| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 92 |
Had we done so, I might have seen the war horde of Pa-Kur on its way to Ar, with its marching columns, its lines of tharlarion riders, its foraging cavalries of tarnsmen, its supply wagons and pack animals. |
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| 15 | 9 |
Beyond the walls were Pa-Kur's lines of investment, set forth with all the skill of Gor's most experienced siege engineers. |
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| 16 | 26 |
Simultaneously, exposed chains of siege slaves began to move the stake lines forward. |
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| 16 | 118 |
Additionally, overhead I could see lines of tarn wire. |
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| 18 | 1 |
In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 28 |
Through this portal, in two long lines, lashed by overseers, yoked slaves harnessed in chains drew a great wooden platform mounted on heavy wooden wheels. |
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| 16 | 113 |
"By now," she said, "lines of rejoicing citizens will be setting out from the city". |
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| 18 | 182 |
Leading them in two lines, shackled behind me, we crawled down the horizontal tunnel. |
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| 19 | 37 |
Leading the chain of slaves in two lines behind me, we swept through the shafts like an eruption from the molten core of the earth. |
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| 23 | 117 |
There were no tharlarion wagons or lines of woodsmen or peddlers making their way to or from the city. |
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| 26 | 51 |
They were herded, roped throat to throat, unveiled, wrists bound behind their backs, in long lines to the arena of the Amusements of Tharna. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 120 |
I knew that Gorean caste lines, though largely following birth, were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his caste might be allowed to change caste, if approved by the High Council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualifications for the work of another caste and the... |
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| 13 | 13 |
Gorean, I might note, is somewhat similar, and though I speak Gorean fluently, I find it very difficult to write, largely because of the even-numbered lines which, from my point of view, must be written backwards. |
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| 21 | 43 |
Then, as we crouched in the darkness of the far side of the chamber, the doors opposite us swung open and we observed two long lines of strange men, marching abreast, each of whom carried a Mul-Torch in one hand and in the other by a handle what resembled a deflated wineskin of golden leather. |
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| 27 | 109 |
I was already familiar with the astounding patience of Priest-Kings and so I was not surprised at the almost total lack of movement in the lines of that golden pattern, formed of Priest-Kings, which radiated out from the Platform of the Mother. |
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| 28 | 142 |
* * * * It was later in the same afternoon that Mul-Ba-Ta, now simply Ba-Ta, made his appearance, leading long lines of former Muls. |
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| 28 | 144 |
Some men from the Fungus Chambers carried on their backs great bags filled with choice spores, and others labored under the burdens of huge baskets of freshly reaped fungus, slung on poles between them; and those from the Pastures drove before them with long pointed goads huge, shambling gray arthro... |
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| 29 | 40 |
In less than a few Ihn I had brought the ship into the large Nest complex where the ten ships of Sarm still followed their grim, precise, destructive pattern, as placidly and methodically as one might paint lines on a surface or mow a lawn. |
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| 30 | 166 |
From what I could gather, only a handful of humans, some men, some women, had actually crossed the lines and taken service with Sarm. |
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| 30 | 190 |
But not long after this took place other Priest-Kings, startled by the decision of Kusk, began to speak of ending the War, and some others too began to cross the lines. |
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| 33 | 13 |
In the front, several deep, in lines that extended as far as I could see in both directions, were the white robes of the Initiates. |
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| 33 | 34 |
The Initiates, hundreds of them, knelt in long lines to the crags of the Sardar, to the Priest-Kings. |
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| 34 | 30 |
How clearly Torm wished to keep caste lines and virtues demarcated. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 165 |
It was in Gorean script, moving from left to right, and then from right to left on alternate lines. |
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| 7 | 170 |
The message was simple, consisting of only three lines. |
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| 10 | 7 |
We moved slowly, walking the kaiila, in four long lines, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci, some two hundred or so warriors of each. |
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| 10 | 12 |
I could see, surprisingly near the forefront of their respective lines, the other three men I had first seen on coming to the Wagon Peoples, Conrad of the Kassars, Hakimba of the Kataii and Tolnus of the Paravaci. |
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| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 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 | 187 |
The two lines are separated by about fifty feet and each stake in a line is separated from the stake on its left and right by about ten yards. |
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| 10 | 188 |
The two lines of stakes extended for more than four pasangs across the prairie. |
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| 10 | 189 |
One of these lines is closest to the city and the other to the prairies beyond. |
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| 10 | 193 |
I was forced to remind myself that between these two lines of stakes men would soon fight and die. |
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| 10 | 197 |
In the space between the two lines of stakes, for each pair of facing stakes, there was a circle of roughly eight yards in diameter. |
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| 10 | 215 |
On long lines of tharlarion I could see warriors of Turia approaching in procession the Plains of a Thousand Stakes. |
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| 10 | 224 |
Immediately the lances of the lines lowered and the hundreds of tharlarion, hissing and grunting, their riders shouting, the drums beating, began to bound rapidly towards us. |
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| 10 | 230 |
I wheeled the kaiila, looking for Elizabeth Cardwell, who, afoot, would be slain almost before the tharlarion had crossed the lines of the stakes. |
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| 10 | 234 |
I straightened up and saw that the lines of the tharlarion lancers had, with much pounding and trampling of the earth, with shouting, with the hissing of the great beasts, stopped short, abruptly, some fifteen yards or so behind their line of stakes. |
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| 10 | 247 |
In a moment, to a thunder of kaiila paws on the turf, racing between the lines of stakes, scattering sand, there came a great number of riders, their black hair swirling behind them, who pulled up on their mounts, rearing and squealing, between the stakes, and leaped from the saddle to the sand, rel... |
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| 10 | 258 |
"Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 303 |
I looked up and down the lines of stakes. |
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| 10 | 330 |
From down the long lines, from other judges, came the confirming cry. |
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| 10 | 332 |
"Let the women be secured," called the first judge, who stood on a platform near the beginning of the stake lines, this year on the side of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 345 |
"They are secured," was relayed up and down the long lines. |
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| 10 | 349 |
All along the lines of stakes I saw Turian warriors and those of the Wagon Peoples press into the area between the stakes. |
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| 14 | 30 |
There on a front pasangs in length, already the Thousands had nearly formed, and long lines of riders, few gaps in their ranks, waited, lance in hand, their eyes on the war lanterns. |
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| 15 | 51 |
In the morning the wagons, in their long lines, would follow the slowly moving herds away from Turia. |
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| 23 | 79 |
It was the vengeance of the bosk and the frightened, maddened animals thundered into the Paravaci lines goring and trampling both kaiila and riders, and the Paravaci who could manage turned their animals and rode for their lives. |
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| 23 | 109 |
Bloody, covered with sweat, gasping, we saw the living Paravaci draw back, falling back between the newly forming lines on the gradient above. |
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| 23 | 133 |
Then again we heard the bosk horns and the Paravaci, in vast ranks, like sweeping crescents, like steel scythes of men and animals and arms, far extending beyond our own lines, began to move slowly towards us, gaining steadily in momentum and speed with each traversed yard of stained prairie. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 6 |
The breeding lines of the House of Cernus were recognized, with those of the House of Portus, and certain other of the large slave houses, throughout known Gor. |
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| 11 | 3 |
Some of the facilities were simply lines of reasonably clean cells, some with windows, usually a lavatory drain and something in the way of a mat to sleep on. |
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| 12 | 371 |
Here there were lines of booths in an extended arcade, where merchandise of various sorts might be purchased, usually of an inexpensive and low-quality variety. |
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| 17 | 583 |
Her black hair was quite marvelous, long and unbound, falling as it did over her shoulders; her eyes were dark and deeply beautiful; her body, as the slave masters had intended, was tormentingly magnificent; the features of her face and lips showed to my eye, which had become more discerning in the ... |
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| 20 | 417 |
His features were those of Sura, though with the heaviness of the masculine countenance, the bred slave lines of the House of Cernus. |
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| 21 | 296 |
The Gorean phalanx, like its predecessors of Earth, consisted of lines of massed spearmen, carrying spears of different lengths, forming a wall of points; it attacked on the run, preferably on a downgrade, a military avalanche, on its own terrain and under optimum conditions, invincible; the Torian ... |
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| 22 | 424 |
The tiers, like startled horizontal lines, flashes of blurring color, fled behind me. |
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| 22 | 564 |
I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ... |
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| 24 | 173 |
They were chained in long lines by the collars, five-foot lengths of chain being used, with a snap at each end, each end fastening to a given collar, each collar, save for those terminating a line, being fastened on two sides. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 82 |
The younger men and women formed opposite lines, shouting and jeering at one another delightedly. |
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| 5 | 171 |
I remembered the two lines, one of young men, the other of girls, jeering and laughing, and crying out at one another in the morning. |
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| 8 | 103 |
The barges, during the afternoon, had been eased into a closer line, the stem of one lying abeam of the stern of the next, being made fast there by lines. |
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| 9 | 122 |
The supply lines of such a force, given the barges of Port Kar and her tarn cavalries, might be easily cut. |
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| 11 | 84 |
There we saw crossbowmen fleeing, in lines along the edges of the buildings. |
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| 13 | 292 |
Above us, on the upper deck, I could hear the cries of the seamen, casting off mooring lines, shoving away from the dock with the traditional three long poles. |
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| 14 | 4 |
I mention, however, in passing, that a great variety of ram-ships ply Thassa, many of which, in their dimensions, their lines, their rigging and their rowing arrangements, differ from her considerably. |
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| 14 | 234 |
"She carries one hundred and thirty-two oars," he said, "but she is a heavier ship, and her lines are not as good as those of the Dorna". |
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| 14 | 250 |
I had little doubt that the Dorna, a somewhat lighter ship, with better lines and shorter keel, would be more responsive to her helm than the other ship and that, sooner or later, as the circles grew smaller, she would be able to wheel and take her foe in the stern quarter or amidships. |
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| 14 | 478 |
Others, with axes, stood ready to chop away the lines that now bound the Dorna to the flagship. |
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| 16 | 276 |
"Officers," I cried, "to your ships! Form your lines beyond the harbor four pasangs west of the wharves of Sevarius!" "Yes, Captain!" they cried. |
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| 16 | 336 |
There were now torches on both sides of the canals, in long lines, following us, and boats, too, began to follow us. |
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| 17 | 2 |
It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an Ahn before noon. |
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| 17 | 32 |
The attacking fleet, in order to provide its net to prevent escape from Port Kar, had overextended its lines. |
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| 17 | 40 |
With their lines cut in fifty places, for no extended handful of tarn ships, part of a great line, could resist a close-set formation of sixteen tarn ships, I hoped that many of the ships would turn to face the attackers, now in their rear. |
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| 17 | 45 |
By that time the ships of Cos and Tyros would have concentrated in their numbers and shortened their lines. |
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| 17 | 57 |
It was my hope that by the time they arrived at the engagement the fleet of Cos and Tyros, responding to my first two waves, would have shortened their lines and concentrated their ships. |
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| 17 | 85 |
The flanking attack, of course, was mounted as late as it was because, until the fleet of Cos and Tyros had shortened their lines and concentrated their ships, to meet our earlier moves, it would have been impractical. |
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| 17 | 139 |
The ships of my first wave had now struck the lines of the fleet of Cos and Tyros. |
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| 17 | 141 |
Behind them, scattered across the cold waters of Thassa, I could see the pairs of the second wave proceeding, swiftly gliding, oars dipping, toward the long lines of yellow and purple sails in the distance, yellow for Tyros, purple for Cos. |
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| 17 | 153 |
Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk... |
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| 17 | 169 |
Several of the ships in the lines near the point where my task force had struck were now coming about to meet their enemy. |
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| 17 | 171 |
I saw the lines of Cos and Tyros shortening, compressing their formations to bring more ships into play at given points. |
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| 17 | 172 |
As they deepened their lines I could now see the borders of their fleet, as I had not been able to before. |
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| 17 | 194 |
I had watched my first wave break in dozens of places the long lines of Cos and Tyros, and had seen the ships of the great fleet turn to face them, and had witnessed their vulnerability to the slender second wave of ships, each wreaking destruction beyond what might be expected of their sizes and we... |
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| 17 | 195 |
Then, as the lines of Cos and Tyros had closed and deepened, to match formations with my task forces, the great encircling line of round ships had cast its net about them. |
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| 17 | 218 |
The other ships took their places in four lines behind the command ship of the reserves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 119 |
Inside there was a tiny cylinder, fused to a round, circular plate, covered with tiny, copperish lines. |
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| 13 | 528 |
I must slip between their lines. |
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| 13 | 902 |
On the left side of his arm, running from the wound, there were several almost horizontal, reddish lines, where, but moments before, tiny trickles of blood, unable to flow downward, had been whipped backward by the wind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 353 |
Men on the dock threw off the lines which had been looped on the mooring cleats. |
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| 6 | 89 |
On the map, as nearly as we could, we traced, with various straight lines, what we would take to be the path to Verna's camp and dancing circle. |
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| 6 | 201 |
We could now see the crew of the Rhoda casting lines to the men at the wharf. |
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| 6 | 341 |
There would also, of course, be much attention given to the deadwork of the ship, and to her lines and rigging, and the fittings and oars. |
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| 6 | 914 |
I looked at the lines of the Tesephone in the darkness. |
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| 11 | 398 |
He was moving pieces, trying combinations, lines and permutations. |
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| 12 | 14 |
Many people are unaware of such groups, for they are seldom identifiable save through lines of social relationships and connections. |
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| 15 | 421 |
Men of Tyros, and panther girls, flanked the lines of slaves. |
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| 18 | 468 |
This is not simply because of their general small size, with consequent maneuverability, and speed, a function of oarsmen, weight and lines, but also because of this aforementioned capacity to rapidly reverse direction. |
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| 18 | 667 |
Besides, I expected that tonight there would be some cause for celebration on the two ships, and that they might be drawn together by lines. |
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| 20 | 301 |
Then, in two long lines, lanterns high, men began to approach the stockade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 170 |
There are thus five lines, the center line of prisoners and spoils, its flanking lines of sleen, and, on either side, the flanking lines of the Kur foragers. |
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| 2 | 156 |
The tar was painted red and black, in irregular lines. |
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| 5 | 104 |
"But her lines are heavy," he said, "and she is a weighty ship". |
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| 11 | 4 |
On these stones, set in semicircular lines, like terraces, stood high men and minor jarls, and rune-priests, and the guard of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 154 |
Hundreds of men, in ragged, scattered lines, strung out laterally, accompanied us. |
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| 18 | 156 |
"Form lines!" cried Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 157 |
"Form lines!" The Blue Tooth, their Jarl, was with them! Men fought to take their place, under his eyes, in the first line. |
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| 18 | 161 |
Then, to our surprise, from within the Kurii lines we saw two or three hundred slave girls whipped forth. |
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| 18 | 165 |
They were to be used to break our lines. |
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| 18 | 172 |
The lines of men, too, hurtled forward. |
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| 18 | 204 |
Our lines buckled but, again, after minutes of terrible fighting, they fell back. |
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| 18 | 213 |
"Form lines!" he cried. |
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| 18 | 214 |
"Regroup! Spears to the second line!" A hedge of spears, projecting from the lines of men, men with axes between them, waited for Kurii, should they try to press their advantage. |
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| 18 | 218 |
Men, too, where they could break away from small battles, individual combats, found their way to our lines. |
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| 18 | 221 |
It consists of two lines, one on the ground, the other at chest level, of overlapping shields. |
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| 18 | 223 |
We could see the two front lines, one kneeling, one standing, of Kurii. |
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| 18 | 224 |
Similar lines, fierce, obdurate, protective, extended about the formation, on all sides, forming the edges of the Kurii war square. |
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| 18 | 243 |
Roast it before our lines". |
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| 18 | 302 |
That there is an apparent avenue of escape serves to make the enemy think in terms of escape; a cornered foe, desperate, is doubly dangerous; a foe who thinks he may, by swift decision, save himself, is less likely to fight with ferocity; he is quicker to abandon his lines, quicker to give up the co... |
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| 18 | 334 |
In the lines of Svein Blue Tooth, once he had fought not more than six men from my right. |
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| 22 | 159 |
Then, laughing, giggling, thrilled to be soon underway, approaching between two lines of seamen, came his slave girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 163 |
I heard the drums change their beat; I saw the lines of riders ordering themselves; I saw pennons, the pennons of preparation, lifted; I assumed that when they lowered the pennons of the charge would be lifted on their lances, and then that the lances would drop, and with them the lance of every rid... |
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| 24 | 21 |
Our extended, thinned lines would invite attack; it would be difficult, too, even if our investing lines were not broken in force, to prevent the escape of small parties at night. |
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| 1 | 761 |
Their decorations were largely invisible lines of scent traced with great care on the interiors of their compartments. |
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| 2 | 456 |
Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness... |
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| 2 | 528 |
An English transliteration, though not a perfect one, would be rather along the lines of "Ahl-yieh-ain-nah," where the "ain" is pronounced such that it would rhyme with the English expression "rain". |
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| 5 | 338 |
Kavars rode down the caravan line, ordering drovers to hurry their animals into lines. |
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| 11 | 294 |
Food supplies at the oasis are short, except for the stores in the kasbah, and supply lines are long, and difficult to defend. |
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| 18 | 45 |
Pieces, however, may be placed only on the intersections of lines either within or at the edges of the board. |
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| 18 | 46 |
Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view. |
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| 23 | 58 |
Behind each of the arrangements of lines were hundreds of tents, striped in different colors. |
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| 23 | 78 |
The man gestured and one of those with him led away the kaiila, making a great circuit that would lead him behind the Kavar lines, to the tents. |
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| 23 | 96 |
Behind the Kavar lines, among the tents, with the kaiila and other goods, the man would be chained, to await his disposition among masters. |
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| 23 | 97 |
To my right were the lines of the Aretai. |
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| 23 | 111 |
The Tajuk riders were forcing their way to the front of the lines, between the Zevar and the Arani. |
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| 23 | 113 |
They had held the front lines of the Aretai left flank for two hundred years. |
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| 23 | 117 |
There is a tendency, after the lines are engaged for each force to drift to its right. |
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| 23 | 118 |
In a Gorean engagement on foot, incidentally, assuming uniform lines, this drift is almost inevitable, because each man, in fighting, tends to shelter himself partially, as he can, behind the shield of the man on his right. |
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| 23 | 119 |
This causes the infantry lines to drift. |
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| 23 | 126 |
One might abandon uniform lines, etc. |
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| 23 | 129 |
These considerations, of course, presuppose that some semblance of lines is maintained. |
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| 23 | 134 |
Now, I gathered, the Zevar and Arani had prevailed upon the Aretai command to defend the front lines of the left flank, or perhaps the Tajuks had merely come late, to discover their position occupied by others. |
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| 23 | 159 |
I fingered the ring, looking down on the lines. |
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| 23 | 170 |
Instead, suddenly, he turned in the saddle, lifting both arms, signaling to the lines, "Stop!" The lances of readiness and of the charge slipped to the stirrup boots. |
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| 23 | 171 |
Slowly, not hurrying, between the lines, came a single rider, in swirling Kavar white. |
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| 23 | 175 |
The lines, on each side, shifted, but did not move. |
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| 23 | 182 |
Behind the pashas of the Zevar and Arani, strung out behind each, in single lines, came their guard. |
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| 23 | 283 |
In a short time, great lines, strung out, began to move across the desert. |
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| 23 | 287 |
Behind us, behind Haroun and myself, who rode alone, we leading, strung out, were the long lines of riders, the gathered tribesmen of the Tahari. |
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| 24 | 12 |
Late in the afternoon, Ibn Saran, with four hundred riders, broke through our lines and fled northwest. |
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| 25 | 22 |
"Let us assume further that our search has been most thorough and that our lines resisted penetration". |
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| 25 | 32 |
"Thus," cried another, "Ibn Saran has slipped through our lines. |
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| 26 | 13 |
I looked behind me, at the long lines of men. |
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| 26 | 518 |
She had come through the corridors from the audience chamber on her hands and knees, carrying the whip, head down, in her teeth, between two lines, moving with her, of slave girls, girls running, when she had crawled by them, to be again at the head of the line, to have again their lashing stroke, t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 128 |
It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ... |
10 |
| 7 | 280 |
The Lady Sabina then, choking back her tears, stood straight in the coffle, the posture accentuating the lovely lines of her chained beauty. |
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| 12 | 421 |
The wire had been cut, with bladed hooks, swung on long lines below tarns, cut, and torn from its posts. |
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| 12 | 863 |
The man who had placed me in the basket, and then tied it shut, climbed swiftly to the saddle of his tarn; our trail lines, those attached to the basket in which we were confined, ran to the tarn's stirrups. |
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| 12 | 876 |
There had been a moment of slack and then the lines on the basket had drawn taut. |
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| 22 | 46 |
Sharks, and sometimes marine saurians, sometimes trail the ships, to secure discarded garbage and rob the lines of the fishermen. |
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| 22 | 177 |
I screamed and saw the new ship, suddenly large, seem to lift itself in the water, and then heard the shattering splintering wreckage of wood and the loud swift swirl of water the ship struck and men screaming and saw the lines loose wild the yard and sail leaning awry the deck shifting and becoming... |
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| 22 | 555 |
I heard signal horns, and saw flags on the signal lines. |
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| 24 | 36 |
"Your vessel," said the man, grinning, "appears seaworthy but has clumsy lines". |
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| 24 | 56 |
"But she is a sleek little animal, with good lines," said the other. |
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| 24 | 148 |
"She has the lines of a slave". |
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| 24 | 164 |
"Consider her lines. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 111 |
Originally, in its preparation, the message ribbon is wrapped diagonally, neatly, edges touching, about a cylinder, such as the staff of a marshal's office, the shaft of a spear, a previously prepared object, or so on, and then the message is written in lines parallel with the cylinder. |
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| 2 | 113 |
When the silk is unwrapped, of course, the message disappears into a welter of scattered lines, the bits and parts of letters; the coherent message is replaced with a ribbon marked only by meaningless, unintelligible scraps of letters; to read the message, of course, one need only rewrap the ribbon ... |
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| 3 | 249 |
"The lines are long," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 293 |
In a few minutes I had come to the area of the public tents, and there was there no difficulty in determining where the Kaissa lines were to be found. |
10 |
| 3 | 294 |
There were dozens of tables, and the lines were long at each. |
10 |
| 3 | 305 |
I took my place at the end of one of the long lines, that which I conjectured to be the shortest. |
10 |
| 3 | 492 |
Most of the wagons were common slave wagons, with a parallel bar running down the center of the wagon bed, about which the ankles of the girls were chained; others, however, were flat wagons fixed with an iron framework; two lines of girls kneel back to back on such a wagon, their ankles and necks l... |
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| 4 | 178 |
It is difficult to meet and in many of its lines has no clear refutation; it may be played accepted or declined; it would be red's hope not to refute but to neutralize in the middle game; if red could manage to achieve equality by the twentieth move he might account himself successful. |
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| 11 | 21 |
Lashings, harpoon lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. |
10 |
| 12 | 201 |
There are many glacial lines among the rocks and mountains of the north, but Ax Glacier is easily the broadest and most famous. |
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| 18 | 25 |
Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale. |
10 |
| 34 | 28 |
It was a ship Kur, one bound by the discipline of the steel worlds, the pledges of crews and the necessary rigors of strict report lines. |
10 |
| 36 | 143 |
There were four such lines, of fifty or so girls each. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 86 |
I stood there for a few moments, regarding the lines of the Palms of Schendi. |
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| 6 | 48 |
Slowly the Palms of Schendi swung half to port, and the great yards above the deck, pulleys creaking, lines adjusted by quick sailors, swung almost parallel to the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 117 |
Flags, in colorful series, were set at the port stem castle lines. |
10 |
| 6 | 212 |
The girls knelt on the deck before the stem castle, their wrists bound before them, lines leading to the rings. |
10 |
| 6 | 317 |
We were still some seven or eight pasangs from the buoy lines. |
10 |
| 6 | 592 |
Seamen hurled mooring lines to men on the wharf. |
10 |
| 7 | 56 |
The name 'Kikombe' now, however, for the most part, with a set of rough, zigzag lines, had been scratched out, and the name 'Uchafu', with a sharp tool, had been added. |
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| 11 | 357 |
Following the lines of his cheekbones there was a stitching of tribal tattooing. |
10 |
| 16 | 142 |
Ayari waved at the lines of men behind us. |
10 |
| 18 | 23 |
This battle, interestingly, had occurred in the marshes well west of Ngao, indeed, only a few pasangs from the work lines. |
10 |
| 20 | 115 |
Yet where shall the lines be drawn between them? "Tell him," I said, "that he would do well to take lessons in leadership from a truly great leader, Bila Huruma". |
10 |
| 30 | 25 |
"Hold the lines!" called Kisu. |
10 |
| 30 | 26 |
Ayari and Alice kept the lines taut. |
10 |
| 32 | 92 |
"You have nice lines," I said. |
10 |
| 52 | 18 |
"Had I done so, doubtless I would have recalled the lines of your body". |
10 |
| 53 | 339 |
One of the Kur leaders, then, marshaling his forces, formed them in loose lines, that they might no longer be singly attacked. |
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| 55 | 23 |
"Cast off the lines," I called to the men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 789 |
I drifted about, to the right side of the coffle lines, and stopped, watching the lines, chained behind the palanquin, making their way down the street. |
10 |
| 11 | 409 |
Perhaps it would be better to say that the Gorean tends to think more in terms of spheres of influence than he does in terms of imaginary lines on maps which may not reflect current historical realities. |
10 |
| 11 | 587 |
Too, they seem clumsy and out of place, almost rude and barbaric, compared to the lines and simplicity of Gorean garments". |
10 |
| 12 | 9 |
Indeed, among most Gorean garments, with their simplicity, their flowing lines, the freedom allowed for movement, my own garments seemed rigid, confining, frightened, unimaginative and boorish. |
10 |
| 12 | 307 |
I recalled that the Lady Gina had once told me something along these lines. |
10 |
| 13 | 223 |
I considered the lines of her thighs and calves. |
10 |
| 16 | 40 |
Similarly, caste lines tend sometimes to be vague, and the relation between castes and subcastes. |
10 |
| 22 | 742 |
"She is not worthless," said Tenalion, appraising the lines of the slave. |
10 |
| 30 | 28 |
Had she been a slave and been named, say, 'Amanda', her responses, following the preferences of some masters, might have been along the lines of 'Amanda, your slave, begs not to be hurt', 'Please Master, do not hurt your slave, Amanda', and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 62 |
The mobility of our squares was crucial in the early phases, separating to permit the entrance of charging tharlarion into our lines, then isolating the beasts". |
10 |
| 2 | 24 |
It would be a pincers move, to take the men of Ar, far from their supply lines, on two fronts. |
10 |
| 6 | 27 |
Thandar of Ti, interestingly, had not challenged Ar in the skies, but had deployed the mercenaries of Artemidorus of Cos in actions against Ar's supply lines. |
10 |
| 33 | 112 |
The supply lines from Port Cos to the north station are shorter and it is easier to move troops to that point. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 82 |
Was it because the flag of Victoria flew on our stem-castle lines? I saw the hand of Callimachus fall, almost like a knife. |
10 |
| 2 | 210 |
"We have encountered no further evidence of work at the chain," said a man, as we neared the location of the Tina, east of the chain, a single lantern swinging on one of her stem-castle lines. |
10 |
| 2 | 225 |
We threw lines up to her. |
10 |
| 3 | 74 |
"She has quick lines," said a man. |
10 |
| 3 | 127 |
"They fly distress signals on the stem-castle lines," said the officer. |
10 |
| 3 | 133 |
Flags were run on the stern-castle lines. |
10 |
| 4 | 12 |
"We must hold our lines until they arrive". |
10 |
| 4 | 107 |
The first galley, isolated behind our lines, was trying to swing to the southeast, to avoid the chain and find the open water to the east. |
10 |
| 4 | 115 |
"Run flags on the stem-castle lines," called Callimachus. |
10 |
| 4 | 132 |
Not again would the point of the wedge be lost fruitlessly behind our lines, spending itself in vain against emptiness and spray. |
10 |
| 4 | 133 |
Flags, torn by the wind, snapping, sped to our stem-castle lines. |
10 |
| 4 | 134 |
Signal cloths, pennons and squares, in mixed colors and designs, acknowledging these commands, ran fluttering and streaming onto the stem-castle lines of the Tais. |
10 |
| 4 | 143 |
"The Tais is leaving our lines! The ships of Port Cos attend her!" "Our flank is unguarded!" cried a man in fear. |
10 |
| 4 | 149 |
"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pound... |
10 |
| 4 | 200 |
That ships such as those of Ar's Station and of the independent towns, mostly refitted merchantmen, would dare to leave the security of their lines to launch their own attack, not bolstered by the ships of Port Cos, had not entered its ken. |
10 |
| 4 | 209 |
"Back oars! Reform our lines!" called Callimachus. |
10 |
| 4 | 211 |
"Back oars! Reform our lines!" called Callimachus. |
10 |
| 4 | 219 |
Then the Tina, with the Mira to starboard and the Talender to port, lay to in our lines. |
10 |
| 4 | 229 |
Now, in our lines, there were only seventeen ships, including those of Port Cos, on which we so crucially depended. |
10 |
| 5 | 143 |
They were too squat and sluggish; their holds were too large; their lines were clumsy; they were too slow, too unresponsive to their helms; they seemed little other than fat merchantmen, fit less for war than for the placid transportation of weighty cargoes. |
10 |
| 5 | 197 |
I saw grappling irons, on their lines, hurled over the bulwarks of the Portia. |
10 |
| 5 | 206 |
The pirates' lines, thin, strung out for boarding, were instantly cut. |
10 |
| 5 | 215 |
We saw flags of Ar's Station being run out upon their stem-castle lines. |
10 |
| 6 | 79 |
"They are running flags on their stem-castle lines now," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 383 |
I was convinced that they, still active, pennons still flying on their stem-castle lines, could hold out until nightfall. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
"She will, thus, open a hole in their lines". |
10 |
| 10 | 32 |
I saw the flags run out on the stem-castle lines of the Tuka. |
10 |
| 10 | 50 |
On the night of our escape from our encirclement on the river, we had set afire the Olivia, our slowest and clumsiest ship, and directed her eastward against the enemy's shifting lines, opened and disarranged by the departure of the Tamira from her position. |
10 |
| 10 | 52 |
We had then lain to, in the movement of ships, pennons of the Voskjard on our lines, should we fall within the light of passing lanterns. |
10 |
| 10 | 122 |
Lines were being cast from the Tuka to willing hands on the walk. |
10 |
| 10 | 145 |
Mooring lines were now made fast. |
10 |
| 10 | 167 |
We cast out our mooring lines. |
10 |
| 12 | 17 |
"Their identificatory signals emerge now upon their lines". |
10 |
| 12 | 22 |
I saw the flags of welcome, narrow, triangular and yellow, run up on their lines. |
10 |
| 12 | 92 |
Mooring lines were made fast. |
10 |
| 12 | 133 |
Red attack flags, torn by the wind, snapped on their lines. |
10 |
| 16 | 44 |
A dozen more pirates, here and there, in their ragged lines, turned about and broke for their ships. |
10 |
| 20 | 498 |
The straight lines and severity are supposed to suggest, I gather, efficiency and masculinity". |
10 |
| 20 | 2035 |
Then she looked at herself, frontally, and, skeptically, tilting her head one way and another, experimented with the chain, varying its lines, loopings and tensions. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 16 |
In the center of the road, approaching, between, and with, the lines, drawn by two tharlarion, was an ornately carved, high, two-wheeled cart. |
10 |
| 5 | 23 |
The lines stopped. |
10 |
| 5 | 134 |
The lines of mercenaries then moved forward, with the wagon in their midst, northward, toward Kailiauk. |
10 |
| 5 | 135 |
I withdrew to the side and sat in some shadows, among rocks, to observe the lines. |
10 |
| 5 | 138 |
Considering the game presumably available in the Barrens there were several more wagons in the lines than would have seemed called for. |
10 |
| 5 | 139 |
When the lines and wagons had passed I emerged from the rocks and, at a distance, followed them toward Kailiauk. |
10 |
| 5 | 144 |
Similarly I had little doubt as to who were the occupants of certain of the closed wagons in the lines. |
10 |
| 5 | 154 |
There had been no slave wagons in the lines, nor, chained in throat coffle, trudging in the dust behind the supply wagons, any slave girls. |
10 |
| 5 | 163 |
I spun another rock down the road, after the lines and wagons. |
10 |
| 8 | 461 |
In this way the curves of her right leg, and the lines of her figure, are pleasantly displayed. |
10 |
| 8 | 891 |
About every five feet a linear set of these boards was painted yellow, thus, in effect, making long, yellow lines, parallel to the sides of the structure, on the floor. |
10 |
| 8 | 892 |
At the head and foot of these lines, also in yellow, were painted numbers. |
10 |
| 8 | 893 |
On one of these lines, number six, there knelt, one behind the other, in tandem fashion, seven girls. |
10 |
| 11 | 196 |
It is kindest, I think, in the long run, to proceed rather along the lines that she had. |
10 |
| 15 | 126 |
On its nose were red lines, coup marks, matching those on the warrior's legs. |
10 |
| 17 | 223 |
The savages from the south and southeast had struck against the lines of infantrymen with their lances. |
10 |
| 17 | 224 |
The lines had held". |
10 |
| 17 | 226 |
Gorean infantry, with staggered lines and fixed pikes, their butts anchored in the earth, could usually turn an attack of light cavalry. |
10 |
| 17 | 228 |
The red savages, I speculated, would have been surprised that they had been unable to force their way through the infantry lines. |
10 |
| 17 | 229 |
Such lines, of course, can usually be outflanked. |
10 |
| 17 | 259 |
"Taking advantage of the confusion, momentary, among the red savages, following their failure to break the line of the infantry, Alfred ordered his men through his own infantry lines, and led them again to the southeast. |
10 |
| 17 | 263 |
"Too," I said, "they would presumably not wish to give the infantry a chance to reform, to close its lines again and set up a solid perimeter". |
10 |
| 19 | 295 |
I noted that his men, too, took up positions either at his sides, in lines, or rather behind him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 15 |
They are in long lines. |
10 |
| 2 | 216 |
They were now entering the camp, from the east, in long lines, in their full regalia. |
10 |
| 2 | 225 |
Three or four abreast, in long lines, led by their civil chief, Watonka, One-Who-Is-Rich, and subchiefs and high warriors, the Isanna entered the camp of the Isbu. |
10 |
| 2 | 287 |
He was moving his kaiila quickly, along the side of the lines, probably hurrying to occupy his designated place in the procession. |
10 |
| 3 | 24 |
Lines of such trees, in the Barrens, and low, sloping geodesics, watersheds, tend to mark, often, the location of the tiny streams which occur in the country. |
10 |
| 3 | 186 |
He made three dark lines, about a finger's width each, on each cheek. |
10 |
| 4 | 394 |
Then came the women, with the kaiila and travois, the poles leaving lines in the dust, and with them, joining them, came Cuwignaka and myself. |
10 |
| 14 | 202 |
Let them continue to think of men along the lines of the despicable, pathetic males of the Waniyanpi compounds. |
10 |
| 19 | 192 |
I recalled we had thought about this matter along these lines before. |
10 |
| 26 | 118 |
"When I give you the word," I said, "you will turn about and run to the lines of the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 26 | 142 |
She then turned about and ran, stumbling, back toward the Kaiila lines. |
10 |
| 27 | 5 |
Not once had Mahpiyasapa, communicating his will by the whistles and battle staffs, permitted his brave, ragged lines to pursue retreating Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 27 | 63 |
We were in long lines, our ranks two and three deep. |
10 |
| 28 | 3 |
Before the lines of the Yellow Knives, some three hundred yards away, to the west, riders rode back and forth, with feathered lances. |
10 |
| 28 | 8 |
I had now, again, taken my place in the Kaiila lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 9 |
I had ridden to the perimeter of our rearward lines, there, for the second time, to inspect the deployment of archers, the placement of the stakes, the rigging of the overhead nets. |
10 |
| 28 | 27 |
At our rearward lines I had seen Kahintokapa. |
10 |
| 28 | 35 |
In my return to our lines I had stopped to see Grunt. |
10 |
| 28 | 91 |
I had then ridden back toward my place in our forward lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 97 |
I also passed some lines and circles of female slaves. |
10 |
| 28 | 141 |
Some of these women were coffled in lines, and others in circles, the last woman's hair serving to bind the wrists of the first woman. |
10 |
| 28 | 143 |
Once again, some were secured in lines, and others in circles, the hands of the last woman being tied in the hair of the first. |
10 |
| 28 | 144 |
This second form of hair tie, done in lines, incidentally, resembles a common coffle arrangement, achieved with a set of relatively short thongs, each about five feet in length. |
10 |
| 28 | 184 |
No longer now were some of the Yellow Knives riding about, back and forth before their lines, moving their lances about, preparing their parties for combat, exhorting them, doubtless, to boldness and bravery. |
10 |
| 28 | 186 |
"Make ready your lances, make ready your knives," chanted Mahpiyasapa, riding before our lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 205 |
Hci, however, did not leave his place in our lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 213 |
Mahpiyasapa, before our lines, lifted and lowered his lance. |
10 |
| 28 | 225 |
As one man, kaiila squealing, warriors howling, feathers flying, lances lowering, our lines leapt toward the enemy. |
10 |
| 28 | 238 |
"Look!" said a man, pointing back, when we had reached again our former lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 241 |
At the crest of a rise, once again, suddenly emerging, silhouetted against the sky, were lines of Yellow Knives. |
10 |
| 28 | 257 |
I, too, wondered at the reappearance of the Yellow-Knife lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 298 |
At full speed, pennons flying, lances lowered, bucklers set, in sweeping, measured, staggered attack lines, waves of riders struck the camp. |
10 |
| 28 | 316 |
It is also generally ineffective against another cavalry for it permits a shattering and penetration of its own lines. |
10 |
| 28 | 321 |
"Fight! Defend the camp!" The lines spun about and the men of Mahpiyasapa, whooping and crying out, dust scattering, sped back under the ropes and between the lodges to engage this new enemy. |
10 |
| 28 | 351 |
The Yellow-Knife lines were now sweeping past the creature which had emerged earlier from their ranks. |
10 |
| 29 | 46 |
"Form lines," cried Mahpiyasapa. |
10 |
| 29 | 47 |
"To the east! To the west! Women and children between the lines!" I saw Hci, with an expert thrust, past the buckler of a soldier, drop the fellow from his saddle. |
10 |
| 29 | 49 |
We were cut into small groups, our lines shattered. |
10 |
| 30 | 6 |
Mahpiyasapa and his lieutenants, with their cries, the movements of battle staffs, the blasts of war whistles, had succeeded in forming fresh lines, constructing a defensive perimeter. |
10 |
| 30 | 7 |
We wheeled our kaiila about, taking our place in the lines. |
10 |
| 30 | 12 |
"We must then, sheltering the women and the young, try to break through their lines". |
10 |
| 30 | 18 |
Hci drew his kaiila back from the lines, and turning it about, brought it alongside of Cuwignaka's beast. |
10 |
| 30 | 21 |
Hci then returned to his place in the lines. |
10 |
| 30 | 22 |
"I think we can hold these lines until dark," I said to Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 30 | 26 |
The Yellow Knives opened their lines. |
10 |
| 30 | 91 |
"Hold your lines," I begged the men about me. |
10 |
| 30 | 92 |
"Hold your lines, no matter what happens!" "Your medicine is false," cried Mahpiyasapa to the Yellow Knives, though doubtless they could not understand him. |
10 |
| 30 | 103 |
"Hold your lines!" cried Mahpiyasapa. |
10 |
| 30 | 104 |
But the lines, men screaming, kaiila wheeling about, were shattered. |
10 |
| 42 | 9 |
We were slowed by the lines we held. |
10 |
| 42 | 11 |
The Kinyanpi hobble lines had not been well guarded. |
10 |
| 43 | 330 |
When I came to the end of the thoroughfare I turned the kaiila in a broad circle, not to foul the lines to the sacks, and began to retrace its length, even more quickly. |
10 |
| 44 | 614 |
Thus encouraged the Yellow-Knife lines suddenly broke and the trail seemed suddenly to erupt with men intent only on escape. |
10 |
| 45 | 13 |
Our lines were already in place, waiting. |
10 |
| 45 | 57 |
In our lines we had fifty men. |
10 |
| 47 | 82 |
The Yellow Knives, in lines behind them, advanced. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 |
"We want no lines from them," he said. |
10 |
| 1 | 23 |
I had then been, to my puzzlement, photographed several times, from the neck up, front view and profile, against a type of chart, on which appeared various graduated lines, presumably some type of calibrating or measuring device. |
10 |
| 1 | 24 |
The lines, as nearly as I could determine, however, correlated neither with inches nor centimeters. |
10 |
| 2 | 221 |
Because of its weight it was impressed, with sharp lines, into the rug. |
10 |
| 7 | 81 |
"Such a closure, or the lines of a lower garment, affording such a closure, would be instantly detected by slaves". |
10 |
| 9 | 115 |
"We are stretching their supply lines. |
10 |
| 11 | 219 |
"We shall soon cut their supply lines," he said. |
10 |
| 24 | 209 |
The other girls were being sent to other lines. |
10 |
| 25 | 53 |
There is the raising and lowering of the warp threads to form the lines between which the weft is placed. |
10 |
| 27 | 122 |
Along these lines, for example, it is easy, seemingly accidentally, to brush his lips with a pendant breast. |
10 |
| 33 | 480 |
In this fashion, if a keeper should be slain, or change the locus of his employment, or something along those lines, the beast need not be killed. |
10 |
| 33 | 782 |
The classical knowledge distinctions on Gor tend to follow caste lines, the first knowledge being regarded as appropriate for the lower castes and the second knowledge for the higher castes. |
10 |
| 36 | 555 |
Some masters think of such names as being along the lines of verbal leashes, the utterance of the name, like the sudden tug of a leash, immediately calling the slave's attention to the master and his wishes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
In this position, as at the Ubara's Initiate One, it is subject to only three lines of attack. |
10 |
| 1 | 18 |
Other legitimate placements subject it to five lines of attack. |
10 |
| 1 | 23 |
Similarly, although a somewhat more central location of the Home Stone exposes it to more lines of attack, it also increases its mobility, and thereby its capacities to evade attack. |
10 |
| 1 | 156 |
Many goods, in particular wood, wood products, and hide, make their way westward on the Laurius, eventually landing at Lydius, later to be embarked to the south on the ships of various cities, lines and associations. |
10 |
| 1 | 694 |
A bit of arm, a bit of leg, the lines of a slave tunic on a fair young body, the sight of a collar on a neck, sometimes have consequences which seem obvious enough to many, but may not have been fully understood or clearly enough anticipated by the lovely, young intruder. |
10 |
| 2 | 766 |
I myself had earlier speculated along these lines. |
10 |
| 6 | 211 |
Did they truly confuse them with walls of stone and the forces of weaponry? Did they understand the differences between the lines and colors on maps and the realities of a physical terrain? To what extent did they comprehend the fictional or mythical nature of those castles within which they took re... |
10 |
| 6 | 924 |
"She is undoubtedly quite good," said the free woman, "but many of her lines, I think, could have been better handled, or at least differently handled, particularly in this form of farce, more broadly, both verbally and gesturally". |
10 |
| 7 | 116 |
See the curves, the lines". |
10 |
| 12 | 431 |
Torm, my old friend, the Scribe, might have expressed skepticism at the unqualified promptness and boldness of my asseveration, as I had always remained somewhat imperfect in writing the alternate lines of Gorean script, which are written from the right to the left, but, clearly, I could both read a... |
10 |
| 12 | 434 |
I had once been informed by my friend, Torm, that the whole business was quite simple, the alternate lines, in his opinion, at least, also being written forward, "only in the other direction". |
10 |
| 12 | 467 |
One might write all one's lines left to right, for example, or right to left, or write them vertically, beginning at one side or the other, and beginning at the top or bottom, or diagonally, beginning at any corner. |
10 |
| 12 | 468 |
One might use alternate lines, or left or right spirals from given points, and so on. |
10 |
| 12 | 546 |
It is common practice to appoint a "first girl" to assign tasks, adjudicate differences, and keep discipline in a household where there is more than one female slave; masters do not, on the whole, much care to involve themselves in the squabbles of slaves, who has access to a comb, and such; it is b... |
10 |
| 15 | 71 |
Women, although they may occasionally function as artifacts, or symbols, or mystical objects, or something along these lines, seldom release the following instinct in men. |
10 |
| 16 | 438 |
"Look! Look! We are not collared! We are not branded!" These lines were quite acceptable in the context of the play. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 300 |
"'Those lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines are very long, those long lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines. |
10 |
| 19 | 323 |
"'Those long lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, they make me tired, those long lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" said Hurtha. |
10 |
| 19 | 293 |
"'Lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" said Hurtha. |
10 |
| 19 | 326 |
"'I do not like them, those long lines, those long lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" said Hurtha. |
10 |
| 19 | 284 |
"'Lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines,'" began Hurtha. |
10 |
| 19 | 289 |
'Lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines, lines. |
10 |
| 19 | 353 |
"Too, similarly pungent and subtle is the recurrent emphasis on the expression 'lines', which, on a level and in a dimension to which I have hopes you may yet attain, forcefully enunciates and clarifies not only the concept but more significantly the emotional significance of lines, those inevitable... |
10 |
| 3 | 194 |
In this formation spikes of archers, protected by iron-shod stakes and sleen pits, project beyond the forward lines of the heavily armed warriors and their reserves. |
10 |
| 3 | 196 |
It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders. |
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| 3 | 207 |
He then advanced his archers in long, enveloping lines; in this way they could muster a much broader front for low-level, point-blank firepower than could the narrower concentrated squares. |
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| 3 | 286 |
"Their lines of march extend for pasangs, with intervals, too, of pasangs," he said. |
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| 3 | 333 |
I do not know how long the lines are". |
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| 3 | 369 |
Surely it seemed that Ar might be expected to apply her tarnsmen to the effort to disrupt the enemy's lines of supply and communication. |
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| 4 | 96 |
On the face of Genserix, and on the faces of those about us, the males, were the thin, white, knife-edge lines, the narrow scars, by which it might be known that each had, in his time, undergone the same ceremony. |
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| 9 | 24 |
They are usually constructed rather along the following lines. |
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| 11 | 209 |
"I have a very poor handwriting," I said, "and I am particularly bad at the lines that go from right to left". |
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| 13 | 79 |
Then there are separated lines, leading to the great gate. |
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| 13 | 328 |
He moved about, here and there within the chain lines, among the women. |
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| 14 | 10 |
"Some of those here," I said, regarding the lines of bodies dangling in the tarred halters, "are perhaps the same as those who had been active in bringing about the downfall of those who hung here formerly". |
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| 14 | 117 |
"'Once in the municipality of Torcadino,'" he began, "'whilst wandering pensive 'neath sacks of noosed bones—'" "You have composed more than one hundred lines of poetry while we have been standing here?" I asked. |
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| 14 | 118 |
"Many more," he said, "but I have eliminated many lines which did not meet my standards". |
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| 16 | 1138 |
We were now beyond the lines of suspended bodies outside the Semnium. |
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| 16 | 1439 |
"I think there will be little difficulty in clearing the lines of Cos," I said. |
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| 16 | 1530 |
In a few Ehn, as we were making our way through a corner of the camp, we would presumably encounter some contravallation, some outer lines or ditches, set up to protect the besiegers against possible attack by an outside, relieving force. |
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| 16 | 1659 |
Then, for several Ehn, he altering lines here and there, with a liberal abandon, subjecting the piece, it seemed, to immediate and amazing revisions, rampant and wholesale, doubtless justified by certain disputable if not heinous exploitations of poetic license, generously construed, I was regaled b... |
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| 19 | 291 |
The lines moved forward a few feet. |
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| 19 | 303 |
"Those lines," I said, "they are pretty long". |
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| 19 | 338 |
Our own lines moved forward a few steps. |
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| 19 | 347 |
For example, with respect to the word 'lines'". |
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| 24 | 57 |
Sometimes such things are actually registered, and legally restricted in their use to given lines. |
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| 26 | 1898 |
They may have been led from cities in triumph as exquisite prizes, in slave lines as naked, luscious, collared loot, and then what would you have to say? That no one had found you pretty enough, or interesting enough, or desirable enough, to take you and bring you in for money? That you had to call ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 179 |
These I had fastened, in three lines, they fastened on a single thong, about my left ankle. |
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| 3 | 426 |
The piece was excellent, in its melodic lines, its moods, and shifts. |
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| 5 | 182 |
The instructresses, of course, had their own report lines. |
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| 9 | 267 |
Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the lines as to whether or not a girl has been "opened" for the uses of men. |
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| 11 | 1508 |
If the girl thinks, however, that the command may have been, say, an inadvertence, or mistake, or that the master might relent, or something along these lines, she might, say, beg or inquire. |
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| 13 | 460 |
I had recognized, of course, that such things as my garb, or lack of it, my brand, burned into my body, my collar, which I could not remove, placed on me by men, and such, and, above all, my condition, that of slave, had made me far more sexually stimulatory to men than I would otherwise have been b... |
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| 19 | 41 |
To be sure, much charity, and fraternal organizations, and even outings, and such, are organized on caste lines. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 484 |
Immediately following this signal the defenders on both the left and right began an orderly withdrawal, rear lines first, front lines backing, fighting, down the stairways closest to them, the two gate stairways, one to the west of the gate, the other to the east of the gate. |
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| 20 | 417 |
Mariners of some ships freed the mooring lines of others, and then their own, and then boarded, some of them using the lines themselves to regain the decks. |
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| 1 | 178 |
I tried to set myself on the slope, but slipped back, and the wagon slid sideways toward me, the wheels tearing lines in the grass, tilting. |
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| 1 | 470 |
For example, if the besieged do not have enough men to man the extent of their walls, their lines must be thinned to the point where in a multipoint attack penetration is invited. |
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| 2 | 147 |
She could presumably find another port by means of which to keep open her lines of communication and supply. |
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| 3 | 108 |
"Even in these hard times, the keeper, who has his congenial, noble side, has refused to surrender space lines". |
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| 3 | 110 |
"What are space lines?" "Most inns," he said, "for your lodging, simply assign you to a large common room, to be shared with others. |
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| 10 | 328 |
I assumed that at the distance I could not be heard in the Cosian lines. |
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| 10 | 360 |
I saw his hand, pointing out, toward the Cosian lines. |
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| 10 | 370 |
"If you were not of Cos, you could not have come through their lines," he called. |
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| 10 | 372 |
"How came you through the lines?" called another. |
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| 15 | 804 |
At any rate, if she had had secret, internal pretensions to manhood, or to similarity to men, or something along these lines, it seemed unlikely she now retained them. |
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| 16 | 295 |
Along these lines, it might be noted that Earth women, brought to Gor as slaves, soon realize they are no longer amongst the men of Earth. |
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| 17 | 264 |
I had used him, and the other, he between the command post and the west, the other between the command post and the east, as messengers, hoping in this way to keep them within the semblance of interior lines, out of the thickest fighting. |
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| 17 | 435 |
He was behind their lines, facing the central walkway. |
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| 18 | 35 |
Many escaped before the investment lines were closed. |
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| 18 | 37 |
"Still," I said, "there must have been thousands in the city when the investment lines were closed". |
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| 18 | 52 |
"Beneath the walls of the citadel," he said, "they paraded loot carts and lines of our women, stripped, and trussed as slaves". |
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| 18 | 170 |
"You will command," I said, "from interior lines". |
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| 18 | 267 |
Two lines were formed, one on the left, one on the right, of fellows with shields. |
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| 18 | 268 |
These two lines, converging, the fighting in the center, by the gate, between them, led to the walkway, and then out on the walkway, for better than forty yards. |
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| 18 | 269 |
The men in these lines crouched down, their shields between themselves and the wall, creating an open fence of shields, a poor, broken cover, given the paucity of their numbers, but better than none. |
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| 18 | 327 |
The two lines which had to some extent protected the women and children now withdrew to protect the flanks of the retreating center. |
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| 18 | 330 |
The lines thinned to the sides of me, and before me, and the Cosians pressed in, yet more closely. |
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| 18 | 339 |
I took advantage of this to pull in the flanks and send them back over the walkway, and then drew the fellows before me closer, freeing some, the lines then being shortened, to follow their fellows back. |
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| 18 | 544 |
Similarly, along these lines, to be perfectly honest, I have upon occasion used thumb cuffs on females, when it has seemed to me there was a point in doing so, or when it pleased me to do so. |
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| 19 | 36 |
When one understands these factors, and that battles often last several hours, and are sometimes renewed for two or three days, it is easier to understand certain things which might otherwise seem anomalous in this form of warfare, for example, the respites between assaults, the fluctuations of line... |
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| 19 | 38 |
It is not simply that the squares are more tactically flexible, being capable of functioning on broken terrain, and such, but also that they facilitate substitutions in the front lines, permitting the swift injection of fresh troops at crucial points. |
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| 20 | 315 |
From the stem lines of fifteen of the ships, as far as I could tell, for some were out in the harbor, and blocked by others, there flew no colors at all. |
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| 20 | 452 |
They cast off the mooring lines and then followed me aboard. |
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| 21 | 1456 |
They would be very careful as to what lines on which it might be affixed. |
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| 24 | 162 |
Too, there were two or three fellows of Port Cos there, those who had set up the outjutting display beams, and would presumably handle the forward lines in wharfing. |
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| 24 | 436 |
Two of the fellows on the bow deck already had the forward lines in hand. |
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| 24 | 522 |
The forward lines were cast to fellows on the pier. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 18 |
"Lines!" I had supposed then that they must have again formed lines, now doubtless, given their exhaustion, staggering, straggling lines, yet lines that would provide at least an isolation, a separation, of targets. |
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| 9 | 37 |
Most of these fellows were in long lines. |
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| 9 | 39 |
Too, a small craft would normally bring up the rear of such lines. |
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| 9 | 59 |
He swiftly, gratefully, took his place in one of the long lines. |
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| 9 | 60 |
The loss of men to quicksand was rare now, given the lines. |
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| 12 | 40 |
Now that I was on my knees and the men were to one side, I could see the lines of the barge, purple and gilded, near the bank, that with the golden cabin, covered with golden netting. |
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| 14 | 64 |
By now what supply lines you may have had have probably been cut, or soon will be, by rencers. |
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| 14 | 88 |
"I would go to great lengths to maintain lines of communication, particularly under the conditions of the delta". |
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| 15 | 17 |
"Lines!" I had heard, often enough. |
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| 15 | 67 |
"Lines!" I heard. |
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| 15 | 68 |
"Lines!" "I will avenge you, Fulvius!" I heard a man cry. |
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| 15 | 71 |
"Come back!" "Lines!" I heard. |
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| 15 | 72 |
"Lines!" "Let him go," said a man, wearily. |
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| 15 | 80 |
"Keep the lines!" I heard. |
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| 15 | 81 |
"Keep the lines!" We did hear, an Ehn or so later, a long, single wailing cry from the marsh. |
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| 17 | 6 |
Indeed, the men learned more rapidly than the officer, I think, what had occurred, for it was onto their lines that men would first come, bearing ill tidings, crying out for succor, many of them, I gathered, wounded. |
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| 17 | 107 |
I think several fellows left their lines to go out and meet the standard bearer, if that was what he was, with his fellows. |
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| 19 | 183 |
Shall we have tea?" or something along those lines. |
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| 19 | 1245 |
On Earth, as I recall, and I have no reason to suppose matters have much changed on that far, polluted, mad, hypocritical, unloving, hate-filled orb, though you would be better judges than I of such matters, women, in large numbers, tended to be aloof, inert, and calculating, creatures of judgment a... |
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| 21 | 88 |
"Some, too," said I, "might have preferred a craft with sleeker lines, but I would personally effect nothing critical on that score. |
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| 21 | 98 |
"I find nothing wrong with your lines," I said. |
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| 21 | 102 |
"Do not regret, for example," said I, "that your lines may not be as sleek as those of the female racing slave. |
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| 27 | 368 |
"Forced to appear on a public stage scandalously clad, or naked," she asked, "dancing, singing, saying lines, being struck with paddles, and such, your master all the time in the wings with a whip?" "If you like," I said. |
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| 31 | 216 |
I had hoped for something along these lines, but I had not dared to hope for anything this humbling to Ar, and yet in its way, so grand. |
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| 32 | 283 |
The rencers, noting our hostility to the Cosian, and accepting the possibility that he might actually be Cosian, permitted him to leave the holding area before us, presumably so he would have time to reach the Cosian lines before we could apprehend him. |
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| 35 | 8 |
"Plenius and Titus," said Labienus, "will attempt to see me to the lines of Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 405 |
He might wish, for example, if he is a breeder, to improve the quality of his pens or kennels, trying out new blood lines, freshening his stock, and such. |
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| 3 | 660 |
"Surely the blood lines of such an animal go back a thousand years!" "No! No!" said a man, rapt, not taking his eyes from the slave. |
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| 3 | 850 |
The Kurii, for example, seem to have retained some vestiges along these lines, for in that species, as I understand it, it is not unusual for females to go to the mating cliffs in the moonlight, where, helpless in their sexuality, they cry out, or howl, their needs. |
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| 4 | 16 |
Only yesterday there had been lines, though smaller than when we had first come to Ar, to revile the stone. |
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| 4 | 74 |
Further, its lines of communication, from the palace at Telnus, in Cos, to the tent of Myron, the polemarkos, were swift and reliable. |
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| 6 | 36 |
To be sure, I myself did not read Gorean fluently, as the alternate lines change direction. |
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| 6 | 134 |
Such armies appear first like small lines at the horizons. |
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| 6 | 151 |
From the precision of their lines, however, and the ease and discipline of their seat on the tharlarion, I took them to be soldiers. |
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| 7 | 195 |
Regulars of Cos, regiments of them, in ordered lines, in cleaned, pressed blue, with polished helmets and shields, preceded by numerous standard bearers, representing far more units than were doubtless in the city at the moment, and musicians, advanced. |
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| 7 | 196 |
Tharlarion cavalrymen, of both bipedal and quadrupedal tharlarion, flanked the lines. |
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| 7 | 365 |
If anything, his faults had been on the lines of tolerance, compromise and permissiveness, policies which had allowed Cos and her partisans to operate almost unopposed in the city, policies which had allowed Ar to be taken from him, and from herself. |
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| 7 | 520 |
I considered such things as the difficulties of communication, the difficulties of maintaining supply lines, the lengths of marches, the paucity of roads, the isolation of cities, the diversities of cultures and such. |
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| 8 | 204 |
That product would have been more likely to have been, as it still was, available on the "Street of Brands," a district in which are found many of the houses of slavers, sales barns, sales arenas, holding areas, boarding accommodations, training facilities, and shops dealing with product lines perti... |
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| 9 | 32 |
There were some one hundred such lines, each about four or five feet apart, marking places for women to stand. |
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| 9 | 34 |
Beyond these hundred spaces the chain moved to the side, and was doubled, and folded back upon itself, again and again, in this fashion keeping its prisoners massed, different lines facing different directions, and all in the vicinity of the platform. |
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| 12 | 111 |
A typical Gorean biography of the master/slave relationship is likely, one way or another, with one slave or another, to proceed along the following lines. |
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| 12 | 457 |
"Surely you have seen such slips of girls chained in the loot lines of conquered cities," he said. |
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| 15 | 15 |
They tried to push back the youths but their lines were crowded through, while they themselves were being greeted as friends and brothers, saluted as allies and hailed as heroes. |
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| 17 | 87 |
"Surely she is a bred slave, with lines like that," he said. |
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| 19 | 7 |
As one might suppose, the blood lines of the racers are carefully kept and registered, as are, incidentally, those of many other sorts of expensive bred animals, such as tarsks, sleen and verr. |
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| 20 | 440 |
Or, if you prefer, you could use your inimitable cursive script, with its unusual alternate lines. |
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| 21 | 240 |
For a brief instant, a rather unworthy one, I was pleased that my own handscript was so poor, particularly with respect to alternate lines. |
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| 22 | 616 |
To be sure, some actors do, having the parts read to them, and they memorizing them from the hearing of the lines. |
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| 24 | 407 |
"He has gone to a place where he may study his lines in privacy". |
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| 24 | 408 |
"His lines?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 410 |
"Well," I said, "if he is currently studying lines, I have little doubt that they are those of my Lavinia". |
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| 24 | 435 |
"Thus," continued the retainer, softly, suavely, "one need not disturb him while he is reading his lines, as he undoubtedly is, and, more importantly, he will never know of our coming and going. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 490 |
Lines of bars emerged from the walls about the pool and, diagonally, descended, fitting into sockets in the retaining wall. |
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| 19 | 43 |
It is said that none may pass unauthorized the lines of interdiction, and that, of those who do, none are to return. |
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| 19 | 103 |
Captives were now being knelt in lines, perpendicular to the long docking area, facing the warehouses. |
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| 19 | 105 |
They were being chained together, by the neck, beginning, of course, at the back of the lines. |
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| 19 | 118 |
There were several such lines of captives. |
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| 19 | 159 |
Some slaves of the raiders had been permitted across the lines and now swam with rapture in the arms of their masters. |
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| 19 | 200 |
One of the captives in one of the nearby lines suddenly screamed, and struggled, in her chains, to her feet. |
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| 19 | 296 |
He then faced the crowd and lifted his hands to the left and right, indicating the captives, now having been separated from the other loot and brought forward, closer to the crowd, both those in lines, they accounting for the largest number, and those kneeling separately, all bound, many in sirik, i... |
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| 19 | 331 |
She was one of those in the lines. |
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| 19 | 425 |
With my purpose in mind I considered the lines of captives. |
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| 19 | 482 |
The guards had relaxed their lines. |
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| 19 | 498 |
I saw two officers beginning to examine the lines of captives. |
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| 19 | 1091 |
I could see the dock workers preparing to move out the lines of captives. |
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