| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 104 |
It is a city in the delta of the Vosk and as much a den of pirates as anything else. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 76 |
Accordingly, the pirates and outlaws who beset the trade routes to ambush and attack the caravans on the way to the fair, if successful, often have more than inanimate metals and cloths to reward their vicious labors. |
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| 1 | 81 |
The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 329 |
And then, one day, like the pirates of Port Kar in their long galleys, unannounced, unexpected, Others would cross the seas of space and bring their craft to rest on the shores and sands of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 188 |
"I am only a girl from the islands north of Cos, taken by pirates of Port Kar, sold to a tarnsman, carried to and sold again in the city of Turia, and hence for twenty boskhides traded to the Tuchuks, where I was ringed and branded". |
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| 19 | 150 |
She was beautiful, and had been free; she was not trained; she was of the Scribes, and had been picked up by pirates from Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 543 |
It was she who had served me the night before, before Surbus, and his cutthroats and pirates, had entered the tavern. |
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| 10 | 225 |
Twice we had been scouted by pirates from Tyros, in their green ships, painted to resemble the sea, but neither of them had chosen to engage us. |
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| 10 | 228 |
My men were mostly pirates and cutthroats. |
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| 13 | 499 |
Green, on Thassa, is the color of pirates. |
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| 16 | 167 |
Many of these men were cutthroats, killers, pirates. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 740 |
I knew then we were within the territory of Ar, and must be high over the Margin of Desolation, a barren area, now recovering itself, which, years ago, had been cleared and devastated, that the northern fields of Ar by such a natural barrier, by such a wall of hunger and thirst, might be protected, ... |
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| 13 | 742 |
Marlenus had set a swift fleet of light, Vosk galleys to clear the river waters adjoining his Ubarate of pirates. |
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| 13 | 744 |
Seldom did Vosk pirates ply their trade where the Vosk bordered the regions of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 43 |
Green is the color common to pirates. |
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| 6 | 170 |
The bad blood between Tyros and Ar had primarily to do with Tyros' financings of Vosk pirates, to harry river shipping and the northern borders of Ar. |
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| 6 | 171 |
Vosk pirates now little bothered the realm of Ar, but the memories remained. |
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| 6 | 177 |
Tyros' financing of Vosk pirates, over the past century, was an attempt to deprive Ar of the Vosk markets, and make those markets more dependent on overland shipments of goods, originally debarked at shore ports, brought to them by the cargo ships of Tyros, and other maritime powers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 53 |
I had heard there was fighting between Ar and Cos, it having to do with the alleged support by Cos accorded to Vosk pirates. |
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| 16 | 224 |
I knew the waters of Thassa were plied by many ships, and, among them, were the ships of pirates. |
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| 16 | 230 |
If the ship fell to pirates I, and the other girls, I knew, would fall helplessly to them, too, lovely spoils, naked slave booty, to the victors. |
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| 24 | 28 |
Other men speak of her differently, rather as a den of thieves and cutthroats, a lair of pirates. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 491 |
The situation on the Vosk is further complicated by the presence of Vosk pirates and the rivalries of the river towns themselves. |
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| 5 | 350 |
This trip, particularly because of the depredations of pirates from Port Kar, is a hazardous one. |
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| 11 | 224 |
We fell to pirates on the high seas. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 34 |
Ti is farthest from the confluence of the Olni and Vosk; downriver from Ti is Port Olni; these were the first two cities to form a league, originally intended for the control of river pirates and the protection of inland shipping; later, downriver from Port Olni, Vonda, and Lara, lying at the juncti... |
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| 13 | 35 |
The Olni, for practical purposes, has been freed of river pirates. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 24 |
It was too bad, I thought, that that discovery had first been made by pirates and not by strong free men, before whom pirates might quail. |
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| 3 | 290 |
"It is rumored the river pirates are the worst," said another. |
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| 3 | 327 |
"These are the victims of the predations of river pirates in Lara". |
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| 3 | 345 |
"They had not realized that the troops of Lara would be moving east, or that the brigands and pirates would move so boldly". |
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| 4 | 37 |
Too, here and there in the city, river pirates, with impunity, sought women and plundered. |
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| 4 | 46 |
Too, he had been, as I had ascertained, attacked by river pirates on the south bank of the Olni and, embattled, had bargained for his life and those of his men by delivering his goods and slaves to the assailants. |
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| 4 | 77 |
"They are now the property of the river pirates, theirs by the rights of sword and power". |
10 |
| 4 | 80 |
"Usually the river pirates sell their goods and captures somewhere along the river, in one of the numerous river towns". |
10 |
| 4 | 85 |
"There are many bands of river pirates," he said. |
10 |
| 4 | 158 |
River pirates may still be within the city. |
10 |
| 4 | 556 |
"River pirates," I said. |
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| 6 | 19 |
Indeed, perhaps surprisingly, they had done little but clear the town of river pirates and, here and there, gather in a bit of loot and some women, mostly female refugees from Vonda who fell into their hands. |
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| 6 | 54 |
These river pirates were not, it must be understood, a few scattered crews of cutthroats. |
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| 6 | 159 |
"That Victoria is one of the major outlets for the merchandise of river pirates". |
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| 9 | 45 |
The spring and summer are the busiest seasons, for these are the seasons of heaviest river traffic and, accordingly, the seasons when pirates, after their raids, are most likely to bring in their loot. |
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| 13 | 46 |
"It is a pledge symbol," I said, "apparently used among pirates on the river, when combining for massive assaults". |
10 |
| 15 | 144 |
If it does, the major forces of the pirates of the eastern Vosk would achieve unification, at least for a time, with those of the western Vosk. |
10 |
| 20 | 80 |
I felt again the points of the swords of the two pirates at my chest. |
10 |
| 21 | 178 |
The last time the pirates of the dark stronghold had carried fire and sword to a dozen wharfed ships. |
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| 21 | 180 |
To be sure, in the past years the pirates had become more and more dependent on the markets of Victoria to dispose of their loot and captures. |
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| 22 | 17 |
I watched the pirates, perhaps some fifty or sixty of them, unchallenged, moving between warehouses and the wharves, where two pirate galleys were moored. |
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| 22 | 19 |
Some of the pirates bore torches. |
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| 22 | 21 |
I saw several of the pirates with bottles of paga, swilling from them, as they strutted about, sometimes pausing to cut into a bale of goods or overturn a barrel, kicking it open, permitting its contents to run out, over the boards. |
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| 22 | 23 |
The pirates made no effort to stop the desperate fellow who, meaninglessly, continued to strike it. |
10 |
| 22 | 188 |
I had seen the insolence of the pirates, the burning of buildings. |
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| 22 | 189 |
And the men of Victoria, though greatly outnumbering the pirates, had not fought. |
10 |
| 22 | 226 |
"At the wharves," I said, "there were pirates, few more than half a hundred of such men, under the command of Kliomenes, lieutenant to Policrates". |
10 |
| 22 | 256 |
I think, surely, that he, fearing the union of the pirates of the east and west, was entreating you to lend support to some scheme of resistance". |
10 |
| 22 | 307 |
"It is said," I said, "that the pirates own Victoria". |
10 |
| 23 | 111 |
The pirates, feasting at the low tables, stopped eating, and watched. |
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| 23 | 320 |
He then pulled the girl to her feet and, running her over the tiles, and then releasing the coils from her neck, threw her stumbling into the arms of waiting pirates who, with a cry of pleasure, seized her and began to work their lusty wills upon her. |
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| 25 | 101 |
He, like Callisthenes, is doubtless under surveillance by spies of pirates". |
10 |
| 26 | 146 |
"River pirates are now bold and active". |
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| 26 | 235 |
Perhaps they knew, too, of my outspoken displeasure at the wharves when the pirates had looted and burned there, punishing Victoria for having at that time refused their demands for tribute. |
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| 27 | 95 |
"With all due respect," I said, "pirates, and those in league with them, are not noted for their honor". |
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| 29 | 38 |
It lies west of Port Cos, that we may be protected from the pirates". |
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| 29 | 67 |
"Surely Port Cos will find some benefits in being spared the predations of pirates," said Callisthenes. |
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| 29 | 78 |
The pirates are well informed, I am certain". |
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| 29 | 81 |
"The pirates of the eastern Vosk are more your concern than mine. |
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| 29 | 82 |
The chain will keep the pirates of the western Vosk out of the waters of Port Cos". |
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| 29 | 101 |
"Too," I said, "I have scores to settle with pirates". |
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| 29 | 102 |
Twice I had been demeaned by pirates, once in the tavern of Tasdron, and once in the Pirate's Chain, the tavern of Hibron. |
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| 29 | 108 |
"The plan is not only dangerous," said Callisthenes, "and I would not risk men or ships of Port Cos in such a rash scheme, but it is, at least as far as preventing the gathering of the river pirates goes, unnecessary. |
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| 29 | 109 |
The chain will keep the pirates of the west to the west of Port Cos". |
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| 29 | 131 |
"Captain, Callisthenes," said I, "surely the pirates, as you yourself have suggested, are well informed". |
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| 29 | 133 |
"If that be the case," I said, "surely the forging of the chain, or at least its transport to Turmus, and later to Port Cos, and the time and effort spent in preparing its mountings, joining the lengths, and setting the chain in place, must have been known to the pirates". |
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| 29 | 138 |
"On the assumption that the pirates understood what was occurring," I said to Callisthenes, "does it not seem strange to you that they made no effort to interfere with the placing of the chain?" "It was guarded, of course," said Callisthenes. |
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| 29 | 142 |
"Does this lack of opposition or interference on the part of pirates as powerful and well organized as those of Ragnar Voskjard not seem puzzling to you?" "Yes," said Callisthenes. |
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| 30 | 34 |
Most were nude, but some were silked, or clad otherwise revealingly, as befitted the wenches of pirates. |
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| 30 | 37 |
There were dark-haired Relia and blond Tela, who was still kept in white silk, as a joke, though she must have served the pleasure of pirates a thousand times; and the blond sisters from Cos, Mira and Tala; short, dark-haired Bikkie; the girls who had danced at the feast, and had been thrown to the ... |
10 |
| 31 | 47 |
Too, at the wall, we would be thrown crusts of bread, and scraps of meat and fruit, usually the garbage of the feasts of pirates, our captors. |
10 |
| 32 | 89 |
That a single ship had been involved suggested a certain complacency on the part of the western pirates. |
10 |
| 32 | 128 |
There was laughter from the pirates in the room. |
10 |
| 32 | 227 |
"Lucky parry," said one of the pirates. |
10 |
| 32 | 230 |
"The dock worker is fortunate," said one of the pirates. |
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| 32 | 249 |
"He is afraid," said one of the pirates. |
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| 32 | 256 |
There were snorts of scorn from the pirates about. |
10 |
| 32 | 259 |
"Coward," said more than one of the pirates to me. |
10 |
| 32 | 273 |
"Do not come closer," I warned the pirates, "or his throat is cut". |
10 |
| 32 | 278 |
"Release him," said one of the pirates. |
10 |
| 32 | 287 |
"Do not follow," I warned the pirates. |
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| 32 | 301 |
I looked back and saw the group of pirates. |
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| 33 | 39 |
"Glyco," I pointed out, "has enlisted your aid against the pirates". |
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| 33 | 45 |
"There is too much distrust among the towns, and they fear the pirates too much. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 62 |
In moments I and the others, now some seven men, cutting at pirates, severing ropes, separated the two vessels and, as they slipped loose of one another, leaped onto the stern of the Tina, falling upon the pirates who had boarded her there. |
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| 1 | 145 |
Too, now, from the pirates' galleys, protecting their longboats, there sped a fierce counterfire. |
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| 1 | 160 |
I could see, clearly, the eyes of pirates, no more than a few feet away, we separated from them by the chain, and a few feet of water. |
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| 1 | 165 |
I saw pirates, on the galley opposite, shaking their fists at us. |
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| 2 | 52 |
"Do you not wonder, sometimes," asked he, "why honest men, honest folk, such as ourselves, permit pirates, and such, to exist". |
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| 2 | 66 |
"The pirates may still be about". |
10 |
| 2 | 104 |
The cries, the screams, were those of the pirates. |
10 |
| 2 | 122 |
That there was danger at the chain was now well understood by the pirates. |
10 |
| 2 | 192 |
"Pirates will own the Vosk," said another man. |
10 |
| 4 | 86 |
We might then make good sport for the pirates. |
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| 5 | 3 |
I thrust twice, driving back pirates. |
10 |
| 5 | 23 |
Then pirates thrust forward and I felt them sweeping about me. |
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| 5 | 28 |
As pirates swarmed toward our ship we cut at the backs of their necks. |
10 |
| 5 | 29 |
I saw the fellow I had nearly struck board the Tina, literally with the pirates. |
10 |
| 5 | 31 |
Then he cut at the pirates to his left and right. |
10 |
| 5 | 33 |
Then he had turned and was fighting the pirates. |
10 |
| 5 | 35 |
Pirates were at the stern castle of the Tina. |
10 |
| 5 | 56 |
Near the stem castle I saw some of my fellows cutting through pirates. |
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| 5 | 63 |
The pirates, pressed by our defenders, and attacked now from their own vessel, fought for their lives. |
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| 5 | 196 |
Pirates crowded to the rails of their ships. |
10 |
| 5 | 199 |
These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart. |
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| 5 | 201 |
The pirates, startled, unable to reach the ship, stood confused along their railings. |
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| 5 | 204 |
Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed ov... |
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| 5 | 206 |
The pirates' lines, thin, strung out for boarding, were instantly cut. |
10 |
| 5 | 210 |
In all, I had little doubt that they outnumbered the pirates eleven or twelve to one. |
10 |
| 7 | 20 |
Even arrows, as often as not in the fray, in the mixings and shiftings of men, indiscriminately, to the consternation of pirates, found unintended targets. |
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| 8 | 126 |
Even the pirates of Earth found uses to which such women could be put. |
10 |
| 8 | 390 |
In the water, among the larger ships, were small boats, manned by pirates. |
10 |
| 9 | 208 |
"He was left here to kill those, not of the pirates, who might seek refuge in the hulk of the Tuka," she said. |
10 |
| 10 | 12 |
Free women are not often found in the vicinity of pirates. |
10 |
| 10 | 29 |
It was not a song of Ar they sang, but a river song, a song of pirates and brawlers, "The Ten Maids of Hammerfest," in which is recounted the fates which befell these lovely lasses. |
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| 10 | 51 |
This, we had hoped, would create a diversion, and lead the pirates, in the confusion and darkness, to assume that we were moving eastward, and that the Olivia had been set aflame by their own forces. |
10 |
| 10 | 89 |
There was a cheer from the pirates on the walls. |
10 |
| 10 | 171 |
Aemilianus, followed by men, moved swiftly, past startled pirates, toward the iron door. |
10 |
| 10 | 182 |
'Throw down your arms," called Miles of Vonda to the pirates on the walk, "or you are dead men". |
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| 10 | 187 |
I saw two pirates, cut from the steps, fall twisting and striking against stone to the sea yard below. |
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| 10 | 195 |
No pirates must escape. |
10 |
| 10 | 201 |
I saw, to my alarm, pirates in the water, in the sea yard, swimming toward the gate. |
10 |
| 10 | 209 |
"We surrender!" called the pirates on the wall. |
10 |
| 11 | 53 |
It is not common on the part of pirates to pamper their slaves. |
10 |
| 11 | 108 |
"Pirates have excellent taste in slave flesh," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 134 |
I gathered that the pirates had enjoyed setting off their beauty in this fashion. |
10 |
| 12 | 6 |
Kliomenes had spent a good part of yesterday, and the night, with certain other pirates, chained, in rags, at the windlass. |
10 |
| 12 | 15 |
More than one hundred captured pirates had been drafted to this work, after which, in chains, they had been thrust, packed, with others, into cells below the holding. |
10 |
| 12 | 79 |
This time, in the room of the windlass, however, it was pirates who labored to lift that mighty weight. |
10 |
| 12 | 87 |
She, Lola, with another of my slaves, Shirley, I was keeping, for my convenience, in the central room of the slave quarters, with the captured beauties of the pirates. |
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| 12 | 93 |
Pirates disembarked. |
10 |
| 12 | 103 |
When the pirates, unsuspecting, were within, and giving themselves to the wine, the door would be locked. |
10 |
| 12 | 107 |
More than two hundred pirates had now been welcomed and encouraged within the holding. |
10 |
| 12 | 109 |
There, by larger numbers, the smaller groups would be disarmed, beaten and hurled into waiting, smooth-sided capture pits, prepared earlier by the captured pirates of Kliomenes. |
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| 12 | 111 |
Caught within, as helpless as penned vulos, subject vulnerably to the pleasure of our archers, pirates would surrender, stripping themselves and submitting themselves, one by one, to our chains. |
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| 12 | 116 |
"It is a trap!" Pirates looked at him, puzzled. |
10 |
| 12 | 144 |
Already pirates, their weapons discarded, were kneeling before our men. |
10 |
| 12 | 151 |
Pirates attempt to flee". |
10 |
| 12 | 207 |
Many pirates have been killed or captured. |
10 |
| 12 | 209 |
Too, other pirates have fled into the marshes". |
10 |
| 12 | 232 |
Escaped pirates would only too quickly inform him of what had occurred. |
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| 15 | 5 |
Pirates, disembarking from the flagship, filed past them. |
10 |
| 15 | 6 |
I heard jokes about the women of Victoria, and how they would please the pirates this night. |
10 |
| 15 | 76 |
The pirates had not intended me to escape. |
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| 15 | 83 |
There the pirates, at the edge of the concourse, some hundred yards from the office of the wharf master, set back on the concourse, had gathered, preparatory to their attack on the town. |
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| 16 | 12 |
The pirates turned, startled, puzzled, to regard the source of the sound. |
10 |
| 16 | 15 |
Showers of arrows sped like dark, linear hail over the heads of the charging citizens, striking into the startled, suddenly reeling, disordered crowds of pirates at the foot of the concourse. |
10 |
| 16 | 21 |
Shovels slashed down at pirates. |
10 |
| 16 | 29 |
I saw some five pirates thrust back off the edge of the concourse into the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 34 |
I saw a dozen pirates break and run for their ships. |
10 |
| 16 | 44 |
A dozen more pirates, here and there, in their ragged lines, turned about and broke for their ships. |
10 |
| 16 | 67 |
Pirates fell into the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 76 |
I saw pirates throwing down their weapons, and kneeling on the wharf. |
10 |
| 16 | 90 |
On the wharves I could see kneeling pirates, being stripped and bound. |
10 |
| 16 | 198 |
Pirates, naked and bound, roped together by the neck, lay on their bellies before them. |
10 |
| 16 | 326 |
Two pirates leapt overboard, on the port side. |
10 |
| 16 | 402 |
At the front edge of the concourse, near the wharves, pirates, in rows, stripped and bound, lay on their bellies. |
10 |
| 16 | 486 |
"They are curving collars of iron, with chains attached, about the throats of your fellow pirates". |
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| 16 | 561 |
I could hear, too, from the wharves of Victoria, the ringing of the hammer, closing links of chain and curving collars of iron about the throats of helpless pirates. |
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| 17 | 730 |
She belonged now to Miles of Vonda, who had helped us in our work with the pirates, part of the spoils, as many other slave girls, taken from the holding of Policrates. |
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| 18 | 152 |
I well remember one of them, in slave steel, a small, exquisite brunette, who had knelt before me, lifting fruit cupped in her hands for my delectation, and, in this, of course, as the pirates wished, presenting herself as well for my survey and consideration. |
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| 20 | 20 |
It was he who, in effect, had organized the resistance of the river towns to the pirates, and had had the good sense and fortune to recruit the redoubtable Callimachus of Port Cos as his field commander, a man without whose military skills and reputation on the river our projects might have been doo... |
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| 20 | 32 |
She was one of three women whom I had had following our victory over the pirates, the other two being Lola and the former Miss Henderson. |
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| 20 | 356 |
"Victoria was centrally involved in the resistance to the pirates," said Aemilianus. |
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| 20 | 365 |
"Have the pirates been disposed of, suitably?" I asked Tasdron. |
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| 20 | 1188 |
"Over a hundred years ago," said Tasdron, "it was carried away by pirates, and broken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 388 |
Like many slavers and pirates, Samos was, basically, a good fellow. |
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| 2 | 103 |
Also, to be candid, Port Kar is still muchly thought of on Gor, though she now has a Home Stone, as a lair of thieves, a den of pirates, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 141 |
You are all rogues, all pirates, thieves and slavers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1241 |
Most of the fellows of Port Kar have something of the ruthless lust of pirates in their view of females, coupled with some knowledge, because of a popular form of commerce in the city, of sophisticated techniques of slave handling and management. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 194 |
One part of the stone was originally held by Ragnar Voskjard, chief of pirates in the west, and the other by Policrates, chief of pirates in the east. |
10 |
| 1 | 61 |
They were road pirates. |
10 |
| 2 | 87 |
Ar's Station, although it was apparently active in the altercations with pirates on the Vosk, never joined the league. |
10 |
| 20 | 182 |
"The pledge of the topaz was originally an agreement between river pirates, a pledge of mutual assistance and, in crisis, alliance, between them, those of the eastern and western Vosk, between Policrates in the east and Ragnar Voskjard in the west. |
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| 20 | 183 |
When the ports of the river, and their men, rose up against the predations, the tolls and tributes, of these pirates, the topaz fell into the hands of the victorious rebels. |
10 |
| 20 | 205 |
After the final victory over the pirates, which took place at Victoria in 10,127 C. |
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| 21 | 776 |
"Surely a polity, even if it be one of pirates, if it is to survive, if it is to protect itself, must establish some forms of justice and law within its own precincts?" "One would suppose so," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 478 |
"That is a den of cutthroats and pirates!" "In Port Kar," I said, "there is a Home Stone". |
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| 48 | 470 |
To be sure the general reputation of Port Kar was that of a den of thieves, a lair of cutthroats and pirates. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 667 |
"It is a lair of pirates," said a fellow, "a den of cutthroats". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 102 |
"A den of thieves, a lair of pirates," said the pit master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 323 |
The men clasped hands, and embraced, and then Bosk of Port Kar, Port Kar a port on the Tamber Gulf, rumored to be a den of cutthroats and pirates, and Marcus, of Ar's Station, once an outpost of Ar on the distant Vosk, took their leave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 238 |
To be fair to Cabot, however, rumors had it, at least, that he might have had some connection with that Venetian John Cabot, or Giovanni Caboto, a Fifteenth-Century (Earth Chronology) mercenary sea captain who sailed for England, in the time of Henry VII, and was the first European after several Vik... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 59 |
To be sure, brigands, pirates, enemies, and such, are not likely to concern themselves with challenges, but are rather the more likely, as they see fit, to attack, and kill. |
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| 7 | 25 |
Indeed, pirates commonly painted their ships green, to make them less discernible at sea, certainly while under oars, with the masts lowered. |
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| 2 | 118 |
Larger galleys, rogues from the coastal ports, not signatory to the imposed treaties, or, more dangerously, pirates or merchantmen from Port Kar, our enemy, detected, would be reported to Telnus, in theory to be intercepted, if possible, on their return to their home ports. |
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| 2 | 238 |
The ship, reassuringly, was not green, for pirates often paint their ships green, that they be the less seen on mighty, rolling Thassa. |
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| 3 | 16 |
Also, they might be launched, if one wished, to dispose of witnesses, a practice favored by some pirates, or, as noted, to pick up survivors, following an action. |
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| 3 | 23 |
I was thus, I supposed, the captive of pirates, for pirate crews are often diversely origined, often recruited from a medley of cast-offs, fugitives, ruffians, murderers, brigands, and such. |
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| 3 | 725 |
"There are pirates," I said. |
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| 4 | 160 |
"If," said I, "you feared survivors, who might warn those of Tyros or Cos of your presence, why did you not simply slay me, and cast me over the side of the galley?" "Do you think we are pirates?" asked Lord Nishida. |
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| 5 | 35 |
This confirmed my suspicion that I was in the midst of pirates. |
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| 5 | 104 |
"Five days ago," said Seremides, addressing himself to the seeming rabble about, "without provocation, we were attacked by Cosian pirates, who attempted to burn our ship. |
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| 5 | 114 |
We are not pirates. |
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| 9 | 400 |
But amongst them as well were landless men, younger sons, men without Home Stones, bandits, pirates, adventurers, soldiers of fortune, thieves, fugitives, wanted men, cutthroats, fugitives from Ar, such as Seremides, and others. |
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| 22 | 169 |
Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 690 |
On the other hand, many, it is said, "court the collar," and it seems to be the case that "tree captures," in their hundreds or thousands, as in the wars, the raids of slavers, the seizures of caravans, the depredations of pirates, the fall of cities, and such, once collared, once owned, find fulfil... |
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| 37 | 174 |
Ships sent to the mouth of the Alexandra had discovered nothing, and some apparently had fallen to pirates. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 61 | 7 |
"There is peace now, in the local waters," said Captain Nakamura, "save for occasional pirates". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 67 |
"To pirates and cutthroats!" cried another. |
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| 8 | 671 |
Surely pirates, corsairs, are dangerous". |
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| 11 | 45 |
I think this epithet was generated in an earlier time when Port Kar had no Home Stone, when it may have been, indeed, little more than a "a den of pirates, thieves, and cutthroats," as dangerous to its own citizens as to its enemies, in particular, the great maritime Ubarates of Cos and Tyros. |
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| 15 | 169 |
Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price... |
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| 33 | 251 |
"From four cities, and three towns," said the man, "from the darkness of forests and the caves of mountains, from dismal alleys and crowded insulae, from the camps of bandits and the lairs of pirates". |
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| 36 | 52 |
I wondered if this were a heritage from the days when there was no Home Stone in Port Kar, when she was known broadly as the "Scourge of Thassa," a den of thieves, pirates, and cutthroats, rather than as she now chose to speak of herself, as the "Jewel of Gleaming Thassa". |
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| 1 | 55 |
The raid which had wrought this destruction was untypical of the work of common corsairs, pirates, and thieves. |
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| 1 | 259 |
"Yes," said he, "where lies a citadel of ruthless cunning, of envy, violence, wrath, murder, and greed, of arrant ambition, a lawless, bestial port, feared from Torvaldsland to Schendi, a port the scourge of turbulent Thassa, a den of thieves and cutthroats, a lair of pirates, near whose walls fish ... |
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| 4 | 134 |
"Our poor vessel, the Doris," said the first, "was beset by pirates, two days ago, by the dreaded corsair, the merciless Bosk of Port Kar, rogue of Thassa!" "The crew was slaughtered," said the second. |
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| 12 | 14 |
It might have been seized by peasants from shipwrecked vessels, or even cached inland by pirates, possibly generations ago. |
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| 22 | 92 |
And, from such a rich, departing swarm, pirates could intercept few more than one or two ships". |
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| 22 | 94 |
"But," said Sakim, "what if three ships, round ships of Brundisium, splendid ships with rich cargos, leave the harbor unexpectedly early, to elude pirates. |
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| 22 | 98 |
"Drunken mariners talk, and are proud of their cleverness, how by an early departure they can outwit pirates". |
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| 28 | 8 |
"I take it," said Melete, "the Anango round ship, fearing pirates, has chosen an out-of-the-way course home". |
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| 33 | 34 |
"The Islands are weary of the depredations of pirates, the oppressions, economic and military, legal and illegal, of violent, savage Cos. |
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| 35 | 33 |
Recruitment of pirates, save for crews, lags, or is nonexistent. |
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| 35 | 68 |
"Many islands were posted with a partisan of the pirates". |
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| 39 | 61 |
The Dorna, of course, was already painted green, a color often favored by pirates, as it is difficult to detect at a distance. |
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| 40 | 25 |
"Pirates!" exclaimed a council member. |
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| 40 | 27 |
"We are not pirates, but we may meet them at sea, and would prefer to do so with similar advantages". |
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| 59 | 66 |
"What of the leader of the pirates," asked my interlocutor, "the nefarious Bosk of Port Kar? Is there nothing of him there?" "I see nothing," I said. |
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| 62 | 84 |
"Does he truly think that great Lurius of Jad, the glorious Ubar of Cos, would promote the fortunes of thieves and pirates for a mere percentage of their booty? Far more is afoot, cities and fleets, fields of diamonds, seas of gems, rivers of silver and mountains of gold". |
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