| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 40 |
I released the reins, letting them hang on the saddle-ring, which is the signal for a constant and straight flight, no pressure on the throat strap. |
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| 14 | 64 |
As if this were a signal, some of his tarnsmen entered the cave and seized me. |
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| 14 | 19 |
I walked slowly to the foot of the golden wall, where lay the golden scarf of the Tatrix, that scarf whose fluttering signal had initiated the Amusements. |
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| 14 | 185 |
When he spots a tabuk in the fields below, or, indeed, any animal in the prey range of the tarn, he may cry "Tabuk!" and this is the signal that the tarn may hunt. |
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| 17 | 94 |
When it fell, that would be the signal that they might rush to the trough. |
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| 20 | 43 |
He offered no resistance, he showed no anger, when I leaped to his back and cried, as before, "One-strap!" at which signal, with a shrill cry and a mighty spring, those gigantic wings cracked like whips and beat their way aloft in the glory of flight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 146 |
At the sight of raiders one tower would set its beacon aflame, glittering by night, or dampen it with green branches by day to produce a white smoke, and this signal would be relayed from tower to tower. |
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| 12 | 86 |
At a signal from Sarm they leaped to their feet and stood alertly beside the dais, their feet spread, their heads high, their arms folded. |
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| 17 | 74 |
"The reason for observation within the atmosphere," said Sarm, "is that it is simpler to get more definition in the signal because of greater proximity to its source. |
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| 17 | 85 |
"The projection points for the Flame Death are located in the surveillance craft," said Sarm, "but the coordinates are fixed and the firing signal is relayed from this room. |
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| 20 | 97 |
His companion then snapped a switch at the wall panel and the globe seemed to come alive, humming and clicking, coils suddenly glowing and tiny signal lights flashing on and off. |
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| 27 | 174 |
Though the translator which still hung about Sarm's neck with the string of silverish tools was not turned on I would not have needed it to interpret the desperate odor-signal emitted by the First Born. |
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| 27 | 175 |
It was, indeed, though shorter and more intense, the first odor-signal that had ever been addressed to me, only then it had come from Misk's translator in the chamber of Vika. |
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| 27 | 188 |
I sensed a signal from the Mother, the first I had sensed, and it was scarcely detectable. |
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| 27 | 256 |
I hardly saw it coming but an instant before its flight began I had seen the tremor of a fiber in his shoulder and I knew the signal for its strike had been transmitted. |
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| 28 | 176 |
It unnerved the Priest-Kings to pass unknowingly within feet of, say, a pale, agile fellow from the Fungus Chambers, who might be crouching in a nearby ventilator shaft with a heat torch, who might have burned their antennae for them if he had pleased; or to suddenly find themselves surrounded by a ... |
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| 29 | 135 |
There was a sudden fearful scream of odor from the signal glands of the Priest-King and he tipped to one side, reaching for me with his grasping appendages. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 181 |
"Hear my name," cried he, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks!" As suddenly as he had finished, as soon as the men had named themselves, as if a signal had been given, the four kaiila bounded forward, squealing with rage, each rider bent low on his mount, lance gripped in his right hand, straining to be th... |
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| 9 | 197 |
The musicians, at a signal from the Feast Steward, took up their instruments again and the acrobats rushed back among the tables, tumbling and leaping about. |
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| 10 | 223 |
As soon as the hundreds of ponderous tharlarion had been marshaled into an order, a lance, carrying a fluttering pennon, dipped and there was a sudden signal on the tharlarion drums. |
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| 26 | 72 |
I thought this might signal the beginning of the storming of the compound, but none of the men below moved. |
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| 26 | 177 |
"As you wish," said Kamchak and raised his hand to signal the archers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 69 |
There was a moment's pause and then, from the ship, there came an answering light, repeating the signal, except that its signal terminated with two reds. |
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| 5 | 170 |
There was rather only a set of odors, secreted from his signal glands, picked up by the translator and transduced into mechanically reproduced Gorean words, each spoken separately, none with emotion. |
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| 5 | 223 |
But, from a central, guarded panel, and from individual transmitters, those of their owners, a signal may be transmitted which causes the two bracelets and the two anklets to immediately snap together at the flat plates, thus, even at a distance, binding the slave. |
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| 5 | 224 |
There are individual signals and a master signal, permitting an individual slave to be immediately secured, no matter where he is in the Nest, or every slave in the Nest. |
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| 5 | 253 |
There was a tiny click and a small odor signal was emitted from the apparatus closed about Elizabeth's head. |
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| 7 | 81 |
"The trip was uneventful, I trust," said Cernus, putting the signal apparatus back in his robes. |
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| 12 | 196 |
At a signal from Ho-Tu the guard carried Virginia to the branding rack and placed her in the rack, spinning the lever that locked her thigh in place. |
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| 17 | 226 |
On the twentieth day of Camerius the great signal bars suspended about the walls of the city rang out the enthronement of a Ubar of Ar. |
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| 22 | 544 |
I heard an exultant shout from behind me and saw the leader of the tarnsmen signal his men across the dividing wall again, to meet me at the left center rings. |
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| 22 | 570 |
I saw four crossbowmen at the box of the Ubar, on a signal from Saphronicus, who stood there, fire. |
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| 24 | 106 |
At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 120 |
I did not even, following my plan, signal this move to my other ships. |
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| 14 | 133 |
I ordered the trumpeter and the man on the flags to now signal flight to them. |
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| 14 | 469 |
"Thurnock," said I, "signal seventeen of my twenty ships to present themselves to our approaching friends. |
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| 17 | 89 |
I kept in reserve fifty-five tarn ships, which, simultaneously with the fifth wave, that of the flanking fleets, would draw within signal distance of the Dorna. |
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| 17 | 178 |
And simultaneously with the initiation of the pincers attack the balance of my fleet, the reserves, fifty-five tarn ships, should draw within signal distance of the Dorna. |
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| 18 | 12 |
Men ran to signal ships among the reserves, that they might draw toward our engaged fleet, recalling it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 90 |
I had not tried to signal anyone when I had found the phones had been destroyed. |
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| 4 | 120 |
"This device," he said, "transmits a signal, which can be picked up by our equipment at a distance of one hundred miles". |
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| 16 | 253 |
The snapping of the leash, jerking against itself, or the leash's collar ring, is a common preparatory signal. |
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| 16 | 254 |
This signal received, the slave knows that, imminently, she is to be walked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 405 |
My men, at my signal, did likewise. |
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| 14 | 28 |
Then, at a given signal, the panther girls within, abetted by the men of Tyros from without, would have, with clubs and ropes, and the butts of their spears, sprung to the attack. |
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| 14 | 223 |
At a sign from Hura the man from Tyros thrust the iron back into the brazier, to draw it forth again at her signal. |
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| 18 | 32 |
There would have to be, I knew, a signal. |
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| 18 | 169 |
Lit, this beacon would constitute the prearranged signal to the ships. |
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| 18 | 485 |
He had a signal to observe. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 58 |
The signal would be a shield signal, taking the morning sun, a flash, and then the attack. |
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| 5 | 46 |
"Now we will not be forced to wind the signal horns across the water". |
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| 5 | 115 |
Then he said to the rowers on the starboard side, "When I give the signal, let us display to Thorgard of Scagnar what we can of the riches of the temple of Kassau!" The men laughed. |
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| 12 | 6 |
Two men of Svein Blue Tooth rose to their feet and silenced the crowd with two blasts on curved, bronze signal horns, of a sort often used for communication between ships. |
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| 12 | 15 |
The blasts had been the signal for attention. |
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| 13 | 453 |
This cry, like a stimulus, acted upon the others, as well; almost instantly, with the velocity that the stranger signal can course through a pack of urts, this shriek was picked up by those with it; then, the hall filled with their horrid howling, eyes blazing, led by the Kur with the golden band, f... |
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| 17 | 332 |
The signal spear, in the hand of the frenzied Blue Tooth, its scarlet talmit wrapped at the base of its blade, was lifted. |
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| 17 | 335 |
The signal spear thrust to the valley. |
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| 18 | 149 |
There, already lifted, we saw the signal spear of Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 18 | 153 |
No Kur who approached the signal spear did not die. |
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| 18 | 158 |
The Blue Tooth himself now stood with Rollo, his own hand on the signal spear. |
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| 18 | 208 |
Rollo went to the signal spear. |
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| 22 | 37 |
Conscious I was indeed of the signal honor seen fit to be bestowed upon me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 213 |
Free girls, not yet companions, but of an age appropriate for the companionship, sometimes signal their availability to possible swains by belling their left ankles with a single "virgin bell". |
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| 5 | 688 |
Seeing my signal, she stiffened; she hesitated. |
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| 5 | 741 |
At a signal from Ibn Saran, Alyena drew the veil about her body, and around it, and, with one small hand, threw it aside. |
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| 6 | 59 |
At a signal from the judge the handle was released. |
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| 6 | 91 |
At a signal from the judge the slave at the handle of the girl's rack, pushing it with his two hands, moved the handle. |
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| 6 | 114 |
The judge gave a signal and the long handle of the rack, fitting through a rectangular hole in the axle, moved again. |
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| 6 | 122 |
He gave a signal. |
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| 7 | 189 |
"Upon my signal," said Ibn Saran, speaking in swift Gorean, "attacking in a line, slash every inch of this room. |
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| 11 | 538 |
"On my signal," said Hassan, "have them throw open the gate to the stable yard, and ride!" I went to the edge of the roof overlooking the burning yard. |
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| 11 | 542 |
"I relay the signal of Hassan," said I. |
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| 11 | 543 |
"Upon this signal, take flight!" "Two kaiila are saddled for you," said he, indicating two mounts. |
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| 11 | 544 |
"Upon the signal," said I, "take flight". |
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| 11 | 545 |
"What of you," he cried, "and Hassan!" "Upon the signal," I said, "take flight". |
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| 11 | 549 |
"Hassan!" One must watch, to see when the escape might best emerge from the yard, another must convey the signal. |
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| 12 | 46 |
As the raiders returned, from their column, by mirror, a signal was flashed to the kasbah. |
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| 12 | 47 |
On receipt of this signal a pennon, a victory pennon, was raised on the gate tower. |
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| 12 | 276 |
"The door," said she, "by the guards outside, opens only to my signal". |
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| 22 | 33 |
It seemed not improbable to me that there might be a recognition signal, to be given by the approaching riders in the vicinity of the ship, to be answered by a countersignal, before they would bring the kaiila in. |
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| 26 | 441 |
There are many ways in which the slave may signal her need to the master, and some of these will vary, of course, amongst particular masters and slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 555 |
I heard signal horns, and saw flags on the signal lines. |
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| 3 | 284 |
It is the signal that the game has begun, that the girl is now available, that she is now at large for capture. |
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| 5 | 879 |
He held his hand, the visible signal of preparation, poised over his thigh. |
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| 7 | 260 |
"You will take your first step with your left foot," said Lehna, "upon my signal. |
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| 7 | 283 |
"On the left foot, on my signal," said Lehna. |
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| 22 | 114 |
"Signal our intentions to the flagship. |
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| 22 | 116 |
"Yes, Captain!" said the first officer, and called swiftly to men to run the signal flags of Cos to the mast. |
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| 22 | 134 |
The signal flags of Cos snapped in the wind. |
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| 22 | 191 |
Too, from afar, I heard signal horns. |
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| 22 | 234 |
Signal horns could be heard. |
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| 22 | 559 |
I heard more signal horns. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 416 |
"Enough time," I said, "to press it between the bars of the sleen cage and whisper to the beast the signal for the hunt". |
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| 6 | 22 |
Usually one spots game from the saddle and calls "Tabuk," which is the tarn's hunting signal. |
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| 12 | 271 |
This culture signal, incidentally, is not applicable to a man's slaves in the north. |
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| 35 | 1275 |
First, a signal is transmitted from the complex to the steel worlds. |
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| 35 | 1276 |
This signal, which can also be received by the probe ships and the fleet, will inform them of the destruction of the complex, the loss of these munitions and supplies". |
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| 35 | 1299 |
"The signal to the worlds, the ships, the fleet, is transmitted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 182 |
"Please," she wept, "I've told you all I know!" At a signal from the man near her the two large fellows drew the girl from her feet, until she hung suspended some six inches from the floor. |
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| 12 | 373 |
It was about where a paga slave might kneel, close enough to be ready to serve at the merest signal, far enough away to be unobtrusive. |
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| 19 | 97 |
Actually he had been within, in the hire of Msaliti, awaiting his signal with the lamp. |
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| 41 | 12 |
A signal which we had failed to note had doubtless been given. |
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| 51 | 113 |
When I give the signal, unloop the tether as though it were unbound. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 104 |
"The expression is a 'signal word,' a word selected for its emotive connotation, not its cognitive meaning. |
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| 3 | 192 |
The woman in the black leather, she whom I had taken as my jailer, gave a signal. |
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| 11 | 610 |
"It is a signal," she said, "that it is time for the guards to begin their rounds". |
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| 12 | 152 |
Thus, when you saw the slave struggle, obedient to my signal, I thought the farcicality of his activity would be evident. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35 |
Across the chain I heard signal horns. |
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| 1 | 77 |
Behind him an officer would relay his signal. |
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| 4 | 134 |
Signal cloths, pennons and squares, in mixed colors and designs, acknowledging these commands, ran fluttering and streaming onto the stem-castle lines of the Tais. |
10 |
| 4 | 166 |
Signal horns sounded frantically. |
10 |
| 6 | 53 |
We listened to the signal horns from the Voskjard's fleet. |
10 |
| 8 | 412 |
It was at this time that I heard the signal horns of the pirate fleet. |
10 |
| 9 | 75 |
"I shall have the signal horns sounded," said an officer to Callimachus. |
10 |
| 9 | 361 |
"Signal Calliodorus!" "No," said Callimachus, grimly. |
10 |
| 10 | 64 |
Before we had left the vicinity of the encounter between the Tais and the Tamira, I had called loudly, as though to Callimachus, "We have made good our immediate escape! Let us hasten now to Tetrapoli, where our safety most securely may be sought!" There had been an answering cheer from the crew of ... |
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| 12 | 25 |
"Return the signal," said Callimachus. |
10 |
| 12 | 128 |
This signal was rapidly relayed to the west gate tower and, as the fellow below leapt into the water, to swim for the gate, it, with a thunderous rattle of weight and chaining, shaking and sliding, crashed downward, smiting and dividing a galley just aft of amidships, and then anchored itself in pla... |
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| 12 | 131 |
"Signal our fellows in the marshes! Let the attack flags be raised!" There was a cheer upon the walls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 314 |
"They do not signal their recognition of our presence," said Samos. |
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| 15 | 15 |
The common smoke signal is produced by placing greenery, such as branches, leaves or grass, on a fire. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 212 |
We then gave our attention to Mahpiyasapa, awaiting his signal. |
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| 28 | 235 |
"See the signal of Mahpiyasapa," said another. |
10 |
| 30 | 10 |
"No man is to flee until Mahpiyasapa gives the signal," said a man. |
10 |
| 30 | 17 |
"Wait for the signal of Mahpiyasapa," cautioned another. |
10 |
| 33 | 367 |
"When I give the signal," I said, "lean forward and step out with your left foot. |
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| 37 | 147 |
Once we had heard two notes of the fleer, but, that time, as it had turned out, the source of the signal had not been Cuwignaka but, to our frustration, an actual fleer. |
10 |
| 44 | 560 |
"He will then give the signal". |
10 |
| 47 | 110 |
There, concealed by day and trained by night, and housed within striking distance of Council Rock, they had waited for our signal. |
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| 47 | 121 |
Eagerly, awaiting no command or signal, his neck outstretched, Ubar of the Skies took to the air. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 79 |
The young man then tapped a complex signal on the inner iron door. |
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| 8 | 241 |
I did not doubt but what the girls on the tiles, if they were found sufficiently displeasing to the trainer, or too frequently required the admonitory signal of the cracking leather, would soon hear the snap of the lash not in their mere vicinity but on their own bared bodies. |
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| 26 | 412 |
"I am going to signal to the musicians, Tiffany," said Aemilianus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 353 |
The hideous squeal which was so terrifying, so shrill and piercing, which had such an effect on the other animals, was presumably something like a stranger-in-our-midst signal, a stranger-recognition signal, so to speak. |
10 |
| 5 | 102 |
"Doubtless Mistress has arranged a signal with her men," I said. |
10 |
| 14 | 409 |
Behind me I suddenly heard again that hideous squeal of an urt, once more the stranger-recognition signal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 27 |
"Watch for our signal," I said. |
10 |
| 8 | 123 |
"Perhaps you should signal Mincon," I said. |
10 |
| 26 | 158 |
Presumably he would wish to signal his fellow down the corridor in some way. |
10 |
| 26 | 501 |
"But perhaps," I said, "it is a matter rather of the innate and signal superiority of the free woman, that she scorns such unspeakable vulgarities, that such things are not for her, that she is too lofty for them, that she is above such things". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 901 |
It was a signal to me. |
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| 20 | 411 |
I saw the first of my master's men make the sign, the signal of designation. |
10 |
| 24 | 184 |
This action on his part seemed some sort of signal to the others. |
10 |
| 25 | 74 |
These serve as guides to tarnsmen aflight, and, too, may be used to signal their recall, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 158 |
Too, it often functions as an attention-garnering device, a signal, so to speak, preparing the beast for the sequent issuance of verbal commands, to which it is trained to respond. |
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| 10 | 27 |
The coordination between the collapse of the wall and the attack can be sharpened when the supports are struck away, the same signal, say, the blast of trumpets, initiating both actions. |
10 |
| 10 | 224 |
I quickly then, that she would feel the authoritative signal of the leash and collar rings while she was looking at the tall fellow, shook the leash. |
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| 13 | 111 |
At my signal she had crawled across the floor, through the straw, and then knelt before me, her head down, submitted. |
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| 14 | 189 |
"They signal the attack". |
10 |
| 15 | 872 |
But before he could draw twice on the leash, giving the prisoner her signal, she thrust her head down, to his feet, reaching for them, as she had earlier for mine. |
10 |
| 15 | 897 |
He shook the leash once, to alert the prisoner that a leash signal was imminent. |
10 |
| 17 | 406 |
"Then return to your fellows, and watch for my signal. |
10 |
| 17 | 431 |
"Return now to your fellows," I said, "and watch for my signal. |
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| 17 | 484 |
Immediately following this signal the defenders on both the left and right began an orderly withdrawal, rear lines first, front lines backing, fighting, down the stairways closest to them, the two gate stairways, one to the west of the gate, the other to the east of the gate. |
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| 19 | 116 |
"They will probably signal the other fellows, out where the harbor is closed," said a man, "so that they can attack on two sides at once". |
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| 23 | 254 |
Sometimes, indeed, a girl would single out a desirable male in the crowd and signal to him in no uncertain manner that she begs to wear his collar, and that she wants only the opportunity to become for him a dream of love and pleasure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 568 |
He glanced once at Temione, who moved, frightened, but he did not signal to her to rise. |
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| 3 | 419 |
That is a command used often in tarsk hunting, a signal to ride the animal down, plunging your lance into its back or side. |
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| 13 | 38 |
I feared he might, in his excitement, with the closing on the barge, slip with the knife, when the attack signal was uttered. |
10 |
| 13 | 40 |
I sensed the signal would be soon given. |
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| 28 | 529 |
"Should I manage to reach Holmesk," he said, "I might be granted signal honors. |
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| 29 | 10 |
Thrice in our trek had we heard the sound of the marsh jard, our agreed-upon signal, warning us of danger. |
10 |
| 29 | 15 |
In our camps during the day, we had twice heard the same signal, alerting us to the passage of someone, in both cases, rencers, going about their business, fishing, gathering rence. |
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| 29 | 106 |
In this particular signal, one of several which, from city to city, might have similar import, the downward movement of the hand indicates that the girl is to kneel, the place where she is to kneel is indicated in effect by pointing, and the spreading of the fingers indicates how she is to kneel, in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 105 |
This happened so quickly, however, that it was doubtless accomplished not by the fellows at the bells apprehending that those most inward in the city had ceased to ring but rather in virtue of some signal, presumably conveyed from the Central Cylinder, a signal doubtless relayed immediately, success... |
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| 7 | 339 |
"She, in her own name, and in the name of the people and Home Stone of Ar, gives thanks to our friends and brothers of Cos, for the delivery of her city from the tyranny of Gnieus Lelius and for the liberation of her people!" At this point, doubtless by a prearranged signal, the great bars of the Ce... |
10 |
| 7 | 384 |
Peals of rejoicing rang from the signal bars about the city. |
10 |
| 9 | 807 |
It was interesting to see the varying alacrities of their response to this signal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 8 |
One knows when to place them before the bars because there is a signal, the ringing of a suspended bar, from somewhere outside. |
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| 9 | 9 |
At the signal one puts the empty bowls and the wastes vessel near the bars, and then assumes the indicated position, one of prone helplessness, facing the back of the cell. |
10 |
| 10 | 27 |
To be sure, I had then, warned by the signal bar, been prone at the back of the cell, helplessly spread-eagled. |
10 |
| 10 | 354 |
The original signal and its response constituted the exchange of a sign and countersign. |
10 |
| 10 | 957 |
"That was the first signal," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 1071 |
She seemed startled at this but, responsive to my command, and doubtless, too, not failing to comprehend the leash signal, rose swiftly to her feet. |
10 |
| 15 | 47 |
While they do this one's name is repeated, so that they will associate the name, which may then figure in a signal, with the scent. |
10 |
| 15 | 52 |
The signal given the two sleen rushed upon it and tore it to pieces, ignoring the other meat, to which they had not been given access. |
10 |
| 15 | 57 |
"Shall I give them the signal for you?" he asked. |
10 |
| 16 | 25 |
He must have given some signal to the musicians, for they began to play, softly, in the background. |
10 |
| 16 | 242 |
This time, doubtless in virtue of some arrangement with, or signal conveyed to, the musicians, it was an extreme adagio melody to which I must move. |
10 |
| 19 | 70 |
The flash was not unlike that from mirrors used as signal devices in the mountains. |
10 |
| 19 | 74 |
The flash of the mirrors, the sight of the smoke signal, the glimpse of a fire, such things, it might be recollected, convey their message at the speed of light, far faster than a tarn can fly, incomparably more swift, even, than the flighted sound of a distant bar. |
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| 31 | 590 |
His lips parted, to utter the signal that would unleash the quarrels. |
10 |
| 37 | 143 |
Both of these sleen had also been imprinted, I knew, with the scent, and some name, or signal, associated with the peasant, and could be set upon him. |
10 |
| 43 | 146 |
I did not doubt but what it was a prearranged signal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 292 |
Tutina, of course, must await the consent, the signal, of the older woman. |
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| 5 | 19 |
There was a man outside sometimes, a doorman, or guard, who attended to the admittance, and egress, on a signal, of the young ladies. |
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| 15 | 113 |
She supposed that he must have received some signal from her master to do this. |
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| 15 | 114 |
The guard then withdrew, apparently having received some signal to do this from her master. |
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| 16 | 1075 |
It is not a chronological classification; it is a signal that he regards her as lying within an ideal prey range for his aggressive dispositions. |
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| 17 | 1038 |
She then felt two tugs, the signal, she knew from her training, that she was to be led, imminently, that she must be ready, at the next tug, to follow docilely, an obedient domestic animal, on her tether. |
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| 17 | 1054 |
There was a pause then, as though a signal might have been awaited, or a permission granted, by as little as the nod of a head. |
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| 19 | 242 |
"Give the signal," said Portus. |
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| 19 | 245 |
"Give the signal". |
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| 19 | 557 |
Portus lifted his arm, and Fel Doron, and Tersius Major, behind him, acknowledged this signal. |
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| 19 | 656 |
He made no move to signal the train of tarns nor did he rush to sound an alarm. |
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| 20 | 270 |
How then could he signal them? Then, to her amazement, she sensed that something was very different in the tarn train, and realized, with a start, that the line connecting the tarn and basket of Tersius Major and the following tarns and baskets was free, perhaps cut. |
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| 20 | 281 |
There seemed to have been signals exchanged, or at least a signal given by Tersius Major. |
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| 20 | 282 |
Had that signal been intended for Portus Canio and Fel Doron, or for others? Others, surely. |
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| 20 | 283 |
Indeed, perhaps Portus Canio and Fel Doron were aware of the signal, it forming a part of their plans. |
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| 20 | 284 |
This must then be the rendezvous? It seemed there had been a responding signal, far off. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 384 |
It was a signal, doubtless, perhaps of warning, of alarm, perhaps a sign of urgency, perhaps a signal for recall, for regrouping or retreat. |
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| 1 | 1094 |
Tarl Cabot lifted his head, for he had detected the feeding signal, the odor connected with the liquid food dispensed through the tube at the height of the cylinder. |
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| 15 | 31 |
It is a signal to the Kurii, thought Cabot, a clear indication, far more clear than killing her in the forest, that they understand the Kur ruse, and that they may expect such stratagems to be not only ineffective, but to result in the savage demise of a perhaps valued pet, or slave. |
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| 18 | 29 |
Amongst Kurii nibblings and bitings are common, not to injure, but rather to signal that harm, which might be done, is not done. |
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| 21 | 65 |
"Yes," said Cabot, "of war, and the march, sometimes to measure the stroke of oars, occasionally to signal the opening and closing of markets, of gates, and such". |
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| 31 | 58 |
"We set the fire, as a signal, three nights ago," said Cabot. |
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| 31 | 59 |
"This might be the signal that it was seen". |
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| 31 | 61 |
"Lord Grendel would not know it was your signal," she said. |
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| 56 | 76 |
The forces of Agamemnon, forewarned, had, at a signal, it was later determined, closed or covered their eyes, opening them, adjusted as they had been for the darkness, a moment later, and opened fire. |
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| 80 | 153 |
Down at the gate a Kur, who had perhaps been waiting for this signal, turned aside, disappeared for a moment beyond the wall, and then, in another moment, reappeared, together with another Kur, and another figure, one much smaller. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 257 |
This was, I supposed, a signal to return to the ship. |
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| 5 | 399 |
I now suspected the meaning of the signal smoke near the bow of the round ship, and why she had recalled her longboat, had swung about and unfurled her sail. |
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| 16 | 12 |
"Three-strap," I called, and Ichiro blew the signal, and the flock turned downward and to the right. |
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| 16 | 67 |
I gave the signal for putting arrows to the string, and drew my tarn up, over the cavalry, to better observe the outcome of the exercise. |
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| 16 | 271 |
At that moment, from high above, I heard the war horn of Ichiro, signaling the alarm, and then the signal to mount. |
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| 19 | 227 |
In a few Ehn I gave a signal and, one by one, so that they would be immediately visible within the stable I had the lighting of six fires begun, lit at intervals of twenty Ihn, these fires to ring the threshold of the stable. |
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| 25 | 1 |
A Lantern Will Fail to Convey its Signal in Due Course; I Am Invited to an Interview Outside the tent I stopped, and lifted my head, and looked up, into the night, to the stars. |
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| 26 | 61 |
By means of such beacons, fire by night, smoke by day, an alarm, or signal, or message, could be conveyed a thousand pasangs in a matter of Ehn. |
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| 26 | 89 |
I supposed the downed rider would have the signal lantern, and might make his presence known to searchers. |
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| 32 | 20 |
In response to this signal a long column of men, in rows of ten, mercenaries, armed and accoutered, came about the platform, made its way to the beach, spread itself along the water's edge, in five rows of pairs, and then turned, so that these rows of pairs, of which there was a large number, faced ... |
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| 37 | 41 |
A signal was conveyed by a banner from the stern castle of the great ship, and the hammers struck again. |
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| 38 | 520 |
I now expected to hear once more the whistles from the stern castle, which would now be the final signal, or warning, that prior to casting off. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 58 |
The consistent, repetitive ringing of a bar is a signal of alarm, a sound much dreaded. |
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| 15 | 38 |
I remembered the signal, the beacon. |
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| 16 | 74 |
"Men have been about," I said, "there has been noise, shouting, the bar was hammered, to signal an alert". |
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| 21 | 1 |
I Fear Disorder; The Signal; Slaves are Returned to their Mats I stood at the rail, with many others. |
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| 21 | 23 |
"I have not seen the signal," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 21 | 31 |
"We shall await the signal," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 21 | 145 |
"In any event, it is from this coastline that the signal is to rise," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 21 | 149 |
"Something may be told from the signal". |
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| 21 | 150 |
"Or," said Lord Nishida, "if there is no signal". |
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| 21 | 153 |
"There will be no signal," said Lord Okimoto, "if our presence is unnoted". |
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| 21 | 157 |
"No," said Lord Okimoto, "not without the signal". |
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| 21 | 171 |
I gathered this was a precaution, taken to minimize the chances of missing a possible signal. |
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| 21 | 266 |
"Thus," said Cabot, "it seems only one signal, the red, would suffice". |
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| 22 | 220 |
Now, however, to a new drum signal, hurrying between suddenly opening, evenly spaced gaps in the enemy forces, we saw what must have been one hundred to one hundred and fifty archers, with the large Pani bows. |
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| 22 | 244 |
Although I could not read the signal, its import was clear. |
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| 22 | 268 |
We waited in place, as did our foes, for the signal of the drum. |
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| 25 | 2 |
Obviously I did not wish to signal her out, suggesting that she might be of special interest. |
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| 33 | 302 |
"No," I said, "it is the signal of a new docking, a round ship, doubtless". |
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| 33 | 309 |
"Is the signal commonly so vigorous?" asked the stranger. |
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| 36 | 373 |
The grating is raised, which is a signal to fish in the vicinity that a feeding is at hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 336 |
But, strangely, it seemed no ordinary noise, some sort of signal, or a revelation of a mood, but a subtly articulated stream of sound, and scarcely had it ceased than I heard Gorean, the words clearly sounded, but oddly spaced, produced, apparently, by means of some sort of device, some sort of mach... |
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| 10 | 41 |
This was a signal, to a trained animal. |
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| 10 | 50 |
Again he administered the simple leash signal. |
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| 15 | 135 |
Was I to stay here all night? I then became afraid, even though it was the middle of the night, that I might be apprehended in the market, in the morning, when guardsmen, at the praetor's signal, opened the market to the stallsmen, merchants, and dealers. |
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| 15 | 315 |
That is the signal to move. |
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| 15 | 317 |
If the slave follows her master, no such signal is required. |
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| 15 | 359 |
Shortly after dawn the lantern on its pole at the edge of the market of Cestias would be extinguished, and, a bit later, the market pennon would be hoisted to the height of the pole, above the lantern arm, after which, at the praetor's signal, guardsmen would open the market. |
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| 24 | 34 |
"It was a mistake to signal your band," said Desmond. |
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| 24 | 36 |
"Was there a response to your signal?" asked Desmond. |
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| 24 | 48 |
"May I inquire the purport of your recent signal to your band?" asked Desmond. |
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| 24 | 56 |
"Do not signal them to act," said Desmond. |
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| 29 | 22 |
The guard, who now had the translator slung about his neck, presumably that it might be convenient, as I was about, reached back and, with a small mallet, removed from a peg, struck a hanging bar, which emitted a sharp, clear note, in response to which signal a second Kur shortly appeared at the por... |
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| 35 | 237 |
"And how," he asked, "does the house obtain its advantage? Are there apertures in the ceiling through which an accomplice, perhaps with a glass, might somehow signal the house's player, are there loitering observers nearby, in a position to read cards, and convey signals?" "I do not think so," I sai... |
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| 49 | 40 |
The larl had been stationed near the exit of the Cave by the food signal, which it had come to recognize. |
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| 49 | 45 |
From the larl's point of view, which had been given the food signal, it seemed that that which emerged from the Cave must either bring food or be food. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 9 | 184 |
There must have been a signal from the forest, a particular signal, I thought, to bring us to shore here. |
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| 9 | 63 |
There must have been a signal of some sort. |
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| 10 | 28 |
"That is the signal?" I asked. |
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| 25 | 20 |
The bars may also mark other Ahn, depending on the city, and may serve as a signal of alarm, of sorrow, of victory, of celebration, and such. |
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| 26 | 136 |
He suddenly lifted his hand, and I heard then the first stroke of the bar, beginning to signal the tenth Ahn. |
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| 38 | 11 |
If these additional forces were beyond the reach of the whistle, so far that not even their lari might take note of the signal, I was to return to Shipcamp, and bring men, following the river west. |
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| 38 | 252 |
Two raised their spears, a common signal of readiness before an engagement. |
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| 50 | 773 |
Perhaps it was he who had put her in the gown, to signal her out for envy and derision. |
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| 52 | 243 |
"We have received the signal from the dock," he said. |
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| 52 | 279 |
"We are expecting any Ehn now the signal that the second whistle has sounded; then we must leave". |
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| 52 | 280 |
I supposed a keen ear could hear the whistle from across the width of the Alexandra, but those on this side of the river were apparently reading a flag signal, or such, informing them of the state of departure. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 239 |
"Signal Ichiro, on the summit, signal, 'Retreat' and 'Scatter'! 'Retreat' and 'Scatter'!" The large object now turned about, gracefully, the large, slow-moving wings orienting it. |
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| 1 | 154 |
Surely there had been no signal arrows from the lower posts, no torches, no cries of warning. |
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| 2 | 62 |
Again the mighty appendages found their beat, and the bird again sped, with no altered signal from the straps, on the course I had set. |
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| 2 | 174 |
He, or they, had lit their tiny signal, and I, in the madness of my rage and shame, had failed to understand, and respond. |
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| 3 | 55 |
The branch on which I had stepped was isolated; it was no prepared device of warning, a signal meaningful to one who might be alert, even in sleep, to that particular tiny sound. |
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| 4 | 130 |
The fire of life within him did not seem to me that much different from the small, pathetic signal fire, that tiny beacon, now dying, which he had set in the darkness. |
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| 9 | 57 |
Apparently, at a common signal, well over two thousand Pani warriors had had recourse to the ritual knife. |
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| 9 | 73 |
At this signal hundreds of hitherto prostrate Pani, armed, sprang up, and began to fall on the looters, many of whom had cast away weapons, that they not be encumbered in bearing away their booty. |
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| 11 | 23 |
"I must raise the flag at the castle," he said, "on the closing of the courtyard gates, to signal the beginning of the cavalry attack on the camp of Lord Yamada. |
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| 11 | 304 |
A signal of light, from either the second or third parapet, or from a window of the castle, would be far more likely to be noted". |
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| 25 | 203 |
The other Ashigaru was looking down, toward us, presumably waiting to see if a small movement by the shogun, a nod, a lifted hand, a dismissive gesture, would signal that the criminal would be dislodged, to plunge to the pool below. |
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| 31 | 18 |
"It took you long enough to respond to my signal," he said. |
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| 31 | 19 |
"It took you long enough to signal," said the leader of the intruders. |
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| 31 | 40 |
"The girls," said he whom I had taken to be the innkeeper, "would abide our sham, giving not the least signal of our deception, or have their throats cut". |
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| 41 | 89 |
He at point, he first in our group, should be able, easily, and at a distance, to detect the approach of a squad of searchers, and will be able to signal us, enabling all of us, if all goes well, to disappear amongst the tents. |
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| 44 | 43 |
Banners on the summit of the holding could signal it instantly. |
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| 44 | 67 |
"Signal Ichiro on the summit," I said. |
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| 44 | 68 |
"Signal 'Saddles' and 'One-strap'". |
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| 44 | 159 |
"That I might be slain for treachery, if all did not proceed as planned?" "You may command from here, by the summit, by flags and signal horns," said Lord Temmu. |
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| 50 | 229 |
"The confirmation device, the authentication signal, the sign, the password, is simple," said the first beast. |
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| 61 | 170 |
Had I been in the wilderness, a small fire, visible only from above, would signal my position. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 180 |
This small signal, I conjectured, might hearten those about, generating some hope that I might recover. |
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| 18 | 45 |
This signal may be repeated". |
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| 32 | 205 |
"Perhaps you know the signal upon which your conjectured bowmen will fire?" "Ela," said Kurik, "I do not". |
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| 32 | 217 |
So, claim the package now, friend, or I will issue the signal and, in the instant, you will have two quarrels in your back". |
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| 39 | 44 |
"I think we might now signal our distress, and assure our friends that we are well aware of our plight". |
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| 49 | 111 |
In short, the truce standards were raised, and hundreds of men, from each army, came onto the field, gathered up the birds in their helmets and the basins of their shields, and returned to their respective camps, where the birds were nursed, being warmed and fed, and, two days later, on a common sig... |
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| 60 | 274 |
There was then a roar in Kur that coursed through the stands amongst the Kurii therein, that was taken up by the Kurii about, on the ground, those apparently waiting for the sounding of the trumpet, to signal the new hunt. |
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| 61 | 483 |
Attack upon my signal". |
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| 63 | 154 |
There was a blast on a horn, a bugle, trumpet, or such, and the formation, as a single flock, ascended sharply; another signal and it veered to its left; another and it descended to perhaps two hundred feet, far off now, and then veered to its right, and then returned to its original line of flight,... |
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| 65 | 207 |
"Upon my signal," cried the first voice, "loose your quarrels". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 66 |
Chance bestowed upon us a signal advantage, as, delightfully, an independent fire broke out on the wharves, originating in the house of Flavius Minor. |
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| 33 | 122 |
"The signal has been answered," whispered Bruno of Torcadino, with satisfaction. |
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| 33 | 141 |
It had responded to the signal of the man in the bow of the canal boat. |
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| 37 | 168 |
One hopes to accommodate oneself as perfectly as possible to the least signal from the captor's grasp, to the least whim or caprice of his will. |
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| 40 | 356 |
Did the feast not signal that? Much intelligence of interest had apparently been gained from the interrogation of Dorna. |
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| 45 | 18 |
When I give the signal, flee". |
10 |
| 45 | 172 |
I also noted that the blue and yellow lanterns had been removed from the signal pole of the skerry. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 92 |
"Signal the helmsmen to approach," I said. |
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| 4 | 102 |
"A child could ignite the signal powder and discharge such a weapon". |
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| 21 | 100 |
"Each of my spies has a secret device, a signal, a reference, a code phrase, a password, that sort of thing". |
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| 27 | 162 |
"The last time," said Melete, angrily, "the quarry ship did not respond to our signal. |
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| 28 | 41 |
"We have no way to signal a ship!" cried Iantha, "no whistling, climbing, streaming flares, visible for pasangs". |
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| 30 | 14 |
These latter men would receive the reports of spies, and, should the Cove of Harpalos be seized by the enemy, signal us from high crags before we returned to port, possibly proceeding into a trap. |
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| 31 | 2 |
They had approached it, this group, some four hundred we conjectured, cautiously, as inconspicuously as possible, and had then, say, a hundred yards from the gate, crouching down in the grass, waited for the signal of attack, and then the rushing forward, the shouting, and the brandishing of weapons... |
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| 32 | 8 |
Had there been I would have expected a point with flankers to the side, proceeding through the grass, each of whom would be in contact, by sound or visual signal, with the column itself. |
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| 32 | 55 |
He fitted a signal arrow to his bow, an artifact whose nature and use I had learned from the high warriors of the Pani, the men of two swords, at the World's End. |
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| 32 | 62 |
Well before the signal arrow had begun its descent, Thurnock had set a fresh arrow to his string and no sooner had the missile begun its descent than one of the corsairs, one in a crested helmet, knelt in the road, perhaps unclear as to what had occurred, and then collapsed. |
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| 41 | 217 |
At a given signal, the blasting of trumpets, the clashing of cymbals, the whistling of smoke arrows, the beating of drums, or such, the timbers are removed by ropes or blows, not fire, as fire is unpredictable and slow. |
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| 42 | 11 |
In the vicinity, awaiting my signal, were some three hundred men, mostly citizens of Mytilene, armed with pikes, knives, spears, stones, axes, hammers, chains, and clubs. |
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| 42 | 66 |
"Extinguish the lamps and torches, and prepare, on my signal, to light them again". |
10 |
| 50 | 114 |
We must now signal Tab on the Dorna to separate from us and proceed alone. |
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| 51 | 85 |
At seventy Ihn I tensed, preparing to slash my hand downward, at which signal the oars would be thrust outboard, be poised, would enter the water together, and the keleustes, his mallet already lifted, would deliver his first blow to the metal-headed drum. |
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| 52 | 117 |
"Ho!" cried a mariner on the stern deck of the Dorna, pointing abeam, to his starboard side, "a mast, a mast!" "That is a signal," I said, "the raising of a mast". |
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| 52 | 125 |
The other four ships had then raised their own masts, acknowledging the signal. |
10 |
| 55 | 24 |
"Thurnock," I called, "signal the Dorna to come alongside, and see to the lashing of the ships together". |
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| 57 | 158 |
"On my signal," I said. |
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| 58 | 136 |
"So signal the Dorna," said Sakim. |
10 |
| 58 | 237 |
"Signal that all is well," I said. |
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| 60 | 313 |
"Let me then signal the crews and ready ourselves for departure". |
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