| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 82 |
It was about twelve inches long and four inches high. |
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| 2 | 99 |
She wore a sleeveless garment of diagonal stripes, the brief skirt of which terminated some inches above her knees. |
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| 3 | 158 |
It sunk eight inches into the heavy wooden beams behind me. |
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| 6 | 3 |
Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t... |
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| 6 | 185 |
I also noted, though with considerably less pleasure, that the daughter of the Ubar was several inches taller than myself. |
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| 7 | 39 |
The shoe was at least ten inches high. |
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| 7 | 44 |
She tried to rise, but one foot was, of course, some ten inches higher than the other. |
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| 8 | 114 |
At her request I cut the garment until it hung a few inches above her ankles. |
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| 9 | 173 |
I tore some inches from the bottom of Talena's gown to make a bandage for Kazrak's shoulder. |
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| 12 | 59 |
Bound helplessly, without food or water, my own body would torture me by its weight dragging on the hand and ankle ropes, suspended a few inches above the roiling, muddy surface under the fiery sun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 27 |
The spear was a typical Gorean spear, about seven feet in height, heavy, stout, with a tapering bronze head some eighteen inches in length. |
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| 2 | 59 |
It was well balanced, vicious, double-edged and about twenty to twenty-two inches in length. |
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| 2 | 68 |
The tarn-goad is a rodlike instrument, about twenty inches long. |
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| 6 | 154 |
Deliberately, with both hands, she slipped her garment some inches down her shoulders, fully revealing her white throat. |
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| 8 | 12 |
I missed in the crowd the presence of slave girls, common in other cities, usually lovely girls clad only in the brief, diagonally striped slave livery of Gor, a sleeveless, briefly skirted garment terminating some inches above the knee, a garment that contrasts violently with the heavy, cumbersome ... |
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| 10 | 32 |
The entrance itself was nothing more than a small, simple iron door, perhaps eighteen inches in width, perhaps five feet in height. |
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| 12 | 29 |
She wore only a single garment, a long, narrow rectangle of rough, brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her knees and belted at the waist with a chain. |
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| 13 | 73 |
"Let them begin!" We were thrown on our feet again, and, to my horror, our yokes were fitted with steel horns, eighteen inches in length and pointed like nails. |
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| 14 | 10 |
Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o... |
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| 22 | 199 |
Targo then dug into the pouch which he wore at his side and held out two yellow cords, about eighteen inches apiece. |
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| 26 | 48 |
One might also mention that the men of Tharna have formed the custom of wearing in the belt of their tunic two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches in length. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 103 |
I looked but I saw nothing other than the stone sides of the portal and on each side three rounded red domes, of perhaps four inches width apiece. |
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| 14 | 99 |
In one corner of the case there was a large, circular padding a few inches deep of soft, rough-cut, reddish moss which was not uncomfortable and was changed daily. |
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| 20 | 49 |
In the floor side of the globelike contrivance there was an adjustable opening which was now of a diameter of perhaps six inches. |
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| 20 | 61 |
It was approximately eighteen inches in diameter and apparently constructed so that it might be opened along its vertical axis, although it was now securely locked. |
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| 20 | 118 |
He shoved the globe up and a foot or so to the side and then with a quick movement reclosed it in such a way that once again its floorside aperture described an opening of approximately six inches in diameter. |
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| 21 | 50 |
Most strange perhaps was the shape and width of the eyes, for they were very large, perhaps three inches in width, and were round and dark and shining, much like the eyes of a nocturnal animal. |
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| 23 | 37 |
These extended in a line along her left side, reaching from the interior of her left thigh to her waist to a few inches below her shoulder. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 147 |
Not surprisingly, but to my amusement, I noted that it hung several inches below her knees, indeed, only about four inches or so above her ankles. |
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| 7 | 13 |
There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla... |
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| 8 | 108 |
I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri... |
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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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| 9 | 129 |
The common camisk is a single piece of cloth, about eighteen inches wide, thrown over the girl's head and worn like a poncho. |
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| 10 | 177 |
By starting from the side and turning his head quickly, Kamchak bested me by some eighteen inches. |
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| 10 | 186 |
The stakes, flat-topped, each about six and half feet high and about seven or eight inches in diameter, stand in two long lines facing one another in pairs. |
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| 10 | 343 |
The key to the rings hung, of course, on a small hook toward the top of the stake; it was about two inches above her head. |
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| 10 | 389 |
"You will be slain by inches at my feet," she said. |
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| 11 | 347 |
Kamchak then removed the quiva from his belt and hurled it across the room until it struck in one of the poles of the frame supporting the wagon hides, two inches in the wood, beside the throat of the girl. |
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| 12 | 237 |
The slave hobble consists of two rings, one for a wrist, the other for an ankle, joined by about seven inches of chain. |
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| 12 | 418 |
Then he would take up a fist of chain, drawing her each time inches closer. |
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| 12 | 504 |
I was only about a quarter of the way through the bottle and was passing the side of a wagon when I saw a swift flicker of a shadow suddenly leap on the lacquered boards and by instinct I threw my head to one side as a quiva flashed past and buried itself three inches deep in the timber side of the ... |
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| 14 | 59 |
Where they were not torn I saw that they had been pierced as though a knife had been driven through them again and again, only inches apart. |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
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| 16 | 17 |
"Here," said Harold, pointing to a cut between two rocks, only about eight inches wide, through which from some underground source a flow of water was emerging, entering and adding to the small stream at which, some four pasangs from the wagons, Aphris and Elizabeth had often drawn water for the wag... |
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| 16 | 59 |
It is one thing to roll about in a public bath or splash about in some pool or stream, but quite another to struggle for pasangs against a current in a tunnel channel with only a few inches between the water and the roof of the tunnel. |
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| 16 | 71 |
The Turian wells, incidentally, have no raised wall, but are, save for a rim of about two inches in height, flat with the level. |
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| 16 | 261 |
Its longest axis was apparently about eighteen inches. |
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| 20 | 59 |
A quarrel from one of the crossbowmen on the roof suddenly shattered through the sticks of the bridge at my feet, splintering them not six inches from where I stood. |
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| 20 | 77 |
Just as I did so the bolt of a crossbow struck the door and splintered through it, its head projecting some six inches on my side. |
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| 25 | 656 |
I put my two hands in the Turian circlet, and, lifting it up, against her chin, forcing her head back, thrust her back some inches. |
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| 25 | 774 |
Slowly, with my mouth, by inches, I began to claim her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 8 |
On our side of the glass there was a metal grillwork, with rectangular openings about twelve inches long and four inches high. |
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| 22 | 362 |
To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev... |
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| 2 | 53 |
Beyond the area of the sand and the many tables there was a high wall, some twenty feet or so high, in which there were four levels, each containing seven small curtained alcoves, the entrances to which were circular, with a diameter of about twenty-four inches. |
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| 2 | 54 |
Seven narrow ladders, each about eight inches in width, fixed into the wall, gave access to these alcoves. |
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| 2 | 333 |
It was lined with red silk, and floored with love furs and cushions, the furs being better than some six to eight inches deep. |
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| 7 | 72 |
Then, clearing the shelf by no more than six inches, it seemed to rest there, not actually touching the rock. |
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| 12 | 309 |
When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length. |
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| 12 | 389 |
In his right hand there was a heavy peasant staff, some six feet in height and perhaps two inches in width. |
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| 15 | 49 |
Her hair was now about three inches longer than it had been when she had come to the House of Cernus. |
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| 18 | 393 |
It, like the others, was about six inches in width and about an inch high. |
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| 19 | 253 |
There the whip slave stepped on the chain fastened to her slave bracelets about six inches from the bracelets, pinning her wrists to the block. |
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| 22 | 181 |
I watched the dark, swift flight of the quarrel, like a black needle, and saw it drop into the back of the Taurentian, who suddenly stiffened, seeming inches taller, the metal fins of the bolt like a tiny dark triangle in the purple of the cloak, and pitched lifeless from the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 33 |
The Gorean foot is, in my estimation, just slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each of its ten Horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long, I would give the Gorean foot a length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth measure. |
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| 1 | 7 |
Immediately following I saw the water seem to glitter for a moment, a rain of yellowish streaks beneath the surface, in the wake of the water tharlarion, doubtless its swarm of scavengers, tiny water tharlarion, about six inches long, little more than teeth and tail. |
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| 1 | 75 |
The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ... |
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| 4 | 186 |
We knelt facing one another, but inches apart. |
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| 8 | 10 |
The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length. |
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| 12 | 39 |
It was gagged as well as bound, and I saw its eyes wild, inches over the murky waters of the canal. |
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| 14 | 8 |
She is carvel-built, and her planking is fastened with nails of bronze and iron; in places, wooden pegs are also used; her planking, depending on placement, varies from two to six inches in thickness; also, to strengthen her against the shock of ramming, four-inch-thick wales run longitudinally abou... |
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| 14 | 51 |
The thole ports in a given group of three are about ten inches apart and the groups themselves, center to center, are a bit less than four feet apart. |
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| 15 | 389 |
Again a thong, this time that on her right wrist, prohibited, but only for an instant, the movement, but inches from her hair. |
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| 17 | 64 |
These resemble sturdy, heavy gangplanks, some five feet in width, with a heavy spike or nail, some two feet in length and some four inches in width, on the underside. |
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| 18 | 213 |
I saw the boy, with a lightning thrust, flash four inches of steel through a body, returning to the on-guard position before the man realized he had been struck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 192 |
One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height. |
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| 4 | 214 |
My prison was perhaps eighteen inches in diameter. |
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| 5 | 101 |
It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height. |
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| 8 | 687 |
The claws, as I saw when they were exposed, upon the order of the mountebank, were better than four inches long, curved and sharp. |
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| 9 | 193 |
Then her foot was on the leash a few inches from my neck, pinning me, choking, to the ground. |
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| 9 | 281 |
The floor of the clearing was lovely grass, thick and some inches in height, soft, and beautiful. |
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| 9 | 291 |
It was about five feet high, and seven inches thick, sturdy, sunk deep into the ground. |
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| 9 | 324 |
Then, for the first time I noticed, in the center of the circle, there were four heavy stakes, about six inches in height, dark in the grass. |
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| 11 | 955 |
He came behind me and, lifting the shirt some inches, tucked it into the binding fiber that was knotted about my waist. |
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| 12 | 492 |
The floor of the cage was about six inches off the ground. |
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| 13 | 853 |
Twice more the attacker pressed in, and each time, again, the shield turned the blow, once but inches from my body. |
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| 13 | 856 |
I, bound, saw, suddenly, the bronze point, a foot of it, inches from my face, explode through the hide. |
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| 13 | 897 |
I had seen that his left arm, high, above the elbow, about two inches below the shoulder, had been cut. |
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| 14 | 168 |
At one point I found a tiny door, no more than eighteen inches in height. |
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| 15 | 172 |
Her ankles are tied together and tied, some six inches from the ground, to the iron ring. |
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| 15 | 720 |
It was much larger, the letter at its termination some one and a half inches high. |
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| 15 | 734 |
I could feel the terrible heat of the iron, even inches from my body. |
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| 15 | 813 |
I could see a tiny slit of the outside through the aperture in the iron door, about a half an inch in height and seven inches in width. |
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| 15 | 814 |
There was a somewhat larger opening at the foot of the door, about two inches in height and a foot wide. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 200 |
Some six inches of the arrow, five inches feathered, protruded from her shoulder. |
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| 2 | 137 |
Each girl was fastened to it by the throat, by binding fiber, the fiber passing through one of the drilled holes, each placed about six inches in from its end of the branch. |
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| 2 | 696 |
The lower hold is the tiny crawl space, of some eighteen inches, between the deck of the first hold and the curved hull of the ship, divided by its keel. |
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| 4 | 123 |
It, like the others, had, strung through it, a short length of chain, some five inches or so, each end of the chain terminating in an opened slave bracelet. |
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| 5 | 51 |
Through the ring passed a chain, of some five inches in length, each end of which terminated in a bracelet. |
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| 5 | 235 |
There was a bar set at the back of the compound, a metal bar, some two inches in width, fastened on stanchions. |
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| 6 | 219 |
Her wrists were confined some four inches apart. |
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| 6 | 709 |
Her eyes were but inches from mine, dark, dilated, filled with terror. |
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| 7 | 133 |
The arrow struck the trunk of a tree not inches from my face. |
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| 9 | 51 |
She was perhaps two inches taller than the average Gorean woman, and yet due to the perfections of her proportions, she seemed as exquisitely sensual, as healthy and vital, as vigorous and stunning as a girl bred deliberately in the slave pens for such qualities. |
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| 18 | 7 |
He stumbled into the water, and then fell to his knees, in some six inches of water. |
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| 20 | 98 |
The spear, a Gorean war spear, its head tapered of bronze, some eighteen inches long, its shaft more than an inch and a half in thickness, more than six feet in length, sped from my grasp. |
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| 22 | 134 |
She wore a branch shackle, a thick, rounded branch, some eighteen inches in length, notched toward each end, and with supple tendrils, fitting into the notches and about her fair ankles, tied across the back of her legs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 167 |
Below, some two inches deep, about a foot below the deck planking, about two inches over the keel beam, black and briny, shifted the bilge water. |
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| 9 | 297 |
She lay on her side, in misery, across great blocks of ice; she could lift her head and shoulders no more than six inches from the ice; she could draw her ankles toward her body no more than six inches; small chips of wood, in which the ice is packed, clung about her body; she was bound, hand and fo... |
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| 16 | 8 |
This time the sparks fell into a heap, one of several, each about five inches high and four inches wide, of minuscule, lacelike moss twigs. |
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| 3 | 177 |
On one of each of the two curved pieces constituting a bracelet there is a welded ring; the two welded rings are joined by a single link, about an inch in width, counting both sides, each of which is about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and three inches long. |
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| 4 | 110 |
It has a diameter of about thirty inches. |
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| 4 | 163 |
It is about six inches in width. |
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| 5 | 170 |
The spear points are large and heavy, of tapered, socketed bronze, some eighteen inches in length. |
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| 6 | 520 |
Each log is ten to fifteen feet long, and commonly about eight inches to a foot thick. |
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| 7 | 41 |
The northern Sa-Tarna, in its rows, yellow and sprouting, was about ten inches high. |
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| 8 | 45 |
After the restoration of Marlenus of Ar, in 10,119 Contasta Ar, from the founding of Ar, he had at his victory feast decreed a two-hort, about two and one half inches, shortening of the already briefly skirted garment of the female state slave. |
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| 8 | 135 |
They, by the fetters and their single link, were held about three inches apart. |
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| 10 | 54 |
Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,... |
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| 10 | 94 |
Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the... |
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| 10 | 662 |
The target in the shooting was about six inches in width, at a range of about one hundred yards. |
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| 11 | 10 |
I knew that, in darkness, they could swell, like dark moons, to fill almost the entire optic orifice, some three or four inches in width. |
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| 11 | 50 |
The handle of the ax was of carved, green needle wood, round, some four inches in diameter. |
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| 13 | 6 |
On each side of this high seat were two pillars, about eight inches in diameter, and some eight feet high, the high-seat pillars, or rightful-seat pillars. |
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| 13 | 149 |
Some of these were eighteen inches square. |
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| 13 | 151 |
At places, too, there were bowls, with oil and wicks, with spikes on their bottoms, set in the dirt floor, some six inches from the floor, others as high as five feet; this mode of lamp, incidentally, is more common in the private chambers. |
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| 13 | 365 |
"You see, my Jarl," said she, lifting her head proudly and pulling her rich, glistening robes some inches down upon her shoulders, "I wear the collar of Ivar Forkbeard". |
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| 14 | 162 |
It had a shaft of seven foot Gorean, a head of tapered bronze, some eighteen inches in length. |
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| 14 | 177 |
The spear's shaft gouged a trench six inches deep behind him, and then stopped, and the Kur, biting in the air, eyes like fire, backed away, and fell backward; Ivar leaped away as another ax sought him. |
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| 14 | 200 |
The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le... |
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| 15 | 94 |
It was smooth, not unpleasant to the touch, some two inches or so in depth. |
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| 16 | 195 |
Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull. |
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| 20 | 122 |
Scarcely had it seen the flash of Tuchuk steel, the saddle knife, its blade balanced, nine inches in length, which had slipped from my sleeve, turned, and, hurled, struck him. |
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| 20 | 158 |
The collar is some three inches in height. |
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| 22 | 15 |
The Kur collar, leather, some three inches in height, holding her chin up, with its ring, was still on her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 324 |
They are adjustable, with rings, from a length as small as two inches, for security, to a stride length of about twenty inches. |
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| 7 | 14 |
There was a small window, high in the door, about six inches in height, eighteen inches in width. |
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| 14 | 58 |
At the top of the door, some six inches by ten inches, barred, was an observation window. |
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| 14 | 388 |
Furthermore, the small opening, approximately eighteen inches square, and set some ten inches off the floor, in the bars, with its small, heavy gate, can be easily negotiated only on the hands and knees. |
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| 1 | 442 |
A shelter trench is a narrow trench, some four or five feet deep and about eighteen inches wide. |
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| 1 | 444 |
Set on rocks, boards of metal some two feet in length, and six inches wide, exposed to the sun, are sometimes used by the nomad women in frying foods. |
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| 2 | 32 |
At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere... |
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| 2 | 200 |
She turned her head, briefly, to look at me; I saw her eyes, dark, through the tiny opening in the haik, through the tiny, black-lace screen, about an inch in height and four inches in width. |
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| 4 | 444 |
One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind h... |
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| 5 | 105 |
She dropped the churned verr milk, the bag's seams fortunately for her not splitting, and spun to face him indignantly, even as a woman of Earth, but her indignation, the instant she turned, gave way to fear, for he was towering over her, she not a free woman but a slave, not four inches from her. |
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| 5 | 626 |
She was, in Earth measurements, I would guess, some five feet four inches in height. |
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| 5 | 808 |
Her bare midriff, long, between the high, hooked vest of red silk and the low-slung, sashed chalwar, about her hips, some inches below her navel, was quite attractive. |
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| 7 | 270 |
There was a roar of pain, a howl of rage, and I saw that his scimitar, to six inches, was splashed with the bright blood of the Kur, clearly visible. |
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| 7 | 298 |
Once, by Ibn Saran, it had been wounded to a depth of some six inches. |
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| 8 | 82 |
The heavy, round-ended pestle, some five feet in height, more than five inches wide at the base, dropped. |
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| 8 | 84 |
When it dropped, the heavy wooden bowl, more than a foot deep and eighteen inches in diameter, tipped. |
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| 9 | 21 |
It was some four feet in height, some four inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 9 | 22 |
One man held the stake and the other, with a heavy hammer, drove it deeply, firmly, into the earth, until only some four inches of it were visible. |
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| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
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| 14 | 40 |
The plates were no more than five inches apart. |
10 |
| 14 | 56 |
The heavy door, beams of wood, sheathed with plates of iron, together some eight inches thick, closed. |
10 |
| 14 | 61 |
Her fingers came within ten inches of the bars. |
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| 14 | 122 |
I drew it another few inches toward me. |
10 |
| 14 | 123 |
She stumbled forward some inches, then stood, bracing herself, her hands on the chain. |
10 |
| 14 | 128 |
She gave some inches and again braced herself, throwing her weight back against the chain. |
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| 14 | 200 |
The men are fed twice, once in the morning, once at night, when the hood is opened, and thrust up some inches to permit eating. |
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| 14 | 308 |
Then the girl, reaching within her silk, withdrew from her bosom a light square of silk, some eighteen inches square, scarlet, clinging, diaphanous. |
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| 14 | 592 |
"The right ear," said the next man, grasping the long, slim lance, eight feet Gorean in length, marked with red and yellow swirling stripes, terminating in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, and lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree. |
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| 16 | 61 |
The lelt is commonly five to seven inches in length. |
10 |
| 17 | 127 |
From his sash he took a long, narrow lacing of rawhide, which he bound about the base of the lance blade, where it was riveted in the shaft, thus, for about six inches, reinforcing the shaft. |
10 |
| 17 | 235 |
It almost encircled the leg and ranged from a half of an inch to two inches in width. |
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| 20 | 17 |
From a small rise, we saw the remains of the trench, filled with sand, to within six inches of its top. |
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| 20 | 56 |
I saw them indent the bag; the spread of the digits was more than fifteen inches in width. |
10 |
| 21 | 526 |
It was not more than eighteen inches from my face. |
10 |
| 21 | 561 |
He had separated them some five inches when he looked up. |
10 |
| 21 | 614 |
It moved another six inches toward me. |
10 |
| 22 | 80 |
It was long, slim, some eight foot Gorean in length; it was marked with red and yellow swirling stripes; it terminated in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree. |
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| 24 | 121 |
She had thrown me a token, a square of silk, slave silk, red, some eighteen inches square, redolent with the perfume fitted by some perfumer, on the order of her master, to her slave personality, her slave nature and slave body. |
10 |
| 25 | 525 |
I took her wrists and pulled them forward, to the two posts, some six inches apart, part of the branding rack, putting them in the snap bracelets which dangled there, one from each post. |
10 |
| 25 | 528 |
As the bracelets are situated, some inches apart, of course, and as the snap is on each bracelet itself, at the wrist, the girl herself cannot get her finger, of either hand, on the mechanism. |
10 |
| 26 | 560 |
I opened the small square gate in a nearby alcove, set in the bars, some ten inches from the floor. |
10 |
| 26 | 561 |
The opening is about eighteen inches square. |
10 |
| 26 | 586 |
The right side of her face was pressed against the flat iron bar, some two inches high, at the top of the opening, against which the gate, when closed, rests. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 413 |
It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap... |
10 |
| 16 | 85 |
Each girl, all in all, has a space private to her slavery of some twenty-five inches in width, by some eighteen inches in height, by some six feet five inches in length. |
10 |
| 9 | 543 |
Its head is iron, and heavy, some six inches at the cutting edge, tapering to four inches where it joins the staff. |
10 |
| 11 | 187 |
The door was small, and thick, and iron, some eighteen inches by eighteen inches square. |
10 |
| 13 | 213 |
I did not know my wrist or ankle size in Earth measurements, for such measurements are not important for a girl on Earth as they are on Gor, but the interior circumference of the number-two wrist ring is 5 horts and the interior circumference of the number-two ankle ring is 7 horts; thus, my wrist s... |
10 |
| 1 | 47 |
I opened my eyes, seeing the grass blades not inches from my face, wide, blurred. |
10 |
| 2 | 99 |
I am some five feet five inches in height and weigh about one hundred and twenty pounds. |
10 |
| 2 | 211 |
He took from his dagger sheath the steel blade, narrow, about seven inches long, double-edged, evenly sharpened. |
10 |
| 2 | 366 |
From within his tunic he drew forth two lengths of slender, braided black leather, each about eighteen inches long. |
10 |
| 2 | 386 |
The loop was circular, and about two and one half inches in width. |
10 |
| 2 | 410 |
He slid the short blade at his left hip some inches from the sheath, and slipped it back in, lifting and dropping it in the sheath. |
10 |
| 3 | 790 |
I stood but inches from him. |
10 |
| 4 | 981 |
It was some eighteen inches wide. |
10 |
| 5 | 559 |
The robes were lifted higher, some inches above my knee. |
10 |
| 6 | 145 |
The other common peasant weapon is the great staff, some six feet in length, some two inches in width. |
10 |
| 7 | 5 |
Its sleeves had been torn away; it had been rent at the side; it had been cut short, and later torn even shorter, until it hung high upon her thighs, exposing even the left hip; at the throat it had been ripped open down to the belly, two inches below the navel. |
10 |
| 7 | 180 |
He ripped it open, to two inches below her navel. |
10 |
| 7 | 773 |
Her captor took the end of the rope from the lad who had bound her and, holding it about a foot from her fastened ankles, pulled her feet some six inches into the air. |
10 |
| 9 | 121 |
The stock consisted of two heavy, oblong pieces of wood, each about four inches thick, joined together by hinged iron. |
10 |
| 9 | 164 |
These planks were separated by some two inches apiece, to facilitate drainage. |
10 |
| 9 | 525 |
The roof of the cage was a few inches above my head. |
10 |
| 9 | 1463 |
The staff he held was over six feet in length and some two to three inches in width. |
10 |
| 9 | 1502 |
Bran Loort stood with both hands on his staff, one hand grasped in its center, the other hand, his left, some eighteen inches below the center of the staff. |
10 |
| 9 | 1710 |
The staff had been more than two inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 12 | 260 |
He was more than ten inches taller than I, and must have weighed twice as much. |
10 |
| 13 | 199 |
I was, in Earth measurements, some five feet four inches in height and weighed about one hundred and sixteen pounds. |
10 |
| 13 | 203 |
Accordingly it must have been, in Earth measurements, in the neighborhood of twelve and one half inches. |
10 |
| 14 | 284 |
Its mesh was spaced at some two horts, about two and a half inches. |
10 |
| 16 | 2 |
My ankles would pull back toward me only some six inches as they were chained. |
10 |
| 16 | 79 |
She normally inches her way into the cubicle from the top end and one slaver, from the bottom, secures her ankles in their irons, then shutting that gate, and another secures her wrists in their irons, then shutting that gate. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
The first tier is raised from the floor of the hold by some eighteen inches, providing a crawl space. |
10 |
| 18 | 8 |
I brushed against other girls, and customers, coming and going on the wooden ramps; I managed the tray with care; it is not well to drop a tray; many girls worked at the Chatka and Curla, more than one hundred; I climbed carefully; the ramps have raised, slatted ridges; these are spaced some twenty ... |
10 |
| 18 | 11 |
Over the Curla in front, slipping under the body and between the legs, and passing over the Curla in the back, was the Chatka, or narrow strip of black leather, some six inches in width, some five feet or so in length; it was drawn tight; when a girl wears the Curla and Chatka, the brand, whether on... |
10 |
| 20 | 134 |
When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain... |
10 |
| 20 | 283 |
A male slave, his wrists chained, separated by some eighteen inches of linked metal, pushing a wharf cart passed me. |
10 |
| 20 | 511 |
He slashed about him with the keys, long and heavy on their thick ring, some six inches in width. |
10 |
| 21 | 87 |
I stood, and felt ankle rings snapped on my ankles, joined by some twelve inches of chain; another chain, attached to this chain, was some three feet in length, and terminated with light manacles. |
10 |
| 22 | 671 |
It struck in the wood, sinking four inches deep, beside me. |
10 |
| 26 | 850 |
Some six inches of strap separated my bound wrists and bound ankles. |
10 |
| 27 | 743 |
A yellow circle, in outline, narrow-bordered, the border some six inches in width, the circle itself some ten feet in width, was painted on the cement. |
10 |
| 28 | 83 |
It was some eight inches in width. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1320 |
Over this string, in the front, there was thrust a single, simple narrow rectangle of vulgar, white rep-cloth, some six inches in width, some twelve inches in length. |
10 |
| 10 | 137 |
The whipping frame itself, vertical, consisted of two heavy uprights, some six inches square and eight feet high, and a crossbeam, some six inches square and some seven feet in length. |
10 |
| 18 | 23 |
Through the drilled hole in the bone, some four inches below the slate point and some four inches above the base of the head, was passed a rawhide line, which lay coiled in the bottom of the boat. |
10 |
| 3 | 134 |
At his belt, as did the men of Tharna, he wore two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches long. |
10 |
| 3 | 508 |
Their wrists were separated by some six inches of chain, their ankles by about a foot of chain. |
10 |
| 3 | 1135 |
It is about ten inches high and weighs between eight and twelve pounds. |
10 |
| 3 | 1321 |
She wore on her throat a high, gold collar, with, in front, a large golden loop, some two inches in width. |
10 |
| 7 | 213 |
Two woven canvas straps, some two inches in width, had been looped about the girl's throat and drawn close about it. |
10 |
| 8 | 73 |
She was about five feet five inches in height. |
10 |
| 9 | 117 |
On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one-half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. |
10 |
| 10 | 138 |
Each upright was supported by two braces, each also six inches square. |
10 |
| 10 | 141 |
It was to the lower ring that the prisoner's feet, some six inches above the wood, crossed and tied, might be bound. |
10 |
| 11 | 139 |
Her fur boots were pulled off and her ankles were linked by leather thongs; she had good ankles; the leather permitted them a separation of some twelve inches; the tether on her wrists then was taken between her legs and lifted up and behind her, where its loose end was tied about her neck. |
10 |
| 16 | 13 |
Imnak's knife had a wooden handle, some fourteen inches long. |
10 |
| 16 | 14 |
Its point was some three inches in length. |
10 |
| 18 | 20 |
It was some eight feet in length, some two and a half inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 22 | 117 |
It was eighteen inches or more in breadth. |
10 |
| 22 | 288 |
New blood was splashed more than twenty-eight inches along the shaft. |
10 |
| 25 | 42 |
At the beginning of the season, usually in the late fall, a paste, a muck, formed of earth, and grass and moss, for solidity, is shaped and placed on the wood, some five to six inches to thickness. |
10 |
| 27 | 46 |
He took a long strip of baleen, about fifteen inches in length, and, with his knife, sharpened both ends, wickedly sharp. |
10 |
| 28 | 42 |
The chatka, about four feet in length, folded narrowly, to a width of some six inches, was thrust over the curla in front, taken between her legs and thrust behind and over the curla in back. |
10 |
| 28 | 71 |
They were some two and one half inches in thickness. |
10 |
| 28 | 221 |
She then slipped the tray through an opening, some four inches in height, in the bottom of the cell door. |
10 |
| 29 | 3 |
The principles of the weapon, I assumed, were similar to those of a rifle, except that the missile would not be a slug of metal but something more in the nature of a tiny quarrel, some six inches in length. |
10 |
| 29 | 37 |
The cart was on eight wheels, some four inches in diameter, rimmed with rubber. |
10 |
| 31 | 30 |
On a table to the side, toward what I took to be the front of the room, there was a dark, boxlike object, about six inches in height, and a foot or so in width and length. |
10 |
| 35 | 640 |
I straightened the two layers of loose cloth in front; they were about six inches in width and fell beautifully below her knees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 357 |
On its sides the walkway had metal ridges, some six inches in height, above the water. |
10 |
| 1 | 363 |
In the center of the cell was a wooden, metal-sheathed pole, some four inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 1 | 366 |
It was some ten inches on all sides, from the circumference of the pole to the edge of the platform. |
10 |
| 1 | 367 |
The platform itself was lifted about seven or eight inches out of the water. |
10 |
| 1 | 382 |
The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water. |
10 |
| 1 | 386 |
The small eyes of numerous tharlarion, perhaps some two or three hundred of them, ranging from four to ten inches in length, watching her, nostrils and eyes at the water level, reflected the light of the torch. |
10 |
| 2 | 193 |
Each girl's wrists were joined by about eighteen inches of chain, and similarly for her ankles. |
10 |
| 4 | 421 |
Suddenly her wrist was seized by the girl, a tall, lovely girl, some four inches taller than she, in a brief white rag, who stood with her at the basket. |
10 |
| 11 | 182 |
"Please," she wept, "I've told you all I know!" At a signal from the man near her the two large fellows drew the girl from her feet, until she hung suspended some six inches from the floor. |
10 |
| 11 | 209 |
The blond girl cried out with misery, twisting helplessly on the rope, her toes some six inches or so from the floor. |
10 |
| 13 | 210 |
She could not then rise more than a few inches from her back. |
10 |
| 23 | 271 |
I had little doubt that soon, perhaps in moments, with sufficient leverage, we could lift and break the log, snapping it apart, breaking through the remaining inches of the wood. |
10 |
| 23 | 278 |
Suddenly the log splintered upward, the last remaining inches broken away. |
10 |
| 24 | 55 |
He reached under the water and pulled a fat, glistening leach, some two inches long, from his leg. |
10 |
| 29 | 219 |
They were bulbous eyed and about six inches long, with tiny flipperlike lateral fins. |
10 |
| 32 | 609 |
It was long and translucent, eighteen inches in length, of slender, bluish stone. |
10 |
| 32 | 904 |
From the flat box he then took a yellow neck belt, two inches in height, and beaded. |
10 |
| 32 | 911 |
From the box then he took a yellow leather disk, perhaps two and a half to three inches in diameter, which had a small hole, possibly drilled with a tiny stone implement, near its top. |
10 |
| 34 | 31 |
There was blood on her left leg, on the outside of the leg, about six inches up from the ankle. |
10 |
| 34 | 131 |
* * * * As the girl, on her knees, tended the roasting tarsk, I cut a long stake, some four and one half feet in length and some four inches in width. |
10 |
| 34 | 132 |
About its top, about two inches from the end, I cut a groove, about an inch deep. |
10 |
| 34 | 140 |
I left about four inches of it exposed. |
10 |
| 43 | 4 |
"I have seen them before," I said, "but they were only about six inches in length". |
10 |
| 43 | 63 |
Eighteen inches of rope is quite sufficient for tying a girl's hands either before her body or behind. |
10 |
| 47 | 60 |
They were some two inches in length. |
10 |
| 57 | 117 |
The left ankle of the extra girl, the fetch-and-carry girl, who was already in wrist rings, joined by a foot of chain, was then locked in one of two ankle shackles, joined by about eighteen inches of chain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
10 |
| 1 | 1018 |
I tore off my coat, and my jacket, to thrust it against one of the circular apertures, some four inches in diameter, set flush with the back of the seat, now a barrier, in front of us. |
10 |
| 3 | 26 |
A strong woman stood there, perhaps some five feet ten inches in height and one hundred and forty pounds in weight. |
10 |
| 3 | 129 |
The area which would have been open, however, was closed by heavy bars, reinforced every six inches or so by sturdy, lateral crosspieces. |
10 |
| 3 | 462 |
"Or would you, a male of Earth, know what to do with one?" She turned about then and went through the heavy door of the cell, that door formed, like that wall of the cell itself, of bars and heavy, lateral crosspieces, set some six inches apart. |
10 |
| 4 | 8 |
She then took a long strip of cloth, some five feet long and eight inches wide, thrust it over the cloth belt in front, took it under and between my legs, passed it under and over the cloth belt in back, and, adjusting it, drew it snugly tight. |
10 |
| 10 | 183 |
My feet, then, had been well chained, and my hands, too, had been well chained, and a few inches from my sides. |
10 |
| 14 | 14 |
She was some five feet five inches in height and sweetly figured. |
10 |
| 17 | 173 |
I suddenly reared up, struggling, my shoulders some two or three inches above the surface of the couch. |
10 |
| 18 | 143 |
She wore a full, beige skirt, the hem of which fell to within some six inches of the ground, and slim, high, black-leather boots; a beige blouse, and a beige jacket, belted, which fell to her thighs; too, she wore a loose hood, attached to the jacket by hooks, of matching beige material, and an opaq... |
10 |
| 18 | 147 |
The skirt's hem, some six inches from the ground, protects the skirt from being soiled by water or mud. |
10 |
| 19 | 6 |
The fist moves most swiftly and has the greatest power within the first six inches of its motion, with the back and arm behind it. |
10 |
| 19 | 23 |
My feet seldom moved more than some twenty inches apart; earlier in my training my ankles had been shackled; now, kinesthetically, habitually, without thinking, I tended almost invariably to maintain a sensible measure between my feet; I stayed, too, generally on my toes; this reduces friction and e... |
10 |
| 20 | 90 |
I lunged against the post, inches from it, blow after blow. |
10 |
| 21 | 406 |
Its head was some eight inches in width. |
10 |
| 21 | 409 |
The head of the tiny hatchling, some eight inches wide, some foot or so in length, was now fully emerged from the sand. |
10 |
| 27 | 118 |
The men of Tharna may be recognized in their city and abroad by the two yellow cords worn at the belt, each some eighteen inches in length, devices useful in tethering women, hand and foot. |
10 |
| 32 | 203 |
When she was but inches from me, I pulled her by the leash even more closely to me. |
10 |
| 34 | 29 |
A slaver's man then lifted the bar some two inches and dropped it in place, locking it in its socket. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 113 |
Carefully, I removed one of the heavy granite blocks of stone, building stone, rectangular, some six inches by six inches, by eighteen inches, from the tiered pile of stones. |
10 |
| 1 | 245 |
She was thus tied on her knees, her belly against the wall, fastened extremely closely by her neck and wrists, and some two inches of rope, to the ring. |
10 |
| 2 | 175 |
Then, looking down upon her, I spread her legs by another four inches. |
10 |
| 3 | 221 |
Her ankles would then be chained together, as before, with about eight inches of chain separating them. |
10 |
| 14 | 97 |
Attached to the end of the chain, on the other side of the beam ring, now descending, was a wide circle of steel, a steel ring, some six inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 14 | 277 |
I looked at the heavy iron slave ring, about eight inches in diameter, set in the stone of the great couch. |
10 |
| 24 | 47 |
Near the couch was a large, round, sunken tub, with some six inches of water in it. |
10 |
| 24 | 65 |
It consists, commonly, of three pieces, usually two rounded pieces of soft felt, three to four inches in diameter, and the binding, which usually consists of two or more turns of a dark, thick, folded cloth, or scarf, knotted behind the head. |
10 |
| 24 | 66 |
The pieces of rounded, face-hugging felt, the eye coverings, in the girl's blindfold were about three and a half inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 27 | 15 |
The blade drew back a few inches. |
10 |
| 29 | 274 |
Its iron posts were received by rounded holes, six inches in width, drilled in a flat, horizontal sill. |
10 |
| 31 | 10 |
I pressed against the heavy metal pole, or bar, almost five inches in diameter, fixed now, like a spoke, in the shaft of the windlass. |
10 |
| 31 | 14 |
I had some eighteen inches of play for my feet. |
10 |
| 31 | 15 |
I had some twenty-four inches of play for my hands. |
10 |
| 33 | 100 |
The links of the chain were some eighteen inches in length and a foot in width; the metal of the links themselves was as thick as a man's forearm. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 226 |
Each girl carried a tray of desserts, and each wore two light, graceful, gleaming chains, one of which, some twenty inches in length, by means of ankle rings, joined her ankles, and the other of which, some eighteen inches in length, put confinement on her wrists, each fair wrist being clasped snugl... |
10 |
| 2 | 14 |
We looked over the side, at the chain, suspended some six inches here above the water, and at the water, flickering in the lantern's light. |
10 |
| 3 | 39 |
The largest, however, would be some four inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 5 | 11 |
Our starboard shearing blade, that great crescent of iron, some seven feet in height, some five inches in width, was bent oddly askew. |
10 |
| 5 | 120 |
A ramship of the Voskjard, her ram missing our port bow by inches slid rapidly past. |
10 |
| 8 | 5 |
The tarred cables, some four inches in width, moved. |
10 |
| 8 | 244 |
The girl, from a shelf to one side, fetched a large candle, some five inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 8 | 374 |
She lay on her back, and by the brass rings, some two inches in diameter, and by the leather thongs, near her shoulders, and at the bottom sides of the berth, tied her upon it. |
10 |
| 9 | 109 |
On either side of the bar, the Tina and the Tais, with stout ropes, four inches in width, strained, too, to free the Tuka. |
10 |
| 9 | 125 |
The great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, s... |
10 |
| 9 | 162 |
As the Tuka slipped in the sand, being drawn backward into the river, water from the hold rushed about my feet, for a moment some six inches in depth. |
10 |
| 15 | 56 |
I was able to move some inches down the blade, but could not free myself. |
10 |
| 15 | 67 |
Then, angry, miserable, I again hung helplessly on the blade, scarcely moved some inches upon it. |
10 |
| 15 | 81 |
I had, in my struggles, moved my body down some inches on the blade. |
10 |
| 16 | 120 |
My struggles had done nothing more than to lower me a few inches on the blade. |
10 |
| 17 | 720 |
The tether, from the heavy metal ring to the stout ring at the back of her collar, taut, holding her head up, was about eighteen inches in length. |
10 |
| 17 | 983 |
She would, thus, her hand about six inches from the ring, lead herself on her own leash. |
10 |
| 21 | 2 |
About her throat, over the slender, identificatory collar, a heavy, thick iron collar had been locked, with a heavy chain, leading to the stout loop of the slave ring, some eight inches in width, fixed in the foot of the couch. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 407 |
Their hind legs, some eight to ten inches in width, are proportionately shorter than their arms, which tend to be some eight inches in width at the biceps and some five inches, or so, in width at the wrist. |
10 |
| 6 | 3 |
They wore wrist and ankle shackles, their wrists having some six inches of play and their ankles some twelve inches of play. |
10 |
| 1 | 296 |
As they lay, together, the crest of that heap, that living mound, marked by the backbone of one of them, was a few inches higher than the surface of the table. |
10 |
| 1 | 303 |
One tends to be most comfortable with such things, generally, when they are in close chains, with inch-thick links, or behind close-set bars, some three inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 1 | 509 |
The shaft of the spear was some three inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 1 | 735 |
The iron bolts of these devices, weighing about a pound apiece, were capable of sinking some four inches into solid wood at a range of some twenty yards. |
10 |
| 1 | 1179 |
It was some seven or eight inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 2 | 200 |
One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no... |
10 |
| 2 | 231 |
As one moves in an easterly direction it becomes taller, ranging generally from ten to eighteen inches in height; as one moves even further east it can attain a height of several feet, reaching as high as the knees of a man riding a kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 245 |
Sometimes as much as twelve inches of rain, borne by a southern wind, can be deposited in less than an hour. |
10 |
| 7 | 56 |
About her left ankle there was, about two inches high, a beaded cuff, or anklet. |
10 |
| 8 | 3 |
A thong also ran from over the bonds on her ankles to an iron ring a few inches below her feet. |
10 |
| 13 | 1570 |
I went to my saddlebags, with the kaiila saddle, and withdrew two fairly short lengths of soft, pliant, braided black leather, each about twenty-five inches in length. |
10 |
| 13 | 1572 |
I left her about six or seven inches of slack between wrist and ankle. |
10 |
| 14 | 1090 |
I held my right hand, palm down, even with my shoulder, and lowered it, until it was about eighteen inches from the ground. |
10 |
| 14 | 1147 |
I then raised it a few inches from the ground, with a short, wavy motion. |
10 |
| 15 | 120 |
It was a trade point, some nine inches long, socketed, with two rivets. |
10 |
| 15 | 238 |
He drew back his right hand, to the right, some inches, and then he brought it forward again, the index finger still extended, and moved it over his left hand. |
10 |
| 16 | 101 |
A trail of sugar, some four inches wide, some three or four yards long, drained through the split lid, had been run out behind it. |
10 |
| 17 | 39 |
This consisted of a stout branch, about two inches thick, and some five feet in length, drilled at the center and near the extremities. |
10 |
| 19 | 199 |
The young man then lowered his lance, until the long point of narrow, tapering, bluish flint was but inches from her bared breasts. |
10 |
| 19 | 760 |
It was metal-bladed, with a long trade point, some nine inches in length. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 7 |
A heavy branch, about eighteen inches long and three inches thick, had been thrust between its jaws, and its jaws tied shut about it. |
10 |
| 1 | 136 |
At the left side of Hci's face, at the chin, there was an irregular, jagged scar, some two inches in length. |
10 |
| 2 | 239 |
In particular it contains two sharpened projections at the top, like picket spikes, extending several inches above the point where the baby's head will be located. |
10 |
| 3 | 97 |
Its trunk was slim and polelike, and surely only some eight to ten inches in width. |
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| 3 | 153 |
The three bands, each about four or five inches in width, and separated also by such distances, were painted in such a way that the bottom ring, or band, was about seven and a half to eight and a half feet from the base of the pole. |
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| 4 | 146 |
They are usually about twelve inches around. |
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| 6 | 42 |
Many of the hoofprints were six and seven inches deep. |
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| 33 | 247 |
I let the two loose ends of the braided, rawhide rope, some seven or eight inches in length, dangle between her breasts. |
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| 36 | 35 |
It was about eighteen inches square. |
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| 37 | 96 |
They are some fourteen to fifteen inches in height, and yellow with black tips. |
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| 40 | 503 |
He tied the strap about her right ankle and then, leaving her about six inches of slack, tied it also about her left ankle. |
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| 40 | 511 |
She could not stand straight, as he had left her only some eighteen inches of strap between her left ankle and her bound wrists. |
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| 40 | 890 |
Then the tray was empty, save for one object, a segment of a dried root, about two to three inches long and a half inch wide. |
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| 43 | 168 |
Each sack, further, has two sturdy leather handles which come up, high, quite high, one on either side of the occupant's head; if these handles are held together, or tied together, the closure between them will usually be twelve to eighteen inches over the girl's head. |
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| 43 | 173 |
There is also an interior edge, some twelve to eighteen inches in height, on each sack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 118 |
My ankle-ring chain was about twelve inches in length, and my wrist-ring chain was about six inches in length. |
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| 1 | 24 |
The lines, as nearly as I could determine, however, correlated neither with inches nor centimeters. |
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| 3 | 51 |
I fled to the window, which was narrow, about fifteen inches in width. |
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| 3 | 52 |
It was set with heavy bars, spaced about three inches apart, reinforced with thick, flat, steel crosspieces, spaced at about every vertical foot. |
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| 3 | 92 |
I noted that the door, which now closed behind her, was some six inches thick. |
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| 3 | 244 |
She then went to one of the sliding doors at the side of the room and moved one back a few inches. |
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| 3 | 253 |
Its handle was about eighteen inches long. |
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| 3 | 256 |
Each was about two and a half feet long, and one and a half inches wide. |
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| 6 | 206 |
I wondered what it might feel like to wear shackles, to have my ankles chained in proximity to one another, to have the chain looped about such a bar, so that I might not, even if I wished, be able to pull my ankles more than a few inches from it. |
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| 7 | 181 |
He had removed a pair of light bracelets, joined by about five inches of light chain, from his pouch. |
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| 8 | 296 |
"I will be pleasing! I will be pleasing!" I looked through the heavy bars of the cell, some three inches in thickness, reinforced with flat crosspieces, to the opposite wall. |
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| 8 | 421 |
It was about four feet long and three feet wide, with a depth of perhaps eighteen inches. |
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| 8 | 423 |
In the lid, at each end, there was a circle, about five inches in diameter, of penny-sized holes. |
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| 10 | 75 |
I could hardly see him, but inches from me. |
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| 13 | 129 |
My feet must have been some six or seven inches from the floor before the throne. |
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| 16 | 102 |
In the bottom of the ditch there was, at that time, a flow of water some six inches deep, from the storm. |
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| 17 | 110 |
She was about two inches taller than I. |
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| 18 | 189 |
He then took up the slack in the leash until he held me, by the leash, but inches from him. |
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| 18 | 208 |
I was but inches from him, the leash taut between the collar ring and his fist. |
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| 19 | 273 |
"Be silent in there," he said, "or I will pour two inches of water through the air holes". |
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| 20 | 78 |
My ankles were chained; some ten inches of chain separated them; the chain was fastened on them by means of two padlocks. |
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| 27 | 3 |
I could now move easily about the post but, given the post strap and the belt ring, I could not be further than six inches from it. |
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| 28 | 47 |
I carried a round, empty silver platter, about eighteen inches in diameter. |
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| 30 | 501 |
He took up the slack in her leash until, it looped in his hand, and with a turn or two about his fist, he held her by it not six inches from him. |
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| 31 | 224 |
He drew away the sheet and folded it, horizontally, again and again, until it formed, with several folds, a thick, long, narrow band, about six inches in height and the sheet's length, about seven feet, in width. |
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| 31 | 701 |
He stood but inches from me. |
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| 33 | 155 |
Each of us had our wrists separated by some eighteen inches of chain. |
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| 33 | 489 |
Its fangs, long, wild, white, moist, curved, gleaming, were but inches from her enslaved beauty. |
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| 33 | 701 |
Inches from her body, the chain on its collar jerked taut, it was held back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 725 |
She gyrated but inches from a burly oarsman, then leaped back, eluding his drunken grasp. |
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| 2 | 980 |
The blade that has only six inches to move, with a full weight behind it, other things being equal, effects a deeper penetration than a blade which must move farther and has behind it primarily the weight of a shoulder and arm. |
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| 5 | 348 |
Her wrists pulled upward, against the wrist rings, but her hands, chained as they were, could lift but a few inches from the floor. |
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| 6 | 566 |
"How will you have your peep? What must I do?" "Lie down upon your back," he said, "and lift your right knee, placing your hands at your sides, six inches from your thighs, the palms of your hands facing upwards". |
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| 7 | 19 |
About five inches of it showed above the surface. |
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| 7 | 146 |
The tag on its wire now dangled some four inches below her collar. |
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| 9 | 85 |
Her ankles were now shackled only some four inches apart. |
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| 21 | 478 |
He was now sitting on the floor, back against the bars, his wrists spread, where I could see them, tied back against them, at junctures of vertical bars with a flat, supportive crossbar, some six inches from the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 412 |
The stake was some ten feet in height, and some four inches in diameter. |
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| 16 | 1422 |
Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness. |
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| 16 | 1499 |
Seeing herself the object of our attention the girl lying on her side in the mud shrank back, pressing her back against the heavy stake, some eight inches in diameter, it sunk deeply in the mud. |
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| 19 | 385 |
It was some six inches in diameter. |
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| 20 | 73 |
I did not permit her to touch it with her hands, but, reaching between the thick wooden bars, some six inches apart, to where she knelt among the packs and boxes at the back, fed her by hand. |
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| 25 | 729 |
The bars in these cages are set about four inches apart, and are about an inch in thickness. |
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| 25 | 1899 |
Now, however, held in these small, lovely hands, her hands about ten inches apart on it, lifted to me, there was an object. |
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| 25 | 1936 |
Many men give her even less chain, some only six inches or so, such adjustments being made with different length chains, and also, often with the same chain, by loopings, doublings and such, secured by fastening the padlocklike terminations through various links. |
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| 26 | 1518 |
"Look," she said, but inches from me, as I sat there, observing her. |
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| 27 | 7 |
The border of this circle, delineating it, was about seven or eight inches in width, and was formed of yellow stones set mosaiclike into the smooth scarlet flooring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 346 |
He had thrust me back a bit, and now held me, helplessly, by the upper arms, his hands like iron on my arms, but inches from him. |
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| 3 | 947 |
It was then in a soft, damp, layered, folded form some six or seven inches square. |
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| 5 | 237 |
In the flattened, shaped part of the metal under my belly, about a quarter of an inch from my body, there was a curved slot about three inches in length and three-eighths of an inch in width. |
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| 6 | 113 |
They were heavy, about an inch or an inch-and-a-half thick, I would have supposed, and about three inches apart. |
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| 8 | 29 |
As the mesh was formed its openings were about two-inches square. |
10 |
| 8 | 180 |
The entire comb, including the teeth, was about five inches square. |
10 |
| 9 | 206 |
I was pulled to my left and then, suddenly, my feet were off the platform and I was swinging inches over the dirt. |
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| 9 | 251 |
I then heard my height and weight, given in Gorean measurements, thirty and a quarter Gorean stone and fifty-one horts, or approximately, in Earth measurements, one hundred and twenty-one pounds and five foot three and three quarters inches, and a large number of my other measurements being similarl... |
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| 10 | 27 |
They were inches greater in dimension than my own small limbs. |
10 |
| 10 | 318 |
A broad belt then, perhaps some five or six inches in width, was put about my waist, drawn snug, and buckled shut. |
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| 11 | 18 |
In the sirik adjustments often prescribed for a girl before a night like this she can scarcely walk, the vertical chain's lower attachment point being drawn up between her ankles, which are then separated by as little as three or four inches, and her wrists, too, before her body, are even more close... |
10 |
| 11 | 575 |
When a fellow had paid his tarsk bit Mirus would reach into the copper bowl carried by Tula and draw forth from it one of the small, about three inches long and an inch wide, thin, flat, brittle, glazed, baked-clay ostraka. |
10 |
| 15 | 71 |
She apparently held it only a few inches from my neck. |
10 |
| 23 | 10 |
I could take only short steps for my ankles were shackled, the run of chain between them only some eight to ten inches. |
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| 23 | 14 |
The manacles were joined by some seven or eight inches of chain. |
10 |
| 24 | 37 |
This metal cup hung a few inches below my navel. |
10 |
| 27 | 94 |
Immediately, responsive to this command, I flung my wrists behind me, separated by some two inches, and lifted my chin, my head turned to the left. |
10 |
| 28 | 26 |
Iron, too, was hammered shut about their wrists, these bands linked by some eighteen inches of chain. |
10 |
| 29 | 106 |
One can usually recognize a man of Tharna by two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches long, thrust over the belt. |
10 |
| 29 | 882 |
The blade entered its body by six inches, but the beast stood there, then, slowed, stopped, regarding him. |
10 |
| 30 | 42 |
In the upper portion of the door there was a small aperture, about a half inch in height and six inches long, which was fitted with a sliding panel. |
10 |
| 30 | 45 |
In the bottom of the door there was a larger opening, about three inches in height and a foot in width, through which pans of water or food could be slipped into the wagon, without opening the main door. |
10 |
| 34 | 7 |
Each consisted of a wrist ring and an ankle ring, joined by about ten inches of chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 15 |
The bars appeared to be some two inches in thickness and were set about two inches apart. |
10 |
| 21 | 109 |
As it was now adjusted, her wrists had some twelve inches of play, her ankles some fourteen inches of play. |
10 |
| 1 | 459 |
The ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it. |
10 |
| 1 | 496 |
Two massive ropes, better than eight inches in diameter, sloped down from the gate structure to the bridge, which allowed for the raising and lowering of a portion of it at will. |
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| 4 | 10 |
Each tub was some seven feet in width and some eighteen inches deep. |
10 |
| 5 | 9 |
Their staples were separated by about eighteen inches of chain, more than enough. |
10 |
| 5 | 13 |
The staples on the manacles were separated by some twelve inches of chain. |
10 |
| 6 | 621 |
He held the Lady Temione before him, her head back, his beard but inches from her throat. |
10 |
| 8 | 70 |
The rope was some two inches thick. |
10 |
| 8 | 83 |
Tucked over this cord in front was a long strip, some seven inches wide, of heavy, opaque, yellow cloth. |
10 |
| 8 | 396 |
The tarn opened and closed its wings, and she lowered her head, turning it to the side, and shrank down, frightened, cringing, so low that her head was but inches from the ground. |
10 |
| 9 | 373 |
I drew the long strip before the cord in front back over the cord so that it would no longer hang midway, or about midway, between her knees and ankles but was now about eighteen inches long. |
10 |
| 9 | 376 |
I then moved her about and treated the garment similarly in the back, drawing the strip back over the cord so that it was now only about eighteen inches long, and then cutting it off a bit below and behind the cord. |
10 |
| 9 | 377 |
She now wore two slave strips, each about eighteen inches long, one over the cord in front, one over it in back. |
10 |
| 15 | 125 |
Not taking my eyes from the warder, who now crouched down, against the outside wall, her eyes wide with terror over the veil, I seized him by the back of the neck, below the helmet, and lifted his head a few inches from the floor. |
10 |
| 17 | 32 |
At two of the bridges tiles and bricks, some two feet in length and six inches in height and width, met the attackers, not so much to stay the force of the attack as litter the bridge itself, that rushing men, not suspecting them, might stumble and fall. |
10 |
| 17 | 708 |
The tie is accomplished as follows: One wrist is tightly encircled by the cord and bound within it, about eighteen inches in from one end of the cord. |
10 |
| 17 | 709 |
The longer length of the same cord is then taken about her belly and the other wrist is then tied within it, on the other side of her body, leaving some eighteen inches of cord on the other side of the tie. |
10 |
| 17 | 718 |
From this dangled a looped, closed cord, the loop about eighteen inches in length. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 22 |
The narrow snout of a fishlike tharlarion thrust up from the water, inches away. |
10 |
| 5 | 18 |
Its sluggish, muddy waters vary from channels deep enough to float a round ship, to washes of a few inches deep. |
10 |
| 9 | 70 |
It was some four inches long, a half inch thick. |
10 |
| 10 | 55 |
I struggled up a few inches, turning my head. |
10 |
| 14 | 278 |
Another beast crawled by, its long body lifted a few inches from the sand. |
10 |
| 17 | 113 |
I might as well have been a pretty slave girl, I thought, in fury, chained down in an alcove, who may turn her head to the side and see the key to her chains hanging on the wall, on its nail, convenient for the use of guests or customers, but perhaps, a frustrating chasm, just inches out of her own ... |
10 |
| 17 | 372 |
They could move but a few inches apart. |
10 |
| 19 | 50 |
Erected in the sand, there was a stout pole, upright, about four inches in diameter. |
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| 19 | 55 |
These crosspieces were both about two inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 19 | 750 |
She lifted her head inches from the sand and screamed. |
10 |
| 20 | 19 |
It was about four inches long, rubbery, glistening in the moonlight. |
10 |
| 26 | 64 |
These cords, each about eighteen inches long, are suitable for the binding of a female, hand and foot. |
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| 27 | 5 |
Then, instead of supporting one's weight, with a give of some inches, it seems, suddenly to grasp the ankles, and then gravity begins its slow work. |
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| 29 | 86 |
He had a stout branch in his hands, some four inches thick. |
10 |
| 29 | 95 |
He also would have brought to him smaller branches an inch and a half, to two inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 29 | 97 |
Sometimes he would hold his hands no more than two or three inches apart and break the branch. |
10 |
| 39 | 287 |
Given the shortness of the neck chain and the fastening on her ankles she could get her head up only a few inches from the furs. |
10 |
| 46 | 378 |
The ankles of each were joined by about a foot of chain, and their wrists by about six inches of chain. |
10 |
| 47 | 39 |
I then strode quickly to a slave bar, a rounded, metal bar, about six inches above the surface of the dirt, inserted through, supported by, and locked within, at each end, two low, trunklike posts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 877 |
Her ankles are fastened some six inches or so from one end, and she is then, of course, secured, in one fashion or another, back or belly to the pole, as the master might please, at suitable intervals, by the wrists, belly and neck, the pole usually extending some six inches or so beyond her head. |
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| 3 | 874 |
Her ankles were fastened to the pole, by means of a thong threaded through one of the apertures, near its bottom, her wrists by another thong passing through a hole a few inches higher than the bottom hole, and her neck by a thong passed through the aperture in the top part of the pole, behind her n... |
10 |
| 8 | 729 |
To be sure, these two gouts, thick as they were, cleared an irregular space of several square inches of the back of her head. |
10 |
| 9 | 166 |
The woman's small bared feet were five inches off the wood. |
10 |
| 10 | 347 |
I then crouched down and tore off a bit of the hem of her robes, but not enough to offend her modesty, for example, revealing her ankles, and, using the cloth as a bond, fastened her ankles together, leaving her some four or five inches of slack, rather like a slave girl's hobble chains. |
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| 12 | 6 |
I then stepped back a bit and forcibly, with the flat of my foot, with four or five blows, kicked back the side of the chest, forcing it some inches inward, breaking it muchly from the ends, tearing it free of the nails and the lid. |
10 |
| 17 | 213 |
The front panel, even dropped forward, was still about eighteen inches from the floor. |
10 |
| 28 | 127 |
The metal bolt of a crossbow, fired at close range, some inches from the other side of the door, that light a door, a sort not uncommon in the poorly built insulae of the Metellan district, could splinter through and bury itself in the opposite wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1158 |
Aynur bent down and picked up the silk and, neatly, carefully, very methodically, very deliberately, folded it, until it was again in the shape of a small, soft, layered rectangle, some three inches by five inches, as it had been earlier, when the stranger had placed it in my mouth. |
10 |
| 2 | 27 |
I wore metal cuffs, joined by some inches of chain. |
10 |
| 4 | 593 |
He then removed the whip from my lips and held it a few inches before me. |
10 |
| 7 | 318 |
He lifted my right foot a little up from the grass, a few inches, with his left hand. |
10 |
| 8 | 168 |
The bars were heavy, some two or three inches in thickness. |
10 |
| 8 | 853 |
But I saw the snout of that terrible triangular head, perhaps two feet wide at the base, push it up three or four inches and then it struck against some bolt, some bar or holding lever. |
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| 9 | 27 |
But how contemptuous, and how regal, they had appeared, and so beautifully robed and veiled! Many I was told, wore platforms of a sort on their feet, perhaps as much as eight to ten inches high, which would increase their apparent height, and, of course protect their slippers from being soiled, for ... |
10 |
| 9 | 167 |
The beast, that with six legs, had lifted them with its snout some three or four inches before they had struck the bolt or locking device. |
10 |
| 10 | 703 |
And I think that she, the vixen, was not that unaware of his scrutiny! He was suddenly standing quite near to her and she looked up, into his eyes, only inches from him. |
10 |
| 10 | 805 |
Bridging this moatlike depression, running parallel to the sides of the corridor, there lay a narrow, retractable metal beam or plank, perhaps two inches in width. |
10 |
| 11 | 1515 |
It must have been twelve or fourteen inches in width. |
10 |
| 12 | 16 |
The sides of these regular diamonds, or aligned squares, were some four inches in length. |
10 |
| 12 | 42 |
The cords are commonly of silk and the mesh is normally fastened in diamonds or squares, some two inches, or so, in width. |
10 |
| 13 | 324 |
Its jaws had been no more than inches from the feet of the free woman. |
10 |
| 13 | 530 |
The closest of these was only inches from me. |
10 |
| 13 | 557 |
They must have ranged from twelve to eighteen inches in width. |
10 |
| 13 | 612 |
I knelt and, my head down, saw my face not inches from a stout ring in the floor. |
10 |
| 13 | 1005 |
They must have been an inch in diameter and some three inches apart. |
10 |
| 13 | 1176 |
At the other end of the spectrum are heavy cages in which the bars may be two inches in diameter and spaced but an inch or so apart, in which the occupant can be barely discerned. |
10 |
| 16 | 162 |
He then returned to the divan, on which he reclined, the whip on the silks beside him, inches from his grasp. |
10 |
| 19 | 440 |
She wore a long slave strip, some six inches in width, also of scarlet silk, secured by a cord, the strip put over the cord in front, taken between her legs, drawn up snugly behind and passed over the cord in back. |
10 |
| 29 | 853 |
His fist, the right fist, the leash now again transferred to his right hand, the leash wrapped about it, was only about six inches from her collar ring. |
10 |
| 31 | 624 |
It swung on the chain, about six inches from the floor. |
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