| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 188 |
Who knew the nature of the things or forces that were afoot that night in the mountains, things and forces that might perhaps smash me, casually, as one innocently steps on an insect without being aware of it or caring? I still had the compass, and that constituted a firm link to reality. |
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| 2 | 171 |
Even the technology of the envelope with its patterned thumb-lock, the disorientation of my compass, and the ship that had brought me, unconscious, to this strange world, argued for an incredible grasp of unusual, precise, and manipulable forces. |
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| 2 | 182 |
I saw my image in the wine, shattered by the tiny forces in the vessel. |
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| 2 | 246 |
"It is my belief," he said, "that the Priest-Kings can control the forces of gravity, at least in localized areas, and, indeed, that they do so. |
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| 15 | 33 |
Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ... |
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| 15 | 192 |
If you seize them, you can divide Pa-Kur's horde, give the Home Stones to the contingents of the tributary cities, provided they withdraw their forces. |
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| 16 | 14 |
Periodically the shrill notes of alarm bugles would pierce the air, as forces from Ar emerged to do battle on the plains before the city. |
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| 16 | 16 |
Sometimes the forces of Pa-Kur drove the warriors of Ar back to the very walls of the city, forcing them through the gates. |
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| 16 | 17 |
Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch. |
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| 16 | 21 |
But gradually the tarnsmen of Ar were diminished, overwhelmed by the superior forces which Pa-Kur could, with ruthless liberality, throw against them. |
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| 16 | 22 |
On the ninth day of the siege the sky belonged to Pa-Kur, and the forces of Ar no longer emerged from the great gate. |
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| 16 | 42 |
Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders. |
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| 16 | 43 |
These task forces seldom managed to return, but sometimes they were outstandingly successful. |
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| 17 | 17 |
The siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 15 |
There was no love in my heart for the Priest-Kings, those mysterious denizens of the Sardar Mountains, whoever or whatever they might be, but there was gratitude in my heart, either to them or to the strange forces that moved them. |
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| 4 | 74 |
I raised my eyes to the storm, and my spear and shield, and shouted into the storm, my voice drowned in the turbulence of nature, a defiant puff of wind hurled against the forces that seemed arrayed against me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 84 |
To the females of Misk's forces he offered gold, jewelry, precious stones, delicious silks, the permission to allow their hair to grow, and male slaves, the latter again to be provided after the projected defeat of Misk's forces. |
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| 1 | 44 |
In the contests of scribes, on the other hand, the blood that is spilled is invisible and the valiant foemen retire in good order, reviling their enemies and recouping their forces for the next day's campaign. |
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| 1 | 97 |
It is said that neither the physical intricacies of the cosmos nor the emotions of human beings are beyond the scope of their power, that the feelings of men and the motions of atoms and stars are as one to them, that they can control the very forces of gravity and invisibly sway the hearts of human... |
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| 8 | 31 |
More fully than ever before I then understood how much the forces of superstition have depressed and injured men. |
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| 8 | 145 |
He organized a system of far-flung beacons, set in fortified towers, which would give the alarm when unwelcome forces entered the territory of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among... |
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| 28 | 7 |
The headquarters for the forces of Misk lay in his compartment and there, pouring over the scent maps of the tunnels, he directed the placement of his defenses. |
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| 28 | 8 |
Thinking to overcome us with little difficulty, the forces of Sarm, mounted on transportation disks, swept through the tunnels and plazas, but the Priest-Kings of Misk, hidden in rooms, concealed behind portals, firing from the ramps and the roofs of buildings in the open complexes, soon took fierce... |
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| 28 | 9 |
In such war the much larger forces of the First Born tended to be neutralized and a situation of infiltration and counterinfiltration developed, marked by frequent sniping and occasional skirmishes. |
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| 28 | 10 |
On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium. |
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| 28 | 11 |
Although constantly on the alert, I saw no sign of enemy forces, nor even of Muls or Matoks of various kinds. |
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| 28 | 91 |
I thought, even in spite of the cage plastic, she might be safer with the forces of Misk. |
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| 28 | 163 |
The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to... |
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| 28 | 170 |
In the third week of the War, equipped with the armored transportation disks, we began to carry the battle to the forces of Sarm, though they still outnumbered us greatly. |
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| 28 | 180 |
Once a brave Priest-King of Misk's forces was slain and the humans who had fought with him wept. |
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| 28 | 222 |
There were no propellers or jets or rockets and I find it difficult to understand or explain the drive save that it used the forces of gravity against themselves in such a way that the amount, if one may use so inept an expression, of gravitational Ur, which is the Gorean expression for the gravitat... |
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| 28 | 231 |
This is undoubtedly the effect of lacking the resistance of gravitational forces which normally account for the sometimes unpleasant, but reassuring, effects of acceleration and deceleration. |
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| 30 | 64 |
But now that Misk's forces possessed a similar weapon Sarm, in fear, set his own similar devices aside. |
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| 30 | 67 |
On the other hand the ships of the two forces tended, it seemed, to neutralize one another, and the war in the air, far from being decisive, as Misk and I had hoped, had begun to turn into the same stalemate that had developed on the ground. |
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| 30 | 71 |
These creatures, perhaps two hundred or more, were loosed and by means of covered transportation disks, piloted by Priest-Kings using oxygen systems internal to the disks, were driven toward the quarters of the Nest controlled by the unsuspecting Misk and his forces. |
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| 30 | 77 |
Now the Beetles roamed at random throughout the Nest, more of a threat to Sarm's own forces than Misk's, for now none of Misk's Priest-Kings ventured abroad without a human to protect it should it encounter a Golden Beetle. |
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| 30 | 83 |
To this generous proposal he added, sensing it might not in itself be irresistible, a tub of salt per man and two female Muls, to be provided after the defeat of Misk's forces, when presumably there would be captured females to distribute to the victors. |
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| 30 | 85 |
To these proposals he added the very definite considerations that his forces still substantially outnumbered those of Misk in both number of Priest-Kings and firepower, and that victory would be his inevitably, and that it would be well at such a time to be in his good favor. |
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| 30 | 86 |
Whereas I would not have abandoned Misk and freedom to join the forces of Sarm, I was forced to admit that the probable victory in the end would be his, and that his proposals might well be attractive to some former Muls, particularly those who had occupied a position of some importance in the Nest ... |
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| 30 | 87 |
I should not have been surprised, but I was, when the first deserter from the forces of Misk proved to be the treacherous Vika of Treve. |
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| 30 | 165 |
I learned from conversation in the headquarters room that not many of the humans who fought with Misk's forces had responded to the blandishments of Sarm, though some, like Vika of Treve, had deserted to cast their fortune with what appeared to be the winning side. |
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| 30 | 168 |
The latter, of course, terrified, bewildered, would be of little service themselves, but they were offered as inducements to the males of Misk's forces to encourage their desertion; the girls were, so to speak, a bounty for treachery, and since the beauty of Chamber Slaves was well known in the Nest... |
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| 30 | 191 |
Growing more desperate, Sarm rallied his forces and armored six dozen transportation disks and swept into Misk's domain. |
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| 30 | 192 |
Apparently Misk's forces were waiting for them, as might have been expected given the superior intelligence afforded by the numerous humans in Misk's camp and the disks were stopped by barricades and withered in the intense fire from nearby rooftops. |
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| 30 | 197 |
Then there came a calm in the War and I gathered that Misk's forces had been driven back. |
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| 31 | 2 |
It lay in one of the plazas in the area controlled by the forces of Sarm. |
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| 31 | 53 |
There was a greater problem as to what to do with the former Muls who had deserted to join the forces of Sarm, for the blandishments he had offered, and because they had thought that his side was the one which was winning. |
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| 32 | 107 |
We ourselves did not find out about it until some technicians joined our forces in the Nest War". |
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| 32 | 276 |
"Did you know," he asked, "that Vika was the female Mul who drove away the Golden Beetles when Sarm sent them against the forces of Misk?" "No," I said, "I did not know". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 101 |
The battle was joined at the seventh Gorean hour and, as planned, as soon as the Paravaci center was committed, the bulk of our forces wheeled and retreated among the wagons, the rest of our forces then turning and pushing the wagons together. |
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| 23 | 10 |
Kamchak would meanwhile marshal his forces within the city, preparing to withdraw, Kutaituchik unavenged, to ride back against the Paravaci. |
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| 23 | 53 |
For much the same reasons as the Kataii, Conrad was unwilling to commit his forces to the defense of Tuchuk herds. |
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| 23 | 60 |
I knew that in little more than fifteen or twenty Ehn his forces would be lost, dissipated among the wagons, and yet surely the Paravaci must be met and fought there as well as on the prairie. |
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| 23 | 67 |
Our bosk horns rang out and my brave Thousand, worn in the saddle, weary, on spent kaiila, without a murmur or a protest, turned and following my lead struck into the center of the Paravaci forces. |
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| 23 | 93 |
Both Harold and I then spoke with our men, each issuing orders that any man with us who wished might now withdraw from the wagons and rejoin the main forces in Turia. |
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| 23 | 99 |
Harold and I determined to appear to meet the Paravaci in the open—before the wagons—and then, when they charged, to withdraw among the wagons, and close the wagons on their attacking front, halting the charge, then at almost point-blank range hopefully taking heavy toll of their force... |
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| 23 | 107 |
About a pasang distant we could see new forces of the Paravaci forming on the crest of a sweeping gradient. |
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| 24 | 9 |
I and Kamchak expected Saphrar to flee by tarn at any moment, for it must now be clear to him that the strike of the Paravaci against the Tuchuk wagons and herds had not forced Kamchak to withdraw; indeed, his forces were now supplemented by Kataii and Kassars, a development which must have horrifie... |
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| 24 | 13 |
I did ask Kamchak why, considering the probabilities that the Kataii and the Kassars would not have come to the aid of the Tuchuks, he had not abandoned Turia and returned with his main forces to the wagons. |
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| 24 | 23 |
Kamchak's forces, on the whole, were so disposed as to push the Turians toward two gates which he had left open and undefended, thus providing a route of escape for civilians and soldiers who would make use of it. |
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| 24 | 40 |
Still I was not altogether satisfied, for, on the whole, it seemed to me that Turia might yet have survived even had Kamchak's forces wrought much greater destruction than they had—for example, opening but a single gate and permitting only a few hundred, rather than thousands to escape the ci... |
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| 24 | 65 |
The city now largely clear of defenders, and closed to the outside, Kamchak could bring his forces to bear on Saphrar's house, that fort within a fort, and on the tower of Ha-Keel, taking them, if necessary, by storm. |
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| 26 | 1 |
The Egg of Priest-Kings In the dampness and darkness long before dawn the forces of Kamchak, crowding the streets of Turia in the vicinity of Saphrar's compound, waited silently, like dark shapes on the stones; here and there the glint of a weapon or accouterment could be made out in the fading lig... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 189 |
Moreover, Kazrak had been one of the leaders of the forces that had preserved Ar in the time of its troubles with Pa-Kur, master of the Assassins; as the tale was now told in the streets, the men of Ar themselves, alone, had overthrown the invader; Kazrak seemed a living reminder that Glorious Ar ha... |
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| 12 | 137 |
If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt... |
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| 17 | 203 |
The first sword of the military forces of Ar, Maximus Hegesius Quintilius, second in authority only to Minus Tentius Hinrabius himself, was relieved of his post. |
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| 17 | 210 |
He was given a full military funeral; his ashes had been scattered from tarnback over a field where, as a general some years before, he had led the forces of Ar to victory. |
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| 22 | 403 |
The tarnsmen, of course, centuries before, had been developed from land forces; it had always seemed to me that the tarn cavalries of Gor might be considerably improved by a judicious alteration of weapons and training practices; however, I had never had a command of tarnsmen of my own, and my ideas... |
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| 24 | 111 |
Saphronicus, their Captain, with other high officers, including Seremides of Tyros, who had replaced Maximus Hegesius Quintilius as leader of the forces of Ar, now lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 24 | 113 |
Their helmets and cloaks were no different from those of the armed forces of Ar generally. |
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| 24 | 163 |
Saphronicus, former Captain of the Taurentians, and his high officers, and Seremides of Tyros, who had replaced Maximus Hegesius Quintilius as leader of the forces of Ar, were at one point brought forward, chained. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 115 |
It was subject to attack by forces beached to the west from the tarn fleets of Port Kar, through the marsh itself by the barges of Port Kar, or from the east or north, depending on the marches following the disembarkation of Port Kar forces. |
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| 15 | 124 |
Lastly, the forces of Henrius Sevarius, under the regency of Claudius, once of Tyros, had been driven by the Council forces from all their holdings, save one, a huge fortress, its walls extending into the Tamber itself, sheltering the some two dozen ships left him. |
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| 17 | 49 |
The first two waves of my attack consisted, thus, of fifty task forces of sixteen tarn ships apiece and, following each of the task forces, at an interval of half an Ahn, another pair of tarn ships. |
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| 1 | 32 |
Peasants, incidentally, are seldom, except in emergencies, utilized in the armed forces of a city; this is a further reason why their weapon, the long bow, is less known in the cities, and among warriors, than it deserves to be. |
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| 8 | 106 |
With this arrangement they had greater mobility of their forces, for men might leap, say, from the foredeck of one barge to the tiller deck of the other. |
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| 10 | 123 |
A seaman, reportedly escaped from Cos, was telling of the preparation of a great fleet intending to sail against Port Kar, a fleet that would be enlarged by the forces of Tyros as well. |
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| 10 | 125 |
Cos and Tyros, when not at one another's throats, are always threatening to join their forces for an onslaught on Port Kar. |
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| 10 | 134 |
We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i... |
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| 11 | 207 |
Should the forces of Sevarius emerge from his holdings we shall meet them with steel". |
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| 11 | 414 |
It is true, of course, that the council already controlled a large number of ships and crews, but it must be remembered that these forces were naval in nature; the council already had its navy; the events of the afternoon had demonstrated that it would be well if it had also at its disposal a small,... |
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| 11 | 416 |
Besides, if the council were to become truly sovereign in Port Kar, as it had proclaimed itself, it seemed essential that it should soon have its own military forces within the city. |
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| 13 | 156 |
"As you may not know," I said, "Claudius and the various forces of Henrius Sevarius are scarcely in command of Port Kar". |
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| 17 | 31 |
This was one of fifty such task forces, consisting altogether of eight hundred tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 48 |
I had also arranged signals whereby my ships, those of my task forces and others, might, if the pairs became separated, switch partners, thus retaining the possibility of pair-attacks on single ships even if the members of the original pairs should become separated. |
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| 17 | 82 |
The admiral of Cos and Tyros, Chenbar I supposed, could not know the exact numbers and disposition of our forces. |
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| 17 | 195 |
Then, as the lines of Cos and Tyros had closed and deepened, to match formations with my task forces, the great encircling line of round ships had cast its net about them. |
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| 17 | 298 |
His forces were now engaged, I had learned, by the city of Tor, to quell incursions by tarn-riding desert tribesmen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 238 |
Then, suddenly, no forces seemed to play upon me, and, to my horror, I drifted to the other side of the tube. |
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| 8 | 146 |
"In your dreams," she asked, "what sort of man is it who touches you, who binds you and carries you away, who takes you to his fortress, who forces you to do his bidding?" I recalled how, outside the penthouse, hurrying to the garage, a man had looked at me, and had not looked away, and how, fleeing... |
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| 13 | 588 |
The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 25 |
This forces the girls into the forest where, theoretically, they may be separately taken. |
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| 8 | 47 |
One locates a sleeping girl and then, swiftly, as she awakens squirming, forces a heavy wadding into her mouth, fastening it in place with strips of cloth and leather. |
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| 10 | 120 |
"She claimed that you had withdrawn your forces to Ar, even that you had disowned Talena. |
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| 15 | 32 |
The panther girl understands only when it is she herself who has been captured and taught her womanhood, only when it is she herself who finds herself in the strong arms of a man who, with or without her consent, makes her wholly feminine, who forces her to yield to him, who is her conqueror. |
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| 18 | 63 |
To protect them would, of course, divert the forces of the enemy; to free them, should the enemy not possess heavy tools, which I did not, would be almost impossible. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 187 |
I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves it is a victor... |
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| 11 | 204 |
The point of the probe, indeed, might be to push Kur power as far south as possible, and, perhaps, too, for the first time, result in the engagement of the forces of Priest-Kings to turn them back. |
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| 11 | 210 |
It utilized large forces on Gor itself, largely native Kurii, in its schemes. |
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| 11 | 214 |
It was possible, of course, that the Kurii would attack Torvaldsland when well within it, without large forces marshaled against them. |
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| 15 | 115 |
"In the morning," I said, "we will be recognized as not being of Thorgard's forces. |
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| 18 | 131 |
No wonder the commander of the Kurii had left his forces here, disappearing. |
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| 18 | 403 |
I saw Hrolf, from the east, the bearded giant who had joined our forces, asking only to fight with us, leaning on his spear, soberly, surveying the field. |
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| 20 | 80 |
It had been he, doubtless a Kur from the steel worlds themselves, who had commanded the Kurii army, who had been the leader of their forces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 311 |
The vassal tribe is, in effect, a military unit subordinate to the conquering tribe which it, then, may count among its forces. |
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| 23 | 131 |
Tahari battles, at some time or another, almost always, the forces deeply interpenetrating one another, turn into a melee of individual combats. |
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| 23 | 142 |
If offended, and not deeming it honorable to attack the allies of the Aretai, they might simply withdraw their forces and return to their own land, more than a thousand pasangs away. |
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| 23 | 164 |
It seemed a not inopportune time for Baram to commit his forces. |
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| 23 | 272 |
The pashas and their guards who had surrounded us returned to their forces. |
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| 24 | 4 |
Many of his men, I believe, did not understand the nature of the forces they faced until we swept over the hills upon them. |
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| 24 | 64 |
She forces open the doors and runs outside. |
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| 24 | 837 |
"Does it not seem likely that men and women, together, in a complementary fashion, forming a race, a kind of animal, were conjointly shaped by the long, harsh application of evolutionary forces? Does it seem likely to you that biology would have shaped the man and neglected the woman?" "No," said Ve... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 486 |
In the confusion, as the attention of men had been directed elsewhere, the forces of my master, though not impressive numerically, had been sharply and irresistibly applied. |
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| 7 | 30 |
On the day of Ar's surrender itself was she saved, by the uprising of her very citizens, violent in the streets, abetted by the forces of certain cities of the north, notably Ko-ro-ba and Thentis. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 15 |
Some nine men among our forces were of the peasants. |
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| 12 | 210 |
Their occasional vastnesses, and the might of the forces that have formed them, become even more impressive when it is understood that what one can see above the surface does little more than hint at what lies below. |
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| 27 | 226 |
"But such things," she said, "control even the forces of nature". |
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| 28 | 242 |
"Perhaps you should join forces with us," said Drusus. |
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| 35 | 364 |
That all personnel were to report to their stations would provide the leaders in the complex with an accounting of their forces and suddenly make the surveillance system of the complex effective. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 153 |
He had not tied her at night since we had seen the forces of the river peoples pass the island on which we had hidden, those forces of incredible numbers which had doubtless wiped out Bila Huruma, his flotilla and his battalions of askaris. |
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| 16 | 169 |
"To meet and defeat in battle the rebel forces of Kisu, former Mfalme of the Ukungu villages". |
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| 16 | 186 |
"Our only hope," said the man to my left, "is a victory by the forces of Kisu". |
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| 16 | 207 |
"The forces of Kisu have been met in battle and defeated," said Ayari. |
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| 18 | 22 |
When I entered the court Bila Huruma had just finished accepting the reports of his officers on the battle with the forces of Kisu. |
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| 20 | 133 |
It was little wonder that he and his forces had been defeated by the askaris of Bila Huruma. |
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| 32 | 1012 |
"Yet if one of them should so much as question the renunciatory and negativistic values with which his brain has been imprinted he will be immediately assailed by the marshaled forces of an establishment jealously presiding over the dissolution of its own culture. |
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| 34 | 100 |
It had been this morning, shortly before noon, that we had surmounted the height of the falls, that almost on the summit of which Kisu, in the face of the distant, oncoming forces of Bila Huruma, had danced a naked slave, she to whom he at his pleasure had given the name 'Tende'. |
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| 34 | 790 |
It gives me great pleasure to see that her master now puts her own name on her and forces her to wear it, openly and publicly, as a slave name". |
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| 42 | 4 |
We had now been on the river four months since we had, first, on the looming height of the falls, observed the many ships and canoes of the forces of Bila Huruma far behind us. |
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| 50 | 6 |
Two weeks ago we had come to another high falls, even higher than that from which we had, long ago, caught sight of the following forces of Bila Huruma, pasangs behind in the distance. |
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| 53 | 339 |
One of the Kur leaders, then, marshaling his forces, formed them in loose lines, that they might no longer be singly attacked. |
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| 53 | 350 |
Again and again, then, the trunks of small trees struck at the barrier fending us from the main forces of the attacker. |
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| 53 | 421 |
I doubted but what it would now take more than one charge by the massed forces of the Kurii. |
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| 54 | 20 |
Of his forces Bila Huruma retained some ninety askaris. |
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| 54 | 36 |
"I wanted the forces to get through," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 284 |
"Earthlings," she said, "are manipulated organisms, helpless in the flow of social forces, slobbering to slogans and rhetoric. |
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| 7 | 642 |
She did not understand me, or the forces which moved within me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92 |
"I have heard," said another, "that forces from Port Olni are marching to the relief of Vonda". |
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| 2 | 14 |
"We have been successful here," he said, "defeating in battle both the forces of Vonda and those of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus of Cos. |
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| 2 | 20 |
"Forces from Lara march north," said he. |
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| 2 | 21 |
"Forces from Port Olni are within a hundred pasangs, marching south. |
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| 2 | 30 |
Defeating them we will return south to meet the forces of Lara, perhaps even here, in the sight of the ashes of Vonda". |
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| 2 | 32 |
"We fear only that the forces of Ti will be committed," he said. |
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| 3 | 283 |
"Our forces have already moved north," one man was saying. |
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| 6 | 20 |
Their action, however, the strike to Lara, had caused considerable consternation among the forces of Lara, marching toward Vonda. |
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| 6 | 23 |
In this action, however, the forces of Port Olni had been, unexpectedly, abetted by troops from Ti, under the command of Thandar of Ti, one of the sons of Ebullius Gaius Cassius. |
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| 13 | 61 |
"If the topaz should reach the stronghold of Policrates," she said, "the way would be clear for the uniting of the raider forces of both the east and west". |
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| 13 | 64 |
"They cannot be adequately invested," I said, "without considerable forces. |
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| 15 | 144 |
If it does, the major forces of the pirates of the eastern Vosk would achieve unification, at least for a time, with those of the western Vosk. |
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| 22 | 117 |
How powerful are the forces of socialization! How rare the individual who has the intelligence and strength to examine inflicted orthodoxies! How few can detect the subtle encompassing walls, let alone break or scale them. |
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| 22 | 300 |
For all practical purposes, considering the forces that could realistically be marshaled upon the river the stronghold of Policrates was impregnable. |
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| 25 | 50 |
"He will fetch Callisthenes, who is captain of the forces of Port Cos in Victoria, he in search of the topaz. |
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| 25 | 68 |
"We must arrange that Aemilianus, Captain of the forces of Ar's Station in Victoria, also attend this meeting tonight," said Callimachus. |
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| 29 | 154 |
It signifies, in effect, the agreement of Ragnar Voskjard to join forces with Policrates. |
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| 29 | 158 |
"At this very moment his forces may be moving east on the river". |
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| 29 | 175 |
We can then send supporting forces through the narrow waters to the wall. |
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| 33 | 169 |
Accordingly in an engagement of fleets Port Cos and Ar's Station, acting together, would bring to bear the superior forces". |
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| 33 | 194 |
"Our hope, of course," I said, "is that they can be held behind the chain long enough to permit the massing of our full forces". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 191 |
"If the Voskjard should join with Policrates," said another man, "and the forces of Port Cos and Ar's Station are divided, no town on the river will be safe". |
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| 3 | 68 |
It was only these, we feared, who might be able to match the forces of the Voskjard in even combat. |
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| 3 | 193 |
If our fleet did not have time to group, or if our flank were turned, it would be indeed a tragic day for our forces upon the Vosk. |
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| 4 | 225 |
Those ships which we had for so long prevented from joining him had, by now, amplified his forces. |
10 |
| 6 | 138 |
We could hear battle horns, now, from not only the forces of the Voskjard moving towards us, off our bows, but we could hear, too, the notes of battle horns drifting across the water towards us from astern. |
10 |
| 9 | 125 |
The great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, s... |
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| 10 | 51 |
This, we had hoped, would create a diversion, and lead the pirates, in the confusion and darkness, to assume that we were moving eastward, and that the Olivia had been set aflame by their own forces. |
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| 11 | 216 |
The master, meanwhile, of course, keeps her under discipline, uses her frequently and often casually, and forces her to undergo the abuses proper to her degraded condition. |
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| 12 | 204 |
"He is journeying east on the river, in his black ship, Spined Tharlarion, to rendezvous with Policrates here, and then to take command of their joint forces in the control of the river". |
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| 12 | 211 |
"Had we ampler forces," said Callimachus, "our victory might have been more complete". |
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| 12 | 228 |
"The fleet of Policrates is at the mouth of the channel!" "Bring our forces, and their prisoners, within the holding!" called Callimachus. |
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| 17 | 400 |
"That is an interesting and profound possibility," I said, "but then there would still remain needs and powers, forces and desires, and the facts of the world, that certain courses of action lead to certain results, and that other courses of action lead to other results. |
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| 20 | 23 |
Seven men, including myself, were present, Glyco, high merchant of Port Cos; Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria; Aemilianus, leader of the naval forces of Ar upon the Vosk; Calliodorus, captain of the Tais; and my friends, Callimachus and Miles of Vonda, who had brought with him his slave, Florence. |
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| 20 | 114 |
"To the Vosk League!" said Aemilianus, commander of the naval forces of Ar's Station. |
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| 20 | 1162 |
"The forces of the Vosk League are soon to be organized," said Tasdron. |
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| 20 | 1163 |
"It is my honor and pleasure to inform you that one amongst us has agreed to act as the commander of these forces. |
10 |
| 20 | 1229 |
"The temporary headquarters of the forces of the Vosk League," he said to me, "will be in the private serving room of the tavern of Tasdron. |
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| 21 | 727 |
"Callimachus has selected you to be his second in command, in the forces of the Vosk League," she said. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 614 |
What would the Council of Captains know of such creatures, or of the warrings among worlds? He had not identified himself as being among the party of those forces arrayed against the ravaging, concupiscent imperialism of our savage colleagues. |
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| 1 | 1334 |
Let us, thus, pool our forces in this common enterprise". |
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| 5 | 70 |
"Your forces were surely assembled before yesterday," I said. |
10 |
| 5 | 72 |
I supposed such forces might indeed enter the Barrens and wreak some havoc, perhaps falling upon some Dust-Leg villages. |
10 |
| 5 | 153 |
One additional thing I had noted about the forces ahead of me. |
10 |
| 17 | 163 |
"Our forces, we believed, were invincible. |
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| 17 | 209 |
Alfred turned his mounted forces to the north, but, to his dismay, he saw that his plan had been anticipated. |
10 |
| 17 | 267 |
"These were doubtless the concerted forces of the red savages," I said, "being applied to the destruction of the infantry". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 256 |
Shortly thereafter we were apprehended by a mixed group of unlikely allies, representatives of Sleen, Yellow Knives and Kaiila, who, in virtue of the Memory, as it is called, had joined forces to attack the wagon train and soldiers. |
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| 25 | 58 |
"Should you come again into contact with them," said Hci, "inform them that our forces may be joined near the council lodge". |
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| 27 | 37 |
Archers concealed under robes and hidden among lodges lay between the Kinyanpi and our main forces, at the western edge of the camp. |
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| 27 | 124 |
"Surely now they will coordinate their forces," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 28 | 67 |
These task forces had then withdrawn. |
10 |
| 28 | 330 |
A wagon train of settlers, with which Alfred had joined forces, had been attacked. |
10 |
| 39 | 312 |
To be sure it was awesome to contemplate the forces and pressures that could have done it. |
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| 44 | 502 |
It took perhaps a dozen men from the trail and then bounded down the rock face and, a few Ihn later, skipping and leaping almost like a pebble, possessing such terrible forces, yet seeming so small from this height, it caromed off the foot of the rock face and then landed, rolling and bounding, amon... |
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| 47 | 174 |
As a hurricane can imbed a straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke. |
10 |
| 47 | 327 |
It was his intention, however, I gathered, to participate in the anticipated resolution of the siege, in his forces' climactic victory. |
10 |
| 47 | 442 |
Such alliances, those of Yellow Knives with forces such as those of the white soldiers and the Kinyanpi, threatened the delicate tribal balances in the Barrens. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 788 |
"Gor, and the world called Earth," she said, "are prizes in a struggle of titanic forces, the forces of those whom you call Priest-Kings and of those whom you think of as 'others,' or whom we might think of as Beasts". |
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| 10 | 202 |
"The forces of Ar will be difficult to hold," said Drusus Rencius. |
10 |
| 10 | 205 |
"Forces of Ar entered the fray after the seizure of the mines. |
10 |
| 10 | 215 |
"Our forces will be victorious," I assured Drusus Rencius. |
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| 11 | 221 |
Our forces will be victorious". |
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| 13 | 84 |
"Drusus Rencius, Captain of Ar, on detached service to the forces of Argentum," said Miles of Argentum. |
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| 20 | 61 |
"How your skin must crawl when he forces you to his intimate service," she said, dipping a tunic in the water. |
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| 30 | 547 |
Unknowingly, I now realized I had seen her in the small room off the great hall on the day that the forces of Ar and Argentum had entered the city. |
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| 33 | 24 |
There, abetted by the people of that city, we defeated the forces of the Tatrix of Corcyrus and overthrew her tyrannous regime". |
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| 33 | 33 |
Ar, of course, had substantial land forces. |
10 |
| 33 | 35 |
The land forces of Cos, on the other hand, were probably not superior to those of a number of Gorean states, even much smaller in their populations than the island Ubarate. |
10 |
| 33 | 62 |
The best that I could hope for was to prepare the way for the victorious forces of Argentum, which I managed to do. |
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| 33 | 668 |
"Some of us," said Menicius, "are familiar with the rumors, the frightening rumors, that there are forces on Gor, and elsewhere, who would challenge the power of the Priest-Kings themselves, rulers of Gor from time immemorial". |
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| 33 | 672 |
On the other hand, it was also clear to me that someone, or something, must be in opposition to the forces which had brought me to Gor. |
10 |
| 33 | 673 |
Those forces, for example, had mastered space flight. |
10 |
| 33 | 677 |
"It seems likely to me, thus," said Menicius, "that such forces might bring wealth and barbarian agents, perhaps, with no Gorean allegiances, to our world, laboring in their behalf. |
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| 33 | 679 |
How, except for such power, could a barbarian woman, such as Sheila, the former Tatrix of Corcyrus, come to power in a city such as Corcyrus? I suspect, also, that the true motivation of the attack on the mines of Argentum was not to fill the coffers of Corcyrus, already a prosperous city, but to su... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 211 |
Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within which they took re... |
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| 7 | 323 |
"There are, of course," I said, "infinite horizons and varieties of such responses, ranging from ravishings in which the slave, by one means or another, is driven almost to the point of madness by the pleasures inflicted upon her, ravishings in which the master, in his cruelty, and despite her will,... |
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| 22 | 227 |
"Ar," I said, "has the finest land forces on Gor. |
10 |
| 22 | 236 |
The unified forces of these two ubarates are not to be taken lightly". |
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| 22 | 324 |
"The armies of Ar," I said, "will destroy the forces of Cos and Tyros". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 72 |
"The forces of Ar," I said, "are even now being mustered, to repel the invaders. |
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| 3 | 140 |
I had some idea of the forces of Cos which had made their landing at Brundisium earlier in Se'Kara. |
10 |
| 3 | 142 |
Never before on Gor, I suspected, had such forces been marshaled. |
10 |
| 3 | 178 |
Sometimes a passing army desires merely to amplify its forces, or replace losses, particularly among the lighter arms, such as bowmen, slingers and javelin men. |
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| 3 | 201 |
Most impressive to me, perhaps, was Dietrich of Tarnburg's coordination of air and ground forces, and his transposition of certain techniques and weapons of siege warfare to the field. |
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| 3 | 336 |
I knew, of course, that considerable forces had been landed at Brundisium. |
10 |
| 3 | 337 |
What I was not sure of, however, was the current distribution, or deployment, of these forces. |
10 |
| 3 | 345 |
How different things seemed from the marches of the forces of Ar, and others of the high cities. |
10 |
| 3 | 354 |
To be sure, these forces of Cos could not be expected to have come over and taken a few months to attend to the leisurely construction of permanent camps along the route of their projected march. |
10 |
| 3 | 394 |
"Even with small strike forces, disguised as peasants?" "Perhaps not," he said. |
10 |
| 4 | 39 |
Perhaps the men of Cos, no fools, had invited them inward that they might remain in this area, thus rendering more difficult its reoccupation by the forces of Ar. |
10 |
| 4 | 49 |
Others, perhaps wisely, do not enlist them in their own forces, either as regulars or auxiliaries. |
10 |
| 9 | 23 |
Such camps, of course, are common with Gorean armed forces, set at march intervals. |
10 |
| 9 | 62 |
Perhaps, too, the councils of Torcadino, did not care to dispute their gates with forces as considerable as those which now surrounded them. |
10 |
| 15 | 390 |
"Do you know the name of the high officer of the Cosian forces in the south?" he asked. |
10 |
| 15 | 633 |
"The main forces of Cos are here," he said, "in the vicinity of Torcadino, now, at the moment, investing it". |
10 |
| 15 | 644 |
"Why then, according to our information, and this is the second item of interest here, is Ar preparing, if this is correct, to launch its main forces northward toward Ar's Station?" "That would be madness," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 648 |
"The main forces of Cos are here, by Torcadino," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 673 |
"And the main forces of Ar may be marching toward Ar's Station," he said, grimly. |
10 |
| 15 | 687 |
They outline the dispositions of the main forces of Cos and the situation in Torcadino. |
10 |
| 15 | 728 |
"How shall we pass through the forces of Cos?" I asked. |
10 |
| 21 | 74 |
"Is it true," he asked, "that there are considerable Cosian forces in the vicinity of Torcadino?" "Yes," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 79 |
"The main forces of Cos," he said, "are said to be advancing on Ar's Station". |
10 |
| 21 | 90 |
"The main forces of Cos are as close as Torcadino," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 709 |
It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor. |
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| 13 | 160 |
For example, with the behind-the-back-hands-tied bond in which I had been placed I could have been informed, but had not been, that my shoulders were pulled tightly back, which, of course, forces the breasts forward for the pleasure, or attentions, of the master. |
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| 13 | 631 |
To have no needs, if, indeed, there were women truly without them, would be a tragedy, and if one had any need at all, then it would be only a matter of time until under Gorean tutelage they were revealed, deepened and enlarged; until they were imperiously summoned forth into the open for inspection... |
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| 23 | 102 |
Measures of this sort not only improve the probabilities of detecting raiders, or other invaders of airspace, spies, for example, but also, of course, facilitate the deployment of defensive forces. |
10 |
| 25 | 176 |
Venna keeps her forces in the vicinity of the city. |
10 |
| 25 | 178 |
The forces of Ar, almost entirely, have marched north, toward Ar's Station, on the Vosk, there to meet with an expeditionary force of Cos. |
10 |
| 25 | 184 |
I did know that the main body of the forces of Ar had marched north. |
10 |
| 29 | 1540 |
He had moved too quickly, before they could close their simple formation, before they could join their forces. |
10 |
| 34 | 175 |
It is as though all the forces of communication, education and law had gone insane, with no better objective than to bring the sexes to ruin, destroy the human gene pool and doom the species". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 155 |
Perhaps, for some reason, the forces of Ar were intending to relieve Ar's Station from the west, thus interposing themselves between the siege forces of Cos and their likely routes of escape, either substantially west by southwest to Brundisium or more to the southwest, toward Torcadino. |
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| 11 | 230 |
Dietrich would then escape, but he would not have the forces necessary to do more than harry the Cosian advance to Ar, and, once those forces are out of Torcadino, they might well be hunted down and dealt with, with only a fraction of the might of Cos". |
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| 11 | 266 |
Your conjecture that Cos could not field such land forces assumes that these forces must consist of her own troops. |
10 |
| 1 | 503 |
They have been seized, too, upon occasion by the remnants of defeated forces, as places in which to make desperate, perhaps last, stands. |
10 |
| 2 | 97 |
I also knew that Ar, inexplicably, to my mind, had literally invested the bulk of its land power in that very expedition, and had done so with the main forces of Cos not in the north but in the vicinity of Torcadino. |
10 |
| 2 | 106 |
I had urged him to march on Torcadino and confront the main body of Cosian forces. |
10 |
| 2 | 142 |
Such a move, of course, might isolate the Cosian main forces, both depriving them of their support from Cos and Tyros and separating them from their fellows at Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 2 | 168 |
If the forces of Ar do not soon raise the siege, I think she must succumb". |
10 |
| 11 | 174 |
"It gives the numbers, and positions, of the forces of Ar". |
10 |
| 11 | 196 |
"Where are the relief forces of Ar?" I asked. |
10 |
| 11 | 210 |
Such forces would not be needed to raise the siege. |
10 |
| 11 | 223 |
Indeed, the Cosian main forces, which I assure you are not inferior in numbers to those of Ar, are probably now in winter quarters, perhaps a tenth of them in the vicinity of Torcadino. |
10 |
| 11 | 229 |
If I were Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, he in command of the Cosian forces on the continent, I would myself turn toward Ar, wasting no time at Torcadino, a subsidiary objective. |
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| 11 | 250 |
"The main Cosian forces are here, at Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 11 | 259 |
The implicit absurdity of this document, suggesting that Ar would stand about with almost the totality of her might while we are under attack, that we have been, in effect, abandoned, makes it clear that the relieving forces of Ar must actually be quite close, perhaps only a day or two away". |
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| 11 | 269 |
"Do you realize the cost of supporting such forces?" asked Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 11 | 300 |
"But where," asked a young fellow in the back, the first time he had spoken, "are the relieving forces of Ar?" "It is my hope that they are on their way here," said Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 12 | 137 |
"Then," she said, "I began to put messages in the basket, innocent ones at first, asking questions about the position of the relieving forces, and such". |
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| 13 | 178 |
Were they really spurious, and had they really been intended to bring about the surrender of Ar's Station why would they not have been more realistically conceived, that they might have been more likely to achieve such a purpose? For example, why would they not have been in some cipher, one which mi... |
10 |
| 17 | 22 |
Too, it is difficult to fire such objects, and the fires began on them by, say, small task forces are generally quickly extinguished. |
10 |
| 17 | 627 |
The head of the ram was so constructed, and the horns on it so curved back, that it was unlikely, given the forces involved, that it could become lodged in the door. |
10 |
| 18 | 479 |
The camp commander, he in charge of the Cosian forces at Ar's Station, had resumed his coign of vantage. |
10 |
| 20 | 155 |
"Surely then it is a variant of the flag of Cos," I said, "perhaps the flag of their forces on the river". |
10 |
| 20 | 196 |
They would then join forces". |
10 |
| 20 | 206 |
, the parts of the stone came into the keeping of Calliodorus, at that time acting first captain in Port Cos, and Aemilianus, who was at that time commander of the naval forces of Ar's Station. |
10 |
| 20 | 295 |
The major land forces of Ar, I had gathered, were somewhere in the west, south of the river. |
10 |
| 21 | 81 |
"How is my old friend Callimachus, commander of the forces of the Vosk League?" asked Aemilianus of Calliodorus. |
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| 21 | 294 |
These twenty-five ships neutralized what forces of Cos could be brought to bear at that point and succeeded in evacuating the piers". |
10 |
| 24 | 195 |
"It will be of interest to you to learn that Ar's Station was surrendered to Cos more than two months ago," he said, dryly, "before the relief forces could reach it. |
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| 24 | 320 |
"The forces of Ar in the north," I said, "should move south with rapidity, before the spring, to engage the main power of Cos. |
10 |
| 24 | 333 |
"Ar's northern forces are interposed between Ar's Station and Brundisium. |
10 |
| 24 | 644 |
"Where," asked he, "do you think the northern forces of Ar are?" "South of the river," I said, "back, to the east, somewhere". |
10 |
| 24 | 1001 |
Thus, supposedly, Ar could move north with ease, but it would be difficult for other forces to move south, unless challenging Ar for the Viktel Aria. |
10 |
| 24 | 1069 |
I thought of Dietrich of Tarnburg, holding Torcadino, of Ar, of Cos, of the expeditionary force in the north, of the forces of Ar, and the delta. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 376 |
But in spite of the invitation seemingly flagrantly offered by Policrates, the camp commander, general of the Cosian forces in the north, said once to have been a pirate, rescued from the galleys by Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, a cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the forces of Ar had not struck, ... |
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| 1 | 1302 |
To be sure, we had expected, in a day or so, to depart southward anyway, having been with the forces of Cos long enough to anticipate their route and marches, this information to be conveyed, supposedly, to the forces of Ar at Holmesk. |
10 |
| 1 | 1303 |
I myself found it difficult to believe that the forces of Ar at Holmesk did not know, and with some degree of accuracy, the nature, the movements, the marching orders, and such, of the Cosian forces in the north. |
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| 1 | 277 |
Survivors of Ar's Station, which had been Ar's major bastion on the Vosk, including many women and children, had been rescued from the piers of the burning port by a fleet of unidentified ships, ships with which the Cosians in the north had not had the forces to deal. |
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| 1 | 346 |
Young Marcus, with the consent of his commander, Aemilianus, formerly of Ar's Station, now amongst the refugees at Port Cos, had been given permission to track the movements of the Cosians in the north, and to convey this information to the major land forces of Ar, which were currently located at Ho... |
10 |
| 1 | 349 |
It had been he who had managed to convey Ar's Station's half of the topaz to Port Cos, which action had resulted in the redemption of the pledge of the topaz, bringing the forces of Port Cos, and apparently, in the process, ships of the Vosk League, as well, to Ar's Station, to evacuate the piers, t... |
10 |
| 1 | 353 |
To be sure, had the forces of Ar landed in Telnus, I do not think the results would have been much different. |
10 |
| 1 | 369 |
There had been no attempt, at least as yet, for the fine forces of Ar, in all their power, to cut them off, to pin them against the Vosk, or meet them in battle. |
10 |
| 1 | 370 |
There were several thousand Cosians, and mercenaries, in our camp, but the forces of Ar, by repute, were in the neighborhood of some fifty thousand men, an incredible force for a Gorean community to maintain in the field. |
10 |
| 1 | 378 |
Perhaps, incredibly enough, they simply did not know the disposition, strength and location of the Cosian forces. |
10 |
| 1 | 1145 |
These were located at the southern edge of the camp, that direction in which lay, presumably, the main forces of Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 23 |
It was said that once, long ago, there had been a battle there, more than two hundred years ago, the battle of Teslit, fought between the forces of Ven and Harfax. |
10 |
| 3 | 96 |
Perhaps he could treat with Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, commander of the main forces of Cos on the continent, if it were not too late, for a safe withdrawal from Torcadino. |
10 |
| 3 | 98 |
Ar had not marched to meet Cos in the south but had invested its main forces northward. |
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| 3 | 453 |
Whereas the main forces of Ar might be well rested in their winter camp, perhaps unexercised, perhaps grown sleek and fat, men such as these, foragers, rangers, scouts, and such, had probably had more than their share of alarms and labors, of suspicions and dangers, more than their share of contacts... |
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| 3 | 485 |
"I charge you, in virtue of the authority of my commission in the forces of Ar's Station, colony to the state of Ar, to conduct us into the presence of Saphronicus, your commander, at Holmesk. |
10 |
| 4 | 44 |
"We shall divide our forces," said the officer. |
10 |
| 4 | 55 |
Seremides had been leader of the forces of Ar. |
10 |
| 11 | 26 |
"Where is Saphronicus, leader of the forces of Ar in the north?" I challenged. |
10 |
| 12 | 102 |
In that battle the forces of Port Kar had defeated the combined fleets of Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 12 | 154 |
It is for such a reason that her major land forces came north with the Cosians at Torcadino. |
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| 12 | 156 |
But could this have been the case if Cosian forces had earlier entered the delta, in great numbers, to flee the vengeance of Ar? Would they themselves not have taken such craft, or destroyed them, as they could? Where do you think the sympathies of those in Turmus and Ven lie, with Ar, or Cos? Is it... |
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| 13 | 251 |
The forces of Ar in the delta, if I were not mistaken, would not have experienced scouts with them. |
10 |
| 14 | 61 |
"Ar," I said, "if you wish to know my opinions on the matter, has been betrayed, in the matter of Ar's Station, in the matter of the disposition of her northern forces, and, now, in her entry, unprepared, into the delta. |
10 |
| 14 | 224 |
Peasants from different villages sometimes combine forces to engage in this form of hunting. |
10 |
| 16 | 40 |
And the forces of Cos, moving swiftly on open ground, well informed, adequately supplied, in good health, can be marshaled to a given point far more rapidly than can be the men of Ar, struggling in the marsh". |
10 |
| 18 | 298 |
The rencer population of the delta is extremely small, actually, and they would presumably, if they were still active, be in the vicinity of the remnants of the forces of Ar. |
10 |
| 28 | 519 |
"Saphronicus will return to Ar, a tragic hero, muchly betrayed, to be celebrated for saving some remnants of his forces. |
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| 32 | 83 |
Presumably the balance of Cos' northern forces, mostly mercenaries, would have retired to that city, for mustering out, or reassignment. |
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| 32 | 163 |
Given the swiftness of the runner and the strength of Plenius, who was a large, strong man, and who had come up through the ranks as a spearman, that thrust, compounding the forces involved, would presumably carry both the head and upper part of the shaft through the runner's body. |
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| 36 | 117 |
From Brundisium, a major port friendly to Cos, indeed, the port of entry for the Cosian invasion forces, it was convenient to ship loot, females and other loot, to Cos and the islands. |
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| 37 | 328 |
"Just wait," said Ephialtes, "until he forces her beyond the point from which she can return". |
10 |
| 39 | 104 |
She had once been Lucilina, the preferred slave of Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, commander of the Cosian forces in the south. |
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| 40 | 59 |
They would permit the forces from Torcadino to emerge and then, in virtue of their superior strength, on open ground, annihilate them. |
10 |
| 40 | 71 |
"What of the forces in the city?" asked a man. |
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| 40 | 76 |
As it had turned out, however, Ar had sent her major forces northward, had failed to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and then, supposedly pursuing the Cosian expeditionary force in the north, which had destroyed Ar's Station, had come to disaster in the delta. |
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| 40 | 79 |
Dietrich had hoped to give Ar time to arm, that she might counterbalance the forces of Cos, thus preventing the ascendancy of a single mighty force on the continent, an eventuality which, in his opinion, would have threatened the existence of the free companies, among which was his own, one of the l... |
10 |
| 47 | 170 |
I assumed, of course, surely a reasonable assumption, and apparently a correct one, that he was the agent of Saphronicus, commander of the forces of Ar in the north. |
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| 49 | 11 |
It is also now clearly established that Saphronicus, who was the leader of the forces of Ar in the north, is dead. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 308 |
The ugliness of the crowd, its hostility, and such, was, I think, a function of recent events, which had precipitated confusion, uncertainty and terror in Ar, in particular the military catastrophe in the delta, in which action, absurdly, the major land forces of Ar had been invested, and the news t... |
10 |
| 1 | 270 |
Then he had discovered that she was from Cos, that ubarate which was his hated foe, at the hands of whose mercenary and regular forces he had seen his city destroyed. |
10 |
| 1 | 309 |
Torcadino had been a supply depot for the forces of Cos on the continent. |
10 |
| 1 | 315 |
Now there lay little or nothing between the major forces of Cos on the continent, now on the march, and the gates of Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 148 |
"But her forces are interposed between her gates and Cos," I said. |
10 |
| 3 | 158 |
But there were forces of Ar between her walls and the banners of Cos. |
10 |
| 3 | 857 |
To be sure, the differences in weight are slight and, given the forces on the dice, the differential is not dramatic. |
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| 3 | 920 |
How odd it was, I thought, that these folks, who had so little, and might, were it not for the forces of Ar, such as they were, between Cos and the city, be in mortal jeopardy, should disport themselves so delightedly. |
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| 3 | 1042 |
"Let her seal her gates!" I had some concept of the forces of Cos. |
10 |
| 3 | 1043 |
Too, I had some concept of the forces of Ar in the city, now mostly guardsmen. |
10 |
| 3 | 1078 |
Out there, somewhere, were the forces of Cos, their appetites whetted by victory. |
10 |
| 6 | 78 |
"'If Ar desires peace, and would survive, if she desires peace, and would be freed of the onerous yoke of a tyrant, let her deliver to my plenipotentiary, Myron, polemarkos of the continental forces of the Cosian ubarate, some sign of her desire for peace, some evidence of her hope for reconciliatio... |
10 |
| 7 | 199 |
The crowd, now that it had segments of the forces of Cos before it, seemed strangely docile. |
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| 7 | 387 |
The forces of Cos, too, about-faced. |
10 |
| 7 | 486 |
The acceptance of the sword would have constituted a public token of the surrender of Ar's forces, foot and cavalry, both tarn and tharlarion. |
10 |
| 7 | 497 |
The forces of Ar, such as remain of them, have laid down their arms. |
10 |
| 7 | 524 |
Her seat of power was overseas and her forces were largely composed of mercenaries who were difficult to control and expensive to maintain. |
10 |
| 8 | 331 |
The armed forces of Ar had been disbanded, of course, both foot and cavalry, both tharlarion and tarn. |
10 |
| 8 | 454 |
They were set at tactically optimum sites for such assaults and distributed in such a manner as to require the maximum dispersal of defensive forces. |
10 |
| 9 | 69 |
A similar device, incidentally, though not one employed by Dietrich of Tarnburg, at least to my knowledge, is to recruit such forces from the dregs of a city itself, utilizing their resentment of, and their hatred for, their more successful fellow citizens to constitute a vain, suspicious and mercil... |
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| 16 | 165 |
I hoped by this last question to lead the crowd to believe that the Delta Brigade was a determined, disciplined, extensive, well-organized force in Ar, one which might realistically inspire hope in the populace and fear in the forces of occupation. |
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| 22 | 468 |
For example, portions of invading forces have upon several occasions, in one city or another, literally become lost in the city, with the result that they have been unable to rally, rendezvous, group and attain objectives. |
10 |
| 22 | 469 |
Cases have been reported where an enemy force has literally withdrawn from a city and some of its components have remained in the city, wandering about for a day or two, out of communication with the main forces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 50 |
One forces it in one direction to be the more helplessly grasped by it in another. |
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| 19 | 420 |
The uneasiness which many feel in the presence of the Initiates is that which, or is very similar to that which, I think, many feel in the presence of forces, explicit or implicit, which they sense are inimical to life. |
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| 30 | 49 |
"Such forces might be turned eventually toward the northeast," said the pit master. |
10 |
| 31 | 593 |
As it had left the wall it had, with all the violence of the forces imposed upon it, whipped to the peasant's right, striking the nearest bowman on the side of the head. |
10 |
| 40 | 258 |
"We are sometimes moved by forces and understandings deeper than we can understand. |
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| 43 | 11 |
As we had not later encountered the watch, or guardsmen, I conjectured that our present district or quarter must be a poor one, one far from affluent areas, perhaps even a dangerous one, one on which the city might not care to waste its forces. |
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| 45 | 186 |
The victory has come to Cos, but for various reasons, having to do primarily with the volatility of mercenary forces, it is thought that the permanence of this victory is not assured. |
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| 46 | 195 |
I am subject to the forces within me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 774 |
"But due to the disappearance of her Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, and diplomatic treachery, she has succumbed to a coalition of enemy forces, largely those of Cos and Tyros. |
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| 16 | 777 |
The true ruler is, I suppose, the military governor, Myron, polemarkos of Temos, commander of the occupational forces, or perhaps actually distant Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos. |
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| 16 | 830 |
The yellow was part of the dress uniform of the occupational forces, as a whole, but was common in the Cosian military. |
10 |
| 17 | 857 |
It was flames and clouds, forces of nature, winds and storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, an entirety of experience, a coming of seasons of being, a time of wholeness. |
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| 19 | 34 |
Myron, the polemarkos, was the commander of the Cosian, and mercenary, forces in the city. |
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| 19 | 437 |
"The forces of occupation are not all Cosian," said Portus. |
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| 19 | 438 |
"Indeed, the greater portion of these forces are mercenaries in the pay of Cos. |
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| 19 | 668 |
She recalled that Myron, who was polemarkos, commander of the occupation forces, had supposedly entered the city. |
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| 21 | 47 |
It was at Brundisium that, months ago, the invasion forces of Cos and Tyros had made an unopposed landfall, and proceeded thence toward Ar. |
10 |
| 26 | 685 |
"The Cosian forces here will presumably march on Ar, to reinforce the occupation, and prevent mutiny," said another. |
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| 27 | 1100 |
Their forces, with the slaying of the translator, whose weapon had apparently been retrieved in the fray by one of those with Mirus, now numbered four, one of whom was wounded. |
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| 27 | 1178 |
The important thing is that it does not reach the mercenary forces in Ar". |
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| 27 | 1889 |
Yes, yes, she thought, they speak truths, mighty truths, lovely truths, deep truths, incontrovertible truths, precious truths, yes, such as I are indeed for the entertainment of men, for the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which we exist, and desire to exist, the pleasure of men, the entert... |
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| 29 | 261 |
"One chains and collars them, one uses them, one puts them as one wishes, in whatever postures or attitudes, one ropes and thongs them, one leads them about on leashes, one forces them to serve, fearfully, abjectly, licking and kissing, kneeling, crawling, begging to please! Such inspire in men the ... |
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| 30 | 630 |
Skirmishes occur between crowds and the garrison forces, the mercenaries and the Cosian regulars, but, too, sometimes between the mercenaries themselves and the Cosians. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 520 |
"There are forces involved here which you do not understand, forces concerned even with worlds". |
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| 34 | 42 |
How helpless are even we in the face of such masses and forces! "Ai!" said Cabot, nearly losing his balance. |
10 |
| 38 | 17 |
"That, I gather," said Cabot, "is the identifying ensign of the forces of Agamemnon". |
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| 39 | 8 |
He gathered, as was the case, the revolution was failing, the revolutionists being heavily outnumbered, and then, in their scattered, defeated, retreating groups, being punished back into a number of isolated, improvised strongholds, which might then be dealt with, one by one, almost at their leisur... |
10 |
| 41 | 58 |
"It would indicate, I suppose," said Cabot, "that Lord Agamemnon is concerned with the revolution, that he takes it seriously, truly, and that he recognizes that its humans may pose some threat to his forces, that their opposition is not negligible". |
10 |
| 44 | 279 |
"The forces of Lord Agamemnon are deployed in defense, for the world is under attack. |
10 |
| 46 | 14 |
"This releases those forces to band against us". |
10 |
| 48 | 23 |
The eight weapons would doubtless have made one of the insurrectionary groups more formidable than otherwise, say, that of Lord Grendel, but presumably the eight such weapons would have been of little avail against the full, massed power which might be brought against them by a reasonably large cont... |
10 |
| 48 | 25 |
It had then been decided, shortly after the defeats of the preceding days, on a variety of fronts, that eight of the several groups, of which Lord Grendel's was one, would have one weapon apiece, this at least, hopefully, acting as some deterrent for several of the groups, or bands, against a too ra... |
10 |
| 52 | 7 |
"Where are the former inhabitants of the camps, those hundreds, those who waited to learn their fate, the forces defeated beyond the world, who came here in rout and dishonor?" "They will have been congregated, beyond the habitats," said Grendel. |
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| 52 | 9 |
As may be recalled, the defeated forces of Agamemnon, the mariners who returned in the remnants of his ruined fleet, following his catastrophic, ill-starred attack on another of the worlds, had been denied access to the habitats. |
10 |
| 54 | 57 |
"Your role in this is significant, Lord Flavion," said Lord Grendel, "for, as you know, we must have a secret gathering to marshal our forces and coordinate our plans". |
10 |
| 55 | 34 |
The rebel forces were not to be concentrated until the gathering, and the subsequent march in force upon the palace. |
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| 56 | 24 |
At one end of the valley was a simple, memorial stele, recounting what had once occurred there, something over a hundred years earlier, a victory in which the forces of a Tenth Face of the Nameless One had succumbed, and those of an Eleventh Face of the Nameless One had emerged victorious. |
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| 56 | 76 |
The forces of Agamemnon, forewarned, had, at a signal, it was later determined, closed or covered their eyes, opening them, adjusted as they had been for the darkness, a moment later, and opened fire. |
10 |
| 56 | 77 |
It had taken the forces of Agamemnon a moment after the blast of light to align their weapons and begin to empty a thousand charges into the valley, but, to their amazement, a moment later, it seemed that the valley was empty. |
10 |
| 56 | 221 |
The Kurii of Agamemnon had not only been taken unawares, but had been found themselves trapped between the fleet's survivors and the forces under the command of Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 56 | 255 |
"I, too, of course," said Statius, "but who else would do so?" "I believe Lord Lucullus commanded the forces of Agamemnon," said Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 57 | 54 |
"Of our forces". |
10 |
| 60 | 11 |
Great Agamemnon, in an act of seeming mercy, has called them to the theater, that of death, where they expect to be forgiven, and their penalties revoked, merely for joining his forces". |
10 |
| 60 | 25 |
"In their numbers they could balance the very forces of Agamemnon, which are intent upon their destruction". |
10 |
| 61 | 12 |
Who would risk a door-to-door, habitat-to-habitat, war?" "Agamemnon, if he were in your position, and had the forces," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 61 | 24 |
"I recall a war, on another world," said Cabot, "in which leaders flung their forces repeatedly, meaninglessly, for months, into the muzzles of one another's weapons". |
10 |
| 61 | 59 |
"And what forces might we invest in this venture?" asked Lord Grendel. |
10 |
| 61 | 67 |
"Prepare! Summon the forces! It will be dark soon. |
10 |
| 61 | 80 |
"He will try to stir up dissension amongst our forces," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 61 | 97 |
The Lady Bina, as might be expected, was with the rebel forces, as were the others who had been in Lord Grendel's camp, which had now been abandoned. |
10 |
| 62 | 15 |
And, if it was not undertaken, many in Grendel's forces would be convinced that it should have been undertaken, and thus the standing of the generalship of Grendel is reduced". |
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| 62 | 33 |
"And how may I figure in your plans, and for what recompense?" "When the forces hesitate to acclaim me commander," said Flavion, "I want your support". |
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| 63 | 117 |
"Do not follow him! Remain here!" Concealed amongst the cattle humans were somewhere between twenty and twenty-five Kurii, these picked minions of the elite of Lord Agamemnon's forces, each armed with a power weapon. |
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| 64 | 114 |
It was Flavion's expressed speculation that she had earlier lurked about the camp, and learned the plans for marching on the palace, after first meeting at the Vale of Destruction, and that then she had conveyed these plans to the forces of Agamemnon. |
10 |
| 64 | 182 |
"I would suppose," said Cabot, "that there is a similar unrest amongst the forces of Lord Agamemnon. |
10 |
| 64 | 185 |
"Agamemnon must manage his forces as well as we ours," said Lord Grendel, "and he will be subject to similar influences and pressures". |
10 |
| 66 | 39 |
And what will Lord Agamemnon do, if we wait? His forces are doubtless as anxious as ours to bring our conflict to a favorable resolution. |
10 |
| 66 | 41 |
"And certainly it will put pressure on his commanders, as their forces grow ever more restless". |
10 |
| 66 | 102 |
"In weather such as this," said Cabot, "the forces of Agamemnon might well advance, seeking cover in the storm". |
10 |
| 69 | 68 |
"Those forces which attacked the world, after the defeat of the fleet, and seemed to withdraw, only drew back to turn about and, when not expected, renew more vigorously the attack which, before, had been little more than a feint". |
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| 69 | 85 |
They saw, too, that our forces were prepared to give their lives for Lord Arcesilaus, and this, too, was Kur". |
10 |
| 69 | 93 |
"Our forces," said a Kur, "waited, surrounded by loyalists, rung in tiers about us". |
10 |
| 73 | 129 |
"I am planning several days of celebration, of feasting, and such, and Lord Zarendargar and his forces, I am pleased to note, will revel with us. |
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| 81 | 24 |
The ships of the Priest-Kings, as Cabot understood, did not carry internal fuel, but drew on the forces of gravity for their propulsion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 5 |
I knew the armament and tactics of such forces well, having been trained in them, and I had designed my forces, following the Tuchuk model, to deal with massive infantry and earth-shaking tharlarion charges, now adapted to flight, to deal with them. |
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| 5 | 472 |
The strength of the maritime ubarates was surely in their fleets, not in their ground forces. |
10 |
| 5 | 483 |
Many of the best forces of Ar, her finest troops, her best officers, by intent, to divert them from the defense of the city, had been earlier ordered to the vast delta of the Vosk, to engage there in an alleged punitive expedition against supposed incursions from Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 5 | 490 |
Myron, polemarkos of the continental forces of Cos, he of Temos, cousin to Lurius of Jad, of Cos, was in command of the city, though he maintained a headquarters outside her pomerium. |
10 |
| 5 | 494 |
Now they must acknowledge her misdeeds, and celebrate her redemption by her friends and allies, the benign forces of Cos, Tyros, and their allies. |
10 |
| 5 | 612 |
It is carefully laid out, and is usually severally gated, which allows for the issuance of forces from the interior in a variety of manners. |
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| 12 | 30 |
Many, I understood, had come from the occupational forces now expelled from Ar. |
10 |
| 12 | 38 |
This made sense to me, as whatever might be afoot in the forest would not be likely to be of sufficient size and potency to effect much success against Gorean cities with their own tarn forces, which might number in the hundreds and, as of old, in Ar, in their thousands. |
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| 12 | 45 |
"Your forces," I said to Tajima, "seem to have means. |
10 |
| 13 | 59 |
It was predominantly wiped out in the rising, it seems, for its collaboration with the occupational forces, its extending of credit to them, to meet its payrolls, when the funds for these failed somehow to reach the city, its purchases of great quantities of loot, including women, for later retailin... |
10 |
| 14 | 101 |
They might also be used, I supposed, from a low-flying tarn in support of ground forces. |
10 |
| 15 | 189 |
"But deep within a woman's belly flow mysterious currents, floods she is unable to control, forces and truths which mock and deny, and stir, the uneasy films and surfaces with which she labors to identify herself". |
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| 16 | 81 |
Also, of great importance, but not included in the figure of two hundred, would be various forces on the ground, responsible for support, such as metal and leather workers, fletchers, tarnkeepers, suppliers of various sorts, and so on. |
10 |
| 17 | 6 |
The infantrymen of the sky would be effective, I conjectured, only against forces similarly equipped, and trained. |
10 |
| 18 | 132 |
How imperiously she had reveled in that modicum of power accorded to her by the occupational forces of Tyros and Cos! To one side a group of Pani were considering a hut. |
10 |
| 18 | 503 |
Sometimes overconfident forces do bring free women with them, camp followers, courtesans, and such, and, even, not unoften, highly placed free women, to companion high officers, preside over victory feasts, have the first chance to bid amongst the women of the enemy for serving slaves, and such. |
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| 18 | 508 |
And later those in the camp rejoice, seeing the dust approaching, which they take for the rapid, joyful return of their forces, triumphant. |
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| 23 | 132 |
And who other than jealous, envious free women does not relish the sight of lovely slaves? Would you not like to buy one? Two powerful forces are thus conjoined to assure the perpetuation of female bondage on Gor, the society's unqualified acceptance and approval of the institution, it is pleased wi... |
10 |
| 23 | 136 |
Indeed, society not only approves of her bondage but it will marshal all its considerable resources and forces to guarantee that her bondage, whether she wishes it or not, will remain inflexible and inescapable, that the collar, so to speak, will remain securely locked on her lovely neck. |
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| 26 | 260 |
Interestingly you did not hurry her surreptitiously from the city, as one might have supposed you would have done, but left her in the Metellan district, where she had been embonded, to be discovered, that she might then, though now a slave, continue her tenure upon the throne of Ar, as her fellow c... |
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| 28 | 393 |
Later, at the first opportunity, escaping her sequestration in the Central Cylinder of Ar where she, disowned by her father, had been confined in dishonor, having begged to be purchased, a slave's act, in the northern forests, she had betrayed her Home Stone, conspiring with the forces of Cos and Ty... |
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| 28 | 394 |
But then her father had somehow returned, it seemed from the Voltai, and the insurrection had subsequently occurred, casting forth, violently and bloodily, the occupying forces and restoring the rightful governance of the city. |
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| 33 | 41 |
Our forces were divided. |
10 |
| 33 | 88 |
Indeed, it had been used as the port of entry for the invasion forces of Cos and Tyros, bound for Ar. |
10 |
| 37 | 37 |
I had heard nothing more of the approach of enemy forces, but I entertained no doubt as to their imminence and reality. |
10 |
| 39 | 36 |
"At what strength do you put their forces?" asked Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 40 | 18 |
Massed infantry has little to fear from tarn attack unless, as suggested, it be combined with an attack on foot, with similar forces. |
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| 43 | 132 |
"It is clear then," said Lord Nishida, "why he might seek a different, safer name for himself, as doubtless many others with us, who were driven from Ar, either as former members of the party of the Ubara, or of the occupational forces". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 282 |
It was rare as a slave name until after the fall of Ar, and the rise of Talena of Ar to the throne of Ar, placed on the throne as a puppet Ubara by the occupying forces of victorious Cos and Tyros, the major maritime Ubarates of Gor, abetted by numerous mercenary companies. |
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| 1 | 329 |
Talena relished not only the powers permitted to her by the occupation forces, exercised at their discretion, and often in accordance with their direction, but filled her coffers in the Central Cylinder with abundant, secret wealth. |
10 |
| 1 | 346 |
Informed that the invasion force had withdrawn into the delta, the forces of Ar, under the orders of conspirators, entered the extensive, treacherous wastes and swamps of the vast delta in pursuit. |
10 |
| 1 | 349 |
Meanwhile, following orders, the forces of Ar, with good heart, penetrated ever more deeply into the delta. |
10 |
| 3 | 165 |
How lovely such devices are, closely clasping and locked, on the neck of a female! How they enhance a woman's beauty! What she said was surely true, and she, in the company of the Ubara, Talena of Ar, was an arch collaborator with the occupation forces in Ar. |
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| 3 | 250 |
Only later were we to reconstruct what had occurred, the pockets of our resistance, overcome one by one, the decimated retreats, the slaughterings, the terror, the blood, the hunting of traitors and collaborators, the joining of the forces of Ar, maintained during the occupation, to the uprising, th... |
10 |
| 8 | 407 |
He had been, of course, the captain of the Taurentians, and had been close to Myron, the polemarkos of Temos, commander of the occupation forces in Ar. |
10 |
| 9 | 332 |
Mutineers, I later learned, had been killing one another to attain the saddle of a tarn, many presumably having hoped to buy that place with steel, when, unfortunately for them, the ship's loyalist forces, Pani and others, rallied and came to the first tarn hold. |
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| 9 | 395 |
The two complements had joined forces before the great ship began its journey downriver. |
10 |
| 9 | 399 |
They were a motley lot, mostly mercenaries, several from the free companies, many once of the occupation forces in Ar. |
10 |
| 9 | 439 |
It is my suspicion that this act was an attempt to conserve rations, to prolong the life of some by ending that of others, perhaps an attempt, even, to thin your forces, so as, eventually, to seize the ship". |
10 |
| 9 | 508 |
The battle on the open deck had surged back and forth, for more than an Ahn, but then, obviously, in the end, the ship's forces had triumphed. |
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| 16 | 228 |
Those whom the Pani had recruited were on the whole large, strong, agile, skilled men, many from the free companies, many from the occupation forces fugitive from Ar, and many, I fear, from amongst brigands and renegades. |
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| 22 | 169 |
Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death. |
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| 22 | 174 |
They constituted the fragile, dangerous wall behind which swirled panic-stricken rout, the wall without which our forces would be slaughtered, like penned verr, against the sea. |
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| 22 | 195 |
I now have little doubt that it was his firmness, and leadership, and those of his fellows, Pani and others, which had organized and stiffened that resolute defense behind which the frenzied withdrawal of our primary forces, apparently ambushed, charged, and outnumbered, was in desperate progress. |
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| 22 | 216 |
For a few Ehn the two forces faced one another, in the strange light of the torch bearers. |
10 |
| 22 | 219 |
Archery, later, as the forces had come together, had been substantially discontinued, save for occasional desultory fire, largely undirected, over the heads of the combatants, at generally unseen targets, often out of range, toward the beach. |
10 |
| 22 | 220 |
Now, however, to a new drum signal, hurrying between suddenly opening, evenly spaced gaps in the enemy forces, we saw what must have been one hundred to one hundred and fifty archers, with the large Pani bows. |
10 |
| 22 | 226 |
This would allow them to withdraw conveniently to the protection of their own forces before we could reach them, if charging. |
10 |
| 22 | 258 |
I was more concerned with the Pani forces before us, presumably awaiting the issuance of its orders. |
10 |
| 22 | 266 |
Our own position was precarious, but I was sure the defensive lines which Cabot and I had joined, commanded by Lord Nishida, had won the time needed for the withdrawal of most of our surviving forces. |
10 |
| 22 | 296 |
I thought the enemy before us, on the whole, had been directed rationally, its forces distributed intelligently, and applied judiciously, in such a way as not to crowd its attacks, or impede its own movements. |
10 |
| 22 | 299 |
On the other hand, I had the sense that the commander of the opposing forces had now come to the end of his patience, such as it might have been, and, contemptuous of care and delay, finished with military sobriety, and conscious of his numbers, intended to conclude matters with one crude, costly, i... |
10 |
| 23 | 43 |
Had it not been for the stubborn rear-guard action of Lord Nishida and others, later reinforced from the ship, and the hasty, nocturnal, massive evacuation of our trapped forces from the beach, it seems clear that the enterprise of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, whatever might be its nature, would have ... |
10 |
| 23 | 105 |
"What is the power here, the forces?" I asked. |
10 |
| 23 | 106 |
"I gather," said Cabot, "that the forces with whom Lords Okimoto and Nishida are aligned are relatively few, and that little remains to Lord Temmu other than the great holding and, doubtless, some adjacent lands within its purview, which might be defended from the holding, and perhaps, as well, some... |
10 |
| 25 | 68 |
Doubtless some of these were intended to locate and ascertain the numbers and dispositions of Lord Yamada's forces in the vicinity, but others were apparently of a much subtler nature, some to instigate apprehension which might spread naturally to the enemy, with appeals to fear and superstition, an... |
10 |
| 25 | 70 |
I had no doubt that our mercenaries were formidable, but they were no more so, or less so, one supposed, than the forces likely to be arrayed against them. |
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| 25 | 204 |
"I was betrayed in Ar," she said, "by the traitor, Seremides, by the hateful Flavia of Ar, traitress whom I had befriended, and others, who would turn me over to the forces of revolt, to bargain for their own amnesty or escape". |
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| 26 | 189 |
He is Tarl Cabot, commander of the tarn cavalry, in the forces of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and, I suppose, now, of Lord Temmu". |
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| 28 | 86 |
For example, I was much afraid that the sorry return of the exploratory force, and the possible imminence of the forces of Lord Yamada, might further increase apprehension amongst the men, hasten the formation of reckless resolves, and lead to some rash action. |
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| 31 | 14 |
Were they not vulnerable, outside the walls? Might there not be bandits? Might not the fleet of Lord Yamada appear, unexpectedly, or might not forces be landed from it, somewhere in the vicinity, which might raid the ship? Indeed, did not soldiers of Lord Yamada even now camp within sight of our wal... |
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| 35 | 45 |
"It is then likely," I said, "that it is still of the forces of Lord Temmu". |
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| 36 | 7 |
I had gathered that the movements of the forces of Lord Temmu were much restricted in the islands, with the result that an overseas trade, as it might slip through the blockades of Lord Yamada, might provide an access to goods otherwise less available, in particular, weaponry, missiles, cloth, leath... |
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| 36 | 92 |
One supposes he was given a letter of safe conduct by means of which he would make contact with, and be received by, the forces of Lord Yamada, those in the vicinity of the castle". |
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| 36 | 335 |
It will be mounted on the wall of the castle of Lord Temmu, for ten days, and it will then be cast amongst the soldiers below, of the forces of Lord Yamada, with instructions that it be delivered to their man, Tyrtaios. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 37 | 217 |
"Titanic forces could be locked in battle," said Desmond of Harfax, "forces compared to which men are small, weak, and fragile things, little more than field urts scampering about in the grass, amidst the tread of trampling tharlarion". |
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| 33 | 95 |
Doing so, of course, would be to repudiate the ends and principles for which he had earlier fought, and to ally himself with the very forces which had sought to destroy him and his party. |
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| 35 | 69 |
The next phase, which I have referred to as that of extermination, or virtual extermination, would be that of the now-augmented numbers of Kurii turning on the considerably war-reduced human population of Gor, perhaps in a hundred coordinated nights of massacre, perhaps in a set of campaigns, in whi... |
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| 45 | 54 |
I wondered what forces might have given birth to the mighty Voltai. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 213 |
It had become clear, after the attack, that this wilderness was not only a remote, miserable, dangerous venue in which we, far from civilization, were for most practical purposes incarcerated, and, under discipline, were put to manual tasks befitting the lower castes, but was, in addition, somehow i... |
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| 6 | 75 |
Some weeks before, as I had been given to understand, the forces of Cos, Tyros, and their allies, and hirelings, most in mercenary bands, had withdrawn from Ar. |
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| 6 | 77 |
It was claimed by some that the work of the occupying forces was done, that Ar had been taught her lesson, her walls razed and her coffers looted, that she was now impoverished, docile, and subdued, and was no longer a threat to the civilized cities. |
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| 6 | 78 |
Accordingly, the occupying forces had executed an orderly withdrawal, one supposedly scheduled for months aforehand. |
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| 6 | 86 |
As it was, men of Ar tried to prevent the remnants of the occupying forces fleeing and hundreds of sympathizers and collaborators from leaving the city. |
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| 9 | 266 |
"We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawals under fire, ... |
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| 14 | 187 |
The men brought here were mostly mercenaries, strong, rough men, many of whom were fugitives from the forces which had garrisoned and exploited Ar. |
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| 15 | 495 |
The memories of men were long, particularly those who were veterans of the former occupational forces in Ar, and they wished to well impress upon the women that they were no longer proud, free, noble, and untouchable, but were now mere properties and animals, slaves. |
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| 16 | 20 |
Most, I supposed, were veterans of the forces which had garrisoned Ar. |
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| 38 | 10 |
Axel, clearly, was primarily concerned to establish its existence, numbers, and direction, following which he would consider his possible course of action, either to attempt to deal with it, saving at least one prisoner who might be later interrogated at Shipcamp, or, if it seemed prudential, to wit... |
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| 38 | 11 |
If these additional forces were beyond the reach of the whistle, so far that not even their lari might take note of the signal, I was to return to Shipcamp, and bring men, following the river west. |
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| 38 | 228 |
"Let us join forces". |
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| 39 | 193 |
"There are forces involved," said the leader to Tuza and Darla, "which you do not understand, nor, fully, do we. |
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| 43 | 52 |
I was puzzled by these things, though I had gathered, long ago, from Tyrtaios, that titanic forces might be involved in these matters, and that one, or more, worlds, in their way, might hang in some delicate balance. |
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| 43 | 130 |
"If there are two large and complex forces involved, it is not unlikely that each has spies in the camp of the other, perhaps even highly placed spies". |
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| 43 | 1030 |
"I am a high officer amongst remote forces," said Axel. |
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| 43 | 1145 |
I am apparently little better at this than estimating arrayed forces in the field". |
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| 47 | 71 |
Such situations are not unprecedented in war, where one may not know the position of the enemy, the forces at his disposal, his plans, where he might strike, and so on. |
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| 52 | 487 |
Both Genserich and Master Axel had independently sought the Panther Women, Genserich from the south, from the vicinity of the Laurius, to preclude their reporting to forces gathered at the mouth of the Alexandra, and Master Axel, from the north, to locate them as spies and summon assistance, were he... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 23 |
"Smaller forces, under special circumstances, can rout larger forces". |
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