| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 25 |
The light of the three moons was bright that night, and in the resultant exotic patchwork of shadows below, I caught sight of one of the larls, padding softly along, its body almost white in the moonlight. |
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| 15 | 73 |
I waited, not speaking, in the shadows. |
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| 15 | 107 |
I darted back into the shadows. |
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| 19 | 36 |
And, dark among these shapes, like shadows, I could see the somber black of members of the Caste of Assassins. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 14 |
The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the angle of these shadows, for the stones are set in such a way as to serve also as sundials, it was past the fourteenth Gorean Ahn, or hour. |
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| 4 | 43 |
I could see the shadows of tall Ka-la-na trees bending against the darkness of the night, their leaves lifting and rustling on the long branches. |
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| 6 | 2 |
Whereas the Men Below the Mountains, as the mortals are called, seldom enter the mountains, and do not return when they do, many often venture to their brink, if only to stand within the shadows of those cliffs that hide the secrets of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 7 | 33 |
They were not clear, their redness and shadows testifying to long nights of indulgence and dissipation. |
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| 9 | 61 |
"Welcome to Tharna," said a guard, leaning on his spear in the shadows of the gate. |
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| 12 | 36 |
The shadows of the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp far above flickered on the walls, on the face of the girl. |
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| 19 | 97 |
I stood there and watched the slaves depart, silently now, like shadows, forsaking the precincts of the mines to seek their outlaw fortunes, their destinies beyond the laws and traditions of their cities. |
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| 19 | 110 |
Then he turned away, abruptly I thought, and moved rapidly into the shadows. |
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| 25 | 13 |
Our wild shadows like misformed giants locked in combat against the lofty walls of the torchlit chamber. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 71 |
He had now stepped back into the shadows of the passage. |
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| 15 | 39 |
The room was apparently large, for portions of it were lost in the shadows from the torch. |
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| 21 | 56 |
While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen Priest-Kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the... |
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| 25 | 126 |
The light pouring through the grille formed a reticulated pattern of shadows on her body. |
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| 33 | 38 |
Well could I suppose the terror and upheavals that had brought these men, normally so divided against one another in the strife of their warring cities, to the palisade, to the dark shadows of the Sardar—the earthquakes, the tidal waves, the hurricanes and atmospheric disturbances, and the un... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 862 |
She lay on her back, her eyes open, looking at the top of the wagon, at the hangings, the shadows thrown on the scarlet hides by the light of the fire bowl. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 50 |
The yellow of her livery seemed dark in the shadows. |
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| 3 | 18 |
For those who passed in the street some might have been startled had they noted, standing in the shadows, one who wore the black of the Assassins, who wept. |
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| 4 | 62 |
"A knife on the high bridge," said I, "in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors—at the Twentieth Ahn—in the darkness and the shadows of the lamps". |
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| 4 | 66 |
His crime, if he had had one, was that his build was rather like mine, and his hair, in the shadows, the half-darkness of the lamps and the three moons of Gor, might have seemed to one who watched like mine. |
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| 13 | 256 |
I could sense Mip a bit behind me, back in the shadows, yet also on the perch. |
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| 17 | 333 |
The man who had been dancing the ship dance had now left the pit of sand and, over against one wall, in the shadows of the torchlight, largely unnoted, danced alone, danced for himself the memories of gleaming Thassa and the swift black ships, the Tarns of the Sea, as the galleys of Port Kar are kno... |
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| 18 | 318 |
Startled, I saw, now that she stood forth from the shadows, that she had no nose. |
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| 18 | 425 |
I returned to him; beneath the iron on his ankles and wrists, and on his throat, there were scars, like white bands, pale shadows of the dark metal; it would take months to form such scars, superseding the fearful sores that must first have been inflicted. |
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| 19 | 363 |
"Would such not be pleased to be served his paga by such as these? Would he not care to see them dance for him? Would the sight of them, eager, lips lifted, in the shadows of a tavern's alcoves, not soothe his weary eyes aching from the sun and salt of gleaming Thassa?" The crowd roared with laughte... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 120 |
With a slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled in the net, over his shoulder, and carried her toward one of the dark, high-prowed barges in the shadows at the edge of the island. |
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| 7 | 93 |
I kept the sun behind me that I might follow, in the shadows on the rence matting before me, the movements of the girl. |
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| 9 | 506 |
I looked at the brick, the stone, watched the patterns and shadows playing on the walls of the buildings of Port Kar. |
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| 11 | 273 |
The torches lit the room with unusual shadows. |
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| 12 | 28 |
One of the bodies Thurnock had struck lay dark, sprawled on the tiles, some fifteen yards from the gate; the other lay, inert and twisted in the shadows, at the very portal itself. |
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| 13 | 163 |
He had previously been standing in the shadows. |
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| 18 | 203 |
I could see, as they did not, a shadow moving swiftly behind them, it, too, rapidly shifting its position, moving about amidst the frantic shadows of men, torches and confusions, but always staying in the background, like an absence of substance but one which carried a blade of steel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 185 |
There I saw in the shadows, in the dim light in the room from the city outside, a girl. |
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| 5 | 166 |
The sun's position had altered, and the shadows were longer. |
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| 8 | 970 |
The fire was very beautiful, and the shadows on the wagon canvas. |
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| 9 | 407 |
I could see nothing but the darkness of the trees, and the shadows. |
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| 9 | 413 |
I looked again into the darkness, the trees and shadows, to the right. |
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| 11 | 1095 |
In the shadows of the forest the crossbow quarrel can swiftly touch, and slay. |
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| 11 | 1097 |
Such men do not care to venture creeping into the shadows of forests, pursuing scattered game. |
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| 15 | 1271 |
The perfume was wild about me, swift in the brightness and the shadows. |
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| 16 | 155 |
And as I gasped, and wept, I saw, suddenly, in the shadows, watching me, Verna, the panther girl. |
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| 17 | 54 |
Immediately, on the body of the girl across from me, there was a reticulated pattern of shadows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 182 |
I continued to study the shadows, and parts of shadows. |
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| 1 | 17 |
The shadows flickered about the board of one hundred red and yellow squares. |
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| 1 | 18 |
The pieces, weighted, seemed tall on the board, casting their shadows away from the flame, across the flat arena of the game. |
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| 4 | 281 |
* * * * I regarded her in the shadows of the small alcove, lit by the tiny lamp, its draft carried by the tiny ventilating hole above it. |
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| 6 | 48 |
The shadows were long and flickering on the boards, those of the watering pan, the bits of food, part of a loaf of bread, those of Sheera and myself. |
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| 6 | 317 |
The shadows were now longer. |
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| 6 | 546 |
The girl turned and, swiftly, disappeared in the shadows, the others disappearing with her. |
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| 6 | 960 |
She was quite beautiful, in the shadows, in the brief, sleeveless garment of white wool, the fillet of white wool tying back her hair, barefoot, my collar at her throat. |
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| 7 | 4 |
When I did not move, did I stand among the brush and light trees, in the sunlight and shadows, it was difficult to detect my presence, even from a distance of some yards. |
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| 7 | 154 |
Twice I saw a motion in the green and shadows, in the dappled sunlight, swift, furtive. |
10 |
| 7 | 176 |
I studied the shadows for a quarter of an Ahn. |
10 |
| 7 | 189 |
There was a sudden cry of pain from the green and the sunlight and shadows. |
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| 9 | 186 |
In the shadows, about, I could see other panther girls, ornaments of gold dully glistening on their shapely limbs. |
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| 11 | 826 |
I could see, from across the tent, the tiny shadows, where the small golden wires were thrust through the softness of her ear lobes. |
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| 14 | 98 |
The reflections of the firelight, intermingled with the intense, soft black shadows, illuminated the trunks of the surrounding trees, and their lower leaves and branches. |
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| 14 | 113 |
From the shadows then was dragged forth, chained, a large man, strong, struggling. |
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| 14 | 123 |
I could see the shadows of tents beyond the clearing. |
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| 14 | 212 |
Then, not bidding them farewell, I turned and disappeared among the shadows and trees. |
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| 18 | 225 |
I wore green, now black in the darkness, and moved with stealth, as a warrior moves who hunts men, mixing with the shadows, one darkness among others, a movement and a silence. |
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| 18 | 228 |
It was not long that I waited in the shadows before I heard, from within the stockade, commands and the piteous remonstrances of pleading slave girls. |
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| 18 | 263 |
Weeping, the two girls sprang to their feet and ran to the edge of the forest and, trying not to enter into its shadows, rapidly, weeping, began to break branches and gather wood. |
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| 18 | 506 |
I called to Tina, softly, from the shadows of the forest. |
10 |
| 18 | 658 |
From the shadows of the forest I observed the lanterns. |
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| 19 | 241 |
The slave girls lay bound in the shadows, head to foot, behind the men of Tyros, the women of Hura. |
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| 19 | 413 |
I heard the male slaves in the shadows rising to their feet. |
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| 19 | 416 |
In the shadows, in the background, by the light of the fire, two paces from me, I saw the tall, mighty frame of Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 20 | 99 |
I seized again my sword, and moved again, to one side, mixing in the shadows. |
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| 20 | 144 |
Then she disappeared in the shadows. |
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| 22 | 343 |
Then she turned and vanished into the dark green shadows of the northern forests. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 157 |
The ship, at night, mast down, with such colorings, moving inland on a river, among the shadows, would be extremely difficult to detect. |
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| 4 | 31 |
Sometimes they use the shadows of the gunwales, falling across the thwarts, judging their angles. |
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| 15 | 89 |
Two shadows enveloped the last two men in the column of pairs led by Thorgard of Scagnar. |
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| 19 | 8 |
Their flesh was in the shadows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 627 |
I swung the walking chains I had purchased lightly in my hand, not looking back, noting the shadows. |
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| 2 | 634 |
I saw the shadows, darting, heard the rush of robes. |
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| 7 | 762 |
I drew the kaiila back into the shadows. |
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| 25 | 598 |
It did have a bit of dim light, particularly near the bars, that furnished from a small tharlarion-oil lamp situated a few feet away in the corridor, but, on the whole, it was mostly in shadows, and darkness, particularly near the back wall. |
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| 25 | 613 |
The lineaments of her lovely body were much obscured in the shadows, but there was more than a hint, even so, even in the half darkness, of the alluring geography of her beauty, that now of a marked girl, one who now belonged to men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1044 |
I looked about myself, with apprehension, at the shadows of the trees and branches. |
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| 2 | 1080 |
Then the beast disappeared in the shadows. |
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| 3 | 256 |
I watched from the shadows. |
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| 4 | 621 |
But this night, we, with our flasks of wine, in our serving, were instructed to remain in the background, in the shadows, to remain back of the circle of the fire, behind the sitting men. |
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| 4 | 625 |
But this night, we rather, as noted, with our flasks of wine, remained back in the shadows, behind the circle of the fire, behind the sitting men, as we had been instructed. |
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| 4 | 629 |
We remained in the shadows. |
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| 4 | 636 |
I stood there, naked, recently ravished, sweat and dirt on my body, and in my hair, in the shadows, ignored, holding the large flask of wine on my left hip, watching. |
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| 4 | 682 |
I then returned to the shadows. |
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| 5 | 111 |
Within, as they passed between the wall of the tent and the fire, I could see the shadows of one or two other girls. |
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| 7 | 289 |
We hurried on then, swiftly, through the mixed shadows and moonlit trees, following the men, our masters. |
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| 7 | 687 |
I shrank back in the shadows, crouching among the pilings of a hut. |
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| 7 | 823 |
I kept in the shadows. |
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| 7 | 828 |
I shrank back in the shadows. |
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| 7 | 850 |
On my belly I inched across this street and then, gratefully, slipped again into the shadows among and beneath the huts. |
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| 7 | 852 |
I darted to my feet and fled deeply into the shadows. |
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| 12 | 422 |
The tarnsmen had approached from the dark quadrant, away from the moons, low, not more than a few feet from the ground, hidden by the shadows of the world, and then had, without warning, little more than a quarter of a pasang from the keep, swept into the air, the first wave striking at the wire, th... |
10 |
| 12 | 785 |
I wanted to see, though I feared to do so, what was going on, the men who now owned us, their movements, the tarns, the ropes and chains, the slaves bound over saddles, and fastened at stirrups, the flames, the wild, racing, distorted shadows, the parapets and towers of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 |
I stared at the ceiling, watching the shifting shadows and reflections from the small, perforated lamp. |
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| 1 | 115 |
I watched the shadows on the ceiling. |
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| 6 | 667 |
The free woman shrank back, in the shadows. |
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| 25 | 24 |
I looked about at the irregular and jagged shapes, weird and mighty, which loomed about us, of the pack ice, eerie in the deep shadows, and bright, strange light of the moons and snow. |
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| 26 | 291 |
I could not well count the animals in the uncertain light and shadows, and with their dark minglings and changings of position, but it was clear that there were a large number of beasts there, probably more than fifty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 677 |
She was naked; I could see the moonlight on her flesh, striped by the shadows of the bars, and glinting on the shipping collar locked on her throat. |
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| 11 | 4 |
The yellow light, too, flickering, in the shadows, glinted on the steel collar beneath her hair. |
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| 11 | 22 |
I stood back in the shadows. |
10 |
| 11 | 27 |
He looked about, but did not see me, concealed in the shadows. |
10 |
| 11 | 359 |
Against the background of jungle growth, blending with plants and shadows, it would be difficult to detect. |
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| 23 | 89 |
"You know the spear, the raid, the retaliation, the seeking of vengeance, the shadows of the forest. |
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| 38 | 15 |
"Doubtless it was a trick of the lights and shadows," said Ayari. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 171 |
The shadows were now long outside, on this warm, summer afternoon. |
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| 16 | 320 |
The shadows were long. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 138 |
A girl in a brown rag, slave, emerged from the shadows. |
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| 29 | 280 |
The three galleys we had towed were now adrift, aimlessly, almost lost in the shadows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 139 |
Behind those shields, like shapes and shadows, distinguishable behind the wicker, men tore with saws at the chain. |
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| 16 | 285 |
There is commonly little danger of eels near Victoria, save near the shadows and shallows of the wharves themselves. |
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| 19 | 739 |
She saw now, on the tiles before her, gently swinging, the shadows of the five loosened blades of the Gorean slave lash. |
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| 20 | 2102 |
I saw the shadows of the bars on her face and body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 284 |
I had not detected them earlier in the shadows. |
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| 1 | 567 |
We listened to it, not moving, in the dim, pale-yellowish, flickering light of the unshuttered dark lantern, amidst the dark, dancing shadows in that abandoned tarn complex. |
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| 5 | 135 |
I withdrew to the side and sat in some shadows, among rocks, to observe the lines. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 180 |
Similarly, at night, one can see shadows within. |
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| 28 | 226 |
We struck them, they milling, startled, wheeling about, kaiila rearing, a full Ihn before the turf was dark with the wild, swiftly moving shadows of the Kinyanpi overhead. |
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| 30 | 180 |
We made our way then, through the shadows, sometimes running, sometimes crouching down, sometimes crawling, from the scene of the slaughter. |
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| 32 | 89 |
Sometimes the girls were pulled into the shadows, and sometimes not. |
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| 43 | 206 |
Then Cuwignaka and Hci, as silent as shadows, moving through the cut I had made in the back, left the lodge. |
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| 45 | 73 |
It was hard to tell what might be men and what shadows. |
10 |
| 45 | 80 |
Men, with impunity, began firing into the shadows. |
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| 54 | 174 |
They took place in the shadows, behind lodges and at places marked in the high grass, where they might lie in one another's arms, if only fearfully and briefly, fearing the step of a master, the shadow of a whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 56 |
I stood there for a moment, the shadows of the bars and crosspieces falling across my face and body. |
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| 3 | 302 |
I also saw the shadows of the bars and crosspieces lying across the couch. |
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| 14 | 113 |
I was pulled back into the shadows between some tents. |
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| 14 | 118 |
When men passed between the fires and the canvas wall of the tent we could see their shadows on the canvas. |
10 |
| 14 | 199 |
I cast aside the binding fiber, and then crept to the side, to lie on my belly in the shadows behind a tent. |
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| 15 | 22 |
I shrank back into the shadows. |
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| 15 | 32 |
I, then, stealthily, my heart pounding, began to follow, keeping in the shadows, the two men who had just passed. |
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| 15 | 50 |
I stepped back into the shadows. |
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| 16 | 133 |
They would not, I was sure, at night, in the moonlight and shadows, detect my presence. |
10 |
| 16 | 141 |
In the darkness, in the moonlight and shadows, I would not be detected. |
10 |
| 30 | 241 |
I was no longer fully certain even, with the shadows, the narrowness of the streets, their many turnings, of my general orientation. |
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| 32 | 6 |
I could not see, in the shadows, who had shut it. |
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| 32 | 14 |
Suspended there, some forty feet from the floor, on a long rope, almost lost in the shadows, was a golden sack. |
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| 32 | 18 |
I heard a sound in the shadows, near the door. |
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| 32 | 31 |
I could see him now, dimly, in the shadows, as my eyes adjusted to the light. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 509 |
The brunette, terrified, seized up her silk, and shrank back behind the tables, into the shadows, where, huddled, knelt other slaves. |
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| 5 | 263 |
From where she stood, at the curtains, in the light, and shadows, of the small lamp on the table, she could see the slumped, fallen, senseless figures of her guards. |
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| 9 | 515 |
I looked out, into the shadows of the woods. |
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| 17 | 9 |
"Step from the shadows," he said, backing away. |
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| 17 | 17 |
I stepped from the shadows, toward the center of the sand. |
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| 19 | 45 |
"Enter," he said, "swiftly!" I was ushered through the garden now, the foliage black in the shadows, silvery in the moonlight. |
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| 20 | 276 |
It was hard to see his features in the moonlight and shadows. |
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| 21 | 642 |
Moonlight, and a tracery of shadows, from the lattice of a window, was on her body. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 31 |
I moved a little in the shadows, slowly, and back, and toward the center of the hut. |
10 |
| 2 | 91 |
"Build up the fire," I said to Feiqa, who was kneeling back in the shadows. |
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| 3 | 421 |
A girl looked up from the small fire in one of the roadside camps, and then, suddenly, rose to her feet and, in the shadows, darted out to the road. |
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| 3 | 442 |
She released the halter and then stood there in misery, in the shadows, in the road, facing us, a foot or so from the jowls of the animal. |
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| 3 | 446 |
He lowered the whip, looking out into the shadows. |
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| 3 | 451 |
He dragged her, two stripes on her body, gray in the shadows, by the arm, back, and to the rear of the wagon. |
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| 22 | 34 |
It cast odd shadows. |
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| 25 | 56 |
Too, there were many dark places and shadows. |
10 |
| 25 | 553 |
"Yes, Mistress," they said, and, leaping up, hurried back into the shadows, at the left, from whence they had been summoned, there to crouch and kneel once more, awaiting their next call forward. |
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| 25 | 706 |
The shadows of the cage bars made an interesting pattern on her flesh. |
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| 29 | 43 |
I noted a slave passing by in the street, the lower portion of her body in shadows, the upper portion bright in the late afternoon sun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 480 |
It was mostly a matter of shadows, and darker shadows, and lighter places, of darker and lighter areas. |
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| 1 | 20 |
Then, not looking back to the mirror, I crept in the candlelight and shadows to the dresser and there, from beneath several layers of garments, where I had concealed it, I drew forth a small bit of scarlet cloth, tiny and silken, with shoulder straps, a garment I had myself sewn weeks ago, one in wh... |
10 |
| 1 | 205 |
I lay there for better than an hour, I think, in the flickering shadows, naked, on the rug. |
10 |
| 3 | 236 |
"Who are you!" I cried, to the figure standing in the shadows, some feet away, but I knew. |
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| 3 | 670 |
I do not know if I could have told what it was, in the shadows, had I been standing. |
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| 6 | 249 |
When we had begun our training, shortly after we had been branded and collared, we had been kept in a lower level of the house, in a dank, dark, cold, musty area, seeming to consist largely of narrow corridors and cells, an area of damp, cold stone walls, of shadows and pools of water, chained in a ... |
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| 26 | 190 |
"This is not the way to Brundisium!" He addressed a tall fellow in the shadows, making his way northward on the Viktel Aria. |
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| 26 | 191 |
The figure in the shadows lifted his hand. |
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| 26 | 194 |
The figure in the shadows had been one I could not mistake. |
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| 26 | 196 |
There had been no mistaking the figure in the shadows. |
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| 31 | 361 |
Indeed, had he done so, how could she have loved him so much? He then cast aside the whip and lifted her gently in his arms, and carried her back into the shadows, away from the fire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 512 |
The clouds would be indifferent to the blood that would be spilt beneath, dark in their racing shadows. |
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| 19 | 20 |
Sometimes we could see them being drawn under the walkway, being taken into its shadows. |
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| 23 | 277 |
By means of the moonlight I could see a reticulated pattern of light and shadows there, which fell across two girls, one, Publia, sleeping, the other, Claudia, still standing, near the bottom of the ladderlike stairs, who looked up at me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 609 |
The shadows were growing long now. |
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| 11 | 5 |
There were almost no shadows from the rence on the water. |
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| 28 | 218 |
Similarly the face can be irregularly darkened, to reduce reflection, to blend with shadows, to distort its outlines. |
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| 28 | 235 |
"As soft as the wind, as silent as shadows," I said. |
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| 28 | 710 |
The masters sometimes come by in the night, with a lamp, to see how beautiful they are, the shadows of the bars on their lovely, sleeping bodies. |
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| 39 | 8 |
I thought I detected the shadows which had been with us since the camp, darknesses in the darkness, moving furtively to the side, to the edge of the buildings. |
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| 46 | 72 |
Then they noted the fellows who accompanied us, like shadows, and were puzzled, and silent. |
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| 46 | 88 |
Our menacing companions, armed and surly, like shadows, were still with us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 122 |
Another fellow was in the street, approaching, but suddenly detected us, shadows among shadows. |
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| 2 | 397 |
She was flushed, and needful, but I did not know if this would be readily apparent outside, among the moving bodies, in the darkness, in the wayward shadows, in the uncertain light of campfires. |
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| 3 | 194 |
To be sure, it doubtless amused Marcus, or seemed fitting to him, to lead her about on her leash, suffering in a need which might be detectable even in the darkness and the shifting shadows. |
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| 3 | 293 |
There, to one side, in the shadows, difficult to make out, a slave girl, I could see the glint of her collar, writhed in a fellow's arms. |
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| 3 | 1076 |
Here and there, on the walls, like shadows flickering against the tarn beacons, I could see the return of tarnsmen. |
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| 5 | 113 |
"It was given to me by a Cosian, in the shadows," said the man, wonderingly. |
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| 11 | 420 |
Few of us recognize the stranger in the shadows, who is ourself. |
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| 15 | 121 |
We kept back, in the shadows. |
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| 19 | 344 |
As it was shortly before noon the shadows were small, and behind us, but she heard the movement of the feet of the tharlarion in the dirt behind her and spun about, frightened, immediately kneeling, putting her head to the dirt. |
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| 22 | 477 |
Then, some seventy yards or so ahead, and to the right, near a wall, before the eastern termination of the trellised area where the morning market is held, from a patchwork of lights and shadows, I picked her out. |
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| 27 | 1135 |
Will you fear to enter a room alone, or a corridor unescorted, for fear someone may be there, waiting? Will you fear dark places, or shadows? Will you fear high bridges, and roofs, and promenades, because you fear the loop of a tarnsman tightening on your body, dragging you into the sky, his capture... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1358 |
The shadows of the bars fell across her body, the shadows moving with the movement of the tiny lamp. |
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| 8 | 548 |
It was almost as though we were only images, only projections, only shadows, only vapors. |
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| 10 | 8 |
I saw shadows there. |
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| 11 | 5 |
Above it, supported by beams, casting a pattern of almost intangible shadows, seeming to stir on the flagging, were numerous, swaying strands of fine wire. |
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| 12 | 589 |
Shadows fell across me from the ruins of the barn. |
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| 12 | 591 |
But it made me uneasy, to see him look at me, regarding me in the moonlight, in the shadows, from head to toe. |
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| 13 | 517 |
Mostly I could see little but the floor of the passage at my feet, and the shadows, my own before me, and his, a misshapen, gliding thing, half on the floor, half on the wall, to the right of mine. |
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| 13 | 650 |
I could see the shadows of the bars on her face and body. |
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| 13 | 1356 |
I could see the shadows of the bars on the kennel walls, from the lamplight. |
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| 13 | 1366 |
I had awakened once or twice in the pens, early in my training, to see the light of a lamp on the walls, the shadows cast there by the bars. |
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| 15 | 12 |
It cast long, strange shadows about. |
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| 29 | 1 |
I knelt to one side, and back, in shadows, inconspicuously by the wall, in the circular chamber of the court of the commercial praetor. |
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| 29 | 19 |
I was pleased I was back in the shadows. |
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| 29 | 209 |
The pit master and I were well back in the shadows. |
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| 29 | 745 |
"The girl in the shadows, the creature with her?" "It is Janice!" she wept, joyfully. |
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| 31 | 596 |
Wild shadows moved about. |
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| 37 | 596 |
The lamps and torches threw strange shadows, which moved, as the source of light moved, sometimes giving the impression of a dark body stirring, even moving furtively, or quickly. |
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| 37 | 646 |
I looked up, again, at the cage, hanging there in the shadows, near the ceiling. |
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| 37 | 651 |
To be sure, this was difficult to determine in the shadows. |
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| 37 | 682 |
"He is above, somewhere in the shadows!" cried the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 701 |
Herminius, it seemed, had not been permitted to interfere with the effectiveness of the noose which had drawn him up, into the shadows. |
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| 37 | 704 |
"He is somewhere up there, in the shadows," said the lieutenant. |
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| 37 | 730 |
"There! Fire!" I, too, saw for a moment, in the shadows, a huge shape. |
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| 42 | 192 |
I saw her eyes within the shadows of the hood. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 147 |
The first time, she stood alone within the lower portal, back in the shadows, cringing, miserable, terrified, for more than fifteen Ehn. |
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| 22 | 462 |
Timidly, trying to remain in the shadows, she approached the fire. |
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| 22 | 635 |
She shrank back in the shadows. |
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| 22 | 638 |
One of the men she saw, this startling her, was Mirus! She crept after them, using the wavering light of the lantern to follow them, it casting strange shadows on the tents and earth. |
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| 22 | 644 |
At such places she tried to stay in the shadows, and then, in a moment, once more follow the swaying lantern, a tiny, glowing dot before her. |
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| 26 | 1033 |
There were some wagons rolled about, as well, but they were muchly dark, in the shadows. |
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| 27 | 327 |
"Like shadows, like serpents, as silent as the leech plant bending toward its prey," said another. |
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| 27 | 1018 |
But at that moment there was indeed a beating of wings in the sky, a whirl of wind, a blasting of grasses, the screams of mighty forms overhead, wild gigantic darting shadows darkening the grass, the shouts of men, the piercing sounds of tarn whistles. |
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| 27 | 1572 |
She then knelt there, miserable, in the shadows beneath the wagon bed, bound, roped in place. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 543 |
"Tal," said the fellow, standing back, amidst the trees, in the shadows. |
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| 2 | 15 |
It would match in well with the background, with attendant shadows. |
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| 2 | 436 |
We joined him in the shadows. |
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| 4 | 40 |
In moving to the beach I had, as was my training, been alert to a variety of particulars, movements and shadows, the integrity of brush, the branches overhead, the nature of the ground underfoot, was a leaf pressed down here and there, was that a pebble possibly dislodged, such things. |
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| 7 | 62 |
There was a solemnity about the vista, as with colonnades stretching into far shadows, a world of living columns, with capitals of shimmering foliage. |
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| 13 | 28 |
A girl, illuminated, but much in shadows, too, shrank back, half kneeling, half lying. |
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| 13 | 320 |
There are shadows. |
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| 18 | 382 |
I saw two or more dark shapes like shadows, silhouetted in the flames. |
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| 24 | 207 |
In the shadows I sensed that Kurii might lurk. |
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| 25 | 111 |
There might be others, in the shadows, with bows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 656 |
There were tarns in the sky and their shadows seemed to race across the grass. |
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| 7 | 176 |
I had observed this fellow Tyrtaios in the hold, under the single swinging lamp, on its chains, which supplied the feeble light within which we worked, which cast wild shadows about, which seemed like the flutterings of frightened jards. |
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| 22 | 147 |
Torches threw strange lights and shadows on the sand. |
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| 22 | 263 |
Some new fellows were behind us, almost as shadows, and, down at the beach, some others, I sensed, might have been approaching. |
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| 30 | 30 |
"Others," said Lord Okimoto, "remain in the shadows". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 36 |
You do not realize the danger which threatens you, what lurks in the brush, in the shadows, so to speak, so close, even at your elbow, and, too, far off, yet close enough, what crouches, watching, in the sky. |
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| 6 | 48 |
In a moment I sensed fire, and, through the door, saw wild shadows cast on the walls, of armed men, breaking tables, hurling them to the center of the room. |
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| 8 | 560 |
There were few shadows in the street. |
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| 8 | 705 |
There were few shadows in the street now. |
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| 8 | 1299 |
And so, as I stood naked on a block in the Metellan district, in Ar, the worn carpet beneath my feet, the afternoon sun on my body, warm, shadows across the street, the men about, some people passing by, not noticing me, exposed to buyers, being sold, I thought of Mrs. |
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| 10 | 36 |
"Do not eat me!" I begged, from my side, looking to him, frightened, sore, lying on the street, he much as a gloomy boulder in the shadows. |
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| 10 | 130 |
I think I was as frightened as the fellow in the doorway, who withdrew so quickly, so silently, a shadow vanishing back amongst other shadows. |
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| 11 | 8 |
Shadows were long, near the troughs, at this time of day. |
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| 14 | 101 |
I thought of that agile, large form on the roofs, in the streets, moving about, lightly for its bulk, a shadow amongst shadows. |
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| 15 | 148 |
The market was again bathed in cool light, and then, again, with the rolling of clouds, the moon was obscured, and the market became once more a jumble of shadows, a weird terrain of the night, a frightening desert of darkness, so different from the brightness, the bustle, the noise and tumult of th... |
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| 17 | 239 |
Tor-tu-Gor was still bright, but there were long shadows, from the awnings, lying across the nearer track. |
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| 18 | 893 |
He indicated a fellow standing in the shadows, just within the large double doors of the tavern. |
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| 18 | 1133 |
"The shadows in the Voltai can be deceptive," said Akesinos. |
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| 19 | 23 |
On your back! Arch your back!" It was hard to know what I might look like to them, half in the firelight, half in the shadows. |
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| 19 | 54 |
But these were chained to a tree, off in the shadows, a guard set over them. |
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| 22 | 16 |
Firelight well illuminated the nearby wagons, and shadows danced on the wood. |
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| 23 | 175 |
It was hard to see, for the rain, and the shadows, but there was a new last figure on the rope. |
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| 42 | 9 |
The shadows of the valleys and crevices then could seem like black wounds. |
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| 45 | 43 |
The morning sun would be bright before me, on rock, and then, in a moment, one would confront almost impenetrable, cave-like shadows, indicating recesses of an undisclosed depth. |
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| 46 | 26 |
The two Kurii with lanterns began to swing them about, which cast startling, darting, awkward shadows on the slope. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 64 |
Suddenly, briefly, we heard a succession of thunderous snapping noises from above the canopy, and we looked up, and leaves fluttered about us, and we were cast into a flight of shadows, as though swift, fierce, jagged clouds would blot out the sun, one following another, but these shadows were cast ... |
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| 6 | 425 |
As I had expected, very shortly, figures emerged from the shadows, two, though I had expected three, following the proprietor's man, which two figures I followed. |
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| 15 | 81 |
Before, in the forest, I had known them only as large, frightening shadows overhead, rapid, monstrous darknesses overhead, storms of wings smiting the air, whose passage had torn leaves from the canopy, these then showering downward, scattering about us. |
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| 21 | 19 |
Many shadows were about. |
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| 21 | 79 |
Had it been hunting, and what then might it have been hunting? I then had the sense that it might have been behind us, lost in the shadows, almost invisible, for some time. |
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| 29 | 161 |
Her ornaments were the gaudiest, and most abundant, her mottled skins, which would blend well with a background of bark and shadows, seemed the finest and loveliest of the four; they were light, well-worked, form-fitting, smooth, and supple, and might have won the grudging approval of an examining f... |
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| 34 | 10 |
"Shadows, glimpses, the uneasiness of laris in their cages. |
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| 36 | 30 |
There were many shadows. |
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| 37 | 275 |
There seemed much motion behind her, rapidly moving shadows amongst the trees. |
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| 39 | 45 |
Mila, Tula, and I had been, I am sure, in the first moment or two, as startled, and frightened as the mistresses, the woman's cries, the men like rapid shadows amongst the trees, moving toward us. |
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| 40 | 133 |
We watched the coffle disappear in the shadows, accompanied by Donna, and its guards. |
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| 43 | 952 |
Clearly it was difficult to see into the shadows of the forest, which were well nigh impenetrable. |
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| 43 | 953 |
For all he knew, an indefinite number of bowmen might be concealed in the shadows, and greenery. |
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| 46 | 45 |
Amongst those dark trees and shadows might lurk life forms, prowling and hungry. |
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| 48 | 3 |
But it was only a rustle, and shadows, stirred by the wind in the brush. |
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| 48 | 38 |
Again, as I had long ago, on the first day of my escape from Shipcamp, I thought I saw a beast's head in the shadows, looking at me, a large, broad, motionless head. |
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| 48 | 62 |
Its mottling would have rendered it almost invisible in the lights and shadows amongst the trees, its common background. |
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| 52 | 35 |
Outside I could see the lamp, and, in the light and shadows, the men and slaves. |
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| 52 | 900 |
How much better would have been the skins of Panther Women which would have blended with the background, the branches, the shadows, and foliage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 77 |
They will be Pani amongst Pani, shadows amongst shadows". |
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| 11 | 306 |
"Concealing myself in the shadows," said Tajima, "I saw the note cast down, to the valley below". |
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| 44 | 142 |
* * * Overhead was the snap of wings, like whips, and, below, on the parapets, flighted shadows darted on the walkways, and then, smaller, on the valley below. |
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| 58 | 272 |
The teeth of several had been dyed black, which, in the eyes of some, particularly high ladies, I had learned, is accounted a beautification, a fashionable and aristocratic embellishment, an enhancement of charms, rather, I suppose, like the drug-dilated pupils of Renaissance ladies, or, depending o... |
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| 61 | 694 |
Clouds must have sped from the sun, because the sunlight poured into the room, like fire, and cast the shadows of bars across the room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 184 |
I did not remember the margins of the encircling shadows. |
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| 32 | 17 |
In any event, we stayed near the center of the walkway, away from the buildings and shadows. |
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| 32 | 78 |
Kurik rapped lightly on the door, and then stepped to the side, into the shadows. |
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| 32 | 143 |
One could not see a great deal in the light of the lantern, for the shadows about us, and above us, to the sides, but even a small light, in a darkness, may seem surprisingly bright. |
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| 32 | 148 |
The roof over the central area of the house was lost in shadows. |
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| 33 | 68 |
I was reminded of what noises might be emitted by beasts of my own world, large cats, lions, lords of the African veldt, tigers, sleek and silent-footed, moving like shadows, lords in the Asian jungles, and yet these noises, alarming me, had about them an unusual modulation, an articulation, a subtl... |
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| 33 | 526 |
"Hurry," said he who had admitted us, looking about, even to the higher levels, and to the shadows and darknesses in the rafters above us. |
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| 65 | 270 |
Kurik, my master, stepped forth from the shadows, his bow lifted, and aimed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 201 |
The auditorium was largely in shadows. |
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| 8 | 977 |
Euphrosyne looked at me, tears in her eyes, the shadows of the high overhead grating on her body. |
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| 10 | 22 |
On the other hand, this architectural feature, accompanied by darkness, shadows, warm colors, and dim lighting, also tends to produce a sense of comfort, intimacy, and security. |
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| 18 | 159 |
"We, having followed him, stood to the side, in shadows. |
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| 23 | 44 |
The collar was gone! I, though a Gorean slave, was not collared! I then sank to my knees, and then went to all fours, head down, trembling, and then, a moment later, shadows rising slowly about me, I lowered myself to the stones and lost consciousness. |
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| 33 | 25 |
Rencers come and go like shadows. |
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| 33 | 174 |
I sensed he might rule a realm, though one subtle, dark, and concealed in shadows. |
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| 42 | 15 |
I had then hurried, belled, to join the others, kneeling in the shadows. |
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| 46 | 568 |
It cast shadows behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 149 |
He and Clitus were standing back in the shadows. |
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| 31 | 69 |
"Fear dresses itself in shadows," said Thurnock. |
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| 43 | 50 |
I stood back a bit in the tunnel, in the shadows. |
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| 43 | 94 |
Thurnock, Clitus and the others emerged, one by one, from the shadows, through the tunnel's narrow opening. |
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| 48 | 18 |
Did not shadows encroach even upon Home Stones? And Cos remained inert, indifferent, disinterested, perhaps even intimidated by the marauders, perhaps even in league with them. |
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| 49 | 161 |
In moments of alarm and stress, or given lights, shadows, and reflections on shifting water, one may imagine what they have not truly seen". |
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| 59 | 83 |
Nor did she sense Thurnock and Clitus behind her, each having emerged from the shadows. |
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| 59 | 353 |
"Strong dark forces lurk in the shadows of Sybaris". |
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