| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 141 |
At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 160 |
"We've been looking for you," said the other voice, which I now saw belonged to a burly guardsman of Tharna. |
10 |
| 9 | 166 |
He shoved the sack under the nose of the guardsman. |
10 |
| 9 | 167 |
"Ost," read the guardsman. |
10 |
| 9 | 173 |
"You are under arrest," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 10 | 8 |
"Are you a warrior?" asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 10 | 10 |
"Have I your word that you will accompany me peaceably to the palace of the Tatrix?" asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 10 | 12 |
The guardsman spoke to his men. |
10 |
| 10 | 14 |
"I am innocent," I told the guardsman. |
10 |
| 10 | 18 |
"Quiet, worm," said the guardsman, and the conspirator subsided into squirming silence. |
10 |
| 10 | 19 |
I followed the guardsman, yet ringed with his men, to the palace of the Tatrix. |
10 |
| 10 | 36 |
The guardsman motioned to the door, and stepped behind me. |
10 |
| 10 | 38 |
"We do not enter," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 10 | 42 |
"Enter," commanded the guardsman. |
10 |
| 10 | 43 |
I glanced once more at the spears, smiled grimly at the guardsman, turned and, lowering my head, entered the small door. |
10 |
| 11 | 93 |
There was a whimpering and a scuffling from behind me, and, to my astonishment, one of the guardsman of the palace, the tiny silver mask blazed across the left temple of his helmet, flung Ost, the conspirator, yoked and sniveling, to the foot of the throne. |
10 |
| 11 | 139 |
The guardsman laughed. |
10 |
| 11 | 148 |
"Very well," said Lara, and turned the glittering mask to the guardsman who had hurled the yoked Ost to her feet, "take him to the Chamber of the Urts". |
10 |
| 11 | 206 |
Her voice was cold as she spoke to the guardsman who had brought him to the chamber. |
10 |
| 11 | 210 |
Scornfully the guardsman lifted him to his feet and dragged him stumbling and whimpering from the room. |
10 |
| 19 | 41 |
"To the Central Shaft!" I cried, holding a sword that had been taken from a guardsman now chained in the shafts behind. |
10 |
| 21 | 19 |
"Tal," said one guardsman. |
10 |
| 23 | 125 |
On the summit of the wall we encountered the crumpled form of a fallen guardsman. |
10 |
| 23 | 157 |
"Yes, brave Guardsman," said the girl, placing her hand gently on his forehead as though to soothe him, "I am Lara". |
10 |
| 23 | 158 |
The guardsman struggled in my arms, and then fell back, shutting his eyes with pain. |
10 |
| 23 | 161 |
The grayish blue eyes slowly opened and gazed at my face for a long time, and gradually recognition transformed the features of the young guardsman. |
10 |
| 23 | 172 |
"I am proud of you, my guardsman". |
10 |
| 24 | 218 |
"You are Stam," she said, "first guardsman of the north gate and can cast your spear farther than any man of Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 118 |
Neither Harold nor myself could move an arm or hand and, locked in the net, we stood like fools until a guardsman kicked the feet out from under us and we rolled, entrapped in the wire, at his feet. |
10 |
| 18 | 92 |
But before I reached them my quiva, with the underhand hilt cast, had struck the guardsman on my left. |
10 |
| 18 | 95 |
I took the attack of the second guardsman by rolling on my back and flinging up my blade in defense. |
10 |
| 18 | 99 |
From the breast of the first guardsman I removed the quiva, wiping it on his tunic. |
10 |
| 18 | 108 |
I had the guardsman's sword and my quiva, Harold his quiva alone. |
10 |
| 20 | 49 |
A guardsman had emerged, carrying a crossbow, framed in the light of the threshold at the entrance to the bridge from the building. |
10 |
| 21 | 97 |
But how could I stay in the city until vigilance at the gates might be relaxed, perhaps three or four days from now? Every guardsman in Turia would be on the lookout for Tarl Cabot, who unfortunately, was not difficult to recognize. |
10 |
| 21 | 215 |
This train of thought was interrupted by the sounds of an altercation below, the shouting of an annoyed guardsman at the gate, the protesting cries of the driver of the merchant wagon. |
10 |
| 21 | 301 |
In an instant the position of the man I had felled was filled by yet another guardsman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 61 |
I and the Physician, and the guardsman, followed him up the iron ramp to the second level. |
10 |
| 11 | 73 |
As the girl knelt the guardsman pulled back her head and held her nose while the smith, with thumb and forefinger, forced open her jaws and, spilling it a bit on her chin and body, poured a half cup of gruel into her mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 663 |
I did not think I would care to pursue him on tarnback, were I a mounted guardsman of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 264 |
"Bertram of Lydius approached a guardsman," said Publius, "who suspected nothing, Bertram of Lydius being guest in the house. |
10 |
| 2 | 30 |
He gestured to a guardsman. |
10 |
| 2 | 54 |
Samos handed the hair ribbon to a guardsman, gesturing to the girl. |
10 |
| 2 | 62 |
He gestured to a guardsman, who fetched and spilled open a bundle of garments on the edge of the table. |
10 |
| 2 | 91 |
Samos gestured to a guardsman, and he tied up the bundle of clothing, leaving it on the table. |
10 |
| 2 | 307 |
Samos, the ribbon freed from the spear's shaft, the spear retrieved by the guardsman, looked down at the table, at the ribbon, which now seemed only a ribbon, with meaningless marks. |
10 |
| 2 | 566 |
"What is it?" He gestured to a guardsman to bring a lamp, for we were far from the light of the bowl of coals now, and of various torches set in the walls. |
10 |
| 2 | 568 |
The guardsman brought him the lamp there. |
10 |
| 5 | 120 |
A guardsman appeared. |
10 |
| 5 | 131 |
"A new guardsman, affrighted at a shadow or noise sounded the alarm". |
10 |
| 5 | 148 |
"I wish you well, too, Guardsman," said I. |
10 |
| 10 | 126 |
"It is ordered," said the guardsman, "that he labors today". |
10 |
| 10 | 239 |
"Move," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 10 | 262 |
"Put stone here," said a guardsman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 18 |
Another guardsman stopped ringing the alarm bar. |
10 |
| 4 | 20 |
"Be on the watch for an escaped female slave," called the guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 41 |
"Return the girl to the praetor's station on this pier," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 57 |
"Be on the watch for an escaped female slave," repeated the guardsman with the paper. |
10 |
| 4 | 106 |
They were fastened together by the neck, by a guardsman's neck strap. |
10 |
| 4 | 110 |
It did not seem likely to me that the guardsman, either, would have removed it, as she was, I presumed, a free woman. |
10 |
| 4 | 112 |
"We found them both trussed like vulos," laughed a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 114 |
"It was not guardsmen," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 133 |
"Be silent," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 146 |
It was opened by a guardsman, who sifted his hands through coins. |
10 |
| 4 | 177 |
A guardsman struck her on the right thigh with the butt of his spear and she cried out in pain. |
10 |
| 4 | 229 |
"There is a golden tarn in the pouch," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 231 |
The guardsman lifted the coin to the praetor. |
10 |
| 4 | 259 |
"They are capture knots," said the guardsman, smiling. |
10 |
| 4 | 274 |
The neck strap, now that Turgus was freed of it, looped gracefully up to her throat, held in the hand of a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 298 |
The strap, in the hand of the guardsman, grew taut at her throat. |
10 |
| 4 | 325 |
I went to a guardsman, near the praetor station. |
10 |
| 4 | 331 |
"We are conducting a search," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 334 |
"I myself," said a nearby guardsman, "stopped a girl answering the description, one in the torn rag of a she-urt, but when I forced her to reveal her thighs, she was unmarked". |
10 |
| 4 | 337 |
"My thanks, Guardsman," said I. |
10 |
| 4 | 516 |
"You can't just take us! We are free! Free!" "We will call a guardsman!" cried another. |
10 |
| 4 | 557 |
"No," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 560 |
The neck strap of a guardsman was on her throat. |
10 |
| 4 | 571 |
"Her measurements, exactly, fit those of the slave," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 631 |
The praetor nodded to a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 663 |
The guardsman removed his neck strap from her throat, freeing, too, her ankles. |
10 |
| 4 | 665 |
Lifting her under the stomach he held her ankles near the rack; another guardsman placed her ankles in the semicircular openings in the bottom block and then swung shut the top block, with its matching semicircular openings, over them. |
10 |
| 4 | 667 |
The guardsman who had held the girl then ceased to support her. |
10 |
| 4 | 676 |
This was brought by a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 716 |
A guardsman stood near her. |
10 |
| 4 | 866 |
Outside I saw the guardsman unchaining the girl who had been the she-urt, Sasi. |
10 |
| 4 | 895 |
"Are there papers on her?" I asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 896 |
"No," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 12 | 34 |
The word 'askari' is an inland word, which may be translated roughly as 'soldier' or 'guardsman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 335 |
Call a guardsman!" I was thrust along the alley. |
10 |
| 25 | 282 |
He may have been a peasant or a tharlarion rancher, or perhaps even a patrolling guardsman. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 57 |
"What is going on here?" inquired a guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 59 |
"I had heard he was in the camp," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 4 | 64 |
"It is Oneander," said the guardsman, not pleased. |
10 |
| 4 | 66 |
But the guardsman had turned his back and left. |
10 |
| 4 | 464 |
It is not at all unusual on Gor for a male, any male, and not simply a warrior, a guardsman, a raider, a slaver, or such, to be familiar with the binding of women. |
10 |
| 6 | 12 |
"You will leave Fina by tonight," advised the guardsman. |
10 |
| 6 | 48 |
"Hurry!" called the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 3 |
"As far as we can determine," said the guardsman from Port Cos, "he is ignorant as to the whereabouts of the topaz". |
10 |
| 18 | 31 |
"Did he come from east on the river, or west?" asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 33 |
"That is much what he, too, claims," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 38 |
"It is not claimed he is the courier," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 41 |
"Only the word and story of a free woman, whom he keeps," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 43 |
"And have you had similar situations before?" "Four times," said the guardsman, disgustedly. |
10 |
| 18 | 45 |
"He has a small house," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 48 |
"Nothing," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 50 |
"She hates him," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 18 | 52 |
"Yes," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 19 | 96 |
"Surely you are a guardsman," said the merchant. |
10 |
| 21 | 87 |
The thought of a guardsman who did not even know the sword was an amusing one. |
10 |
| 22 | 293 |
"Each of us turned to the trades of steel, I to that of the guardsman, he to that of the marauder". |
10 |
| 25 | 127 |
"He is a captain, a guardsman of Port Cos," said Callimachus. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 1237 |
"Or do you, now that you are rich, fear the travail of the service, the offices of such a guardsman?" "No!" I cried. |
10 |
| 20 | 1425 |
She kneels to a guardsman, casting off her disguise, revealing herself as a collared slave, and begging to be returned to her master. |
10 |
| 20 | 1426 |
Too, it is not surprising that a guardsman may be in the vicinity, for he may have followed her, noting, under the stolen robes and veils, the body movements, the hesitant, uncertain steps, the tormented breathing, perhaps even the confused, trembling responses to civil inquiries, of a woman in the ... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 4 |
The guardsman did not release the sleen. |
10 |
| 24 | 56 |
A guardsman climbed into the back of the wagon, crouching down, doing this work. |
10 |
| 24 | 58 |
I did cry out, however, for the guardsman, in leaving, touched me aggressively, and intimately. |
10 |
| 30 | 187 |
He was a guardsman. |
10 |
| 30 | 234 |
Frightened by the guardsman's warning, and not wishing to retrace my steps on Emerald I turned to my left, to take a side street to the Wall Road, which I assumed would be safe. |
10 |
| 30 | 448 |
It was the same position the guardsman had placed me in earlier. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 482 |
I want everyone who can recognize him, who knows him, guardsman or not, male or female, free or slave, involved in the search!" "Is he so important, Ubar?" asked Flaminius. |
10 |
| 19 | 1 |
A Lattice Has Been Forced in, from the Outside "Hold!" cried a guardsman, one of two, at his post on one of the long, arching, graceful, railless, narrow bridges interlaced among the towers of Brundisium. |
10 |
| 19 | 172 |
"The search is complete," said a guardsman, reporting to the officer. |
10 |
| 21 | 320 |
"It seems every guardsman in Brundisium is on the lookout for you. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 26 |
"Guardsman!" he cried. |
10 |
| 23 | 27 |
"Guardsman!" Then he quieted quickly, lifted up by the back of the neck. |
10 |
| 23 | 34 |
"Did you wish to speak to a guardsman?" asked Hurtha. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 535 |
Also, if she should be found to be in possession of a coin or coins, for example, by a tradesman, guardsman, or any free person, she will be expected to have an excellent explanation for this anomaly, which is then likely to be checked with her master. |
10 |
| 32 | 252 |
If a guardsman or any free person, or even a male slave, or a female slave in a position of authority, were to inquire as to the identity of my master, that was the information that I would be expected to give them. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 291 |
It is not unusual for a Gorean, many Goreans, but particularly a guardsman, or a warrior, to carry various items of restraint or control in his pouch, for example, thongs, binding fiber, slave bracelets, thumb cuffs, a leash and collar, a nose ring and cord, such things. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 221 |
She had been on a guardsman's shoulder, being carried, her head to the rear, as a slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 9 |
"Back," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 8 | 320 |
He was in the uniform of a guardsman of Ar, but his accent was Cosian. |
10 |
| 8 | 340 |
"Are you of Ar?" asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 8 | 342 |
"What is your employment?" asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 8 | 833 |
"You there, hold!" cried an angry voice, that of a guardsman in the uniform of Ar, hurrying toward us. |
10 |
| 8 | 837 |
Instantly the guardsman stopped. |
10 |
| 8 | 844 |
"You have drawn before a guardsman!" he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 857 |
"I am a guardsman of Ar," said the fellow. |
10 |
| 8 | 905 |
"Under the circumstances," I said to the guardsman, "I would nonetheless recommend a discretionary withdrawal". |
10 |
| 8 | 958 |
"You are not of Ar," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 8 | 964 |
"Go to the barracks of guardsman," said he. |
10 |
| 8 | 976 |
"Are you sure?" asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 8 | 994 |
"I wish you well," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 9 | 4 |
The woman, held now by the upper left arm, by a guardsman, was conducted to a point on the platform, erected now in the Plaza of Tarns, a few feet from a rather narrow, added side ramp, where she was knelt, to be manacled. |
10 |
| 9 | 21 |
"Rejoice, rather, that you have been found suitable, that you have been honored by having been chosen!" The woman then, conducted by another fellow, with an armband, signifying the auxiliary guardsmen, the first fellow, a uniformed guardsman, returning to the group on the platform, was conducted dow... |
10 |
| 9 | 30 |
"On your feet, move," said another auxiliary guardsman. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
A guardsman, on the surface of the platform, before the dais, draped the robe of the penitent about the shoulders of the woman before Talena. |
10 |
| 9 | 75 |
Another guardsman quickly ushered her to the rear and down the large ramp at the rear of the platform. |
10 |
| 9 | 115 |
The woman was then drawn to her feet by an auxiliary guardsman and conducted down the ramp. |
10 |
| 9 | 116 |
The auxiliary guardsman on the other side of the ramp, then, who was working with me, said to her, "Kneel, slut". |
10 |
| 9 | 131 |
"He is only an auxiliary guardsman," she said. |
10 |
| 9 | 163 |
There was suddenly a scuffle near the far ramp and a guardsman seized a woman who had suddenly turned about and attempted to run. |
10 |
| 9 | 165 |
The guardsman, who now had her well in hand, holding her from behind, by the upper arms, literally lifting her off the surface of the platform, carried her forward, before Talena. |
10 |
| 9 | 168 |
The guardsman then put her down. |
10 |
| 9 | 248 |
At the same time a guardsman seized her from behind by the upper arms. |
10 |
| 9 | 355 |
A guardsman behind Claudia had his sword half drawn from its sheath. |
10 |
| 9 | 358 |
The guardsman sheathed his sword. |
10 |
| 9 | 405 |
She was supported by the guardsman behind her, and not gently. |
10 |
| 9 | 448 |
Talena made an angry sign and a guardsman withdrew his blade from its sheath. |
10 |
| 9 | 449 |
In a moment Claudia's head was held down and forward by another guardsman. |
10 |
| 9 | 467 |
The guardsman with the drawn blade resheathed it. |
10 |
| 9 | 468 |
The guardsman holding Claudia's hair released it, angrily, pushing her head down. |
10 |
| 9 | 490 |
"Stand, slut of Ar," said the auxiliary guardsman opposite me. |
10 |
| 9 | 632 |
"Turn about," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 9 | 634 |
"Doubtless, given your position in line," said the guardsman, "you will learn tomorrow". |
10 |
| 9 | 640 |
"Oh!" said the woman who had spoken to the guardsman, who had been second in line, and now, turned about, was second to last in the long line. |
10 |
| 9 | 789 |
An auxiliary guardsman had come back up the line making certain that the women knelt with their knees widely apart. |
10 |
| 9 | 853 |
My fellow guardsman lifted the far end of the chain and threaded it through the arms of the blonde. |
10 |
| 11 | 1 |
The Delka "Stop babbling, man!" ordered the guardsman, an officer in the scarlet of Ar, though his accent proclaimed him Cosian. |
10 |
| 11 | 60 |
The captain regarded the guardsman. |
10 |
| 11 | 61 |
"See, Captain?" asked the guardsman. |
10 |
| 11 | 78 |
The guardsman shrugged. |
10 |
| 11 | 84 |
"I would follow Marlenus," said a guardsman. |
10 |
| 14 | 7 |
Marcus and I had our armbands, those of auxiliary guardsman, a band of red beneath one of blue, Ar under the supervision of Cos. |
10 |
| 14 | 50 |
"As you are slave," I asked, "how is it that you are not kneeling?" "A strange question," she said, "coming from a guardsman of Cos". |
10 |
| 22 | 344 |
Actually I was not armed today, as I was not in uniform, not wearing, that is, the armband of the auxiliary guardsman, and I did not want to be stopped by guardsmen, line or auxiliary, as being in possible violation of the injunction against unauthorized weapons in the city, that injunction which pl... |
10 |
| 22 | 763 |
There was a guardsman there, a regular, not an auxiliary. |
10 |
| 22 | 773 |
"Does the whip master know where you are?" asked the guardsman of Lavinia. |
10 |
| 22 | 777 |
"These state sluts are all the same," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 22 | 816 |
The guardsman was nowhere in sight. |
10 |
| 26 | 224 |
Should it come to the attention of Seremides, or Myron, or the high council, or an archon of slaves, or perhaps even a guardsman, you may well conjecture what might be your fate". |
10 |
| 28 | 63 |
I heard someone outside, down in the street, doubtless a guardsman, cry, "Halt! Halt!" There was then the sound of running feet. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 800 |
Too, it would be dreadfully dangerous if someone should, either routinely or on provocation, perhaps a guardsman, discover that it was not locked. |
10 |
| 24 | 147 |
"It is a second pursuit!" "Disperse! Disperse!" said a guardsman, near the balustrade. |
10 |
| 24 | 149 |
"Go!" said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 163 |
"Go!" said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 165 |
"Go!" cried the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 170 |
"Run!" screamed the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 174 |
"Run!" screamed the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 185 |
The guardsman who had been at the balustrade rushed toward them. |
10 |
| 24 | 210 |
The guardsman who had cried out at the balustrade lay in blood only a few yards from me. |
10 |
| 46 | 331 |
"You would have to be careful not to be picked up by a guardsman," he said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 891 |
"Obeisance!" snapped the guardsman. |
10 |
| 16 | 893 |
"You may now beg the forgiveness of our charges," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 16 | 896 |
"You will now, in order, shelf-girls," said the guardsman, "acknowledge your inferiority to our charges". |
10 |
| 16 | 910 |
One of the girls in the coffle, she who was last on the chain, or slaver's necklace, turned about to cast a last contemptuous glance at the shelf, but the guardsman behind her struck her a sharp, stinging blow with the flat of his hand below the small of her back, which resounded throughout the mark... |
10 |
| 17 | 810 |
"Guardsman! Search for an escaped slave in a weight collar, a high collar of thick, black iron, hammered shut about her neck, its two forward projections pierced, a dangling, two-hort iron ring threaded through the piercings!" So Ellen lay on the cement shelf, chained, closing her eyes, shuddering, ... |
10 |
| 17 | 954 |
The man, she guessed, was a mounted guardsman, or messenger, or scout. |
10 |
| 18 | 202 |
If a Cosian guardsman were in the vicinity they must work in silence. |
10 |
| 18 | 773 |
It was a guardsman, of Cos. |
10 |
| 19 | 654 |
He was, she thought, a guardsman of Ar. |
10 |
| 21 | 106 |
Supervising each group was a man, not a soldier, or guardsman, merely an attendant, a drover, a hireling, usually loitering nearby. |
10 |
| 24 | 650 |
Beside him was a guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 810 |
"It is instinctive in a woman," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 816 |
"Yes," agreed the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 819 |
"Agreed," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 24 | 845 |
Ellen saw the shadow of the guardsman, the arm lift, the hand holding the whip. |
10 |
| 24 | 849 |
Selius Arconious had interposed himself, and his hand rested on the arm of the guardsman, staying its blow. |
10 |
| 24 | 850 |
The guardsman, puzzled, lowered his arm. |
10 |
| 24 | 887 |
The slave's tether was then handed to a guardsman. |
10 |
| 25 | 65 |
"This is the smallest of the woman cages?" had asked the guardsman, her tether looped about his left wrist. |
10 |
| 25 | 67 |
She had then been knelt before the cage, and there the guardsman had removed the tether from her wrists, that on which she had been conducted thither, as might have been a verr, from the area of the silken enclosure where she, and other slaves, had been put to the entertainment of men. |
10 |
| 25 | 74 |
She heard the guardsman laugh. |
10 |
| 25 | 87 |
"You can hardly see her," said the guardsman. |
10 |
| 25 | 89 |
"In the future," said the guardsman to the incarcerated slave, "perhaps you will be less stupid". |
10 |
| 26 | 655 |
But Portus Canio and Fel Doron, each in the garb of a Cosian guardsman, cautioned her to silence. |
10 |
| 26 | 667 |
He had a sword, presumably that of a guardsman, slung at his left shoulder. |
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| 26 | 795 |
Portus took the coin and put it in the guardsman's wallet at his belt. |
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| 26 | 923 |
When she knelt near the first, she a naked slave, bending over him, her small hands braceleted behind her, the guardsman, sensing what was to be done, began to struggle fiercely, angrily. |
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| 26 | 975 |
She then went to the second guardsman, who, doubtless aware of the futility of resistance, turned his head angrily away. |
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| 26 | 988 |
In a little while she went to the third guardsman, and then to the fourth. |
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| 26 | 994 |
* * * * Scarcely had Ellen backed away, on her knees, bent humbly, head down, from the fourth guardsman, that she might not rise to her feet at his side, this perhaps being taken as insolence, he supine and bound, than she heard, vaguely, obscurely, not really registering it at first, as she now rec... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 114 |
Interestingly, beyond this, he had often kept me near him, as though I might be a guardsman. |
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| 21 | 119 |
Lord Okimoto was handed a glass of the Builders by a Pani guardsman. |
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| 21 | 131 |
Lord Okimoto handed the glass of the Builders back to the guardsman. |
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| 24 | 298 |
I had attended, as a guardsman, many of her fetes and banquets, and had attended her, and others, at the theater, at concerts, and song dramas. |
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| 25 | 176 |
"Callias," she whispered, "Callias of Jad, Cosian, spearman, first of nine, guardsman, the occupation, the Central Cylinder". |
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| 35 | 7 |
"Stop!" said a guardsman. |
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| 36 | 251 |
I trembled, for I had seen that simplicity, that ease of grip before, neither clenched nor tight, neither loose nor careless, in a guardsman's blade, moving toward a fellow backed against a wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 29 |
Were the streets themselves not a danger? Who knew what might lurk around the next turn? Might one not be slain by a guardsman's spear, a frightened guardsman striking at a movement in the darkness, the source of which was unknown? I felt the soft brush of hair on my head, for I wore no kerchief now... |
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| 8 | 1833 |
Here a tunicked slave might wander about in the night without fear, there a guardsman is reluctant to enter at the Tenth Ahn. |
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| 11 | 224 |
"Who would wish a candy which has been soiled by the mouth of a slave," said a guardsman. |
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| 11 | 228 |
"The streets are dangerous," said the first guardsman. |
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| 11 | 233 |
"Surely a manacle awaits," said the first guardsman, "hoping to be warmed by your slender, lovely ankle". |
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| 11 | 236 |
"Go," said the first guardsman. |
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| 13 | 50 |
"Kajira," said a guardsman. |
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| 13 | 64 |
"Today," said the guardsman, "a Metal Worker was killed, in the vicinity of Clive". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 309 |
"What does this collar read?" asked the guardsman with the lamp. |
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| 68 | 312 |
"Forgive me," said the guardsman. |
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| 68 | 323 |
"From the restaurant of —," said the guardsman, "a brunette". |
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| 68 | 517 |
At that point the two guardsmen, one with the guardsman's lamp, arrived. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 192 |
We had gone only a few steps when one of the men whispered, "A guardsman". |
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| 6 | 195 |
"Where are you going with that slave?" asked the guardsman. |
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| 6 | 198 |
"The Sea Sleen?" asked the guardsman. |
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| 6 | 200 |
I began to struggle violently, trying to communicate my distress to the guardsman. |
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| 6 | 201 |
"No wonder she is agitated," said the guardsman. |
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| 6 | 219 |
I supposed the reduction of the fire had something to do with the guardsman's present location, presumably leaving the vicinity of the fire. |
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| 6 | 221 |
"I wish you well," said the guardsman. |
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| 6 | 270 |
"The guardsman did not return?" asked a male voice, softly, on the other side of the leather curtain. |
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| 8 | 301 |
One might conduct me there, or turn me over to a guardsman, who would shortly thereafter deliver me to its cages. |
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| 8 | 414 |
"Guardsman!" called a woman. |
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| 8 | 417 |
"The collar of the House of Anesidemus," said the other male voice, presumably that of a guardsman. |
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| 8 | 424 |
"The collar?" asked he whom I took to be a guardsman. |
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| 8 | 426 |
"You think some sort of mistake was involved?" said he whom I took to be a guardsman. |
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| 8 | 428 |
"You have doings with the House of Anesidemus?" asked he whom I took to be a guardsman. |
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| 8 | 430 |
"Proceed," said he whom I took to be a guardsman, and, apparently, he stepped away. |
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| 23 | 54 |
"She has been robbed, and set upon," said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 57 |
"She thinks she is a slave," said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 59 |
"She has no collar," said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 65 |
I must somehow get back to the Golden Chain! "Rise up, Lady," said the first guardsman, kindly. |
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| 23 | 73 |
"What is she doing here, so early?" said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 74 |
"She has had a fall, or an injury," speculated the second guardsman. |
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| 23 | 77 |
"Stop!" said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 81 |
"We have a tablet," said the second guardsman. |
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| 23 | 86 |
"Come with us, Lady," said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 89 |
"Are you weary or weak?" asked the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 90 |
"Do you wish to be carried?" asked the second guardsman. |
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| 23 | 97 |
Some forty paces down the walkway, the first guardsman stopped before a portal where flowers grew in boxes on either side of the portal, knocked politely, and called within. |
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| 23 | 101 |
"We have a free woman here, who, I fear, is mad," said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 106 |
"Even so," said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 108 |
"Precisely," said the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 126 |
"Who owns you? Who whips you? Where are you chained or caged? What is your name?" demanded the first guardsman. |
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| 23 | 129 |
"It is too bad," said the first guardsman, "that she is witless or mad, and cannot speak". |
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| 24 | 161 |
It would not do would it, to have you cry out, being borne away, or scream on the delta wall, before being cast down to tharlarion? What if you were to cry out secrets, or deeds, or mysteries, which are no concern of guardsmen? What if you were found on the delta wall, in the darkness, bound and gag... |
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| 37 | 11 |
"You wanted to be free of the holding, to have an opportunity to enjoy the sights, the wind and sunlight, of the city, did you not?" asked Miles, colleague of Florian, a guardsman from the holding. |
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| 37 | 171 |
"Once a determination is made," said Florian, "I am sure a guardsman or so would be happy to deliver the slave to your domicile". |
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| 45 | 99 |
The note of a guardsman's canal trumpet carried across the water to the pier. |
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| 45 | 146 |
At the same moment I heard shouting, and a note from a guardsman's trumpet, and two or three boats sliding against the pier, and saw men scrambling out of them, variously armed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 101 |
Then, shortly thereafter, a fellow in the garb of a guardsman, gasping for breath, stood outside the chamber, clinging to one side of the portal. |
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| 40 | 103 |
"Seven ships, unidentified, flying no flags," said the guardsman, "approach the harbor". |
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