| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 238 |
There was no protective rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 69 |
With one hand he held the folds together, lest the wind should lift the cloth and reveal his face, and with the other hand, he clutched the rail on the bridge, as if uncomfortable, uneasy at the height. |
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| 8 | 72 |
"Tal," he responded, not taking his arm from the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 116 |
I looked over the rail at the marvelous complexity which confronted me. |
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| 31 | 206 |
I stood to one side, standing on the surface of the globe, clinging to the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 193 |
The guard braceleted one of Phyllis' wrists to the rail and then snapped bracelets on Virginia, confining her wrists behind her back; he carried Virginia down to the main level and set her on her knees there, before Flaminius and Ho-Tu; Elizabeth and I were in the background; then the guard went bac... |
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| 13 | 309 |
Then Mip turned his bird and it seemed to veer and slide through the air, the cylinders below slicing to the right, and he brought it to rest on a great rail above and behind the highest tier on Ar's Stadium of Tarns, where that afternoon I had watched the races. |
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| 13 | 328 |
In a moment Mip had alighted beside me on the high rail circling the top of the stadium. |
10 |
| 13 | 330 |
Then he took his bird from the rail and I followed him. |
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| 16 | 261 |
I leaped over the rail and strode to the bird. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 68 |
The officer, bearded and tall, with the two golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, followed by Henrak, still with the scarf bound about his body, ran to the rail. |
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| 8 | 220 |
Then I placed the shield by the rail, and extended my hand for the great bow, with its nine arrows. |
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| 8 | 272 |
I indicated a coil of binding fiber that lay near the foot of the rail, below the tiller deck, on my left. |
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| 8 | 329 |
She did, and then I ordered them both back to the tiller deck of the first barge, making them stand on the rowing deck, below the steps of the tiller deck, to my left near the rail, where I might see them, where they might not, unnoticed, attempt to free others. |
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| 8 | 568 |
Then, standing on the rail of the foredeck, my left hand on the prow, I cut first the fiber binding her at the throat, and then that binding her at the waist. |
10 |
| 8 | 569 |
Then, resheathing my sword, I eased her, wrists still bound, down the prow, until her feet at last stood on the rail, on which, beside her, I stood. |
10 |
| 8 | 587 |
She shook her head, and turned, and ran to the rail, and held it, looking over. |
10 |
| 10 | 261 |
I had leaned on the rail of the light galley, and, in the moonlight, had listened to the mating whistles of the small fish. |
10 |
| 13 | 507 |
Then I vaulted over the rail of the Rena onto the deck of the heavy-class arsenal galley. |
10 |
| 14 | 331 |
In an Ahn I stepped across the plank thrown from the rail of the Dorna to that of the flagship of the treasure fleet. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 37 |
I handed the glass of the Builders to Rim, who stood by the rail at my side. |
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| 3 | 59 |
The mate of the ship leaned over the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 3 |
I stood at the rail of my ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 142 |
I turned away, leaving her at the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 171 |
"Come here!" Then he saw Cara, who had run to the rail, having heard him. |
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| 5 | 344 |
I stood at the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 370 |
I saw Cara and Tina standing by the rail. |
10 |
| 6 | 20 |
She ran to the rail and looked over the side. |
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| 6 | 31 |
Then, standing beside me at the rail, looking toward the forest, she put both her hands on her collar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 68 |
For a time the Forkbeard watched her, leaning on his elbows, on the rail, but then he left the rail. |
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| 2 | 5 |
The High Initiate of Kassau, a town at the northern brink of the forest, sat still in his white robes, in his tall hat, on the throne to the right, within the white rail that separated the sanctuary of Initiates from the common ground of the hall, where those not anointed by the grease of Priest-Kin... |
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| 2 | 44 |
Even now, on a high platform, behind the white rail, an Initiate was reading one aloud to the congregation. |
10 |
| 2 | 183 |
The litany and responses of the congregation were now completed and the Initiates, some twenty within the rail, began to sing in archaic Gorean. |
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| 2 | 186 |
Portions of the hymn were taken up by four delicate boys, standing outside the white rail on a raised platform. |
10 |
| 2 | 257 |
I looked again to the High Initiate, a cold, stern, dour man, hard faced, who sat in his high, white hat in his robes upon the throne within the white rail. |
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| 2 | 258 |
Within that rail, about the altar, some in chests, others displayed on shelvings, was much rich plate, and vessels of gold and silver. |
10 |
| 2 | 310 |
To the amazement of the crowd, at a sign from the High Initiate of Kassau, two lesser initiates opened the gate to the white rail. |
10 |
| 2 | 317 |
It is also used for workmen and artists, who may be employed to practice their craft within the rail, to the enhancement of the temple and the Priest-Kings' glory. |
10 |
| 2 | 318 |
Ivar Forkbeard's body was not anointed as it was carried through the gate in the rail. |
10 |
| 2 | 326 |
Toward the front of the temple, behind the rail, and even at the two doors of the temple, by the great beams which close them, stood the men of Forkbeard. |
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| 3 | 87 |
The Forkbeard then leaped over the rail of the sanctuary and strode among the people lying on their stomachs, the wall facing the Sardar being eaten by fire, illuminating the interior of the temple. |
10 |
| 5 | 114 |
Then he said to two others of his men, "Unbind the ankles of the other bondmaids and thrust them to the rail, where they may be seen". |
10 |
| 5 | 134 |
Then the other bondmaids, seventeen of them, were thrust to the rail, and, steadied by the hands of rowers, stood upon it, wrists fettered behind them, in coffle. |
10 |
| 5 | 140 |
"Throw the bondmaids between the benches and secure them," said Ivar, to those steadying them at the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 162 |
A stone bounded from the rail at the top of the port gunwale, splintering it. |
10 |
| 5 | 330 |
The Forkbeard stood angrily at the rail, looking back at the small flotilla of boats, dark in the night. |
10 |
| 6 | 87 |
His men, laughing, thrust the other girls forward, to the rail, forcing them to stand on the rowing benches. |
10 |
| 6 | 101 |
The gangplank was then thrust over the rail of the serpent and struck on the heavy, adzed boards of the dock. |
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| 22 | 60 |
Wulfstan, once of Kassau, now of Torvaldsland, in charge of supplying the ship, leaned over the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 108 |
I went to the rail of the ship. |
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| 22 | 187 |
On the high deck the captain, alone, stood, his hand on the rail. |
10 |
| 22 | 542 |
I ran to the rail to look after them. |
10 |
| 24 | 15 |
A large man, broad-shouldered, yet lithe, with large hands, a broad face, grayish blue eyes and unruly, shaggy, windswept reddish hair, stood at the rail. |
10 |
| 24 | 232 |
I felt myself taken and lifted, bound, to a sailor, who lifted me over the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 920 |
Sailors, at the port rail, with three poles, thrust the Palms of Schendi away from the dock. |
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| 4 | 958 |
I stood at the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 237 |
I looked out, over the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 256 |
I stood again by the rail. |
10 |
| 6 | 44 |
I remained at the rail, on the port side. |
10 |
| 6 | 85 |
"Two points off the port bow!" Men went to the port rail, and Ulafi climbed to the stern castle. |
10 |
| 6 | 124 |
I stood with Shoka near the rail. |
10 |
| 6 | 144 |
Shoka indicated that the two girls should rise and come to stand by the rail, to look out and see the fleet. |
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| 6 | 152 |
The two girls then stood by the rail, lovely, naked, neck-chained together, watching the passing ships, their bare feet on the smooth boards of the deck of the Palms of Schendi. |
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| 6 | 217 |
I stood at the port rail, by the bow. |
10 |
| 6 | 596 |
The gangplank was run from an opening in the starboard rail, swung open, to the wharf. |
10 |
| 6 | 664 |
Shoka, with a hook on a pole, drew Sasi back to the rail. |
10 |
| 6 | 665 |
He put aside the pole, and, one hand about her waist, drew her to him, lifting her then over the rail. |
10 |
| 6 | 668 |
Shoka then retrieved the pole and extended it outward, to draw the blond-haired girl back to the rail. |
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| 6 | 670 |
Her eyes, briefly, met mine as Shoka lifted her over the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 128 |
I looked over the rail, to the great wooden, iron-shod ram, which protruded, in part, from the water. |
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| 33 | 129 |
I looked over the starboard rail, and saw the great, curved shearing blade, fixed in the side of the vessel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 409 |
I then dragged him, half strangling him, up the sloping deck to the starboard rail, where, with a swift knot, I tied him to one of the uprights supporting the rail. |
10 |
| 3 | 12 |
I clutched the rail, in wonder. |
10 |
| 3 | 141 |
I held the rail, looking astern. |
10 |
| 3 | 216 |
Then I lay down on the smoothed deck, near the starboard rail, and, near a coil of mooring rope, fell soon asleep. |
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| 4 | 24 |
From my position at the starboard rail, near the bow, below the stem castle, I could not well see the arrangement of the Voskjard's formation. |
10 |
| 4 | 60 |
The officer, white-faced, looked over the rail of the stem castle. |
10 |
| 5 | 24 |
They pressed toward the rail. |
10 |
| 9 | 123 |
"I fear there is little time," called Callimachus from the rail of the Tina. |
10 |
| 9 | 332 |
Callimachus and I, with the officer, went to the starboard rail of the Tina. |
10 |
| 9 | 378 |
I discarded my belt and sword and dove from the rail of the Tina. |
10 |
| 10 | 3 |
I signaled the sailor and he lifted her from her feet and threw her over the bow rail. |
10 |
| 10 | 159 |
Miles of Vonda stepped upon the rail of the Tuka and he, and other men, leaped to the walk. |
10 |
| 10 | 168 |
Scarcely were they fast when Callimachus, followed by myself, and others, leaped over the rail. |
10 |
| 10 | 192 |
Men leapt from her rail, ahead of him. |
10 |
| 13 | 9 |
Lying as I was, bound upon the blade, looking to my right, I could see the port rail of Policrates' flagship. |
10 |
| 13 | 20 |
"Though you cannot see ahead, surely you can hear," said a voice at the port rail. |
10 |
| 13 | 22 |
There, at the rail, stood Policrates. |
10 |
| 13 | 30 |
Then he turned away from the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 61 |
A pirate running for the ship missed the bow rail and fell into the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 104 |
Then he left the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 184 |
The fellow, unable in the moment to release the weapon, was dragged over the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 208 |
I leaped from the blade mount to the port rail and, struggling, pulled myself upward. |
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| 16 | 212 |
He disappeared over the rail, grasping at it, screaming. |
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| 16 | 235 |
I ran to the starboard rail and leaped down to the starboard shearing blade. |
10 |
| 16 | 256 |
He looked about and then, white-faced, hurled himself over the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 273 |
I looked over the port rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 283 |
Then, clutching the weapon, the sling about my wrist, I vaulted the rail and, feet first, entered the water. |
10 |
| 16 | 317 |
In a moment I was over the rail and on the deck of Spined Tharlarion. |
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| 16 | 393 |
The Voskjard grunted, and half choked, as I hauled him, partly by the neck leash, partly by his arm, over the rail of the flagship of Policrates. |
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| 16 | 434 |
Sometimes we were ankle-deep in the water on the deck and, sometimes, near the port rail, we fought in water to our knees. |
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| 16 | 444 |
"Go to the starboard rail," I told him. |
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| 16 | 445 |
He waded to the starboard rail, and I followed him. |
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| 16 | 471 |
I looked over the port rail. |
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| 16 | 472 |
It was considerably lower now, given the listing of the ship, than the starboard rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 505 |
Kliomenes slid downward, toward the port rail. |
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| 16 | 506 |
I seized him by the hair and pulled him again toward the starboard rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 518 |
I stood by the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 523 |
The approach of the longboat had been visible to me, of course, for some time, from my standing position by the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 546 |
I slipped over the rail of the flagship of Policrates, and entered the longboat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 260 |
I climbed to the rail of the barge and ascended from thence to the surface of the landing. |
10 |
| 6 | 92 |
The fellow leaning on the rail turned to look at me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 17 |
She was standing at the front of the cart, grasping the front rail, looking forward. |
10 |
| 18 | 286 |
Boabissia clung to the rail, gasping. |
10 |
| 18 | 287 |
Her hands were white on the rail. |
10 |
| 18 | 290 |
"Yes," she whispered, her head down, clinging to the rail. |
10 |
| 18 | 295 |
She shook, clinging to the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 241 |
Various men at the rail and in the tiers rustled papers, or glanced at notes, held in their hands. |
10 |
| 9 | 531 |
"Two!" called a fellow from behind the rail, raising his hand. |
10 |
| 29 | 94 |
How I had squirmed, bound kneeling and helpless, the rail tight behind the back of my neck, my neck roped to it, under his touch! The work tunics of Mina and Cara had been thrust back, over their arms, and torn down. |
10 |
| 29 | 217 |
Tupita and I, and the others, shrank back in our bonds, then, in terror, pushing back against the rail to which our necks were tied. |
10 |
| 29 | 501 |
I tried to lift my head but, bound as I was, kneeling, tied by the neck at the rail, I could do very little. |
10 |
| 29 | 613 |
She fell back, her mouth bloody, by the post to my right, that supporting the rail on that side. |
10 |
| 29 | 869 |
I moaned, bound at the rail, helpless. |
10 |
| 29 | 1121 |
I stood before the rail. |
10 |
| 29 | 1122 |
Tupita was back of me, and half under the rail, where she had been thrust. |
10 |
| 29 | 1125 |
Tela, incredibly luscious, in the rectangle of red silk, which she had had to wear on the orders of Aulus, and Mina and Cara, half-stripped, scarcely less beautiful, bound in that order, still neck-roped to the rail, were to my left. |
10 |
| 29 | 1127 |
I came out a little from the rail. |
10 |
| 29 | 1434 |
Try! Please, Master! We must hurry away, before the men come back!" "It is too late!" cried Tela, fastened at the rail. |
10 |
| 29 | 1436 |
I, too, like Tela, Mina and Cara, though I was not bound at the rail, was helpless. |
10 |
| 29 | 1498 |
He had delayed in releasing the girls from the rail, to coffle them, apparently choosing to postpone his work until the resolution of the pending affray with Mirus. |
10 |
| 29 | 1598 |
The stranger came to the rail and examined Cara, and then Mina, and then Tela. |
10 |
| 29 | 1650 |
Mina, Cara and Tela were then freed of the rail, and all our ankles were untied. |
10 |
| 30 | 52 |
Earlier in the evening, in the frontward portion of the meadow, near the ruins of the long, low building, indeed, only a few feet in front of the rail, to which at that time Tela, Mina and Cara had still been fastened, Sempronius had fed me. |
10 |
| 30 | 53 |
Callisthenes had similarly put nourishment in the mouth of Tela, even as she was at the rail, neck-roped there. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 248 |
Then, a moment later, her hands pulled high over her head, suspended in her harness, she hung off the starboard rail of the bow deck, as Publia did off the port rail. |
10 |
| 1 | 369 |
If she does not, of course, she, within the sack or hood, bears the consequences of her own actions, after which she is likely to be kicked or struck while still inside the sack, or beaten while still in the hood, after which the sack might be hung over the back of the fee cart or she herself bound ... |
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| 20 | 224 |
In a moment, vaulting over the rail like a common seaman, he had disembarked. |
10 |
| 20 | 360 |
"What do you think, Vitruvius?" asked the fellow, leaning on the rail. |
10 |
| 20 | 453 |
After our boarding the plank was drawn back, over the rail. |
10 |
| 23 | 268 |
I left them alone and went to the rail, on the starboard side, amidships. |
10 |
| 24 | 63 |
The two beams, by fellows of Port Cos, were put in the mounts, the chains and harness pulled back inside, within the rail. |
10 |
| 24 | 229 |
"Oh!" said Publia, as one of the fellows of Port Cos lifted her up lightly in his arms and threw her over the rail of the port side of the bow deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 230 |
There was a sound of chain, pulling against the beam ring, the links suddenly growing taut, and Publia, suspended from the beam, in her chain-and-leather harness, hung at the port side, out, about a yard from the rail, her feet now slightly below the level of the bow deck, over the water. |
10 |
| 24 | 247 |
Then they widened, suddenly, and she gasped, and was thrown over the rail. |
10 |
| 24 | 428 |
My hands clenched on the rail. |
10 |
| 24 | 453 |
As so many were waving to us, I, too, with many of the others, at the starboard rail, waved back. |
10 |
| 24 | 616 |
"It was a good voyage," said the keeper, reaching out with a staff and hook to draw Publia, by the chain from which her harness was suspended, close to the rail. |
10 |
| 24 | 618 |
When Publia had been drawn closer to the rail two other fellows reached out and pulled her to the bow deck where they knelt her, in the shackles, in the harness, still attached to the chain. |
10 |
| 24 | 775 |
Publia was then drawn to her feet by an arm and conducted back, through the passage between the starboard rail and the stem castle, back amidships, to the gangplank, Claudia, responding to the cues of the chain, helpless in the hood, with tiny steps, hurrying behind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 199 |
"We did not even see them!" "Where?" demanded the officer, at the barge rail. |
10 |
| 13 | 201 |
Following my keeper, who, too, was curious, I went to the rail. |
10 |
| 13 | 434 |
My keeper then, pushing on the back of the yoke, thrust me over the rail of the barge, and I fell heavily, yoked, into the water and mud. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 555 |
These bridges were not such as the earlier "bridge," that which had led toward the surface of the turret, or tower, which had been little more than a flat rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 42 |
It was one of the "high cities," a forest of cylinders, a city of towering, spaced cylinders, many of them in bright colors, and, joining these cylinders, at various levels, like light curving, colored, rail-less traceries in the sky, were numerous bridges. |
10 |
| 29 | 213 |
Too, she asked this as though quizzically, as though she might be genuinely puzzled to find herself on her knees, bound at the pole, or rail, as she was. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 31 |
I felt hands reach down, over the rail, and seize me, and was drawn inboard, over the rail. |
10 |
| 40 | 48 |
I indicated that she might stand beside me, at the stern rail. |
10 |
| 40 | 169 |
Lord Nishida, I, and Pertinax, standing at the rail of the stern castle, lifted our hands. |
10 |
| 40 | 171 |
I then turned away from the rail. |
10 |
| 40 | 175 |
"Master," called Cecily, from the rail. |
10 |
| 40 | 176 |
I joined her at the rail. |
10 |
| 41 | 2 |
Two mariners were at the starboard rail, amidships, leaning out, looking back. |
10 |
| 41 | 73 |
At the high rail of the stern castle I saw, now far behind, the small motion in the water, now scarcely visible, even with the glass, in the swelling waves, which marked the point beyond which our mysterious companion could not proceed, that point which marked for it the end of a journey it could no... |
10 |
| 42 | 44 |
I went over the rail, and was in the water, making my way toward the sleen, now some yards abeam. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 77 |
In an Ehn he was on the open deck, hurrying to the starboard rail, where he stood beside Cabot, his hands on the rail, looking over, past the galley, to the deck of the seeming derelict. |
10 |
| 16 | 180 |
At that point a grapnel, attached to a length of chain, and that to a course of knotted rope, looped over the rail, struck the deck, scraped back across the deck, and was caught against the rail. |
10 |
| 21 | 120 |
I heard a scratch and a tap, from my right, some feet along the rail, and saw Seremides bracing himself against the rail, shading his eyes. |
10 |
| 21 | 413 |
Nearby, standing near the rail, I saw a dark figure, that of Seremides, braced against the rail, the crude, narrow crutch beside him. |
10 |
| 2 | 173 |
"Back oars! Back oars!" cried the second officer, standing wildly at the port rail. |
10 |
| 2 | 263 |
"Hail mighty Lurius of Jad! Hail Tyros! Hail Chenbar, Ubar of Tyros!" I was then drawn over the rail, and held in strong arms. |
10 |
| 3 | 17 |
Once I had been lifted over the rail of the galley and handed to others, my ankles had been unbound, and I had been blindfolded. |
10 |
| 5 | 14 |
I looked over the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 83 |
I removed my cloak, setting it aside, on the rail. |
10 |
| 5 | 128 |
I looked over the rail, at Thassa, wanting to see her, again, if only for the last time. |
10 |
| 5 | 218 |
"Over the rail with him," said a fellow. |
10 |
| 5 | 270 |
"Over the rail with him," said another. |
10 |
| 5 | 362 |
There, on the stem castle, behind its aft rail, a small figure, bent and twisted, stood, in cloak and mariner's cap, looking to windward, to the north. |
10 |
| 6 | 10 |
Did she not understand we would soon be west of the farther islands? When she had heeled her master to the rail, where he had joined me, I had examined her, as men will a slave, insofar as was possible, given her furs. |
10 |
| 6 | 96 |
"Why did you join me at the rail?" I asked. |
10 |
| 6 | 110 |
Some others went over the rail, seeking Daphna". |
10 |
| 6 | 115 |
We stood there at the rail for a time, in the falling snow. |
10 |
| 8 | 19 |
"Away!" called a man, standing at the rail. |
10 |
| 8 | 50 |
I looked over the rail, at the gray sky, the dim globe of Tor-tu-Gor, at the horizon, the flat, white, frozen desert about. |
10 |
| 10 | 113 |
On the stem castle I saw the small, crooked, frenetic figure of Tersites dancing, lifting his hands to Tor-tu-Gor, and going to the rail, from time to time, to shake his fists down at Thassa. |
10 |
| 11 | 45 |
We were joined at the rail by Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 11 | 63 |
Men were cheering, near the rail, pounding on one another, clasping one another in joy. |
10 |
| 11 | 68 |
"Clearly," said Aëtius, his hands clasped on the rail, "they are Parsit". |
10 |
| 11 | 75 |
I gasped, and clung to the rail, looking down to the water. |
10 |
| 13 | 154 |
He then went to the rail, and lowered himself to the waiting ship's boat, and I followed him. |
10 |
| 14 | 118 |
I saw no love for him across the rail. |
10 |
| 15 | 238 |
Left alone, I had little doubt he could drag himself to it, and, with it, perhaps clinging to the rail, rise to his feet. |
10 |
| 16 | 3 |
"Ship! Ship, to the bow, starboard!" Those on deck rushed to the starboard rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 21 |
From the starboard rail, given the height of the ship of Tersites, we could look down on both our galley and, higher, the deck of the seemingly unmanned ship. |
10 |
| 16 | 53 |
Cabot looked over the rail, at the presumed derelict. |
10 |
| 16 | 182 |
I saw the grapnel jerk against the rail, and twist in stress, and knew one or more men were climbing the rope. |
10 |
| 16 | 189 |
Many, however, given the swiftness with which they were drawn back, caught against the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 191 |
I saw one of the enemy Pani put an arm over the rail and he dropped back, headless, and fell into the sea. |
10 |
| 16 | 259 |
The last boarder there had been thrust back, over the rail. |
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| 16 | 260 |
The Pani who had been engaged there, with the exception of some two or three left guard at the rail, now rushed elsewhere. |
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| 16 | 262 |
Most perished, but several, who had time to turn their back, threw themselves over the rail, back to the water, presumably to be picked up by the small boats still about. |
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| 16 | 263 |
I was startled to see Seremides, hobbling on his crutch, near the forward port rail, where fighting had taken place. |
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| 16 | 316 |
Within a handful of Ehn forty riders of the tarn cavalry were at the rail, each armed with the small Tuchuk bow, used by the tarn cavalry, a weapon of considerable power, which may be swept easily from one side of a saddle to the other. |
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| 17 | 36 |
They are so beautiful! It was delightful to see them, too, in their free Ehn on deck, hurry to the rail, throw back their heads, and drink in the keen, rushing fresh air of vast, glorious Thassa. |
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| 17 | 168 |
As I had frequently served with the commander, largely at his assignment, prior to the fate of Seremides, whom I no longer regarded as a threat, I decided to stand near to him, at the rail. |
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| 18 | 9 |
I had accosted her from behind, as she had approached the rail, with her burden. |
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| 18 | 54 |
These are borne to the rail, where they are emptied, following which the pails, seriatim, on a long rope, are rinsed in the sea, thereafter to be returned to the chain hooks on the yoke. |
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| 18 | 170 |
She struggled to her feet, in the yoke, with its suspended buckets, and turned about, toward the rail. |
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| 18 | 174 |
She turned about, to look at me, more startled than reproachful, and I pointed to the rail, and she turned about again, and went to it, to empty the pails. |
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| 19 | 21 |
I saw four slaves, below, with their yokes, emerging from a hatch, closed behind them, bringing wastes to the rail. |
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| 21 | 1 |
I Fear Disorder; The Signal; Slaves are Returned to their Mats I stood at the rail, with many others. |
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| 21 | 38 |
Her small hands were on the high rail, at her shoulders. |
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| 21 | 109 |
Lord Okimoto moved his larger bulk to the rail. |
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| 21 | 187 |
Lords Nishida and Okimoto had been on the open deck, near the port rail, since the seventh Ahn. |
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| 21 | 224 |
It was in the late afternoon, shortly past the fifteenth Ahn, when a cry went up and I rushed, with others, to the port rail. |
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| 21 | 244 |
Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman, commander of the tarn cavalry, had now joined Lords Okimoto and Nishida at the rail. |
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| 21 | 255 |
Dozens of men had climbed on the rail, ascended the ratlines, or clung to the masts, that they might see the better. |
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| 21 | 321 |
Many stood by the rail, looking toward the land, their cheeks stained with tears. |
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| 21 | 356 |
And then others, from the rail, knelt about us, as well. |
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| 22 | 5 |
Some men were clambering up ropes, drawing themselves over the rail. |
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| 22 | 17 |
"No!" said Lord Okimoto, at the rail, barefoot, his robe awry. |
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| 22 | 54 |
I glanced back, to see Lord Okimoto, high above, at the rail of the great ship. |
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| 23 | 55 |
Moreover, interestingly, two of the fellows who had shared his boat, insisted that he had been whole at his oar, and that he had been the first to seize a rope, and climb toward the rail, far above. |
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| 23 | 56 |
An accident, presumably, had somehow taken place in the darkness, somewhere above, perhaps at the rail itself, the stray movement of a weapon, a running against an anchored blade, or such. |
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| 24 | 16 |
I was with the second contingent landed, some two hundred men, making its way down the ropes and rail nets. |
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| 24 | 32 |
I saw Tersites at the high starboard rail, that of the stem castle, looking over the side. |
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| 24 | 59 |
A large cage, containing an enormous sleen, snarling and obviously discomfited, was slung over the rail, and lowered toward the wharf. |
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| 24 | 204 |
On the other hand, I had heard a fellow remark, as one of the large cargo nets swung out from the rail again and once more began its descent to the wharf, "That is the last ten, the last of the slaves". |
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| 24 | 315 |
Looking up toward the rail from the wharf, I saw Seremides, watching the Pani below. |
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| 24 | 357 |
"Surely you saw him from the rail," I said. |
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| 32 | 65 |
I ran to the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 157 |
Far below, on the broad, level area, inside the rail, I saw two girls, in tunics of yellow and blue, the Slaver's colors, back-braceleted as other slaves, but also, interestingly, joined together, neck to neck, by a yard of chain. |
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| 17 | 440 |
Below, near the rail, one could sense the ground shaking beneath their tread. |
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| 17 | 523 |
At the end of the day we were making our way from the tiers, descending toward the broad open area between the rail and the stands, from there to exit toward the wagon-and-cart yard, some adjacent inns, and some of the closer camps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 126 |
Without a command, or the accompaniment of guards, we were not permitted on the stairs, those high, narrow, rail-less stairs, a wall at one side, at the height of which, giving access to the lower holding area, was the barred gate. |
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| 9 | 22 |
Once we were brought to the deck, and placed at the rail. |
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| 9 | 48 |
We remained, neck-chained, and back-bound, for nearly an Ahn at the rail. |
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| 9 | 51 |
We were brought to the deck, and then, when the ship had the beach abeam, and was a few yards from shore, we were plunged over the rail, and found ourselves awash in the surf. |
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| 10 | 111 |
"Over the side," said Tyrtaios, and, one by one, they went to the rail, and leapt into the water. |
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| 10 | 112 |
When the fellow who had attacked me went to the rail, grasping his bleeding arm, Tyrtaios, with a brief stroke of his blade, cut the spinal column at the back of his neck. |
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| 10 | 125 |
Tyrtaios then sprang over the rail, plunging into the restless, waist-high water. |
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| 10 | 127 |
Men poured over the rail after him, and about him, making their way to the shore. |
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| 10 | 128 |
I gathered the slave into my arms, stepped to the rail, and leaped into the water. |
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| 23 | 86 |
High above, I could see a man looking over the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 8 |
He had then, with the leash, fastened her neck, closely, to one of the stanchions supporting the rail, just under the rail. |
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| 61 | 1244 |
I looked up to the rail of the River Dragon. |
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| 61 | 1245 |
Licinius Lysias was at the rail, looking down. |
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| 61 | 1286 |
I turned back to the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 208 |
I looked up to the first balcony, and now detected darknesses behind the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 15 |
"You may hold to the rail," I was told, and my hands were placed on the rail. |
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| 8 | 65 |
Not in the vicinity of a free person I rose to my feet, and went to the rail, to look out, and saw the shore in the distance. |
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| 8 | 100 |
"She swims well," had said one of oarsmen, presumably at the rail, watching. |
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| 8 | 153 |
I gathered several of the oarsmen had gathered at the rail, watching. |
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| 8 | 638 |
The captain stood at the stern rail, and trained the glass on the approaching ship. |
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| 8 | 862 |
"The Dorna! The Dorna!" I ran to the rail. |
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| 8 | 874 |
Standing at the rail, holding it, my hands on it, near my shoulders, I saw nothing. |
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| 8 | 878 |
Others were crowded at the rail of the corsair. |
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| 21 | 119 |
I clung to the rail. |
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| 21 | 126 |
I sprang over the rail and was caught by Addison Steele. |
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| 33 | 306 |
"Do not fire," said Addison Steele, clutching the rail of the canal boat. |
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| 33 | 648 |
Then I had one hand on what seemed part of a rail. |
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| 33 | 652 |
I pulled it around, before me, one hand tight on the rail, the other hand, as it could, grasping the edge. |
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| 43 | 134 |
I saw Decius of Venna standing, clinging to a rail, shaking his fist, then his figure, growing smaller, was dropping behind. |
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| 45 | 35 |
Euphrosyne and I, as one, leapt through the rear curtains of the canopied area, were amongst the stern thwarts of the boat, and scrambled over the rail, and onto the pier. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 3 |
Clitus, Thurnock, and I went to the port rail. |
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| 16 | 43 |
"Mooring ropes," I said to the port-side oarsmen, who, standing, leaving their benches, had joined Thurnock and myself at the rail. |
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| 16 | 45 |
Others from the shore, fastened to the stones, were cast over the rail of the Tesephone, which were then secured on board. |
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| 16 | 47 |
But I had already vaulted over the rail and, catching my balance, unsteady for a moment, stood upright on the shore. |
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| 16 | 50 |
Thurnock eased himself over the rail, had his feet on shore, gained his balance, and was beside me. |
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| 18 | 115 |
Sakim looked out over the bow rail, smiled, and shrugged. |
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| 18 | 144 |
We continued to stand at the rail, regarding Thassa. |
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| 18 | 220 |
I turned back to the rail. |
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| 18 | 221 |
Sakim was white, grasping the rail. |
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| 18 | 236 |
"What now, Captain?" asked Sakim, his hands clenched on the rail. |
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| 26 | 12 |
I clutched the rail of the stern deck, looking upward, uneasily tracing the long, graceful, looping arc of the fire-streaming projectile launched from the ship in our wake. |
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| 26 | 79 |
By now the enemy ship was uncomfortably close, so close one could see faces at the enemy's rail, but it was not close enough to bring either its ram or shearing blades into play. |
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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 | 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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| 28 | 44 |
The men at the rail laughed, but the humor, it seems, was lost on the women. |
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| 28 | 64 |
Think of yourselves, below, on seeming wreckage, looking up at me and others, we above you, at the rail". |
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| 56 | 104 |
I gripped the rail of the Tesephone. |
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| 57 | 27 |
Some of the corsair mercenaries had leapt between the ships at the moment of contact, but these, isolated from their fellows who could not follow them, were cut down or forced back over the rail, some of whom were being crushed between the vessels in our battle to force the hulls apart. |
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| 57 | 40 |
One was killed by a screaming officer, and then men with shields rushed to the rail, that those who would cast the grapnels might loft them from behind shielding. |
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| 57 | 97 |
"We cannot meet them at the rail," said a man. |
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| 57 | 100 |
They could, sooner or later, overextend any line we could bring to the rail. |
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| 57 | 116 |
Almost at the same time dozens of mercenaries, unopposed, uttering war cries, leapt over the rail of the corsair ship on our starboard side, and landed on the smooth, glistening deck, only to cry out in dismay and alarm, as they slipped, skidded, and lost their footing. |
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