| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 235 |
There was another possibility I mentioned to my father—perhaps the planet had been in our system all the time, but had been undiscovered, unlikely though that might be, given the thousands of years of study of the skies by men, from the shambling creatures of the Neander Valley to the brillia... |
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| 6 | 40 |
For that matter, though I did not seriously consider the possibility, being without a city, in effect an outlaw, I was entitled in the Gorean way of thinking to take the bird or its purchase price in any way I saw fit. |
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| 15 | 50 |
"I had to design this equipment myself," said Misk, "and for that reason it is inexcusably primitive, but there was no possibility to apply for standard instrumentation in this case". |
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| 32 | 136 |
"An extremely small but yet finite possibility," speculated Misk, grooming one foreleg. |
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| 34 | 151 |
"It is a possibility," said Torm. |
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| 34 | 152 |
Yes, I said to myself, it is a possibility, but not a likely one. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 27 |
I originally regarded the Omen Year as a rather pointless institution, but I came to see later that there is much to be said for it: it brings the Wagon Peoples together from time to time, and in this time, aside from the simple values of being together, there is much bosk trading and some exchange ... |
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| 8 | 132 |
He was used to girls whose culture had prepared them for the very real possibility of slavery, though perhaps not a slavery as abject as that of being a wench of Tuchuks. |
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| 10 | 390 |
Kamchak shrugged, not dismissing the possibility. |
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| 19 | 21 |
Suddenly there seemed to me a real possibility in Harold's plan. |
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| 21 | 52 |
I dismissed this possibility, however, for, glancing about, I could find no one I might fear. |
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| 3 | 119 |
To my surprise, the Player chose the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover Ubar Two, which seemed to me rather defensive, and surely cost him the possibility of a dangerous but promising counterattack, which would eventually, if all went well, culminate with his second tarnsman at his opponent's I... |
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| 11 | 110 |
They are intelligent, they have imagination, they will have understood the possibility before, though not considering it seriously, and will, in time, accept the reality". |
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| 13 | 292 |
On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap... |
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| 14 | 72 |
"I think that is not a likely possibility," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 194 |
I cast madly about, looking for some possibility of escape. |
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| 11 | 516 |
It then seemed to me, so simply, that there was for the first time the possibility of peace on Thassa, among her three major Ubarates. |
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| 11 | 591 |
The possibility of peace on Thassa was an attractive one to me, a merchant. |
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| 17 | 48 |
I had also arranged signals whereby my ships, those of my task forces and others, might, if the pairs became separated, switch partners, thus retaining the possibility of pair-attacks on single ships even if the members of the original pairs should become separated. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 273 |
Strangely I gave little thought to the possibility that I might be sold. |
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| 11 | 1013 |
But what most I now feared, and most hysterically rejected, was the suspicion that there might lurk in my deepest being a profound turning, a sudden, cataclysmic transformation of my consciousness, the possibility that I might admit to myself, confess to myself, a truth I dared not even articulate. |
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| 16 | 242 |
Certainly it would be unusual for a female slave even to suggest the possibility of resistance to a free male. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 344 |
"There is little possibility of losing her," said Marlenus. |
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| 12 | 119 |
The daughter of Lurius of Jad was a possibility. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 261 |
There was little possibility of leaving the ledge undetected. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 247 |
"But this possibility, doubtless," smiled Samos, "too, is one which will not fail to be considered by the rulers of the Sardar". |
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| 7 | 184 |
"I had warning of this possibility," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 89 |
How naturally, how fearfully, I had knelt! How necessary, how appropriate, it had been! And I realized then that they had expected me to kneel, and had not given the possibility of my failing to do so a moment's thought. |
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| 7 | 941 |
There was a possibility, I supposed, that my master would not be pleased that I had hidden in his furs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 222 |
His metaphysics allowed this possibility. |
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| 15 | 729 |
"It is rather done in few cities because of the possibility of fraud on the part of the buyer. |
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| 23 | 224 |
"There is another possibility, a fearful one," said Ram. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 264 |
"The extent of these obstacles, and the availability of portages, the possibility of roads, the possibility of side canals, are not known," said Samos. |
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| 12 | 118 |
This possibility was confirmed when you made inquiries of Kipofu, the beggar, in the Utukufu square". |
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| 15 | 223 |
My smugness at preventing this exchange had blinded me, foolishly, to the possibility that the ring on the chain this evening might not have been the true ring to begin with. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 292 |
Then she said, "You are hateful, simply hateful!" "That you might be in your heart a female slave is not even a possibility that you can admit," I said. |
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| 1 | 770 |
"Consider the possibility of being true to yourself". |
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| 1 | 1046 |
The only thing that occurred to me was so horrifying and fantastic that I could not even bring myself to consider it as a possibility, let alone mention it to the terrified girl. |
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| 1 | 1052 |
The possibility was too horrifying to even consider as a reality. |
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| 2 | 176 |
I gathered they were taking no chances on the possibility of the effects of the drug prematurely wearing off. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 390 |
That is a genuine possibility. |
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| 21 | 225 |
"Can you admit the possibility that she might not be different?" asked Peggy. |
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| 24 | 481 |
She was from Earth! But what if, even though she were from Earth, she were a true slave, as in accord with her own avowals? Could such a thing, she from Earth, be possible, even thinkable? I scarcely dared even consider this possibility, for then she, a slave, could be mine! I determined, cruelly, t... |
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| 29 | 79 |
"Only we in this room know of this possibility," I said. |
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| 30 | 152 |
It angered me that Policrates and Kliomenes, and the others, could not even accept this possibility. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 12 | 183 |
In spite of this, and his resemblance to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, I dismissed the possibility of his guilt. |
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| 12 | 187 |
But then, again, because of his high position, and the confidence which you placed in him, I rejected this possibility. |
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| 12 | 231 |
There was no possibility of our tricking Policrates, of course, as we had Alcibron and Reginald, and the others. |
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| 17 | 400 |
"That is an interesting and profound possibility," I said, "but then there would still remain needs and powers, forces and desires, and the facts of the world, that certain courses of action lead to certain results, and that other courses of action lead to other results. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 1228 |
"We do not find that a likely possibility," said Kog. |
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| 2 | 25 |
"That possibility would not be unlikely to occur to such creatures," said Samos. |
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| 2 | 226 |
"Another possibility," Samos was saying, "would be a loan to the Sa-Tarna merchants, at a reduced rate of interest. |
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| 3 | 26 |
It is usually felt that, after her capture, there is little point in permitting any possibility that she might be confused with a free woman. |
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| 13 | 1059 |
Her legal status precludes its possibility. |
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| 16 | 22 |
"And the attack would not take place late in the day," I said, "because of the possibility of survivors escaping under the cover of darkness". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 174 |
What seems to one tribe to present a dangerous possibility of ambush may, to another, seem to provide cover and shelter. |
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| 8 | 33 |
"About the Yellow Knives? That they are going to send a delegation even into the camp?" "I have heard rumors, even today," I said, "about the possibility of a peace being arranged with the Yellow Knives. |
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| 8 | 37 |
"It seems, now, that there may be a real possibility for peace". |
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| 44 | 110 |
"No," she said, "for they might take you here, surprising you and surrounding you, you being isolated in this place, you being, for most practical purposes, trapped with little possibility of escape on Council Rock". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 285 |
It was still regarded as a theoretical possibility, I gathered, that I might be free. |
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| 32 | 68 |
We had not even considered the possibility of such a thing. |
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| 33 | 426 |
Can we not imagine the possibility, where so much money is at stake, that a woman closely resembling the Tatrix, as this woman, for example, might be selected as a quarry in a fraudulent hunt. |
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| 33 | 1027 |
In no way was it incumbent on you to risk your commission, your future, your honor, your life, on what must at best have been little more than a remote possibility". |
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| 36 | 437 |
And surely, I thought, so, too, at least in possibility, were the men of Earth. |
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| 36 | 440 |
I thought it even a possibility that the men of Gor were of Earth stock. |
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| 36 | 800 |
I had not counted on the possibility of being sent to the mines. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 14 | 414 |
Now I realized the thought with which my mind must have then been toying, the marvelous, astounding possibility which at that time I had not fully grasped, that possibility which would have seemed then, had I been fully aware of it, so disappointingly remote, yet so intriguing. |
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| 1 | 1002 |
"The possibility that Cos and Tyros may move against Port Kar," I said. |
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| 10 | 346 |
The Lady Yanina was not a foolish, panic-stricken Earth girl, new to bondage, its possibility scarcely having earlier entered her ken, frenziedly, absurdly trying to remove fetters from her body, but a Gorean woman. |
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| 21 | 663 |
Consider even the possibility that I, displeased, might come to seek you out". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 194 |
"It is a possibility," I said. |
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| 15 | 258 |
"Also you were anticipating the possibility of an attack," I said. |
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| 15 | 274 |
"The window is a possibility," he said. |
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| 16 | 1195 |
Her background with the wagons had perhaps, rightly or wrongly, inhibited him somewhat, I feared, keeping him from viewing her as what she essentially was, a rather juicy possibility for a female. |
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| 18 | 164 |
"I had not anticipated the possibility of buying passage on a fee cart," I said. |
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| 21 | 145 |
"Suppose, however," I suggested, "he does not soon return?" "Then there is another possibility," he said, "an interesting one". |
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| 25 | 1812 |
Accordingly, her own period of unconsciousness, given this possibility, might possibly last several Ahn, more than enough time to be carried to a cell in a praetor's holding area. |
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| 25 | 2249 |
"The occasional existence of such love, and its possibility, however," I said, "and many men fear it, because of its momentous and binding nature, just as many women long for it, because of their desire to pair bond, should not cause us to overlook the many commoner prerogatives of nature, those nev... |
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| 26 | 1625 |
It was, doubtless, a way of suggesting the possibility, perhaps even the desirability, of some addition or amendment to her current apparel. |
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| 29 | 22 |
Another alarming possibility was that he might have decapitated, either as an honest mistake, or intentionally, another tenant, perhaps one who had been so bold as to object to the declamation of poetry in the halls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 358 |
I do not think this was simply a matter of figure and face, though I think these appealed to a Gorean taste, but perhaps something else, something deeper, which they seemed to sense about me, some sort of possibility, or potentiality, or something, which I myself did not fully understand, or yet und... |
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| 34 | 216 |
Would it have been better on Earth if I had known such things were possible, or had it been better if, as in my case, I had not even suspected their possibility? I did not know. |
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| 34 | 585 |
It was the tiny garment, fit for a muchly displayed slave, which I had made for myself on Earth, long before I had known there was a Gor, or a Teibar, or the possibility of a collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 354 |
Some of the lower castes, however, particularly that of the peasants, and particularly those in outlying villages, do entertain the possibility that such phenomena may be the signs of disunion among Priest-Kings and their conflicts, the striking of weapons, the rumbling of their chariots, the trampl... |
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| 6 | 744 |
This was, of course, a genuine possibility, particularly in this area at this time. |
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| 6 | 829 |
The burly fellow stood there for a moment considering this possibility. |
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| 14 | 180 |
"It is only a possibility". |
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| 21 | 734 |
"Much would become clear," I said, "if you were willing to entertain the possibility of treason in Ar, treason in high places, treason of profound character and enormous scope". |
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| 21 | 745 |
"She sees in it the possibility of another Salerian Confederation". |
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| 21 | 1412 |
That was a possibility. |
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| 24 | 761 |
Certainly Initiates commonly warn gravely of this possibility. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 702 |
I mention that they may once have been from Earth because that is a real possibility, having to do with the slave trade. |
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| 1 | 704 |
That is why I mention that possibility. |
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| 3 | 583 |
Similarly the possibility of active collaboration is significantly reduced. |
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| 14 | 126 |
It is a possibility". |
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| 18 | 2 |
By means of this, particularly if the opening of the stem is kept near the surface of the water, and those in the vicinity are not familiar with marshcraft, if they are not vigilant and keenly alert to the possibility of such techniques, one may often travel about in relative security and concealmen... |
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| 22 | 57 |
There was some possibility that it might attract attention. |
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| 25 | 155 |
Too, in it I sensed the hint of a possibility, of a modality of existence, of a way I might be, of a possible way of life". |
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| 26 | 43 |
I did not think there had been much danger, but there was some possibility that the movement of her legs in the water might have attracted its attention. |
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| 32 | 283 |
The rencers, noting our hostility to the Cosian, and accepting the possibility that he might actually be Cosian, permitted him to leave the holding area before us, presumably so he would have time to reach the Cosian lines before we could apprehend him. |
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| 37 | 470 |
"It seems to me a possibility," I said. |
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| 46 | 366 |
It would have occurred to them, as it had to me, that it was an excellent possibility. |
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| 48 | 351 |
"No! No! No!" He had, I assumed, surmised the likelihood of this possibility as soon as she had opened her mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 100 |
"That is a possibility," I said. |
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| 4 | 109 |
"It is really only a possibility," I said. |
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| 14 | 279 |
I did not seriously consider the possibility, of course, that she might have forgotten the matter. |
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| 16 | 23 |
"Take me from them! Hide me! Glory to the Delta Brigade!" None in the crowd, it seemed, dared echo this sentiment, but there was no mistaking its mood, one of sympathy for the fellow, and of anger toward the mercenaries, and there was a very definite possibility, one thing leading to another, that i... |
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| 19 | 38 |
This helps to compensate for the possibility that the trackers might be acting in relays or shifts, one picking up where another turns aside. |
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| 19 | 221 |
Indeed, although I regarded this as quite unlikely, it seemed an empirical possibility. |
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| 22 | 143 |
I wondered if the fellows passing these notifications, and such, recounting, say, the charms of a certain Tania or Sylvia, of such-and-such a paga tavern, ever considered the possibility that these might be former free women of Ar, perhaps women thitherto unapproachable, once haughty, vain women, wo... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 20 |
Perhaps I had simply put it from my mind, rejecting the very possibility, refusing to believe anything so improbable. |
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| 7 | 558 |
I had been warned of the possibility of such questions. |
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| 7 | 722 |
This, I think, was perhaps because some resented the possibility that I might, in chains upon a sales block, guided by the deft touches of the whip, responding helplessly, bring a high price, perhaps one even challenging theirs. |
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| 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... |
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| 11 | 1141 |
"But there is another possibility," he mused, "an interesting one, one other than merely returning you in chains to Tharna". |
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| 11 | 1394 |
That, too, I supposed, was a possibility. |
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| 11 | 1870 |
It gave a possibility, too, for the immediate securing of loot. |
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| 12 | 323 |
"I hesitate to call this to your attention, but you must face the possibility, my dear," she said. |
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| 13 | 1245 |
Is not even a free woman aware of such a thing, on some level, when, as she sleeps, she is chained to her own bed? Does this enter into her dream? Does she dream it so, fearfully? Surely its very possibility is to be rejected from consciousness with all the force of rationality! Surely it was only a... |
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| 14 | 665 |
"Inquire not into such a dreadful possibility," I said. |
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| 16 | 607 |
Even so subtle a thing, you see, militates against a slave's possibility of escape. |
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| 19 | 312 |
To be sure, there is nothing inconsistent in this possibility. |
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| 19 | 401 |
What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the Priest-Kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far as I can determine, most pe... |
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| 30 | 75 |
"There is a possibility". |
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| 34 | 107 |
There could be little possibility of mistake, at any rate, I supposed, about the chain with the plate and ring attached. |
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| 37 | 617 |
Such things were probably associated in their minds with the possibility of food. |
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| 37 | 1078 |
"Is there any possibility that the prisoner could escape?" asked the officer. |
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| 37 | 1122 |
"You are certain that there is no possibility of escape through the urt nest, through drains, or sewers, or such". |
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| 37 | 1146 |
"An interesting possibility," said the pit master. |
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| 37 | 1148 |
"That is a possibility," admitted the pit master. |
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| 46 | 30 |
"You might suggest, of course," he said, "that your life be spared, that you might identify this fellow for us, the party of Cos, that we might then repair the oversight of Treve, by removing him from the picture, but we have considered, and rejected, that possibility. |
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| 46 | 43 |
"Accordingly," he said, "given the information at our disposal, and your putative location, I have been sent to Ar to preclude that possibility". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 274 |
"But consider the possibility of alien life forms and exotic, alternative technologies, life forms of incredible intelligence, say, far beyond that of the human, with, at their disposal, enormous powers, the power even to influence, and manipulate, gravity. |
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| 4 | 276 |
Do you understand this, at least as a logical possibility?" "Yes," she said. |
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| 4 | 365 |
In short, the supposed world, whose existence I should like you to entertain for the moment as a possibility, is, in some respects, far advanced over that with which you are most familiar. |
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| 4 | 464 |
"I had never forgotten you," he said, "and so, naturally, when I learned of this possibility, I thought of you, and, indeed, several others, in this regard. |
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| 7 | 42 |
"While we are on such matters," he said, "I would suppose that it was explained to you that you will later be given a particular drink, the name of which is unimportant now, which will temporarily, but indefinitely, preclude any possibility of biological conception on your part?" "Yes," she said. |
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| 7 | 47 |
"Was it also explained to you that there is another drink, one which one might think of as a releaser of sorts, which will not only restore your possibility of conception, but ready you for it, indeed, prime you for it, so to speak?" "Yes," she said, embarrassed. |
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| 12 | 288 |
Freedom, in itself, while undeniably precious, and doubtless a value, and doubtless appropriate for males, whom she now understood, having met true men, were the natural masters of women, tended, in itself, to be an abstraction, a possibility, an emptiness, in its way. |
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| 13 | 30 |
Another possibility, of course, is that this would be Ellen's first venture to the roof, and he thought it well to have some of her associates, slaves she knew, slaves with whom she would be expected to be able to communicate, for whatever reason, in her vicinity. |
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| 14 | 51 |
Sometimes they were even rather loose, suggesting to a foolish girl the possibility of slipping them. |
10 |
| 21 | 100 |
That was a possibility. |
10 |
| 21 | 101 |
And within the Ahn this possibility became even more obvious, and vivid. |
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| 21 | 167 |
If a girl did not beg there was always the possibility that the attendant would simply return her, unbathed, filthy, smelling, to the coffle, at which point one would not wish to be that girl, for discipline would be swift and severe. |
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| 22 | 503 |
Earth had not prepared her to even entertain such a possibility. |
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| 23 | 43 |
The position accentuates the breasts and, given the position of the hands, is provocatively emblematic; I think that even a male of Earth, one who, if there are any such, had never given a thought to the possibility of female slavery, or even of a particular woman, stripped, and bound hand and foot,... |
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| 23 | 44 |
Might not that sight, or vision, then, as though accompanied with a clap of thunder, change him forever, showing him a possibility which might transform him from an indoctrinated, manipulated, obsequious political puppet striving to please those who secretly hate and despise him into a male, one sud... |
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| 24 | 79 |
A consideration favoring this possibility is that left-handed Goreans will also, commonly, have their sleen, their slaves, and such, follow on the left. |
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| 24 | 413 |
It was much as though she might be a free woman, though surely the bells on her ankle and her silks belied that possibility. |
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| 25 | 403 |
"If your bondage is important to you, and you understand it as your one possibility to obtain your total fulfillment as a female, you may always again expose yourself to the risk of the collar, disarranging a veil, walking lonely bridges at night, lifting the hem of a garment, as though to avoid soi... |
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| 25 | 411 |
"And then you would not have to worry about the possibility of obtaining your freedom," said Ellen. |
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| 25 | 706 |
Free women, after all, if only in virtue of hushed, furtive, scandalous rumors, would not be all that unacquainted with at least the possibility of such a thing. |
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| 27 | 2382 |
"Next," called the officer, and then, again, "Next!" If ever, Ellen would have wished to resist, but her body betrayed her, with its secretions and spasms, and then, moments later, despite herself, every last pathetic psychological possibility of defense was gone; every last brittle barrier of reser... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 271 |
Then her expression changed, to a sudden, wild thought, one of relief, even of elation, and possibility. |
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| 45 | 195 |
To be sure, you might, with some luck, be avenged, and you might find some consolation in that possibility, but that only if the culprit were identified, and there is little assurance of such a thing". |
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| 46 | 176 |
"The other possibility," said Statius, "is far more dangerous. |
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| 47 | 42 |
Then, sensing the possibility, he stood on the steel, his head pointing toward the opposing cap, far distant, almost invisible, at the other end of the world. |
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| 51 | 93 |
"There is some possibility," said Cabot, "that the seeming dearth of female passion on such a world, seemingly so unnaturally pervasive, seemingly so inexplicable, is actually in its way an evidence not of the absence or weakness of female drives and needs, but of their remarkable strength, which re... |
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| 77 | 285 |
The steel, the links, the ring, the post, such things, were not designed to concede the least possibility of escape to their selected prisoners. |
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| 81 | 57 |
"Yes," said Peisistratus, "there are possibility lists, which are, in effect, inspection or assessment lists, and then, if the female is deemed suitable, she is put on an acquisition list. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 27 |
And most Goreans, even today, would be as unacquainted with, and as skeptical of, the possibility of space travel as men of Earth might have been a thousand or more years ago. |
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| 2 | 270 |
It seemed clear to me that his unarmed approach was not then merely to reassure me but, in a way, to diminish, if not preclude, the possibility of himself being attacked. |
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| 2 | 421 |
"There is no other possibility?" she said. |
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| 2 | 422 |
"There is one other possibility," I said. |
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| 10 | 492 |
To be sure, I admit the possibility that some aspects of her personality, and a certain personal annoyance with her, from when she had tried to manipulate me, might have had some influence on my choice. |
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| 12 | 152 |
"Perhaps others might serve as well," said Thrasilicus, "a possibility which I lack the expertise to dispute, but the Priest-Kings have chosen you". |
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| 13 | 213 |
I think it had not really occurred to her, other than as an abstract possibility, that she might be simply purchased and given to someone. |
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| 13 | 344 |
As this would be a most obvious possibility, a most likely route for escape, it would have been guarded against with zealous care. |
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| 16 | 86 |
This possibility is neutralized in some fortifications by roofing the parapets, but this, of course, exposes the roofing to fire arrows, fire bombs, and such. |
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| 22 | 111 |
In her belly, smoldering, ready to spring into flames, seldom far from the surface, was the heat of a slave, and of this, perhaps, a brand on her thigh, a collar on her neck, might be understood as little more than institutional tokens hinting at the possibility of a far deeper bondage. |
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| 30 | 49 |
One of the dangers of ramming is the possibility of fixing one's ram in the victim and inadvertently sharing her fate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 44 |
Their elation had not to do, however, with the possibility of augmenting the ship's larder, but with something, at least at the time, of much greater interest. |
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| 12 | 532 |
"Blackmail, amongst confederates, or conspirators," said the tarnsman, "is always a possibility. |
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| 25 | 52 |
This produced alarm amongst the men, for it suggested the possibility that the ship might depart. |
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| 28 | 40 |
Do they not suggest that the object within her collar has come to the attention of free men? Do they not portend the possibility of eventual caresses, for which she hopes, which she is zealous to earn? "Dear fellows," I said, "it is possible these two were once free women. |
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| 36 | 98 |
"And such a possibility," said the captain, "would not be likely to be overlooked by Lord Yamada, or his advisors". |
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| 36 | 104 |
Accordingly, given this possibility, he planted one of his minions amongst the great ship's most likely mariners, those most likely to be recruited in any attempt to save the ship". |
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| 36 | 530 |
There was not the least possibility of her escaping. |
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| 37 | 367 |
"At least," I said, "the remote possibility of caring for a slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 786 |
Surely that was a possibility. |
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| 30 | 116 |
"The prisoner, Lord Grendel," I said, "perhaps better apprised than we of possible Kur power, thinks that would be within the realm of possibility, but would not be likely to take place. |
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| 49 | 117 |
Presumably the possibility likely to be of greatest interest to the fugitives would be that of concealed passages, by means of which important areas of the Cave, central halls, major chambers, and such, might be conveniently at hand. |
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| 49 | 193 |
Another possibility would be that the active, seething brain that was now Agamemnon might reassert itself, might acquire new housings, even new bodies. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 336 |
Supposedly this helps to keep the line tranquil, lessening the possibility of bolting. |
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| 9 | 16 |
Certainly, given our chaining, there was no possibility that we could have slipped away, perhaps to starve or be eaten in the wild. |
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| 14 | 240 |
"A possibility," I said. |
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| 25 | 85 |
On this world, however, I was not sanguine about this possibility. |
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| 44 | 10 |
I knew there was eagerness at Shipcamp to bring the great ship to Thassa before the possibility of ice in the river. |
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| 44 | 56 |
The possibility of this event had seemed to loom over events here by the river. |
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| 46 | 126 |
Both the sleen and the panther can leap well over their length, and may be found on stout branches several feet above the ground, but neither is a climbing animal, as one commonly thinks of climbing animals, probably because of their weight, which would render many branches precarious, either becaus... |
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| 47 | 14 |
I had even traversed the shore of the Alexandra, for a pasang or more, both east and west, given the possibility that she might have waded, before returning to the land. |
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| 50 | 522 |
What of nudity to mark out prize slaves, and diminish the possibility of their flight, I asked myself. |
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| 52 | 661 |
"Genserich," said my master, "speculated as to the possibility of two large and complex forces, each of which might well have spies in the camp of the other, perhaps even highly placed spies". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 76 |
The possibility had suggested itself to some, a possibility which seemed plausible to me, that the Kurii, frustrated at the current failure of their designs, and the Priest-Kings, annoyed by probes, and predatory intrusions, might be willing to gamble for a world's surface, which space was seldom tr... |
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| 29 | 358 |
Had she not communicated with a confederate or confederates below, similarly, on several occasions? But how had it been that on that occasion she had, apparently, shut out the very possibility of detection? What was different on that night? Might she not be observed? Could she have been unaware that... |
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| 1 | 318 |
"I am curious as to such a possibility," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 7 | 45 |
I fought back against recognizing, or accepting, an intrusive possibility. |
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| 7 | 47 |
My initial reaction to this possibility, aside from my reservations pertaining to mass discipline, as a whole, had been anger, for the weather, for the islands, had been bitter. |
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| 11 | 11 |
If the gong sounded twice, this suggested the possibility of an unauthorized intrusion. |
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| 12 | 236 |
I do not think I had hitherto understood, or taken with sufficient seriousness, the possibility that the shogun might credit the distribution of small objects spilled on a hardwood floor with such portent. |
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| 20 | 18 |
Similarly, one supposed that there was a possibility that this development might bring suspicion on Daichi, given her occasional interactions with, or meetings with, the reader of bones and shells. |
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| 24 | 173 |
"Surely that is a possibility," I said. |
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| 25 | 334 |
Surely Tajima must have considered the possibility of pursuit. |
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| 32 | 54 |
I also supposed that he would be aware of another possibility. |
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| 35 | 21 |
"Our friend Yasushi," he said, "in his attempt to protect us, all of us, made much of the possibility that we were not connected, that we might not be the four sought, or such, or, if the four, that there was nothing of importance in our association, which might have been merely casual". |
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| 38 | 72 |
I suspected the pen guards had not considered the possibility of concerted action, not amongst peasants. |
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| 42 | 59 |
I suspect the reason for this division in the tent, by means of the canvas partition, was less to protect the slaves from roving, appraising eyes, for slaves are accustomed, as other animals, to being openly regarded, than to minimize the possibility of a particular slave being identified, even casu... |
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| 48 | 36 |
Indeed, the fineness of his hand, I had gathered from Tajima, ruled out the possibility that he might be in league with an opposing house. |
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| 54 | 293 |
Presumably then a provision would be in place to protect the donor or supplier against this most unpleasant possibility. |
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| 61 | 3 |
The ship of Tersites had demonstrated the possibility of reaching the World's End, and, then, the River Dragon, in turn, inspirited by the success of the ship of Tersites, had dared Thassa, as well, but then eastward, and had managed to make the great harbor at Brundisium. |
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| 61 | 515 |
"I have considered that possibility in the orders issued to the cavalry," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 425 |
Were they not interested in emphasizing my helplessness? Were they not, in their brutal arrogance, interested in emphasizing my figure? Surely I was beautiful! I was suddenly affrighted by a possibility. |
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| 10 | 161 |
This is sometimes done even when the coinage has been minted in the same city in which the transaction takes place, apparently because of the possibility of a private debasement of coins, the shaving of coins, and such. |
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| 20 | 52 |
I supposed this was rather futile, but it seemed to me, however naive or inept this stratagem might prove, that some such activity might prove to be in my best interest, and, possibly, in that of my master, if anything dangerous might be involved, which possibility, I hoped, of course, was not the c... |
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| 28 | 26 |
Had he been truly blind he might have been in anguish then, not so much for having a plain or homely slave, for such might guide one as well as a high-block beauty, but for having been misled and cheated, a possibility not lightly regarded by most Goreans. |
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| 39 | 194 |
"We will then go to the new rental I arranged, as I anticipated the possibility that a change in lodging might prove advisable". |
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| 46 | 377 |
That he was not then killed immediately, to at least deprive Lord Arcesilaus of a valuable friend and ally, demonstrated that this possibility, a lack of cooperation in the matter of Eve, had been anticipated and prepared for. |
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| 48 | 64 |
"I speculate," she said, "given the office of my master, that of trade advisor to the Ubar, that he is interested in the possibility of establishing trade relations between Ar and the city of the Lord Arcesilaus". |
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| 50 | 135 |
There he had seized her and, as she awakened, wildly, and might have cried out, he had thrust a wad of ground meat into her mouth, stifling any possibility of a scream. |
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| 50 | 525 |
And, if Kurik's words were no more than the cheerful prattling of a man to a beast, such as a pet sleen, there was still little in that possibility from which to gather reassurance or consolation. |
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| 61 | 254 |
He had, however, clearly suggested that possibility. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 243 |
It seemed to me that the masters were overlooking a most obvious possibility. |
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| 10 | 119 |
It would have been too unfamiliar, too different from the privations and sterilities to which they were accustomed, which they had been taught to unquestioningly accept, celebrate, and acclaim, which they took to constitute the single face of possibility. |
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| 18 | 127 |
Then, suspecting that there might be some connection or relationship between you and Adraste, and what else had he to go on, he pursued that possibility. |
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| 25 | 97 |
Slender as was this reed of possibility, I took ship to Port Kar. |
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| 33 | 119 |
Some speculate that the humans who had long ago taken to the vast, formidable delta marshes, perhaps fleeing to them, might have realized the possibility of rence islands from the nest building of the marsh kite. |
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| 33 | 602 |
A more remote possibility, but not one to be ignored, was death by exposure or from a simple lack of sustenance. |
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| 40 | 340 |
That possibility, of course, was ruled out as Talena of Ar was now safe on Cos, under the protection of her former ally, Lurius of Jad. |
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| 43 | 85 |
"When I hired this boat, I anticipated the possibility of such a contingency. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 176 |
"Have you not considered the possibility that your most dangerous enemy may not be thieves and brigands, bandits and killers, but Cos itself, the state?" "I do not understand," he said. |
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| 17 | 271 |
"That is a possibility," I said. |
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| 17 | 275 |
"That, too, is a possibility," I said. |
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| 17 | 285 |
"That, too, is a possibility," I said. |
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| 37 | 118 |
This is a possibility seldom overlooked by an attentive employer. |
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| 39 | 94 |
How can you possibly get a message through to the Admiral, even if he were here to receive it?" "There is a possibility," I said. |
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| 41 | 40 |
The generalship of such troops must always, in their decisions, weigh the possibility not only of noncompliance but of mutiny. |
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| 45 | 52 |
As we had feared, of course, the failure of their assaults on the town did not result in their withdrawal but rather, in their reconciliation to the possibility of a lengthy siege. |
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| 51 | 10 |
There was the possibility, of course, that the Dorna had somehow escaped and was now bound for the Cove of Harpalos. |
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| 54 | 124 |
It might be noted, in passing, that neither I nor Sakim, nor others, considered the possibility that, should the corsairs be victorious, they might recognize Margot, Millicent, and Courtney as former allies and free them. |
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