| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 98 |
Through the opening came a young girl, somewhat younger than myself, with blond hair bound back. |
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| 3 | 27 |
With annoyance, Torm poked through one of the enormous piles of scrolls and at last, on his hands and knees, fished out one skimpy scroll, set it in the reading device—a metal frame with rollers at the top and bottom—and, pushing a button, spun the scroll to its opening mark, a single ... |
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| 3 | 136 |
"You're right," he said at last, opening his eyes. |
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| 7 | 3 |
Her eyes flashed from the narrow opening in her veil. |
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| 13 | 86 |
I gestured to the tarn, which was impatiently opening and closing his wings. |
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| 14 | 87 |
Some five or six tarnsmen ran toward the wide opening of the shallow cave, but I rushed forward, holding the lance parallel to my body, striking them with almost superhuman strength and forcing them over the ledge near the mouth of the cave. |
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| 15 | 74 |
He came through the opening, dropped his helmet on the sleeping mat, and began to unsling his sword. |
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| 17 | 24 |
Some of the defenders were opening the veins of surviving tarns, to drink the blood. |
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| 17 | 60 |
Near dawn, to the brave sound of tarn drums, a mighty procession left the camp of Pa-Kur, and as it crossed the main bridge over the first ditch, I saw in the distance the great gate of Ar slowly opening. |
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| 18 | 31 |
"You welcome him," I said scornfully, "by opening the great gate, but you have not retracted the tarn wire. |
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| 18 | 41 |
I was not, of course, concerned with facilitating the entry of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen, who, as far as I knew, did not even constitute a portion of the garrison force, but I was concerned with opening the sky over the city in case I, and others, might be able to utilize it as a road to freedom. |
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| 18 | 90 |
Then, in frustration, I backed slowly away, hoping to see some lever or perhaps some suspicious crevice higher in the escarpment, something that might play its role in opening the passage I was sure lay hidden somewhere behind that seemingly solid mass of stone. |
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| 18 | 98 |
To my amazement, I saw that an immense opening had appeared in the wall. |
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| 18 | 100 |
I seized the tarn reins and drew the beast into the opening. |
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| 18 | 146 |
There was another shout from within, and several more guardsmen rushed to the opening. |
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| 18 | 151 |
In two or three minutes I led my own tarn up the stairs and through the opening. |
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| 19 | 200 |
We engaged again, and twice my blade cut him; the second time I nearly had the opening I desired. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 140 |
The great door through which the tarn had been drawn was also opening, and a line of warriors was hurrying through the opening. |
10 |
| 2 | 22 |
The helmet was bronze, worked in the Greek fashion, with a unitary opening somewhat in the shape of a Y. |
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| 6 | 202 |
The eyes of the officer were narrow in the Y-like opening of his helmet. |
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| 7 | 3 |
The warrior in the rear only lifted his spear, ready to cast it should a clean opening present itself. |
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| 10 | 50 |
I was dimly conscious of being seized by the mouth of some large animal and being tugged through a round tunnel-like opening. |
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| 10 | 103 |
I understood I was to go through the opening. |
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| 11 | 1 |
Lara, Tatrix of Tharna I passed through the opening, and painfully began to climb a small, circular passage, staggering with each step under the weight of the heavy metal yoke. |
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| 14 | 200 |
The descent was as smooth and silent as the falling of a rock, the opening of a hand. |
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| 18 | 121 |
The valve was opening. |
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| 18 | 132 |
I and his fellow took him and thrust him bodily through the opening. |
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| 18 | 177 |
At last, one by one, the inert bodies stirred, their lungs opening to draw in the damp, cold air of the mine. |
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| 19 | 46 |
The men crowded out onto the floor of the shaft, which lay only a foot below the opening of our mine, for our mine was the lowest of all. |
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| 21 | 201 |
"I paid a hundred silver tarn disks for her myself!" Behind Targo the grizzled man quickly held up his fingers, opening and closing them five times. |
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| 24 | 244 |
I held this in the opening. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 41 |
A great opening, from the sides of which stones still fell, had appeared in the ceiling of the Nest complex, opening the thick, numerous strata above it until at last through that rupture could be seen the beautiful calm sky of the world above. |
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| 6 | 3 |
At my command Vika demonstrated for me the manner of opening and closing the storage and disposal areas in her unusual kitchen. |
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| 11 | 19 |
His head turned, his laterally opening jaws opened and closed slowly, his shoulders rustled and the two antennae twitched once as though in irritation, and then idly they began to examine the roof of the dome. |
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| 14 | 33 |
Then the entire cage, on a track of some sort, began to move through an opening which appeared in the right wall. |
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| 14 | 190 |
"Please," said Misk, gesturing toward the opening. |
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| 16 | 131 |
"It was saturated with Flame Lock, and its combustion index was set for twenty Ehn following opening". |
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| 20 | 49 |
In the floor side of the globelike contrivance there was an adjustable opening which was now of a diameter of perhaps six inches. |
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| 20 | 62 |
In the cylinder, save for her head which was held in place by a circular opening in the top of the cylinder, was a girl, clad in the traditional robes of concealment, even to the veil, whose gloved hands pressed helplessly against the interior of the cylinder. |
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| 20 | 118 |
He shoved the globe up and a foot or so to the side and then with a quick movement reclosed it in such a way that once again its floorside aperture described an opening of approximately six inches in diameter. |
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| 25 | 43 |
When I came to the portal where I had entered I found it closed as I had known it would be and there was, as I knew, no handle or obvious device for opening the door on this side, for no one returned, supposedly, from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 25 | 98 |
Occasionally we would pass an opening in the shaft where, through a grille, I could see portions of the Nest. |
10 |
| 25 | 100 |
At last we came to an opening which gave onto something of the sort for which I was looking, a rather small complex of buildings, where I saw several Muls at work but no Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 27 | 63 |
From time to time I would pass an opening in the shaft and peer out. |
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| 27 | 154 |
Suddenly Sarm charged at Misk and slashed down at him with one of those bladelike projections on his forelegs and leaped away even before I saw the green-filled wound opening on the left side of one of those great, compound luminous disks on Misk's head. |
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| 27 | 155 |
Again Sarm charged and again I saw a long greenish-wet opening appear as if by magic on the side of Misk's huge golden head, and again Sarm, whose speed was almost unbelievable, leaped away before Misk could touch him and was again circling and watching. |
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| 28 | 70 |
I hurled the plastic partition upward opening the case. |
10 |
| 31 | 209 |
Slowly the heavy body with its domed, fused wings pressed past me, its tiny, tuftlike antennae extending towards Sarm, its long, hollow pincerlike jaws opening. |
10 |
| 32 | 27 |
Together Misk and I, as the blue lavalike mass began to hiss over the rubble bubbling towards us, forced aside the great block of stone and Misk tenderly gathered up the broken carcass of Sarm in his forelegs and he and I sped toward the opening, and the blue molten flux of burning, seething, hissin... |
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| 32 | 58 |
Others, however, eagerly boarded the ships to be flown through the opening to the mountains above. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 91 |
I was ready to engage the first guard, half on the ladder, but Harold's head emerged from the opening behind me. |
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| 21 | 348 |
Some dozen dismounted Tuchuks were now at the great windlass on its platform slowly opening the gates to their maximum width, and when they had done so the Tuchuks, howling and waving their lances, entered the city in ranks of twenty abreast, thus only five ranks to the Hundred. |
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| 24 | 40 |
Still I was not altogether satisfied, for, on the whole, it seemed to me that Turia might yet have survived even had Kamchak's forces wrought much greater destruction than they had—for example, opening but a single gate and permitting only a few hundred, rather than thousands to escape the ci... |
10 |
| 26 | 46 |
The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range. |
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| 26 | 148 |
Harold tossed a pebble into the opening and it took about ten Ihn before we heard it strike water far below. |
10 |
| 26 | 149 |
Kamchak did not seem disturbed at the wait, but sat like a rock, cross-legged before the opening, looking across it, until planks were brought, and then he, and the sleen, were the first to cross. |
10 |
| 26 | 293 |
Kamchak bent to the figure and, opening his garments, tore from his neck the almost priceless collar of jewels which the man had worn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 97 |
This, of course, was an advantage, permitting the Vintner to choose his own opening, an opening he may have studied for a lifetime. |
10 |
| 3 | 115 |
"The Centian Opening," said one of the Saddle Makers. |
10 |
| 3 | 125 |
I myself, in Ko-ro-ba, had seen Centius of Cos playing his own opening more than a dozen times and he had never drawn back the Ubara's Spearman at that point. |
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| 5 | 28 |
Much more dangerous is the poison lock, because the opening through which the tiny pins, usually coated with a paste formed from kanda root, can emerge can be extremely small, almost invisible to the eye, easy to overlook in the crevices and grillwork of the commonly heavy, ornate Gorean lock. |
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| 5 | 169 |
The great laterally opening and closing jaws, of course, had not moved. |
10 |
| 5 | 732 |
Satisfied, I went to the door and removed the two heavy beams, opening it. |
10 |
| 6 | 11 |
I had not seen the opening. |
10 |
| 9 | 21 |
Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record... |
10 |
| 10 | 4 |
"This is an interesting room," said Ho-Tu, opening a door and leading me through. |
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| 13 | 239 |
Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ... |
10 |
| 17 | 765 |
To my astonishment, this time I began to see the Centian Opening unfold, developed years ago by Centius of Cos, one of the strongest openings known in the game, one in which the problems of development for red are particularly acute, especially the development of his Ubar's Scribe. |
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| 20 | 353 |
Philemon turned the board back, that he might have yellow, and the first move, permitting him to choose his opening. |
10 |
| 22 | 132 |
I noted that Mip had been following Menicius, and when Menicius had swerved Mip had taken advantage of the opening thus presented and, like a knife, had plunged for the heart of the ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 216 |
Then, as I lay there, bound, she unlaced her tunic, opening it. |
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| 8 | 5 |
I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc... |
10 |
| 8 | 204 |
I did place over my features the curved helmet, with its Y-like opening, of the Gorean warrior. |
10 |
| 12 | 7 |
Now, from the height of one of the investing walls, some hundred yards from the high bleak wall of one of the holdings of Sevarius, said to be his palace, I, with Thurnock, Clitus, and others, by the light of Gor's three moons, observed the opening of a postern gate. |
10 |
| 13 | 12 |
I put to them, the Ubars of Cos and Tyros, as well as I could, the proposals of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, that there would be concord, and doubtless an opening of commerce, between the two Ubarates and the maligned city in the Vosk's delta, my own Port Kar. |
10 |
| 13 | 296 |
The eyes of the ship, painted on either side of the bow, would now have turned toward the opening of the harbor of Telnus. |
10 |
| 13 | 307 |
Slowly the ship, like a sweet, fat bird, heavy and stately, began to move toward the opening between the two high, round towers that guard the entrance to the walled harbor of Telnus, capital city of the island of Cos, seat of its Ubar's throne. |
10 |
| 15 | 512 |
Also I had toyed with the idea of opening a paga tavern in the center of the city, the most opulent in Port Kar, perhaps, called the Tavern of the Forty Maidens. |
10 |
| 17 | 338 |
He stood on the deck of the round ship, opening and closing his wings, looking about himself, and then threw back his head and screamed. |
10 |
| 18 | 534 |
I saw Telima's head in the opening. |
10 |
| 18 | 548 |
Samos thrust his blade into the Y-shaped opening of a helmet, parried a spear thrust from his body, and met the steel of another man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 201 |
I scrabbled in the opening and thrust the money and jewelry into the handbag. |
10 |
| 4 | 222 |
One of the men attached a small hose to a tiny opening in the tube, above my head. |
10 |
| 6 | 219 |
The opening in the helmets reminded me vaguely of a "Y". |
10 |
| 9 | 527 |
Suddenly terrified I faced the opening. |
10 |
| 10 | 620 |
Snarling, it began to wiggle its shoulders, like a cat, through the opening. |
10 |
| 11 | 230 |
Then, with the pliers, he closed the ring, and turned it, so that its opening, where the closed edges met, was concealed within, at the side of the septum. |
10 |
| 11 | 460 |
I went to all fours and crawled through the opening. |
10 |
| 11 | 462 |
"Oh!" I said, again sped through the opening with a swift, good-natured, stinging slap. |
10 |
| 12 | 36 |
On the side, of course, given the opening of the garment on each side, her brand is exposed. |
10 |
| 12 | 140 |
I peeped again through the tiny opening between the canvas and the wooden side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 12 | 190 |
Inge was now looking again, out of the tiny opening between the canvas and the wood. |
10 |
| 12 | 248 |
I pressed closer to the opening, looking out. |
10 |
| 13 | 15 |
This formed a funnel of wands, such that a small swimming creature could easily enter it, but would not so easily find again the opening to escape. |
10 |
| 14 | 75 |
Kneeling within, slave girls preparing me, I looked through the tied-back opening of the tent of the women. |
10 |
| 14 | 192 |
One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height. |
10 |
| 14 | 235 |
I heard the flash of a pair of bangles and saw a dark-haired girl, the two golden bangles on her left ankle, come to the opening of the tent. |
10 |
| 14 | 614 |
I could see, outside, through the tied-back opening of the tent, men, and girls, passing back and forth. |
10 |
| 15 | 814 |
There was a somewhat larger opening at the foot of the door, about two inches in height and a foot wide. |
10 |
| 15 | 862 |
On my knees in the box, my eyes at the opening, frightened, my fingers on the slit, I whispered, "Yes, El-in-or, the slave, wishes to leave the box". |
10 |
| 17 | 22 |
"El-in-or," he would say, opening his arms, and I would run to him. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 550 |
The brail ropes serve little more, in the lateen-rigged craft, than to raise the sail to its yard, permitting its being tied there, or to drop the sail, opening it to the wind. |
10 |
| 2 | 560 |
The brail ropes loosened, the tarn sail dropped, opening into the wind. |
10 |
| 2 | 581 |
One of the girls, she toward whom I held the leg of fried vulo, reached her head toward me, opening her delicate, white teeth to bite at it. |
10 |
| 2 | 705 |
The heavy grated hatch was then replaced over the opening to the lower hold. |
10 |
| 6 | 540 |
She strode to the opening in the stakes, and there turned, again to face me. |
10 |
| 11 | 26 |
I had studied, too, the games of masters, in particular those of the young, handsome, lame, fiery Scormus of Ar, and of the much older, almost legendary master of Cos, gentle, white-haired Centius, he of the famed Centian opening. |
10 |
| 12 | 34 |
My companionship with Talena, opening up a thousand avenues and alliances, conjoined with my riches, would have made me easily among the most splendid and powerful men on Gor. |
10 |
| 15 | 343 |
Too, there was a small box of slave bracelets, all opening to the same key. |
10 |
| 19 | 360 |
It would take two men to throw the beam, opening the gate. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 301 |
The Forkbeard was using the Jarl's Ax's Gambit, a powerful opening. |
10 |
| 8 | 132 |
He tore the collar of her gown back from her throat, opening it at her neck. |
10 |
| 14 | 187 |
Kurii were between me and the opening. |
10 |
| 14 | 192 |
I saw ten Kurii leap to the back of the hall, to where Svein Blue Tooth and his men had made their opening, to prevent the escape of others. |
10 |
| 14 | 193 |
They stood before the opening, axes lifted, snarling. |
10 |
| 15 | 384 |
I saw, to my right, a small, dark opening, irregular, jagged, about a foot in width and height. |
10 |
| 15 | 393 |
"Look!" I cried to him, indicating the opening. |
10 |
| 15 | 394 |
His eyes saw the opening. |
10 |
| 15 | 409 |
I leaped to the hole and forced my body through the opening. |
10 |
| 15 | 414 |
We crawled back further in the tiny opening. |
10 |
| 15 | 416 |
Their tentacled paws felt the width of the opening. |
10 |
| 17 | 85 |
If in a field they will sometimes even burrow into the ground, almost like a sleen, and cover the opening with grass and sticks from the bottom. |
10 |
| 17 | 86 |
It always sleeps with its head toward the opening. |
10 |
| 18 | 80 |
I caught it before the opening of a pavilion tent, one of those of Thorgard of Scagnar, perhaps his own. |
10 |
| 22 | 38 |
I had lifted my hands to them, standing on the shields, a Jarl of Torvaldsland, one who might now, in his own name if need be, send forth the arrow of war, summoning adherents; one who might, as it pleased him, command ships and men; one who might now say to the rough, bold seamen of the north, as i... |
10 |
| 22 | 215 |
The great red and white striped sail fell, opening, snapping, from the spar of needlewood. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 469 |
The opening must once have been the outer opening of a lock; it was rectangular; the exterior hatch was missing; there was twisted metal at the side of the opening, as though it had been wrenched away from rusted hinges; the beast crouched in the lock, peering into the storm. |
10 |
| 1 | 276 |
Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the... |
10 |
| 1 | 340 |
It snarled, opening its fanged mouth. |
10 |
| 2 | 200 |
She turned her head, briefly, to look at me; I saw her eyes, dark, through the tiny opening in the haik, through the tiny, black-lace screen, about an inch in height and four inches in width. |
10 |
| 4 | 8 |
This frame, however, was covered completely with layers of white rep-cloth, to reflect the sun, with the exception of the front, which was closed with a center-opening curtain, also of white rep-cloth. |
10 |
| 4 | 401 |
The opening of the Tahari tent usually faces the east, that the morning sun may warm it. |
10 |
| 7 | 227 |
No longer was the outer threshold, that opening onto the twisting, ascending stairs, guarded. |
10 |
| 9 | 83 |
She stood before Hassan, relaxed, soft, though frightened, her right foot at a right angle with her left, turning her hip out, opening her beauty to him, as a slave girl. |
10 |
| 12 | 548 |
I moved swiftly to the door, and, opening it a crack, reconnoitered. |
10 |
| 13 | 49 |
The great gate, on its heavy hinges, opening in the middle, slowly swung back. |
10 |
| 13 | 50 |
We faced the opening. |
10 |
| 14 | 388 |
Furthermore, the small opening, approximately eighteen inches square, and set some ten inches off the floor, in the bars, with its small, heavy gate, can be easily negotiated only on the hands and knees. |
10 |
| 21 | 461 |
It seemed likely then that the Kur must have been struck as it had framed itself, perhaps in an opening, the other Kur, smelling it, hearing it, firing when it had tried to enter. |
10 |
| 21 | 512 |
Limply, as though thrust from behind, I pushed myself, awkwardly, sagging, into the opening, and fell forward. |
10 |
| 21 | 513 |
Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod... |
10 |
| 26 | 561 |
The opening is about eighteen inches square. |
10 |
| 26 | 586 |
The right side of her face was pressed against the flat iron bar, some two inches high, at the top of the opening, against which the gate, when closed, rests. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1653 |
My left ankle was thrust into the semi-circular opening in the lower left ankle beam and the upper left ankle beam, with its matching semi-circular opening, was dropped, and locked, in place. |
10 |
| 1 | 160 |
I could not see it, but it seemed formed, too, of heavy iron; it seemed simple, practical, not ostentatious; it gripped my throat rather closely; I supposed it was black in color, matching the chain; it had a heavy hinge on one side; the chain, by a link, opened and closed, was fastened to a loop; t... |
10 |
| 3 | 529 |
It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely... |
10 |
| 3 | 791 |
Then he took me by the left arm and thrust me within the low opening to his tenting. |
10 |
| 5 | 166 |
She left the pavilionlike tent sedately but, as soon as she was no longer visible through the opening in the tent she threw back her head, shaking her hair, and then, her gait transformed, sauntered like a she-sleen to the side of the wagon. |
10 |
| 7 | 48 |
This, said to be a plan to bring more arable land under cultivation, is generally viewed as being an opening of this territory to large-scale military passage. |
10 |
| 8 | 217 |
It is common on Gor for a girl emerging from a small cage, on her belly, or her hands and knees, depending on the size of the opening, at the feet of her master to remain, pending her master's instructions, on her belly or hands and knees. |
10 |
| 9 | 165 |
The cage was roofed, too, with planks; these planks were set flush with one another; they were fastened over the top of the bars, including some, sawed, over the upward-opening, barred gate. |
10 |
| 9 | 841 |
He had his fingers in my mouth, opening it widely. |
10 |
| 9 | 1460 |
She, too, turned to face the opening. |
10 |
| 9 | 1470 |
The eyes of all looked at the opening to the hut. |
10 |
| 9 | 1670 |
My neck rested on the back of the semi-circular opening in the lower beam. |
10 |
| 10 | 110 |
In it were cut an opening for the head, and two for the arms. |
10 |
| 12 | 474 |
Then, opening a door, I saw a new passageway, one in which there burned a lamp, hanging on a chain. |
10 |
| 12 | 757 |
The soldier lifted me lightly from my feet and thrust me, feet first, through a hatchlike opening, with flat door, in the top of the tarn basket. |
10 |
| 16 | 243 |
"The smell!" screamed one of them, and then she was thrust stumbling, half falling, through the opening. |
10 |
| 18 | 180 |
I felt the sack being lifted through the opening, and then it was dragged along a wooden-floored passage; then he threw it lightly to his shoulder, and began to descend short flights of stairs. |
10 |
| 20 | 560 |
I posed before him, as a slave girl, opening my silk. |
10 |
| 22 | 276 |
Sometimes, in the distance, I saw flares lofted from one ship or another, burning upward and then, their silken globelike chutes opening, burning steadily, descending, to settle into the water and be extinguished. |
10 |
| 22 | 512 |
About a quarter of an Ahn later, suddenly, we heard the screaming of men and, not more than three or four Ihn afterwards, to our horror, the wall of the hull, opening into the hold, with a wrenching sound of rupturing wood, suddenly burst inward, toward us. |
10 |
| 27 | 451 |
In a few moments she regained consciousness, opening her eyes, discovering herself nude beside the table, in his bracelets. |
10 |
| 28 | 84 |
It was set against the right side of the tunnel, as one would look toward the opening at the foot of the block. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 186 |
The snout of the beast thrust first softly through the opening, moving the door back. |
10 |
| 2 | 365 |
Regardless of what the truth should be in these matters, whether it be that man is intrinsically a mechanism of chemicals, or, more than this, a conscious, living animal whose pain and meaning, and defiance, emergent, must transcend the interactions of carbon and oxygen, the exchange of gases, the o... |
10 |
| 3 | 323 |
Normally much betting would wait until it was known which player had yellow, which determines the first move, the first move, of course, determining the opening. |
10 |
| 4 | 1 |
I Reward Two Messengers, Who Have Rendered Good Service "Will he use the Two Tarnsmen opening?" asked a man. |
10 |
| 4 | 75 |
That of Ar was on the right, for Scormus had won yellow in the draw; it had been his hand which, under the scarlet cloth, had closed upon the tiny, wooden, yellow spearman in the helmet, the possession of which determined the first move and, with it, the choice of opening. |
10 |
| 4 | 174 |
It was indeed, I suspected, that opening. |
10 |
| 4 | 177 |
Indeed, it is the most common single opening used among masters. |
10 |
| 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 | 187 |
Most players of the master level, incidentally, know this opening several moves into the game in more than a hundred variations. |
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| 4 | 191 |
"Some thought Scormus would use the Two Tarnsmen Opening," said another fellow. |
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| 4 | 231 |
Centius of Cos turned the spigot on his clock, opening the clock of Scormus. |
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| 10 | 226 |
He thus, by closing or opening the throat of the garment, regulates its effectiveness according to his needs. |
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| 10 | 328 |
With a will, then, they set themselves to the opening of the wall. |
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| 10 | 331 |
As soon as one log was tortured out of the earth and lifted away Imnak slipped through the opening, out among the tabuk. |
10 |
| 10 | 344 |
Suddenly a tabuk, better than eleven hands at the shoulder, thrust through the opening, buffeting men aside. |
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| 14 | 267 |
At the opening to his tent he threw her over his shoulder. |
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| 27 | 145 |
Crouching down I edged toward the opening. |
10 |
| 27 | 157 |
At the outer end of the tunnel, gently, I edged out the snow blocks which, for most practical purposes, closed the opening. |
10 |
| 27 | 160 |
When I emerged from the opening I, knife in hand, looked cautiously about. |
10 |
| 28 | 221 |
She then slipped the tray through an opening, some four inches in height, in the bottom of the cell door. |
10 |
| 31 | 87 |
I heard a squeal and a small animal, a lart, fled from within toward the opening. |
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| 35 | 27 |
The hatch through which I had exited did not have an obvious opening from the outside. |
10 |
| 35 | 90 |
The opening was not too large, but it would be enough. |
10 |
| 35 | 100 |
The grille at the lower end, some seven feet above a steel floor, and opening into a hall, was not fixed as solidly as the one above. |
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| 35 | 500 |
I opened the door and slid the chain, on its track, within the opening. |
10 |
| 35 | 859 |
We lowered our heads and slipped through the opening. |
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| 35 | 1169 |
I turned the wheel, opening the hatch. |
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| 36 | 11 |
There was an opening in the sacks only for the head, which was then rimmed with a hood, so that only the face was exposed, and that could be withdrawn to protect it from the cold. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 239 |
"It could mean the opening up of a considerable number of new markets, the enhancement of trade, the discovery of a valuable commercial avenue for the merchandise of the north and the products of the south". |
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| 1 | 762 |
At the first of the two gates, the one which consists of bars, while awaiting its opening, I glanced back. |
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| 4 | 728 |
The lad took a bellows and, opening and closing it, forced air into the conical forge. |
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| 6 | 254 |
Surely she must have sensed that the mouth kiss which she had so helplessly proffered, and had proffered as a slave, was the symbolic opening of her vagina to male penetration. |
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| 6 | 596 |
The gangplank was run from an opening in the starboard rail, swung open, to the wharf. |
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| 13 | 483 |
How piteous were her small hands, opening and closing, in the wrist rings. |
10 |
| 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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| 44 | 2 |
It was a lagoon, opening off the river, some hundred yards away. |
10 |
| 44 | 57 |
There I saw it beneath the surface, its gills opening and closing. |
10 |
| 53 | 298 |
I struck a Kur from behind that was towering over a fallen askari, opening the shaggy skull to the nape. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1021 |
Because of the slats I could not thrust the jacket into the opening. |
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| 7 | 302 |
I thrust the tiny key into the locks on the slave bracelets and, with two small, heavy clicks, and an opening of metal, removed them from her. |
10 |
| 8 | 92 |
Each opening was about a half of an inch in diameter. |
10 |
| 12 | 40 |
"An excellent bid for one of the opening bids!" she congratulated the woman who had called out. |
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| 19 | 287 |
They were used in the stables for a variety of cutting tasks, ranging from opening feed sacks to shearing the hair of kajirae, which is unexcelled for the braiding of catapult ropes. |
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| 25 | 348 |
He was then opening the manacles of another man. |
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| 29 | 187 |
'" "No," she said, "you just took it from me, now!" "No," I said, opening my left hand, "this is the strand of hair which I just took from you. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 282 |
"Yes, Master!" I left the two together, and began to thread my way through the tables, between the soldiers and merchants, and others, and the stripped, shackled women of Vonda, serving as waitresses, toward the opening in the food tent. |
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| 3 | 300 |
As I went through the opening of the tent I was jostled by a large man. |
10 |
| 12 | 120 |
I put the startled Miss Henderson on her hands and knees before the small opening. |
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| 29 | 254 |
We began to move slowly through the opening. |
10 |
| 30 | 49 |
These two girls, Relia discarding her red silk and Tela opening her white silk, and throwing it back, hurried to kneel near me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 76 |
It was her intention not to be stopped at the Tina but to shatter between us and the Mira, opening the line. |
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| 4 | 77 |
At her stern quarters, like running, heeling sleen, were two other galleys, to exploit the opening the point must make. |
10 |
| 8 | 275 |
"Your name now," I said, seaming shut the last opening on the waxed paper, "is Shirley". |
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| 9 | 85 |
Yet the enemy will expect us to dart for that opening". |
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| 10 | 80 |
Utilizing this opening, the first produced by the buccaneers' incursions, we turned east by southeast. |
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| 10 | 199 |
I thrust a man through who was climbing through an opening in the parapet. |
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| 10 | 204 |
I thrust him toward the interior balcony, that opening into the chamber of the windlass. |
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| 11 | 166 |
The common camisk is a simple rectangle of cloth, containing, in its center, a circular opening. |
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| 17 | 228 |
"I have a tarsk bit here," I said, opening my pouch. |
10 |
| 17 | 248 |
The girl with the leash drew back her hand, it then no longer shielding the opening on the coin box. |
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| 18 | 82 |
This lack of privacy, to be expected, given the lowly condition of the slave, is revealed even in details so obvious as almost to be taken for granted, such as the fact that slave kennels and slave alcoves are almost invariably barred, rather than given opaque portals, say, with observation aperture... |
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| 19 | 1169 |
I went to the door and, opening it, admitted Lola. |
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| 20 | 324 |
Imagine, then, that a woman, falling slave, suddenly realized that she was now, in effect, subject to them! Consider her fears, her curiosity, her arousal! A woman, often, particularly if stripped, seeing a chain and knowing that it is to be placed upon her, will feel uncontrollable sexual desire, h... |
10 |
| 20 | 1129 |
She extended her head to him, her lips pursed, her eyes closed, to kiss him, but he seized the sides of the opening of her slave tunic, the left side in his right fist, the right side in his left fist. |
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| 20 | 1130 |
"Master?" she asked, opening her eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 283 |
I then saw it lift its wings, opening and shutting them twice. |
10 |
| 8 | 303 |
This seemed to me an unusually high bid for a raw, untrained barbarian slave, particularly as an opening bid. |
10 |
| 13 | 772 |
This opening was then further closed by wrapping a thick cloth about my neck and thrusting it up, so that it filled the space between my neck and the edges of the now-closed semicircular openings". |
10 |
| 13 | 1091 |
"Your first having was merely the ungating of a slave, her breaching, her opening, an unimportant prefatory technicality in the history of her bondage". |
10 |
| 13 | 1093 |
"Would you be so concerned about a boar's opening of a she-tarsk?" I asked. |
10 |
| 13 | 1489 |
"Your opening, for example, is not to be kept a secret," I said. |
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| 13 | 1714 |
It was nothing, merely a favor for Grunt, of course, opening one of his new slaves, for the pleasure of men. |
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| 13 | 1788 |
"Let them then envy you your opening," I said. |
10 |
| 13 | 1844 |
I had merely done a favor for Grunt, my friend, opening a slimly bodied, red-haired girl for him, one of his slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 122 |
If the girl is permitted a sleeping garment it is commonly short, front-opening, and fastened with a single tie. |
10 |
| 19 | 77 |
"Perhaps he thought the spilling of blood might not be auspicious shortly before the opening of a council on peace," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 28 | 283 |
"Their ranks are opening," said a man. |
10 |
| 36 | 34 |
I looked up, through the opening in the pit. |
10 |
| 36 | 36 |
A similar opening, somewhat smaller, was at the other end of the pit. |
10 |
| 36 | 38 |
I could see the sky through the opening, and the clouds. |
10 |
| 37 | 357 |
I stood then in the pit, my head and shoulders outside of the opening. |
10 |
| 37 | 366 |
I thrust her up, through the opening. |
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| 37 | 392 |
Note exactly, as well, the location of the opening". |
10 |
| 37 | 428 |
She knelt at one end, near the larger opening, her head down. |
10 |
| 37 | 508 |
Almost at the same instant, flashing over the opening, I saw immense, extended talons closing, and the rushing passage of a huge, dark shape, the grass leaping up and seeming to be almost torn up, almost uprooted, following it. |
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| 37 | 514 |
"Stay near the opening". |
10 |
| 37 | 518 |
I then went to the other end of the pit, where the smaller opening was, and uncoiled the line which lay there, formerly atop the hobbling log. |
10 |
| 37 | 529 |
A large, bright, round eye peered through the opening in the ceiling of the pit. |
10 |
| 37 | 544 |
In this moment, its attention fastened on the girl, on tearing away the obstacle which lay between him and her, I thrust through the smaller opening and, with a swirl of rope and two hitches, fastened the hobbling log on its right leg. |
10 |
| 39 | 114 |
In the evening, when the shop was closing, slave girls, in their brief tunics and collars, would come and kneel down, near the hinged opening to the open-air counter. |
10 |
| 43 | 150 |
These were thrust, loosening and opening, into the mouths of the girls, expanding immediately to fill their oral cavities. |
10 |
| 44 | 182 |
"Hci!" she cried, opening her eyes and regarding me wildly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 386 |
I sensed that this might be the opening to a career of great interest to me, one in which I might be able to capitalize, and significantly, on my beauty. |
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| 2 | 74 |
He then, opening the blanket, cast it over me. |
10 |
| 2 | 514 |
There was no handle or device for opening it on my side, and, even had there been, I could not, restrained as I was, have begun to reach it. |
10 |
| 4 | 562 |
The door was thus, if beams or bars were to be inserted through these brackets, prevented from swinging inward, its natural opening motion. |
10 |
| 7 | 126 |
Its opening was large enough to drink freely from. |
10 |
| 15 | 184 |
I darted through an opening, came to a wall, and crouched between two boxes. |
10 |
| 15 | 304 |
Following them I came to an opening between the boxes, through which they had taken their way. |
10 |
| 15 | 359 |
There was a tiny space between two folds of the blanket, through which I could see, looking then through an opening in the weaving of the basket. |
10 |
| 30 | 377 |
There was no opening here to the Wall Road, which must, judging from the proximity of the wall, be only forty or fifty yards behind the building. |
10 |
| 33 | 78 |
He scarcely bothered to note the opening of the sack, and the drawing forth of its helpless, gagged, bound, stripped occupant. |
10 |
| 33 | 623 |
He then, from his robes, removed a package and, opening it, exhibited soft and silken contents. |
10 |
| 34 | 93 |
She gave him the whip, extending her head towards him, opening her mouth, letting him take it from between her teeth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 |
In this way, his decision could take into consideration his opponent's early play, his opening, or response to an opening, or development. |
10 |
| 1 | 838 |
To be sure, his opening had caused me to move certain pieces more than once in my own opening. |
10 |
| 18 | 196 |
The first sack had had a cunning opening concealed beneath a double seam, an opening through which a performer might exit or enter, as he pleased. |
10 |
| 1 | 831 |
His opening, in particular, had been erratic. |
10 |
| 1 | 1053 |
This is one of the most common opening moves in Kaissa. |
10 |
| 2 | 99 |
He looks out through a narrow, gauze-backed, rectangular opening in the robes. |
10 |
| 2 | 127 |
He had been waiting near one of the checking points opening onto the piazza, that point through which I had entered. |
10 |
| 2 | 450 |
The hooded fellow had not begun from the opening position, arriving at that configuration after a series of moves. |
10 |
| 2 | 480 |
"Do not fear that you will not win," said the hooded fellow, in fury, placing the pieces in position for the opening of play. |
10 |
| 2 | 485 |
Thus I could, in effect, for most purposes, choose my preferred opening. |
10 |
| 4 | 181 |
This designation became less useful after the recent opening of the road of Cyprianus. |
10 |
| 5 | 75 |
"Look," she said to me, opening her robe. |
10 |
| 12 | 74 |
This permits him to dictate the opening and, accordingly, immediately assume the offensive. |
10 |
| 12 | 385 |
"I thought you were giving me these in connection with some specific question having to do with Kaissa," he said, "perhaps with respect to the analysis of a position or a suggested variation on a lesser-known opening. |
10 |
| 12 | 758 |
Many slaves are kept in the common camisk, a narrow, poncholike garment, little more than a long, narrow rectangle of cloth, generally cheap cloth, with an opening for the head. |
10 |
| 13 | 239 |
The jailer put the two trays on the floor outside the bars, and, with his foot, thrust them through the low, flat opening, like a flat rectangle, at the base of the latticework of bars. |
10 |
| 14 | 66 |
In a moment, half sickened by the stench, my body moving against the slimy sides of the opening, I followed him. |
10 |
| 16 | 781 |
"Very well, sword," he said, opening his eyes. |
10 |
| 16 | 790 |
They were knotted at the left hips, so that the opening was at their left thighs, where, on the thighs, could be seen the circular, adhesive patches they had worn during the play, those patches which, in the conventions of the theater, informed the audience that they were to be taken, for the purpos... |
10 |
| 16 | 1175 |
"It violates all the orthodox principles of opening play". |
10 |
| 16 | 1184 |
"To be sure, if I respected you more highly," said the player, "I might have selected a different opening move". |
10 |
| 18 | 194 |
Swiftly one of the soldiers tore away the knotting at the opening of the sack. |
10 |
| 20 | 249 |
The beast, accordingly, had simply darted into what, from its point of view, was an obvious opening. |
10 |
| 20 | 293 |
Suddenly, to my amazement, they relinquished their attack and, together, bristling and snarling, slunk back, one after the other, through the small, grated opening through which they had emerged. |
10 |
| 21 | 233 |
It seemed any delay in opening that portal would not be lightly brooked. |
10 |
| 21 | 305 |
"Yes?" he said, opening his eyes. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 48 |
"Yes," said Mincon, making his way toward a guard station at the opening to one of the long corridors leading from the vaulted vestibule. |
10 |
| 16 | 1781 |
The soft, interior curvatures of her breasts could be seen within the opening of the garment. |
10 |
| 22 | 237 |
I followed her, into the dark opening above. |
10 |
| 22 | 317 |
I then retraced my steps to the opening to the upper level, where the loft had been converted into even more rooms. |
10 |
| 24 | 612 |
I remember tying the slave disk, with her number on it, about her tiny neck, opening her blankets that she might be exposed to me while doing so. |
10 |
| 25 | 1700 |
The tube is then introduced through the circular opening in the bite cushion into her mouth and run down to her stomach. |
10 |
| 25 | 2371 |
In a moment I had come to the low opening of the Al-Ka Tunnel, the first tunnel. |
10 |
| 26 | 593 |
I then seized her wrist and drew her forcibly, swiftly, she crying out, on her belly, through the narrow opening. |
10 |
| 26 | 722 |
I cut down the neckline, opening it considerably, and then slashed it almost to the belly. |
10 |
| 26 | 1038 |
She then led the way back across the street, to the opening between the buildings, one of several which joined the Avenue of Turia, in this section, with the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla. |
10 |
| 29 | 106 |
Achiates then, like an urt, spotting an opening between sleen, darted away, hurrying toward the insula. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 45 |
In the bottom of the door there was a larger opening, about three inches in height and a foot in width, through which pans of water or food could be slipped into the wagon, without opening the main door. |
10 |
| 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,... |
10 |
| 3 | 946 |
He was opening, and then smoothing out, and folding the bit of wet silk I had had thrust in my mouth. |
10 |
| 3 | 1002 |
Teibar poured some fluid from a small bottle into an opening, or through a porous mesh, at the apex of the mask. |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
Transportation It is all part of the hood, the leather ball, the strap attached at the front of it, and the belt, with its double loop, on the outside, held in place by the hood's belt loops, at its opening. |
10 |
| 6 | 652 |
I heard the rattle of chain at the gate, and the opening of the heavy gate. |
10 |
| 9 | 45 |
There, at its opening, on the wood, they were ordered to all fours. |
10 |
| 10 | 649 |
It exposed a low opening, only about a yard in height. |
10 |
| 11 | 673 |
I could not keep my hands on the sheet without opening the sheet myself. |
10 |
| 11 | 1284 |
He realized, I think, as I did not, at that time, that at this time there would be severe limitations on my capacity to respond to him, limitations attendant on my opening, and on being a new girl, not yet finding herself the victim of helpless slave needs. |
10 |
| 11 | 1450 |
"Dance," said Tupita, apparently from the opening of the alcove. |
10 |
| 20 | 363 |
"Do you still sway well?" I cast a frightened glance back toward the opening of the alleyway. |
10 |
| 24 | 222 |
The men behind me moved to one side, opening a place between them, leading back toward the top of the ridge. |
10 |
| 28 | 10 |
Far above me, as at the end of some odd, vertical tunnel, I could see a circular opening, perhaps some seven or eight feet across, and, across this, in open sockets, there was a peeled, rounded timber, about which a rope was wound. |
10 |
| 28 | 12 |
Over the opening, too, there were the remains, mostly a frame, of what was once apparently a small arched roof. |
10 |
| 28 | 265 |
I laughed, and so, too, did Tupita, but then we looked about ourselves, at the sheer walls of the shaft about us, and up at the opening, doubtless wide enough, but, from here, seemingly so small, seemingly so far above. |
10 |
| 29 | 520 |
It then withdrew its head from the opening of the well, and slipped back into the grass. |
10 |
| 29 | 1159 |
Too, he had used it to save the life of his beloved friend, Mirus, though in doing the deed he must have understood, opening himself to the blade of his enemy as he had, that he had made his own life forfeit. |
10 |
| 29 | 1553 |
They could form no plan, it seemed, between them as to who should hold, who should seek an opening. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 |
The fellow inside lifted up a small tharlarion-oil lamp to the opening. |
10 |
| 8 | 42 |
In opening, they swung back across the landing platform, which was a foot or two above the level of the height of the palisade. |
10 |
| 8 | 56 |
This gives the effect of a door, opening to the sky. |
10 |
| 10 | 449 |
Through the whiteness of the hood I could make out the opening. |
10 |
| 12 | 20 |
There was also a narrow paneled opening in the bottom of the door, also locked now, through which, when it was opened, a pan, say, of water, or bread, or dampened meal, might be inserted. |
10 |
| 15 | 762 |
He wore a black hood, which, save for a narrow, rectangular opening for the eyes, covered his entire head. |
10 |
| 15 | 969 |
I scrambled up an embankment of debris to the great opening in the wall. |
10 |
| 15 | 970 |
There, spread before me, in the bright morning sun, under the clear blue sky, bright with glittering spear blades and shields, with nodding plumes, with the standards of companies and regiments, dotted with engines, here and there a tharlarion stalking about, tarnsmen in the sky, in serried ranks, s... |
10 |
| 17 | 40 |
At the termination of another bridge we had broken away an opening in the walkway, enlarging a gap about stairs. |
10 |
| 17 | 41 |
Here charging foes leaping from the wall found no footing but only an opening beneath them, half pit, half stairs. |
10 |
| 17 | 88 |
Smoke flowed from behind him, out of the opening. |
10 |
| 17 | 217 |
Another fellow had just appeared in the opening in the crenelation and I pushed out at him with the long impaling spear. |
10 |
| 17 | 595 |
I stood near the opening but this time, following its retreat, none rushed through. |
10 |
| 17 | 607 |
Another fellow from outside suddenly appeared in the opening, high in the ruptured gate. |
10 |
| 17 | 608 |
We crossed swords in the opening three times. |
10 |
| 17 | 609 |
Then he stiffened in the opening, his guard down. |
10 |
| 17 | 611 |
Another fellow then, flanked by two others, appeared in the opening. |
10 |
| 17 | 617 |
He turned away from me, and his two fellows leaped from him, but too late, and the ram, as I drew back, caught him and carried him, on its snout, tearing him against the side of the opening, for five feet, until he tumbled from it, to roll to the bottom of the hill. |
10 |
| 17 | 622 |
A spear thrust at me through the opening. |
10 |
| 17 | 643 |
As soon as the ram was free of the opening, it would presumably be held back, in place, and then men would come through the portal, one by one, or in twos and threes. |
10 |
| 17 | 658 |
I looked up and saw some four or five Cosians creep through the opening at the height of the artificial hill. |
10 |
| 18 | 555 |
I saw her wrists lifting, her fingers, beside her confined thumbs, jerking, opening and closing. |
10 |
| 20 | 166 |
Suddenly I saw the flagship, knifing through an opening in the chain of rafts, literally sheer oars from the side of the Cosian ship put about in the harbor. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 229 |
Then, as would be expected, her ankles are shackled, and the slack in this chain, threaded through the appropriate aperture toward the top, or opening end, of the sack, is taken up, as well, and it is fastened to another ring in the wagon bed, outside of the sack, near its opening. |
10 |
| 10 | 59 |
"Torches!" The opening of its long, narrow jaws may have been as much as five foot Gorean. |
10 |
| 13 | 146 |
"Consider the position of the opening lever," I said. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
By means of this, particularly if the opening of the stem is kept near the surface of the water, and those in the vicinity are not familiar with marshcraft, if they are not vigilant and keenly alert to the possibility of such techniques, one may often travel about in relative security and concealmen... |
10 |
| 19 | 108 |
The other stood its ground, opening its own jaws, hissing. |
10 |
| 20 | 159 |
"But," I said, "you shall for five days, for five encampments, as a punishment for crying out twice, after having been warned to silence, and for not having responded instantly and perfectly to a command, that connected with opening your mouth for the gag wadding, be tied as I often was in the delta... |
10 |
| 24 | 145 |
"Put your head back," I said, "so that your neck, resting back, is half encircled in the semicircular opening". |
10 |
| 37 | 224 |
Two chains went into the sack, through the leather, via apertures, one toward the bottom, the other toward the top, or opening end. |
10 |
| 37 | 225 |
To one of these chains, that toward the bottom, a collar is attached; to the other chain, that toward the top, or opening end, a pair of shackles is attached. |
10 |
| 40 | 109 |
They discovered a hole and, probing about in it, discovered the concealed opening to a tunnel. |
10 |
| 46 | 352 |
I could see fellows readying the camp for its opening. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 119 |
Surreptitiously, scarcely opening his hand, he showed it to me. |
10 |
| 3 | 1004 |
No one moved to stop him, but the large man, opening his cloak, drew a knife from his belt sheath and slowly, deliberately, slit the skin open. |
10 |
| 10 | 204 |
Her eyes were wild in the opening within the hood. |
10 |
| 15 | 81 |
The atrium in the house of records, I had learned, was open to the sky, which opening, as in many public and private Gorean buildings in the south, serves to admit light. |
10 |
| 17 | 419 |
"In short," I said, "in the opening of the trunk, the back was lowered first, and in its closing, it was lifted last". |
10 |
| 22 | 649 |
A similar, interesting historical detail, though not particularly pertinent to Gor, as most Gorean garments lack buttons, is that, on Earth, men's shirts, jackets, coats, and such, have the buttons on the right side, so that the opening of the garment is held down, and to the right. |
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| 24 | 451 |
Did he not realize that my plans might now, in a moment, be set awry? I turned back, to pound on the door, but he took me firmly by the arm and we followed Appanius and his retainers back down the street, until we turned left, and made our way through an opening between two buildings. |
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| 27 | 855 |
Most, seeing you participate in state ceremonies, holding court, opening games, and such, will think you are truly the Ubara. |
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| 27 | 955 |
I set the opening of the bottle to her mouth, but scarcely had she dampened her lips than she drew back her head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 310 |
It was carried up the stairs, and then, the first man opening the trap, thrusting it up, through the opening. |
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| 4 | 46 |
I heard a door, heavy, grating, opening somewhere, away, to the left. |
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| 4 | 76 |
The doors, opening, were coming closer now. |
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| 4 | 78 |
That could be told from the sound of their opening. |
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| 4 | 144 |
I heard other doors opening behind me, one by one, and heard the voices, in various languages. |
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| 4 | 222 |
There had been several doors opening and closing. |
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| 4 | 224 |
There were several in front of me, and doubtless several, given the doors opening and closing, behind me. |
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| 4 | 341 |
So, too, perhaps, at least upon reflection, may be the symbolism of the opening of our knees, and what it tells about what we are. |
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| 7 | 239 |
I could hear the locks opening and closing. |
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| 8 | 117 |
Not opening my eyes, frightened, I moved my fingers upward, little by little, toward my throat. |
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| 8 | 158 |
I looked to the opening of where I was housed, for it was from thence that came the illumination. |
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| 8 | 163 |
Surely it was not a natural opening. |
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| 8 | 318 |
The latter is little more than a rectangle of cloth with an opening for the head in the center. |
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| 8 | 384 |
It is also harder, obviously, to bolt through such an opening. |
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| 10 | 443 |
I did edge back from the opening. |
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| 10 | 515 |
In each of the double gates was a smaller opening which was now shut, through which only one person at a time might pass. |
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| 10 | 1034 |
I then, on my leash, crawled toward the opening. |
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| 11 | 1 |
As soon as I crawled through the opening I felt fresh air, and my hair was blown back somewhat by the wind. |
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| 11 | 1554 |
"Yes, Master!" I said, not even opening my eyes. |
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| 13 | 64 |
I could see other passages opening from it, here and there. |
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| 13 | 279 |
She slipped partly through the opening, and then scrambled back within the cage, clinging to the bars, her feet trying to find some purchase there. |
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| 13 | 362 |
The shackling in such a cage, of course, aside from its common purposes, such as showing that the female is a slave, enhancing her beauty, and such, would make it difficult or impossible for her to prevent her slipping through the opening of the cage. |
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| 13 | 504 |
These things then might, if one wished, be introduced into various passages, depending on the opening and shutting of the gates. |
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| 13 | 562 |
For one possessing the means, they could be freed and drawn away, to one side or the other, or even plunged into the opening below. |
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| 13 | 582 |
But he merely unlocked the bridge from its pegs behind us, drew it on our side of the opening, and locked it there, so that it could not be slid back, without being unlocked, from our side. |
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| 13 | 583 |
A few yards ahead I saw what appeared to be the opening to a large, cavernlike room. |
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| 13 | 1213 |
He moved the scroll a little, rolling shut what he had read, unrolling, opening, a new vista of ideas. |
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| 14 | 1006 |
Then she had stood there, just outside the opening to the tunnel, "slave clad," her head lifted, her eyes closed against the light, in the full light of the sun. |
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| 16 | 83 |
I removed the veil first from my features, opening it, and brushing it to the sides, and then, with almost the same gesture, I lifted it and put it back, behind me. |
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| 16 | 492 |
In this way, it was, in effect, as though the chain was mounted at the head of the divan, rather than at the side, the hook would carry the weight of the chain, preventing it from drawing against the collar, the length of chain between the hook and collar would rest on the divan, and the amount of p... |
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| 24 | 600 |
The opening in the helmet was something like a "Y" in shape. |
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| 24 | 822 |
Shortly after the departure of the officer and his retinue I think the terrace, previously muchly cleared, must have been reopened, for I had scarcely closed my eyes, sitting at the wall, when I felt hands fumbling at the lock gag, opening it. |
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| 31 | 106 |
He lifted the lantern near the opening and peered within. |
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| 34 | 57 |
Who had first seen me, who had marked me out, who had first decided this? Who had speculated how I might look in a collar, who had conjectured my lineaments, who had read my body, and my heart? "The Turian opening?" asked the pit master. |
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| 37 | 616 |
Too, once they had come to the tunnel opening, which was beneath the surface of the pool, reached from the nest, on a higher level, on the other side, they may have seen the light from the lamps and torches on the water. |
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| 37 | 642 |
Neither party wished to simply present itself before the opening. |
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| 37 | 712 |
The gate bolt on the cage drawn, the bottom of the cage dropped downward on its hinges, opening the cage. |
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| 37 | 830 |
"The nest opening is there!" pointed the lieutenant. |
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| 38 | 34 |
"Creating an opening large enough for the passage of a man?" asked the pit master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 234 |
She lightly traced with her finger the narrow curved plate between her legs, with its curved, long, slender, saw-toothed opening. |
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| 12 | 478 |
That she was in the iron belt must be meaningful, an indication of her master's interest in her, his solicitude for her, his reserving of her deflowering, or her "opening for the uses of men," for himself alone. |
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| 13 | 85 |
She reached into the basket and took out the small clothespin bag, lying on the damp laundry, and slung this over her right shoulder, so that its opening was at her left hip, so that she, being right-handed, might easily reach into it. |
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| 13 | 146 |
"Let us return to our work," said another of the girls, glancing warily at the hatchlike opening to the roof. |
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| 13 | 624 |
He then turned and went to the hatchlike opening, through which he descended. |
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| 14 | 176 |
The guard took her by the left, upper arm, and, opening the door to the audience chamber with his left hand, drew her within. |
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| 16 | 422 |
She recalled that her master had been amused and pleased that what he had done to her, red-silking her, opening her for the uses of men, would be likely to lower her value. |
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| 19 | 121 |
Normally they are harnessed in the cage, and then led through the opening. |
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| 19 | 126 |
The officer thrust through the gate, but scarcely had he entered the area, a stranger, one unknown to the tarns, than one of the birds flew at him, aggressively, and he sprang back through the narrow opening and the great, yellow, scimitarlike beak snapped on the bars, not a foot from his hand. |
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| 20 | 637 |
Some light filtered in through the opening. |
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| 20 | 649 |
Brush was drawn across the entrance, concealing the opening. |
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| 22 | 718 |
One of the men, he with the lantern, held back the tent flap, looking about, and the other men, followed by the three beasts, they now on all fours, thrust through the opening. |
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| 24 | 375 |
The opening seemed inviting, seemingly beckoning her to flee into an alluring, salubrious, safely concealing darkness beyond, but for all the good it would have done her, it might as well have been sealed with granite and iron. |
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| 25 | 71 |
She went to all fours before the tiny opening. |
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| 25 | 558 |
I am to be sold! The highest bid will be my opening bid. |
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| 25 | 617 |
That had been the auctioneer's suggested opening bid. |
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| 27 | 2999 |
A great, clawed gash, opening a soldier's tunic, flowed with six rivulets of blood. |
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| 27 | 3330 |
She, on her belly, licked and kissed, deferentially, lovingly, at the hand that fed her, and then, eyes shining, lifting her face and opening her mouth, she delicately, gratefully, accepted another tiny piece of meat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 6 |
They had not understood that the defile was closed beyond the opening, that there was no exit opposite the opening. |
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| 2 | 40 |
In this opening there suddenly appeared, harnessed and alert, enweaponed, ears erected, eyes blazing, head turning from side to side, a gigantic form. |
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| 2 | 41 |
Behind it, visible in the opening, some half crouched, were similarly accoutered forms. |
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| 2 | 142 |
There, before that opening, he stopped. |
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| 2 | 202 |
The opening in the container was wide enough for the beast to enter it, but Kurii are cautious beasts and it did not understand the container, or the wiring and tubing about. |
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| 2 | 344 |
"Help me!" screamed the brunette, being dragged away, backwards, on her belly, by the grasped ankle, over the metal flooring, down the hallway, toward the opening. |
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| 2 | 355 |
In a moment Cabot, perhaps foolishly, had raced after the Kur who was drawing the sobbing, hapless brunette toward the opening at the end of the corridor. |
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| 3 | 330 |
He moved toward the opening of the stall. |
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| 8 | 8 |
Behind this dais was a curtained opening. |
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| 8 | 30 |
Cabot could see no face within the opening. |
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| 16 | 88 |
He then hurled her from him, several feet, rolling, jangling, to the dirt, away from the opening in the defile. |
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| 16 | 90 |
Cabot was between her and the opening. |
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| 17 | 21 |
Then, in the confusion, several humans, screaming, and carrying their pointed sticks, slid into the defile, and others rushed forward, through the opening. |
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| 17 | 25 |
In moments, four Kurii were dead, and there was not one other that was not bloodied, and the six remaining Kurii, snarling, and tearing and biting, and sweeping about them with their spears, broke through the opening, and the massed humans, to the forest beyond. |
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| 21 | 65 |
"Yes," said Cabot, "of war, and the march, sometimes to measure the stroke of oars, occasionally to signal the opening and closing of markets, of gates, and such". |
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| 34 | 210 |
Cabot looked past Grendel, and the small fire, toward the opening of the small cave. |
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| 43 | 465 |
"Do not move," he told her, "for there is an opening here, and if you fall, it will be to your death". |
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| 49 | 6 |
Half bent, head moving from side to side, ears erected, Grendel warily approached an opening in the brush. |
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| 53 | 121 |
"In here," said Grendel, and Cabot lowered his head, and entered what, from the outside, seemed no more than a lair, or the opening to a small cave. |
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| 56 | 76 |
The forces of Agamemnon, forewarned, had, at a signal, it was later determined, closed or covered their eyes, opening them, adjusted as they had been for the darkness, a moment later, and opened fire. |
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| 64 | 128 |
The sheet was clutched in a such a way that the face was effectively hooded, the opening on the sheet sufficing for little more than a lowered head to survey the next patch of ground on which it might dare to tread. |
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| 77 | 282 |
"How long can you run, little thing? Do you call that little stick you carry an ax? You cannot even reach me with it! You are human! I am Kur! Close with me! Close with me! Hold still! Stand! Fight!" Cabot circled, as he could, to the left, looking for an opening, but now Flavion held the ax more cl... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 270 |
How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of Priest-Kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor invo... |
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| 5 | 8 |
"I am unarmed," he said, opening his hands and holding them to the sides. |
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| 10 | 406 |
Whereas Gorean slave dance can be as subtle as the opening of the petals of a flower it is commonly richly, luxuriantly, unmistakably, outspokenly, unapologetically, brazenly erotic. |
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| 29 | 80 |
We came then, at last, to an opening in the trees, and stood upon a rise, from which a road led gently downward through the valley toward the river. |
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| 38 | 5 |
Within this opening many men, some once of the scribes, sorted through these mountains of material and assigned its disposition, in virtue of preconceived arrangements, to various decks and holds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 166 |
She, and many others like her, both men and women, had been involved in the conspiracy by means of which Ar had fallen, in the opening of Ar's gates, in the razing of her walls, in the machinations by means of which Ar had been subdued and looted for months. |
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| 7 | 120 |
This had much to do with the discontentments of Thassa, with the wind and weather, the towering waves, the plunging about of the ship, and the water she was taking in, some from opening seams, at different levels, forced inside, some draining down to the lower decks, when a hatch must need be opened... |
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| 8 | 225 |
"I can understand such things," I said, "before high officers, before men who determine the opening and closings of gates, men who hold the keys to cellars of gold, to the trove of Merchants, men who command armies, who grasp the reins of power, whose word will launch fleets, but not before common s... |
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| 9 | 200 |
Whereas the tarn, in virtue of its strength, can take flight directly, interestingly, almost vertically, from a horizontal surface, they would usually, on the ship, as from a cliff, launch themselves through an arranged opening in the bulwarks, spread their wings, catch the air, and then strike thei... |
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| 9 | 378 |
This cleared an opening to the bottom of the ramp, where stood the placid Lord Okimoto. |
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| 9 | 382 |
At that point the large hatch above began to move once more, slowly, rumbling, this time opening, revealing the sky. |
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| 10 | 109 |
On both port and starboard, I heard, too, the opening of the galley nests, and the extension and rattling of davits. |
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| 12 | 780 |
One could now, in the light of the dawn, see the color about, yellow and purple, the myriads of blossoms, many a foot in width, opening to the morning sun. |
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| 13 | 39 |
The obstinacy of Tersites, a fair wind, and a fortuitous canal opening in the vines had allowed the ship to proceed too far, in the darkness, and then, the wind failing, the Vine Sea had closed about her, tendrils reaching to her timbers. |
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| 19 | 112 |
It was as though the floor of the sea itself had shuddered and cracked, opening a world into which water had poured. |
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| 20 | 39 |
Seeing the suddenly opening valley in the sea before us, I had cried out a warning. |
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| 22 | 40 |
He paused at the opening, looking about, in frustration. |
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| 22 | 220 |
Now, however, to a new drum signal, hurrying between suddenly opening, evenly spaced gaps in the enemy forces, we saw what must have been one hundred to one hundred and fifty archers, with the large Pani bows. |
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| 30 | 3 |
They were admitted one at a time through the narrow opening in the barricade which had been set up at the gate. |
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| 32 | 70 |
I saw the opening of the cove before the bow. |
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| 35 | 17 |
Through this opening, several men began to thrust forth, foot by foot, a loading plank. |
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| 37 | 208 |
There was then a knocking at the jamb of the open portal, and Captain Nakamura appeared in the opening. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 515 |
The camisk is a narrow rectangle of cloth, with an opening in the center. |
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| 9 | 119 |
In any event, the damaged tissue is often removed, the resultant opening being subsequently closed. |
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| 10 | 199 |
Perhaps things are different in wealthier domiciles, with their larger kitchens and pantries, their walls, the interior colonnades, the fountains, and gardens, the rooms opening onto them, and such. |
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| 13 | 16 |
The trap opening to the roof was open, and I climbed the stairs, and, the cloths over my shoulder, and two hands on the bucket handle, emerged on the roof. |
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| 15 | 223 |
There he may have established, to his satisfaction, by the trail of scent, that the Kur may have emerged, even frequently, perhaps habitually, from this particular opening, which, at night, would be in an area unlikely to be traversed by humans. |
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| 15 | 229 |
Surely I was not going to exit the stall where the one side had once stood, until broken away by the beast, for that opening was behind it. |
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| 15 | 234 |
I heard the beast strike against the wood, and then, feeling for the opening, pull the gate from its hinges. |
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| 15 | 235 |
A sweeping paw convinced it that the opening was not to its liking. |
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| 15 | 238 |
Kurii, I would later learn, tend to avoid constricted spaces, and will seldom enter a space which has but a single opening. |
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| 15 | 239 |
A narrow space is one in which it may be difficult to defend oneself, and a space with but a single opening is a space in which one might be cornered, or trapped. |
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| 27 | 66 |
Our party had been intercepted on the trail to the Crag of Kleinias, and we had been conducted by a party of humans and Kurii to the opening of the Cave of Agamemnon, Theocrat of the World, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One, which lay secretly within the massive vastness of the Crag of Kleinias. |
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| 27 | 102 |
Coming from one of the darker corridors to the vicinity of the Cave's opening, as in carrying a message, or provender, to the guards, I was sometimes dazzled, painfully so. |
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| 35 | 155 |
Indeed, the first entries might occur in a game, for example one beginning with the opening called the Ubar's Tarnsman's Flight. |
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| 45 | 3 |
I was several yards from the opening. |
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| 45 | 5 |
Shortly thereafter, some yards back from the opening, two slave girls, Jane and Eve, began pushing one another, and screaming at one another. |
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| 45 | 102 |
Released, I regained my footing and went cautiously to the opening of the passageway, and, shielding myself with the rock as much as possible, looked back to the portal. |
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| 45 | 107 |
The beast pushed his paw toward me, opening and closing the digits. |
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| 45 | 159 |
They would not be visible from the opening to the passageway. |
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| 45 | 161 |
I made as though to move to the opening between the rocks, but Tiresias growled, and I stopped. |
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| 45 | 163 |
He pointed behind him, and I went back in the passage, some twenty or thirty feet back, away from the opening. |
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| 45 | 166 |
I was not much pleased by his disappearance as I would have preferred to have him, blind or not, between me and the opening, as I expected the other guard, wary and curious, to appear there, once Grendel had been secured, presumably by using the leash to tie his ankles together. |
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| 45 | 175 |
I sensed then that he was at, or near, the opening. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 136 |
One could enter or leave this opening at either end, and, though the opening was quite narrow, it was large enough for me to enter, and, at the same time, I was sure, too narrow to admit either a sleen or panther. |
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| 35 | 183 |
I saw a tiny movement of Darla's hands, clasped behind her back in the steel of slave bracelets, the slight opening and closing of fingers. |
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| 50 | 882 |
"The gate is opening!" called a girl. |
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| 52 | 951 |
He then threw three oars out into the river, and, with the remaining oar, punched an opening in the bottom of each boat, following which he thrust them out into the current, and then hurled the last oar after them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 68 |
There must be a way of opening the dragon's gate, so to speak, of activating the dragon itself, of opening its eyes, so to speak, and so on". |
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| 59 | 207 |
Consider the exchanges! What he will think is an opening will not be an opening. |
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| 9 | 58 |
Then there were cries from behind the paused, startled vanguard of looters, cries of wrath and impatience, and men began to force themselves past, at which point, with a great cry, hundreds of men, bent on plunder, burst through the opening. |
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| 9 | 75 |
For some moments looters, unapprised of what ensued on the level; continued to hurry upward, and enter the courtyard, but, momentarily, there was confusion at the threshold as terrified men turned to flee back through the opening. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 38 |
"Be ready!" I called to a platoon of archers now stationed before the gate, and two groups of swordsmen, one group to the right of the opening and the other to the left of the opening. |
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