| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 107 |
A tarnsman mounted one tarn; another tarnsman mounted the other tarn. |
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| 2 | 6 |
There was a tapestry to the right, a well-woven depiction of some hunting scene, I took it, but fancifully done, the spear-carrying hunters mounted on birds of a sort and attacking an ugly animal that reminded me of a boar, except that it appeared to be too large, out of proportion to the hunters. |
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| 2 | 128 |
Some of the largest cities have small, rather insignificant Home Stones, but of incredible antiquity, dating back to the time when the city was a village or only a mounted pride of warriors with no settled abode". |
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| 3 | 271 |
The Older Tarl had mounted his tarn, climbing up the five-rung leather mounting ladder which hangs on the left side of the saddle and is pulled up in flight. |
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| 4 | 33 |
I looked below and saw the Older Tarl, mounted on his own tarn, climbing to overtake me. |
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| 4 | 92 |
I caught a glimpse of a black helmet through the port as a warrior, still clutching a crossbow and mounted on his tarn, hauled up on the one-strap and flew from the window. |
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| 5 | 1 |
Lights of the Planting Feast I mounted my tarn, that fierce, black magnificent bird. |
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| 9 | 113 |
"War," said the mounted spearman approvingly. |
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| 9 | 175 |
I had scarcely finished bandaging his wound when I was aware of a ringing on metal, and, lifting my head, I saw myself surrounded by mounted spearmen, who wore the same livery as Kazrak. |
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| 10 | 20 |
After all, what if there was no such city? Mintar looked at the ring of mounted spearmen encircling me. |
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| 10 | 24 |
One of the mounted warriors said, "Kazrak of Port Kar is the best sword in the caravan". |
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| 10 | 27 |
One or two of the mounted warriors readjusted their grip on their lances. |
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| 10 | 123 |
Primarily, this is done by constructing the tree of the saddle in such a way that the leather seat is mounted on a hydraulic fitting which actually floats in a thick lubricant. |
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| 10 | 125 |
In spite of this invention, the mounted warriors always wear, as an essential portion of their equipment, a thick leather belt, tightly buckled about their abdomen. |
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| 10 | 126 |
In addition, the mounted warriors inevitably wear a high, soft pair of boots called tharlarion boots. |
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| 10 | 203 |
Once or twice mounted warriors of the caravan had accosted her, but on reading her collar had backed grumblingly away, enduring with good humor her jibes and taunts. |
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| 11 | 3 |
As the caravan mounted a rise, we saw spread far below us, on the banks of the Vosk, a sight of incredible barbaric splendor—pasangs of brightly colored tents stretching as far as the eye could see, a vast assemblage of tents housing one of the greatest armies ever gathered on the plains of G... |
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| 11 | 15 |
We fought off three groups of raiders from the camp on the river, two of them small, undisciplined contingents of mounted warriors, but the other a lightning strike of a dozen tarnsmen on the weapons wagon. |
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| 15 | 179 |
They will never withstand a well-mounted siege. |
10 |
| 16 | 25 |
On the tenth day of the siege small engines, such as covered catapults and ballistae, were flown across the ditches by tarn teams and soon were engaged in artillery duels with the engines mounted on the walls of Ar. |
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| 16 | 27 |
After some four days of bombardment, which probably had small effect, if any, the first assault was mounted. |
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| 18 | 105 |
I mounted the tarn, who was visibly uneasy in this strange environment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 10 |
The halls were lit occasionally by tharlarion oil lamps set in iron fixtures mounted in the walls. |
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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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| 14 | 28 |
Through this portal, in two long lines, lashed by overseers, yoked slaves harnessed in chains drew a great wooden platform mounted on heavy wooden wheels. |
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| 23 | 4 |
Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 8 |
Their upper canine fangs, like daggers mounted in their jaws, must have been at least a foot in length and extended well below their jaws in the manner of ancient saber-toothed tigers. |
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| 10 | 59 |
In the depths of this canyon and on the terraces that mounted its sides were innumerable structures, largely geometrical solids—cones, cylinders, lofty cubes, domes, spheres and such—of various sizes, colors and illuminations, many of which even towered to the level of the platform whe... |
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| 11 | 2 |
Another Priest-King, mounted on a low, oval disk which seemed to slide up the ramp, was approaching. |
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| 14 | 91 |
Indeed, it seemed to me far more luxurious than the appointments in Misk's own chamber, which seemed utterly bare except for the feed trough and numerous compartments, dials, switches and plugs mounted in one wall. |
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| 20 | 60 |
On the disk there was mounted a narrow, closed cylinder of transparent plastic. |
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| 20 | 100 |
Swiftly and efficiently he placed her wrists in retaining devices mounted in the cylinder and, with a small, curved knife, removed her clothing, which he cast aside. |
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| 28 | 8 |
Thinking to overcome us with little difficulty, the forces of Sarm, mounted on transportation disks, swept through the tunnels and plazas, but the Priest-Kings of Misk, hidden in rooms, concealed behind portals, firing from the ramps and the roofs of buildings in the open complexes, soon took fierce... |
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| 28 | 10 |
On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium. |
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| 28 | 167 |
Intrigued by the hardness of the cage plastic encountered in the Vivarium I spoke to Misk and he and I, together with other Priest-Kings and humans, armored a fleet of transportation disks, which would be extremely effective if a silver tube were mounted in them and which, even if not armed, might y... |
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| 29 | 9 |
Over it hung ten ships, perhaps of the sort used for surveillance on the surface, and in the nose of each of these ships there was mounted a conelike projection. |
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| 29 | 41 |
I knew nothing of the armament of the ships of Sarm and I knew I had only the silver tube in my own craft, a weapon far outclassed in destructive potential by the gravitational disrupters mounted in the ships of Sarm. |
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| 29 | 63 |
I could see the scanners mounted in the nose of the ships probing about. |
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| 32 | 209 |
It opened and I leaped inside and pushed the highest disk on a line of disks mounted inside. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 120 |
Here and there I saw riders, darting about, all mounted on the swift, graceful kaiila. |
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| 5 | 16 |
The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe... |
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| 6 | 179 |
"No, no, no!" Kamchak nodded to the two riders mounted on kaiila. |
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| 7 | 15 |
We mounted the dais and approached the seemingly somnolent figure seated upon it. |
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| 7 | 133 |
Then, after some hours stumbling confused, terrified, hungry through the high, brown grass, she had seen two riders, mounted on swift, strange beasts. |
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| 8 | 175 |
* * * * Now the Kassar, mounted on his kaiila, his lance under the tip of the girl's chin, who knelt before him, looking up at him, suddenly laughed and removed the lance. |
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| 8 | 330 |
In terror Tuka looked up at Kamchak, mounted on his kaiila. |
10 |
| 10 | 83 |
When I had lifted her to her feet I noted, in the distance, a bit of dust moving from one of the gates of the city towards us, probably two or three warriors mounted on high tharlarion. |
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| 11 | 30 |
He took from a silken pouch lying before him on the palanquin a small glass, with glass-petal edges like a flower, mounted on a silver stem about which curled silver leaves. |
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| 12 | 217 |
There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious... |
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| 13 | 88 |
"No!" But Kamchak was pulling her by the bracelets toward an empty sleen cage mounted on a low cart near the wagon, into which, still braceleted, he thrust her, then closing the door, locking it. |
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| 14 | 7 |
Kamchak and I mounted the kaiila we had ridden and, as rapidly as we could, pressed through the throngs toward our wagon. |
10 |
| 14 | 36 |
In the light of the Gorean moons we saw slaughtered bosk, some hundreds of them, and, some two hundred yards away, withdrawing, perhaps a thousand warriors mounted on tharlarion. |
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| 19 | 22 |
Undoubtedly tarnsmen, mounted, would come from time to time during the night to the House of Saphrar. |
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| 21 | 17 |
In a few minutes the great pole of the standard had been mounted on the wagon and was descending the hill, leaving on the summit the burned wood and the black ashes that had been the wagon of Kutaituchik, surrendering them now to the wind and the rain, to time and the snows to come, and to the green... |
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| 21 | 360 |
He was flanked by officers of the Tuchuks, commanders of Thousands, mounted as he was and armed. |
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| 23 | 5 |
Harold and I, mounted on kaiila, raced toward these wagons. |
10 |
| 24 | 3 |
The morning after the Battle at the Wagons I had mounted a rested kaiila and set forth for Turia. |
10 |
| 24 | 6 |
I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city. |
10 |
| 24 | 236 |
Wearily I gave the kaiila to one of the guards and mounted the steps of the wagon. |
10 |
| 26 | 93 |
Kamchak then descended from the roof and mounted his kaiila. |
10 |
| 26 | 381 |
Outside the compound of Saphrar, which was now burning, we mounted kaiila to return to the wagons outside the walls. |
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| 27 | 172 |
He put one foot in the stirrup and mounted easily. |
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| 27 | 194 |
Our beasts were tethered there, and we mounted. |
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| 28 | 22 |
When I myself mounted I would tie her to the pommel with binding fiber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 176 |
He was subject to one of the most devastating attacks that could be mounted in the game. |
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| 3 | 210 |
The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's Scribe, one of the leas... |
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| 4 | 3 |
His large hands rested over the arms of the curved curule chair in which he sat, which was mounted on a platform of stone, about a foot high and twelve feet square. |
10 |
| 4 | 4 |
In the base of the platform there were mounted six slave rings. |
10 |
| 7 | 186 |
"We return to the House of Cernus," said a man-at-arms, and I, and the others, entered our baskets or mounted our tarns. |
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| 11 | 43 |
Slave rings were mounted on one wall. |
10 |
| 12 | 23 |
These areas were almost porches, extending beyond the regular stands, covered with awnings, on which were mounted sets of curule chairs, at different levels. |
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| 13 | 239 |
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ... |
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| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
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| 22 | 123 |
I saw six wooden tarn heads mounted on poles at each end of the dividing wall, indicating the laps remaining. |
10 |
| 23 | 186 |
Outside the room, mounted in the wall of the cylinder of Cernus, was a tarn perch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 332 |
Then she mounted me, and used me for her pleasure. |
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| 8 | 37 |
They knew only that he had been alive, and then dead, and that his head now bore two unaccountable wounds, deep, opposed, centerless circles, each mounted at the scarlet apex of a stained triangle. |
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| 14 | 45 |
This arrangement, one man to an oar, and oars in groups of three, and oars mounted in the rowing frame, long and beautiful sweeps, has been found extremely practical in the Gorean navies. |
10 |
| 14 | 54 |
The major questions involve the number and size of oars that can be practically mounted, balanced against the size of ship required for the differing arrangements. |
10 |
| 15 | 405 |
At last, bit by bit, as her fear and terror mounted, the men, fist by fist, took up the slack in the thongs that tethered her, until suddenly, they swiftly bound her hand and foot and lifted her over their heads, captured female slave, displaying her bound arched body to the tables. |
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| 17 | 85 |
The flanking attack, of course, was mounted as late as it was because, until the fleet of Cos and Tyros had shortened their lines and concentrated their ships, to meet our earlier moves, it would have been impractical. |
10 |
| 18 | 278 |
Heavy wooden mantelets, mounted on posts, were nearby, under which we might protect ourselves from crossbow fire from tarnsmen. |
10 |
| 18 | 409 |
Then my wrists were tied widely apart to wrist rings mounted in a stone wall, and I was whipped. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 108 |
There were lockers there, and six cots, three on a side, mounted one over the other on the two walls, a mirror. |
10 |
| 8 | 75 |
They were mounted on large circles of wood, which could rotate. |
10 |
| 8 | 169 |
Far away, through the sky, from the east of Laura, following the forest line, there came a flight of tarnsmen, perhaps forty of them, mounted on the great, fierce, hawklike saddlebirds of Gor, the huge, swift, predatory, ferocious tarns, called Brothers of the Wind. |
10 |
| 8 | 219 |
The broad circles of wood on which the wagons were mounted were now rotated, so that the wagon tongues faced the pier. |
10 |
| 8 | 1017 |
Lana stood proudly beside the fire, her head back and arms down, and extended, at her sides, while the bells, mounted in their double rows, on their straps, were fastened on her wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 12 | 300 |
Her cage, mounted on the cart, was not of branches, but of steel. |
10 |
| 12 | 674 |
I saw one of the tarnsmen, yet mounted on his tarn, remove his helmet and wipe his forehead, and then replace the helmet. |
10 |
| 15 | 289 |
The smooth board was set before me, mounted on two wooden blocks. |
10 |
| 15 | 479 |
The musician fastened leather cuffs, mounted each with three rows of bells, on her wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 17 | 206 |
The man mounted to the saddle of the tarn. |
10 |
| 17 | 406 |
"The heads were mounted on stakes beside the canal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 273 |
Also mounted on the wagon was a branding rack, of the sort popular in Tyros. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 90 |
It rests on four poles, with two long, narrow poles, fixed in sockets, mounted in tandem fashion, serving as a single ridge pole. |
10 |
| 10 | 382 |
She wore two brooches, both carved of the horn of kailiauk, mounted in gold. |
10 |
| 16 | 43 |
There was no mistaking the quadruped on which the rider was mounted. |
10 |
| 18 | 383 |
Here and there, mounted on stakes, were the heads of Kurii. |
10 |
| 21 | 94 |
But as the men cried out, and cheered, and the weapons clashed on shields, I looked to a place in the hall where, mounted on a great stake, was the huge, savage head of the Kur which I had slain on the Skerry of Vars. |
10 |
| 21 | 96 |
I looked at the huge, somber, shaggy head of the Kur, mounted on its stake, some eight feet from the ground. |
10 |
| 21 | 131 |
He turned to regard the huge, shaggy head of the Kur, mounted on its stake. |
10 |
| 22 | 100 |
I recollected the head of the giant Kur, mounted on its stake, in the ruins of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 22 | 211 |
Gorm held the tiller, mounted at the stern on the starboard side. |
10 |
| 22 | 285 |
I remembered the huge head, mounted upon the stake. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 18 |
I remained mounted. |
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| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
10 |
| 4 | 435 |
Their burnooses whipped behind them as they mounted the crest of the hill and, the animals half sliding, descended the other side, approaching us. |
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| 5 | 849 |
At that instant, buffeting guards aside, sending them sprawling, to our amazement, in the carved, turret-shaped portal of the great room, claws scratching on the tiles, appeared a war kaiila, in full trappings, mounted by a veiled warrior in swirling burnoose. |
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| 7 | 738 |
I mounted. |
10 |
| 8 | 62 |
Their captor, who seemed to be chief of the raiders, mounted. |
10 |
| 10 | 250 |
Outside, shortly before dawn, when drops of moisture beaded on the rocks, Hassan and I, and his men, put our left feet into the stirrup of our saddles and mounted our swift beasts. |
10 |
| 11 | 62 |
The animals were unhooded, we mounted, and again our quest continued. |
10 |
| 11 | 163 |
"Your slave, Raider," said he, indicating the irritated Alyena, now again mounted, well vexed, on her kaiila, "apparently makes your tea too strong". |
10 |
| 11 | 531 |
Hassan tore off his own burnoose and, putting it under Alyena's arms, lowered her from the roof to the arms of one of his men, mounted on his kaiila. |
10 |
| 11 | 546 |
"Prepare to open the gate," said the man to two of his fellows, who, mounted, waited near it. |
10 |
| 11 | 621 |
Once, looking through an alley, to the street at its end, we saw mounted men fighting. |
10 |
| 11 | 629 |
He, mounted on his kaiila, urged the beast forward. |
10 |
| 11 | 697 |
We stood within a ring of mounted warriors, with purple and yellow burnooses, others behind them in more common desert garb. |
10 |
| 14 | 266 |
I saw the kneeling kaiila of the guards, the guards now mounted, lifting themselves, to their feet. |
10 |
| 16 | 3 |
At each corner of the raft, mounted on a pole, was a small, oil-fed lamp. |
10 |
| 16 | 37 |
There are twelve of these pintles, mounted in a large circle; when a given hook drops off one, freed by gravity, another hook is already engaged on another, held there by the weight of the ascending lift sacks. |
10 |
| 17 | 20 |
At the corners of the raft burned four lamps, mounted on poles. |
10 |
| 25 | 107 |
Startled was I to discover in the courtyard, mounted in the high saddle of the kaiila, the leader of Hassan's mystery lancers, who had invested the kasbah of Tarna. |
10 |
| 26 | 224 |
Two chains ran to his metal collar, on opposite sides, leading, respectively, to the stirrup of a mounted rider on each side of him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 133 |
I looked above me at the posts mounted on the walls. |
10 |
| 12 | 144 |
They were mounted by two warriors, with lances. |
10 |
| 12 | 738 |
Men mounted swiftly to the saddles. |
10 |
| 18 | 50 |
The dress and costume of the paga girls, too, was intended to suggest the common garb worn by the enslaved beauties who well served the mounted, lance-bearing riders of the lofty, silken kaiila. |
10 |
| 18 | 126 |
Once, when a tarnsman snapped by, pursued by guardsmen, mounted, too, on tarns, she had torn the veils from her face and, boldly, supplicatingly, had lifted her robes, revealing her left thigh to the hip. |
10 |
| 22 | 254 |
She mounted the stairs. |
10 |
| 26 | 663 |
I did not think I would care to pursue him on tarnback, were I a mounted guardsman of Ar. |
10 |
| 29 | 12 |
The ring was mounted on a post, about a yard high. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 137 |
An initiate in the lead carried a standard on which was mounted the sign of the Priest-Kings, a golden circle, that which has no beginning or end, the symbol of eternity, the symbol of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 3 | 160 |
The first led a stately sand kaiila on which a closed, fringed, silken kurdah was mounted. |
10 |
| 6 | 457 |
"Those well-armed and mounted can afford nobility," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 476 |
"Do you think that you, afoot, will be able to elude a mounted archer, be she even female?" I asked. |
10 |
| 35 | 336 |
Here and there in the corridors, and here, too, where I now stood, there was a surveillance lens mounted high in the ceiling, on a swivel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 223 |
In place of the mast on the dhow, mounted in the mast socket, was a "T" frame with a small crossbar mounted on the vertical beam. |
10 |
| 1 | 259 |
"The next year," I said, "he mounted a new expedition, with eleven boats and a thousand men, an expedition financed, I now suppose, by Bila Huruma, to explore Lake Ngao, to circumnavigate it as he had Ushindi". |
10 |
| 1 | 382 |
The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water. |
10 |
| 6 | 184 |
The line which Shoka now tied around her crossed wrists was already strung through a large, metal, gold-painted ring, one of two, which were mounted in the huge wooden ears of the kailiauk head which, high above the water, surmounted the prow. |
10 |
| 16 | 219 |
On the foredeck of the dhow there was mounted a log drum. |
10 |
| 18 | 259 |
He had sat upon a royal stool, of black, lacquered wood, mounted on the crossed, tied, horns of kailiauk. |
10 |
| 18 | 270 |
Indeed, save for the length of the feathers and the intricate leather and beading, in which the feathers were mounted, it might have been such a headdress. |
10 |
| 20 | 27 |
A pole, mounted on two tripods, had been fastened some six feet above the surface of the raft, and parallel to its long axis. |
10 |
| 23 | 244 |
It was a mistake on the part of the askaris to have left us in neck chains in a cage mounted on a log platform. |
10 |
| 34 | 20 |
It put down its head, mounted on that short, thick neck, and, scrambling, charged at the blond-haired barbarian. |
10 |
| 53 | 199 |
I saw Kurii, too, thrusting their arms through the barrier of lashed poles mounted over the stones at the threshold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
10 |
| 13 | 249 |
Its rider was mounted in a high, purple saddle, with knives in saddle sheaths. |
10 |
| 13 | 303 |
At the head of the column, behind the officers, but a pace or two before the rightermost man in the first rank, there marched a fellow who bore a standard on which was mounted an image of a silver tarn. |
10 |
| 13 | 648 |
He took from a tiny box attached to the interior of the palanquin a circular glass mounted on a pearled wand. |
10 |
| 17 | 197 |
She mounted me. |
10 |
| 21 | 145 |
We could see their spears, mounted at the right stirrup, like needles, at the distance, and the shields, seeming small and round. |
10 |
| 21 | 154 |
"Doubtless Ar, too, has mounted such patrols," said another man. |
10 |
| 25 | 295 |
Another common type of wagon used generally in the transportation of women is the flat-bedded display wagon, with its mounted iron framework. |
10 |
| 25 | 358 |
I then realized that what I saw in the sky, in the distance, were birds, indeed, but tarns, and that doubtless mounted upon them, armed and purposeful, were men. |
10 |
| 34 | 30 |
Another man was pulling down the canvas over the square frame mounted over the wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 46 |
"We of Ar's Station would not have mounted such a chain," said Aemilianus, unnecessarily in my opinion. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 174 |
They were mounted on high platforms near the masts, one at each mast, and could be run out on rollers from the mast, to which they were fastened by adjustable lengths of chain. |
10 |
| 5 | 189 |
These constructions were mounted on platforms. |
10 |
| 16 | 25 |
An outraged citizen thrust down, driving the vertically mounted point of a boat hook into the fellow's face. |
10 |
| 16 | 26 |
An instant later he had caught another pirate by the neck, with the horizontally mounted hook on the staff and pulled him backward. |
10 |
| 16 | 300 |
Indeed, one may even go between the blade and the ship on which it is mounted, if one wishes. |
10 |
| 17 | 313 |
They are usually mounted in a wall, a foot to a yard above the walk or pavement. |
10 |
| 17 | 314 |
This one was mounted about a foot above the street, and was ahead of me and to my right, a bit behind the kneeling girl, and to her left. |
10 |
| 18 | 166 |
On this stick was mounted a rounded, fur-wrapped head. |
10 |
| 20 | 1018 |
The music now, pounding and throbbing, mounted headily toward the climax of the Sa-eela. |
10 |
| 20 | 1483 |
Am I not a pretty tasta?" A tasta is a soft Gorean candy mounted on a stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 843 |
There are other hunters, mounted on kaiila, who, too, are following the kailiauk. |
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| 1 | 1013 |
The kaiila lance is used in hunting kailiauk as well as in mounted warfare. |
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| 1 | 1027 |
The head, of metal, or of bone or stone, with sinew or rawhide, and also sometimes with metal trade rivets, is then mounted on the lance. |
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| 1 | 1039 |
"Notice the manner in which the lances are held by the mounted hunters," said Kog. |
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| 1 | 1043 |
One of the other mounted hunters held his lance in his right hand, its butt resting on his thigh. |
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| 1 | 1046 |
A third mounted hunter held the lance across his body, it resting in the crook of his left arm. |
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| 1 | 1048 |
The other two mounted hunters still wore their lances in their shoulder loops, slung across their back. |
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| 1 | 1058 |
"The first mounted hunter is prepared to attack," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 1097 |
"The man, now," said Kog, "is not fifty feet from the mounted hunters. |
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| 1 | 1101 |
"No sign," I said, "which was read by the mounted hunters". |
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| 1 | 1126 |
This is quite different from mounted warfare, where one's fellows are usually quite close and ready, in an instant, to sweep one up or help one to regain one's mount. |
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| 1 | 1139 |
"The first of the mounted hunters is dead," said Kog, "he who had had the lance in the attack position. |
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| 1 | 1144 |
"The second mounted hunter, he who had held the lance ready, is thrown from the kaiila to the snow. |
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| 1 | 1145 |
The man must, thus, in the instant, change his aim to the third mounted rider, he who held the lance across his body. |
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| 1 | 1155 |
Nearby, in the snow, lies he who had been the second mounted hunter. |
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| 1 | 1158 |
The dark guest throws back his head, scratches at his chest, lifts his clawed hands, challenges the other two mounted hunters. |
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| 1 | 1367 |
"Fire!" With the titanic beating of wings the two tarns, the creatures mounted on them, took flight from the ruins of the tarn cot. |
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| 1 | 1372 |
I saw the creatures mounted on the tarns, silhouetted against one of Gor's three moons, fleeing over the marshes. |
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| 2 | 55 |
"From the hide we saw that the mounted hunters were apparently preparing to charge Zarendargar when they were interrupted by the man's attack". |
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| 2 | 144 |
They can be most easily closed, of course, by moving the narrow, vertically mounted, central wooden lever, but this lever, as would be expected, is on the outside. |
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| 4 | 188 |
In moments a troop of soldiers, lancers and crossbowmen, mounted on kaiila, reined up about us. |
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| 5 | 110 |
Had it been mounted by several cities I think I would have heard of it. |
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| 6 | 16 |
Indeed, I had heard the striking of the time bar, mounted on the roof of the Administrator's store, as I had approached the town's outskirts. |
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| 9 | 43 |
The knife blades and long nails are sometimes mounted in clubs. |
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| 12 | 41 |
These things could be mounted on hoops, attached to poles, and used in dances. |
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| 12 | 220 |
Grunt mounted to the high saddle of his kaiila. |
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| 16 | 86 |
I shuddered, and quickly mounted the kaiila, taking back the reins from Grunt. |
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| 17 | 80 |
In this way a long column of slaves may be marched, usually by mounted masters. |
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| 17 | 173 |
A small group of red savages, mounted, was seen to the southeast. |
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| 17 | 177 |
That expedition, if it had been mounted at all, should have been led by a junior officer. |
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| 17 | 209 |
Alfred turned his mounted forces to the north, but, to his dismay, he saw that his plan had been anticipated. |
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| 17 | 210 |
From the north, now, and the west, came new swarms of mounted red savages". |
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| 17 | 286 |
I looked up to see a tall savage, mounted astride a kaiila. |
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| 17 | 767 |
I then turned from her and mounted the kaiila. |
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| 18 | 156 |
Approaching from three directions were groups of mounted warriors, some fifteen or twenty in each group, lofty on their kaiila, barbarous in their paint and feathers. |
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| 19 | 24 |
"Hopa," said one of the Kaiila warriors, one mounted, a tall, broad-shouldered fellow, with long braids, tied with red cloth, looking down on the red-haired girl. |
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| 19 | 29 |
The mounted Kaiila warrior said something to Pimples, whom, it had been quickly established, in the interchanges, was conversant in Kaiila. |
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| 19 | 42 |
"Hopa," said the mounted Kaiila warrior, approvingly. |
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| 19 | 55 |
Their tethers were being handed to another Yellow Knife, one mounted. |
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| 19 | 57 |
The fellow then turned away, angrily, and mounted his own kaiila. |
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| 19 | 122 |
He then hurried toward the young mounted savage, and the other Kaiila gathered about. |
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| 19 | 784 |
Few tribes, most of which are usually dispersed in scattered bands, would be likely to wish to, or be able to, bring a force against them, some three or four hundred mounted men. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 138 |
It had been given to him by a Yellow Knife in mounted combat, the result of a stroke by a long-handled, stone-bladed tomahawk, or canhpi. |
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| 1 | 280 |
I, on foot, had looked at the mounted warriors, the Kaiila left then in the place. |
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| 1 | 407 |
"When the hunt is mounted," said Hci to Cuwignaka, "you may not hunt. |
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| 1 | 430 |
I again mounted my kaiila. |
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| 2 | 310 |
He had spoken to a girl who was standing near the stirrup of another girl, mounted on a kaiila. |
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| 2 | 312 |
She had come walking at the stirrup of the mounted girl. |
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| 2 | 325 |
"You, too, Bloketu," said Cuwignaka, looking up at the mounted girl. |
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| 2 | 439 |
"But others will be mounted?" I asked. |
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| 2 | 471 |
Boys, mounted on kaiila, watched over these herds, including those of the women. |
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| 3 | 43 |
We then walked along with the group, some mounted and some, like ourselves, on foot, who, in effect, were following Cancega. |
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| 4 | 313 |
A few yards ahead of where we waited by the lodge there was a group of mounted kaiila riders. |
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| 6 | 31 |
As my beast scrambled up, regaining its feet, I mounted it, and turned it away, down the draw. |
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| 6 | 112 |
Hci was mounted, and had his bow. |
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| 12 | 58 |
It would be very difficult for a mounted warrior, even if he wished to do so, to overtake a boy, lighter in weight than he, on a rested kaiila, by the time the lad could reach the lodges, usually no more than two or three pasangs away. |
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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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| 25 | 3 |
We had mounted the two kaiila taken from the Yellow Knives. |
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| 26 | 74 |
That sabers are not used more widely on Gor is, I think, a function of the tendency of many mounted warriors to rely too exclusively, in my opinion, on their skills with the lance. |
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| 27 | 33 |
Then, shield and lance in hand, I mounted. |
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| 28 | 82 |
Lastly, it seemed almost incomprehensible, given the nature of the beliefs of the red savages, that the attack had been mounted on a people at the time of the festivals. |
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| 28 | 332 |
Alfred, however, with some three to four hundred mounted men, leaving most of his command to perish, had escaped to the southeast. |
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| 29 | 83 |
"Away!" Grunt was crying, waving his arm aversively, at two Yellow Knives, mounted, looking at him. |
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| 29 | 174 |
Grunt mounted. |
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| 43 | 307 |
I then mounted. |
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| 44 | 447 |
On the trail below, only some twenty feet or so below the ledge, charging upward, Yellow Knives, four or five abreast, mounted on painted kaiila, swept toward the top of the trail, some hundred feet or so to our right. |
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| 56 | 38 |
I then slung some supplies on the kaiila on which the girl, tied, was mounted. |
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| 56 | 41 |
I mounted. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 43 |
One was mounted in the wall about a yard from the floor and the other, about a yard to its left, was mounted in the wall, about six feet from the floor. |
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| 1 | 110 |
It might be a piece of art intended to be mounted in jewelry. |
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| 1 | 178 |
From a drawer in the desk he produced a boxlike, mounted magnifying glass. |
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| 2 | 496 |
The ring at the back of the gag, doubtless sewn into the slotted leather pad, was snapped about a ring mounted at a matching height in the box. |
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| 6 | 184 |
It was covered by a canopy, mounted on a high, squarish frame, of blue-and-yellow silk. |
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| 13 | 183 |
At the back of this wagon was an arrangement of beams, with a projecting, supported, perpendicularly mounted beam that extended forward, some fifteen feet in the air, toward the front of the wagon. |
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| 30 | 230 |
Street signs in Gorean cities, where they exist, incidentally, are not mounted on poles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 36 |
In a moment, thrusting back the externally mounted security bolts, the padlocks already removed, he had the trunk open. |
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| 4 | 30 |
A rider, mounted on a high tharlarion, flanked by two footmen, had been approaching. |
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| 4 | 183 |
Neither of these roads, incidentally, are "great roads," in the sense of being mounted in the earth several feet deep, built of stone like a sunken wall, the sort of roads which are often intended to last a thousand years, the sort of roads which, typically, are found in the vicinity of large cities... |
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| 10 | 3 |
She knelt, her wrists tied together over her head, fastened by a short strap to a transversely mounted, sturdy wooden bar. |
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| 16 | 1258 |
Some men then, near the back of the hall, using poles, brought in a giant vat of tharlarion oil, mounted over a large, flattish, curved-edge iron plate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 5 |
Probably they had come only recently to the wagons, probably trekking overland from some contacted village, perhaps one from as far away as fifty pasangs, a common range for the excursions, the searches and collections of mounted foragers. |
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| 3 | 208 |
He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals. |
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| 9 | 52 |
To one side, off the road, a Cosian guard, mounted, lifted his lance in salute. |
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| 12 | 170 |
"It is mounted on a silvered pole. |
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| 15 | 355 |
This horizontal post was mounted on a short vertical post, in the manner of a "T". |
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| 25 | 1498 |
Its oval "stone" was of white porcelain, mounted in a red-metal bezel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 101 |
It was almost as though I was held in place, standing there, before him, by a fixed collar, mounted on a horizontal rod, extending from a wall. |
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| 6 | 114 |
This cage, I gathered, from the height of the surface, and its movement, was mounted on a wagon. |
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| 6 | 230 |
These are not candies, incidentally, like sticks, as, for example, licorice or peppermint sticks, but soft, rounded, succulent candies, usually covered with a coating of syrup or fudge, rather in the nature of the caramel apple, but much smaller, and, like a caramel apple, mounted on sticks. |
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| 6 | 492 |
But the usual arrangement in these particulars, I had gathered, was a simple coffle chain, most commonly a neck coffle, but sometimes a wrist or ankle coffle; a slave cage, mounted on a wagon, in which the girls were free; or a slave wagon, within which, stripped, their ankles were chained about a m... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 217 |
In it the victim is fastened, by collars and shackles, on structures of parallel, upright boards, vertical platforms, in effect, mounted on posts. |
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| 4 | 3 |
These were all large, shallow, round tubs, of clay, covered with porcelain, mounted on open-bricked platforms, each platform about a yard high. |
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| 8 | 494 |
I then put her to my shoulder, her head to the rear, as a slave is carried, and mounted the ladder. |
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| 15 | 824 |
Accordingly, in this fashion, if there should be more than one such agent, Cosians would not know which of them was mounted on the pole. |
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| 16 | 79 |
I proceeded on toward the raised platform over the main gate, where the impaling spear, flashing in the sun like a polished needle, was mounted. |
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| 16 | 281 |
"In that way she can be the more easily mounted on the spear". |
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| 16 | 308 |
In this way, when the spear was placed in the mount, it would appear, I hoped, that the slave had been mounted on the spear. |
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| 16 | 345 |
"If she is rescued," said Lady Claudia, looking back at the lovely, nude figure, seemingly mounted upon the impaling spear, "doubtless she will deny she is a slave". |
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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 | 31 |
In the cleared angle of the bridge, the defenders mounted to the bridge itself and there, behind the barrier, and about it, stanched the flow of men upward, holding them on the planking of the bridge, between the tower and the wall. |
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| 17 | 106 |
I had taken up my post above the main gate, on the higher battlements, where the impaling spear was mounted, and the flag of Ar's Station still snapped defiantly. |
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| 17 | 280 |
It was on this artificial hill, built before the gate, that the ladder which had reached to the height of the battlements had been mounted. |
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| 17 | 343 |
"She was hung on it," I said, "not mounted upon it, not impaled with it". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 568 |
The leader lifted his hand, his men now mounted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 34 |
The usual, and almost universal, temporary holding arrangement is a simple slave ring, mounted in the wall. |
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| 6 | 27 |
On the other hand, some owners, who prefer more obvious restraints for their women, who are, after all, slaves, use flatbedded wagons with mounted slave bars of various sorts, sometimes with intricate chainings or couplings. |
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| 9 | 7 |
Talena, with certain aides and counselors, and guardsmen and scribes, was on a dais, it mounted on the surface of the platform, a few feet away, rather to its left, as one would face it. |
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| 19 | 919 |
There are a great many ways in which a girl may be carried captive by a mounted warrior, and many saddles have been designed with the accommodation of such a prisoner in mind. |
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| 19 | 921 |
Perhaps the simplest is to have the girl mounted before you with her hands tied to a ring before her body. |
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| 20 | 672 |
A tasta is a small, soft Gorean candy, which is mounted on a stick. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 286 |
Indeed, it is not unusual for us, even, in brief tunics, chained together, by neck, or wrist, to trek the roads, afoot, under the surveillance of mounted guards astride saddle tharlarion. |
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| 10 | 204 |
It is commonly mounted on a stick. |
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| 14 | 1103 |
"A vulo is a kind of bird, a tasta is a kind of candy, often mounted on a stick". |
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| 16 | 210 |
Their primary purpose is to guide in the warriors, mounted on the gigantic saddlebirds, to enable them to safely negotiate the defenses of stakes and wire on the walls. |
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| 16 | 491 |
He then took the chain about the head of the divan and there, at one point, placed a link over a stout hook, part of an integral slide-ring mounted there. |
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| 16 | 492 |
In this way, it was, in effect, as though the chain was mounted at the head of the divan, rather than at the side, the hook would carry the weight of the chain, preventing it from drawing against the collar, the length of chain between the hook and collar would rest on the divan, and the amount of p... |
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| 19 | 36 |
From them frequent, randomized patrols are mounted. |
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| 19 | 47 |
One raider, still mounted on the tarn, reached into a saddle sack and hurled a handful of jewels high over the crowd. |
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| 19 | 69 |
Beneath the protective, shielding casings of those stiff brocades were there not terrains and latitudes which, shorn of their armor, would prove as vulnerable and soft as mine? I was momentarily blinded by a flash of light, the sun reflected from a huge silver plate, perhaps a yard in width, held ov... |
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| 24 | 190 |
I saw more tarns darting through the wire, guided by a fellow, still mounted on his tarn, on the terrace. |
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| 24 | 225 |
There were now several of the intruders, some mounted, others not, on the terrace. |
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| 24 | 599 |
On it, mounted over the crown, from front to back, was a crest of sleen hair. |
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| 31 | 549 |
Save for the metal band, the bow, or spring, mounted crosswise, now drawn, and the cable, arched back, the devices, with their triggers and stocks, were not unlike stubby rifles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 210 |
Later she learned that it was a confection, a small, soft candy mounted on a stick. |
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| 17 | 954 |
The man, she guessed, was a mounted guardsman, or messenger, or scout. |
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| 20 | 412 |
Independently, there were many mounted guards with the march. |
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| 20 | 414 |
On the other hand most of these guards, mounted, tended to flank the march, distancing themselves some yards apart, on each side. |
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| 20 | 1032 |
Too, of course, there were mounted officers, and others, civilians, and such, who rode with the march, rather than walked, or had places in the wagons. |
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| 26 | 1040 |
"He has stolen a tarn!" "Pursuit will be mounted!" called another man, from somewhere in the darkness. |
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| 27 | 8 |
A large pursuit had been soon mounted. |
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| 27 | 805 |
He mounted into the saddle of his beast, and looped the free end of the leash loosely about the pommel of the saddle. |
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| 27 | 845 |
"Put down the bows, sheath your weapons," said one of Mirus's companions, one mounted to his left, regarding the men of Portus Canio. |
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| 27 | 874 |
The men, those mounted or not, those with Mirus, and those near the wagon, naturally, without much thinking of it, followed Arconious's gesture, turning, raising their eyes. |
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| 27 | 917 |
"It seems," said the darkly clad, mounted fellow, quietly, he now in advance of his fellows, he whom Ellen took to be first amongst the visitors, "a translation is not necessary". |
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| 27 | 1041 |
There were cries of rage from the mounted men about. |
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| 27 | 1113 |
Hereafter, he no longer being mounted, she will refer to him as the "spokesman". |
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| 29 | 90 |
In a few Ehn the last wagon had passed, and the following guards, carrying lances, mounted on kaiila, as well. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Arena Cabot and Peisistratus were ushered into a cage, mounted on a middle tier of the encircling seats. |
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| 67 | 28 |
Who would care to hunt otherwise masters of the great bow? The heads of males might be tied to their harnesses as trophies, to be later properly mounted. |
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| 76 | 8 |
This badge of servitude is not only attractive, but it is to be prominently mounted, on the neck of the slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 518 |
"They are not mounted," said Pertinax. |
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| 3 | 555 |
"How do you know they were not mounted?" I asked. |
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| 12 | 229 |
In another area I saw a fellow mounted on a bird, the bird prevented from flying, hobbled, as were several others in the area. |
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| 12 | 305 |
Too long, in my view, had the common tarnsman been too much of a mounted foot soldier, too long had he been the passenger of the mount, rather than a component in a single, unified weapon. |
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| 14 | 102 |
To bring some of these things together then, I envisioned the tarnsman not so much as a mounted infantryman, so to speak, either a spearman or a crossbowman, than as something different, a new form of warrior, a component, so to speak, in a unified weapon system, that of man and tarn. |
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| 16 | 26 |
Too, mounted there, were six Anangan darts, three on each side. |
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| 16 | 146 |
The rapidity with which these attacks may be mounted and concluded is impressive. |
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| 17 | 78 |
His bannerman with his lance-mounted pennon was within yards of him. |
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| 18 | 506 |
Sometimes, of course, things do not go well, and they must forsake their heights, now being swept by the enemy, and flee downward, in terror, scattering to the grassy valleys, running before mounted foes intent on collecting them. |
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| 25 | 227 |
If the light is an uninterrupted red cavalries are mounted. |
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| 32 | 21 |
Between the mercenaries and the platform, some yards between the first row of mercenaries and the platform, there was a table of sorts, formed of planks mounted on two trestles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 199 |
The birds were usually saddled and mounted in a narrow, shuttered area, and then led to one ramp or another, the first two ramps each leading to a higher deck, the last to the open deck itself, whence the bird might take flight. |
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| 12 | 157 |
A lantern was mounted near the helmsman, and another on the stem castle. |
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| 16 | 196 |
Each grapnel, with its rope and chain, was launched from a small engine, a tiny catapult, mounted between the benches. |
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| 26 | 228 |
"You fear," I said, "that he would return you to Ar, to the justice of Ar, to the impaling spear?" In the case of one of her importance, the impaling spear might be narrow, greased, and thirty feet in height, and, mounted on the wall, her slow descent, she writhing, trying her best to prevent it, un... |
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| 27 | 111 |
In this way it differs from the crashing thunder of a tharlarion charge, or the swift attack of kaiila-mounted lancers. |
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| 36 | 335 |
It will be mounted on the wall of the castle of Lord Temmu, for ten days, and it will then be cast amongst the soldiers below, of the forces of Lord Yamada, with instructions that it be delivered to their man, Tyrtaios. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 156 |
One fellow was hawking tastas, which is a confection, mounted on a stick. |
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| 21 | 140 |
Suddenly a new form came bounding down the hillside, scattering rocks, and I put down my head as a bipedalian tharlarion, mounted by a brightly capped, lance-bearing rider, literally leapt over the wagon, and landed on the far side. |
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| 21 | 144 |
Following were four other riders, similarly mounted. |
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| 29 | 29 |
It would have been difficult for a human to lift, and, if it were not mounted, to fire. |
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| 32 | 40 |
It had four eyes, or eye-like things, two mounted on its front, and two on metallic stalks which were lifted above the body, and could rotate about. |
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| 32 | 86 |
The two capped apertures below and to the side of the lower eyes, those mounted in the face or chest of the machine itself, snapped open and two, javelin-like, barbed darts burst out, each trailing a light, supple metal cable. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 18 |
It will be a raid, unanticipated and effective, over and done with before the enemy fully comprehends what has occurred, before any defense can be mounted, after which the raiders will slip away, returning to the forest, long before any pursuit can be organized. |
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| 39 | 649 |
How can one prepare oneself for the claws, anchored in one's body, holding one, and then the fangs, mounted in that massive jaw, the tearing and feeding? Then I heard a man's voice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76 |
As a tarn force it was superbly trained and uniquely equipped for aerial combat, far more so than the usual tarn forces of known Gor, which usually consisted, in effect, of mounted infantry, spear bearing, and armed with a saddle-clearing crossbow. |
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| 9 | 79 |
The tarn cavalry, less than a pasang north of the holding, was mounted, and waiting. |
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| 11 | 9 |
His lance with the pennon of command was mounted upright outside the headquarters tent, that it might serve to identify the tent and be easily at hand should it be required. |
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| 21 | 294 |
We looked upward and, against the yellow moon, were seen three tarns, a lead tarn with mounted tarnsman, and two other tarns, riderless, but each on a long, looping lead. |
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| 26 | 56 |
Sooner or later, of course, he would be missed, and a search would be mounted. |
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| 28 | 42 |
Pursuit, on fresh tarns, was soon mounted". |
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| 29 | 28 |
"It seemed obvious that a pursuit would be mounted," said Tajima. |
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| 29 | 54 |
I recalled how dismayed I had been when, en route to the palace road, to free Haruki and his fellows, if possible, I had seen the two tarns streaking northward, and one mounted doubtless by dangerous and pertinacious Tyrtaios, who, I feared, possessed the subtlety, training, and weaponry of the dark... |
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| 35 | 57 |
There were also three heads, scarcely recognized as human heads, or even as heads, for they were burned beyond practical recognition, mounted on three of the cart's vertical posts, rather as on stakes. |
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| 44 | 244 |
The object then, almost as though mounted on a spindle, turned about, examining the sky about. |
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| 52 | 29 |
I yanked boards aside and revealed a small room, containing what appeared to be a console of sorts, and, behind it, a large frame, in which were mounted six viewing panels. |
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| 52 | 73 |
"They are here," I said, "embedded in the board, this mounted sphere. |
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| 54 | 301 |
In such a case there could be no triumphant result of a successful experiment with which to regale a world or a hierarchy, or portions thereof, supposedly having resolved a controversy of generations, but a clear threat to the Sardar itself, perhaps mounted by Kurii. |
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| 59 | 15 |
It was supplied by small lamps, some of which were mounted in the walls, and some of which hung from the ceiling, descending, in some cases, to within a yard or so of the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 223 |
Then a single, long, reverberating note rang out in the night, wrought by a mighty hammer having struck against a large, hollow, suspended metal cylinder, mounted somewhere in the center of the city, which note would be audible from the outer walls to the southern piers. |
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| 63 | 278 |
"Hold!" called a mounted guard, on a saddle tharlarion, placing his long, slender lance across the bosom of the lead slave. |
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| 17 | 71 |
A heavy chain, a makeshift barrier, raised and lowered by a winch, now hung between the walls where the leaves of the gate had been mounted. |
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| 24 | 118 |
The small, single-oared ships which ply the canals will usually have a lantern mounted at the prow. |
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| 26 | 35 |
Similar beacons are mounted on the walls near the western and southern sea gates. |
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| 40 | 104 |
This attack would presumably be mounted by our most powerful and dreaded enemy, Pa-Kur, of the Assassins, who is bent upon the seizure of our harbored personage. |
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| 43 | 277 |
"Green, difficult to detect, low in the water, long-oared, swift, two masts down, to be raised and mounted, if the wind for Cos be fair". |
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| 5 | 1 |
We have Eluded Pursuit; Two Bottles of Wine; Much Remains Unexplained; The Cove of Harpalos is Sighted "Would we had had our ram and shearing blades mounted," said Thurnock. |
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| 14 | 5 |
Earlier, in the vicinity of Nicosia, on Chios, prior to beaching on Daphna, we had mounted shearing blades and rams. |
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| 22 | 50 |
Indeed, I gather from an overheard conversation that the Dorna, recently lying near to the ruins of Nicosia, has a ram mounted, and shearing blades. |
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| 26 | 106 |
The naval catapult, on the other hand, is mounted on a moving ship and its target is usually in motion as well. |
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| 41 | 167 |
"They have still not mounted a massive attack with scaling ladders," said Thurnock. |
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| 44 | 39 |
These devices, together with war torches, torches mounted in the sockets of thrusting poles, proved their worth in battle. |
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| 44 | 101 |
Moreover, should a mutiny be mounted, the corsair ships need only withdraw, leaving the mercenaries stranded on Chios". |
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| 53 | 46 |
The iron-shod ram, mounted in such a way as to withstand the grievous shock of tearing through reinforced planking, cut a short, sharp, linear, bloody furrow in the hide of the living island and then, as it was riding over the beast, the beast, reflexively, reared upward, like a hill of muscles, as ... |
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| 53 | 280 |
Shortly thereafter, as darkness fell, I had the two lanterns removed from the sterns of the Dorna and Tesephone and mounted on two separate buoyant frameworks, fastened together with some sixty or seventy feet of line. |
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| 53 | 281 |
These I set adrift, that pursuers might mistake them for lights mounted to assist the Dorna and Tesephone to remain in proximity despite the darkness. |
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| 60 | 85 |
Amphorae are familiar vessels on Gor but, given their shape, as they cannot stand by themselves, they are commonly used buried, to keep contents fresh and cool, or mounted in racks, which, on ships, is something of a waste of space. |
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