| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 5 | 4 |
Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as, for example, was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamber Gulf. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 19 |
Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young... |
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| 1 | 34 |
Even with the harnessed might of several huge tharlarion drawing toward the opposite shore the crossing took us several pasangs downriver. |
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| 3 | 128 |
The bellowing seemed now to come from the sky itself, like thunder, or from the horizon, like the breaking of an ocean into surf on the rocks of the shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 95 |
Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 1 |
The Blood Mark I could smell the sea, gleaming Thassa, in the myths said to be without a farther shore. |
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| 4 | 36 |
At the edge of the rence island, where her rence craft was drawn up on the shore, as well as several others, together with some rafts for transporting cut rence, she stopped, and turned, and faced me. |
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| 4 | 163 |
We had returned her rence craft to the shore of the rence island, fastening it there, along with the rence raft. |
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| 4 | 277 |
It was she who had placed her arms about my neck at dawn, on the shore of the rence island. |
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| 5 | 27 |
The pole, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood in a clearing near the shore of the island. |
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| 5 | 59 |
"Come, come away," said Ho-Hak, gesturing for the girls to go down to the shore of the rence island. |
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| 5 | 62 |
But he did not look upon me, nor notice me in any way, and, followed by Telima, and the other girls, made his way to the shore of the rence island. |
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| 5 | 66 |
I had been used in the fastening of the bridges, and in the drawing up and tying of rence craft on the shore, as other rencers, from distant islands, arrived for festival. |
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| 5 | 99 |
At last, after an Ahn or so, the group, the girls, the men watching, the judges, turned their several rence craft toward the island, beaching them and fastening them on the woven-mat shore. |
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| 6 | 96 |
There were none on the shore of the island. |
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| 7 | 77 |
I had tethered the raft at the island's shore. |
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| 7 | 79 |
I climbed the curve of the matted shore until I came to the higher surface of the island. |
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| 7 | 81 |
A flock of marsh gants, wild, took flight, circled, and then, seeing I meant them no harm, returned to the island, though to its farther shore. |
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| 7 | 170 |
I saw her take one of the bodies by an arm and drag it toward the shore. |
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| 7 | 179 |
Many times we went to the shore of the island. |
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| 7 | 190 |
I took the child in my arms and walked down to the shore of the rence island. |
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| 8 | 15 |
I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar. |
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| 9 | 284 |
He had purchased the net in the morning, with a trident, the traditional weapons of the fisherman of the western shore and the western islands. |
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| 10 | 254 |
Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. |
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| 17 | 320 |
I knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride them out over Thassa from the shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 |
She came from a wealthy Chicago family, with extensive shore properties. |
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| 8 | 85 |
Both sides of the river are used to approach Laura, though the northern shore is favored. |
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| 8 | 86 |
Unharnessed tharlarion, returning to Lydius at the mouth of the Laurius, generally follow the southern shore road, which is not as much used by towing tharlarion as the northern. |
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| 8 | 192 |
We could see stone, and timber and barrels of fish and salt stored on docks on the shore. |
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| 11 | 836 |
I flung myself down on the pebbles of its shore and lapped the fresh water, slaking my thirst. |
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| 11 | 854 |
I should have brought pieces of gold! Not arrowpoints! In my anger, I did not notice the man, standing back in the brush, near the shore of the stream. |
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| 11 | 862 |
I felt the pebbles of the shore under my feet, and then grass, and then, whether from hunger, or exhaustion, or fear, everything went black, and I fainted. |
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| 13 | 198 |
It backed into the fence of wands and she caught it there, against the sticks, and, in a moment, it thrashing and squirming, she lifted it from the water and carried it triumphantly to the shore. |
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| 13 | 749 |
If it was now possible, or soon would be possible, to bring a land army easily southward to Ar, once the Vosk was traversed, by the same token, it would be similarly possible for Ar to bring, swiftly, a considerable force of men northward, to the very shore of the Vosk. |
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| 13 | 750 |
Of tradition, the northern shore of the Vosk was disputed by various cities. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 50 |
One of the girls in the frame lifted her head, and, miserable, surveyed our ship, off shore, on the green waters of Thassa. |
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| 2 | 51 |
Cara looked at the girls tied helpless in the frames, and at the man coming down to the shore, and at the others, high on the beach, behind him, behind the frames. |
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| 2 | 53 |
"I hate them!" I returned the trading gesture, and the man on the shore lifted his arms, acknowledging my sign, and turned back, walking again, heavily in the sand, back up the beach. |
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| 2 | 123 |
I waded toward the shore. |
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| 2 | 127 |
It was thus that she made her way to shore. |
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| 2 | 319 |
We had come north, along the western shore of Thassa, the forests on our right. |
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| 2 | 528 |
I looked to the shore. |
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| 2 | 619 |
"The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa". |
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| 5 | 2 |
We had taken on supplies, and my men, on shore, in the paga taverns, had rested, and had muchly pleasured themselves with the lovely recreations of the port. |
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| 5 | 16 |
I looked down to the shore, and saw Cara, lovely in the brief woolen slave tunic, her hair bound back with the fillet of white wool. |
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| 6 | 177 |
Tyros' financing of Vosk pirates, over the past century, was an attempt to deprive Ar of the Vosk markets, and make those markets more dependent on overland shipments of goods, originally debarked at shore ports, brought to them by the cargo ships of Tyros, and other maritime powers. |
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| 6 | 196 |
The only craft commonly seen in Laura were light galleys, and the ubiquitous barges, towed by tharlarion treading along the shore. |
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| 6 | 342 |
Meanwhile, portions of the crew not engaged in such labors, would be carrying stones from the shore and cutting saplings in the forest, to build the narrow rectangular wall which shields such camps. |
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| 13 | 8 |
* * * * In the late afternoon I saw them, eleven of them, coming toward the camp on the shore side, from downriver, as though from Laura. |
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| 13 | 35 |
Shouting the war cry of Tyros, blades drawn, they ran toward me across the sand and pebbles of the northern shore of the Laurius. |
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| 13 | 238 |
The two ships would then proceed to Lydius, and thence to an exchange point on the shore of Thassa, north of Lydius. |
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| 18 | 1 |
The Shore of Thassa "The sea! The sea!" cried the man. |
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| 18 | 97 |
Mira went to the coffle of slave beauties and, about in its center, before Verna, seized the throat leather and pulled the girls in a "V" toward the shore. |
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| 18 | 409 |
We three stood together on the beach, on the sands, among the stones, and observed Thassa, the murmuring, gleaming, elemental vastness, Thassa, the sea, said in the myths to be without a farther shore. |
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| 18 | 447 |
Gorean galleys do not commonly sail at night, and, often, put into shore during darkness. |
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| 18 | 450 |
I would also, however, following common Gorean naval custom, have remained within sight of, or in clear relation to, the shore. |
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| 18 | 462 |
This is a valuable property in rough water close to shore, particularly where there is danger of rocks. |
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| 18 | 484 |
There was, of course, another reason why the commander of the Rhoda and Tesephone would keep within sight of the shore. |
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| 18 | 486 |
He must not miss the beacon, which, somewhere along this lonely, sandy shore, in its hundreds of pasangs, would mark the position of Sarus and his men, Hura, and her women, and their captive slaves. |
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| 18 | 520 |
Some four hundred yards away from shore, by my conjecture, the two lanterns stopped. |
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| 18 | 605 |
Few of them noticed a log, some yards out in the water, move against the tide, out toward the dark shapes off shore. |
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| 18 | 608 |
Again the men of Tyros, on the beach, did not notice the log, perhaps from some island or jutting point, washing into shore, some yards from them. |
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| 18 | 653 |
As the longboat pulled away, moving back toward the Rhoda and Tesephone, it passed a log, floating in the water, drifting back to shore. |
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| 18 | 662 |
Tonight both ships would withdraw a pasang or two from shore. |
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| 18 | 664 |
It would not be wise to coast a strange shore at night. |
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| 19 | 29 |
These they trimmed, and dragged to the sand between the stockade and the shore. |
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| 19 | 41 |
I could not pin them inside the stockade without exposing myself, and doing so from the beach or shore, and then, of course, they might depart from the stockade secretly from the rear. |
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| 22 | 6 |
At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s... |
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| 22 | 942 |
Before we had left the shore we had set the beacon afire. |
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| 22 | 954 |
He looked back, noting in the sky the light of a beacon, one which burned on a deserted shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 80 |
Wounds had I at the shore of Thassa, high on the coast, at the edge of the forests, when one night I had, in a stockade of enemies, commanded by Sarus of Tyros, chosen to recollect my honor. |
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| 1 | 146 |
I could not recover my honor, but I could, and did upon one occasion, recollect it, in a stockade at the shore of Thassa, at the edge of the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 149 |
But when I, half paralyzed and crippled, had left the shore of Thassa I had left behind me a beacon, a mighty beacon formed from the logs of the stockade of Sarus, and it had blazed behind me, visible for more than fifty pasangs at sea. |
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| 1 | 303 |
My present master, noble Samos of Port Kar, purchased me at the shore of Thassa. |
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| 5 | 323 |
I could see, from the shore, black and dark, more than a dozen small boats, containing perhaps ten or fifteen men each, moving towards us. |
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| 6 | 106 |
The men on the shore laughed. |
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| 7 | 105 |
Earlier he had been working with other thralls at the shore, with parsit nets. |
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| 21 | 145 |
Perhaps, even, as a punishment, perhaps for an impermissible murder or a violation of ship's discipline, he had been put to shore, marooned. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 |
I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 56 |
Ar claimed the southern shore of the Vosk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 589 |
They follow the shore of Thassa north, cross Ax Glacier here, like dark clouds on the ice, then continue to follow the shore north here, until they then turn eastward into the tundra of the polar basin, for their summer grazing. |
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| 6 | 14 |
I stood in the midst of fields south of the Laurius river, some forty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa, some one hundred and twenty pasangs south-southeast of the river port of Lydius, lying at the mouth of the Laurius river, on its farther side. |
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| 11 | 249 |
Trees do not flourish in the land of Imnak and their needs for wood must largely be satisfied by occasional finds at the shore, driftwood, from hundreds of pasangs south, dragged from the chilled water. |
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| 17 | 142 |
"It is by the shore of the sea," he said. |
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| 18 | 6 |
The pebbled shore lay some half pasang away, behind us. |
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| 18 | 68 |
On the pebbled shore, some half pasang away, behind us, I could see smoke from the permanent camp. |
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| 20 | 78 |
He stood by the shore. |
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| 20 | 155 |
The remains of the great Hunjer whale lay beached on the shore, much of it already cut away, many bones, too, taken from it. |
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| 22 | 41 |
When he returned to shore he would tow them behind his kayak. |
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| 22 | 328 |
Then he tied them behind his kayak and, together, paddling, we headed back toward the pebbled shore. |
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| 22 | 355 |
"No," said Imnak, drawing his kayak up on the shore, "the world cannot be lonely where there are two people who are friends". |
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| 22 | 360 |
What more justification could it require?" "Help me pull the meat up on shore," said Imnak. |
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| 22 | 362 |
Others came down to the shore and helped, too. |
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| 33 | 44 |
How offensive I found his allegations! One need only use one's eyes to see how different we were! How incredible it would be if one landed upon a foreign shore, a planet remote from our own, and found, emerging from its dark forests, shambling toward one, its eyes blazing, one's brother. |
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| 38 | 8 |
I looked out to the shore of the polar sea, that northern extending branch of Thassa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 218 |
"And until the calculations of Ramani, and the expeditions of Shaba and Ramus, who had reason to believe otherwise?" "The rain forests closed the Cartius proper for most civilized persons from the south," I said, "and what trading took place tended to be confined to the ubarates of the southern shor... |
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| 1 | 247 |
With considerable hardship, limiting himself to forty men, and temporarily abandoning all but two boats, which were half dragged and thrust through the marshes eastward, after two months, Shaba reached the western shore of what we now know as Lake Ngao". |
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| 1 | 252 |
They had returned then, exhausted, to the balance of their party and boats, which had been waiting for them at the eastern shore of Ushindi. |
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| 4 | 373 |
"There are some girls behind the paga taverns, on the northern shore of the Ribbon's alley," she said. |
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| 4 | 382 |
I was then on the northern shore of the Ribbon's alley. |
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| 6 | 56 |
Closer to shore one could mark clearly the traces of the Kamba to the north and the Nyoka to the south, but, given our present position, we were in the fans of these washes. |
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| 6 | 186 |
We could see the shore now, with its sands and, behind the sand, the dense, green vegetation, junglelike, broken by occasional clearings for fields and villages. |
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| 6 | 218 |
I watched the green of the shore, moving slowly by. |
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| 16 | 47 |
His father had, many years ago, fled from an inland village, one of the Nyuki district, a district noted for its honey, on the northern shore of lake Ushindi. |
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| 16 | 106 |
"There are the villages of the Ngao region, on the northern shore," said Ayari. |
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| 16 | 152 |
"There are the rebels of the northern shore of Ngao," said the man. |
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| 24 | 28 |
"Let us make for shore". |
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| 24 | 44 |
It had rained heavily about the ninth Ahn, but we, drenched, had not ceased to push the raft toward the western shore of Ngao, somewhere ahead of us. |
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| 24 | 108 |
"He would not wish to alienate the friendly shore communities, either of the marsh or of Ngao". |
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| 27 | 7 |
Back on the shore, almost invisible in the jungle, were the huts of the village. |
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| 27 | 9 |
We could see women on the shore, some with bowls, come out to the edge of the river to see what was occurring. |
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| 27 | 73 |
We then guided the canoe about the platform and made for shore. |
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| 30 | 6 |
On the shore, each with a rope, one extending from the bow, one from the stern, stumbled Ayari and Alice. |
10 |
| 31 | 3 |
We had pulled the canoe up on the shore. |
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| 33 | 26 |
"Hurry now to the shore," he said. |
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| 33 | 65 |
Kisu then turned and, happily, waded back to the shore. |
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| 33 | 157 |
He then took her by the hair, bent her over, and waded her back to the shore. |
10 |
| 34 | 103 |
In the late afternoon we had brought the canoe to shore, concealed it, and then went inland to make our camp. |
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| 36 | 19 |
I returned to the rocks of the shore. |
10 |
| 39 | 3 |
In these two other villages the men, with shields and spears, had rushed out to the shore to threaten us. |
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| 39 | 12 |
We moved the canoe in toward the shore. |
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| 39 | 15 |
"Where are the men?" The canoe was now about forty yards from the shore. |
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| 41 | 9 |
We brought the canoe against the net, so that I and Kisu, too, each armed with a panga, might slash at the woven wall which had, on vine ropes, sprung from shore, lifted up before us. |
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| 41 | 11 |
The trap, weighted, just below the surface, is activated by two vine ropes, slung over tree branches, ropes which are drawn taut when two logs, to which they are attached, one on each shore, are rolled or dropped from a concealed scaffolding. |
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| 42 | 45 |
By the time we heard men crying out in rage, and saw torches on the shore, we were safely on the river. |
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| 43 | 7 |
It was similar to the tiny lung fish I had seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees, and, as often as not, sunning themselves on the backs of tharlarion, those tiny fish called gints. |
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| 43 | 11 |
"There, near the shore! A white girl!" She was slender-legged and dark-haired. |
10 |
| 43 | 38 |
"There is another!" Now, on the shore, standing at a post, chains about her body, we saw a blond girl. |
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| 43 | 72 |
"Too," I said, "she, like the girl at the post, there on the shore, wore clothing and ornaments. |
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| 44 | 3 |
I stood on the shore, with one of the raider's spears in my hand. |
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| 44 | 23 |
"Come to shore!" I called to her. |
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| 44 | 27 |
"Come to shore!" I said. |
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| 44 | 30 |
Wildly she was splashing toward the shore. |
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| 46 | 59 |
"They will be like the leaves on the trees, like the bits of sand at the shore," he said. |
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| 48 | 229 |
"I beg that other penalty," said the blonde, kneeling in the mud on the shore. |
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| 49 | 35 |
"On the shore". |
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| 49 | 36 |
We took the canoe to the shore and drew it up among the roots and brush. |
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| 53 | 68 |
This had been built, being extended outward from the opposite shore, by Shaba's men. |
10 |
| 55 | 2 |
The Ubar and I descended the steps together, that we might make our departure from the landing, from the eastern shore of Lake Shaba. |
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| 57 | 74 |
He was facile with languages, and had connections with the villages of Nyuki on the northern shore of Ushindi, which was the territory of his father's birth, and, because of his connections with Kisu, with the Ukungu districts on the Ngao. |
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| 57 | 111 |
When we found the talunas being herded along by the small people we had brought our vessels to shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 23 |
He struck out toward the shore, then clambered toward it, getting his feet under him. |
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| 32 | 361 |
I could always cross the channel northeastward, at my convenience, under the cover of darkness, to move toward Victoria, or I might, if I chose, move simply to the southern shore of the Vosk. |
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| 33 | 104 |
Too, there were guard stations at the terminal pylons, on the north and south shore of the river. |
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| 33 | 110 |
Thus the chain, theoretically, could be circumvented at these points, the shallowly drafted ships being brought to shore and, on rollers, being moved about the terminal pylons. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 7 |
It had been broken in the north, but here, closer to the southern shore of the Vosk, it had held. |
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| 4 | 13 |
Even this far south, and from the height of the stem castle, one could not see the southern shore of the Vosk. |
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| 4 | 239 |
"To be outflanked and trapped between the chain and the southern shore?" asked Callimachus. |
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| 8 | 115 |
He might put into shore when it would be best to remain at sea; he might run when he should fight; when he should be firm, he might vacillate; when he should be strong, he might be conciliatory and weak. |
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| 8 | 259 |
Such things are not uncommon on ships, to protect papers which might be carried in the spray or weather, for example, on a longboat between ships, or between ships and the shore. |
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| 16 | 134 |
If we could get to free water I did not think the eels would pursue us far from the wharves and shore. |
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| 16 | 551 |
"Put in to shore," said Callimachus to the helmsman. |
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| 20 | 1192 |
There, from the shore of the Vosk, we shall select a common stone, not much unlike others. |
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| 20 | 1216 |
"Tasdron," said I, "when the council arrives at the shore of the Vosk, it is my hope that I may be there". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 395 |
This same standardization, in the region of the Tamber Gulf and south, along the shore of Thassa, tends to be effected by the golden tarn of Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 172 |
The crews of the other two Cosian ships which had been in the harbor, those not injured, and that not run aground, leapt over the sides, and, waist deep, waded to shore. |
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| 20 | 177 |
Out in the harbor itself the small boats and rafts of Cosians which had been approaching to attack were now hurrying to the shore, to one side or another, to take shelter near the most convenient guard station. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 245 |
The shore seemed alive with them, and the marsh. |
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| 18 | 284 |
I emerged on the opposite shore and helped myself to what I wanted, from the packs and stores. |
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| 19 | 899 |
Then she knelt in the water, by the shore, and washed her hair. |
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| 29 | 44 |
The spear of Titus was shaken free of the gills which seemed on his side to explode with foaming blood, but the spear of Plenius held and the beast was back in the water then, being thrust forcibly toward the shore. |
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| 29 | 47 |
Plenius was pushing and forcing it toward the shore. |
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| 29 | 50 |
I, too, thrust toward the shore. |
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| 31 | 324 |
We watched Ina going to the well hole, dug in the sand near the shore earlier, into which marsh water might filter, and there kneel down, to fill a small metal bowl. |
10 |
| 36 | 159 |
I had been afraid Marcus, thinking her of Cos, and hating Cos and all things Cosian, would have cut her throat or injured her, but, fortunately, as it had turned out, she had not been of Cos, but from the vicinity of White Water, on the northern shore of the Vosk, east of Tancred's Landing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 422 |
Too, far off now, like the sounds of Thassa breaking on a distant shore, we could hear the crowds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 423 |
Her fingers dug into the mud of the shore, the water lapping softly about her. |
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| 20 | 437 |
As it was dark she had no idea what might be the closest shore. |
10 |
| 20 | 449 |
That must be, she supposed, the nearest shore. |
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| 20 | 454 |
About dawn she reached the shore and lost consciousness amongst the reeds. |
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| 20 | 503 |
The water there, say, some three or four yards from shore, was some eight to ten inches deep. |
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| 20 | 519 |
She was perhaps four or five feet from shore. |
10 |
| 20 | 525 |
Her head was down, given the slope of the shore. |
10 |
| 20 | 593 |
He then, angrily, his hand in her hair, drew the slave to her feet, and conducted her, bent over, her head at his right hip, in leading position, onto the shore. |
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| 20 | 635 |
The boat was rowed, or maneuvered, with its back oar, to a different point on the shore, and, when the area had been sufficiently reconnoitered by the two lads, she was lifted from the boat, and led into the trees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 229 |
Cabot was standing on the shore, looking out over the waters of the lake. |
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| 32 | 202 |
"Too, there is the raft, from which she dares not escape while it is on the lake, and when we come to shore, it is a simple matter to put her on a rope, and, at night, I chain her to a tree". |
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| 33 | 50 |
How beautiful it was! And how beautiful she was, collared! And it was his collar! "We will try to reach the far shore," said Grendel. |
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| 33 | 113 |
"Such things are commonly found closer to shore. |
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| 33 | 116 |
There is more forage closer to shore, for fish, for herbivores, for their prey". |
10 |
| 33 | 203 |
Too, their usual strikes would be made within the water, or near the shore. |
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| 37 | 4 |
For two days Cabot and his companion had followed the shore of Lake Fear, and had then made their way toward the area of major habitats. |
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| 4 | 4 |
It was very pleasant near the shore, with the smell of Thassa, with the cool, penetrant air, the sense of the salt of her churning waves, the sound of the surf, the incoming tide, the wash of sea weed on the shore, the water with its soft, fluid rush across the sand and amongst the stones, and then ... |
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| 41 | 33 |
Still we were far from shore, and the sea sleen, as other forms of predatory sea life, tends to range the fishing banks, so to speak, shallower waters closer to shore where sea plants can get sunlight, these plants then forming the basis of a rich marine ecology. |
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| 2 | 438 |
It swung athwart, however, some yards from shore. |
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| 4 | 61 |
In approaching the shore, I had left an easy trail leading to the beach, but had then doubled back, and waited in the shelter of some trees, a few yards back, and to the side, from which point of relative concealment I could both survey the beach and monitor my original trail. |
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| 4 | 117 |
"You are aware that you can be seen easily, from the shore?" I said. |
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| 4 | 244 |
I had turned about and walked down, toward the shore, and stood there, my ankles in the lapping water. |
10 |
| 4 | 442 |
I then turned to note the ship, now something like a hundred yards off shore. |
10 |
| 5 | 12 |
The other two oarsmen, oars outboard, and the helmsman, his hand on the tiller, nursed the boat, keeping it, as it was turned, muchly parallel to the shore. |
10 |
| 5 | 313 |
Sullius Maximus then turned about, and hurried toward the shore. |
10 |
| 5 | 348 |
She would not be sure, too, of what consequences might accrue to her, from her employers, should they learn of her disclosures at the shore. |
10 |
| 5 | 407 |
She had swung parallel to the shore, her bow south. |
10 |
| 5 | 409 |
Some boxes, too, perhaps supplies, of one sort or another, were cast overboard, and these were being guided by wading men to the shore, where they were drawn up on the beach. |
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| 5 | 411 |
These items then, some immersed, now and again, others trying desperately to hold their heads above the water, were dragged through the surf to the shore, and then, barefoot, stumbling, shuddering, were knelt on the wave-washed pebbled sand, water, coming and going, swirling about their knees and th... |
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| 5 | 444 |
After a time, a hundred yards or so from shore, she dropped her sail. |
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| 24 | 202 |
"I would be curious to see a far shore," I said. |
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| 25 | 193 |
Yet I was curious to see a far shore, if it might be reached. |
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| 25 | 196 |
Another theory held that the world did, indeed, end at some horizon, for in a finite world there could be no infinite number of horizons, but maintained that at the final horizon, or final shore, as in a lake, Thassa would find her final limit. |
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| 25 | 213 |
Is a far shore not always tempting? Who does not wish to cross a new river, to venture upon untrodden grass, to see a new sky, to glimpse a hitherto undetected horizon? And are there not an infinite number of horizons, after all. |
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| 28 | 132 |
Then fit and rig your vessels; then roll your dragons to the shore. |
10 |
| 29 | 83 |
Some from the shore, and the structures there, were climbing to meet them. |
10 |
| 29 | 93 |
"Quarters have been prepared for you, near the shore, near the cots," said Tajima. |
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| 29 | 96 |
"What is that large building, that structure near the shore?" I asked. |
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| 30 | 1 |
I Speak with Aëtius I felt small, standing on the shore, beside that towering, mighty body, that massive structure, held in its building frame, sloping down to the water. |
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| 30 | 140 |
I supposed the galleys had come from the south, and had been brought upstream, under oars, or towed, perhaps by tharlarion on shore, where the current might be difficult. |
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| 33 | 22 |
"It has to do with a far shore?" I said. |
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| 33 | 42 |
We were pushed to the shore. |
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| 33 | 45 |
"A straight-eyed, raving man, a barbarian, such as yourself, was washed upon our shore, while we awaited our doom. |
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| 33 | 52 |
How, I wondered, might the mad, half-blind shipwright, Tersites, have found himself on a remote shore. |
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| 35 | 155 |
"You are going back, to the 'far shore'?" I asked. |
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| 37 | 12 |
Ice had crusted about the cold shore. |
10 |
| 37 | 60 |
In the vicinity of the camp, as she was under construction, the river had been deepened, to accommodate her keel near shore. |
10 |
| 37 | 74 |
The helm, too, will be tied, to lead her back to shore, should she be tempted to stray". |
10 |
| 38 | 357 |
We could see a longboat putting away from the shore, on the opposite bank. |
10 |
| 38 | 361 |
"The boat departs from the southern shore". |
10 |
| 38 | 532 |
"You are curious, you wish to accompany the cavalry, you find it difficult to resist the unknown, you are unwilling to step aside from the path to adventure, a trait with which we of the Pani are not unfamiliar, and you are interested in a far shore". |
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| 38 | 576 |
At various points along the wharf there were steps leading to its surface from the shore. |
10 |
| 39 | 16 |
Some may have been in the forest, along the shore, but, on foot, in our passage downriver, in its steadiness, we would have been likely to have outdistanced them. |
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| 39 | 37 |
"They are like the sands of the shore," said Tajima. |
10 |
| 39 | 42 |
"Are there galleys off shore?" I inquired. |
10 |
| 40 | 11 |
There would be no boarding, no escaping of hundreds of men from a grounded, caught, foundering, sinking, burning ship, men to be cut down as they tried to elude the small boats and clamber to shore. |
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| 40 | 22 |
The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore. |
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| 40 | 30 |
There was shouting from the shore, as we passed, of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men, and a drumming, rhythmic, that carried over the cold, green waters of gleaming Thassa. |
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| 40 | 43 |
Might not any captain discern such signs, and be wary? We looked back, at the shore, some two hundred yards astern. |
10 |
| 40 | 136 |
We were now some four hundred yards from shore. |
10 |
| 41 | 34 |
But we were now far from shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 149 |
Why had he not performed, or had performed, the simple ceremony of pacifying Thassa, of seeking to smooth her waves with a bit of oil, of mingling man's salt with hers, to plead kinship, friendship, even alliance, of giving her some wine, that she might be warmed, and pleased? Would it not have been... |
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| 3 | 12 |
For example, in this fashion, the great ship could use them as concealed, surprise weapons, releasing them on a side not visible to an enemy, or, say, applying them at night; similarly, such ships might facilitate reconnoitering, facilitate communication with the shore, provide vessels for obtaining... |
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| 3 | 13 |
Indeed, shore-bound intelligence might not realize a mother ship existed, let alone one such as the great ship. |
10 |
| 6 | 101 |
"But if you are a strong swimmer, I think you might have reached shore". |
10 |
| 7 | 60 |
Lately, given the miseries of the weather, the constant rolling and pitching motion of the ship, the distance from shore, the uncertainty of the voyage, their terror at realizing themselves now being taken beyond the farther islands, and fearing perhaps to plunge any moment from the edge of the worl... |
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| 9 | 460 |
Then, by the will of whatever gods there be, by whatever names be theirs, we found ourselves, and gold, on a far shore. |
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| 13 | 35 |
So there was no reason to believe that we were near shore. |
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| 21 | 24 |
"It may not be safe to seek the shore. |
10 |
| 21 | 133 |
"Have Aëtius instruct the helmsman to bring the ship closer to shore, a half pasang". |
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| 21 | 163 |
That we were closer to shore, whatever might be its advantages or disadvantages, did increase the tension on board, and various crew members, acting as spokesmen for one group or another, from one deck or another, urged minor officers to petition for a landing. |
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| 21 | 228 |
"Lord Temmu holds the shore," said Lord Okimoto, his glass of the Builders trained on the streaming smoke. |
10 |
| 21 | 251 |
It signifies that we hold the shore, that Lord Temmu has retaken ground. |
10 |
| 21 | 257 |
If we hold the shore, it is safe, and the green column is unnecessary". |
10 |
| 21 | 265 |
"If we hold the shore," said Lord Nishida, thoughtfully, "it would seem quite likely that the castle of Lord Temmu would still stand". |
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| 21 | 414 |
When Tyrtaios glanced at him, for Tyrtaios often apprised himself of his surroundings, Seremides looked away, as though concerned to watch the small boats, now about the galley, approach the shore. |
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| 22 | 11 |
There seemed madness on the beach, men crowded together toward the shore, trying to board small boats. |
10 |
| 22 | 19 |
I saw Tyrtaios, with others, on the ratlines, peering toward the shore. |
10 |
| 22 | 52 |
In a quarter of an Ahn three galleys had been lowered and, half manned, were about the ship, and moving amongst small boats, toward the shore. |
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| 22 | 80 |
Several yards from the torchlit, screaming, raucous shore, the clash of metal, the cries of enraged men, of frightened men, of dying men, Cabot turned the galley. |
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| 22 | 81 |
"Back oars!" he commanded, and the stern of the galley, backing, pushed its way through small boats and wading men, and, a moment later, he cried "Hold!" and we lifted the oars, and we felt the keel of the galley grate on sloping, submerged sand, at the foot of the shore. |
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| 22 | 84 |
Shortly thereafter the galleys of Pertinax and Turgus, turned as well, lay to, at the shore, and were similarly subjected to clambering men. |
10 |
| 22 | 85 |
I saw several of the small boats returning to the shore from the ship. |
10 |
| 22 | 106 |
Then Cabot, I following him, leaped into the water amongst men trying to board the galley, and, water to our waist, we waded to shore. |
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| 22 | 110 |
"Oars," called Pertinax, taken aback, his voice cracking with misery, "Stroke!" The galley now captained by Philoctetes had already moved from shore, outside the light of the torches. |
10 |
| 22 | 156 |
The great ship lay some half pasang from shore, in the darkness. |
10 |
| 22 | 273 |
Boats were at the shore. |
10 |
| 23 | 50 |
Some of our casualties, of course, had not taken place in the defile, or on the beach, but in the water, presumably at the side of the boats, or in an attempt to swim to the ship from shore. |
10 |
| 23 | 54 |
Obviously he could not have so swum from shore, and would not have been transported in such a condition. |
10 |
| 24 | 23 |
Treasure in hand, from the Vine Sea, what more was to be gained on a dangerous shore, at the World's End? The orientation of the great ship, bow to sea, would allow it, should the fleet of Lord Yamada be sighted, to slip its moorings and escape the cove, to the security of the open sea. |
10 |
| 24 | 108 |
Thus they were reassured, at least to some extent, that the girls had been brought to shore. |
10 |
| 26 | 103 |
To reach them from the sea, from the north or west, one would have to put into shore, on the other side of the island, negotiate a difficult terrain, and thread one's way through guarded, easily defended passes. |
10 |
| 32 | 72 |
A soft breeze from the shore swelled the sails. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 620 |
"I and others were taken at sea, by corsairs of Port Kar, not more than five pasangs from shore". |
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| 31 | 21 |
She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 42 |
He then gestured toward the shore, as he had before, and this time she, head down, frightened, obedient, waded to the shore. |
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| 50 | 354 |
Some small boats were tied up on the shore, rather as they had been on the opposite shore. |
10 |
| 9 | 51 |
We were brought to the deck, and then, when the ship had the beach abeam, and was a few yards from shore, we were plunged over the rail, and found ourselves awash in the surf. |
10 |
| 9 | 57 |
We were waded to the shore and knelt there, in the surf, it washing up about our knees and calves. |
10 |
| 9 | 66 |
"Position," called a fellow, himself descending from the ship, splashing, and wading to shore. |
10 |
| 9 | 70 |
Much of the material cargo was being put to shore. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
Some of the larger boxes were cast overboard, and, thrust, were floated to shore. |
10 |
| 9 | 76 |
He had come up behind me, from having brought a small barrel to shore. |
10 |
| 9 | 91 |
The newcomer seemed particularly interested in the two large boxes which had been lowered carefully on ropes over the ship's side, and then carried to shore. |
10 |
| 9 | 152 |
It was now more than a hundred yards from shore. |
10 |
| 9 | 184 |
There must have been a signal from the forest, a particular signal, I thought, to bring us to shore here. |
10 |
| 9 | 185 |
It then occurred to me that there might have been another signal, a different signal, possibly, to bring the second ship to the shore, or would be such a signal. |
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| 10 | 2 |
Indeed, our vessel did not even beach at this point, but turned about, and rocked in place, parallel to the shore, some yards from the beach. |
10 |
| 10 | 127 |
Men poured over the rail after him, and about him, making their way to the shore. |
10 |
| 11 | 55 |
Doubtless some of those with us, who had been at the shore, were guides, and familiar with such things. |
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| 13 | 3 |
On the fourth day, after the shore of Thassa, we reached the large, sprawling, extensive set of buildings and shops called Tarncamp. |
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| 15 | 438 |
The camp was mostly on the northern shore of the Alexandra. |
10 |
| 19 | 89 |
"The shore side of the dock will be clear," I said. |
10 |
| 23 | 112 |
A river is treacherous, with its shifting channels, its differential siltings, its vagaries of current, given changes in the configuration of the shore, its varying depths depending on the rainfall upstream, the occasional impediments of floating debris, the countless ridges and bars which might for... |
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| 33 | 38 |
We were each given a pitcher, and we then went down to the shore, on our rope, filled our vessels, and returned to the camp. |
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| 33 | 47 |
The best wood would be gathered on the shore of the Alexandra, which was quite close, where debris was exposed to the sun. |
10 |
| 33 | 48 |
Mila and I, bending over, roped together by the neck, filled our arms at the shore. |
10 |
| 39 | 20 |
Emerald was now in the river, in the water to her waist, facing back toward the shore, facing her pursuer, so close to her. |
10 |
| 39 | 31 |
He then released her, and indicated that she should precede him to the shore. |
10 |
| 41 | 14 |
Several of the men had come down to the shore, to watch. |
10 |
| 41 | 66 |
How I hated him! I wondered if he were watching, from the shore, if he saw me, as I was now. |
10 |
| 41 | 71 |
Was he watching? Let him suffer! Now I would follow Tula and Mila to the shore, and don my freshened, still-damp tunic. |
10 |
| 41 | 75 |
I wished that he whom I hated might be on shore, watching me, not that it made any difference to me. |
10 |
| 41 | 508 |
I then accompanied Tula to the shore of the Alexandra, where Mila was waiting for us. |
10 |
| 42 | 130 |
Afterwards I stood for a little time on the shore, thinking of running. |
10 |
| 42 | 137 |
I knew little of the south shore of the Alexandra. |
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| 43 | 1115 |
"Take what you want of their weapons and goods, and cast the rest at the river's shore". |
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| 43 | 1119 |
A few javelins, and blades, harnessing, goods, and such, apparently of little interest, were removed from the camp, and, following Axel's instructions, left by the shore of the river, in the mud, some one hundred paces away. |
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| 43 | 1149 |
Some weapons, and goods, are at the river shore. |
10 |
| 43 | 1186 |
"You may free your men," said Axel, "but keep them from the shore until we are clear of the camp". |
10 |
| 43 | 1190 |
He sprang up, and glanced to the shore. |
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| 43 | 1215 |
Rorton had run no more than five steps before the weight of Tiomines struck against him and sent him rolling down the slope toward the shore. |
10 |
| 43 | 1220 |
In its eagerness, by the shore, its fur was covered by mud. |
10 |
| 43 | 1242 |
The sounds of the sleen's growling, and feeding, though at the shore, carried to the camp. |
10 |
| 43 | 1251 |
I could see Tiomines, by the shore, lift his head, and look about. |
10 |
| 43 | 1288 |
"Tiomines," he called, slapping his thigh, and the brute shook its fur, still wet and muddy from the shore, and padded softly to his side. |
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| 47 | 14 |
I had even traversed the shore of the Alexandra, for a pasang or more, both east and west, given the possibility that she might have waded, before returning to the land. |
10 |
| 48 | 7 |
There were no signs of patrols from Shipcamp along the shore nor of the small sounding boats which might be testing the river or preceding the slow, stately journey of the great ship to the sea. |
10 |
| 50 | 269 |
At the shore I looked across the broad Alexandra. |
10 |
| 50 | 275 |
Standing at the edge of the shore, I could see, across the river, some of the buildings, and the mysterious stockade, which had excited my curiosity in the past. |
10 |
| 50 | 285 |
At the edge of the shore, there were several small boats tied in place, to stakes anchored in the beach, some, long boats, propelled by several oars, and others, smaller boats, propelled by a pair of oars. |
10 |
| 50 | 313 |
As he was rowing he was facing me, naturally, and the closer shore. |
10 |
| 50 | 315 |
I, on the other hand, as I was situated, might I struggle to a sitting position, could see around him to the opposite shore. |
10 |
| 50 | 345 |
In a few more Ehn, I felt the bottom of the boat grate against the shore. |
10 |
| 50 | 348 |
I did realize we were now on the southern shore of the river. |
10 |
| 50 | 353 |
This was the first time I had been in a position to see the southern shore this closely. |
10 |
| 50 | 418 |
But what then could be the real reason for the isolation of these slaves? The two guards who had been stationed at the head of the stairway, leading upward from the shore, withdrew, presumably returning to their post. |
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| 52 | 12 |
I had been punished, lashed, near the shore of the Alexandra by my captor. |
10 |
| 52 | 248 |
"My accouterments," said my captor, "are in the far boat, there, along the shore". |
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| 52 | 249 |
He pointed west along the shore, where, to be sure, there were some small boats. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 |
There had been three signals, trails of ascending smoke, red, yellow, and green, red betokening that the shore was held, land having been retaken, yellow that the holding of Lord Temmu still stood, and green that all was safe, and, accordingly, a landing might be effected. |
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| 6 | 14 |
Eventually the primary remnants of the land forces of Lord Temmu, those separated from the holding, to which portions had retreated, cut off and undersupplied, had been driven to the very shore of Thassa. |
10 |
| 6 | 17 |
But when the soldiers of Lord Yamada, with the first light, with fixed banners and brandished glaives, crying out, swarmed to the shore, they found the beach empty. |
10 |
| 20 | 369 |
Too, consider the gifts of the sea and shore, from four of my fishing villages, clams, oysters, grunt, bag fish, song fish, shark, eels, octopus, wing fish, parsit, squid". |
10 |
| 21 | 74 |
These Pani, as I had determined, were as unclear as to the nature of their arrival on a foreign shore, as were those amongst whom they had found themselves. |
10 |
| 25 | 221 |
I could almost sense Sumomo trembling, and trying to breathe, teetering on the narrow, unstable support which held her from the pool far below, that bending, narrow, unsteady bridge lacking a farther shore. |
10 |
| 32 | 33 |
"They may be as leaves, as the sands of the shore!" "Probably there are no more than ten," said Arashi. |
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| 61 | 91 |
"That his minions are as the sands of the shore, and the leaves of trees," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 61 | 962 |
Unknown to herself, aside from her brief role in meeting a tarnsman on the shore of Thassa, at the edge of the forest, and seeing that he was brought to Tarncamp, she had been preselected, in virtue of a standing order, for a Gorean collar, and would be delivering herself, as well, to Tarncamp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 15 |
I could see the shore to our right. |
10 |
| 8 | 65 |
Not in the vicinity of a free person I rose to my feet, and went to the rail, to look out, and saw the shore in the distance. |
10 |
| 8 | 94 |
I supposed she hoped to swim to the shore, perhaps a pasang or so off to the right. |
10 |
| 8 | 105 |
Were they not going to lower the longboat, and pursue the fugitive? The swiftly rowed longboat could overtake her in a short time, long before she could reach the shore. |
10 |
| 8 | 106 |
And should she manage to reach the shore, I had little doubt but what her pursuers, young, long-striding men, would easily outrun her and bring her back to the beach on a rope. |
10 |
| 8 | 108 |
This beast, of which I had heard, given the scent of her blanket, might then lead her pursuers to her, or, depending on the command, herd her back to the shore, where her pursuers, perhaps encamped, would be waiting. |
10 |
| 8 | 162 |
I recalled something I had heard, from long ago, that sharks, even far from shore, may follow a ship for days, to feed on garbage thrown overboard. |
10 |
| 8 | 192 |
I could see the shore in the distance. |
10 |
| 8 | 511 |
"You could never have reached the shore," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 535 |
"What fate could be so horrible," I asked, "that to it you would prefer so frightening, so terrible, a fate?" "I hoped to reach the shore," she said. |
10 |
| 8 | 547 |
Then I saw the shore". |
10 |
| 8 | 556 |
You can see the villages on the shore. |
10 |
| 8 | 623 |
"An honest ship, by day, would be at sea," she said, "not just emerged, between us and the shore". |
10 |
| 8 | 682 |
"Then we must put into shore, while we can," I said, "and attempt to escape inland". |
10 |
| 8 | 683 |
"Surely you note that the corsair has positioned itself between us and the shore," said the keeper. |
10 |
| 8 | 684 |
"And, even if we were willing to risk villages of rapacious peasants, armed with the great bow, we could not reach the shore". |
10 |
| 8 | 701 |
"Note," said the keeper, "the helmsmen have turned us toward the shore, but briefly. |
10 |
| 8 | 703 |
We have realized we could not beat the corsair to the shore, so we have no choice but to risk all on flight". |
10 |
| 8 | 709 |
"And he, too, then, is farther from the shore". |
10 |
| 8 | 847 |
"We have drawn them far from shore," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 875 |
The corsair began to turn toward the shore. |
10 |
| 8 | 959 |
Within an Ahn or two I supposed we should have the shore again in sight, a situation wont to be favored by Gorean mariners, and then we would return to our original course. |
10 |
| 8 | 981 |
"That is when I leapt from the ship, in a desperate and forlorn hope of attaining the shore". |
10 |
| 45 | 97 |
"Look to the sea!" I could now hear men in the approaching boats, shouting to the shore. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 31 |
Interestingly, when the Tesephone had touched the shore, one sensed, that the shore had drawn back a little, almost imperceptibly, as though reacting to the pressure of the Tesephone's hull. |
10 |
| 1 | 257 |
"Even from east of far Cos and Tyros, from a shore so dreadful and far that even Thassa herself will go no further". |
10 |
| 1 | 258 |
"A shore so appalling?" I asked. |
10 |
| 3 | 2 |
I took us now to be far enough from shore that a change in course could not be detected. |
10 |
| 13 | 26 |
Their bodies had now been washed back on shore. |
10 |
| 14 | 43 |
"Others, at last, will rush to the shore, gorge themselves with fluid, and die the hideous salt death". |
10 |
| 15 | 53 |
"And there are many strong-winged birds, shore birds and sea birds, for example, the sea kite, much like the Vosk gull". |
10 |
| 16 | 32 |
"Tal," I called to those on shore, my right hand lifted, palm toward the side of my head. |
10 |
| 16 | 42 |
I noted some of the men in pairs, carrying heavy, drilled stones to the shore. |
10 |
| 16 | 45 |
Others from the shore, fastened to the stones, were cast over the rail of the Tesephone, which were then secured on board. |
10 |
| 16 | 47 |
But I had already vaulted over the rail and, catching my balance, unsteady for a moment, stood upright on the shore. |
10 |
| 16 | 49 |
"Welcome," said one of the men on shore. |
10 |
| 16 | 50 |
Thurnock eased himself over the rail, had his feet on shore, gained his balance, and was beside me. |
10 |
| 16 | 104 |
"Living islands, of course," said he who seemed first amongst those met on shore. |
10 |
| 16 | 210 |
"Shallower water is not always close to shore," she said. |
10 |
| 37 | 25 |
Their mooring ropes, fastened to shore cleats at stem and stern, with their conical or disklike urt guards, would, as they lifted and tightened, shed water in a rain of sunlit droplets, and then, again, relaxing, would loop downward, settling again into the water. |
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| 44 | 85 |
It does not appear organized; it seems no small, appointed group conveying an entreaty or petition to leaders, at least to those on shore, but something more spontaneous and popular in nature". |
10 |
| 49 | 109 |
The lighter ship would approach the shore first, stern forward, and discharge scouts to survey the beach. |
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| 49 | 118 |
We sensed, rather than saw, the narrow shape off shore, a darkness within a darkness. |
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| 49 | 120 |
By now two or more men would have slipped over the side and would be wading to shore. |
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| 49 | 141 |
"The shore ran with blood," said Clitus. |
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| 51 | 55 |
"By that time we will be well from shore," said Sakim. |
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| 51 | 159 |
It turned about and, the mercenaries with spears continuing to fend off desperate swimmers, began to make its way back toward the two unharmed corsair ships, waiting closer to shore. |
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| 51 | 167 |
"Many," I said, "despairing of rescue, swim for the corsair ships, the shore". |
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| 51 | 172 |
"If some reach the shore," I said, "they may fall into the hands of the Peasants, or of those of Mytilene. |
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| 51 | 175 |
"I would we could turn them toward the shore," I said. |
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| 53 | 63 |
I mention this lest it seem surprising, or improbable, that portions of the Dorna's crew were outboard, attempting to free their ship from the shore of the living island. |
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| 53 | 64 |
Their travail was brief, however, for the shore of the island drew back under them, and inclined downward, as though, water rushing in, it would so rid itself of an unwelcome visitor. |
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| 62 | 72 |
"Port Kar," I said, "is far off, on the continent itself, on the Tamber Gulf, on the eastern shore of Thassa". |
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