| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 134 |
Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open. |
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| 7 | 90 |
We stood together in the shallow water at the side of the gigantic insect. |
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| 7 | 123 |
I clung to the log, floating in the shallow water over the quicksand, and reached down again and again into the mire. |
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| 14 | 7 |
I knelt on the granite floor of a shallow cave in one of the Voltai peaks, a sheltered fire on each side of me. |
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| 14 | 87 |
Some five or six tarnsmen ran toward the wide opening of the shallow cave, but I rushed forward, holding the lance parallel to my body, striking them with almost superhuman strength and forcing them over the ledge near the mouth of the cave. |
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| 18 | 81 |
In desperate, frustrated haste, I examined several of them; some were shallow, little more than scooped-out depressions in the wall, but others were more extensive, containing two or three chambers connected by passageways. |
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| 18 | 94 |
Then, with a shout of anger at my stupidity, I ran to the shallow cistern in the center of the pit and fell on my stomach before the chill, foul water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 16 |
I said no more and the bird leveled off, its wings striking the air in great rhythmical beats, alternating occasionally with a long, soaring, shallow glide. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 81 |
A case is known of a larl who traveled more than twenty-five hundred pasangs to seek a certain shallow crevice in the Voltai in which he had been whelped. |
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| 5 | 33 |
She then moved her hand past a glass disk in the wall and water emerged from a concealed aperture and curved into the shallow bowl. |
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| 14 | 98 |
Inside the cube there were canisters of Mul-Fungus, a bowl, a ladle, a wooden-bladed Fungus-Knife; a wooden-headed Fungus-Mallet; a convenient tube of Mul-Pellets, which discharged its contents one at a time following my depressing a lever in the bottom of the tube; and a large, inverted jar of wate... |
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| 19 | 6 |
To my surprise his head was crowned with an aromatic wreath of green leaves, the first thing green I had seen in the Nest, and about his neck there hung, besides the invariable translator, a necklace, perhaps of accouterments, perhaps of pure ornaments, small pieces of metal, some shallow and rounde... |
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| 19 | 37 |
Some of them reminded me of shallow scoops, others of awls, others of knives. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 69 |
In the center of the wagon there is a small, shallow fire bowl, formed of copper, with a raised brass grating. |
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| 16 | 15 |
"How is it," I asked, "that you managed to escape?" "At night, when cleaning the pools, we would be unchained, in order to protect the chain from dampness and rust—we were then only roped together by the neck—I had not been put on the rope until the age of fourteen, at which time I sup... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 1 |
Kuurus Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, crouched on the crest of the small hill, leaning with both hands on the shaft of his spear, looking down into the shallow valley, waiting. |
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| 15 | 133 |
The training room was floored with wood, laid diagonally across beams for additional strength; one twelve-foot area of the room was a shallow pit of sand; against one wall were various chests of raiment, cosmetics and retention devices, for girls must be trained to wear chains gracefully; certain da... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 50 |
On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon... |
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| 1 | 59 |
In many places it is too shallow to float even the great flat-bottomed barges and, more importantly, a path for them would have to be cut and chopped, foot by foot, through the thickets of rush and sedge, and the tangles of marsh vine. |
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| 1 | 60 |
The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 4 | 173 |
The bit of stem took the fire and with it she lit a tiny lamp, also sitting in a shallow copper bowl, which burned tharlarion oil. |
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| 9 | 93 |
Those buildings which face outwards, say, either at the delta or along the shallow Tamber Gulf, have no windows on the outward side, and the outward walls of them are several feet thick, and they are surmounted, on the roofs, with crenelated parapets. |
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| 9 | 655 |
And then the dawn came and, over the buildings of Port Kar, beyond them, and beyond the shallow, muddy Tamber, where the Vosk empties, we saw, I for the first time, gleaming Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 14 | 7 |
The Dorna, like most tarn ships, is a long, narrow vessel of shallow draft. |
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| 14 | 14 |
She has a rather straight keel, and this, with her shallow draft, even given her size, makes it possible to beach her at night, if one wishes. |
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| 14 | 305 |
The ram-ship, on the other hand, is difficult to sail to windward, even with lateen rigging, because of its length, its narrowness and its shallow draft. |
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| 18 | 14 |
She, like most tarn ships, was a narrow vessel, long and of shallow draft. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 63 |
Like others of her class, she is of quite shallow draft. |
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| 2 | 89 |
Gorean galleys, with their shallow draft, are often beached. |
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| 2 | 544 |
They are long, narrow, shallow-drafted, carvel-built craft. |
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| 5 | 158 |
The Tesephone, of course, being a light ship, an oared ship, a shallow-drafted ship, is commonly very little dependent on the tide. |
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| 6 | 193 |
Twice in the Tesephone's own journey upriver, even with her shallow draft, we had gently ran aground and must needs use the poles to free ourselves. |
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| 6 | 328 |
The Rhoda, though a shallow drafted galley, was still considerably deeper keeled than the Tesephone. |
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| 11 | 257 |
There was a shallow bowl of flowers, scarlet, large-budded, five-petaled flaminiums, on the small, low table between us. |
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| 11 | 279 |
He dropped the flower back into the shallow bowl, among other, unthreatened, buds. |
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| 13 | 202 |
The river shark, commonly, does not like to come into water this shallow, but it had been feeding, and it was aroused. |
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| 18 | 451 |
The Gorean galley, carvel built, long and of shallow draft, built for war and speed, is not built to withstand the frenzies of Thassa. |
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| 20 | 12 |
Twice more I thrust, shallow thrusts, swift, delicate, like the biting of the ost, that the blade not be ensnared. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 223 |
I chose, and cut, a path which it might follow, to the last twenty feet; for the last twenty feet I cut shallow holds in the surface, adequate for a man, climbing carefully, but too shallow for the fingers of a Kur". |
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| 2 | 213 |
At the foot of the altar beasts were sometimes sacrificed, their horns held, their heads twisted, the blood from their opened throats caught in shallow golden bowls, to be poured upon the altar; too, choice portions of their flesh would be burnt upon the altar, the smoke escaping through a small hol... |
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| 15 | 196 |
"The hand holds," said he, "are too shallow, their weight too great". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 383 |
The petals of veminium, the "Desert Veminium," purplish, as opposed to the "Thentis Veminium," bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water. |
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| 3 | 81 |
That night, when our repast had been finished, and a clothed, bangled slave woman, the property of Farouk, had rinsed our right hands with veminium water, poured over our hand, into a small, shallow bowl of beaten copper, I drew forth from my robes a small, flat, closed Gorean chronometer. |
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| 4 | 57 |
About the water, little more than muddy, shallow ponds, save for the flahdahs, nothing grew; only dried, cracked earth, whitish and buckled, for a radius of more than a quarter of a pasang, could be found; what vegetation there might have been had been grazed off, even to the roots; one could place ... |
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| 7 | 547 |
"Most seem unhappy, lonely, frustrated, miserable, confused, petty, shallow, cold, inert, anesthetic". |
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| 14 | 626 |
We stood on a crest, overlooking a broad, shallow valley. |
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| 14 | 630 |
In the distance, below, perhaps five pasangs away, in the hot, concave, white salt bleakness, like a vast, white, shallow bowl, pasangs wide, there were compounds, low, white buildings of mud brick, plastered. |
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| 18 | 157 |
We stopped once, on the height of the great shallow bowl which encloses Klima, to look back. |
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| 21 | 80 |
We followed this to a shallow, dried pool. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 549 |
The keys were kept in a shallow wooden box in that room, a box the key to which was generally in Sucha's keeping. |
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| 20 | 582 |
Did I want truly to be a slave? How could that be? To have no choice but to obey, and serve! Surely that could not be true! I must not let it be true! I must not let it be true! And then I felt, rising within me, the feelings of Earth, so insidious, grievous and ugly, the reflexes, emotions and resp... |
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| 21 | 76 |
They carry much less cargo than a round ship, but lean and shallow-drafted, they are much faster. |
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| 22 | 13 |
The water was only a yard or so below the railing, as the ship, shallow drafted and freighted, plied the sea, sunlit and sparkling. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 216 |
They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik... |
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| 3 | 387 |
I smelled verr, closed in shallow pens, more than a pasang away. |
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| 4 | 100 |
Indeed, generally the great amphitheater is not used for Kaissa, and the Sardar matches are played in shallow fields, before lengthy sloping tiers, set into the sides of small hills, many matches being conducted simultaneously, a large vertical board behind each table serving to record the movements... |
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| 31 | 21 |
There appeared to be a shallow basin of water sunk in the floor to one side. |
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| 34 | 78 |
We were in a wide place, almost a shallow bowl, some hundred yards or so in diameter. |
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| 34 | 91 |
I looked about at the shallow, moonlit bowl, in whose center we stood, the sled between us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 388 |
These boats are generally shallow-drafted, narrow, and single-oared, the one oar being used to both propel and guide the boat. |
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| 6 | 120 |
On each side of us, five on one side, six on the other, the low, lean ships, straight-keeled and shallow-drafted, single-masted, began to slide past us. |
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| 10 | 6 |
He put these two tiny coins in a small, shallow copper bowl before him. |
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| 16 | 19 |
Then, thrashing, squirming, hissing, it backed off in the shallow water. |
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| 16 | 213 |
It was a shallow-drafted, dismasted dhow. |
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| 19 | 9 |
He carried a small lamp, with a shallow bowl, which burned tharlarion oil. |
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| 19 | 54 |
I looked to the round, shallow, circular pit in the center of the room. |
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| 19 | 84 |
Msaliti looked into the shallow pit below the high poles of the sleeping platform of Bila Huruma. |
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| 20 | 15 |
In some places, in pockets, the water was so high as our chests, in others, shallow places, as low as our ankles. |
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| 21 | 18 |
Then, with a soft splash, it slipped back in the dark, shallow water. |
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| 21 | 32 |
"The craft are light," I said, "and, being rowed in this water, must be shallow-drafted". |
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| 21 | 38 |
Furthermore, any light galley with which I am familiar, though comparatively shallow-drafted, would be too deeply keeled to traverse this marsh". |
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| 33 | 159 |
Kisu and I thrust the canoe into the shallow water. |
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| 44 | 35 |
Sobbing, gasping, she plunged splashing through the shallow water and clambered onto the mud and grass of the bank. |
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| 53 | 59 |
Too, about this enclosure, at the foot of stairs leading from it, was a broad, shallow moat. |
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| 53 | 71 |
Given the habits of the fish I had little doubt but that this place was an ancient mating ground for them, for the grunt populations tend to return again and again to the places of their frenzy, wherever, usually in a lagoon or shallow place in a river, they may be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 355 |
There, on a shelf, were two shallow pans. |
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| 7 | 17 |
I chewed on a piece of meat and drank from the shallow, chipped bowl of clay which contained the wine. |
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| 7 | 263 |
Meanwhile I put the wine, that in the shallow, chipped clay bowl, on the shelf to one side. |
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| 7 | 268 |
Indeed, I had not forced her to crawl on her belly to a shallow pan. |
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| 7 | 394 |
Unbidden, she went to the shelf where I had placed the shallow, chipped clay bowl of cheap, dark wine, fit for slaves. |
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| 7 | 401 |
She then, with two hands, head down, proffered to me the chipped, shallow bowl. |
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| 7 | 406 |
I drank then, holding the shallow bowl with two hands. |
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| 7 | 700 |
I put the shallow, chipped bowl on the table. |
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| 12 | 42 |
She signaled to an attendant, a burly fellow, who brought forth and set at one side of the platform a large, shallow bronze dish, containing cubes of wood. |
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| 12 | 203 |
She then walked to the side of the platform and discarded the tie in the shallow bowl of burning wood. |
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| 12 | 259 |
I placed the T-shirt I had removed from my body in her hand and she went to the shallow bowl of burning cubes of wood and discarded it. |
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| 12 | 411 |
I saw the Lady Tima throw what garments I had just torn from my body into the shallow bowl of burning wood. |
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| 13 | 159 |
The fountain had two levels, a great bowl and, lower, near the walk level, a shallow bowl. |
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| 13 | 160 |
From this shallow bowl slaves might drink. |
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| 19 | 38 |
I would then be unchained and unhooded, in my turn, in a shallow pit, about which free persons, almost always of low caste, would be gathered. |
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| 25 | 164 |
In that squarish, hideously scarred countenance of Krondar there was, for a moment, a sudden understanding that though he were now in the vicinity of Vonda he with whom he shared that shallow pit of sand, collared and slave, too, might be one perhaps not unworthy to be called a fighter. |
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| 33 | 2 |
"That is it!" I indicated to her, in the shallow valley between the two sloping hills, some half pasang from the southern road, the blue and yellow canvas of the distant tents. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 626 |
I then flung her down the wide, shallow steps and some fifteen feet into the street beyond. |
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| 31 | 45 |
There is a shallow trough for water, cut in the stone, near one wall, where we would be chained when not working. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 133 |
Did they truly think to engage us? Our galley, like most of Gorean construction, was low and shallow drafted, but still its bulwarks would loom above the gunnels of a simple longboat. |
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| 5 | 169 |
Even low and shallow-drafted she could no longer veer in a matter of yards. |
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| 8 | 245 |
This candle was set in a shallow, silver bowl. |
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| 16 | 558 |
The drag of its subsidence pulled momentarily against the headway of the longboat and then, after churning ripples, the narrow, shallow-drafted ship gone, the waters were smooth. |
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| 19 | 807 |
But these gratifications, ultimately, are shallow and empty, and we, in our hearts, know that. |
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| 21 | 180 |
I then put a shallow porcelain bowl of water on the floor, and pointed to it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1365 |
Kog hurled the shield towards us and, like a great, shallow, concave bowl, it skimmed through the air, between us, and broke boards loose behind us. |
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| 2 | 241 |
It is common for many of the shallow, meandering rivers of the area to run dry in the summer. |
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| 2 | 340 |
In the bow of the boat, crouching there, nude and shivering, she coiled, in careful circles, in the shallow, wooden rope bucket beside her, the central length of the rope, that between her neck and the bow ring. |
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| 6 | 1 |
Kailiauk I looked down into the broad, rounded, shallow pit, leaning over the waist-high wooden railing. |
10 |
| 8 | 148 |
The auctioneer signaled to an attendant who, from a side of the hall, brought forth a shallow copper bowl, some two feet in diameter, filled with slender cylinders of oil-impregnated wood. |
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| 12 | 2 |
We urged our kaiila down the slope, into the shallow declivity between two low hills. |
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| 13 | 490 |
Should I not have rejoiced? But I did not! And how fortunate, doubtless, to discover that I was now returned to the shallow vapidities of a meaningless quotidian existence. |
10 |
| 14 | 579 |
* * * * "You whipped me well," she smiled, kneeling in the shallow stream, pouring water on her body. |
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| 18 | 27 |
I glanced from the rise back down into the shallow declivity between the low, grassy hills. |
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| 19 | 788 |
I glanced back, down into the shallow valley. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 67 |
In moments we, with the others, were splashing across a narrow, shallow stream. |
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| 3 | 183 |
Then she opened her eyes, and shrank back, for Cancega, with a shallow, rounded box, was crouching before her. |
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| 6 | 6 |
We were in a long, narrow, generally shallow draw. |
10 |
| 12 | 27 |
In a few moments we had surmounted a small rise, and I was looking down into a wide, shallow, saucerlike valley, some half of a pasang in width. |
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| 26 | 38 |
The blood from the wound, however, was shallow and run from the cut itself. |
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| 29 | 95 |
I moved the kaiila down the rest of the shallow slope, toward the small rise on which Grunt, Wasnapohdi behind him, stood. |
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| 34 | 376 |
I scarcely glanced into the shallow valley, at the trees along the stream, the lodges hidden among the trees. |
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| 35 | 18 |
The Dorna was a ship, a tarn ship, a ram ship, shallow-drafted, straight-keeled, single-banked, lateen-rigged, carvel-built, painted green, difficult to detect in the rolling waters of Thassa, out of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 218 |
It was now, again, pulling toward the center of the road, the high iron-rimmed wheels trundling on the stone, seeking the long, shallow, shiny, saucerlike ruts, polished in the stone by the earlier passage of countless vehicles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 160 |
There, some thirty feet in width, was a shallow, iron-railed pit. |
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| 14 | 41 |
Once my foot splashed into the shallow concave approach to a cistern. |
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| 14 | 75 |
"Nim Nim safe now!" he cried, pointing downward into the shallow, muchly encircled valley below. |
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| 16 | 24 |
It had rolled there, across the sparkling cloth, when it had been dislodged from its position in its shallow, golden bowl in the blonde's transit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 188 |
Its waters are usually shallow, seldom rising above the chest of a tall man. |
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| 15 | 479 |
"She is vain, and shallow," he said. |
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| 22 | 33 |
For a bit we could make our way in the light from the shallow vestibule below, where it filtered in through the shutters of the entrance gate, but, in a moment or two, we became substantially dependent on the proprietor's tiny lamp. |
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| 24 | 322 |
He put to one side, taking it from a shallow pocket within the book's cover, a punched copper disk, on a string, rather the size of that which Boabissia had worn, and put it next to Boabissia's. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 344 |
It also has shallow, radiating surface grooves through which the grindings may escape between the stones, to be caught in the sturdy boxlike mount supporting the stones, often then funneled to a waiting receptacle or sack. |
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| 4 | 3 |
These were all large, shallow, round tubs, of clay, covered with porcelain, mounted on open-bricked platforms, each platform about a yard high. |
10 |
| 12 | 293 |
Lady Claudia went to it and took it back to the right, where she emptied it in a small, shallow cistern in the cell. |
10 |
| 12 | 301 |
Lady Claudia immediately fetched a shallow pan from the side and put it about five feet in front of where she now again knelt. |
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| 20 | 122 |
They were shallow drafted, low, like knives in the water. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 14 |
Sometimes during the day, out of the water, or in shallow water, I was permitted to wear them before my body, usually fastened closely to my belly with a strap. |
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| 21 | 72 |
She then knelt in the shallow water, there by the bar. |
10 |
| 29 | 51 |
Then the shark was in the shallow water, a foot or so deep, at the sand, thrashing about. |
10 |
| 32 | 160 |
I could hear him splashing through some shallow water now, several yards away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 104 |
The bottom of the jar rested in a sort of improvised shallow stand or mount, formed of a dampened, wrapped towel. |
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| 3 | 42 |
Indeed, at least in my second usage of her, purchased with a second tarsk bit placed in the shallow copper bowl beside her, she had been put through fierce, severe, uncompromising slave paces. |
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| 11 | 108 |
In the back there were many ceramic articles about, vessels of numerous sorts, on tiers, and stacks of shallow bowls. |
10 |
| 13 | 135 |
"Some folks are so shallow," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 599 |
Perhaps he is emotionally shallow, unready to sound the depths of oceans, to measure the heights of a hundred skies. |
10 |
| 17 | 410 |
Presumably most folks would think, if at all about these matters, in terms of a false bottom, or back, or something, but, as you saw, such considerations would have been immediately dismissed as the construction of the palanquin made them impractical, for example, its openness, and its bottom being ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 60 |
Near me, as I brushed aside straw, I discovered two shallow, bowl-like depressions in the floor. |
10 |
| 2 | 146 |
In time I went to my belly and put my mouth down, and lapped the water in the shallow depression beside me. |
10 |
| 2 | 147 |
Then, a little later, I reached into the other shallow depression and withdrew the damp crust there, and fed on it. |
10 |
| 4 | 5 |
Once or twice some meal, and another crust, was placed in the shallow depression beside me. |
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| 8 | 954 |
I groped about in the cell and touched with my finger the rim of the shallow bowl of water. |
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| 11 | 163 |
There she shook some meal from a cloth sack into a shallow pan. |
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| 11 | 1454 |
When then one is summoned to further service, by perhaps so little as a glance or a snapping of fingers, one leaps up and hurries forward, perhaps then, on one's knees, to clear, or perhaps to fetch and then serve, again kneeling, the tiny cups of strong coffees, or black wines, the shallow silver b... |
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| 13 | 864 |
"Feed, barbarian," she said, placing a shallow bowl of gruel before me. |
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| 16 | 336 |
He then poured some water from a small pitcher into a shallow bowl, and put the bowl upon the tiles. |
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| 41 | 31 |
I did not fear the public washing places, the shallow cement tanks where one might launder. |
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| 41 | 110 |
Too, she had a small, shallow bowl of wine. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 |
Have we not all been upon occasion petulant, selfish, careless, arrogant, sometimes cruel? Have we not all upon occasion behaved disgracefully, unworthily? Have we not ignored others? Have we not, in lesser or larger ways, injured them, and enjoyed, if only briefly, the smug gratifications of doing ... |
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| 12 | 402 |
Or perhaps one of the kitchen staff, who ladled gruel into the shallow depressions in the bins. |
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| 18 | 531 |
There was miscellaneous debris on the floor, a shallow, bent pan, perhaps once used by slaves for drinking, some boards, some papers, and such. |
10 |
| 19 | 394 |
Tersius set the lamp, a small, shallow, panlike tharlarion-oil lamp, on a shelf bracket and hurried to gather up an armful of harnesses from pegs on the loft wall. |
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| 20 | 528 |
"Please, do not use me, Masters," begged Ellen, supine, obedient, in the shallow water, it lapping about her. |
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| 20 | 568 |
The older lad now knelt beside her, in the shallow water. |
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| 20 | 603 |
In the boat were two wide, shallow, wooden buckets, each half filled with wet, glistening leeches, taken from the water, often from the stems of water plants, such as rence. |
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| 21 | 96 |
It was there she saw the first of several small, sunken, shallow, walled pools, each a yard or so deep. |
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| 21 | 144 |
In this case that presented her with no anxiety as the bridge was little more than a yard or so above the waters of the shallow stream. |
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| 22 | 348 |
But then women are vain, she thought, and I am a woman, so why should I not, too, be concerned with such things? I do not care even if I am narcissistic, or frivolous and shallow. |
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| 24 | 248 |
It is difficult to convey the psychological impact of this on a woman, say, standing, kneeling or sitting in a shallow wooden tub, perhaps out of doors, pinioned, while her body is being carefully and thoroughly washed by a man. |
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| 25 | 106 |
The auditorium, so to speak, was open to the air, and consisted of several ascending tiers of closely spaced benches, these arranged in semicircles on a shallow hill, at the foot of which was the block. |
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| 27 | 115 |
Doubtless there were subconscious depths and mysteries here which eluded superficial explanations, which eluded the facile, at-hand, convenient, shallow categories of the ideologically conditioned understanding, which defied political mockeries of human nature, a reference to realities which lay dee... |
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| 30 | 186 |
There were now two shallow pans there, one filled with water, the other with a handful of moist gruel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 802 |
All the shallow, torrential, withering blasts of her former life rose up before her, outraged and denunciatory. |
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| 10 | 155 |
Pyrrhus then, with a movement of his clawed foot, slid a shallow pan, containing some pellets, before the girl. |
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| 10 | 189 |
The pan was large, and shallow. |
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| 16 | 9 |
A shallow descent, on one side, open, led to the pitlike depression amidst the rocks. |
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| 31 | 12 |
The role of the free woman to her would now be shallow, empty, and meaningless. |
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| 35 | 104 |
Grendel, a large Kur in his massive arms, stood in the threshold of the small, shallow cave. |
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| 40 | 85 |
"How could I, knowing what I now know, be content with something so shallow, something so meaningless, with something so tepid and absurd?" "Would you not prefer to be pridefully resistant, inert, and cool?" "It would cheat me of myself," she said. |
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| 54 | 58 |
"I have a place in mind," said Flavion, "a shallow, lonely place, which will not be suspected, yet not far from the habitats, and within a brief march of the palace". |
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| 55 | 5 |
The groups then, unless otherwise informed, would meet at the place designated, which was a broad, sloping, shallow place known as the Vale of Destruction, from an incident which had occurred there more than a hundred years ago, between rival factions for the Theocracy, adherents of the Tenth and th... |
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| 56 | 22 |
They were in a broad, shallow valley, rather like a gentle, expanded, wide bowl of grass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 437 |
The ship, a common Gorean ship, small, light, oared, straight-keeled, ram-prowed, shallow-drafted, would be drawn up on the sand, if the night was to be spent here. |
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| 3 | 799 |
Gorean vessels, incidentally, are usually shallow-drafted, and usually tend to keep in sight of land. |
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| 9 | 131 |
"Nearly, Mistress," said Cecily, who was tending the small pot on its rack, over a tiny fire, it in a small hole, a shallow hole, scooped out in the dirt floor of the hut. |
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| 11 | 342 |
You may bathe me there, and freshen yourself, as well, and then we might, in a shallow place, splash a little". |
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| 37 | 65 |
Her galleys, of course, were shallow-drafted long ships and could maneuver in water in which a man might stand upright. |
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| 38 | 16 |
Most edible fish frequent banks, shallow banks, which are commonly near shores, where they are plentiful, not the open sea, where there is little for them to feed on. |
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| 38 | 64 |
I had similarly examined the burdens, shallow boxes, of two or three fellows, as well, as they would ascend the ramp. |
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| 38 | 371 |
In many Gorean ships, shallow-drafted galleys, with which I was familiar, and on which I had sailed, there was not much in the way of cabins at all, though there might be a hold in which one might place stores, chain slaves, and such. |
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| 38 | 437 |
Her shallow, empty, pretentious life on Earth had changed overnight, so to speak, she retiring one evening, smug in her beauty, indulged and practiced in the pleasures of despising, attracting, and tormenting men, and awakening, to her astonishment and terror, unclothed, pressing her small hands aga... |
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| 40 | 35 |
Most Gorean galleys could negotiate water as shallow as five to seven feet Gorean. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 |
The trenchers had been gathered in, and the kaissa boards had been folded and put away, the red and yellow pieces in two shallow drawers, fixed in the board, one on each side, one for each color. |
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| 6 | 41 |
How could she not feel superior, in her sex, as a female, to the free woman in her vain, shallow trappings of dignity and station? Many have been free women, and they know the grief, the sorrow, the frustration, the misery, and loneliness, so often concealed within those cumbersome, ornate robes. |
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| 7 | 97 |
Many were the shallow pans about, and buckets, utilized by the frightened, miserable, retching slaves. |
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| 13 | 30 |
The strange ships were flat-bottomed, and so could navigate rivers, perhaps by poling or towing, and shallow waters, as well as the sea. |
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| 33 | 92 |
Once they burn, would she then trade her collar for a shallow deceit, the denial and falsification of her most profound reality, that of female, for the betrayal of nature, for the repudiation of her deepest self, for the inertnesses and tepidities of freedom? She has found herself, and is content. |
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| 33 | 303 |
War galleys were not announced, and, shallow-drafted, commonly used the low piers. |
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| 33 | 346 |
"How could it be at the pier?" "It is shallow-drafted," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 373 |
"You, and your sisters, are shallow, petty, vain, spoiled, mercenary, meaningless, little bitches," he said. |
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| 8 | 1282 |
How, in her mind's eye, she must have smiled, considering the fate she was arranging for her lovely, vain, shallow, spoiled charges, the markets of Gor! In the beginning, we had looked down on her, she merely a house mother, an employee, a servant of sorts, far beneath us, a woman hired to manage th... |
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| 12 | 6 |
Below each spout, on the adjacent stone rim, there are two shallow depressions, or worn areas, the one on the right deeper than that on the left. |
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| 16 | 195 |
Indeed, over the years, its surface, in shallow grooves, records the passage of countless wagons. |
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| 20 | 115 |
He thought me too vain, too petty, too shallow. |
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| 27 | 76 |
There were also illuminated internal gardens and growing areas, some utilizing large, shallow trays of water. |
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| 27 | 343 |
"Were we all so different," I asked, "even Mistress?" "You were pretty," she said, "but petty, too, and empty, shallow, a nothing, a sly, selfish, cunning, opportunistic, calculating, vain, egotistical, little chit. |
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| 28 | 36 |
Could she never be satisfied? Could she not understand I was no longer what I had been, her haughty, pretentious, shallow, despised rival, Miss Allison Ashton-Baker, but was now only a humbled, helpless kajira at her mercy? "Allison," said a voice. |
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| 52 | 225 |
"I found her too simple, too petty, too shallow, too trivial, for such things," he said. |
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| 52 | 230 |
"Only a self-centered, simple, shallow, naive little brute," he said, "a trivial, selfish little beast, of inferior character, who would steal a candy from a sister slave, if it might be done with impunity". |
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| 52 | 291 |
Perhaps I am not now so shallow, so sly, so cunning, so petty, so selfish, so trivial, so worthless, as I once was. |
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| 52 | 342 |
I had been exploitative, selfish, shallow, petty, and nasty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 384 |
The coaster, being shallow keeled, will usually have its pens on the open deck. |
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| 10 | 55 |
"Master!" whispered the girl as the light of the small, shallow tharlarion-oil lamp fell upon her. |
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| 15 | 179 |
I think we had all tried to remove them, as well as we could, with the bit of precious oil we were supplied when, roped together, we were allowed to enter the shallow, washing pools. |
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| 15 | 464 |
But the harbors might be too shallow for it. |
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| 33 | 67 |
When the provender was ready, Tula, with a ladle, filled four shallow, golden bowls with the sullage, and, humbly, head down, as a slave, served the mistresses. |
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| 33 | 76 |
Emerald then drew three shallow, porcelain cups from several others in another pack. |
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| 52 | 783 |
You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w... |
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| 52 | 788 |
"We, the women of my world, so taught and conditioned, so shallow and trivialized, are not even worthy to be the slaves of Gorean males". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 252 |
The world from which we derive may in many ways be thoughtless, foolish, shallow, decadent, materialistic, and cruel, but it is, at least, a world in which there are no iron dragons". |
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| 13 | 104 |
"Miss Margaret Wentworth," I said, "petty, shallow, greedy for money, accepted a commission on Gor, into which, as it was expected to pay well, she did not care to inquire too closely". |
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| 20 | 392 |
I scooped up a handful of rice paste from the shallow bowl to my right, and held it out, across the table. |
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| 20 | 481 |
Pertinax reached into his shallow bowl of rice paste, to his right, and gathered some of this into his palm. |
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| 29 | 20 |
He carried, in one hand, a small lamp, a bit of tallow, with a wick, in a shallow bowl. |
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| 43 | 138 |
"On Earth," I said, "in her chic, well-chosen, fashionable ensembles, in the offices, in meetings, in boardrooms, in restaurants and cocktail lounges, in her meretricious flatterings of, and hypocritical solicitations of, clients, in her application of shallow, lubricious charms to cloud and sway ju... |
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| 50 | 126 |
I was reminded of the denlike apartments I had encountered on a far world, a steel world, save that there was here, in the recesses, a shallow cistern and, on a wall to the left, as one would enter, a number of slabs of meat, fastened on hooks. |
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| 54 | 64 |
"Margaret Wentworth," he said, "was mercenary, shallow, cheap, arrogant, dishonest, and untrustworthy". |
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| 55 | 142 |
There was some water left in the shallow cistern to the right, little more than a puddle on the floor. |
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| 60 | 201 |
"To the bridge!" The bridge, entwined with the blue climbers, arched in a lovely manner, for a length of some thirty-five or forty feet over a narrow, decorative pond, on the surface of which bloomed white and yellow water flowers, rising from flat, green pads; below, in the pond, which was shallow,... |
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| 61 | 1229 |
"A pathetic weakling," she said, "shallow, manipulable, and eager to please, the puppet of a pathological, unnatural culture, a patriot of self-betrayal, one who prides himself on treason to his own blood, the creature of what he is told, one who will not think, one who will not raise his eyes to th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 |
Were humans not essentially unreal, a fraud, unlike the lion and the hawk, more honest forms of life? Were human beings not a counterfeit currency of sorts, masquerading as a genuine life form? Were they not shallow sociological artifacts, nothing in themselves, only clay waiting to be shaped, simpl... |
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| 2 | 141 |
"You are bright, but self-centered and shallow. |
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| 2 | 234 |
"You are vain and shallow, self-absorbed, pretentious, rootless, a shred of paper in a park, cast about pointlessly by the wind. |
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| 10 | 87 |
I thought, rather, they would be amused, even delighted, thinking it a well-deserved fate for their doubtless resented, smartly dressed, pretentious, vain, snobbish, shallow luncheon fellow. |
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| 14 | 16 |
Our necklines were shallow, and nothing that might distress a free woman. |
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| 15 | 9 |
The portal opened, and Tullius Quintus, bearing a shallow tharlarionÂÂoil lamp, entered, followed by two of Lysander's men. |
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| 15 | 131 |
I heard the sandals of the men occasionally scuff pebbles, and, twice, splash a little, as if wading through some shallow expanse of water. |
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| 44 | 118 |
I slipped from the tunic, went to the large, shallow basin, and stepped into it. |
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| 49 | 23 |
These kits were rectangular, shallow boxes snapped shut or tied closed with blue ribbon. |
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| 65 | 302 |
"But he will understand you better, as a weak, shallow barbarian slave, clever and superficial, who doubted her master's honor". |
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| 66 | 5 |
How ancient and deep was our understanding of our sexuality, and how jejune and shallow then seemed to us the engineered distortions and strained falsities of our former world, distortions and falsities dictated by political agendas subservient to one tyranny or another. |
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| 67 | 73 |
She has always, doubtless, despite what I think is her profound and genuine affection for you, regarded you as weak, shallow, and vain". |
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| 67 | 77 |
"Perhaps I am less weak, shallow, and vain than I was," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 79 |
And their shameless women, their faces as naked as those of slaves, abet these crimes, and, fearing only that they might not profit in their turn, barter, as the shallow mercenaries they are, their smiles and favors for gain". |
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| 3 | 103 |
Would not their sick society collapse and their miserable world perish if even a hint of manhood were suspected? And so we have an unnatural, artificial world, a shallow, petty world in which men are to be punished for being men and women are mocked and scorned for being women. |
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| 6 | 130 |
Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no... |
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| 10 | 72 |
If she is not silked, she utilizes a shallow copper pan at the side of the floor. |
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| 11 | 476 |
"What else, petty, shallow slut, are you and your sort good for?" he asked. |
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| 24 | 14 |
A slaver's man put one of the shallow metal bowls of gruel on the cement near my ring and I rose to all fours, put down my head, and began to feed. |
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| 24 | 33 |
It was a common shelf market, backed against a wall, its surface reached by shallow steps from the street. |
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| 30 | 84 |
If it is too shallow, a foot may slip". |
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| 32 | 75 |
Why should one waste a slave, even one as miserable and worthless as you, a shallow creature extracted from a desecrated, unloved world? I have broken in, rudely, leaving blatant evidence of a forced entry, in order to convey to Bruno of Torcadino the impression that his premises have been violated ... |
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| 33 | 152 |
In many places in the marsh one can wade, in depths as shallow as the ankles, as high as the waist. |
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| 33 | 155 |
This inconvenience seldom attaches to rence craft because of their shallow draft. |
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| 33 | 271 |
We must have vessels, too, shallow-drafted and broad of beam, some large enough for the conveying of men, some small enough and quick enough for close work, armed with springals to launch javelins of fire, some sturdy enough to support catapults, for boulders and cauldrons of flaming oil". |
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| 33 | 640 |
But the water was too shallow for that. |
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| 33 | 641 |
Then I cried out again, certain that it was the snout of a long tharlarion, moving easily through the shallow water. |
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| 40 | 312 |
How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w... |
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| 46 | 146 |
How rightfully he would look down upon me, I, who had been so vain, shallow, petty, and pretentious on Earth. |
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| 46 | 520 |
He had seen how small, vain, pretentious, shallow, superficial, petty, and worthless I was. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 |
We Set Course for Thera; I Speak with Aktis; We Encounter a Surprise at Sea I stood on the stern castle of the Dorna, Builder's Glass in hand, above the twin rudders, the small, swift Tesephone, shallow-drafted, capable of negotiating rivers, abeam. |
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| 5 | 84 |
It, light and shallow-drafted, could navigate and come about easily, even in most rivers. |
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| 8 | 5 |
Both ships, even at low tide, shallow drafted, could be brought quickly into the water. |
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| 26 | 22 |
"The Tesephone is light, swift, and shallow-drafted," said Sakim. |
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| 49 | 112 |
The lightness and shallow draft of most Gorean vessels makes beaching and half-beaching possible. |
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| 52 | 15 |
But, masts down, it can be difficult amongst the waves of gleaming Thassa to detect the presence of a swift, shallow-drafted Gorean fighting ship. |
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| 52 | 119 |
Whereas the typical shallow-drafted Gorean vessel, low in the water, mast down, as noted, can be difficult to detect, its presence is much more easily marked when its mast is raised. |
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