| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 75 |
I had taken some of the reeds which had been heaped on the raft and, bundling them, had used them, paddling, to move the raft back to the island. |
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| 4 | 6 |
We were towing a small rence raft and there was already much rence upon it. |
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| 4 | 9 |
I cut again, dropping the tufted, flowered head of the rence stem into the water, and then I tossed the stem onto the raft of rence, with the piles of others. |
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| 4 | 26 |
I cut another rence stem, cut away the tufted, flowered head, and threw the stem onto the raft. |
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| 4 | 62 |
"Put now the rence craft in the water," she said, "and attach to it a raft for cut rence, Slave. |
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| 4 | 106 |
The rence knife flashed through another stem, and I cut away the flowered, tufted head, and threw the stem in the piles on the raft. |
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| 4 | 163 |
We had returned her rence craft to the shore of the rence island, fastening it there, along with the rence raft. |
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| 5 | 194 |
Together they disappeared in the darkness, going over one of the raft bridges to another island, one far from the firelight, the crowd, the noise, the dance. |
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| 6 | 207 |
"Get the girl! I want the girl!" I came to one of the raft bridges I had helped to fasten in place that morning, shortly after dawn. |
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| 6 | 208 |
I placed Telima in the center of the raft. |
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| 6 | 214 |
His spear fell near me, dropping through the rence of the raft. |
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| 6 | 223 |
I jerked loose the last two fastenings, and tore rence from the edge of the island, heaping it on the raft, covering Telima. |
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| 6 | 225 |
I heaped more rence on the craft and then, with one foot, thrust off from the islands between which the raft had been fastened. |
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| 6 | 226 |
I slipped beneath the rence on the raft, next to the girl. |
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| 6 | 231 |
Unnoticed, the raft, with its heaped rence, drifted away from between the islands. |
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| 7 | 68 |
I stood up on the raft of rence reed, and looked after the barges. |
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| 7 | 77 |
I had tethered the raft at the island's shore. |
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| 7 | 78 |
Telima still lay upon the raft. |
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| 7 | 83 |
I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting. |
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| 7 | 109 |
Always before, in the lighted hut, she had kept that side from me; in the day it had been covered by her tunic; in the night, in the darkness and tumult, I had not noticed it; on the raft it had been concealed in the reeds of the rence plant, with which I had covered her. |
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| 8 | 524 |
"Build a raft," I said, "large enough for food and water, and more than two men, and what we might find here that we might wish to take with us". |
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| 8 | 540 |
"The raft is ready," said Thurnock, his body gleaming sweat, wiping a great forearm across his face. |
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| 8 | 663 |
"Is the raft fully ready?" I asked. |
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| 8 | 776 |
Already, Thurnock and Clitus, in loading the raft, had placed on it my helmet, and shield, and the great bow, with its arrows. |
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| 9 | 31 |
Our girls, our slaves, wept at the poles, guiding the raft into the canal. |
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| 18 | 450 |
I found some beams and rope, and a pole, bound together a simple raft and through one of the delta canals, which were not then barred, made my escape. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 24 |
Each raft carries four of these, either arranged in a lateral frame, or arranged in a square frame, at the raft's center. |
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| 16 | 218 |
"Here is the raft!" I knelt on the raft. |
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| 16 | 2 |
It was cool in the pit, on the large raft. |
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| 16 | 3 |
At each corner of the raft, mounted on a pole, was a small, oil-fed lamp. |
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| 16 | 8 |
The raft, in the dark, sluggish waters, stirred beneath our feet. |
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| 16 | 9 |
I flung the cone out from the raft, into the darkness, allowing the line to uncoil from my left hand, following the vanishing, sinking cone. |
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| 16 | 10 |
I shared the raft with eight others, three, who handled cones as I, the "harvesters," four polemen and the steersman. |
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| 16 | 12 |
The raft is guided by a sweep at its stern, in the keeping of the steersman. |
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| 16 | 20 |
In such areas, paddles, of which each raft is equipped with four, near the retaining vessels, are used. |
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| 16 | 21 |
It is slow, laborious work, however, moving the heavy raft with these levers. |
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| 16 | 22 |
The raft is some twelve feet in width and some twenty-four or twenty-five feet in length. |
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| 16 | 23 |
Each raft contains a low frame, within which are placed the retaining vessels, large, wooden salt tubs, each approximately a yard in height and four feet in diameter. |
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| 16 | 31 |
The crew of a given raft performs this work. |
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| 16 | 41 |
Hand over hand, I drew the cone through the sludge toward the raft. |
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| 16 | 45 |
This is one of the reasons, too, it is particularly desirable, in this environment, to weight the raft poles, to help counter the unusual buoyancy of the saline fluid. |
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| 16 | 49 |
The other men came to my side of the raft, and we noted it, moving in the water. |
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| 16 | 52 |
Water drained from it, in tiny irregular streams, spattering back into the sea, and onto the boards of the raft. |
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| 16 | 113 |
This time it was close, surfacing not ten feet from the raft. |
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| 16 | 139 |
The oil in the lamps, on the poles at the corners of the raft, grew low. |
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| 16 | 153 |
The raft tipped, struck by its back, as it turned and, twisting, glided away into the darkness. |
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| 16 | 162 |
The raft had drifted. |
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| 16 | 166 |
Slowly the raft turned. |
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| 16 | 169 |
It was our hope that the men with the paddles could move the raft sufficiently to bring it to a place we could use the poles. |
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| 16 | 192 |
We heard the raft bumped, felt the movement in the wood. |
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| 16 | 193 |
We then felt the body of the Old One beneath the raft. |
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| 16 | 194 |
The raft tipped, but fell back. |
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| 16 | 196 |
Twice more the raft tipped, and fell back. |
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| 16 | 199 |
Then the raft, on the port side, seemed to dip into the water. |
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| 16 | 202 |
The Old One had placed his head on the raft, sensing in the darkness. |
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| 16 | 204 |
Then, suddenly, hurling itself from the water, the great body, thrashing, fell across the raft, twisting, the mighty tail flailing and snapping. |
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| 16 | 206 |
I heard men scream, sensed men struck yards from the raft, heard them strike the water. |
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| 16 | 211 |
Four more times the great body threw itself onto the raft, thrashing. |
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| 16 | 222 |
"Help!" I heard two men crawl onto the raft. |
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| 16 | 224 |
Another man crawled onto the raft and then, insanely, began to wander about. |
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| 16 | 235 |
I felt for one of the raft poles, found it, and, extending it, thrust it toward the voice. |
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| 16 | 238 |
I saw lights across the water, another raft, approaching. |
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| 16 | 241 |
We boarded the other raft. |
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| 16 | 249 |
"Let us go back," said one of the polemen on T'Zshal's raft. |
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| 16 | 254 |
"Let us return now, swiftly to the docks," said one of the men on T'Zshal's raft. |
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| 16 | 262 |
T'Zshal himself stood at the bow of the raft, the lance in one hand, in his other a lantern, lifted. |
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| 16 | 268 |
T'Zshal put him on the planks of the raft. |
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| 16 | 272 |
The heavy raft turned, and began to move toward the docks. |
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| 17 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Pit I think there was no man on the raft that evening who had not lost at least one comrade, recently or long ago, to the Old One. |
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| 17 | 8 |
None had been ordered; not one upon the raft had, under the uplifted whip coil, nor upon the advice of unsheathed steel, been commanded. |
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| 17 | 15 |
* * * * I think there was no man on the raft that evening who had not lost at least one comrade, recently or long ago, to the Old One. |
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| 17 | 17 |
Far into the pit, distant from the salt docks, we slowed the raft, and steadied it with the long poles, holding it as nearly as we could in place. |
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| 17 | 20 |
At the corners of the raft burned four lamps, mounted on poles. |
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| 17 | 37 |
They had been with the raft now for better than an Ahn, appearing some quarter of an Ahn after we had steadied the sluggish vessel in place. |
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| 17 | 43 |
Their blunt, whitish heads protruded from the water, curious, each head oriented toward one or the other of the four lamps on the raft. |
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| 17 | 44 |
I knelt down on the raft, and, quickly, scooped, holding it, one of the lelts from the water. |
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| 17 | 58 |
Then I saw it again, a few feet from the raft. |
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| 17 | 59 |
Again its head protruded from the water, again oriented to the same lamp at the corner of the raft. |
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| 17 | 117 |
He stretched, and stood up on the raft. |
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| 17 | 118 |
He studied the waters about the raft, black and quiet. |
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| 17 | 129 |
He then laid the lance over the tops of two of the large retaining vessels, the salt tubs, on the raft. |
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| 17 | 130 |
There was no stirring, or movement, near the raft. |
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| 17 | 138 |
"Stand back from the edge of the raft," he said. |
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| 17 | 162 |
It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t... |
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| 17 | 165 |
The Old One now again faced the raft. |
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| 17 | 184 |
We felt the great body of the Old One twist under the heavy beams of the raft. |
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| 17 | 185 |
Then the raft lifted, to an almost forty-five-degree angle as the monster rose beneath it, thrusting it upward. |
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| 17 | 187 |
Four times the Old One tried to turn the raft. |
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| 17 | 189 |
He could not turn the raft. |
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| 17 | 194 |
Then, suddenly, at the port side, aft, he erupted from the water a dozen feet away, and fell back, spattering torrents of water over the raft. |
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| 17 | 196 |
"Protect the lamps!" The lamp at the aft, port corner of the raft, drenched, was extinguished. |
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| 17 | 209 |
"Bring the lamps to the center of the raft," said T'Zshal. |
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| 17 | 217 |
The Old One circled the raft four times, sometimes stopping, seeming to regard us. |
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| 17 | 227 |
Almost at the edge of the raft the great body lifted in the water, turning to its side, jaws dropping open, lunging, falling, biting, onto the beams, thrashing. |
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| 17 | 230 |
T'Zshal struck again with the lance, driving it into the tail of the monster as it twisted off the raft. |
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| 17 | 246 |
In the lamplight, on the raft, on the dark water, among us, waiting, he held the lance ready. |
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| 17 | 253 |
I leaped from the raft, striking the surface of the water. |
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| 17 | 267 |
I was aware of torches across the water on the raft, men crying out, then the fish, I clinging to it, fell into the water, thrashing. |
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| 17 | 284 |
The Old One was still alive when I was drawn away from it, pulled by Hassan and another man to the surface of the raft. |
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| 17 | 287 |
I lay on my back on the beams of the raft. |
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| 17 | 297 |
It was longer than the raft itself. |
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| 17 | 311 |
The lance, shaft broken, was found floating near the raft. |
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| 17 | 340 |
The great raft turned and began to make its way back toward the docks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 619 |
I awakened being drawn onto a large, jagged, splintered square of wreckage, heavy beamed, like a raft. |
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| 22 | 623 |
A few feet from the raft, rolling lifeless in the water, was a grotesque marine saurian, fishlike but reptilian, more than twenty feet in length. |
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| 22 | 647 |
Others, too, smaller, restless, white-finned, moved about the raft. |
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| 22 | 651 |
He strode to the side of the raft. |
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| 23 | 1 |
The Raft I lay in the arms of Clitus Vitellius, my master, under the bright stars of Gor, under the white moons and the black sky, on the rough wood, in the midst of that great, lonely sea. |
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| 23 | 109 |
It became cold upon the raft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 12 |
We stood near the mud raft, that raft of logs and liana vines on which we placed our shovelfuls of mud. |
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| 16 | 72 |
In a few moments the mud raft, of logs bound together with lianas, to be loaded with excavated mud, was again poled to our vicinity. |
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| 16 | 92 |
I shoveled another load of mud from the marsh and flung it on the mud raft. |
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| 16 | 101 |
We continued to shovel mud onto the mud raft. |
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| 20 | 24 |
The two girls were on a raft, being drawn through the marsh by five chained slaves. |
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| 20 | 25 |
Four askaris waded beside the raft. |
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| 20 | 27 |
A pole, mounted on two tripods, had been fastened some six feet above the surface of the raft, and parallel to its long axis. |
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| 20 | 32 |
"Ho!" I cried, striding toward the raft, as far as the chain on my neck would permit me. |
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| 20 | 40 |
One of the askaris wading beside the raft climbed angrily to its surface. |
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| 20 | 51 |
On the surface of the raft the askari who had administered slave discipline to the blond-haired barbarian for her outburst thrust a slave whip, crosswise, in her mouth, thrusting it back between her teeth. |
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| 20 | 54 |
I saw the raft, slowly, being pulled beyond our chain. |
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| 20 | 67 |
Naturally there had been on the raft, besides the girls, a chest of riches for Tende, riches which, according to the askaris, with whom Ayari took pains to be on good terms, would include such things as bolts of cloth, jewelries, cosmetics, coins, and perfumes. |
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| 20 | 75 |
Then he turned again, to look after the raft, bearing the gifts for Tende. |
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| 20 | 80 |
I had seen him look after the raft, and had read the cold rage, the fury like iron, in his body. |
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| 21 | 2 |
I rolled over in the chain, on the raft. |
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| 21 | 7 |
The raft on which the rogues' chain was kept was a long one, covered by a barred cage, locked. |
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| 21 | 14 |
Suddenly the snout of a tharlarion, half lying on the edge of the raft, thrust against the bars. |
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| 21 | 17 |
It kept its snout for a time on the edge of the raft. |
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| 21 | 45 |
I clutched the bars of the cage in which, on the raft, I was confined. |
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| 22 | 1 |
I Continue to Dig in the Canal I hurled mud from my shovel to the mud raft. |
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| 22 | 14 |
I hurled another shovelful of mud onto the mud raft. |
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| 22 | 37 |
I slashed down at the marsh with my shovel, gouged out a weight of mud and flung it to the mud raft. |
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| 23 | 35 |
On the raft, near Tende and her two lovely, bare-breasted white slaves, stood four askaris, men of Bila Huruma, in their skins and feathers, with golden armlets. |
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| 23 | 163 |
* * * * We sat in the long cage, bolted on the extended raft. |
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| 23 | 234 |
I pushed them closely together, to drop the chain, in a loop, to the log floor of the extended raft. |
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| 23 | 279 |
I pushed down on the log and felt the welcome resistance of the water beneath the raft. |
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| 23 | 285 |
We heard a tharlarion, a large one, rub up against the bottom of the raft. |
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| 23 | 288 |
We then sat about, our heads down, some of us lying on the floor of the log raft. |
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| 23 | 304 |
Make for the mud raft. |
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| 23 | 312 |
He started toward the mud raft. |
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| 23 | 314 |
"Take shovels and bring the raft," I said. |
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| 23 | 340 |
Some men behind, one either side, thrust the mud raft along with us. |
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| 23 | 425 |
"That is why you brought along the mud raft," smiled Kisu. |
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| 23 | 433 |
We set off through the darkness, westward, pushing the mud raft with us, our shovels placed upon it. |
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| 23 | 438 |
"Who are you? What is that raft?" "I am Ayari," said Ayari. |
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| 23 | 439 |
"This is the mud raft used by the rogues' chain". |
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| 23 | 447 |
Probably the mud raft had broken loose and the worker was intent upon returning it, if unwisely, in the darkness. |
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| 24 | 2 |
We thrust the mud raft ahead of us. |
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| 24 | 5 |
More than an Ahn ago we had passed the point at which the prison raft, from which we had escaped, had been anchored. |
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| 24 | 8 |
We continued to push the mud raft ahead of us. |
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| 24 | 16 |
We, pushing from the sides, turned the heavy raft, heaped with piled mud, slowly about. |
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| 24 | 20 |
Concealed by a thin layer of mud on the raft were two shields and two stabbing spears, which Kisu and I had taken from the two askaris we had subdued on the platform of Tende. |
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| 24 | 21 |
Our shovels lay in plain sight on the mud heaped on the raft. |
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| 24 | 22 |
We continued to push the raft toward the east. |
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| 24 | 35 |
I climbed to the surface of the raft. |
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| 24 | 42 |
Kisu and I clambered down, splashing into the water, and again thrust the raft eastward. |
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| 24 | 44 |
It had rained heavily about the ninth Ahn, but we, drenched, had not ceased to push the raft toward the western shore of Ngao, somewhere ahead of us. |
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| 24 | 46 |
We crouched down in the water, our heads scarcely above the surface, shielded by the raft. |
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| 24 | 47 |
On the other side of the raft passed two canoes of askaris returning to the marsh camps of the west. |
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| 24 | 48 |
They had seen, from their point of view, only a mud raft, loosed and drifted from the work area. |
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| 24 | 70 |
A fellow leaped to the surface of the raft. |
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| 24 | 89 |
Kisu stood on the raft, like a black god, the shield on his arm, a bloodied stabbing spear in his right hand. |
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| 24 | 90 |
In the water, to his left, struck from the raft, lifeless, inert, buoyant, rolled two bodies. |
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| 24 | 96 |
Kisu, leaving the raft, fetched two sealed calabashes of meal from where they floated in the marsh. |
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| 24 | 117 |
I moved the canoe to the side of the raft. |
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| 24 | 118 |
From the heaped mud on the raft, unobtrusively, protruded three hollow stems, of broken marsh reed. |
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| 24 | 148 |
Kisu threw her, in her soiled robes, to the surface of the raft. |
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| 24 | 151 |
He then untied her ankles and threw her from the raft. |
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| 24 | 152 |
He led her by the bound wrists, she stumbling in her robes, about the raft and tied the tether on her hands to the sternpost of the canoe. |
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| 24 | 189 |
I looked back again to the vicinity of the mud raft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 284 |
I swam to a raft of planking. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 332 |
"We will build a raft for the travois and cross the Northern Kaiila. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 739 |
I regarded her there in the sand, naked, her hands bound behind her, the strap from the raft running to the improvised, buckled collar on her throat, which, as tether, would keep her in the vicinity of the raft. |
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| 4 | 38 |
"Form a raft!" Men were in the water, some swimming, some wading, chest deep. |
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| 6 | 8 |
"There is a body here, in the water," said a fellow ahead, to the left, on a narrow raft. |
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| 6 | 33 |
The body was pulled up, onto the raft. |
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| 6 | 61 |
The body was rolled from the raft, into the water. |
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| 10 | 93 |
"I have made arrangements for our group to share a three-log raft," he said. |
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| 10 | 95 |
"The raft is heavy," he said. |
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| 11 | 6 |
I was in the water to my chest, before the raft I drew. |
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| 11 | 18 |
I now, besides the yoke, wore a harness of straps which fastened me to the raft I drew. |
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| 11 | 25 |
The fellow behind me on the raft, he acting as my keeper, laughed. |
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| 11 | 39 |
The fellow behind me left the raft, swiftly, plunging into the water. |
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| 11 | 53 |
"Pull!" One of the two poles used by the fellows on the raft dug into my back forcing me forward. |
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| 11 | 55 |
I then, in consternation, put my weight against the traces and, after a moment, my feet slipping in the mud, felt the raft move forward. |
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| 12 | 77 |
"It is difficult to traverse the delta unscathed," I said, "particularly when one is naked, in the water, harnessed, drawing a raft". |
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| 13 | 3 |
The three-log raft, the harness settling in the water between myself and it, moved slowly forward. |
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| 13 | 8 |
"We have them now, lads," whispered the officer to some of the men wading between the raft and barge. |
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| 13 | 13 |
"Do not move," whispered my keeper, he lying on his stomach now, on the raft. |
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| 13 | 15 |
They would take no chances, however, with my attempting to make noise, perhaps by splashing or pounding my yoke against the raft. |
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| 13 | 57 |
But in a few moments he removed the knife from my throat and stood up, puzzled, I think, on the raft. |
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| 13 | 65 |
The raft was thrust up, on a small bar, that it not drift away. |
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| 13 | 438 |
In a moment I was stumbling forward, before him, returning to the raft, the rope on my neck over the yoke, running behind me, to his grasp. |
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| 13 | 449 |
I must escape! I must escape! We were then at the raft. |
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| 13 | 452 |
He picked up the harness attached to the raft. |
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| 13 | 477 |
I drew the raft off the bar, into the water. |
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| 13 | 478 |
If I could get beyond the men of Ar I was sure I could break the yoke to pieces, splintering it on the logs of the raft, thus freeing my hands, then in a moment discarding the harness and slipping away. |
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| 13 | 479 |
I moved away, drawing the raft after me. |
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| 13 | 484 |
The raft tangled sometimes in the vegetation. |
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| 13 | 486 |
Once, to my dismay, I had to move the raft through an open expanse of water. |
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| 13 | 500 |
He pressed the blade forward a little, and I backed against the raft. |
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| 13 | 516 |
My keeper was now behind me, on the raft. |
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| 13 | 525 |
I turned about and, my feet slipping in the mud, my back burning from the blows, wet with blood, turned the raft. |
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| 14 | 25 |
The raft had been heavy, many men using it. |
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| 15 | 5 |
So I struggled ahead, closed in the hood, manacled, harnessed, drawing the weighty raft through the marsh, through the rence, through the mud, now with several men upon it, some wounded and sick, little more, if anything, than a beast of burden, a despised beast subject to the frequent blows, the la... |
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| 15 | 21 |
As for myself I could concern myself with little but the weight of the raft, my footing, and the blows which drove me. |
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| 17 | 239 |
I felt the raft pitch in the water as men left it. |
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| 17 | 247 |
From the feel of this I was sure the raft was empty. |
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| 17 | 252 |
Suddenly I drew the raft forward and to the right. |
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| 17 | 255 |
The raft, I hoped, if any noticed it, might be taken, at least for the most part, as being adrift, as perhaps abandoned, as moving much of its own accord, with the current. |
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| 17 | 259 |
I drew the raft over the bar, the water then only to my knees, and then plunged again into the deeper water. |
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| 17 | 284 |
I began to cut with the hood against the forward edge of the raft. |
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| 17 | 305 |
I felt even the raft tip in the water and then the hood was torn half away. |
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| 17 | 306 |
Almost at the same time I saw a small tharlarion, no more than a foot in length, covered with sting flies, splash from the raft into the water. |
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| 17 | 316 |
I moved the raft farther away from them, deeper into the rence. |
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| 17 | 317 |
Had they approached me I would have tried to take refuge on the raft. |
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| 17 | 329 |
I pulled and yanked, as I could, more than once half submerging the raft in the water. |
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| 17 | 347 |
With some difficulty I attained the surface of the raft and, with my manacled hands, tied at my waist, bending down, bit by bit, drew up the harness behind me. |
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| 17 | 349 |
My hands manacled before me I managed to free the harness from the raft. |
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| 17 | 351 |
I was now, however, free to leave the raft. |
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| 17 | 355 |
I was elated, kneeling on the raft. |
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| 17 | 367 |
I crawled to the side of the raft and getting the strap about one of the projections there, and using my hands, moving it back and forth in small rapid movements, heating it, tearing at it, in a matter of Ehn, severed it. |
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| 17 | 386 |
I then lowered myself from the raft, again into the water, to be less exposed to the flies, even in the thick rence. |
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| 18 | 285 |
I then put these materials in one of the remaining, wretched rence craft, its bottom already half rotted, drew up the mooring rope, and paddled from the island, my knees in the water, back to where I had left the raft. |
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| 18 | 286 |
In a few Ehn I then lay, fed on biscuit and meat, armed with blade and dagger, clothed in a tunic of Ar, on the raft. |
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| 18 | 313 |
It had not been easy, being beaten, drawing the raft, and such. |
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| 18 | 320 |
I lay on the raft, looking up at the moons. |
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| 19 | 7 |
I had left the raft a few yards back, on another bar. |
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| 19 | 10 |
Its paddle I had retained but it was not of much use, given the weight of the raft. |
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| 19 | 15 |
Curious I had moved the raft toward the place. |
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| 19 | 430 |
Also the very pole I was using for the raft had been gilded, though the gilding, when I retrieved it from the marsh, had been muchly burned away. |
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| 19 | 713 |
I then returned to the island, and from the island, back into the rence, to locate the raft, and my things. |
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| 19 | 714 |
I had barely reached the raft when I heard, once more, a scream. |
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| 19 | 825 |
I would cross the island, and return, again, to the raft. |
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| 19 | 1068 |
In a few moments we had come to the small bar, that tiny island, much smaller than the one on which she had been bound, on which I had drawn up the raft. |
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| 19 | 1069 |
"A raft!" she said, pleased. |
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| 19 | 1071 |
So simple a device as a raft might increase one's chances of survival in the delta a hundredfold. |
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| 19 | 1073 |
The raft was heavy. |
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| 19 | 1076 |
"We have a raft!" she said. |
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| 19 | 1077 |
"I have a raft," I said. |
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| 19 | 1084 |
"I do not think you will be of much help with the raft," I said. |
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| 19 | 1117 |
In a few moments, after concealing the raft and supplies, I, too, ascended the bar. |
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| 19 | 1615 |
Shortly thereafter I removed the raft from its hiding place, readied it, putting it half afloat, and made various preparations for departure. |
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| 19 | 1618 |
I put her over my shoulder, her head to the rear, as a slave is commonly carried, and carried her to the raft. |
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| 19 | 1619 |
I sat her down on the rear of the raft, its forward end half afloat. |
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| 19 | 1620 |
I then picked up a short, buckled strap, cut from the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh. |
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| 19 | 1622 |
I then lifted up one end, the loose end, of a long strap, also part of the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh, and tied it about the four turns of the strap on her neck. |
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| 19 | 1625 |
The other end of this strap I had already fastened securely to the rear of the raft. |
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| 19 | 1641 |
I looked at her, in the light of the moons, sitting on the rough raft, her ankles crossed and bound, her hands tied behind her, in her improvised collar, on its strap. |
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| 19 | 1643 |
She then lay down, on her side, on the raft. |
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| 19 | 1645 |
I then thrust the raft fully into the marsh. |
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| 19 | 1647 |
I then climbed aboard the raft. |
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| 19 | 1652 |
I lifted her up and dropped her into the marsh, behind the raft. |
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| 19 | 1660 |
"You cannot be serious!" I thrust the pole down into the mud and propelled the raft forward, and about. |
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| 19 | 1673 |
I continued to pole the raft, silently. |
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| 19 | 1686 |
After a few Ehn she suddenly said, "Wait!" I stopped the raft. |
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| 19 | 1718 |
"Come along," I said, poling the raft forward. |
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| 19 | 1746 |
"Why are you looking at me like that? Do not kill me!" I then returned to the poling of the raft. |
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| 19 | 1834 |
I moved the raft south, through the rence, under the moons. |
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| 20 | 5 |
I put the pole down on the raft, leaped into the water, angrily, and waded to her. |
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| 20 | 89 |
"Let me ride on the raft!" she begged. |
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| 20 | 141 |
You will be kept in place by your tether and I should, accordingly, hear you quite easily from the raft. |
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| 20 | 158 |
I had much touched her over the past few days, even though she was a free woman, as much for my relief, such as a free woman could provide, as for her instruction, usually when we had camped, sometimes before we slept, sometimes afterwards, or when I awakened and it pleased me, and sometimes, too, o... |
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| 20 | 164 |
I then regained the surface of the raft, took up the pole, and continued my journey, she following on her tether. |
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| 23 | 10 |
I was pleased that we had concealed the camp as well as we had, and that the raft and pole had been similarly concealed. |
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| 24 | 6 |
To be sure, the strap was still on her neck, keeping her in place as she waded behind the raft. |
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| 24 | 24 |
I poled the raft to the side and put it in some rence, on a bar of sand. |
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| 24 | 27 |
I unbuckled the collar, putting it, with the strap, on the raft. |
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| 24 | 33 |
She stood at the edge of the rence, within which we had concealed the raft. |
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| 26 | 4 |
She sat at the rear of the raft, facing forward. |
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| 26 | 6 |
We had recently left the raft, together, to thrust it through thick rence. |
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| 26 | 9 |
She now, for the most part, rode on the raft, at the back. |
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| 26 | 10 |
As her weight was negligible compared to that of the raft, this did not impede, or much impede, our advance. |
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| 26 | 11 |
Her hands were now free, but the collar and strap, fashioned from the harness I had once worn, was still on her throat, fastened to the raft. |
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| 26 | 18 |
In such ties, helpless, being transported on my raft, lovely Ina would have little difficulty in recollecting that she was my prisoner. |
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| 26 | 19 |
In all these ties, of course, when she was on the raft, she wore the collar and strap. |
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| 26 | 27 |
Then she dangled her legs in the water, sitting on the raft, rather toward the back. |
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| 26 | 122 |
I was silent, poling the raft. |
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| 26 | 233 |
"Keep on the raft," I said. |
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| 26 | 251 |
I poled the raft to the right. |
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| 26 | 269 |
I brought the raft to rest at the island. |
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| 26 | 280 |
I then waded into the marsh and thrust the raft higher on the sand. |
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| 26 | 315 |
Looping up to her buckled collar was the strap to her collar, that tethering her to the raft. |
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| 27 | 56 |
I strode angrily back to the raft. |
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| 27 | 57 |
Seeing my face, and the ferocity of my stride, Ina, on her knees by the raft, swiftly put her head down to the sand. |
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| 27 | 62 |
I seized up the pole from the raft in fury and strode back to the pool of sand. |
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| 27 | 203 |
I then made my way back slowly toward the raft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 17 |
The string for this launching device, or bow, the string from which the missile, the arrow, is flighted, was easily obtained from remnants of the raft's rope, parted, unraveled, and rewoven, those remnants by means of which Cabot and the slave had been enabled to survive the storm, by means of which... |
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| 33 | 140 |
Cabot reached to her rope, that fastened about her waist, and dragged her out of the water onto the raft's surface, she crying and sobbing, the raft then again righting itself. |
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| 33 | 155 |
"If the raft is overturned," said Cabot, "the rope might hold you under the raft. |
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| 33 | 160 |
A moment later the raft again tilted to the left, and then, half visible, the mighty back of one of the gigantic saurians, like a wet, scaled mountain, rose higher and higher, and then the raft, after a moment, slid free, and struck again into the water. |
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| 33 | 163 |
"He now understands it can be done!" Again the mighty body emerged under the side of the raft, and the raft again tilted to the left, and then it was vertical, and its occupants dangled from the ropes. |
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| 33 | 172 |
Again the mighty body emerged under the raft and again the raft was almost vertical in the water, and was then vertical, and then struck down again, with great force, its occupants, as before, leaping free. |
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| 33 | 251 |
"I will fight, too," said Grendel, lifting his hands, from which the claws emerged, like knives, "for I am Kur!" "It is coming!" said Grendel, as one of the monsters, indeed, the first who had visited the raft, it seems, cleaved toward the raft, the water sliding from its back on both sides, sparkli... |
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| 33 | 262 |
But suddenly that beast, too, seemed drawn back, away from the raft, its head and neck sliding back, on the logs, away from the raft. |
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| 31 | 52 |
"A boat, a raft," said Cabot. |
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| 32 | 16 |
A raft, heavy, with doubled timbers, grated on the beach. |
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| 32 | 35 |
"I will not speak!" came a voice from the darkness, that of the Lady Bina, doubtless still on the raft. |
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| 32 | 63 |
Then, stepping carefully, daintily, departing from the forward portion of the raft, slid onto the sand, that her feet not be dampened, a woman had descended to the beach. |
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| 32 | 202 |
"Too, there is the raft, from which she dares not escape while it is on the lake, and when we come to shore, it is a simple matter to put her on a rope, and, at night, I chain her to a tree". |
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| 32 | 259 |
"I will get some tharlarion from the raft," said Grendel. |
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| 32 | 267 |
"It was clever of you to send her away, while my gross cohort fetches tharlarion from the raft," said the Lady Bina. |
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| 32 | 412 |
"And so for the first night in days, I am neither a raft's prisoner, nor tethered ashore". |
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| 33 | 35 |
"Tharlarion," said Grendel, resting on the mighty oar with which he propelled the raft. |
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| 33 | 37 |
"Lita," said Cabot, "lie nearer the center of the raft". |
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| 33 | 38 |
The slave crawled closer to the center of the large, rude raft, some yards in width, and lay there, supine, her left arm shading her eyes from the light, amidst the small store of supplies, one property amongst others. |
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| 33 | 39 |
She was tunicked, and about her waist a rope was fastened, which rope was fastened, too, to the raft. |
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| 33 | 40 |
By means of this arrangement, in the event of a storm, or an attack by tharlarion, should she be pitched into the water, she would not be separated from the raft, but would have at her disposal a means for regaining its surface. |
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| 33 | 93 |
They had seen two tharlarion but neither had approached the raft. |
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| 33 | 98 |
Grendel thrust the oar back on the raft and seized up the long ax. |
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| 33 | 99 |
A massive head, glistening, shedding water, on a long neck, had emerged from the water, not yards from the raft. |
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| 33 | 129 |
"Cling to the raft!" said Grendel, standing. |
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| 33 | 131 |
Almost at the same moment the raft seemed to leap upward in the water, some great back beneath it, and then, with a mighty splash that drenched the occupants of the primitive vessel it struck back down into the water. |
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| 33 | 136 |
"It is quiet," said Cabot, as the raft settled back, rocking on the surface. |
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| 33 | 138 |
Then a body, that of the same behemoth or one of the others, rose under the raft and tipped it to the left, sharply. |
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| 33 | 142 |
Then the stem of the raft rose almost vertically into the air and its occupants clung to the ropes on the wet surfaced almost as if clinging to a wall. |
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| 33 | 144 |
Then the raft again plunged into the water, with a mighty splash. |
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| 33 | 151 |
He then thrust his makeshift spear under ropes, from whence, were the raft overturned, he might, from beneath the surface, have been able to recover it. |
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| 33 | 152 |
"Surely the raft is too heavy to overturn, Master," wept the slave. |
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| 33 | 154 |
He then bent to free the slave's waist rope from its anchoring on the raft. |
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| 33 | 164 |
"Jump!" cried Grendel, and leapt from the raft. |
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| 33 | 165 |
Cabot seized the slave and leaped clear of the raft, just as it struck into the water, inverted. |
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| 33 | 166 |
He scrambled onto the bottom of the raft, now upward, and dragged the girl onto its surface beside him. |
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| 33 | 168 |
He saw a huge paw rise out of the water, and then Grendel was on the raft. |
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| 33 | 173 |
Cabot thrust away large jaws reaching for him, and then he, dragging his slave with him, clambered back onto the raft. |
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| 33 | 178 |
The raft was now upright, having twice turned, but, as Cabot had observed, their supplies were gone. |
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| 33 | 180 |
"The raft is heavy!" said Cabot. |
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| 33 | 191 |
Cabot extracted his makeshift spear from its ensconcement within the ropes of the raft, and held it, crouching down. |
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| 33 | 198 |
There might then have been six, or seven, saurians, curious, aggressive, within a dozen yards of the raft. |
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| 33 | 204 |
They would not understand the raft, but they could sense food. |
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| 33 | 207 |
They had met surprising resistance, however, in attempting this, due to the weight of the raft. |
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| 33 | 208 |
Again one of the predator's heads extended over the raft, jaws opened, reaching for Grendel. |
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| 33 | 238 |
Grendel, without his ax, was standing at the stem of the half-shattered raft, looking out, over the lake. |
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| 33 | 263 |
A moment later a surge of blood and tissue reddened the lake about the raft, as though the lake itself had bled. |
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| 33 | 283 |
There, some twenty or so feet from the raft a shape had arisen slowly, majestically, from the lake. |
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| 34 | 37 |
The raft, mighty as it was, began to respond to the force of swift, rising swells. |
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| 34 | 40 |
The raft lifted, and fell, and tipped, and bucked, and pitched about. |
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| 34 | 52 |
Cold waters washed over the raft. |
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| 34 | 53 |
Even Grendel then threw himself down and fastened himself within the raft ropes. |
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| 34 | 54 |
The raft was lifted a dozen feet into the air, again and again, and dropped, and was flung from side to side. |
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| 34 | 59 |
He felt another log beneath his feet then, that of the lower tier of logs, and then it, too, seemed to move from side to side, and, other ropes broken apart, it slipped sideways under the raft, and was swept away, somewhere. |
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| 34 | 61 |
"The raft is breaking up!" called Grendel. |
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| 34 | 65 |
Rain continued to torment the raft and lake. |
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| 34 | 67 |
Cold water washed over the remains of the raft, now little more than loosened timbers, held in proximity to one another by strained, then slack, scattered strands of rope. |
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| 34 | 68 |
"Hold to me!" called Cabot to the slave, and he thrust a log away and tried, clinging to another, to work his way from the raft. |
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| 34 | 69 |
The slave lost her grip and cried out, but Cabot seized her by the hair and pulled her to him, and then both were clinging to a rope wrapped about a single log, and the raft might then, for all they knew, have been a dozen yards away. |
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| 46 | 156 |
One such scout, or flier, had been detected some time ago, by Cabot and Lord Grendel, while on the raft, on Lake Fear. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 33 |
One could almost walk upon the vines, but one could draw a small ship's boat, or raft, through them, hoping eventually to reach free water. |
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| 14 | 228 |
An occasional swell, lifting the circumambient vines and blossoms, moved his small vessel, and the raft of vinage to which I clung. |
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| 14 | 309 |
He was trying to scramble toward me, half in water, half out, over the raft of vegetation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 82 |
If necessary, I might cling to a log and float with the current, or construct a small raft of branches, bound together with wild Tur-Pah vines. |
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| 44 | 18 |
I resolved to go far enough inland to elude pursuit, and then, when sure of my escape, somehow cross the river, perhaps stealing a boat, perhaps building a raft, bound with vines, or even clinging to debris. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 56 |
It was more like being afoot on a large vessel, platform, or raft. |
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| 27 | 203 |
Also, take some planks and boards and nail them together, about the size of a large door, such that they may serve as a small raft". |
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| 28 | 16 |
I signaled to Thurnock and Clitus and they heaved the tiny, improvised raft, nailed together from some planks and boards, overboard. |
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| 28 | 21 |
The small improvised raft was at the side of the Tesephone, rocking, when Philomena was lowered to its surface. |
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| 28 | 23 |
The small raft began to drift from the hull and when Iantha was held over the side and released, she fell half across the planks, her belly and legs half in the water. |
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| 28 | 28 |
The oarsmen, with a great laugh, flung Melete high over the rail and, with a great splash, she struck the water, and, struggling, thrashing about, encumbered by her robes, she reached out, clutching wildly at the raft. |
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| 28 | 29 |
Iantha and Philomena tipping the raft, reached to her, and drew her to its surface. |
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| 28 | 30 |
As it was precarious to stand on the raft, unsteady as it was, they were all on their knees, knees in water, looking wildly back, up at the rail. |
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