| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 159 |
I wondered how far she would get in the swamps before another tharlarion caught her scent. |
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| 11 | 80 |
My head swam at the sudden intoxicating scent of a wild perfume. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 24 |
I caught a strange, unpleasant scent, much like that of a common weasel or ferret, only stronger. |
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| 14 | 64 |
I wondered if it had caught my scent. |
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| 25 | 61 |
I caught the scent of a large furred animal and the odor of tarn spoor. |
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| 26 | 126 |
I have found it at the tables of sword companions and in the clash of the metals of war, in the touch of a girl's lips and hair, in the blood of a sleen, in the sands and chains of Tharna, in the scent of talenders and the hiss of the whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 311 |
I wondered how long the scent-message, whatever it was to be, would linger in the air before fading into an unrecognizable blur of scent to be drawn through the ventilator system and dispelled somewhere far above among the black crags of the treeless, frozen Sardar. |
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| 7 | 111 |
Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would consider that ... |
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| 7 | 119 |
I had caught the scent of a Priest-King. |
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| 9 | 199 |
In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he... |
10 |
| 9 | 203 |
The scent was now strong. |
10 |
| 9 | 220 |
The scent was strong. |
10 |
| 9 | 228 |
The scent was now overpowering, unmistakable. |
10 |
| 9 | 252 |
A new scent came to my nostrils. |
10 |
| 10 | 1 |
Misk the Priest-King The Priest-Kings have little or no scent of their own which is detectable by the human nostrils, though one gathers there is a nest odor by which they may identify one another, and that the variations in this nest odor permit identifications of individuals. |
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| 10 | 2 |
What in the passageways I had taken to be the scent of Priest-Kings had actually been the residue of odor-signals which Priest-Kings, like certain social insects of our world, use in communicating with one another. |
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| 10 | 5 |
They are, for them, something like our ears and nose, used as secondary sensors to be relied upon when the most pertinent information in the environment is not relayed by vision, or, in the case of the Priest-Kings, by scent. |
10 |
| 10 | 15 |
For example, does a Priest-King have the same qualitative experience that I do when we are confronted by the same scent? I am inclined to doubt it, for their music, which consists of rhapsodies of odors produced by instruments constructed for this purpose, and often played by Priest-Kings, some of w... |
10 |
| 10 | 20 |
One must be careful of what one says in the tunnels of Priest-Kings, for one's words may linger after one, until they sufficiently dissipate to be little more than a meaningless blur of scent. |
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| 10 | 22 |
The simplest and one of the most fascinating is a chemically treated rope of clothlike material which the Priest-King, beginning at an end bearing a certain scent, saturates with the odors of his message. |
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| 10 | 24 |
I am told that the phonemes of the language of Priest-Kings or, better, what in their language would correspond to phonemes in ours, since their "phonemes" have to do with scent and not sound, number seventy-three. |
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| 11 | 6 |
The Priest-Kings themselves distinguish one another by scent but I, of course, would do so by eye. |
10 |
| 11 | 12 |
I would learn later that in scent it wore its rank, caste and station as clearly on its body as an officer in one of the armies of Earth might wear his distinguishing braid and metal bars. |
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| 12 | 22 |
I must check the scent-tapes". |
10 |
| 12 | 53 |
"The scent-tapes are silent," said Sarm. |
10 |
| 13 | 3 |
We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots. |
10 |
| 13 | 4 |
If the scent-dots were themselves not scented one might be tempted to think of them as graphemes in the language of the Priest-Kings, but since they themselves are scented they are best construed as analogous to uttered phonemes or phoneme combinations, direct expressions of the oral syllabary of th... |
10 |
| 13 | 5 |
When surrounded by scent-dots one might suppose the Priest-King to be subjected to a cacophony of stimulation, much as we might be if environed by dozens of blaring radios and television sets, but this is apparently not the case; the better analogy would seem to be our experience of walking down a q... |
10 |
| 13 | 6 |
In our sense there is no distinction between a spoken and written language for the Priest-Kings, though there is an analogous distinction between linguistic patterns that are actually sensed and those which are potentially to be sensed, an example of the latter being the scents of a yet uncoiled sce... |
10 |
| 13 | 12 |
Scent-dots, incidentally, are arranged in rows constituting a geometrical square, and are read beginning with the top row from left to right, then right to left, and then left to right and so on again. |
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| 13 | 35 |
Beneath the scent-dots on each high portal which Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta and I passed there was, perhaps for the benefit of humans or others, a stylized outline picture of a form of creature. |
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| 13 | 40 |
Scarcely noticing us and clutching two scent-tapes in her hands the girl passed. |
10 |
| 13 | 50 |
"She is a messenger," said the other, "who carries scent-tapes between portals in the Hall of Processing". |
10 |
| 13 | 80 |
"A record-scar," I said, "is some sort of mark on your records?" "Yes," said the first slave, "it is entered on your scent-tape and also, in odor, inscribed on your tunic". |
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| 13 | 84 |
"Well," I said, still looking down the hall, "I would have supposed that the mighty Priest-Kings could have devised a quicker way of transporting scent-tapes". |
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| 13 | 117 |
Looking up I saw beneath the square of scent-dots fixed high on the steel door the stylized outline picture of what was unmistakably a human being. |
10 |
| 14 | 18 |
I would learn later that practically the entire wall which faced me was such a device, being in effect a very large scent-reinforcer. |
10 |
| 14 | 94 |
Actually the walls, ceiling and floor were covered with what, to a Priest-King, were excruciatingly beautiful scent-patterns. |
10 |
| 15 | 40 |
What I could see suggested paneling and instrumentation, banks of scent-needles and gauges, numerous tiered decks of wiring and copper plating. |
10 |
| 15 | 41 |
There were on one side of the room, racks of scent-tapes, some of which were spinning slowly, unwinding their tapes through slowly rotating translucent, glowing spheres. |
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| 15 | 52 |
"No," said Misk, "and observe I had to make my own mnemonic disks, devising a transducer to read the scent-tapes, which fortunately are easily available, and record their signals on blank receptor-plating, from there to be transformed into impulses for generating and regulating the appropriate neura... |
10 |
| 15 | 94 |
"What you know—even a creature such as yourself—" said Misk, "depends on the charges and microstates of your neural tissue, and, customarily, you obtain these charges and microstates in the process of registering and assimilating sensory stimuli from your environment, as for example wh... |
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| 16 | 85 |
The lenses of their eyes are altered in such a way that what they see is registered by means of transducers on scent-screens in the scanning room. |
10 |
| 17 | 18 |
"It is a beautiful compartment which Misk has here," he said, examining the visually bare walls with his antennae, admiring the scent-patterns which had been placed on them. |
10 |
| 17 | 76 |
The receptors on the surveillance craft were equipped to handle patterns of light, sound and scent, which, selectively collected and reconcentrated, were beamed to the Sardar for processing and analysis. |
10 |
| 18 | 106 |
Here and there Priest-Kings moved lightly about, occasionally noting the movements of scent-needles, sometimes delicately adjusting a dial with the nimble, hooklike appendages at the tips of their forelegs. |
10 |
| 19 | 67 |
I wished I had had time to investigate certain of Misk's scent-charts, but even if I had had the time, I might not have found helpful charts and, anyway, my translator scanning them could read only labels. |
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| 27 | 13 |
The clerk, at my request writing the expense down to Sarm, informed me that I would promptly have to have the new tunic imprinted with the scent-patterns pertaining to my identity, record-scars, etc. |
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| 27 | 43 |
The tunic I wore carried no scent-patterns and for a moment he had thought that the transportation disk I rode was actually without a driver. |
10 |
| 27 | 46 |
At last his antennae fastened on me but I am sure the Priest-King was annoyed that he did not receive the strong signals he would have if I had been wearing my own scent-infixed tunic. |
10 |
| 27 | 51 |
"You are undoubtedly the Noble Guard of the Chamber where I may have my tunic fixed with scent-marks," I called jovially. |
10 |
| 27 | 71 |
To one side I could see four Priest-Kings handling the knobs of a large scent-producer, about the size of a steel room. |
10 |
| 27 | 95 |
As the musicians continued to produce their rhapsodic, involute rhythms of aroma on the scent-producer, one Priest-King at a time, one after the other, would slowly stalk forward and approach the Platform of the Mother. |
10 |
| 27 | 110 |
But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest together, of reminding them of the... |
10 |
| 27 | 124 |
Together, in silence to human ears but to the swelling intensities of scent-music, in stately, stalking procession the two Priest-Kings approached the Mother, and I saw Misk, first, dip his mouth to the great golden bowl on its tripod and then approach her. |
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| 27 | 130 |
The scent-music suddenly stopped and the Priest-Kings seemed to rustle as though an unseen wind had suddenly stirred the leaves of autumn and I heard even the surprised jangling of those tiny metal tools. |
10 |
| 27 | 213 |
They examined my tunic but found on it no scent-markings. |
10 |
| 28 | 7 |
The headquarters for the forces of Misk lay in his compartment and there, pouring over the scent maps of the tunnels, he directed the placement of his defenses. |
10 |
| 28 | 172 |
Moreover, all former Muls who fought with us were clad in scent-free tunics which in effect supplied them with a most effective camouflage in the Nest. |
10 |
| 28 | 178 |
What sensory data might escape the antennae might well be discovered by the sharp-eyed human, and what subtle scent might escape the human senses would likely be easily picked up by the Priest-King in the group. |
10 |
| 29 | 152 |
There were numerous scent-needles and switches and buttons and dials, none of which made much sense to me. |
10 |
| 32 | 2 |
He frantically adjusted the controls on a major panel, his antennae taut with concentration reading the scent-needle on a boxlike gauge. |
10 |
| 32 | 13 |
He pointed an excited foreleg at the scent-needle which I, of course, could not read. |
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| 32 | 159 |
Suddenly, through the rock dust, I could scent that strange narcotic odor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 20 |
They are also used if a slave escapes, for the sleen is an efficient, tireless, savage, almost infallible hunter, capable of pursuing a scent, days old, for hundreds of pasangs until, perhaps a month later, it finds its victim and tears it to pieces. |
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| 13 | 8 |
Their ears began to lay back against the sides of their triangular heads; their long, serpentine bodies trembled; I saw claws emerge from their paws, retract, emerge again and then retract; they lifted their heads, sweeping them from side to side, and then thrust their snouts to the ground and began... |
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| 26 | 136 |
The two sleen seemed to drink in the scent of the robe and then they began to tremble, and the claws on their wide, soft feet emerged and retracted, and their heads lifted and began to sway from side to side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 135 |
He could follow a scent days old with ease, and then, perhaps hundreds of pasangs, and days, later, be unleashed for the sport of the hunters, to tear his victim to pieces. |
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| 9 | 138 |
Hunting sleen are trained to scent out and destroy escaped slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1171 |
It would not be used to give my scent to domesticated sleen, trained to hunt slaves. |
10 |
| 10 | 414 |
"When I was brought here," I said, "twice the band caught the scent of a sleen". |
10 |
| 14 | 605 |
The slave girl replaced the glass stopper in a small, ornate bottle of Torian scent. |
10 |
| 14 | 618 |
I could smell the scent of the perfume. |
10 |
| 14 | 637 |
The girl removed the stopper and, quickly, again, touched me with the scent, behind each ear, a tiny drop on her finger. |
10 |
| 15 | 136 |
In the darkness I smelled the scent of the Torian perfume. |
10 |
| 15 | 1180 |
She was not clad in a bit of silk, a touch of cosmetics, a scent of perfume and the bells of a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 676 |
I caught the scent of her perfume, a delicate Torian scent, feminine. |
10 |
| 11 | 351 |
"And given the scent of her blanket there will be no difficulty in picking her up, even if we begin to search days from now". |
10 |
| 11 | 375 |
She will fear only that sleen, if we used them, might pick up her scent from the shelter in which she slept". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 5 |
"It is a happy scent," I whined. |
10 |
| 8 | 19 |
"In an instant such a woman will see through such a scent". |
10 |
| 8 | 72 |
"We have here," said I, "a scent that might be worthy of a Ubara of Ar". |
10 |
| 8 | 76 |
That scent, I knew, a distillation of a hundred flowers, nurtured like a priceless wine, was a secret guarded by the perfumers of Ar. |
10 |
| 8 | 125 |
"Capture scent," I said. |
10 |
| 15 | 118 |
"Our scent is known," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 156 |
The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 761 |
Their decorations were largely invisible lines of scent traced with great care on the interiors of their compartments. |
10 |
| 13 | 385 |
I did not know if Priest-Kings, with all their brilliance, and all their great stores of knowledge on their scent-tapes, had a glandular and neurological system with which the motivations and nature of Kurii could be understood. |
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| 14 | 670 |
On it, still, lingered the perfume of a slave girl, one who, purchased, had been useful to Kurii, who had testified falsely against me at Nine Wells, who had, contemptuously, insolently, cast me a token of her consideration, a bit of silk and scent, to remember her by, when I served at Klima. |
10 |
| 15 | 62 |
"It is slave silk," he said, "and it bears, still, the scent of a woman". |
10 |
| 21 | 455 |
The howling of the wind screened the sounds of my movements; its swift, lacerating blasts must have torn the atmosphere of my scent to pieces, scattering it wildly about, affording the Kur only sudden, misleading, fleeting, confused sensations. |
10 |
| 24 | 110 |
She touched her neck, below the ears, and her body, about the shoulders, with the scent. |
10 |
| 24 | 111 |
I knew the scent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1088 |
The beast had been on another scent, probably that of tabuk, a small, single-horned antelopelike creature, its common game, and, on its trail, we had constituted only a distraction. |
10 |
| 2 | 1091 |
Once it sets out upon a scent it commonly pursues it unwaveringly. |
10 |
| 2 | 1094 |
Fortunately ours had not been the first scent that night which the beast, upon emerging from its lair, had taken. |
10 |
| 5 | 686 |
While the pursuing soldiers followed a false scent, my master's men returned to their camp, from which, later, in a new direction, they might make their departure. |
10 |
| 8 | 73 |
Sleen had been dragged to us, to take our scent. |
10 |
| 8 | 74 |
We had been held by men while the animals had taken our scent. |
10 |
| 8 | 93 |
Distracted by the first sleen, that in pursuit of Chanda, I had not even seen this sleen, whose brain was alive with my scent, circle me and approach. |
10 |
| 8 | 107 |
The beast, at the nearness and intensity of my scent, was becoming uncontrollable. |
10 |
| 9 | 2134 |
Do you think Goreans do not know that? Have you not heard of the lamps of love, in the light of which it is common to ravish slaves? And the scent of flowers is surely not unknown in the chambers of love. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 208 |
It had not then, I knew, been put upon my scent. |
10 |
| 1 | 219 |
Had it been longer on my scent I think I might have had less time for its hunting frenzy would have been more upon it, a function in part of the secretions of certain glands. |
10 |
| 1 | 318 |
"No," she said, "no, Master!" "The beast must have been put upon my scent," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 864 |
The rags she wore, of course, were rich and heavy with the scent of him who had been her quarry. |
10 |
| 9 | 49 |
She had given him a jacket of mine, that he might use it to give my scent to the sleen. |
10 |
| 9 | 68 |
"It is true that I enlisted the services of a lowly bond girl in his house, to obtain material from which I might give scent to the sleen". |
10 |
| 26 | 90 |
"It has taken the scent of something," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 98 |
If the snow sleen had taken the scent of sleen in this area it might well be one or more sleen wandering on the ice, sleen driven by hunger from the inland areas. |
10 |
| 26 | 117 |
"They are on a scent?" I asked. |
10 |
| 26 | 142 |
The scent it had been following was doubtless a difficult and fragmented one, carried on the air, suggesting little more than a direction. |
10 |
| 26 | 144 |
This difficult trail to follow, little more than a waft of scent in the air, carrying over the ice, had now, however, because of Audrey's scream, been supplemented with a clear auditory cue, one supplying both an approximate distance and location to the pursuing pack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 197 |
Some may then follow a scent in the water, that of sweat and fear". |
10 |
| 24 | 204 |
And we must not move so swiftly that the tharlarion might become confused or lose the scent. |
10 |
| 32 | 224 |
This is just as well for the sleen, commonly, hunts on the first scent it takes upon emerging from its burrow after dark. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 467 |
She was naked and bound, mine! I was filled then with emotions so powerful, so primitive and exultant, so ancient, so overwhelming, so mighty and glorious, that I knew then I had caught the scent of the meaning of man, and of woman. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 165 |
The steel-collared, stripped she of her is now a feast for the senses, all of them, those of sight and touch, of audition, of scent, even of taste; all of her is exposed to the master, for his patient attentions and delectation, all of the owned she of her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 341 |
The Kur on the barricade distended its nostrils, drinking scent. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 423 |
We give the sleen something which, supposedly, bears the scent of the Tatrix, and then the sleen follows that scent, no differently than it might the scent of a wild tarsk or a yellow-pelted tabuk. |
10 |
| 33 | 417 |
They recognize a scent, of course, but do not know, in a formal or legal sense, whose scent they are following. |
10 |
| 33 | 497 |
How they can do with us whatever they wish! "The clothing with which the sleen was put on the scent of the woman on our right could have been imbued with her scent at any time, of course," said Ligurious. |
10 |
| 21 | 30 |
By that time, especially with the rains, it might be impossible, even for such fine, tenacious hunters as sleen, to follow my scent. |
10 |
| 21 | 33 |
It would bear not only my own scent but that of numerous other women as well. |
10 |
| 21 | 39 |
By the time he could do so, he would recognize, as a rational man, that the scent presumably would have faded. |
10 |
| 21 | 40 |
Too, he had little of practical value in giving such beasts the initial scent. |
10 |
| 21 | 50 |
I welcomed the rain, hoping it would diminish and wash away the scent my body and bare feet might be leaving behind me. |
10 |
| 29 | 222 |
Surely it would be impossible to pick out single trails from among such eroded, collapsed and jumbled strata of scent. |
10 |
| 30 | 97 |
I had gone to the avenue of the Central Cylinder and had kept to busy streets in the hope that the sleen would lose my scent, it being mingled with that of so many others. |
10 |
| 30 | 335 |
It was the kind of noise they sometimes make when eager upon a scent but are being restrained. |
10 |
| 30 | 337 |
It serves to apprise their keepers of the strength of the scent, and perhaps to some extent ventilates their frustration and expresses their excitement. |
10 |
| 30 | 357 |
It is natural for a sleen placed on a scent to follow its strongest traces. |
10 |
| 30 | 503 |
Eager, restless sleen who had not yet been distracted from her scent with the exact command word, and meat, were only feet away. |
10 |
| 30 | 527 |
It was this which had been used to put the sleen on the scent, only recently in Ar. |
10 |
| 33 | 416 |
"First of all, we must understand that the sleen are merely following a scent. |
10 |
| 33 | 418 |
For example, a sleen can certainly recognize the scent of its master but it, being an animal, does not know, of course, whether its master is, say, a peasant or a Ubar. |
10 |
| 33 | 424 |
The crucial matter then is whether the sleen is set upon the proper scent or not. |
10 |
| 33 | 428 |
A scrap of clothing would do, a bit of bedding, even the scent of a footprint. |
10 |
| 33 | 440 |
The crucial matter, then, would seem to be the authenticity of the articles used to provide the original scent. |
10 |
| 33 | 473 |
Verbality is important as many times the sleen, intent upon a scent, for example, will not be looking at the master. |
10 |
| 33 | 530 |
My scent, from my intimacies, would doubtless be strongest in such a place. |
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| 33 | 700 |
In a moment it was moving swiftly about the room its nose to the floor, and then, suddenly, taking the scent, lunged murderously, claws slipping on the tiles, toward Sheila. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 288 |
He will probably make certain, as well, that sleen have her scent. |
10 |
| 15 | 373 |
No scent of perfume now clung to her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 725 |
It can follow a scent that is weeks old, for a thousand pasangs". |
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| 13 | 594 |
I saw him lean forward and, his eyes briefly closed, revel in the scent of my perfume. |
10 |
| 14 | 9 |
Somewhere in the dark, simple, terrible brain of that beast my name and scent had been imprinted. |
10 |
| 16 | 201 |
He, knowing my name and scent, could be set on my trail by a mere verbal command. |
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| 29 | 381 |
A sleen will usually follow the first scent it picks up when hunting, and then follow it tenaciously. |
10 |
| 29 | 509 |
"It is probably not on our scent," said Tupita. |
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| 29 | 542 |
"It is on a scent," whispered Tela. |
10 |
| 29 | 570 |
"It is on one scent. |
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| 29 | 587 |
Perhaps it was confirming my scent, prior to its attack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 1103 |
Sound, you see, as well as vision, touch and scent, even taste, may contribute to the profound pleasures of the furs, of the mastery. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1387 |
Few men, once they have caught the scent of the mastery, and surely once they have tasted of its deliciousness, will even consider its surrender". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 120 |
"Here, take scent, take scent". |
10 |
| 37 | 133 |
"Scent! Hunt! Scent! Hunt!" urged the leader of the strangers. |
10 |
| 8 | 79 |
I take it that even those of scent were, to the extent possible, to be eliminated. |
10 |
| 8 | 888 |
The blanket, I knew, might be used to give my scent to a tracking animal, but I did not care! What choice had I? I must use it. |
10 |
| 8 | 896 |
Too, my scent was doubtless in the cell, as well, from where I had lain, or stepped. |
10 |
| 8 | 906 |
How we are controlled and managed! My scent then would be redolent in the dark folds of the heavy cloth, but nonetheless I must wrap it about me. |
10 |
| 8 | 942 |
What escape could there be for such as I? Was it not enough that I was dressed as I was, that I was branded, that I might be collared! My scent was doubtless already within the blanket about my shoulders, or in the other, that in which I had been wrapped, in the basket. |
10 |
| 8 | 1060 |
My scent could always be taken otherwise. |
10 |
| 10 | 77 |
"He is not really taking your scent," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 40 |
"Ten sleen," said the pit master, "have been given his scent". |
10 |
| 15 | 44 |
My own scent had been "taken" by two sleen, on the second day I had been in the pits. |
10 |
| 15 | 46 |
They thrust their huge, cold snouts about one's body, learning one's scent. |
10 |
| 15 | 47 |
While they do this one's name is repeated, so that they will associate the name, which may then figure in a signal, with the scent. |
10 |
| 15 | 50 |
A gigantic haunch of meat was "named" and its scent given to the two sleen. |
10 |
| 33 | 32 |
Both of them had taken the peasant's scent, but the leader of the strangers would not know that. |
10 |
| 33 | 33 |
One of them was also one of the two which had, earlier, been imprinted with my scent. |
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| 33 | 44 |
The five most common trainings are those of the war sleen, which may also be utilized as a bodyguard; the watch sleen, to guard given precincts; the herding sleen, which will kill only if the quarry refuses to be herded rapidly and efficiently to a given destination, usually a pen or slave cage; the... |
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No hand had stolen forth to caress my flank, nor grip my hair, pulling me to them, if only to thrust their face to my throat, my hair about, to take in the scent of one whom they knew must serve them in any fashion they might desire, a female slave. |
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| 37 | 94 |
"It is a simple "Scent-Hunt" command". |
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| 37 | 106 |
"It is a simple 'Scent-Hunt' command?" "Yes". |
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| 37 | 129 |
"Scent! Hunt!" said the leader of the strangers. |
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| 37 | 130 |
"Scent! Hunt!" The blanket was literally torn from the grasp of the leader of the strangers, who then stood up, watching the sleen. |
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| 37 | 137 |
"They have taken the scent". |
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| 37 | 141 |
The smaller of the two sleen was one which had been imprinted with my own scent and name. |
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| 37 | 143 |
Both of these sleen had also been imprinted, I knew, with the scent, and some name, or signal, associated with the peasant, and could be set upon him. |
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| 37 | 147 |
"Scent! Hunt!" said the leader of the strangers. |
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| 37 | 149 |
"Surely they have the scent now," said another. |
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| 37 | 152 |
"Scent! Hunt!" cried the leader of the strangers. |
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| 37 | 166 |
"Scent! Hunt!" said the leader of the strangers. |
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| 37 | 847 |
The lieutenant, this officer of the men in the black habiliments, seemed as tenacious as might be a sleen itself, this world's finest and most relentless tracker, a sleen on its scent, single-minded, implacable, driven. |
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| 17 | 425 |
In your case, if one wanted the sleen to take a scent print of you, your name, or some code name, would be associated with your scent. |
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| 13 | 186 |
A forester or plainsman, or a sleen hunter, or one trained, can sometimes detect their scent more than two hundred yards away. |
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| 13 | 189 |
Thus they have your scent and you do not have theirs". |
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| 15 | 83 |
"An excellent scent," he said, "for a slut". |
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| 15 | 86 |
He had doubtless specified the scent, as well. |
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| 17 | 424 |
A common form of training is to associate a name with a scent, and then, if one wishes, to associate the name with one or more commands. |
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| 17 | 427 |
They are wondrous trackers and can follow a scent several days old, even through a city. |
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| 18 | 667 |
She lifted it to her face, and slowly, deeply, drew in its scent, her eyes closed, and pressed her lips submissively to the cloth. |
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| 27 | 282 |
Twice from her position in the wagon bed, as the wagon had rolled on, she had seen him standing to one side, his head lifted, as though testing the wind for some subtle scent. |
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| 27 | 370 |
Portus Canio was not the only one who had caught the scent. |
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| 27 | 374 |
Fel Doron had caught the scent first, perhaps because of his height on the wagon box. |
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| 27 | 378 |
It was a scent she had experienced once before, on Targo's sales shelf in the Kettle Market, though then it had been so suddenly, so unexpectedly, upon her, almost stifling, almost overwhelming, so hot, so suddenly close and terrible. |
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| 27 | 379 |
There was no mistaking it, that scent, though now it was distant, and faint, a whisper on the wind. |
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| 27 | 395 |
"But they will have a sense of our distance, from the freshness of the scent". |
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| 27 | 937 |
They might have trailed her, presumably from a scent lingering in her cage, from before her sale. |
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| 27 | 1755 |
"It will be useful in giving your scent to sleen," said the subcaptain. |
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| 27 | 1999 |
"We have no scent to put them on. |
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| 27 | 2634 |
"Sleen will follow the scent. |
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| 27 | 2639 |
"They may have caught the scent of the gray sleen, the hunting sleen," said another, "and surmised them to be tracking, and then followed, for days, hoping to share the kill". |
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| 27 | 2974 |
She had seen him occasionally lifting his head and sampling the wind, doubtless taking scent. |
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| 27 | 2975 |
She now supposed that he had caught the scent of local sleen. |
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| 28 | 100 |
Such beasts, burrowing, six-legged, sinuous, carnivorous, unless on a scent, tend to be territorial. |
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| 28 | 167 |
"They doubtless understood the meaning of the tarns in the sky, the scent of sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 70 | 12 |
First, Ramar had been given the scent from the cloth, and, though the scent was old, it was not difficult for a sleen to follow once it had picked it up, which it had, in the forest. |
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| 75 | 33 |
Her scent had been taken, as a slave's scent is taken. |
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| 1 | 401 |
The first thing the little beast did was flare her nostrils, perhaps trying to catch the scent of her master. |
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| 1 | 403 |
She examined, and took the scent of, the male confined with her. |
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| 2 | 49 |
Their sense of scent was well developed, and useful in the hunt, and war. |
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| 14 | 26 |
Archon pressed two roots into his hands, and Cabot held them to his face, and took their scent. |
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| 18 | 152 |
The trail, like a trickle of scent, still obsessed them. |
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| 43 | 300 |
To be sure, a garment will retain the scent of a wearer, even if worn for a few moments. |
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| 51 | 76 |
"And to the brush of silk," said Grendel, "and to the scent of a perfume". |
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| 64 | 111 |
There were fewer such sleen, however, than Agamemnon realized, as traps had been set, one of which, we may recall, had snared the giant sleen, Ramar, and, too, humans, and their Kurii, had often defended themselves with vigor, often killing the animals, or, if their scent had not been taken, driving... |
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| 67 | 55 |
Too, it is common to utilize stream beds, for even the sleen cannot scent through flowing water, but must peruse the banks for an emergence. |
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| 70 | 27 |
Cabot then wiped the cloth with the quarry's scent liberally about the sharp metal teeth. |
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| 75 | 1 |
A Slave's Scent is Taken; An Earth Woman is Tortured by her Needs, And Understands the Meaning of This; No Fire Has Been Made "May I speak, Master!" begged the slave. |
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| 75 | 26 |
To her terror, and horror, she had been put on her back on the leaves, and the sleen, at Cabot's urging, had taken her scent. |
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| 75 | 43 |
"Your scent has been taken," said Cabot to the slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 105 |
Without a translator I had no hope of deciphering the scent, but I recognized the voice, so to speak, of Priest-Kings, who communicate by scent. |
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| 25 | 146 |
In this manner the scent of the prey is borne to them, and their own scent is carried backward, away from the prey. |
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| 5 | 104 |
The string, in which I was primarily interested, was bunched in my hand, close to the ring, and I took its scent. |
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| 5 | 173 |
The agent would have been instructed to process the leather band, which was, in effect, a scent tape, only in my presence, or, more likely, supply me with the code, and then withdraw. |
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| 5 | 174 |
The scent itself, given its nature, as a covert message, would fade after a time, not having been imprinted permanently on the tape. |
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| 5 | 222 |
"The scent has faded, significantly". |
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| 5 | 231 |
"I noted that you took the scent". |
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| 5 | 233 |
"But the scent is fading," he said. |
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| 5 | 234 |
"If I accept an office anew from Priest-Kings, they will doubtless provide a new signature string, with the appropriate scent". |
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| 5 | 246 |
"You took its scent," he said. |
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| 6 | 29 |
I also suspected that there would be a scent, or a flavor, to such a thing, that it would attract insects who would eliminate any possible residue. |
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| 23 | 170 |
Is it not difference which takes one's attention, amongst snow sleen a darker fur, amongst the odor of penned verr, the suggestion, ever so slight, a whisper in the night, of the larl's scent? I might have called this to the attention of Lord Nishida but he had withdrawn from the tables. |
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| 25 | 141 |
"We have caught the scent of a sleen," warned another, who was Pani. |
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| 25 | 147 |
To such animals scent not only detects prey, but can be informative as to its distance, movements, numbers, and sex. |
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| 25 | 177 |
Once I did catch the scent of a sleen. |
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| 28 | 227 |
"If you have taken its scent," I said, "it is not on your track". |
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| 28 | 228 |
When the fur is wet the scent is even more obtrusive. |
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| 28 | 235 |
I recalled that the scent of a sleen had also been detected back in the vicinity of Tarncamp, on the road between the central camp and the training and storage area. |
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| 28 | 445 |
"We caught the scent of a sleen in the vicinity earlier," said a mercenary, one of the guards. |
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| 33 | 61 |
Amongst themselves the Priest-Kings communicated by scent. |
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| 43 | 17 |
"I think it has to do with scent, and with changes in a body, reticences, tensings, an incipient readiness to spring, restrained, such things". |
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| 3 | 538 |
Even now, perhaps, their scent taken, eager sleen might be straining on their leashes, eyes blazing, salivating in anticipation, their fangs wet, their claws scratching on the stones, pulling their way toward me. |
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| 3 | 739 |
"It was not on your scent," I said. |
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| 3 | 742 |
On one scent it will often pass by, even ignore, more ample or superior prey. |
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| 3 | 743 |
"When it passed," she said, "I was overjoyed, for I was still alive, but I was then, almost immediately, sick with fear, for such a beast or beasts, I thought, might even now be following my tracks, from Ar, having been given my scent from my discarded robes". |
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| 3 | 1173 |
I recalled that when I, in my escape, had been descending the stairs in the cylinder, I had heard her, relieved of her gag, above, seemingly joyfully, gratefully, cry out the word 'Masters!' 'I burned your robes,' she said, 'that they might not give your scent to sleen. |
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| 7 | 53 |
Needless to say, at the voyages' end, such mariners, starved for the scent of perfume and the clasp of warm arms, are likely to lose little time in seeking the comforts of the taverns. |
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| 10 | 69 |
And in the public garden she only now becomes aware, following her master, heeling him, that the rich sequence of blossoms is not only arranged like music, with its color, tint into tint, shade into shade, tone into tone, to dramatically enhance the delight of a walk, but there is another music, as ... |
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| 24 | 164 |
Where shall they hide, within the encirclements, away from the room-to-room searches, away from the snuffling sleen, searching for a scent? It is not unknown for them to tear away their clothes and prostrate themselves before mocking victors, covering their feet with kisses, and begging to be spared... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 29 | 105 |
"That was largely to leave my scent upon you," he said, "which was done that my fellow, who was blind, would know a Kur scent, and follow you, and, of course, not be likely to kill you. |
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| 7 | 144 |
How alive, I thought, must be the body of a slave! How alive to small things, a breath of air, a scent, subtle, scarcely noticed, the texture of a bit of cloth on her body, the feeling of a carpet or tiles beneath her bared feet, a rustle of chain in an outer room, are they coming for her, the weigh... |
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| 10 | 998 |
Apparently he could read, unless he was merely taking the scent of the hand which had written the note. |
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| 14 | 165 |
"You cannot smell it," he said, "but my scent is now muchly upon you". |
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| 15 | 6 |
I had learned his scent was on me, and I was sure I might be followed, in the darkness, as easily as by a sleen. |
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| 15 | 48 |
But what is "human"? I recalled that I had been told his "scent" was on me. |
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| 15 | 49 |
What significance might that have, if any? Certainly I was unaware of the scent, at least on my own body, or of any significance which it might have. |
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| 15 | 164 |
I heard a snuffling sound, as though scent were being taken. |
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| 15 | 193 |
Did it hope I might understand it? Did it think I might have a translator? The scent of Lord Grendel, I knew, was on me. |
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| 15 | 223 |
There he may have established, to his satisfaction, by the trail of scent, that the Kur may have emerged, even frequently, perhaps habitually, from this particular opening, which, at night, would be in an area unlikely to be traversed by humans. |
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| 15 | 279 |
Clearly the beast, blind as it was, must be aware that I was not in motion, and that something, with a different scent, a different voice, belligerent and obstructive, now stood between us. |
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| 15 | 303 |
It might not be able to see, but it could hear, and it could take my scent, mine, I suppose, and, more importantly, that of Lord Grendel. |
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| 17 | 184 |
The newcomer had never seen me, of course, but I had no doubt he could have picked me out promptly from a hundred slaves by scent. |
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| 17 | 186 |
So, too, of course, and more fearfully, might have a sleen, put on our scent. |
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| 45 | 55 |
I hurried about a boulder, turning, and screamed in terror, for I had plunged into the outstretched arms of a large, hairy shape, which clutched me to itself, its nostrils dilating and closing, and dilating and closing again, sucking in scent from about my neck and shoulders. |
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| 45 | 71 |
I was sure, too, that it recognized me, by scent. |
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| 45 | 92 |
The beast was fully aware of it, for its head turned in that direction, its ears inclined to that place, and its nostrils drew in the alien scent, and then the beast, with no further action, either of a monitory or preparatory nature, continued on its way. |
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| 49 | 43 |
A strange Kur, Lucius, whose scent was unfamiliar to the larl, was taken for food, and attacked. |
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| 50 | 36 |
Now, when there was little, or nothing, to fear, I was as skittish as a tabuk doe who has caught the scent of a sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 25 | 353 |
As a flaw, once fastened on a scent, and committed to it, it will ignore better, easier game for less desirable, more-difficult-to-obtain game; on the other hand, once committed to a scent, it is likely to pursue it relentlessly, which, if one is after a particular quarry, might be, I suppose, accou... |
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| 20 | 218 |
"The rains will wipe out scent trails, will they not?" "For a time, yes, I think so," said Relia. |
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| 23 | 63 |
Here, muchly bared, and owned, I was keenly aware of a gentle wind, the splash of rain, the feel of wet grass on one's feet, the scent of a flower, the texture of a piece of cloth, than I had ever been on my former world. |
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| 25 | 75 |
And the laris, of course, nearer Shipcamp, roam about, and may, or may not, pick up a scent. |
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| 25 | 76 |
They are not put on a scent, as might be a sleen. |
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| 25 | 77 |
I had little fear of sleen as there were few in camp, and I had put my blanket to the laundering, so they would have no scent to follow. |
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| 25 | 159 |
I hoped it might rain again, as that would wash scent away, clearing it from rocks and soil, obliterating trails. |
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| 25 | 191 |
I did not know if it had been attracted to me by heat, motion, or the scent of blood. |
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| 25 | 356 |
Still, what if another should come across my scent? I would hope it would not commit to it, but would ignore it in favor of more familiar game. |
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| 26 | 82 |
"Let us fetch your sleen, and seek the scent". |
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| 26 | 95 |
She put her blanket to the laundry, how clever, unaware that her scent saturates her chaining place in her kennel, that it lies in pools in each footstep she takes, that it lingers in grass, mud, and brush, even for a time in the very air through which she passes". |
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| 26 | 154 |
I have no scent trail on which to put our six-legged friend. |
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| 26 | 196 |
"The scent is very fresh," he said. |
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| 26 | 199 |
It is not unheard of for sleen to follow a given scent for days, even one which may have been laid down weeks ago. |
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| 27 | 49 |
If there were scent the rain would confuse it, or wash it away. |
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| 30 | 5 |
"Scratching up scent, releasing it, fresh, into the air". |
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| 30 | 55 |
"The scent is not the easiest to follow," said Axel. |
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| 30 | 84 |
The rain may have washed it clean, washed away the scent". |
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| 37 | 34 |
In the case of the bath of a free woman, as I understand it, the slave commonly does little more than prepare the bath, test the temperature, for this may vary from mistress to mistress, place the oils, and such, scent the water, ready the towelings, lay out the after-bath gowns, and such. |
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| 38 | 15 |
In this way, following the scent of the fled slave, it was possible that one might locate the Panther Girls. |
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| 38 | 104 |
"The sleen is on a scent," said Axel. |
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| 39 | 543 |
"It is taking scent," said Genak. |
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| 39 | 546 |
"It has taken scent," said a fellow. |
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| 40 | 95 |
"What of the other," he asked, "the one they call Vulo?" It was she on whose scent Homines had been set. |
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| 41 | 92 |
But there would be little in this camp, I thought, from which my scent might be taken. |
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| 42 | 141 |
What chance has a girl if a sleen is on her scent? I did not think they could catch me again, as, if all went well, there would be no sleen. |
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| 44 | 51 |
This had little or nothing to do with its recent kill, the interval which might be required for it to return to normality, its satiation and possible somnolence after feeding, or such, not even with the paucity of scent which might linger in the camp. |
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| 44 | 52 |
Indeed, how could it be given my scent, rather than that of Tula, Mila, or others? Perhaps from a section of rope which had encircled my neck in the night, from footprints mingled with others, perhaps from trying various scents and rejecting all but one? Might it not even follow one of the slaves di... |
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| 45 | 20 |
"It is not clear we could even give Tiomines a usable scent," he said. |
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| 45 | 24 |
"We do not even know where to search for scent," said Axel. |
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| 47 | 64 |
Even had I Homines at my disposal it was not clear I could have given him an unambiguous scent. |
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| 52 | 32 |
This tendency may be expressed in innumerable ways, from the design of cities to the bright colors of buildings and walls, and porches and pillars, from long garden paths, a pasang in length, characterized by a planned music of scent as well as a scenic melody of blossoms, to the shaping of vases an... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 120 |
It was a scent, and a sort of scent, with which I was hitherto well acquainted, from various venues, from the delta of the Vosk outside Port Kar, from the hills of bleak Torvaldsland, the wastes and oases of the Tahari, the expanses of the Barrens, the jungles of the Ua, such places, even from the d... |
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| 27 | 181 |
How quick I had been to suppose illegal deceit and even perilous, surreptitious dishonesty, a betrayal of principles and understandings, a departure from implicit rules without which a game, even a mighty game on which might depend worlds, would be forsworn and treacherously subverted! But I recalle... |
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| 15 | 37 |
I was sure it was no coincidence that Lord Akio had chosen the path he had, for the Pani garden is not merely designed to appeal to the eye, ear, and scent, but to do so in a certain progression, this progression depending on the time of year. |
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| 16 | 121 |
It was the scent of Kur. |
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| 17 | 64 |
"It is its own justification, of course, the scent of the flower, the marking of the petal". |
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| 17 | 67 |
The color of the blossom, the marking of the petal, the scent of the flower attract tiny predators whose labors, unbeknownst to themselves, profit the very hosts whom they despoil". |
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| 21 | 27 |
"The petals of the golden cup are open," he said, "the zar swarm is not aflight, the lavender leaves of the scent tree do not curl". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 129 |
The senses of Goreans seem much alive, even in small things, and they are likely to employ color, sound, and scent even where there is no practical purpose to be served in doing so. |
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| 13 | 133 |
Why not? One supposes that a scent in a pan of water, the tone of a flute, the color of a simple thing, like that of a spoon handle or the door of a shed, may serve an end that is very real, if not practical. |
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| 20 | 200 |
"She speaks to the beast," I thought, "as though it could understand, but then, do not masters and mistresses often address their brutes, however irrationally, as though they might understand? One supposes hunters might hasten sleen on the scent, riders urge on their mounts, drivers encourage their ... |
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| 49 | 251 |
"Lord Grendel," said Decius Albus, "will doubtless recognize the veil, and, I suspect, will by scent, as well, verify its authenticity". |
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| 49 | 384 |
My master swirled the tiny ruby lake enclosed within its crystal shores, observed it, and then took its scent, as though it might have been a tiny bouquet of dinas. |
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| 53 | 60 |
I realized this determination might have been made by scent. |
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| 53 | 63 |
He may have encountered his scent, about the apartment, and stairwell, in the house of Epicrates, when he had returned from the remote house of Decius Albus, off the Viktel Aria. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 108 |
This beast, of which I had heard, given the scent of her blanket, might then lead her pursuers to her, or, depending on the command, herd her back to the shore, where her pursuers, perhaps encamped, would be waiting. |
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| 33 | 256 |
"Bounty hunters are plentiful, frustrated seekers are desperate, human sleen await scent, failed soldiers of fortune despair of their fees," said the beast. |
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| 38 | 128 |
What might an unfamiliar scent or step portend? When an unseen hand casts the dice, who will read them first? Men differ. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 132 |
"Trickery, even when palpable, even when the scent is strong," said Sakim, "is difficult to prove". |
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| 33 | 36 |
It is in the air, like the wind of Se'Kara or the scent of the sea. |
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| 37 | 1 |
What Cannot Speak May Say Much The salt scent of Thassa, borne inland over the piers, was bright in our nostrils. |
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| 52 | 89 |
As a sleen, tenacious and swift, can follow scent on land, tenacious and swift, a living island can follow sounds, disturbances, stirrings, in the water, schooling fish, the wake of a passing vessel, and such. |
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| 53 | 35 |
I caught the scent of living, burning flesh. |
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| 59 | 1 |
The Corridor; Events Have Rushed Forward; The Triumph of Nicomachos; We Chat with Glaukos, Proprietor of The Living Island I caught the scent, in the dim corridor, lit by widely-spaced, tiny, tharlarion-oil lamps, in the back precincts of the tavern, The Living Island, of a voluptuous perfume, a sl... |
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