| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 20 |
It is at night that the sleen hunts, that six-legged, long-bodied mammalian carnivore, almost as much a snake as an animal. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Sleen In the darkness I stumbled on toward the walls of Ko-ro-ba, striking the stones of the road with the butt of my spear, to keep on the road and to drive possible serpents from my path. |
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| 4 | 32 |
Most likely it was a sleen, hopefully a young one. |
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| 4 | 38 |
It was indeed a young sleen, not more than eight feet long, and it lacked the patience of an older animal. |
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| 4 | 57 |
Now that I had not seen the lights of Ko-ro-ba, as I would have expected, it struck me more forcibly that I had not even seen the lights of peasant cooking fires glowing in the hills surrounding the city, or the torches of rash sportsmen who hunt the sleen by night. |
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| 4 | 76 |
I had hardly moved another step when, in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur dark, slick with rain, its fangs bared, its wide nocturnal ... |
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| 4 | 81 |
Another flash of lightning and I saw the sleen on its belly chewing on the shaft of the spear, its wide nocturnal eyes unfocused and glazed. |
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| 4 | 82 |
My arm was bloody, but the blood was mostly that of the sleen. |
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| 4 | 86 |
In the next flash of lightning I saw the sleen was dead. |
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| 4 | 90 |
Then, as sleen hunters do, for luck, and because I was hungry, I took my sword and cut through the fur of the animal and ate the heart. |
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| 4 | 91 |
It is said that only the heart of the mountain larl brings more luck than that of the vicious and cunning sleen. |
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| 4 | 94 |
"Did you, Oh Dark Brother of the Night, think to keep me from Ko-ro-ba?" How absurd it seemed to me that a mere sleen should have stood between me and my city. |
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| 4 | 97 |
Was the sleen not familiar with that saying? I shook my head, to clear it of the wild thoughts. |
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| 4 | 105 |
The darkness returned, and in the next flash of lightning I examined the blood again, but it was only blood, the blood of a sleen I had killed on the road to Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 4 | 108 |
I stood up, and wiped the spear as well as I could on the fur of the sleen. |
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| 8 | 18 |
Whereas there is status in the capture of a free woman, there is less risk in the capture of a slave; the pursuit is never pressed as determinedly in their cases, and one does not have to imperil one's life for a girl who might, once the Robes of Concealment have been cast off, turn out to have the ... |
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| 13 | 151 |
"Sleen," cried he, "you have spoiled the Amusements of Tharna!" Two warriors hastily unbolted the horns from the yoke and dragged me to the golden wall. |
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| 14 | 80 |
The Tatrix decreed it is only to be used in the Amusements, to feed on sleen like you". |
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| 21 | 58 |
"And she is as hard to manage as a sleen". |
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| 22 | 47 |
"Now that you know," she asked, "what will you do with me? Will it be the oil of tharlarions? Will you throw me to leech plants? Will you stake me out for your tarn, use me to bait a sleen trap?" I laughed, and she looked at me, bewildered. |
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| 26 | 25 |
Other Silver Masks had taken refuge in the mountains beyond the walls and these were hunted like sleen by converging rings of irate peasants, who drove them into the center of their hunting circles, whence, unmasked and bound, they were herded to the city to meet their fate. |
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| 26 | 126 |
I have found it at the tables of sword companions and in the clash of the metals of war, in the touch of a girl's lips and hair, in the blood of a sleen, in the sands and chains of Tharna, in the scent of talenders and the hiss of the whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 165 |
"A hundred men," said Misk, "allowed themselves to be chained to the foot of her couch where she would upon occasion, that they might not die, cast them scraps of food as though they might have been pet sleen". |
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| 17 | 170 |
"Remember that as you are to the bosk and the sleen so are we to you". |
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| 25 | 107 |
There was, I could see, a pair of sleen in one case, and two larls in another pair of cases, with a sliding partition between them. |
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| 26 | 3 |
No, I would take no chances with this girl, whom I knew to be as treacherous and vicious as the nocturnal, sinuous, predatory sleen. |
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| 30 | 44 |
"Sleen," I cursed him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 423 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" she cried. |
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| 11 | 404 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" I followed Kamchak down the steps of the wagon and, blinking and still sensible of the effects of the paga, gravely held open the large dung sack near the rear left wheel of the wagon. |
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| 19 | 145 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" cursed the girl. |
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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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| 5 | 17 |
As we passed among the wagons I leaped back as a tawny prairie sleen hurled itself against the bars of a sleen cage, reaching out for me with its six-clawed paw. |
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| 10 | 328 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" Kamchak roared with laughter and turned the kaiila away. |
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| 10 | 371 |
"You sleen! You filthy sleen! Come back! Come back!" I heard her pulling at the rings and kicking at the post. |
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| 19 | 143 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" cursed the girl. |
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| 26 | 261 |
"I will shatter the golden sphere!" Slowly Kamchak, and Harold and I, and the sleen keeper, dragging the two sleen, moved backwards. |
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| 1 | 54 |
It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. |
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| 2 | 43 |
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness. |
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| 2 | 44 |
These animals, trained prairie sleen, move rapidly and silently, attacking upon no other provocation than trespass on what they have decided is their territory. |
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| 2 | 107 |
The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under ... |
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| 3 | 57 |
"And willingly would I do so, Koroban sleen," he spit out. |
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| 5 | 8 |
I heard a haruspex singing between the wagons; for a piece of meat he would read the wind and the grass; for a cup of wine the stars and the flight of birds; for a fat-bellied dinner the liver of a sleen or slave. |
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| 5 | 16 |
The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe... |
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| 5 | 18 |
There were four other prairie sleen in the cage, a small cage, and they were curling and moving about one another, restlessly, like angry snakes. |
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| 5 | 20 |
They are also used if a slave escapes, for the sleen is an efficient, tireless, savage, almost infallible hunter, capable of pursuing a scent, days old, for hundreds of pasangs until, perhaps a month later, it finds its victim and tears it to pieces. |
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| 7 | 19 |
Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe... |
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| 8 | 116 |
I had been troubled that the shock of her radical transposition between worlds, coupled with her reduction to servitude, might disarrange her mind, might shatter her and make her worthless to the Tuchuks, who might then have simply cast her to the kaiila and herd sleen. |
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| 8 | 159 |
Kamchak made her walk back and forth once or twice, and spoke to her rather sharply about her posture, then, to the surprise of both Miss Cardwell and myself, he did not chain her, but told her she might walk about the camp unattended, warning her only to return before dusk and the release of the he... |
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| 8 | 431 |
"Tuchuk sleen!" she cried, eyes flashing. |
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| 9 | 147 |
There had been a magician, who particularly pleased Kamchak, and a man who, whip in hand, guided a dancing sleen through its paces. |
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| 9 | 237 |
"Two years ago," said Kamchak, "in such a place at such a time—you recall it was then you called me a Tuchuk sleen". |
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| 9 | 242 |
"It was then," he said, "that you turned away, calling me a Tuchuk sleen". |
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| 9 | 267 |
"How comes it," asked she, "that a Koroban rides in the stinking wagon of a Tuchuk sleen?" "The wagon does not stink," I said, "and Kamchak of the Tuchuks is my friend". |
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| 9 | 273 |
I was puzzled at this, for throughout much of the evening there had been entertainment, the jugglers, the acrobats, the fellow who swallowed fire to music, the magician, the man with the dancing sleen. |
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| 9 | 371 |
It had been at that time that she had called him a Tuchuk sleen, presumably because he had dared present her with a gift. |
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| 9 | 401 |
"Bold Tuchuk sleen!" he hissed. |
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| 9 | 429 |
There were cries on all sides, "Slay the Tuchuk sleen!" "Torture for him!" "The oil of tharlarions!" "Leech plants!" "Impalement!" "Tongs and fire!" But Kamchak seemed unmoved. |
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| 9 | 478 |
"Unless you permit it," said Kamras sternly, "I may never have an opportunity to cross steel with this barbaric sleen". |
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| 9 | 483 |
There was a cry of delight from the crowd, confident now that the Tuchuk sleen would be fittingly punished for his bold use of the richest daughter of Turia. |
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| 10 | 118 |
Now, again, Elizabeth, visibly shaken, ill, realized that she might, should it please Kamchak's whims, be sold or exchanged with the same ease as a saddle or a hunting sleen. |
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| 10 | 318 |
"Are you prepared to die, Sleen?" she inquired. |
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| 10 | 327 |
"Sleen!" she cried. |
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| 10 | 336 |
"I shall stand quietly here until the sleen is slain". |
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| 10 | 357 |
"Can you not remember, Sleen," asked the girl, "the face of Aphris of Turia?" "My memory is vague," said Kamchak. |
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| 10 | 364 |
"You sleen!" "What do you think?" asked Kamchak. |
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| 10 | 373 |
"The sleen!" she cried. |
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| 10 | 381 |
"I do not know if I will fight for any of them," he said, "they are all she-sleen, she-kaiila". |
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| 11 | 43 |
"Sleen," she wept. |
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| 11 | 55 |
"Surely you are aware," said Saphrar, "that a slave cannot own property—any more than a kaiila, a tharlarion or sleen". |
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| 11 | 68 |
"Sleen!" she screamed at him. |
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| 11 | 69 |
"You stinking sleen!" "Be careful," warned Saphrar, "how you speak to the richest man in Turia!" Aphris wept and pulled at the retaining rings. |
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| 11 | 90 |
"Do you recall," asked Kamchak, "one night two years ago when you spurned my gift and called me sleen?" The girl nodded, her eyes frightened. |
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| 11 | 293 |
"Beware of the herd sleen," said Kamchak. |
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| 11 | 321 |
"Sleen!" cried the girl. |
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| 11 | 340 |
"Sleen!" she wept. |
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| 11 | 403 |
"Sleen!" she cried. |
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| 12 | 8 |
The trailing would undoubtedly be done by trained herd sleen. |
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| 12 | 316 |
"Get up, Little She-Sleen," said Kamchak, amused, "or to preserve my honor I must have you impaled". |
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| 13 | 4 |
"Do not release the hunting sleen," I pleaded with Kamchak. |
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| 13 | 6 |
With misgivings I observed the two, six-legged, sinuous, tawny hunting sleen on their chain leashes. |
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| 13 | 10 |
"I know," I said, "—the herd sleen". |
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| 13 | 13 |
He hoisted himself to the saddle of his kaiila, a prancing and trembling hunting sleen on each side of the animal, the chains running to the pommel of the saddle. |
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| 13 | 16 |
Before I could remonstrate with the angry Tuchuk the hunting sleen suddenly seemed to go wild, rearing on their hind legs, scratching in the air, dragging against the chains. |
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| 13 | 25 |
The sleen were trying to get at her and she had backed away against the wagon, watching them warily. |
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| 13 | 44 |
"If I had known that," said Kamchak, "I would have had the sleen out last night". |
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| 13 | 88 |
"No!" But Kamchak was pulling her by the bracelets toward an empty sleen cage mounted on a low cart near the wagon, into which, still braceleted, he thrust her, then closing the door, locking it. |
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| 13 | 130 |
"I can't keep her in a sleen cage forever," Kamchak said. |
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| 13 | 142 |
Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r... |
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| 14 | 17 |
Kamchak took her roughly by the arm and shoved her stumbling toward the sleen cage where, holding the bars, frightened, knelt Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 14 | 33 |
With these he hurriedly conferred and then I saw him lift his arm and red war lanterns were moved on ropes to the top of poles, and, to my amazement, aisles seemed to open in the densely packed bosk before the men, herdsmen and herd sleen moving the animals back to clear long grassy passages between... |
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| 15 | 53 |
I had heard, from a master of hunting sleen, that the Omens were developing predictably, several to one against the choice of a Ubar San. |
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| 15 | 63 |
When he returned that night from the wagon of Kutaituchik to his own wagon he strode angrily to the sleen cage where he had confined Aphris with Elizabeth during the putative attack. |
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| 15 | 71 |
Roughly Kamchak took her by the arm and thrust her into the sleen cage beside the miserable Elizabeth Cardwell. |
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| 15 | 80 |
"They will not run away—let them wait like she-sleen in their cage—not knowing on which day the iron will come". |
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| 15 | 87 |
"Leave me!" Kamchak, once a day, at night, the hour in which sleen are fed, would throw the girls bits of bosk meat and fill a pan of water kept in the cage. |
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| 15 | 91 |
When the wagons were to move, Tuka was to walk beside the cart of the sleen cage, drawn by a single bosk, and with a bosk stick guide the animal. |
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| 16 | 172 |
"Tuchuk sleen!" "May I introduce," inquired Saphrar, "Ha-Keel of Port Kar, chief of the mercenary tarnsmen". |
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| 17 | 32 |
This reasoning also led me to suppose that it would not be likely to be anything like a water sleen or a giant urt from the canals of Port Kar. |
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| 19 | 141 |
"Sleen!" she hissed. |
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| 21 | 199 |
"You know we have hunting sleen in Turia?" "Yes," I said, "I know". |
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| 23 | 204 |
There was no sign of either Aphris or Elizabeth, either about the wagon, or in the overturned, broken sleen cage in which, when I had last seen them, Kamchak had confined them. |
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| 24 | 30 |
Certain cities, burned by the Wagon Peoples more than a hundred years ago, were still said to be desolate ruins between their broken walls, silent save for the wind and the occasional footfall of a prowling sleen hunting for urts. |
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| 24 | 144 |
"From the sleen cage?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 145 |
"She was not in the sleen cage the morning of our return from Turia with the tarns," said Harold. |
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| 25 | 114 |
A girl who does what you did might be maimed or thrown to sleen or kaiila, and that he touched you with the whip, the Slaver's Caress, that was only to show me, and perhaps you, that you were female". |
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| 26 | 97 |
On Kamchak's right there walked a master of sleen, who held two of the vicious, sinuous beasts in check by chain leashes. |
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| 26 | 124 |
"Sleen!" cried Saphrar, and turned and ran deeper within the house. |
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| 26 | 126 |
In the main hall he looked about and then, Harold and I following, and the man with the two sleen, and the slaves with gold, and his archers and other men, he began to walk his kaiila forward, across the broad marble tiles, following the terrified Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 26 | 134 |
He dismounted and picked up a lounging garment from the vast sleeping platform in the room, holding it to the noses of the two sleen. |
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| 26 | 136 |
The two sleen seemed to drink in the scent of the robe and then they began to tremble, and the claws on their wide, soft feet emerged and retracted, and their heads lifted and began to sway from side to side. |
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| 26 | 142 |
Kamchak now gave his kaiila to a subordinate and, on foot, carrying torch and quiva, began to prowl down the passage, beside him the two snarling sleen, behind him Harold and I, and the rest of his men, several with torches, even the slaves with gold. |
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| 26 | 143 |
Guided by the sleen we had no difficulty in following the track of Saphrar through the passage, though often it branched variously. |
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| 26 | 149 |
Kamchak did not seem disturbed at the wait, but sat like a rock, cross-legged before the opening, looking across it, until planks were brought, and then he, and the sleen, were the first to cross. |
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| 26 | 175 |
"Save your gold, Tuchuk sleen," said the young man. |
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| 26 | 186 |
"Never, Tuchuk sleen, never!" Kamchak turned to certain of the warriors with him. |
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| 26 | 200 |
The two sleen were snarling and pulling at their collars. |
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| 26 | 256 |
He then waved them, and the others, with the exception of Harold and myself, and the sleen keeper and his animals, back several yards. |
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| 26 | 302 |
Near me Kamchak said, quietly, "Release the sleen. |
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| 26 | 304 |
I heard the chains loosened and the two sleen bounded from the room, eyes blazing. |
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| 26 | 309 |
The sleen keeper stood nearby, the chain leashes loose in his hands. |
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| 26 | 332 |
Suddenly, far off, we heard a weird scream, high, wavering, and the shrill howls of frustrated sleen. |
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| 26 | 339 |
Then, saying no more, Kamchak, the rest of us following, left the room, guiding ourselves by the distant, frustrated howls of disappointed sleen. |
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| 26 | 341 |
At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers... |
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| 28 | 8 |
I recalled how cruel she had been to Elizabeth in the long months she had been with the Tuchuks, and how she had tormented her even when she was helpless in the cage of a sleen, mocking her and poking at her with the bosk stick. |
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| 28 | 18 |
Following this, she untied the thong from the root and permitted the girl, thong still streaming from her nose ring, wrists still bound behind her, to run for her master's wagon, but pursued her each foot of the way like a hunting sleen, administering innumerable stinging incitements to greater and ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 544 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" I cried. |
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| 2 | 119 |
The eyes of tiny Hup were screwed shut, his body shivering like that of an urt clenched in the teeth of a sleen. |
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| 4 | 6 |
The Hurt, raised on large, fenced ranches, herded by domesticated sleen and sheared by chained slaves, replaces its wool four times a year. |
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| 5 | 29 |
Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occ... |
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| 6 | 70 |
"She-sleen," hissed Ho-Tu. |
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| 12 | 372 |
There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca... |
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| 15 | 221 |
By the end of the twelfth week of their training they were eating well, and by the end of the fifteenth, very well, generally low-calorie foods, nourishing, a good amount of protein, diets supervised as carefully as those of racing tarns or hunting sleen; Elizabeth was the only girl who had, so to s... |
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| 17 | 825 |
I had heard it cry out and knew that it was not a sleen, nor a larl. |
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| 18 | 541 |
"You sleen!" I cried. |
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| 21 | 357 |
"Boastful sleen!" cried Relius. |
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| 23 | 79 |
"Sleen!" cursed Cernus. |
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| 23 | 80 |
"Sleen!" The three Taurentians turned and ran from the room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 72 |
Throughout the afternoon and evening, unhurried, Telima and I, like a prowling sleen, circled the barges, and, when it pleased us, loosed another of the long shafts of the great bow. |
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| 9 | 62 |
I had learned that beneath the hide of men burned the hearts of sleen and tharlarion, and that their moralities and ideals were so many cloaks to conceal the claw and the tooth. |
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| 9 | 133 |
The nearest solid land was about one hundred pasangs to the north, but it was open land, and, there, on the edges of the delta, there were log outposts of Port Kar, where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes' edges. |
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| 9 | 134 |
The vicious, six-legged sleen, large-eyed, sinuous, mammalian but resembling a furred, serpentine lizard, was a reliable, indefatigable hunter. |
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| 9 | 138 |
Hunting sleen are trained to scent out and destroy escaped slaves. |
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| 9 | 140 |
Tuchuks, in the south, as I recalled, had also used sleen to hunt slaves, and, of course, to protect their herds. |
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| 10 | 59 |
Though his helmet still bore the two golden slashes, it now bore as well a crest of sleen hair, permitted only to captains. |
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| 10 | 222 |
I did once carry, however, a hold of chained slaves, and, another time, a hold filled with the furs of the northern sea sleen. |
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| 10 | 326 |
I saw Lysias, with his helmet, with the two golden slashes, with its captain's crest of sleen hair, on the arm of his curule chair. |
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| 11 | 1 |
The Crest of Sleen Hair The Captains leaped from their chairs, crying out. |
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| 11 | 8 |
Then I saw that Lysias, with the captain's crest of sleen hair on his helmet, had not stirred from his chair. |
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| 11 | 317 |
As Lysias spoke he walked back and forth before the table, his cloak swirling behind him, his helmet, with its captain's crest of sleen hair, in the crook of his arm. |
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| 11 | 613 |
I gathered up my cloak, and my helmet, it with the captain's crest of sleen hair, and left the chamber. |
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| 13 | 13 |
As I spoke, the Ubar of Cos, Lurius of Jad, and the Ubar of Tyros, Chenbar of Kasra, the Sea Sleen, who was visiting Lurius on matters of state, sat unspeaking upon their thrones. |
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| 13 | 165 |
He carried, in the crook of his left arm, a helmet, bearing that crest of sleen hair that marks a captain of Port Kar. |
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| 14 | 210 |
When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna,... |
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| 14 | 249 |
Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades. |
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| 14 | 267 |
As it plunged through Thassa we had slipped, as swiftly as a sleen, from its path, knifing by a hundred yards past his port bow, and soon leaving him astern. |
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| 16 | 202 |
In this bold stroke I saw not the hand of Lurius, Ubar of Cos, but of the brilliant Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen. |
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| 17 | 373 |
Startled, Chenbar himself, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, drew his blade. |
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| 17 | 437 |
"Fight!" I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, against the wind, took flight and Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the manacles of a common slave, swung free below us, helpless and pendant in the furies of the wind and the sleeting rain, the captive of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar, a... |
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| 18 | 13 |
The Dorna now heaved and pitched like a snared sleen. |
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| 18 | 197 |
"At him!" cried Lysias, helmeted, the helmet bearing the crest of sleen hair, marking it as that of a captain. |
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| 18 | 618 |
For an instant, white-faced, wild, I saw below Lysias, with his helmet with its crest of sleen hair, and beside him, with the string of pearls of the Vosk sorp about his forehead, the rencer Henrak, who had, long ago, betrayed the rencers for the gold of Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 619 |
And behind them, in a rich swirling cloak of the fur of the white, spotted sea sleen, sword in hand, looking wildly about, was another man, one I did not know. |
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| 18 | 673 |
Then he fell at my feet, his helmet rolling to the side, blood on the sleen-hair crest, that marking it as that of a captain. |
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| 18 | 688 |
Claudius, with a cry of rage, the cloak of white, spotted fur of sea sleen swirling behind him, leaped at the boy, sword high, raining blows upon him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 258 |
We, and the wagons, passed between wooden sleds, with leather runners, on which there were squared blocks of granite, from the quarries east of Laura; and between barrels and hogsheads of fish and salt; and between bales of sleen fur and panther hides, from the forests beyond. |
10 |
| 8 | 259 |
I put out my hand and touched some of the sleen fur as I passed it. |
10 |
| 8 | 951 |
Far off, I heard the scream of a hunting sleen. |
10 |
| 8 | 990 |
"You silken little sleen," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 996 |
"She-sleen," he smiled. |
10 |
| 8 | 1171 |
It would not be used to give my scent to domesticated sleen, trained to hunt slaves. |
10 |
| 9 | 8 |
Each girl wore, too, at her waist, a sheathed sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 105 |
Verna removed her sleen knife from her belt. |
10 |
| 9 | 129 |
The girl, clad like the others in the skins of forest panthers, who had held my leash, and now again held it, she who had bound me, her sleen knife again in its sheath, thrust her face toward mine. |
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| 9 | 136 |
She wiped the dirt and tumbled leaves from her sleen knife, which I had thrown from me, on the skins of her brief garments, and then replaced it in her sheath. |
10 |
| 9 | 158 |
"Sleen," said Verna. |
10 |
| 9 | 294 |
On its front, near the top, carved, cut into the bark with the point of a sleen knife, was a crude representation of opened slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 9 | 393 |
"Sleen," she whispered. |
10 |
| 9 | 400 |
There are, of course, many sleen in the forests. |
10 |
| 9 | 402 |
"Is it still there?" asked one of the girls, the one who had been able to detect the sleen earlier. |
10 |
| 10 | 412 |
"It is a sleen outside," said the man. |
10 |
| 10 | 414 |
"When I was brought here," I said, "twice the band caught the scent of a sleen". |
10 |
| 10 | 417 |
"Perhaps there were different sleen," I whispered. |
10 |
| 10 | 422 |
"Sometimes the sleen will follow a quarry for pasangs, before making its strike, lurking, approaching, withdrawing, then at last, when satisfied, attacking from the darkness". |
10 |
| 10 | 426 |
"It is the sleen," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 436 |
"The sleen was probably following the band," he said. |
10 |
| 10 | 442 |
Sleen are sometimes curious, and not infrequently resentful of the intrusion of strange animals into what they choose to regard as their territory". |
10 |
| 10 | 462 |
I could no longer hear the sleen now. |
10 |
| 10 | 619 |
The head of a sleen, eyes blazing, its long needlelike teeth snapping, thrust through the small, broken window, the shutters splintered to the side. |
10 |
| 10 | 624 |
The large, wide, triangular head of the sleen, its nocturnal eyes blinking against the sudden light of the fire, thrust further into the room, followed by its shoulders, then its right, clawed paw. |
10 |
| 10 | 626 |
The man, as though brought to his senses by the maddened cry of the beast, picked up the slave whip and ran to the window, striking the sleen, trying to drive it back through the window. |
10 |
| 10 | 627 |
But, as I watched in horror, I realized the sleen could not retreat. |
10 |
| 10 | 631 |
Then the man picked up a piece of wood, kindling, from near the fire, and struck the sleen. |
10 |
| 10 | 634 |
The sleen has six legs. |
10 |
| 10 | 637 |
Wildly the man bent down to the fire and picked up a piece of wood from the fire, burning, and thrust it toward the sleen. |
10 |
| 10 | 647 |
The sleen, hissing, one eye blazing, the other seared by the torch, maddened with pain, began to wiggle and squirm through the aperture. |
10 |
| 10 | 652 |
Then, with a cry of rage, it leapt toward the sleen. |
10 |
| 10 | 654 |
The sleen came through the window, scrambling through, biting and tearing. |
10 |
| 10 | 657 |
Then, with a horrifying snap of bone and tearing of flesh and fur the jaws of the beast bit through the back of the sleen's neck. |
10 |
| 10 | 658 |
It stood there then, holding the body of the sleen in its claws, its mouth dripping fur and blood. |
10 |
| 10 | 659 |
The body of the sleen twisted compulsively. |
10 |
| 10 | 665 |
Then the beast threw back its head and uttered a wild, horrifying scream, and fell to feeding on the sleen's carcass. |
10 |
| 10 | 667 |
"Do not feed! Do not feed!" The beast raised its head, half buried in the sleen's body, meat hanging from its jaws. |
10 |
| 11 | 401 |
"She-sleen," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 411 |
"She-sleen," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 775 |
Indeed, it would have been probable that I, naked and bound, alone, defenseless in the forest, would have died of exposure or fallen prey to panthers or sleen. |
10 |
| 11 | 776 |
My thoughts strayed back to that terrible night, when I fled from the hut, into the darkness, leaving the beast feeding on the carcass of the destroyed, bloodied sleen. |
10 |
| 11 | 790 |
Once I nearly stumbled on a sleen, bending over a slain tabuk, a slender, graceful, single-horned antelopelike creature of the thickets and forests. |
10 |
| 11 | 791 |
The sleen lifted its long, triangular jaws and hissed. |
10 |
| 11 | 794 |
The sleen returned to its kill. |
10 |
| 11 | 820 |
The rain would wipe out my trail! I might escape the beast! I doubted that even a sleen, Gor's most perfect hunter, could follow my trail after such a downpour. |
10 |
| 11 | 916 |
"Sleen, panthers, women," said the guard. |
10 |
| 11 | 974 |
"We must join the wagons!" "White-silk she-sleen," he said. |
10 |
| 12 | 111 |
He was dressed in skins, mostly those of sleen and forest panthers. |
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| 12 | 115 |
In certain of the cages, of heavy, peeled branches lashed together, there snarled and hissed forest sleen, in others there raged the dreadful, tawny, barred panthers of the northern forests. |
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| 12 | 116 |
From the poles there hung the skins and heads of many beasts, mostly panthers and sleen. |
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| 12 | 130 |
If it should please my master, I could, of course, be mated, as easily as a bosk or a domestic sleen. |
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| 12 | 159 |
To be sure, he could have had her fed to sleen, but he had not. |
10 |
| 12 | 165 |
Would one not do as much for another animal, a pet sleen, or such? But she had tried, unsuccessfully, to be sure, to bend him to her will. |
10 |
| 12 | 249 |
More carts of sleen and panthers, with huntsmen and slaves, were passing. |
10 |
| 12 | 260 |
Only from this pole, supported by the crossed diagonal poles, there hung no snared birds, no gutted tarsks, no drying skins of panthers or sleen. |
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| 12 | 457 |
Lana and I, and some of the other girls, ran to look at the cages of sleen and panthers, and the trophies. |
10 |
| 12 | 474 |
We looked, too, at the sleen and the panthers, and the skins, and the great, captive hith. |
10 |
| 13 | 336 |
"If we had hunting sleen," said the other, "and could find her trail, we would have her in our bracelets before dusk". |
10 |
| 13 | 887 |
"Sleen!" cried my captor. |
10 |
| 15 | 303 |
And in the belt of the garment there was thrust a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 15 | 318 |
In her belt she carried a sleen knife. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 25 |
My men carried sleen nets, as though they might be sleen hunters. |
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| 19 | 277 |
"I will tear out your eyes! I will cut your throat! She-sleen! She-sleen!" Sarus struck Hura, with the back of his hand, suddenly, knocking her head to one side, splattering blood across her teeth. |
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| 1 | 166 |
Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her... |
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| 2 | 187 |
"The price for a good sleen pelt is now a silver tarsk," said Arn. |
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| 2 | 265 |
"Sleen!" cried Arn. |
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| 2 | 266 |
"Sleen!" The girls cried out with fury. |
10 |
| 2 | 364 |
They have little respect for anyone, or anything, saving themselves and, undeniably, the beasts they hunt, the tawny forest panthers, the swift, sinuous sleen. |
10 |
| 2 | 511 |
She had now thrust her sleen knife into its belt sheath. |
10 |
| 2 | 741 |
Again the trees are blazed, but now, at the foot of the trunk, by the mark of a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 3 | 35 |
My business was to go to Laura, and there bargain for a hold of sleen fur, which might be taken south for much profit. |
10 |
| 3 | 36 |
Some eight to ten bales of sleen fur, highly prized, is a plausible cargo for a light galley. |
10 |
| 3 | 73 |
We passed, too, through goods which had been brought downriver from Laura, and would pass through Lydius, bales of sleen fur, and bundles of panther hides and tabuk pelts. |
10 |
| 3 | 74 |
There would be better prices on sleen fur, of course, in Laura itself. |
10 |
| 3 | 106 |
It is not unusual to encounter a fellow with a jacket of sleen fur, falling to his knees, sewn in the circle stitch of Scagnar, who wears upon his forehead a silken headband of Ar. |
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| 4 | 437 |
"The she-sleen!" laughed the proprietor. |
10 |
| 5 | 101 |
Where was there for her to run? In the forests there were sleen and panthers, and fierce tarsks. |
10 |
| 6 | 117 |
"We shall make a base camp, in accord with our putative interest in obtaining the skins of sleen," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 199 |
"It is not impossible," said Thurnock, "they are concerned with common trade, panther hides and sleen fur, and such". |
10 |
| 6 | 245 |
"Then," I said, "I expect you will fall in with sleen, or forest panthers". |
10 |
| 6 | 250 |
"But the sleen," she said, "the panthers!" "Kneel, and wait," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 335 |
We might be simply, as far as those in Laura knew, attempting to achieve better prices on sleen fur by establishing this camp. |
10 |
| 6 | 375 |
Within the Ahn, hungry, nocturnal sleen would slip from their burrows to hunt. |
10 |
| 6 | 585 |
In my absence some hunters and outlaws had brought sleen fur to trade. |
10 |
| 6 | 590 |
"The little she-sleen!" I observed Tina, carrying a pitcher of water to two of the men working at the side of the Tesephone. |
10 |
| 6 | 602 |
But we suspected that that was not the reason the little she-sleen wore the belt as she did. |
10 |
| 6 | 912 |
The shrill scream of a sleen, perhaps a pasang distant, carried to the camp. |
10 |
| 6 | 921 |
You braceleted me, and sent me into the woods, when sleen and panthers were hunting. |
10 |
| 7 | 7 |
I was not likely to encounter sleen until darkness. |
10 |
| 7 | 8 |
Panthers, too, hunted largely at night, but, unlike the sleen, were not invariably nocturnal. |
10 |
| 7 | 20 |
We had purportedly entered the forest to hunt sleen. |
10 |
| 7 | 195 |
When she saw me, she clutched, with her right hand, at the sleen knife in her belt. |
10 |
| 7 | 198 |
I knocked the sleen knife from her hand and rudely jerked her hands together before her body, securing them there with slave bracelets. |
10 |
| 7 | 304 |
The sleen is a burrowing animal. |
10 |
| 8 | 54 |
We would use sleen nets, casting them over more than one girl at a time, tying them together, making it impossible for them to utilize their weapons. |
10 |
| 8 | 67 |
We unrolled the sleen nets and loosened the knives in our sheaths. |
10 |
| 8 | 76 |
By twos, sleen nets slung between us, we moved to the huts. |
10 |
| 8 | 78 |
He gave a high whistle, shrill and sudden, and we, and the others, thrust through the portals of the hut, casting the sleen nets to encompass whatever might lie within. |
10 |
| 8 | 108 |
"Do not yet roll the sleen nets," I smiled. |
10 |
| 8 | 156 |
With his sleen knife he had pried the cork up a bit from the bottle. |
10 |
| 8 | 286 |
The Gorean slave trap is not held by a simple, heavy spring as would be the trap for a panther or sleen. |
10 |
| 9 | 16 |
At her belt was a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 88 |
She drew the sleen knife from her belt sheath. |
10 |
| 9 | 92 |
I felt the blade of the sleen knife at my throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 102 |
I again felt the edge of the sleen knife on my throat. |
10 |
| 9 | 132 |
Verna, idly, began to play at the side of my throat with the sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 259 |
She fingered the hilt of the sleen knife. |
10 |
| 9 | 348 |
Perhaps she might kneel, or lie, like a pet sleen, at his feet. |
10 |
| 9 | 367 |
She wore at her belt a sleen knife. |
10 |
| 10 | 3 |
He bent down, and with a sleen knife, slashed the binding fiber that fastened me between the stakes. |
10 |
| 10 | 117 |
At her belt was her sleen knife. |
10 |
| 10 | 262 |
He then bent down and, with his sleen knife, slashed the binding fiber that still fastened her left ankle to the stake. |
10 |
| 11 | 6 |
He had, too, taken two sleen alive, and four panthers, and these were in stout cages of wood, lashed together with leather. |
10 |
| 11 | 349 |
"And," I said, "in Laura there are trained sleen". |
10 |
| 11 | 352 |
The sleen is Gor's most perfect hunter. |
10 |
| 11 | 353 |
"Even," said Marlenus, "if we did not have the blanket the smell of the shelter in which she slept last night should be sufficient for the sleen". |
10 |
| 11 | 369 |
I thought of the fierce sleen, with their fangs and blazing eyes, long-bodied, six-legged, like a furred lizard. |
10 |
| 11 | 375 |
She will fear only that sleen, if we used them, might pick up her scent from the shelter in which she slept". |
10 |
| 11 | 451 |
"She-sleen!" wept Verna. |
10 |
| 11 | 494 |
With his sleen knife he freed the girl's arms and hands. |
10 |
| 11 | 532 |
He removed his sleen knife from its sheath. |
10 |
| 11 | 575 |
The huntsman resheathed his sleen knife. |
10 |
| 12 | 188 |
At my belt was a sleen knife; at my hip, in a verr-skin quiver, temwood sheaf arrows, nineteen of them, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the vosk gull. |
10 |
| 13 | 281 |
"The sleen," I said, "has sharp fangs". |
10 |
| 13 | 317 |
I slipped the sleen knife from its belt sheath. |
10 |
| 13 | 369 |
I carried sword, sleen knife, and bow with quiver. |
10 |
| 13 | 371 |
They might remain behind, naked and bound, tethered, as prey to sleen or panthers, did they wish. |
10 |
| 14 | 31 |
Already some of them had been mauled by sleen and other predators. |
10 |
| 14 | 49 |
As I left I heard a sleen scratching among the bodies beyond the palisade. |
10 |
| 14 | 193 |
If panthers came upon them in the night, or sleen, their cries would not serve to alert my enemies. |
10 |
| 14 | 209 |
"I am saving you for tomorrow, when, in the performance of my will, you will face dangers greater than those of sleen and panthers". |
10 |
| 14 | 298 |
On some I could hear the movement of the necklaces of sleen teeth tied about their necks, the shivering and ringing of slender golden bangles on their tanned ankles. |
10 |
| 15 | 348 |
It would provide some protection from cold night rains, and some protection, though less, against panthers and sleen. |
10 |
| 16 | 76 |
In all, throughout the day, the great bow had spoken forty-one times, and forty-one men of Tyros now lay scattered along the trail and in the forest, feed for prowling sleen. |
10 |
| 16 | 146 |
"We are staking you out for sleen," said Vinca. |
10 |
| 16 | 151 |
I handed my sleen knife to Vinca. |
10 |
| 16 | 172 |
"Let the slave," said Vinca, "be now staked out for sleen". |
10 |
| 16 | 176 |
"Leave her for the sleen," said Vinca. |
10 |
| 16 | 187 |
Soon, prowling about in the brush, some yards away, was a sleen, drawn by the smell of the fresh blood, her own, smeared on Mira's slave body. |
10 |
| 16 | 188 |
The sleen is a cautious animal. |
10 |
| 16 | 193 |
Movement will sometimes provoke the animal's charge, if within a certain critical distance, which, for the sleen, is about four times the length of its body. |
10 |
| 16 | 194 |
The sleen scratched about in the grass. |
10 |
| 16 | 204 |
It would have been the scream of a bound slave, naked, staked out for sleen. |
10 |
| 16 | 208 |
First the sleen began to lick the blood from her body. |
10 |
| 16 | 212 |
It struck the sleen on the side of the snout. |
10 |
| 16 | 218 |
After much snarling and growling the sleen turned to the side, its snout still stinging, and seized up the tabuk and disappeared in the brush. |
10 |
| 16 | 248 |
In her eyes there was still the fear of the sleen. |
10 |
| 18 | 186 |
This shelter would protect them from arrows, should they come, from the forest, and, by means of the fires, should discourage the too-close approach of either panthers or sleen, which animals, in any case, seldom leave the forest, seldom prowl on the beach. |
10 |
| 18 | 556 |
"But there were sleen, panthers, in the forest. |
10 |
| 18 | 566 |
"Better the bracelets of a master than the teeth of a sleen?" asked one of the men of Tyros. |
10 |
| 18 | 590 |
"It would be too bad," said the leader, "if beauty such as yours were torn to pieces by sleen". |
10 |
| 18 | 598 |
If any of us are dissatisfied, you will be left here for the sleen". |
10 |
| 19 | 66 |
I carried only my sword, in its sheath, and a short sleen knife, balanced. |
10 |
| 19 | 274 |
"She-sleen!" she screamed. |
10 |
| 19 | 275 |
"She-sleen!" "He made me do it!" she cried. |
10 |
| 19 | 276 |
"I had no choice!" "She-sleen!" screamed Hura. |
10 |
| 20 | 143 |
I heard, from one side, the laughter of Verna, and saw her briefly, a sleen knife in her hand. |
10 |
| 20 | 204 |
"Sleen!" cried Hura. |
10 |
| 21 | 53 |
He had failed his Ubar, Chenbar of Tyros, called the Sea Sleen. |
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| 22 | 390 |
With his sleen knife he cut the knotted loop of coffle leather from her throat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 97 |
Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve... |
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| 17 | 156 |
The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ... |
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| 1 | 44 |
"The Venna and Tela have arrived from Scagnar," she said, "with full cargoes of the fur of sea sleen. |
10 |
| 1 | 133 |
To be sure, carved in wood, high on the chair, was the helmet with crest of sleen fur, the mark of the captain, but I could not rise from the chair. |
10 |
| 1 | 143 |
How else could we tell ourselves from urts and sleen? What distinguishes us from such beasts? The ability to multiply and subtract, to tell lies, to make knives? No, I think particularly it is the sense of honor, and the will to hold one's ground. |
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| 1 | 398 |
"Coward! Traitor to your codes! Sleen!" cried Talena. |
10 |
| 1 | 407 |
"She is a she-sleen," said Samos, "vicious and ignoble". |
10 |
| 2 | 10 |
She wore, over her shoulder, a cape of white fur of the northern sea sleen. |
10 |
| 2 | 49 |
It had been he, and his men, who had freed Chenbar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, from a dungeon in Port Kar, breaking through to him, shattering his chains from the walls with the blunt, hammerlike backs of their great, curved, single-bladed axes. |
10 |
| 2 | 165 |
At night the men sleep on the deck, in waterproof bags, sewn from the skins of the sea sleen; in such a bag, also, they store their gear, generally beneath their bench. |
10 |
| 2 | 247 |
None, it seemed to me, was as excellent as the slender blond girl in the cape of white sea-sleen fur and scarlet vest. |
10 |
| 2 | 253 |
Her cloak, of black fur, from the black sea sleen, glossy and deep, swirled to her ankles. |
10 |
| 3 | 326 |
"Cowards! Sleen!" wept the blond girl. |
10 |
| 4 | 69 |
In the long winters of Torvaldsland, when the snow, the darkness, the ice and wintry winds are upon the land, when the frost breaks open the rocks, groaning, at night, when the serpents hide in their roofed sheds, many hours, under swinging soapstone lamps, burning the oil of sea sleen, are given to... |
10 |
| 4 | 109 |
The lookout stood upon a broad, flat wooden ring, bound in leather, covered with the fur of sea sleen, which fits over the mast. |
10 |
| 4 | 147 |
He wore trousers of the fur of sea sleen. |
10 |
| 4 | 243 |
"Free!" "Would you not, my large-breasted beauty," said he, "like to spend the night with me in my bag of the skin of the sea sleen?" "No!" she cried. |
10 |
| 4 | 313 |
There is also, however, some danger in this, for sea sleen and the white sharks of the north occasionally attempt to tear such a girl from the oar. |
10 |
| 5 | 92 |
"Thorgard is quite proud of his great longship," he said, "the serpent called Black Sleen". |
10 |
| 5 | 163 |
The ship of Thorgard, Black Sleen, was no more than some fifty yards away. |
10 |
| 5 | 184 |
There was consternation on the deck of Black Sleen. |
10 |
| 5 | 186 |
The prow of Black Sleen, sluggishly, I thought, turned in our wake. |
10 |
| 5 | 202 |
Far behind us Black Sleen, reputed to be the fastest ship in the north, struggled, under oars and sail, to match our pace. |
10 |
| 5 | 212 |
Soon Black Sleen was visible not even to the lookout. |
10 |
| 5 | 220 |
"The name of the ship of Thorgard of Scagnar," I said, "is Black Sleen. |
10 |
| 5 | 229 |
The wrists of the bondmaids were fettered behind their backs; their ankles were tied; they wore the coffle rope of the north; and their mouths, with waddings of sleen fur, and strappings of leather, were tightly gagged. |
10 |
| 5 | 302 |
I heard a moan from the longboat, and saw something, under a fur of sea sleen, move. |
10 |
| 6 | 446 |
"It is well known," I said, "that you freed Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, Ubar of Tyros, from the chains of a dungeon of Port Kar, your fee being his weight in the sapphires of Schendi". |
10 |
| 6 | 452 |
"You have already," I said, "accumulated one hundred stone of gold and the weight of Chenbar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the sapphires of Schendi". |
10 |
| 6 | 495 |
Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel... |
10 |
| 6 | 503 |
Too, he had, in his ship, Black Sleen, hunted us at sea. |
10 |
| 7 | 221 |
"No sleen did this," said I. |
10 |
| 8 | 28 |
On each post of the chair, carved, was the head of a snarling sleen. |
10 |
| 8 | 116 |
"Uncork it for me, you sleen," said she. |
10 |
| 8 | 232 |
To one of the wharves of the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar, silently, like the serpent of the sea it was, carrying two lanterns at its prow, came Black Sleen. |
10 |
| 8 | 247 |
Almost noiselessly oars dipped, bringing us closer to the hull of Black Sleen. |
10 |
| 9 | 31 |
Pet sleen are taught to heel; so, too, sometimes, are bondmaids; I was familiar with this sort of thing, of course; in the south it was quite common for slave girls, in various fashions in various cities, to heel their masters. |
10 |
| 9 | 53 |
After she had walked about, he had said to her, "Are you ready to heel?" "I am not a pet sleen!" she had cried. |
10 |
| 9 | 70 |
Twice in the afternoon Gorm struck away sea sleen from the girl's body. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away. |
10 |
| 10 | 31 |
The men of the country of Ax Glacier fish for whales and hunt snow sleen. |
10 |
| 10 | 35 |
"The talmit of skin of sea sleen is mine!" he laughed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 138 |
The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet. |
10 |
| 7 | 721 |
"Capture!" cried another lad, coming from the direction of the sleen pen, where the sleen, shortly before, had hissed and squealed, revealing their agitation. |
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| 8 | 93 |
Distracted by the first sleen, that in pursuit of Chanda, I had not even seen this sleen, whose brain was alive with my scent, circle me and approach. |
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| 8 | 137 |
What hope had a girl for escape on a world which contained sleen? How completely we belonged to our masters! There are many varieties of sleen, and most varieties can be, to one extent or another, domesticated. |
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| 8 | 271 |
How foolish I had been! Had I thought, truly, I might escape? Did I not know that there was no escape for the Gorean slave girl? How merciful Thurnus, my master, had been! He had not hamstrung me, or thrown me as feed to his sleen! He had only struck me, and only twice! I remembered the sleen knife. |
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| 9 | 1978 |
A sleen leash was attached to her collar and she was conducted, crawling, on all fours, as a she-sleen, lashed more than once with the free end of the leash, this hurrying her, to the rape-rack in which I had been earlier confined. |
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| 22 | 58 |
The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 652 |
The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen. |
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| 26 | 98 |
If the snow sleen had taken the scent of sleen in this area it might well be one or more sleen wandering on the ice, sleen driven by hunger from the inland areas. |
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| 26 | 352 |
In less than an Ahn Imnak, to my amazement, left the half-constructed shelter, and, walking among gorged sleen, and feeding sleen, and dead sleen, went to the drift and began to carry blocks back to the shelter. |
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| 1 | 237 |
Kurii respect the sleen, and that says much for the sleen, for its courage, its ferocity and its indomitable tenacity. |
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| 1 | 250 |
I shared bits of the heart of the sleen with my men, and, together, cupping our hands, we drank its blood in a ritual of sleen hunters. |
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| 20 | 51 |
A fellow after him sang a sleen song, usually sung on the water, encouraging the sleen to swim to where he might strike them. |
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| 20 | 181 |
I looked at the high meat racks, some with tiers, some twenty feet or more in height, to protect the meat from sleen, both those domesticated and the wild sleen that might prowl to the shores as the hunting, the leems hibernating, grew sparse inland. |
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| 25 | 10 |
Imnak's sled was drawn by a snow sleen borrowed from his friend, Akko, and Ram's sled was drawn by another snow sleen, replacing the one the Kur had slain outside the camp. |
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| 25 | 52 |
Sleen harnesses and traces are hung on a pole, thrust upright in the snow, to protect them from being eaten by the sleen. |
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| 25 | 87 |
"On!" called Imnak, taking his place behind his sled, and cracking the long-bladed sleen whip over the snow sleen, Akko's beast, which was in his traces. |
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| 26 | 284 |
Then the sleen were outside, some twenty or thirty feet away, dark on the ice, though they were snow sleen. |
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| 26 | 329 |
I looked out, across the ice, understanding then the effectiveness, the hideous efficiency, of the sleen trap which Imnak had so swiftly constructed, the sleen pack nearing the shelter as he had worked. |
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| 26 | 355 |
Some fifteen or twenty sleen had been killed, all by other sleen in the pack. |
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| 27 | 4 |
The reversion frenzy of our sleen had passed quickly, even by the time the first shelter had been constructed, but we had left it tied, loosening its jaws only to feed it, because of the presence of the wild sleen in the vicinity. |
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| 27 | 94 |
"It is unlikely that sleen, new sleen, would come this far out on the ice," he said. |
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| 35 | 1109 |
They were detaching many of the snow sleen from the sleds, to be used as attack sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 545 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she said. |
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| 4 | 548 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she wept. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 623 |
A trained sleen in a sleen market will usually bring a higher price than even a beautiful girl sold naked in a slave market. |
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| 14 | 1120 |
The sign for the Sleen tribe had been the same as that for the sleen, the resting of the middle fingers of the right hand on the right thumb, extending the index and little finger, this suggesting the animal's pointed snout and ears. |
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| 17 | 505 |
"What of the diversity you see about you," I asked, "say, of kaiila and sleen?" "One kaiila and one sleen are both one, which is one," said another fellow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 69 |
"But cannot a master," she asked, "sometimes feel some small affection for a property, even, say, for a pet sleen?" "Perhaps," I said, "but that would not mean, then, that the sleen was other than a sleen". |
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| 1 | 194 |
Hci angrily gestured to the string of sleen claws about his neck, the sign of the Sleen Soldiers. |
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| 4 | 255 |
Behind him, in a line, coming from the vicinity of the lodge of the Sleen Soldiers, the society lodge, came several members of the Sleen-Soldiers Society. |
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| 7 | 821 |
For example, although the Dust Legs and the Fleer are enemies, as are the Kaiila and the Fleer, the Dust Legs have dealings with the Sleen, and the Sleen, in turn, trade with tribes such as the Yellow Knives and the Fleer. |
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| 12 | 344 |
"The Dust Legs traded me to the Sleen," she said, "and the Sleen traded me to the Yellow Knives". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 423 |
We give the sleen something which, supposedly, bears the scent of the Tatrix, and then the sleen follows that scent, no differently than it might the scent of a wild tarsk or a yellow-pelted tabuk. |
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| 33 | 526 |
I then saw the sleen, a different sleen, thrust its snout deeply into the pile of garments. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1816 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she hissed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 723 |
"The sleen," he said, "and especially the gray sleen, is Gor's finest tracker. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 214 |
"Sleen, sleen!" she said. |
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| 13 | 160 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she cried. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 368 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she said. |
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| 22 | 375 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she cried. |
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| 26 | 414 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she wept. |
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| 26 | 565 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she wept. |
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| 27 | 394 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she cried. |
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| 27 | 1056 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" "Rask of Treve, I gather," I said, "refrained from igniting the slave fires in your belly?" "He preferred me, it seems," she said, angrily, "as the cool, reserved, distressed daughter of a Ubar, something dignified to be displayed, and worked, rather as a trophy". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 44 |
The five most common trainings are those of the war sleen, which may also be utilized as a bodyguard; the watch sleen, to guard given precincts; the herding sleen, which will kill only if the quarry refuses to be herded rapidly and efficiently to a given destination, usually a pen or slave cage; the... |
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| 10 | 979 |
There is also a sand sleen, a snow sleen, even some aquatic varieties, types of sea sleen, and so on. |
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| 33 | 59 |
There are also, as I understand it, prairie sleen, mountain sleen and snow sleen. |
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| 37 | 48 |
War sleen, watch sleen, fighting sleen, and such, when freed, would normally retain the collars, which are often plated and spiked, for the protection of the throat. |
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| 10 | 978 |
There are many varieties of sleen, incidentally, adapted to diverse environments; the most formidable, as far as I know, is the forest sleen. |
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| 15 | 74 |
That would be every sleen in the pit master's sleen pens. |
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| 24 | 588 |
In the corridors they met the war sleen and the hunting sleen of the pits. |
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| 33 | 57 |
The most common sleen in domestication, as I understand it, is the forest sleen. |
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| 37 | 847 |
The lieutenant, this officer of the men in the black habiliments, seemed as tenacious as might be a sleen itself, this world's finest and most relentless tracker, a sleen on its scent, single-minded, implacable, driven. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 181 |
"Most common are the forest sleen and prairie sleen. |
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| 13 | 182 |
The forest sleen are larger, and are solitary hunters, or, if mated, pair hunters; the prairie sleen are smaller, and commonly hunt in packs. |
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| 13 | 184 |
The forest sleen commonly buries its dung, thereby tending to conceal its presence; the prairie sleen, running in packs, and more widely ranging, commonly, does not. |
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| 17 | 460 |
"No sleen will hunt another sleen," said Lydia. |
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| 17 | 467 |
"How then," asked Ellen, somewhat emboldened, "are such sleen hunted?" "Sometimes by great encirclements," said Lydia, "but as the sleen is commonly nocturnal in the wild and can burrow quickly that is seldom effective. |
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| 17 | 970 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" she wept. |
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| 27 | 868 |
"I think they are domesticated sleen, trained hunting sleen," said Portus Canio. |
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| 27 | 2001 |
"They are hunting sleen, not war sleen," said a soldier. |
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| 27 | 2311 |
There seems to be some dispute as to whether the sea sleen is a true sleen or not. |
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| 27 | 2631 |
"Sleen!" "Prairie sleen," said a soldier. |
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| 27 | 2639 |
"They may have caught the scent of the gray sleen, the hunting sleen," said another, "and surmised them to be tracking, and then followed, for days, hoping to share the kill". |
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| 27 | 2734 |
"I was followed by sleen, two sleen," said the spokesman. |
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| 27 | 2953 |
"The sleen, the wild sleen, approach more closely". |
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| 27 | 3119 |
They had little to fear from sleen, they more terrible individually than most common sleen. |
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| 28 | 102 |
The prairie sleen is, incidentally, I have been told, much smaller than the forest sleen, which can upon occasion reach lengths of eighteen feet and weights of several hundred pounds. |
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| 30 | 352 |
"How dare you love a free man?" "May not even a she-sleen love her master?" "The she-sleen is a splendid animal," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 116 |
There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th... |
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| 18 | 118 |
* * * * Cabot understood that he would be unable to distance either sleen or Kurii, for the sleen is a swift, tireless tracker and the Kur, particularly when descending to all fours, its accouterments fastened to its body, can easily outrun a man, either in a short race, for speed, or in one ranging... |
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| 18 | 130 |
He elected, thus, to climb a small escarpment, some thirty feet from the ground, which would slow sleen in their ascent, and, with good fortune, allow him to defend himself for a time with the sharpened stick or pole, were the sleen loosed. |
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| 18 | 131 |
He was supposing it would be immaterial to the hunters whether he was brought down by sleen, which might have been wild sleen of the forest, one might speculate, or slain, supposedly by accident, with a cast of the mighty Kur spear. |
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| 18 | 229 |
A sleen is a dangerous animal, and a hungry sleen is additionally dangerous, and one who expects to be rewarded for a successful hunt, and is not so rewarded, is extremely dangerous. |
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| 19 | 58 |
On its six legs, belly to the ground, tail lashing, a wild sleen approached the hunting sleen. |
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| 19 | 67 |
The hunting sleen growled at the wild sleen. |
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| 19 | 71 |
The hunting sleen then rushed upon its wild fellow, and, in moments, after a brief, squealing, exploding, rolling, tangled bunching of fur, the wild sleen lay, eyes glazed, limp in the dirt, its throat still throbbing, discharging blood into the dirt. |
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| 19 | 77 |
The sleen was now burrowing his muzzle into the body of the wild sleen, chewing out the organ meat, delicacies most prized amongst carnivores. |
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| 41 | 98 |
Cabot set his hands between the teeth of the trap and, sweating, straining, eased them a little open, and his hands were covered with blood and torn hair, and the sleen watched him, and Cabot, grunted, fighting for breath, and opened the teeth a bit more, and a little more, and then the sleen, with ... |
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| 43 | 301 |
If this is not clear to a human, it is clear to us, and, of course, even more so to sleen, but then the sleen, as is well known, is a remarkable tracker. |
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| 47 | 138 |
It is not unknown amongst larls and sleen, but the sleen usually strikes for the throat and the larl, where practical, particularly after it has bled and exhausted its prey, bites through the back of the neck. |
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| 64 | 111 |
There were fewer such sleen, however, than Agamemnon realized, as traps had been set, one of which, we may recall, had snared the giant sleen, Ramar, and, too, humans, and their Kurii, had often defended themselves with vigor, often killing the animals, or, if their scent had not been taken, driving... |
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| 64 | 164 |
Too, most female slaves are worth less than a sleen, certainly less than a good sleen". |
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| 70 | 45 |
It may be recalled he had retrained the sleen in the forest, beginning with the translator, to substitute Gorean for Kur, such that the animal would now respond only to Gorean, and, as is usual with a sleen and single trainer, only to the particular trainer's commands. |
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| 70 | 52 |
Where might he find others? Too, whereas many Kurii, large Kurii, might manage, at least with good fortune, to survive the attack of a typical sleen, say, a smaller, wild sleen, the quarry, though large for a human, was not large for a Kur, and Ramar was an unusually large, dangerous animal. |
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| 73 | 246 |
Is the prowling sleen good or evil? It is the sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 688 |
I also saw sleen tracks near her, and could smell sleen on the leaves. |
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| 28 | 478 |
There was no doubt the attack had been by a sleen, as there were sleen tracks about. |
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| 41 | 42 |
The sea sleen is an unusual animal, presumably related somehow to the varieties of land sleen. |
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| 41 | 45 |
It is not fully clear whether the sea sleen is a marine adaptation of the sleen or a similar but independently evolved animal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 359 |
"Sleen, sleen!" cried abandoned mutineers. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 359 |
The hungry sleen may attack even a lari, which is likely to kill it; in the far north I am told snow sleen will hunt in packs, rather like swarming sea sleen, but the sleen, generally, like the lari, is a solitary hunter. |
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| 26 | 37 |
As I did not know a great deal about sleen, and animals sometimes differ considerably in their habits and temperament, and one usually hires both a sleen and a sleen master, I was not adverse to what I took to be his offer. |
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| 43 | 1266 |
It is not to be confused with the common sleen, or the aquatic sleen, the sea sleen, which are large animals. |
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| 8 | 320 |
"Sleen, sleen!" hissed one. |
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| 8 | 520 |
Round ships are the preferred prey of the "sleen of the sea," but the sleen, when hungry, do not disdain smaller prey. |
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| 25 | 333 |
Not three yards away, its motion arrested, there was a paused, crouching sleen, a wild sleen. |
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| 25 | 334 |
I knew it was a sleen, as I had seen them in Shipcamp, where some are kept and trained by sleen masters. |
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| 25 | 336 |
Domestic sleen are often larger and more aggressive than sleen in the wild, for they are bred carefully and selectively for a variety of purposes, war, herding, the hunt, and such. |
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| 38 | 110 |
I was surprised at the remark of the leader, as a sleen, a trained sleen, is commonly worth several slaves, just as a tarn is commonly worth several more. |
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| 39 | 516 |
"Sleen, sleen!" she cried. |
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| 41 | 110 |
I had not even obtained a good look at the sleen's use master, let alone his fellow, as by the time of his arrival, I was kneeling, bent down, my head to the dirt, my hands over my head, expecting the momentary attack of the sleen. |
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| 42 | 1 |
It was the morning of the day following the capture of the Panther Women, the appearance of the sleen in their camp, my experience with the beast, and its recovery by the sleen master. |
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| 42 | 126 |
And now it was that day, tomorrow, so to speak, the morning of the day following the capture of the Panther Women, that following my menacing at the jaws of a large sleen, and its fortunate, if somewhat belated, restraint by the sleen master. |
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| 42 | 141 |
What chance has a girl if a sleen is on her scent? I did not think they could catch me again, as, if all went well, there would be no sleen. |
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| 43 | 10 |
"Is it true," I asked, "that you can set a sleen on any quarry?" "Most sleen," he said, "with the 'Kill Command'". |
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| 43 | 300 |
"I do not think it would be wise to attack a sleen master in the presence of his sleen," said Genserich. |
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| 43 | 366 |
I, and surely Axel, who knew more of sleen than I, realized it would not be difficult to kill the sleen. |
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| 43 | 440 |
"Do you think I do not know a prime sleen, a tracking sleen, when I see one?" said Genserich. |
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| 43 | 924 |
The wild sleen is agile and dangerous, but it is seldom a match for the bred sleen. |
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| 44 | 38 |
But at the same time, given the consternation about, the commotion in the camp, the attack on Master Genserich, and his narrow escape, the attack of the sleen on the assailant, and the tearing and feeding of the sleen, the attention of all, or the thought of all, on such things, I realized that the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 32 |
But then a trained sleen will sell for more than most slaves, just as a tarn will commonly sell for more than several sleen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 172 |
I had no idea what a sleen, or sleen, might be. |
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| 42 | 104 |
"Sleen! Sleen!" screamed Pa-Kur, and then it seems that he himself withdrew. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 118 |
"As sleen with love, as sleen with honor," I said. |
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