| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 255 |
Though the tarn, like most birds, is surprisingly light for its size, this primarily having to do with the comparative hollowness of the bones, it is an extremely powerful bird, powerful even beyond what one would expect from such a monster. |
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| 6 | 39 |
I cursed as an arrow creased my shoulder, as the tarn's great wings smote the air and the monster took to flight. |
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| 7 | 19 |
And surely I would rather have been a brother to that gentle, rational monster than many of the barbarians I had met on Gor. |
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| 7 | 91 |
I placed my hand on Nar's grotesque face, and the gentle monster lightly closed his mandibles on my arm and then opened them. |
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| 10 | 115 |
Nonetheless, the butt of one's lance, striking about the eye or ear openings, for there are few other sensitive areas in their scaled hides, is occasionally necessary to impress your will on the monster. |
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| 12 | 177 |
I breathed a sigh of relief as the black monster lifted himself in flight. |
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| 17 | 105 |
I stroked him with affection, surprised at the fondness I felt for the sable monster. |
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| 14 | 42 |
I know this sounds strange, but I believe some animals have pride, and if any did, I knew that this monster was one of them. |
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| 14 | 168 |
I found that the goad, with this monster at least, did not improve but rather impaired his performance. |
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| 15 | 31 |
He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft. |
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| 15 | 54 |
I leaped from the back of the monster and rushed to the Tatrix, to protect her in case the tarn should begin to feed. |
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| 15 | 226 |
In that moment the shadow of the tarn covered the ledge and, with a great beating of wings, the monster rejoined us. |
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| 16 | 125 |
He hauled on the one-strap and the monster took flight. |
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| 20 | 40 |
It was for this reason that I had returned to the Pillar, hoping that perhaps the monster might linger in its vicinity. |
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| 20 | 105 |
But each time we attained a certain altitude, the eyes of the tarn would seem to lose their focus, and the unerring balance and coordination of the sable monster would be disrupted. |
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| 23 | 83 |
My pleasure was such that I hugged the neck of that sable monster. |
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| 23 | 85 |
Lara cried out in terror as the monster reached for me with his beak. |
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| 5 | 74 |
"Stand aside, you fool!" cried a girl's voice, and, to my astonishment, astride the saddle of the monster I espied a girl, young, astonishingly beautiful, vital, angry, pulling at the control straps of the animal. |
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| 17 | 77 |
"If I succeed in slaying or escaping the monster in the pool," I said, casually, "I take it that I am then, of course, free". |
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| 17 | 108 |
I waited for the attack of the monster. |
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| 17 | 111 |
"When is it that I meet the monster?" Over the surface I heard Saphrar, standing behind the wooden shield, laugh. |
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| 17 | 115 |
"What is the monster?" I cried. |
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| 18 | 1 |
The Pleasure Gardens At the very instant that Saphrar had called out there was a great blast of steam and fumes that seemed to explode from the fluid about me as though the monster in which I found myself had now, its prey satisfactorily entrapped, dared to respire and, at the same time, I felt the... |
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| 17 | 680 |
It was surely, considering its sire, a monster". |
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| 22 | 86 |
The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst... |
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| 24 | 491 |
But only I could saddle the sable monster. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 168 |
I remembered, with fondness, my own tarn, the sable monster, Ubar of the Skies. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 735 |
The monster was now sitting quietly beside the mountebank, licking its jaws, half-asleep, its eyes empty and vacant, blinking. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 171 |
I thought not then of our comrades of the day before, those slain by the monster in the water. |
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| 17 | 185 |
Then the raft lifted, to an almost forty-five-degree angle as the monster rose beneath it, thrusting it upward. |
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| 17 | 228 |
T'Zshal thrust the long lance, almost head-on, toward the monster, and it cut, slicing, a long wound, a yard in length, along its side. |
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| 17 | 230 |
T'Zshal struck again with the lance, driving it into the tail of the monster as it twisted off the raft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 218 |
"You are a monster, Master," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 480 |
"You are a monster, Captain," he laughed. |
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| 11 | 354 |
The winged monster screamed with rage and reared upward, wings cracking like whips at the air. |
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| 18 | 30 |
The monster, as though it stood on its flukes, towered forty feet above us, the line like a tiny thread, billowing, leading downward to the boat. |
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| 18 | 39 |
The air was thick with vapor, like smoke, the condensing moisture in the monster's warm breath, like a fog, or cloud, on the water. |
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| 18 | 40 |
I saw the small eye of the monster, that on the left side of its head, observing us. |
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| 18 | 43 |
Imnak and another man began to draw on the line, to pull us to the very side of the monster. |
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| 18 | 67 |
The wind scattered the breath of the monster, dispelling the cloud of vapor. |
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| 21 | 423 |
"You are a monster, a beast," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 228 |
They will even drive one another away from their local tharlarion, fighting in contests of intraspecific aggression, over the plated territory of the monster's back. |
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| 44 | 138 |
They had made not the least effort to help her, even when the eight-legged monster had emerged to claim her as its trapped quarry. |
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| 44 | 139 |
Yet when I had fought the monster, and when he had turned upon me, they had sprung vigorously to my aid. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 855 |
"Hateful monster!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 608 |
How many have seen their legs? Has he, the brute, or he, the monster, or he, a mere, idle, casual appraiser of her limbs, or who? And not unoften, it seems, if only to conceal their shame, they begin, as it is said, "to court the collar". |
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| 16 | 37 |
"And he, the marvelous monster, in my control, takes liberal advantage of that ambiguity!" "Oiputake," I said. |
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| 47 | 89 |
Then the monster had alit amongst us. |
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| 47 | 348 |
I saw that the claws of the rear appendages, or feet, of the monster on the barricade, had emerged. |
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| 47 | 487 |
I took the reins from the sable monster. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 635 |
"Yes," she said to him, "I am insolent! I am insolent to you! I may be insolent to you with impunity, for you are not a man! You are too weak to punish me! You are only a beast, a monster, a cringing, wretched, pathetic, ignoble, spineless, monster! You are not a man at all! You are only some kind o... |
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| 2 | 473 |
He is a disfigured monster. |
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| 2 | 549 |
"Besides, he is a grotesque monster," he said. |
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| 6 | 16 |
"Monster!" she said. |
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| 7 | 297 |
Boots's player, incidentally, the Kaissa player, the surly, masked fellow, called usually "the monster" in the camp, remained, too, with the troupe. |
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| 7 | 401 |
More than once I had heard her deride the "monster". |
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| 8 | 64 |
Too, bound, still hooded, the player, he called the "monster," lay with the others. |
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| 9 | 226 |
"Perhaps you could help the monster," he mused. |
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| 10 | 728 |
"Monster! Beast! Tarsk! Sleen!" she cried. |
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| 12 | 1 |
Conversations with a Monster; The Punishment of a Slave "How did the accident occur?" I asked. |
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| 12 | 120 |
"We are playing Kaissa," said the monster. |
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| 12 | 129 |
Her foot was on the edge of the monster's robes, as he sat before the board, cross-legged. |
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| 12 | 132 |
I was angry with her animosity towards the monster. |
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| 12 | 173 |
"Leave the camp, Monster," she said to my opponent. |
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| 12 | 666 |
"The monster," she said, swiftly, "was mocking you, abusing you with many insults, Master. |
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| 12 | 774 |
"Regard the monster," he said. |
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| 12 | 776 |
She looked at the "monster". |
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| 16 | 890 |
Suddenly the player, the hooded player, he called the "monster," he who now had Bina's use, rose from his place at a table and climbed the stairs to the stage. |
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| 16 | 924 |
"How can you love a monster," he asked. |
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| 16 | 928 |
"But I am a 'monster,'" he said. |
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| 16 | 1021 |
"I will not consider a match with such a fellow, not with a creature of such outrageous deformity, not with one such as he, one who is, by all reports, at best naught but a harrowingly disfigured monster". |
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| 16 | 1034 |
"Perhaps the great Temenides, who holds a high board in Cos, fears to enter into a banquet's friendly game, or, say, an evening's casual tourney, with one who is a mere mountebank, a monster," suggested the player. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 484 |
But still, even as "slave meat," it was I who had brought the highest price! I wished Teibar could have known that, that his catch from the library on Earth had brought the highest price in the market, and on her first sale, too! But I supposed that he, the monster, the beast, would have merely cong... |
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| 11 | 1299 |
Could I actually be responding to him, this brute who had opened me in a Gorean tavern, this monster who had but a moment ago red-silked me! "Oh, Master!" I whispered, startled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 555 |
"Monster!" cried the second woman, jerking at her shackles. |
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| 5 | 444 |
"You are a monster," she said. |
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| 8 | 325 |
I think it must have taken the girl great courage to follow me up the ramp, onto the landing platform, in the vicinity of that winged monster. |
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| 8 | 740 |
"Monster!" she wept. |
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| 8 | 906 |
"Have I fallen into the hands of a monster?" she cried. |
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| 8 | 921 |
"Monster," she moaned. |
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| 8 | 922 |
"Monster". |
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| 8 | 926 |
"Monster!" she wept, her head back. |
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| 13 | 216 |
"You would not expect them to go to all that trouble for a mere free female, would you?" "Monster," she said. |
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| 17 | 587 |
There was a great splintering of wood from above us and, over the hill of sand and such, packed behind the door, suddenly, bursting wood apart, there protruded, black, over five feet thick, and of solid iron, like some mythological monster, a great form, with curled-back horns, cast in the likeness ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 95 |
"And he was there, the rude brute, the monster!" "I recall," I said. |
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| 2 | 111 |
"The brute, the monster!" I looked at her in the light of the tiny lamp. |
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| 2 | 113 |
"Oh," she said, bitterly, "you may well wager that I never forgot the monster!" "I am sure you did not," I said. |
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| 19 | 726 |
Then I saw the total alteration in the attitude of the monster, and it turned, and began to glide downward, silently, toward the marsh. |
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| 19 | 764 |
The monster's quarry, its creamy flesh in its grasp, its blond hair spread in the wind, made gasping, sobbing, choking noises. |
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| 19 | 1312 |
"Monster!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 652 |
It must have had a wingspan of some forty feet in breadth! It is difficult to convey the terribleness, the size, the speed, the savagery, the power, the ferocity, the clearly predatory, clearly carnivorous nature of such a thing! But the most incredible thing, to my mind, was that I saw, in the mome... |
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| 8 | 653 |
How grateful for the bars was I then! The figure astride the winged monster had not looked toward the mountain, the ledge, the cell. |
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| 10 | 11 |
I saw the beast there, the low, large, long, heavy beast, the six-legged monster, with the triangular viperlike head. |
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| 13 | 45 |
It seemed to me, in effect, a monster. |
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| 13 | 46 |
But it seemed to me, still, this way of rendering obeisance, to be a way of expressing even to it, even to what was perhaps some sort of monster, that I was a slave, and desired to be pleasing. |
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| 13 | 476 |
Was the coinage of beautiful women so plentiful here, in this city of raiders and warriors, I wondered, that even specimens such as she, such gems as she, who might be the centerpiece of a collection elsewhere, who might be brought to the block at the climax of an auction, labored here in the darkne... |
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| 13 | 479 |
Too, I need not pity her too much, nor with fear and loathing bemoan the uniqueness of her fate, for the monster to whom she addressed the title "Master" was none other than that to which my own service and deference were due. |
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| 13 | 488 |
The monster, or whatever it might have been, entered the passage, the slave behind him. |
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| 13 | 527 |
"Hold!" said the monster behind me, sharply. |
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| 13 | 559 |
I did not dally, for fear of the monster behind me. |
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| 13 | 565 |
The monster behind me, and the lovely slave with the torch, crossed them easily. |
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| 13 | 702 |
The monster crouched down, near me. |
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| 13 | 741 |
Was I not to be beaten? The free woman would never know, of course! But I recalled that the monster had assured the free woman that I would be punished. |
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| 13 | 769 |
The monster then put me back on my knees, my head down, near the ring. |
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| 13 | 1202 |
This left only the tiny lamp on the table, recently lit, where the monster read. |
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| 13 | 1209 |
From the same chest she removed a coil of chain, and put it carefully, presumably not to disturb the monster, by a ring, toward the foot of the furs. |
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| 13 | 1263 |
Then, trembling, frightened, I recalled the use to which the monster had put me. |
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| 13 | 1279 |
In time the beast, the monster, closed the scroll, tying it shut with a string. |
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| 13 | 1353 |
The monster, bent over, picked up the tiny lamp, its flame long lowered, from the table, and, moving slowly, went to the kennels which, one by one, lifting the lamp a little, he checked. |
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| 13 | 1359 |
Then the monster shambled toward the wall. |
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| 29 | 821 |
"Monster," she said. |
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| 31 | 172 |
"You put a madman here, a simpleton, a dolt, one out of his wits, one who does not know his own name, a worthless, meaningless brute, a monster of no consequence, and expect to delude us!" "We can seek further, if you wish," said the pit master. |
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| 31 | 377 |
Why would you defend this monster?" "We share a Home Stone," said the officer. |
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| 40 | 151 |
"I am a beast, a monster, hated and shunned, so born, and so condemned to live". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 112 |
"Monster!" she wept. |
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| 11 | 933 |
The monster, she thought. |
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| 13 | 337 |
"There is another!" "The clever monster!" said another. |
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| 23 | 5 |
The monster who had seized her and brought her to the tent made some noise. |
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| 27 | 745 |
Should you not be pleased, she asked herself, to be taken from the presence of so hateful, vile, and arrogant a monster as Selius Arconious! Surely, yes, she told herself. |
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| 27 | 911 |
Too, the lips of the monster drew back, revealing moist fangs. |
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| 30 | 343 |
The irresistible, overwhelming, powerful, handsome beast, the virile, desiring, lustful, arrogant monster! How obviously he was regarding his property with inordinate pleasure! Muchly then was she aware of the collar on her neck, and that she was owned, and that she was in the grasp of her master, h... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 |
If I were I should not tell this story, which deals primarily with some humans, and something not human, with the monster. |
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| 20 | 188 |
"She has always hated him, loathed him, as do most of the Kurii, as a misbred monster and freak, and now she belongs to him, and the collar on her neck is his". |
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| 21 | 503 |
There was much silence in the stands, and then several of the Kurii smote their thighs, acknowledging this gesture of respect to one of their species, albeit from one hitherto deemed not Kur, but no more than a malformed thing, a misbred brute, an abomination, a monster. |
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| 23 | 83 |
"He is a monster. |
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| 24 | 87 |
"And Grendel," she cried, "is the name of a monster!" "So I am given to understand," said he. |
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| 32 | 38 |
"And save me from this monster!" "If you are going to kill me," said Cabot to Grendel, "might we not eat first? Perhaps you have some meat, from tharlarion". |
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| 32 | 209 |
"And, too, how dare one such as you, a monster, aspire to the love of a free woman!" "Forgive me," said Grendel, his head down. |
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| 32 | 431 |
"He is a beast, a monster, neither Kur nor human". |
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| 41 | 48 |
"It is a monster," said the girl. |
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| 44 | 47 |
Indeed, interestingly, in the tensions, and the exigencies, and terrors, of war, each species was beginning to see the other in a different light, the one less as monster than colleague, the other less as food than friend. |
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| 59 | 16 |
"Where is the monster, Grendel?" "Where is the gold, the slave?" said Cabot. |
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| 61 | 108 |
"That of one who is at best no more than a monster," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 64 | 154 |
"Begone, beast, monster," said Cestiphon, angrily, and the Lady Bina, sobbing, clutching the sheet about her, fighting her shackles, moved away, as swiftly as she could. |
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| 80 | 394 |
"It is true, he is a monster," said one of the Kurii. |
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| 81 | 73 |
"Call me by the name of 'Grendel' alone, for that is the name of a monster, and I go where I shall not be "lord," but, at best, a deformity, a beast". |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 209 |
In turn, the revolutionaries, primarily the rebel Kurii, primarily on behalf of their human allies, had set a number of heavy, metal traps, more than two-hundred pounds in weight, baited with haunches of tarsk, traps fastened by heavy chains to large stakes sunk deeply into the ground, and in one su... |
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| 3 | 201 |
I thought of a tarn once known, a sable monster, whose challenge scream could be heard for pasangs, Ubar of the Skies. |
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| 4 | 190 |
"Monster!" she wept, and pulled at the ropes. |
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| 4 | 263 |
"Beast, monster!" she hissed. |
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| 4 | 367 |
"Monster!" she said. |
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| 10 | 562 |
"I had the key, I could have removed it, but that brute, that monster, Tarl Cabot, he whom we brought here, for you, as agreed, took the key from me, and cast it into the sea!" "I see," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 18 | 192 |
The entire effect was that of a hideous face, as of some frightful creature, or monster of sorts, surely not even a human face. |
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| 19 | 133 |
"He is a monster," said another. |
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| 37 | 50 |
She was stately, majestic, surely no lightness like that of a Vosk gull, given her bulk, but as serene and mighty, and as unchallenged here, as might be some vast lake or river tharlarion in its own domain, some ponderous thing, unable and awkward on land perhaps, but, in the water, oddly graceful, ... |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 107 |
It is rumored that there were gigantic dragons of the sea, prodigious monsters, lurking beyond the farther islands, aquatic prodigies guarding the end of the world, set there by Priest-Kings, as one might post guard sleen about the perimeter of a camp, but this thing, in the glimpse we had had, was ... |
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| 2 | 164 |
The tarn, you see, is a land bird, a hook-beaked, vast-winged, gigantic, crested, dreaded, fearsome monster of the skies. |
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| 2 | 186 |
Clinging to a remnant of the bulwarks, half in water, I saw the hull of the monster towering above me, fifty feet or more, like a several-storied building of wood, a moving insula, wet and glistening, moving. |
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| 3 | 329 |
I reached for the mounting ladder of Seremides' tarn, but it was jerked away, and, in a moment, I was in the shadow of those great beating wings, the bird lifting itself, scarcely able to keep my footing, my robes and veils whipping about me, and then the monster was in flight, and Seremides, and hi... |
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| 9 | 265 |
How tiny a man is on the back of such a beast! What sort of men, I wondered, might once have caught, tamed, and trained such monsters! Indeed, what men, even today, I wondered, would have the courage to come within yards of such a monster, let alone command it from a saddle! Cabot bent down and retr... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 100 |
I gather it is the name of a monster, a grotesque anomaly, a lonely thing of bogs, and marshes and wildernesses, unpleasant to look upon, hated and feared, perhaps the result of an experiment which turned out badly, so that seems appropriate". |
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| 10 | 577 |
Was his the leash, I wondered, which belonged on my neck? How his eyes had roved me, my tunic half gone from me! What a beast, and monster, he was! How I scorned him, the large, callous, appraising, imperious brute! What could a woman be to such a man but a slave! His collar would be well locked on ... |
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| 15 | 319 |
I then began to make my way, preceding the monster, on its leash, toward the shop of Epicrates. |
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| 16 | 16 |
"Brute, beast, monster!" I said. |
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| 19 | 178 |
What a monster he was, to leave me in this fashion, not only naked and shackled, but bound helplessly, as well! He was Gorean. |
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| 33 | 142 |
When Grendel turned to me, I dropped to my knees, and lowered my head, fearing to look into the eyes of such a monster. |
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| 48 | 310 |
"How dare you present yourself here," cried Lucius, "amongst true Kurii, you, a monster, an enemy to all, badly spoken and deformed. |
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| 48 | 328 |
"Arm yourself, or flee, dear guard, sweet monster," implored the Lady Bina. |
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| 49 | 31 |
He found himself understood as little more, if anything, than a hybrid monster. |
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| 51 | 96 |
He is conniving, base, and worthless! He is a monster! He is ignoble, and without honor". |
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| 52 | 57 |
"Was I not to be petty, sly, crass, duplicitous, dishonorable, ignoble, a hypocrite, a fraud, a monster, and such?" "I did not speak, Master," I said. |
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| 52 | 165 |
"How could I sleep, how could I eat? But, oh yes, too, I knew of the monster. |
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| 52 | 179 |
I must make her mine! I must own her! But what was her relationship to the Lady Bina and the monster? Surely she was a shapely thrall, but what else? I feared she might be in some terrible danger". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 314 |
"Beast, monster!" said the other. |
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| 15 | 91 |
In this sense, I did not know if such a monster were well thought of as a bird, or not. |
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| 15 | 586 |
Doubtless he, too, the handsome, virile, monster, would have laughed. |
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| 17 | 100 |
One of the sorriest fates of a kajira would be to find herself the serving slave of such a self-centered, regal, haughty monster. |
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| 26 | 186 |
He then treed the monster of its tether. |
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| 44 | 71 |
He had arranged, bound, the monster, to have himself placed behind me, and I knew then, to my great uneasiness, I would be under his constant surveillance. |
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| 46 | 29 |
I hated him, hated him! Was he not the monster who had brought me to the marking iron and collar, the longed-for, ecstatic degradation of bondage, and had then dismissed me, as he must have a thousand others, processed like cattle for the girl markets of Gor? How I hated him, but even on Earth I had... |
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| 48 | 49 |
From such a sound, even were the monster caged, I think uneasy, awed men might back away and women flee. |
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| 52 | 933 |
How small the man appeared next to this terrible, winged monster, its broad wings restless, its head, with its fearful beak, high above the beach, moving alertly about, the large, wicked, round, shining, black eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 174 |
"Control the monster," said the voice, "or a dozen arrows will slay the beast at my mere word". |
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| 4 | 241 |
"Do not draw your sword! You can manage the winged monster! Lord Yamada can use men such as you. |
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| 60 | 291 |
"I saw how you handled your sword, stunted monster," said Lord Yamada to Nodachi. |
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| 61 | 156 |
"Fire on the flighted monster!" cried a man. |
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| 34 | 283 |
"That is the name of a monster, a hideous monster," I whispered. |
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| 30 | 229 |
What a monster he was! It had been a test. |
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| 30 | 230 |
I dared not conjecture what might have occurred had I failed such a test, so simple a test! He was a monster, and I was in his power, and I knew that I could not resist his touch, even had I been permitted to attempt to do so. |
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| 33 | 275 |
"A monster, ill-begotten, and ill-constituted," it said. |
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| 33 | 339 |
"Why, Beast," he said, "do you think so little of yourself? Why do you regard yourself as a monster, as a thing ill-begotten, and ill-constituted?" "Look at me," it said, and the bitterness of its response was clear, even in its rude approximations to the phonemes of Gorean, even in that rude, issua... |
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| 33 | 411 |
"I am a monster," she said. |
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| 33 | 633 |
What could such monsters fear from that slighter, far-less-imposing monster? Surely she was not a form of life that one might wish to exterminate before it could multiply, as one might, with a stone, sufficiently apprised and motivated, crush the egg of the first ost, as the verr might choose to des... |
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| 34 | 212 |
"When the first monster was conceived and delivered," he said, "and sanguine hopes flourished, a mate for it was planned, the more to make it seem human, the more to endear it to men, the better that it might carry out its tasks, but with the debacle attendant on the failure of the first project, th... |
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| 34 | 218 |
"The monster, and others, had served well in the war, that which had brought Lord Arcesilaus to the throne. |
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| 34 | 223 |
"She is a reward, a reward for the emigrated monster, now on Gor, to be delivered to him," he said, "she whom we find so repulsive". |
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| 34 | 260 |
"If all that was wished was to deprive the monster of a companion, a mate, or slave, or such, she could have been summarily killed in the house of Flavius Minor, perhaps even on the steel world, he being informed, of course, of what was done. |
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| 34 | 266 |
"But, clearly," he said, musingly, "this purpose, it will have to do with the monster". |
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| 34 | 268 |
"The thing was made," I said, "to be the companion, or mate, of the monster". |
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| 34 | 270 |
"And you were to deliver the thing to the monster?" I said. |
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| 34 | 276 |
"What if," I asked, "if she is a person, if she is free, she does not wish to companion herself with the monster?" "Then," said he, "as she is a female, she may simply be collared, and owned". |
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| 34 | 289 |
"The purpose obviously has to do with the monster, with Lord Grendel," he said. |
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| 35 | 92 |
"What a vain monster," I said. |
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| 42 | 121 |
"To be given a monster?" she said. |
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| 42 | 162 |
"By your own testimony the female is a contrivance, a biological artifact, a monster, and is doubtless, in her own way, as hideous, as gross and repulsive, as my dear friend, Lord Grendel, himself. |
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| 43 | 113 |
"Who would care to know a monster?" he asked. |
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| 46 | 181 |
"It is a monster. |
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| 46 | 275 |
I have seen the she-monster, Eve. |
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| 46 | 375 |
"The forces of Agamemnon wished to use the she-monster, Eve, to bend Lord Grendel to their will, that he would yield either to obtain her as a treasure, or, as she was much like him, and unique, and intended for him, was a center of consciousness, and such, would yield to prevent her destruction. |
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| 47 | 49 |
Therefore, speak me as 'Grendel', a suitable name for me, a monster. |
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| 50 | 406 |
"Monster!" she cried. |
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| 54 | 52 |
How many humans can speak in Kur, how many Kurii in the tongues of the humans?" "I am a monster," she said. |
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| 55 | 58 |
"If you care for those with you," said the Kur, "the two humans, and the monster, surrender". |
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| 61 | 325 |
Decius Albus, his robes bloody, standing in the box, ax-bearing Lucilius wild and snarling at his side, while the field was broken into warring factions, men against Kur, Kur against men, men against men, Kur against Kur, remonstrated again and again with his men, "Peace! Peace! Do not threaten our ... |
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| 61 | 845 |
I did not think any would dispute him in this, not humans, because to them, whatever her outstanding beauty amongst Kur females, she would seem a monster, nor Kurii, fearing the ax of Surtak. |
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| 61 | 968 |
"He is a tyrant, and monster," said Kurik. |
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| 63 | 158 |
"Monster!" I shrieked, after the departing figure. |
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| 63 | 166 |
"A monster!" I said. |
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| 63 | 174 |
"He is still a monster," I said. |
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| 65 | 165 |
"Where is Grendel, who would not oath to Lord Agamemnon, Grendel, who freed the traitor, Surtak, Grendel, who disturbed the games of Decius Albus? Where, too, are the others of your party, the monster, Eve, and the two humans?" "They will return shortly," said the Lady Bina. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 33 | 148 |
I did have the eerie sense that the monster, or something within the monster, or something associated somehow with it, might have remarked our presence. |
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| 15 | 169 |
Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price... |
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| 17 | 16 |
I recalled reports I had heard in the tavern of an alleged monster sighted some weeks ago in the delta, something similar, save for a greater size and a silverish color, to the leatherish, black, snakelike "long tharlarion," with which the delta teems. |
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| 33 | 365 |
I was standing! The water was only to my waist! I saw no sign of Bruno of Torcadino, and I saw no sign of the metal monster, so like an aquatic tharlarion. |
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| 38 | 197 |
"I have changed my mind, you monster," she said. |
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| 40 | 336 |
The metal monster in the delta, the talk of recruiting men, of the gathering of equipment and the accumulation of resources, and the presence of Pa-Kur, of the Assassins, suggested an enterprise and project far more important and weighty than the mere capture of a lovely, embezzling thief from Ar's ... |
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| 41 | 193 |
It was Addison Steele! Why was I startled? Was it not to be expected? Was he not a minion of Pa-Kur? Had he not been present, in the retinue of Pa-Kur, at the interview with the metal monster in the marshes? Had he not been present in the apartment of Dorna the Proud, an ally of Pa-Kur, when I had b... |
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| 42 | 23 |
Addison Steele, the monster, had seen to that! "What is that sound?" I asked. |
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| 46 | 67 |
Nothing more had been heard, to date, of the metal monster rumored to frequent the marshes. |
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| 47 | 366 |
"There was a monster in the delta, seemingly of supple metal, powerful and vast, consorting with Pa-Kur," I said. |
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| 16 | 318 |
They, too, have seen the monster". |
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| 29 | 45 |
"You will sail into the jaws of a seven-headed monster, the seven ships of the corsair fleet". |
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| 56 | 49 |
In that terrible moment I saw what few men had seen, even those accustomed to camp upon and inhabit living islands, the monster beneath the placid surface, hundreds of tentacle-like filaments, tiny eyes, and a sharp, hooklike beak. |
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| 61 | 34 |
It is well known that a crowd, responding to the wisp of an idea, incited by a shout, stung by a cry, secure in its faceless anonymity, can easily and swiftly transform itself into a clumsy, mindless, many-headed monster freed of all civil and moral constraint. |
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