| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 13 |
Here and there swarms of night insects began to stir, lifting themselves under the leaves of bushes by the road. |
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| 3 | 42 |
His eyes were almost covered with a white, shaggy, inverted bowl of hair, matted with twigs and leaves. |
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| 4 | 43 |
I could see the shadows of tall Ka-la-na trees bending against the darkness of the night, their leaves lifting and rustling on the long branches. |
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| 23 | 93 |
The tarn's shadow glided over the blackened frames of buildings, over broken pens from which livestock had been driven, over orchards that were now no more than felled trees, their leaves and fruit brown and withered. |
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| 26 | 134 |
There will be few to note the stranger who leaves the city, perhaps few to remember that he was once within their walls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 53 |
Tobacco is unknown on Gor, though there are certain habits or vices to take its place, in particular the stimulation afforded by chewing on the leaves of the Kanda plant, the roots of which, oddly enough, when ground and dried, constitute an extremely deadly poison. |
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| 6 | 12 |
The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, ... |
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| 8 | 1 |
Vika Leaves the Chamber "Wake up, Wench!" I cried, striding into Vika's chamber, clapping my hands sharply twice. |
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| 19 | 6 |
To my surprise his head was crowned with an aromatic wreath of green leaves, the first thing green I had seen in the Nest, and about his neck there hung, besides the invariable translator, a necklace, perhaps of accouterments, perhaps of pure ornaments, small pieces of metal, some shallow and rounde... |
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| 19 | 28 |
"Where did you get green leaves?" I asked. |
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| 27 | 41 |
His head was garlanded by a wreath of green leaves as had been that of Sarm, and also, like Sarm, there was about his neck, as well as his translator, the ceremonial string of tiny metal tools. |
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| 27 | 103 |
I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square e... |
10 |
| 27 | 111 |
I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the Flame Death. |
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| 27 | 122 |
Misk of course lacked the wreath of green leaves and the chain of tools about his neck. |
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| 27 | 130 |
The scent-music suddenly stopped and the Priest-Kings seemed to rustle as though an unseen wind had suddenly stirred the leaves of autumn and I heard even the surprised jangling of those tiny metal tools. |
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| 34 | 169 |
"Well then," said Torm, shouldering his scroll like a lance, "that leaves only two of us". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 36 |
Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o... |
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| 7 | 22 |
The roots of the kanda plant, which grows largely in desert regions on Gor, are extremely toxic, but, surprisingly, the rolled leaves of this plant, which are relatively innocuous, are formed into strings and, chewed or sucked, are much favored by many Goreans, particularly in the southern hemispher... |
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| 9 | 133 |
The Turian camisk, unlike the common camisk, will cover a girl's brand; on the other hand, unlike the common camisk, it leaves the back uncovered and can be tied, and is, snugly, the better to disclose the girl's beauty. |
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| 11 | 30 |
He took from a silken pouch lying before him on the palanquin a small glass, with glass-petal edges like a flower, mounted on a silver stem about which curled silver leaves. |
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| 16 | 175 |
But know, Tarl Cabot, that I am a merchant and understand men and the meaning of gold—I no more object to Ha-Keel dealing with Tuchuks than I would to the fact that water freezes and fire burns—and that no one ever leaves the Yellow Pool of Turia alive". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 56 |
"Game!" I heard, an answering cry, and a fat fellow, of the Caste of Vintners, puffing and bright eyed, wearing a white tunic with a representation in green cloth of leaves about the collar and down the sleeves of the garment, stepped forth from a doorway. |
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| 14 | 184 |
"I had intended to have her used by a male slave before she leaves the house, but I shall not do so. |
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| 14 | 187 |
I shall, therefore, before she leaves the house, use her myself, but she will not know who it is whom she serves, for when I visit her from time to time she will be locked in a slave hood". |
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| 16 | 20 |
Almost all doors, including that of the House of Cernus, had nailed to them some branches of the Brak Bush, the leaves of which, when chewed, have a purgative effect. |
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| 17 | 843 |
"Ho-Tu," I observed, "seldom leaves the house". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 |
Yet, as a weapon, it has serious disadvantages, and on Gor the crossbow, inferior in accuracy, range and rate of fire, with its heavy cable and its leaves of steel, tends to be generally favored. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 176 |
How pleased I was when I saw the small, pointed stick whirling in its wooden pit, and saw the dried flakes of leaves suddenly redden and flash into a tiny flame, which we then fed with leaves and twigs, until it would burn sticks. |
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| 9 | 6 |
I could feel leaves and twigs beneath my feet. |
10 |
| 9 | 30 |
Sitting cross-legged on the leaves, the girls passed about the gourds and began to chew on the meat. |
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| 9 | 136 |
She wiped the dirt and tumbled leaves from her sleen knife, which I had thrown from me, on the skins of her brief garments, and then replaced it in her sheath. |
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| 9 | 237 |
Between the lofty, widely spaced trees there was little but a carpeting of leaves. |
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| 9 | 246 |
The girl turned and sped across the carpeting of leaves. |
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| 11 | 779 |
Sometimes I ran between the great Tur trees, on the carpeting of leaves between them, sometimes I made my way through more thickset trees, sometimes through wild, moonlit tangles of brush and vines. |
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| 13 | 202 |
He never leaves a trap set to which he does not intend to return. |
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| 13 | 254 |
"Hurry!" Then, at last, a tiny flame appeared, eating at the flakes of dried leaves wedged about the pit. |
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| 13 | 257 |
When the food was done, we removed it from the spits, placing it on leaves. |
10 |
| 13 | 284 |
Ute began to destroy, in the darkness, the small shelter of sticks and leaves we had constructed. |
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| 17 | 50 |
The huntsman lives a free and open life, as wild and swift, and secret, as the beasts he hunts, and his slaves, whom he insists on accompanying him, must, too, learn the ways of the forests, the flowers and the animals, the leaves and wind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 406 |
We were standing near the counter of the proprietor, which is to the left of the door, as one leaves. |
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| 7 | 10 |
Overhead were several birds, bright, chattering, darting, swift among the branches and green leaves. |
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| 7 | 107 |
Leaves, gently, brushed my face. |
10 |
| 7 | 125 |
Who knew, in time, how high might be raised the chair of Bosk? I pushed aside more branches, and leaves, slipping between them. |
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| 7 | 144 |
I saw the marks on the leaves and grass where the attacker had stood. |
10 |
| 7 | 152 |
Crushed leaves, broken twigs, turned stones, bent grass, footprints, all spelled the trail clearly to the detecting eye. |
10 |
| 7 | 404 |
I lay down on the leaves, within the ring of sharpened saplings we had set about our small camp. |
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| 8 | 72 |
Then we saw the first sparkle of the morning, the glistening on the dampness of leaves and grass. |
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| 8 | 214 |
Heat, soft and still, hung among the branches and leaves. |
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| 8 | 294 |
I pulled at the chain, a heavy chain, concealed under leaves. |
10 |
| 9 | 179 |
I could now see them beginning to emerge from behind the leaves and high branches of the encircling Tur trees. |
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| 13 | 7 |
I sat down on the leaves, and waited. |
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| 14 | 98 |
The reflections of the firelight, intermingled with the intense, soft black shadows, illuminated the trunks of the surrounding trees, and their lower leaves and branches. |
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| 15 | 725 |
Dew covered the grass and leaves. |
10 |
| 16 | 70 |
Answering quarrels from crossbows, meaningless, sometimes fell among the branches and leaves. |
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| 18 | 386 |
I then lowered her to the leaves, rolled her over, checked the knots of her bonds, and withdrew. |
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| 18 | 399 |
I lay down on the leaves to rest. |
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| 18 | 400 |
I looked up at the branches, and the leaves, and then I, too, almost immediately, fell asleep. |
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| 20 | 19 |
I heard the swift snap of the leaves of a crossbow, the leaping hiss of the quarrel. |
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| 22 | 746 |
Yet in the darkness, as she lay on the leaves in her lair, in her ears would glint the gold of earrings. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 74 |
The man of Torvaldsland never leaves his house unless he is armed; and, within his house, his weapons are always near at hand, usually hung on the wall behind his couch, at least a foot beyond the reach of a bondmaid whose ankle is chained. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 350 |
The dyes used in the making of these rugs are, on the whole, natural dyes, vegetable dyes, some made from barks and leaves, and roots and flowers, others from animal products, crushed insects, etc. |
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| 4 | 56 |
About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched, with lanceolate leaves. |
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| 4 | 426 |
They tickled her with the lanceolate leaves of the tree. |
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| 10 | 40 |
This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide. |
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| 10 | 47 |
I counted eleven palm trees, date palms, cut down, their trunks fallen at an angle into the dust, the palm leaves dried and lifeless, the fruit unripened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 136 |
The wind brushed the grass, moving in it, stirring the gleaming leaves. |
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| 3 | 529 |
It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely... |
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| 7 | 108 |
She then stood barefoot, her small feet in the crushed leaves and twigs at the foot of the tree. |
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| 9 | 1091 |
Commonly he finds an apparently plain slave, discovers her latencies, and leaves a beauty. |
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| 19 | 46 |
He was balding, and wore upon his head a crown of grape leaves, from the famed Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 208 |
It is only that Imnak is not too smart and leaves all the meat out in the fields for the jards". |
10 |
| 13 | 218 |
He leaves it in the fields for the jards. |
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| 31 | 214 |
"And it is capable of stalking and killing small animals shortly after it leaves the nurser". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 583 |
The rising of the warm air leaves a vacuum, so to speak, or, better, an area of less pressure or density in the atmosphere. |
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| 7 | 85 |
A small wooden hut, with a roof thatched with palm leaves, at one corner of the compound, served as house and office for Uchafu and, I suspect, dormitory for his assistants. |
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| 13 | 16 |
Normally when one leaves a girl one kneels her, but I had not been sure of the welcome I might receive here. |
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| 29 | 34 |
Curious, as she, sobbing, cleaned herself with leaves and saliva, I located the gentle, swaying strand which marked the location of the spider. |
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| 32 | 178 |
Some of these palms have leaves which are twenty feet in length. |
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| 32 | 179 |
One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an opened fan, is an excellent source of pure water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped, at the base of each leaf's stem. |
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| 32 | 183 |
In the rain forest some trees grow and lose leaves all year long, remaining always in foliage. |
10 |
| 32 | 184 |
Others, though not at the same time, even in the same species, will lose their foliage for a few weeks and then again produce buds and a new set of leaves. |
10 |
| 34 | 84 |
From the base of one of its broad leaves I gathered a double handful of fresh water. |
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| 34 | 87 |
I then cut some leaves and wrapped them about it. |
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| 34 | 142 |
I took one end of the spit in two hands and lifted the tarsk from the fire, putting it down on leaves. |
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| 34 | 163 |
We had drunk earlier, from the water cupped at the base of the leaves of fan palms. |
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| 44 | 16 |
It seemed more like a wind, moving among leaves. |
10 |
| 44 | 107 |
Some of the small men then hurried about the depression striking at the beast with palm leaves, distracting it, infuriating it. |
10 |
| 44 | 122 |
I cleaned the shaft and blade of the spear with moist leaves. |
10 |
| 46 | 59 |
"They will be like the leaves on the trees, like the bits of sand at the shore," he said. |
10 |
| 47 | 7 |
I had then heard, as I had once before, but had been unable to place the noise, the sound, that strange sound, as of a small wind moving leaves. |
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| 47 | 14 |
I saw now that the sound was the sound of millions upon millions of tiny feet, treading upon the leaves and fallen debris of the jungle floor. |
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| 47 | 25 |
The torrent of hurrying feeders leaves little but bones in its path. |
10 |
| 47 | 40 |
"They will scatter and seek shelter, beneath leaves and twigs, under the debris of the forest, and then, summoned by their leaders, they will reform and again take up the march". |
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| 47 | 88 |
Others tore palm leaves from the roofs of huts, striking about them. |
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| 48 | 149 |
I cleaned her mouth with a handful of leaves. |
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| 55 | 7 |
There was a vast, spreading billowing cloud of dust and leaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 2 |
We lay together on the soft dirt and leaves, in a small clump of trees in a meadow. |
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| 32 | 419 |
Suddenly she scrambled from my side, miserably, scattering leaves and dirt about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 506 |
One leaves it to others who are wiser to explain them. |
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| 7 | 75 |
When they are slid into place, and the two leaves are bolted together, the collar is closed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 426 |
When his caravan leaves the city she is carried away with it, another girl, another piece of merchandise, in chains, bound for a distant market, and a master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1347 |
The two moons he had in mind, as I later learned, were Canwapegiwi, the moon in which the leaves become brown, and the moon known variously as Wayuksapiwi, the Corn-Harvest Moon, or Canwapekasnawi, the moon when the wind shakes off the leaves. |
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| 1 | 717 |
Such hides may be waterproofed by suspending them from, and wrapping them about, a small tripod of sticks, this set over a small fire on which, to produce the desiderated smoke, the leaves and branches of the turl bush are heavily strewn. |
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| 1 | 823 |
This man, whom we take to be the artist, and whom we shall call Two Feathers, because of the two feathers drawn near him, puts on snowshoes and leaves the camp. |
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| 13 | 1234 |
"It leaves little doubt as to your charms," I admitted. |
10 |
| 15 | 15 |
The common smoke signal is produced by placing greenery, such as branches, leaves or grass, on a fire. |
10 |
| 17 | 92 |
To be sure, the average Gorean slave garment leaves little to the observer's imagination. |
10 |
| 17 | 93 |
But it leaves at least a little. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 143 |
A metal collar, locked, whether it be a band, or a loop, or a circlet of chain, or whatever, leaves no doubt in the slave's mind that she is collared. |
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| 34 | 389 |
"There!" On that rise there were two trees, white-barked trees, some fifty feet tall, with shimmering green leaves. |
10 |
| 35 | 95 |
Torrents of cold rain descended in diagonal sheets, pounding at the rocks, tearing at the leaves of nearby trees. |
10 |
| 38 | 52 |
We then went and sat down where Mira, on leaves, had set forth our food. |
10 |
| 41 | 9 |
Leaves were torn from the trees in its passage!" "It is gone now," I said. |
10 |
| 42 | 169 |
"I wish to be ready no later than the end of Canwapegiwi," I said, "the moon when the leaves become brown". |
10 |
| 44 | 712 |
Her words, pretentious, and without backing, had been as meaningless as leaves in the wind. |
10 |
| 54 | 107 |
This was now Wayuksapiwi, in the calendar of the Dust Legs, the Corn-Harvest Moon, or, as it is spoken of in the reckoning of the Kaiila, Canwapekasnawi, the moon when the wind shakes off the leaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 36 |
I moved leaves out of the way with my hand. |
10 |
| 16 | 37 |
Leaves brushed my back. |
10 |
| 26 | 102 |
The girl, commonly, accordingly, enters and leaves the kennel on all fours. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9 |
Leaves, curled and dark, blew by, and, standing there, I could hear the whisper of other leaves outside. |
10 |
| 5 | 445 |
Too, female vulnerability enhances attractiveness, and thongs, chaining, and such, leaves no question as to vulnerability. |
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| 25 | 798 |
We were then at his camp, and I was put bound on the leaves of the woods' floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 72 |
It leaves little doubt as to the beauty of the slave. |
10 |
| 17 | 158 |
A ta-teera leaves few of a girl's charms to the imagination. |
10 |
| 17 | 249 |
One normally leaves enough in the bowl to act as an invitation to others, but not so much as to suggest that there is no need of more, if only to keep the others company. |
10 |
| 28 | 14 |
I rose to my knees, in the dried leaves and gravel. |
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| 28 | 267 |
We then sat down in the pit, on the dried leaves, on the gravel, quiet, subdued, our backs against the sides of the shaft. |
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| 30 | 8 |
The tharlarion, unhitched, but tethered, browsed among the trees, pulling at herbs in the grass, lifting its neck to nibble at wide leaves. |
10 |
| 30 | 29 |
"Nothing!" Tela, undoubtedly puzzled by what she must take to be my strange behavior, lay back on the leaves. |
10 |
| 30 | 105 |
I lay back on the leaves, gasping, my head turning from side to side. |
10 |
| 31 | 296 |
"Use her well!" cried Tupita! "Make her pay! Teach her who is master!" He then threw me to my side in the leaves, in the darkness. |
10 |
| 32 | 9 |
I could see the narrow print of its wheels in the leaves. |
10 |
| 32 | 28 |
There was a soft wind, rustling the leaves. |
10 |
| 33 | 16 |
After that he had, from time to time, thrown me scraps, tossing them to the crushed leaves. |
10 |
| 33 | 296 |
In an instant I turned, wildly, on all fours, and, in the half darkness, the fire muchly struck and scattered, tiny flames about, from fiery brands and flaring leaves, saw two shapes, a gigantic bestial shape, and that of a human being, a man, locked together, swaying, clawed feet and sandals moving... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 40 |
The two parts, or leaves, of the gate, within their supporting framework, of course, opened inward. |
10 |
| 8 | 45 |
The leaves of the gate were very large, each being some thirty feet in height and some twenty-five feet in width. |
10 |
| 8 | 54 |
In another common construction the two parts, or leaves, of the gate, within their supporting framework, lean back, at an angle of some twenty degrees. |
10 |
| 9 | 19 |
She was putting twigs and leaves in a small pit outside the entrance of the tent. |
10 |
| 9 | 29 |
She used a tiny fire maker and set fire to the leaves and twigs. |
10 |
| 16 | 521 |
Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging... |
10 |
| 24 | 613 |
Oarsmen and sailors now, save for a watch, weapons and sea bags over their shoulders, entering upon their leaves, and other fellows, their service now discharged, passed down the gangplank. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 10 |
There were dried leaves about and dried twigs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 435 |
As the master holds her hair in the left hand, it leaves his right hand, commonly the sword hand, free. |
10 |
| 6 | 140 |
"They are like the leaves of trees, like the sands of the sea," said a man. |
10 |
| 7 | 164 |
The handful of Taurentians about would have been swept back like leaves before a hurricane. |
10 |
| 8 | 110 |
The crown of Tur leaves was placed upon her head by Myron, but on behalf of the people and councils of Ar. |
10 |
| 13 | 19 |
There were meets, and local championships, with awards, such as fillets of the wool of the bounding hurt, dyed different colors, and for champions, crowns woven of the leaves of the mighty Tur tree. |
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| 28 | 34 |
And then, too, sometimes I think that they are kept, on the whole, so simple, because this is a way of saying that everything is important, and precious, and beautiful, the small stones by the river, the leaves of trees, the tracks of small animals, a blade of grass, a drop of water, a grain of sand... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1175 |
One then smears her face, and body, and hair, with honey and leaves her there, her presence being soon noted by a large variety of unpleasant insects. |
10 |
| 37 | 621 |
When one urt leaves the nest, others tend to follow. |
10 |
| 42 | 56 |
"One of the guards, one who leaves the city tonight," she said, "will be thought to have stolen you from the slave quarters, doubtless for your golden collar". |
10 |
| 42 | 61 |
Tonight's events have been planned, it seems, for some time, but only this evening was I contacted by a guard, he who leaves the city this night. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 224 |
There were the gentle kisses, some prolonged, some as light and quick as the shiftings of sunlight and shadow among stirring leaves, some as bright and unexpected as the pattering of momentary, shimmering drops of rain, some as tender as the falling of the petal of a flower, and the other kisses, th... |
10 |
| 18 | 459 |
Rep-cloth, like slave silk, leaves few of a slave's charms to the imagination. |
10 |
| 26 | 1267 |
To be sure, the Gorean slave tunic leaves few of its occupant's charms to the imagination. |
10 |
| 26 | 1556 |
A breeze ruffled the leaves of a nearby tree. |
10 |
| 29 | 137 |
Here Selius Arconious angrily kicked away two of the lower horizontal poles, and left one horizontal pole in place, which was about four feet above the leaves, wood chips, rotted straw, and turf. |
10 |
| 29 | 289 |
"That leaves, of course, many other shortcomings," said Portus Canio. |
10 |
| 29 | 299 |
A bit of wind moved through the leaves, overhead. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 73 |
What does it matter? He then released his hold and his foe, dazed, shaking his head, sank to his knees amongst the leaves. |
10 |
| 18 | 82 |
Before engaging in this endeavor he had, within the forest, placed his prisoner, still leashed and gagged, on her belly in the leaves before a lofty Tur tree, and knelt across her body. |
10 |
| 18 | 137 |
He watched with some fascination as beads of water formed on the leaves of rock-climbing Turpah, a parasitic but edible growth commonly adhering to the bark of the Tur tree. |
10 |
| 20 | 314 |
"The chain on her leaves her in no doubt of it". |
10 |
| 32 | 257 |
"In the trees," said Cabot, "we have a small camp, and there are edible leaves there, some gathered roots, and berries". |
10 |
| 32 | 260 |
"Lita," said Cabot, "hurry to our camp, set out provisions for our guests, and later arrange bowers for them, sheltered beds of moss, grass and leaves, that they may sleep softly". |
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| 36 | 1 |
Cabot Leaves the Cave; He is Accompanied by a Shapely Beast of Burden "You draw it easily," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 47 | 121 |
Cabot heard the clawed feet of a purple scarf touch the ledge, and then, rather as the two leaves of a mighty gate might swing open, outwardly, the left wing of Lord Grendel, and the right wing of Lord Statius, swung toward their bodies, and Cabot released the first shaft, point-blank, through the c... |
10 |
| 59 | 9 |
Cabot watched, imperturbably, as leaves and dirt settled. |
10 |
| 67 | 50 |
Similarly, to the extent possible, one avoids the breaking of branches, the tearing of leaves from a bush, the crushing of a twig, the dislodging of pebbles or debris, such things. |
10 |
| 67 | 65 |
At his feet he saw a trickle of water, moving through damp leaves. |
10 |
| 67 | 72 |
Wet, fallen leaves now appeared beneath his feet. |
10 |
| 67 | 134 |
Cabot, curious, did wipe some dirt and leaves from the meat, which smelled, and put it to his tongue. |
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| 68 | 15 |
They placed this box on the leaves tenderly, as with great solicitude. |
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| 70 | 62 |
It could move the trap, his leg bleeding in the grass and leaves which had concealed the trap, only to the end of the chain, which encircled a nearby tree, and was locked about it. |
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| 70 | 174 |
"Very well," said Cabot, and pushed the weapon across the leaves, so that it would lie within the reach of Flavion. |
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| 72 | 1 |
The Treachery of Flavion Cabot flung himself to the leaves and fired twice, and one blast struck a tree, cracking it open, setting it afire, as if it might have been smitten with lightning, and the other charge took off the head of a Kur. |
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| 75 | 26 |
To her terror, and horror, she had been put on her back on the leaves, and the sleen, at Cabot's urging, had taken her scent. |
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| 80 | 169 |
The Gorean slave tunic not only leaves little doubt about the sex of its occupant, but it proclaims it blatantly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 397 |
A slave tunic, you see, leaves little to the imagination. |
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| 3 | 75 |
In such frays, in the tangling, snarling, twisting, and swirling about, it is sometimes difficult to tell where one beast leaves off and the other begins. |
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| 3 | 528 |
I then lifted her in my arms, carried her outside, and threw her to the leaves, in the darkness, some feet from the hut entrance. |
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| 3 | 632 |
"Let her squirm in the darkness and leaves, for a time. |
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| 3 | 687 |
The leaves about her were muchly crushed, which suggested she had done, at least at first, a good deal of squirming and, as she could, rolling about. |
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| 3 | 688 |
I also saw sleen tracks near her, and could smell sleen on the leaves. |
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| 4 | 6 |
The forest, too, with its moist soil and its glistening, rustling canopies of wet, dripping leaves, shaken in the wind, had about it its sweetness of life. |
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| 6 | 12 |
Occasionally one waded through leaves, as through thigh-high surf. |
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| 6 | 13 |
Here the trees were muchly together, each challenged by the others, leaves competing for sunlight, roots engaged in their subterranean contests to absorb water and minerals. |
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| 7 | 209 |
I recalled one had been in the vicinity of Pertinax's hut, when Constantina, who had annoyed me, had been put outside, gagged and bound, hands tied behind her, feet crossed, pulled up, and fastened closely to her hands, on the leaves. |
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| 15 | 323 |
A slave tunic leaves little to one's imagination. |
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| 28 | 82 |
A wind swept the forest, with a rushing noise, whipping wet, overhanging branches, tearing away leaves, shedding and spattering more and more water onto the pools in the road. |
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| 28 | 477 |
It was easy to discover where Quintus had been attacked, from the dislodgment of the leaves, the rupture of the earth, the sight and smell of blood. |
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| 40 | 2 |
A dozen small boats, unable to escape, many fastened together, were crushed in the passage of the mighty bow of the great ship, and she brushed others aside, dozens, brushed them aside as the limb of a stately, insouciant larl might sweep leaves from its path, scarcely noticing this consequence of i... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 482 |
It leaves them in little doubt that they are in a collar. |
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| 10 | 68 |
Why is it she was never aware of this glory before? Surely wind had always whispered in the tall green grass, and stirred the shimmering leaves of the Tur tree. |
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| 36 | 380 |
In the field, leaves, and grass, may be used. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 137 |
A Gorean slave tunic leaves little to conjecture about concerning the quality of a slave's legs, and the camisk even less. |
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| 52 | 82 |
A light wind rustled through the leaves overhead. |
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| 52 | 514 |
Her feelings were unimportant, but how could she forget the grass, the smell of flowers, the wind in the leaves overhead, the strength of his arms, her helplessness, his hands, his touch, his lips, his caresses, his tongue, forcing her to endure a hundred intimacies, some anticipated, some unexpecte... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 78 |
There are the beauties of movement and expression, subtle, evanescent, and lovely, like the movement of a brook between its banks, of grass bending in the wind, of rustling leaves. |
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| 6 | 104 |
"Where is your shield," they might be asked, "where is your sword?" In Brundisium, on the other hand, a busy port, with access to the northern and southern coastal trade, and an access to the major island ubarates westward, Cos and Tyros, there was considerable prosperity, for the coin that leaves o... |
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| 9 | 162 |
At this point there was another roar in the forest, but this one seemed mighty, as though it might have torn leaves from the trees. |
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| 9 | 402 |
A few moments later, I heard again, this time far to my right, the mighty roar which I had heard before, that roar which seemed it might have taken leaves from the trees. |
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| 11 | 19 |
Gratefully I lowered my burden, and sank to my side, in the fallen leaves. |
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| 11 | 64 |
Suddenly, briefly, we heard a succession of thunderous snapping noises from above the canopy, and we looked up, and leaves fluttered about us, and we were cast into a flight of shadows, as though swift, fierce, jagged clouds would blot out the sun, one following another, but these shadows were cast ... |
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| 11 | 152 |
That night, in the camp, bound, and on the rope, I squirmed in the leaves. |
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| 11 | 191 |
I twisted about in the leaves, under the moons. |
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| 13 | 24 |
How can a woman be displayed more attractively, or be made more aware of her womanhood, than being placed in the garment of a slave? It is sometimes thought that in such a garment a woman is more naked than naked, at least in the sense that it leaves few of her charms to the imagination, invites att... |
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| 14 | 102 |
Four more strokes, and there was a gross splintering, a breakage of wood, and the tree fell crashing to the earth, half obscured by a rising cloud of dust and leaping, shimmering leaves. |
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| 15 | 81 |
Before, in the forest, I had known them only as large, frightening shadows overhead, rapid, monstrous darknesses overhead, storms of wings smiting the air, whose passage had torn leaves from the canopy, these then showering downward, scattering about us. |
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| 15 | 157 |
We lay in the leaves and grass, as usual, our hands bound behind us, our coffle rope tied between two trees. |
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| 21 | 80 |
I would later come to understand, too, that the path toward the fire had been cleared of dried leaves, and twigs. |
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| 25 | 26 |
I was joyful! I was free, I thought, at last, free! Free! Then I paused amongst the leaves, the trees, and shade. |
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| 25 | 65 |
It molts in both the spring and autumn, and in the autumn its coloring is much like that of the fruit and leaves of the bush itself. |
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| 25 | 156 |
It has its thousand rises and falls, its heights and valleys, its fallen timbers and rotting wood, its scarred, blackened trunks and scorched, lightning-fired wastes, its scattered boulders, its bare places, its flowered meadows and blossoming thickets, its crags and cliffs, its rills, and streams a... |
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| 25 | 264 |
The wind was rising, and some leaves fell from the nearby branches. |
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| 25 | 387 |
One could hear its patter on leaves. |
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| 27 | 19 |
I stood there in the darkness, my feet in the water and leaves, cold and miserable, and now, again, hungry, very hungry, the rain streaming from my body. |
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| 27 | 70 |
I washed my body with wet grass and leaves, wiping away dirt. |
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| 28 | 21 |
Immediately the vine shook, and began to withdraw, trailing a fresh, light, green exudate, concealing itself amidst the leaves of its fellows. |
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| 29 | 228 |
"It is filthy, and dirt, and flakes of leaves, adhere within it". |
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| 30 | 82 |
Accordingly, I expect our game, concerned that she might be pursued, well aware she was in danger from the forest, hungry and exhausted, alone, perhaps lost, lying in the cold and rain, in the mud and leaves, may not have spent a pleasant night". |
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| 33 | 22 |
Do pack beasts speak? We were first to prepare the ground for the camp, and so we gathered up forest debris from the site, stones, leaves, and sticks, and, with branches, swept the ground smooth. |
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| 33 | 126 |
But wines, as is well known, may be derived not only from the clustered fruits weighting the branches of the ka-la- na tree in the autumn, but, as on my former world, from vine fruit, tree fruit, bush fruit, even from some types of leaves. |
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| 34 | 5 |
See, the stirred leaves, the sandal print. |
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| 34 | 48 |
"He leaves little to chance," I said. |
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| 39 | 517 |
It was a large, long, agile, sinuous, six-legged thing, brown with patches of black, massive, like an immense furred lizard, low to the ground for its size, its belly almost in the leaves, a large, broad, triangular head. |
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| 39 | 538 |
The muzzle of that broad head then lay upon the leaves. |
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| 40 | 7 |
"They could not resist bending down and picking up a coin in the leaves". |
10 |
| 43 | 544 |
Some leaves and branches were being scattered about. |
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| 43 | 888 |
At that moment there came from our right a plunging through brush and leaves. |
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| 44 | 6 |
Already, at night, more than once, cuddled in the leaves, I had longed for my kennel blanket. |
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| 44 | 7 |
The leaves of the Tur trees had begun to turn. |
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| 46 | 97 |
I tore a length of it from the trunk about which it clung, its tiny, sharp roots anchored in the bark, and pulled away several of the heavy fleshy leaves. |
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| 46 | 128 |
The trees about were like lofty, isolated, living columns, separated by wide corridors of leaves. |
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| 47 | 6 |
I had anticipated difficulty in picking up the foolish slave's trail, which might have begun anywhere, but, eventually, from stirred leaves, a dislodged stone, a broken twig, a bent branch, such things, I had expected to be able to do so. |
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| 47 | 16 |
Wind, too, may stir leaves, as well as a small, passing foot. |
10 |
| 47 | 79 |
Surely she would know enough to do that, as it is easy enough to construct a fire drill or find fire rocks and strike them together over dried leaves. |
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| 49 | 194 |
"Is that why one slave sells for more than another, why one slave's price might purchase a ship, and another a wooden bowl and spoons, why one slave is bartered for a city, and another for a she-tarsk, why one girl is purchased to be chained at the foot of a Ubar's throne and another to carry water ... |
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| 50 | 8 |
I was muchly used, for slave purposes, on the trek back to Shipcamp, especially in the evening and night, but, sometimes, during the day, as well, when, his need upon him, as it seemed so frequently to be, he would throw me to the leaves. |
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| 50 | 510 |
It was a slave garment, but it was not a tunic, not the common, brief garment in which masters place their girls to remind them that they are slaves and which, to the pleasure of men, leaves little doubt as to their purchasable charms, or the far more scandalous common camisk, outlawed in public in ... |
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| 51 | 127 |
"Before the great ship leaves in the morning," he said, "before the stockade slaves are boarded, you are to cross the river, enter the stockade, and cut the throat of a certain slave. |
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| 52 | 290 |
"He leaves little to chance," said my captor. |
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| 52 | 809 |
"How I tried to drive the thought of you from my mind! What storms of hate and denial I invoked to banish you from my heart! Was not the thought of you, or your image, in the corners of darkened rooms, in clouds, everywhere, in rain, in shimmering leaves, in high, green, bending grass? What had you ... |
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| 53 | 113 |
"But I think you would rather have Laura, not Asperiche, for whatever reason, if the choice were to be made, crawling naked through the leaves, begging for your touch". |
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| 53 | 151 |
I reached out, agonizingly, across the leaves, toward him, but could not reach him. |
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| 54 | 1 |
In the damp, cold morning, north of the Laurius, the turning leaves overhead, I awakened, and found myself warm, covered with his blanket. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 94 |
The beating of its wings could lash the leaves from trees. |
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| 2 | 83 |
One leaves poison to the ost, and the striking pins and daggers of free women. |
10 |
| 3 | 50 |
Dried branches, dried leaves, and twigs, are sometimes scattered about the periphery of a camp, or sleeping area. |
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| 20 | 374 |
I heard rain gently falling on the leaves of the trees in the garden. |
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| 20 | 442 |
He leaves the matter to you. |
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| 21 | 9 |
Before retiring I had taken a lantern and, in the dampness, and under the dripping leaves, examined the interior edge of the walls. |
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| 21 | 27 |
"The petals of the golden cup are open," he said, "the zar swarm is not aflight, the lavender leaves of the scent tree do not curl". |
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| 23 | 5 |
He was standing, pinching off the tips of new branches on the Blue Climber, a vinelike plant with large blue bracts amongst its common leaves, and small yellow flowers, clinging to the railing of the small bridge in the shogun's garden. |
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| 23 | 75 |
Shortly thereafter I located the ring and trap, covered with branches and leaves, and the tunnel entrance". |
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| 27 | 189 |
"It is my understanding," I said, "that he arranges matters with care, and leaves little to chance". |
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| 29 | 97 |
"Twice," said Tajima, "tarnsmen returned, circling about, at a great height, and we must conceal ourselves, once in the reeds and mud near a small stream, once in leaves and brush". |
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| 32 | 33 |
"They may be as leaves, as the sands of the shore!" "Probably there are no more than ten," said Arashi. |
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| 60 | 56 |
Sometimes a breeze stirred the leaves. |
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| 61 | 91 |
"That his minions are as the sands of the shore, and the leaves of trees," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 312 |
To be sure, certain mnemonic tatters of the interaction did intrude now and then, like the stirring of leaves, like a rustling in brush, scarcely noted, where something might have moved, like whispers, whose source eluded consciousness. |
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| 5 | 13 |
We heard a creaking, as of the swinging of two large objects, presumably the leaves of a gate. |
10 |
| 7 | 97 |
But I would be taught, as well, how to rise gracefully from either position, either from the lovely, modest position of the tower slave or from the more blatant, though similarly beautiful, position of the pleasure slave, which position leaves a girl in little doubt as to what she is for and how she... |
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| 11 | 68 |
If possible, it leaves even less of the slave to the imagination than the tunic or ta-teera, the "slave rag". |
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| 15 | 168 |
I heard the creaking of what must have been two leaves of a gate, a large gate. |
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| 25 | 11 |
The men at the tables, those attentive, those bemused, those bored, those testing and savoring beverages and dishes, wore dark chaplets upon their brow, these woven from somber dark leaves, muchly different from the tangles of aromatic blossoms worn by many Goreans at festive suppers. |
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| 26 | 178 |
Large pans are set forth with a thin film of sea water, which, as it evaporates, leaves the salt behind, which is then scraped together, and sent to the markets of the city. |
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| 32 | 52 |
Its huge gate had two leaves, and, were it opened, it would easily accommodate the passage of a double-harness tharlarion wagon. |
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| 33 | 14 |
Feet were thrust into the weapon's stirrup, the cable seized, and the metal leaves were drawn back, and the device was cocked. |
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| 45 | 78 |
My serving dish was shortly empty, and I knew I should withdraw to the kitchen, either to have it layered with more syrupped tospit slices, or supplied with another provender, perhaps rice, white, or brown, or red or purple, from Cos, or a plate of cheeses, from local dairies, served with warmed bre... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 241 |
I heard the swinging of the leaves of a door, and then conversation, and the clink of goblets. |
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| 10 | 35 |
To be sure, the paga tunic, like most other Gorean slave tunics, and as would be expected in a garment designed to display a woman as a slave, leaves little to speculation. |
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| 10 | 140 |
The two leaves of the office door were back, and so I could see into the office. |
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| 17 | 71 |
A heavy chain, a makeshift barrier, raised and lowered by a winch, now hung between the walls where the leaves of the gate had been mounted. |
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| 43 | 162 |
I saw the barred leaves of the Southern Gate, fastened back, high on each side, slip past. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 70 |
Even the nocturnal, stealthy sleen leaves tracks". |
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| 27 | 192 |
The round ship of Anango, a most valuable prize, leaves earlier than we had anticipated, tomorrow, with the first tide". |
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| 31 | 3 |
The gate, with its two leaves, was open, but this was not unusual, given the time of day, about noon, the tenth Ahn. |
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| 31 | 28 |
"Close the gate! Brush! Flames! Fire arrows!" Some twenty fellows rushed to the gate and pulled it shut, tying the two, in-swinging leaves together, and another twenty hurried to the closed gate with thick bundles of brush, grass, and straw which they piled before the tethered gate. |
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| 31 | 31 |
But no sooner had they freed the leaves of the gate and swung them inward than the brush, dried grass and straw which had been heaped up in the threshold was fiercely burning, creating a wall of fire behind which we could scarcely mark dark, moving figures. |
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| 31 | 42 |
Within a few Ihn, the corsairs, met with arrows from the front and swords from the sides, withdrew into the village and swung shut the seared leaves of the gate, closing themselves inside, where the blackened huts had now mostly collapsed and the flames were subsiding. |
10 |
| 42 | 37 |
When the second beam was moved to the left, fully within its own bracing, the portal would be cleared, and the two heavy leaves of the gate could be swung inward. |
10 |
| 42 | 96 |
This was done, the sound of the hinges of the leaves of the great gate almost inaudible. |
10 |
| 42 | 117 |
The two leaves of the great gate, slowly, began to close. |
10 |
| 42 | 118 |
Visitors sensing the huge, slow, heavy movement of the gate, scrambled wildly, crying out, to be inside or outside the leaves, anything to avoid being caught between them. |
10 |
| 42 | 119 |
There was, also, almost immediately, cries of anguish as limbs or bodies were crushed between the leaves. |
10 |
| 42 | 130 |
Three mercenaries had been trapped between the leaves of the great gate. |
10 |
| 42 | 133 |
"No! No!" cried another mercenary, on his belly, looking up, much of whose body lay within the gate, his foot caught between the leaves. |
10 |
| 42 | 147 |
Another body had been caught between the leaves of the closing gate. |
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| 48 | 63 |
If a tree is available, suitably situated, and of an appropriate size, it is cleared of bark, leaves, and smaller branches, and then used as a mount or frame on which to hang paraphernalia proclaiming the victory, usually helmets, shields, insignia, banners, standards, broken weapons, and such, take... |
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| 49 | 68 |
This leaves us with an attack by sea, but there is no evidence of such an attack, no bodies or equipment, no signs of disruption or bloodshed. |
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