| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 |
In time I assumed I would be found out, but meanwhile I had my passage to America paid and a position for at least one year. |
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| 5 | 176 |
I crossed swords with the nearer of the two warriors in a brief passage that could have lasted only an instant. |
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| 5 | 178 |
The other warrior pulled his tarn about as if for another passage at arms, but then, as if suddenly realizing that his duty was to give the alarm, he shouted at me in rage and wheeled his tarn again, streaking for the lights of Ar. |
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| 6 | 40 |
He was in the air, and the passage of arrows sang in my ears, the cries of enraged men, and the long, piercing, terrified scream of a girl. |
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| 17 | 18 |
It was being methodically razed in seven places, to allow for the passage of the siege towers to the second wall. |
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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 | 125 |
At the top of a broad series of stairs I saw the door that must lead to the Central Cylinder and noted with satisfaction that its dimensions were large enough to permit the passage of a tarn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 31 |
At the entrance to the palace the somber, wet avenue shrunk to a passage large enough only for a single man, and the walls at the same time rose to a height of perhaps thirty feet. |
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| 10 | 37 |
I was facing the door, first in the narrow passage. |
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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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| 11 | 3 |
He poked me savagely with the whip, the narrowness of the passage not allowing him to use it as he wished. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 38 |
Thus a passage of sorts was cleared between them, but the passage led only, as far as I could see, to a blank wall of stone. |
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| 3 | 45 |
How did I know what might lie before me in that dark, quiet passage? As I hesitated for that moment, I became aware of a motion inside the passage, which gradually became a white-clad rather short, rotund figure. |
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| 25 | 53 |
In the vicinity of the portal itself I remembered, when I had had the Mul-Torch, seeing a ventilation shaft some twenty or thirty yards inside the passage and fixed in the ceiling of the passage some nine feet from the floor. |
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| 2 | 43 |
At places there were well-worn paths, at others even stairs had been cut in the sides of mountains, stairs worn smooth in the millennia by the passage of countless feet. |
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| 3 | 1 |
Parp There was a sudden startled rattle of chains and I saw two huge, white larls frozen in the momentary paralysis of registering my presence, and then with but an instant's fleeting passage both beasts turned upon me and hurled themselves enraged to the lengths of their chains. |
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| 3 | 43 |
I had not long to wait for only a few moments later, perhaps no more than ten Gorean Ihn, a section of stone rolled silently back and upward revealing a rock passage beyond of perhaps some eight feet square. |
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| 3 | 46 |
To my amazement a man stepped from the passage, blinking against the sun. |
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| 3 | 71 |
He had now stepped back into the shadows of the passage. |
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| 3 | 74 |
"My name is Parp," he said, standing back in the passage. |
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| 3 | 94 |
Without waiting to see if I would follow him he turned suddenly and went back down the passage. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Hall of Priest-Kings As I followed the man who called himself Parp down the stone passage, the portal behind me closed. |
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| 4 | 3 |
My host did not speak but led the way with a merry stride, an almost constant curl of smoke from his little round pipe encircling his bald pate and muttonchop whiskers and drifting back down the passage. |
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| 4 | 4 |
The passage was lit with energy bulbs, of the sort which I had encountered in the tunnel of Marlenus which led beneath the walls of Ar. |
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| 4 | 5 |
There was nothing in the lighting of the passage, or its construction, to suggest that the Priest-Kings' Caste of Builders, if they had one, was any more advanced than that of the men below the mountains. |
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| 4 | 6 |
Too, the passage was devoid of ornament, lacking the mosaics and tapestries with which the beauty-loving Goreans below the mountains are wont to glorify the places of their own habitation. |
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| 4 | 9 |
I noted that the passage which I trod was well worn. |
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| 4 | 111 |
In the far distance, perhaps from some passage leading away from the Hall of Priest-Kings, I heard the roar of a larl. |
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| 7 | 97 |
The safest thing for me would be to continue on as I had been doing, a pattern of action which would give me the benefit of the shield formed by the turn in the passage. |
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| 7 | 102 |
Maddened beyond understanding I began to race down the passageway, retracing my steps to confront what might be in the passage. |
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| 7 | 117 |
Although there was nothing now with me in the passage it had left its trace. |
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| 10 | 43 |
It moved with a certain deliberate, stalking movement; its tread was regal and yet it seemed almost dainty, almost fastidious; it was almost as if the creature did not care to soil itself by contact with the floor of the passage. |
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| 15 | 8 |
A circle of eerie, blue, descending light flickered on the walls of the passage down which I lowered myself. |
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| 19 | 94 |
Sarm pranced backwards on those long, delicate, jointed legs, clearing the passage to the door. |
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| 21 | 68 |
The Priest-King, escorted by Muls, then began to move slowly, step by majestic step, down the passage outside of the chamber. |
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| 23 | 50 |
It was a long, eerie search, in the blue light of the Mul-Torch, thrusting it into one crevice and another, trying one passage and then the next. |
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| 23 | 57 |
A cry of horror from the bottom of my heart broke from my lips in that dark passage and I turned and raced madly back down the path I had come. |
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| 24 | 43 |
I had no notion of the speed of the creature but at this point I turned and began to jog away down the passage, back toward the entrance to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 24 | 54 |
How horrible I thought it would be to be trapped in these tunnels, waiting for the Beetle, able to avoid it perhaps for hours, perhaps days, but not daring to sleep or to stop, not knowing if one were going down a blind passage, if the Beetle were suddenly to confront one at the next turn. |
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| 24 | 57 |
I leaned the Mul-Torch against the side of the passage. |
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| 25 | 2 |
They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag... |
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| 25 | 23 |
As I prepared to resheath the sword I heard a slight noise in the passage and, in the light of the dying Mul-Torch, without moving, I waited. |
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| 25 | 37 |
I turned and with the girl in my arms began to trace my way slowly down the passage. |
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| 25 | 40 |
When I had entered I had immediately marked my passage with small arrows scratched by the hilt of my sword at eye level on the left side of the passages. |
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| 25 | 66 |
I pulled my hands free and crawled in the darkness to one side of the passage and lay down against the wall. |
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| 25 | 70 |
I crawled to my knees and threw up in the passage. |
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| 25 | 85 |
I had no wish to remain indefinitely in the passage, nor could I bring myself to abandon the girl. |
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| 28 | 247 |
Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the Priest-King leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below. |
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| 31 | 120 |
I looked up to see Sarm on that narrow passage that traced its precarious way around the great blue dome that covered the power source. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 151 |
Four spears, with bronze heads, suddenly burst across the passage, emerging from circular openings, their tips striking into other small openings across the passage. |
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| 1 | 10 |
Though I was of the caste of warriors and he of peasants, and I armed and he carrying naught but a crude tool, I would not dispute his passage. |
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| 1 | 11 |
One does not lightly dispute the passage of one who carries his Home Stone. |
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| 2 | 54 |
I was surprised at the distance I had been from the herds, for though I had seen the rolling dust clearly, and had felt and did feel the shaking of the earth, betraying the passage of those monstrous herds, I had not yet come to them. |
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| 6 | 6 |
Each of these, I was later to learn, wore on his forearm a tiny brand, in the form of spreading bosk horns, which guaranteed his passage, at certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 6 | 102 |
The crowd had opened a passage for the woman and the girl saw the clothing cast on the open fire. |
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| 10 | 3 |
These men, as in every year, I learned, had been guaranteed safe passage across the southern plains for this event. |
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| 10 | 271 |
It was only then that it had occurred to me that both girls might have been acquired in the games; as a matter of fact, however, I later learned that only Tenchika had been so acquired; Dina had first felt the thongs of a master beside the burning wagons of a caravan in which she had purchased passa... |
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| 12 | 216 |
The three flutists were polishing their instruments and talking together; it was shop talk I gathered, because one or the other would stop to illustrate some remark by a passage on his flute, and then one of the others would attempt to correct or improve on what he had done; occasionally their discu... |
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| 16 | 145 |
"We expected that you would soon try, but we did not know that you knew of the Passage Well". |
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| 16 | 150 |
"Our friend with the hood," said Saphrar, gesturing to his right, "preceded you tonight in the Passage Well. |
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| 17 | 100 |
It was difficult to look into the fluid because of the brightness of the yellows, the glistening brilliance of the surface troubled by my passage. |
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| 21 | 133 |
"Is there enough there to buy passage to Ar?" I asked. |
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| 26 | 140 |
In a few moments the wall had been shattered, revealing the dark passage beyond. |
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| 26 | 142 |
Kamchak now gave his kaiila to a subordinate and, on foot, carrying torch and quiva, began to prowl down the passage, beside him the two snarling sleen, behind him Harold and I, and the rest of his men, several with torches, even the slaves with gold. |
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| 26 | 143 |
Guided by the sleen we had no difficulty in following the track of Saphrar through the passage, though often it branched variously. |
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| 26 | 144 |
The passage was on the whole dark, but where it branched there was often set a small, burning tharlarion-oil lamp. |
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| 26 | 145 |
I supposed Saphrar of Turia must have carried lamp or torch, or perhaps that he knew the passage by heart. |
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| 26 | 147 |
The floor of the passage had been dropped, by the release of a bolt, for an area of its width and for a length of about twelve feet. |
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| 26 | 150 |
Another time he warned us back and called for a lance, with which he tripped a wire in the passage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
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| 5 | 295 |
Even so, she would interrupt us frequently by saying, "Listen to this!" and read some passage which seemed particularly telling. |
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| 5 | 613 |
Elizabeth and I had arrived in Ko-ro-ba in the second month, and she departed on the second day of the Second Passage Hand, that following the second month. |
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| 5 | 614 |
We estimated that she would surely be in the House of Clark by the Third Passage Hand, which precedes the month of En'Var. |
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| 5 | 617 |
I had decided to wait until the Fourth Passage Hand, that following En'Var, and then take tarn for Ar, where I would pose as a mercenary tarnsman seeking employment in the House of Cernus, but when the Warrior from Thentis, who resembled me, was slain early in En'Var, I decided to go to Ar in the gu... |
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| 15 | 80 |
Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position. |
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| 15 | 122 |
After two months of such treatment, Cernus, perhaps because he wearied of her body, or because he felt she was now ready, now at the height of her hatreds and miseries, ordered her sent to Tor, where, I heard, she was collared, marked and publicly sold during the ninth passage hand, that preceding t... |
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| 15 | 148 |
On the other hand, the single greatest period for the sale of slaves is the five days of the Fifth Passage Hand, coming late in summer, called jointly the Love Feast. |
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| 15 | 360 |
The night that Phyllis Robertson, under the torches in the hall of Cernus, while we supped, performed the belt dance, was the last day of the Eleventh passage hand, about a month before the Gorean New Year, which occurs on the Vernal Equinox, the first day of the month of En'Kara. |
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| 15 | 361 |
The training of the girls, over the months, had been substantially completed, and would be for all practical purposes finished by the end of the twelfth passage hand. |
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| 15 | 362 |
Many houses would doubtless have put them up for sale in En'Kara, but Cernus, as I had heard, was saving them for the Love Feast, which occupies the five days of the fifth passage hand, falling late in the summer. |
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| 16 | 17 |
The girls had finished their training during the Twelfth Passage Hand. |
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| 16 | 18 |
Little then remained for them except to review their lessons, eat and sleep well, and be in prime condition for their sale in the late summer, during the Fifth Passage Hand, on the Love Feast. |
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| 17 | 137 |
Many cities celebrate it on the last day of the Twelfth Passage Hand, the day before the beginning of the Waiting Hand; in Ar, however, and certain other cities, it is celebrated on the last day of the fifth month, which is the day preceding the Love Feast. |
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| 17 | 228 |
Processions took place on the bridges; there were tournaments of the game organized; poets and historians vied in praising the day, each more ecstatically than the last; but, perhaps most importantly, holiday was declared, and great games and races were sponsored without cessation for the next sever... |
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| 18 | 196 |
"Before the next passage hand," said he, "armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously damaged; our work, our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away". |
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| 18 | 451 |
"You were accurate," I said, regarding the carefully drawn scratches, the rows methodically laid out, the months, the five-day weeks, the passage hands. |
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| 19 | 2 |
The Love Feast, incidentally, as I may have mentioned, occupies the full five days of the Fifth Passage Hand, occurring late in summer. |
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| 19 | 19 |
Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain b... |
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| 19 | 77 |
I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no... |
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| 19 | 80 |
Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;... |
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| 20 | 462 |
"Surely you recognize," asked Scormus, curiously, looking up at him, "the Two Spearman variation of the Ubar's Scribe's Defense, developed by Miles of Cos and first used in the tournament at Tor held during the Second Passage Hand of the third year of the Administrator Heraklites?" Neither Cernus no... |
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| 21 | 385 |
I saw Philemon, his face white, his eyes wide, turn and flee through the private passage that gives access to the box of the Ubar. |
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| 22 | 129 |
Again the furious passage of the tarns overhead was marked in the beating of wings, the cries of the riders, now the flash of tarn goads, the turbulence of the air slashed from their path driving against us. |
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| 22 | 482 |
I had not seen it, but I knew the sound of the passage of a bolt from a crossbow. |
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| 22 | 490 |
Then, to my horror, I saw that both the rider for the Reds and he for the Greens had wheeled their tarns and stood ready at the left center ring to block my passage. |
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| 23 | 5 |
My eyes had not permitted any to dispute my passage, and, indeed, the halls of his house were now largely empty. |
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| 23 | 91 |
I had, in my passage from Sura's chamber to the Hall of Cernus, stopped in the chambers where I had resided. |
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| 23 | 165 |
He looked over his shoulder, saw the door from the hall which led to the stairs and passage leading to the chambers of the beast. |
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| 23 | 169 |
I let him reach the door, jerk it open, take his stumbling flight up the stairs, into the passage. |
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| 23 | 174 |
Then he turned and fled down the passage. |
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| 23 | 176 |
At the head of the stairs I saw that the room at the end of the passage was open. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 |
It was the fourth day of the sixth passage hand, shortly before the Autumnal Equinox, which in the common Gorean calendar begins the month of Se'Kara. |
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| 10 | 2 |
It was now near the end of the first passage hand, that following En'Kara, in which occurs the Spring Equinox. |
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| 10 | 134 |
We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i... |
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| 11 | 314 |
He stood before the thrones of the Ubars, before even the large table, which now, on its upper face, was marked by sword cuts and the apertures splintered open by the passage of crossbow quarrels earlier this afternoon. |
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| 13 | 2 |
It was now within the Fifth Passage Hand, some four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar. |
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| 13 | 3 |
By this time, the Fifth Passage Hand, the flag of Bosk, pirate, had come to be much feared on Thassa. |
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| 13 | 137 |
"In the neighborhood of the sixth passage hand," he said. |
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| 13 | 520 |
It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn... |
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| 16 | 321 |
I had heard already that men with larger ships, hundreds of them, had put out to sea, and that the wharves were packed with throngs, bidding exorbitant amounts of gold for a passage from Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 771 |
At the entryway to that passage leading to the kitchens he stopped, and then, as she laughed and kissed him, he, holding her close to him, in his arms, swept her, once the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos, now only a young, collared slave girl, in a brief, miserable garment, throug... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 269 |
Surely someone would be found, if not here, in the next city, who spoke English, who could put me in contact with those from whom I might purchase passage in my return to Earth. |
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| 7 | 364 |
I was certain that I could, with my resources on Earth, purchase swift passage back to my home planet. |
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| 8 | 28 |
We sat there for several minutes, and then, eventually, we heard Targo haggling with a barge master for passage across the river. |
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| 13 | 129 |
I do not think I could very well purchase passage, either. |
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| 13 | 850 |
The two tarns wheeled again, for another passage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 9 |
Outlaws move well in the forests, moving, like panther girls, with swiftness and stealth, and leaving little trace of their passage. |
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| 11 | 228 |
"In the eleventh passage hand," I said, "many rivers are frozen". |
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| 15 | 650 |
"I will purchase my passage back to Earth!" "What have you to offer?" I asked. |
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| 16 | 28 |
I did not touch them in my passage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 403 |
"This money," said I to Samos, "is for safe passage to Ar, by guard and tarn, for this woman". |
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| 3 | 1 |
I Make the Acquaintance of Ivar Forkbeard And Book Passage on His Ship Screaming pierced my ears. |
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| 3 | 223 |
"I want passage to Torvaldsland," I said. |
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| 3 | 229 |
"My serpent," said he, "is not a vessel on which one may book passage". |
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| 3 | 361 |
I had booked better passage to Torvaldsland. |
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| 5 | 325 |
Others slipped past in the darkness, their passage marked by the swift whisper of the feathers and shaft. |
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| 16 | 1 |
The War Arrow Following the Forkbeard, on hands and knees, I crawled down the narrow passage, at one point turning to my left side to slide through a narrow aperture. |
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| 16 | 10 |
In that instant I saw we were in a large, squared passage. |
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| 16 | 12 |
There was carving in the passage, rune letterings and pictographs, in linear borders. |
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| 16 | 19 |
The passage extended beyond us, disappearing in the darkness beyond the light of our torches. |
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| 16 | 45 |
The passage now enlarged. |
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| 17 | 191 |
Then the sleen opened a passage for her, indicating to her which direction she was to go. |
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| 17 | 193 |
When she tried to move in any direction other than that of the opened passage they snapped at her, viciously. |
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| 17 | 284 |
I could trace its passage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
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| 1 | 593 |
Following each month, of which there are twelve, separating them, is a five-day Passage Hand. |
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| 1 | 594 |
The twelfth Passage Hand is followed by the Waiting Hand, a five-day period prior to the vernal equinox, which marks the Gorean New Year. |
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| 2 | 253 |
Almost always, except in the greatest heat of the summer, between the fourth and sixth passage hands, when few caravans ply the wastes of the Tahari, there are many of these available. |
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| 3 | 8 |
I readied myself for another passage. |
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| 3 | 66 |
One passage, divided between us, adjudged as "no blood drawn," might have been disputed. |
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| 4 | 499 |
"The Well of the Fourth Passage Hand," I told him. |
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| 4 | 500 |
Water, more than a century ago, had been struck there, during the fourth passage hand, in the third year of the Administrator Shiraz, then Bey of Tor. |
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| 12 | 583 |
The garments were sufficient to permit me passage. |
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| 12 | 587 |
"I have this letter of passage," I said, reaching into my cloak. |
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| 12 | 588 |
The letter of passage was the back of my hand, flying up and to the right, while, at the same time, with my left fist, I drove into the diaphragm of the man on my left. |
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| 21 | 24 |
Yet I did not think he wished to tell me the hour of the day, but call my attention to the passage of time. |
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| 23 | 106 |
Usually an Aretai merchant, selling small goods, would visit the tents of the Khan of the Tajuks, the black kaffiyeh and white agal cording guaranteeing him safe passage, and, at the campfire of the Khan, after his trading, while drinking tea, would say, "I have heard that the Aretai are gathering f... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 980 |
My master, with a spear and a loop of rope, under the torchlight, the torch held by one of his men, opened a passage in the thorn bush. |
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| 4 | 982 |
He pointed to the passage. |
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| 6 | 128 |
It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ... |
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| 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. |
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| 11 | 133 |
We walked along a long passage. |
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| 11 | 134 |
Then we left that passage, and took others. |
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| 11 | 140 |
We walked along another long passage. |
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| 11 | 322 |
Beyond it, in the corridor, lay storage rooms for truly valuable merchandise, worthy of having a guard posted in the passage. |
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| 12 | 545 |
I heard men in the passage. |
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| 12 | 551 |
I ran back along the passage. |
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| 12 | 588 |
Suddenly, ahead, from a side passage, I saw two men emerge. |
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| 12 | 704 |
I turned my head to the side, and heard the small sound of the silver leaf, on its tiny loop, fastened in my ear, touch the stones of the flooring of the passage. |
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| 16 | 67 |
These platforms were separated by narrow aisles; also they did not adjoin the sides of the hold, thus allowing a passage between them and the wall of the hold on both the left and right side of the ship. |
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| 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. |
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| 24 | 37 |
"I request passage for two," said Clitus Vitellius, "myself and," indicating me, "this slave". |
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| 24 | 231 |
"I grant you passage," smiled the man on the ship. |
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| 24 | 238 |
The man who had welcomed us aboard, permitting us passage, looked down at me. |
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| 25 | 214 |
"In the last passage hand, Master," I said. |
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| 26 | 423 |
With the leash he tied her thighs tightly together, leaving between the tight, confining leather strips an open space, a small, lovely territory, for the passage of the iron. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 117 |
These spigots are linked in such a way that when one is open the other must be closed; the spigot turned by a given player closes his own clock's sand passage and opens that of his opponent; when the clocks must both be stopped, as for an adjournment of play, they are placed on their side by the chi... |
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| 4 | 160 |
Reginald of Ti turned the spigot on the clock of Centius of Cos, which opened the sand passage in the clock of Scormus. |
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| 6 | 596 |
Had they crossed the pond they might, in the breadth of their passage, have struck the submerged couple. |
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| 6 | 815 |
"Might I then request passage?" he smiled. |
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| 11 | 136 |
"They are due to return on the afternoon of the first day of the passage hand". |
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| 11 | 147 |
"If the tarnsmen return before the afternoon of the first day of the passage hand," I said, handing the man who controlled her her dagger, "cut her throat". |
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| 11 | 169 |
I did not think it would take long to destroy the wall, surely not more than the days to the first passage hand. |
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| 11 | 200 |
It was early afternoon, on the first day of the passage hand. |
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| 21 | 14 |
The furs, being impervious to the passage of air, of course, tend to trap the generated body heat. |
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| 22 | 139 |
Its attack instincts are apparently not triggered by that configuration, or perhaps there is no stimulating smell or familiar pressure patterns, such as it would commonly associate with its prey or a vulnerable object, in the water, from the passage of the craft and the stroke of the paddle. |
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| 25 | 104 |
Indeed, even in the darkness, the total darkness of an overcast sky in the arctic night, when the winds do not blow, he may often find his way simply by feeling with his mittened hands the alignment of ice crystals on slopes and blocks, which are a residue of the earlier passage of such winds. |
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| 26 | 143 |
The storm had obliterated sled tracks and the customary trail signs of an afoot passage. |
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| 26 | 223 |
A hole is left for the passage of air and smoke. |
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| 35 | 30 |
I was interested not so much in official thresholds, of a sort which I supposed would be provided to facilitate the work of lookouts and guards, as apertures more practical to my purposes, apertures unguarded through which passage would not require any system of recognition devices. |
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| 35 | 524 |
Then she said, "Four Gorean months, not yet completing the fourth passage hand". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 30 |
It is common, of course, to use a tandem order in night rowing, the first vessel's untroubled passage marking the safe channel, its impeded passage marking the location of an obstacle. |
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| 1 | 220 |
"That precluded the need to find a northwest passage from Ushindi," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 238 |
"He was interested in finding the northwest passage from Ushindi," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 243 |
"But Shaba's work," I said, "as I understand it, demonstrated that no such passage exists". |
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| 1 | 513 |
"Her passage papers were in order?" I asked. |
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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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| 4 | 1 |
I Recapture an Escaped Slave; I Book Passage on a Ship for Schendi "How long has she been missing?" I asked. |
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| 4 | 69 |
"I would take passage with you," I said. |
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| 4 | 73 |
If worse came to worse I could book passage on another vessel. |
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| 4 | 81 |
I would prefer, of course, to have passage on this ship, for it would be on this ship that the girl, when apprehended, would be transported. |
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| 4 | 307 |
"I would book passage on the Palms of Schendi," I told them. |
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| 4 | 310 |
"I would book passage," I said. |
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| 4 | 319 |
"I could pay a silver tarsk for passage," I told him. |
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| 4 | 328 |
"I hope to book passage on that ship," I said. |
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| 4 | 852 |
"I would still like to book passage with you to Schendi," I said. |
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| 10 | 44 |
Unwanted beggars had the choice of having their passage paid from Schendi or concluding their simple careers in the harbor. |
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| 11 | 223 |
I took passage for Schendi on the Blossoms of Telnus, a ship of Cos. |
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| 23 | 281 |
The space freed would be narrow, but it would be large enough to admit the passage of a man's body. |
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| 32 | 43 |
I suspected, from the degree of recovery of the jungle following the passage of Shaba and his men, that he was not more than fifteen or twenty days ahead of us on the river. |
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| 44 | 15 |
It did not sound like the passage of a man or animal. |
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| 48 | 25 |
I took passage on a ship to Bazi, as an oarsman. |
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| 49 | 10 |
If it became necessary to expedite our passage we wished each member of our party, whether free or bond, to be able to lend his strength to this work. |
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| 53 | 50 |
In many villages, and among hostile peoples, the demonstration of the power of the ring, as I had hoped, permitted us safe passage. |
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| 53 | 458 |
Too, he would wish to use them to guarantee the safe passage of the ring to his prearranged rendezvous, from whence it would be eventually returned to the steel worlds, or, on this planet, used devastatingly against men and Priest-Kings. |
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| 57 | 36 |
"You wish to take passage again on the Palms of Schendi," he asked, "for return to Port Kar?" "With your permission, Captain," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 226 |
Another man preceded them, presumably to facilitate their passage and, perhaps, open the van. |
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| 34 | 343 |
Doubtless he could be convinced, for a silver tarsk, to grant you passage". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 468 |
It is a rite of passage, in its way, one of several toward Gorean manhood. |
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| 5 | 58 |
I bought paga for the five fellows who had helped me earn passage money downriver to the next town. |
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| 6 | 94 |
"Passage, Master?" inquired a fellow. |
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| 29 | 273 |
There was no passage under or about the iron. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
I heard again, twice, the slippage of air, sliding and divided, marked by what I now recognized was the passage of slender, flighted wood. |
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| 5 | 18 |
Only the blood at the pirate's throat marked its passage. |
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| 5 | 22 |
I twisted away, hacking passage. |
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| 5 | 92 |
"She came to clear the way for the passage of the Voskjard east," I said. |
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| 6 | 4 |
A medium-class galley of the Voskjard slipped past our bow, the tooth of her ram failing to feed, the water from her cleft passage, swelling away from her, forcing us to port. |
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| 8 | 169 |
I stepped back, that she might have free passage. |
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| 20 | 92 |
Tomorrow, at noon, on the same ship on which their master had booked passage, they were to be shipped to Port Cos, and from thence, via Turmus, eventually to the island of Cos, in some city of which, probably Telnus, they would be put up for sale. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 235 |
It was only through slatted windows that I had been able to follow our passage. |
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| 15 | 10 |
It is doing little more than marking our passage". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 41 |
Its floor was torn with the passage of the animals. |
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| 12 | 588 |
I remembered the passage clearly. |
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| 24 | 14 |
The passage was so swift he could not bring his own lance over that of his foe. |
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| 24 | 18 |
In the second passage Cuwignaka darted to his right. |
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| 24 | 52 |
The Yellow Knife, with a whoop of triumph, brandishing the lance, sped his kaiila forward, to turn it for another passage. |
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| 34 | 10 |
In our passage we had seen, to our right, Council Rock, rearing high, almost anomalously, out of the plains, prominent amidst a group of smaller, associated bluffs. |
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| 35 | 101 |
"I hate you!" "You would let me go," she asked, "rather than throw me to your feet and whip me, and master me?" "Give her passage to Ar," I said. |
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| 37 | 135 |
Twice we had heard the single note of the fleer from Cuwignaka, signaling the passage, overhead, of flighted ones, the Kinyanpi. |
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| 37 | 414 |
The quarry, startled at my unexpected appearance, veered away, passing within feet of me, the great shadow suddenly between me and the sun, and then the sun again blazed on the late-summer grass, tumultuous and whipped, twisted, by the passage of the quarry. |
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| 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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| 41 | 9 |
Leaves were torn from the trees in its passage!" "It is gone now," I said. |
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| 42 | 88 |
I would try to pass swiftly through the formation, compounding the velocities and, in the passage, turn back to fire over my left shoulder. |
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| 45 | 35 |
If certain signals of clear passage are not conveyed there will be standing orders to withdraw. |
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| 47 | 369 |
It had been no more than a passage at arms. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 19 |
Then let him be marched naked, before the spears of guards, through the great gate of Corcyrus, not to be permitted to return before the second passage hand!" This was the one case which I remembered the most clearly. |
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| 6 | 218 |
It was now, again, pulling toward the center of the road, the high iron-rimmed wheels trundling on the stone, seeking the long, shallow, shiny, saucerlike ruts, polished in the stone by the earlier passage of countless vehicles. |
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| 8 | 417 |
"I will be good! I will be good!" I heard a girl cry, from within a low, steel, rectangular box, shoved against the side of the passage, presumably that it would not be in the way. |
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| 8 | 420 |
Indeed, in the half-darkness of the lamp-lit passage I had hardly noticed the box. |
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| 15 | 175 |
Then I found myself in a blind alley, a place where the passage was closed by a sheer wall of boxes, several feet over my head. |
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| 15 | 176 |
I hurried back and tried another passage. |
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| 15 | 185 |
I saw the light of the lantern on the boxes ahead of me, as it was lifted at the passage I had entered. |
10 |
| 15 | 187 |
I heard the two men entering the passage. |
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| 17 | 299 |
Then let him be marched naked, before the spears of guards, through the great gate of Corcyrus, not to be permitted to return before the second passage hand!" But I could not run now. |
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| 36 | 37 |
I watched the gates to the palace being opened for the passage of the slave wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 39 |
It was now two days before the Twelfth Passage Hand, in the year 10,129 C. |
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| 1 | 71 |
All this had to do with the approach of the Twelfth Passage Hand, which precedes the Waiting Hand. |
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| 1 | 92 |
Who knows what things, visible or invisible, might be abroad during that terrible time? In many Gorean cities, accordingly, the Twelfth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the Waiting Hand, that time to which few Goreans look forward with eagerness, is carnival. |
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| 1 | 93 |
The fact that it was now only two days to the Twelfth Passage Hand, explained the presence of the unusual number of theatrical and carnival troupes now in the city. |
10 |
| 1 | 162 |
"The ship on which she had passage, en route from Lydius to Cos, was detained by two of my rovers. |
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| 1 | 173 |
This has to do with such matters as the weather, and the major markets associated with certain feasts and holidays, for example, the Love Feast in Ar, which occurs in the late summer, occupying the full five days of the Fifth Passage Hand. |
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| 1 | 891 |
It was now only two days to carnival, to the Twelfth Passage Hand. |
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| 1 | 1163 |
It would then be the time of the Twelfth Passage Hand, the time of carnival. |
10 |
| 4 | 115 |
"Dour Babinius held passage with me. |
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| 13 | 271 |
It seemed reasonable to suppose then that he had intended, or hoped, his own food gone, to steal some of mine, that to be accomplished while my attention was distracted by the passage of the Kur in the hall. |
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| 14 | 314 |
Its passage's swift route was actually visible in the animals, like a wave spreading along, and registered in, their backs and fur, in their sudden stillness, then in the sudden alertness of them, then in the quivering agitation which seemed to transform the entire pack, hitherto seemingly so tranqu... |
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| 14 | 417 |
I had required only the mechanism of my passage. |
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| 19 | 169 |
It would be, of course, the opened trap through which Belnar had taken his leave, a passage leading down through the tower. |
10 |
| 20 | 213 |
It is apparently a private passage to the ubar's box, through which he could arrive here without passing through crowds. |
10 |
| 20 | 406 |
"Where is the other fellow, Bosk of Port Kar?" I then stepped behind the ubar's box and lifted the partly opened trap and lowered myself into the passage below. |
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| 21 | 73 |
I had returned by way of the passage behind the ubar's box in the baiting pit. |
10 |
| 21 | 75 |
I had, of course, in my return, lifted the dropped iron gate separating the private room, giving access to the passage, from the rest of the area. |
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| 21 | 76 |
This was not difficult from the passage side. |
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| 21 | 121 |
"Some are stationed in the vicinity of the ubar's box, and at other openings, known to me, of the passage from the tower. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1754 |
She then preceded me from the back passage, into the larger passage, running between the buildings, leading to the Avenue of Turia. |
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| 4 | 22 |
Sometimes they pay for passage through a country, or pasturage within it, but this is the exception rather than the rule. |
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| 5 | 185 |
The wagon lurched and, moving unevenly, the wheels going over rocks and traversing ruts left from the passage of other wagons, began its climb to the road. |
10 |
| 15 | 20 |
He did not seem to me the sort of fellow from whom one might expect letters of safety, licenses of passage, or bureaucratic services. |
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| 16 | 1316 |
"At the least, passage in such a caravan would doubtless have to have been purchased, and that suggests affluence". |
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| 17 | 11 |
I had purchased passage on a fee cart. |
10 |
| 18 | 164 |
"I had not anticipated the possibility of buying passage on a fee cart," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 1304 |
"Someone is passing by, in the passage between the buildings". |
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| 26 | 1305 |
To be sure, they couldn't see us where we were, unless they had entered this particular side passage and followed it to its termination. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 139 |
If he from whom she had intended to purchase tarn passage had not seen the collar, nor, of course, her brand, nor her tunic, or such, and, theoretically, at least, did not know she was a slave, he would not be held legally responsible for having sold her passage. |
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| 6 | 210 |
I do not think it had anything to do with us or the passage of the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 25 |
In the dirt there were numerous tracks and prints, many of them of small hoofs, marking perhaps the place of passage of small groups of some sort of animal. |
10 |
| 10 | 364 |
Were there fields down there? Rivers? Forests? Would I be able to see the shadow of our passage, fleet and rippling, on the terrain below? What was the nature of the beast, or bird, that drew this carriage so swiftly through the sky? I wished I could see. |
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| 16 | 71 |
"I must secure tarn passage from Brundisium before morning". |
10 |
| 16 | 100 |
It would be more than enough to purchase her passage from Brundisium. |
10 |
| 16 | 208 |
"You will not even have to pay for your tarn passage out of Brundisium," he said. |
10 |
| 20 | 335 |
It did not seem to me important to tell him that Tupita had been attempting to escape, using my sales price to purchase passage from Brundisium. |
10 |
| 29 | 4 |
It was almost as though the right side of his face had been abraded by some terrifying, fierce passage, by some swift, lengthy, terrible friction, as of being dragged over rock. |
10 |
| 29 | 641 |
"I met one who disputed my passage," said Hendow. |
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| 29 | 703 |
Tupita stole Doreen, duping her into leaving the house, she thinking she was still first girl, and intended to sell her, using her price to secure tarn passage from Brundisium in the guise of a free woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 127 |
Then, moving northward, I had stayed at inns, also on, or near, the Viktel Aria, which had not seen its passage. |
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| 2 | 218 |
Both sections, I speculated, would be joined by a narrow, easily blocked underground passage cut in the stone, one presumably taking its way beneath the covered way between them. |
10 |
| 3 | 81 |
"Through there," he said, indicating a passage. |
10 |
| 3 | 83 |
"There," said he, indicating another passage. |
10 |
| 4 | 102 |
They did take care, however, to leave open a generous passage through which the tub's occupant, when he chose, might make an unimpeded and convenient exit. |
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| 5 | 49 |
"Doubtless you followed Cosians," I said, "or their suppliers, smelling booty, lured by the possibilities of spoils, by the supposed imminent passage south of men laden with the plate and coin of Ar's Station, men who might succumb to your claims of need and plight, hoping perhaps even to contract a... |
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| 6 | 853 |
Too, it seemed he had shown me insufficient respect, not to mention the fellow next to me, whose paid-for space he had appropriated, nor those he had trampled upon, and struck about, in his passage to our area. |
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| 17 | 669 |
Undefended I did not think it would take them more than a few Ehn to open a passage through it. |
10 |
| 17 | 670 |
In an Ihn or two I had caught up with the others, Aemilianus, the two fellows supporting him, and the two who had waited behind to block the passage. |
10 |
| 17 | 671 |
Suddenly swords were drawn for men blocked the passage, come doubtless from the walls. |
10 |
| 17 | 678 |
I then cast the coins behind the fellows, and to my left, into a side passage. |
10 |
| 17 | 683 |
Then he, and the others with him, backed down the passage down which I had flung the coins. |
10 |
| 17 | 690 |
One of the men with us closed the door of the passage down which I had flung the coins. |
10 |
| 17 | 698 |
There was a movement in a side passage. |
10 |
| 18 | 194 |
Its passage upward through his head had been arrested by the back of his helmet. |
10 |
| 21 | 334 |
I had scattered it behind mercenaries, to clear a passage. |
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| 21 | 1159 |
Why else would they wander the high bridges at night, why else would they take passage in small caravans, why else would they embark upon dangerous voyages? Many is the veil which has inadvertently slipped in public places, to be hastily and with obvious embarrassment readjusted and repinned. |
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| 24 | 207 |
In return for this perfidy we received much gold and were granted safe passage to Port Cos, within whose walls we are to receive domicile and security". |
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| 24 | 775 |
Publia was then drawn to her feet by an arm and conducted back, through the passage between the starboard rail and the stem castle, back amidships, to the gangplank, Claudia, responding to the cues of the chain, helpless in the hood, with tiny steps, hurrying behind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 22 |
Too, the disturbance of their passage, given the noise, the splashing and such, had doubtless driven much of the normal game, particularly birds and fish, from the area. |
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| 15 | 38 |
Many of these had apparently been lured into the mire by rencers who had permitted themselves to be seen, and pursued, rencers who doubtless knew their way through the area, perhaps even drawing up safe-passage markers behind them. |
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| 17 | 183 |
I heard the humming passage of another fly. |
10 |
| 19 | 33 |
The marsh beetle crawls upon the sand at night and its tiny passage can be marked in the sand. |
10 |
| 19 | 36 |
The crumbling at their edges, too, suggested a passage of several Ahn, perhaps that they had been made as long ago as yesterday morning, or the day before yesterday. |
10 |
| 19 | 1109 |
"I think that will give me time to earn my passage," she smiled. |
10 |
| 19 | 1192 |
"I am now ready to earn my passage," she said. |
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| 19 | 1193 |
"Your passage?" I asked. |
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| 29 | 15 |
In our camps during the day, we had twice heard the same signal, alerting us to the passage of someone, in both cases, rencers, going about their business, fishing, gathering rence. |
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| 29 | 27 |
I could mark the passage of the large body under the water by the movement of the fin. |
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| 39 | 70 |
Then, to a passage of music, all rose up, hunted and hunters, all now in the net, and, in the small, pretty running steps of hastening slave girls, hurried from the floor. |
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| 39 | 124 |
I would have thought little of the passage of these mercenaries, what with so many hundreds about, here and there, coming and going, had I not recognized the slave at the leader's stirrup, and, indeed, later, one of the beauteous pack slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 |
Long ago, I had once entered the city through such a passage, its exterior access point reached by means of a putative Dar-Kosis pit, which passage, I had recently determined, descending into the pit on ropes, was now closed. |
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| 1 | 205 |
"Make way!" A house marshal was approaching, carrying a baton, with which he touched folks and made a passage amongst them. |
10 |
| 4 | 33 |
The gate of the locker, like the lid of the slave box, is perforated for the passage of air, usually, like the slave box, with a design in the form of a cursive 'Kef', the first letter of 'Kajira', the most common Gorean expression, among several, for a female slave. |
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| 6 | 23 |
There are many other forms of communication and advertising, as well, such as the parades of acrobats, jugglers, clowns, animal trainers, mimes and such, and the passage of flatbedded display wagons through the streets, on which snatches of performances, intended to whet the viewer's interests, are ... |
10 |
| 7 | 198 |
Turned on the crowd they might, in their passage, have trampled hundreds. |
10 |
| 7 | 404 |
But, in a few Ehn, with the passage of the Cosians south on the avenue, the crowd melted away from us. |
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| 8 | 34 |
But the formation of such convoys, too, are usually advertised on the public boards, this information being of interest to various folks, say, merchants who might wish to ship goods, teamsters, guards, and such, who might wish employment, and folks wishing to book passage. |
10 |
| 8 | 149 |
It follows the first passage hand. |
10 |
| 21 | 42 |
The average Gorean has a variety of simple devices at his disposal for marking the passage of time. |
10 |
| 22 | 651 |
In this arrangement of the garment's fastenings, thusly, the hand, or sleeve, or guard of the weapon, will not be caught or impeded in its passage to the ready position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 799 |
We then passed through another door, and emerged, at last, into a lighted passage, though it was lighted but dimly, with two torches, one at each end of the passage. |
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| 13 | 508 |
I think regiments might lie concealed within them, and I have little doubt they could, passage by passage, be tenaciously defended. |
10 |
| 8 | 82 |
It seemed for some reason that my passage here was to be as though it had not occurred. |
10 |
| 8 | 194 |
Had I dreamed the house, the pens, the chains, the wagon, the strange passage through cold, windy skies? Was I dreaming now? Was I delirious? Was I mad? Muchly had I been disoriented by the substance to which I had been subjected. |
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| 8 | 901 |
But, too, I think, it makes us easier to track, given the oils and moisture, the residue, of our barefooted passage. |
10 |
| 10 | 320 |
"Kajira!" called more than one man, in a given cell, as we passed them, seemingly to alert those in cells farther down the trail as to our passage. |
10 |
| 10 | 325 |
Perhaps they did not wish them torn off by the beast! In the pens we kajirae, kneeling or crouching down, had sometimes put our hands through the bars of our kennels, trying to touch a guard, to call ourselves, whimperingly, to his attention, but this experience suggested, uneasily, a quite differen... |
10 |
| 10 | 771 |
I do not know how many of them were in the passage. |
10 |
| 10 | 779 |
My own passage was guided by the leash. |
10 |
| 10 | 783 |
Perhaps this is the reason for the leash, I thought, that I not be lost in the tunnel, or injure myself against the walls, or flee in terror, madly, upon the discovery that the tunnel is shared by beasts, whose function is doubtless to protect it from any to whom its passage might be prohibited. |
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| 10 | 804 |
This extended in the corridor, from side to side, for the width of the corridor, perhaps for some five to seven yards, until it terminated several feet before the farther door, at the end of the passage. |
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| 12 | 801 |
It seemed to me that at least two were in the passage, but it may be, I thought, that only one counted. |
10 |
| 12 | 810 |
Now I could hear tiny sounds, unusual sounds, in the approaching passage. |
10 |
| 12 | 815 |
The light was now closer, and I could determine, clearly, that there were two figures in the passage. |
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| 12 | 934 |
The woman placed the torch in a holder on the nearby wall, near the exit of the passage. |
10 |
| 13 | 488 |
The monster, or whatever it might have been, entered the passage, the slave behind him. |
10 |
| 13 | 492 |
He moved a second lever, and I saw bars descend, closing our passage. |
10 |
| 13 | 501 |
It must have opened some access between the pool and the walkway, for I heard a scratching and sniffing and then saw, to my horror, on the other side of the bars of the passage gate, reflected in the torchlight, the blazing eyes of one of the large rodentlike creatures. |
10 |
| 13 | 517 |
Mostly I could see little but the floor of the passage at my feet, and the shadows, my own before me, and his, a misshapen, gliding thing, half on the floor, half on the wall, to the right of mine. |
10 |
| 13 | 529 |
I screamed! From either side of the passage, with a swift, loud, rattling sound, there had suddenly sprung forth a set of sharpened metal projections. |
10 |
| 19 | 39 |
Cleared entrants, usually cleared in their own cities, flying under appropriate passage banners, report to them, for hooding and transport. |
10 |
| 30 | 62 |
"We have orders! Open!" "The passage is sealed," said the pit master. |
10 |
| 31 | 101 |
The passage was lit, too, here and there, with tiny lamps. |
10 |
| 31 | 675 |
The door was in front of him, but men with blades blocked his passage. |
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| 33 | 21 |
"We shall mark each passage searched. |
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| 34 | 76 |
"That would be on level two, in passage eighteen," said the pit master not looking up from the board. |
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| 34 | 81 |
The black-tunicked men had had better fortune in another passage, where five urts had charged them. |
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| 34 | 100 |
If this were not the case the passage of the water, over time, even in stone, would enlarge the aperture, deregularizing the device. |
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| 34 | 129 |
"It is only a matter of time then," said the lieutenant, "until we have gone through every passage". |
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| 36 | 2 |
It was something like half of an Ahn that we had been hurrying through one adjacent passage after another. |
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| 37 | 36 |
The two groups might precede the men, forming a double wall in the passage, or, if the men wished, one group might precede and the other follow, in this fashion providing protection for both the front and rear. |
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| 37 | 98 |
I and others screamed, shrinking back against the wall of the passage. |
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| 37 | 107 |
"Back away, to the sides of the passage," said the leader of the strangers. |
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| 37 | 109 |
My group was thrust to one side of the passage, and the other group to the other side. |
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| 37 | 112 |
The others, too, the lieutenant, Gito, the pit master, the officer of Treve, the black-tunicked men, drew to the side, to one side or the other, leaving only the leader of the strangers, clutching the blanket, and the two animals in the center of the passage. |
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| 37 | 132 |
At one point it fluttered, shaken, in the passage, like a flag. |
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| 37 | 186 |
But before blades could leave their sheaths the first animal scrambled forward, snarling, charging, its hind feet scratching and slipping, spattering urine back, just for an instant, on the floor of the passage. |
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| 37 | 203 |
I understood for the first time now, clearly, that there was a certain pitch in this part of the passage. |
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| 37 | 205 |
Some of it now, trickling, running here and there, was better than twenty yards down the passage. |
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| 37 | 219 |
He pointed down the passage. |
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| 37 | 269 |
"I saw him! He is ahead!" "In this passage?" asked a man. |
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| 37 | 275 |
"Where does this passage lead?" asked the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 329 |
"What is it doing in the passage?" asked the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 358 |
"Take lamps from the passage," said the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 360 |
"Will you truly walk down this passage, carrying light?" asked the officer of Treve. |
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| 37 | 374 |
But at that moment we heard, from down the passage, in the darkness, a hideous, but unmistakable human cry, which was followed, almost instantly, by a violent squealing of urts. |
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| 37 | 383 |
I could see the two lamps flickering down the passage. |
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| 37 | 438 |
"Get the slaves across the passage," said the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 479 |
Gratefully, something like a quarter of an Ahn later, kneeling on the floor of the passage, I rubbed my wrists. |
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| 37 | 515 |
I did not look at the remains of the man who lay in the passage. |
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| 37 | 662 |
"Illuminate the passage," said the lieutenant, thrusting Fina and her cord-mate before the gate. |
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| 37 | 666 |
"The passage seems to be empty," he said, "as far as the light carries". |
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| 37 | 696 |
Too, Gito was somewhere down the passage and presumably would have cried out had the prisoner passed him. |
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| 37 | 850 |
Tensius first, who had refrained from attacking the sleen in the passage, but who had later separated the urts, removed his helmet and set aside his bow. |
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| 37 | 881 |
Gito was not in the pool area, but back in the passage. |
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| 37 | 883 |
He was crouched down, his back to the wall of the passage, looking toward the portal. |
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| 37 | 919 |
"Masters," cried Gito, from back in the passage, "let us go to the surface!" "Go!" said the lieutenant, not taking his eyes from the pool. |
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| 37 | 1156 |
They were now in the passage. |
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| 37 | 1157 |
Gito was far down the passage, crouching down. |
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| 37 | 1194 |
We did wait for a moment, when the pit master stopped beside Gito, in the passage. |
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| 37 | 1196 |
"When we come to the sack in the passage, where it was dropped, you will pick it up, and bring it along". |
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| 38 | 12 |
The pit master had taken him by the throat, and pressed him back against the wall of the passage. |
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| 38 | 17 |
He had then lifted Gito up by the throat, holding him against the side of the passage. |
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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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| 42 | 33 |
I preceded her, directed by her, down the main corridor, and then into a side passage, past several doors, and then into a small room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 422 |
Could she then, so long ago, have been such a slave? Surely not! Forgive me, dear reader! Forgive me, too, Masters! I have been instructed to leave the above passage as it is, for purposes of comparison, but now to speak the truth. |
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| 13 | 238 |
They will have lost the tempo of the passage. |
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| 16 | 1404 |
Perhaps that window opened to a narrow passage between the tenements, or to a small, narrow yard, concealed from the street. |
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| 18 | 149 |
She avoided contact, of course, with the free persons, taking care not to brush against them, not to inconvenience them, not to impede their passage in any way. |
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| 19 | 72 |
"You will show me all records of rentals, hirings, and such, of all comings and goings, of all business in this place to the passage hand before last". |
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| 19 | 454 |
"It left Brundisium the last passage hand. |
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| 20 | 117 |
Dirt and gravel flew up from the animals' passage, pelting, stinging the startled, chained girls, who shrank back, whimpering, and a rising, thick, floating cloud of dust, bright in the hot sun, lingered and swelled behind, enveloping the line. |
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| 27 | 230 |
He could see, of course, the twin tracks in the grass behind them, which would mark, for several hours, the passage of the wagon. |
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| 27 | 3120 |
Too, if there were foes, or mysterious figures, in the grasses, Ellen did not think they would choose to deter the beasts in their passage. |
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| 29 | 8 |
How old the road might be she had no idea, but she could see ruts worn in the stone, presumably by the continuing passage of carts and wagons, season in and season out, decade in and decade out. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2 |
The audience chamber, reached by a long passage leading from the vestibule, was quite large. |
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| 37 | 7 |
These were survivors of the fleet's apparent disaster, and although some of these Kurii doubtless suspected, and at times even noted, the passage of Cabot and the slave, they did not challenge or attack them. |
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| 37 | 8 |
"I am sure, Master," whispered Lita, "that twice our passage was understood". |
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| 50 | 109 |
"He bade us wait until he had scouted a passage which might be traversed with security. |
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| 55 | 218 |
The two killer humans were not unaware of his arrival, and they, exchanging cries, something between speech and signals, ceased to prosecute their passage through the herd, and made their way back, almost as though through chest-high water, to the company of their colleagues, nearer the exit of the ... |
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| 67 | 53 |
The tiny tracks of a night insect across the footprint may be a chronometer of passage. |
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| 68 | 61 |
They feared to leave signs of their passage, seared brush, even the brief odor of a discharged weapon. |
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| 71 | 32 |
"You are certain that it will be safe to approach the enclave?" "I will guarantee you safe passage," said Flavion. |
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| 77 | 214 |
"You, and some others, then, will buy passage to Gor?" "I, and several," said Flavion. |
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| 81 | 125 |
"The ship will have safe passage". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 16 |
For example, the fourth month, that following the third passage hand and the summer solstice, is En'var or En'var-Lar-Torvis, the First Standing of the Sun; the seventh month, following the sixth passage hand and the autumnal equinox is Se'Kara or Se'Kara-Lar-Torvis, The Second Turning of the Sun; t... |
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| 28 | 12 |
My calculations, corroborated by those of Torgus and Lysander, placed us in the fourth day of the Eighth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the ninth month, on the last day of the passage hand of which occurs the winter solstice, the Gorean new year beginning when the world begins its own, on the... |
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| 40 | 2 |
A dozen small boats, unable to escape, many fastened together, were crushed in the passage of the mighty bow of the great ship, and she brushed others aside, dozens, brushed them aside as the limb of a stately, insouciant larl might sweep leaves from its path, scarcely noticing this consequence of i... |
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| 3 | 511 |
That was the passage of several tarns, perhaps a tarn cavalry". |
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| 4 | 41 |
There was nothing unusual in this, and the circumspection and alertness involved, the care taken in one's passage, would have been typical of one of my caste, and certainly in negotiating an unfamiliar and perhaps dangerous terrain. |
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| 5 | 283 |
Perhaps this had little to do with Tyros? Perhaps a round ship would raise less suspicion? Perhaps this was the very ship on which the agent of Priest-Kings might have had his passage? "I speak in the name of Priest-Kings," said Sullius Maximus, swiftly, as though by rote. |
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| 7 | 4 |
It was a relief to have come through the tangles of our earlier passage. |
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| 9 | 68 |
Why should she herself not have the wealth which she so ably diverted into the channels of others, an illusive wealth to whose passage she stood so near but from which she was yet so far? She seemed to me little more than an unimaginative creation of her time, a creature of ambition and egotism set ... |
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| 24 | 1 |
In the Tent of Lord Nishida Two Ashigaru crossed their glaives, barring my passage. |
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| 28 | 17 |
The passage hands and the waiting hand are five days each. |
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| 38 | 525 |
I could see its passage on the river, in raising swells. |
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| 39 | 13 |
Their tarn scouts had been routinely dealt with, removed from the sky or driven toward the coast, pasangs before our passage. |
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| 39 | 16 |
Some may have been in the forest, along the shore, but, on foot, in our passage downriver, in its steadiness, we would have been likely to have outdistanced them. |
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| 39 | 45 |
"Do you think, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," said Lord Nishida, "they will dispute our passage". |
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| 40 | 5 |
Other ships, with bolder governors, many with ladders and irons, clung to her flanks, clustered about her, like insects, but their ladders were unavailing, foolish against this behemoth's sides, and what arm had the strength to cast an iron so high that it might engage the railings towering above? M... |
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| 40 | 10 |
The passage of the great ship had not been arrested. |
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| 40 | 29 |
And so it was that at the mouth of the Alexandra, mighty, its passage now uncontested, as tarns returned to the ship, one by one, canvas fell from the yards, took the wind, and the ship of Tersites, her wings spread, set her prow westward. |
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| 41 | 6 |
It was a winter sky, though we had not yet come to the Ninth Passage Hand, following which is the winter solstice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 27 |
In the land of the Red Hunters, farther north, north even of Torvaldsland, it was said that night would reign unremitting for weeks, from passage hand to passage hand, and to passage hand again, as in their summer, oddly, Tor-tu-Gor would never set. |
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| 5 | 1 |
What Occurred on the Main Deck of the Great Ship; Tersites; A Storm is Imminent The sixth passage hand was done, the autumnal equinox had been marked in the scribal calendar of Jad, Se'Kara was done, and, as nearly as I could tell, it was the third or fourth day in the seventh passage hand. |
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| 30 | 45 |
Similarly, if the deserters should congregate in any part of the passage, or be forced to do so, say, by Pani entering the passage, they might be similarly discomfited. |
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| 2 | 49 |
I, once a spear of Cos, even a first spear, leader of nine men, with hundreds of others, after the trouble in Ar, scattered, separated from our commands and units, withdrew to Torcadino, and thence, bribing and spending, and then by recourse to brigandage and banditry, made our way by long marches t... |
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| 2 | 50 |
I went first to Jad, city of my birth, city of great Lurius, our Ubar, where I had been enlisted and trained, but swords were plentiful there, and I was scorned, for my blade, with helmet and gear, was gone, having been bartered, in part, together with my last tarsk, for passage, for life, from the ... |
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| 3 | 711 |
I thought I might reach Torcadino, from whence I might purchase wagon passage to Brundisium, Besnit, Harfax, or Market of Semris. |
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| 3 | 737 |
Once I stopped, in terror, frozen, for I noted the sinuous passage of a prairie sleen. |
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| 3 | 811 |
The catastrophes in Ar had begun some days ago, hundreds of fugitives from Ar had scattered from the city, presumably most to seek the coast, and eventual security in the islands; and the six women in the camp might well have been from Ar, perhaps proscribed women, begging passage from Ar, even at t... |
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| 3 | 899 |
'I wish passage to Brundisium,' I said, 'and I am prepared to pay for it, as might a Ubara herself. |
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| 5 | 261 |
"But," said Seremides, "if he is to crawl amongst us, as the slithering ost, unnoticed but deadly, tiny and poisonous, must he not in some way purchase his passage?" "Yes," said more than one man. |
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| 5 | 264 |
"One purchases one's passage with steel," said Seremides. |
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| 5 | 267 |
"Passage is dear on this vessel," said a fellow, "not free". |
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| 6 | 4 |
It was the second week past the eighth passage hand. |
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| 7 | 153 |
Let her seethe and hiss, unflattered, and uncourted, and whistle and roar, snarl and growl, and lift and fall, and pitch, and howl and tower, and squirm and buck as she will, she will not say no to my will, nor stay the passage of my ship. |
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| 7 | 160 |
It was now the fifth week following the Eighth Passage Hand. |
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| 7 | 161 |
Tomorrow would be the first day of the Ninth Passage Hand, at the end of which is the winter solstice, and the first day of Se'var-Lar-Torvis, the month of the Second Turning of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone. |
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| 8 | 118 |
In such things can one not hear the crackle of the fire at the mouth of the cave, the drums in the forest, sense the feeling of one's wrists drawn behind one, and thonged together, snugly, and then the being seized in the mighty arms of hunters and warriors, whose they are, and who will do with them... |
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| 9 | 28 |
Most likely the lamp, in the low-ceilinged passageway, had been jostled in the passage of armed, rushing men. |
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| 9 | 202 |
The narrowness of the corridors, which one or two men might plausibly defend, and the lowness of the ceiling, and the dangling lamps, discouraged a more frenetic, disorderly passage. |
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| 11 | 22 |
The passage of the ship had divided the school, and its motion had drawn several to the surface. |
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| 11 | 85 |
It had come for the Parsit, whose school had been disrupted by the passage of the great ship. |
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| 12 | 130 |
It was the third month, the first week past the second passage hand. |
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| 16 | 348 |
I will report one part of a conversation heard the evening of the day of the altercation in the vicinity of the warning ship, which altercation took place on the second day of the second week past the fourth passage hand, as it has some bearing on what occurred later. |
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| 19 | 19 |
My conversation with Tarl Cabot, alluded to earlier, having to do with the fleet of Lord Yamada, and such, had occurred on the third day of the fifth week past the fourth passage hand. |
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| 19 | 20 |
It was now four days later, the second day of the fifth passage hand. |
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| 20 | 385 |
This conversation took place on the last day of the fifth passage hand. |
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| 21 | 260 |
"The green column," said Lord Nishida, "might indicate that an area is safe to approach, even though it might lie in the territory of Lord Yamada, no enemy being about, or that a passage has been cleared, or a castle may be approached, or such, and thus one might have green without red, but it would... |
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| 22 | 228 |
The Pani bow is powerful but, like the common peasant bow, it, given the lightness of its missile, and that it is drawn by the strength of a human arm, can rarely tear its way through a human body, and its force, even if passing through an arm or throat, is largely spent in its passage. |
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| 24 | 50 |
The walls of the narrow trail, I had supposed, were to protect the passage from the castle to the water. |
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| 24 | 51 |
Certainly they would deter small groups, at least, from harrying, if not closing off, that passage, from impeding, if not cutting, the connection between the castle and the sea. |
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| 25 | 27 |
It was now the second day of the Sixth Passage Hand, three days before the autumnal equinox. |
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| 25 | 55 |
As long as the ship was there I knew that our men would see it as a symbol of the far world they knew, and remembered, would see it longingly, would see it jealously, would see it as their only likely passage home. |
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| 26 | 164 |
Her passage was such as might elicit soft whistles, the smacking of lips, explicit speculations as to her value off the block, or her worth in the furs. |
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| 27 | 48 |
We in the courtyard moved to the sides, to clear a passage for the column. |
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| 30 | 35 |
When they reached the foot of the trail they found it barricaded, before the wharf, a barricade manned by several Pani, drawn from the ship, a barricade, given the narrowness of the passage, easily defended by a few against many. |
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| 36 | 254 |
The buyers and sellers, and lookers-on, the dealers, the idlers, the porters, the curious, the men in the warehouse, I think, noticed nothing of what was passing amongst them, no more than trees, or rushes bending in the wind, might have noticed the passage amongst them of some silent, patient, sinu... |
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| 36 | 556 |
He had been denied passage on the River Dragon, which had been of desperate importance to him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 9 |
I had, at this time, been better than three months and four passage hands on your world. |
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| 6 | 53 |
We fled toward the welcome of the opened door, but our passage was blocked by a lowered spear. |
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| 8 | 78 |
And I had heard guards exchanging remarks, after the passage of one free woman or another in the house, perhaps shopping for a serving slave, or a silk slave, speculating on her possible value on the block. |
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| 8 | 431 |
A barred gate, to the left of the cell, would open to a small passage, which connected with the platform. |
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| 8 | 432 |
It was through this passage that I had been introduced into the cell. |
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| 8 | 881 |
The slaver's man entered the cell, took one of the brunettes by the wrist, and drew her from the cell, through the short passage, and led her to the block, where she stood, small, seeming isolated, much alone, though the auctioneer was near, on the red carpet. |
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| 8 | 1099 |
We are all women, and, being women, might we not be, all of us, appropriately, the slaves of men, the slaves of our masters? The auctioneer stood up, and the slaver's man ascended the steps of the block, and disappeared into the short passage to the left. |
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| 8 | 1169 |
Then the slaver's man had entered the cell, and, taking me by the left wrist, drew me after him, and I was beyond the portal, and in the short passage, and then I was in the sunlight, outside, and I felt the nap of the worn, faded, scarlet rug beneath my bare feet. |
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| 10 | 476 |
He removed his hand from the wall, so it no longer blocked my passage. |
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| 10 | 919 |
In this way an intruder would have to pass me, indeed, step over me, and, in this passage, would be likely to be discovered. |
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| 10 | 1110 |
If the laundry slaves had been about then, and noted my passage, they had not disturbed me, as I was accompanied by a free person. |
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| 16 | 195 |
Indeed, over the years, its surface, in shallow grooves, records the passage of countless wagons. |
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| 21 | 116 |
Then, emerging from under the wagon, half lifting the wagon with its passage, was a large, hairy, humped, four-footed form, shaggy and immense, and it sped past. |
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| 23 | 158 |
"Did you not note evidence of their passage just this morning?" "No," said Trachinos. |
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| 26 | 424 |
We were well behind the party, but I had little doubt that we, a free man and one slave, might shortly overtake it, possibly within the passage of an Ahn. |
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| 32 | 23 |
Timarchos and Lysymachos then emerged through the curtain and, one on each side, drew back the curtain, revealing a passage behind it. |
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| 32 | 24 |
I did not know how deep the passage was. |
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| 32 | 26 |
In a moment I thought I sensed something within the passage, back in the darkness. |
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| 32 | 30 |
I was then sure there was something in the passage, but it had stopped. |
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| 42 | 6 |
It was one morning in the Seventh Passage Hand, I think the second day, shortly before the Ninth Ahn, that I approached the great portal. |
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| 42 | 46 |
I saw a fang sunk deep into the meat, anchoring it, and then a huge piece was wrenched free, and the long, dark tongue wrapped itself about this, and thrust it back, into the toothed darkness, and, in a moment, I witnessed its passage, sliding downward, under the fur of the throat. |
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| 45 | 53 |
Might the knives of expanding ice in fissures have broken loose stones, some like small mountains? I wondered if, in its long past, the Voltai had witnessed the passage of oceans of ice at its feet, oceans which might bear ships of stone. |
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| 45 | 151 |
Fortunately the beast kept his ax, and this kept its passage in the bipedalian mode. |
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| 45 | 158 |
Shortly thereafter he put the body and the head in a side passage. |
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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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| 47 | 98 |
Master Desmond was subjected to no further attacks before we reached the double doors, large, suitable for the passage of Kurii, which led into the audience chamber. |
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| 50 | 60 |
It was now a month and a passage hand after I had been robbed on the way to the shop of Amyntas. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 9 |
Why did I not book passage for Daphne, where the spring rendezvous was to take place? The gray sky ship does not linger long, even in that remote place. |
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| 6 | 99 |
Passage to Tyros or Cos was costly, and many of Brundisium's newcomers were destitute. |
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| 6 | 112 |
It was alleged they came from the Plains of Turia, far south of Bazi and Schendi, or from the Barrens to the east, but, if such things are so, why was there no heralding of their approach, no records of their passage? In any event many are in Brundisium. |
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| 6 | 178 |
"The last passage hand," she said. |
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| 6 | 265 |
It was now too late to make the rendezvous to the west, on Daphne, even were a vessel to leave this night, even had I the wherewithal to book passage. |
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| 6 | 462 |
On what ship, I wondered, would I take passage? Certainly I had lingered about the docks frequently enough, in the early morning, watching, not really knowing why. |
10 |
| 14 | 28 |
I had occasionally been a member of work parties, put to the east road, to repair it for passage. |
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| 15 | 81 |
Before, in the forest, I had known them only as large, frightening shadows overhead, rapid, monstrous darknesses overhead, storms of wings smiting the air, whose passage had torn leaves from the canopy, these then showering downward, scattering about us. |
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