| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 7 | 49 |
At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 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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| 9 | 215 |
Her seamen were surely the match for any who might sail against them. |
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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 | 123 |
A seaman, reportedly escaped from Cos, was telling of the preparation of a great fleet intending to sail against Port Kar, a fleet that would be enlarged by the forces of Tyros as well. |
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| 10 | 145 |
A war ship going into battle, incidentally, always takes its mast down and stores its sail below decks. |
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| 10 | 149 |
The next matter for consideration was the negotiation of a dispute between the sail-makers and the rope-makers in the arsenal with respect to priority in the annual Procession to the Sea, which takes place on the first of En'Kara, the Gorean New Year. |
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| 10 | 159 |
The wages of a sail-maker, incidentally, are four copper tarn disks per day, those of a fine shipwright, hired by the Council of Captains, as much as a golden tarn disk per day. |
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| 10 | 166 |
The organizations, such as the sail-makers, almost guildlike, not castes, have dues, and these dues tend to be applied to a number of purposes, such as support of those injured or their families, loans, payments when men are out of work, and pensions. |
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| 10 | 168 |
I suspected that the sail-makers would, threatening desertion of the arsenal, this year or the next obtain their desired increase in wages. |
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| 10 | 201 |
The triangular lateen sail on its single sloping yard is incredibly beautiful. |
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| 10 | 236 |
"When do we sail against the ships of Cos and Tyros?" asked Tab of me. |
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| 10 | 239 |
"Then," said I, "we will sail against them". |
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| 11 | 89 |
Doubtless her sail was stored below. |
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| 13 | 261 |
"And when do we sail?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 338 |
"Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum. |
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| 13 | 470 |
Your crew, under sail, or oar, doubtless, will make do". |
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| 13 | 484 |
"When," asked Tab, "do we sail against the ships of Cos and Tyros?" I laughed. |
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| 13 | 486 |
"Yes," said I, "they have, and now we may sail against them!" There were cheers from the men about, who felt that too long had the ships of Bosk surrendered the seas to those of Cos and Tyros. |
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| 13 | 517 |
But in all this time I had not forgotten the treasure fleet which was due to sail from Tyros to Cos, bearing precious metals and jewels for her coffers, and a lovely lady, Vivina, to grace the couch of her Ubar. |
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| 13 | 525 |
Store the sail. |
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| 14 | 299 |
When the mast, with its sail fastened to its yard, had been set in the mast well, and stayed fore, aft and amidships, I climbed to the basket myself, carrying the glass of the builders. |
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| 14 | 304 |
They can, generally, sail satisfactorily to windward, taking full advantage of their lateen rigging, which is particularly suited to windward work. |
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| 14 | 305 |
The ram-ship, on the other hand, is difficult to sail to windward, even with lateen rigging, because of its length, its narrowness and its shallow draft. |
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| 14 | 310 |
The ram-ship is not built for significant sail dependence or maximum seaworthiness. |
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| 14 | 451 |
Within the Ahn we were ready to sail for Port Kar. |
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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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| 17 | 97 |
"Furl the sail," I told an officer. |
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| 17 | 99 |
Soon seamen were clambering out on the long sloping yard and, assisted by others on the deck, hauling on brail ropes, were tying in the long triangular sail. |
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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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| 18 | 19 |
"Set the storm sail!" Men hastened to do what I had told them, and, as they did so, I sent signals to reserve ships, to be conveyed to the balance of the fleet, that they might save themselves while they could. |
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| 18 | 30 |
The yard had been lowered and the small, triangular storm sail was attached to it. |
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| 18 | 36 |
Then the wind was at the stern and the oar-master began his count, easing the ship ahead until the storm sail was caught by the blasts. |
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| 18 | 37 |
When it was it was like a fist striking the sail and the mast screamed, and the bow, for a terrible moment, dipped in the water and then, dripping the cold waters, the bow leaped up and tilted to the sky. |
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| 18 | 40 |
The tiny storm sail, swollen with the black wind and sleet, tore at the yard and the brail ropes. |
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| 18 | 955 |
"One that can sail beyond the world's end," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 6 |
Even so, in the arsenal, Tersites, the half-blind, mad shipwright, builds a strange ship, to sail beyond the world's end. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 542 |
Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small... |
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| 18 | 459 |
They cannot sail as close to the wind as the southern ships with lateen rigging, but, on the other hand, the square sail makes it possible to do with a single sail, taking in and letting out canvas, as opposed to several sails, which are attached to and removed from the yard, which is raised and low... |
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| 2 | 550 |
The brail ropes serve little more, in the lateen-rigged craft, than to raise the sail to its yard, permitting its being tied there, or to drop the sail, opening it to the wind. |
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| 2 | 551 |
On the other hand, the lateen-rigged galley, with its triangular sail on the long, sloping yard, has marvelous maneuvering capabilities, and can sail incredibly close to the wind. |
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| 1 | 171 |
"Tersites," said Samos, not looking up, "builds a ship, fit to sail beyond the world's end". |
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| 2 | 509 |
With a creak of ropes and pulleys, seamen were hauling the long, sloping yard up the mast, its sail still secured in the brail ropes. |
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| 2 | 537 |
Seamen now climbed to the high yard, loosening the brail ropes, to drop the sail. |
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| 2 | 538 |
It was the tarn sail. |
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| 2 | 541 |
The Tesephone carried four sails, one sail of the first type; two of the second, and one of the third. |
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| 2 | 547 |
In changing a sail, the yard is lowered, and then raised again. |
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| 2 | 548 |
In the usual Gorean galley, lateen rigged, there is no practical way to take in, or shorten, sail, as with many types of square-rigged craft. |
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| 2 | 552 |
Its efficiency in tacking more than compensates for the convenience of a single, multipurposed sail. |
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| 2 | 560 |
The brail ropes loosened, the tarn sail dropped, opening into the wind. |
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| 2 | 574 |
There was still a good wind, tight and sweet in the tarn sail. |
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| 5 | 366 |
Then the sail fell, snapping and tugging, and took its shape, billowing before the gentle wind from Thassa. |
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| 6 | 187 |
I saw her yard being lowered, its sail left slack, to be removed from the yard and folded. |
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| 18 | 357 |
"You are to alert me to the presence of a sail or sails on the horizon". |
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| 18 | 447 |
Gorean galleys do not commonly sail at night, and, often, put into shore during darkness. |
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| 22 | 967 |
I could hear the snapping of the tarn sail of the Tesephone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 151 |
I doubted that such a ship could sail as close to the wind as a lateen-rigged ship but the advantages of being able to shorten or let out sail in a matter of moments were not inconsiderable. |
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| 2 | 143 |
The thole ports, I noted, had covers on the inside, on swivels, which permitted them to be closed when the ship was under sail. |
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| 2 | 144 |
The sail was quite different from the southern ships, being generally squarish, though somewhat wider at the bottom. |
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| 2 | 147 |
The northern ship carries one sail, not the several sails, all lateens, of the southern ships, which must be removed and replaced. |
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| 2 | 148 |
It was an all-purpose sail, hung straight from a spar of needle wood. |
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| 2 | 152 |
The sail was striped, red and white. |
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| 2 | 169 |
In battle, of course, such shields are not hung on the side of the ship; they would obstruct the thole ports; but, even if oars were not used, they would be within the hull, at hand; why should a crewman expose himself to missile fire to retrieve a shield so fastened? Also, of course, when the ship ... |
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| 3 | 373 |
The red-and-white striped sail, snapping, unfolding, was dropped from the spar. |
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| 4 | 5 |
We had been out of sight of land for two days, and, the night preceding, had been, with shortened sail, swept eastward by high winds. |
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| 4 | 100 |
The men of Forkbeard, their oars inboard, the ship under sail, amused themselves as they would. |
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| 4 | 111 |
It sets near the top of the mast, enabling the man to see over the sail, as well as to other points. |
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| 5 | 27 |
The Forkbeard then ordered the sail high reefed, set even to the spar. |
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| 5 | 173 |
"Sail!" In my opinion he had waited too long. |
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| 5 | 175 |
At the same time the sail, with its red and white stripes, in its full length, fell snapping from the yard. |
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| 5 | 178 |
The wind, like a hammer, took the sail. |
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| 5 | 202 |
Far behind us Black Sleen, reputed to be the fastest ship in the north, struggled, under oars and sail, to match our pace. |
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| 5 | 204 |
Under sail alone the serpent of Ivar Forkbeard, almost scornfully, left her behind. |
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| 6 | 7 |
The sail fell slack, and rustled, stirred in the gentle wind from inland. |
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| 22 | 215 |
The great red and white striped sail fell, opening, snapping, from the spar of needlewood. |
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| 22 | 230 |
In the distance, as the ship moved to sea, the wind in its sail, oars dipping, I saw the bleak, white heights of the Torvaldsberg. |
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| 22 | 312 |
I looked up at the sail, the stars over the mast. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 162 |
It erupted from the water not a yard from the raft, hurtling upward, ten feet into the air, towering over the boards and T'Zshal, with a cry of rage, and joy, and I, too, screamed, thrust the lance deep into the body and it turned twisting in the air jaws teeth rows like hooks back bent triangular t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 295 |
Then we heard the cry of "Sail! Sail!" Once more the weary men scurried about the decks. |
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| 16 | 1 |
A Sail I screamed wildly in the darkness, jerking back my ankle from the edge of the sturdy mesh about me. |
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| 16 | 180 |
I found it a lovely ship, discounting the miseries of its hold, and it was particularly beautiful under sail. |
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| 16 | 210 |
He spoke of a sail and its location. |
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| 20 | 178 |
A long ship, I could see, was moving into its wharfage, its lateen sail furled on the long, sloping yard. |
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| 21 | 103 |
The lateen sail would not be dropped until clear of the harbor gates. |
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| 21 | 111 |
We would sail in convoy. |
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| 22 | 7 |
The single lateen sail, stretched from its yard, swelled with a clean, slow wind. |
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| 22 | 76 |
"Sail!" cried a man. |
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| 22 | 77 |
"Sail!" I looked up. |
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| 22 | 79 |
He stood, barefoot, on the lookout platform, high on the tall, single mast, well above the long yard and the billowing, triangular sail; the lookout platform is a wooden disk, fixed on the mast; his hands were on a ring, also encircling the mast. |
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| 22 | 177 |
I screamed and saw the new ship, suddenly large, seem to lift itself in the water, and then heard the shattering splintering wreckage of wood and the loud swift swirl of water the ship struck and men screaming and saw the lines loose wild the yard and sail leaning awry the deck shifting and becoming... |
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| 24 | 9 |
The lateen sail was slackened. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 330 |
A ship had been prepared, set to sail to the world's end. |
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| 2 | 344 |
Why one rudder rather than two? With lateen rigging one could sail closer to the wind. |
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| 2 | 370 |
"It can sail soon for the world's end". |
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| 2 | 373 |
"The Kurii wish us to sail now for the world's end," I said. |
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| 2 | 391 |
"You must sail immediately to the world's end". |
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| 2 | 502 |
"And if I am to sail with men I must pick them myself, for our lives would depend upon one another". |
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| 2 | 681 |
"You will sail then, soon, for the world's end?" asked Samos. |
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| 4 | 568 |
It must sail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 91 |
The long, triangular sail, incidentally, is very beautiful. |
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| 4 | 96 |
I wondered if Ulafi would sail without the blond-haired barbarian. |
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| 4 | 353 |
Obvious ways of hiding would be to conceal herself among the boxes and bales at the wharves, to creep into a crate, or barrel, or to cover herself with sheets of sail canvas or with heavy coils of mooring rope. |
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| 4 | 486 |
I wished Ulafi, if possible, to sail with the tide. |
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| 4 | 605 |
"I wish to sail with the tide," said Ulafi. |
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| 4 | 807 |
"We are ready to sail," said Ulafi's first officer, who had come to report. |
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| 6 | 336 |
The ships under sail must, most of them, have been entering or leaving the harbor. |
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| 6 | 365 |
A dhow, with a red-and-white-striped sail, slipped past us on the port side. |
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| 57 | 39 |
"We sail shortly," he said, "with the tide". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 115 |
Like a majestic torch she would sail into the midst of the enemy. |
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| 10 | 78 |
Instead of proceeding northwest toward Tetrapoli, or toward any other of the western towns, we had, under sail and oars, proceeded directly northward along the chain. |
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| 10 | 115 |
I looked upward as we moved slowly, rowing, sail furled, mast down, under the great gate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 113 |
"Where is a glass," I cried, "a builder's glass, a glass of the builders!" Even as we watched we saw the sail of the first ship furled to its sloping yard and the yard swung, parallel to the keel, and lowered. |
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| 23 | 175 |
The sail was furled. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 1376 |
"If it is another world," said a fellow, "how can ships sail there?" "They are special ships," he was informed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 13 |
The smallest sail is the "storm sail". |
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| 2 | 379 |
"A sail," I said. |
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| 2 | 380 |
It was far off, a lateen-rigged sail, so presumably from the south, not the north. |
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| 2 | 381 |
In Torvaldsland the common sail is square. |
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| 2 | 434 |
The sail was larger now. |
10 |
| 4 | 1 |
A Sail I stood back amongst the trees, looking out to sea. |
10 |
| 4 | 377 |
What had been hitherto no more than a dot on the horizon, perhaps no more than a sea bird resting on the waves, even sleeping, as they do, was now clearly, though still small, and far off, a sail. |
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| 5 | 275 |
I saw no new sail on the horizon. |
10 |
| 5 | 280 |
This makes the ship more amenable to her oars and less vulnerable to flaming missiles, which might ignite a sail on its long, sloping yard. |
10 |
| 5 | 316 |
At the same time the lateen sail was unfurled from its yard, and, swelling, took the wind, and the ship, like a stately bird, was aflight. |
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 | 400 |
Presumably, her lookout had espied, far to her starboard, another sail. |
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| 5 | 404 |
A small ship was there, her sail furled. |
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| 5 | 444 |
After a time, a hundred yards or so from shore, she dropped her sail. |
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| 26 | 249 |
It is not unknown to me that not all ships cleave seas, the fluid roads, but that some, like tarns, sail over mountains, are fleet amongst the clouds, spread their sails not upon the liquid fields, but in the sky, that they dare to venture upon the wind roads themselves". |
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| 30 | 16 |
The lateen-rigged galley can sail closer to the wind, but, for a given length of yard, it exposes less surface to the wind. |
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| 30 | 43 |
"Such a vessel," I said, "might sail even beyond Cos and Tyros". |
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| 30 | 80 |
"It will move only under sail, I take it," I said. |
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| 33 | 135 |
"Soon," said Lord Nishida, "the ship will sail". |
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| 33 | 147 |
"The ship cannot sail," I said. |
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| 33 | 160 |
"Soon," he said, "she will sail". |
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| 36 | 5 |
Six days ago a great pyre had been lit on the beach, and I had stood beside it, with Aëtius, and dozens of others, amongst them carpenters, sawyers, oar makers, and sail makers. |
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| 36 | 12 |
The wrapped form in the canvas, sail canvas, was consumed in a torrent of flame. |
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| 37 | 1 |
The Ship is to Sail Strangely, this unsettling me, and many others, the eyes of the great ship had not been painted. |
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| 37 | 4 |
I would prefer that these things had been done before she would sail. |
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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. |
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| 41 | 22 |
In a galley one would normally take down the mast and yard, that they not be lost in the wind, or, if necessary, rig the smallest of her sails, the storm sail, get the storm astern and run before her, as might a tabuk attempting to elude a pursuing larl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 132 |
The square sail is an all-purpose sail, whose single canvas may be adjusted to the wind. |
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| 36 | 398 |
"What are your are your plans, when we sail?" "I would sail with you, of course, to return," said the stranger. |
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| 2 | 32 |
The single yard was lowered, and the storm sail furled. |
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| 2 | 33 |
The mast and yard, with its furled sail, were then lashed down, parallel to the deck. |
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| 2 | 36 |
We were lateen-rigged, as is common, this allowing one to sail closer to the wind. |
10 |
| 2 | 37 |
In Torvaldsland, and to the north, it is common to use a single rudder, and a single sail, square-rigged. |
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| 5 | 387 |
Leave the taking in of sail, the governance of the ship, to mariners". |
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| 7 | 154 |
Fierce, green Thassa has met her match in my ship, met her master! Tersites teaches men how to sail in all seasons and weathers! Tersites goes where he wills; he asks no permissions, solicits no favors, dreads no threats, and fears no rebuke. |
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| 11 | 5 |
And how might one expect to see a sail this far at sea, for we had come farther than any vessel had formerly come, at least to our knowledge. |
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| 12 | 112 |
One advantage of the high watches, as opposed to deck watches, corridor duty, stores guarding, work in the sail room, and such, is that it is difficult to be approached. |
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| 13 | 15 |
It would move solely under sail. |
10 |
| 13 | 18 |
What most struck me was the battening, the sail-reinforcing ribbing, to which clung the shreds of matting. |
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| 16 | 208 |
Indeed, the warning ship itself was partly afire, on its starboard side, where the flaming mast of the galley, with its lateen sail, had collapsed against its aft bulwarks. |
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| 36 | 190 |
"I would like, if possible," said the captain, "to sail with the morning tide". |
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| 36 | 455 |
"I would like to sail with the tide, in the morning," said the captain, "if our business can be finished here tonight". |
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| 36 | 460 |
"You wish to sail as soon as possible?" I asked. |
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| 36 | 462 |
"You hope to sail tomorrow?" I said. |
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| 37 | 510 |
"I would see him sail," said the stranger. |
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| 37 | 1014 |
"I do want to see the River Dragon sail". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 82 |
"I am told," said he, "that there is a strange ship in the higher levels of the Crag, a ship which might sail amongst mountains, a ship borne not by water, but by air, or less". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 197 |
One did not know when the long poles might thrust one ship or another from the wharves, the sail take the wind, or the low-banked oars enter the water, and rise again, shedding their sparkling showers in the early morning light. |
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| 8 | 502 |
Four mariners stood ready to hoist the small yard, with the now-folded sail. |
10 |
| 9 | 8 |
Mostly we proceeded under sail. |
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| 15 | 436 |
Carpenters were here, and sawyers, rope weavers, sail makers, fitters, riggers, and smiths. |
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| 19 | 23 |
"Men may fear to sail," I said, "if the ship cannot see". |
10 |
| 19 | 63 |
"Smiths, carpenters, sail makers, sawyers, docksmen, mariners, wagoners, armsmen, even slaves. |
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| 22 | 130 |
One thus hopes the masters will be lenient, particularly as she may have value, and the ship is soon to sail". |
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| 25 | 250 |
Let the great ship sail. |
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| 43 | 1065 |
"We are days from the coast here," said the mariner, "and then, once we reach the coast, and are under sail, depending on the winds, it will be ten to fifteen days". |
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| 50 | 901 |
"I do not want to sail to the farther islands," said a girl. |
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| 51 | 9 |
"Do you fear to sail with her?" asked Tyrtaios. |
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| 52 | 524 |
The vessel was six-masted but no sail was set. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 313 |
"You intend to sail with the River Dragon," said Lord Nishida. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 23 |
Both forms of ship, usually lateen-rigged, make use of a variety of sails, depending on the wind, ranging from the billowing fair-weather sail to the narrow, tightly rigged storm sail, suitable for running before blasting wind. |
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| 27 | 25 |
The northern long ship, or "dragon ship," on the other hand, seldom seen this far south, has a fixed mast and a fixed, square sail, and is single-ruddered, the steering board, or starboard, on the right side. |
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| 33 | 539 |
It was probably from sail cloth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 13 |
I saw the long, large, low-rigged sail, so beautiful, sweet with wind. |
10 |
| 8 | 28 |
This makes the ship, when the mast is lowered, more difficult to detect, and, in battle, the mast and sail down, the ship is less vulnerable and more maneuverable. |
10 |
| 8 | 104 |
"Take in some sail," I heard. |
10 |
| 8 | 181 |
"Free the sail," I heard. |
10 |
| 8 | 597 |
"Is its sail set?" asked Euphrosyne. |
10 |
| 8 | 598 |
"I see no sail," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 621 |
"It is a long ship," she said, "no sail set, the mast down, thus less detectible at a distance, painted green, not easily noticed in the swells of Thassa". |
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| 8 | 666 |
"We have oarsmen, and a sail. |
10 |
| 8 | 667 |
The other ship, if it has a mast and sail, it has not yet raised them. |
10 |
| 8 | 675 |
"Surely, with oars and sail, we can outdistance the stranger," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 729 |
The sail billowed anew. |
10 |
| 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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| 8 | 758 |
To the helmsmen he called, "Come about!" To the mariners he called, "In sail, down yard". |
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| 8 | 914 |
I saw the ship, that called the Dorna, depart, its mast now raised and its lateen-rigged sail billowing. |
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| 8 | 955 |
"Raise the yard, free the sail!" called the captain. |
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| 8 | 956 |
The long, slanting yard turned on the mast, and the open, dropped sail, with a snapping of canvas, responded, swelling and tautening, curving, and was filled to the "brim," as the mariners sometimes put it, with the "wine of the wind". |
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| 15 | 98 |
Perhaps she waits for some sawyer or sail maker. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 34 |
Once we were another Ahn from the coast of Chios, in the open sea, I would have the mast raised, with its long yard, and let the fore-and-aft rigged sail, the swelling, triangular sail, a lateen sail, now the fair-weather sail, take the wind. |
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| 52 | 120 |
Much depends, of course, on a variety of factors, the height of the mast, the type of sail on the yard, say, a fair-weather sail or storm sail, or such, and the point from which the observation is made, say, from the main deck or the height of one's own mast, and so on. |
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| 51 | 3 |
We had been under sail, the sail now limp on the long, sloping yard. |
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| 3 | 35 |
I thought this a politic delay, as shipping tends to be heavier in the vicinity of a coast, and a high-masted sail, swollen with wind, is easily detected from a stem castle, even by eye, at more than five pasangs. |
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| 5 | 75 |
This protects the mast, yard, rigging, and sail, and minimizes any possibly adverse effect the wind might have on maneuverability. |
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| 18 | 239 |
"Perhaps we should rely on the sail," he said. |
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| 29 | 45 |
"You will sail into the jaws of a seven-headed monster, the seven ships of the corsair fleet". |
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| 34 | 50 |
"You suspect, dear Thurnock," I said, "that the corsairs doubt the strength of our numbers, doubt that we number in the thousands?" "If they believed that," said Thurnock, "the beach would be clear and the ships under sail". |
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| 41 | 150 |
"In the great rains, recently," said Thurnock, "much water was gathered from stretched sail canvas and entered into many containers, dozens of barrels and kegs". |
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| 51 | 24 |
We had come to this point under sail, oars inboard. |
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| 51 | 37 |
We will rely on the sail". |
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| 51 | 46 |
"We are moving," said Thurnock, looking on the half-filled sail. |
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| 51 | 59 |
"Our sail thirsts," said Thurnock. |
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| 51 | 190 |
"The corsair ships would pursue us, but presumably under sail," said Sakim. |
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| 52 | 10 |
We had been proceeding under sail, to spare oarsmen whose strength we might soon need, and sorely. |
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| 53 | 283 |
At the second Ahn, we raised the mast, lowered the yard, loosened the sail, relieved the helmsmen, and rested the oarsmen. |
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| 54 | 98 |
"Keep it up," I said, "and have the sail full". |
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| 58 | 1 |
The Arithmetic of Battle "Take in the sail, lower the yard and mast," said Sakim. |
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| 58 | 9 |
"See the sail," said Sakim. |
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| 58 | 13 |
"Let our mast stay high, let our sail remain full," said Thurnock. |
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| 58 | 15 |
"It will be difficult to fight with the sail so," said Sakim. |
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| 58 | 41 |
"Captain Tab," said a seaman, from below us on the steps of the stem deck, "as he deems battle is imminent, has signaled for permission to lower his mast and sail". |
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| 58 | 167 |
"See that the sail is drenched," I said. |
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| 58 | 169 |
Thurnock gestured to the sail, loose on its yard. |
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| 58 | 170 |
I saw the sail darken, absorbing the oil. |
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| 58 | 193 |
"She is raising her mast, her yard, unfurling her sail," he said. |
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| 58 | 247 |
Wash the oil from the sail". |
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