| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 48 |
On Gor, as in my native England, one keeps to the left side of the road. |
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| 9 | 50 |
When one keeps to the left side of the road, one's sword arm faces the passing stranger. |
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| 9 | 52 |
Once, however, Talena dragged me to the side of the road, and, scarcely able to conceal our horror, we watched while a sufferer from the incurable Dar-Kosis disease, bent in his yellow shrouds, hobbled by, periodically clacking that wooden device which warns all within hearing to stand clear from hi... |
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| 9 | 57 |
It gradually became clear that the road was becoming less traveled. |
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| 9 | 62 |
Late in the day we glimpsed a solitary tarnsman high above the road, a lonely image that depressed both myself and Talena. |
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| 9 | 85 |
We had not been on the road long when Talena clutched my arm. |
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| 9 | 86 |
I listened carefully, hearing the distant clank of a shod tharlarion on the road. |
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| 9 | 91 |
The ringing of the tharlarion's shod claws on the road grew louder. |
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| 9 | 148 |
We shoved Talena, who was now frightened, to the side of the road. |
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| 9 | 157 |
He stood proudly in the road, waiting for me to kill him. |
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| 9 | 158 |
I turned and went to Talena, who was standing piteously by the side of the road, waiting to see who it was that would unhood her. |
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| 18 | 41 |
I was not, of course, concerned with facilitating the entry of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen, who, as far as I knew, did not even constitute a portion of the garrison force, but I was concerned with opening the sky over the city in case I, and others, might be able to utilize it as a road to freedom. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 8 |
Yet this road, for all the loving craft of the Caste of Builders which had been lavished upon it, was only an unpretentious, subsidiary road, hardly wide enough for two carts to pass. |
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| 3 | 33 |
I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Sleen In the darkness I stumbled on toward the walls of Ko-ro-ba, striking the stones of the road with the butt of my spear, to keep on the road and to drive possible serpents from my path. |
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| 3 | 5 |
The road, like most Gorean roads, was built like a wall in the earth and was intended to last a hundred generations. |
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| 3 | 13 |
Here and there swarms of night insects began to stir, lifting themselves under the leaves of bushes by the road. |
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| 3 | 26 |
One obvious danger lay in the road itself, and the fact that I had no light. |
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| 3 | 27 |
After dark, various serpents seek out the road for its warmth, its stones retaining the sun's heat longer than the surrounding countryside. |
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| 3 | 30 |
Accordingly, in spite of my eagerness to return to Ko-ro-ba, I decided that I would withdraw from the road, wrap myself in my cloak and spend the night in the shelter of some rocks, or perhaps crawl into the tangle of some thorn bushes, where one might sleep in relative security. |
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| 3 | 46 |
I stepped into the road before him. |
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| 3 | 48 |
The shaggy creature, broad, powerful, monstrous in the proud deformation of his craft, stood before me, his feet planted firmly on the road. |
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| 3 | 52 |
He had apparently not expected to meet anyone on this road. |
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| 3 | 75 |
I passed him and continued down the road. |
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| 3 | 110 |
His hands fumbled on the cords and the great bundle of wood loosened and clattered to the stone flooring of the road. |
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| 3 | 112 |
He fell almost on top of the ax which lay on the road. |
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| 3 | 114 |
With the ax in his hands, suddenly he seemed to remember his caste, and he crouched in the road, there in the dusk, a few feet from me, like a gorilla clutching the broad-headed ax, breathing deeply, sucking in the air, mastering his fear. |
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| 3 | 138 |
He threw down the ax, which rang on the stones of the road to Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 3 | 139 |
Zosk sank down and sat cross-legged in the road, his gigantic frame shaken with sobs, his massive head buried in his hands, his thick, guttural voice moaning with distress. |
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| 3 | 144 |
I no longer considered the dangers of the road. |
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| 4 | 3 |
Was I not Tarl of Ko-ro-ba? Was there not such a city? Each pasang stone proclaimed there was—at the end of this road. |
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| 4 | 4 |
Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the Caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain. |
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| 4 | 7 |
I reached down and jerked the plant from the soil at the side of the road. |
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| 4 | 17 |
With a shudder I hurled the loathsome plant away from the road. |
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| 4 | 20 |
I prepared to set forth on my journey again, grateful that now the three moons of Gor might guide my path on this perilous road. |
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| 4 | 23 |
I sought a truth I did not know, but knew I must discover—and it lay at the end of this road. |
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| 4 | 28 |
My head turned imperceptibly as I scanned the rocks and bushes about the road. |
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| 4 | 36 |
Then I saw it, on its six short legs, undulate across the road, like a furred lizard, its pointed, whiskered snout swaying from side to side testing the wind. |
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| 4 | 68 |
A bolt of lightning shattered on the road not fifty yards before me. |
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| 4 | 79 |
My arm felt wet and trapped, and was raked with fangs and I was spun as the animal squealed with rage and pain and rolled on the road. |
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| 4 | 92 |
The raw meat, hot with the blood of the animal, nourished me, and I crouched beside my kill on the road to Ko-ro-ba, another predator among predators. |
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| 4 | 105 |
The darkness returned, and in the next flash of lightning I examined the blood again, but it was only blood, the blood of a sleen I had killed on the road to Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 5 | 2 |
The road was familiar, the long, relatively steep ascent to the crest of that series of ridges beyond which lay Ko-ro-ba, an ascent that was the bane of strap-masters of caravans, of bearers of burdens like poor Zosk, the woodsman, of all travelers afoot. |
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| 5 | 22 |
He stood with his arms in his robe, tall on the road, watching me. |
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| 5 | 27 |
The thought struck me that I, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, a mortal, here in the night on this road, might be looking upon the face of a Priest-King. |
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| 5 | 31 |
In pools of cold water lying among the stones of the road I could see the three moons of Gor. |
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| 5 | 101 |
I removed the hated robes of the Initiates from the body of the man and carried the naked body far from the road. |
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| 19 | 158 |
The words of the man of Ar, he who had worn the robes of the Initiates, he who had brought me the message of the Priest-Kings on the road to Ko-ro-ba that violent night months before, rang in my ears, "Throw yourself upon your sword, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" But I knew then that I would not throw myself u... |
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| 26 | 73 |
It was not her intention to condemn her sisters of Tharna into interminable and miserable bondage but to force them to take this strange first step on the road she herself had traveled, one of the unusual roads that may lead to love. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 97 |
It is said that neither the physical intricacies of the cosmos nor the emotions of human beings are beyond the scope of their power, that the feelings of men and the motions of atoms and stars are as one to them, that they can control the very forces of gravity and invisibly sway the hearts of human... |
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| 1 | 102 |
I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes. |
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| 16 | 90 |
"Yes," said Misk, "as was the man from Ar whom you met on the road long ago near Ko-ro-ba". |
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| 17 | 98 |
It was merely a scene of a road, bordered by some trees, which seemed to slowly approach the lens and then pass behind it. |
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| 17 | 107 |
I wondered of the man through whose eyes I was now seeing, who he was, what he had been, that unknown Implanted One who now walked some lonely road somewhere on Gor, a device of Priest-Kings. |
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| 17 | 112 |
I, in the very Nest of Priest-Kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of Priest-Kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar. |
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| 17 | 118 |
"Is this what was done once on the road to Ko-ro-ba, to a man from Ar, who spoke to me in the name of Priest-Kings?" "Of course," said Sarm. |
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| 30 | 17 |
I recalled the man from Ar, met on the lonely road to Ko-ro-ba long ago, who like a robot had been forced to obey the signals of Priest-Kings until at last he had tried to throw over the net, and its overload had burned away the insides of his skull, giving him at last the freedom of his own mortal ... |
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| 34 | 142 |
It was a lonely road that I now had to walk, and I wished to set out upon it as soon as possible. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 86 |
I knew what must now pass, and it was what would have passed in any city or on any road or trail or path in Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 327 |
I thrilled to their pursuit, and would elude them! Finally, when I was more than two hundred yards ahead of them, on a cruelly winding road, I switched off my headlights and drove off the road into some trees. |
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| 3 | 328 |
There were many turn-offs on the road, many bends. |
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| 3 | 332 |
I waited for about thirty seconds and then drove back to the road. |
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| 3 | 333 |
I drove lights off for several minutes, following the double yellow line in the center of the road by the moonlight. |
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| 3 | 334 |
Then, when I came to a more traveled highway, a cemented road, well trafficked, I switched on my lights and continued on my way. |
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| 3 | 341 |
I pulled into a small motel, a set of bungalows, set back from the road. |
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| 3 | 342 |
I parked the car behind one of the bungalows, where it could not be seen from the road. |
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| 3 | 453 |
Abruptly, on an impulse, I turned down a small side road, one of dozens that led from the highway. |
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| 3 | 460 |
It did not seem to be a car, but there was something, unmistakably, on the road behind me. |
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| 3 | 466 |
But the light seemed to light the road beneath it, in a yellow, moving pool of illumination that coursed ahead of it. |
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| 3 | 471 |
It was not moving on the road. |
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| 3 | 472 |
It was moving above the road. |
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| 3 | 473 |
I switched off the lights on the Maserati and whipped off the road, moving toward some patches of trees in the distance. |
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| 3 | 474 |
The object came to where I had turned off the road, seemed to pause, and then, to my horror, turned gently in my direction, unhurried. |
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| 8 | 86 |
Unharnessed tharlarion, returning to Lydius at the mouth of the Laurius, generally follow the southern shore road, which is not as much used by towing tharlarion as the northern. |
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| 8 | 254 |
I could see a long wooden ramp leading up from the pier to a long wooden road winding between the crowded warehouses. |
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| 8 | 255 |
We, in coffle, followed this road. |
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| 8 | 261 |
There were men who came to stand along the edge of the road to watch us pass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 395 |
* * * * On the back of the kaiila, on the road to the Oasis of Nine Wells, drowsily, I listened to the kaiila bells. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 662 |
The cart of Tup Ladletender, the itinerant peddler, was now much farther down the road, on the dirt road leading to the great road, formed of blocks of stone, leading to Ar. |
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| 6 | 123 |
It is some twenty pasangs or so from the "Vosk road". |
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| 6 | 124 |
The Vosk road was apparently one of the roads used many years ago by the horde of Pa-Kur, of the Assassins, in its approach to the city of Ar. |
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| 6 | 125 |
We had traveled the Vosk road after crossing the Vosk on barges. |
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| 6 | 128 |
It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ... |
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| 7 | 51 |
We had had no difficulty in traversing it, on the great road leading south to Ar. |
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| 7 | 293 |
The girls of Clitus Vitellius, I among them, stood at the line scratched in the dirt within the peasant village of Tabuk's Ford, some four hundred pasangs to the north and west of Ar, some twenty pasangs or so, west, from the Vosk road. |
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| 9 | 554 |
On the road from Tabuk's Ford I could see the cart of Tup Ladletender, the itinerant peddler, he between its handles, bent over, drawing it. |
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| 9 | 1187 |
Tup Ladletender's cart had now disappeared down the road leading from Tabuk's Ford, he between its handles, bent over, drawing it. |
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| 9 | 2432 |
I pulled Tup Ladletender's cart through the gate and out onto the dusty road leading from Tabuk's Ford. |
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| 9 | 2458 |
One could scarcely see the trees and road. |
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| 10 | 14 |
We had visited various villages, but, on the whole, we had made our way along the road to Ar. |
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| 10 | 18 |
When we had come to the great road I had rejoiced. |
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| 10 | 20 |
It is not hard to draw the cart on such a road. |
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| 10 | 22 |
We could see villages here and there more frequently now; too, occasionally there were hostels and taverns on the road. |
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| 10 | 38 |
The great road to Ar is marked with pasang stones. |
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| 10 | 39 |
We had followed the road to within two hundred pasangs of Ar. |
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| 10 | 40 |
Then we had left it, and, for two days, followed a side road. |
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| 10 | 59 |
Twice earlier, on the great road to Ar, Tup Ladletender had pointed out tarnsmen in flight, presumably messengers. |
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| 10 | 147 |
We soon took the road to Stones of Turmus. |
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| 11 | 356 |
My hair then I washed, and dried, and combed and brushed, taking from it the dust of the road leading to Stones of Turmus, and the sweat of the afternoon and early evening. |
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| 12 | 141 |
"I see dust there," I said, pointing to the road beneath, winding toward the fortress. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 125 |
Some slave girls, lovely fugitives, have been recaptured simply because they have thrown themselves whimpering at the feet of a man on a road, begging his touch. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 240 |
"It might avoid, too, the dangers of shipment upon Thassa," I said, "and provide, as well, a road to conquest and the acquisition of new territory". |
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| 6 | 347 |
In moving upstream from Schendi there is a bypass, rather like a lock system, which provides a calm road for shipping until the Nyoka can be joined. |
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| 26 | 40 |
That way, of course, one's sword arm faces the fellow on the other side of the road who might be passing you. |
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| 26 | 42 |
Goreans generally, incidentally, like the English, I am pleased to say, keep to the left of a road. |
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| 31 | 123 |
She had come far this night on the road to slavery. |
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| 33 | 5 |
There is the mightiness of the river, like a great road, twisting and turning, occasionally broken with green islands, sometimes sluggish, sometimes shattered by rapids and cataracts, sometimes interrupted by flooding cascades of water, sometimes a few feet in height and sometimes towering upwards h... |
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| 42 | 11 |
It was like a road to wonders, a shining, perilous, enchanted path leading into the heart of rich, hitherto unknown countries. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 177 |
Later in the morning, on the dusty road outside the posts, a two-wheeled cart passed, drawn by a small tharlarion, driven by a single driver. |
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| 25 | 280 |
* * * * We had been some two Ahn upon the road, returning to the lands of the Lady Florence of Vonda. |
10 |
| 25 | 342 |
I then stood barefoot in the dust of the road. |
10 |
| 33 | 2 |
"That is it!" I indicated to her, in the shallow valley between the two sloping hills, some half pasang from the southern road, the blue and yellow canvas of the distant tents. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 71 |
This is also the road popularly known as the Vosk Road, particularly by those viewing it from a riverward direction. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 204 |
Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed ov... |
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| 18 | 433 |
Outside the gate, lying in the dust of the road leading from Venna, bound hand and foot, was the girl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 |
I Throw Stones on the Road to Kailiauk I stepped aside, to the side of the road. |
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| 3 | 173 |
"A slave wagon is leaving on the north road at noon," he said. |
10 |
| 4 | 70 |
The young man then turned about, and gave his attention to the road and the tharlarion. |
10 |
| 4 | 103 |
I would stay with it until it reached its destination only if that destination lay on the road to Kailiauk. |
10 |
| 4 | 165 |
To our right, in a long, sloping valley, some two or three pasangs from the road, there were three narrow, slowly ascending columns of smoke. |
10 |
| 4 | 178 |
Ahead, on the road, there was a rolling cloud of dust. |
10 |
| 4 | 180 |
Grunting they scratched at the gravel of the road. |
10 |
| 4 | 183 |
He could not turn the wagon on the narrow road. |
10 |
| 4 | 196 |
"The road is closed. |
10 |
| 4 | 227 |
In a few Ehn we were more than a pasang down the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 3 |
The road was still muddy. |
10 |
| 5 | 16 |
In the center of the road, approaching, between, and with, the lines, drawn by two tharlarion, was an ornately carved, high, two-wheeled cart. |
10 |
| 5 | 128 |
I stepped to the side of the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 145 |
On the road to Kailiauk I threw back my head and laughed heartily. |
10 |
| 5 | 151 |
I bent down and picked up a rock, and tossed it ahead of me, down the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 163 |
I spun another rock down the road, after the lines and wagons. |
10 |
| 6 | 15 |
I had spent a night on the road and had arrived in Kailiauk, hungry and muddy, yesterday, shortly after the tenth Ahn, the Gorean noon. |
10 |
| 13 | 755 |
The beams from the headlights seemed wild on the road ahead of me. |
10 |
| 16 | 427 |
"We met once, on the road," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 376 |
In its more northern lengths this road is commonly thought of as the Vosk Road. |
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| 16 | 379 |
It makes it difficult, then, to bring supply wagons across the road, either from the east or west, the road acting then rather as a wall". |
10 |
| 21 | 1 |
The Road I fled along the stone road, eastward, back toward the Viktel Aria. |
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| 6 | 179 |
"What is that other wagon," I asked, "the smaller one, there near the side of the road, which has pulled aside to let the grain wagons pass?" I had been watching it approach. |
10 |
| 6 | 181 |
It was the sort of wagon whose contents are of so little value that it must yield the road in either direction to any vehicle that might care to pass it. |
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| 6 | 218 |
It was now, again, pulling toward the center of the road, the high iron-rimmed wheels trundling on the stone, seeking the long, shallow, shiny, saucerlike ruts, polished in the stone by the earlier passage of countless vehicles. |
10 |
| 6 | 231 |
I watched the wagon trundling slowly down the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 71 |
"I am to be on the road by dawn". |
10 |
| 16 | 75 |
An Ahn or so later, when it was nearly dawn, I eased myself silently from the back of the wagon and crouched down on the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 77 |
I then left the road and ran across the fields. |
10 |
| 16 | 82 |
I lay on the slope of a ditch, as it ascended to a road. |
10 |
| 16 | 94 |
I sought a dwelling, or a road, which I might follow to a dwelling, that I might there, like an urt, skulk about and, as at the inn, piteously seek some sustenance from their refuse. |
10 |
| 16 | 97 |
As I crouched in the grass I saw, in a valley below me, in a flash of lightning, like a wet stone ribbon, a road. |
10 |
| 16 | 101 |
As it was I lowered myself down its slope with the intention of then climbing the other side and attaining the surface of the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 104 |
I then started to climb toward the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 117 |
Gasping, holding at the grass, inching my way upward, I drew my body from the grass to the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 118 |
I looked at the road, from my belly. |
10 |
| 16 | 121 |
It was not an ordinary road, I thought. |
10 |
| 16 | 123 |
Gorean vehicles, commonly slow moving, tend to keep to the center of a road, except in passing. |
10 |
| 16 | 125 |
It might be a wagon, or a set of wagons, which had pulled to the side of the road during the storm and now, with the passing of the storm, had resumed its journey. |
10 |
| 16 | 126 |
It must be near morning, I thought, that they are on the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 129 |
I moaned and slid back from the road, again into the ditch. |
10 |
| 16 | 131 |
I could not see the surface of the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 143 |
I dreaded the climb again to the surface of the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 145 |
I did not understand the need for such a ditch at the side of the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 164 |
At least one other, I could hear him moving about, was above and in front of me, up on the surface of the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 228 |
"What were you doing on this road?" he asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 233 |
I did not even know what towns lay along this road. |
10 |
| 16 | 286 |
Both of the men then laughed, he standing now before me as I sat on the bank, and he, who was apparently alone, on the surface of the road. |
10 |
| 16 | 377 |
"Why are there such deep ditches at the sides of the road?" I asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 194 |
It was the name I had given to the two young men on the road, and also, if only to be consistent, to the Archon's man. |
10 |
| 18 | 99 |
"North, on the great road," said Speusippus. |
10 |
| 20 | 83 |
The road was fairly well traveled. |
10 |
| 20 | 209 |
What is he doing on this road?" "He picked up freight in Ar," she said. |
10 |
| 20 | 214 |
"What is he doing on this road?" I asked. |
10 |
| 20 | 217 |
"What road is this?" I asked. |
10 |
| 20 | 218 |
"It is the road to Argentum," she said. |
10 |
| 21 | 2 |
The road was wet. |
10 |
| 21 | 18 |
I made my way eastward, gasping, and walking and running, on the Argentum road, back toward the Viktel Aria. |
10 |
| 21 | 19 |
I did not think they would expect me to keep to the road. |
10 |
| 21 | 27 |
An additional reason for keeping to the road was that I thought, on the hard, wet surface, it might be more difficult to follow my sign, if sleen were later used. |
10 |
| 21 | 51 |
There was another reason I was retracing our steps on the Argentum road. |
10 |
| 21 | 70 |
Toward morning the rain stopped and I, fearful of discovery as it grew lighter, left the Argentum road. |
10 |
| 22 | 18 |
Although the wagon was normally open when on the road it was now, on this night, on which it had rained off and on, rigged with a temporary, now-partially-rolled-up cover. |
10 |
| 23 | 327 |
The wagon would proceed east on the Argentum road, reach the Viktel Aria, and turn south. |
10 |
| 24 | 29 |
Only two of the girls in this line had been in the slave wagon on the Argentum road with me, Emily and Luta. |
10 |
| 30 | 130 |
I then fled north for a few blocks on the Wall Road, and then turned right, east, to make my way back to Emerald. |
10 |
| 30 | 234 |
Frightened by the guardsman's warning, and not wishing to retrace my steps on Emerald I turned to my left, to take a side street to the Wall Road, which I assumed would be safe. |
10 |
| 30 | 235 |
Surely the Wall Road, which followed the interior circuit of Ar's walls, was only some four or five blocks west. |
10 |
| 30 | 377 |
There was no opening here to the Wall Road, which must, judging from the proximity of the wall, be only forty or fifty yards behind the building. |
10 |
| 30 | 676 |
They did not even proceed to the Wall Road. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 182 |
It is not unusual, now, to refer to the road of Clearchus as the "old west road" and that of Cyprianus as the "new west road". |
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| 4 | 170 |
This had considerably reduced the traffic on the road of Clearchus, now to its north, which had approached the fairs in such a way as to favor the traffic from the northwest, with the result that several of the establishments on the road of Clearchus had been abandoned or relocated. |
10 |
| 4 | 180 |
In the old days the road of Clearchus was often referred to as the "west road". |
10 |
| 4 | 166 |
"Do you know where lies the old inn of Ragnar, on the old west road?" he asked. |
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| 4 | 169 |
Some two years ago the merchants and builders had opened the road of Cyprianus, named for the engineer in charge of the project, which led to the fairs rather from the southwest. |
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| 4 | 181 |
This designation became less useful after the recent opening of the road of Cyprianus. |
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| 5 | 1 |
What Occurred in the Inn of Ragnar; I Will Return to the Camp of the Lady Yanina I pounded on the door of the old inn of Ragnar, now closed, on the old west road. |
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| 5 | 49 |
After all, a free woman cannot very well be expected to traverse the old west road unattended. |
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| 6 | 331 |
"And I have been a long time upon the road," he said. |
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| 6 | 393 |
Then, if you decide, in your nobility, to deny me even the briefest of peeps, what harm could possibly have been done?" "A splendid suggestion, kind sir," she said, "but where, in this fair meadow, at the side of a public road, will I find suitable privacy?" "Here!" said Boots, lifting up the veil. |
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| 6 | 435 |
"Here I stand by a public road, stripped as naked as a slave," said the Brigella, confidently, to the audience, "but yet am perfectly concealed by this wondrous veil". |
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| 6 | 514 |
Suddenly, with a cry of apprehension, looking down the road, Boots snapped away the cloth and whipped it behind his back, seeming to stuff it in his belt, behind his back. |
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| 6 | 516 |
"What have you done, sir? Explain yourself, instantly!" "I fear brigands approach," he said, looking wildly down the road. |
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| 6 | 670 |
"Phoebe on her knees, as naked as a slave, on a public road, crawling out of a man's robes!" laughed the Bina, pointing derisively at her. |
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| 6 | 698 |
"And what would you do, to pay your way on the road?" he asked. |
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| 6 | 718 |
"A naked woman," he asked, skeptically, "encountered beside a public road?" "Oh!" she cried in misery. |
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| 6 | 887 |
"My feet and sandals are rather dusty, from the road," said Boots. |
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| 7 | 25 |
We were some two hundred pasangs west of the fairgrounds, at the edge of the woods of Clearchus, just off the road of Clearchus. |
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| 7 | 267 |
Tomorrow, before nightfall, I suspected, Boots's wagons would leave the fair, probably heading west, probably on the road of Clearchus. |
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| 7 | 268 |
It is a dangerous road. |
10 |
| 7 | 280 |
We were some two hundred pasangs west of the fairgrounds, at the edge of the woods of Clearchus, just off the road of Clearchus. |
10 |
| 8 | 84 |
"He was keeping watch, at the road," said one of the men. |
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| 8 | 93 |
I had made the acquaintance of Bort, briefly, near the road. |
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| 9 | 2 |
"See?" We were in a small clearing in the woods, not far from the road. |
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| 12 | 532 |
Behind him, barefoot and naked, bent under the burden of his purchases, which were strapped to her back, her legs filthy to her thighs with dust from the road, came one of his girls, Lady Telitsia. |
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| 13 | 9 |
I had been surprised to see Lady Telitsia running towards me down the road. |
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| 13 | 150 |
She was then dragged to the side of the road. |
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| 16 | 36 |
"Back, even in your vast numbers, you warriors and foes," cried Petrucchio, grimly, "lest I slice you like roast tarsk, lest I shred you like tur-pah and peel you like suls!" Chino and Lecchio, understood as two simple travelers on the road, come unexpectedly on Petrucchio and his companions, looked... |
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| 16 | 64 |
Indeed, you may even breathe calmly, if that should be your wish, for as much as though you were safe in your beds within your stone keeps, protected each by the vigilance of a thousand valiant guards, you are safe here, nay, safer, though even on a public road, for here you stand within the walls o... |
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| 16 | 263 |
"It is only that two days ago, in the morning," said Chino, "in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner, Groppus, by three female slaves masquerading as free women, re... |
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| 16 | 285 |
Too, there are three of them, and they are heading on this road, in this direction, in exactly those garments". |
10 |
| 16 | 533 |
"They seem like good fellows, but on the road one can never be too sure". |
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| 16 | 542 |
"Well, then," said he to Chino, "let me take them down the road and see how at these shops of which you speak go this day's pudding prices". |
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| 16 | 581 |
"It is only that we have recently come from that way," he said, gesturing with his head back down the road. |
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| 16 | 591 |
"Ten towns down the road," he said, "have just declared war on Turia. |
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| 16 | 721 |
"Perhaps it would be churlish of me," said Petrucchio, "to slay you here upon the road, after we had become such fast friends". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 58 |
It is located at the intersection of various routes, the Genesian, connecting Brundisium and other coastal cities with the south, the Northern Salt Line and the Northern Silk Road, leading respectively west and north from the east and south, the Pilgrims' Road, leading to the Sardar, and the Eastern... |
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| 3 | 137 |
We had come to the vicinity of the road, the Genesian Road, early this morning. |
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| 16 | 1828 |
"That is the Treasure Road," I said, indicating a narrow road in the distance. |
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| 2 | 64 |
I have fought with other women for garbage beside the road". |
10 |
| 3 | 66 |
These supplies, of course, were not intended for vagabonds or itinerants who might be encountered on the road but for the kitchens set up at the various nights' encampments. |
10 |
| 3 | 99 |
I watched the wagon for a moment or two, trundling down the road on its wooden-spoked, iron-rimmed wheels. |
10 |
| 3 | 104 |
The women in the road were only now getting to their feet. |
10 |
| 3 | 107 |
They had apparently come only this morning from some village to the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 115 |
She was frightened, I think, at the looks she received from some of the free women at the side of the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 118 |
Some, doubtless, merely came from their villages, or the remains of their villages, down to the side of the road to beg as the wagons passed. |
10 |
| 3 | 135 |
The wagons, for the most part, were well scattered apart on the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 269 |
"Sometimes they will send their children out beside the road to do the begging. |
10 |
| 3 | 279 |
Certainly he had stopped and fed some of the women along the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 293 |
"The rearward contingents of the units before us will be some ten pasangs up the road," he said. |
10 |
| 3 | 396 |
It was now growing dark along the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 397 |
Here and there, back from the road, on one side or the other, there were small camps of free women. |
10 |
| 3 | 411 |
Beside the road, on the right, a human figure, head and legs dangling downward, on each side, was fixed on an impaling stake. |
10 |
| 3 | 420 |
This was the first sign I had had today, that there were truly soldiers ahead of us on the road. |
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| 3 | 421 |
A girl looked up from the small fire in one of the roadside camps, and then, suddenly, rose to her feet and, in the shadows, darted out to the road. |
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| 3 | 442 |
She released the halter and then stood there in misery, in the shadows, in the road, facing us, a foot or so from the jowls of the animal. |
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| 3 | 444 |
Then the whip flashed forth again, like a striking snake, and she, struck once more, sobbing, stumbled back on the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 471 |
"Tula, the proud," he said, angrily, "has now become only another slut by the road". |
10 |
| 3 | 485 |
It was now rather dark but the road shone clearly in the moonlight. |
10 |
| 4 | 35 |
On the other hand, officially, as I had gathered from the driver with whom I had ridden on the Genesian Road, these Alars had been approached to serve as suppliers and wagoners to the troops. |
10 |
| 4 | 36 |
It was in this capacity that they were this close to the road. |
10 |
| 4 | 178 |
In this small detail I suspected there might be found evidence of the possible relationship between the movements of Cos and the coming of the Alar wagons to the Genesian Road. |
10 |
| 4 | 352 |
We found her, years ago, when she was an infant, beside the road, abandoned in blankets, amidst the wreckage of a burnt, raided caravan". |
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| 5 | 1 |
Hurtha; Boabissia; We Are Now on the Genesian Road "What are you doing here?" I asked Hurtha. |
10 |
| 5 | 11 |
"The road I project is a difficult one," I said, "and it may be dangerous". |
10 |
| 5 | 94 |
It was in the neighborhood of dawn and now, after their breakfasts, wagoners were readying their wagons and harnessing their tharlarion and, indeed, some had already taken to the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 116 |
The stones of the Genesian Road, in Se'Kara, would be cold. |
10 |
| 5 | 185 |
The wagon lurched and, moving unevenly, the wheels going over rocks and traversing ruts left from the passage of other wagons, began its climb to the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 186 |
"Hold!" I said, suddenly, to Mincon, as we came to the edge of the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 191 |
I have been waiting by the side of the road". |
10 |
| 5 | 252 |
Other wagons were emerging from the camp, coming up the small slope, and trundling onto the stones of the Genesian Road. |
10 |
| 5 | 285 |
Another wagon climbed to the road, and rolled by. |
10 |
| 5 | 301 |
"I am going to throw it away, here, along the side of the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 343 |
He threw the dagger, with its sheath, to the side of the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 375 |
To be sure, the other wagons from this camp were now more than a pasang or two down the road. |
10 |
| 5 | 506 |
The wagon moved forward, and rolled up onto the stones of the Genesian Road. |
10 |
| 6 | 3 |
"They were intended for the mess of the high officers, up the road," he said. |
10 |
| 6 | 60 |
We had been with him now four days on the road. |
10 |
| 6 | 147 |
"One sees many folks on the road. |
10 |
| 6 | 172 |
"Shall I summon guardsmen from down the road?" he asked. |
10 |
| 7 | 7 |
"At least I see but one road ahead". |
10 |
| 7 | 27 |
"We are alone on the road," said Boabissia. |
10 |
| 7 | 52 |
"Here," I said to Hurtha, going to where he had stumbled off the road. |
10 |
| 7 | 77 |
How marvelous are slaves! "If you had listened to me," said Boabissia to Mincon, "we would have been on the road more than four Ahn ago!" I swung up to the wagon box. |
10 |
| 7 | 96 |
I then returned to the road. |
10 |
| 8 | 29 |
I began then to advance down the road. |
10 |
| 8 | 36 |
"They emerged from covered pits," I said, "dug near the road". |
10 |
| 8 | 44 |
"There are others," I said, looking over the road. |
10 |
| 8 | 46 |
Free women had come to the road. |
10 |
| 8 | 53 |
He sat wearily beside the road, his head in his hands. |
10 |
| 8 | 56 |
Stalks of veminium broken beside the road had now dried. |
10 |
| 8 | 96 |
Some, too, were off the road. |
10 |
| 8 | 124 |
Hurtha walked back to the top of a small rise in the road. |
10 |
| 8 | 128 |
"Are you all right?" I asked the fellow by the side of the road. |
10 |
| 8 | 141 |
I saw the head of Mincon's tharlarion come over the rise, moving about, on its long neck, scanning the road, and then, in a moment, the wagon. |
10 |
| 8 | 164 |
Even now word has probably been brought to the contingents ahead on the road". |
10 |
| 8 | 167 |
I then went to the fellow whom we had found by the road and helped him to his feet. |
10 |
| 9 | 52 |
To one side, off the road, a Cosian guard, mounted, lifted his lance in salute. |
10 |
| 11 | 3 |
"From several nights ago," he said, "on the Genesian Road, at one of the camps". |
10 |
| 15 | 303 |
"There is no road from Torcadino," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 540 |
She could not have been more helpless had she been staked out in the Barrens, lashed to an oar in Torvaldsland, chained as a prize to the stirrup of a war tharlarion on the Vennan road, kneeling buckled, hand and foot, waiting, in a slave harness on Tyros, fastened to a pleasure rack in a dingy, hal... |
10 |
| 15 | 649 |
"If the main might of Ar is sent northward there would be a free road from the trenches about Torcadino almost to the gates of Ar themselves. |
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| 15 | 826 |
"Recently, on the Genesian Road, north of Torcadino, there was an attack on a portion of the Cosian supply trains, a massacre. |
10 |
| 16 | 1442 |
We might reach the Argentum Road and take it east to the Viktel Aria. |
10 |
| 16 | 1465 |
"We will take, then, that route called the Eastern Road, or Eastern Way," I said. |
10 |
| 16 | 1466 |
"That is the route called the Treasure Road, is it not?" she asked. |
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| 16 | 1476 |
It seemed to me probably best, all things considered, to take the Treasure Road. |
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| 16 | 1613 |
It has to do, I suppose, with the venomous jealousy of a woman who has taken an unhappy path, a road commended to her by many but one which she has discovered leads only to her ultimate frustration, misery, and lack of fulfillment. |
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| 16 | 1840 |
We then began to descend from the crest of the slope, making our way slowly toward the road. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
The Treasure Road "Way! Make way!" called the driver. |
10 |
| 18 | 7 |
"Rich tarsks," snarled a fellow on the road, moving to the side. |
10 |
| 18 | 11 |
"I think little treasure moves these days upon this road," said Hurtha. |
10 |
| 18 | 20 |
"See the soldier by the road, there?" "Yes," he said, turning about to get a better look. |
10 |
| 18 | 107 |
"Look," I said, gesturing to the side of the road with my head. |
10 |
| 18 | 109 |
They were off the road, on the grass, in various attitudes of rest. |
10 |
| 18 | 117 |
"Normally, many more slaves are transported on this road," I said. |
10 |
| 19 | 12 |
"There is supposedly a checkpoint down the road," said Boabissia. |
10 |
| 19 | 260 |
One of the figures in the purple cloak and helmet stood out from the others near the side of the road and lifted his hand. |
10 |
| 19 | 384 |
Only a few feet away, set off from the road a little, on our right, was the impaling pole we had seen from the cart. |
10 |
| 19 | 497 |
Then I turned about to look ahead, down the road. |
10 |
| 20 | 4 |
"Move, move aside," called the driver to some of the pedestrians on the road. |
10 |
| 20 | 7 |
There were few wagons drawn up along the road here. |
10 |
| 20 | 9 |
A woman, with a pack on her back, stumbled, and then regained her feet, hurrying along the side of the road. |
10 |
| 20 | 28 |
We could see the great gate, too, and the main road leading to it, the Viktel Aria. |
10 |
| 20 | 50 |
"Drinks, cool drinks!" called a woman, selling juices by the side of the road, coming up to the cart. |
10 |
| 25 | 427 |
At any rate, if there were to be any danger, it did not seem to me appropriate that I should enter my hearty companion of the road into it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 136 |
Certainly they were often kept this way, I had been given to understand, on highway and road treks, if only to protect their tunics from sweat and dust. |
10 |
| 20 | 148 |
Goreans generally do not employ slaves for such labors as road construction, siege works, raising walls, and so on. |
10 |
| 25 | 185 |
Indeed, they had done so on the Viktel Aria itself, which, in effect, is a military road. |
10 |
| 26 | 202 |
Surely I would have seemed then only another slave, only another soft, pretty thing, of no account, kneeling on the road, kneeling in the darkness, its head down, its neck chained to a master's stirrup. |
10 |
| 27 | 12 |
Doubtless drovers would be with them on the road, with their whips, should they be tempted to lag in their zeal. |
10 |
| 27 | 24 |
Then he had recognized her on the road. |
10 |
| 27 | 27 |
Had I had any doubt he had recognized me on the road, and that that had been responsible for his change of direction, that doubt had been dispelled in the camp. |
10 |
| 27 | 135 |
Such a missile, of course, might be as easily launched from the brush at the side of a road, as I might be walking beside a tharlarion, my neck in a chain, running to a master's stirrup. |
10 |
| 27 | 140 |
How well he handled a woman! How well he had mastered me! I remembered that on the road a "gentlewoman," one from Ar, had been mentioned. |
10 |
| 27 | 221 |
I was pleased that there was not too much brush along the side of the road. |
10 |
| 29 | 1091 |
"There was a traveler on the road a few Ehn ago, but he is gone now". |
10 |
| 29 | 1095 |
The wagon, I supposed, was hidden somewhere in the woods, away from the level area, away from the road. |
10 |
| 32 | 8 |
I could not see it now, but I could hear it, in the distance, descending toward the road. |
10 |
| 32 | 27 |
Doubtless it would soon be on the road. |
10 |
| 34 | 231 |
"I shall be proud to walk naked behind you, on the road," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
The Road; The Slave In a sudden flash of lightning, showing the driving rain, the wagons, the crowd on the road, I saw ahead, above me, and to my left, about a half of a pasang forward, on its stony plateau, the inn of the Crooked Tarn. |
10 |
| 1 | 114 |
Apparently they had been removed deliberately from the road, and might be replaced, thence to be removed again, at will, to again jeopardize the integrity of the road, their absence in the darkness in effect constituting a trap. |
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| 1 | 328 |
I went then again to the left side of the road and, when a wagon trundled by, unknown to the driver, I put my pack in it, and, again, as I had before, held to its right side with my left hand, to keep from falling in the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 21 |
It kept, too, to the left side of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 25 |
The wagon was moving north on what, in this latitude, was usually called the Vosk Road, but farther south was generally known as the Viktel Aria. |
10 |
| 1 | 38 |
I pulled my pack from the wagon I was trekking beside and, feeling about, locating the side of the next wagon moving south, felt around it, and went to the side of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 48 |
I stood on the road, at its edge. |
10 |
| 1 | 51 |
That was probably where the wheel had missed the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 61 |
They were road pirates. |
10 |
| 1 | 97 |
It would be near the trap, to save time, and off the road, that traffic not be blocked. |
10 |
| 1 | 112 |
I located the stones which were missing from the edge of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 135 |
"Stay the traffic on the road, as you can, for an Ehn," I said to the fellow of the driver. |
10 |
| 1 | 136 |
"We will get the wagon on the road". |
10 |
| 1 | 143 |
It ran from the pitched surface of the road downward, in tiny rivers; it struck into the swirling ditch water, lashing it into foam, dashing it upwards, its impact registered in thousands of overlapping circles and leaping crowns of water. |
10 |
| 1 | 171 |
It would attempt its rendezvous with the road by an ascendant diagonal. |
10 |
| 1 | 175 |
"Look out!" cried someone from the road, above, perhaps a fellow come forward, inquiring concerning the delay, dismounted from one of the other wagons. |
10 |
| 1 | 180 |
"Who is down there?" called a fellow from the surface of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 181 |
I saw lanterns lifted, above, on the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 185 |
The first tharlarion now had its heavy, clawed feet on the stones of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 187 |
Some other men, too, came to the second tharlarion, hauling on its harness, and others, too, seized the wagon sides and the forward wheels, lending their efforts to getting the wagon on the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 188 |
This was done in part in the camaraderie of the road, but, too, men were anxious to be on their way. |
10 |
| 1 | 190 |
"I see only one fellow down there," said a man from the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 196 |
I saw it now above me, mostly on the road, though, tilting, the left wheels were still over the edge of the stones. |
10 |
| 1 | 197 |
The darkness and the traffic on the other side made it hazardous to pull fully across the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 200 |
I ascended to the surface of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 244 |
"The wagon is still off the road," I said, indicating the left wheels. |
10 |
| 1 | 247 |
"Help me get the wagon to the road," I said. |
10 |
| 1 | 272 |
I then slowly, observing the man with the knife, lowered the wagon to the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 294 |
I stood on the road, watching it leave, my pack in hand. |
10 |
| 1 | 302 |
I wanted the wagon to get a bit down the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 321 |
Two more men left the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 330 |
Too, from time to time, lightning shattered across the sky, suddenly bathing the road and countryside in flashes of wild, white light, this coupled almost momentarily, sometimes a little sooner, sometimes a little later, with a grinding and explosion of thunder. |
10 |
| 1 | 401 |
It had been a narrow thing a few Ehn ago, back on the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 429 |
Because of the storm, the rain and wind, another method of dealing with such fellows had not been suggested back there on the road, but it is not unknown. |
10 |
| 1 | 433 |
I withdrew my pack from the wagon beside which I was walking and let it pass me, and then, following diagonally behind it for a moment, crossed to the left side of the road. |
10 |
| 1 | 438 |
I stepped from the road. |
10 |
| 2 | 135 |
Indeed, Ar's Station, in effect, secured the northern terminus of the Viktel Aria, or Vosk Road, at the Vosk. |
10 |
| 2 | 136 |
The Viktel Aria was a military road, one laid out by military engineers as a military route. |
10 |
| 2 | 318 |
"Would you have had us spend the night on the road, like peasants?" demanded the third woman. |
10 |
| 3 | 97 |
"On the Vosk Road," I said, warily. |
10 |
| 6 | 235 |
"It resembles the sign within the palisade then," I said, "that which is visible for a pasang or so, down the road, the sign of the 'Crooked Tarn. |
10 |
| 6 | 463 |
Thanks, of course, to the coins from the brigands' coin box, taken from them by the road, if nothing else, my finances were currently in excellent order. |
10 |
| 8 | 63 |
Probably at one time or another, before the founding of Ar's Station, it had served to garrison troops, perhaps concerned to monitor the more northern reaches of the Vosk Road. |
10 |
| 8 | 65 |
The ordinary one-day march of the Gorean infantryman on a military road is thirty-five pasangs. |
10 |
| 8 | 669 |
On the left, far below, I could see the Vosk Road, like a bright thread in the sun. |
10 |
| 8 | 821 |
Below me now lay the Vosk Road, and we flew north. |
10 |
| 8 | 845 |
I looked down at the Vosk Road, below. |
10 |
| 9 | 61 |
The location of the tree was close enough to the road that she might, if I had not returned by morning, call out, attracting attention to herself, thus saving herself, even if, at the same time, making it almost certain that soon thereafter her thigh would know the fiery kiss of a slave iron, and he... |
10 |
| 10 | 104 |
"South, on the Vosk Road," I said, "at the Crooked Tarn". |
10 |
| 10 | 428 |
I took it from a courier of Artemidorus, south of here, on the Vosk Road, at an inn, the Crooked Tarn!" "Hooded, and on a rope, I do not think you will learn much of our defenses," said a voice. |
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| 11 | 156 |
"I took it from a courier for Artemidorus at the Crooked Tarn, an inn, south on the Vosk Road. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 178 |
On that road, that dirt road, that narrow road, almost a path, long and dusty, the dried grass on each side, a figure was approaching. |
10 |
| 3 | 1 |
Prisoners The road below was a dirt road. |
10 |
| 43 | 4 |
We had then walked east a way on the Brundisium Road before, in a small wood, leaving the road and returning to the vicinity of the slave camp. |
10 |
| 1 | 12 |
I noted that her hair had grown out somewhat, in the weeks since I had last seen her, a free woman on the chain of Ephialtes, a sutler whom I had met at the inn of the Crooked Tarn, on the Vosk Road. |
10 |
| 1 | 47 |
We were overjoyed, thinking to be freed, but found to our dismay that we were put in coffle, to be taken northward on the Vosk Road to the vicinity of Ar's Station". |
10 |
| 1 | 499 |
"Some weeks ago," said the man near me, "before the fall of Ar's Station, Borton, carrying dispatches for Artemidorus, stayed at an inn on the Vosk Road. |
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| 1 | 1295 |
If possible, we were to meet on the road to Holmesk, to the south, in the vicinity of the village of Teslit. |
10 |
| 3 | 12 |
Like the road, it seemed empty. |
10 |
| 3 | 21 |
Had they sought to engage, it seemed not improbable that they might meet on the Holmesk road, perhaps in the vicinity of Teslit, approximately halfway between the Vosk and Holmesk. |
10 |
| 3 | 22 |
I looked down on the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 29 |
Once I supposed that that placid road below, that ribbon of dust between the brown shores of grass, had run with blood. |
10 |
| 3 | 30 |
Then once again there was only the silence and the dry road, stretching northward. |
10 |
| 3 | 40 |
I had been in this vicinity, keeping a small, concealed camp, overlooking the road, some five days. |
10 |
| 3 | 51 |
The road below seemed as empty as ever. |
10 |
| 3 | 52 |
I had cut my camp into the side of a small, brush-covered hill, east of the road. |
10 |
| 3 | 55 |
I watched the road. |
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| 3 | 73 |
The road was empty. |
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| 3 | 106 |
I looked down at the empty road. |
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| 3 | 122 |
The road was empty. |
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| 3 | 152 |
I glanced down again, toward the road. |
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| 3 | 183 |
Then, after a time, I took a small rock and, when the figure had passed, hurled it over and behind the figure, so that it alit across from it, to the west of the road. |
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| 3 | 225 |
"Below!" "Hola there, fellows!" called a man from the road, cheerfully. |
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| 3 | 230 |
I lifted my hand to the men on the road. |
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| 3 | 234 |
"It lies on this road, to the south," I said. |
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| 3 | 241 |
I had been watching the road. |
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| 3 | 242 |
Had they been following Marcus, on the road, in the open, I would have seen them. |
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| 3 | 243 |
More importantly, from this height, with the sun on the road, one could see the tracks in the dust. |
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| 3 | 254 |
"Have no fear," called the fellow on the road. |
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| 3 | 267 |
Then I called down to the men on the road. |
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| 3 | 294 |
"Come down!" called the man on the road. |
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| 3 | 298 |
We then, together, slipping a bit, descended from the camp to the road. |
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| 3 | 304 |
Surely he did not seriously think I was going to encumber myself with a pack, not descending the hill, not regaining my balance at its foot, not carrying it to the road. |
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| 3 | 397 |
He slipped to his knees, and fell to the dust in the road. |
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| 3 | 531 |
They would be removed from the road, of course, the better to conceal the movements of a patrol of Ar. |
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| 3 | 600 |
One must distinguish between the slave girl who is put to a stirrup as a discipline, who might be taken into the country like this, even on dirt roads, to gasp and sweat, and struggle, at the stirrup, and the girl who, in a city, or on a smooth stone road, of great fitted blocks, serves primarily, a... |
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| 35 | 23 |
We shall then put him on a road, with a stick". |
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| 38 | 21 |
"It has to do with something which I saw this evening, returning from the sutlers' area, on the road, near the Cosian camp". |
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| 39 | 102 |
There had been some other slaves, too, following the slim line of mercenaries on the road, beauties serving as pack slaves, bearing burdens. |
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| 39 | 125 |
As I stood back, with others, off the road, as they passed, the leader, and the others, I was sure, would not recognize me. |
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| 40 | 158 |
"Welcome, Tarl," said Mincon, my friend from the Genesian Road, and Torcadino, "we have been expecting you". |
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| 42 | 51 |
"I saw someone yesterday on the Brundisium Road," I said. |
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| 42 | 63 |
"I will not speak in great detail," I said, "but recognitions on the Brundisium Road were not exclusively my own. |
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| 42 | 66 |
They, however, saw me on the road and, it seems, followed me. |
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| 42 | 68 |
"The road was crowded," said Marcus. |
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| 48 | 230 |
To be sure, I could presumably find a woman here and there on the road, or even, as we passed various markets, buy one and sell her, and then buy another and sell her, and so on, as we traveled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 273 |
I had known for a long time, even as long ago as the inn of the Crooked Tarn, on the Vosk Road, before the fall of Ar's Station, that she had profound slave needs, but I had never suspected their depth until I had seen her in a camp outside Brundisium, kneeling before Marcus, looking up at him, unbe... |
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| 4 | 59 |
But I did not know, even then, how far they might get, what with the need of such conveyances, brigands on the road, advance scouts of Cos, and such. |
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| 8 | 44 |
Some were even street wagons, and not road wagons, the latter generally of heavier construction, built for use outside the city where roads may be little more than irregular paths, uneven, steep, rugged and treacherous. |
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| 8 | 289 |
"We are coming to the Wall Road," said Marcus. |
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| 8 | 290 |
This is the longest road, or street, in Ar. |
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| 8 | 430 |
I hurried forward, to the Wall Road. |
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| 8 | 438 |
I stood on the Wall Road, back near Harness Street. |
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| 8 | 462 |
Some were also on the lower level, even on the Wall Road. |
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| 8 | 565 |
We saw some children to one side, on the city side of the Wall Road. |
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| 8 | 572 |
A flute girl, come apparently from the wall side of the Wall Road, danced tauntingly near us, to our right, and, with the flute, while playing, gestured toward the wall, as though encouraging us to join the others in their labor. |
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| 8 | 587 |
Then, angrily, she spun about, dancing, to return to her former post near the wall side of the Wall Road. |
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| 8 | 600 |
I walked over to her and, taking her by the hair, twisting it, she crying out, turned her about and threw her to her belly on the Wall Road. |
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| 8 | 751 |
"No, Master!" she said, and leaped to her feet, running across the Wall Road, her hands tied behind her, wisps of silk fluttering about her waist, the flute dangling from her neck. |
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| 8 | 791 |
To be sure, several of them, and many on the wall, too, both flute girls and laborers, had paused in their various activities, to follow the sequence of events on the Wall Road. |
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| 8 | 810 |
Then, one by one, as the brunette hurried among them, they picked their way down the paths from the breach to the Wall Road and hurried away. |
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| 8 | 1003 |
We then turned about, and left the vicinity of the Wall Road. |
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| 8 | 1004 |
Near the entrance to Harness Street, off the Wall Road, I turned about. |
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| 19 | 34 |
We then, after noting the travelers on the road, particularly on the more isolated roads to the northeast, running through the villa districts, doubled back. |
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| 19 | 49 |
"Hola," had called I, "slave!" She immediately stopped and put down the basket, and hurried to the side of the road where we waited. |
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| 19 | 124 |
"But she did not plan on meeting two strange fellows on the road," I said. |
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| 19 | 315 |
"I expect she will be cuffed a bit," he said, "either for dallying or for permitting herself to be seen so provocatively on the road, with a dampened tunic". |
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| 19 | 326 |
"I see no one on the road," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 7 |
The road is, in effect, a sunken wall, and such a road will last for hundreds, even thousands, of years, with little repair. |
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| 30 | 660 |
There is a road, a secret road, so to speak, between Earth and Gor. |
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| 26 | 1316 |
Ellen hoped she would be neither left behind nor abandoned on the road. |
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| 27 | 138 |
Portus Canio and the others, then, would presumably turn southeast, toward Ar, hoping to reach the great southern road, the Viktel Aria, Ar's Victory. |
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| 29 | 3 |
Never before had she seen such a road. |
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| 29 | 6 |
In making such a road, a great trench is dug, and then the stones are laid, wall-like, within the trench. |
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| 29 | 8 |
How old the road might be she had no idea, but she could see ruts worn in the stone, presumably by the continuing passage of carts and wagons, season in and season out, decade in and decade out. |
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| 29 | 26 |
"I have a tunic! You are only a naked slave! You are naked! Naked! Only a naked slave, publicly marched on a chain, exposed on a common road!" The slave cast a furious glance at her but the fellow about whose pommel was looped the chain put back his head and laughed loudly, and gave the chain a litt... |
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| 29 | 32 |
She is afraid of her master! She is well mastered! Let them all be well mastered! Eyeing the guards then, one of whom, as though to frighten her, turned his kaiila toward her, Ellen retreated to the trees at the edge of the road. |
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| 29 | 34 |
"The road! The Viktel Aria, surely, Master!" said Ellen. |
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| 29 | 39 |
"She dared to toss her head at me, so I ran to her and called her attention to my tunic, that I was clothed, be it only so minimally, so revealingly, and to the fact that she was only a naked slave, only that, and one publicly marched on a chain, one blatantly exposed on a common road". |
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| 29 | 51 |
The sight of such as she, you see, provides a pleasure, a luscious glimpse, a pleasant interlude, for weary travelers upon a long road, at the least an incentive to increase one's pace, to hurry one's steps to the nearest paga tavern". |
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| 29 | 61 |
"Will we enter upon the road when the caravan passes, Master?" asked Ellen. |
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| 29 | 67 |
Ellen supposed that she should have asked permission to stay near the road, but then she dismissed the thought. |
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| 29 | 78 |
She waited by the road while the caravan passed. |
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| 29 | 281 |
"Even today," he said, angrily, "you did not ask permission to remain at the road, but announced that you would do so. |
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| 29 | 283 |
Do you know the penalty for such truancy? You did not kneel when entering our presence! Do you know the penalty for such disrespect? You deserve to be left in the forest for sleen! On the road, itself, earlier, you ran beside a slave and discomfited her, and risked calling the attention of armed men... |
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| 30 | 205 |
"You will be a naked slave," he said, "publicly exposed on a common road". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 239 |
"Justice will have its way, by one road or another". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98 |
"It was a brief intersection of interests, a moment when we traveled a single road". |
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| 1 | 99 |
"And that road has forked?" she said. |
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| 3 | 133 |
"I saw no track amidst the trees, no road," I said. |
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| 5 | 627 |
"The great road, the Viktel Aria, was lined, on both sides, for pasangs, with the bound, squirming, whimpering bodies," said a man. |
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| 9 | 192 |
These logs were trimmed, sawn, harnessed, and dragged by grunting, hissing draft tharlarion to staging areas where, skinned of bark, and piled, they awaited hoisting by weights and pulleys onto wagons, which were then drawn by tharlarion down a narrow, muddy road, soon disappearing amongst the trees... |
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| 9 | 193 |
Interestingly, this road did not seem to lead west, toward the coast. |
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| 11 | 3 |
It would house several beasts, but I supposed, at this time of day, most, if not all, of the tharlarion would be about the camp, or active on the road to the southeast, hauling logs, or returning. |
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| 14 | 109 |
In Tarncamp and, I suspected, elsewhere, say at the end of the mysterious road to the southeast, there were far more Goreans, of a familiar sort, than Pani. |
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| 15 | 418 |
"Step by step walk the thousand-mile road," he said. |
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| 22 | 369 |
She will only have a new rope on her neck, be whip-herded with others on an unfamiliar road, toward an unfamiliar destination, and market, will only find herself in a new cage, pen, or kennel, will have on her neck a new collar, and such things. |
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| 22 | 414 |
Given the rough, narrow road leading from the camp, cut from the forest itself, muddy, unpaved, deeply rutted, the wagon loads of timber and planking transported almost daily upon it, its direction and such, to the southeast, I conjectured that it would lead to a waterway. |
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| 22 | 420 |
We saw some torches, down the road, approaching, from the central camp. |
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| 22 | 647 |
A leash was then snapped about her neck, and she was led from the fire, toward the road, toward the central camp. |
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| 27 | 2 |
As the huts and sheds, the warehouses and bath houses, and cook houses, dormitories and arsenals, and the dojo, collapsed in flaming timbers and planks, hundreds of men, in columns, following wagons, drawn by tharlarion, took the mysterious well-rutted road which had led eastward, southeastward, fro... |
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| 27 | 49 |
Ashigaru prowled the edges of the road, lest any of Lord Nishida's minions, primarily mercenaries, be tempted to avail themselves of an unobstructed highway to another prince, one with perhaps a deeper purse. |
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| 27 | 54 |
I took it then that whatever destination might lie at the end of the road to the east was some three or so days distant, on foot. |
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| 27 | 100 |
"Let us address ourselves to the road". |
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| 28 | 1 |
In the Forest, Its Miseries; A Talena; I am Attacked; A Sleen is in the Vicinity It was now the third day on the forest road. |
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| 28 | 3 |
The track was muddy, and we were surely far behind schedule, for wagons, on the already deeply rutted road, became frequently mired. |
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| 28 | 8 |
Sometimes trees were felled to widen the road, to avoid the miring. |
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| 28 | 9 |
Twice the road was washed out and a bridge of felled, roped trees must span it, a bridge that would sometimes break and be swept away, given the current and the weight to which it was subjected. |
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| 28 | 58 |
I withdrew from the wagon, and stepped back, away, to the side of the road. |
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| 28 | 82 |
A wind swept the forest, with a rushing noise, whipping wet, overhanging branches, tearing away leaves, shedding and spattering more and more water onto the pools in the road. |
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| 28 | 146 |
It was here, on the road, we would stay for the night. |
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| 28 | 235 |
I recalled that the scent of a sleen had also been detected back in the vicinity of Tarncamp, on the road between the central camp and the training and storage area. |
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| 28 | 449 |
"Behold," said one of the Pani, indicating with the shaft of his long glaive the figure brought recently to the road. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 873 |
"I think, now, that was to allow one of their fellows to reach the Brundisium road, and make inquiries at a road village, in the vicinity of an abandoned inn, the Inn of Ragnar". |
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| 3 | 919 |
'I want to reach the Brundisium road by dark, and road village of Ragnar, near the old inn. |
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| 3 | 942 |
About the eighteenth Ahn we reached the road, and, shortly thereafter, we reached what I took to be the village of Ragnar, no more than some small buildings, mostly dark, some little more than shacks, on both sides of the road. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 184 |
The road stretched ahead, a gleaming line between hills, beyond the first large-wheeled, lumbering wagon, that of the Lady Bina, and, perhaps Lord Grendel, a road, I learned, of layers of fitted stone blocks, feet deep. |
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| 18 | 1171 |
Far down the road, behind us, one could make out a darkness, some dust rising from the road. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 2 |
Why does one take one road, and not another? Sometimes curiosity, sometimes adventure, sometimes because it is a new road, on no familiar map. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 50 |
It lay in the territory of one of Lord Yamada's daimyos, on a road leading to the northern road. |
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