| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 109 |
In a vast low case, on the floor of which apparently grew real grass, I saw a pair of shaggy, long-horned bosk grazing, and in the same case but in a different corner was a small herd, no more than five adult animals, a proud male and four does, of tabuk, the single-horned, golden Gorean antelope. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 23 | 72 |
If they sent archers forth to slay the beasts, we could, from within the herd, answer their fire, or, if we wished, open the herd and ride forth, scattering the archers. |
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| 23 | 85 |
In the morning, however, they would presumably avoid the herd, find a clear avenue of attack, and strike, perhaps even through the wagons, pinning us against our own herd. |
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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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| 1 | 59 |
The man who kills one foolishly is strangled in thongs or suffocated in the hide of the animal he slew; if, for any reason, the man should kill a bosk cow with unborn young he is staked out, alive, in the path of the herd, and the march of the Wagon Peoples takes its way over him. |
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| 2 | 43 |
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness. |
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| 3 | 125 |
The herd forms both vanguard and rampart for the advance of the wagons. |
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| 3 | 127 |
Both of these claims are, of course, mistaken, and the Ubars of the Wagon Peoples know well each wagon and the number of branded beasts in the various herds; each herd is, incidentally, composed of several smaller herds, each watched over by its own riders. |
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| 3 | 131 |
Now, also, for the first time, I could clearly smell the herd, a rich, vast, fresh, musky, pervasive odor, compounded of trampled grass and torn earth, of the dung, urine and sweat of perhaps more than a million beasts. |
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| 8 | 116 |
I had been troubled that the shock of her radical transposition between worlds, coupled with her reduction to servitude, might disarrange her mind, might shatter her and make her worthless to the Tuchuks, who might then have simply cast her to the kaiila and herd sleen. |
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| 8 | 159 |
Kamchak made her walk back and forth once or twice, and spoke to her rather sharply about her posture, then, to the surprise of both Miss Cardwell and myself, he did not chain her, but told her she might walk about the camp unattended, warning her only to return before dusk and the release of the he... |
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| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 11 | 293 |
"Beware of the herd sleen," said Kamchak. |
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| 12 | 8 |
The trailing would undoubtedly be done by trained herd sleen. |
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| 13 | 10 |
"I know," I said, "—the herd sleen". |
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| 14 | 33 |
With these he hurriedly conferred and then I saw him lift his arm and red war lanterns were moved on ropes to the top of poles, and, to my amazement, aisles seemed to open in the densely packed bosk before the men, herdsmen and herd sleen moving the animals back to clear long grassy passages between... |
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| 14 | 35 |
I rode at Kamchak's side and in an instant it seemed we had passed through the bellowing, startled herd and had emerged on the plain beyond. |
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| 23 | 74 |
But the Paravaci neither sent forth small groups nor contingents of archers, but formed and, en masse, riding over the bodies of their fallen comrades, began to approach the herd slowly, to move through it, slaying them as they went, and close with us. |
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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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| 23 | 81 |
The escaping Paravaci could now, on their kaiila, easily outdistance the herd and I did not wish the animals to be strung out over the prairie, at the mercy of the Paravaci when they should at last turn and take up the battle again. |
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| 23 | 82 |
By the time the Paravaci had reformed my Tuchuks had managed to swing the herd, slow it, get it milling about and then drive it back to a perimeter about the wagons. |
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| 23 | 97 |
Shortly after dawn we discovered the Paravaci forming in their Thousands away from the herd, preparing to strike the wagons from the north, pressing through, slaying all living things they might encounter, save women, slave or free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 795 |
As I fled I sometimes startled small animals, and once a herd of tabuk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 97 |
Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve... |
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| 6 | 295 |
"Hurry, lazy girls! There is a feast to be prepared!" The bondmaids, Thyri and Aelgifu among them, fled, like a frightened herd of tabuk, across the short, turflike green grass, to the gate of the palisade, to be put to work. |
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| 11 | 256 |
Would we have offered as much to a herd of cattle that might stand between us and a desired destination? I saw then the man of Ivar Forkbeard, whom he had earlier sent from his side, climbing to the platform. |
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| 14 | 93 |
Then her leash was surrendered into the keeping of the Kur who held the others, and then the first Kur, leaving his prize in the care of the other, turned about, to hunt yet another delicacy from the herd within the hall. |
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| 14 | 144 |
I, one of the herd, of the cattle, had dared to strike one of the master species, a superior form of life. |
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| 17 | 89 |
I could see the white herd of verr, hundreds of the animals, penned in the northwest quadrant of the camp; in the northeast quadrant were the tarsk pens. |
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| 17 | 94 |
The herd numbered some several thousand. |
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| 17 | 156 |
The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ... |
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| 17 | 157 |
A sleen may bring a girl in, stumbling and weeping, from pasangs away, driving her, as Kurii take little notice, through their very camp, until she is entered into a herd. |
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| 17 | 184 |
They were only gathering in another animal, perhaps a new one, wandered too close to the camp, or a stray, to be expeditiously returned to its herd. |
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| 17 | 188 |
They caught her north of the bosk herd. |
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| 17 | 199 |
In the northwest quadrant of the camp was the herd of verr; in the northeast quadrant were the tarsk pens. |
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| 17 | 201 |
Near the center of the camp but somewhat to the south and east of the center, behind its poles and crossbars, lashed together, was a different herd of Kurii livestock. |
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| 17 | 203 |
She darted between the crossbars and, in a moment, no longer harried by sleen, found herself on the trampled turf within, another member of the herd. |
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| 17 | 206 |
The new animal had been added to the herd. |
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| 17 | 208 |
We saw Hilda, a speck in the grayish light, hurrying to the herd within, it huddled on the damp, soiled, trampled turf. |
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| 17 | 209 |
"I wish," said Ivar Forkbeard, "that I had such a herd". |
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| 17 | 210 |
The herd, indeed, consisted of sleek, beautiful animals, fair and two-legged. |
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| 17 | 214 |
In that herd, I surmised, were several of our women, Thyri, Aelgifu or Pudding, Gunnhild, Olga, Pouting Lips, Pretty Ankles, the former Miss Stevens of Connecticut, now Honey Cake, the girl named Leah, from Canada, whose last name was of no interest, and others. |
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| 18 | 4 |
The herd sleen rushed among them but, confused in the numbers, found it difficult to single out women for returning to the pen. |
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| 18 | 127 |
"The bosk herd blocks their escape in numbers," said Ketil. |
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| 18 | 287 |
We heard, even from behind the herd, Ivar, and I, and a hundred men, screaming and shouting, the howling, the startled shrieks of Kurii, the enraged roars of Kurii. |
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| 18 | 291 |
The herd thrust through the square and, half milling, half still running, emerged from its other side, making for the slopes of the valley. |
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| 18 | 363 |
Wulfstan lifted his head and uttered a long, shrill whistle, of the sort with which Kurii summon herd sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 71 |
The flesh of a desert tabuk which dies in the desert, perhaps separated from its herd, and unable to find water, if undisturbed by the salivary juices of predators, remains edible for several days. |
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| 11 | 6 |
Behind him was a herd of eleven verr, browsing on brownish snatches of verr grass. |
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| 13 | 89 |
"Herd the slaves before their master," said the rider, he the leader of our captors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 109 |
This distance, in a herd sleen, of course, is much smaller. |
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| 8 | 123 |
It knew well how to herd a slave girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 584 |
"It is a herd of northern tabuk," said Samos, "a gigantic herd, one of several. |
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| 7 | 143 |
If the herd of Tancred had indeed emerged from the forests why had it not yet crossed Ax Glacier? Surely hunters, even in great numbers, could not stay the avalanche of such a herd, which consisted of doubtless two to three hundred thousand animals. |
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| 2 | 439 |
"Will our blood have been shed," he asked, "to bring about so miniscule an achievement, the contentment of the herd browsing among the dunes of boredom?" "They will have their petty concerns," I said, "which will seem important to them". |
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| 2 | 465 |
"The conflict, the struggle, even if it should issue in the triumph of the leveled herd, each smiling and trying to be the same as the other, will yet have been ours, and cannot be taken from us". |
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| 2 | 583 |
"Have you heard," he asked, "of the herd of Tancred?" "No," I said. |
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| 2 | 585 |
The herd of Tancred winters in the rims of the northern forests south and east of Torvaldsland. |
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| 2 | 595 |
"Red hunters of the polar basin, trading for tea and sugar, have reported the failure of the herd to appear". |
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| 3 | 204 |
The herd of Tancred had not appeared in the north. |
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| 4 | 48 |
"Let the herd come," he said. |
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| 4 | 54 |
"Let the herd come," he said. |
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| 4 | 57 |
Give us now the herd which is ours". |
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| 4 | 514 |
Oddly, for there seemed no reason for it, I found myself thinking, in a mentally straying moment, of the herd of Tancred, and its mysterious failure to appear in the polar basin. |
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| 4 | 552 |
I thought again of the herd of Tancred, which had not appeared in the north, and of the "mountain that did not move," the great iceberg which seemed, somehow, independent and stable, maintaining its position, fixed and immobile, in the midst of the restless, flowing waters of the polar sea. |
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| 4 | 554 |
That the herd of Tancred, however, had not appeared in the north seemed to be a matter of fact, a puzzling anomaly which, in Gorean history, had not, as far as I knew, hitherto occurred. |
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| 4 | 555 |
The herd had perhaps been wiped out by a disease in the northern forests. |
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| 7 | 122 |
"Did the herd of Tancred this year emerge from the forests?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 139 |
"They are perhaps from the herd of Tancred," I said. |
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| 7 | 146 |
To turn such a herd from its migratory destination would be less easy than to turn the course of a flood. |
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| 7 | 147 |
Yet, if reports could be believed, the ice of Ax Glacier had not yet, this year, rung to the hooves of the herd. |
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| 10 | 83 |
"I had a ship sent north," said I, "with food for the men of the polar basin, when I heard the herd of Tancred had not yet trod the snows of Ax Glacier". |
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| 10 | 100 |
"I know you are wise and I am stupid," said Imnak, "for I am only a lowly fellow of the polar basin, but my peoples, in the gathering of the summer, in the great hunts, when the herd comes, number in the hundreds". |
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| 10 | 104 |
"Too," said Imnak, "my people are inland, waiting for the herd to come to the tundra grazing. |
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| 10 | 379 |
It was the leader of the herd of Tancred. |
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| 10 | 386 |
He watched the tabuk streaming past him and then he bounded from the hillock, and, racing, made his way to the head of the herd. |
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| 11 | 31 |
But the mission of the hunters had not been to harvest from the herd of Tancred. |
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| 11 | 427 |
They would follow the herd north. |
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| 11 | 443 |
I, too, would follow the herd. |
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| 11 | 479 |
"I will live on the herd," I said. |
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| 12 | 107 |
Some five days after I had acquired the slave girl, Arlene, following the herd of Tancred, generally climbing, I came to the edge of Ax Glacier. |
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| 12 | 189 |
He would welcome this lovely she in our small herd. |
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| 12 | 198 |
The ice of Ax Glacier, where we crossed it, had been cut by the countless hooves of the herd of Tancred, leaving a trail of marked ice more than one hundred and fifty yards wide. |
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| 12 | 199 |
We would follow the herd. |
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| 12 | 235 |
One such pass, through which we trekked, is called the pass of Tancred, because it is the pass used annually by the migration of the herd of Tancred. |
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| 12 | 332 |
Hundreds of the women and children of the red hunters, fanned out for pasangs, shouting, beating on pans, had turned the herd toward the great alley of stone cairns. |
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| 12 | 334 |
The herd, which in the grazing on the tundra, has scattered is reformed to some extent by the drivers. |
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| 12 | 336 |
The stone cairns, which are perhaps supposed to resemble men, serve, perhaps psychologically, to fence in and guide the herd. |
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| 20 | 102 |
In the summer there was a gathering for the great tabuk hunt, when the herd of Tancred crossed Ax Glacier and came to the tundra, but, even in the summer, later, the smaller groups, still pursuing tabuk, would scatter in their hunts, following the casual dispersal of the tabuk in their extended graz... |
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| 31 | 114 |
It does not need its herd". |
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| 38 | 126 |
Why should she herd verr and churn butter in Torvaldsland? Let her serve naked and loving, bangled, perfumed, made-up, on the multicolored tiles of some southern domicile. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 93 |
The verr and bosk select out the females that please them and herd them to the place of their choice". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 31 |
The four or five best-known herds, such as the Boswell herd, he for whom the Boswell Pass is named, and the Bento herd and the Hogarthe herd, named after the first white men who saw them, number, it is estimated, between two and three million beasts. |
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| 1 | 687 |
Else, once the Priest-Kings are disposed of, it would be easier to herd them to our cattle pens". |
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| 3 | 82 |
They think they herd sheep. |
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| 6 | 32 |
The tremors in the earth from such a herd can be felt fifty pasangs away. |
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| 6 | 33 |
It takes such a herd two to three days to ford a river. |
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| 6 | 34 |
It has occasionally happened that enemy tribes have preyed on such a herd at different points and only afterwards, to their chagrin and amusement, realized their proximity to one another. |
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| 6 | 37 |
It is speculated that some of these smaller herds may be subherds of larger herds, separating from the major herd at certain points during the season, depending on such conditions as forage and water. |
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| 6 | 41 |
These peregrinations, as would be expected, tend to take a herd in and out of the territory of given tribes at given times. |
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| 6 | 42 |
The same herd, thus, may be hunted by various tribes without necessitating dangerous departures from their own countries. |
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| 14 | 1350 |
"It is the moon during which the Bento herd enters the country of the Kaiila. |
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| 17 | 86 |
To return to the habits of the red savages, it might be noted that in moving small groups of women, usually twenty or less, it is common simply to herd them from one place to another, like verr. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 260 |
I had taken it for granted, mistakenly, as it had turned out, that the prohibition against human speech imposed on the herd girl would cease to obtain when, say, as in the present context, she had clearly been removed from the vicinity of the herd. |
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| 12 | 699 |
How can I bear, now, to return to the herd?" "I doubt that you will now be long kept in the herd," I said. |
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| 13 | 109 |
"Is it the same slave?" had asked one of the lads in charge of the herd, when I had brought the blond-haired girl back to the herd. |
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| 1 | 499 |
"Yes," he said, "it is the Bento herd". |
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| 4 | 139 |
These were probably scouts going out to make contact with the herd guards. |
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| 4 | 282 |
"Miniwozan, then," he said, "was too close to the herd". |
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| 4 | 287 |
"If you are going to do that sort of thing," she said, "you should wait until the animal is dead, and the herd is passed by". |
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| 4 | 339 |
The Pte, in a herd of this size, moving as slowly as it must, and in virtue of the kaiila and travois, would be within reach for three or four days. |
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| 4 | 364 |
"Do not get too close to the herd," said Canka. |
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| 4 | 368 |
Yet, of course, it was clear that if the herd, or portions of it, were to veer or circle their movements might bring them into the vicinity of the travois and women. |
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| 5 | 159 |
"You are too close to the herd," said Hci. |
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| 5 | 202 |
"The herd is too close," said Hci. |
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| 5 | 223 |
This polishing apparently has the function of both cleaning and sharpening the horns, two processes useful in intraspecific aggression, the latter process improving their capacity as fighting instruments, in slashing and goring, and the former process tending to reduce the amount of infection in a h... |
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| 6 | 99 |
"I told you the herd was too close," said Hci. |
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| 7 | 970 |
They may, of course, cut any woman they wish out of the herd and use her. |
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| 12 | 28 |
"Hei! Hei!" cried the boys, in the distance, bringing together the members of the herd. |
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| 12 | 31 |
Then the herd was together, well grouped by its young drovers. |
10 |
| 12 | 39 |
The herd now, the young drovers on either side of it, and slightly behind it, began to move in my direction. |
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| 12 | 41 |
The herd then began to run towards me. |
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| 12 | 44 |
Then one of the lads sped his kaiila about the herd, heading it off and turning it. |
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| 12 | 46 |
Not more than a few yards away, below me, below where I stood on the small rise, the herd was again in a small tight circle, turned in on itself, purposeless, milling, stationary. |
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| 12 | 59 |
"It is a fine herd," I said. |
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| 12 | 60 |
It was the third such herd I had looked at this morning. |
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| 12 | 66 |
"Do you wish to have us cut her out of the herd for you?" "No," I said. |
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| 12 | 70 |
"These are herd girls," said one of them. |
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| 12 | 111 |
"After that, you are returned, once more, to the linguistic condition of the herd, that condition in which, without the permission of a master or masters, or one acting in such a capacity, you may not use human speech. |
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| 12 | 120 |
Quickly the woman scrambled back, into the herd. |
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| 12 | 121 |
Several of the other women in the herd, I had noticed, had been following these conversations, my conversation with the boys and then, later, my conversation with the woman. |
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| 12 | 129 |
"It is a sleek herd," said one of the boys. |
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| 12 | 135 |
"If you like," said the first lad, "we will cut a girl out of the herd for you". |
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| 12 | 142 |
To be sure the dark-haired woman was a lovely specimen, a fine example of the lovely two-legged beasts in the herd. |
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| 12 | 149 |
May I examine the herd, to see if it is here". |
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| 12 | 151 |
I had thought that I had seen the particular animal I sought, shapely and blond, trying to hide itself in the herd. |
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| 12 | 157 |
The herd knelt. |
10 |
| 12 | 184 |
I then led her forth from the herd, a sleek, curvaceous animal on her tether, my choice. |
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| 12 | 206 |
"You have been very helpful!" I then led the girl from the vicinity of the herd, to a place I had picked out, in the shelter of some trees, near a small stream. |
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| 12 | 209 |
Several of the women in the herd, I had noted, had seemed quite pleased to see the blonde being led away on my tether. |
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| 12 | 231 |
"In the herd," I said, "you attempted to conceal yourself from me". |
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| 12 | 258 |
You are a herd girl. |
10 |
| 12 | 263 |
One would not expect human speech from a she-kaiila, for example, even if she were not in her herd. |
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| 12 | 299 |
Then you will return me to the herd. |
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| 12 | 360 |
"You are kept in a girl herd". |
10 |
| 12 | 361 |
"I was tried out, and then put in the herd," she said. |
10 |
| 12 | 367 |
"Then you were sent back to the herd," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 386 |
"You are kept in a herd," I reminded her. |
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| 12 | 433 |
And since you are a herd girl, I doubt that he will think twice about the matter. |
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| 12 | 449 |
Now you are in a herd. |
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| 12 | 696 |
"Then I must be returned to the herd," she moaned. |
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| 12 | 735 |
Then march me back to the herd, a rope on my neck". |
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| 13 | 104 |
I recalled the blond girl from the herd. |
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| 13 | 119 |
"Back to the herd, girl," said another lad, urging his kaiila towards her. |
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| 13 | 120 |
She scrambled back to the herd, quickly inserting herself among her fellow, lovely beasts. |
10 |
| 13 | 135 |
I stepped back, watching, then, the herd being slowly moved toward the village. |
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| 16 | 8 |
"I am so happy!" "Why are you not in the herd?" I asked, fearful for her. |
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| 16 | 10 |
The penalties for a girl straying from her herd, or running away, were not light. |
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| 16 | 14 |
"I have been taken out of the herd! I am no longer in it!" "Your collar is different," I observed. |
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| 16 | 271 |
"I saw them coming to the camp days ago, when I was in the herd. |
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| 18 | 135 |
It was the lad who had been first among the herders, when I had carried the beaded quirt to the girl herd. |
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| 18 | 138 |
"The blond slave whom you took for wench sport," he said, "is no longer in the herd. |
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| 18 | 140 |
It seems she is now to serve in his own lodge, away from the herd, she thus convenient to him, and readily at hand, for her commandings and caressings, as a prize slave". |
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| 19 | 44 |
She was formerly a herd girl. |
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| 23 | 38 |
Thusly, presumably men would come with kaiila, either to bring more women, or to herd these away. |
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| 28 | 153 |
It was she whom I had taken from a herd earlier, and improved. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 759 |
It is time to herd these pretty little she-tarsks to market". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 154 |
We were now passing, they had been coming towards us, three sturdy lasses under the herd stick of a brawny male. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 313 |
Or perhaps it was simply a matter of taking possessions along with one, as one might, similarly, attempt to preserve one's livestock, as one might, in flight, say, herd verr or tarsks before one. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 390 |
They will herd you. |
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| 15 | 45 |
And always it seemed the rencers were about, like sleen prowling the flanks of a herd. |
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| 17 | 58 |
Fair prisoners tend to herd well. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 428 |
The common commands are the "kill" command and the "herd" command. |
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| 17 | 430 |
Given the "herd" command, the beasts drive the quarry to a predetermined destination". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 221 |
Nothing moved from the herd, and the herd leader, bleating in fear, and protest, moved further back into the herd, using it as a wall to separate himself from the angry, hostile figure who was threateningly close. |
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| 63 | 115 |
"This is about Lord Grendel! The herd is cover! Mingled in that herd will be the minions of Agamemnon!" Cabot then scrambled over the parapet, and began to run, wildly, toward the herd. |
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| 55 | 218 |
The two killer humans were not unaware of his arrival, and they, exchanging cries, something between speech and signals, ceased to prosecute their passage through the herd, and made their way back, almost as though through chest-high water, to the company of their colleagues, nearer the exit of the ... |
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| 61 | 147 |
"It is a herd of cattle humans, only a herd of cattle humans, foraging". |
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| 1 | 32 |
And what labor is not expended in its preservation! How mighty is the sweet shield of ignorance! How fearfully and carefully he burnishes it! He is a herd animal. |
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| 42 | 30 |
"Perhaps some of the humans can care for them, or herd them to safety". |
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| 53 | 96 |
They had been fired on, twice, by Kur patrols, but had managed to elude them, once by taking refuge within a shambling herd of cattle humans, and once by slipping into an area within which it was unlikely, in any event, that power weapons would be employed. |
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| 55 | 71 |
The twenty, or so, humans, now emerged from the cave, had arrested their advance, and now seemed to be scanning the plain, surveying the herd of cattle humans. |
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| 55 | 203 |
Cabot shaded his eyes, and narrowed them, but he saw little other than the grass, the cliffs and rocks behind it, the massed cattle, forward, in the plain, and two, only two, killer humans beginning to move through the herd, slowly, deliberately, watchfully, thrusting or striking one beast or anothe... |
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| 55 | 206 |
"What is it?" "See, toward the nearer part of the herd?" said Statius. |
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| 55 | 211 |
Cabot then heard a cry from below, from one of the killer humans, who now pointed toward a portion of the herd, rather where the stirring had been remarked. |
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| 55 | 212 |
He, and his fellow, then began to press more vigorously, more intently, roughly, amongst the gross, sluggish bodies of the herd. |
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| 55 | 213 |
Then Cabot, for the first time, heard the sound which had been noted earlier by Lord Grendel and Statius, and, at almost the same time, saw a small, struggling body in the grasp of one of the cattle humans, and he then heard the sound again, and again, as the small body was lifted and shaken in fury... |
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| 55 | 214 |
The cattle human, massive even for a cattle human, doubtless the herd leader, soon noted the approach of a gigantic Kurlike figure moving toward him with great rapidity. |
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| 55 | 215 |
He instantly flung his prize, rolling to the grass, bell jangling, from him, and backed into the herd. |
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| 55 | 217 |
Lord Grendel stopped, though, at the edge of the herd, lifted his mighty arms, and roared, a Kur roar that echoed back from the cliffs beyond. |
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| 55 | 220 |
Lord Grendel was then between the fleeing figure and the herd, and, farther back, the killer humans. |
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| 55 | 222 |
Some of the herd held rocks, and three or four held branches, but none ventured to engage Lord Grendel. |
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| 55 | 223 |
Indeed, in moments, most of the beasts of the herd, in their doltish fashion, had returned to their pursuits, as though nothing had happened, scratching for grubs and worms, digging here and there to uncover edible roots. |
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| 55 | 225 |
The killer humans, on the far side of the herd, had now congregated together, and were regarding Lord Grendel, who roared once more. |
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| 55 | 231 |
Accordingly, the killer humans brought their neck-roped females to their feet, placed themselves between the females and the herd, and Lord Grendel, Cabot, and Statius, and, with a few cries and strokes of their sticks, herded them away, withdrawing behind them, with an occasional vigilant glance ca... |
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| 63 | 101 |
"I know that herd!" he said. |
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| 63 | 103 |
"It is no coincidence that it is that herd and not another which is foraging below!" cried Cabot. |
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| 63 | 118 |
Lord Grendel had entered the herd unarmed, save insofar as a Kur can be said to be unarmed, given their size, might, agility, fangs, and claws. |
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| 63 | 120 |
In any event, shortly after Lord Grendel entered the herd, two Kurii rose up from amongst the cattle humans and fired. |
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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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| 63 | 129 |
One of the Kurii suddenly seemed to sink into the herd. |
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| 63 | 131 |
The Kurii then, in pairs, for these were elite Kur warriors, began to thread their way through the herd. |
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| 63 | 138 |
The herd leader had a large club, with which he was trying to turn her to her back. |
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| 63 | 140 |
The leader of the herd pushed his confreres back with the club, and raised it high over his head, to strike the torn, and bloodied, piece of flesh at his feet. |
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| 63 | 144 |
By this time Cabot had reached the edge of the herd. |
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| 63 | 154 |
There was a bleating from the herd as Kurii now began to burn their way through the massive, obstructive flesh, almost as one might have set fire to a palisade, in order to clear a line of fire to its garrison. |
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| 63 | 155 |
The herd then, many of its members stung and burned, several now no more than smoking meat, confused and tormented, finally alarmed, wildly bleating, piteously squealing, began to hurry away. |
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| 63 | 156 |
Some of the Kurii were buffeted one way or another, but then the herd was muchly scattered, and Lord Grendel would not move from his place, which was near small, torn flesh, and Cabot walked to join him, presumably that they might die together. |
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| 66 | 69 |
"They will herd the slaves before them". |
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| 77 | 168 |
The number of women on a fellow's rope, or a group's rope, would then become a mark of prestige, rather as the number of kaiila in one's herd, or in one's tribe's herds, would become a mark of wealth and status amongst the warriors of the Red Savages. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 50 |
They may be used, for example, to herd stripped free women, not yet embonded, to whom the coffle might seem an indignity. |
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| 43 | 57 |
The sleen are trained then to round up, herd, and drive these women to the enclosures, say, corrals or pens, waiting for them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 158 |
Could it be that I was not alone, that I was not an isolated, shameful exception to the pompous glories of political orthodoxy? How rare is courage! How mighty is the shuffling, drifting, dull, pressing herd! Eve, Jane, and I exchanged frightened glances. |
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| 7 | 16 |
Who, for example, would bother slaying a tarsk, or a kaiila? Instead, one would herd them, or rope them. |
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| 10 | 459 |
Indeed, sometimes they would herd, and drive, their prey against such barriers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 190 |
Would one not choose, as far as possible, to herd only the finest to the sales pens? It is much the same with women. |
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| 18 | 65 |
Would you like me to find her for you, bind her hands behind her, and switch-herd her to your feet?" "Certainly not," I said. |
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| 49 | 156 |
"I do not think the men of Gor herd," she said. |
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| 49 | 158 |
"The men of Earth herd," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 49 |
"And," I said, annoyed, lifting the glaive, "do you fear that I, a wearer of the mask, and he chosen to convey the command of the shogun, am incapable of managing a small herd of twenty tarsks, helpless and tied together?" "No, noble one," he said. |
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| 29 | 268 |
Consider a flock of verr, a herd of tarsks. |
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| 32 | 146 |
"Bind him," said Yasushi, to the three Ashigaru, the foragers, "two leashes, and the other will herd him with a glaive". |
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| 55 | 111 |
"Either they have been moved, as one might herd a flock of verr to a new location, or they have been stolen". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 108 |
This beast, of which I had heard, given the scent of her blanket, might then lead her pursuers to her, or, depending on the command, herd her back to the shore, where her pursuers, perhaps encamped, would be waiting. |
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| 8 | 309 |
I had been brought to this world as one in such a shipment, as one in such a catch, flock, or herd. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 49 |
Do not alarm the herd!" Men lost their footing in the red mud at the gate. |
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| 57 | 16 |
"You do not aim at a herd of tabuk, you aim at one tabuk". |
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