| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 2 |
Nine days I had been a prisoner in his camp, subjected to torture and abuse. |
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| 15 | 23 |
Nine towers were in evidence. |
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| 16 | 42 |
Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
Eventually we found what we supposed to be the ashes of his fire, near a large flat rock some nine hours' climb from the highway. |
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| 12 | 88 |
Nine cities, long after his death, claimed the man who, centuries ago, had called Ko-ro-ba the Towers of the Morning. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 25 |
Parp puffed his way up the nine steps of the dais and climbed onto the stone throne. |
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| 5 | 192 |
"I have been a prisoner in this room for nine years," she said. |
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| 5 | 246 |
Vika, in spite of her nine years of captivity, her confinement in this chamber, was still a headstrong, spoiled, arrogant girl, and one fully aware of her yet unconquered flesh, and the sinuous power which her beauty might exercise over men, its capacity to torture them and drive them wild, to bend ... |
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| 25 | 53 |
In the vicinity of the portal itself I remembered, when I had had the Mul-Torch, seeing a ventilation shaft some twenty or thirty yards inside the passage and fixed in the ceiling of the passage some nine feet from the floor. |
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| 32 | 50 |
I recalled that it would have been nine years since the girl had looked upon the sky. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 |
"Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 8 | 6 |
I did manage, however, from the back of the kaiila, which I learned to ride, to catch a glimpse of distant, high-walled, nine-gated Turia. |
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| 9 | 69 |
This afternoon Kamchak and I, leading four pack kaiila, had entered the first gate of nine-gated Turia. |
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| 12 | 212 |
To one side, across a clearing from the fire, a bit in the background, was a group of nine musicians. |
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| 16 | 31 |
I judged that the top of the well might lie eight or nine hundred feet above us. |
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| 21 | 214 |
I would rather have expected Kamchak to have stood before the walls of Turia, his kaiila saddled, his arrows at hand, until the winds and snows had at last driven him, the Tuchuks, the wagons and the bosk away from the gates of the beleaguered city, the nine-gated, high-walled stronghold of Turia, i... |
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| 27 | 3 |
On the last day before the withdrawal of the Wagon Peoples from nine-gated, high-walled Turia, Kamchak held court in the palace of Phanius Turmus. |
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| 27 | 221 |
"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 170 |
"Second Tarnsman," said he, "to Ubar's Builder Nine". |
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| 4 | 156 |
"Nine days, Master," said she. |
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| 12 | 22 |
Near the finishing perches, nine of which were standing for this race, were the areas reserved for the Administrator, the High Initiate, and members of the High Council. |
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| 15 | 102 |
Upon occasion, and it had happened early in Se'Kara this year, the arena is flooded and a sea fight is staged, the waters for the occasion being filled with a variety of unpleasant sea life, water tharlarion, Vosk turtles, and the nine-gilled Gorean shark, the latter brought in tanks on river barges... |
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| 18 | 373 |
"The prisoner is in Nine Corridor". |
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| 18 | 390 |
I began moving down the Nine Corridor. |
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| 19 | 429 |
Then we heard nine hundred and fifty bid, and then, incredibly, a thousand, and then a bid for the astounding sum of fourteen hundred pieces of gold. |
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| 22 | 120 |
The birds, some nine of them, only a few feet overhead and to one side, flashed past, wings cracking like whips, beaks extended, the riders hunched low in the saddles. |
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| 22 | 415 |
Already the other birds in the race, nine of them, were approaching the first turn. |
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| 22 | 471 |
There were nine laps remaining. |
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| 22 | 472 |
I decided at the next attempt in passing I would, regardless of what I felt like, pass at the position of the numeral nine on Gorean chronometers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 35 |
Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c... |
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| 1 | 18 |
It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident... |
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| 3 | 3 |
They are generally about eight to nine feet thick and have an exposed surface above the water of about three feet; as the rence stems break and rot away beneath the island, more layers are woven and placed on the surface. |
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| 3 | 6 |
It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri... |
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| 6 | 85 |
He could not have been more enclosed had he found himself in the jaws of the long-bodied, nine-gilled marsh shark. |
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| 6 | 222 |
Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks. |
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| 8 | 179 |
"You have only nine arrows left," she said. |
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| 8 | 188 |
I restrung the great bow, and put the nine arrows in my belt. |
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| 8 | 220 |
Then I placed the shield by the rail, and extended my hand for the great bow, with its nine arrows. |
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| 10 | 139 |
The figures I have listed would give us some forty-nine hundred ships. |
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| 18 | 206 |
I myself dropped nine warriors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 101 |
It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height. |
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| 6 | 249 |
There were nineteen of them, ten on one side of the wagon tongue, and nine on the other. |
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| 6 | 358 |
There were ten girls on one side, nine on the other. |
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| 7 | 166 |
Each wagon held nine girls. |
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| 8 | 674 |
It stood perhaps eight or nine feet high. |
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| 8 | 828 |
Besides the nine guards who had been with him when I had been captured, he had now eighteen additional men. |
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| 11 | 93 |
The piercing of the ears of women, only of slave girls, of course, was a custom of distant Turia, famed for its wealth and its nine great gates. |
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| 12 | 45 |
We were nine days out of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 15 | 166 |
The horizontal pole was about nine feet high. |
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| 15 | 610 |
She took us to that part of the camp near the horizontal pole, some nine feet high, resting across the two pairs of crossed poles, rather like a pole for hanging meat, or trophies, from. |
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| 17 | 205 |
I had been sold for nine pieces of gold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 380 |
"Ubar to Ubar Nine," said Samos. |
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| 2 | 255 |
"Nine pieces of gold apiece," said Arn, getting to his feet. |
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| 3 | 262 |
A pole extended from the front of the wagon, some eight or nine feet. |
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| 5 | 80 |
Soon, she was surrounded by some nine or ten dock workers, who remembered her well. |
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| 6 | 624 |
"Nine," I said. |
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| 7 | 399 |
I looked about, at the nine men with me. |
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| 9 | 398 |
She had been permitted to strike me only some eight or nine times. |
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| 11 | 737 |
"Ubara's Builder to Ubara's Builder Nine," said Marlenus. |
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| 14 | 39 |
Nine of my men had been with Marlenus. |
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| 15 | 104 |
That day I took nine more panther girls. |
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| 15 | 845 |
The Earth girl must now endure nine strokes. |
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| 17 | 117 |
That had left, by my count, not including Hura, seventy-nine panther girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 29 |
The beast was approximately nine feet in height; I conjectured its weight in the neighborhood of eight or nine hundred pounds. |
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| 9 | 369 |
I collected nine tarn disks and two pieces of broken plate, plundered two years ago from a house on the eastern edge of Skjern. |
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| 20 | 71 |
He was large, even for a Kur, some nine feet in height. |
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| 20 | 72 |
His weight, I conjectured, was some eight or nine hundred pounds. |
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| 20 | 122 |
Scarcely had it seen the flash of Tuchuk steel, the saddle knife, its blade balanced, nine inches in length, which had slipped from my sleeve, turned, and, hurled, struck him. |
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| 20 | 171 |
On the tiny rock promontory, footing the skerry, some eight or nine feet in width, I met Ivar Forkbeard, and his men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 46 |
Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view. |
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| 26 | 172 |
After she had falsely testified against me at Nine Wells, she had smiled, slyly, in triumph, pleased with her work, pleased that I would be sent to the brine pits of Klima; I had escaped from Nine Wells, but, recaptured, was enchained, destined for Klima; I well recalled her elation, her contempt, h... |
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| 2 | 192 |
I had failed to contact them in Kasra, as I had planned, but I had learned that they were in the region of Tor, purchasing kaiila, for a caravan to the kasbah, or fortress, of Suleiman, of the Aretai tribe, master of a thousand lances, Ubar of the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
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| 3 | 61 |
He was camping in the vicinity of the city while purchasing kaiila for a caravan to the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
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| 3 | 116 |
Then he had asked, "What is your business, Hakim of Tor, and may I in any way be of service to you?" It had been on the route to the Oasis of Nine Wells that the boy had seen the rock. |
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| 3 | 118 |
"I have a few small stones which I would like to sell at the Oasis of Nine Wells, to buy date bricks to return and sell in Tor". |
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| 3 | 121 |
"I, myself," said Farouk of Kasra, "am soon journeying to the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
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| 3 | 137 |
After determining this point, I would continue on to the Oasis of Nine Wells, where I would lay in supplies and water, attempt to hire a guide, and, returning to the rock, strike eastward into the Tahari. |
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| 3 | 321 |
I hoped to obtain supplies, and a guide, at the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
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| 4 | 395 |
* * * * On the back of the kaiila, on the road to the Oasis of Nine Wells, drowsily, I listened to the kaiila bells. |
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| 4 | 462 |
The caravan, I knew, was bound for the Oasis of Nine Wells. |
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| 4 | 474 |
"They have come to give us escort to the Oasis of Nine Wells". |
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| 4 | 507 |
"Why are you bound for the Oasis of Nine Wells?" asked the captain. |
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| 5 | 44 |
I had waited over a month at the Oasis of Nine Wells before being granted an audience with Suleiman. |
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| 5 | 97 |
She had received it several days ago on the caravan march, four days after we had been joined by the officers and escort sent forth from Nine Wells. |
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| 5 | 420 |
"One who is bound for the Oasis of Nine Wells," I told him. |
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| 5 | 545 |
Ibn Saran, it seemed to me, exercised more influence at the Oasis of Nine Wells than one might have expected of a mere merchant of salt. |
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| 5 | 562 |
Her lessons, which had been intensive, once we had arrived at the Oasis of Nine Wells, had cost little, and had, in my opinion, much increased her value, doubling or tripling it. |
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| 5 | 829 |
It was now as Suleiman, Ubar and Pasha of Nine Wells, that he set his price. |
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| 5 | 834 |
Had it not been for Ibn Saran, I suspected I would not have been admitted even to the presence of the Pasha of Nine Wells. |
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| 5 | 845 |
I heard, too, incongruous in the palace of the Pasha of Nine Wells, from afar, the squealing of a kaiila. |
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| 5 | 870 |
On the cushions lay Suleiman, Pasha of Nine Wells. |
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| 7 | 46 |
On the trip to Nine Wells, in the company of Achmed; his father, Farouk; Shakar, captain of the Aretai; Hamid, his lieutenant, and a guard of fifteen riders, I had seen the stone, led to it by Achmed. |
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| 7 | 53 |
One oddity about it, from the point of view of one who reads Gorean, is that it possesses signs for only four of the nine vowels in Gorean. |
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| 7 | 478 |
She, permitted once, secretly, to look upon you in the streets of Nine Wells, through the tiny veil of a haik, she nude beneath, in the keeping of one of my men, later confirmed, stripped on her knees before me, her lips to my feet, your identity—as Tarl Cabot, agent of Priest-Kings. |
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| 7 | 639 |
This would seem, to the magistrates of Nine Wells, inexplicable, an incident demanding the most rigorous and exacting inquiry. |
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| 8 | 1 |
I Become the Guest of Hassan the Bandit I did not sleep as well as I might have that night, for, from time to time, clouds of riders, with bows and lances, swept through the streets of Nine Wells, returning from one sortie into the desert or another. |
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| 8 | 3 |
I did, however, get several hours of uninterrupted sleep toward morning, when, worn, exhausted, thirsty, slack in their saddles, the bulk of the search parties returned to Nine Wells. |
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| 8 | 34 |
* * * * On a hill, more than two hundred pasangs north and east of Nine Wells, two days after I had left the oasis, I reined in, the kaiila turning on the graveled crest. |
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| 8 | 73 |
Indeed, it lay in a direction away from Nine Wells, which was the largest, nearest oasis where soldiers might be found. |
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| 8 | 74 |
By the time word of the raid reached Nine Wells the raiders might be thousands of pasangs away. |
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| 8 | 298 |
There were nine men, not including the leader. |
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| 10 | 42 |
"Six days ago," said the merchant, "soldiers, Aretai, from Nine Wells raided the Oasis of the Sand Sleen". |
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| 10 | 84 |
And they cried out, in their attack, 'For Nine Wells and Suleiman!'" "I see," I said. |
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| 10 | 204 |
To his nine men, apiece, he had thrown a tarn disk of Ar. |
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| 10 | 253 |
"The merchant told us that six days ago Aretai from Nine Wells raided the oasis of the Sand Sleen". |
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| 10 | 255 |
"Six days ago," said I, "the soldiers at Nine Wells were in the vicinity of the oasis, hunting for a fugitive, escaped from their prison, who had been sentenced to the pits of Klima for an alleged attempt on the life of Suleiman Pasha". |
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| 10 | 259 |
"If the soldiers of Nine Wells were at their oasis six days ago," said I, "they were not, too, at the oasis of the Sand Sleen". |
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| 10 | 261 |
"And it does not seem likely," said I, "that, last night, Aretai from Nine Wells would be here". |
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| 10 | 269 |
"Suleiman, Pasha at Nine Wells," said I, "lies in his palace in critical condition. |
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| 10 | 272 |
"Yet the raiders wore the garments of Aretai, the saddle markings, shouted 'For Nine Wells and Suleiman!'" "You and I, too," smiled Hassan, "might arrange such matters, and shout boldly". |
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| 10 | 274 |
"Odd," said Hassan, "that they should shout 'For Nine Wells and Suleiman!'" "Why?" I asked. |
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| 10 | 308 |
"I saw you again, noting your progress, at a watering place on the route to Nine Wells". |
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| 10 | 391 |
"Are you familiar with a stone," asked he, "near the route between Tor and Nine Wells, which bears an inscription?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 11 | 4 |
Hassan turned aside his kaiila, with its single rein, and continued our journey, his nine men, myself, and the slave girl, Alyena, following, on our kaiila. |
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| 11 | 60 |
At Nine Wells, for example, there are two public baths. |
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| 11 | 281 |
"We are far from Nine Wells," I said. |
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| 11 | 426 |
I wondered on the Kur which had entered, invisible, my cell at Nine Wells. |
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| 14 | 290 |
"You remember, perhaps," said Hamid, looking up, "the delicious slave, Vella, whom the Kurii found of much use, who testified against you in the court at Nine Wells, who, by her false testimony, assisted in having you sent to the pits of Klima?" "I recall the slave," I said. |
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| 14 | 325 |
She had testified against me at Nine Wells. |
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| 14 | 402 |
What she had failed to do at Nine Wells, her master, Ibn Saran, silken, pantherlike and lithe, had well accomplished. |
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| 14 | 670 |
On it, still, lingered the perfume of a slave girl, one who, purchased, had been useful to Kurii, who had testified falsely against me at Nine Wells, who had, contemptuously, insolently, cast me a token of her consideration, a bit of silk and scent, to remember her by, when I served at Klima. |
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| 15 | 54 |
The salt is divided into nine qualities. |
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| 16 | 123 |
At the top of the food chain in the pits, a descendant, dark-adapted, of the terrors of the ancient seas, stood the long-bodied, nine-gilled salt shark. |
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| 17 | 25 |
Beside him lay the long lance, some nine feet in length. |
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| 20 | 110 |
In prison in Nine Wells, though strangely I could not see it, a Kur came to my cell. |
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| 23 | 149 |
I saw that Suleiman, Pasha of Nine Wells, master of a thousand lances, lived. |
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| 23 | 269 |
"Should you not return to Nine Wells?" asked Haroun of Suleiman. |
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| 24 | 101 |
I remembered her as one of the slaves who, bangled, in the high, tight vest of red silk, the sashed, diaphanous chalwar, had served wine in the palace of Suleiman at Nine Wells. |
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| 24 | 198 |
"I testified against you at Nine Wells," she said. |
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| 24 | 329 |
"At Nine Wells," I said, "following your testimony, falsely accusing me, when removed from the rack, you looked upon me, and smiled". |
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| 24 | 651 |
Perhaps I might utilize Vella, and perhaps Zaya, who had also testified at Nine Wells against me, later as serving slaves, kneeling to one side, in chalwar and vest, and bangles, attending to black wine, and its sugars, and fruits and pastries, summonable by so little as a languid gesture, while I e... |
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| 24 | 954 |
I recalled Nine Wells, when she had smiled. |
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| 25 | 162 |
Prolonged and hideous tortures awaited her, culminating in her public impalement, nude, upon the walls of the great kasbah at Nine Wells. |
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| 25 | 319 |
"Better torture and impalement on the walls of the kasbah at Nine Wells," said Hassan. |
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| 26 | 10 |
At his side, in the black kaffiyeh and white agal cording of the Aretai, rode Suleiman, high Pasha of that tribe, holder of the great kasbah at Nine Wells, master of a thousand lances. |
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| 26 | 19 |
The march would proceed to Red Rock, thence to Two Scimitars, thence to Nine Wells, thence, by a major caravan route, to Tor. |
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| 26 | 81 |
She had testified against me at Nine Wells. |
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| 26 | 331 |
"I am pleased that I testified against you at Nine Wells. |
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| 26 | 333 |
"You are not to be punished because you identified me for Ibn Saran," I said, "nor because you testified against me at Nine Wells". |
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| 26 | 366 |
I'm pleased that I testified against you at Nine Wells! Do you understand? Pleased!" A quarter of the sand had slipped through the glass. |
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| 26 | 371 |
"Of course I smiled at Nine Wells," she cried. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 726 |
Carrying his shield, the pouch and bota, some eight or nine feet behind him, on his left, I followed him. |
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| 5 | 15 |
Rich, vain women of high caste may wear ostentatiously as many as nine or ten veils. |
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| 9 | 1587 |
There were nine of them, including Bran Loort. |
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| 9 | 1741 |
Of the nine men only one, Bran Loort, now stood ready. |
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| 12 | 40 |
There were twenty-nine girls now, however, in the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| 22 | 43 |
Rising from under the grunt swiftly was a long-bodied shark, white, nine-gilled. |
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| 27 | 169 |
There is a joke about the baby of a peasant father being born drunk nine months later. |
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| 28 | 38 |
An interesting feature of the block is that about it, on the semicircular side, facing the crowd, tall and serene, carved in white-painted wood, evenly spaced, are the figures of nine slave girls. |
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| 28 | 39 |
They represent, supposedly, the first nine girls taken, thousands of years ago, by the men of a small village, called Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 169 |
She had smiled at me when in a court at Nine Wells she had testified falsely against me. |
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| 4 | 243 |
Unfortunately for red, however, the Ubar, a quite valuable piece, rated at nine points, like the Ubara, has been too early centralized. |
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| 11 | 15 |
Some nine men among our forces were of the peasants. |
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| 11 | 49 |
They had not at that time, however, realized that nine of our men, peasants, gripped bows of yellow Ka-la-na wood. |
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| 11 | 50 |
Behind each of these nine stood men bearing sheaves of arrows. |
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| 26 | 85 |
The animal, some nine feet in length, twisting, was awake, and restless. |
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| 31 | 65 |
I would have conjectured its weight at some nine hundred pounds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 206 |
The actual source of the tributary to the Vosk, now called the Thassa Cartius, as you know, was found five years later by the explorer, Ramus of Tabor, who, with a small expedition, over a period of nine months, fought and bartered his way through the river tribes, beyond the six cataracts, to the V... |
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| 1 | 229 |
Shaba's nine boats had fixed at their masts the tufted shields of the officialdom of Bila Huruma". |
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| 2 | 179 |
"Twenty-nine tarsks," called a man. |
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| 3 | 24 |
The dark-haired, shapely girl from Tyros had gone for twenty-nine tarsks. |
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| 3 | 28 |
She was hot and she had cost him not forty but only twenty-nine tarsks. |
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| 19 | 49 |
In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma. |
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| 27 | 14 |
Other men, too, some eight or nine of them, and some seven or eight boys, of various ages, came out farther on the platform, balancing themselves expertly over the flowing waters, to bid us be on our way. |
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| 32 | 717 |
Stumbling I saw before me a circular opening in the stone, like a sunken, sheer-sided pool some eight or nine feet in diameter. |
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| 46 | 52 |
"Two or three will be sufficient," said the leader of the small men, "but because we are so fond of you, I, and nine others, will accompany you". |
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| 51 | 91 |
The blonde was about five and a half feet tall, and would have weighed, I conjecture, about twenty-nine stone, Gorean, about one hundred and sixteen pounds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 96 |
"Six!" "Seven!" "Nine!" "Eleven!" "This is an exquisite little slut!" called the auctioneer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 64 |
These five ships, this small, uneasy, slender line, were all we had to oppose the might of the Voskjard, surely still some twenty-eight or twenty-nine ships, now being marshaled off our bows. |
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| 11 | 105 |
"I count eighty-nine," said Miles of Vonda, "including those two, both yours, whom we brought in at the prows of the Tuka and Tina". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 408 |
Standing as they were, upright, the larger of the two creatures was some nine feet tall, and the smaller some eight and a half feet tall. |
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| 1 | 409 |
I conjecture the larger weighed about nine hundred pounds and the smaller about eight hundred and fifty pounds. |
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| 8 | 531 |
"Six nine!" called another. |
10 |
| 8 | 840 |
"We have a bid on the slave of six nine," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 8 | 843 |
"Six nine," he said, looking at the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat. |
10 |
| 8 | 853 |
"Seven nine, then," said the fellow. |
10 |
| 8 | 855 |
It was an even silver tarsk, or an even hundred copper tarsks, of the sort common in Kailiauk, figured in multiples of ten, over the earlier standing bid of six nine. |
10 |
| 8 | 1020 |
"The three of them, together," said the attendant, "come to ten nine. |
10 |
| 13 | 620 |
"Oh, yes," she said, "I have value! I cost 'seven nine', I am told, whatever that means". |
10 |
| 15 | 120 |
It was a trade point, some nine inches long, socketed, with two rivets. |
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| 16 | 358 |
"Beasts," I said to Pumpkin, "such as that which threatened you, how many of them, if any, did you bury or find dead?" "Nine," said Pumpkin. |
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| 19 | 760 |
It was metal-bladed, with a long trade point, some nine inches in length. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 99 |
Emerging then from the ranks of the enemy came a gigantic Kur, some nine feet in height, some nine hundred pounds in weight. |
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| 32 | 36 |
When Grunt and I had come to the field of the massacre we had learned from Pumpkin, the Waniyanpi slave, Waniyanpi being used to clear the field, that the bodies of nine such beasts had been found. |
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| 51 | 17 |
I had later learned from he who was then Pumpkin, then one of the Waniyanpi, that nine bodies of beasts had been found on the field. |
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| 51 | 21 |
Subtracting the nine beasts which had been slain in the fighting, probably mostly by Fleer, who seemed to have less apprehension concerning their appearance than several of the other tribes, I had arrived at a probable figure of eight Kur survivors. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 97 |
They were some nine feet tall. |
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| 6 | 371 |
"Nine thousand pieces of gold, then," called the Brigella to Boots. |
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| 12 | 59 |
Ubar's Initiate Nine, that square from which I might effect capture of Home Stone, was now protected by his Ubara. |
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| 12 | 63 |
This brought it onto the diagonal on which lay the crucial square, Ubar's Initiate Nine. |
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| 12 | 68 |
I would now move my Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, threatening capture of Home Stone. |
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| 12 | 230 |
When I move him to Ubar's Initiate Nine you can prevent capture of Home Stone only by giving up your Ubara. |
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| 12 | 252 |
He then advanced his Spearman at Ubar's Builder Eight to Ubar's Builder Nine. |
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| 12 | 285 |
If he did advance it in that fashion, promoting it presumably to a Rider of the High Tharlarion, to bring the Home Stone under immediate attack, and prevent me from advancing my own Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, finishing the game, I would take it with my Builder. |
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| 12 | 289 |
If he did this, however, it would give me the move I needed to effect capture of Home Stone, by advancing my Rider of the High Tharlarion to the coveted Ubar's Initiate Nine. |
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| 12 | 304 |
"Builder to Ubar's Builder Nine," he said. |
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| 12 | 310 |
Then he had swept down the opened file with his Builder, to Ubar's Builder Nine, to effect its capture. |
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| 20 | 242 |
The sleen, startling me, suddenly spun about, the five of them, six-legged, agile, sinuous and muscular, some nine or ten feet in length, and crowded about our legs, hissing, snarling, looking upward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 319 |
It must have weighed eight or nine hundred pounds. |
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| 34 | 66 |
"She is no more than nine hundred times more beautiful than you," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 211 |
"Nine silver tarsks?" she asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 16 |
The common Gorean shark is nine-gilled. |
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| 30 | 7 |
Nine days ago we had come across the sand island where the tharlarion drive of the rencers had taken place, followed by the rain of arrows. |
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| 44 | 328 |
"Nine," said he, "including myself". |
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| 44 | 334 |
"Nine," said he. |
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| 44 | 354 |
"Of the nine in the crew," I said, "how many do you think, besides yourself, could recognize her?" "All of us," he said. |
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| 44 | 366 |
"Of the nine fellows who could recognize her," I said, "how many are about now, in the vicinity?" "All of them," he said. |
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| 46 | 235 |
The prefects are identified by five slash marks, alternately blue and yellow, the slavers' colors, on their left sleeve, the praetor himself by nine such stripes, and lesser officials by three. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 88 |
When the fellow then took to his way again this second palanquin, in a fashion I thought rather reminiscent of the investigatory movements of the nine-gilled Gorean marsh shark, slowly, silently, and smoothly turned in his direction. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 848 |
I had been well punished by the first nine strokes, I assure you, but that tenth stroke told me more than the first nine. |
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| 34 | 185 |
We expected ten men to return, answering the summons of the reed whistle, but only nine came in. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 379 |
Then the forty-nine natural women would not have been belittled, twisted, and commanded to behave like the unnatural "fiftieth woman," the authentic, disturbed malcontent, consumed with envy, intent on working her vengeance and will on an entire community. |
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| 4 | 380 |
If one is to be sacrificed, why not the fiftieth, she alone, why the forty-nine?" "Let each be as she wishes," said the older woman. |
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| 4 | 383 |
Then she said, angrily, "We know our values! Let the forty-nine be sacrificed!" "Perhaps men will not permit it," he said. |
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| 17 | 103 |
I would prefer a slave who is nine or ten". |
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| 24 | 113 |
There were eight or nine girls of exceeding loveliness within. |
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| 27 | 414 |
"There are nine of us". |
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| 27 | 553 |
"We are nine men," said Portus Canio, puzzled. |
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| 27 | 945 |
Kardok stood up, his height expanding upward, almost as though he were slowly, somehow unnaturally enlarging, to something like nine feet. |
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| 27 | 970 |
"Some of us can reach you, surely, for we are nine, and you are now but five". |
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| 27 | 990 |
"So then there are ten of you, and only nine of us," said Portus Canio. |
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| 27 | 1109 |
Of Portus's men, who had numbered nine, there were five left. |
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| 27 | 2143 |
"We are not slaves!" said the fellow of Portus Canio, Loquatus, only he left of the original nine, other than Portus Canio himself, Selius Arconious and Fel Doron. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 68 |
"No," said Peisistratus, "innocence or guilt must be clear, so a clear, significant majority is required, and in a trial such as this, involving charges of high treason, guilt must be exceedingly clear, this requiring that nine out of every ten jurors draw the knife". |
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| 39 | 65 |
It was much as when the nine-gilled shark, in its intended, smooth hunt, finds itself suddenly startled as its quarry disappears into the midst of darting, schooling parsit fish, and loses sight then not only of its intended quarry, but finds it difficult, further, to seek out another, even a substi... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 14 |
It is a world that contains not only the beauty of grass and the blossoming of the talendar but the fangs of the ost, the coils of the hith, the jaws of the larl, the frenzies of flocking, feeding jards, the sudden, wrenching, twisting strike of the nine-gilled shark, the claws of the sleen, the bea... |
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| 9 | 377 |
I had little doubt that the true agent had been disposed of, doubtless long ago, probably cast to the nine-gilled sharks of Thassa. |
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| 18 | 270 |
"A switch in time saves nine?" he smiled. |
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| 38 | 17 |
The nine-gilled Gorean shark will sometimes trail a ship, for garbage, but that is not a source to be relied on either. |
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| 41 | 48 |
Its greatest moment of danger is at its birth, for the mother's casting of the offspring and blood into the water stimulates the investigation of predators, in particular that of the nine-gilled Gorean shark. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 657 |
We then left the back room, and, a bit later, Callias had exchanged one of the tiny beadlike golden tarsks for nine silver tarsks, ninety-nine copper tarsks, and a hundred tarsk-bits, at one of the changing tables maintained in the warehouse by the harbor administration, to facilitate trading. |
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| 2 | 49 |
I, once a spear of Cos, even a first spear, leader of nine men, with hundreds of others, after the trouble in Ar, scattered, separated from our commands and units, withdrew to Torcadino, and thence, bribing and spending, and then by recourse to brigandage and banditry, made our way by long marches t... |
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| 2 | 58 |
And so it came about that I, who had been a spear of Cos, even a first spear, a leader of nine, who had served in the occupation of Ar, who had served even in the Central Cylinder itself, whose wallet had once been heavy with gold, who had walked proudly, who had been feared in the streets, whom non... |
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| 4 | 59 |
"But in better times I was first spear, in a squad of nine". |
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| 4 | 189 |
"I was first spear," I said, "of a squad of nine". |
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| 7 | 4 |
Nine storms we had endured since I had been taken aboard. |
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| 9 | 192 |
It had nine decks. |
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| 14 | 59 |
The shark of the Vine Sea, though nine-gilled like his cousins of the shorelines and tropics, is sinuous and eel-like, which, I suppose, facilitates its movements amongst the vines. |
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| 25 | 176 |
"Callias," she whispered, "Callias of Jad, Cosian, spearman, first of nine, guardsman, the occupation, the Central Cylinder". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 364 |
"Something like nine Ehn now," said the Lady Bina. |
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| 20 | 179 |
"Nine, not counting Trachinos and Akesinos," said Astrinax. |
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| 24 | 12 |
"There are nine in your band," said Desmond. |
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| 24 | 78 |
The men examined the bodies, and parts of bodies, of nine men. |
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| 24 | 94 |
"There are nine men here," she said, "and Grendel is but one, and it is daylight. |
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| 24 | 95 |
He might kill nine at night, in the darkness. |
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| 24 | 96 |
It is not likely he could kill nine in the bright day. |
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| 24 | 151 |
If they managed this carnage, nine men, quite possibly with ease, with little or no cost to themselves, it seems they might do as well with, say, five men. |
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| 29 | 209 |
In the mountains I discovered an outlaw band of nine men, and warned Astrinax. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 159 |
She was a tall girl, perhaps five feet nine or so. |
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| 13 | 112 |
I was not sure I could repeat, or easily repeat, for example, a series of nine meaningless noises. |
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| 20 | 54 |
"Surely she has more serious opinions," said another, "as to the ranking of the nine classic poets, the values of the Turian hexameter, should prose be allowed in song drama, the historicity of Hesius, the reform of the calendar, the dark geometries, the story of the czehar, the policies of the Sala... |
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| 26 | 178 |
It was a large, mottled beast, some nine feet long, brown and black. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 55 |
I knew the black dagger was not easily attained; it is won in but one way, the ascent, as it is said, of the nine steps of blood. |
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| 47 | 240 |
The two unused bows and the nine unfired arrows were now beside the shogun, a little behind him, these brought by Ashigaru. |
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| 47 | 241 |
The first Ashigaru carried the nine arrows. |
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| 47 | 253 |
Nine arrows had been expended when we, following Lord Yamada, moved to the ten-pace marker, where the fourth bow was strung, this also strung, though now with difficulty, by the stout, brawny fellow. |
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| 60 | 311 |
Odds of ten to one are considerably qualified when nine of the ten must remain inactive, when the ten must meet the one singly, one at a time, only one at a time. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 28 |
Such fish, nine-gilled, and slender, sometimes reaching a length of nine to twelve feet, do pose a threat to anything in the water. |
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| 14 | 6 |
Four served, and there were nine to be served, five men, including my master, Lysander, and four women. |
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| 14 | 35 |
What male appetite is unlikely to be stirred by the presence of a lovely woman reclining at his side? As I mentioned, there were nine to be served, five men, including my master, Lysander, and four women. |
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| 26 | 65 |
It is not easy to climb the nine steps of blood. |
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| 29 | 92 |
Do not loiter here! Run! He is of the dark caste! You are hunted! Neither dismiss nor ignore this threat! You are not dealing with an ordinary man! He is of the dark caste! He is one who has ascended the nine steps of blood". |
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| 53 | 37 |
When he did this he was some eight to nine feet in height. |
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| 60 | 189 |
I have ascended the Nine Steps of Blood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 224 |
"It is overcome in the third of the Nine Steps of Blood," said the man in the boat. |
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| 42 | 228 |
Tethered at the side of the canal, near them, was an oared, half-covered, half-canopied, canal boat containing some nine or ten men. |
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| 46 | 405 |
"Forgive me, Master!" "Nine more," said Florian. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 123 |
"How came you here?" "A rumor, aflight in a tavern in Sybaris, high town of Thera," I said, "overheard nine days ago". |
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| 1 | 230 |
"What clue?" "That of nine days and five days," I said. |
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| 16 | 52 |
We stood on a gray, coarse surface, the texture of which reminded me of the hide of the common, nine-gilled Gorean shark. |
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| 43 | 127 |
"Seventy-eight Ihn," I counted, "seventy-nine Ihn, eighty Ihn". |
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| 45 | 41 |
Commonly the majority of the group, say, nine out of ten, rejoicing in their survival are only too happy to finish the matter and return to duty. |
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| 45 | 73 |
Even a novice, climbing the third of the nine steps of blood, aspiring to membership in the Black Caste, would not wear sandals in such a business, but would go barefoot or wrap his feet in rags, his sandals tied about his neck or to his belt. |
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| 57 | 138 |
It reminded me a little of the dorsal fin of the nine-gilled Gorean shark, so much like those of Earth, a graceful, efficient, savage form of life, presumably selected for efficient predation, just as the Earth shark in similar environments. |
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