| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 165 |
His whole body, his carriage, the holding of his head bespoke the warrior, a man who knew his weapons and, on the simple world of Gor, knew that he could kill almost any man who might stand against him. |
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| 7 | 220 |
The officer, a swaggering fellow whose helmet, though polished, bore the marks of combat, approached me, holding his sword to me, and seized my weapon from its scabbard and the girl's dagger from my belt. |
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| 13 | 32 |
It crouched, holding its long, terrible body close to the ground. |
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| 14 | 21 |
"It was well done," said Marlenus, looking at the Stone, holding it so the light reflected variously from its worn surface. |
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| 14 | 25 |
Holding the Home Stone in both hands, Marlenus leaned forward. |
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| 14 | 87 |
Some five or six tarnsmen ran toward the wide opening of the shallow cave, but I rushed forward, holding the lance parallel to my body, striking them with almost superhuman strength and forcing them over the ledge near the mouth of the cave. |
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| 17 | 108 |
He stammered, holding it out to me, for me to take it back. |
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| 19 | 107 |
Then, before anyone could stop him, he seized a sword from the scabbard of an Assassin and rushed to Talena, holding it over his head with both hands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92 |
Cabot lifted his Scotch again, holding it before him, not drinking. |
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| 3 | 106 |
The great fists holding the cords of the bundle of wood turned white; the sticks rattled in the bundle. |
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| 4 | 100 |
With my cupped hands I drank a mouthful of blood, and then, holding another in my hands, I waited for the next flash of lightning. |
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| 5 | 9 |
Drenched, cold, I climbed on, holding my shield obliquely before me to deflect the wind and make the climb easier. |
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| 9 | 29 |
"Come back!" I cried, holding the bag of coins out to him. |
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| 11 | 228 |
Should I have thrown them away?" "These coins," said Lara, holding the tiny sack in her hand, gloved in gold, "were to buy my death". |
10 |
| 11 | 257 |
"I am a woman of Tharna," she screamed, "First in Tharna! First!" Then, beside herself with rage, holding the whip in both hands, she lashed madly at me. |
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| 14 | 99 |
"Ho! Ubar of the Skies!" I cried, holding my arms extended. |
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| 15 | 139 |
She laughed, testing me, holding the tattered hem of her robe towards me. |
10 |
| 15 | 267 |
Then, holding her in one arm, and fastening one hand deep in the quills of the tarn's neck, I called "One-strap!" and the beast sprang from the ledge and began climbing. |
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| 19 | 41 |
"To the Central Shaft!" I cried, holding a sword that had been taken from a guardsman now chained in the shafts behind. |
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| 19 | 90 |
"In this cause," I said, "whether you are of the Caste of Peasants, or Poets, or Metal Workers, or Saddle-Makers, you must be warriors!" "We shall," said Kron of Tharna, his fist holding the great hammer with which he had struck off our shackles. |
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| 21 | 115 |
The slaver's minion locked his left arm about her left thigh, holding it motionless. |
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| 22 | 225 |
She picked up the two yellow cords and, holding them in her hands, knelt before me in the position of the Pleasure Slave. |
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| 23 | 64 |
Holding her head in my hands I looked into her eyes. |
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| 24 | 24 |
Holding Lara by the hand, I followed him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 52 |
Most was I surprised to find him holding a tiny, round pipe from which curled a bright wisp of smoke. |
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| 5 | 184 |
Holding it before her as though to shield her face she approached the portal. |
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| 15 | 1 |
In the Secret Chamber Holding the slender Mul-Torch over my head, I peered into the cavern now revealed in the floor of Misk's chamber. |
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| 17 | 134 |
When it was almost there the man stood up and holding the pipe in both hands trained it at a nearby rock. |
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| 21 | 4 |
Holding this over his head, he illuminated those portions of the chamber to which the light of the torch would reach. |
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| 21 | 67 |
When there several Muls flanked him on either side, still singing, and holding their torches and carrying their vessels which now brimmed with a pale, milky substance, something like white, diluted honey. |
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| 22 | 6 |
Still holding the Mul-Torch in my teeth because I wanted both hands free I began to make my way toward Misk, hand and foot, across these metal extensions. |
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| 23 | 23 |
Holding her wrist I felt for the slightest sign of a pulse. |
10 |
| 24 | 63 |
Holding her wrist I sensed a tiny movement of blood in her veins. |
10 |
| 26 | 172 |
I stepped to the door and Vika, holding my arm, smiling and looking up into my eyes, accompanied me. |
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| 28 | 64 |
In the dome of the Vivarium, holding a Mul-Torch, I walked up the ramps to the fourth tier, noting that the cages had been emptied, but I suspected that there would be one that would have remained locked. |
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| 28 | 67 |
She crept to her feet, holding her hands before her face, and I could see her trying to see and yet protect her eyes from the glare. |
10 |
| 28 | 111 |
But as I looked upon her sternly she turned her palms again to her thighs, knelt back on her heels and dropped her head, holding her eyes as if by force of will fixed on the plastic beneath my sandals. |
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| 28 | 249 |
Misk clung to the wall below the trap door, holding me to his thorax. |
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| 29 | 24 |
"My fingers," he cried, "my fingers hurt!" One of the humans by the wall, a girl, knelt by him, holding a cloth, trying to stanch the bleeding. |
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| 32 | 51 |
I put my arm about her shoulders, holding her as she wept, her face lifted to the distant blue sky. |
10 |
| 32 | 265 |
Parp glanced up from the pipe, holding his thumb over the bowl to prevent the tobacco from floating out of it, and smiled. |
10 |
| 32 | 323 |
Parp stood framed in the doorway holding that tiny silver lighter with which it seemed I had seen him fumble and light his pipe a thousand times, that small cylinder I had once mistaken for a weapon. |
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| 34 | 111 |
"I know," I said, holding her head to my shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 100 |
He was eating a piece of bosk meat in the Tuchuk fashion, holding the meat in his left hand and between his teeth, and cutting pieces from it with a quiva scarcely a quarter inch from his lips, then chewing the severed bite and then again holding the meat in his hand and teeth and cutting again. |
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| 8 | 606 |
She did so and the judge, holding her teeth apart roughly with his hands, peered within. |
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| 9 | 49 |
I looked to one side and saw Kamchak scraping another plate clean, holding it to his mouth, sliding and shoving the carefully structured design of viands into his mouth. |
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| 9 | 94 |
Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp... |
10 |
| 10 | 9 |
The standard bearer, holding aloft on a lance a representation of the four bosk horns, carved from wood, rode near us. |
10 |
| 10 | 536 |
But when I stepped away he was now holding it like a Gorean angle saw. |
10 |
| 10 | 555 |
In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow. |
10 |
| 11 | 346 |
Dazed, holding her right arm, on which could be seen four encircling blazes of scarlet, she regarded him. |
10 |
| 12 | 215 |
There was another kalika player, as well, but he was sitting there holding his instrument, watching the slave girls in the audience. |
10 |
| 13 | 7 |
Kamchak was holding Elizabeth's bedding—a rep-cloth blanket—for them to smell. |
10 |
| 14 | 17 |
Kamchak took her roughly by the arm and shoved her stumbling toward the sleen cage where, holding the bars, frightened, knelt Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 14 | 37 |
Suddenly, instead of giving pursuit, Kamchak drew his mount to a halt and behind him the rushing cavalries of the Tuchuks snarled pawing to a halt, holding their ground. |
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| 19 | 129 |
Then Harold had his hands in her mouth, holding it open. |
10 |
| 19 | 153 |
At last, trembling with rage, she approached him, her back to him, holding her wrists to him. |
10 |
| 19 | 189 |
He took one of the two remaining scarves and bound it across her mouth holding the first scarf well inside her mouth. |
10 |
| 20 | 21 |
Perched on the wall, holding the girl with one hand to prevent her tumbling off, I watched Harold springing up and down and then he was leaping towards me. |
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| 23 | 88 |
Taking council with Harold, we dispatched a rider to Kamchak in Turia, informing him of the situation, and that we had little hope of holding out. |
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| 25 | 40 |
"Don't look at me," she cried, bending down, holding her face from the light, then covering it with her hands. |
10 |
| 25 | 56 |
I turned to face her and she put one hand before her face, the other holding the yellow sheet about her. |
10 |
| 25 | 92 |
With my right hand I pressed her head more closely against me, holding it. |
10 |
| 25 | 328 |
She was looking at herself in the mirror, holding her head this way and that. |
10 |
| 25 | 512 |
She knelt so for a languorous moment, her hands over her head holding her hair, looking at me. |
10 |
| 25 | 754 |
But I only kissed her, holding her, my lips moving to the back of her leg, low where it joins the foot, where an ankle ring would be locked. |
10 |
| 26 | 106 |
Then he stood back from the door, holding something large in his arms, wrapped in purple cloth. |
10 |
| 26 | 134 |
He dismounted and picked up a lounging garment from the vast sleeping platform in the room, holding it to the noses of the two sleen. |
10 |
| 26 | 284 |
I was scarcely aware of the brief whimpering of the Paravaci as, twisting and turning on the rug, biting at it, holding his arm, his flesh turning orange from ost venom, he writhed and died. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 78 |
I supposed that now Elizabeth, and Virginia and Phyllis, would be in the holding cells beneath the ground level, perhaps being fed, some two or three Ahn prior to the sale; later they would be moved, with others, to the tunnel of ready cells, which leads to the block; there they would be adorned, ma... |
10 |
| 2 | 14 |
A woman carrying a market basket moved to one side, watching him, that she might not touch him, holding a child to her. |
10 |
| 2 | 116 |
At last, bleeding and scarcely able to whine, Hup curled himself into a small, trembling ball, his head between his legs, his hands holding his ankles. |
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| 2 | 118 |
Then the large man with missing teeth seized Hup's hair and pulled up the head, to expose the throat, holding in his right hand a small, thick, curved blade, the hook knife of Ar, used sheathed in the sport of that name, but the knife was not now sheathed. |
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| 2 | 342 |
The girl sat up, her eyes bright, holding her ankles with her hands. |
10 |
| 3 | 247 |
I stood there in the street and watched him go, in my hand holding the piece of gold which I had meant to be his. |
10 |
| 5 | 288 |
"When I look at it," said Elizabeth, excitedly, holding the sheet of plastic, "I just know what the sounds are—I just know!" "Of course," said Kusk, "but it grows near the Ahn of the fourth feeding. |
10 |
| 6 | 53 |
I saw that the second slave, who was doubtless the better man at the sport, had slipped behind the first and, holding his head back with a powerful forearm, had decisively drawn his sheathed hook knife across the throat of the first man. |
10 |
| 6 | 61 |
He was greeted with cheers and was immediately taken to the table on my left, where he was seated at the far end of the table, before a plate heaped with meat, which he began to devour, holding it in his hands, eyes wild, almost lost in the food, to the amusement of the watching men. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Cernus returned to his carrying basket, holding the small box heavily before him. |
10 |
| 11 | 128 |
Ho-Tu, holding the torch close, lifted the girl's head. |
10 |
| 11 | 173 |
Then they knelt there, holding the bars, their faces stained with tears. |
10 |
| 11 | 346 |
"You beast!" Flaminius suddenly reached into the cage and, taking the girl by the wrists, jerked her against the bars, painfully so, holding her at arm's length cruelly against them. |
10 |
| 11 | 402 |
Virginia, her face stained with tears, knelt at the bars, looking up at us, holding them. |
10 |
| 12 | 49 |
The crowd was now engaged in various pursuits, no fixed center now holding their attention. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 15 | 57 |
Under the torchlight Phyllis Robertson was now on her knees, the Warrior at her side, holding her behind the small of the back. |
10 |
| 15 | 393 |
The first two guards were holding between them a heavy man, with a paunch that swung beneath his robes, wild-eyed, his hands extended to Cernus. |
10 |
| 16 | 198 |
Virginia and Elizabeth knelt with her, one on each side, holding her about the shoulders. |
10 |
| 17 | 82 |
The other girls in the room seemed to be holding their breath. |
10 |
| 17 | 325 |
"Yes," wept Virginia, "yes!" "I cannot afford you," said Relius, holding her head against him. |
10 |
| 17 | 369 |
But instead of tugging on the loop, he simply, holding her under the arms, lifted her up, and then dropped her on her seat in the sand, where she sat foolishly, bewildered, looking up at him. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 17 | 615 |
She stood there, looking at me, holding the doll. |
10 |
| 18 | 66 |
"Kill us both," said Sura, holding the squat, ugly Ho-Tu to her, "but he is innocent". |
10 |
| 18 | 366 |
I heard the guard take another swallow of the paga, a long swallow, and then he sat there again, holding the bottle. |
10 |
| 18 | 368 |
The cells were locked but, by sliding back the panel, and holding the torch behind me I could see dimly into the cells. |
10 |
| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
10 |
| 19 | 480 |
In a moment, manacled, a guard holding each arm, I was being conducted from the amphitheater. |
10 |
| 21 | 404 |
There I saw a man with a brown tarn, holding its reins. |
10 |
| 22 | 80 |
I approached slowly, holding my hands open, saying nothing. |
10 |
| 22 | 91 |
I approached more closely, holding my hands open, not hurrying. |
10 |
| 22 | 564 |
I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ... |
10 |
| 23 | 73 |
As the men burst into the room I stood behind the table, in the half-darkness, setting the point of my sword in the wood, holding the hilt with both hands, surveying them. |
10 |
| 24 | 188 |
The Warriors, holding their leashes, stood on each side of her. |
10 |
| 24 | 437 |
Holding Elizabeth I looked at him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 286 |
Outside the holding, on the broad promenade before the holding, bordering on the lakelike courtyard, with the canal gate beyond, I ordered a swift, tharlarion-prowed longboat made ready. |
10 |
| 18 | 162 |
Then we had come to my holding and now we stood, together, side by side, in the apparently deserted, almost darkened great hall of my holding. |
10 |
| 3 | 163 |
"This bow, though," said one of the men holding my neck ropes, "is of the Peasants". |
10 |
| 4 | 272 |
Then, suddenly, holding my head in her hands, she pressed her lips savagely down on mine. |
10 |
| 5 | 1 |
Festival "I think I shall win you," said a lithe, dark-haired girl, holding my chin and pushing up my head, that she might better see my face. |
10 |
| 5 | 230 |
Holding half the rence cake in her mouth she unrolled her sleeping mat and then, as she had the night before, she unlaced her tunic and slipped it off over her head. |
10 |
| 6 | 34 |
I stopped, holding Telima to me. |
10 |
| 6 | 66 |
It was the tall gray-eyed blond girl, whom I remembered from the morning, who had carried a coil of marsh vine, holding it against my arm, she who had danced, with excruciating slowness, before me at festival, who had, like the others, shown her contempt of me with her spittle. |
10 |
| 6 | 78 |
Everywhere about us there were shouting men, screaming women, running, crying children, and everywhere, it seemed, the men of Port Kar, and their slaves, holding torches aloft, burning like the eyes of predators in the marsh night. |
10 |
| 7 | 26 |
The two wall nets, tied together and passed twice around the group, pressed in on them, holding them together, standing. |
10 |
| 7 | 97 |
Then, holding the pronged spear before her, crouching down, she threatened me. |
10 |
| 8 | 116 |
With the noose of marsh vine I dragged him over the side of the hull, lowering him into the marsh, holding him until I felt the tharlarion take him from me, drawing him away. |
10 |
| 8 | 365 |
"I had a free holding," he said proudly. |
10 |
| 8 | 369 |
"Near what city," I asked, "did your holding lie?" "Near Ar," said he. |
10 |
| 8 | 446 |
Thurnock, the peasant, and Clitus, the fisherman, approached, holding between them Ho-Hak, bound hand and foot, the heavy collar of the galley slave, with its dangling chain, still riveted about his neck. |
10 |
| 8 | 709 |
I seized her by the arms, lifting her up and holding her before me. |
10 |
| 9 | 285 |
Kneeling quite near him, holding cord for him, fiber on her throat serving as collar, knelt short, dark-haired Ula. |
10 |
| 9 | 324 |
Holding her thus I kissed her on the throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 362 |
As Midice kissed me again, lingeringly, holding my head in her hands, Telima, tears in her eyes, filled her cup. |
10 |
| 9 | 484 |
In the other room I tossed the golden armlet to Midice, who caught it and slipped it on her arm with a squeal of delight, holding up her arm, showing the armlet. |
10 |
| 9 | 567 |
He turned away from the counter now, taking the girl from his shoulder and holding her, bound, in his arms. |
10 |
| 9 | 637 |
"Please," said the girl to me, looking up at me, holding the head of the dying man. |
10 |
| 9 | 652 |
We came to the roof, and there, near its edge, holding Surbus between us, we waited. |
10 |
| 10 | 38 |
Not only the ships of Surbus had become mine, his men having declared for me, but his holding as well, and his assets, his treasures and equipments, and his slaves. |
10 |
| 10 | 39 |
His holding was a fortified palace. |
10 |
| 10 | 41 |
It was a strong holding, protected on the one side by its walls and the marshes, and on its others by walls, the gate, and the canals. |
10 |
| 10 | 42 |
When Clitus, Thurnock and I, and our slaves, had first come to Port Kar, we had taken quarters not far from that holding. |
10 |
| 10 | 81 |
I had seen her first at dawn, from the high roof of a paga tavern, holding in my arms the body of a man dying of a wound, one which I had inflicted. |
10 |
| 10 | 243 |
But I did, of course, pay them well and, in my holding, knowing men, saw that they could have their pick of some of Port Kar's most beautiful slave girls. |
10 |
| 10 | 269 |
In the last two months, in my holding, I had been largely occupied with matters of business and management, mostly organizing and planning the voyages of others. |
10 |
| 10 | 279 |
I think not once did such a man not follow me to my holding, asking to be my man. |
10 |
| 11 | 197 |
Most, however, their retreat covered by crossbowmen, had escaped and fled to the holding of Henrius Sevarius. |
10 |
| 11 | 611 |
"I am going to return to my holding. |
10 |
| 12 | 67 |
I would have it soon treated by a physician in my own holding. |
10 |
| 12 | 102 |
And I added, "And since you are a slave, you will be marked and collared, and taken to my holding". |
10 |
| 12 | 108 |
In my holding, his identity could be kept secret. |
10 |
| 13 | 172 |
He, with a handful of men, had managed to escape from the holding of Henrius Sevarius. |
10 |
| 13 | 513 |
My treasures were soon increased considerably, and the number of ships in my fleet, by captured prizes, was radically augmented, so much so that I could not begin to wharf them within the lakelike courtyard of my holding. |
10 |
| 15 | 114 |
Untold numbers of men had found their way to my holding to sell their various plans, proposals and ideas. |
10 |
| 15 | 132 |
The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torchlight, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-pah. |
10 |
| 15 | 205 |
Only three in my holding, other than himself, knew his true identity. |
10 |
| 15 | 376 |
The ends of six lengths of binding fiber, like slave snares, were fastened on her, one for each wrist and ankle, and two about her waist; the men, then, each holding the free end of a length of fiber, stood about her, some six or eight feet from her, three on a side. |
10 |
| 15 | 377 |
She was thus imprisoned among them, each holding a thong that bound her. |
10 |
| 15 | 396 |
Now, angrily, struggling, she fought to lift her hair again but the thongs, holding apart her hands, did not permit her to do so. |
10 |
| 15 | 455 |
"No," I said, holding the paga goblet away from her. |
10 |
| 15 | 508 |
They were now chained within my holding. |
10 |
| 15 | 526 |
"No, no!" she cried in fury, leaping to her feet, holding the piece of cloth. |
10 |
| 15 | 528 |
She turned again to face me, holding the cloth. |
10 |
| 15 | 587 |
And then, to our surprise, holding her head in his hands, he kissed her gently on the lips. |
10 |
| 15 | 590 |
Doubtless she had expected to receive that kiss standing in the swirling love silks of the Free Companion, beneath golden love lamps, beside the couch of the Ubar of Cos; but it was not in the white, marbled palace of the Ubar of Cos that that kiss was to take place; and it was not to be received as... |
10 |
| 15 | 598 |
"You are worthy," he said, holding her head in his hands, "to be a Ubara". |
10 |
| 15 | 614 |
I stood drunkenly, holding to the table. |
10 |
| 15 | 858 |
And then, weeping, the two of us cried out, holding one another. |
10 |
| 16 | 138 |
He stood there, within the room, his eyes wild, his hair wild, holding a torch. |
10 |
| 16 | 279 |
"Thurnock and Clitus," I said, "remain in the holding". |
10 |
| 16 | 287 |
Even from where I was I could hear, beyond the holding, the cries that there was a Home Stone in Port Kar, and could see torches being borne along the narrow walks which, in most places, line the canals. |
10 |
| 16 | 300 |
I saw her standing there, near the entryway to my holding, in the garment of the Kettle Slave, under the torches. |
10 |
| 16 | 422 |
And in those waters beyond there were crowded hundreds of boats, filled with men, many of them holding torches, the flames' reflections flickering on the walls of the buildings and on the water. |
10 |
| 17 | 391 |
As he sank forward I wrenched free my sword hand and, holding the sword still in my fist, struck him a heavy blow across the jaw with my fist. |
10 |
| 18 | 62 |
I also knew that the blockade about the last major holding of Sevarius had been lifted, that its ships, arsenal ships, might participate in the day's battle. |
10 |
| 18 | 72 |
I wondered if my holding still stood. |
10 |
| 18 | 85 |
"Why would you come to my holding?" I asked. |
10 |
| 18 | 167 |
There, kneeling on the tiles, back to back, their wrists bound behind their backs, by the same leather, it passing through a slave ring, holding them in place, were two girls. |
10 |
| 18 | 184 |
Heavy leather strips were bound tightly across her mouth, doubtless holding a heavy packing within, probably rep-cloth. |
10 |
| 18 | 225 |
I saw that some of the men with him were my own, who had been left behind in the holding, to guard it. |
10 |
| 18 | 286 |
Before my return to the holding, Samos, with his men and mine, had withstood eleven assaults on the keep, both by tarnsmen and besieging infantry. |
10 |
| 18 | 288 |
We now had left only thirty-five men, eighteen who had accompanied Samos to my holding, and seventeen of my own. |
10 |
| 18 | 289 |
"Why have you come to defend my keep, and my holding?" I asked Samos. |
10 |
| 18 | 293 |
"Had it not been for you and your men," I said, "my holding would long ago have fallen". |
10 |
| 18 | 296 |
The keep is near the delta wall of the holding. |
10 |
| 18 | 302 |
Also below were four girls, Vina and Telima, and Luma, the chief accountant of my house, who had not fled, and the dancer, Sandra, who had been afraid to leave the holding. |
10 |
| 18 | 309 |
And yet I would not have chosen, at this time, to be any place other than where I stood, on the height of my keep, in the holding I had made mine own in Port Kar. |
10 |
| 18 | 313 |
Why had he come to defend my holding? Was he so irrational, so mad, so contemptuous of the value of his life? He did not belong here. |
10 |
| 18 | 314 |
This holding was mine, mine! "You are weary," said Samos. |
10 |
| 18 | 517 |
Strangely she had apparently not expected me to do anything other than return to my holding. |
10 |
| 18 | 552 |
Samos survived, and I, and the boy, Fish, and the three girls, and, beyond these, other than the dancer, Sandra, who had remained below, only five men, three who had come to my holding with Samos, and two of my own, one a simple mercenary, one who had once been a slave. |
10 |
| 18 | 554 |
We heard, behind walls, within the holding, the marshaling of men, the click of arms. |
10 |
| 18 | 617 |
And now archers were running down the side walls, and leaping to other roofs, that every point at the foot of the keep might be within the assailing orbit of the string-flung missiles, and the girls, and the men, too, flung stones from the top of the keep down on the men trying to hide behind it, an... |
10 |
| 18 | 623 |
Then the three men, with some others, fled into my holding. |
10 |
| 18 | 634 |
From the height of the keep, we could see over my holding, even to the canal and sea gate beyond the lakelike courtyard. |
10 |
| 18 | 635 |
Men were fleeing from my holding but, even more important, approaching down the canal, oars flashing, mast down, came a tarn ship, and then another. |
10 |
| 18 | 664 |
Samos and I, and Fish, and Thurnock, Clitus and Ho-Hak, and others, went within the holding. |
10 |
| 18 | 713 |
Then Ho-Hak picked up Henrak and, slowly, holding him over his head, carried him screaming and struggling from the room. |
10 |
| 18 | 728 |
"On a peasant holding," said Thurnock, defensively, as though he must justify having freed Thura, "one can get much more work from a free woman!" He pounded the table. |
10 |
| 18 | 731 |
Ula laughed and thrust her head against his shoulder, holding his arm. |
10 |
| 18 | 771 |
At the entryway to that passage leading to the kitchens he stopped, and then, as she laughed and kissed him, he, holding her close to him, in his arms, swept her, once the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos, now only a young, collared slave girl, in a brief, miserable garment, throug... |
10 |
| 18 | 781 |
The last holding of Henrius Sevarius has been abandoned. |
10 |
| 18 | 846 |
"And it was for this reason, to protect me, one who once had served them as well, that you came to my holding?" "Yes," said Samos, "but also because you had done much for my city, Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 945 |
I saw the Venna and the Tela in the lakelike courtyard of my holding, and the sea gate, and the canals, and the roofs of buildings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 70 |
I turned wildly, my back to the counter, holding the knife, but there was nothing. |
10 |
| 2 | 86 |
I ran toward the door, still holding the knife. |
10 |
| 3 | 409 |
I ran to the door and relocked it, holding myself against it. |
10 |
| 4 | 1 |
The Slave Capsule The man holding me guided me from where I stood to a place at one side of the clearing. |
10 |
| 4 | 62 |
He cried out with pain, holding his cut, bloody sleeve. |
10 |
| 4 | 82 |
The man whom I had slashed with the knife stood behind him, holding his arm, grinning. |
10 |
| 4 | 213 |
"No!" I struggled wildly, but the two men, one at my ankles, the other holding me under the arms, forced me into the tube. |
10 |
| 4 | 228 |
The two men then, standing in the central aisle, seemed to brace themselves, one holding to the racking on the left, the other to the racking on the right. |
10 |
| 4 | 235 |
After perhaps a minute the two men, holding to the racking, moved from the room. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
Barefoot, on the steel plating, buckled under my feet, the bolts broken, I entered the ship, holding my breath. |
10 |
| 6 | 117 |
In a moment, they still holding me, I stood at the side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 6 | 304 |
The two men who had been holding my wrists continued to do so, but they held them now apart and over my head, pressed down to the grass. |
10 |
| 6 | 332 |
The men pulled me away from where I had vomited and another, from behind, holding my hair, pushed my face down to the ground, to the clean grass, and, turning my head, wiped the vomit from my mouth and chin. |
10 |
| 6 | 333 |
Then I was pulled again up and placed, on my knees, the men holding my wrists, before Targo. |
10 |
| 7 | 54 |
We were hoping that she would be sold, but Targo was holding out for an extremely high price for her. |
10 |
| 7 | 445 |
Many an angry young man of modest means returns, disappointed and frustrated, from the market, leading home on his tether the most that he can afford, an item of what he takes to be second-rate merchandise; but he discovers, perhaps after introducing her to the house, and tying her and giving her th... |
10 |
| 8 | 508 |
Once Ute caught me holding the tunic of the guard who had watched me at the physician's against my cheek, my eyes closed. |
10 |
| 8 | 664 |
During this time his beast slept, or seemed to sleep, behind him, curled on the grass, a guard holding its chain. |
10 |
| 8 | 704 |
I saw that even Targo laughed, holding his belly in his blue-and-yellow slaver's robes. |
10 |
| 8 | 775 |
He came back to the bars and took my hands, holding me against the bars. |
10 |
| 8 | 905 |
The men then removed their sword belts, holding the short swords and scabbards in their left hand, the belts in their right. |
10 |
| 8 | 930 |
Ute dropped a piece and Lana and I fought, each holding to a part of the fallen prize, rolling and tearing. |
10 |
| 8 | 995 |
Looking at him, smiling, holding the bread in both hands, I began to eat it. |
10 |
| 8 | 1123 |
One of the girls in the skins knelt before him, holding a knife at his throat, her hand in his hair. |
10 |
| 9 | 107 |
I stood there, holding the knife. |
10 |
| 10 | 658 |
It stood there then, holding the body of the sleen in its claws, its mouth dripping fur and blood. |
10 |
| 11 | 74 |
A guard, holding her by the arm, half carried her to the wall, where he left her. |
10 |
| 11 | 218 |
Another guard put his left arm about my throat, from behind, and with his right hand in my hair, pulled my head back, holding it still. |
10 |
| 11 | 272 |
I looked at the tiny steel rods holding open the wounds in her ears. |
10 |
| 11 | 1071 |
I wept, holding the bars. |
10 |
| 11 | 1248 |
But many are more subtle, tiny, almost indiscernible movements, which yet, in their total effect, brand a female body as being incredibly sensuous, things like a way of glancing, a way of holding the head, subtle things like the almost invisible, sudden flexion of the diaphragm, the tiny fear moveme... |
10 |
| 11 | 1473 |
After a time we lay down, side by side, and I, holding to Ute's hand, kissing it, fell asleep. |
10 |
| 12 | 106 |
A hunt master, astride a monstrous tharlarion, holding a wand, tufted with panther hair, preceded the retinue. |
10 |
| 12 | 262 |
Standing below this pole, obviously exhibited as a trophy of the hunt, alone on the cart, her skins knotted about her neck, her wrists bound behind her back, her hair fastened over the pole, holding her in place, was a beautiful panther girl, stripped, her weapons, broken, lying at her feet. |
10 |
| 12 | 281 |
A huntsman came now, holding in his hand five long leather straps, dragging behind him five panther girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 290 |
Behind this first group of five girls there came a second group, it, too, with its huntsman holding the leashes, dragging his beautiful captives, and another following behind, occasionally lashing them forward. |
10 |
| 12 | 669 |
"I can't!" Ute pushed me away and began to chew at the leather strap, desperately, holding it with her hands. |
10 |
| 14 | 713 |
My throat was encircled by the collar, he holding it, but the collar was not yet shut. |
10 |
| 14 | 734 |
Then he stood there, holding me. |
10 |
| 15 | 174 |
I looked at her, holding the pan. |
10 |
| 15 | 538 |
The slave girl reached down and snatched up the bit of red silk she had dropped aside and, holding it, with a jangle of slave bells, fled from the tent of her master. |
10 |
| 15 | 694 |
I screamed uncontrollably as he pressed in the iron, holding it firmly into my leg. |
10 |
| 15 | 1186 |
Another girl, on her knees, reaching for him, holding his head, insinuated herself between us. |
10 |
| 15 | 1192 |
"Wine," said Rask of Treve, holding forth his cup. |
10 |
| 15 | 1279 |
I danced toward him, he who had said this, and he leaped toward me, but two of his fellows seized him, holding him back. |
10 |
| 15 | 1316 |
I picked up the bit of silk which had been torn from me and left the sand, holding it, as I could, about me. |
10 |
| 16 | 43 |
I recalled each instant of the hours in his tent, and, later, when I had lain at his side, holding him, my cheek pressed against his thigh, my hair about his body. |
10 |
| 16 | 55 |
My fingers went white on the plate that I had been holding. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 227 |
The slave girl, in her brief silk, stood, holding the two-handled bronze paga vessel, that she might look down upon him. |
10 |
| 2 | 119 |
I swung over the side, holding my sword, in its sheath, with the sword belt wrapped about the sheath, over my head. |
10 |
| 2 | 559 |
A seaman, a hand in the hair of each, holding them bent over, pulled them past me. |
10 |
| 3 | 309 |
He unfastened the chain that bound her against the curved leather at the end of the pole, and, holding her by the arm, her wrists still tied behind her, led her to the rear of the wagon, and up the steps. |
10 |
| 5 | 212 |
There was a variety of holding devices within the compound. |
10 |
| 6 | 437 |
A panther girl holding each arm, she was thrust into the camp. |
10 |
| 6 | 648 |
In an instant, two men holding her arms, she was thrust again before me, and forced to her knees. |
10 |
| 6 | 783 |
Her first finger, followed by her thumb, had slipped within the neck of the pouch, forcing apart the strings which held it shut, and emerged, holding a coin. |
10 |
| 6 | 885 |
She did so, and, he holding her head back, by the hair, poured wine down her throat. |
10 |
| 8 | 231 |
Holding Arn, stumbling, by the arm, I ran toward the gate. |
10 |
| 8 | 272 |
"Two! They are escaping!" Thrusting Arn along beside me, holding his arm, we found a trail among the trees. |
10 |
| 11 | 163 |
Verna, from where she knelt, looked at him, angrily, holding the two-handled wine vessel. |
10 |
| 11 | 197 |
I could see the hamstrings, the beautiful, resilient tendons behind her knees, now like tight, proud cords, holding her erect. |
10 |
| 11 | 446 |
"A lovely girl," said one of the panther girls, holding one of the choke straps. |
10 |
| 11 | 466 |
He took her hair in his hand and bent her over, her head at his waist, holding her as one does a female slave. |
10 |
| 11 | 469 |
She, and Mira, followed Marlenus, he holding Verna as a slave girl, within the stockade. |
10 |
| 11 | 528 |
Two huntsmen threw Verna forward, holding her head toward the ground. |
10 |
| 13 | 224 |
"What slaves!" I cried, holding her by the arms. |
10 |
| 13 | 228 |
I took the girl by the hair and, holding her bent over, as one holds a female slave by the hair, waded up the beach. |
10 |
| 18 | 261 |
"Please, Master!" She knelt before him, holding his ankle, her lips pressed to his foot. |
10 |
| 18 | 610 |
She was holding his leg with her hands, breathing deeply, her dark hair loose over her shoulders, pressing her cheek against his thigh. |
10 |
| 20 | 42 |
Holding his mouth, I thrust my blade into the body of the man who carried the second crossbow. |
10 |
| 20 | 140 |
I placed my sword in the dirt before the gate and, turning the impaled body about, drew free the great war spear, pulling the shaft through the body, holding the body in place, beneath my foot, to free the shaft. |
10 |
| 21 | 150 |
There they huddled, kneeling, holding one another. |
10 |
| 22 | 27 |
And I had cried out, and tried to rise, but strong hands, those of Rim and Arn, had pressed me back, holding me. |
10 |
| 22 | 472 |
He dragged her, holding her by the hair under water until he came to the beach. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 284 |
Two now entered, holding candles. |
10 |
| 3 | 215 |
Standing on the broken fragments of the circle, Ivar Forkbeard cried out, his ax lifted, and his left hand, too, "Praise be to Odin!" And then, throwing his ax to his left shoulder, holding it there by his left hand he turned and faced the Sardar, and lifted his fist, clenched. |
10 |
| 4 | 240 |
Holding her ankle with his left hand he, with the fingers of his right hand, caressed, gently, her instep. |
10 |
| 6 | 165 |
She whimpered, and slipped to his side, holding him, lifting her lips to kiss him on the throat, beneath the beard. |
10 |
| 7 | 23 |
"Yes, my Jarl," said she, holding her skirt up, running from the place of our exercises. |
10 |
| 7 | 69 |
Earlier, before he had begun his tour of inspection, Pudding had come to him, and knelt before him, holding a plate of Sa-Tarna loaves. |
10 |
| 7 | 112 |
She, holding her kirtle with her left hand, angrily scattered the dung about the sul plants. |
10 |
| 7 | 126 |
He then threw the young thrall to his feet, holding him by the collar, his back to me. |
10 |
| 8 | 129 |
I pulled her to her feet, holding her wrists. |
10 |
| 8 | 172 |
I went to the window, holding the girl. |
10 |
| 8 | 232 |
To one of the wharves of the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar, silently, like the serpent of the sea it was, carrying two lanterns at its prow, came Black Sleen. |
10 |
| 8 | 254 |
He was met by his men, and, high among them, by his holding's keeper, and the keeper of his farms. |
10 |
| 8 | 288 |
"Perhaps the one you hunt," said Ivar, "is even now within the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar". |
10 |
| 8 | 302 |
I looked at the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar. |
10 |
| 8 | 305 |
But I wondered what it might be doing in the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar. |
10 |
| 9 | 189 |
But I thrust her up, holding her by the arms, into the hands of Ottar, who, laughing, threw her lightly over his shoulder and turned about. |
10 |
| 9 | 312 |
Then, holding her head back, and lifting the cup to her mouth, he gave her of the drink he had brought with him. |
10 |
| 9 | 371 |
I saw him holding her by the arm and pushing her ahead of him to his furs. |
10 |
| 9 | 455 |
We lay together, silently, I holding her, she against me, chained, for something like half of an Ahn. |
10 |
| 10 | 434 |
He then walked across the shed, still holding Dagmar by the arm, and threw her to her knees. |
10 |
| 10 | 529 |
His left hand slipped to the small of her back, holding her, and his right hand went suddenly to her body. |
10 |
| 10 | 531 |
When his hands left her body she tried, sobbing, to strike him, but he caught both her small wrists, holding them. |
10 |
| 10 | 536 |
"I am holding your hands," he pointed out. |
10 |
| 10 | 554 |
Then she put her cheek, to our surprise, to the side of his leg, and, lowering her head, holding his boot, kissed it. |
10 |
| 10 | 690 |
The girl was turned about, each of the thralls holding one of her arms. |
10 |
| 14 | 91 |
I saw the Kur who had pursued the bondmaid now again going toward that holding area near the door. |
10 |
| 15 | 43 |
We now understood the meaning of the Kur we had seen on Black Sleen, long ago, who had accompanied Thorgard of Scagnar into his holding. |
10 |
| 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, ... |
10 |
| 17 | 159 |
Sleen are also used to patrol the large return marches of groups of foraging expeditions, those marches between the temporary holding areas and the main camp. |
10 |
| 18 | 103 |
They knelt, huddled together, holding one another, at the side of the tent. |
10 |
| 18 | 407 |
"Ivar Forkbeard!" cried the man holding the helmet. |
10 |
| 19 | 26 |
Then, holding the pieces of the ax over his head, he departed, escorted by armed men from the fire, to the edge of the camp, past the guards. |
10 |
| 19 | 28 |
I stood, holding the piece of paper, rolled, bound with its ribbon. |
10 |
| 21 | 4 |
My left arm was about her, holding her to me, in my right hand, held in its grip of golden wire, was a great horn of steaming mead. |
10 |
| 21 | 120 |
"This pretty little trinket, this pretty little bauble, I keep for myself!" He then took Hilda in his arms and, holding her across his body, kissed her. |
10 |
| 22 | 15 |
The Kur collar, leather, some three inches in height, holding her chin up, with its ring, was still on her throat. |
10 |
| 22 | 167 |
This is a simple fetter, without links, holding the ankles crossed. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 105 |
The girl imagines that a pole, slender, supple, swaying, transfixes her body, holding her helplessly. |
10 |
| 1 | 106 |
About this imaginary pole, it constituting a hypothetical center of gravity, she moves, undulating, swaying, sometimes yielding to it in ecstasy, sometimes fighting it, it always holding her in perfect place, its captive. |
10 |
| 1 | 178 |
With the veil loose, covering her, holding it in her hands, she danced before us. |
10 |
| 1 | 307 |
He looked through the tiny slit in the door, holding the torch up. |
10 |
| 1 | 508 |
Then with my right hand, the Tuchuk quiva in it, while still holding her with my left, as she continued to move to the music, I, behind her back, cut the halter she wore from her. |
10 |
| 1 | 670 |
The straps had run from the sides of the collar to her ankles, holding her in a kneeling position. |
10 |
| 3 | 71 |
Even though the blade was sheathed I had held the stroke, holding it short, a hort from his face. |
10 |
| 3 | 194 |
I saw one woman, holding her veil to her face, peering out. |
10 |
| 4 | 35 |
"Yes, Master," she said, and, holding the veil with one hand, groped on the cushion for the tiny golden string with which she might fasten it upon her. |
10 |
| 4 | 221 |
Certain of these changes, mostly in movements, and ways of holding the body, are, sometimes, unconscious concomitants of the training of the girl; they accompany, as pleasant consequences, a latent value, other forms of training which have rather different manifest objectives. |
10 |
| 4 | 345 |
He then took the strap that bound her wrists to her ankles, leaving her wrists tied behind her, and took it under her and tied it tautly about the ring on her collar, this holding her head down, as she knelt. |
10 |
| 4 | 443 |
I saw drovers, holding the reins of their beasts, shading their eyes, looking over the dust to the east. |
10 |
| 4 | 446 |
She thrust her head out, veiled, her fists holding apart the rep-cloth curtain. |
10 |
| 5 | 654 |
You are being forced to do this, but you are holding back. |
10 |
| 6 | 129 |
The slave there took her by the hair, holding her head down, and, between the back of her neck and the collar, thrust a snap catch, closing it. |
10 |
| 8 | 38 |
A guard, holding his right shoulder, hurried by a lance tip, was thrust with them. |
10 |
| 11 | 501 |
Below us, in the stable yard, holding the reins of kaiila, came Hassan's men. |
10 |
| 12 | 222 |
I kissed her fully on the mouth, holding her helplessly. |
10 |
| 12 | 362 |
She lifted the crop, angrily, holding it behind her right shoulder. |
10 |
| 12 | 523 |
Holding both her hands in my left hand I then dragged her from the couch to the side of the room where, with my right hand, I tore down some of the soft cords used to arrange the voluminous, decorative drapes and hangings which adorned the chamber. |
10 |
| 13 | 151 |
He picked a grape from a bowl of fruit on a small table near him, and, holding the veil from his face, as do the men of the Char, put the bit of fruit into his mouth, and bit into it. |
10 |
| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
10 |
| 14 | 51 |
Tafa screamed and threw herself to the feet of one of the jailers, holding his legs, kissing at him. |
10 |
| 14 | 52 |
With his left and right hand he checked the collar at her throat, holding it with his left hand and, with his right, jerking the chain twice against the ring, then threw her from him, to the straw. |
10 |
| 14 | 114 |
She tried to jerk it again, holding it more firmly. |
10 |
| 17 | 17 |
Far into the pit, distant from the salt docks, we slowed the raft, and steadied it with the long poles, holding it as nearly as we could in place. |
10 |
| 17 | 32 |
How was it, he holding the precarious sovereignty of our kennel, that he dared to sleep among slaves, who might win his kaffiyeh and agal, though they were only rep-cloth, so simply as the dagger, slipped from his sash, might enter his throat? The kennel master, though slave, too, is Ubar, with powe... |
10 |
| 17 | 44 |
I knelt down on the raft, and, quickly, scooped, holding it, one of the lelts from the water. |
10 |
| 17 | 136 |
T'Zshal took the lance, holding the point down. |
10 |
| 17 | 259 |
In such an environment one would expect the holding instinct would be as near to inflexible as such an instinct could be. |
10 |
| 21 | 49 |
He himself broke free a haunch and, with swift motions, with his teeth, holding it, ripped the dry meat from the bone. |
10 |
| 21 | 227 |
I thrust my face to his hands, and, my own hands trembling, holding his cupped hands, drank. |
10 |
| 21 | 505 |
I propped the body beside me, holding it that it not be swept from the side of the ship. |
10 |
| 21 | 513 |
Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod... |
10 |
| 22 | 88 |
He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w... |
10 |
| 23 | 286 |
On the left were the Ti, the Arani and the Zevar, and, holding the extremity of the flank, forty deep, the Tajuks. |
10 |
| 24 | 95 |
She, in a dungeon, in a holding somewhere of agents of Kurii, had betrayed Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 25 | 419 |
The wrist tether was from the cords holding the hangings in her room. |
10 |
| 25 | 495 |
Then I pushed her ahead of me, holding her by the arm, stumbling through the straw and slime down the corridor. |
10 |
| 25 | 501 |
Some, holding the slaves in their left arm, forced wine from bottles down their throats. |
10 |
| 26 | 15 |
The line of march extended from this kasbah, across the desert, to the kasbah which had been once the holding of Tarna, once a beautiful and proud desert chieftainess. |
10 |
| 26 | 30 |
A great deal of planning, and organization, and hard work must take place before she first lifts her head to the buyers, looking out upon them, one of whom will own her, and she hears the first call of the auctioneer, he lifting his coiled whip behind her, "What am I bid?" In the march were Kavars, ... |
10 |
| 26 | 567 |
I thrust her, holding her by her arms from behind, on her knees, belly tight, against the flat iron piece over which the door swings, in closing. |
10 |
| 26 | 761 |
Some masters test the slave in this fashion, holding short a stroke or two, to see if the slave will respond truthfully. |
10 |
| 26 | 1268 |
In the march were Kavars and Aretai, Ta'Kara, Bakahs, Char, Kashani, Luraz, Tashid, Raviri, Ti, Zevar, Arani and, holding the position of the rear guard, with their black lances, Tajuks. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 372 |
Then, holding me by the hair with his left hand, from behind, I felt a heavy key, which he must have removed from his tunic, thrust deeply into the large collar lock, below my left ear. |
10 |
| 2 | 478 |
The fallen foe lay doubled in the grass; his lower lip was bloody; he tore it with his teeth, holding it, that, in his pain, he might make no sound. |
10 |
| 2 | 574 |
He put one hand on my back and another on my side and, for a few moments, holding me thus, felt my breathing. |
10 |
| 2 | 1068 |
I thought, seeing it, holding itself closely to the ground, but yet free of the ground, that it might be a long-bodied lizard. |
10 |
| 2 | 1241 |
I fell to my knees before him, and, though I was an Earth girl, I put down my head and, delicately holding his booted sandals, fearfully, pressed my lips to his feet. |
10 |
| 3 | 612 |
Next to me, she knelt before my captor; she put one bowl down before me; then, holding the other bowl, she handed it to my captor; one of the men pulled my head up by the hair, so I could see clearly what was being done; my captor took the bowl of gruel from Eta, and then, saying nothing, handed it ... |
10 |
| 3 | 740 |
Holding it in both hands, I kissed it again, lovingly, delicately, fully, lingeringly, my eyes closed. |
10 |
| 3 | 777 |
Holding the blanket about me, I went to him. |
10 |
| 3 | 778 |
He proffered me a cup and I, with one hand, holding the blanket about me with the other, drank its contents. |
10 |
| 4 | 2 |
I put my hands on his calves and ankles, as though holding them, yet so softly that he would not know himself held. |
10 |
| 4 | 27 |
Once during the night had he laughed, softly, richly, holding me helplessly, cruelly, to him, looking down into my eyes, deeply pleased with his ownership of me. |
10 |
| 4 | 402 |
I did so, holding my stomach in, tightly. |
10 |
| 4 | 585 |
I poured wine from the flask I bore into the cup, I holding it, of one of the men. |
10 |
| 4 | 636 |
I stood there, naked, recently ravished, sweat and dirt on my body, and in my hair, in the shadows, ignored, holding the large flask of wine on my left hip, watching. |
10 |
| 4 | 742 |
I tore it from the ground and covered myself with it, holding it about my shoulders. |
10 |
| 4 | 801 |
I crawled to my knees, holding the blanket about me. |
10 |
| 4 | 923 |
I loved the feel of his strong hands on my body, holding me up, lightly, from the earth, which I, thus carried, could not touch unless he permitted it. |
10 |
| 4 | 1000 |
The other man, too, he holding the torch followed. |
10 |
| 5 | 464 |
A man ran toward us, holding up a torch. |
10 |
| 6 | 15 |
"Wine, Slave Girl," said Marla, holding her cup to me. |
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| 7 | 29 |
Initiates, inept and cowardly, then holding power in Ar, had surrendered the city, an act which to this day in Ar has tended to damage the prestige of that caste. |
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| 7 | 701 |
Two more young men were approaching, one holding aloft a torch. |
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| 7 | 702 |
Again I shrank back among the pilings, holding my breath. |
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| 7 | 773 |
Her captor took the end of the rope from the lad who had bound her and, holding it about a foot from her fastened ankles, pulled her feet some six inches into the air. |
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| 7 | 1160 |
I wept and laughed and writhed, holding him. |
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| 7 | 1163 |
I put my tear-stained cheek against the hardness of his chest, holding him. |
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| 9 | 699 |
He seized me, and I reached back for the bars of the slave cage, and, holding them, cried out. |
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| 9 | 1040 |
My hands were rough from digging, and washing, and holding tools. |
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| 9 | 1475 |
The ropes on my wrists, holding them closely behind my back, were very tight. |
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| 9 | 1485 |
He took up the slack in the neck rope, coiling it, holding my head a foot from his thigh. |
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| 9 | 1639 |
I could not stand without his holding me. |
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| 9 | 1789 |
She stood there, holding the sleen leashes, a proud free woman, in the firelight, though she wore still the rag of a slave. |
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| 9 | 2020 |
She took his right ankle in her hands and, holding it, pressed her lips softly down upon his foot, kissing it. |
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| 9 | 2046 |
Then she put her head down between her lifted, extended arms and, holding the goblet with two hands, proffered it to him. |
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| 12 | 674 |
"It is with these devices," said the man, holding up the tiny leaf, with its wire, sign and printing, "that we of Treve, in our various ventures of raiding, mark our booty". |
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| 13 | 211 |
Thus, they, like slave bracelets, lock to the perfect holding point on each girl. |
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| 13 | 333 |
I swiftly knelt before him, holding his knees, looking up. |
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| 13 | 406 |
The holding of their bodies, and what I could see of their faces, frightened me. |
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| 14 | 185 |
Holding its two handles with my hands, I fled back, with a jangle of slave bells, to the floor, to serve. |
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| 14 | 417 |
She closed her eyes, holding herself with her arms. |
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| 18 | 12 |
I also wore a brief, open, sleeveless vest of black leather, the Kalmak; a patron parted it, holding it open, as I tried to move past him on the ramp; I stood, quietly, stopped helplessly, the tray held over my head; he kissed me twice; "Little beauty," he said; "A girl would rejoice if she were per... |
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| 18 | 78 |
What man, fortunate enough to own a slave, with all the rights and privileges of the mastery, holding all power over a beautiful woman, even as to how she will wear her hair and whether or not she will be clothed, having at his least beck and call her beauty and its services, and having at his dispo... |
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| 20 | 121 |
I perched on top of a large box on the wharves, holding my legs closely together. |
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| 20 | 148 |
They would be taken to a holding area, I knew, and there branded slave. |
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| 20 | 242 |
"He is mine!" said the red-haired girl, holding the sailor's arm. |
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| 20 | 478 |
I knelt before him, on the boards of the wharf, eyes lifted, holding him. |
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| 20 | 510 |
He cut with the keys, holding their ring, at the face of the second man of the tavern, who fell screaming, bloodied, reeling back. |
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| 20 | 616 |
On my hands and knees, as a punished slave girl, holding the pastry in my mouth, I crawled from the floor to the kennels, followed by Strabo. |
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| 20 | 646 |
"Do you want some pastry?" asked Narla holding a piece out to me. |
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| 21 | 63 |
"Come," said Strabo, making his way through the crowds, holding my arm. |
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| 22 | 682 |
Then he lifted my flanks from the wood, and then thrust me back, holding me to the wood. |
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| 23 | 18 |
He looked down upon me, holding me. |
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| 24 | 246 |
He thrust open my mouth, holding it with two hands. |
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| 26 | 259 |
She whirled, holding the dagger. |
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| 26 | 274 |
She pulled at the chain on the door, looped in rings, holding the bolt in place, and cut at the door with the knife, hysterically. |
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| 26 | 294 |
His left hand was on her left arm, holding her; his right hand held her right wrist, small, high behind her back. |
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| 26 | 310 |
Again he submerged her head, holding it under the water. |
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| 26 | 403 |
It was in the late afternoon that I, holding its handles with quilted cloths, slid the brazier into the chamber of the couch and bath. |
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| 26 | 836 |
I embraced her, holding her, her arms bound behind her. |
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| 27 | 470 |
He brushed back her hair and turned her head from side to side, holding her chin in his hand. |
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| 29 | 96 |
I felt I had the strength only to lie vulnerably before him, perhaps holding and kissing him, awaiting him. |
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| 29 | 138 |
I want to give you all, holding back nothing, ever". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 394 |
"I think we have here, too," I said, holding her, "another agent of Kurii". |
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| 1 | 435 |
I lowered the ax, holding it across my body with both hands. |
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| 2 | 579 |
"See," said Samos, crouching down, holding the lamp about a foot above the floor, "here is Kassau, and the Skerry of Vars". |
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| 3 | 89 |
I took it and, holding it with both hands, cut at it with my teeth. |
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| 3 | 118 |
She was on her knees, to one side, between two tents; she was chained at a short stake, about which she had wrapped her arms, holding it for support. |
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| 3 | 1070 |
Then he crouched behind her, holding her by the upper arms. |
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| 6 | 661 |
His hand was behind her neck, holding her. |
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| 8 | 89 |
She pulled the whip from her belt in a rage and hysterically, holding it with both hands, began to strike me with it. |
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| 9 | 349 |
"Why are you holding the tabuk?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 213 |
The same thongs which, looped about her stomach and threaded through a ring behind her, holding her to the wall, led to her ankles, drawing them back. |
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| 14 | 64 |
Kadluk turned about, holding his sides. |
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| 14 | 105 |
She then faced me, holding the hammer. |
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| 15 | 396 |
Then he placed the damp cloth over my mouth and nose, holding it tightly. |
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| 23 | 313 |
"Forgive me, Master," she said, holding it as she had. |
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| 24 | 247 |
I awakened, conscious of her holding me. |
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| 24 | 342 |
I laughed, softly, holding her. |
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| 24 | 346 |
I, holding her right arm with my left hand, thrust my right hand over her mouth, tightly, that she not disturb the others in the hut. |
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| 26 | 13 |
I stumbled on, holding the sled. |
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| 26 | 260 |
I leaped over the low wall and ran to him, driving the lance into the animal, then holding it down on the ice, it snapping at the lance, while Imnak, his furs torn, leaped up. |
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| 27 | 266 |
"Please do not kill me!" She put her head to my feet, holding my booted ankles. |
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| 35 | 107 |
I saw that the screws holding the lighter grille in place had been removed. |
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| 35 | 202 |
If she were to stand under the sphere holding the chain above her in its track the chain would fall, gracefully looped, behind her, almost to the back of her knees, whence it would rise again to its lock point on her collar. |
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| 35 | 274 |
With the barrel of the tubular weapon I tore open the loose knot holding the pleasure silk together at her navel. |
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| 35 | 613 |
Sheathing my knife and holding her by the back of the neck with my left hand I swiftly, but with some care, combed out her hair. |
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| 35 | 694 |
Suspicion, if any, would be most likely generated by the fact that she was not, under the security alert, in close chains, in a holding area. |
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| 35 | 757 |
She turned about, holding her bound wrists to me, that I might unbind them. |
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| 35 | 759 |
I slid the chain a distance down that hall, and then, still holding her, returned to that point at which the track system terminated. |
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| 35 | 1191 |
I threw her to my shoulder, to carry her within the complex to a holding area. |
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| 35 | 1238 |
He indicated, holding it, the small metallic device which had lain beside him on the dais. |
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| 36 | 95 |
They released her and she flung herself to her knees before Karjuk, head down, sobbing, holding his legs. |
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| 37 | 31 |
I cuffed the sleen on its snout and, holding it by the harness, jerked it up, disentangling it from the traces. |
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| 38 | 191 |
"Truly?" I asked, holding her head between my hands. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 |
She stood there, lovely, holding the tray before her, on which reposed the vessels, the tiny cups and glasses, the bowls, the spoons, the soft, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our hands. |
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| 1 | 728 |
The Ua, holding the secret of the interior, flows into the Ngao, which, by a canal, would be joined with Ushindi. |
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| 2 | 126 |
The auctioneer then, holding her, brought the coils near her again. |
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| 4 | 192 |
Then I was naked! Find her, if you wish to be busy with matters of the law! I was the victim of theft! It was stolen from me, my garment! You should be hunting her, the thief, not holding me here. |
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| 4 | 755 |
The girl was brought into the shop and stood in the branding rack, which was then locked on her, holding her upright. |
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| 6 | 89 |
I braced myself, holding my feet together on one of the knots on the rope. |
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| 11 | 178 |
With his right hand, holding the girl's tied wrists in his left, the man tossed a rope up, over a rafter. |
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| 12 | 557 |
The askaris lifted her to her feet, one holding each arm. |
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| 13 | 530 |
My hands knotted in her hair, tightly, holding her helplessly to me. |
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| 13 | 702 |
I lifted her to her feet, holding her by the arms before me. |
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| 14 | 149 |
"Why are you holding me like this?" she asked. |
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| 14 | 501 |
Suddenly she said, "No! Oh, no!" I waited for a full moment, holding her helplessly there, letting her see well whatever it might be that she saw. |
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| 14 | 545 |
For example, if she is somewhat farther away, it is easier for her to display herself in all her beauty; if she wishes to wheedle for his caress she may approach quite closely; if she is receiving instructions she may kneel a few feet away; if she is begging to serve his pleasure she may kneel at hi... |
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| 16 | 70 |
"Good," said the askari and waded away, holding his torch above the water. |
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| 16 | 225 |
His arms were placed over and behind the horizontal bar of the frame, his hands chained together, the chain running before his body, holding him to the frame. |
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| 16 | 227 |
His ankles were also chained, a loop of chain holding them close to the vertical beam. |
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| 20 | 42 |
But he, holding his shield and stabbing spear with his left hand, struck her twice, snapping her head back and forth, with his right hand. |
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| 23 | 387 |
"What is going on?" asked one of the smiths, holding a torch, standing outside his sleeping shelter. |
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| 25 | 128 |
"Do you think that I am patient?" I asked holding her. |
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| 29 | 24 |
They are called rock spiders because of their habit of holding their legs folded beneath them. |
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| 31 | 15 |
"Look," said a man crouching beside her, holding her leg, indicating her brand. |
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| 32 | 136 |
She then knelt before me, holding the tattered, muddied garment against her. |
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| 32 | 1083 |
"Master," she asked, holding out to me the blue and yellow beads, "would you not, please, put this string upon me?" "Very well," I said, standing behind her, looping them twice, one loop smaller than the other, about her throat. |
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| 34 | 704 |
Then she put her head to my knees and, holding them, covered them with kisses. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 22 |
I then turned him about again and, holding him by the back of the neck, ran him to the edge of the wharf where, seizing his ankle, and holding his neck, I upended him into the water below. |
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| 24 | 744 |
I must soon leave the holding of Policrates, theoretically to journey downriver to the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, that his fleet might be soon launched, that the two fleets, in fierce force, might overwhelm the garrisons of Ar's Station, and then of Port Cos, that the river, for hundreds of pasangs... |
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| 31 | 177 |
Surely if Policrates had been in the holding he would have threatened me with his name and not that of Kliomenes, since I had expressly mentioned Policrates and he stood higher in the holding than Kliomenes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 416 |
Ligurious held the coverlet with his right hand, holding it together, holding me in place, helplessly within it. |
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| 8 | 415 |
We had seen the baths and the sales yard, which is also used for exercise; we had seen various holding areas, ranging from silken, barred alcoves for superb pleasure slaves, through cells and cages, and such, of various sorts more fit for medium-priced women, to incarceration chambers that were litt... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 651 |
"Yes," he said, "yes!" "She is to be delivered to my holding, the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, in Port Kar," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 257 |
She was then, a moment later, the second wrist ring passed through the holding ring and closed about her left wrist, secured to the holding ring. |
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| 24 | 839 |
Of the other two guardsmen one took Ellen's wrists and drew them forward, holding them, and the other took her ankles, and, holding them tightly, drew them back, this extending her legs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 106 |
"I gather," said Cabot, "that the forces with whom Lords Okimoto and Nishida are aligned are relatively few, and that little remains to Lord Temmu other than the great holding and, doubtless, some adjacent lands within its purview, which might be defended from the holding, and perhaps, as well, some... |
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| 3 | 624 |
I was put to my belly and one man was holding my wrists, crossed, behind me, and another was holding my ankles together, crossed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 184 |
"How soon," asked Tyrtaios, "may we expect to receive your capitulation? How soon may we expect you to abandon the holding?" "The holding stands," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 7 | 13 |
I supposed that one or more of the slaves might have been less than pleasing and, as a consequence, as a discipline, all might have been moved to the other common holding area, favored in better weather, the kennels under the long shed lining the inner wall of the holding. |
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| 7 | 106 |
Too, of course, in removing the slaves from the holding, one would conserve resources, not having to feed them, and would also remove a possible object of distraction, even contention, from the holding. |
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| 11 | 249 |
Might not the rice wither and die in that darkness? Who knows the temper and appetite of the iron dragon? How long it has been since it has last flown! What if it is angry? What if it is hungry? What if it is insatiable? Might it not alight upon the palaces of Yamada as well as upon the holding of T... |
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| 14 | 91 |
"It was only necessary to communicate with the holding," he said, "as there are tarns and riders at the holding, which could communicate with the encampment". |
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| 23 | 266 |
Otherwise, given the possibilities of spies, birds could be brought from either holding, that of Temmu or that of Yamada, which might then, with false messages, be released to return to either holding. |
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| 25 | 273 |
"He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the ... |
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| 36 | 57 |
You, the foreigner, are presumably a deserter from the holding of Temmu, the Wicked, and might have information of interest pertaining to the forces, dispositions, and appointments of the holding, and the other, even as a guide, or follower, might prove similarly useful". |
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| 45 | 177 |
"In the holding," I said, "Lord Nishida informed Lord Temmu that Nodachi had departed the holding, to seek Lord Yamada". |
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| 48 | 113 |
The forces of Temmu are trapped in the holding, and the holding will be destroyed". |
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| 54 | 172 |
"There, in the distance," said Pertinax, "it is the holding of Temmu!" "Below," I said, "is the south siege camp, that to the south of the holding". |
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| 54 | 213 |
It was easy for us to suppose the trepidation with which the garrison of the holding might view the dragon's approach, particularly given its earlier attack on the holding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 56 |
If that is the case I would then be on the fifth floor of the holding, which, in addition to the passages traversed, would testify to the size of the holding. |
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| 36 | 126 |
Yesterday, when I was bringing Florian's list of, and inventory of, ka-la-nas of Market of Semris upstairs from one of the wine cellars to the office of Luma, a free woman, the only free woman in the holding as far as I knew, who was seemingly the accountant and business manager of the holding, I ha... |
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| 37 | 11 |
"You wanted to be free of the holding, to have an opportunity to enjoy the sights, the wind and sunlight, of the city, did you not?" asked Miles, colleague of Florian, a guardsman from the holding. |
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| 38 | 106 |
I think that I mentioned earlier, that the mysterious Bosk of Port Kar, a high captain in the Council of Captains, he in whose holding I now wore my collar, was not now within the holding. |
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| 40 | 101 |
"The matter is well known within the holding and you are of the holding". |
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| 40 | 363 |
There had been much relief in the holding following the revelations of Dorna, particularly as Bosk of Port Kar, master of the holding, was absent. |
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| 41 | 7 |
I think it is because I am in the custody of the holding, but not of the holding. |
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| 45 | 147 |
I caught sight of Decius of Venna, emerging from one boat, followed by men, and Addison Steele, from another, with Florian, of the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, and Miles, too, of that holding. |
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| 47 | 380 |
"Then he would know nothing of the discovery of the identity of Adraste, the raid on his holding, her removal from the holding by Seremides, and her departure for Cos". |
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