuts, the bowls of fruit, the herbs, the bread, flat, circular loaves of bread, which would be divided into eight wedges, the many covered dishes of boiled vegetables and hot meat, the ve... |
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| 5 | 439 |
I crawled to him, the chains on my wrists and ankles dragging on the large, flat stones, and, head down, frightened, pressed my lips to his feet. |
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| 7 | 4 |
Thus, more than one can be placed on a sideless, flat-bedded wagon, roped in place. |
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| 7 | 58 |
The flooring was of large flat stones, as in my cell. |
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| 7 | 631 |
I was then being guided from the training room, and turned left, and, in a moment, I felt the smooth, worn, flat tiles of the corridor beneath my bare feet. |
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| 8 | 468 |
The bars were sturdy, some six inches apart, reinforced every ten horts or so by horizontally placed, flat, narrow plates of ironwork. |
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| 8 | 1389 |
It was a flat band which closely encircled my throat. |
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| 9 | 4 |
Thus, more than one can be placed on a sideless, flat-bedded wagon, roped in place. |
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| 17 | 558 |
Each was nicely collared, the thin, flat band, encircling the neck, closely. |
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| 18 | 829 |
The masters were preparing to rise from the table when suddenly a flat, linear object of metal clattered, ringing, on the table. |
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| 18 | 902 |
He indicated the blade, flat, on the table. |
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| 45 | 36 |
Accordingly, if a large Gorean chronometer had been placed flat before the great portal, and one was to move toward the Sixth Ahn one would go to the left and not the right. |
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| 45 | 97 |
In much less time than it had taken me to rendezvous with Tiresias, he had brought me to a passageway which debouched onto a relatively flat slope of rock no more than a hundred paces from the great portal. |
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| 45 | 116 |
It was clear to me that it would not be practical for Tiresias, blind, to attack two armed Kurii, let alone across an expanse of relatively flat rock in daylight. |
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| 52 | 68 |
He then undid the flat, narrow leather straps which had bound my wrists to the ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 53 |
And I was very grateful when I earned my first, more typical, collar, light, flat, and close-fitting. |
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| 6 | 125 |
There are bundles of silk, coils of wire, brass lamps, jars of ointment and salve, flat boxes of cosmetics; and poles on which are strung shackles and slave chain. |
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| 8 | 293 |
"Not at all!" he laughed, striking his left shoulder twice with the flat of his right hand. |
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| 25 | 60 |
I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah, parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron lfuit... |
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| 26 | 216 |
"A spear would be better," he said, "if the lari were in flat country, in open country, and anticipated, but the size and weight of the spear impairs its utility as a hunting tool. |
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| 43 | 375 |
"Yes," she said, — Aeson seized her by the hair, that her face be held in place, and slapped her twice, first with the flat of his right hand, and then the back. |
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| 50 | 406 |
Near the gate, within it, to my right as I entered, was a low, flat, round tank, presumably for water, and a feed trough. |
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| 52 | 238 |
It was chilly on the beach, and there was fog, flat about the surface of the stirring water, and in the sky there was smoke, drifting westward, toward Thassa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 209 |
Then I was frightened, for I feared he might return the blow, and I did not doubt that such a blow, even if merely with the flat of his hand, that of a male, given his size, his strength, so much more than mine, might strike me to the side of the room. |
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| 1 | 584 |
"It's not a flat key," she said. |
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| 2 | 108 |
What was it but a flat, opaque, plain surface, a familiar, meaningless, inert expanse? "Paula?" I said. |
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| 8 | 59 |
I now wore a light metal band, flat, and close-fitting, on my throat, secured with a small lock at the back of the neck. |
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| 11 | 103 |
With a heavy, grinding, sound, one we knew well, the heavy, conical stone began to rotate slowly on the thick, flat, circular, platelike stone from which the troughs descended. |
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| 13 | 33 |
I held the pan firmly down on the flat stone, that it might not slip. |
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| 24 | 52 |
I was lifted from the wagon and set on flat stones. |
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| 28 | 77 |
The common Gorean loaf, so to speak, is flat and circular. |
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| 30 | 216 |
To the side were a flat spatulalike spoon, and a pointed stick, a northern analog to the Turian eating, or dining, prong. |
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| 32 | 55 |
This illuminated a flat sign under the lamp on which there was some lettering that, I supposed, identified the structure. |
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| 46 | 55 |
The utterance, in Kur, was startled, shaken, but its reproduction in Gorean, with its single, flat, unemotional, metallic syllable, conveyed nothing of Lord Grendel's surprise, dismay, or agitation. |
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| 50 | 84 |
Her nostrils widened, her ears were half lifted, inclined vulnerably toward Lord Grendel, very different from when, in her rage, they had been flat, and back, against the sides of her head. |
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| 57 | 238 |
I saw the reeling Kur, no longer howling, enter the festive structure, look about, and then leap up, seizing the latticework of the bower, and then falling back to the ground amidst a confetti of flat, narrow boards that could not have begun to hold his weight. |
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| 61 | 297 |
He spun about and, with the flat of his left hand, struck her savagely to the grass, and was then, again, resolute, in the guard position. |
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| 61 | 511 |
And others shrank even farther back, that they not interfere with the large, pelted thing that followed her, light-footed, docile in her wake, which thing bore a large, flat box. |
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| 61 | 564 |
Her alleged pet, bearing the large, flat box, had not followed her to the foot of the stands, but had lingered behind, and was rather close to the stake, near which Surtak, Drusus Andronicus, Kurik, and Lord Grendel had taken their stand. |
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| 61 | 616 |
She looked back, to where the Kurlike thing that had accompanied her to the field waited, bearing the large, flat box. |
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| 61 | 645 |
In the bit of time in which the Kur had advanced upon the free woman, had encountered the poisoned spines of the gay, bright-yellow parasol, and experienced the consequences of its indiscretion, the Kurlike thing near the stake had flung open the large, flat box, and Lord Grendel had seized out his ... |
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| 63 | 247 |
Shortly thereafter our wrists were freed from the slave bracelets, and we were given a round, flat loaf of bread, which we eagerly divided between us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 247 |
Had I not felt it before? Is it not an experience sufficiently familiar to an attractive, negligible female slave? I had been stung sharply below the small of my back, with a sudden, forcible blow, delivered with the fierce, swift flat of a man's hand. |
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| 8 | 611 |
"On each side of the bow," I said, "as on some ships moored at Brundisium, there is a large, flat hemisphere of metal, an armor, a shield, to protect the ship from injury". |
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| 8 | 811 |
I noted that Euphrosyne had pulled the red cloth tight about herself, accentuating her figure, and, as though by some careless inadvertence, had arranged matters so that a bare shoulder might be glimpsed, and the narrow, flat circlet of metal enclosing her fair throat. |
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| 9 | 16 |
Some brushes were large and flat, for trays and flatware; others were narrower and rounded, for vessels. |
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| 9 | 38 |
I looked to the side, apprehensively, at one of the large flat brushes. |
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| 9 | 43 |
Even binding fiber tends to be flat and soft, as well as strong. |
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| 9 | 70 |
We all turned to face the voice, and knelt, back on our heels, our backs straight, our shoulders back, our heads lifted, the palms of our hands down, flat, on our thighs, our knees well spread. |
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| 11 | 6 |
The roofs are commonly flat, and equipped with stones, debris, and covered vessels of pitch which, uncovered and ignited, might be cast down toward the water, and, in places, leaders are found through which, suitably adjusted, burning oil might be directed with what, from the point of view of those ... |
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| 11 | 214 |
The common Gorean loaf is flat and circular, and is divided, if divided, into either four or eight slices. |
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| 26 | 42 |
I could not see it well, but there seemed an alignment of flat, triangular plates cutting slowly through the water. |
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| 30 | 18 |
Several were open, with waist-high, flat counters. |
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| 40 | 5 |
I heard knives plunged, slicing, into flat, rounded loaves of bread. |
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| 42 | 226 |
On this walkway, amongst some men and women, waiting, gathered perhaps for news, was Seremides, Talena, and a slave in the livery of the Golden Chain, holding what appeared to be a flat, soft, folded bundle. |
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| 43 | 253 |
I lay on my side, on the thick, flat mat which floored the canopied area. |
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| 46 | 50 |
They were both typical, common collars, flat, light, comfortable, closely fitting, and locked. |
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| 47 | 48 |
It had little furniture, as most Gorean domiciles; it contained, for example, a curule chair, for a master, a low table, about which men might sit cross-legged and slaves kneel, some chests, of various sorts, for storage along the walls, some low flat cushions, and a couch, equipped with chains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 116 |
More than once we had lowered our masts and sails, and our low ships, painted green, the pirate color, difficult to detect in the waves of Thassa, had lain almost flat in the water. |
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| 3 | 160 |
"It is small," said Clitus, "flat without mountains, easily missed". |
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| 8 | 69 |
We take our leave, quietly, not easily seen, flat in the water". |
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| 16 | 7 |
"Why do you want to see such a thing, so empty, so small, so flat, and barren?" "I am curious," I said. |
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| 30 | 1 |
We Observe the Enemy I motioned down, with the flat of my hand, from the crest of the hill to which I had crawled, where I lay on my belly. |
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| 37 | 84 |
Gorean bread is commonly baked in flat, round loafs, sliced either in fourths or eighths. |
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| 37 | 106 |
Once on the wide, flat barge we moved the cart to the stacked layers of blocks which arrangement was now ten blocks in depth and, in most places, three blocks high. |
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| 57 | 53 |
Similarly, it cannot hold on a smooth flat surface. |
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| 57 | 175 |
We knew, as the mercenaries presumably would not, that on a flat deck coated with a layer of oil, that the flames, after their initial flaring, would provide little impedance to the business of war. |
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