| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98 |
Light as the envelope seemed to be, it resisted the point as if I were trying to open an anvil. |
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| 1 | 121 |
Perhaps only one man could open that envelope—he whose print fitted the strange lock, he whose name was Tarl Cabot. |
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| 1 | 122 |
The apparently seamless envelope crackled open, almost with the sound of cellophane. |
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| 2 | 107 |
It had been roasted over an open flame. |
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| 3 | 75 |
"The city-state," said my father, speaking to me late one afternoon, "is the basic political division on Gor—hostile cities controlling what territory they can in their environs, surrounded by a no-man's land of open ground on every side". |
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| 3 | 284 |
The next thing I knew his beak was open; I caught a brief sight of his thin, sharp tongue, as long as a man's arm, darting out and back, and then, snapping at me, he lunged forward, striking at me with that monstrous beak, and I heard the Older Tarl cry out in horror, "The goad! The goad!". |
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| 4 | 12 |
It was the wild nature of the tarn, the call of the distant hills, the open sky, against the puny conditioning he had been subjected to, against the will of tiny men with their private objectives, their elementary psychology of stimulus and response, their training wires and tarn-goads. |
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| 5 | 45 |
The Home Stone of Ar, like most Home Stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities. |
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| 5 | 101 |
I reached to the lock behind her neck, inserted the key and turned it, springing open the mechanism. |
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| 6 | 15 |
Like most Gor compasses, mine contained a chronometer, and I took the compass, turned it over, and pressed the tab that would snap open the back and reveal the dial. |
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| 6 | 134 |
Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open. |
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| 12 | 149 |
The first thing I did was unseal one of the two water flasks and open the dried rations. |
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| 14 | 1 |
The Tarn Death Shackled in a kneeling position, my back open and bleeding from the lash, I was thrown before the Ubar. |
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| 17 | 88 |
"One key to open the gate of Ar is as good as another". |
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| 17 | 102 |
The tarn was brought into the open. |
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| 18 | 128 |
I climbed the stairs that led to the portal into the cylinder, turned the valve, and as soon as the portal began to move, raced down to the tarn cot and swung open that barred gate which lay nearest the foot of the stairs. |
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| 18 | 140 |
The other tarns, poking out of the tarn cot, seemed to hesitate and then to notice the open door into the cylinder. |
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| 18 | 182 |
I slowly walked up the stairs, my hands open, free of weapons. |
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| 19 | 32 |
By night Ar would be in flames, its coffers broken open, its gold and silver in the bedrolls of the looters, its men slaughtered, its women, stripped, lashed to the pleasure-racks of the victors. |
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| 20 | 4 |
The sounds of playing children carry through the open window. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 188 |
Later, following another examination, I was admitted to the bar in New York State, and I entered one of the immense law offices in the city, hoping to obtain eventually enough experience and capital to open a small practice of my own. |
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| 8 | 2 |
The gate had been open and though I had been carefully scrutinized by its guards, tall spearmen in blue helmets, no one had objected to my entry. |
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| 8 | 3 |
It must be as I had heard, that the streets of Tharna were open to all men who came in peace, whatever their city. |
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| 9 | 73 |
I smiled to myself, felt the sack of coins in my tunic, bent down and pushed the door open. |
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| 10 | 41 |
There was a sound of sliding bolts and the iron door swung open, revealing nothing but darkness within. |
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| 11 | 37 |
Thorn lifted the instrument to lay my back open with its harsh stroke. |
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| 13 | 142 |
I stood there, ankle deep in the sand, covered with sweat and sand, my back open from the lash of the race, my side torn from the driving horn of Kron's yoke. |
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| 14 | 39 |
I saw the great wings snap, smiting the air, the hurricane from their blow spilling slaves into the sand, tangling chains, as the great beast, lifting its head and smelling the open air, struck it with his wings. |
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| 14 | 90 |
He did not remove them but only loosened them, and as soon as he had, he and his fellow scurried for the safety of the open section of wall, which then slid noiselessly shut. |
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| 14 | 125 |
My hands locked on it, trying to twist it open. |
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| 14 | 129 |
Inwardly I screamed for it to open. |
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| 14 | 177 |
Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning. |
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| 15 | 61 |
"Tabuk!" I cried again, taking the great beak in my hands and turning it toward the open fields below. |
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| 15 | 63 |
"Tabuk," I said quietly, once more turning it toward the open fields. |
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| 18 | 163 |
Above, whoever worked the valve must have grown impatient and thrown it open completely, or perhaps the sudden torrent of water had been intended as a gesture of mercy to drown any survivors quickly. |
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| 22 | 207 |
Targo's mouth dropped open. |
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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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| 23 | 116 |
The main gate of Tharna hung open on its hinges, and small isolated figures scurried in and out. |
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| 23 | 131 |
One side of the helmet had been cracked open, perhaps by the blow of an ax. |
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| 24 | 1 |
The Barricade I ducked my head and shoved open the heavy wooden door of the Kal-da shop. |
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| 24 | 241 |
The door was loose and I kicked it open, covering myself with the shield. |
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| 24 | 248 |
This time the trap did not open and I found myself in a narrow unlit hallway opposite the door to the palace. |
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| 24 | 257 |
I leaned against the heavy doors and swung them open. |
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| 25 | 58 |
At the top of the stairs I pressed against a trap and flung it open. |
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| 25 | 59 |
Outside I could see the bright blue rectangle of the open sky. |
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| 26 | 5 |
I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 31 |
The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the woo... |
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| 2 | 132 |
I hesitated for a moment and then the fierce war cry of Ko-ro-ba burst from my lips in the clear, chill air of the Sardar and I threw myself into the open, my spear arm back, my shield high. |
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| 3 | 35 |
One side of this area was formed by the sheer cliff which had been on my right and now curved about making a sort of cup of stone; the other side, on my left, lay partly open to the frightful drop below, but was partly enclosed by another cliff, the side of a second mountain, which impinged on the o... |
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| 3 | 56 |
He was simply too cheerful, too open and ingenuous, too frank, and only too obviously pleased to see and welcome me. |
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| 7 | 99 |
I tensed myself for the leap and cry that would fling me into the open, the sudden interruption in the stillness of the passageway that might be sufficient to impair the steadiness of a spear arm, the calm setting of a crossbow's iron quarrel on its guide. |
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| 8 | 34 |
I cracked my fist into my open palm. |
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| 14 | 25 |
The metal appendages which held me suddenly sprang open and I was dropped into the cage. |
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| 17 | 7 |
I slid the door open and stepped into the room. |
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| 19 | 26 |
It was obvious that the compartment was being fixed in such a way as to suggest that it had been broken open. |
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| 20 | 56 |
Now I knew the purpose of the device in the room—why it was there and what it did—but why had Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta brought me here? A panel to the side slid open and two plastic-clad Muls entered. |
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| 20 | 99 |
While the globe did its work, and held the girl's head in place, the attendant at the cylinder unlocked the five latches which held it shut and swung it open. |
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| 20 | 113 |
The attendant on the disk had now broken open the blue plastic wrapper that held, fresh and folded, the garment of a Chamber Slave. |
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| 21 | 43 |
Then, as we crouched in the darkness of the far side of the chamber, the doors opposite us swung open and we observed two long lines of strange men, marching abreast, each of whom carried a Mul-Torch in one hand and in the other by a handle what resembled a deflated wineskin of golden leather. |
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| 22 | 59 |
I turned the key in the lock, springing it open. |
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| 25 | 49 |
I was not certain whether, as a matter of fact, they would open the door or not, but I thought it best that both of them could honestly report that they had seen me enter the tunnels and had not seen me return. |
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| 27 | 39 |
I had spent but a few Ehn on the disk before I came to the barricade of heavy steel bars which separated those portions of the Nest open to Muls from those which were prohibited to them. |
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| 27 | 61 |
I drove the disk about a half pasang away and stopped it by an open portal within which I could see busy Muls stirring vats of bubbling plastic with huge wooden paddles. |
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| 27 | 62 |
I quickly retraced my steps to the ventilator shaft, pried open the bottom of the grille, squeezed inside and soon found myself making my way rapidly through the ventilating system in the direction of the Chamber of the Mother. |
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| 27 | 87 |
It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world. |
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| 28 | 4 |
Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away. |
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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 | 65 |
And there was, and in this case though it had been seared as if an attempt had been made to open it, I found Vika of Treve. |
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| 28 | 75 |
Yet as she stood there she seemed also to be frightened and to my surprise she dared not approach the door though it now stood open. |
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| 28 | 110 |
It was as though she begged to be allowed to lift and open her arms and rise and come to my arms. |
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| 29 | 13 |
Here and there where a human or Priest-King would dart into the open the cone nearest to him would focus on him and the human or Priest-King, like the buildings and the walls, would seem to break apart into powder. |
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| 29 | 39 |
Had it truly been Vika of Treve? I raced to the workshop of Misk and flung open the double doors and leaped into the ship and secured the hatch, and in a moment it seemed the floor dropped a foot beneath me and the doors rushed forward. |
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| 29 | 43 |
I broke into the open and the floor of the complex shot away from beneath me and I hung near the energy bulbs at the very apex of the dome. |
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| 29 | 47 |
To my joy I saw the metal blacken and burst apart like swollen tin as I passed beneath it and began to climb rapidly toward the belly of the second craft which I ripped open with a sizzling burst of fire. |
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| 29 | 80 |
Now the three ships were far ahead and I thrust open the speed valve on the armored transportation disk to overtake them. |
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| 29 | 81 |
Just as the three ships burst into the open of another huge complex I caught up with them and opened fire on the third ship but my fire seemed less effective this time and though I gave it a full burst the charging of the tube seemed at last almost exhausted. |
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| 29 | 92 |
Like an angry hornet I flew to the open hatch of the injured ship and blasted away into the hatch, filling the insides with fire. |
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| 29 | 97 |
A few yards from the flooring of the plaza I brought the craft again into order and, again throwing open the speed valve, darted into the midst of a complex of buildings, where I stopped, hovering a few feet above the street passing between them. |
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| 29 | 123 |
I wrenched the hatch open and it swung wildly out from its locked side and suddenly I hung there, one hand on the rim, one hand on the silver tube, as the ship lay on its side in the air. |
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| 29 | 126 |
The inside of the ship was dark, for its only intended occupants were Priest-Kings, but the open hatch permitted some light. |
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| 29 | 127 |
A forward door opened and a Priest-King stepped into view, puzzled, startled at the sensing of the open hatch. |
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| 29 | 150 |
Feeling what seemed to be a blank area of the ceiling of the control area I fired a blast upward, using the simple expedient of the tube to open a hole in the craft through which light might enter. |
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| 30 | 137 |
"Open them," said Parp. |
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| 31 | 114 |
In less than a minute I had kicked open another grille and dropped inside the great domed room of the Power Plant. |
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| 31 | 117 |
I swung them open. |
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| 31 | 182 |
I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black... |
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| 31 | 233 |
With one stroke of my blade I broke open its head. |
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| 32 | 17 |
There was a great splitting sound and the entire side of the globe cracked open and began to pour forth its avalanche of thick, molten fluid into the room. |
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| 32 | 40 |
And we looked, all of us, and saw, far above, perhaps more than a mile above, the open blue sky of Gor. |
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| 32 | 59 |
"We have made many trips," said Al-Ka, "and so have others in the other ships, for the Nest is broken in a dozen places and open to the sky". |
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| 32 | 81 |
I looked up into the huge, peering golden eyes of Misk, the left one lined with a whitish seam where Sarm's bladed projection had once torn it open in the battle in the Chamber of the Mother. |
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| 32 | 204 |
But I found only the dark open shaft. |
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| 33 | 148 |
"I and others have tried to leave open the gap that he might see it and fill it—and some have—but not many". |
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| 34 | 153 |
The probability of so beautiful a woman as Talena finding her way through the cities of Gor, over the lonely roads, among the open fields to at last return to Ko-ro-ba was not high. |
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| 35 | 95 |
"The Scanning Chamber," said Misk, "will not be operational for an indefinite period—and even so we can scan only objects in the open". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 105 |
I observed the banquet tables, laid out in an open-ended rectangle, permitting slaves to enter at the open end, facilitating the serving, and, of course, allowing entertainers to perform among the tables. |
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| 1 | 51 |
They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world. |
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| 4 | 60 |
He jerked open the jacket he wore and the leather jerkin beneath, revealing his chest. |
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| 5 | 46 |
Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the... |
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| 6 | 3 |
We suddenly emerged into the center of what seemed to be a wide, grassy street among the wagons, a wide lane, open and level, an avenue in that city of Harigga, or Bosk Wagons. |
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| 6 | 102 |
The crowd had opened a passage for the woman and the girl saw the clothing cast on the open fire. |
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| 7 | 7 |
But I did not enter the wagon, for Kutaituchik held his court outside the wagon, in the open air, on the flat-topped grassy hill. |
10 |
| 7 | 153 |
I and Kutaituchik watched as he carefully spread open the collar, pressing back two edges. |
10 |
| 8 | 603 |
"Open your mouth, slave," demanded the judge. |
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| 9 | 103 |
I liked it better cooked over the open-fires on the prairie, but it was good bosk. |
10 |
| 11 | 21 |
I turned to see, only a few feet away, on the shoulders of slaves standing on the bloodied sand, the open, bejeweled, cushioned palanquin of Saphrar of the Caste of Merchants. |
10 |
| 11 | 99 |
In short order then Kamchak took the key over the head of Aphris of Turia and sprang open the retaining rings. |
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| 11 | 132 |
The life in the open air, the work, had apparently been good for her. |
10 |
| 11 | 342 |
There he stepped on her wrist and removed the knife from her open hand. |
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| 11 | 404 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" I followed Kamchak down the steps of the wagon and, blinking and still sensible of the effects of the paga, gravely held open the large dung sack near the rear left wheel of the wagon. |
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| 12 | 153 |
She had had to break the seal on the bottle to open it. |
10 |
| 12 | 223 |
It was open and one could go in and purchase a bottle of paga if one cared to do so. |
10 |
| 12 | 276 |
Then I took her left ankle in my hand and lifted it a bit, slipping the open ankle ring under it. |
10 |
| 13 | 186 |
He bent to his tools, taking up a tiny, open golden ring, a heated metal awl, a pair of pliers. |
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| 14 | 33 |
With these he hurriedly conferred and then I saw him lift his arm and red war lanterns were moved on ropes to the top of poles, and, to my amazement, aisles seemed to open in the densely packed bosk before the men, herdsmen and herd sleen moving the animals back to clear long grassy passages between... |
10 |
| 15 | 10 |
In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour... |
10 |
| 15 | 43 |
Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a Tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia. |
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| 18 | 107 |
It was locked but we kicked it open, splintering the bolt from the wood, and emerged on a narrow, unrailed balcony. |
10 |
| 19 | 109 |
When she saw him her eyes were as wide as larma fruit and her mouth flew open. |
10 |
| 19 | 129 |
Then Harold had his hands in her mouth, holding it open. |
10 |
| 19 | 185 |
She looked at him for a moment and then put back her head and sucked in air and then, her mouth open, prepared to utter a wild scream. |
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| 20 | 33 |
It stood some seventy feet from any of the other buildings in the compound that was the House of Saphrar, but now, swaying, formed of rope and sticks, a removable footbridge extended from an open door in its side to a porch some several feet below us. |
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| 21 | 46 |
To my great surprise the gates of Turia stood open after the withdrawal of the wagons and the lifting of the siege. |
10 |
| 21 | 202 |
Tarnsmen would have little difficulty in finding a rider and mount on the open prairie near Turia. |
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| 21 | 259 |
The narrow column, and probably the Tuchuk spacing, a Hundred and then the space for a Hundred, open, and then another Hundred, and so on, tends to narrow the front of dust, and the spaces between Hundreds give time for some of the dust to dissipate and also, incidentally, to rise sufficiently so th... |
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| 21 | 260 |
I could now see the first Hundred, five abreast, and then the open space behind them, and then the second Hundred. |
10 |
| 21 | 263 |
Quietly, not wishing to hurry, I descended from the wall and approached the stalled wagon, the open gate, the guards. |
10 |
| 23 | 72 |
If they sent archers forth to slay the beasts, we could, from within the herd, answer their fire, or, if we wished, open the herd and ride forth, scattering the archers. |
10 |
| 23 | 95 |
We set pickets and took what rest we could, in the open, the kaiila saddled and tethered at hand. |
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| 23 | 157 |
"Open the wagons!" I cried. |
10 |
| 24 | 23 |
Kamchak's forces, on the whole, were so disposed as to push the Turians toward two gates which he had left open and undefended, thus providing a route of escape for civilians and soldiers who would make use of it. |
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| 25 | 161 |
She wore the Sirik and was, of course, clad Kajir, clad in the Curla and Chatka, the red cord and the narrow strip of black leather; in the Kalmak, the brief vest, open and sleeveless, of black leather; and in the Koora, the strip of red cloth that bound back her brown hair. |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| 25 | 807 |
Her head was back, her eyes closed, her lips open. |
10 |
| 25 | 844 |
She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from... |
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| 25 | 862 |
She lay on her back, her eyes open, looking at the top of the wagon, at the hangings, the shadows thrown on the scarlet hides by the light of the fire bowl. |
10 |
| 26 | 92 |
At last, perhaps an Ahn after daylight, no more men came from the compound and the gates were left open. |
10 |
| 26 | 109 |
Behind me I heard hundreds of ladders and grappling hooks strike against the wall, and, turning, I saw, climbing over the walls, as well as entering through the open gates, hundreds and hundreds of men, until the walls were swarming with Tuchuks, and others of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 26 | 128 |
He would lock doors behind himself but they were forced open. |
10 |
| 26 | 139 |
He would not bother to search for the button or lever that might open the panel. |
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| 26 | 377 |
The pool then attempted to dessicate itself and retreat into its hardened shell-like condition but the fire within the closing shell burst it apart and open and then it was again like a lake of burning oil, with portions of the shell tossed like flaming chips upon it. |
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| 27 | 134 |
Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f... |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 |
Averting their eyes the Warriors threw back the scarlet leather that the body might lie free on the spears, open to the wind and sun. |
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| 2 | 153 |
Hup seized up the coin of gold and scrambled from the room, like an urt running through the open gate of a trap. |
10 |
| 2 | 160 |
He approached gingerly, his hands open, held from his body, ingratiatingly, smiling. |
10 |
| 3 | 137 |
At one point, when the Vintner seemed hard pressed, I, and several of the others, noted that his hand strayed to the board, moving his Second Spearman to Builder Four from Physician Four, thus placing him on an open column. |
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| 5 | 251 |
Kusk twiddled a knob, and Elizabeth said "Please," once more and then it seemed she could hardly keep her eyes open, and then she closed her eyes and was asleep. |
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| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
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| 7 | 146 |
The valves were now open, permitting a bit of air to enter and leave the cylinders. |
10 |
| 7 | 167 |
This is a device used, when transporting slaves in open baskets, to prevent one from struggling to her feet and in flight throwing herself over the side of the basket. |
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| 8 | 86 |
"First," she said, "learn what areas of the House are open. |
10 |
| 10 | 10 |
In the room, which now had no occupant, I saw an open wardrobe closet, some chests of silks, a silken divan of immense size, several choice rugs and cushions about, and a sunken bath to one side. |
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| 11 | 16 |
The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily. |
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| 11 | 73 |
As the girl knelt the guardsman pulled back her head and held her nose while the smith, with thumb and forefinger, forced open her jaws and, spilling it a bit on her chin and body, poured a half cup of gruel into her mouth. |
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| 12 | 3 |
The tarn, screaming, its wing useless, tumbled uncontrollably from the edge of the large, open, padded ring suspended over the net on the track, plunging into the net, its rider cutting the safety straps and leaping from its back in order that he not be slain beneath the bird struggling in the net. |
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| 13 | 224 |
The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese. |
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| 13 | 247 |
With an agility that could come only from years in the cots he clambered about the tem-wood beams, sometimes forty feet from the floor, checking this bird and that; perhaps because I was slightly drunk I followed him; at last we had come to one of the four great round portals which give access to th... |
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| 13 | 320 |
I waited on the height of the stadium, looking down into that vast, open structure, empty and white. |
10 |
| 14 | 137 |
"Follow me," said Cernus, leading the way through the door which the guards had thrown open for him. |
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| 15 | 392 |
The door to the hall suddenly burst open and two guards, followed by two others, burst in. |
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| 16 | 27 |
The great bars suspended about the walls of the city then ring out for more than an Ahn with their din, and the doors of the city burst open and the people crowd out onto the bridges, clad in the splendor of their finest, singing and laughing. |
10 |
| 17 | 401 |
Then, to my horror, I saw Elizabeth, her back straight, her step determined, walk straight to Cernus and then, slowly, as his mouth flew open and he seemed scarcely to understand what was occurring, pour the rest of the contents of the vessel of Ka-la-na directly on his head. |
10 |
| 17 | 588 |
"Please do not open that chest," she said. |
10 |
| 17 | 829 |
Even the bones are broken open and splintered, the marrow sucked out". |
10 |
| 18 | 285 |
It seemed to draw it open, and then, wildly, to thrust it back, keeping the door locked; and then I heard the bolt rattling in its brackets as though something had seized it and trembling was trying to hold it in place. |
10 |
| 19 | 80 |
Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;... |
10 |
| 19 | 293 |
He drew her left wrist behind her back and snapped it into the open slave bracelet, thus confining both wrists behind her. |
10 |
| 19 | 380 |
He lifted his hand, palm up, open, to the crowd. |
10 |
| 19 | 430 |
The auctioneer signaled to the Musicians again and once more, to the shouts of the crowd, while he held open his hand, not yet closing it, taking bids, the girls performed the last moments of Ar's dance of the newly collared slave girl, who dances her joy at the thought that she will soon be in the ... |
10 |
| 20 | 32 |
"Please, Cernus!" cried Portus as a long line of blood burst open across his chest. |
10 |
| 20 | 270 |
"There are few doors open to a destitute Player". |
10 |
| 21 | 143 |
She sprang open the lock. |
10 |
| 22 | 80 |
I approached slowly, holding my hands open, saying nothing. |
10 |
| 22 | 91 |
I approached more closely, holding my hands open, not hurrying. |
10 |
| 22 | 564 |
I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ... |
10 |
| 22 | 588 |
Then gates leading onto the sand burst open and thousands of citizens, come from the Stadium of Blades, marching and singing, entered the Stadium of Tarns, at their head, helmeted and mighty, sword in hand, the magnificent Murmillius, hero of the Stadium of Blades. |
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| 23 | 72 |
The door burst open and five men entered, Cernus, wild-eyed, suddenly haggard, and behind him Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes, the man who had commanded the fifty tarnsmen who had ridden against me in the Stadium of Tarns, and two Taurentian guardsmen. |
10 |
| 23 | 169 |
I let him reach the door, jerk it open, take his stumbling flight up the stairs, into the passage. |
10 |
| 23 | 176 |
At the head of the stairs I saw that the room at the end of the passage was open. |
10 |
| 23 | 184 |
One with a vast portal open to the air, sheer on all sides. |
10 |
| 24 | 246 |
With the money remaining over from her purchase price, which was negligible, she, who had been of the Cloth Workers, could open a shop in Ar, purchase materials, and hire men of her caste to aid her in the work. |
10 |
| 24 | 421 |
I threw open the door to my compartment. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 318 |
"Open your mouth, Slave," said the girl. |
10 |
| 4 | 31 |
I had spent the night in the open, a foot or two from her tiny hut on the rence island, my wrists tied to my ankles, my neck tethered to an oar pole thrust deep through the rence of the island. |
10 |
| 8 | 767 |
"Open your mouth, Slave," ordered Telima. |
10 |
| 9 | 94 |
The canals which open into the delta or the Tamber were, in the last few years, fitted with heavy, half-submerged gates of bars. |
10 |
| 9 | 114 |
It was open territory. |
10 |
| 9 | 116 |
Further, it was open to attack from the air by means of the cavalries of mercenary tarnsmen of Port Kar, of which she has several. |
10 |
| 9 | 133 |
The nearest solid land was about one hundred pasangs to the north, but it was open land, and, there, on the edges of the delta, there were log outposts of Port Kar, where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes' edges. |
10 |
| 9 | 276 |
"I bring paga!" Thurnock took down the beams from the door, and swung it open. |
10 |
| 9 | 317 |
Before we set out we broke open the great bottle of paga, and Thurnock, Clitus and I clashed goblets and emptied them of their swirling fires. |
10 |
| 9 | 512 |
I pushed open the doors of the paga tavern. |
10 |
| 10 | 230 |
Better, they would think, to lie in wait on the open sea for the slave galleys of Tyros or the treasure ships of Cos. |
10 |
| 11 | 10 |
Outside, in the distance, through the great door, flung open, I heard cries of alarm, and the clash of weapons. |
10 |
| 11 | 148 |
And those who had used the open wharves did not seem to have suffered damage. |
10 |
| 11 | 314 |
He stood before the thrones of the Ubars, before even the large table, which now, on its upper face, was marked by sword cuts and the apertures splintered open by the passage of crossbow quarrels earlier this afternoon. |
10 |
| 11 | 502 |
Such a peace would, I note, open the ports of Tyros and Cos, and their allies and others, to my ships, and, of course, to yours. |
10 |
| 12 | 35 |
I cut it open and seized the bound arm of the body inside it. |
10 |
| 14 | 47 |
The rowing deck, further, is open to the air, thereby differing from the rowing holds of round ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 77 |
The principal alternatives, under these conditions, open to the men of Cos and Tyros would then seem to be, first, to use free oarsmen, which was not, however, traditional on round ships, or, second, to increase the ram-ship escort for round ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 129 |
I snapped open the builder's glass again. |
10 |
| 15 | 144 |
One day, after he had been three weeks slave in my house, the door to my audience chamber had suddenly burst open, and he had stumbled in, breathless, the kitchen master but two steps behind him, with a heavy switch. |
10 |
| 15 | 653 |
Then I burst open the doors of my quarters. |
10 |
| 17 | 235 |
I snapped open the glass of the builders. |
10 |
| 17 | 277 |
I looked down into the open hold of the round ship. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 32 |
I was afraid to open the door. |
10 |
| 2 | 53 |
I ran to the floor-length curtains before the huge window of my bedroom and flung them open. |
10 |
| 2 | 68 |
I ran to the kitchen, which I could see from the living room, and threw open a drawer. |
10 |
| 2 | 83 |
"Open the door," commanded a voice. |
10 |
| 2 | 96 |
"Open the door!" I heard. |
10 |
| 2 | 97 |
"Open the door. |
10 |
| 2 | 100 |
"I'll open the door in a moment. |
10 |
| 3 | 26 |
Through the open door, I saw the backs of two men, in police uniforms. |
10 |
| 3 | 65 |
I tried to keep my eyes open. |
10 |
| 3 | 138 |
I could hear the noises of the city's night traffic through the door open to the patio and terrace. |
10 |
| 3 | 139 |
Through the open curtains I could see the tens of thousands of bright rectangles of windows, many of them still illuminated. |
10 |
| 3 | 233 |
As the door on my elevator slowly closed, I heard the door of the adjoining elevator open. |
10 |
| 3 | 283 |
He held open the door. |
10 |
| 3 | 344 |
Near the bungalows, north on the highway, there was a diner, which was open. |
10 |
| 4 | 5 |
In one of the lights I saw a hatch in the top of the disk open. |
10 |
| 4 | 26 |
He stepped behind me and tore open the top button of the black, bare-midriff blouse. |
10 |
| 4 | 28 |
The collar sprang open. |
10 |
| 4 | 43 |
The men now began to bring, not gently, certain large square boxes from the truck, which they placed near the large, open hatch on the ship. |
10 |
| 4 | 50 |
The men unloading the truck began to unsnap the sides of the large wooden boxes placed near the open hatch on the ship. |
10 |
| 4 | 153 |
It was open. |
10 |
| 5 | 65 |
It was torn open, the steel plating split and bent, scorched and blistered. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 5 | 109 |
The lockers had been split open and were emptied. |
10 |
| 5 | 117 |
It crouched over a metallic container, round, not unlike a covered plate, that had been sprung open. |
10 |
| 5 | 137 |
When I had cried, I went to the flat, metal container, that sprung open and exposed, that from which the ugly, terrible, silken animal had been feeding. |
10 |
| 5 | 232 |
Then I was into the open grass again. |
10 |
| 7 | 85 |
Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly,... |
10 |
| 8 | 246 |
With a creak, he swung open the gate. |
10 |
| 8 | 860 |
The kitchen was an open, roofed shed abutting on the log dormitory, outside the bars. |
10 |
| 9 | 345 |
One by one the other girls, too, violently, threw themselves to the grass, rolling upon it and moaning, some even within the precincts of the square, then throwing themselves upon their backs, some with their eyes closed, crying out, others with their eyes open, fixed helplessly on the wild moons, s... |
10 |
| 9 | 526 |
But only a hundred arrow points! It was not enough! The door to the hut swung open. |
10 |
| 11 | 272 |
I looked at the tiny steel rods holding open the wounds in her ears. |
10 |
| 11 | 1250 |
For example, we could become curious, uneasy, simply by turning an open palm, perhaps unnoticeably, toward a male. |
10 |
| 12 | 31 |
Given that the common camisk is, substantially, open on the sides, it is a provocative garment, presenting a delicious, substantially bared, vertical "stripe" of slave on each side, while, with charming reserve, as she faces toward you, it shelters the attractions of her bosom, or, away from you, th... |
10 |
| 12 | 437 |
Sometimes, of course, and indeed, most often, the caravan must camp in the open. |
10 |
| 13 | 14 |
The first, a few feet upstream, was in the form of a "V," which had an open bottom, which pointed downstream. |
10 |
| 13 | 70 |
I backed away, toward the narrower, open end of the "V," which pointed downstream. |
10 |
| 13 | 156 |
When I dared to open my eyes again, the creature was again at the farther fence of wands, motionless, facing me. |
10 |
| 13 | 260 |
It would be pleasant to eat by the fire, and warm ourselves, while we enjoyed our open-air repast. |
10 |
| 13 | 542 |
Then, in the sunlight of the bright morning, late, almost at noon, I fled from the thicket, across the grass of the open field. |
10 |
| 13 | 754 |
"Open your mouth," he said. |
10 |
| 13 | 791 |
I was, after all, only a dirty little slave, a fugitive, a pilferer of meat from peasant villages, picked up in an open field. |
10 |
| 14 | 190 |
Off to one side, in an open area there was a small iron box, a square of some three feet in dimension. |
10 |
| 15 | 8 |
It had a heavy plank door, which was now open. |
10 |
| 15 | 657 |
"Open your mouth and thrust out your tongue," she said. |
10 |
| 15 | 663 |
"Please!" "Open your mouth and thrust out your tongue," said Ute. |
10 |
| 15 | 665 |
"Open your mouth and thrust out your tongue," said Ute. |
10 |
| 15 | 868 |
She saw the small door swing open. |
10 |
| 15 | 1372 |
Several of the chests were open, and from some of the sacks, onto the rugs, spilled pieces of gold. |
10 |
| 15 | 1427 |
"Open your mouth," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 287 |
On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law. |
10 |
| 16 | 431 |
From his pouch he took forth a key and sprang open the heavy manacle that had clasped, so perfectly confining it, my left ankle. |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
The huntsman lives a free and open life, as wild and swift, and secret, as the beasts he hunts, and his slaves, whom he insists on accompanying him, must, too, learn the ways of the forests, the flowers and the animals, the leaves and wind. |
10 |
| 17 | 148 |
She was open to him. |
10 |
| 17 | 362 |
The door to the hall burst open, and in, wild-eyed, ran a man with short-cropped, white hair, with earrings. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 562 |
In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained by the neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy, sanded wood. |
10 |
| 2 | 569 |
I sat before them, on a stool, between them and the open kitchen. |
10 |
| 3 | 49 |
Be that as it may, Lydius, though not what you would call an open port, was indulgent, and permissive. |
10 |
| 3 | 235 |
He then took the key, which could open the bracelets, and dropped it in his pouch. |
10 |
| 3 | 346 |
The man now, swiftly, brutally, released the girl, spinning open the vises, and dropping them against the rack, unfastening her wrists and ankles, and dragged her to her feet. |
10 |
| 5 | 65 |
"Open your mouth," I told her. |
10 |
| 6 | 276 |
She must be completely open to him, in all ways, and at all times. |
10 |
| 6 | 344 |
The wall is open, of course, to the water. |
10 |
| 8 | 191 |
"We shall open only this bottle," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 287 |
Such a spring, by a strong man, with his hands, might be thrust open. |
10 |
| 11 | 2 |
His hunting tent, hung on its eight great poles, was open at the sides. |
10 |
| 11 | 476 |
Marlenus stopped at the side of his great tent, in an open space. |
10 |
| 11 | 696 |
She knew now she stood before the man who was her complete master, open to him, his slave. |
10 |
| 12 | 13 |
Human structures are group structures, and closed groups, with senses of their own best interest, yet open enough and intelligent enough to accept a certain amount, carefully selected, of new and driving blood, regulate society. |
10 |
| 13 | 325 |
"A slave girl," I said, "should be completely open to her master". |
10 |
| 13 | 366 |
She had not been completely open to her master. |
10 |
| 14 | 188 |
She had not been completely open with me. |
10 |
| 14 | 204 |
She had not been completely open with me. |
10 |
| 15 | 396 |
She had not been completely open with me. |
10 |
| 15 | 470 |
The rear of the march was now open to me. |
10 |
| 15 | 714 |
Her head was on her right arm, and her eyes were open. |
10 |
| 15 | 889 |
"And open a bag of slave meal. |
10 |
| 17 | 46 |
I detected in one of the small, narrow, open tents, abandoned, a movement. |
10 |
| 18 | 44 |
She had not been completely open with me. |
10 |
| 18 | 185 |
Across the open side, wood was gathered for animal fires, facing the beach. |
10 |
| 18 | 189 |
Leading from the open side of the palisade to the great beacon was a column of pairs of fires. |
10 |
| 18 | 379 |
"Open your mouth," I told her. |
10 |
| 18 | 471 |
The men of Torvaldsland are rovers and fighters, and sometimes they turn their prows to the open sea with no thought in mind other than seeing what might lie beyond the gleaming horizon. |
10 |
| 19 | 23 |
There was even a rough gate, hung on rope hinges, which was now open. |
10 |
| 20 | 90 |
"Open it!" he cried. |
10 |
| 20 | 306 |
It fell from its loops and, slowly, I swung open the gate. |
10 |
| 21 | 161 |
With the hammer and chisel Vinca and the paga slaves, perhaps aided by Cara, would have managed to break or open the hand chains of one of the men of Marlenus, or one of my men. |
10 |
| 22 | 54 |
"Vella!" I would not open the blue envelope. |
10 |
| 22 | 55 |
I would not open it. |
10 |
| 22 | 56 |
I must not open it. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 265 |
Each ring, some open, some closed, strung on a larger open ring, would be individually weighed in scales. |
10 |
| 2 | 162 |
The ship, of course, is open. |
10 |
| 3 | 256 |
"Open the other gate!" cried Ivar Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 3 | 257 |
Two of his men threw open the other door of the temple. |
10 |
| 3 | 265 |
"Open the door," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 266 |
The door was swung open. |
10 |
| 4 | 32 |
The sun, too, of course, is used, and, at night, the stars give them suitable compass, even in the open sea. |
10 |
| 4 | 64 |
The Forkbeard made great use of diversions and feints, and double strategies, in which an attack is double edged, being in effect two attacks, an open one and a concealed one, either of which, depending on a misplay by the opponent, may be forced through, the concealed attack requiring usually only ... |
10 |
| 4 | 69 |
In the long winters of Torvaldsland, when the snow, the darkness, the ice and wintry winds are upon the land, when the frost breaks open the rocks, groaning, at night, when the serpents hide in their roofed sheds, many hours, under swinging soapstone lamps, burning the oil of sea sleen, are given to... |
10 |
| 4 | 121 |
He had played to open position; I had played to direct position. |
10 |
| 4 | 319 |
"Open your mouth, my large-breasted beauty," said the Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 6 | 559 |
His eyes did not open. |
10 |
| 7 | 9 |
How incredibly feminine they were, so living and uninhibited and delightful, so utterly fresh, so free, so spontaneous, so open in their emotions and the movements of their bodies; they now moved and laughed and walked, and stood, as women; pride was not permitted them; joy was. |
10 |
| 8 | 188 |
She stood, her arm held by my hand, in the fetters, in the dress of green velvet, it torn open at the collar to reveal her throat; she had been stripped of her rings, the bracelets, the chains; her hair was loose; her hose and shoes had been removed. |
10 |
| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
10 |
| 10 | 494 |
Some extended their bodies to him; some turned, to display themselves, provocatively; for he was obviously a desirable master; but others affected not to notice him; though I noticed that their bodies were held beautifully as he passed, particularly should he pause to regard them; other girls, perha... |
10 |
| 10 | 525 |
Put your head back, close your eyes and open your mouth". |
10 |
| 10 | 534 |
"Open your mouth". |
10 |
| 10 | 537 |
Warily, eyes open, she opened her mouth. |
10 |
| 10 | 547 |
He tossed the padlock, open, into one of the wooden boxes projecting from the right wall. |
10 |
| 13 | 446 |
The doors behind us, both of them, great, carved doors, suddenly thrust open. |
10 |
| 14 | 200 |
The collars were of thick leather, some three inches high, with metal insert locks, flat metal bolts slipping, locking, into spring catches; when closed, two rectangular metal plates adjoined; sewn into each collar, opposite the lock, was a large, welded metal ring; about this ring was closed the le... |
10 |
| 17 | 82 |
They resemble caves, sometimes networks of caves, constructed in the open. |
10 |
| 17 | 245 |
I saw his fists close and open. |
10 |
| 17 | 263 |
Another man threw aside his shield and jerked open the shirt at his chest, looking into the valley. |
10 |
| 18 | 225 |
Within the square, formed into ragged "Hands," "Kurii," and "Bands," with their appropriate leaders, were massed a considerable number of Kurii, ready to charge forth should the shield wall open, or to support it if it seemed in danger of weakening. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 303 |
It swung open. |
10 |
| 1 | 777 |
But now the Kurii worlds, sensing the weakness of the Sardar, following the Nest War, damages that had destroyed their basic power source and had split the very Nest open to the sky, prowled more closely. |
10 |
| 2 | 76 |
It seldom rains in Tor, but the gutter serves to collect waste, which is often thrown into it, through open doors, by slaves. |
10 |
| 2 | 246 |
A handful with the five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. |
10 |
| 2 | 630 |
Also, the alley was open behind them. |
10 |
| 3 | 200 |
"Open the gate!" called a man, pounding from our side. |
10 |
| 3 | 202 |
Four men, from our side, pushed open the gate. |
10 |
| 4 | 7 |
The superstructure of the frame rose about four feet above the frame at its highest point, enclosing, as in an open-fronted, flat-bottomed, half globe, its occupant. |
10 |
| 5 | 874 |
His eyes were open. |
10 |
| 7 | 140 |
The door swung open. |
10 |
| 7 | 155 |
I could see through the door of my cell, now swung open. |
10 |
| 7 | 261 |
Ibn Saran himself, a brave man, blocked the open door to the cell. |
10 |
| 7 | 368 |
We keep our eyes open for good female flesh. |
10 |
| 7 | 668 |
"Open the collar," I told him, "rather than merely break the links. |
10 |
| 7 | 675 |
"Open the collar," said Ibn Saran, angrily. |
10 |
| 8 | 90 |
There were five tents, each of tawny, inconspicuous kaiila-hair cloth, each pegged down on three sides, each with the front, facing east, for the warmth of the morning sun, left open. |
10 |
| 9 | 118 |
His hand, open, was poised over the coin. |
10 |
| 11 | 538 |
"On my signal," said Hassan, "have them throw open the gate to the stable yard, and ride!" I went to the edge of the roof overlooking the burning yard. |
10 |
| 11 | 546 |
"Prepare to open the gate," said the man to two of his fellows, who, mounted, waited near it. |
10 |
| 12 | 48 |
We saw the gate swinging open. |
10 |
| 12 | 535 |
"Guards!" In a moment the door flew open and the two guards, scimitars drawn, entered the room. |
10 |
| 12 | 592 |
I then swung open the inner door to the seraglio. |
10 |
| 13 | 82 |
Hassan and I pressed our lips to the sand before the great, open portal. |
10 |
| 13 | 87 |
The gate stood open before us. |
10 |
| 13 | 155 |
It was a marvelous and lofty room, high-ceilinged, columned and tiled, ornately carved, open and spacious in aspect, rich in its decoration. |
10 |
| 13 | 293 |
She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba... |
10 |
| 14 | 7 |
I could feel blood on my left leg, over the leather wrappings, where the edge of a crust, ragged, hot, had sawed it open. |
10 |
| 14 | 492 |
I heard him open the collars on either side of me. |
10 |
| 15 | 22 |
In other areas, certain of these solid deposits are exposed and are worked rather in the manner of open mining or quarries. |
10 |
| 15 | 34 |
These pits are of two kinds, "open" and "closed". |
10 |
| 15 | 39 |
In places, the "open pits," the brine pits are exposed on the surface, where they are fed by springs from the underground rivers, which prevents their desiccation by evaporation, which would otherwise occur almost immediately in the Tahari temperatures. |
10 |
| 15 | 40 |
Men do not last long in the open pits. |
10 |
| 15 | 94 |
He strode to the door of the kennel and thrust it open. |
10 |
| 15 | 183 |
Of those that do, few survive the pits of discipline, and of those who do, it is to dig in the open pits". |
10 |
| 16 | 60 |
The tiny, eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the fernlike filaments at the side of the head will open and lift, orienting themselves to one or the other of the lamps. |
10 |
| 16 | 72 |
The gills of the lelt are located at the lower sides of its jaw, not on the sides of its head, as is common in open-water fish. |
10 |
| 17 | 3 |
He had visited various pits, some open, some sheltered, the warehouses, the refining vats. |
10 |
| 17 | 18 |
He who had been steersman with us yesterday, during the attack of the Old One, held the sweep that governed the movements of that open, sluggish platform which constituted our vessel. |
10 |
| 17 | 150 |
There are realities, truths, which lie open to man. |
10 |
| 17 | 227 |
Almost at the edge of the raft the great body lifted in the water, turning to its side, jaws dropping open, lunging, falling, biting, onto the beams, thrashing. |
10 |
| 17 | 264 |
They were open, clenched on the body of T'Zshal. |
10 |
| 17 | 269 |
I shook my head and released the fin, lunging for the jaws which were held open by T'Zshal's body. |
10 |
| 21 | 175 |
They were open. |
10 |
| 21 | 196 |
About the snout, the nostrils, the mouth and lips, were tiny fissures, broken open, filled with sand. |
10 |
| 21 | 514 |
I came alive, crawling through the interior hatch, which was hanging back open, fastened back, so that the Kur could have his clean shot. |
10 |
| 24 | 63 |
How totally different then does the world appear to her! How totally different then, wonderingly, does she appear to herself! How paradoxically free then, how strangely liberated, does she find herself! She throws open the windows, and breathes fresh air. |
10 |
| 24 | 64 |
She forces open the doors and runs outside. |
10 |
| 24 | 132 |
She held it open before her, looking at it. |
10 |
| 24 | 349 |
Both its door and the door to Vella's chamber were open. |
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| 24 | 620 |
That room had been open and empty. |
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| 24 | 966 |
The door burst open and two men, back to me, backing through the door, embattled, fighting, others outside the door, entered the room. |
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| 25 | 28 |
Broken open, it proved to lead to a dark tunnel. |
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| 25 | 497 |
We looked through one cell door, swung open. |
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| 25 | 527 |
It is quite easy to open and shut them, and it may be done with a snap of the finger, one for each bracelet. |
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| 25 | 529 |
Others may open them easily; she, on the other hand, is perfectly held. |
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| 25 | 596 |
Hassan pushed back the door, tying it open. |
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| 26 | 512 |
It behooved her, of course, when the doors were open, to maintain position, for a lapse in that matter might be noted by any casual passer-by. |
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| 26 | 945 |
"Yes, Slave Girl!" she cried, turning on her back, throwing her body angrily, brazenly, open to me. |
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| 26 | 1124 |
"She must be open to him, in all things". |
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| 26 | 1125 |
"You are rather open to me now," I said. |
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| 18 | 12 |
I also wore a brief, open, sleeveless vest of black leather, the Kalmak; a patron parted it, holding it open, as I tried to move past him on the ramp; I stood, quietly, stopped helplessly, the tray held over my head; he kissed me twice; "Little beauty," he said; "A girl would rejoice if she were per... |
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| 1 | 122 |
It was a strange world on which I stood, wide and unfamiliar, open, bright and clean. |
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| 2 | 9 |
My hand went before my mouth; his foot, in a high, strapped sandal, heavy, almost an open boot, kicked my hand away. |
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| 2 | 74 |
Suddenly he struck me with his right hand, a swift, savage, open-handed slap. |
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| 2 | 579 |
Did he think I was an animal, a mere pretty animal? Did he not know that I was a person! That I was a person of station and class, that I was an excellent student at an elite girls' college, that I was an English major, that I was a poetess! At one point, turning my head, thrusting two fingers of hi... |
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| 2 | 723 |
In an open area, such as the fields in which we trekked, the girl is placed usually some five or ten feet behind, and on the left. |
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| 2 | 895 |
I thought my head would fly from my neck, with such swift savageness was I struck! The blow was open-handed, taking me on the left side of the face, but it must have been clearly audible for a hundred and fifty yards about; I rolled, stinging, crawling, for more than twenty feet; I threw up in the g... |
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| 3 | 29 |
Men such as he, in small parties, even in their own countries, seldom made open camps. |
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| 3 | 71 |
I sensed myself being discussed with open frankness, as might have been an animal. |
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| 3 | 152 |
Several were locked, but others were open. |
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| 4 | 774 |
It was extended toward me, open. |
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| 4 | 780 |
His hand extended still toward me, open. |
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| 4 | 983 |
The way to flight was open. |
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| 4 | 988 |
The way to flight was open. |
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| 4 | 1083 |
He had understood the slave girl better than she had understood herself; he had doubtless had experience with many girls; perhaps he had even owned Earth girls before; it did not seem likely to me that I would have been the only wench of Earth brought to the chains of this world; there had perhaps b... |
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| 5 | 115 |
I could now see several sitting around open-air fires. |
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| 5 | 795 |
The soldier whistled, as though he might have been summoning a pet sleen, and lifted an open wrist ring, the last ring on the chain. |
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| 5 | 836 |
It is a rare girl who, having tasted the mills or sul fields, does not beg her proprietor to be sold again on the open market, that she may attempt anew, and perhaps more successfully this time, to be pleasing to a man. |
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| 5 | 886 |
He struck his right thigh with his open hand, suddenly, sharply. |
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| 6 | 63 |
My inner nature, thus, was permitted to open its petals to the rain and sunlight of a clean, honest, glorious world. |
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| 7 | 5 |
Its sleeves had been torn away; it had been rent at the side; it had been cut short, and later torn even shorter, until it hung high upon her thighs, exposing even the left hip; at the throat it had been ripped open down to the belly, two inches below the navel. |
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| 7 | 79 |
An open wrist ring stood at the head of our coffle chain, the place in the line before Lehna. |
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| 7 | 173 |
He, upon this remark, casually, from an inch or so below her left armpit ripped the garment open to an inch or so above her left hip. |
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| 7 | 180 |
He ripped it open, to two inches below her navel. |
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| 7 | 189 |
He lifted the open wrist ring, on its chain. |
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| 7 | 351 |
From the line, I glanced back to the open fires, where he sat with men of the village, Thurnus, caste leader, peasant and sleen master, among them. |
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| 8 | 28 |
I could not open these locks. |
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| 8 | 114 |
I ran back toward the training pit and the open cage that had been designated for occupancy by the Earth-girl slave. |
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| 9 | 90 |
Or, perhaps it was merely that the last wrist-ring had then been open, I being left in Tabuk's Ford, and thus there was no reason for her any longer to be excluded from the coffle. |
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| 9 | 122 |
He flung open the stock. |
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| 9 | 838 |
"Open your mouth," said the man. |
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| 9 | 845 |
Melina peered into my mouth, as it was held open, painfully. |
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| 10 | 157 |
A small panel in a small door built within the great gate slid open. |
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| 12 | 400 |
The door to the hall suddenly burst open with a crash. |
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| 12 | 491 |
I could not open them. |
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| 12 | 506 |
I ran to the door, pulled it open and entered. |
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| 12 | 550 |
If the box were not open I might be able to break it, or its small lock, and thus obtain the keys. |
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| 12 | 566 |
The box containing the keys had been broken open, perhaps by men, looking for jewelries. |
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| 12 | 749 |
I saw below that the great gate of the keep had been swung open. |
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| 13 | 159 |
In the pens, to keep the apertures open, a bit of wire had been twice looped in each lobe. |
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| 14 | 61 |
I had torn open her hand and thrust it in my mouth. |
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| 14 | 186 |
The door of the paga tavern flew open. |
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| 16 | 52 |
A hatch was thrown open, and a man descended the stairs into the hold. |
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| 16 | 83 |
The open spaces between the tin-sheathed, wood slats on the first tier are covered, from the bottom, by cleated mesh, which prevents urts from entering from the bottom. |
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| 16 | 116 |
* * * * The vertical gate of the cage space, that gate behind my head, was thrown open and hooked back. |
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| 16 | 139 |
"Open your mouth," he said. |
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| 18 | 3 |
It is built on four levels, a large, open court, wooden floored, an encircling dais, some twenty feet deep, and, over the dais, two encircling balconies, each some ten feet deep. |
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| 18 | 14 |
When I had come to the Chatka and Curla I, and Narla, too, had been dipped and scrubbed, to clear us of ship lice and the residues of filth accumulated from the voyage and our consequent captivity; the dip was of water saturated with chemicals toxic to ship lice; we did not open our eyes or mouth wh... |
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| 18 | 62 |
Although most taverns are open and a girl might simply slip out the door and run, there is little prospect of her flight's being successful. |
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| 18 | 178 |
Then to my wonder I heard him open a door. |
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| 19 | 6 |
A hand extracted the heavy wadding, letting it fall open, to dry. |
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| 19 | 35 |
The doors were swung open by the helmeted guards. |
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| 20 | 28 |
I did know that it was now locked, and that I could not open it. |
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| 20 | 30 |
Even had I been able to open it, I would not have dared to go through it. |
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| 21 | 171 |
Suddenly, Clitus Vitellius free, and with men, the world seemed open and glorious again. |
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| 22 | 61 |
I reached into a wooden bucket and took a tospit, bit it open and began to suck at the juice. |
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| 22 | 301 |
"Perhaps, Mistress," I said, "someone will remember to open the hatch". |
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| 22 | 501 |
* * * * "If we are rammed," she said, frightened, in the darkness, "and the men do not remember to open the hatch, or do not have time to do so, what will occur?" "Sometimes," I said, "the planking is opened widely. |
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| 22 | 659 |
He dragged me to this ring and tore open my rep-cloth tunic. |
10 |
| 22 | 662 |
With his foot he kicked aside the rep-cloth which he had torn open. |
10 |
| 24 | 246 |
He thrust open my mouth, holding it with two hands. |
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| 24 | 301 |
Then, with another chain, looping it through the Sirik chain which fell from my Sirik collar to my braceleted wrists and confined ankles, he secured me to a heavy ring, passing one end of the looped chain through the ring and then, with a heavy padlock, closing the open end of the loop. |
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| 25 | 28 |
All must be in order; each element must be in place, else the quarrel will not loosen, else the lock will not open". |
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| 26 | 74 |
"There," she said, "I saw a chain of girls, stripped, in the open, men looking upon them. |
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| 26 | 268 |
She looked wildly about her, toward the open door leading from the chamber of her bath and couch. |
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| 26 | 279 |
He kicked it twice, splintering it back, until it hung wildly open, on one hinge. |
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| 26 | 423 |
With the leash he tied her thighs tightly together, leaving between the tight, confining leather strips an open space, a small, lovely territory, for the passage of the iron. |
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| 26 | 492 |
"Bring from my belongings the open slave collar there to be found," said Bosk of Port Kar to me. |
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| 26 | 741 |
"I am not a slave," she said to him, her eyes open, sternly. |
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| 27 | 684 |
I wished he had torn it open and would march me through the streets as an exposed slave, that other girls might see the strength of the man who owned me. |
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| 27 | 740 |
A moment later the door swung open. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 28 |
Sometimes we bridged, carefully, leads of open water, broken open by the groaning, shifting ice, soon to close again, almost beneath our feet. |
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| 35 | 1060 |
"Surrender! Open! Open!" called a voice. |
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| 1 | 43 |
I think if they knew the truth in these matters the code words would flash between the steel worlds, the ports would open, and the ships would nose forth, turning toward Gor. |
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| 1 | 328 |
"I would have put them in with the others!" She half reared up beneath me, struggling, her eyes open and wild. |
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| 2 | 62 |
He gestured to a guardsman, who fetched and spilled open a bundle of garments on the edge of the table. |
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| 2 | 448 |
"Perhaps we labor," said I, "to open the gates to the stars". |
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| 3 | 801 |
If the cord were jerked loose the garment would fall open and could be easily brushed aside, to fall back, loose, behind them, on their cuffed, chained wrists. |
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| 3 | 803 |
"Do you think it would be difficult to open?" asked the dark-haired girl. |
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| 3 | 1040 |
"Open her tunic. |
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| 3 | 1075 |
He kicked her knees open again. |
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| 3 | 1288 |
When I thrust through the cut side of the tent, where he had slashed it open, he was not in sight. |
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| 4 | 25 |
I was restless and eager for the gates of the amphitheater to open. |
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| 4 | 77 |
The amphitheater was now open. |
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| 4 | 117 |
These spigots are linked in such a way that when one is open the other must be closed; the spigot turned by a given player closes his own clock's sand passage and opens that of his opponent; when the clocks must both be stopped, as for an adjournment of play, they are placed on their side by the chi... |
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| 4 | 179 |
Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,... |
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| 4 | 218 |
"Does he not know his clock is open?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 4 | 346 |
The Ubar, too, I suddenly realized, stood on an open file. |
10 |
| 4 | 386 |
On his ninth move Scormus of Ar, following suit, advanced his Ubara's Builder to Builder Two, to open Builder One for the positioning of the Home Stone on the tenth move. |
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| 4 | 548 |
She could not help herself but turn hot and open when a man's hand so much as closed on her arm. |
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| 10 | 149 |
Both had been placed in belted woolen camisks, an open-sided garment sometimes worn by female slaves. |
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| 10 | 258 |
Sometimes, in open places, huge, massive bucks, heads down, would charge and strike the wall with their horns. |
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| 10 | 365 |
They did not know the wall was open. |
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| 11 | 198 |
The brief, open-sided camisks they wore had not been designed to permit a girl much success in such a project. |
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| 11 | 216 |
"Ten strongboxes were found," I said, "and forced open. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 196 |
Many are open to the street, or have counters which are open to the street. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1004 |
Please, Master, open me—please open me, please open me, Master—please open me, Master—for the pleasures of men!" "Very well," I said, and then, as she cried out softly, I opened her, a nameless slave, who had once been Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, from Pennsylvania, a debutante... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 399 |
"The door could have been open, left open," said another fellow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 25 |
They are generally open when the business is open, and closed when the business is closed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 331 |
There, at the opening to my side aisle, in the main aisle, tall in the darkness, looking down at me, loomed a man, one of the three whom I had seen, he, I think, who had followed me about so quietly and tenaciously, originally to the lower level, up again by the other stairs, down the hall-like way,... |
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| 9 | 2 |
We could see it on the other side of the barred gate, the narrow, wooden ramp, with the low, wooden walls, open at the top, with the two gates, one for the shoot itself, to control the number of animals entering it, the other, slanting, behind which men might stand, which, when closed, given its dia... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 307 |
She is to be open, and know herself open, to the master; this reality contributes to her sense of vulnerability, and informs, enhances, suffuses, and considerably deepens the rich emotionality of her nature. |
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| 12 | 884 |
They must remain open, held open by the tiny posts about which the wounds would heal, which posts could later be removed, their work done. |
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| 30 | 78 |
"Open! Open!" we heard, from down the corridor. |
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| 30 | 80 |
"Open! Open!" "We need time!" said the officer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 17 |
"Forgive me," said Peisistratus, his hands on a portal, half swung open, "I should have warned you, the passageways occasionally lead to open ledges, tiers of caves, and such". |
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| 70 | 117 |
"Open the trap! Release me!" "Cannot you open the trap yourself?" asked Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 53 |
Aëtius, second to Tersites himself, bespoke himself, to Lord Nishida, politely, "You think they are open-water Parsit?" Strictly there are no "open-water Parsit," that is, Parsit who would inhabit the liquid desert of a sea untenanted by a suitable food source, but the expression is often used of... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 27 |
Lucius, from his former position of authority, was extremely familiar with the Cave, not only with its open halls, and its less open, or more restricted, halls, but, too, as it turned out, with a diversity of less recognized passageways, several of which were obscure and unfamiliar, if not secret. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 153 |
Certainly this was muchly different from my former experiences on open streets, as in Ar, and was muchly different from the common experiences of slave girls on open streets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 39 |
To my left was the canal; to my right were buildings, some portaled with stout, carved doorways, their associated barred gates now open, to be closed at dark, and several housing open-sided stores and shops, furnished with folding, wooden screens, to be shut after the time of business, which, as wit... |
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| 30 | 117 |
The third phase consists of "Challenge Matches," largely open at the discretion of the officials, in which the sand is, as it is said, "open". |
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| 42 | 131 |
To your bellies, hands behind you! Await your chains!" "Open, open in the name of the Council of Captains of Port Kar!" called a voice. |
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