| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 48 |
That evening I dropped my pack near a rock platform and set about gathering some wood for a fire. |
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| 1 | 214 |
I looked around and recognized the platform of rock near which I had set my bedroll. |
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| 1 | 224 |
It was silent and settled on the rock platform, scarcely disturbing the light snow that was scattered on it. |
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| 1 | 229 |
Before entering the ship, I stopped at the side of the large, flat rock on which it rested. |
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| 6 | 192 |
"Where is the tarn?" I repeated, more interested at the moment in the fate of my fierce mount than in the ridiculous piece of rock I had risked my life to obtain. |
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| 12 | 119 |
The saddle and reins of the tarn were no longer on the bird and had undoubtedly rotted off or had been rubbed from his back by scraping against the rock escarpment backing its nest ledge. |
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| 12 | 169 |
Almost as an afterthought I had included the Home Stone of Ar, that simple, uncomely piece of rock that had so transformed my destiny and that of an empire. |
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| 14 | 89 |
One tarnsman leveled a crossbow, and in that instant I hurled the lance and he toppled backward, the shaft of the weapon protruding from his chest, the bolt from his crossbow ricocheting from the rock above my head with a flash of sparks. |
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| 15 | 33 |
Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ... |
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| 18 | 74 |
The giant landed on the rock floor of the circular pit, and I looked upward, my glance climbing the sheer, artificially smoothed sides of the pit, which stretched perhaps a thousand feet above me on all sides. |
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| 18 | 76 |
In the center of the pit a crude cistern had been carved from the living rock and was half filled with cold but foul water. |
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| 20 | 43 |
I awoke, perhaps weeks later, stiff and chilly in the mountains of New Hampshire, near the flat rock on which the silver spacecraft had landed. |
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| 20 | 70 |
Two or three times a year I have returned to the mountains of New Hampshire, to look again on that great flat rock, to spend a night there, in case I might see once again that silver disk in the sky, in case once again I might be summoned by the Priest-Kings to that other world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
Eventually we found what we supposed to be the ashes of his fire, near a large flat rock some nine hours' climb from the highway. |
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| 2 | 49 |
In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the... |
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| 5 | 109 |
I placed a large flat rock near the head of the cairn and, with the tip of my spear, scratched this legend on it. |
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| 14 | 200 |
The descent was as smooth and silent as the falling of a rock, the opening of a hand. |
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| 15 | 152 |
I picked up a small rock and threw it from the ledge, watching it sail toward the fields below. |
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| 19 | 59 |
I climbed one of the great chains to the huge windlass set above the shaft and found myself among hundreds of cheering men, their chains struck off, their hands boasting weapons even if only a piece of jagged rock or a pair of shackles. |
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| 23 | 186 |
No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 43 |
I had not long to wait for only a few moments later, perhaps no more than ten Gorean Ihn, a section of stone rolled silently back and upward revealing a rock passage beyond of perhaps some eight feet square. |
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| 10 | 96 |
Then the Priest-King ceased to rock and its antennae uncurled, almost reluctantly I thought, and it once again rested quietly back on its posterior appendages and regarded me. |
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| 14 | 181 |
"I dug this chamber myself," he said, "and day by day over the lifetimes of many Muls I took a bit of rock dust away and scattered it here and there unobserved in the tunnels". |
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| 17 | 134 |
When it was almost there the man stood up and holding the pipe in both hands trained it at a nearby rock. |
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| 17 | 135 |
There was a sudden flash of fire and a crack of sound from the hollow tube as some projectile hurtled through it and shattered against the rock. |
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| 17 | 136 |
The face of the rock was blackened and some stone had been chipped from its surface. |
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| 23 | 2 |
Deep in the unlit tunnels of the Golden Beetle, those unadorned, tortuous passages through the solid rock, I came upon her body. |
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| 23 | 58 |
Time and time again I stumbled against outcroppings of rock and bruised my shoulders and thighs but never once did I diminish my speed in my headlong race back to the cavern of the Golden Beetle. |
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| 24 | 22 |
It seemed to me most unnatural, as though the creature might have been a living rock, or a blind, carnivorous growth. |
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| 31 | 112 |
In a few moments, though the disk was damaged by falling stone and I could barely see through the powdery drifts of rock hanging in the collapsing tunnels, I had come to the Power Plant and leaped from the disk and raced to its doors. |
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| 31 | 181 |
Drifts of rock powder hung in the air, fitted stone tumbled to the flooring far below, the walls trembled, the very globe and walkway fastened to it seemed to shift and shudder. |
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| 31 | 215 |
More rock dust drifted between me and the pair locked in the embrace of death. |
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| 31 | 216 |
More rock tumbled to the dome and bounced clattering to the debris below. |
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| 32 | 69 |
In the distance we could hear dull explosions and the crash of falling rock. |
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| 32 | 153 |
At that moment, through the drifting rock dust, I saw the heavy, domed body of one of the Golden Beetles, perhaps fifty yards away. |
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| 32 | 159 |
Suddenly, through the rock dust, I could scent that strange narcotic odor. |
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| 32 | 177 |
He stood shuddering in the drifting rock dust, amid the crashings of distant rocks. |
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| 32 | 216 |
Vika still lay unconscious in my arms and I had folded her robes about her in order to protect her face and eyes and throat from the rock dust below. |
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| 33 | 18 |
I descended with Vika from the trail and, as I floated down to the bottom of a small crevice between the trail and the gate, the bottoms of my sandals stung when I hit the rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 564 |
But she stood like a rock and when I thundered past her the tip of my lance had been thrust through the tospit. |
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| 9 | 46 |
"Perhaps," he suggested, "you would like a piece of roasted bosk meat?" I replaced the golden eating prong in its rack beside my place, shoved back the glittering dish in which lay several theoretically edible objects, carefully arranged by a slave to resemble a bouquet of wild flowers sprouting fro... |
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| 11 | 233 |
Kamchak, as he often did, was sitting on what resembled a gray rock, rather squarish, except that the corners tended to be a bit rounded. |
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| 11 | 234 |
When I had first seen this thing, heaped with other odds and ends in one corner of the wagon, some of the odds and ends being tankards of jewels and small, heavy chests filled with golden tarn disks, I had thought it merely a rock. |
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| 11 | 237 |
It was clearly not a rock. |
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| 20 | 72 |
The bridge began to rock and sag on its ropes and several men from the building began to thunder across towards me. |
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| 26 | 149 |
Kamchak did not seem disturbed at the wait, but sat like a rock, cross-legged before the opening, looking across it, until planks were brought, and then he, and the sleen, were the first to cross. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 72 |
Then, clearing the shelf by no more than six inches, it seemed to rest there, not actually touching the rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 241 |
"Go outside," I told him, "and find a rock, and bring it to me". |
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| 16 | 246 |
He held in his hand a sizable rock, somewhat bigger than my fist. |
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| 16 | 247 |
It was a common rock, not very large, and gray and heavy, granular in texture. |
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| 16 | 248 |
I took the rock. |
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| 16 | 251 |
I cut in the rock the initials, in block Gorean script, of Port Kar. |
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| 16 | 252 |
Then I held out in my hand the rock. |
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| 16 | 256 |
"Now," said I, facing the man who had told me there was but one choice, that of flight, "shall we fly?" He looked at the simple rock, wonderingly. |
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| 16 | 260 |
I held up the rock. |
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| 18 | 543 |
I saw a man on the parapet fall screaming backward, struck by a rock as large as his head, hurled from the small hands of Luma. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 44 |
About two hours, I would guess, after dawn, I came to a rock outcropping. |
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| 6 | 53 |
Not far away, in another outcropping of rock, I found another pool of trapped rain water. |
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| 6 | 70 |
Here and there I found more berries, and, from time to time, more outcroppings of rock in which, almost invariably, I found water, doubtless trapped from recent rains. |
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| 8 | 521 |
My hands were in the cold water, immersing the fabric, and lifting it and wringing it, and pounding it on the rock, and immersing it again, in simple, ancient rhythms. |
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| 8 | 540 |
I knelt there on the flat rock, pounding and rinsing the fabric, in the fresh air with the bright blue sky overhead. |
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| 8 | 543 |
I put down the wet fabric and suddenly stood up on the rock, throwing my arms into the air and laughing. |
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| 8 | 546 |
"I am a female!" I stood on the rock in the sun before the rushing stream, my arms raised, eyes closed. |
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| 8 | 550 |
Swiftly, lest I be beaten, I knelt again on the rock and returned to my washing. |
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| 13 | 177 |
Over tiny fires, using rock-sharpened, green sticks, we roasted our catches. |
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| 13 | 226 |
With a sharp rock and a stick I started to work on the animals. |
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| 13 | 238 |
After I had worked for a while, Ute, taking up a rock and a stick, began to help me. |
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| 13 | 449 |
A short distance from the camp, I knelt down and picked up a heavy rock. |
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| 13 | 450 |
I hid in the brush beside the trail, clutching the rock. |
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| 13 | 460 |
I threw the rock down beside her. |
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| 15 | 4 |
The left side of her forehead was still discolored where I had struck her with a rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 159 |
With a rock I struck down a forest urt. |
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| 22 | 465 |
He pursued her for a moment, bent down to pick up a rock and sailed it after her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 31 |
When the rock has been in the water it is removed with a rake and then reheated. |
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| 3 | 278 |
Then a rock fell among us, and another. |
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| 6 | 3 |
Here and there, clinging to the rock, were lichens, and small bushes, and even stunted trees. |
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| 7 | 216 |
Behind a large rock, the cringing thrall, frightened, indicated what he had found. |
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| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
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| 15 | 6 |
He sat down, with his back against a rock. |
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| 15 | 156 |
When snow gave way to patches of rock they would pause, momentarily, nostrils lowered, reading sign that would have been undetectable to a human. |
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| 15 | 176 |
A rock struck near me, shattering into the granite of the mountain, scarring it. |
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| 15 | 239 |
The first Kur was some eight or ten feet below us when, suddenly, it slipped on the rock and, with a wild shriek, scratching at the stone, slid some four feet downward and then plunged backward, turning in the air, howling, and, some five Ihn later, struck the rocks far below. |
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| 15 | 243 |
The rock hurled by Ivar struck it from the almost vertical wall of stone. |
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| 15 | 306 |
I recalled the two Kurii, precariously clinging to the wall of rock, one of which had fallen attempting to reach us, the other of which Ivar had struck from the wall with a heavy stone. |
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| 15 | 317 |
Although there is much snow on the heights of the Torvaldsberg, there were also, on the peak, many areas of bare rock, swept by the wind which, on the peak, seems almost constant. |
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| 15 | 318 |
I crossed a patch of snow, ankle deep, crusted, to ascend a snow-free, rounded rock. |
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| 15 | 348 |
Ivar and I leaped from the rock; the two Kurii, one to each of us, approached. |
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| 15 | 356 |
A piece of granite, shattered from the rock, stung me. |
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| 15 | 402 |
I hurled a rock at it. |
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| 15 | 403 |
The rock struck the shield, bounding with a clang away, down into the abyss. |
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| 15 | 407 |
I threw another rock, weightier than the first. |
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| 16 | 21 |
It was carved from the living rock. |
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| 19 | 5 |
He stopped before Svein Blue Tooth and Ivar Forkbeard, who, on seats of rock, awaited it. |
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| 20 | 15 |
It is grayish rock, bleak, upthrust, igneous, forbidding. |
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| 20 | 171 |
On the tiny rock promontory, footing the skerry, some eight or nine feet in width, I met Ivar Forkbeard, and his men. |
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| 22 | 276 |
I had suspected this when I had stood on the heights of the Torvaldsberg, on a windswept rock, looking upon the lands beneath, white and bleak, and beautiful. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 89 |
Beyond this, though Four Palms lay farther from Klima than Red Rock, its route, it seemed, would bring one sooner out of the dune country than the route to Red Rock, and into the typical Tahari terrain of rock and scrub, where some game might be found, occasional water and possible nomadic groups no... |
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| 19 | 84 |
* * * * The march of Hassan had as its object not Red Rock, northwest of Klima, but Four Palms, a Kavar outpost known to him, which lay far to the south of Red Rock. |
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| 26 | 261 |
First, she had called out his name at Red Rock, among the flames, during the raid of Tarna's men; secondly, she had fled from his riders, to return to Red Rock, to seek him out, when she had been captured; third, she had, that very evening, upon discovering who might be her master, cried out his nam... |
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| 1 | 471 |
"On a rock there was scratched this message: Beware the steel tower". |
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| 1 | 474 |
"Near the rock, dead," said Ibn Saran, "blistered, blackened by the sun, dried, weighing no more than a child or woman, was a man. |
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| 1 | 491 |
"That was scratched on the rock," said Ibn Saran. |
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| 1 | 621 |
"A tender of kaiila, a boy, lost from his camp," said Samos, "found a rock. |
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| 1 | 622 |
On this rock was inscribed 'Beware the steel tower. |
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| 1 | 824 |
The water, seeping underground, eventually, in places, due to rock formations, erupts in oasis springs, or, more usually, is reached by deep wells, some of them more than two hundred feet deep. |
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| 2 | 20 |
Tor, lying at the northwest corner of the Tahari, is the principal supplying point for the scattered oasis communities of that dry vastness, almost a continent of rock, and heat, and wind and sand. |
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| 2 | 190 |
In Kasra I had learned the name, and father, of the boy who had found, in pursuing a kaiila, the rock on which had been inscribed 'Beware the steel tower'. |
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| 3 | 79 |
It had been he who had, enroute in a caravan, months before, discovered the rock on which had been inscribed 'Beware the steel tower. |
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| 3 | 116 |
Then he had asked, "What is your business, Hakim of Tor, and may I in any way be of service to you?" It had been on the route to the Oasis of Nine Wells that the boy had seen the rock. |
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| 3 | 135 |
Enroute I would find the rock which had been discovered, some months ago, by the boy Achmed, the son of Farouk. |
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| 3 | 136 |
This rock would be the place at which my search must begin. |
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| 3 | 137 |
After determining this point, I would continue on to the Oasis of Nine Wells, where I would lay in supplies and water, attempt to hire a guide, and, returning to the rock, strike eastward into the Tahari. |
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| 7 | 38 |
And, earlier, months ago, a caravan boy, Achmed, the son of the merchant, Farouk of Kasra, had found the inscription on a rock, "Beware the steel tower". |
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| 7 | 67 |
Had there been sand storms the rock, too, presumably, would have been covered. |
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| 10 | 61 |
"We are attempting to dig out the rock, the sand," said the merchant. |
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| 11 | 1 |
Red Rock, Where Salt is Shared; Hassan and I Encounter Tarna "You do not wear bells on your kaiila harness!" said the man, threatening us with his lance. |
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| 11 | 168 |
"Be quiet," he told her, "or I will sell you to raiders from Red Rock. |
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| 11 | 170 |
He then skipped away as she, shouting abuse, flung a rock after him. |
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| 11 | 173 |
"The oasis of the Battle of Red Rock," said Hassan to me, "is one of the few outpost oases maintained by the Aretai. |
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| 11 | 206 |
It is thus not unusual that, in a desert situation, a calm, normal person may, misinterpreting physical cues, make an oasis, complete with buildings and trees, out of energies reflected over a heated surface from rock and brush. |
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| 11 | 215 |
"Does the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock have, at its northeast rim, a kasbah, with four towers?" "Yes," said Hassan. |
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| 11 | 224 |
"There is Red Rock," I said. |
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| 11 | 227 |
"I have never been to Red Rock. |
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| 11 | 253 |
Red Rock, more than seventy pasangs away, is seen, in its image, here". |
10 |
| 11 | 258 |
"How did you know it was not Red Rock?" I asked. |
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| 11 | 267 |
"We had not come far enough, nor at our pace, fast enough, for it to be Red Rock". |
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| 11 | 272 |
* * * * It was the next day, at the eleventh Ahn, one Ahn past the Gorean noon, that we arrived at the Oasis of Red Rock. |
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| 11 | 287 |
The oasis which we were entering is named for the Battle of Red Rock, which is a large shelf of reddish sandstone behind the oasis, north by northeast from its lowest point, and center. |
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| 11 | 295 |
Had Ba'Arub destroyed or fouled the public wells at Red Rock, those outside the walls of the kasbah, Hammaran would have been forced to retire in twenty-four hours, and perhaps lose most of his men on the return march to his country. |
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| 11 | 299 |
The wars and raids, I gathered, had not touched Red Rock. |
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| 11 | 305 |
The battle of Red Rock, for which the oasis is named, took place more than seventy years ago, in 10,051 C. |
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| 11 | 331 |
It may be appropriate here to mention that the reason that Hammaran came to Red Rock seventy years ago is not even known, by either Aretai or Tashid. |
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| 11 | 376 |
Did pretty Alyena think that her duties at Red Rock would be only those of a pleasure slave, and not those of a work slave? She was mistaken. |
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| 11 | 408 |
* * * * None, it seemed, at Red Rock had either seen, or heard, of so strange an architectural oddity as a tower of steel in the desert. |
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| 11 | 409 |
This was irritating to Hassan, and did not much please me either, for the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock was the last of the major oases of the Tahari for more than two thousand pasangs eastward; it lay, in effect, on the borders of the dreaded dune country; there are oases in the dune country but ... |
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| 11 | 419 |
A message had been inscribed on a rock: Beware the steel tower. |
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| 11 | 433 |
Indeed, to my surprise, word of the attack, putatively by Aretai, on the Bakah oasis of Two Scimitars, of some days ago, had not yet seemed to reach Red Rock. |
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| 11 | 438 |
It was not odd, of course, for Red Rock not to have yet heard of the attack. |
10 |
| 11 | 441 |
Since Red Rock was an oasis under the governance of the Tashid, a vassal tribe of Aretai, of course, no Bakah, or other member of the Kavar confederation, would be likely, particularly in such times, to drop in and, in friendly fashion, convey this intelligence to them. |
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| 12 | 20 |
"Hurry!" Four days ago, at dawn, Tarna, at the head of her men, left the Oasis of the Battle of Red Rock in flames. |
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| 12 | 25 |
When they left Red Rock their kaiila had been heavy with loot. |
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| 12 | 28 |
As Tarna had left Red Rock, not looking back, straight in the saddle, burnoose swelling in the morning wind over the sand, I had marched beside her, stripped, wrists manacled behind my back, chained by the neck to her stirrup. |
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| 12 | 45 |
The canvas covers of the wagons, too, were thrown back, that the goods taken at Red Rock could be seen in their abundance and richness. |
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| 12 | 100 |
"What," I asked the girl, "is the fate of the female slaves taken from Red Rock?" "Even now," she said, "under guard, in wagons, they are bound for the markets of Tor, where they will be sold". |
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| 13 | 22 |
Scarcely had Hassan and I, clad in the garments of guards, astride kaiila taken from the stables of Tarna's kasbah, emerged from the fortress's gate than, on the path to Red Rock, clouds of riders had swept before us. |
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| 13 | 69 |
For example, caravans between Red Rock, and certain other oases, and the salt districts, will travel under an escort of the Guard of the Dunes. |
10 |
| 13 | 264 |
"It was recovered," he said, "in the vicinity of Red Rock". |
10 |
| 13 | 268 |
"They fought well, with skill and savagery, and broke through to the desert beyond Red Rock". |
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| 13 | 269 |
How was it then, I wondered, that lovely Alyena stood here, on these tiles, slave? "Then, most peculiarly," said the man, "when apparently safe, escaped with her escort, she, suddenly, turned her kaiila about, returning, fleeing back to Red Rock". |
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| 13 | 275 |
Further, I recalled that the girl had, in Red Rock, under stress, cried his name, speaking it, though she was only a girl in bondage. |
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| 14 | 72 |
It smoked, and burned oil, probably from tiny rock tharlarions, abundant south of Tor in the spring. |
10 |
| 14 | 195 |
The chance of their finding their way back to the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, and thence, say, to Red Rock, would be small, even if they were not hooded; hooded, on the Klima march, of course, the chance, unhooded, of finding their way back at a later time would be negligible. |
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| 15 | 162 |
We knew, generally, Red Rock, the kasbah of the Salt Ubar and such, lay northwest of Klima, but, unless one knows the exact direction, the trails, this information is largely useless. |
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| 16 | 92 |
Ultimately, then, food is brought into the pits, generally in the form of organic debris, from hundreds of sources, many of them hundreds of miles distant; this debris is carried by the fresh-water feeds, through minute faults and fissures, and even porous rock, until it reaches the remains of the a... |
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| 16 | 143 |
And, even if one could traverse the many pasangs of desert afoot, there would not be much likelihood, in the wilderness, of making one's way to Red Rock, or another oasis. |
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| 19 | 4 |
There was a flattish, large expanse of rock, exposed by the wind, below him. |
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| 19 | 7 |
He pointed to the flattish extent of rock. |
10 |
| 19 | 29 |
I went to the rock, and examined it. |
10 |
| 19 | 85 |
Unfortunately Four Palms was farther from Klima than Red Rock. |
10 |
| 19 | 87 |
Red Rock was a Tashid oasis under the hegemony of the Aretai, enemies of the Kavars. |
10 |
| 19 | 88 |
Furthermore, between Klima and Red Rock lay the regions patrolled by the men of Abdul, the Salt Ubar, who had been known to me as Ibn Saran. |
10 |
| 19 | 95 |
We had, of course, no instruments at our disposal, no marked trails, and we did not know the exact location of Klima with respect to either Red Rock or Four Palms. |
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| 21 | 16 |
The Kur caught small rock tharlarion, and on this plenty, too, we feasted. |
10 |
| 21 | 55 |
But he let me sleep, in the shelter of a rock, while he watched. |
10 |
| 21 | 357 |
"Beware the steel tower," had been written on the rock. |
10 |
| 21 | 418 |
A large, square rock, near me, one of those which had held the tarpaulin, leaped upward, split in two, burnt black, and the slightest instant, almost simultaneous, afterward I heard the atmospheric concussion of the weapon. |
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| 23 | 13 |
"I can find Red Rock now," I told him. |
10 |
| 23 | 201 |
"Kavar raids on Aretai communities, the breaking of wells!" "Remember Red Rock!" cried a Tashid guard. |
10 |
| 24 | 19 |
At best we might be able, failing to take the kasbah, to invest it with a smaller force that it would be practical to supply with water from Red Rock. |
10 |
| 25 | 93 |
We had shared salt at Red Rock, on a burning roof. |
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| 26 | 19 |
The march would proceed to Red Rock, thence to Two Scimitars, thence to Nine Wells, thence, by a major caravan route, to Tor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 81 |
It extended to a heavy ring and plate fastened in a great granite rock, irregular, but some twelve feet in width and depth, some ten feet in height. |
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| 1 | 82 |
The plate, with its ring, was attached near the center of the rock, low, about a foot above the grass. |
10 |
| 1 | 83 |
The rock had apparently been drilled and the plate fastened with four linear bolts. |
10 |
| 1 | 84 |
They may have passed through the entire width of the rock and been clinched on the other side. |
10 |
| 1 | 91 |
I was fastened to the rock. |
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| 1 | 94 |
The rock was prominent. |
10 |
| 1 | 100 |
Behind me was the rock. |
10 |
| 1 | 101 |
I felt the wind on my body, but not directly, as the plate in the stone was on the sheltered side of the rock. |
10 |
| 1 | 107 |
I, small, white, was chained by the neck to that great rock on the seemingly endless plain. |
10 |
| 1 | 163 |
I turned about and looked at the great rock, the granite, streaked with feldspar. |
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| 1 | 189 |
I struck my fists until they bled on the granite rock streaked with feldspar. |
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| 1 | 190 |
Then I turned and walked from the rock, some five feet, and looked out over the vast grassy fields. |
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| 1 | 202 |
I stood alone there, naked, defenseless, before the great rock, looking over the fields. |
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| 2 | 134 |
They busied themselves in the vicinity of the rock. |
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| 2 | 654 |
It was not my fault I could not speak to him! But then, as he looked about the field, and the rock, I, in that large, rude circle torn in the turf, put my head down, alone, miserable. |
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| 2 | 657 |
In time, after scouting the terrain of the rock, perhaps searching for clues as to my meaning or identity, the tall man in scarlet returned to face me. |
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| 2 | 675 |
I looked at the great rock to which, by the neck, I had been fastened with a heavy chain. |
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| 2 | 732 |
Men had come to the rock where I had been fastened. |
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| 2 | 745 |
There had been, as far as I could determine, only myself, stripped and chained, and the grass, the rock, and sky. |
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| 2 | 746 |
The plan, perhaps, had been disrupted, or had failed, prior even to the arrival of the two men at the rock. |
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| 3 | 514 |
The men who had first come to the rock and chain in the wilderness had used it to me. |
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| 4 | 336 |
I recalled the two men who had come to the chain and rock. |
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| 4 | 375 |
I still could not understand what had happened at the chain and rock. |
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| 4 | 382 |
I had thought, before I was clearly apprised of the nature of Bina, cheap slave beads, that perhaps the men had supposed that I was to be chained at the rock, adorned with some rare and valuable necklace, worth perhaps a fortune. |
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| 4 | 384 |
Perhaps then, either I had not been placed so adorned at the rock, contrary to their expectation, or, if I had been, that someone had, in my helpless unconsciousness, arrived earlier and simply removed the necklace, stealing it from my chained body. |
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| 4 | 385 |
I might have been left at the rock either because I was chained, and could not be easily removed, or, perhaps, was not wanted. |
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| 4 | 631 |
My master, with a rock, drew maps in the dirt by the fire. |
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| 4 | 634 |
He spoke swiftly and decisively, sometimes indicating a portion of the terrain by jabbing at it with the rock. |
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| 4 | 688 |
With the rock he jabbed down at the map. |
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| 4 | 704 |
My master flung the rock down at a certain place in the map. |
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| 4 | 1033 |
It was not the freedom of convention I then felt but the freedom of nature, not the freedom to be what I was not, which had been prescribed to me, but the freedom rather to be what I was, which, for complex social and historical reasons, had been long denied to me; it was not the freedom of politica... |
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| 6 | 156 |
To one side, against the wall of the hut, there rested, on a small table, a piece of plain, irregularly shaped rock, which Thurnus, years earlier, when first he had founded the farm, later to be the community, of Tabuk's Ford, had taken from his own fields. |
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| 7 | 959 |
I found him sitting alone, on a rock, surveying a grassy field. |
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| 7 | 972 |
Then it was we two alone, by the rock, in the grass, he standing, I kneeling. |
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| 9 | 1618 |
He can be like a rock or a tree. |
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| 9 | 1759 |
It had been like striking a rock. |
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| 20 | 52 |
The next song dealt with a rascal who, supposedly hunting for tabuk, lay down and rubbed his boots on a rock, later returning to his companions with a report of luckless hunting, indicating his worn boots as evidence of his lengthy trekking. |
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| 32 | 14 |
It was not so close to the star as to be a ball of scalding rock nor so far as to be a frozen spheroid". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 432 |
"It is wrong for the tree to be a tree, the rock a rock, the bird a bird?" I asked. |
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| 29 | 23 |
This afternoon, late, when we had come inland, almost in the dusk, she had become entangled in the web of a rock spider, a large one. |
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| 29 | 24 |
They are called rock spiders because of their habit of holding their legs folded beneath them. |
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| 29 | 25 |
This habit, and their size and coloration, usually brown and black, suggests a rock, and hence the name. |
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| 32 | 160 |
One searches for wood beneath rock overhangs or under fallen trees. |
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| 32 | 209 |
The rock spider has been mentioned, and termites, also. |
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| 32 | 562 |
Sticks, pushed against my back, guided me to a narrow doorway, leading into a room, carved out of living rock, in the base of what I took to be a temple. |
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| 33 | 72 |
There was there, overlooking the falls, a large, flat rock. |
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| 33 | 73 |
We climbed onto the rock. |
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| 33 | 77 |
He thrust her forward on the rock, facing downriver. |
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| 33 | 136 |
Tende then, obedient to her master's command, as Kisu clapped his hands and sang, danced on a flat rock in the Ua river, danced before Bila Huruma, so far away, her master's enemy, from whom she had been stolen. |
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| 33 | 138 |
I observed the eyes of the blond-haired barbarian who, with Alice, knelt on the rock. |
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| 33 | 156 |
He then, to her surprise, with a leather strap, as she stood on the rock overlooking the falls, tied her hands behind her back. |
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| 33 | 198 |
"Did you see it," she asked, "on the rock, he danced her naked!" "Of course," I said. |
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| 34 | 139 |
With a large rock, blow by blow, heavily, inch by inch, I drove the long, thick stake into the ground. |
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| 44 | 91 |
Approaching her now, moving swiftly across the web, was a gigantic rock spider. |
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| 44 | 124 |
It reposed there, gigantic and globular, in the fashion of the rock spider, its legs tucked beneath it. |
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| 53 | 393 |
My back felt wet and bits of rock stung in my back. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 130 |
Sparks showered off the stone, and particles of rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 146 |
How attractive, how inviting, they must appear to the predators of the Voskjard! A mighty rock, then, suddenly, not more than ten feet from my bench, plummeted through our deck, splintering the wood upward, exploding it upward, in a shower of sharpened fragments. |
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| 10 | 86 |
"Where might be found a topaz sea?" "Within four walls of rock". |
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| 10 | 87 |
"And where might be found these walls of rock?" "About a topaz sea". |
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| 20 | 1182 |
He held, in his hands, two pieces of rock. |
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| 1 | 1132 |
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe... |
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| 2 | 221 |
Similarly the absence of large bodies of water in the Barrens reduces rainfall which might be connected with large-scale evaporation and subsequent precipitation of this moisture over land areas, the moisture being carried inland on what are, in effect, sea breezes, flowing into low-pressure areas c... |
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| 5 | 151 |
I bent down and picked up a rock, and tossed it ahead of me, down the road. |
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| 5 | 163 |
I spun another rock down the road, after the lines and wagons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 502 |
It took perhaps a dozen men from the trail and then bounded down the rock face and, a few Ihn later, skipping and leaping almost like a pebble, possessing such terrible forces, yet seeming so small from this height, it caromed off the foot of the rock face and then landed, rolling and bounding, amon... |
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| 47 | 310 |
"Back to Council Rock!" Soldiers had established a hold on the eastern ledges of Council Rock, to which they had been climbing, those ledges opposite those above the trail, up which, slowly, medicine drums beating, medicine men dancing about the beasts, the procession of Yellow Knives, a few minutes... |
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| 47 | 320 |
The Yellow Knives, on the western side of Council Rock, prevented by the mountain from knowing what had occurred in the air to the east, and on the eastern faces of the rock, singing their medicine, their hearing throbbing with the beat of drums, had not desisted in their procession to the summit; t... |
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| 2 | 200 |
They came from the countries around Council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake, a tributary to the Northern Kaiila. |
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| 3 | 130 |
It may also, of course, have been obtained from crushed rock, containing oxides of iron. |
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| 3 | 227 |
"I think a rock would be pleased," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 6 | 16 |
It carried through the draw, the deep thudding, magnified by, intensified by, that narrow corridor, open to the sky, of dirt and rock. |
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| 12 | 358 |
This was around Council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake River. |
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| 33 | 333 |
We will then proceed north and west of Council Rock, into the land of the Casmu Kaiila. |
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| 34 | 10 |
In our passage we had seen, to our right, Council Rock, rearing high, almost anomalously, out of the plains, prominent amidst a group of smaller, associated bluffs. |
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| 43 | 204 |
"The council of all the bands of the Kaiila, of the Isbu, the Casmu, the Isanna, the Napoktan and the Wismahi, of all the remnants of the Kaiila people, will take place at Council Rock at the end of Canwapegiwi". |
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| 43 | 415 |
I must make it to a certain flat, barren rock. |
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| 43 | 422 |
In a few Ehn I arrived at the rock, urging my kaiila up its sloping face. |
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| 43 | 434 |
Certainly it did not seem likely that it would lead to this upjutting, flat-topped, weathered rock. |
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| 43 | 467 |
The wooden hook was no more than four or five feet from the surface of the rock. |
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| 43 | 479 |
I was still on the rock. |
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| 43 | 484 |
I heard the scratching of kaiila claws on the rock face. |
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| 43 | 485 |
I extended my hands and thrust my arms through the rope netting, it dangling from the girth rope of my tarn, and whipping and snapping, too, at the surface of the rock it skimmed. |
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| 43 | 486 |
I seized then the netting with my hands and felt myself drawn up and away from the rock. |
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| 43 | 491 |
Several of the Yellow Knives, on their kaiila, were now on the large, flat surface of the rock. |
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| 44 | 1 |
Yellow Knives Come to Council Rock "Oh!" said Iwoso, wincing, as I pulled tight the knots on her wrists, fastening them back and on each side of the stout post. |
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| 44 | 18 |
They were wedged deeply in a fissure in the surface of Council Rock, near the brink of the escarpment. |
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| 44 | 110 |
"No," she said, "for they might take you here, surprising you and surrounding you, you being isolated in this place, you being, for most practical purposes, trapped with little possibility of escape on Council Rock". |
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| 44 | 331 |
Not a pasang away, across the prairie, all attempt at concealment discarded, waves of Yellow Knives, feathers flying, dust billowing behind them, charged toward Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 333 |
"Now you will all die! Now you are lost! There is no escape for you! You will all be trapped on Council Rock!" "It goes as we have planned," said Hci to Cuwignaka. |
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| 44 | 364 |
"You cannot escape! You are lost!" The Yellow Knives now, to be sure, swirled about the foot of the trail, that leading to the summit of Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 419 |
Two kaiila, with their riders, slipping and scrambling, slid from the trail and then, unsupported, flailing, turning in the air, the riders and their mounts separating, they fell a hundred feet, struck some rocks, bounded out from the escarpment and fell the final two hundred feet to the lower, slop... |
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| 44 | 455 |
Dozens of animals and many riders were forced from the trail, sliding and plummeting down the steep face of Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 475 |
The trail, within its narrow boundaries, the rock on one side, the fall on the other, constituted a suitable trap, or slaughter channel, for our paralyzed, bewildered, confined enemies. |
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| 44 | 488 |
Some of the larger stones even did their work more than once, striking men or kaiila from the trail at one point and then, bounding downward, striking the face of the rock here and there, to shatter into yet more men at a lower point in the ascendant trail. |
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| 44 | 494 |
Dozens of men and animals, buffeted, losing their footing, crowded from the edge, slipped, scratching and screaming, down the rock's steep face. |
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| 44 | 497 |
Slowly, with difficulty on the narrow trail, some backing down, some turning, some falling, the Yellow Knives on the lower lengths of the trail, pressing back among their fellows at the foot of Council Rock, freed the lower ascents, enabling their trapped fellows on the upper reaches of the trail, t... |
10 |
| 44 | 500 |
This the rear guard of the Yellow Knives, packed against their retreating fellows, the rock on one side, the drop on the other, their eyes wide with horror, must watch bounding inexorably toward them. |
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| 44 | 506 |
The stones had been gathered over a period of days and brought to the height of Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 850 |
From the surface of the prairie certain things, cleavages and fissures, certain irregularities in the rock face, appeared to be weaknesses. |
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| 44 | 853 |
"Aside from the main trail," I said, "there is no easy route, not even a narrow path, to the summit of Council Rock". |
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| 45 | 1 |
What Occurred at Night at Council Rock I felt the hand of Cuwignaka gently on my shoulder. |
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| 45 | 11 |
The back faces of Council Rock were extremely dangerous even in daylight. |
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| 45 | 20 |
"Climbing the rock face is extremely dangerous," I said. |
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| 45 | 38 |
"Thus," said Hci, "more men should be exposed, trapped, on the rock face". |
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| 45 | 81 |
More than once, below me, on the rock face, I saw a body pitch outward and then fall, silently, it seemed, into the darkness below. |
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| 45 | 94 |
The men, in great numbers, like insects, now illuminated, clung precariously to the rock. |
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| 45 | 98 |
Some men, in terror, lost their hold on the rock. |
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| 45 | 102 |
Some men released their hold altogether on the rock, hoping to risk less in the terrors of the slide downward than in facing the Kaiila arrows. |
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| 46 | 124 |
He then bent down and picked up a small rock, about an inch in diameter, from the surface of our position. |
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| 46 | 130 |
"When we return," he said, "if this rock is not still in your mouth, your tongue will be cut out. |
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| 46 | 161 |
Many of the Yellow Knives and soldiers, rather than face this withering fire, lowered themselves from the trail, slipping and sliding, then, abrasively, down the side of the rock face. |
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| 47 | 2 |
It was now the third day in the siege of Council Rock. |
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| 47 | 104 |
Yesterday night the great beacon of brush had been lit on the summit of Council Rock. |
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| 47 | 107 |
Before morning, some singly, some in groups of two or three, under the cover of darkness, our tarns had been brought to Council Rock, there to be concealed within specially prepared lodges. |
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| 47 | 110 |
There, concealed by day and trained by night, and housed within striking distance of Council Rock, they had waited for our signal. |
10 |
| 47 | 127 |
Council Rock fell away beneath me. |
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| 47 | 132 |
My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l... |
10 |
| 47 | 179 |
He would fall, I conjectured, through the Kinyanpi formation below, that formation being by now, I supposed, arrested by the other tarnsmen, those from Council Rock. |
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| 47 | 189 |
Our bold tarnsmen from Council Rock fought amidst circling Kinyanpi. |
10 |
| 47 | 212 |
Perhaps they had feared less because the tarn bore reins, a girth rope, a rider, and had approached them from Council Rock. |
10 |
| 47 | 312 |
The eastern face of Council Rock seemed covered with men and ropes. |
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| 47 | 318 |
In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes and men, torn loose from hand and footholds, unsupported,... |
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| 47 | 319 |
I raced across the top of Council Rock, men behind me. |
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| 47 | 374 |
There was blood on the rock. |
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| 47 | 387 |
For a moment or two the body on the rock still bled, the movements of the heart marked in the gouts of fluid that surged over the fur. |
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| 47 | 389 |
Zarendargar screamed and leaped on the stone, and, scratching, climbed a bit up the rock face from the trail, and then fell back, and leaped again. |
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| 47 | 435 |
We had been the bait, on Council Rock, to lure the Yellow Knives and soldiers into a trap, a trap which these other tribes, acting in coalition, were to spring shut. |
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| 50 | 35 |
She fell to her knees and scrambled back from the edge, her knees abraded on the rock. |
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| 50 | 71 |
"I, too, am a slave!" She threw her soft body to the rock at Mahpiyasapa's feet. |
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| 50 | 112 |
"Please, Master," she begged, weeping, "please accept me as a slave!" Iwoso threw herself on her belly, on the rock, before Hci. |
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| 50 | 114 |
"Please, Master, do not let them give me to the women!" Her tears flowed copiously, staining the rock and his moccasins. |
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| 50 | 139 |
She who had been Bloketu laid her cheek on the rock beside his moccasins, shuddering. |
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| 50 | 167 |
I looked again then on the breadth of the Barrens, surveying them from the height of Council Rock, returning thereafter to my lodge. |
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| 52 | 2 |
He had already seized up his sword from the low, flat rock in the midst of the encircling savages, Kaiila, Dust Legs, Fleer and Sleen. |
10 |
| 52 | 3 |
I looked at the sword, lying on the rock. |
10 |
| 52 | 23 |
I took up the sword from the flat rock. |
10 |
| 54 | 18 |
It had been largely through Grunt's influence that Dust Legs had made the long journey to Council Rock, to aid the Kaiila. |
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| 54 | 42 |
"It is because of you," said the Fleer warrior, "that we came to Council Rock". |
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| 54 | 44 |
"Do you know," asked the Fleer warrior, "why we came to Council Rock, and, because of us, the Sleen came?" "No," said Cuwignaka. |
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| 54 | 101 |
We were now in a great victory camp, near water, within sight of Council Rock, some seven or eight pasangs in the distance. |
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| 54 | 309 |
These things were given to them as gifts by the Kaiila, in appreciation for the services rendered during the time of the war with the Yellow Knives and soldiers, for providing us with a tarn base within striking distance of Council Rock, and sheltering and supporting our men during the period of the... |
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| 56 | 119 |
With him, as well, was his friend, Wagmezahu, Corn Stalks, of the Fleer, who had come with the Fleer to Council Rock. |
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| 20 | 1 |
The Stream; The Stone I knelt on a flat rock near the side of a small stream, pounding and rinsing a tunic. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 86 |
I suspect that many of the lots, even large lots, literal bevies of luscious slaves, chained together forty or fifty in a lot, may end up being simply purchased by slavers at rock-bottom prices, for purposes of later speculation". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 163 |
"I have tasted honor, and seen it, and felt it, but it is not like tasting bread, or seeing a rock, or feeling a woman. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 160 |
He was given, however, only a flat piece of rock with a single character inscribed upon it, the first letter in the name of his native village. |
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| 28 | 85 |
The floor, in effect, is made of rock". |
10 |
| 29 | 4 |
It was almost as though the right side of his face had been abraded by some terrifying, fierce passage, by some swift, lengthy, terrible friction, as of being dragged over rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 26 |
There were puddles here and there on the stone flooring of the inn yard, itself leveled from the living rock of the plateau. |
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| 16 | 106 |
I supposed that by now tons of rock would have been piled behind the gate. |
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| 16 | 107 |
Still the ram might attempt its entry there, pounding through the brass facing riveted into the thick beams of the gate, punching, driving it back, snapping the crossbars, forcing back, blow by blow, even the rock and sand behind. |
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| 17 | 36 |
This, given the height of the openings, revealed by the dropped bridges, made it possible to fire at point-blank range, the shovel of one catapult containing a thousand bits of rock and metal, the shovel of the other a large boulder, weighing perhaps fifteen hundred pounds, requiring five men for it... |
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| 17 | 120 |
Sometimes, too, in a moment's lull, one notices little things, to which one has perhaps hitherto paid scant attention, the movements of an ant, how rain water irregularly stains a rock, moving and spreading, depending on the texture of its surface. |
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| 17 | 275 |
A hill, literally, of debris, of sand, rock and bodies, had been built there, before the gate, and the shed thrust up this incline. |
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| 17 | 580 |
There there was a huge hill of sand, rock and such, packed against the lower portions of the outer gate. |
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| 17 | 630 |
The rock, however, suggested a temporary expedient. |
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| 17 | 634 |
The bloody metallic configuration burst through again and this time, as soon as it had entered, before it could swing back, I rolled a rock from the debris between it and the lower edge of the rupture. |
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| 17 | 635 |
There was a grinding of iron and rock as it swung back and then reared up, against the top of the rupture, and was still. |
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| 17 | 641 |
Spears tried to force the rock from its position. |
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| 19 | 208 |
He was for a moment like a rock in the midst of their stream, and then he turned, facing me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 187 |
The danger in a situation such as this, given the sound of the rock, surely an anomaly coming from the figure's right, most clearly threatened from the hill and brush, not from the grass. |
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| 19 | 171 |
I picked up a large rock and threw it against that huge body, striking it on wingskin stretched between its leg and arm, on the left. |
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| 19 | 803 |
They may, however, together with those of the feet, enable the creature, in suitable environments, to cling, batlike, to surfaces, such as rock faces and trees. |
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| 22 | 6 |
I put the grunts on a rock, to be cleaned and boned. |
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| 22 | 51 |
She was now cutting pieces of raw fish, laying them on the hot, flat rock. |
10 |
| 22 | 68 |
She then wiped her hands on her thighs like a rence girl and returned to kneel by the rock, where she began to separate the pieces of fish into bite-sized pieces. |
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| 22 | 78 |
She had now divided the fish into small pieces, separated on the rock. |
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| 28 | 6 |
Labienus, their captain, whose rank was high captain, and had been commanding officer in the vanguard of the central columns in Ar's entry into the delta, sat upon a rock. |
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| 28 | 63 |
"Do you think you can bring us out of the delta?" asked Labienus, sitting on the rock. |
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| 28 | 291 |
He then drew back his hand, and sat upright again, on the rock. |
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| 29 | 153 |
It was beside him, on a rock. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 264 |
"You could make a rock sizzle," I said. |
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| 22 | 166 |
This sort of thing is familiar, of course, in all languages, as Smith, Chandler, Carpenter, Carter, and such, stand for occupations, and names like Hampshire, Lake, Holm, Rivers, and such, stand for places, and names like Stone, Hammer, Rock, and such, stand for things. |
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| 23 | 3 |
"Not even jards of stone would pick the bones of this loathsome rock!" cried the fellow. |
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| 23 | 35 |
"Not even the slime slugs of Anango would take shelter beneath this rock!" cried Boots Tarsk-Bit, waving the stone about in his two hands. |
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| 23 | 42 |
"Seremides," cried Boots, "tried to throw this miserable rock into a wastes vat. |
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| 25 | 39 |
I had once told her she could make a rock sizzle. |
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| 27 | 747 |
"It is only a piece of rock," she said. |
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| 28 | 107 |
But, too, I speculated, there would be those of Ar to whom the Home Stone was a Home Stone, and not a mere rock, not a piece of meaningless earth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 157 |
I seemed to be in a sort of cave, carved into the living rock of a mountain, or cliff. |
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| 8 | 377 |
The area was carved out of living rock. |
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| 8 | 550 |
I was here something, something very real, something as real as the living rock about me, as real as the bars of my cell. |
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| 8 | 990 |
I put my hand out, in the darkness, and felt the rough, granular texture of the enclosing wall, of rock. |
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| 10 | 6 |
It was as though I would try to press through the rock itself. |
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| 10 | 145 |
I stepped back, dizzy for a moment, from the edge of the trail, and touched the rock to my right. |
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| 10 | 158 |
The rock ledge felt very hard, and granular, beneath my bare feet. |
10 |
| 10 | 344 |
There was the mountain there, rearing upward, and, high above, perhaps a hundred feet above, seeming to rise out of the rock itself, were the walls of the citadel. |
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| 13 | 602 |
These, it seemed, were kennels, carved into the rock. |
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| 17 | 55 |
"You could make a rock scream with need, but you did not do so". |
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| 19 | 42 |
They are not only rugged and precipitous, but are apparently alive with animals, such as rock panthers and sleen. |
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| 31 | 429 |
But I did not think the peasant, that violent giant, that simple, outraged behemoth of a man, in his present state of mind, in his agitation, in the singleness of his purpose, in this ferocious, puissant concentration of all of his force, his power, against iron and rock, was troubled by pain, or ev... |
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| 31 | 574 |
There was another sound of metal and rock. |
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| 37 | 74 |
He had been little more than a remote, inert form, as simple as rock, as distant as a far-off mountain, sitting cross-legged, chained, on the stone floor of a cell in the lower corridors. |
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| 37 | 111 |
I could feel the rock behind me with my bound hands. |
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| 40 | 24 |
Fog swirled about it, like smoke, or clouds, wind-twisted, about a dark rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
Obviously time counts the rock and the flower, the atom and the molecule, similarly, and yet the rock may witness the passing of several calendars, and the atom may in itself remain much the same as it was long ago, in the fiery midst of some distant, exploding star. |
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| 21 | 240 |
Could you not note its direction? Did I not hint such things to you? Why did you not listen? The Home Stone? The Home Stone of Ar is no more than a piece of rock". |
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| 22 | 90 |
Slave girls, when permitted tunics and permitted to sit, as on a log, a rock, a shelf, commonly sit thusly. |
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| 27 | 2293 |
She clung to the wheel to which she was fastened, and it spun beneath her, and she turned with it, and then, to her misery, she felt the wagon rock backward, and it was falling away, toward the ground, and she nearly slipped from the wheel to which she clung, and then, as the wagon heavily righted i... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 25 |
Why should that be? Had men scouted the blonde and decided she would look well in the wrapping of a leather collar? If not, why would they not have killed her in the forest? Had Tula and Lana somehow discovered her, and did not know what to do with her? Did they not realize the danger of bringing he... |
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| 15 | 29 |
A hand raised the rock, to use it, hammerlike, to drive the stick downward, through the back of her neck, pinning her by means of it to the ground. |
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| 15 | 32 |
Cabot held the arm of the man with the rock, and made the gesture he had learned from Archon, that for negation. |
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| 18 | 137 |
He watched with some fascination as beads of water formed on the leaves of rock-climbing Turpah, a parasitic but edible growth commonly adhering to the bark of the Tur tree. |
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| 19 | 2 |
The trunk did not bleed as the flame had seared shut the avenues of blood within that large body, and the head, or the parts of it which remained, slid slowly downward, descending from the rock wall behind him. |
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| 19 | 78 |
The larl, no more than the sleen, reacted to the machine as a living thing, no more than it might have to a rock or tree. |
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| 29 | 240 |
She put the berries down, on a flat rock. |
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| 33 | 193 |
Another head, the shorter, wider head, on the shorter neck, emerged behind Cabot and he, alerted by the tiny sound, spun about, and, crouched down, jabbed at the head, over the slave's prone body, and the point of the stick, blackened, and fire-hardened, but perhaps over sharpened, intended not for ... |
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| 35 | 22 |
He had hoped to head his missiles with that gray, siliceous rock called flint, or in Gorean, splinter stone, but none is had in the world. |
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| 48 | 36 |
Their eyes turned to the figure of their leader, large, as silent as rock, crouching back on his haunches, in Kur repose. |
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| 80 | 139 |
Kurii certainly recognize a distinction between, say, a rock and a sleen, but our science tends to think less of life and nonlife, as of levels, or strata, of energy, of activity, or, as we think of it, life. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 400 |
It is rough, and of common rock. |
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| 2 | 465 |
"The river, I gather," I said, "is narrow, but deep, sheltered by rock, as might be a fjord". |
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| 40 | 38 |
To him, concerned with reaching the sea, bringing his great charge to gleaming Thassa, it had been a menace, a liquid valley, which might contain unseen, submerged mountains of rock, which might tear the bottom from a passing ship. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 115 |
I saw rising, on either side, and before, mountains rising from the sea, mountains of fire, bursting alive, mountains moving, rising, run with molten streams of rock, some loose like flaming water, some patient and thick, dully red, and from these strange mountains, cast into the air were clouds of ... |
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| 8 | 11 |
On the stem castle, one could see the small, misshapen figure of Tersites, hidden in furs, pacing from side to side, sometimes howling in rage, sometimes pausing to shake small, gnarled fists at the thick, white expanse, like rock, that stretched about us. |
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| 9 | 475 |
I could read no expression on his face, no more than upon a rock. |
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| 9 | 477 |
It nodded, quickly, abruptly, and then, again, it was still, as still as if it might have been formed of rock, or carved of wood. |
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| 17 | 3 |
They were rock, but light. |
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| 19 | 121 |
A gigantic rock fell into the sea, hissing, to port. |
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| 22 | 283 |
"Steady," I heard a fellow say, to someone, somewhere to my right, on the other side of Lord Nishida, who stood like a rock, unmoving, in the center of our line. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 241 |
Sometimes she would stamp her small foot, and pout, in annoyance, but he would be adamant, as a rock, if he feared for her welfare. |
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| 27 | 98 |
The walls and ceilings of these corridors were largely of natural rock, but the floors had been leveled and smoothed. |
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| 33 | 40 |
Who knew what clandestine gold might now have found its home in a new purse? Might the fellow beside you suddenly turn on you? Accordingly, much of the financing involved in such matters would doubtless be accomplished by means of drafts, notes, letters, and such, things mysterious, even unreal, to ... |
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| 45 | 43 |
The morning sun would be bright before me, on rock, and then, in a moment, one would confront almost impenetrable, cave-like shadows, indicating recesses of an undisclosed depth. |
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| 45 | 51 |
I nearly slipped into a crevice, but pressed myself against the rock, and, bit by bit, made my way forward. |
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| 45 | 91 |
At one point I cried out in fear, and clutched the beast's fur, for, not more than a dozen paces from us, over a shelf of rock, I saw the lifted head of a larl, broad, triangular, quizzical. |
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| 45 | 97 |
In much less time than it had taken me to rendezvous with Tiresias, he had brought me to a passageway which debouched onto a relatively flat slope of rock no more than a hundred paces from the great portal. |
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| 45 | 100 |
The beast remained behind a turn of rock. |
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| 45 | 102 |
Released, I regained my footing and went cautiously to the opening of the passageway, and, shielding myself with the rock as much as possible, looked back to the portal. |
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| 45 | 116 |
It was clear to me that it would not be practical for Tiresias, blind, to attack two armed Kurii, let alone across an expanse of relatively flat rock in daylight. |
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| 45 | 118 |
I stepped out from behind the rock. |
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| 45 | 149 |
I heard the scratching of claws behind me on the upward slope of rock. |
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| 45 | 154 |
Even so I barely managed to swing about the rock behind which Tiresias was waiting. |
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| 45 | 192 |
The entire end of the passageway, where it opened onto the sloping rock, about the fallen Kur, was run with blood. |
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| 46 | 17 |
The beast had raised its head, and peered at us, over a shelf of rock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 121 |
Tajima leaned back against the rock. |
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| 6 | 36 |
The tree, the rock, the sharpened blade are themselves. |
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| 30 | 410 |
He then, with a heavy rock, drove two of these stakes well into the ground, and then drew Nezumi between them, extended her arms, and fastened her wrists, with thongs, to the two stakes. |
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| 44 | 229 |
"No!" The large object faced south, not really moving, seemingly suspended, just rocking a little in the air, much as a ship might rock in the water. |
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| 50 | 17 |
Such a portal could withstand for a time anything likely to be brought against it, axes, rock hammers, beams of wood. |
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| 52 | 119 |
"And rock walls all about, and even what must be the floor, as of a cave!" said Pertinax. |
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| 61 | 36 |
It had returned to its secret lair to guard its treasures, perhaps to sleep for another thousand years; it had returned to the country of mystery from which it had emerged, some fearful land, a far land of rock and flame; a vast, noxious crevice in the bowels of the earth, a dark, freezing country b... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 24 |
"Its head parted the water suddenly like a great rock rising from the sea. |
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| 16 | 51 |
"This is not soil, not rock," he said, disbelievingly. |
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| 18 | 92 |
"It came up, like a great rock rising from the sea," I said. |
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| 41 | 1 |
Besieged It shattered sharp loud startling sudden debris leaping blossoming out and down then the gray waterfall of stone the narrow cascade of loosened rocks the width and weight of it the avalanche the tumbling and rolling of rock and then dust like dry rain choking hard to breathe hard to see ge... |
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| 50 | 9 |
The contact had been made neither with rock or wood, not with stone, nor beach, nor grating sand. |
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