| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 13 |
Surprisingly enough, I managed to gain entrance to the University of Oxford, but I shall not choose to embarrass my college by entering its somewhat too revered name in this narrative. |
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| 3 | 170 |
I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards. |
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| 3 | 187 |
During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest. |
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| 4 | 48 |
At last I managed to turn the bird, and we were streaking along in the wake of the Older Tarl. |
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| 5 | 47 |
Any attempt on the Home Stone was regarded by the citizens of a city as sacrilege of the most heinous variety and punishable by the most painful of deaths, but, paradoxically, it was regarded as the greatest of glories to purloin the Home Stone of another city, and the warrior who managed this was a... |
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| 9 | 156 |
At last, terminating a frenzied exchange, I managed to drive my blade into his shoulder, and as his sword arm dropped, I kicked the weapon from his grasp. |
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| 12 | 109 |
As the beak reached down for me, I managed to get one leg between it and my body and kicked it back, cursing wildly. |
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| 14 | 156 |
Daring everything, I leaped in the darkness for the reins of the bird and with one scrambling hand managed to seize the guiding collar. |
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| 15 | 33 |
Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ... |
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| 16 | 43 |
These task forces seldom managed to return, but sometimes they were outstandingly successful. |
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| 18 | 64 |
I had managed to bring down the tarn wire of Ar; I had learned that Marlenus still lived and held a portion of the Central Cylinder, and I had found out when and where the execution of Talena was supposed to take place. |
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| 18 | 78 |
I did know that sometimes the pathetic inmates of Dar-Kosis Pits, repenting their decision to be incarcerated, had managed to cut footholds in the walls and escape, but the labor involved—a matter of years—the death penalty for being discovered, and the very risk of the climb made such... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 76 |
I managed to get my knees under me, and then, painfully, heaved the yoke upward, struggling unsteadily to my feet. |
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| 11 | 41 |
Hot with sweat, each fiber in my body screaming in agony, I managed to gain my knees. |
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| 11 | 259 |
Again and again she struck me, yet through it all I managed to stay on my knees, not to fall. |
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| 11 | 261 |
Then, when the Tatrix had exhausted herself, by some effort I find it hard to comprehend, I managed to stand on my feet, bloody, wearing the yoke, my flesh in tatters—and look down upon her. |
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| 12 | 22 |
Two small hands caught it, and, struggling, managed to swing it back, keeping my balance. |
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| 12 | 122 |
"I sheltered him," she said, "and managed to smuggle him from the city". |
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| 12 | 153 |
He managed to turn the yoke and slide down the wall to a seated position. |
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| 13 | 67 |
Savagely, our backs breaking, stinging under the frenzied lashing of our driver, cursing the colorful sands of the arena that mounted before the block as we dragged it foot by foot about the course, we managed to come first within the zone of the golden wall. |
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| 13 | 125 |
Once, twice more he charged, and each time I managed to block the blow, withstanding the shock of the crashing yokes, escaping the thrust of the murderous horns. |
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| 13 | 128 |
Suddenly I managed to get my hands under his yoke. |
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| 17 | 101 |
But most managed to stand upright, catching their balance, and, almost as one man, that wretched degraded huddle of slaves turned its frightened, empty eyes upon me. |
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| 25 | 152 |
Indeed, if she managed to survive at all, she would be fortunate not to find herself wearing an ankle ring on some slaver's chain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 114 |
A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai. |
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| 11 | 122 |
The disk moved with great swiftness and it was with some difficulty that I managed to stand on my feet, leaning into the blast of air which rushed past me. |
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| 12 | 187 |
He managed to roll over on his stomach. |
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| 16 | 104 |
"I have been working against Sarm and the others for millennia," said Misk, "and at last—more than three hundred years ago—I managed to obtain the egg from which this male emerged". |
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| 16 | 207 |
"We have managed to retard her aging considerably but eon by eon it has been apparent that our efforts have been less and less successful, and now there are no more eggs". |
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| 17 | 53 |
I stayed a long time in the washing-booth and when I came out and donned my plastic tunic it took quite some time to make the Mul-Fungus Porridge of just the consistency at which I preferred it, and then, since I had finally managed to make it the way in which it was least unpalatable, I took some t... |
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| 19 | 52 |
I was pleased to note that it was only with genuine effort that Sarm managed to control himself. |
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| 22 | 57 |
After a moment's difficulty I managed to insert the key into the lock on Misk's trunk band. |
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| 23 | 54 |
How was it that she had been captured only so recently by the creature? And if it were true that she had been captured only recently how would she have managed to live in the caverns for those days? Perhaps she might have found a sump of water but what would there have been to eat, I wondered? Perha... |
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| 25 | 2 |
They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag... |
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| 25 | 6 |
I leaped forward and thrust my hand under the wing shell and seized the short, tufted antennae and with one hand on them twisting and the other beneath the shell I slowly managed, lifting and twisting, to force the struggling creature onto its back and when it lay on its back, rocking, its short leg... |
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| 25 | 64 |
I leaped again and this time managed to fasten my fingers in the grille and cried out in pain, turning my face away from the heat and fire that seemed to transform its surface erupting over my head with torturing, savage incandescence. |
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| 25 | 87 |
I took off my sword belt and, rebuckling it, made a loop which I managed to hook over the closest ring in the shaft. |
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| 29 | 26 |
"Quick, Cabot!" she cried, "I must make a tourniquet!" I seized the limb of the man and pressing the flesh together managed to retard the bleeding. |
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| 29 | 154 |
Nonetheless, reasoning analogously from my own controls, I managed to locate the guidance sphere, by means of which one selects any one of the theoretically infinite number of directions from a given point and the dials for the height and speed control. |
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| 29 | 155 |
Once I bumped the craft rather severely into the wall of the complex and I could see the explosion of an energy bulb outside through my makeshift port, but I soon managed to bring the ship down safely. |
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| 31 | 125 |
The burst had spent itself and only managed to scorch the dome, but the next, fired through the hole already made above, might do more damage, so I changed my position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 207 |
It had been, after all, months since the Nest War and surely, by now, to some extent, Priest-Kings would have managed to restore significant portions of the equipment, devices of surveillance and control, by means of which they had, for such long millennia, managed to maintain their mastery of this ... |
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| 8 | 360 |
She had run in actual competition more than two hundred times; almost always she managed to interfere with and postpone her return to the circle; and forty times, an incredible feat, she had managed to reach the lance itself. |
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| 8 | 338 |
To my dismay, as he returned racing toward the circle of the boskhide whip the girl, a fine wench, managed to sink her teeth into the neck of the kaiila causing it to rear squealing and hissing, then striking at her. |
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| 8 | 480 |
Even if by good fortune I managed to tie Albrecht, Elizabeth would still belong to the Kassars, for Conrad had a clear win over Kamchak. |
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| 10 | 555 |
In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow. |
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| 11 | 199 |
Singing Tuchuk songs, we managed to make it back to the wagon. |
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| 12 | 260 |
We had slept late that day and finally when Kamchak managed to be up and around, after a late breakfast served rather slowly by Elizabeth, and had recollected Aphris and had opened the end of her sleeping quarters and she had crawled out backward and had begged, head to boot, to be allowed to draw w... |
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| 13 | 119 |
It had not struck back at him swiftly enough to please him, and there were only four needlelike scratches in the arm guard before Kamchak had managed to leap back and the kaiila, lunging against its chain, was snapping at him. |
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| 15 | 6 |
The cavalries of the Tuchuks, however, managed to maintain a reasonably effective blockade of land routes to Turia. |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
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| 16 | 247 |
I recalled, with a certain amount of satisfaction, even in the House of Saphrar, that I had managed to resolve most of these disputes in my favor. |
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| 20 | 15 |
Although the wall was several feet from the top of the tree I managed, by springing on one of the curved branches, to build up enough spring pressure to leap to where I could get my fingers over the edge of the wall. |
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| 20 | 16 |
I slipped with one hand and hung there, feet scraping the wall, some fifty feet from the ground, for a nasty moment, but then managed to get both hands on the edge of the wall and hoist myself up. |
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| 20 | 19 |
I managed to catch her. |
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| 20 | 136 |
I then managed to get him to the saddle and made sure he fastened the safety strap. |
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| 20 | 156 |
I was elated that we had managed to escape alive from the House of Saphrar, but I knew that I must return to the city, for I had not obtained the object for which I had come—the golden sphere—which still resided in the merchant stronghold. |
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| 21 | 300 |
I managed to slip my blade through the ribs of one man and twist to avoid the thrust of the other. |
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| 21 | 325 |
"Would you like to be my slave?" She managed to shake her head, No, a tiny motion, her eyes wide with fear. |
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| 23 | 82 |
By the time the Paravaci had reformed my Tuchuks had managed to swing the herd, slow it, get it milling about and then drive it back to a perimeter about the wagons. |
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| 23 | 199 |
I myself was anxious to return to Turia as soon as it could be well managed. |
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| 19 | 30 |
I fell down several times but the cart did not stop; each time I managed to regain my feet, though sometimes I was dragged for several yards before, nearly strangling, I managed to get up once more. |
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| 5 | 292 |
That evening, having missed the fourth feeding, she returned late to the quarters I was sharing with Misk, a number of plastic scrolls in her arms which she had managed to borrow from various humans in the Nest. |
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| 5 | 304 |
"And in that time you have not managed to bring the war to a successful conclusion?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 514 |
Once a slave girl bumped into her on one of the bridges and struck at her, thinking she was only slave, but Elizabeth, with a swift blow of her small fist, downed the girl, and managed to seize one ankle and prevent her from tumbling from the bridge. |
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| 5 | 731 |
Drawing her knees up and almost touching her chin to her chest she managed to look about as abject and abused as a poor wench might. |
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| 6 | 23 |
There was a shout from the men-at-arms and members of the House who sat at the tables as the second slave, he who had scored the first point, managed to leave a long streak of blue down the inside of the right arm of the first slave. |
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| 8 | 2 |
She was, of course, precisely where I had left her, though she had managed to lie on her side on the stones and get one or two Ahn sleep that night. |
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| 15 | 45 |
It was only on the third time that she managed to satisfy Ho-Tu, when her eyes, her lips, the carriage of her body, the words she whispered seemed to him adequate. |
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| 16 | 168 |
I bounded down the ramp, three turns, and managed to seize a fellow by the neck and arm and fling him some dozen feet to the next landing below, who had been rushing on Ho-Sorl from behind. |
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| 17 | 12 |
They were passing about a bota of paga and, between dancing and trying to hold one another up, managed to weave unsteadily by. |
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| 17 | 604 |
I dropped the doll, spun and managed to catch her wrist as she struck downward with the burning goad. |
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| 17 | 743 |
Then, between us, we managed to find tiny vials, and brooches, and beads, to use as the pieces. |
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| 19 | 342 |
I managed to hear one bid for four hundred pieces of gold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 180 |
I would note, of course, that these weaknesses, or virtues, of the men of the arsenal are, of tradition, welcomed by the Council of Captains; without them the arsenal could not be as efficiently and economically managed as it is. |
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| 10 | 224 |
Each of these cargoes I managed to sell at a considerable profit. |
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| 13 | 172 |
He, with a handful of men, had managed to escape from the holding of Henrius Sevarius. |
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| 15 | 10 |
My ten search vessels had managed to bring in five of the seven missing round ships, four of which had been, foolishly, striking out directly for Telnus in Cos. |
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| 18 | 141 |
The bird could not fly a direct line to Port Kar, because of the wind, and we managed an oblique path, cutting away from the fleet. |
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| 18 | 265 |
Telima, dignity to the winds, turned and fled down the passageway, but, before she had managed to make ten yards, she had been stung twice, and roundly, by the flat of my blade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 162 |
At last I managed to get the knife to the foot of the bed. |
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| 3 | 163 |
With my feet and body I managed to pull it up beneath me. |
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| 5 | 78 |
Sometimes these small passages were half closed with bent pipes and tangles of wire erupted from the sides, but I managed to crawl where I wished to. |
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| 7 | 75 |
Fortunately for Targo he had managed to bring his caravan to the edge of a vast Ka-la-na thicket just before the tarnsmen struck. |
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| 7 | 89 |
These were the ones he had managed to keep. |
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| 7 | 352 |
Interestingly, it was a dream in which I had managed to steal a candy and blame Lana, and she was beaten for it. |
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| 11 | 457 |
How pleased I was that I managed to remain immune to such influences, impervious to such things! I supposed that Inge might be attractive to men, to some men. |
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| 11 | 1241 |
That evening, at our meal, I managed to steal a pastry from Ute. |
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| 13 | 34 |
After a time, she managed to undo the knot. |
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| 13 | 45 |
With this tool, wedging it between the strands, I managed, after a time, to loosen them, and removed Ute's throat strap. |
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| 13 | 498 |
However, last night, and the night before, at another village, I had managed to steal meat. |
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| 15 | 158 |
When I could, of course, I managed to avoid tasks, or perform them in a hasty, slipshod manner, that I might save myself inconvenience and labor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 158 |
"I managed to exchange the threat of steel for some paltry baubles of gold," said Arn. |
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| 3 | 50 |
Most ports and islands on Thassa, of course, are not managed by the Merchants, but, commonly, by magistrates appointed by the city councils. |
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| 8 | 157 |
He then, slowly, with his fingers and teeth, managed to withdraw the cork. |
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| 8 | 270 |
Together we managed to loosen one of the saplings, and then, together, we slipped through the wall. |
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| 18 | 111 |
Further, that they might be more easily managed, and individuals removed from the chain, and perhaps abandoned, they were now fastened in lock chains. |
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| 18 | 323 |
Doubtless he would conjecture that the girls had managed to sneak behind him and strike him, thus making good their escape. |
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| 21 | 161 |
With the hammer and chisel Vinca and the paga slaves, perhaps aided by Cara, would have managed to break or open the hand chains of one of the men of Marlenus, or one of my men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 403 |
They were especially pleased when they had managed to harry one into the district of an enemy. |
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| 6 | 450 |
He had failed to capture me, and I had, eventually, managed to free Marlenus, his men and mine, and defeat Sarus. |
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| 14 | 12 |
Again I was struck from my feet, again lost my footing, and fell again, but then managed to force my way to my feet. |
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| 14 | 101 |
I managed to free myself from the crowd, and take a position on its fringe, between men and Kurii. |
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| 14 | 153 |
I managed, as the Kur was twisting his ax, trying to free it of the body, to drive my blade through its neck, under the right ear. |
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| 15 | 75 |
It had managed to put a handful of men, for a few hours, on the surface of its moon. |
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| 18 | 603 |
They had managed to flee to the ship, and make away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
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| 5 | 135 |
It was more than ten Ehn before she had managed, to the amusement of the camp, to free herself. |
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| 5 | 140 |
"There is a time for play and a time for work!" When Alyena had managed to free herself she again, hastily, weeping, lifted and placed upon her head the bag of churned verr milk, steadying it, and proceeded to deliver it to the tent of Farouk. |
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| 12 | 613 |
He broke into a run, but I managed to trip him, and Hassan leaped upon him and carried him, squirming, to the bath. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 210 |
I was not a servant! No, I was the sort of girl who had servants, who gave them their orders, who managed them and supervised them in their duties. |
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| 4 | 911 |
I managed, suffering long scratches, to extricate my right arm. |
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| 4 | 1140 |
Why then had I been bound? I had tried to resist the man for several minutes, and had managed to do so. |
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| 7 | 1012 |
But, in spite of the fact that my master, currently, seemed to be much taken with Marla, and that she was clearly the preferred bond girl in our camp, I did not feel that she had managed to negate the moments or the tacit understanding which I felt I shared with the man who owned me. |
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| 10 | 12 |
He managed me well. |
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| 13 | 332 |
"It is all right, little Dina," he said, with surprising pleasantness, considering how harshly he had managed me upon the block. |
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| 18 | 8 |
I brushed against other girls, and customers, coming and going on the wooden ramps; I managed the tray with care; it is not well to drop a tray; many girls worked at the Chatka and Curla, more than one hundred; I climbed carefully; the ramps have raised, slatted ridges; these are spaced some twenty ... |
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| 22 | 210 |
I was dragged back and submerged, but, in moments, I managed to regain the surface. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 286 |
One sped toward the shelter and leaped upward but I managed to meet its charge with the lance point and it, its face bloodied, twisted, the lance through the side of the mouth, and I managed to deflect its charge to the side and it fell, snarling, slipping free of the lance, to the side of the shelt... |
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| 1 | 40 |
Fortunes had shifted perhaps dozens of times, but never had the Kurii managed to establish a beachhead on the shores of this beautiful world. |
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| 2 | 224 |
Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a... |
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| 2 | 607 |
Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale. |
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| 3 | 277 |
He was dealing with a large fellow, corpulent and gross, who managed one of the booths. |
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| 3 | 378 |
I would have preferred to have had better odds, but I had managed to place my bet before they had more than doubled against poor Centius of Cos. |
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| 6 | 900 |
Ram, with his left hand on the tarn harness, managed to get his right hand on her arm. |
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| 10 | 58 |
"Your tavern, now," I said, "seems to be managed by one called Sarpelius". |
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| 10 | 103 |
One ship would have done little to alleviate the distress, the danger of starvation, even had it managed to slip through the air blockade of the Kurii's tarnsmen. |
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| 10 | 261 |
Why did it not yield? Two or three times, at certain points, I learned, the wall had buckled, but, each time, men managed to repair it in time. |
10 |
| 11 | 393 |
I had not managed to overtake them until late afternoon. |
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| 20 | 158 |
Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin. |
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| 24 | 1 |
We Hold Converse in the Hut of Imnak; A Decision is Reached; I Permit Arlene to Share my Furs "It is fortunate for me, perhaps," said Ram, to Karjuk, in Imnak's hut, "that you were trailing the ice beast and managed to kill it". |
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| 26 | 211 |
Imnak had managed only to build two rows, and part of a third, in the shelter. |
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| 31 | 222 |
"We have also, where we knew of Kurii groups, sometimes managed to bring in egg-carriers and blood-nursers". |
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| 35 | 78 |
In short order I managed to find one of the ventilator shafts through which fresh air was drawn into the complex; there was a system of such shafts, some for drawing in fresh air and others for expelling used, stale air. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 7 |
I had managed to get my foot on the lower jaw and, with the shovel, pry up the jaw, releasing the hold on the lacerated leg of Ayari, who, bleeding, scrambled back. |
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| 24 | 74 |
Then I managed to get beneath the canoe and stood up, suddenly, screaming, tipping its occupants into the water. |
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| 31 | 29 |
I doubt that anyone in the village knew more than a few dozen words of Ushindi, but Ayari, with his Ushindi, his gestures, his quick wit and a stick, with which he drew in the dust of the village, not only conducted his trading in a brisk and genial fashion but managed to gather valuable information... |
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| 34 | 3 |
It swerved, slashing with its curved tusks, and I only managed to turn it aside with the point of the raider's spear I carried, one of four such weapons we had had since our brief skirmish with raiders, that in which we had obtained our canoe, that which had occurred in the marsh east of Ushindi. |
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| 36 | 10 |
We had managed to put them to good use. |
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| 53 | 503 |
Finally, with tourniquets, we managed to slow, and then stop, the bleeding. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 216 |
I hoped, somehow, she had managed to escape the cruel fate of female slavery. |
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| 13 | 60 |
"I did not know, with the state of your finances, that you had managed to retain it," said the Lady Florence. |
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| 13 | 121 |
Small saddle tharlarion are generally managed by snout reins. |
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| 13 | 123 |
Draft tharlarion are harnessed, and can be managed either by men, or usually boys, who walk beside them, or by reins and whips, controlled by drivers, men mounted in drawn wagons. |
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| 13 | 909 |
He managed his shop, however, in Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 86 |
"Do you think she managed to escape?" I asked. |
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| 5 | 39 |
I think he was startled that he managed to strike home so seldom. |
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| 8 | 9 |
I had managed to accumulate two silver tarsks and some sixteen copper tarsks. |
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| 30 | 175 |
He could always maintain later that he had managed to escape from Tasdron's confinement. |
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| 31 | 158 |
The polelike spokes, of course, by which the windlass is normally turned, or managed, should be freed of the windlass before this is done, a disengagement which is effected by loosing the pin-and-lock devices and withdrawing the poles from the windlass. |
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| 33 | 16 |
I had been captured, and had managed to escape. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 178 |
To be sure, amidst the wreckage and crowding, and even grinding against the chain, the fleet of the Voskjard had managed to come about. |
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| 7 | 57 |
They had managed, almost like a fortress of wood, three ships jammed together, surrounded, under fire, beleaguered, to repel assault after assault, pouring over the rails of enemy vessels. |
10 |
| 10 | 57 |
I had managed to rescue Miles of Vonda and Krondar, his slave, from the dark, wreckage-strewn water. |
10 |
| 16 | 135 |
Then suddenly I realized I might have but moments before the ship managed to free itself and back into the river. |
10 |
| 20 | 59 |
I doubted that Melpomene, whose slave heat had been ignited, could have managed to dance in such a refined fashion before men. |
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| 20 | 64 |
Too, of course, doubtless their master would keep a close eye on them, at least until he had managed to get a good price for them. |
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| 20 | 1818 |
She is a property, an animal, and is thus to be managed strictly, and held in no regard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 268 |
To be sure, I had managed, long ago, to return the last female egg of Priest-Kings to the Nest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 34 |
In such a grouping it may be easily controlled and managed. |
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| 14 | 76 |
Alfred had managed to escape with a mounted force of perhaps some four hundred riders. |
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| 18 | 192 |
I did not think that I would have managed as well had I been a white female slave. |
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| 18 | 379 |
It seemed to me I could not have done better unless I had managed to speak, perhaps, to one such as Mahpiyasapa. |
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| 44 | 346 |
"It is my doing! I told them! In my lodge I overheard this foolish slave mention the place and time of the council! I tricked him into loosening my gag! I managed later, before being dragged from the Yellow-Knife camp, to rid myself of it! I then, in Yellow Knife, informed my people of your future w... |
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| 44 | 571 |
One man, with the downward momentum of the slope, managed to leap his kaiila over the lower barricade. |
10 |
| 44 | 572 |
Two others, on foot, crawling through the barricade, managed to escape. |
10 |
| 46 | 141 |
Then Yellow Knives, in sufficient numbers, had managed to turn and face us. |
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| 47 | 108 |
There were eighteen of these beasts, that which had been a Kinyanpi mount which had come to us on the prairie, the two wild tarns we had captured by means of the tarn pits, and the fifteen tarns we had managed to secure in our subsequent raid. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 174 |
I straightened up, and, turning about, pulled away from him, as though I had managed to free myself. |
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| 15 | 281 |
Such girls are sometimes used as beggars, distributed about a city by wagon in the morning, and then picked up again at night, with whatever earnings they may have managed to obtain during the day. |
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| 19 | 101 |
When you have managed to learn to do that properly, I will give you further instructions". |
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| 30 | 567 |
I had managed to escape. |
10 |
| 33 | 62 |
The best that I could hope for was to prepare the way for the victorious forces of Argentum, which I managed to do. |
10 |
| 34 | 204 |
"Yes," said Ligurious, "that sort of thing, precisely, and well would you have served such purposes had you not managed to escape from the camp of Argentum". |
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| 36 | 524 |
I wondered if they listened to the lies they were told to tell themselves, and if they managed to believe them, or if they found much enjoyment in treading the dry, narrow, walled paths set out for them. |
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| 36 | 892 |
In two ways then may the risk, the danger, and the delicious seductive menace of her beauty be dealt with and managed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 438 |
When you have managed that, then begin with the first letter of the alphabet, Al-Ka, and continue writing the alphabet in order, over and over, once more on all available squares, until you arrive at the last square on the board. |
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| 16 | 32 |
"Away, away!" I say, he kept repeating, and at last had managed, bit by bit, yank by yank, to free the sword. |
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| 16 | 414 |
Still, in the comedic situation, given their characterizations, they strove, successfully, I think, to give the impression of free women being forced to move in this fashion and yet, at the same time, marvelously, managed to be sexually attractive. |
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| 18 | 138 |
"After, it might be mentioned," added Belnar, "he managed somehow to escape from others". |
10 |
| 18 | 400 |
"It would only be necessary that he had managed to have a key earlier". |
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| 18 | 514 |
Too, I had gathered that many of the courtiers, scions of an ilk not signally noted for its valor, those who had seen me in the hall, had perhaps managed to resist the temptation to join heartily in a search which might be not without its dangers. |
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| 19 | 165 |
In this fashion, he had doubtless managed to save his life. |
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| 22 | 90 |
"Fortunately I managed to seize the wire each time. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 44 |
It had been with difficulty that Hurtha and I had managed to put them there. |
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| 16 | 1725 |
I wished that I had managed to handle my large friend as neatly as Gnieus Sorissius, even if he was from Brundisium. |
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| 25 | 1530 |
In a moment or two, I had managed to catch the eye of Louise. |
10 |
| 25 | 1592 |
Boots, I was sure, could have managed it while engaged in face-to-face conversation. |
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| 26 | 1600 |
I had managed its length with the quiva, of course. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 116 |
I wondered what it might mean, that men, until we had managed to turn them against themselves, until we had managed to tie and cripple them, were so much stronger, so much more powerful, than we. |
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| 3 | 653 |
How absurd it seemed! Did he not know that women could do anything with impunity, that no matter what we did, even if it were to bring about the destruction of a man's manhood and the ruination of his life, we were never punished? And yet this man seemed ready to punish me for so little as a lie, or... |
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| 6 | 116 |
I managed to adjust it a little, so it was a bit more comfortable. |
10 |
| 6 | 487 |
I managed it. |
10 |
| 13 | 215 |
"But doubtless," he said, "even if you somehow managed to escape the collar on your own world, to be caught and rightfully wear it here, women such as you are almost universally held in bondage on Earth". |
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| 29 | 712 |
We lost it many times, but, each time, managed to find it again. |
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| 29 | 936 |
I did not even know if he had managed to strike the sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 346 |
This pole is normally managed by two operators. |
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| 2 | 43 |
"Some managed to flee". |
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| 2 | 54 |
"Several times," said he, "but each time the defenders have managed to hold the breach, and repair the wall". |
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| 6 | 392 |
"Fortunately I managed to elude them," she said. |
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| 8 | 612 |
I had thought I might wait on the platform in case the fellow managed to reach it, and then take flight, but it did not seem now that he would get this far, at least this morning. |
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| 9 | 38 |
That I had managed. |
10 |
| 13 | 57 |
"And many, most, I suspect, of those women of Ar's Station who had not managed to flee earlier, at the approach of Cos, or somehow escape the city, are in the citadel". |
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| 17 | 27 |
One, a foot thick and twenty feet in length, managed by ten men with ropes, mounted at an angle of some twenty degrees on an improvised pivot of heaped stone, swept the bridge an instant after it struck the crenelation, then tumbled off, used once, to fall behind the parapet. |
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| 17 | 224 |
Armed with the spear, which is some fifteen feet in length, like a third- or fourth-rank phalanx spear, I reached over the wall and managed to get it against the top rung of the ladder. |
10 |
| 17 | 247 |
This time I managed to get the spear into the center of the right upright. |
10 |
| 17 | 253 |
But then, again, I managed to get the point on the upright. |
10 |
| 17 | 273 |
How had the ladder I had repelled managed to reach the height of the wall? I went to my left and bent over the crenelation, leaning over the wall. |
10 |
| 18 | 462 |
"I see that you have managed to find a tunic," I said to one of them. |
10 |
| 19 | 237 |
I do not think I could have managed this as little as a quarter of an Ahn earlier. |
10 |
| 19 | 257 |
If he did, and managed to reach the wreckage, I would be waiting there, sword drawn. |
10 |
| 21 | 269 |
Then, having managed to adjust somewhat to the light, and managing to achieve some grasp of her surroundings, and seeing in the midst of what men she knelt, she looked about herself wildly, in consternation. |
10 |
| 24 | 146 |
I wondered if he had managed to secure redemption from some passing Cosian, perhaps a comrade in arms who might have recognized him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 349 |
It had been he who had managed to convey Ar's Station's half of the topaz to Port Cos, which action had resulted in the redemption of the pledge of the topaz, bringing the forces of Port Cos, and apparently, in the process, ships of the Vosk League, as well, to Ar's Station, to evacuate the piers, t... |
10 |
| 3 | 42 |
They had not managed to find him, I am pleased to report, or at least to their knowledge. |
10 |
| 17 | 119 |
In a few moments I had managed to piece together the latest intelligence, this from the north, from the right. |
10 |
| 17 | 122 |
The standard bearer for the 17th, or, as it seemed, a fellow who had taken up the standard, and some others, had managed to reach our column. |
10 |
| 17 | 134 |
I wondered how it was that these fellows from the 17th, and perhaps from the 3rd, and 4th, the two columns associated with the 17th, had managed to reach our column. |
10 |
| 17 | 349 |
My hands manacled before me I managed to free the harness from the raft. |
10 |
| 19 | 19 |
I did not think that a lure girl, for example, could have managed that particular note of terror in the scream. |
10 |
| 19 | 20 |
It might, on the other hand, I supposed, be managed quite easily by a bait girl, tethered, bound, to a stake like a verr, by rencer hunters to attract dangerous prey, usually tharlarion. |
10 |
| 19 | 230 |
Twice I managed to hack at the jaw. |
10 |
| 19 | 769 |
Once my hand slipped inside the lower jaw and I managed to withdraw it only an instant before the upper jaw, like the lid of a box, snapped shut against the lower. |
10 |
| 19 | 771 |
I then managed, hanging there, swinging, when it again achieved some stability, to transfer the sword to my left hand, under the wing. |
10 |
| 27 | 67 |
Then he managed to grasp it with one hand, then two. |
10 |
| 27 | 97 |
"How have you managed to live in the delta?" he asked. |
10 |
| 27 | 259 |
"—whom I managed to save," I said. |
10 |
| 28 | 162 |
"I think that we all, here and there, in our time, have managed that". |
10 |
| 28 | 494 |
"How many do you think managed to withdraw safely?" he asked. |
10 |
| 28 | 502 |
"Even if five thousand managed to withdraw," I said, "that would still constitute one of the greatest of military disasters in the history of the planet". |
10 |
| 28 | 688 |
In a moment she managed to adjust the slave strips. |
10 |
| 29 | 46 |
Blinking against the water I seized Titus' spear and managed to drive it into the side of the beast. |
10 |
| 30 | 13 |
We had managed to use its righted shell as part of the cover in one of our camps, digging sleeping places beneath it. |
10 |
| 40 | 61 |
Those who managed to escape back through the tunnel could then be dealt with at their leisure, as they would then be too few to resist even a modest set of coordinated assaults. |
10 |
| 44 | 118 |
I managed, however, to thrust it up. |
10 |
| 46 | 262 |
I had barely managed to block his blow. |
10 |
| 46 | 321 |
There was no way that Ina could have managed to hide there. |
10 |
| 48 | 119 |
"You managed quite well until yesterday morning," I said, "and doubtless, with effort, can do so again". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 313 |
Dietrich, finally understanding the treason in Ar, in high places, had managed to effect a withdrawal from Torcadino. |
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| 1 | 318 |
But the city was now under the governance of the regent, Gnieus Lelius, who, I had little doubt, might have efficiently managed a well-ordered polity under normal conditions, but was an unlikely leader in a time of darkness, crisis and terror. |
10 |
| 2 | 70 |
Some of these, of course, had managed to find their way back to Ar. |
10 |
| 3 | 103 |
She who managed to obtain it received one point for her master. |
10 |
| 3 | 206 |
The lad from Rarir, as I understood it, then managed to pierce the guard of his opponent and thrust the staff into the fellow's chest. |
10 |
| 3 | 437 |
I thought the blonde had very successfully managed to divert the master's wrath, assuming that was what she was up to. |
10 |
| 3 | 968 |
He might have managed this. |
10 |
| 3 | 979 |
I myself thought I might have managed a bit more than that. |
10 |
| 7 | 528 |
It was not so clear, I now realized, that she had managed to guarantee and secure her own hegemony indefinitely. |
10 |
| 12 | 166 |
How had he managed to wait so long? What a superb slave, what a marvelous slave, and she is his! His! Let us suppose now he loves her, and she him. |
10 |
| 17 | 300 |
I was pleased that they had managed to get the name right the second time. |
10 |
| 18 | 555 |
"What about two gold pieces?" "It can be managed," I assured him. |
10 |
| 19 | 451 |
Surely only such would have been likely to have managed a tryst with the famous, handsome Milo. |
10 |
| 19 | 490 |
Perhaps, however, for what it might have been worth, she might have managed to receive a woeful glance or two, or a kissing of her gloved fingers. |
10 |
| 19 | 492 |
How proud she might have been that she, of all women, as far as she knew, had managed to attract the marvelous Milo! Then, when she had kept the tryst, entering into the assignation, and had stripped herself and knelt on the couch, eager, waiting, amorous, careless and adventurous, the net had falle... |
10 |
| 20 | 593 |
"You would be fortunate if you managed to get the stone as far as the Teiban Market," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 319 |
"Yes," I said, rather pleased that I had, for once, managed to startle the great Boots Tarsk-Bit, or Renato, the Great, as he now called himself. |
10 |
| 23 | 436 |
"I am pleased," said Marcus, "that we managed to persuade him to accept the money". |
10 |
| 24 | 98 |
In it women, slave and free, are helpless and easily managed. |
10 |
| 25 | 63 |
"Do not hurt her!" Appanius drew back the staff again to thrust at Lavinia, but then I managed to get my hands on it, and held it back, away from the slaves. |
10 |
| 28 | 153 |
"I managed to elude them," he said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 994 |
"It seems that you managed to do something," said Aynur. |
10 |
| 8 | 906 |
How we are controlled and managed! My scent then would be redolent in the dark folds of the heavy cloth, but nonetheless I must wrap it about me. |
10 |
| 10 | 691 |
With respect to heat it is my supposition that blondes, at least if properly managed and disciplined, are also responsive and passionate. |
10 |
| 10 | 829 |
Perhaps some women might have managed it, even in constraints as I was, but I was not one of them. |
10 |
| 14 | 21 |
You might even have managed somehow to escape punishment for the inadvertence. |
10 |
| 18 | 136 |
I had usually managed to gratify myself by having her slave-garbed in a way far more revealing than I was. |
10 |
| 19 | 264 |
Perhaps they, who might otherwise have been dismissed as pathetic misfits, as simple failures in nature, had managed to construct a social niche for themselves, perhaps by inventing and providing a service. |
10 |
| 24 | 207 |
Those who had been here, who had managed the matter, had fled. |
10 |
| 31 | 203 |
"These sleen of Treve would have managed that". |
10 |
| 33 | 46 |
A trailer is usually a smaller beast, and one more easily managed, but it is, when all is said and done, a sleen, and trailers not unoften, at the hunt's end, their instincts preponderating, break loose for the kill. |
10 |
| 37 | 987 |
Instead, he has only managed, unbeknownst to himself, to inform me that he is still alive". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 168 |
Though she had scarcely managed to take her eyes from the couple during the performance, and had sat there, breathing quickly, heart beating rapidly, tense, nervous, excited the whole time, she had had no intention of approaching them again. |
10 |
| 12 | 238 |
This can be managed by pulling it down an inch or so at the waist, but then, of course, it can go only so far, being stopped by the width of the hips, which she had, more than once, abraded. |
10 |
| 12 | 272 |
If she managed to elude one master, and were not, when captured, returned to him, perhaps for mutilation and hamstringing, she would soon find herself in the power of another, and doubtless one far less likely than the first to treat her with trust and lenience, to mistakenly indulge her with abusab... |
10 |
| 16 | 1394 |
Barzak, who was brawny, had managed this, she supposed. |
10 |
| 17 | 316 |
She managed well enough with the first fellow. |
10 |
| 17 | 1111 |
You managed this thing well. |
10 |
| 22 | 255 |
In the Gorean theory, as slaves are animals, they may be managed by any free person, or, indeed, any designated slave. |
10 |
| 25 | 204 |
She was grateful to 115, for her boldness, however deferentially it had been proffered, and the welcome intelligence she had managed to obtain. |
10 |
| 25 | 1049 |
She had somehow managed to keep position. |
10 |
| 27 | 147 |
It surely made it difficult to keep the tunic down about her thighs, but it could be managed somewhat by a bit of judicious, if embarrassing, squirming. |
10 |
| 27 | 1182 |
"It is interesting," said the spokesman, "that out of the hundreds of wagons leaving the festival camp at Brundisium, and days later, in the vastness of these grasslands, the Cosians managed to locate you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 193 |
We are not clear, given the small size of the moon, a mere several pasangs in diameter, how this was managed. |
10 |
| 1 | 700 |
She tried to imitate them, but managed, one supposes, to do little more than replicate a handful of disjointed phonemes. |
10 |
| 4 | 194 |
"Things, I think, might be managed differently," he said. |
10 |
| 9 | 34 |
Even in the container Cabot recalled she had managed to repeat several phonemes flawlessly. |
10 |
| 10 | 194 |
She managed to grasp one of its two handles in her teeth, and lift, with a tiny sound of the chain, and right the pan. |
10 |
| 16 | 92 |
Then, on a fourth try, she managed, sliding and slipping, to attain the surface, but was there seized by one of the humans, who then thrust her back, rolling down the incline, to its bottom. |
10 |
| 24 | 194 |
"They have found the body," said Grendel, "that of he from whom I obtained the key to your chains, he who managed the sheds in which the breeding shackles are stored". |
10 |
| 42 | 138 |
He had managed, despite the desperation and rapidity with which he clambered upward, to ascend only thirty or forty feet on the wide rungs, when he pitched backward, to the floor. |
10 |
| 44 | 39 |
Certainly they had managed to bring humans from the sport cylinder into Agamemnon's cylinder, the main world, and had released, for better or for worse, the killer humans from their cages and training areas. |
10 |
| 47 | 5 |
Few had managed to climb more than ten to fifteen yards onto the cap, from the cylinder surface. |
10 |
| 51 | 172 |
How else could it have been managed? And he sent her ahead to Agamemnon, doubtless with signs, and countersigns. |
10 |
| 53 | 96 |
They had been fired on, twice, by Kur patrols, but had managed to elude them, once by taking refuge within a shambling herd of cattle humans, and once by slipping into an area within which it was unlikely, in any event, that power weapons would be employed. |
10 |
| 63 | 149 |
With these three charges, he had managed to hit one other Kur. |
10 |
| 64 | 112 |
After several days, miserable and half starving, still helplessly braceleted, she had stumbled upon a womb tunnel, in which she took shelter, and in which she managed to feed on the remains of small scavengers and compete with them for the nourishing blood ensuing so liberally from the rent wombs, c... |
10 |
| 64 | 115 |
Supposedly it was after this that she had been captured by human patrols and back-braceleted, patrols from which, however, she had managed to escape, this accounting for the condition in which Lord Grendel and his confreres had found her. |
10 |
| 69 | 26 |
They would be kept and managed with perfection. |
10 |
| 77 | 126 |
Doubtless Cabot wished that the slave might have reached the safety of the forest, a desiderated outcome, where she might, a fleet, collared human female, have managed to elude a lame Kur, but he was not surprised when she failed to do so. |
10 |
| 78 | 162 |
Flavion managed to turn himself to his stomach and began to crawl on the bloody stumps, leaving prints and tracks of blood in the dust, toward the gate, but could approach it no more closely than some four or five yards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 212 |
Doubtless unwisely, I managed, with great difficulty, to open the trap, and the beast, freed, withdrew, vanished, limping, into the brush. |
10 |
| 5 | 186 |
It had been in my knapsack and I had managed to slip it free and let it fall to the snow, which it melted, for yards about. |
10 |
| 5 | 489 |
And when some managed to reach Ar, they found her surrendered to the enemy, garrisoned by the foe. |
10 |
| 5 | 1045 |
I recalled how they had, as related to me, cut their way through several fellows of Ar to reach the pomerium, from whence they, together doubtless with other remnants of garrisons which had managed to escape the city, had joined in the general retreat from Ar. |
10 |
| 13 | 167 |
I supposed there were bounties on certain citizens of Ar, who had managed to escape the wrath of vengeful crowds, the pursuits of licensed and unlicensed capture squads. |
10 |
| 13 | 315 |
At the wall they managed to fight their way free to the outer country, and join Cosians in retreat. |
10 |
| 14 | 56 |
More practical on the whole, I thought, everything considered, would be the metal buckler, smaller and easily managed, with one hand, rather than an entire arm. |
10 |
| 24 | 75 |
Perhaps a subtler individual might have managed something. |
10 |
| 25 | 104 |
But the Gorean Assassin, he of the Black Caste, is not a naive, twisted, deluded, managed beast serving the purposes of others, but a professional killer. |
10 |
| 28 | 54 |
I put my back under the wagon, facing backward, and, straightening a little, managed to lift it from the mud, and thrust it forward a foot or two. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 353 |
Some remnants, haggard, exhausted, disheveled, half-starving, ill, harried, pursued, managed to fight their way back to the Vosk, and of these some managed, overland, fugitives amongst swarming enemies, to return to Ar. |
10 |
| 1 | 340 |
One of the greatest fortunes amassed in the city was that of a mysterious, shadowy individual supposedly named "Ludmilla," who owned, and, through subordinates, managed, a series of large, ornate slave brothels in the city. |
10 |
| 3 | 173 |
Other beauties of Ar were put in the taverns and brothels, several of which the Ubara owned and managed under the false name of Ludmilla. |
10 |
| 8 | 329 |
"We are managed by first girls, large tharlarion-like women, female whip slaves". |
10 |
| 9 | 406 |
Their final intention, in any case, I suspected, was to put together a formidable force as quickly as possible, a force of skilled and dangerous men, men free of certain indigenous and traditional loyalties, which, disciplined, and closely managed, might in unfamiliar, remote venues be well applied ... |
10 |
| 12 | 29 |
It takes time for one of the land, say, an infantryman like myself, to accustom himself to the sea, but I had managed this well enough, quickly enough, after two or three days in the Metioche, but this had little prepared me for the high watch here, with the distance and violence of the mast's motio... |
10 |
| 14 | 334 |
He struck again, and I managed to grasp his wrist, with two hands, and we turned in the water amidst the vines, struggling, thrashing about. |
10 |
| 16 | 323 |
Some of the enemy managed to reach the nets, as well, and began to climb, but, after a few yards, they dropped back in the water and swam to the wreckage of the galley, and that of some small boats, from which they were drawn to the deck of the warning ship, now falling back. |
10 |
| 20 | 91 |
"Behold," laughed a man, "young, unmated she-sleen!" "Yes," said another, "in the late spring!" I guessed it was not easy to reach into that turning, twisting, rolling, screaming, sobbing, hysterical, biting, scratching frenzy but one fellow managed to get one hand in Iole's hair and one in that of ... |
10 |
| 21 | 205 |
Linguistic drift, at least on the continent, is managed by the standardization promulgated in scribal conferences held during the great fairs, held four times annually in the vicinity of the Sardar. |
10 |
| 22 | 186 |
Another was striking downward and I managed to bend forward and catch it behind the blade, though I was forced down to one knee. |
10 |
| 29 | 16 |
I did not think he had managed this business, though, at present, it seemed he was its spokesman. |
10 |
| 30 | 83 |
"Do you think, upon reflection, good Tyrtaios," asked Lord Okimoto, "that our friend, Tereus, a simple oarsman, could have managed so much, so well?" "He spoke for the desertion, he led the flight, he was first through the gate," said Seremides. |
10 |
| 33 | 155 |
Indeed, as the stocking and tending of such gardens is often managed by independent companies, staffed with professionals, he is likely to have several girls in his gardens whom he, personally, has never seen. |
10 |
| 35 | 110 |
It is ruled by a Merchant Council, with its day to day affairs managed by an executive committee, chief of which is the harbor master. |
10 |
| 37 | 73 |
How easily a slave may be managed, and controlled, by such things! Must she wait? Will one choose to satisfy them, and how often, and in what way, and to what extent? A red-silk slave is often deprived of attention for some days, say, four or five, before being brought to the block, that she may wri... |
10 |
| 37 | 358 |
I did not know if she could have managed to stand much longer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 184 |
But how could these men have known of this, how could they have managed to see the film? Had it been stolen? Had it been given to them? Had it been sold to them? "It may be a long time," said another, "before you are again permitted a garment as concealing as a camisk". |
10 |
| 5 | 231 |
I managed to kneel, and make my way to him. |
10 |
| 7 | 354 |
These suspicions and promptings, such thoughts, were not only incompatible with my dignity and self-respect, but incompatible with the conventions and proprieties in terms of which my life was to be managed. |
10 |
| 8 | 150 |
As the city or state is managed by men, and is armed, it is feared. |
10 |
| 10 | 1171 |
It, and its pricings, are not to be managed, or controlled. |
10 |
| 19 | 107 |
Such things were managed by the masters. |
10 |
| 24 | 151 |
If they managed this carnage, nine men, quite possibly with ease, with little or no cost to themselves, it seems they might do as well with, say, five men. |
10 |
| 35 | 68 |
Thus, at the end of the first phase one would have a conquered world putatively shared by men and Kurii, men who have served Kurii, and Kurii who have directed and managed men, the men unaware of their manipulation, all this theoretically achieved in compliance with the weapon and technology laws of... |
10 |
| 41 | 28 |
The greatest victory of the insurgents had occurred on the ninth day of the insurrection, when they had managed to trap, attack, and destroy the most recent body of Agamemnon, the large, mobile, crab-like machine which had been, as it turned out, fearsomely effective in the halls. |
10 |
| 43 | 12 |
Thanks to him, we later managed to adopt the very Kur device, the card codes, to our own purposes. |
10 |
| 45 | 154 |
Even so I barely managed to swing about the rock behind which Tiresias was waiting. |
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| 49 | 8 |
To be sure, the Lady Bina, though strict, following the counsel of the Lady Delia, who had clear ideas as to how a slave girl should be owned, managed, and worked, was a good Mistress. |
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| 49 | 39 |
Tiresias had managed to get the larl to cross the entryway of the great portal on the night of my return to the Cave simply enough, by luring it with food from the opposite side. |
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| 49 | 70 |
Lucius had not managed to secure the governance of the Cave and Agamemnon was deemed to have lost it, for, given the decimation of his chief supporters, he no longer had the power to impose discipline and order. |
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| 49 | 79 |
It is possible they managed to make their way to some sort of safety. |
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| 49 | 81 |
Perhaps they managed to reach one of these enclaves. |
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| 49 | 84 |
But perhaps, too, they managed, somehow, to return to a steel world, not their original world, on which they would be unwelcome, but another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 231 |
To be sure, she had not managed to reach the stairs. |
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| 9 | 302 |
Interestingly the two large boxes, which had been covered with canvas on the open deck, concerning which the mariners had been so careful, were consigned to four men each, who managed them, each box, by lashings and two poles. |
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| 21 | 358 |
Tyrtaios pointed to the first beast, that which had managed the communication device, and held the bottle toward it. |
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| 31 | 48 |
This was managed by Hiza and Emerald. |
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| 33 | 20 |
How ironic, I thought, that I had managed to escape Shipcamp, but only in this fashion. |
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| 35 | 60 |
Nothing would have been different, even had I managed to cry out. |
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| 42 | 157 |
Happily, they had managed to arrive in time, moments before, it seemed, the sleen would feed. |
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| 46 | 47 |
Suppose I managed to cross the river, and make my way south, what then? Had I then escaped, truly? Could I escape? I was even a barbarian, who might still be betrayed by her accent, and doubtless, indefinitely, by her ignorance of any number of things, such as customs, sayings, legends, stories, his... |
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| 50 | 349 |
So, I thought, I have, at last, managed to cross the river! He then reentered the boat and undid the ropage which had bound my ankles and legs. |
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| 50 | 420 |
As the beams were heavy their lifting and lowering was managed by a system of counterweights. |
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| 52 | 488 |
Master Axel had somehow managed to contact this latter group, bringing it into play. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 |
It was with difficulty that we had managed to extricate the remnants of the landing force from the beach. |
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| 1 | 33 |
Later we had managed to attain the castle of Lord Temmu which was, indeed, still in his hands. |
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| 1 | 71 |
Of the one hundred and forty tarns which we had managed to bring across Thassa to the World's End, we now had fifty one, including the two which Pertinax and I had brought to the castle weeks ago, in reporting to Lord Temmu. |
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| 1 | 85 |
How had it been that several men, perhaps altogether some eight hundred or so, had managed, by various routes, undetected, to converge simultaneously on a supposedly secret camp? And it seemed that these men must have been especially trained, or warned, about what they would find once the battle was... |
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| 1 | 146 |
Only myself, and those of the tarn command, insofar as it could be managed, would know the place of the camp, which I must soon determine. |
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| 3 | 20 |
How else might the raid on the encampment been as deftly managed? An awareness of the signs would have been initially important, as much so, I supposed, as forged commands, bearing fraudulent seals. |
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| 13 | 322 |
I well ensnared him on Earth, with a word, a gesture, a smile, and then, when he was hopelessly mine, devoted, complaisant, and managed, he would accompany me in my work". |
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| 37 | 67 |
"I anticipate that Tajima's tarn, unburdened, managed to reach its cot in the encampment of tarns," I said. |
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| 37 | 69 |
If he managed to do so, well and good. |
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| 38 | 76 |
I wondered how Haruki had managed to recruit his small legions. |
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| 45 | 32 |
I had even managed such a device. |
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| 46 | 204 |
It was with some difficulty that he managed to extricate the blade. |
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| 47 | 225 |
"One once managed two arrows, but none three". |
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| 54 | 100 |
"I do not know if he managed to escape the camp," said Tajima. |
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| 61 | 3 |
The ship of Tersites had demonstrated the possibility of reaching the World's End, and, then, the River Dragon, in turn, inspirited by the success of the ship of Tersites, had dared Thassa, as well, but then eastward, and had managed to make the great harbor at Brundisium. |
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| 61 | 425 |
Given the higher rank and the usual circumspection of Lord Okimoto, on which I had counted, I had managed to halt their march, at least temporarily, and purchase some days of truce, while messages were being exchanged between their road camp and the distant holding of the northern shogun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 396 |
In the intervening days, and weeks, I had managed to regain much of my equilibrium. |
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| 1 | 474 |
Perhaps a second person might have managed something but my hands were so closely pinioned that I could scarcely angle a pin into a lock, let alone address one directly, and the nail file was too short, as I could hold it, to do more than rest on the metal, and my fingers were too weak to exert more... |
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| 8 | 156 |
At last, by the use of my hands, I managed to struggle, slowly, painfully, to my knees, before him, my head over his feet. |
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| 9 | 553 |
I had always managed men, quite well. |
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| 27 | 166 |
He then reached about, and then apparently managed at last to grasp the guide stick, and, once again, it was perpendicular to my neck. |
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| 48 | 77 |
It was not easy for her to free herself, but, after a bit, she had managed to do so. |
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| 64 | 303 |
"I am pleased," said Lord Grendel to Surtak, "that you managed to keep our prearranged appointment, at the agreed-upon caravanserai, that we might be apprised as to what has ensued in Ar". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 95 |
Sometimes, as far as we could tell, from shouts and conversations, it seemed the fire was on the verge of being managed, if not extinguished, and then, later, it seemed it raged even more fiercely. |
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| 8 | 636 |
"And to think," said Euphrosyne, laughing, "I put myself into the sea, and might have been eaten by sharks! What a fool I was! I did not know! Who could have known! How glorious, how fortunate, that I managed to return to the ship! There is now nothing to fear!" I myself was not sure of that. |
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| 11 | 287 |
In a moment, holding it in place, against the walkway, with my mouth, I had, in a few bites, managed to finish the roll. |
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| 13 | 188 |
In order that her disappearance might be successfully managed, she changed her name and changed caravans at the caravanserai of Hogarth on the Viktel Aria. |
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| 15 | 170 |
Lastly, there seemed much agreement now that the elusive Talena of Ar, the much-sought fugitive from the justice of Marlenus of Ar, had, at long last, after many subterfuges, escapes, and hazards, managed to reach the safety of her ally, Cos, where she was now an honored guest in the palace of Luriu... |
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| 23 | 120 |
I managed the matter, and then put my head down, submissively. |
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| 33 | 607 |
I had managed to escape, I was sure, from terrible danger. |
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| 33 | 664 |
It was one of these remnants in virtue of which I had managed to free myself. |
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| 34 | 68 |
"You managed to seize upon a bit of flotsam, some debris," he said, "enabling you to free yourself". |
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| 34 | 84 |
"As there were several of them, and armed, I suspect that some, at least, managed to return to the city". |
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| 38 | 91 |
I was unfamiliar with the number and layering of robes, the arrangement of veils, even the mysterious hooks and fastenings which somehow managed to bring together and secure the often-sumptuous ensemble of the Gorean free woman. |
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| 40 | 126 |
I had not realized that the holding had managed to place a spy in the camp of Pa-Kur. |
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| 40 | 332 |
It did not seem that her beauty had managed to purchase her an exemption from the common chores of slaves. |
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| 41 | 94 |
The intruders had not managed to seize the holding in a single, fierce sweep of force. |
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| 46 | 130 |
Indeed, had he managed to escape the marshes alive? In any event, Dorna was no longer the property of the Golden Chain. |
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| 47 | 223 |
"I managed to seize a piece of drifting wreckage, from Pa-Kur's canal boat," I said, "and utilized it to free myself". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59 | 202 |
This would be most easily managed if some of the corsairs had managed to reach the coast of Chios near Mytilene, and then fallen into the power of locals, or the armed Peasantry, which had lifted the siege of Mytilene. |
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| 2 | 99 |
Such things are managed, for well or ill, by the hereditary coils. |
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| 3 | 29 |
This anomalous claim was the only clue, if it were a clue, I had so far managed to find as to the nature and whereabouts of the mysterious raiders perpetrating slaughter and rapine in my name. |
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| 14 | 10 |
Too, if raiders or allies of raiders managed to muster a ship or ships, we might always, well warned by lookouts posted, depart or, if it seemed to our advantage, meet them at sea. |
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| 22 | 77 |
Now there were seven enemy ships, each of fifty-oars, a far more formidable fleet than the one we had managed to destroy by trickery. |
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| 22 | 120 |
"Managed by the Three Ubaras," said Sakim. |
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| 23 | 8 |
"At least," said Sakim, "we have managed to discomfit and annoy the enemy". |
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| 27 | 13 |
The Gambling House of the Golden Urt, managed by the 'Three Ubaras', was on Garland Street in Sybaris. |
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| 29 | 20 |
I had even managed, given the sorry condition of their original clothing, following their experiences at sea, to supply them with a fresh, ample wardrobe, footwear, robes and veils, purchased locally. |
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| 33 | 80 |
"It is quite possible," I said, "easily managed". |
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| 36 | 128 |
These two notables also patronize the tavern, The Living Island, managed by one of whom you have doubtless heard, Glaukos of Sybaris. |
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| 37 | 111 |
We managed to get the block off the cart and place it on the growing third tier. |
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| 43 | 121 |
Simultaneously my swordsmen attacked the other guards, only two of which managed to clear their weapons from the sheath. |
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| 45 | 122 |
The first act was the surprise of, and murder of, the tunnel guard whom Thrasymedes and I had posted at our end of the tunnel, that tunnel which had been opened in the house of Tarchon, that through which mercenaries had sought to steal into the camp and overcome the gate guard, opening the gate to ... |
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| 52 | 68 |
"Sakim, with a little help, possibly from an old friend, managed it," I said. |
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| 59 | 164 |
It had once been managed, as I recalled, by three women, the 'Three Ubaras', Melete, Iantha, and Philomena. |
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| 59 | 201 |
As the net of Nicomachos had drawn tight, it seemed probable that they had somehow managed to portray themselves, perhaps even to having themselves laden with chains, as captives of the corsairs. |
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| 61 | 19 |
But, as you know, I managed to do so brilliantly. |
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| 61 | 41 |
We managed to reach the prisoner who was lost amongst bodies, strike him unconscious, cover him with my cloak, and make our way back, out of the press. |
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