| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 3 |
Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t... |
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| 18 | 113 |
As soon as they saw us, they lifted their heads, as if out of their shoulders, and regarded us with fierce attention. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 46 |
Their faces were concealed in the folds of their garments, which had been drawn over their heads in the manner of a hood. |
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| 11 | 114 |
One or two of the warriors, heedless of the proprieties of Tharna, acknowledged my deed by smiting their shields with the bronze heads of their spears. |
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| 21 | 235 |
Two of the girls, she from Tor and one of the girls from Ar wept, their heads buried in their hands. |
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| 24 | 37 |
They threw back their heads and lifted their arms and to the barbaric cadence set by the musicians danced before us. |
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| 24 | 147 |
Trained infantry, incidentally, might move rapidly through the streets of a city with shields locked over their heads, much in the fashion of the Roman testudo, but this formation requires discipline and precision, martial virtues not to be expected in high degree of the rebels of Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 6 |
Accordingly the two golden-haired, jointed appendages protruding from their globelike heads, above the rounded, disklike eyes, are their primary sensory organs. |
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| 12 | 4 |
Among them I saw men and women, barefoot with shaven heads, clad in short purple tunics that reflected the various lights of the plaza as though they might have been formed of some reflective plastic. |
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| 12 | 85 |
Hardly had his delicate foot touched the button than a panel slid aside and two handsome men, of the most symmetrical form and features with shaven heads and clad in the purple, plastic tunics of slaves, entered the room and prostrated themselves before the dais. |
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| 12 | 86 |
At a signal from Sarm they leaped to their feet and stood alertly beside the dais, their feet spread, their heads high, their arms folded. |
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| 12 | 93 |
They had wide, fine heads, strong, broad bodies, and a carriage that suggested calmness and strength. |
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| 20 | 48 |
The only object in the room other than ourselves was a heavy, globelike contrivance, high over our heads, attached to a set of jointed extensions fastened in the ceiling of the chamber. |
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| 20 | 187 |
The two Muls looked at one another sadly and shook their heads. |
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| 21 | 53 |
I could now see the Priest-Kings clearly where they clung upside down to the ceiling, their great swollen abdomens almost dwarfing their thoraxes and heads. |
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| 21 | 64 |
When not actively engaged in gathering Gur their round dark eyes were lifted like dark curves to the Priest-Kings who clung to the ceiling far over their heads. |
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| 27 | 111 |
I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the Flame Death. |
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| 27 | 169 |
Their jaws locked together, the great heads twisting. |
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| 27 | 363 |
And from a thousand translators rang the message she cried out over those golden heads to the blank stone ceiling and walls of her chamber and I shall never forget it as it was in all the sorrow and the joy of her trembling dying magnificence; I and all could read it in the attitude of her body, the... |
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| 28 | 12 |
The Muls, I supposed, terrified and confused, had scattered and hidden themselves in their cases, living on their fungus and water, while over their heads hissed the weapons of their masters. |
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| 31 | 82 |
"Look up," commanded Al-Ka, and both of the girls lifted their heads trembling. |
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| 32 | 195 |
Over our heads it seemed suddenly that, splitting from the hole already there, the entire roof suddenly shattered apart and seemed for a moment to hang there. |
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| 33 | 35 |
I saw their shaven heads, their faces distraught in the bleak white of their robes, their eyes wide and filled with fear, their bodies trembling in the robes of their caste. |
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| 33 | 40 |
I wondered if the shaven heads, traditional for centuries with Initiates, held some distant connection, lost now in time, with the hygienic practices of the Nest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 19 |
Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young... |
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| 13 | 8 |
Their ears began to lay back against the sides of their triangular heads; their long, serpentine bodies trembled; I saw claws emerge from their paws, retract, emerge again and then retract; they lifted their heads, sweeping them from side to side, and then thrust their snouts to the ground and began... |
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| 2 | 142 |
Their long ears were laid back against the fierce, silken heads. |
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| 8 | 611 |
The two girls, while Elizabeth Cardwell looked on angrily, knelt before Kamchak and myself, lowering their heads, lifting and extending their arms, wrists crossed. |
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| 9 | 23 |
This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. |
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| 9 | 295 |
The drums and flutes of the musicians sounded, and to my amazement the first girl, with a sudden, graceful swirl of her body lifted away her robes and flung them high over the heads of the guests to cries of delight. |
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| 15 | 4 |
There had been Kassars who had wanted to fight and some Kataii, but the calm heads of the Paravaci had convinced them that the difficulty lay between Turia and the Tuchuks, not Turia and the Wagon Peoples generally. |
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| 21 | 284 |
The wagon bosk, upset by the running men, the shouting and the clank of arms about them, were bellowing wildly and throwing their heads up and down, stomping and pawing in the dust. |
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| 23 | 78 |
And then, as the Paravaci bosk horns sounded frantically, our bosk began to run, their mighty heads with the fearsome horns nodding up and down, and the earth began to tremble and my men cried out more and jabbed animals, riding with the flood and the Paravaci with cries of horror that coursed the l... |
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| 26 | 136 |
The two sleen seemed to drink in the scent of the robe and then they began to tremble, and the claws on their wide, soft feet emerged and retracted, and their heads lifted and began to sway from side to side. |
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| 26 | 151 |
Four spears, with bronze heads, suddenly burst across the passage, emerging from circular openings, their tips striking into other small openings across the passage. |
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| 26 | 341 |
At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers... |
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| 27 | 22 |
To some he would ask, "Has Turia fallen?" And they would bow their heads and say, "She has fallen". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 109 |
The Musicians began to play, and the girls in Pleasure Silk, hands over their heads, lifted themselves slowly to the melody, their bodies responding to it as though to the touch of a man. |
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| 11 | 24 |
One or two girls I noted lay on the flooring mesh, their heads near the bars separating them from the males, their hair cruelly tied to the bars. |
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| 11 | 176 |
They shook their heads. |
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| 12 | 43 |
On the low wall, some seven or eight feet in height, some forty feet in width, which divided the track, I could see that only three of the great wooden tarn heads remained on their poles, indicating that only three laps remained in the race. |
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| 12 | 194 |
He shoved the heads of both to the stones of the floor. |
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| 12 | 311 |
First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of about a quarter of an inch was left between the t... |
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| 12 | 372 |
There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca... |
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| 13 | 315 |
The painted, wooden tarn heads, used for marking laps of the race, stood lonely and dark on their poles. |
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| 15 | 225 |
In the beginning, when moving about the house, the girls had been permitted only the garb customarily worn in the sweat and motion of the training, a rectangle of silk, about a foot long, thrust into a silken string knotted about the waist; Virginia and Phyllis would not even leave their cells so cl... |
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| 16 | 237 |
I turned a bit to see that Ho-Sorl had a fist in the hair of each, twisting it, pulling their heads back to him. |
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| 17 | 127 |
The Warrior, followed by the Tarn Keeper, was moving down the line of bound girls, lifting their heads, taking their final wages for the sport, saying "Kajuralia," to each and moving to the next. |
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| 17 | 170 |
"I say," said the disguised guard, "Ar could do worse than have such a man as Cernus on the throne!" To my amazement, several about the table, who were undoubtedly common citizens of Ar, began to nod their heads. |
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| 17 | 411 |
Then the slave girls about the table began to go wild, throwing things and where possible pouring liquids on the heads of the guards and members of the staff, who, leaping up, seized them when they could catch them, kissing them, holding them, making them cry out with delight. |
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| 19 | 216 |
Then, regally, in black cloaks, with hoods, three women, two girls and their leader, climbed the stairs to the block, backs straight, heads high, their features concealed in the folds of the hood. |
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| 19 | 245 |
Phyllis tossed her head and looked away, over the heads of the crowd, nothing but contempt on her face. |
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| 19 | 339 |
The girls stood in the light, lifting their heads to the crowd, nude and proud on the block, in the wild shouting and stamping and crying out, and knew themselves beautiful and prized. |
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| 19 | 431 |
When the dance ended the three girls, slaves, knelt in the position of submission, arms extended, heads lowered, wrists crossed as though for binding; Elizabeth knelt facing the crowd and, perpendicular to her, on her left and right, knelt Virginia and Phyllis, a vulnerable, submitted flower of slav... |
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| 19 | 444 |
Even the girls lifted their heads, startled, breaking the discipline of the submitted flower. |
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| 22 | 123 |
I saw six wooden tarn heads mounted on poles at each end of the dividing wall, indicating the laps remaining. |
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| 22 | 161 |
I saw there were two tarn heads left on the poles. |
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| 22 | 174 |
He pointed to a spot about a hundred yards away, on a small wall, built itself on the dividing wall, near the pole of the wooden tarn heads. |
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| 22 | 416 |
I looked at the poles bearing the twenty wooden tarn heads, signaling the circuits of the track to be made. |
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| 22 | 445 |
I glanced at the tarn heads remaining on the poles and saw, to my dismay, only eleven remained. |
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| 22 | 470 |
One of each set bore five tarn heads, and the other bore four. |
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| 22 | 476 |
By the time there were seven tarn heads remaining on the poles I had caught up to the rider for the Blues, who held a poor fourth. |
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| 22 | 511 |
There were still five tarn heads on the poles when he overtook, between rings, and passed the Silver. |
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| 22 | 521 |
I saw four tarn heads left on the poles. |
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| 22 | 539 |
Two wooden tarn heads now surmounted the high poles. |
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| 24 | 293 |
They were both beautiful, in the gray livery, with their hair brushed back about their heads, with the gray collars, with the matching gray bands with their five simple bells locked about their left ankles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 326 |
I could see the shining eyes of urts, their noses and heads dividing the torchlit waters silently, their pointed, silken ears laid back against the sides of their heads. |
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| 2 | 57 |
She and one or two of the others then put back their heads and uttered a kind of piping whistle, the call of the marsh gant. |
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| 3 | 173 |
"Besides," said another man, "we do not have metal for the heads of arrows, nor arrowwood, and Ka-la-na does not grow in the marsh. |
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| 8 | 215 |
The slaves from the rence islands, lying between the rowers' benches, like fish, bound hand and foot, had their heads to the stern of the vessel. |
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| 10 | 257 |
It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the water, uttering a kind of whistle. |
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| 11 | 37 |
Over their heads into the doorway I flung the great table. |
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| 11 | 430 |
I saw one or two of the captains raise their heads from the arms of their curule chairs. |
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| 15 | 405 |
At last, bit by bit, as her fear and terror mounted, the men, fist by fist, took up the slack in the thongs that tethered her, until suddenly, they swiftly bound her hand and foot and lifted her over their heads, captured female slave, displaying her bound arched body to the tables. |
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| 16 | 380 |
"Hear them! They are outside!" The men of the council lifted their heads. |
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| 16 | 421 |
I could see the canals far away, over the heads of the people, crowded even to the distant waters bordering the great piazza. |
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| 17 | 248 |
Feeling the wind and the cold suddenly strike them they threw back their heads and beat their wings, pulled against the chains that bound them to the keel timbers. |
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| 18 | 169 |
They shook their heads. |
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| 18 | 277 |
Over our heads, high, between beams, was strung tarn wire. |
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| 18 | 525 |
Then helmeted heads, eyes wild in the Y-like openings of the helmets, appeared at the crenels, and hands and arms, and booted feet, appeared, and men were swarming at the walls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 188 |
Their heads were shaved. |
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| 6 | 65 |
Several of the fanged seedpods lifted, like heads, sensing me, moving back and forth gently. |
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| 6 | 214 |
The spears were large, with curved bronze heads. |
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| 7 | 339 |
I liked these stops, for there we would have fresh bosk milk, still hot, and would have a roof over our heads for a night, be it only of grass. |
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| 7 | 355 |
It was raining outside, and I could hear the rain beat on the squarish roof of red rain canvas stretched over our heads. |
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| 7 | 432 |
At his feet, their heads bowed, they receive the domination without which they are incomplete. |
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| 7 | 469 |
The other girls, too, had their heads to the grass, kneeling before the free woman. |
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| 8 | 106 |
They shave the heads of their male slaves in that fashion to humiliate them. |
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| 8 | 366 |
Beyond the compound of Haakon of Skjern I could see the compound of his tarns, where, hobbled, the great birds beat their wings, threw back their heads and screamed, and tore at the great pieces of bosk thrown before them. |
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| 12 | 113 |
They, too, wore skins, and the heads of forest panthers. |
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| 12 | 116 |
From the poles there hung the skins and heads of many beasts, mostly panthers and sleen. |
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| 12 | 120 |
Here and there, among the wagons, leashed, clad in short woolen skirts, heavy bands of iron hammered about their throats, under the guard of huntsmen, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, there walked male slaves, male outlaws captured by Marlenus and his hunters in the forest. |
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| 12 | 144 |
How fearful they appeared, in skins, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, with their hunting spears. |
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| 13 | 1104 |
In expensive shopping districts I had enjoyed, as the saying goes, "turning many heads". |
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| 17 | 406 |
"The heads were mounted on stakes beside the canal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 215 |
Immediately the two girls lifted their heads from the sand, shaking their heads, throwing their hair behind their back, over the branch. |
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| 2 | 14 |
Their heads were down, their blond hair falling forward. |
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| 2 | 141 |
He then put his foot on the branch, forcing their heads down to the sand. |
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| 2 | 203 |
I thought I detected the slightest movement in the shoulders of one of the panther girls, their heads to the sand, the branch lashed behind their necks. |
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| 2 | 217 |
Their heads were high. |
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| 2 | 313 |
Rim held their heads underwater, for better than an Ehn. |
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| 2 | 314 |
When he pulled their heads from the water, they were wild-eyed, sputtering and gasping, their lungs shrieking for air. |
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| 2 | 732 |
Only now both of them thrust their heads to the deck at my feet. |
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| 2 | 748 |
Both girls lifted their heads. |
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| 2 | 755 |
They put down their heads. |
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| 2 | 765 |
They put down their heads, sobbing. |
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| 3 | 11 |
I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e... |
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| 5 | 8 |
They had splashed beneath the water and then, in a moment, their snouts and sleek heads had poked upward, shining and dripping, and then, they, all six of them, noses like compass needles, smelling the land, had turned in the water and, tails whipping, leaving snakelike curves in the water, had sped... |
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| 9 | 412 |
They put back their heads. |
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| 9 | 414 |
Their hair fell behind their heads, their faces lifted to the rays of the moons. |
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| 10 | 78 |
"But their heads had been shaved," said Marlenus. |
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| 10 | 235 |
Few held up their heads. |
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| 11 | 504 |
She leaped to her feet but two huntsmen, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, seized her by the arms. |
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| 11 | 511 |
"Ubar!" At a gesture from Marlenus the shreds of pleasure silk which still clung to her were torn from her by two huntsmen, they, too, like the others, cowled in the heads of forest panthers. |
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| 12 | 42 |
Our heads, in token of our humiliation, had been shaved by our captors. |
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| 12 | 43 |
Each of us, including the mighty Bosk, wore the two-and-one-half inch swath on our heads, running from our foreheads to the back of our necks, making it clear to all who it was who had taken us in the forests. |
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| 12 | 130 |
And I, and my men, would return to our businesses, empty handed, our heads bearing the shaved degradation swath of panther girls. |
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| 13 | 233 |
"Stand straight, heads high. |
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| 13 | 267 |
Their heads were very high. |
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| 13 | 362 |
The girls again stood, backs straight, heads high. |
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| 14 | 72 |
They looked well, stripped, standing, fastened in place, back to back, arms over their heads, wrists lashed together over the branches, the ankles of one closely tied to those of another, helpless. |
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| 14 | 147 |
How many were there? How did they seem? Which seemed most alert? Who did I suppose might be the most dangerous? At what height hung the hilt of the swords in the sheaths slung over the left shoulder? Which girls walked with their heads the highest, which carried their spears well? I looked at the mo... |
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| 14 | 229 |
The panther girls put down their heads. |
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| 15 | 161 |
Their heads were high. |
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| 15 | 260 |
The girls threw back their heads, some with their eyes closed, and drank the air. |
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| 15 | 328 |
Their backs were straight, their heads were high. |
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| 16 | 35 |
They now marched, at their own pace, their heads high, with pride. |
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| 18 | 203 |
Further, their heads faced toward the wall of the stockade. |
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| 19 | 378 |
Then, trembling, shuddering, weeping, some begging for mercy they thrust their heads to the ground. |
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| 19 | 394 |
The entire coffle, whipped, was on its knees, heads down, weeping. |
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| 21 | 113 |
Their heads, too, sore from the paga, will most likely cause them some displeasure". |
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| 22 | 223 |
"Is there any among you," she said, "who wish to fight me to the death?" They shook their heads. |
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| 22 | 578 |
His head, nor the heads of his men, did not wear the degradation stripe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 36 |
He was flanked by minor Initiates, in their white robes, with shaven heads. |
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| 2 | 187 |
Their heads were shaved and they wore robes resembling those of the Initiates. |
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| 2 | 213 |
At the foot of the altar beasts were sometimes sacrificed, their horns held, their heads twisted, the blood from their opened throats caught in shallow golden bowls, to be poured upon the altar; too, choice portions of their flesh would be burnt upon the altar, the smoke escaping through a small hol... |
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| 2 | 286 |
Four huge men of Torvaldsland, in long cloaks, clasped about their necks, heads down, bearded, with braided hair, entered, bearing on their shoulders a platform of crossed spears. |
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| 2 | 291 |
I am tall, and found it not difficult to look over the heads of many in the crowd. |
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| 2 | 298 |
Behind the platform of crossed spears, heads down, filed the crew of Forkbeard. |
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| 2 | 323 |
Then the four men fell back, two to each side, heads down. |
10 |
| 2 | 341 |
The congregation tensed and, scarcely breathing, lifting their heads, intent, observed the High Initiate of Kassau. |
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| 3 | 19 |
The people, obediently, began to kneel on the dirt floor of the temple, their heads down. |
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| 3 | 264 |
"You will hurry, pretty little bondmaids, and you, too, my large-breasted lovely," said Ivar, indicating black-velveted Aelgifu, "or you will be cut out of the coffle by your heads". |
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| 4 | 98 |
Some of the girls slept, some curled on the golden hangings of the temple; some sat or knelt, heads down; of the girls, four of them, though still held in the coffle, were no longer fettered. |
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| 4 | 142 |
They threw the net to the planking and, with their knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish. |
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| 4 | 151 |
I recalled how disappointed she had been in the men of Torvaldsland, when, heads hanging, they had accompanied the Forkbeard to the temple at Kassau. |
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| 5 | 145 |
Some waved the golden hangings of the temple over their heads, as though they might have been banners. |
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| 5 | 207 |
The bondmaids, their bodies sweaty, broken out from rash and heat, struggled to their knees, their heads back, and drank the fresh air. |
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| 6 | 71 |
The men threw back their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale. |
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| 6 | 132 |
And he, too, clasped many of them to himself, and shook the heads of many in his great hands. |
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| 10 | 355 |
The slave girls fell to their knees, heads down, Gunnhild with them. |
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| 10 | 378 |
"These females," she said, indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, "could be better employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter". |
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| 11 | 17 |
Kurii, I had been told, usually, in meeting men, laid the ears back against the sides of their heads, to increase their resemblance to humans. |
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| 13 | 192 |
"Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl. |
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| 13 | 230 |
Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and greas... |
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| 15 | 157 |
Then they would lift their heads, scan the rocks above them, and proceed swiftly. |
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| 15 | 415 |
Outside, we could see the heads of the two Kurii, peering within. |
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| 17 | 29 |
Their heads were not lower than those with whom they stood. |
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| 18 | 178 |
Those who could covered their heads with their hands. |
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| 18 | 182 |
Most lay prone, trembling, as the feet shifted about them, weapons clashing over their heads. |
10 |
| 18 | 280 |
* * * * Kurii lifted their heads, apprehensive. |
10 |
| 18 | 286 |
The bosk, in their charging hundreds, heads down, hoofs pounding, maddened, relentless, driven, struck the square. |
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| 18 | 383 |
Here and there, mounted on stakes, were the heads of Kurii. |
10 |
| 18 | 463 |
"Heads down!" commanded Ottar. |
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| 18 | 464 |
They knelt, their heads to the muddied dirt. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
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| 17 | 36 |
How is it, I wondered, that men survive at Klima, and that they do not die at one another's throats? I looked at the heads of the lelts, and, scattered among them, the heads of the pale salamanders, thrust from the dark water, attracted by the movement, or the awareness of the light or heat, of the ... |
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| 1 | 58 |
Two briefly clad, lovely female slaves withdrew before him, kneeling, heads down, their serving vessels in their hands. |
10 |
| 2 | 108 |
A fellow walked past me, carrying several vulos, alive, heads down, their feet tied together. |
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| 2 | 159 |
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ... |
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| 6 | 3 |
Their hands were at their sides, but ropes were attached to them, and fixed on the axle of the windlass, above their heads. |
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| 11 | 48 |
I noted that Hassan's men had thrown blankets over the heads of the kaiila, to prevent them from seeing the storm, and keep rain from striking their faces, which phenomenon, frightening them, tends to make them unmanageable. |
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| 11 | 512 |
Hassan's men threw their burnooses over the heads of the animals. |
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| 11 | 564 |
The bars were withdrawn; the gates swung wide; the burnooses were thrown from the heads of the animals, and the kaiila bolted from the blazing stable yard into the suddenly illuminated street. |
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| 11 | 571 |
We kept our heads low. |
10 |
| 11 | 611 |
There, tethered, shifting, their nostrils stung with smoke, their heads covered with saddle blankets, were our two kaiila. |
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| 11 | 640 |
Against the wall, kneeling, stripped, bellies pressed tight against it, points of the scimitars against their backs, between their shoulder blades, chins high, against the wall, hands high over their heads, palms pressed tight against the wall, were four beautiful girls. |
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| 11 | 651 |
They did not even dare to turn their heads. |
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| 11 | 707 |
"Lift your heads," said the girl. |
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| 12 | 539 |
I took the neck of each and, in the instant before they could react, struck together their heads, felling both. |
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| 13 | 77 |
In the dunes he is Ubar and the merchants bow their heads to him. |
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| 13 | 226 |
Our heads swirled. |
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| 13 | 231 |
We shook our heads, trying to clear the wines from them. |
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| 14 | 38 |
On her throat was a heavy cell collar, with ring; attached to the ring was some fifteen feet of chain, it attached to a plate near our heads. |
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| 14 | 561 |
We lifted our heads. |
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| 16 | 60 |
The tiny, eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the fernlike filaments at the side of the head will open and lift, orienting themselves to one or the other of the lamps. |
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| 17 | 43 |
Their blunt, whitish heads protruded from the water, curious, each head oriented toward one or the other of the four lamps on the raft. |
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| 19 | 45 |
They watched us, their heads turned to one side. |
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| 20 | 9 |
We had gone perhaps less than a pasang when we fell, rolled from our feet, and lay in the sand, protecting our heads and the water. |
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| 21 | 473 |
Some were missing arms and heads. |
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| 23 | 212 |
The men lifted their arms, their wrists crossed, bound, over their heads. |
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| 23 | 234 |
They put down their heads. |
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| 23 | 275 |
They put their heads to the gravel and sand, trembling. |
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| 25 | 404 |
"We shall lose our heads," he said. |
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| 25 | 483 |
"We shall lose our heads," he had said. |
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| 3 | 252 |
The five men were then similarly hooded, the opaque cloths thrown over their heads and tied under their chins. |
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| 4 | 85 |
Eta and I knelt before him, and put our heads to the dirt at his feet. |
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| 9 | 561 |
We climb out and kneel before her, our heads to her feet. |
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| 9 | 2325 |
"Backs straight, hands on thighs, bellies sucked in, heads high," she said. |
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| 10 | 34 |
Their heads were down. |
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| 12 | 724 |
Other girls stood beside the winged monsters, their hands over their heads, slave braceleted through the stirrups of the beasts. |
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| 27 | 186 |
Their heads made a dull sound as they were struck together. |
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| 27 | 196 |
He seized two by the collars, pounding their heads together. |
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| 27 | 311 |
These, before answering the door, will usually don a light tunic, slipping it over their heads or wrapping it about their shoulders. |
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| 6 | 220 |
They rubbed their wrists, and moved their heads, no longer in the iron circle of the collars. |
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| 6 | 873 |
The five sleen stopped now, tails thrashing, crouched down, shoulders high, heads low, eyes blazing. |
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| 6 | 875 |
Their nostrils were flared, their ears laid back against the sides of their broad, triangular heads. |
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| 10 | 258 |
Sometimes, in open places, huge, massive bucks, heads down, would charge and strike the wall with their horns. |
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| 10 | 384 |
Floodlike, like a tawny, thundering avalanche, blurred, snorting, tossing their heads and horns, the tabuk sped past me. |
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| 11 | 411 |
Then she screamed as I threw the four heads to the turf. |
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| 12 | 196 |
Imnak cracked his whip over their heads and they threw their weight against the traces and the long, narrow, freighted sled eased upward, over the rocks, and then slid down onto the ice of Ax Glacier. |
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| 15 | 53 |
"Oh!" They recoiled from the blows, their hands before their faces, and then lay on their bellies, their hands covering their heads. |
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| 18 | 44 |
The other hunters in the boat, discarding their buckets, seized up their lances, slender hunting tools, with fixed heads, commonly used not in throwing but in thrusting. |
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| 23 | 477 |
All heads turned toward the door. |
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| 26 | 340 |
One's throat was ripped open and, instantly, four or five dark shapes on the ice attacked the fallen animal, thrusting their heads, fangs tearing, feeding, into its belly. |
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| 32 | 1 |
I Hold Converse with Zarendargar "You see?" asked the beast, pointing upward, it seemed at a starry sky above our heads. |
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| 35 | 370 |
Their wrists, at the sides of their heads, in light manacles fastened to wall rings, were similarly secured. |
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| 35 | 859 |
We lowered our heads and slipped through the opening. |
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| 35 | 868 |
A dart hissed above our heads and rent in its explosion the metal behind us. |
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| 46 | 22 |
Pushing down their heads, they then, with pieces of vine rope, fastened both under the vine collars on the girls, tied down their heads, close to the trunk. |
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| 4 | 531 |
"Do not fret your heads about her, my pretty, little she-urts," I said. |
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| 4 | 729 |
The handles of some six irons, their heads and a portion of their shafts buried in the coals, could be seen. |
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| 6 | 43 |
Quickly both girls, their heads down, returned to their work. |
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| 6 | 542 |
Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vege... |
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| 12 | 206 |
We inclined our heads to one another. |
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| 16 | 209 |
Askaris about us were lifting their weapons over their heads and shouting with pleasure. |
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| 19 | 64 |
The strings, fastened, behind their heads, led up to a pole at the head of the sleeping platform, where they were tied. |
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| 23 | 5 |
"Hold your heads up. |
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| 23 | 288 |
We then sat about, our heads down, some of us lying on the floor of the log raft. |
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| 24 | 46 |
We crouched down in the water, our heads scarcely above the surface, shielded by the raft. |
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| 27 | 208 |
Then quickly they put their heads down. |
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| 44 | 133 |
Immediately the small men rushed to me, shaking their heads. |
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| 44 | 149 |
Then, to my surprise, when she stood safe, trembling beside me, the small men crowded about her and knelt down, putting their heads to the ground. |
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| 46 | 23 |
The forty-three girls then knelt, naked, hands tied behind them, ankles crossed and bound, at the trunk of the fallen tree, their heads tied down over it. |
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| 46 | 25 |
They were well secured in place, their heads over the tree trunk. |
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| 46 | 28 |
They knew that, if the little men wished, their heads might be swiftly cut from them. |
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| 47 | 63 |
Several of these ants then formed a circle, their heads together, their antennae, quivering, touching one another. |
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| 48 | 52 |
He cast a glance at the talunas, trussed kneeling by the log, their heads down, fastened to it, their necks helpless to the blow of the panga, should it descend. |
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| 48 | 119 |
Please, please, let me try to earn my life!" There were cries of consternation and astonishment, and rage, from the kneeling, tethered talunas at the tree, their heads down. |
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| 48 | 245 |
The two girls lifted their heads, anxiously. |
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| 48 | 354 |
Then, in an Ahn or so, we would put our hands upon them and, holding them by the hair and the braceleted wrists, thrust them half over the side, immersing their heads and torsos in the river, that they might be awakened. |
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| 49 | 97 |
They lay then on their stomachs in the canoe, not daring to raise their heads. |
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| 50 | 10 |
Here and there, emerging from the lake, were great stone figures, the torsos and heads of men, shields upon their arms, spears grasped in their hands. |
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| 50 | 13 |
Birds perched on the heads and shoulders of the great figures. |
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| 53 | 189 |
At other places, too, I saw the heads of Kurii, broad and fanged, eyes blazing, arms and paws thrust over the wall. |
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| 57 | 139 |
I had then seen them, one by one, heads down, crawl to the slave circle. |
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| 3 | 181 |
Their heads were wide and triangular, like those of vipers, but their bodies, long and sinuous, were thickly furred. |
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| 3 | 197 |
I saw their heads raised, their eyes blazing, their long, dark tongues, triangular, their distended jaws, the two rows of fangs. |
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| 7 | 79 |
Gor was a strong-thewed world, a new world, a world in which men might again lift their heads to the sun and laugh, a world in which they might again, sensibly, begin long journeys. |
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| 7 | 969 |
"Let the heads be shaped by boards. |
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| 11 | 249 |
Then two guards, gigantic fellows, brawny, stripped to the waist, their heads shaven save for a knot of hair behind the crown, stood behind the barred gate to the cell. |
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| 12 | 178 |
Well did I recall the fearsome, curved fangs, the long, sinuous bodies, the claws, the lithe muscularity, the incredible swiftness and agility, of the sleen in the House of Andronicus, leaping upward, ferocious, eyes blazing, mouths slavering, to tear me from the rope which suspended me over their h... |
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| 13 | 278 |
On their heads were scarlet caps, with yellow tassels. |
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| 14 | 44 |
Two slave girls, too, owned by my mistress, barefoot, in collars and tunics, had been in the vicinity, chatting, balancing wicker laundry baskets on their heads. |
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| 14 | 51 |
The girls had then, the baskets on their heads, laughing, fled away. |
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| 18 | 212 |
Besides the line of forty-two male stable slaves, with which my mistress was now concerning herself, there knelt to one side, backs straight and heads up, a line of five kajirae, who were stable sluts. |
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| 19 | 14 |
The gunni, in weight, are similar to the heads of sledge hammers. |
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| 19 | 110 |
We both, immediately, knelt, heads down, before a free person. |
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| 21 | 111 |
Commonly this is a pleasant time for the girls, kneeling on cloths on the wooden floor, sewing and chatting, but today they were quiet and, heads down, worked and did not speak. |
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| 21 | 309 |
When I arrived there I found them waiting, kneeling on the boards of their kennels, before their chain rings, in the position of pleasure slaves, back on heels, heads up, hands on thighs, backs straight, knees wide. |
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| 22 | 42 |
Pamela and Bonnie, heads down, silent, effacing themselves, as is proper with slaves, again filled the small golden cups. |
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| 22 | 851 |
Pamela and Bonnie kept their heads down, pretending not to notice. |
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| 34 | 12 |
I heard the ringing of a metal-worker's hammer on metal, where simple straps of iron were being curved about the necks of beauties, their heads and hair over the anvil, these serving as temporary collars. |
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| 34 | 24 |
At the feet of each, their heads down, stripped save for bonds of black leather, there knelt a girl. |
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| 8 | 21 |
More than one wore a handkerchief knotted about his head, in the manner of some oarsmen, that their heads be protected from the sun. |
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| 17 | 57 |
"I would rather they put thoughts from their heads," she said, "which made them miserable and weak. |
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| 22 | 118 |
The shaping of heads and the bindings of feet, such gross interferences with nature, are common knowledge; but the shapings and bindings of minds, even more hideous, seems seldom detected. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 288 |
I could hear feet on the deck over our heads. |
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| 10 | 123 |
More than fifty slave girls, their hair coiffured high on their heads, clad in sleeveless, classic gowns of white silk, were aligned on the walk nearest the wall containing the iron door, that leading within to the halls of the fortress. |
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| 16 | 15 |
Showers of arrows sped like dark, linear hail over the heads of the charging citizens, striking into the startled, suddenly reeling, disordered crowds of pirates at the foot of the concourse. |
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| 16 | 113 |
Two or more heads, tapering, menacing, solid, were emerged from the water, looking up at me. |
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| 16 | 140 |
I looked down at several of the heavy, tapering heads projecting from the water, at the eyes like filmed stones. |
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| 16 | 403 |
Maidens cast flowers upon them, and some of these maidens, from their own heads, placed garlands upon the brows of the victors. |
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| 20 | 85 |
They stood before us in their blue silk and golden collars, their heads down. |
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| 20 | 733 |
Peggy and Florence, too, now had their heads to the floor. |
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| 1 | 297 |
I could not see the heads. |
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| 1 | 395 |
Their heads and arms were now visible. |
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| 1 | 420 |
Their heads were better than a foot in width. |
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| 1 | 953 |
The heads of certain war arrows and hunting arrows differ, too, at least in the case of certain warriors, in an interesting way, with respect to the orientation of the plane of the point to the plane of the nock. |
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| 4 | 193 |
They snorted and, throwing back their heads, sucked air into their lungs. |
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| 8 | 894 |
They were barbarians, but they had been knelt in the position of pleasure slaves, back on their heels, knees wide, hands on their thighs, backs straight, heads up. |
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| 8 | 1085 |
Immediately the girls knelt back in the coffle, back on their heels, their knees wide, their hands on their thighs, their backs straight and heads lifted. |
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| 8 | 1097 |
"Who knows what goes on in the heads of pretty little slaves," he said. |
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| 9 | 7 |
It came to the thighs of the slave girls, in brief one-piece slave tunics, of brown rep-cloth, with deep cleavages, in throat coffle, bearing burdens on their heads. |
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| 9 | 83 |
I watched the girls, the burdens on their heads, their necks chained, moving through the tall grass. |
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| 11 | 62 |
The girls on her left and right knelt, frightened, heads low, collar chains taut, looking at her. |
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| 11 | 199 |
Back straight, heads up. |
10 |
| 11 | 262 |
I watched them, kneeling, leaning forward, palms down on the grass, heads down, eating at the meat. |
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| 14 | 182 |
They put their heads down. |
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| 15 | 83 |
"Keep your heads up, but do not meet his eyes. |
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| 15 | 141 |
They kept their heads high, and looked ahead, knowing themselves scrutinized as the pretty, meaningless beasts they were. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 32 |
Cuwignaka and I, then, not more than a few yards ahead of the animals, which, in a body, buffeting and storming, tridents down, their heads low, as the kailiauk runs, came streaming, flooding, bellowing, torrentlike, about that bend in the draw, raced to safety. |
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| 6 | 38 |
Some even stopped, lowering their heads, to graze. |
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| 14 | 161 |
The five women sitting near the shelter, in their drab garments, all had sacks tied over their heads, knotted under their chins. |
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| 14 | 236 |
Gray sacks had been tied over their heads, knotted with cords under their chins. |
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| 14 | 240 |
She whom I took to be Turnip, and the others, as well, lifted their heads in the sacks. |
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| 14 | 257 |
They knelt with their knees pressed closely together and their heads inclined. |
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| 25 | 157 |
Quickly they fell to their knees, putting their heads to the dust. |
10 |
| 25 | 163 |
The other slaves lifted their heads, remaining on their knees, bound, in the dust. |
10 |
| 27 | 71 |
A tarn, its wings like thunder, some twenty feet over our heads, smote the air, and then another. |
10 |
| 30 | 170 |
A tarn's wings smote the air above us, not twenty feet over our heads. |
10 |
| 33 | 136 |
The men hung their heads. |
10 |
| 43 | 317 |
The heads of the girls were off the ground, held off the ground, when we were in motion, by the construction of the sack with its handles, and the draw of the rope. |
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| 43 | 348 |
I wondered if Iwoso had speculated on why their heads had been left uncovered, or why we had not enclosed one girl completely and left the head of the other free, why we had treated the slave and the free woman identically. |
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| 43 | 362 |
Thus we left the heads of both of the girls uncovered. |
10 |
| 43 | 364 |
The heads of the slaves are usually left free. |
10 |
| 48 | 17 |
"Put your heads down," said Hci. |
10 |
| 48 | 18 |
They lowered their heads. |
10 |
| 48 | 23 |
"You may raise your heads," said Hci. |
10 |
| 49 | 14 |
The girls, their heads down, the heavy staff behind their necks, did not speak. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 515 |
I forced from my mind the memory of the slaves I had seen earlier, the girls in the street, in their one-piece, skimpy garments, heads down, kneeling, chained together by the neck, the girls in the market, in their chains, stark naked, kneeling, too, their heads down to the warm cement, being public... |
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| 8 | 322 |
At the approach of the free men, Hermidorus and Drusus, they would immediately position themselves, usually with their knees wide, kneeling back on their heels, their heads up, their hands on their thighs, in the position I had come to understand was that of the pleasure slave, but sometimes, instea... |
10 |
| 4 | 81 |
Their heads were down to the very pavement itself. |
10 |
| 4 | 103 |
As the retinue passed, they oriented themselves to the street and knelt, their heads down to the warm cement. |
10 |
| 4 | 107 |
I looked at the women, naked, kneeling, their heads down, chained on the shelves. |
10 |
| 4 | 390 |
I forced from my mind, angrily, the memory of the girls in brief tunics, chained by the neck, kneeling down, heads down, in the street. |
10 |
| 4 | 538 |
Sometimes, too, in identically this same position, they would keep their heads submissively lowered, until given permission to raise them. |
10 |
| 6 | 224 |
In the open-air markets, or in the outside displays, the girls, seeing me viewing them, had usually knelt, immediately, putting their heads down, exhibiting total deference and respect before a free woman. |
10 |
| 8 | 132 |
Drusus Rencius and the newcomer inclined their heads to one another. |
10 |
| 30 | 63 |
Their ears were laid back against their heads. |
10 |
| 33 | 607 |
We, slaves, put our heads to the tiles. |
10 |
| 33 | 608 |
"Lift your heads, Slaves," he said. |
10 |
| 36 | 383 |
"Let us put our heads together," I suggested. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 96 |
These particular constructions had huge, stuffed, bulbous, painted heads, and great flowing robes. |
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| 2 | 1584 |
Those of Earth, in urban areas, may never have seen how black, really, the sky can be; perhaps they have never really lifted their heads to the sky; perhaps they have never noted, or cared to note, how sharp and bright the stars can be, how astonishing they are, how beautiful they are, remote, carel... |
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| 3 | 13 |
"On your knees," we had been told, "heads to the dirt! You are in the presence of your Mistress!" We had struggled to our knees. |
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| 3 | 78 |
You were each packed in a barrel with salted parsit fish, and over your heads these barrels had a false bottom, which was covered with more parsit fish. |
10 |
| 14 | 317 |
They began to quiver uncontrollably; their eyes bulged in their sockets; their fur erected, with a crackle of static electricity; their ears laid back, flattened, against the sides of their heads. |
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| 16 | 826 |
Then Lady Telitsia, too, was seized from the stage and carried helplessly, held high above the heads of several men, others crowding about them, back to the tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 47 |
Then he flung these over the heads of the women, well behind them. |
10 |
| 3 | 58 |
The whip lashed out, cracking over their heads. |
10 |
| 3 | 82 |
"Heads down to the dirt," he commanded. |
10 |
| 3 | 89 |
"You may lift your heads," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 208 |
He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals. |
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| 5 | 253 |
The two slaves still knelt in their places, their heads down to the dirt. |
10 |
| 8 | 154 |
This would bring their heads below the sides of the wagon. |
10 |
| 9 | 112 |
In the back of the wagon Feiqa and Tula knelt small, trembling, their heads down to the coarse sacking covering the boards of the wagon bed. |
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| 12 | 95 |
Alars, incidentally, are renowned for their capacity to wreak havoc, conduct massacres, chop off heads, and such, and then get a good night's sleep afterwards. |
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| 12 | 185 |
Soldiers, in double file, wading, moving sometimes even over the heads of Cosian troops, traversed them". |
10 |
| 14 | 148 |
Both slaves went immediately to their bellies, their heads to the left, their wrists crossed behind their backs, their ankles also crossed. |
10 |
| 15 | 229 |
They cannot pass under the horizontal spear, a weapon of their enemy, without lowering their heads and bending their backs. |
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| 16 | 368 |
They did not lift their heads. |
10 |
| 19 | 233 |
He indicated a small figure near the checkpoint, impaled on a high pole, lifted some twenty feet above the heads of the refugees. |
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| 20 | 99 |
Yes, I thought, it is all there, the habitats of culture, the intricate poetries of stone, the incredible places where, their heads among clouds, common bricks have been taught to speak and sing, the meanings uttered scarcely understood by those who walk amongst them; yes, it is all there, in them, ... |
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| 29 | 40 |
One must be careful not to put ideas into their heads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 114 |
Our heads were then pulled back and, by our hair tied about the ring behind the post, held painfully in this position. |
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| 7 | 39 |
As soon as land had first been sighted, we had again, the original coffle of us, been subjected to our original securities, our hands back-manacled, our mouths gagged, our heads covered with heavy, opaque, buckled, locked hoods. |
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| 8 | 221 |
"Heads to the dirt!" called a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 222 |
Swiftly we assumed a common form of slave obeisance, kneeling, the palms of our hands on the ground, our heads to the ground. |
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| 17 | 20 |
Initiates commonly wear white and have their heads shaved. |
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| 23 | 89 |
It had not been until they were loading me, and four of the other girls, each of us tied within a tall, narrow leather sack, our heads exposed, the sack locked shut beneath our chins, into the cargo net, to be slung beneath a draft tarn, that I found out any specific information pertinent to my fate... |
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| 24 | 34 |
Sometimes the guards, during such times of denying the men drink, would help themselves to the water before them, sometimes spitting it out, or pouring it over their heads and bodies. |
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| 28 | 33 |
They nodded, hardly moving their heads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 318 |
Out of quarrel range on the walkway most of the slaves knelt, some with their heads in their hands, trembling, others with their heads pressed down to the walkway. |
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| 1 | 211 |
"Put your heads down," I encouraged them. |
10 |
| 1 | 381 |
They had apparently decided to pull their heads in. |
10 |
| 2 | 100 |
These had entered the city through aqueducts, literally over the heads of unsuspecting Cosian armies camped about the city. |
10 |
| 2 | 229 |
Their hands were shackled high over their heads, this lifting their bodies nicely. |
10 |
| 8 | 777 |
I had little doubt that the fellow, given my suppositions as to his probable thoroughness in such matters, would not even have had the graciousness to shear the heads of the ladies. |
10 |
| 8 | 779 |
Doubtless he had had their heads shaved. |
10 |
| 8 | 792 |
The shaving of their heads would doubtless lower their value, but I did not object, because I was not particularly concerned with whether I made a profit on them or not. |
10 |
| 8 | 794 |
Indeed, if their heads were shaved, that might be just as well. |
10 |
| 9 | 90 |
To be sure, it is more common to throw a cloak or sheet, which might be of various lengths, over their heads, this usually being fastened on them by means of a cord or strap looped once or twice about the neck and fastened under the chin. |
10 |
| 9 | 434 |
The other women, incidentally, will be stripped, totally, and their heads have been shaved. |
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| 15 | 108 |
At that instant I lunged forward and the nearest guard had barely time to turn his head before I caught him, and his fellow, taking them together, striking them with great force, I sprinting, thrusting, they off balance, and blasted them back, one loosened, sprung quarrel skittering about the room l... |
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| 16 | 523 |
"The bridges will drop and you will think an avalanche of iron has spilled upon you! How shall you meet it? Let it spill on your heads? Clever fellows! Bring poles! Bring stones! You, fetch grapnels and ropes. |
10 |
| 18 | 20 |
Some had their helmets off, cooling their heads in the breeze, more to be felt at that height. |
10 |
| 18 | 299 |
The heads of the women who were not hooded I could see were shorn and those of the slave females cropped the shortest of all. |
10 |
| 20 | 136 |
Many of the women had their heads down, clutching children, shielding them with their own bodies. |
10 |
| 21 | 1058 |
Both the girls then bent forward and, putting the palms of their hands on the deck, lowered their heads to the boards. |
10 |
| 21 | 1068 |
"May we lift our heads, Master?" asked Publia. |
10 |
| 21 | 1537 |
I wondered what thoughts, if there were any others than those concerned with their tightness, and cramping, and pain, in the small cages, passed through their heads. |
10 |
| 24 | 32 |
The oarsmen of Port Cos were in their best today, their tunics bright, their leather polished, their brimless, jaunty caps atilt on their heads. |
10 |
| 24 | 128 |
The somewhat venal master of the Crooked Tarn had had the heads of all these shaved, to sell their hair for catapult cordage. |
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| 1 | 49 |
"But before our redemption our heads were shaved by the keeper, for catapult cordage". |
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| 1 | 415 |
Most girls walk proudly in their bells, their shoulders back and their heads up, gloriously proud of their fulfilled femininity. |
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| 18 | 15 |
Many of the men had covered themselves with blankets and cloths; others sat with their heads down, with their tunics pulled up, about their faces. |
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| 23 | 5 |
We did not see them, nor lift our heads. |
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| 28 | 68 |
"Yet you would give us hope?" asked Labienus, looking out, over our heads. |
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| 28 | 240 |
How marvelous are men that they can grow so great upon so little! And yet have not kingdoms risen from the mire, and ubarates from the dust, on no more? "We will leave with the coming of darkness," said Labienus, looking over our heads. |
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| 33 | 6 |
The bounty hunters would apparently discard the bodies in the swamp, after they had removed the heads, these to be presented for bounty fees. |
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| 33 | 8 |
Bounty hunters are not always particular about the heads they collect, and their paymasters usually, of course, have no way of telling the head of a fellow of Ar from that, say, of a Cosian or rencer. |
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| 34 | 27 |
He held up one of the heads by the hair. |
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| 34 | 29 |
Aghast he regarded the other heads which, too, he doubtless recognized. |
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| 36 | 118 |
I did not doubt that already hundreds of women had passed through the camp, mostly, I supposed, to be shipped or herded to the docks of Brundisium, to be placed on slave ships, chained, their heads and bodies shaved, to be shipped to various destinations. |
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| 37 | 39 |
Immediately, with a rustle of chain, they knelt, the palms of their hands on the ground, their heads to the dirt. |
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| 40 | 115 |
"Over the very heads of Cosians!" said a man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 461 |
Here and there upon the walls, among those working, were silked flute girls, sometimes sitting cross-legged on flat stones, rather even with or even below the heads of workers, sometimes perched cross-legged on large stones, above the heads of workers, sometimes moving about among the workers, somet... |
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| 1 | 105 |
In Schendi the white slave girls of black masters are sometimes taught to carry such vessels on their heads without the use of their hands or such devices as the towel. |
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| 1 | 229 |
I could see the head of Milo, with its blond curls, over the heads of the crowd, about fifty yards away. |
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| 1 | 347 |
In the lead of the procession were two lads in white robes, with shaved heads, who rang the bells. |
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| 3 | 161 |
Several slave girls are aligned, on all fours, poised, their heads down. |
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| 8 | 738 |
It might also be noted that certain slaves, rather as an occupational mark or precaution, for example, girls working in foundries and mills, often have their heads shaved. |
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| 8 | 802 |
The flute girls at the foot of the wall, looking this way, knelt, putting their heads down to the stones, doing obeisance in our direction. |
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| 12 | 395 |
How different she was from many of the free women we had seen earlier being led through the streets, piteous, overfed, stumbling creatures following behind on their leashes, their heads down, loudly bemoaning their fate. |
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| 19 | 969 |
Even when he passes us in a hall we kneel in obeisance, our heads to the floor". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 328 |
One could see their nostrils, their eyes, the top of their glistening heads, the ears back against the sides of the heads. |
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| 4 | 287 |
We waited, those of us already attended to, heads down, on all fours. |
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| 4 | 305 |
In my own language, I heard, "Your heads are bowed in submission. |
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| 4 | 379 |
"You may lift your heads," I heard. |
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| 4 | 611 |
I, and, I gather, the others, were now, again, left kneeling, but now our heads might be up. |
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| 7 | 777 |
"You may raise your heads," he said. |
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| 9 | 219 |
Sometimes, too, they returned with items of a different sort, living, luscious, excellently curved, stripped items, tied at the sides of the saddles, fastened there hand and foot to rings, or, literally, thrown over the saddle itself, belly up, their hands fastened back over their heads and down to ... |
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| 13 | 304 |
I saw some of these things now, their fur wet, their ears back against the sides of their heads, leaping upward, trying to reach the cage. |
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| 13 | 605 |
All were kneeling at the bars, heads down, in an attitude of obeisance. |
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| 13 | 613 |
"You may lift your heads," said the pit master to the women who were, I gathered, his charges. |
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| 19 | 212 |
Some put down their heads, clinging to the collar of their robes and their hoods. |
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| 19 | 241 |
Not only had the slave girls knelt, but I noted, too, that the kneeling captives had now lowered their heads. |
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| 19 | 266 |
Did they fear that the world might suddenly find them out and burst into laughter? All these men had shaved heads. |
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| 19 | 276 |
The captives, in their chains and shackles, kept their heads down. |
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| 19 | 278 |
Those in the crowd, too, with but few exceptions, exhibited extreme deference to these robed individuals, whom I took to be "Initiates," both free men and women assuming attitudes of deference, most standing with heads respectfully inclined. |
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| 19 | 279 |
The slave girls, those near the front of the crowd, whom I could see, as the procession passed, had thrust their heads down to the stones of the docking area. |
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| 24 | 764 |
Some of the women knelt, holding out their hands for mercy, but the lash fell upon them, too, and they put down their heads, sobbing, bending over, almost double. |
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| 32 | 28 |
We kept our heads down. |
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| 35 | 15 |
How could we help then but be pleasing? Unless perhaps we were insufficiently quick, if approached, to kneel and put our heads down to the stone? Certainly I felt safer on the wall chain, bound, unnoticed, out of mind, than I had serving, trembling, fearing I might make a mistake, amongst those moro... |
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| 37 | 13 |
Their heads, broad at the back, tended to taper toward the snout, rather like those of vipers. |
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| 37 | 170 |
I saw their ears lie back, against their heads. |
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| 41 | 27 |
I wanted them to turn their heads to look after me, as I made my way down the street. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 6 |
On the morning of her second day in Targo's ownership, after his charges were coffled, and then freed from the neck-rings that held their heads so close to the floor, they had been permitted, in turn, the use of the wastes bucket, and then, afterward, fed and watered, on all fours, heads down, from ... |
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| 13 | 255 |
Some lay on their stomachs under the racks, their hands covering their heads. |
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| 13 | 405 |
"Mistress," said several of the girls, bowing their heads. |
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| 16 | 80 |
All this seemed to take place at the same time, and she opened her eyes wildly for an instant but, drawing back from the painful stabbing of sunlight, shut them in pain, but, in that moment, she had glimpsed a world about her, movements, colors, robes, stalls across the way, displayed goods, awnings... |
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| 16 | 622 |
The girls, heads up, moving beautifully, seemed not to notice, but surely they knew that the eyes of masters were upon them. |
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| 16 | 812 |
They looked upon the occupants of the shelf, and smiled, tossing their heads, doubtless comparing themselves favorably with what they saw there. |
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| 20 | 118 |
Ellen and the others, pelted, stinging, choking, half-blinded, turned their heads away from it, covering their eyes. |
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| 20 | 705 |
They must kneel, knees spread, turned to the right, hands on their thighs, heads down. |
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| 21 | 109 |
Some seven or so males were kneeling in a small space, stripped, covered with dirt, heads down, to the left. |
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| 21 | 128 |
More than one of them lifted their heads, but they seemed not fully to comprehend, or mind, the passing jibe. |
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| 24 | 702 |
The exterior whip master waved expansively to the musicians who rose and, smiling, bowed their heads briefly to the crowd. |
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| 25 | 22 |
They were then released and knelt, and then commanded to bow their heads and lift their left wrists. |
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| 25 | 405 |
The two slaves lifted their heads, listening for the moment. |
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| 27 | 1028 |
The sleen lifted their heads from their feeding, looked upward, and then, their snouts bloody, thrust their jaws again into the mass of blood, cloth and meat under their paws, between the riders and the back of the wagon. |
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| 27 | 1907 |
The sleen, perhaps recognizing the name of their kind, had lifted their heads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 372 |
Who has not seen the difference in the behavior of even veiled free women when in the presence of men, how they stand, how they hold their heads, how they speak, with such pretended, insouciant indifference? And, too, who has not seen the even more obvious competitions amongst the girls on a slave s... |
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| 13 | 106 |
Instantly both knelt before him, and, putting down their heads, kissed his feet. |
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| 18 | 228 |
The sleen, indeed, were now scratching at the earth, and had their heads raised, regarding him. |
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| 33 | 208 |
Again one of the predator's heads extended over the raft, jaws opened, reaching for Grendel. |
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| 37 | 10 |
One may sense such things, from the attitudes of many organisms, the liftings of heads, the alertness, the distending of nostrils, the turning of the ears. |
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| 39 | 77 |
Several looked about, uneasily, crouching down, turning their heads about, ears lifted. |
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| 51 | 5 |
Some heads had been made from stone and bent, folded bits of metal, but such expedients were makeshift, at best. |
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| 60 | 23 |
"They filed like docile verr, slowly, in long lines, heads down, to the theater of death," said Flavion. |
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| 63 | 127 |
The other Kurii then rose, too, weapons readied, from amongst the cattle humans, their heads now clearly visible amongst those of the unkempt, lumbering, shambling, obese, bovine herd. |
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| 64 | 156 |
Female slaves slipped back, and knelt, their heads to the dirt, that she might pass, unimpeded. |
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| 65 | 64 |
"I have sent a delegation, lifting above their heads the broken spear," said Lord Grendel, "that they may be permitted through the enemy lines and conveyed to the palace, that a determination may be made in the matter. |
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| 67 | 28 |
Who would care to hunt otherwise masters of the great bow? The heads of males might be tied to their harnesses as trophies, to be later properly mounted. |
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| 69 | 37 |
They approached abreast and, responding to a curt, sharply issued verbal command, they knelt, as one, in line, hands identically placed on their thighs, heads lifted, to the same angle. |
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| 69 | 38 |
At another word they half knelt, half lay, the left leg beautifully extended, a common posture for exhibiting brands, but, Cabot noted, they were not yet slave-marked, and at another word they sat down, knees partly flexed, hands on their knees, heads lifted. |
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| 74 | 11 |
Release me!" She did not notice that the other slaves, of which there were several, like herself, naked and collared, were kneeling in their cages, heads to the floor, palms of hands, too, down on the floor, in first obeisance position. |
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| 80 | 82 |
Sometimes the slave's food and water dish is placed on the floor, and they must partake, heads down, on all fours, without the use of their hands, rather as would a sleen, another form of domestic animal. |
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| 80 | 123 |
Two of the Kurii present inclined their heads, acknowledging this compliment. |
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| 80 | 257 |
The Lady Bina then said to the slaves, "You may lift your heads, girls". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 411 |
These items then, some immersed, now and again, others trying desperately to hold their heads above the water, were dragged through the surf to the shore, and then, barefoot, stumbling, shuddering, were knelt on the wave-washed pebbled sand, water, coming and going, swirling about their knees and th... |
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| 5 | 728 |
In slave ships the heads are usually shaved, this reducing to some extent the dangers of insect infestation. |
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| 5 | 825 |
Our heads were at stake. |
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| 5 | 901 |
"The slaves lay naked on the ground, on their bellies, covering their heads, moaning, shrieking, while steel flashed about them". |
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| 5 | 1138 |
This form of lading is particularly lovely in the case of female slaves because the hands are thus fixed in position over their heads, almost as though chained, and the breasts are nicely lifted. |
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| 11 | 382 |
To be sure, it is common for them to have their heads shaved, or their hair cropped, for reasons of sanitation. |
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| 18 | 94 |
Some had heads fastened at their belt. |
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| 18 | 183 |
These heads were clearly trophies of a sort. |
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| 18 | 184 |
For example, a warrior might win favor from his daimyo or shogun by garnering heads, this understood as a proof of prowess in war. |
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| 18 | 186 |
I would also later learn that these heads, particularly if one of a celebrated foe, might be treasured, and kept indefinitely, the hair being carefully combed and dressed, the head being perfumed, the teeth painted black, and so on. |
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| 18 | 360 |
Also, if heads are prized, and important with respect to advancement, and such, this militates against taking prisoners. |
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| 19 | 93 |
"He took seven heads," whispered a man. |
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| 19 | 156 |
"He took seven heads," said another. |
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| 19 | 161 |
If he had put the seven heads before Lord Nishida, that suggested that Lord Nishida was his daimyo. |
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| 19 | 232 |
Heads were extracted from the cordage and tied to belts. |
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| 19 | 236 |
"You took no heads," I observed. |
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| 25 | 83 |
Others passed, too, with slaves in custody, but differently, the slaves bent over, in leading position, their heads at the hips of free men, held there by the hair, these slaves' hands fastened, too, behind their backs. |
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| 27 | 69 |
They also kept their heads up, and their eyes forward. |
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| 28 | 403 |
Do they not understand what has been done to them, or do they understand it only too well? How is it that they kiss your feet in gratitude, leap instantly to do your bidding, kiss their fingertips and touch them to their collars, buck and squirm in your arms, gasping and writhing in grateful, uncont... |
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| 29 | 7 |
Tharlarion, down the long line, lifted their heads, distended their nostrils, and bellowed. |
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| 29 | 52 |
Cecily and Jane lowered their heads. |
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| 33 | 55 |
"Strange men, dour men with shaven heads and white robes, appeared amongst our ancestors, mysteriously so, long ago, very long ago, claiming to speak for the gods". |
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| 34 | 118 |
When they returned they must put their heads back, open their mouths and extend their tongues. |
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| 34 | 121 |
Some could always be fed by hand to the slaves later, as they knelt at hand, naked, hands clasped behind their backs, or thrown before them to the floor, which they might then delicately retrieve, heads down, on all fours, without the use of their hands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 41 |
As the mast went down our fellows at the springals lit the bucketed fires in which the oil-soaked wrappings on javelin heads might be ignited. |
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| 8 | 235 |
"Most who could recognize you," I said, "might be unwise to return to Ar, having prices on their own heads, as Seremides". |
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| 15 | 144 |
Moaning, frightened, the six girls went instantly to first obeisance position, kneeling, their heads to the deck, the palms of their hands beside their head. |
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| 17 | 36 |
They are so beautiful! It was delightful to see them, too, in their free Ehn on deck, hurry to the rail, throw back their heads, and drink in the keen, rushing fresh air of vast, glorious Thassa. |
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| 21 | 433 |
Others were put in painful leading position, one in each hand, their heads held at the hip of their keeper of the moment. |
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| 21 | 661 |
Some of the slaves had covered themselves completely with their small blankets; others gathered the blanket about their head and shoulders, and kept their heads down. |
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| 21 | 664 |
Their heads were down. |
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| 21 | 689 |
"Lift your heads. |
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| 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. |
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| 22 | 240 |
Men who will lose their heads if they do not obey are likely to obey, even if the command is awry, uninformed, foolish, even dangerous. |
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| 22 | 312 |
The great flood of darkness, confused, proximate, rushing, pounding, imminent, was some five yards from our steel when Cabot cried out, "Down!" We all crouched down, instantly, and, from behind us, over our heads, into the confused, rushing mass of men before us there poured a rain of arrows sped fr... |
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| 24 | 3 |
Some Pani folk, shuffling, heads down, ill-clad, had threaded their way past us to where lay the wharf, against which, last night, we had moored the great ship. |
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| 24 | 125 |
They were instructed to walk as slaves, with their heads down, not looking to right or left, and, of course, keeping silent. |
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| 24 | 162 |
Their freedom, commonly so estimable, is now likely to earn them the bloody blade, their heads as readily posted on pikes as those of others. |
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| 28 | 24 |
Sometimes masters have the girls in position keep their heads down, until given permission to raise them. |
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| 34 | 21 |
I thought that would turn some heads in the market. |
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| 37 | 5 |
They served the wine well, kneeling beside the two small tables, behind which we sat, cross-legged, touching the goblet softly, tenderly, appropriately, to their body, then lifting it, and licking and kissing the goblet's rim, as they looked over the rim, into the eyes of their masters, then lowerin... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 8 |
All of us in the small room immediately went to our knees, and put our heads to the floor, the palms of our hands on the floor beside our heads. |
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| 27 | 236 |
"Heads up!" We knelt properly, our heads raised. |
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| 2 | 42 |
When we speak, when we are permitted to do so, we commonly speak softly, and with our heads lowered. |
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| 4 | 214 |
"Get your heads down, to the carpet," she said, "and place the palms of your hands beside your head". |
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| 4 | 228 |
But, somehow, we did not raise our heads. |
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| 8 | 204 |
The second time we were stopped we were ordered to the side, and ordered to kneel, our heads to the stones. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 153 |
"Heads down," snapped one of the Panther Women, the one who had not yet spoken of me, and the two slaves lowered their heads. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 57 |
There were also three heads, scarcely recognized as human heads, or even as heads, for they were burned beyond practical recognition, mounted on three of the cart's vertical posts, rather as on stakes. |
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