| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 26 |
Yes, there would be the round of teas and the cocktail and supper invitations. |
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| 2 | 9 |
Opposite the tapestry—for decoration, I assumed—hung a round shield with crossed spears behind it. |
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| 3 | 283 |
His enormous head turned toward me, and his round, wicked eyes blazed in my direction. |
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| 4 | 116 |
The Older Tarl and I had made a round of taverns in the various cylinders, and I recall toddling precariously, singing obscene camp lyrics, along different narrow bridges, about a yard wide without rails, and the earth somewhere below—how far I had no idea at the time. |
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| 4 | 156 |
About my shoulder he slung the steel sword, fastened on my left arm the round shield, placed in my right hand the spear, and slowly lowered the helmet on my head. |
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| 6 | 20 |
As I descended, I saw the wide, round roof of the cylinder. |
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| 6 | 22 |
In the center of the circle was a low, round platform, some ten paces in diameter, reached by four circular steps that extended about the perimeter of the platform. |
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| 6 | 134 |
Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open. |
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| 10 | 10 |
Seated inside on several pillows of tasseled silk was a mammoth toad of a man, whose head was as round as a tarn's egg, the eyes nearly lost in the folds of fat, pocked skin. |
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| 12 | 28 |
From somewhere I saw a small, round object sailing high into the air, out over the river. |
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| 20 | 51 |
But then, on the ground near my boot, I saw it—a small object, a tiny, round object. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 24 |
The round shield, concentric overlapping layers of hardened leather riveted together and bound with hoops of brass, fitted with the double sling for carrying on the left arm, was similarly unmarked. |
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| 8 | 36 |
Then another round of insults occurs, and, eventually, both parties satisfied, some compromise having been reached, the transaction is concluded. |
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| 8 | 45 |
As I left the marketplace, I noted two men, furtive, round-shouldered in their nondescript gray robes, who followed me. |
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| 9 | 72 |
I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests. |
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| 9 | 148 |
Soon, pounding the time on the table with the butt of my spear, I was leading a raucous round of songs, mostly wild drinking songs, warrior songs, songs of the encampment and march, but too I taught them songs I had learned in the caravan of Mintar the Merchant, so long ago, when I had first loved T... |
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| 10 | 50 |
I was dimly conscious of being seized by the mouth of some large animal and being tugged through a round tunnel-like opening. |
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| 10 | 57 |
At last it dragged me into a round, globelike space, lit by two torches in iron racks, which were set into the fitted-stone walls. |
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| 14 | 98 |
The bright round eyes, the pupils like black stars, gleamed at me. |
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| 14 | 110 |
Yet as its great round eyes regarded me I wondered what thoughts might course through its avian brain. |
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| 21 | 138 |
From the lobe of each small, round ear there hung an enormous earring, a sapphire pendant on a golden stalk. |
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| 23 | 84 |
Those round blazing eyes regarded me, those great wings lifted and shook, his beak was lifted to the sky and he screamed the shrill cry of the tarn. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 52 |
Most was I surprised to find him holding a tiny, round pipe from which curled a bright wisp of smoke. |
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| 4 | 3 |
My host did not speak but led the way with a merry stride, an almost constant curl of smoke from his little round pipe encircling his bald pate and muttonchop whiskers and drifting back down the passage. |
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| 4 | 84 |
Parp laughed merrily, his small round frame shaking on the heavy throne. |
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| 21 | 50 |
Most strange perhaps was the shape and width of the eyes, for they were very large, perhaps three inches in width, and were round and dark and shining, much like the eyes of a nocturnal animal. |
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| 21 | 64 |
When not actively engaged in gathering Gur their round dark eyes were lifted like dark curves to the Priest-Kings who clung to the ceiling far over their heads. |
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| 22 | 138 |
"Even to those who carried Gur?" asked Mul-Ba-Ta, shivering at the thought of those small round bodies and the strange arms and legs, and eyes. |
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| 23 | 36 |
There were, however, though I could not conceive of how they could have killed her, five large round swellings on her body. |
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| 23 | 38 |
These swellings, hard, round and smooth, seemed to lie just beneath the skin and to be roughly the size of one's fist. |
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| 28 | 81 |
She regarded the small round bodies and the long limbs with the cushioned feet and the long-fingered hands with their heavy palms. |
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| 28 | 82 |
Hundreds of pairs of those great, round dark eyes stared at her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 62 |
I could see he carried a small, round, leather shield, glossy, black, lacquered; he wore a conical, fur-rimmed iron helmet, a net of colored chains depending from the helmet protecting his face, leaving only holes for the eyes. |
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| 2 | 74 |
* * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i... |
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| 4 | 37 |
It consists of three long straps of leather, each about five feet long, each terminating in a leather sack which contains, sewn inside, a heavy, round, metal weight. |
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| 5 | 25 |
The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring; it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist, the girl can turn within it; the common Gorean collar, on the other hand, is a flat, snugly fitting steel band. |
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| 9 | 211 |
Kamchak turned to the small, fat merchant and his scarred, furrowed face broke into a grin, bearing down on the round, pinkish face of the merchant. |
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| 9 | 415 |
But it was a round metal ring, a Turian collar, the collar of a slave. |
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| 11 | 23 |
Saphrar's round, pinkish face was beaming with pleasure, though I would have thought this day a tragic one for him. |
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| 11 | 58 |
His little round pinkish face shone. |
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| 20 | 7 |
The keep, in the private houses of Goreans, is most often a round, stone tower, built for defense, containing water and food. |
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| 26 | 341 |
At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers... |
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| 26 | 358 |
The eyes were bulging perhaps a quarter of an inch from the little round head and the mouth, with its two golden teeth, now emptied of ost venom, seemed to be screaming but there was no sound. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 136 |
Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners; and then they encounter three more rectangular "rings" and then come to the second ... |
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| 13 | 326 |
Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,... |
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| 12 | 135 |
The course is determined by twelve rings, hung on chains from great supporting towers; six of these "rings" are rectangular and six are round; the large rectangular "rings" are three on a side; the smaller, round rings are set at the corners of the dividing wall, and one at each of the narrowest por... |
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| 5 | 166 |
About the tube that joined his head to his thorax, on a slender chain, hung the small, round compact translator. |
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| 12 | 137 |
If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt... |
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| 13 | 247 |
With an agility that could come only from years in the cots he clambered about the tem-wood beams, sometimes forty feet from the floor, checking this bird and that; perhaps because I was slightly drunk I followed him; at last we had come to one of the four great round portals which give access to th... |
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| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
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| 16 | 253 |
The wicked, black eyes, round and blazing with light, did not leave me. |
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| 16 | 269 |
The tarn, that predator, gently lowered its head, and I put my head against its head, below its round, gleaming right eye, and, within the leather hood, unseen, I wept. |
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| 18 | 396 |
The key box was about a yard to the left of the keyhole; and about four feet from the observation panel; it is a small, heavy metal box bolted to the stone of the wall; it opens and shuts to the left, by means of a round-knobbed screw, which must be turned several times before the small metal door o... |
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| 19 | 80 |
Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;... |
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| 21 | 318 |
I spun and saw, standing beside me, on my right, sword drawn, in the heavy helmet of the arena fighter, with the small round shield, the sheathed right arm and shoulder, Murmillius. |
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| 22 | 29 |
I saw blood on the beak of the bird, its round black eyes, gleaming, wild. |
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| 22 | 349 |
The crowd cried out, as it always did, at the sight of that monstrous head, the wicked beak, that sable, crackling crest, the round, black gleaming eyes. |
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| 24 | 2 |
It was fresh and clean, bright scarlet, pressed with hot, round irons warmed over fires. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 20 |
The round ship, of course, is not round, but it does have a much wider beam to its length of keel, say, about one to six, whereas the ratios of the war galleys are about one to eight. |
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| 14 | 77 |
The principal alternatives, under these conditions, open to the men of Cos and Tyros would then seem to be, first, to use free oarsmen, which was not, however, traditional on round ships, or, second, to increase the ram-ship escort for round ships. |
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| 14 | 308 |
Further, she is less seaworthy than the round ship, having a lower freeboard area, being more easily washed with waves, and having a higher keel-to-beam ratio, making the danger of breaking apart in a high sea greater than it would be with a round ship. |
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| 17 | 77 |
Coming on the heels of the round ships, with their masts high, these, I assumed, might well be taken for more round ships, for the mast of a tarn ship is always lowered before battle. |
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| 4 | 160 |
* * * * "In there," she said, indicating the small, round hole that gave access to her tiny rence hut. |
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| 7 | 54 |
These anchor-hooks, incidentally, are a great deal lighter than the anchors used in the long galleys, and the round ships. |
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| 10 | 18 |
These five ships, pertinent to council membership, may be either the round ships, with deep holds for merchandise, or the long ships, ram-ships, ships of war. |
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| 10 | 19 |
Both are predominantly oared vessels, but the round ship carries a heavier, permanent rigging, and supports more sail, being generally two-masted. |
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| 10 | 22 |
In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks. |
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| 10 | 25 |
A medium-class round ship should be able to carry from 5,000 to 7,500 Gorean Weight. |
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| 10 | 144 |
On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero... |
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| 10 | 273 |
I used free men on the rowing benches of my round ships, of which I had four, not slaves, as is traditional. |
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| 10 | 281 |
It was thus that the round ships of Bosk, the captain from the marshes, with their free crews, became in their own right dangerous, formidable ships. |
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| 10 | 308 |
They would be deep-keeled round ships, with mighty holds, and high, broad sails. |
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| 11 | 298 |
"Our round ships," said Samos, "require oarsmen". |
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| 11 | 340 |
"Perhaps," said Samos, "their lives may be spared, that they may take their seat on the benches of the public round ships". |
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| 11 | 553 |
"To send a captain is equivalent to sentencing him to the bench of a slave on the round ships of Cos or Tyros". |
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| 12 | 107 |
If he fell into the hands of the council he would doubtless be tortured and impaled, or, perhaps, condemned to a seat on the rowing benches of the arsenal round ships. |
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| 13 | 50 |
"When," snarled Lurius, "you find yourself chained in the rowing hold of a round ship, you may, my fine captain of Port Kar, bethink yourself less brave and clever than now you do". |
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| 13 | 188 |
"I trust, too," said Chenbar, "that you will not be the last of the captains of Port Kar to pull an oar on the round ships of Cos or Tyros". |
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| 13 | 196 |
"I do not frequent the rowing holds of round ships," she said. |
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| 13 | 198 |
"Have you ever been in the hold of a round ship?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 229 |
By the eighth hour various captains of round ships had arrived and begun to haggle with the slave master over the prices of the oarsmen. |
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| 13 | 230 |
The slave master, in my opinion, wanted far too much for his merchandise, considering we were merely fodder for the benches of the round ships. |
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| 13 | 279 |
She was indeed a round ship. |
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| 13 | 297 |
Ships of Gor, of whatever class or type, always have eyes painted on them, either in a head surmounting the prow, as in tarn ships, or, as in the Rena, as in round ships, on either side of the bow. |
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| 13 | 307 |
Slowly the ship, like a sweet, fat bird, heavy and stately, began to move toward the opening between the two high, round towers that guard the entrance to the walled harbor of Telnus, capital city of the island of Cos, seat of its Ubar's throne. |
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| 13 | 314 |
The Rena of Temos, like most round ships, had two permanent masts, unlike the removable masts of the war galleys. |
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| 13 | 515 |
Even so I found myself pressed and, to ease the difficulties of wharfage and mooring rights, I sold many a round ship taken, and some of the inferior long ships. |
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| 13 | 516 |
My round ships, as much as possible, I engaged in commerce, usually acting on the advice of Luma, the slave girl, my chief accountant; the ram-ships I sent against Cos and Tyros, usually in twos and threes; I myself commonly commanded a fleet of five ram-ships, and spent much time searching the seas... |
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| 14 | 47 |
The rowing deck, further, is open to the air, thereby differing from the rowing holds of round ships. |
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| 14 | 66 |
The treasure fleet, with her escort, consisted of seventy ships; forty were ram-ships and thirty round ships. |
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| 14 | 70 |
I had made it a practice never to ram round ships, and I had seen that this practice was well publicized. |
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| 14 | 72 |
Doubtless, from hold to hold, over the months, the word has spread that Bosk not only would not sink a round ship, but that, when he took one, he freed her slaves. |
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| 14 | 73 |
I think, had it not been for this, my own actions against round ships of the past months would not have been as successful as they had been. |
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| 14 | 74 |
Further, I had spread the rumor that I would be displeased should I discover, after capturing a round ship, that her slaves had been either mistreated or slain. |
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| 14 | 75 |
Accordingly I thus, in effect, recruited tacit allies in the rowing holds of round ships. |
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| 14 | 83 |
Because of my practices in connection with round ships, I did not expect Cos and Tyros to enter them seriously into any naval engagement with my fleet. |
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| 14 | 114 |
Whereas I did not know exactly the codes employed by the treasure fleet, I had little doubt that our hesitation was being signaled about the fleet, and then I heard other trumpets, and saw the round ships drawing apart, and tarn ships streaking between them, fanning out in our direction. |
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| 14 | 285 |
Two had been permitted to escape, and one lay, even now, penned in among the round ships. |
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| 14 | 286 |
Some of the round ships, intelligently, had scattered, but, of the thirty originally in the fleet, there were now twenty-two ringed with our vessels. |
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| 14 | 288 |
I was in no particular hurry to move against the captured round ships. |
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| 14 | 290 |
I was more interested in the seven round ships that had fled. |
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| 14 | 291 |
Accordingly, as soon as a sufficient number of my ships had returned to the treasure fleet, I set about organizing a pursuit of the missing round ships. |
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| 14 | 293 |
I dispatched ten tarn ships abroad in search patterns, hoping to snare some of the seven missing round ships. |
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| 14 | 294 |
Five of these search ships I sent in a net formation toward Cos, supposing this the most likely, if not the most wise, course that would soon be taken by the majority of the escaping round ships. |
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| 14 | 300 |
I looked upon my twenty-three round ships, and was not unsatisfied. |
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| 14 | 301 |
Round ships, like ram-ships, differ among themselves considerably. |
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| 14 | 314 |
Penned in among the twenty-three round ships was a long galley, a purple ship, flying the purple flag of Cos. |
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| 14 | 321 |
I anticipated, and received, little resistance from the round ships. |
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| 14 | 326 |
Vessel by vessel my men boarded the round ships, commonly meeting no resistance. |
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| 14 | 328 |
The round ship, although she often carries over one hundred, and sometimes over two hundred, chained slaves in her rowing hold, seldom, unless she intends to enter battle, carries a free crew of more than twenty to twenty-five men. |
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| 14 | 343 |
From time to time, as I scanned the lists, there was a cheer from one round ship or another as her slaves were freed. |
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| 14 | 453 |
"I am returning one round ship to Cos," I said. |
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| 14 | 465 |
At that point, from the foremast of a nearby round ship, where I had placed a lookout, came the cry, "Twelve sail! Twelve sail abeam!" "Ah," said I, "twelve ships, it seems". |
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| 15 | 10 |
My ten search vessels had managed to bring in five of the seven missing round ships, four of which had been, foolishly, striking out directly for Telnus in Cos. |
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| 15 | 15 |
The ships, in a splendid, long line, filing behind me, the Dorna first, then the tarn ships, then the round ships, under oars, moved slowly through the city, following the triumphal circuit of the great canal, passing even before the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
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| 15 | 35 |
Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c... |
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| 15 | 36 |
And bound at the prow of the first forty ships, following the flagship, beginning with the Dorna, and then the tarn ships and the first ten and largest of the captured round ships, was a high-born beauty, once intended to be the maiden of Cos' Ubara, now, like herself, destined only for the brand an... |
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| 15 | 50 |
In the five days it had taken to reach Port Kar from the scene of the engagement with the treasure fleet, due to the slowness of the round ships, I had not kept Vivina, and her maidens, of course, at the prows of the ships. |
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| 15 | 54 |
"If I remember correctly," I had said, behind the admiral's table, busied with papers, "in the hall of the Ubar of Cos you told me that you did not frequent the rowing holds of round ships". |
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| 15 | 57 |
High-born ladies commonly sail in cabins, located in the stern castles of either ram-ships or round ships. |
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| 15 | 59 |
"I asked you, as I recall," I had reminded her, "if you had ever been in the hold of a round ship?" She said nothing. |
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| 15 | 62 |
"Take this lady," said I to them, "in a long boat to the largest of the round ships, one rowed by captured officers of the treasure fleet, and chain her there, with other treasures, in the rowing hold". |
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| 15 | 71 |
"Only slave girls, I understand," said she, "are kept chained below decks in round ships". |
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| 15 | 112 |
As the holds of the round ships, one by one, had been emptied, appraised and recorded, hundreds of men, most of them unknown to me, had applied to me for clientship. |
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| 16 | 198 |
Most sailing, save by round ships, is done in the spring and summer. |
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| 16 | 369 |
The round ships and the long ships leave the harbor of Port Kar. |
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| 17 | 5 |
The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from... |
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| 17 | 9 |
Of the seven hundred arsenal ships, three hundred and forty were tarn ships, and three hundred and sixty were round ships. |
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| 17 | 10 |
Our fleet was further supplemented by some fourteen hundred ships furnished by private captains, minor captains of Port Kar, most of which were round ships. |
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| 17 | 51 |
This left me approximately one hundred and eighty-five tarn ships, and the large numbers, fourteen hundred, of round ships. |
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| 17 | 56 |
My third wave, following the second by an Ahn, would consist of a long extended line of round ships, some fourteen hundred. |
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| 17 | 58 |
Thus the round ships might, hopefully, be able to envelop their formation, surround it, and attack on the flanks, with their not inconsiderable barrage of flaming javelins, heated stones, burning pitch and showers of crossbow bolts. |
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| 17 | 59 |
Further, when the ships of Cos and Tyros turned upon these round ships I did not think they would find them common foes. |
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| 17 | 62 |
Besides having large numbers of unchained, armed men in their rowing holds, these round ships, moreover, were, below decks, and in the turrets and the stem and stern castles, crowded with armed, able-bodied men, citizens of Port Kar who had swarmed aboard, that they might fight. |
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| 17 | 65 |
They are to be fastened at one end to the round ship and are intended to be dropped, with their ponderous spiked ends, into the deck of an enemy ship, thus nailing, or fastening, the ships together. |
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| 17 | 66 |
The round ship has a substantially higher freeboard area than the ram-ship, which is lower, and so this boarding arrangement is feasible. |
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| 17 | 67 |
Commonly, of course, it is the round ship, with her normally small, free crews, which attempts to evade boarding. |
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| 17 | 69 |
We had crowded far more armed men into each of these round ships than would be carried even in the normal crew of a heavy-class tarn ship. |
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| 17 | 70 |
The common strategy with a round ship is to shear and board, because, normally, one wishes not to sink the ship but take it as a prize. |
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| 17 | 74 |
It was my hope that my round ships, with their large, free crews, and their artillery, and their boarding potentialities, might be a match for even heavy-class tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 76 |
My fourth wave consisted of fifty tarn ships, instructed not to lower their masts, which would follow the round ships by an Ahn. |
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| 17 | 78 |
Accordingly I hoped the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros, seeing the sails, would think their new enemies were single-masted round ships, of which there are some types, and either misjudge their speeds or rush on them unwarily, finding out, too late, that they were plunging headlong toward swift, maneuve... |
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| 17 | 79 |
These ships would then, when free to do so, support the round ships in their battle, destroying tarn ships which might, unaware of the new danger, be attempting to close with them. |
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| 17 | 132 |
As I watched, the long, strung-out line of round ships of Port Kar moved past, tacking, scarcely using their oars, their small, triangular storm sails beaten from the north. |
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| 17 | 133 |
The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re... |
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| 17 | 134 |
It was the latter sail which, although it was unusual, the round ships were using for tacking; had they used either of the larger sails, with the sharp wind, they would have heeled dangerously toward the water, perhaps shipping water through the leeward thole ports. |
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| 17 | 173 |
Behind my second-wave ships, I saw, scattered in its long enveloping line stretching from horizon to horizon across Thassa, their small storm sails pounded by the wind, the third wave, that of the round ships. |
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| 17 | 176 |
In the turmoil of the battle I had little doubt that they would be taken, at first, and perhaps until it was too late, as a second wave of round ships. |
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| 17 | 179 |
With the reserves would come ten more round ships, wide-beamed lumber ships from the arsenal. |
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| 17 | 195 |
Then, as the lines of Cos and Tyros had closed and deepened, to match formations with my task forces, the great encircling line of round ships had cast its net about them. |
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| 17 | 196 |
Hundreds of ships had turned to destroy these clumsy intruders, but, of these hundreds, great numbers discovered, too late, that they fought not common round ships but floating fortresses jammed with armed men, eager to engage. |
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| 17 | 197 |
And then I had seen fleet ships, in their fifties, come about to move against what they had taken to be a new wave of round ships, only to be taken off-guard by the rams and shearing blades of ships as swift and terrible as their own. |
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| 17 | 202 |
I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades. |
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| 17 | 214 |
I could see, now, approaching the Dorna, from the east, the reserves, the fifty-five tarn ships, and the ten wide-beamed round ships, lumber ships from the arsenal, whose cargoes were unknown even to my highest officers. |
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| 17 | 219 |
And between them, heavy, their hulls buffeted by the wind, even their small storm sails now furled to their yards, came the ten round ships, the lumber ships from the arsenal. |
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| 17 | 222 |
I saw now that the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros were, where possible, not engaging the round ships, but concentrating their superior numbers on my tarn ships. |
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| 17 | 223 |
The round ships, slow, much at the mercy of the wind, were now being abandoned as antagonists. |
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| 17 | 227 |
He would use his superior numbers on my tarn ships, leaving the round ships for later, when they might be struck by as many as four or five tarn ships simultaneously. |
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| 17 | 228 |
The round ships, of course, were too slow to offer the swift, decisive support to my tarn ships which they would surely need shortly. |
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| 17 | 245 |
To cries of wonder from my men, and those of other ships nearby, the deck planking of the ten round ships was lifted and thrown aside. |
10 |
| 17 | 247 |
The tarns crowded into the holds of the round ships were hooded. |
10 |
| 17 | 262 |
We approached the first of the round ships on its leeward side. |
10 |
| 17 | 263 |
Soon I stood on the deck of the round ship. |
10 |
| 17 | 275 |
"You have, in the ten round ships," I said, "one hundred tarns, with riders". |
10 |
| 17 | 277 |
I looked down into the open hold of the round ship. |
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| 17 | 338 |
He stood on the deck of the round ship, opening and closing his wings, looking about himself, and then threw back his head and screamed. |
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| 17 | 341 |
I drew again on the one-strap and again the bird's wings snapped, and he was on the long, sloping yard on the round ship's foremast. |
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| 17 | 359 |
I saw tarns leaping to the decks of the round ships, and I saw the knotted ropes being attached to the saddles, and picked seamen, experts with the sword, five to a rope, taking their positions. |
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| 17 | 365 |
In the turmoil below, primarily of tarn ships locked in battle, and the great round ships trying to close with enemy tarn ships, I saw, protected by ten tarn ships on each side, and ten before and ten behind, the flagship of Cos and Tyros. |
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| 18 | 6 |
"I expect," said the oar-master, "that in the rag of a slave he will eventually find his place at the bench of an arsenal round ship". |
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| 18 | 15 |
I looked to the round ships. |
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| 18 | 22 |
My admiral's cloak, brought with my returning men from the round ship, was given to me and I wrapped it about my shoulders. |
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| 18 | 117 |
How else, I asked myself, had he been able to take an oar on the longboat in the canals when I had gone to the hall of the Council of Captains, or been able to board the Dorna, or taken his place in the longboat that had ferried me to the round ship? I, too, was not unfond of the boy. |
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| 18 | 134 |
Far below I saw the Dorna, lifting and falling in the troughs of the waves, and, separated from her, the ships of the fleet, round ships and tarn ships, storm sails set, oars dipping, flying before the storm. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 592 |
Day followed day, and round followed round of feedings, exercisings and training periods. |
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| 3 | 470 |
It was round, black, circular, small, perhaps seven or eight feet in diameter, perhaps five feet in thickness. |
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| 4 | 119 |
Inside there was a tiny cylinder, fused to a round, circular plate, covered with tiny, copperish lines. |
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| 5 | 117 |
It crouched over a metallic container, round, not unlike a covered plate, that had been sprung open. |
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| 7 | 177 |
Now, chained, kneeling in a circle, we passed about, one to the other, a bowl of hot soup; then each of us was given a sixth of a round yellow loaf of bread, which we ate with our hands; then, before each of us, on the grass, the guards threw a large piece of cooked meat. |
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| 8 | 711 |
The piece of meat disappeared into that vast, fanged orifice and the large, round eyes blinked sleepily, contentedly. |
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| 10 | 31 |
The eyes were large, black, round, the snout wide, two-nostriled and leathery. |
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| 13 | 412 |
She was trying, with a pointed stick, to round a pit in a new board for a new fire drill. |
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| 15 | 894 |
After the night feeding, she, with her work companions, would be ordered to the slave shed, where they would be locked for the night, only to be summoned again in the morning, ordered from the shed, for another round of their labors, tasks fit for such as they, female work slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 38 |
Most commercial voyages, needless to say, are carried out in deeper-keeled, broader-beamed ships, the famed round ships of Thassa. |
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| 6 | 607 |
"And his father!" Several men had gathered round. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 46 |
"Very well," I said, "give the men time for their pleasures, eight days, and have the cargoes transferred to one of my round ships, whichever can be most swiftly fitted, and embark them for Asperiche, the Venna and Tela as convoy". |
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| 2 | 129 |
And on its mast, round and of painted wood, had hung the white shield. |
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| 2 | 168 |
The shields were round, and of wood, variously painted, some reinforced with iron bands, others with leather, some with small bronze plates. |
10 |
| 5 | 238 |
With him, in the longboat, in a round, bronze can, with twist lid, he had taken his scales, collapsible, of bronze and chain, with their weights. |
10 |
| 7 | 277 |
Its eyes, large, round, blazed in the light of the torch. |
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| 11 | 48 |
Each carried a wide, round shield, of iron, some four feet in diameter. |
10 |
| 11 | 50 |
The handle of the ax was of carved, green needle wood, round, some four inches in diameter. |
10 |
| 11 | 267 |
It was a round, flat, six-sectioned loaf of Sa-Tarna bread. |
10 |
| 12 | 47 |
Spear blades struck the surfaces of the round, painted, wooden shields. |
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| 13 | 449 |
In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps som... |
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| 15 | 294 |
The song dealt with the problems of a man attempting to content one hundred bondmaids, one after the other; it is rather repetitious, and the number of bondmaids decreases by one in each round. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 250 |
It was in round, brownish cakes, sliced. |
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| 8 | 82 |
The heavy, round-ended pestle, some five feet in height, more than five inches wide at the base, dropped. |
10 |
| 23 | 116 |
The primary engagement weapons are lance and scimitar, and the primary defense is a small round buckler. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 161 |
Within there was a wooden, round-runged ladder, for climbing out of it. |
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| 16 | 173 |
The ship on which I was carried was the round ship, or cargo ship, Clouds of Telnus, registered in Cos, but with shipping papers clearing it for the waters of Schendi. |
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| 16 | 177 |
The round ship, as opposed to the long ship, or war ship, relies predominantly upon its sails. |
10 |
| 20 | 551 |
The heavy galleys were round ships, large ships, which usually carried bulk goods, such as lumber and stone. |
10 |
| 21 | 76 |
They carry much less cargo than a round ship, but lean and shallow-drafted, they are much faster. |
10 |
| 22 | 8 |
I could see other ships to both the left and right, too, with lateen rigging, both ramships and round ships. |
10 |
| 22 | 95 |
It must, thus, be a round ship". |
10 |
| 22 | 102 |
"It is a round ship," said the first officer. |
10 |
| 22 | 158 |
Round ships, I knew, commonly had two masts, fixed, and permanently rigged. |
10 |
| 22 | 163 |
"That is no round ship, Captain," said the young officer. |
10 |
| 22 | 577 |
I saw a round eye, lidded and lensed. |
10 |
| 24 | 305 |
"The men," said one of the women, "were taken from the boat and chained, and put in a round ship". |
10 |
| 27 | 244 |
"And I," called Clitus Vitellius, "will fee the second round of cups!" "Cheers for the peasants!" cried a man, with bloody face. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 514 |
They had round metal snaps. |
10 |
| 3 | 770 |
There were round, pierced metal balls at each end of the ankle chain, to prevent its slipping through the rings entirely. |
10 |
| 21 | 95 |
In the second and third round I caught women of the red hunters. |
10 |
| 21 | 96 |
In the fourth round I got my hand on Audrey's neck and threw her down to the floor. |
10 |
| 21 | 99 |
In the fifth round, when the lamps were relit, it was Arlene who looked up at me from my arms. |
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| 30 | 194 |
She then turned and went to the foot of the small, round platform, picked up the opened slave collar, with the bit of silk wrapped about it, and returned to the place on the sand before me. |
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| 35 | 625 |
"Are you going to rape me?" She looked at the large, round bed, soft and deep, covered with green silk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 87 |
She was a medium-class round ship, with a keel-to-beam ratio of about six to one; that of the long ship is usually about eight to one. |
10 |
| 4 | 90 |
The masts of round ships are usually permanently fixed; those of long ships, usually single-masted, are removed before battle; most Gorean ships are lateen-rigged; this permits sailing closer to the wind. |
10 |
| 4 | 385 |
This makes it possible for merchant ships, round ships, with permanently fixed masts, to move within the city, and, from the military point of view, makes it possible to block canals and also, when drawn back, isolate given areas of the city by the canals which function then as moats. |
10 |
| 6 | 161 |
To be sure, one merchant ship, like the Palms of Schendi, could have made little effective resistance to the ships which had just passed us, nor could she, though swift for a round ship, have outrun them. |
10 |
| 6 | 395 |
Coming about Point Schendi, behind us, some two pasangs astern, was a round ship. |
10 |
| 6 | 397 |
Far to starboard we saw two other ships, a medium-class round ship and a heavy galley, the latter with red masts, both of Ianda. |
10 |
| 11 | 360 |
He also wore a low, round, flat-topped cap of similar material. |
10 |
| 12 | 64 |
At the end of each there was a tiny round object. |
10 |
| 18 | 40 |
The room itself, a great round room, was a hundred feet in width. |
10 |
| 19 | 54 |
I looked to the round, shallow, circular pit in the center of the room. |
10 |
| 19 | 57 |
In the pit, his hands still clutching, fingernails bloody, at one of the round poles supporting the platform, lay an askari. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 450 |
I held the round, heavy metal against me, below my brassiere. |
10 |
| 2 | 219 |
There were two small, round holes, each about a half of an inch in width, in the upper half of the side of the crate which had served as its door. |
10 |
| 13 | 277 |
Behind their left shoulders were round shields. |
10 |
| 17 | 12 |
I lay on my back on a large, round couch, on deep furs. |
10 |
| 18 | 274 |
"An extra round of rations," said Kenneth, expansively, "some pastry upon occasion, sometimes with even a bowl of cheap wine". |
10 |
| 21 | 145 |
We could see their spears, mounted at the right stirrup, like needles, at the distance, and the shields, seeming small and round. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 15 |
I left their sides and pushed through the crowd, making my way nearer the high, round, sawdust-strewn block. |
10 |
| 24 | 47 |
Near the couch was a large, round, sunken tub, with some six inches of water in it. |
10 |
| 32 | 320 |
Yet I knew it must be deep enough to accommodate the keel of a captured, heavily laden round ship. |
10 |
| 33 | 108 |
Gorean ships, on the whole, even the round ships, are shallowly drafted vessels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 157 |
The ships of Ar's Station, with the fleet, seemed more round ships than long ships. |
10 |
| 8 | 124 |
A round of paga and a girl is a pleasant way to relax after one's watch on deck. |
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| 18 | 9 |
She replaced the tiny brush and the small, blue, round box which contained the eye shadow on the cosmetics tray on the tiles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 194 |
Their third lids, the transparent storm membranes, were drawn, giving their wild, round eyes a yellowish cast. |
10 |
| 8 | 174 |
It had small, red, round buttons securing the long, exciting frontal closure and appearing, too, at the cuffs. |
10 |
| 15 | 44 |
He carried a long, feathered lance, and a small, round shield, a war shield, on which were inscribed medicine signs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 204 |
"Do not forget this," he said, picking up the small, round, heavy object on the felt. |
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| 1 | 405 |
' He then pressed into my hand the round, heavy, yellowish object which I had later taken to the shop of a numismatist, and then, later, on the advice of the numismatist, to the office of a specialist in the authentication of coins. |
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| 2 | 518 |
I was plunged into darkness, save for the tiny bits of light coming through the two small, round holes on my right, near my face. |
10 |
| 3 | 15 |
It was round and some fifteen feet in diameter. |
10 |
| 12 | 72 |
It was round. |
10 |
| 16 | 333 |
Such bread is usually baked in round, flat loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. |
10 |
| 28 | 47 |
I carried a round, empty silver platter, about eighteen inches in diameter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 376 |
The paunchy fellow, his belly swinging, now out of character as the merchant, was informing the audience that a new round of farces, all different, would be performed within the Ahn. |
10 |
| 16 | 187 |
He then commenced his final doubtless decisive round of tests. |
10 |
| 16 | 380 |
Their disrobing, leaving only scarves about their necks, concealing their collars, and round, adhesive patches on their thighs, concealing their brands, was done mostly in character, with apprehension and reluctance, with piteous whimperings, suitable lamentations, and such, but Bina, in the matter ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 255 |
"I am a free woman!" "I think I can round up a few interested fellows," said Hurtha. |
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| 25 | 1698 |
A round, cylindrical, truncated cushion, usually of cork or leather, with a circular hole in its center, is forced into the slave's mouth. |
10 |
| 26 | 330 |
I then felt round to the object's mouth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 609 |
She did so, and I drew forth a tarsk bit from my pouch, this one not a separate coin in the sense of a round or square coin, but a piece of such a coin, a narrow, triangular, chopped eighth of a copper tarn disk, and placed it in her mouth. |
10 |
| 4 | 3 |
These were all large, shallow, round tubs, of clay, covered with porcelain, mounted on open-bricked platforms, each platform about a yard high. |
10 |
| 5 | 307 |
Gorean bread is almost always baked in round, flat loaves. |
10 |
| 8 | 308 |
He led it from the cot, it stalking beside him, its head moving about, its eyes round, bright and sharp. |
10 |
| 9 | 269 |
She spooned the porridge into the bowls and set the bread, wedges, from a round, flat loaf, on the trenchers, and knelt back. |
10 |
| 20 | 120 |
Those were not round ships. |
10 |
| 24 | 719 |
Some cities have tiny, round copper "tarsk bits," but they are usually regarded as too small to be suitable in the sports of chance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1168 |
They were large and round, about half a hort in diameter, of brightly colored wood. |
10 |
| 5 | 18 |
Its sluggish, muddy waters vary from channels deep enough to float a round ship, to washes of a few inches deep. |
10 |
| 13 | 393 |
Perhaps if some of you strip yourselves and raise your arms you might be spared, to be put in chains, to be taken, beaten, to trading points, thence to be sold as slaves, thence to be chained to benches, rowing the round ships of Cos". |
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| 31 | 13 |
To be sure, from the marks upon his face, and the shrubbery with which he had altered his outline, that of the tor shrub, he was not a simple rencer going about his normal round of duties, plying a livelihood in the delta. |
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| 46 | 86 |
There there was a round, sunken area, a sales area for stock lots, one of several. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 223 |
At any rate, Marcus found it much easier to believe that magic existed than that his world was round, that it moved, and that there might be other worlds rather like it here and there in the universe. |
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| 24 | 25 |
In the center of the room there was a large couch, a round couch, some seven or eight feet in diameter. |
10 |
| 27 | 347 |
An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 521 |
"Alas, now," smiled the woman, "I fear I must return to my daily, boring round of parties, and such". |
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| 16 | 64 |
It clearly was metal, and heavy, and round, and was closed, and closed closely, about her ankle. |
10 |
| 17 | 950 |
A studded buckler, a small, round, spiked shield, was at the side of the saddle. |
10 |
| 19 | 537 |
In it, other than herself, there was only a blanket, a small loaf of bread, flat, and round, like most Gorean loaves, and a small bota, presumably filled with water. |
10 |
| 19 | 702 |
How kind he is to a lowly barbarian, a mere Earth-girl slave! After an Ahn or so, she went again to her knees, holding the blanket clasped about her, and reached out for, and picked up, the small, round, flat loaf of bread which lay on the wicker flooring with the tiny bota. |
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| 20 | 719 |
This distinction might occasionally prove to be of more than simply proprietary or identificatory relevance, for example, if one wished, in short order, to commandeer state slaves, to round them up and transport them, exchange them for goods or prisoners, and so on. |
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| 24 | 860 |
Such coins would buy more than one round of paga. |
10 |
| 25 | 473 |
Between them he had then thrust a large, round, porcelain vessel. |
10 |
| 27 | 2185 |
Ellen, turning her head, saw the large, round eyes of Kardok upon her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 252 |
But its advance was oddly, abruptly, arrested, and its gigantic paddlelike appendages churned in the water, but they did not move the tons of massive body forward, and then most of the body disappeared beneath the surface, almost as though drawn back, and down, and its head, on the long neck, rose u... |
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| 35 | 2 |
Cabot was working with the missile, or arrow, straightener, a short wooden tool, some eighteen inches in length, with a small, round hole cut in one end. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 155 |
The Gorean "round ship" is not round, of course, though the Gorean would translate as I have it. |
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| 1 | 234 |
The large, round eyes regarded me, as though quizzically. |
10 |
| 3 | 152 |
"This is an outpost hut, near the coast, where we may watch for round ships". |
10 |
| 3 | 154 |
The "round ships" are cargo ships. |
10 |
| 3 | 156 |
It is merely that the ratio of keel to beam is greater in the long ship, or ship of war, more length of keel to width of beam, than in the "round ship". |
10 |
| 3 | 157 |
The round ship is designed for the carrying of cargo. |
10 |
| 4 | 443 |
It was a round ship, more deeply keeled, more broadly beamed, than the long ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 256 |
A narrow spume of smoke rose from the round ship, near its bow. |
10 |
| 5 | 262 |
Sullius Maximus backed away a step or two, looked briefly back, to the round ship, some hundred yards offshore. |
10 |
| 5 | 267 |
The two oarsmen turned the longboat toward the round ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 276 |
Something, of course, might have been seen from the height of the permanent mast of the round ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 283 |
Perhaps this had little to do with Tyros? Perhaps a round ship would raise less suspicion? Perhaps this was the very ship on which the agent of Priest-Kings might have had his passage? "I speak in the name of Priest-Kings," said Sullius Maximus, swiftly, as though by rote. |
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| 5 | 314 |
He waded into the surf and, when he had boarded the small craft, the two fellows with crossbows followed him, and, in moments, their weapons stowed, they, and the other two oarsmen, were propelling the longboat toward the round ship. |
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| 5 | 315 |
The fellow at the tiller had a steady hand, and the longboat was soon aside the round ship, and had been hoisted over the gunwales. |
10 |
| 5 | 399 |
I now suspected the meaning of the signal smoke near the bow of the round ship, and why she had recalled her longboat, had swung about and unfurled her sail. |
10 |
| 5 | 429 |
I had no idea if this were true or not, but the round ship which had recently departed, I was reasonably sure, had been late. |
10 |
| 5 | 447 |
"A round ship," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 54 |
The typical Gorean shield is heavy, large and round, of layered leather bound with metal stripping. |
10 |
| 25 | 201 |
Most mariners, however, believed that the world was spherical, surmising this from a plenitude of considerations, that one first discerns the masts of approaching ships, that Gor's shadow, round, is occasionally cast on a moon, that not all stars are visible at all latitudes, as would be the case if... |
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| 26 | 117 |
"It was somewhat narrower than that," he said, "for you must be aflight between the guard's failure to complete a round and the dispatch of a party of inquiry". |
10 |
| 30 | 38 |
This information made me somewhat apprehensive, for it suggested that the designer of the ship was planning it not for swiftness and maneuverability, common features of a Gorean galley, even the so-called "round ships," but for stability in serious weather. |
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| 30 | 72 |
The height of the bulwarks, as in round ships, discourages boarding. |
10 |
| 30 | 85 |
I saw no thole ports, near the waterline, even for the great oars, with grips, those used on some round ships, five men to an oar. |
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| 38 | 11 |
Great quantities of water were also brought aboard, this despite the common expedient, on round ships, of adding to one's stores by capturing rain in extended volumes of sail canvas, thence conducting it to on-ship reservoirs. |
10 |
| 38 | 291 |
Round ships, incidentally, commonly made use of slaves, fastened to the benches, but the long ships, ships of war, commonly relied on free oarsmen, for reasons which, I suppose, are obvious. |
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| 39 | 25 |
We did have aboard several mariners, who had had service in round ships. |
10 |
| 39 | 32 |
They have linked small boats across the mouth of the Alexandra, and prepared others, with ladders and grappling irons, suitable for dealing with round ships. |
10 |
| 40 | 36 |
The round ship would need only a few feet more. |
10 |
| 43 | 57 |
The sleen are trained then to round up, herd, and drive these women to the enclosures, say, corrals or pens, waiting for them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 67 |
This suggested to me, but did not prove, that this mysterious, monstrous vessel in which I found myself encelled, despite its size, was not a round ship, or, better, not a round ship as one usually thinks of such ships. |
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| 2 | 20 |
The season was nearly over, the time when ships were taken from the water for their wintering, the time when rational mariners withdrew wisely from lashing, gleaming Thassa, leaving her, the mother, to her moods of violence, to her towering, rushing, lifting waves, higher than the masts of round shi... |
10 |
| 2 | 42 |
On the long ship, as opposed to some round ships, one does not stand at the oar. |
10 |
| 2 | 44 |
That is just as well, of course, for the bulwarks provide some protection from arrow fire, certainly from most long ships, which, like us, unlike many round ships, are low in the water. |
10 |
| 2 | 104 |
Had we been a round ship I think the lash would have fallen amongst us. |
10 |
| 2 | 129 |
The ship had six masts, apparently fixed, which suggested it was a round ship, which has fixed masts, and often more than one, say, two or three, though never so many as six. |
10 |
| 2 | 130 |
The round ship, with its size and weight, though oared, usually by galley slaves, chained to their benches, relies more on its sails than a long ship. |
10 |
| 2 | 187 |
This was some five times the height of a large round ship. |
10 |
| 2 | 197 |
Stories had it that they rode within ships, but strange ships, round, flat ships, like disks, disks of metal, which moved like clouds, swift as thought, in silence. |
10 |
| 3 | 51 |
I heard no bars, marking the four watches, each of five Ahn, into which the day of a round ship is often divided. |
10 |
| 3 | 55 |
Interestingly, at least to those unaccustomed to the routine of the round ship, the bars which do not pertain to one are scarcely noticed, no more than the creaking of timbers, the wash of waves against the hull. |
10 |
| 3 | 59 |
To be sure, not all round ships regulate their day in this fashion. |
10 |
| 3 | 61 |
Some round ships do not have recourse to bars, at all, but use clepsydras, sand glasses, and such, to mark watches, and use watch keepers to alert or rouse the pertinent watch. |
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| 7 | 31 |
It is not unusual, on large ships, round ships, and longer voyages, for slave girls to be brought aboard. |
10 |
| 7 | 168 |
The nested galleys, on the other hand, were typical of most Gorean vessels, long or round ships, oar-banked, double ruddered, single-masted, and lateen-rigged. |
10 |
| 7 | 169 |
The long ships are commonly open to the weather, like the dragons of Torvaldsland, and the round ships, larger and slower, are commonly decked, this to shelter passengers, if there be passengers, and protect cargo. |
10 |
| 8 | 85 |
It was eerie to look into the large, round, dark eyes of a sea sleen, peering at one from the icy water. |
10 |
| 11 | 80 |
Two round eyes regarded us for a moment, and then the head, on its long neck, disappeared beneath the waves, and the body, too, though I could see it for a few moments. |
10 |
| 12 | 92 |
Solitude on a ship is rare, and the high watch afforded one of the few opportunities on a ship, say, a round ship, and certainly on the ship of Tersites, to be alone. |
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| 13 | 13 |
It was a round ship, of sorts, a vessel not made for war. |
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| 16 | 103 |
This was no ascent of a few feet, to the deck of a common round ship, or that of the batten-sailed ships of the sort with which we had familiarized ourselves in the Vine Sea. |
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| 24 | 330 |
As we had no bench slaves on board, such fellows usually found on round ships, I supposed him a recreant of sorts, spared for his strength at an oar. |
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| 33 | 296 |
We then, together, began to make our way along the waterfront, to the high piers, so called, those which might, by depth of water, levels of platforms, varieties of lading devices, and proximity to shops and warehouses, accommodate and service round ships. |
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| 33 | 302 |
"No," I said, "it is the signal of a new docking, a round ship, doubtless". |
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| 33 | 304 |
When a new round ship docks its arrival is usually announced by the bar. |
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| 33 | 337 |
It is no common round ship. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 53 |
I had not been long on Gor before I was brought naked and back-braceleted into a round chamber. |
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| 7 | 130 |
The next day I was again conducted to the round chamber, as before, stripped, back-braceleted. |
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| 51 | 19 |
A round of ka-la-na had been first served, with a wrapper of nuts. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 42 |
As with so many others, she seemingly found her life largely a round of banalities. |
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| 6 | 139 |
In some places, through the high, narrow, barred windows in the walls, through which light may filter, they would hear the calls of longshoremen, their loading chants, the rumble of wheels on the planks, the creak of timbers, the stirring of slack canvas on a round ship, the water washing against th... |
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| 6 | 186 |
Master," she said, and leapt up and fled, with a flash of bells, from the small, round table, at which I sat, cross-legged. |
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| 6 | 227 |
I looked at the small, round, golden disk. |
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| 8 | 17 |
It was from such wharves that the small ships, mostly coasting vessels, not round ships, one every two or three days, had been plying north. |
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| 8 | 45 |
In what way then might I have such value, that others might not? Too, I was curious about the ships, the smaller ships, not the round ships, which were coasting north. |
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| 8 | 383 |
Some coasters, as well as round ships, have pens for livestock. |
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| 8 | 385 |
Most round ships, given the dangers of weather and the distance of the voyage, keep livestock below, in the first or second hold. |
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| 8 | 520 |
Round ships are the preferred prey of the "sleen of the sea," but the sleen, when hungry, do not disdain smaller prey. |
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| 10 | 45 |
Except on a round ship, and even on many of those, mariners do not welcome the presence of a free woman. |
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| 10 | 52 |
Sometimes a round ship will carry slaves for the men, ship slaves. |
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| 15 | 465 |
Would not a variety of galleys be more practical? For what is so large a vessel required? It is much larger, many times larger, I am told, than even the largest of common round ships, or cargo vessels, which, too, are apparently very different from the long, low, knifelike vessels of war. |
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| 16 | 22 |
An end had apparently come to the seemingly endless round of cutting and hauling, lopping, the rough shaping, and rude trimming, to the backbreaking labor in the forest, the purpose of which was never explained to us. |
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| 23 | 141 |
It was quite different from the other Gorean vessels I had seen, which tended to be numerous, graceful, slender, and beautiful, low in the water, long in keel, and narrow in beam, even the "round ships". |
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| 25 | 162 |
They are lovely animals, round-eyed, and alert. |
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| 39 | 544 |
I then saw the round eyes of the beast open widely. |
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| 41 | 256 |
The flask was finished in one round, but I replenished the small metal cups more than once, pouring from the bottle, it suspended in its carrying net, slung on its strap about my shoulder. |
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| 50 | 406 |
Near the gate, within it, to my right as I entered, was a low, flat, round tank, presumably for water, and a feed trough. |
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| 52 | 933 |
How small the man appeared next to this terrible, winged monster, its broad wings restless, its head, with its fearful beak, high above the beach, moving alertly about, the large, wicked, round, shining, black eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 33 |
"It is common on ships," I said, "particularly round ships, merchant ships". |
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| 30 | 672 |
"I am sure," said the innkeeper, "the noble one, he of two swords, is generous, as are all of his quality, and would not mind an additional round of sake, to warm friends on the road". |
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| 30 | 679 |
"So then, perhaps another round," said the leader of the Ashigaru, with affable incoherence. |
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| 30 | 694 |
"Another round?" proposed the innkeeper. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 20 |
I could see the masts of galleys, round ships, in the distance. |
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| 27 | 21 |
The masts of round ships, or cargo ships, are commonly fixed. |
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| 28 | 33 |
"Let us share a round of paga!" called a fellow. |
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| 32 | 20 |
On the knife ships the masts were down; on the round ships no canvas was slung to the yards. |
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| 32 | 21 |
The ships, the long ships, or knife ships, and the round ships, the freighters and coasters, seemed dark in the night, and disquieting, like quiet, watching, lurking things. |
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| 49 | 6 |
He then drew back, smiling, and gestured to a lacquered table below the dais, which was round, and circled by six curule chairs, of identical fashioning. |
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| 49 | 155 |
Decius Albus then turned about, and clapped his hands, twice, and a portal opened behind the dais, and three individuals entered the room, two men and a woman, a free woman, and approached the round table, that appointed with identical chairs. |
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| 49 | 227 |
The free persons then took seats about the round table, and I knelt near my master, a bit behind him and to the left. |
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| 63 | 247 |
Shortly thereafter our wrists were freed from the slave bracelets, and we were given a round, flat loaf of bread, which we eagerly divided between us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 236 |
This is apparently indexed to the ease of dividing a round coin into equal parts. |
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| 6 | 130 |
Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no... |
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| 8 | 26 |
The mast was fixed, which is common in round ships. |
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| 8 | 98 |
Our ship was a merchant vessel, called a "round ship," though its beam was not that much broader than that of a long ship, as I now know, with its ram and shearing blades. |
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| 8 | 492 |
Surely it was not pleasant to be chained in the hold of a round ship. |
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| 8 | 617 |
"It is a cargo ship, you suppose, a round ship, casually, surprisingly encountered," she said. |
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| 8 | 619 |
"That is no cargo vessel, no round ship," she said. |
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| 8 | 749 |
The round ship, larger and heavier, wider of beam, deeper in the water, higher bulwarked, laden with cargo, depends far more than a long ship on its sail. |
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| 11 | 41 |
By means of four large, deep canals, in which even two round ships could pass one another, one could, passing through the arsenal sea gates and the western and southern sea gates, communicate with the Tamber, and thence, shortly, with Thassa, the sea. |
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| 46 | 280 |
Shortly there will be a free round of paga for all!" This information did much to calm the tables. |
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| 46 | 665 |
I heard the sounds of music from behind me, as the slave, Sandra, danced, and men, jubilant, and content, well satisfied, too, with a free round of paga, failed to note our departure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 12 |
Few would take her as a "round ship," a cargo vessel, with its somewhat broader beam, higher gunwales, and capacity for freight. |
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| 6 | 41 |
"Let us have another round," I suggested. |
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| 15 | 7 |
"Perhaps a fleet of round ships was somehow in the vicinity, perhaps blown off course, and responded to beacons of distress". |
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| 18 | 13 |
I was a captain, master of a fine round ship of a hundred oars". |
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| 22 | 47 |
Your larger ship, the Dorna, is no round ship. |
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| 22 | 94 |
"But," said Sakim, "what if three ships, round ships of Brundisium, splendid ships with rich cargos, leave the harbor unexpectedly early, to elude pirates. |
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| 22 | 96 |
"Three round ships, together or not, would be easy prey for seven knife ships," I said. |
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| 27 | 157 |
"What is this about?" "Tomorrow," I said, "with the first tide, a round ship of Anango, fat and slow, heavy with riches, departs the harbor". |
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| 27 | 192 |
The round ship of Anango, a most valuable prize, leaves earlier than we had anticipated, tomorrow, with the first tide". |
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| 28 | 8 |
"I take it," said Melete, "the Anango round ship, fearing pirates, has chosen an out-of-the-way course home". |
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| 37 | 84 |
Gorean bread is commonly baked in flat, round loafs, sliced either in fourths or eighths. |
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| 41 | 72 |
On the second day, the ships in the harbor, large and small round ships, fishing boats, coasters, and sundry small vessels, were attacked, looted, and burned. |
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| 41 | 107 |
"To transport it would require a dozen round ships". |
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| 45 | 25 |
Many of the mercenaries who had passed the outer ditch remained in its vicinity, crouched down, covering themselves with their large, round shields of leather, rimmed and bossed with bronze. |
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| 49 | 113 |
Stakes and ropes are sometimes used as well to anchor ships in place, particularly 'round ships', which have somewhat broader beams than 'knife ships'. |
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