| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 32 |
But after the term papers, the tests, and the grading of the first semester, I was afflicted with a rather irresistible desire to chuck the British Empire and go for a long, long walk—indeed, even a camping trip in the nearby White Mountains. |
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| 3 | 9 |
His desk, a vast wooden table, was piled with papers and pots of ink, and pens and scissors and leather fasteners and binders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 20 | 29 |
Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 16 |
The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe... |
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| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 41 |
The papers are correlated with the lot number and the girls' fingerprints are taken and checked against those on the papers. |
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| 4 | 35 |
It was with this man that Vella had been placed, her registration, papers and purchase having been arranged. |
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| 4 | 36 |
In the House of Cernus, after the sheet, bracelets, leash and collar had been removed, agents of the House of Cernus had checked her fingerprints against those on the papers. |
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| 4 | 38 |
Then, found acceptable, she had knelt while agents of the House signed the receipt of her delivery and endorsed her papers, retaining one set, giving one set to the seller's agent, for forwarding to the Cylinder of Documents. |
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| 5 | 497 |
Papers will be prepared on you and you will be transmitted to the House of Clark in Thentis, whence you will be taken by tarn caravan to Ar, where you will be sold privately, your purchase to be effected by the agents of the House of Cernus, under the instructions of Caprus". |
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| 5 | 592 |
Elizabeth was much amused by the forged slave papers prepared for her, giving in detail an account of her capture and exchanges, complete with endorsements and copies of bills of sale. |
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| 5 | 594 |
In my compartment, Al-Ka fingerprinted her, adding her prints to the papers. |
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| 11 | 149 |
"Have you prepared the initial papers on them?" asked Ho-Tu. |
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| 12 | 47 |
I looked to the area of the Administrator and saw the Hinrabian disgustedly turning away, dictating something to a scribe, who sat cross-legged near the throne, a sheaf of record papers in his hand. |
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| 12 | 372 |
There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca... |
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| 13 | 241 |
As soon as Mip entered the cot he picked a tarn goad from a hook on the wall over a small table with a lamp and papers on it. |
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| 15 | 10 |
He would not inform me of the location of the maps and papers and I did not feel that any direct attempt to steal them and carry them away would be likely to be successful; further, if simply stolen, the Others, through Cernus, would doubtless be informed at the first opportunity and alternate plans... |
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| 19 | 40 |
The papers of most of the girls, including those of Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis, had been transmitted days before to the staff of the Curulean, to be checked for authenticity, and for the updating of certain endorsements. |
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| 19 | 42 |
Some girls, whom the House had determined late would be sold, arrive at the Curulean with a small leather cylinder tied about their collar, which contains their papers, which girl is then, by the staff of the Curulean, assigned a lot number. |
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| 19 | 45 |
When the members of the staff of the Curulean are satisfied that the girl's papers are in order the ticket with her lot number is stamped approved. |
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| 24 | 180 |
Scribes at nearby tables endorsed and updated papers of registration, that the ownership of the girls be legally transferred from the state to individual citizens. |
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| 24 | 433 |
He carried with him some papers. |
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| 24 | 476 |
"I have brought papers," said Hup. |
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| 24 | 483 |
"Write on the papers," said I, "that on this first day of the restoration of Marlenus of Ar, the slave Vella was by her master, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, granted her freedom". |
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| 24 | 484 |
Hup shrugged, and so endorsed the papers. |
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| 24 | 487 |
"I will file the papers in the Cylinder of Documents," said Hup. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 4 |
Papers were scattering to the floor. |
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| 11 | 19 |
The floor was covered with papers. |
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| 11 | 32 |
I then, throwing papers to the floor, scattering ink, lifted the great table over my head. |
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| 11 | 376 |
He took his sword from its sheath and plunged it through the scribe's papers, pinning them to the table. |
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| 11 | 382 |
He looked at me, and then, with a cry of anger, drew his blade from the papers and wood, slammed it back into its sheath, and turned and strode from the room. |
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| 15 | 54 |
"If I remember correctly," I had said, behind the admiral's table, busied with papers, "in the hall of the Ubar of Cos you told me that you did not frequent the rowing holds of round ships". |
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| 16 | 346 |
Papers were strewn about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 51 |
Usually, however, I wrote my own papers. |
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| 6 | 449 |
I could get extensions for my term papers. |
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| 9 | 472 |
I knew then that the body of Elinor Brinton, even when she had been in college, even when she had concerned herself with the trivia of term papers, even when she had eaten in Parisian restaurants, when she had strolled the boulevards of the continent, when in New York she had stepped from and into t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 52 |
I suppose the magistrate, who, with papers, met us at the dock, did not believe my story. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 68 |
The function of the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, thus, officially, is to administer and control the salt districts, on behalf of the Tahari salt merchants, primarily by regulating access to the districts, checking the papers and credentials of merchants, inspecting caravans, keeping records of the comme... |
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| 26 | 1047 |
It is entered, often enough, even on her sales papers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 954 |
If she is a former slave, her papers of manumission had best be in perfect order. |
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| 13 | 139 |
From an assistant he took a board, with rings and papers. |
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| 16 | 173 |
The ship on which I was carried was the round ship, or cargo ship, Clouds of Telnus, registered in Cos, but with shipping papers clearing it for the waters of Schendi. |
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| 17 | 121 |
"I had them from the fine slaver, Alexander of Teletus," said the merchant, "but their papers were lost in transit". |
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| 20 | 589 |
Must I await him here, like a silken, caressable verr, unable to flee, observed in the day, chained at night? And if I were sold it might not be hard to track me, from master to master, by means of slave papers, merchants' records, and so on. |
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| 26 | 190 |
The woman always examines the papers of enslavement on her knees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 513 |
"Her passage papers were in order?" I asked. |
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| 1 | 569 |
He was a secretive craftsman and, before he died, he destroyed his plans and papers. |
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| 1 | 625 |
He reached to one side of the table, to a flat, black box, of the sort in which papers are sometimes kept. |
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| 1 | 628 |
He withdrew from the box several folded papers, letters. |
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| 1 | 630 |
"These papers, too, were found among the belongings of our fair captive below," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 632 |
"There are passage papers here," he said, "and a declaration of Cosian citizenship, which is doubtless forged. |
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| 1 | 702 |
I placed the ring and the papers in my robes. |
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| 4 | 129 |
The wooden bar before the desk's front edge makes it impossible to see what evidence or papers the praetor has at his disposal as he considers your case. |
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| 4 | 131 |
Similarly, you cannot tell what he writes on your papers. |
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| 4 | 242 |
"You have both been caught," said the praetor, beginning to fill out some papers. |
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| 4 | 247 |
The praetor entered that name in the papers. |
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| 4 | 248 |
He then signed the papers. |
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| 4 | 315 |
Papers were being filled in; these had to do with the claims Bem Shandar was making to recover his stolen money. |
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| 4 | 588 |
"I have her slave papers here," said Ulafi, "delivered with her this morning by Vart's man". |
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| 4 | 592 |
The praetor examined the papers. |
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| 4 | 594 |
The prints are contained in the papers. |
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| 4 | 639 |
"My thanks, Praetor," said Ulafi, receiving back the slave papers from the magistrate. |
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| 4 | 895 |
"Are there papers on her?" I asked the guardsman. |
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| 4 | 897 |
Most Gorean slaves do not have papers. |
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| 6 | 542 |
Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vege... |
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| 6 | 606 |
He would check the papers of Ulafi, the registration of the ship, the arrangements for wharfage, and the nature of the cargo. |
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| 6 | 685 |
The scribe noted the physician's report in his papers and the physician, with a marking stick, initialed the entry. |
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| 11 | 214 |
"Speak of important things, of the ring and the papers!" she snarled. |
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| 11 | 222 |
"The ring and the papers," she said, "notes of some sort, and two letters, I received in Cos from one called Belisarius. |
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| 11 | 236 |
"The ring, the papers!" said the girl in the black slacks. |
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| 11 | 259 |
"Let us send a ship to Port Kar," said the dark-haired girl, "to obtain the ring and papers from Bejar". |
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| 51 | 97 |
If one were to prepare slave papers on them, of course, their height would be one of the items to be recorded, together with a large number of other measurements, for example, measurements pertaining to the sizes of the waist, breasts, hips, wrists, ankles, throat, and such. |
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| 51 | 101 |
Her lips, too, may be rouged and she may be forced to kiss the papers, this signifying not only her reverence of them but supplying an additional means by which, because of the subtle, delicate differences among the lips of slaves, she can be identified. |
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| 51 | 102 |
Too, of course, the papers will specify her brand type and its location, and her slave history, from her first capture or, in the case of a bred slave, her conception in a breeding facility, to the date of the last entry. |
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| 51 | 104 |
On the other hand, most slaves do not have papers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 19 |
"When these papers are signed," said the Lady Melpomene, happily, lifting some papers from the table in front of her, "I shall be free of my debts". |
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| 10 | 115 |
She held some papers, long and yellow, in one hand. |
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| 10 | 133 |
She knelt before a low desk, her back to me, and gave her attention to the papers which she had now placed upon it. |
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| 10 | 139 |
Occasionally she would make a notation on one of the papers with her marking stick. |
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| 10 | 144 |
I wondered if any of those papers were pertinent to me. |
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| 10 | 173 |
She at last, wearily, thrust back the papers and put down the marking pencil. |
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| 10 | 198 |
Too, it is on your papers". |
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| 22 | 76 |
"Before you Lady Melpomene of Vonda," said Philebus, "lie several papers, detailing the consolidation of your debts. |
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| 22 | 77 |
These papers are certified by the bank of Bemus in Venna, and are witnessed by the signatures of two citizens of that city. |
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| 22 | 238 |
Brandon, though a prefect in Vonda, rose to his feet and carried papers to the Lady Leta and the Lady Perimene. |
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| 22 | 241 |
He then returned to his place and himself signed the papers. |
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| 22 | 244 |
I heard the stamp of Brandon strike on the papers before him. |
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| 22 | 246 |
"The papers are in perfect order," he said. |
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| 34 | 123 |
"Ten copper tarsks," he said to a scribe at a small table nearby, with papers and a box of coins. |
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| 34 | 233 |
He went to the scribe and looked through his papers, noting numbers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 89 |
More importantly, she would doubtless be carrying papers linking her with Policrates, such papers as the signs and countersigns whereby the actions of the joint pirate fleets might be integrated and directed". |
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| 30 | 112 |
"It was from him, or perhaps from papers on his person, that you learned the signs and countersigns for admittance to the holding". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 158 |
"Then it would have been papers, in his tunic," I said. |
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| 8 | 191 |
In a short time, then, the inks would run, and the papers held between the sheets, would disintegrate. |
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| 8 | 241 |
I examined the papers which I had extracted from the envelope. |
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| 8 | 259 |
Such things are not uncommon on ships, to protect papers which might be carried in the spray or weather, for example, on a longboat between ships, or between ships and the shore. |
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| 8 | 265 |
I replaced the papers in their envelope, from with I had withdrawn them to examine them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 356 |
Some female slaves, incidentally, have a pedigreed lineage going back through several generations of slave matings, and their masters hold the papers to prove this. |
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| 2 | 357 |
It is a felony in Gorean law to forge or falsify such papers. |
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| 5 | 113 |
"Our papers are in order". |
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| 13 | 1191 |
"Too, you will note that civilization has increased the control of the girls and the effectiveness of bondage, the marking, the identification of masters, the papers of sale, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 266 |
Usually, however, in cities which encourage this sort of registration it is sufficient to bring the papers for stamping to the proper office within forty Ahn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 321 |
There were men there, one fellow with a board and papers, and two others, who seemed to be aides. |
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| 15 | 386 |
"You are late," said a man, with a rustle of papers. |
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| 18 | 102 |
Do you have papers on her?" "No," said Speusippus. |
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| 31 | 149 |
For all I knew, there were detailed slave papers on me, which might accompany me in a sale. |
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| 33 | 584 |
I did so with the papers of a minor envoy, bearing my own signature". |
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| 36 | 957 |
Had I not seen through your subterfuges you might have been flinging yourself to the jaws of sleen, or guaranteeing the signing of your papers for the mines". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 361 |
Among some of these papers, which I would apparently use as a backing surface for the sheet on which I intended to record the moves, were the papers I had taken, long ago, from the Lady Yanina near the fair of En'Kara. |
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| 21 | 102 |
The true concealment of the papers, one assuredly calculated to deceive those individuals who might have some just notion of their value, one worthy of Belnar's brilliance, was to have them lying about, almost casually, mixed in, and seemingly belonging with, papers of no great importance. |
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| 22 | 102 |
But others, perhaps not privy to the plot, cleared our name, noting the papers recording our departure from the city, papers signed at an Ahn when Temenides and his men were still alive. |
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| 2 | 581 |
"A mere jest!" "You are Boots Tarsk-Bit," said the officer, consulting an inked handbill, clipped with other papers, "Actor, Entrepreneur, and Impresario, of the company of Boots Tarsk-Bit?" "At your service," said the paunchy fellow, bowing low. |
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| 5 | 409 |
"They are state papers," she said. |
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| 5 | 410 |
"They must not fall into the wrong hands!" I assumed they were not state papers, of course. |
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| 12 | 360 |
I drew forth from my wallet some papers and a marking stick. |
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| 12 | 370 |
Now you draw forth papers from your wallet. |
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| 12 | 371 |
Some of these are papers obviously covered with the notation of Kaissa. |
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| 12 | 380 |
"Now what are those other papers?" I handed them to him. |
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| 12 | 415 |
I did not doubt that the papers contained enciphered messages. |
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| 12 | 424 |
He indicated small numbers in the left margins of several of the papers. |
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| 12 | 426 |
In originally looking at the papers I had interpreted them simply as a device for identifying or listing the games or game fragments. |
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| 13 | 124 |
"By the way," asked Flaminius, "what did you do with the papers you took from the Lady Yanina?" "They were worthless," I said. |
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| 20 | 93 |
"He carried papers, something?" I asked. |
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| 20 | 96 |
If it had seen something of interest in the ubar's possession, a packet, a sheaf of papers, something, I think it might have given me some affirmative response. |
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| 21 | 74 |
Once here, I had begun my search, in various rooms, for obvious, unconcealed paraphernalia, of a sort that might be germane to Kaissa, such things as boards and pieces, books, sheaves of papers, and records. |
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| 21 | 84 |
Among those records, fitted in with them, were other papers. |
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| 21 | 89 |
There were also, on other papers, numbered, too, the representations of boards. |
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| 21 | 100 |
I had thrust these papers in my pouch. |
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| 21 | 338 |
"Take these papers," I said to Andronicus. |
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| 21 | 342 |
He has the other papers, too, that are pertinent to these matters". |
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| 21 | 532 |
"By now," I said, "I believe the papers which I sought, those whose security you had hoped to guarantee, have left the city". |
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| 21 | 549 |
"You must have the secret papers," he said. |
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| 22 | 191 |
"I gather that Andronicus gave you the papers from Brundisium, the keys to certain ciphers," I said. |
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| 22 | 193 |
"I hope they proved pertinent to the other papers I left with you, those originally obtained from she who was once the Lady Yanina". |
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| 22 | 195 |
He handed me a sheaf of papers. |
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| 22 | 200 |
I took the papers. |
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| 22 | 259 |
"Were there names in the papers?" I asked. |
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| 22 | 277 |
"Few of their names occur explicitly in the papers. |
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| 22 | 336 |
I took the papers from my tunic. |
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| 22 | 339 |
I threw the papers on the fire. |
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| 22 | 341 |
"Did you make a copy of the papers?" I asked Scormus. |
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| 22 | 349 |
"Even if I had the papers," he said, "I would have no way to prove their authenticity". |
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| 22 | 353 |
With the stick I prodded the charred remains of the papers, crumbling them to black powder in the ashes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 |
Papers; Slavery Agrees with Feiqa "Papers, papers?" inquired the soldier. |
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| 9 | 92 |
Mincon presented his papers to the gate captain. |
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| 9 | 98 |
He returned the papers to Mincon. |
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| 13 | 197 |
"Lift your head and throw your hair behind your back, girl," said the officer, newly arrived, come up from the side, with a backing board and sheaf of papers. |
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| 13 | 201 |
He then referred to his papers, turning some over. |
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| 13 | 337 |
"I have already made notations with respect to several of them," he said, indicating his papers, "including 437 and 261. |
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| 15 | 31 |
On the table, before him, resting on what appeared to be state papers, was a sword. |
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| 15 | 257 |
"Too, it would be difficult, in the time I gave you, to pick up the knife, or sword, without rustling papers". |
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| 15 | 775 |
I eyed the papers on the desk. |
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| 15 | 813 |
He finished signing the papers before him, and stood up. |
10 |
| 15 | 836 |
Then he threw her on her belly on the desk, on the papers, and the various documents of state. |
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| 16 | 1405 |
Papers can be easily detected within tunic or cloak linings. |
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| 17 | 2 |
"Have you papers?" "No," I said. |
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| 17 | 5 |
None of the refugees, of course, carried such papers. |
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| 17 | 14 |
"Does one need papers?" the small fellow with the mustache like string was asking the soldier. |
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| 18 | 27 |
"Do you have papers?" he asked. |
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| 18 | 33 |
Doubtless papers, or letters, might be needed". |
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| 19 | 17 |
He might even have had a tool for the extraction of the papers". |
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| 19 | 19 |
The blade would have had to be removed, I assume, and then replaced, after the extraction of the papers". |
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| 19 | 21 |
"That the absence of the papers not be immediately noticed," I said. |
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| 19 | 46 |
"Are such papers needed at the checkpoint?" asked Hurtha. |
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| 19 | 392 |
Nailed to it were some papers, fluttering in the wind. |
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| 19 | 413 |
I examined the papers nailed to the pole. |
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| 19 | 417 |
"Carrying false papers," he said. |
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| 19 | 441 |
"What were the papers?" asked Boabissia. |
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| 19 | 448 |
"Have you papers?" asked the Taurentian. |
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| 19 | 450 |
He then produced some papers from his pack. |
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| 19 | 451 |
The Taurentian then wrote a notation on the papers and motioned him ahead. |
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| 19 | 461 |
"Have you papers?" asked the man. |
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| 19 | 463 |
"You have no papers, whatsoever?" asked the man. |
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| 19 | 471 |
I could also see the twisted, bent body of Ephialtes of Torcadino on the impaling pole, and the flutter of papers nailed to it. |
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| 19 | 477 |
Had I not checked the draw this morning, as is my wont, I might not have known the papers were missing until I had arrived at the checkpoint. |
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| 19 | 478 |
I had determined, incidentally, that the deeper papers, the letters, addressed to Ar's regent, Gnieus Lelius, were still in the sheath. |
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| 19 | 495 |
"What were the papers nailed to the pole?" asked Boabissia. |
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| 23 | 174 |
"These papers," I said, "excellency, are for you. |
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| 24 | 185 |
There were many papers about. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 207 |
I was told that my skills in these matters, as they had now ascertained, and confirming reports on my "papers," or "records," were already far beyond the rudiments that I would obtain in such a class. |
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| 5 | 225 |
That I was a virgin had undoubtedly been included by Teibar in my papers, or records. |
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| 6 | 385 |
Doubtless outside the wagon, though, something was happening, if only an inquiry into a delay, a tallying or accounting, a certification of papers, a checking of arrangements, something. |
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| 7 | 115 |
We heard papers being checked. |
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| 8 | 314 |
"You have it?" asked the man with the cylindrical marking device, some sort of grease pencil, to another, who held a clipboard, with attached papers. |
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| 8 | 315 |
"Yes," said the fellow with the board, making a notation on the papers. |
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| 9 | 241 |
Various men at the rail and in the tiers rustled papers, or glanced at notes, held in their hands. |
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| 17 | 300 |
"You have papers on her?" asked the man. |
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| 24 | 577 |
"For example, those in the black chain who are not criminals, and for whom Ionicus does not have prisoner papers, will presumably be at least temporarily removed from the vicinity. |
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| 25 | 130 |
How had I changed? What had men done to me? He put me gently to my back, beside the tent, perhaps not feet from Aulus, the overseer, within, working on papers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 247 |
He need not know, for example, the contents of the secret papers which I had obtained at Brundisium last Se'Kara, papers which I had swiftly burned. |
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| 10 | 109 |
She only laughed at me, from a fee cart, moving rapidly away, with my purse, waving the redemption papers, signed for freedom, in her hand. |
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| 11 | 248 |
In those papers had been made clear the treason of one who currently stood high in Ar. |
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| 12 | 228 |
"This time the papers hidden in my basket pertained to the defenses at the great gate, the posting of guardsmen, the arrangement of their watches, and such. |
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| 12 | 241 |
It took them only a moment, in the unshuttering of the dark lantern, to rifle beneath the cloth and money in the basket and find the papers. |
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| 24 | 109 |
I was confident, too, from long ago, it seemed now, from captured papers, taken in Brundisium, that I knew at least one of the participants in these treacheries, one who was perhaps an arch conspirator, one who was perhaps even the prime architect of these devious and insidious designs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 187 |
'Well do I remember you in the fee cart moving rapidly away, laughing, carrying my purse with you, waving the redemption papers, signed for freedom!' 'It was not I!' she cried. |
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| 19 | 286 |
Slavers will take pains in checking out new catches, or acquisitions, to ascertain the natural color of their hair, one of the items one expects to find, along with fingerprints and measurements, and such, on carefully prepared slave papers. |
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| 19 | 1772 |
"Perhaps a scribe would buy you to clean his chamber and keep his papers in order". |
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| 24 | 126 |
Similarly it might be opened, if one wished, say, to free the prisoner's hands for feeding or, if she is a free female, perhaps for the signing of papers". |
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| 24 | 127 |
A slave, of course, being a domestic animal, cannot sign papers, not in a legal sense, no more than a tarsk or sleen. |
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| 47 | 207 |
Too, they were the sort of men who would be inclined to distrust financial papers, such as letters of credit, drafts, checks, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 18 |
"The papers are papers of manumission," I said. |
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| 27 | 367 |
I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave who on such and... |
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| 3 | 651 |
"She is a bred passion slave," I said, "with papers and a lineage going back a thousand years". |
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| 7 | 535 |
Some papers blew across the park, some of them tiny banners of colored paper, banners of both Cos and Ar. |
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| 8 | 367 |
"Soon," he said, "there will be regulations about such things, and papers, and permits, and ostraka, and such". |
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| 15 | 20 |
The papers had then been burned and the youths had withdrawn in triumph, singing songs to the glory of Cos. |
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| 15 | 24 |
"But surely," he said, "the destroyed papers were not the records of the delta veterans". |
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| 19 | 478 |
"The matter is doubtless entered in your papers". |
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| 25 | 243 |
"You do not mind filling out certain pertinent papers, do you?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 244 |
I had brought some sets of such papers with me. |
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| 25 | 245 |
"Common slave papers?" he asked. |
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| 25 | 255 |
Slave papers, too, were in the back, although I had brought my own. |
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| 25 | 257 |
"Give me the papers," said Appanius. |
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| 25 | 270 |
Appanius went to the back, to complete the papers. |
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| 25 | 284 |
The papers had been signed, and witnessed. |
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| 25 | 576 |
"And we have papers on him. |
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| 26 | 545 |
"Let the papers be prepared, and the measurements, and prints, taken," said Tolnar. |
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| 26 | 547 |
"Papers! Measurements! Prints!" she protested. |
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| 26 | 550 |
Tolnar and Venlisius put their wands of office to the side and went to the back room, to obtain the necessary papers and materials. |
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| 26 | 567 |
At this point Tolnar and Venlisius reentered the room and, in a few moments, were in the process of filling out the papers. |
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| 26 | 615 |
"I shall sign the papers," I said to Tolnar. |
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| 27 | 10 |
"And these papers," I said, "are pertinent to you. |
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| 27 | 13 |
"Papers, Master?" he asked. |
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| 27 | 71 |
I handed him the papers, and he looked at them, and then put them in his tunic. |
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| 27 | 330 |
They would also file the papers, and several certified copies of them, in various places, and, by courier, with certain other parties, official and unofficial, in various cities. |
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| 27 | 604 |
Your papers, and certified copies thereof, will be filed and stored in a hundred places". |
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| 27 | 652 |
"Recall the papers!" she said. |
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| 28 | 62 |
Yet she must know that some in Ar would know that secret, that some would even have access to the papers involved in its proof. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 186 |
He then walked across the scarlet circle, past the kneeling slave, and handed the papers to Henry, who took them, and put them within his robes, as he had his copy of the earlier papers, the court papers. |
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| 29 | 187 |
These later papers were undoubtedly the slave's slave papers. |
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| 6 | 82 |
"You have seen the papers," said one of the fellows of the house to someone. |
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| 6 | 103 |
We have examined their papers, and such," said the stranger who, I took it, was first among them. |
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| 6 | 259 |
I gathered this information had been obtained from my papers. |
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| 7 | 1085 |
"Do you think I have not read your papers?" she asked. |
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| 7 | 1093 |
But the proper endorsements had been included, I had gathered, on my papers. |
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| 8 | 30 |
How frightful the dream! How embarrassing, how terrifying, to learn that one cannot help oneself, that one is astonishingly, helplessly vital! And how miserable and embarrassed I had been when I had learned that this information, of such intimacy and delicacy, and secrecy, had been publicly recorded... |
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| 10 | 655 |
There were papers in his wallet which he presented. |
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| 10 | 656 |
I supposed they were my papers. |
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| 11 | 79 |
And entries pertinent to these matters, I gathered, and had gathered originally to my dismay, for I had regarded such things as my closely guarded secrets, now appeared explicitly on my papers. |
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| 11 | 431 |
Indeed, the matter was undoubtedly noted on my papers. |
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| 11 | 443 |
The breeding takes place under the supervision of masters, or their agents, with endorsements being recorded on proper papers. |
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| 11 | 530 |
That is clear even from her papers. |
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| 11 | 616 |
"It is on her papers," said another. |
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| 11 | 885 |
"I have seen her papers," said a fellow. |
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| 11 | 886 |
I knew I had papers but, of course, I could not read them. |
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| 11 | 887 |
Such papers, as I understood it, begin with a girl's arrival in the pens. |
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| 11 | 895 |
A number of things are commonly found on the papers, which may be more or less detailed, for example, our brand type, a number of measurements, the sorts of training we have received, and such. |
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| 13 | 201 |
He had doubtless been expecting me here, and had doubtless been apprised of the contents of my papers. |
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| 13 | 915 |
He then went to the table and busied himself there, with some papers, perhaps mine. |
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| 13 | 1164 |
He had put aside the papers, which may have been mine, and was now, by the light of a small lamp, perusing a scroll. |
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| 16 | 412 |
That information, like my eye and hair color, was on my papers. |
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| 28 | 135 |
Then he lifted up certain papers on his desk. |
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| 29 | 27 |
The tenth sounding of the bar still lingered over the city when a side door in the chamber opened and the court's clerk, with a folder and papers, entered. |
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| 29 | 29 |
He and the fellow who had entered but shortly before conferred briefly over these papers. |
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| 29 | 30 |
There were, it seemed, two sets of such papers. |
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| 29 | 32 |
I did not doubt but what one set was papers of the court, stamped with the sign of the court, and certified with the signature of a praetor's officer, if not the praetor himself. |
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| 29 | 33 |
On copies of these papers the fellow who had but recently entered scribbled his signature. |
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| 29 | 35 |
The other set of papers, which had been examined, and in places compared with the first set, was different. |
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| 29 | 56 |
The fellow who had but recently entered, in such agitation, so angrily, who had considered, and signed, papers at the desk of the clerk, had, at the call of the clerk to the guard, turned his back and walked through, and outside, the scarlet circle, that before the high desk. |
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| 29 | 181 |
At this point the clerk inscribed something on the set of papers which lay still on the table. |
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| 29 | 184 |
The clerk now folded the papers together, forming the long, narrow packet as before. |
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| 29 | 188 |
Somewhere, I had no doubt, there were similar papers on me. |
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| 29 | 189 |
The notation on the papers which had been made by the clerk had undoubtedly been the slave's name, presumably with the effective date of the name, as such names may be changed, as the master wishes. |
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| 29 | 190 |
Subsequent names may, of course, be added to the papers, with their effective dates. |
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| 29 | 199 |
Not all slave papers are bound in blue and yellow, of course. |
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| 29 | 772 |
Some papers were signed, a copy being retained by the clerk, and one by the pit master. |
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| 30 | 16 |
The pit master looked up from some papers which he had but a moment before spread before him. |
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| 30 | 17 |
He had also, beneath these papers, I had noted, concealed a stiletto. |
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| 30 | 83 |
"Their papers are not in order," said the pit master. |
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| 31 | 33 |
The majority of the men in black tunics, incidentally, save for two who returned to the surface, to repair the fault in their papers, had remained overnight in the quarters of the pit master. |
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| 31 | 36 |
The officer of Treve had left the quarters of the pit master shortly after the arrival of the strangers, putatively to ensure that new papers would be properly prepared, that there would be no further difficulty in the documents, supposedly of transfer or extradition. |
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| 31 | 286 |
"Your papers are in order". |
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| 31 | 299 |
"Your papers are for transfer, for extradition," said the pit master, "only that". |
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| 31 | 310 |
"It is one thing, in the honor of a keeping, your papers in order, to surrender a prisoner. |
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| 31 | 347 |
The pit master, from within his tunic, had drawn forth the stiletto which I had seen yesterday in his quarters, that which he had concealed beneath papers. |
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| 31 | 471 |
"Their papers are in order. |
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| 38 | 242 |
"I have seen that the papers have been arranged," said Terence, "those attesting even to the departure of those of the black caste from the city". |
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| 40 | 339 |
"You will be scattered, papers will be changed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 111 |
It seems that decisions were made, and papers signed, and certified, all doubtless with impeccable legality. |
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| 6 | 85 |
Too, though such things tend to be of no real consequence on this world, there would be, at least in this city, papers on her. |
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| 11 | 927 |
Surely that was clear from her papers. |
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| 11 | 1052 |
"There our fair guest will be stripped, fingerprinted and toeprinted, measured with care, and papers prepared on her. |
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| 11 | 1053 |
She will then be branded and collared, following which the final certifications will be placed on the papers. |
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| 15 | 422 |
One carried a small rectangular board on which he held some papers. |
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| 15 | 424 |
Ellen had seen such papers before, when she had been examined in great detail, apparently partly to ascertain identifying marks, subjected to numerous measurements, and fingerprinted and toeprinted. |
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| 15 | 425 |
She had little doubt that they were her slave papers. |
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| 15 | 426 |
Such papers, as may have been mentioned, are unnecessary and are not kept on the vast majority of slaves. |
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| 15 | 429 |
Such papers assume greater importance, of course, in the case of pedigree slaves or exotics. |
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| 15 | 454 |
That she had so begged was now on her papers. |
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| 15 | 455 |
The second man in blue robes added a note, or signature, or certification, to the papers. |
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| 16 | 655 |
"No!" "If you could read, I would show you the papers," said Targo. |
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| 18 | 531 |
There was miscellaneous debris on the floor, a shallow, bent pan, perhaps once used by slaves for drinking, some boards, some papers, and such. |
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| 19 | 92 |
"What have you found?" asked the officer, emerging from Portus's office, a sheaf of papers in his hands, doubtless to be examined by others, elsewhere. |
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| 19 | 93 |
He wadded these papers, these documents, into a pouch, slung at his side. |
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| 23 | 163 |
Our papers are in order. |
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| 25 | 27 |
"Is she more beautiful than I?" A scribe, with papers, was nearby, and, in a moment, began to course the chain. |
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| 25 | 34 |
He made notes in his papers, as he coursed the line. |
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| 25 | 38 |
And can it be that she behind me, so beautiful, is less beautiful than I? Surely we are all much the same, and yet men, the brutes, rank us, and will buy and sell us! As it pleases them! As goods! But, of course, as the goods we are! But might not I bring a higher price than any of these others? But... |
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| 25 | 750 |
That given, their interest seems to be in the pleasures which I seem to promise! She heard herself described in some detail, by the auctioneer's assistant, who read from papers, presumably extracted from scribes' records. |
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| 25 | 866 |
"Twenty-one," said the assistant, consulting papers. |
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| 30 | 92 |
Know what it is to crawl fearfully to him, your master, bearing the whip in your teeth! Where are your brands and papers, dear free sisters? And have you ever stood stripped on an auction block, to be bid upon, as the property you are? On Earth Ellen had seldom, if ever, worn cosmetics, regarding th... |
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| 30 | 698 |
Perhaps your papers have already been prepared. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 508 |
"I saw papers, certifications," she said. |
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| 11 | 64 |
Even the name which appears on formal slave papers is a slave name. |
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| 26 | 259 |
Considering the nature of the case, papers were carefully prepared, and measurements and prints taken, that there be no mistake about the legality of the proceeding, nor any possible problem later in the exact identification of the slave. |
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| 28 | 315 |
I had not changed her name on the embondment papers, but had permitted her to retain the name 'Talena', though then, of course, not as a free name but as a slave name, put upon her by the will of her master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 86 |
Needless to say, if the slave comes with papers, a certification with respect to slave wine, and the date of its most recent administration, will usually be included in the papers. |
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| 2 | 16 |
No ship, no vessel, might ply these waters without papers, bearing the seal of either Tyros or Cos. |
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| 37 | 987 |
"In the morning, we will venture to The Sea Sleen, find out to whom she was sold, contact him, and buy her back!" "She had no papers," said Callias. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | 17 |
"I see that you are kneeling at a small desk," I said, "and are making marks on large sheets of papers, papers covered with squares. |
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| 8 | 322 |
"You have the papers?" a voice asked. |
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| 8 | 324 |
I heard a movement of papers. |
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| 8 | 331 |
That, I thought, must be on the papers. |
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| 41 | 92 |
Thus, a cursory search might not have revealed these papers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 487 |
Papers were being exchanged between the officer and the scribe. |
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| 13 | 187 |
"What is she?" asked he who had been addressing me, of the fellow with the board, the marking stick, the papers, the notes, and such. |
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| 13 | 189 |
"A Laura," said the fellow with the papers, and such. |
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| 14 | 317 |
"They have been sold," he said, "usually as children, rather with papers, deeds, or contracts. |
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| 15 | 604 |
"Your lot number, in Brundisium," he said, scanning the board, with its attached papers, "was 119". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 805 |
"But he did more, as well! He had seen to it that it was inscribed on my papers, certified with the seal of the slaver, that I had begged to be purchased. |
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| 61 | 806 |
This appeared as an endorsement on my papers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 316 |
It is on your papers that you have been administered slave wine. |
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| 8 | 126 |
It was difficult to trace slaves through Victoria, most of whom were sold without papers. |
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| 49 | 33 |
Four members of the scribes were seated at a table to the side, their papers before them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 551 |
"We do not even keep papers on our girls". |
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| 8 | 425 |
"Papers would be requested," said he who had intervened. |
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| 10 | 141 |
Ho-Tosk, burly and bearded, was sitting behind a small work table, on which were papers. |
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| 30 | 61 |
"Wagers, Master?" asked a fellow with a red-and-yellow cap, and a red-and-yellow jacket, carrying papers and a mark board. |
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| 39 | 56 |
Something is on the box, perhaps envelopes or papers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 15 |
It was my pretense that the Dorna, now referred to as the Korinna on the Cove of Harpalos papers, was a knife ship converted to freight duty, a pretense now accepted by the Cove authorities, due I suspect, first, to a judicious distribution of gold amongst them and, two, due to the fact that Therans... |
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| 49 | 50 |
"Let the beach be examined for messages, papers pinned to a stake, a marked board, weighted in place by a stone, words drawn in the sand". |
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