| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 2 |
Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharlarion wagons abreast on their... |
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| 1 | 129 |
It was dated more than three hundred years ago, and I was reading it in the sixth decade of the twentieth century. |
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| 1 | 137 |
Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in... |
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| 1 | 157 |
An owl hooted once, perhaps a hundred yards to the right. |
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| 5 | 112 |
She replied proudly, "My bride price would be a hundred tarns". |
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| 5 | 123 |
Then I thought to myself, a hundred tarns indeed! Forty perhaps, because she was a beauty. |
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| 5 | 124 |
For a hundred tarns one might have the daughter of an Administrator, for a thousand perhaps even the daughter of the Ubar of Ar! A thousand tarns would make a formidable addition to the cavalry force of a Gorean warlord. |
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| 5 | 144 |
At first even the countryside was depressing, for the men of Ar, as a military policy, had devastated an area of some two or three hundred pasangs on their borders, cutting down fruit trees, filling wells, and salting the fertile areas. |
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| 5 | 188 |
The city of Ar must have contained more than a hundred thousand cylinders, each ablaze with the lights of the Planting Feast. |
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| 7 | 128 |
Beyond it, some hundred yards away, I could see the border of a yellow field of Sa-Tarna and a yellow thicket of Ka-la-na trees. |
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| 9 | 131 |
"The Home Stone is rumored to be in a hundred cities," he said. |
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| 10 | 32 |
"In the wagons I have four hundred fully as beautiful, destined for the City of Tents". |
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| 11 | 4 |
The flags of a hundred cities flew above the tents, and, against the steady roar of the river, the sound of the great tarn drums reached us, those huge drums whose signals control the complex war formations of Gor's flying cavalries. |
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| 12 | 31 |
Before the tarn disk could begin its fall, the quarrel pierced it, carrying it, I would judge, some two hundred and fifty yards out into the river. |
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| 13 | 7 |
I took the tarn high, to bring a circle of some two hundred pasangs or so under my view. |
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| 13 | 118 |
Within a minute the air was filled with the beating of wings, as some half a hundred wild tarnsmen brought their birds down about us. |
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| 14 | 30 |
"I risked my life a thousand times and gave the years of my youth to the vision of Ar and its empire, that there might be on all Gor but one language, but one commerce, but one set of codes, that the highways and passes might be safe, that the peasants might cultivate their fields in peace, that the... |
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| 14 | 135 |
For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions. |
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| 14 | 161 |
In the first streak of the early light I saw a few hundred yards away what I had hoped to find—the saddle and twisted body of the tarnsman. |
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| 15 | 18 |
Behind the great ditch, separated from it by some hundred yards, there was a smaller ditch, perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, also with a rampart formed from the excavated earth. |
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| 15 | 20 |
In the walls, every hundred yards or so, was a log gate. |
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| 15 | 105 |
"In a hundred generations, among the thousand chains of fate," said Kazrak, "there is but one strand like yours". |
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| 15 | 127 |
A brief, crafty light flickered momentarily in Mintar's small eyes, and his pudgy hand hovered, hesitating an instant, over one of the pieces of the hundred-squared board, a centered Tarnsman. |
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| 16 | 34 |
Rope ladders from Ar brought defenders two hundred feet down the wall to the level of the towers. |
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| 16 | 36 |
From the height of the walls, some two hundred feet above the towers, missiles would be fired and stones cast. |
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| 16 | 101 |
I had neared the compound a hundred times before, but this time I was determined to enter. |
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| 18 | 30 |
At a word from the officer a hundred spears would have sought my heart. |
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| 18 | 75 |
In spite of the breadth of the pit, perhaps two hundred feet, it was cold at the bottom, and as I looked up, I was startled to note that, in the blue sky, I could see the dim pinpricks of light which, after dark, would become the blazing stars above Gor. |
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| 18 | 103 |
Inside, the tunnel, though dim, was not altogether dark, being lit by domelike, wire-protected energy bulbs, spaced in pairs every hundred yards or so. |
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| 18 | 184 |
It was behind this makeshift rampart, which could be defended against a hundred men, that I saw the haggard but still blazing eyes of Marlenus. |
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| 19 | 33 |
The Cylinder of Justice was a lofty cylinder of pure white marble, the flat roof of which was some hundred yards in diameter. |
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| 19 | 34 |
There were about two hundred people on the cylinder roof. |
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| 19 | 232 |
Sana stood in the arms of Kazrak, and I knew that the former slave girl had found the man to whom she would give herself, not for a hundred tarns, but for love. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 2 |
It lay about one hundred pasangs northwest of the city, and was a lonely white column of solid marble, perhaps four hundred feet in height and a hundred feet in diameter. |
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| 14 | 79 |
"A hundred tarnsmen have tried to mount this beast, and one hundred tarnsmen have died. |
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| 1 | 125 |
It was a hundred-dollar bill. |
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| 2 | 49 |
In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the... |
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| 3 | 5 |
The road, like most Gorean roads, was built like a wall in the earth and was intended to last a hundred generations. |
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| 4 | 55 |
Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns... |
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| 6 | 8 |
And I speculate that the fairs likewise do their bit toward stabilizing the dialects of Gor, which might otherwise in a few generations have diverged to the point of being mutually unintelligible—for the Goreans do have this in common, their mother tongue in all its hundred permutations, whic... |
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| 6 | 58 |
One cruel courtesan in the great city of Ar, now little more than a toothless, wrinkled hag, boasted that more than four hundred men had died because of her beauty. |
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| 9 | 59 |
The two giant beams that barred it were in place, beams that could only be moved by a team of broad tharlarion, draft lizards of Gor, or by a hundred slaves. |
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| 10 | 30 |
At last, a hundred yards ahead, cold in the morning light, I saw the palace, actually a rounded fortress of brick, black, heavy, unadorned, formidable. |
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| 13 | 24 |
It was an oval enclosure, perhaps a hundred yards in diameter on its longest axis, and enclosed by walls about twelve feet high. |
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| 13 | 61 |
As he examined my yoke and chain, he said, "Dorna the Proud has wagered a hundred golden tarn disks on this block. |
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| 13 | 70 |
"The Battles of Oxen," cried one of the silver masks, and her cry was taken up by ten and then a hundred others. |
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| 15 | 32 |
More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free. |
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| 16 | 50 |
"Give him in addition to what he asks, the weight of ten tarns in gold, two rooms of silver and a hundred helmets filled with jewels". |
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| 17 | 1 |
The Mines of Tharna The room was long, low, narrow, perhaps four feet by four feet, and a hundred feet long. |
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| 17 | 16 |
I had learned that only a month before, in a mine not five hundred yards from this one, there had been a disturbance created by a single prisoner. |
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| 17 | 71 |
Tharna has perhaps a hundred or more mines, each maintained by its own chain of slaves. |
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| 18 | 3 |
Each of the many mines of Tharna, perhaps a hundred or more, at one level or another, opened on this shaft. |
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| 18 | 117 |
"Pull!" I cried, and the hundred slaves in the long room began to draw on the chains. |
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| 19 | 2 |
We had found him at the valve which emptied the reservoir of water into the slave dungeon more than two hundred feet below. |
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| 20 | 13 |
The corpulent, cruel body was now rent in a hundred places. |
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| 20 | 100 |
When we had reached an altitude of perhaps a hundred yards from the ground, as suddenly as it had come, the strange effect passed. |
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| 21 | 201 |
"I paid a hundred silver tarn disks for her myself!" Behind Targo the grizzled man quickly held up his fingers, opening and closing them five times. |
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| 22 | 68 |
"You are indeed beautiful," I said, "—so beautiful that a thousand warriors might give their lives to see your face, so beautiful that a hundred cities might come to ruin on your behalf". |
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| 23 | 103 |
Often indeed ambushes were laid wherein a small band of slaves would allow itself to be trailed into the rocky passes of the ridge country about Tharna, where their pursuers would be assailed by hidden cohorts; sometimes tarnsmen would descend to capture a slave only to meet the arrows of a hundred ... |
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| 24 | 10 |
The shop itself was now hung with perhaps half a hundred lamps and the walls were bright with the caste colors of the men who drank there. |
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| 24 | 146 |
And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace. |
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| 24 | 148 |
About a hundred yards from the rampart I put down the shield and spear, signifying a temporary truce. |
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| 26 | 30 |
The men of Tharna watched almost in disbelief as the great mask loosened, bolt by bolt, from the wall, leaned forward and at last, dragged down by its own weight, broke loose and plunged clattering down the steps of the throne, breaking into a hundred pieces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 21 |
With respect to the rather complex syllabary, I originally supposed that it had never been simplified because the Priest-King, with his intelligence, would absorb the four hundred and eleven characters of his syllabary more rapidly than would a human child his alphabet of less than thirty letters, a... |
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| 1 | 41 |
He informed me that in this time he had refuted seven hundred and eight scribes from fifty-seven cities, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the report, as I sometimes suspect that Torm, like most members of his caste, and mine, tends to be a bit too sanguine in recounting his numerous victorie... |
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| 2 | 81 |
A case is known of a larl who traveled more than twenty-five hundred pasangs to seek a certain shallow crevice in the Voltai in which he had been whelped. |
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| 5 | 230 |
"There have been a hundred men in this chamber before you," she said, "and they have taught me—and taught me well—that I wear a collar". |
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| 5 | 232 |
"And there will be a hundred after you," she said. |
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| 6 | 17 |
The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar. |
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| 7 | 83 |
It of course occurred to me a hundred times that I was foolish, for actually I was conscious of having heard nothing. |
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| 8 | 107 |
Treve was alleged to lie above Ar, some seven hundred pasangs distant, and toward the Sardar. |
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| 8 | 168 |
It was an arrogant, never-conquered citadel, a stronghold of men whose way of life was banditry, whose women lived on the spoils of a hundred cities. |
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| 13 | 18 |
The syllabary of Priest-Kings, not to be confused with their set of seventy-three "phonemes," consists of what seems to me to be a somewhat unwieldy four hundred and eleven characters, each of which stands of course for a phoneme or phoneme combination, normally a combination. |
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| 14 | 178 |
The ease with which he did this astonished me for I am sure its weight must have been several hundred pounds. |
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| 16 | 20 |
For more than four hundred years we have known them, and since your birth we have watched you". |
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| 16 | 42 |
"Of course," said Misk, "their serums are not as effective as ours and sometimes do not function, and sometimes the effect wears off after only a few hundred years". |
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| 16 | 78 |
We have four hundred Priest-Kings who operate the scanners, and we are accordingly well informed. |
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| 16 | 96 |
"You spoke of knowing the Cabots for four hundred years," I said. |
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| 16 | 98 |
He first came to Gor more than six hundred years ago". |
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| 16 | 104 |
"I have been working against Sarm and the others for millennia," said Misk, "and at last—more than three hundred years ago—I managed to obtain the egg from which this male emerged". |
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| 16 | 128 |
"Then it did not lie there for more than three hundred years?" "Of course not," said Misk, "the risk of discovery would have been too great". |
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| 16 | 163 |
"Was the fact that I was placed in the chamber of the girl Vika of Treve considered?" "Sarm suspects," said Misk, "and it was he who arranged your quarters, in order that you might succumb to her charms, that she might enthrall you, that she might bend you helplessly, pliantly to her will and whim a... |
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| 16 | 165 |
"A hundred men," said Misk, "allowed themselves to be chained to the foot of her couch where she would upon occasion, that they might not die, cast them scraps of food as though they might have been pet sleen". |
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| 17 | 91 |
I was told by Sarm that there were four hundred such cubes in the room, and monitoring each, I could see a Priest-King, tall, alert, unmoving. |
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| 19 | 59 |
"It will probably not take more than half a hundred strokes to cut through". |
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| 21 | 58 |
There seemed to be almost an indefinite number of the Muls and of clinging Priest-Kings there were perhaps a hundred. |
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| 22 | 7 |
I could see the figures of Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta beneath me, perhaps a hundred and fifty feet below. |
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| 25 | 93 |
After perhaps two hundred feet of climbing the rings in the shaft I was pleased to reach two branching shafts which led horizontally from the vertical shaft which I had just ascended. |
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| 27 | 67 |
Its ceiling was only perhaps a hundred feet high but its length and width were considerable and it was filled with golden Priest-Kings, garlanded in green and wearing about their necks that shining, jangling circle of tiny, silverish tools. |
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| 28 | 6 |
Perhaps there were only a hundred Priest-Kings who rallied to the call of Misk and among them there were no more than a dozen silver tubes. |
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| 29 | 22 |
I passed a group of huddled humans, crouched behind the remains of a wall which had been sheared away about two feet from the floor for a length of a hundred feet. |
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| 29 | 46 |
I was within two hundred yards when I opened fire, attacking from the rear, away from the destructive cone in its bow. |
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| 29 | 56 |
While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the fourth ship a... |
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| 30 | 71 |
These creatures, perhaps two hundred or more, were loosed and by means of covered transportation disks, piloted by Priest-Kings using oxygen systems internal to the disks, were driven toward the quarters of the Nest controlled by the unsuspecting Misk and his forces. |
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| 30 | 195 |
Once I heard the hiss of silver tubes not more than a few hundred yards away. |
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| 31 | 46 |
Sarm hurled the silver tube at my head and I ducked and heard it clatter across the tiles of the plaza for perhaps a hundred yards. |
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| 31 | 172 |
The bar he wielded was a fearsome weapon and with it he could strike me from the walkway, hurling me perhaps two hundred feet to the opposite wall, before I could get within yards of him. |
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| 31 | 182 |
I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black... |
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| 32 | 65 |
They met perhaps a hundred yards from where I stood and I saw the Priest-King place a foreleg on the shoulder of each and together they stood and waited for the final crumbling of the Nest. |
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| 32 | 99 |
"The plant of the Muls," said Al-Ka, "which we have been readying for five hundred years, preparing for the revolt against Priest-Kings". |
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| 32 | 143 |
Another boulder fell clattering down a hundred yards from us and bounded past. |
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| 32 | 206 |
There were no hanging cables in the shaft and I could see the shattered roof of the elevator some half a hundred feet below. |
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| 33 | 5 |
Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped. |
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| 33 | 37 |
Behind the Initiates, standing, as befits the men of other castes, I saw men of a hundred cities, joined here in their common fear and plea to the denizens of the Sardar. |
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| 35 | 12 |
About two hundred yards above the camp, toward the Sardar, whose crags could be seen looming in the background against the black, star-shattered night was a strange figure, outlined against one of the white, rushing moons of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 259 |
The narrow column, and probably the Tuchuk spacing, a Hundred and then the space for a Hundred, open, and then another Hundred, and so on, tends to narrow the front of dust, and the spaces between Hundreds give time for some of the dust to dissipate and also, incidentally, to rise sufficiently so th... |
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| 10 | 257 |
There were between a hundred and a hundred and fifty girls there from each of the four Wagon Peoples. |
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| 14 | 5 |
Each man knows his position in his Ten, and the position of his Ten in the Hundred, and of the Hundred in the Thousand. |
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| 21 | 260 |
I could now see the first Hundred, five abreast, and then the open space behind them, and then the second Hundred. |
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| 21 | 315 |
In an instant another five and then another and another had repeated this maneuver and soon, sometimes with squealing of kaiila and dismounting of riders as one beast or another would be crowded between the gates and the others, a Hundred and then another Hundred had hurtled howling into the city, b... |
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| 23 | 61 |
I swept with my Thousand about the outskirts of the herds until we found some hundred or two hundred Paravaci engaged in the grisly work of destroying Tuchuk bosk. |
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| 1 | 56 |
Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews form their thread; its ... |
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| 2 | 88 |
The omens, I understood, had not been favorable in more than a hundred years. |
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| 2 | 105 |
A kaiila, which normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding. |
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| 3 | 89 |
"It will buy ten bosks," said he, "twenty wagons covered with golden cloth, a hundred she-slaves from Turia". |
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| 3 | 102 |
It hung like a belt of light, sparkling with a spectrum of riches beyond the dreams of a hundred merchants. |
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| 5 | 11 |
Another time, over a hundred years ago, a wagon Ubar lost the spur from his right boot and turned for this reason back from the gates of mighty Ar itself. |
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| 5 | 104 |
"There are a hundred wagons in the personal household of Kutaituchik," said Kamchak. |
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| 7 | 3 |
The hundred, rather than eight, bosk that drew his wagon had been unyoked; they were huge, red bosk; their horns had been polished and their coats glistened from the comb and oils; their golden nose rings were set with jewels; necklaces of precious stones hung from the polished horns. |
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| 7 | 5 |
The hides that formed the dome were of a thousand colors, and the smoke hole at the top must have stood more than a hundred feet from the flooring of that vast platform. |
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| 7 | 28 |
I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a... |
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| 8 | 20 |
There had not been, I knew, a Ubar San in more than a hundred years. |
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| 8 | 41 |
The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i... |
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| 8 | 47 |
Still farther north, another hundred pasangs, there was no snow and the peoples began to sing and once more dance about their fires of bosk dung. |
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| 8 | 218 |
At forty feet I could strike a thrown tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf. |
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| 8 | 289 |
A black lance was fixed in the prairie about four hundred yards away. |
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| 8 | 360 |
She had run in actual competition more than two hundred times; almost always she managed to interfere with and postpone her return to the circle; and forty times, an incredible feat, she had managed to reach the lance itself. |
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| 8 | 378 |
"Some girls," I told her, "have run from the bola more than a hundred times. |
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| 9 | 64 |
The Turian feast usually consumes the better part of a night and can have as many as a hundred and fifty courses. |
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| 10 | 7 |
We moved slowly, walking the kaiila, in four long lines, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci, some two hundred or so warriors of each. |
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| 10 | 221 |
The warriors of Turia extended their formation about two hundred yards from the stakes until in ranks of four or five deep they were strung out in a line as long as the line of stakes itself. |
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| 10 | 262 |
The games of Love War, in themselves, do not constitute a gathering of the Wagon Peoples, for normally the herds and the free women of the peoples do not approach one another at these times; only certain delegations of warriors, usually about two hundred from a people, are sent in the spring to the ... |
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| 12 | 30 |
But, I then reminded myself even more strongly, there would be no choice—there had been no Ubar San for a hundred years or more—the Wagon Peoples, fierce and independent, did not wish a Ubar San. |
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| 13 | 134 |
In the grassy area, perhaps about two hundred yards in diameter, there were literally hundreds of small, stone altars. |
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| 13 | 144 |
As I may have mentioned, no Ubar San had been chosen for more than a hundred years. |
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| 14 | 3 |
Each warrior of the Wagon Peoples, and that means each able-bodied man, is a member of an Or, or a Ten; each ten is a member of an Orlu, or Hundred; each Orlu is a member of an Oralu, a Thousand. |
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| 14 | 31 |
Among these but to no Ten or Hundred did Kamchak ride. |
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| 14 | 36 |
In the light of the Gorean moons we saw slaughtered bosk, some hundreds of them, and, some two hundred yards away, withdrawing, perhaps a thousand warriors mounted on tharlarion. |
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| 14 | 44 |
There were perhaps eight hundred to a thousand of them. |
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| 14 | 54 |
They must be mercenaries! Kamchak did not return to his own wagon but now raced his kaiila, followed by a hundred men, toward the high ground on which stood the standard of the four bosk horns, on which stood the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
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| 15 | 21 |
There was, after all, no place on the prairies to hide the wagons or the bosk, and tarnsmen could easily reach them anywhere within a radius of several hundred pasangs. |
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| 15 | 79 |
"Let him ride with his Hundred," Kamchak said. |
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| 16 | 31 |
I judged that the top of the well might lie eight or nine hundred feet above us. |
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| 16 | 41 |
Being an inquisitive chap, I asked him about it, some two or three hundred feet up the drum rope. |
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| 18 | 116 |
About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden. |
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| 19 | 80 |
I had not kept count but we must have passed by more than seven or eight hundred girls, and still, among all these riches of Saphrar, he could not seem to find the one for which he searched. |
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| 20 | 37 |
The tower itself was some one hundred and forty feet in height and had a diameter of about fifty feet. |
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| 21 | 56 |
I came to the ring of flat, cleared ground, some hundred feet or so wide, which separates the walled compound of buildings which constitutes the House of Saphrar of Turia from all the surrounding structures. |
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| 21 | 195 |
She leaned over the parapet, looking skeptically down at the stones some hundred feet below. |
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| 21 | 346 |
I could hear screaming some hundred yards away. |
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| 21 | 348 |
Some dozen dismounted Tuchuks were now at the great windlass on its platform slowly opening the gates to their maximum width, and when they had done so the Tuchuks, howling and waving their lances, entered the city in ranks of twenty abreast, thus only five ranks to the Hundred. |
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| 22 | 6 |
The Ubar, and Kamras, his highest officer, had fallen captive almost immediately, each to a Hundred set that purpose. |
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| 22 | 46 |
The lance strikes the shield once for the commander of a Ten; twice for the commander of a Hundred; three times for the commander of a Thousand. |
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| 23 | 62 |
These two hundred, afoot, suddenly looking up with their quivas and axes, startled, screaming, were ridden down in a matter of an Ehn. |
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| 24 | 30 |
Certain cities, burned by the Wagon Peoples more than a hundred years ago, were still said to be desolate ruins between their broken walls, silent save for the wind and the occasional footfall of a prowling sleen hunting for urts. |
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| 24 | 40 |
Still I was not altogether satisfied, for, on the whole, it seemed to me that Turia might yet have survived even had Kamchak's forces wrought much greater destruction than they had—for example, opening but a single gate and permitting only a few hundred, rather than thousands to escape the ci... |
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| 24 | 51 |
I had been training some hundred Tuchuks in the use of the crossbow, dozens of which had now fallen into our hands. |
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| 24 | 74 |
I knew Kamchak had brought, over the past few days, several hundred bosk to graze near Turia, to use in feeding his troops. |
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| 24 | 87 |
"It arrived with the bosk along with better than two hundred other wagons today—including yours". |
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| 24 | 163 |
I had taken, as a share of battle loot, a hundred and ten bottles of paga and forty bottles of Ka-la-na wine from Tyros, Cos and Ar, but these I had distributed to my crossbowmen, with the exception of one bottle of paga which Harold and I had split some two nights ago. |
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| 26 | 28 |
I turned to a commander of a Hundred, he who was in charge of the men I had trained with the crossbow. |
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| 26 | 88 |
Indeed, some who might have fought for Saphrar, seeing their fellows deserting in such numbers, undoubtedly realized their own imminent danger, now increased a hundred fold, and hastened to join the deserters. |
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| 27 | 55 |
"For the first time in more than a hundred years," said the Paravaci, "there is a Ubar San, a One Ubar, Master of the Wagons!" Kamchak stood up and threw from his shoulders the purple of the Turian Ubar and stood in the black leather of a Tuchuk. |
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| 27 | 91 |
"If you like," I said, "I will give you a hundred times that". |
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| 27 | 221 |
"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 297 |
"A hundred tarnsmen, well organized," said Kuurus, "could strike barbarian villages, bind a hundred wenches, and return in twenty days". |
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| 12 | 133 |
In English measure the two sides of the track are each about seventeen hundred feet in length, and the measure at the corners would be something under a hundred and fifty feet in width. |
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| 17 | 155 |
Since the beginning of En'Kara he had fought more than one hundred and twenty times, and one hundred and twenty foes had fallen before him, which, following his unusual custom, he had never slain, regardless of the will of the crowd. |
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| 19 | 376 |
"I am offered five hundred and forty gold pieces for these hot-blooded barbarian beauties," called the auctioneer, "only five hundred and forty gold pieces for this exquisite set of animals, in prime condition and superbly trained to tantalize you, to torment you, to drive you wild with pleasure! Do... |
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| 19 | 429 |
Then we heard nine hundred and fifty bid, and then, incredibly, a thousand, and then a bid for the astounding sum of fourteen hundred pieces of gold. |
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| 1 | 93 |
"If you are successful," said the man, "return and you will receive a hundred such pieces of gold". |
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| 3 | 22 |
The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s... |
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| 3 | 79 |
With some the effect lasts indefinitely, with others it wears off after but a few hundred years, with some the effect does not occur at all, with others, tragically, the effect is not to stabilize the pattern but to hasten its degeneration. |
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| 5 | 72 |
His own knot was a sixty-two turn knot, his father's was seventy-one; one of his brothers used a hundred-and-four turn knot, which, as I recall, Andreas thought a bit pretentious". |
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| 5 | 320 |
Their ships have sensing devices perhaps the match of our own; they scatter; they have weapons, primitive perhaps, but yet effective at ranges of a hundred thousand pasangs". |
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| 5 | 616 |
It is true that if she, with other girls, were shipped by wagon to Ar, this schedule would not be met; but we knew that the House of Clark, in the case of select merchandise, under which category Elizabeth surely fell, transported slaves by tarn caravan to the markets of Ar, usually binding them in ... |
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| 7 | 60 |
About a hundred yards from the shelf the ship stopped, stationary, more than two thousand feet from the ground below. |
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| 7 | 62 |
"I have seen it," he said, "a hundred times and yet, each time, it seems to me more strange. |
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| 9 | 21 |
Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record... |
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| 9 | 34 |
It would seat no more than a hundred buyers. |
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| 13 | 9 |
The entire city was humming with the news and a hundred rumors ran rampant through the alleys and streets and on the bridges of Glorious Ar. |
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| 13 | 61 |
"Look," I said, pointing to the far end of the curving pool, some hundred and fifty yards away, "if I do not catch you before you reach the edge you will have your freedom for the day". |
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| 13 | 173 |
"Minus Tentius Hinrabius," she said, "has a dozen times sent prides of a hundred Warriors to the Voltai to seek him out and slay him, but never have they found him". |
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| 13 | 239 |
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ... |
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| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
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| 15 | 109 |
Murmillius always fought alone, never in teams, and in more than one hundred and fifteen fights, sometimes fighting three and four times in one afternoon, he had never lost a contest. |
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| 15 | 342 |
One hundred and four". |
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| 15 | 345 |
"Ah," said she, "one hundred and five!" A good deal of the training of the slave girl, surprisingly, to my naive mind, was in relatively domestic matters. |
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| 15 | 365 |
But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a... |
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| 17 | 224 |
Unfortunately the caravan, not more than two hundred pasangs from the Great Gate of Ar, was attacked and plundered by a large armed force, but of unknown origin. |
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| 19 | 4 |
Cernus, sensing the temper and curiosity of the crowds, had determined to make them wait for his surprise delights, over a hundred of them, whose supposed qualities of beauty and skill, enhanced by the mysterious aura of barbaric origin, had been for months the object of ever more eager rumors and e... |
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| 19 | 166 |
Particularly, I suspected, were they waiting for the more than one hundred barbarians that Cernus had promised them, girls kidnapped from Earth to be Gorean pleasure slaves. |
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| 19 | 271 |
"One hundred gold pieces," spoken by a Slaver who wore the insignia of Tor, some feet from the box of Cernus. |
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| 19 | 272 |
"A hundred and twenty," said another, soberly, matter-of-factly, this man, too, a professional Slaver, he wearing on his left shoulder the sign of Tyros. |
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| 19 | 274 |
The bids increased to a hundred and forty gold pieces. |
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| 19 | 285 |
"Two hundred gold pieces," said a merchant from Cos. |
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| 19 | 286 |
"Two hundred and fifteen," called out a high officer in the cavalry of Ar. |
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| 19 | 290 |
By this time the bids had increased to two hundred and forty. |
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| 19 | 296 |
There was a bid of two hundred and fifty then for the lot. |
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| 19 | 299 |
The bids then increased to two hundred and seventy-five gold pieces. |
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| 19 | 318 |
"Three hundred gold pieces!" called a rich man of Ar. |
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| 19 | 320 |
"Three hundred and five," said the professional Slaver from Tor. |
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| 19 | 321 |
"Three hundred and ten!" announced the Slaver who wore upon his shoulder the sign of Tyros. |
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| 19 | 342 |
I managed to hear one bid for four hundred pieces of gold. |
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| 19 | 357 |
"Five hundred gold pieces!" called the rich man of Ar. |
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| 19 | 358 |
"Five hundred and twenty!" called the Slaver of Tor. |
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| 19 | 359 |
"Five hundred and thirty!" called another man. |
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| 19 | 360 |
"Five hundred and thirty-five!" called the Slaver from Tyros. |
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| 19 | 374 |
"Five hundred and forty gold pieces!" cried the rich man of Ar, and the crowd cheered its approval of the bid. |
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| 19 | 377 |
"Five hundred and forty-five," growled the Slaver from Tyros. |
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| 19 | 390 |
Imagine her, noble men of Ar, chained to your slave ring! She alone is worth five hundred pieces of gold!" The crowd roared its approval and the auctioneer dropped his hand and stepped back, perhaps as surprised as any in that room. |
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| 19 | 404 |
"Would it not be worth five hundred gold pieces," asked Elizabeth, "to put your leash on this one and lead her home, to teach her the worth of a man of Ar, if worth they have, and then send her weeping and aching to the kettles of the kitchen until she begs to sleep beneath your slave ring?" There w... |
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| 19 | 427 |
"Eight hundred gold pieces!" came one cry. |
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| 19 | 428 |
"Eight hundred and fifty," came another. |
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| 19 | 433 |
The last bid he had received had been an astounding fifteen hundred pieces of gold. |
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| 20 | 312 |
"If you win," said Cernus, "you will be given a hundred gold pieces". |
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| 20 | 453 |
"I will give you two hundred pieces of gold if you can finish the game in ten moves," said Cernus. |
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| 21 | 314 |
Taurentians, perhaps two hundred of them, were filing rapidly to the sand, weapons ready. |
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| 21 | 350 |
More Taurentians, perhaps a hundred, leaped over the wall into the arena and rushed forward. |
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| 21 | 355 |
"It must be some two or three hundred by now," surmised Ho-Sorl, breathing heavily. |
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| 21 | 359 |
"Four hundred and six!" he cried, lunging at another. |
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| 21 | 380 |
More Taurentians, perhaps two hundred more, leaped down from the wall. |
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| 21 | 389 |
I saw the Taurentians who had been facing us, perhaps three or four hundred, begin to disperse, fleeing toward the exits leading beneath the stands. |
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| 22 | 174 |
He pointed to a spot about a hundred yards away, on a small wall, built itself on the dividing wall, near the pole of the wooden tarn heads. |
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| 22 | 277 |
I stood stunned, for Melipolus of Cos was indeed a legend in Ar and in the hundred cities in which races were held. |
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| 24 | 169 |
At one point, to the shouts and delight of the men of the Ubar some two or three hundred girls were ushered quickly into the room of the court. |
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| 24 | 174 |
"Here are the most choice of the female slaves of the House of Cernus," said Marlenus, expansively gesturing to the two or three hundred girls. |
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| 24 | 226 |
I remember among this business arose the matter of more than one hundred exotic slaves from the House of Cernus, the white-robed girls who had been raised without the knowledge of the existence of men. |
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| 24 | 232 |
Eight hundred double tarns I gave to him that he might begin well his research once more. |
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| 24 | 245 |
Of the two hundred remaining double tarns from the victory in the Ubar's race I gave all but one to free Melanie, who had served in the kitchens of Cernus, and arrange a livelihood for her. |
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| 24 | 415 |
I did not draw my weapon, but my mere gesture had caused a hundred swords to leap from the sheath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
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| 16 | 188 |
The fleet would consist, according to my information, of forty-two hundred ships, twenty-five hundred from Cos and seventeen hundred from Tyros. |
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| 16 | 189 |
Of the forty-two hundred, fifteen hundred would be galleys heavy class, two thousand medium-class galleys, and seven hundred light galleys. |
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| 17 | 5 |
The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from... |
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| 17 | 9 |
Of the seven hundred arsenal ships, three hundred and forty were tarn ships, and three hundred and sixty were round ships. |
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| 3 | 1 |
Ho-Hak The rence islands, on which the communities of rence growers dwell, are rather small, seldom more than two hundred by two hundred and fifty feet. |
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| 10 | 22 |
In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks. |
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| 10 | 138 |
Beyond these ships there are some twenty-five hundred ships which are owned by some fifteen or sixteen hundred minor captains of the city, not wealthy enough to sit on the Council of Captains. |
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| 10 | 249 |
Both lie some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar, Tyros to the south of Cos, separated by some hundred pasangs from her. |
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| 14 | 56 |
If we suppose a trebly-banked ship with one hundred and twenty oarsmen, say, in three banks of twenty each to a side, I think we can see she would have to be a rather large ship, and a good deal heavier than the single-decked, three-men-to-a-bench type, also with one hundred and twenty oarsmen. |
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| 14 | 328 |
The round ship, although she often carries over one hundred, and sometimes over two hundred, chained slaves in her rowing hold, seldom, unless she intends to enter battle, carries a free crew of more than twenty to twenty-five men. |
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| 17 | 12 |
Of these three hundred and fifty ships, approximately two hundred, happily, were tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 50 |
This meant the first wave consisted of eight hundred ships, and the second of one hundred. |
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| 17 | 51 |
This left me approximately one hundred and eighty-five tarn ships, and the large numbers, fourteen hundred, of round ships. |
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| 17 | 202 |
I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades. |
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| 17 | 368 |
It would carry, besides its oarsmen, who were all free, fighting men, some one hundred bowmen, and another hundred men, seamen, artillery men, auxiliary personnel and officers. |
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| 1 | 60 |
The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 6 | 221 |
My leg was out of the water, but now the water seemed yellow with the flashing bodies of tiny tharlarion, and, beyond them, I heard the hoarse grunting of the great marsh tharlarion, some of which grow to be more than thirty feet in length, weighing more than half a hundred men. |
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| 7 | 1 |
I Will Hunt Lost among the rushes and sedge, out in the darkness of the marsh, some hundred yards from the rence islands, two of which were burning, Telima, bound, and I, a garland of rence flowers bloodied in my hair, watched the movement of torches, listened to the shouts of men, the screams of wo... |
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| 7 | 35 |
There was perhaps a hundred of them. |
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| 7 | 203 |
"There are more than a hundred warriors," she said, her voice suddenly leaping. |
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| 8 | 35 |
The arrow from the great yellow bow, that of supple Ka-la-na, had passed through the head of the man, losing itself a hundred yards distant, dropping unseen into the marsh. |
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| 8 | 99 |
We had estimated that there had been more than a hundred warriors on the six barges, but not, perhaps, many more. |
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| 8 | 144 |
When the rence craft was lost, some hundred yards from the barges, among the reeds and sedge, I had her secure the craft. |
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| 8 | 451 |
"There were more than a hundred men," said Ho-Hak. |
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| 8 | 472 |
"No man who fights a hundred," said he, "with only a girl at his side, could act so". |
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| 9 | 111 |
The nearest solid land, other than occasional bars in the marshes, to Port Kar lies to her north, some one hundred pasangs distant. |
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| 9 | 133 |
The nearest solid land was about one hundred pasangs to the north, but it was open land, and, there, on the edges of the delta, there were log outposts of Port Kar, where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes' edges. |
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| 9 | 147 |
There were the northern islands, of course, and they were numerous, but small, extending in an archipelago like a scimitar northeastward from Cos, which lay some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar. |
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| 9 | 160 |
And how, even then, could Port Kar fall, for she was a mass of holdings, each individually defensible, room to room, each separated from the others by the canals which, in their hundreds, crossed and divided the city? No, I said to myself, Port Kar could be held a hundred years. |
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| 10 | 15 |
There are commonly about one hundred and twenty captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less. |
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| 10 | 30 |
Medium class for a long ship, or ram-ship, is determined not by freight capacity but by keel length and width of beam; a medium-class long ship, or ram-ship, will have a keel length of from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet Gorean; and a width of beam of from ten to fifteen feet Gorean. |
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| 10 | 46 |
Although there were some one hundred and twenty captains in the council, seldom more than seventy or eighty, either in person or by proxy, made an appearance at its meetings. |
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| 10 | 56 |
The story was that they had been attacked by more than a thousand rencers, abetted by a conjectured five hundred mercenaries, trained warriors, and had barely escaped with their lives. |
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| 10 | 107 |
Midice now possessed a hundred pleasure silks, and rings and beads, which she might twine in her now-jeweled collar. |
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| 10 | 127 |
But not in over a hundred years had the united fleets of Cos and Tyros challenged Port Kar, and at that time, because of storms, they had been scattered and beaten off. |
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| 10 | 134 |
We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i... |
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| 10 | 135 |
The following figures pertain to medium class or larger vessels: The five Ubars of Port Kar, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel, Sullius Maximus and Henrius Sevarius, control among themselves some four hundred ships. |
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| 10 | 136 |
The approximately one hundred and twenty captains of the Council of the Captains of Port Kar have, pledged to their personal service, some thousand ships. |
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| 10 | 139 |
The figures I have listed would give us some forty-nine hundred ships. |
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| 10 | 143 |
My estimation would be that approximately fifteen hundred only are the long ships, the ram-ships, those of war. |
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| 11 | 157 |
If so, they might control, among themselves, a force of about one hundred and fifty ships, most of which were still at sea. |
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| 11 | 327 |
"One hundred and two!" said Lysias proudly. |
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| 11 | 335 |
"I refer to the ships of the minor captains, in the number of better than twenty-five hundred!" "In the streets," said Samos, "I have heard the cry 'Power to the council!'" "Proclaim Henrius Sevarius sole Ubar," said Lysias numbly, "and your lives will be spared, and you will be granted amnesty". |
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| 12 | 7 |
Now, from the height of one of the investing walls, some hundred yards from the high bleak wall of one of the holdings of Sevarius, said to be his palace, I, with Thurnock, Clitus, and others, by the light of Gor's three moons, observed the opening of a postern gate. |
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| 14 | 11 |
Her keel, one hundred and twenty-eight feet Gorean, and her beam, sixteen feet Gorean, mark her as heavy class. |
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| 14 | 42 |
A thirty-foot Gorean oar, the most inboard oar, would commonly weigh thirty stone, or about one hundred and twenty pounds. |
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| 14 | 52 |
The Dorna carried twenty groups of three to a side, and so used one hundred and twenty oarsmen. |
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| 14 | 128 |
A javelin, with tarred, burning blade, fell hissing into the water, some hundred yards away. |
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| 14 | 187 |
The nearest was not more than a hundred yards before the one we had just struck. |
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| 14 | 234 |
"She carries one hundred and thirty-two oars," he said, "but she is a heavier ship, and her lines are not as good as those of the Dorna". |
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| 14 | 247 |
We were separated by some four hundred yards. |
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| 14 | 267 |
As it plunged through Thassa we had slipped, as swiftly as a sleen, from its path, knifing by a hundred yards past his port bow, and soon leaving him astern. |
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| 14 | 330 |
The Dorna, by contrast, carried a free crew of two hundred and fifteen men, most of whom were well trained with weapons. |
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| 16 | 190 |
A net, a hundred pasangs wide, was closing on Port Kar. |
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| 16 | 270 |
And, suddenly, the room was filled with cheers and more than a hundred weapons left their sheaths and saluted the Home Stone of Port Kar. |
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| 16 | 348 |
Of the usual seventy or eighty, or so, captains of the approximately one hundred and twenty entitled to sit in the council, only some thirty or forty were present. |
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| 17 | 6 |
We had all of the arsenal ships that were available, some seven hundred out of an approximate thousand. |
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| 17 | 10 |
Our fleet was further supplemented by some fourteen hundred ships furnished by private captains, minor captains of Port Kar, most of which were round ships. |
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| 17 | 11 |
Beyond this, we had three hundred and fifty ships furnished by the captains of the council who had not, prior to the time of the showing of the Home Stone, fled. |
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| 17 | 17 |
Had it not been for the finding of the Home Stone of Port Kar, if one may so speak, I doubt that we could have brought more than four or five hundred ships against Cos and Tyros. |
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| 17 | 29 |
Astern there were, each separated by about one hundred yards, four tarn ships of Port Kar, and behind this four, there was another, and behind that another, and behind that another. |
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| 17 | 31 |
This was one of fifty such task forces, consisting altogether of eight hundred tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 56 |
My third wave, following the second by an Ahn, would consist of a long extended line of round ships, some fourteen hundred. |
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| 17 | 242 |
I leaped from the ladder to the deck of the Dorna and waved my hand to Antisthenes, some hundred yards away on the stern castle of the command ship of the reserves. |
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| 17 | 275 |
"You have, in the ten round ships," I said, "one hundred tarns, with riders". |
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| 17 | 285 |
"I will have a hundred stone of gold for the use of these birds and my men," said Terence of Treve. |
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| 17 | 302 |
"I will want the hundred stone," said Terence, "regardless of the outcome of your plan". |
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| 17 | 305 |
"A hundred stone," I said, "though a high price, seems small enough considering the risks you will encounter. |
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| 17 | 306 |
It is hard for me to believe that you ride only for a hundred stone of gold. |
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| 17 | 362 |
Soon, behind me, there were some hundred tarnsmen, and below each, dangling, hanging to the knotted ropes, were five picked men. |
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| 17 | 366 |
It was a great ship, painted in the yellow of Tyros, with more than two hundred oarsmen. |
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| 17 | 403 |
Moreover, my men outnumbered them by some hundred swords. |
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| 17 | 431 |
I could see some, a hundred yards away, climbing the wales of tarn ships, some clinging to their oars. |
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| 18 | 603 |
Suddenly more than a hundred irons with ropes struck the delta wall, wedging in the crenels, and I saw the irons tighten in the crenels and strain with the weight on them. |
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| 18 | 639 |
The rest of the fleet was still doubtless a hundred or more pasangs to the south. |
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| 18 | 956 |
This was an expression, in the first knowledge, for the sea some hundred pasangs west of Cos and Tyros, beyond which the ships of Goreans do not go, or if go, do not return. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 318 |
In the compound adjoining ours, crowded, there were some two hundred and fifty to three hundred village girls. |
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| 11 | 1392 |
She had captured me, and sold me for a hundred arrow points! How humiliating, and insulting! I was worth gold! Gold! Perhaps Marlenus, her captor, would choose to put her on the block! Perhaps she would sell for a hundred arrow points! But I would bring gold, much gold! I looked about at the slave f... |
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| 3 | 327 |
I thrilled to their pursuit, and would elude them! Finally, when I was more than two hundred yards ahead of them, on a cruelly winding road, I switched off my headlights and drove off the road into some trees. |
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| 3 | 464 |
It was several hundred yards behind me, moving rather slowly. |
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| 4 | 120 |
"This device," he said, "transmits a signal, which can be picked up by our equipment at a distance of one hundred miles". |
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| 5 | 36 |
Some hundred yards or so from me I saw a mass of torn metal, a ruptured structure of black steel, half buried in the grass. |
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| 5 | 195 |
The hatches slid shut and the ship, almost simultaneously, lifted itself, silently, some hundred feet from the grass. |
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| 6 | 121 |
Two others of his men had left the wagon and were looking about, some hundred yards or so, on other sides. |
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| 6 | 135 |
One of the men, a grizzled fellow, with one eye, came back from searching the fields some hundred yards or so from the wagon. |
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| 7 | 4 |
He was bound, traveling over the hills and meadowlands east and north of Ko-ro-ba, for the city of Laura, which lies on the banks of the Laurius river, some two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the sea, called Thassa. |
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| 7 | 15 |
Indeed, the preceding fall, at the fair of Se'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains, he had contracted with a marauder, Haakon of Skjern, for one hundred northern beauties, to be taken from the villages north of the Laurius and from the coastal villages, upward even to the edges of Torvaldsland. |
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| 7 | 18 |
The balance of one hundred and fifty gold pieces would be due when the consignment was delivered. |
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| 7 | 74 |
Two days out of Ko-ro-ba, crossing the fields northward toward Laura, the sky had darkened with a flight of outlaw tarnsmen, more than a hundred of them, under the command of the terrible Rask of Treve, one of the most dreaded warriors on all Gor. |
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| 7 | 525 |
He will pay one hundred pieces of gold". |
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| 8 | 203 |
Lydius, the free port at the mouth of the Laurius, was more than two hundred pasangs downstream. |
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| 8 | 335 |
Targo would have his pick of one hundred of these women. |
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| 8 | 336 |
He had paid a deposit of fifty golden tarn disks, and on our first morning in the compound, I had seen him pay one hundred and fifty more to the huge, bearded, scowling Haakon of Skjern. |
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| 8 | 590 |
The hundred village girls were not included in the display chain. |
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| 8 | 608 |
And his hundred village girls, bought for only two gold pieces a girl, could well stand to make him rich, if they could be brought to Ar before the Love Feast. |
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| 8 | 649 |
We, and the hundred village girls, delighted, pressed against the bars to watch. |
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| 8 | 675 |
It may have weighed seven or eight hundred pounds. |
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| 8 | 755 |
He had then taken it from me and hurled it into a block of wood, head deep, more than a hundred feet away. |
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| 8 | 837 |
What had we done? Ute pointed through the bars at one of the groups of wagons, some hundred yards from the compound, toward the forests. |
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| 8 | 904 |
It was more than a hundred yards off, glowing in the darkness, away from the compound. |
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| 9 | 226 |
The most typical and famous tree of these forests is the lofty, reddish Tur tree, some varieties of which grow more than two hundred feet high. |
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| 9 | 233 |
I could see broadly spreading branches some two hundred feet or more above my head. |
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| 9 | 279 |
After some hundred yards I came to the edge of a clearing. |
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| 9 | 430 |
There were one hundred of them. |
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| 9 | 435 |
Could it be that this, and this alone, was my price, that I had been purchased for only this, the points for one hundred arrows? But I reminded myself that I could not be purchased, for I was Elinor Brinton, for I was free! "Rise, Slave," said Verna. |
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| 9 | 499 |
"A hundred arrow points," I pouted, "is not enough!" I was startled that I had said this, and more with how I had said it. |
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| 9 | 526 |
But only a hundred arrow points! It was not enough! The door to the hut swung open. |
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| 10 | 192 |
She had been rejected! This made no sense! I had once been offered, on Earth, a hundred dollars, for a single kiss. |
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| 10 | 193 |
I had toyed with the idea of granting it, not for the hundred dollars, of course, but for piquant frisson involved, the tingling, flattering little thrill of such a transaction, me, Elinor Brinton, selling a kiss, the surprising, unexpected, naughty adventure of it, of pretending, for a moment, that... |
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| 10 | 274 |
I remembered awakening, lying in a Gorean field, some hundred yards or so from the black wreckage of the slavers' ship. |
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| 10 | 326 |
"You cost only one hundred arrow points". |
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| 10 | 529 |
"I am a slave! A slave!" "A hundred arrow points is too much for such a slave," he said. |
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| 11 | 850 |
Also, recalling that I had been sold for only one hundred arrowpoints, for some reason, irritated me. |
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| 11 | 914 |
"Sometimes he comes north, with some hundred tarnsmen, for the hunting in the forests," said the guard. |
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| 11 | 1079 |
Haakon of Skjern, from whom Targo had purchased his hundred northern beauties, now concluding their training, was in Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 12 | 629 |
We were alone! "There must be more than a hundred of them!" cried Ute. |
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| 12 | 684 |
There must have been more than a hundred tarnsmen with Haakon. |
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| 13 | 309 |
Through the brush, some two hundred yards away, moving in the darkness, we saw two torches. |
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| 13 | 451 |
Suddenly, some hundred yards away, I heard a man's shout. |
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| 13 | 536 |
Then my heart sank! There must have been two hundred or more peasants, men, children and women, all shouting, and beating on their kettles or pans. |
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| 13 | 890 |
His tarn spun crazily, and then, a hundred yards away, to one side and below us, turned and fled. |
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| 14 | 123 |
There were many warriors about, perhaps a hundred or more, the men of Rask of Treve, and perhaps some twenty girls, lovely ones, in brief work tunics, busying themselves with their tasks, cooking, cleaning leather, polishing shields. |
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| 14 | 521 |
As the night proceeds, she must then perform, chained and unchained, in a hundred ways, with her lips and tongue, her body, breasts, hair, the enslaved all of her. |
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| 17 | 307 |
I had been told there was enough there to bring a hundred men to an excruciating death. |
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| 18 | 107 |
There were a hundred of them, and they were of gold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 13 | 34 |
At point-blank range the temwood shaft can be fired completely through a four-inch beam; at two hundred yards it can pin a man to a wall; at four hundred yards it can kill the huge, shambling bosk; it fires nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, some eighty Earth seconds; a skilled bowman, and not an unus... |
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| 9 | 6 |
I could see them, on all sides, at the edges of the clearing, rising beautifully a hundred, two hundred feet toward the blackness of the Gorean night, the brightness of the stars, and then, almost at the top, exploding into a broad canopying of interlaced branches. |
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| 1 | 17 |
The shadows flickered about the board of one hundred red and yellow squares. |
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| 1 | 68 |
"I got one hundred pieces of gold for her," I said. |
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| 1 | 379 |
Samos and I looked down upon the board, with its hundred squares of red and yellow, the weighted, carved pieces. |
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| 2 | 211 |
"But from Lydius, he was to follow the river to Laurius, two hundred pasangs upstream. |
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| 2 | 619 |
"The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa". |
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| 3 | 11 |
I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e... |
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| 3 | 193 |
There, lost to the bustle in the tavern, oblivious to the music, sat two men across a board of one hundred red and yellow squares, playing Kaissa, the game. |
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| 3 | 246 |
It was not more than a hundred yards from the tavern. |
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| 3 | 376 |
I could now see there were more than two hundred men about, and women and children, as well. |
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| 4 | 197 |
I was sold for one hundred arrow points. |
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| 4 | 345 |
I could recall that once, it now seemed long ago, this girl, in a marvelously staged sale, with all the skills of the great auction house, the Curulean, in Ar, had, with two other girls, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, brought fifteen hundred gold pieces. |
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| 5 | 337 |
When we reached the Tesephone, less than a hundred yards from the slave market, the tide was at a knife's edge of its crest. |
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| 6 | 910 |
The sound of the river was slow and sweet, moving between its banks, flowing downward to greet Thassa, the sea, more than two hundred pasangs from this small, silent camp. |
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| 7 | 243 |
"We have more than a hundred girls," she said. |
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| 7 | 249 |
That there should be more than a hundred of them in a single band, under a single leader, seemed incredible. |
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| 7 | 356 |
Yet, if Grenna was to be believed, following this Hura were a hundred or more armed women. |
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| 9 | 280 |
"It is said," I said, "that in the band of Hura there are more than a hundred women". |
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| 11 | 341 |
"I have arranged for the girls of Hura, more than a hundred of them, to be in the forests about the camp. |
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| 11 | 390 |
He saw, to one side, the large board of one hundred yellow and red squares, the tall weighted pieces. |
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| 13 | 30 |
They were struck for a moment, seeing me, standing some hundred and fifty yards from them, regarding them. |
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| 13 | 160 |
She had a keel length of about one hundred and ten feet Gorean, and a beam of about twelve foot Gorean. |
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| 13 | 166 |
I would speculate, however, judging the business on which I conjectured the Rhoda had come north, that she would have carried more than a hundred below decks, doubtless all skilled warriors. |
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| 13 | 182 |
"Two hundred?" I conjectured. |
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| 13 | 183 |
"Yes," she said, "at least two hundred". |
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| 13 | 256 |
The crew of the Rhoda herself, though I expected not all of her oars would now be manned, would have been somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred. |
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| 13 | 257 |
The slave girl whom I had questioned on these matters had conjectured that the attacking force had numbered in the neighborhood of two hundred men. |
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| 13 | 258 |
I suspected that some one hundred and fifty, or more, men were now moving towards the camp of Marlenus. |
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| 13 | 297 |
Further, he had some one hundred men with him. |
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| 13 | 298 |
It puzzled me, somewhat, that the men of Tyros had dared to approach the camp, with only some one hundred and fifty men. |
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| 13 | 334 |
"More than a hundred of them! The girls of the band of Hura!" I had known it would be her answer. |
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| 14 | 46 |
I supposed that the men of Tyros, those who had been engaged in the attack, now numbered somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty-five. |
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| 14 | 221 |
The panther girls of Hura's band, more than a hundred of them, entered the circle. |
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| 17 | 123 |
Hura had had, by my count, one hundred and four girls. |
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| 17 | 126 |
Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros, by my count, when the march had begun had had one hundred and twenty-five men. |
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| 18 | 183 |
In this fashion, sapling by sapling, a rude semicircular palisade, of some one hundred feet in length, swiftly took form. |
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| 18 | 307 |
I looked across the beach, some two hundred yards, to the palisade. |
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| 18 | 496 |
I took Cara into the woods, a hundred yards or so from the forest's edge. |
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| 18 | 520 |
Some four hundred yards away from shore, by my conjecture, the two lanterns stopped. |
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| 18 | 656 |
I slipped ashore, thrusting the log onto the sand, some two hundred yards away, among large rocks, concealed from the light of the beacon. |
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| 19 | 13 |
"Captain!" We stood some hundred yards from the palisade erected by the men of Tyros, south of it, on the beach. |
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| 22 | 720 |
Doubtless women are much more beautiful now than a hundred generations ago. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 226 |
"We will require," said the Kur, "for each day of the march, as provisions, a hundred verr, a hundred tarsk, a hundred bosk, one hundred healthy property-females, of the sort you refer to as bondmaids". |
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| 3 | 297 |
A hundred yards from the wharves we saw a crowd of angry men, perhaps two hundred, blocking the way. |
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| 4 | 41 |
In a day, a full Gorean day of twenty Ahn, with a fair wind they can cover from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pasangs. |
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| 14 | 180 |
In rage it had cried, "A thousand of you can die beneath the claws of a single Kur!" There were perhaps now no more than a hundred or a hundred and fifty men left alive in the hall. |
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| 2 | 78 |
The population of Kassau I did not think to be more than eleven hundred persons. |
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| 2 | 80 |
If we count these perhaps we might think of greater Kassau as having a population in the neighborhood of some twenty-three hundred persons. |
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| 2 | 204 |
It is some one hundred and twenty feet in length, and forty feet in width and height. |
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| 3 | 127 |
"One hundred pieces of gold," said Forkbeard to him, observing the girl. |
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| 3 | 330 |
Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w... |
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| 4 | 200 |
A hundred yards away, rolling and sporting, were a family of whales, a male, two females, and four calves. |
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| 5 | 102 |
"Eighty oars, one hundred and sixty rowers". |
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| 5 | 135 |
The ship of Thorgard was now little more than two hundred yards away. |
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| 5 | 151 |
The ship of Thorgard was now only some hundred yards away. |
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| 5 | 281 |
Some hundred yards away, difficult to see, was the longboat. |
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| 5 | 296 |
"One hundred and twenty pieces". |
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| 5 | 319 |
Their weight, apiece, is not great, being little more than twenty-five Gorean stone, or about one hundred Earth pounds. |
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| 6 | 35 |
There was a log palisade some hundred yards from the dock. |
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| 6 | 319 |
It was about one hundred and twenty feet Gorean in length. |
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| 6 | 428 |
Ten ships he had at his own wharves, and, it was said, he could summon a hundred more. |
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| 6 | 438 |
"If he did, a hundred ships might enter the inlet". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 37 |
The front wall was some four hundred feet in length; the side walls were some four hundred and fifty feet in length. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 269 |
In one form there a hundred young men and a hundred young women of one city, the women selected for their beauty, enter the ring in competition with a hundred young men and a hundred young women of another city, similarly selected. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4 |
In the contest a hundred young men of each city, and a hundred young women, the most beautiful in each city, participate. |
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| 3 | 40 |
The numbers in the game are set at a hundred young men and a hundred young women, in order that there be a young woman for each winning male. |
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| 3 | 747 |
Would you buy a girl you had not had a chance to examine in detail? In the two hundreds Tenalion's platforms were numbered from two hundred and forty through two hundred and eighty, inclusive. |
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| 12 | 369 |
Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole. |
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| 32 | 74 |
It consists of between twenty-one hundred and twenty-two hundred animals. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 56 |
They are all property, property! Can fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, a million, three million, years of nature be mistaken? No, I thought. |
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| 4 | 67 |
Lola, I conjecture, was in the neighborhood of five feet four inches tall and would have weighed about one hundred and twenty pounds; Tela, who was a bit smaller, I would conjecture would have been about five feet three inches tall and would have weighed a pound or two less, perhaps about one hundre... |
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| 21 | 424 |
The young beast weighed, I conjecture, some one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty pounds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 214 |
Accordingly, within the fortress, under the command of Kliomenes, only a small force had been left, some two hundred to two hundred and fifty men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 419 |
Two kaiila, with their riders, slipping and scrambling, slid from the trail and then, unsupported, flailing, turning in the air, the riders and their mounts separating, they fell a hundred feet, struck some rocks, bounded out from the escarpment and fell the final two hundred feet to the lower, slop... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 108 |
A work gang usually consists of fifty to one hundred men, and some contain as many as five hundred or a thousand men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 77 |
She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos. |
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| 13 | 113 |
There, some fifty yards away, kneeling, huddled together against the brick wall of a public building, the wall composed of the flat, narrow bricks common in southern Gorean architecture, was a group of some one hundred to one hundred and fifty females. |
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| 13 | 230 |
As her number was 437 and there were only some one hundred or one hundred and fifty or so females in the chain, near the wall, I assumed there was probably one or more collection points elsewhere, perhaps nearer the Semnium, the Council Hall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 9 |
Within a hundred yards there was a flotilla of small craft, rence craft, flatboats, barges, scows, fishing boats and rafts, perhaps four or five hundred men. |
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| 26 | 219 |
It had been to permit the men of Besnit to make a selection from among them, in the number of a hundred, the same number which had been that of the high-caste daughters earlier taken by the men of Harfax, this hundred then to be impressed into slavery, trained by slaves in the houses of Besnit, and ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 433 |
The edges of it tapered up to the height of the wall on each side, in this area, some hundred to a hundred and twenty feet Gorean above the pavement. |
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| 26 | 587 |
If we have a tarn waiting, you could be a hundred pasangs from here by nightfall, in any direction, and by morning, with a new tarn, five hundred pasangs from there, in any direction, and in another day, who knows?" She lifted her head with difficulty in the net, to look at him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1522 |
If I may be permitted to exaggerate a point, for purposes of clarification, one might ask, are there two basic kisses with five hundred variations of each, four basic kisses with two hundred and fifty variations of each, five with two hundred variations of each, ten with one hundred variations of ea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 80 |
She thought it must be some hundred, or two hundred, yards away, but, oddly, too, it seemed as though it might be as far away as the walls, perhaps even further. |
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| 20 | 83 |
Ellen estimated that there were between two hundred and fifty and three hundred women in her coffle. |
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| 20 | 395 |
It was a large coffle, of perhaps some two hundred and fifty to three hundred girls, each stripped, each chained by the neck. |
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| 25 | 895 |
I am only a common girl, and a barbarian! Although these matters differ considerably from city to city, and silver and gold is often weighed by merchants, common ratios in the vicinity of Brundisium at the time of this writing, given the inflation of the unsettled times, are a hundred tarsk-bits to ... |
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| 25 | 951 |
Perhaps a hundred, or a hundred and fifty, perhaps high slaves, perhaps exquisitely, lengthily trained pleasure slaves, perhaps skilled dancers, perhaps such, but surely not she! Accordingly, instead of being excited and thrilled, she was apprehensive. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 200 |
The small shaggy forms, many no more than five feet in height, and perhaps no more than a hundred to a hundred and fifty pounds in weight, encircled the huddled, confused cattle creatures. |
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| 56 | 45 |
"Three hundred and fifty, perhaps four hundred," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 79 | 506 |
"Could you not suppose you had found me in a hundred other places, in a hundred other situations?" "But I did not find you so," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 9 |
At that moment, from afar off, perhaps two hundred to two hundred and fifty yards to our right and ahead, there was a terrible roar, surely of a larl, followed, a moment later, by a harrowing scream. |
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| 13 | 247 |
While some in the streets hunted urts to live, we enjoyed the most delicate of a hundred viands, the richness of a hundred rare wines. |
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| 14 | 108 |
To be sure, here in Tarncamp I had counted no more than some two hundred to two hundred and fifty of the Pani. |
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| 30 | 180 |
"I do not know," I said, "perhaps eighteen hundred, perhaps nineteen hundred". |
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| 33 | 157 |
"Thassa," I said, "will tear the sails from your ship, snap her masts, break her keel, crush her sides, lift her a hundred feet, two hundred feet, into the air, and then drop her like a broken toy, plunging to the waves below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 8 |
A robust exploratory force of some five hundred men, a hundred Pani warriors of the men of Lord Temmu, and four hundred of our mercenaries, our armsmen, had been sent forth eight days ago. |
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| 37 | 626 |
I have a hundred golden tarsks here, a hundred pearls, a hundred jewels, of various sorts and sizes". |
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| 9 | 54 |
I would conjecture there were some five hundred of the unusual men, the Pani, on board, divided amongst the commands of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, some two hundred and fifty each. |
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| 13 | 21 |
"A hundred years, perhaps two hundred". |
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| 15 | 30 |
After the losses of the mutiny we fortunately had still better than two thousand men who might be applied to the work, some four hundred and fifty Pani, distributed between the commands of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and some seventeen hundred mariners and armsmen, mostly armsmen. |
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| 22 | 220 |
Now, however, to a new drum signal, hurrying between suddenly opening, evenly spaced gaps in the enemy forces, we saw what must have been one hundred to one hundred and fifty archers, with the large Pani bows. |
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| 23 | 39 |
After the misfortune of the mutiny, we had retained something like one hundred and forty tarns, and seventeen hundred mariners and armsmen. |
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| 23 | 47 |
I estimated our losses as one hundred Pani warriors and three hundred armsmen and mariners. |
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| 23 | 48 |
That left us with some three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some fourteen hundred mariners and armsmen. |
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| 24 | 207 |
"Two hundred, some two hundred," I said. |
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| 26 | 24 |
Thus, a smaller army, rapid and evasive, judiciously disposed and applied, may, in time, in a hundred actions, a hundred skirmishes, inflict much damage on a larger army, if its elements can be met seriatim, and divided. |
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| 30 | 163 |
I thought of the disarmed men, more than eight hundred and fifty, indeed, precisely, eight hundred and seventy, now held in the three prison barracks, hot, windows boarded, guarded by Pani. |
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| 35 | 3 |
Brundisium is one of the world's largest, busiest ports, with one of the finest harbors on the planet, host to a hundred traffics, headquarters of a hundred Merchant houses, but never, until now, had there been seen such a ship. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1834 |
One thing I did not realize originally about your bridges is the military utility involved in their design, that they may be blocked and defended by small groups of armed men; five may defend against a hundred, because of the hundred only five can engage at a time. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 258 |
They demand a hundred coins and think themselves ten times advanced for they formerly had but ten, and refuse to notice that their hundred today buys only what five bought once. |
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| 43 | 907 |
"You are intruders, you are caught, trapped! A hundred bows are drawn, a hundred shafts set to the string. |
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| 43 | 940 |
Must the lari be loosed amongst you, scattering bodies and blood as far as the river? Must a hundred, two hundred shafts, leap from the forest, seeking hearts? Look. |
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| 43 | 979 |
"The hundred, the two hundred others," said Genserich. |
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| 43 | 981 |
"One hundred, two hundred!" said Genserich. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 37 |
Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who, concealed, shifted about and distributed their fire? Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who applied themselves efficiently, under conditions of limited vision, on a covered bridge, in a pass, or at the rear door of an inn not far from the North R... |
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| 1 | 37 |
Following the defeat of the exploratory force Lords Nishida and Okimoto had retained some three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some eleven hundred mercenaries and mariners, the latter most recruited in, or in the vicinity of, the great port, Brundisium. |
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| 9 | 74 |
At the same time more than a thousand mercenaries streamed forth from the barracks, sheds, ancillary buildings, and the castle itself, crying out a hundred war cries from a hundred cities. |
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| 11 | 188 |
One thousand is more than one hundred, but twenty of one hundred is more than ten of one thousand. |
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| 32 | 46 |
Indeed, might not ten men, each with ten arrows, match even a hundred, if that hundred could not reach them, and bore but knives and clubs? To be sure, shooting penned verr is poor sport. |
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| 57 | 68 |
Lords Nishida and Okimoto had at their disposal, from the continent, something like three hundred and fifty Pani warriors, and some eleven hundred barbarian mercenaries and mariners. |
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| 61 | 306 |
"I will have a hundred sons, a hundred swords at my side". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 155 |
And how thrilling, and fulfilling, it is for us to find ourselves in our place in nature! "If enemies wished to kill Lord Grendel," she said, "it would be easy for them to attempt to do so, in a hundred places, at a hundred times. |
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| 50 | 193 |
"Release me," she cried, "foul brigands! You do not know whom you have discomfited! I am Alexina, from the House of a Hundred Corridors, colleague of the mighty Decius Albus! You have judged unwisely, my fine fellows! Do not think you can hold one so important as I for ransom! Consider your error! T... |
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| 52 | 64 |
Lady Bina, in any event, as there was no sign of public concern or agitation at her removal from the House of a Hundred Corridors, as exhortations, alarms, proclamations, offers of rewards for her return or information leading to her return, and such, were not being broadcast throughout the city and... |
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| 61 | 838 |
If there are two hundred fellows, say, who wish to participate, though you are under no obligation to do so, we will put two hundred numbers on slips of paper in a helmet, and give each fellow a slip of paper with a number. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 7 |
Who cares if a Centius of Cos or a Scormus of Ar can push tiny pieces of wood about on a hundred-squared, red-and-yellow board better than ten hundred thousand others? Is it really so superior to the planting of suls and the harvesting of Tur-Pah, the fishing for eels or parsit, the shaping and smoo... |
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| 33 | 277 |
In a hundred ways at a hundred times, despite our utmost watchfulness, the quarry could be moved, and concealed even more effectively". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 86 |
"This one is somewhere between a hundred and two hundred years old," volunteered another. |
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| 24 | 13 |
"How can several hundred men, perhaps now fifteen hundred, be sustained by the looting of villages, most of them small and poor?" I said. |
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| 31 | 2 |
They had approached it, this group, some four hundred we conjectured, cautiously, as inconspicuously as possible, and had then, say, a hundred yards from the gate, crouching down in the grass, waited for the signal of attack, and then the rushing forward, the shouting, and the brandishing of weapons... |
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| 35 | 22 |
In this case, visually, there is little difference between seeing one hundred soldiers and seeing one soldier a hundred times. |
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| 41 | 80 |
They reasoned, one supposes, that where there might be a hundred stone of gold there might be more than a hundred stone of gold. |
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| 51 | 119 |
I guessed that there might be two hundred and fifty to three hundred men in the water, as the corsair ships were crowded with evacuated mercenaries. |
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