| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 94 |
"See if you can slip the ankle ring," laughed Kazrak, and led me back among the supply wagons. |
10 |
| 18 | 66 |
I could see the tharlarion on which he rode, the figure of the Assassin, and the slip of a girl, in her white robe, who, beside the animal, walked like a Ubara, though barefoot and chained to its saddle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 22 |
At last I moved the corner of the large grille sufficiently to allow me to slip through to the floor beneath and then Vika followed me and I helped her to the floor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 579 |
The thrust must be made with exquisite lightness, the lance loose in the hand, the hand not in the retaining thong, but allowing the lance to slip back, then when clear, moving it to the left and, hopefully, past the living wand. |
10 |
| 21 | 53 |
The only person I saw more than once was a slip of a girl in Robes of Concealment and veil, a market basket on her arm, who, the second time, passed me, not noticing me. |
10 |
| 21 | 300 |
I managed to slip my blade through the ribs of one man and twist to avoid the thrust of the other. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 59 |
In tying such a knot, with the cord looped on the inside about the latch bar, and the knot too large to slip through the hole, I would have fastened the bar down. |
10 |
| 8 | 4 |
"I suppose not," she grumbled, slipping her slave livery over her shoulders, tying the slip knot on the left shoulder, and then, grimacing, rubbing her wrists and ankles. |
10 |
| 11 | 36 |
There was also a man in the green of the Caste of Physicians, standing at one side, writing notes on a slip of record paper. |
10 |
| 13 | 287 |
The major difference is the tautness of the reins between the two rings; the racing saddle, on the other hand, is only a slip of leather compared to the common tarn saddle, which is rather large, with saddle packs, weapon sheaths and paired slave rings. |
10 |
| 14 | 154 |
Then crouching over, with first one hand and then the other, she tried madly to push and slip the encircling, resisting steel over her other hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 163 |
One or two of the girls, giggling, tried to slip away, fleeing, but young men, laughing, caught them, and hurled them into the clearing of the circle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 492 |
We were not supposed to eat the berries, and I do not think Ute did, but I would slip them inside my mouth when the guard was not looking. |
10 |
| 9 | 327 |
They were notched, that binding fiber might not slip from them. |
10 |
| 10 | 129 |
He helped me slip it on. |
10 |
| 11 | 877 |
The bracelets were not tight, but I could not slip them. |
10 |
| 12 | 596 |
I could not slip it, of course. |
10 |
| 13 | 528 |
I must slip between their lines. |
10 |
| 13 | 588 |
The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat... |
10 |
| 16 | 127 |
I could not slip the manacle from my ankle; I could not free the chain from its ring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 33 |
She came through the kitchen door, in the tiny slip of diaphanous yellow silk allotted to paga slaves, bells locked on her left ankle. |
10 |
| 6 | 375 |
Within the Ahn, hungry, nocturnal sleen would slip from their burrows to hunt. |
10 |
| 11 | 85 |
Her one garment was a brief slip of diaphanous yellow silk. |
10 |
| 16 | 94 |
The wadding would not slip. |
10 |
| 20 | 102 |
It could no longer slip through the leather brackets. |
10 |
| 20 | 237 |
I saw Sheera slip away in the darkness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 165 |
The helmets of the north are commonly conical, with a nose-guard, that can slip up and down. |
10 |
| 10 | 478 |
The fetter was large on her wrist, but she could not slip it. |
10 |
| 14 | 49 |
I saw several of the Forkbeard's men manage to slip into one of the side rooms. |
10 |
| 14 | 58 |
It was my hope that she, and the others, could manage to slip away somehow, perhaps climbing to the catwalk, and dropping over the side of the palisade to the ground below. |
10 |
| 18 | 502 |
She wore a collar of gold, and earrings, and, torn and muddied, a slip of golden silk, of the sort with which masters sometimes display their girl slaves. |
10 |
| 22 | 250 |
"Slip from the tunic," I told her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 872 |
I saw Hamid, who was the lieutenant of Shakar, captain of the Aretai, slip swiftly behind hangings, a dagger, bloodied, held within his cloak. |
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| 7 | 83 |
I felt a trickle of sweat move down my left forearm, and slip under the iron on my left wrist. |
10 |
| 7 | 286 |
I smiled, seeing, in the confusion, the blood, drop by drop, slip to the door of the cell, move across the stones, out into the hall, and through the threshold, then up the twisting, narrow, concave stairs. |
10 |
| 7 | 288 |
It would have known it would not have had the time to wrench loose the bars and slip through the narrow window before being hacked to pieces. |
10 |
| 12 | 612 |
I noted one silken fellow, him with the ruby necklace, trying furtively to slip about the side of the room to the door. |
10 |
| 16 | 36 |
The weighted loop cannot slip back because each hook, in turn, preceding the sack being emptied, engages one of several pintles in the machinery, which is so geared that it can turn in only one direction. |
10 |
| 17 | 56 |
I lowered my hand and let the lelt slip again into the dark water. |
10 |
| 21 | 494 |
Perhaps then, in the sudden moment of confusion, one might slip within, behind it, invisible. |
10 |
| 21 | 586 |
It tore at the fine wire with its thick digits but they could not slip beneath it. |
10 |
| 22 | 22 |
I could have rigged a flat travois with shoulder harness, to slip over the sand, loaded with water and food, and could have traveled at night, but I had decided against this. |
10 |
| 24 | 22 |
"Ibn Saran," I said, "may slip through your fingers". |
10 |
| 24 | 582 |
"Ibn Saran does not wish his men to slip away, into the desert," I said, "so it may behoove him to be more generous with choice cutlets of the kasbah's best slave meat". |
10 |
| 25 | 538 |
I tightened the handles more and put in the locking device, that they might not slip back. |
10 |
| 26 | 361 |
She watched the sand slip through the glass. |
10 |
| 26 | 1257 |
One of the men of the kasbah put the sheet over her, in her turn, fully, to protect her from the sun; her head was then completely covered as well as her body; the sheet was then fastened in place, that it might not slip, with a cord, twice looped, tied closely about her neck; thus she, as the other... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 210 |
I could not slip a four ankle ring, of course; I could slip a four wrist ring, if it were set at four; most such wrist and ankle rings, however, are adjustable to 1, 2, 3 or 4. |
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| 1 | 70 |
But I could not slip the collar. |
10 |
| 2 | 445 |
The stranger's spear had penetrated the shield of he who was one of my captors, and the stranger, bracing the shaft between his arm and body, had lifted his opponent's shield and turned, throwing it and his opponent, who had not the time to slip from the shield straps, to the ground at his feet. |
10 |
| 2 | 662 |
I heard the sword slip free from his sheath. |
10 |
| 4 | 148 |
The slit made the garment, a rather snug one, easier to slip into; the two hooks, when fastened, naturally increased the snugness of the garment, drawing it quite closely about the breasts and hips; deliciously then, from the point of view of a man, the girl's figure is betrayed and accentuated; als... |
10 |
| 4 | 598 |
I had not been permitted, following the cruel game, to slip the Ta-Teera, my slave rag, again upon my body. |
10 |
| 5 | 298 |
I felt, from the side, his knife slip beneath the veils at my face and throat. |
10 |
| 5 | 423 |
It was as though they had invaded my house and taken my dress from me, forcing me to stand before them in my slip. |
10 |
| 5 | 434 |
It was as though my slip had been torn away by the invaders in my house. |
10 |
| 7 | 602 |
The flesh of a girl would be less likely to slip from their hands. |
10 |
| 9 | 2099 |
Thus, not only could I not hope to slip them, for such devices are not made to be slipped, but my wrists were fastened closely together. |
10 |
| 13 | 267 |
"But can the house let this little beauty slip its collar for a mere fourteen tarsks? Say, no, Noble Sirs!" "Fifteen," said a man. |
10 |
| 14 | 184 |
I did not even have time to slip the vessel on its strap over my shoulder. |
10 |
| 14 | 319 |
"Don't you want to slip your collar?" I asked. |
10 |
| 18 | 10 |
The red cord, or Curla, was knotted about my waist, tightly, the knot, a slip knot which might be loosened with a single tug, over my left hip. |
10 |
| 18 | 62 |
Although most taverns are open and a girl might simply slip out the door and run, there is little prospect of her flight's being successful. |
10 |
| 20 | 587 |
If I were free, I might hide, slip away, change identities, be in any one of a thousand cities, be untraceable. |
10 |
| 26 | 210 |
He unlooped the long leash at his belt, with its slip ring and snap lock. |
10 |
| 26 | 323 |
Quickly his large, efficient hands shortened the loop, sliding the slip ring to a snug fit, then securing it in place, preventing its backward movement, with the snap lock. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 766 |
Their ankles were confined in loose, steel ankle loops, but they could not slip them. |
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| 3 | 1355 |
This caused the chain to slip a bit through the collar loop. |
10 |
| 3 | 1374 |
I then doubled the chain and formed from it a slip loop, which I dropped over her head. |
10 |
| 6 | 702 |
"Surely men can slip through these patrols," I said. |
10 |
| 10 | 103 |
One ship would have done little to alleviate the distress, the danger of starvation, even had it managed to slip through the air blockade of the Kurii's tarnsmen. |
10 |
| 23 | 465 |
"I do not think an ice beast could slip past Karjuk," said Imnak. |
10 |
| 24 | 459 |
It was a small slip. |
10 |
| 35 | 645 |
"Note the slip knot on the sandal string," I said. |
10 |
| 37 | 113 |
I watched the great mountain of ice, which had been the sheathing of the complex, slip downward into the sea. |
10 |
| 38 | 196 |
It was a vanity of mine, I suppose, that I had let such things slip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 91 |
His men did not rush to the benches, slide back the thole ports or slip the great oars outboard. |
10 |
| 11 | 121 |
"If you would now excuse me," she said, coolly, "I would like to slip into something suitable for a woman". |
10 |
| 32 | 24 |
While the others held it I, with rocks, braced it that it might not slip backwards down the grade. |
10 |
| 53 | 195 |
I saw Msaliti draw his knife and slip to the side. |
10 |
| 53 | 332 |
I saw Bila Huruma slip to one knee. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 41 |
"Slip your tunic down to the waist," she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 107 |
She wore then only a light Gorean slip, white, which came high on her thighs. |
10 |
| 12 | 112 |
From the back I ripped apart the white slip until she lay upon it. |
10 |
| 31 | 134 |
The gate would not now slip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 110 |
Off our port bow we saw one of the pirate vessels slip beneath the muddy waters of the Vosk, a kill of the Mira. |
10 |
| 4 | 210 |
I saw a pirate galley slip under the water, near the chain. |
10 |
| 5 | 223 |
"We can slip away under the cover of darkness," said a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 419 |
Doubtless this attack would be postponed until morning, that the slaughter might lose nothing of its effect, some survivors perhaps being enabled, in small boats or in the water, to slip away under the cover of darkness. |
10 |
| 9 | 420 |
I turned in time to see the Tamira, stern first, slip under the water. |
10 |
| 17 | 276 |
Was that so terrible? But how fearful to slip outside the prescribed travesties and see oneself as one is! So few dare that. |
10 |
| 18 | 750 |
Such fiber does not slip. |
10 |
| 20 | 540 |
She now stood before us in what seemed to be a brief, silken, off-the-shoulder slip. |
10 |
| 21 | 12 |
"I cannot slip it," she had said, trying to force the collar from her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 286 |
Beneath the dress the girl was wearing was a full, knee-length slip of white silk. |
10 |
| 8 | 289 |
I saw, then, that the slip had small, over-the-shoulder straps. |
10 |
| 8 | 290 |
These were severed and then, cutting and ripping from the back, the auctioneer loosened the slip. |
10 |
| 8 | 300 |
"No," begged the suspended girl, "please, don't!" The slip was then lifted away from her body. |
10 |
| 8 | 315 |
The girl watched in horror as the remains of her silken slip was cast upon the flames, causing them to spring up anew. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 29 |
This action caused the hide blanket to slip to her waist. |
10 |
| 9 | 129 |
She, moving slightly, but mostly sitting as she was, let the hide blanket slip to her thighs. |
10 |
| 12 | 64 |
The girl, frightened, seeing our eyes upon her, tried to slip back, unobtrusively, among her fellow lovely beasts. |
10 |
| 22 | 127 |
A woman, of course, too, because of the glorious nature of her beauty, the sweet flaring of her hips, the lovely swelling of her upper body and breasts, cannot even begin to slip such a bond. |
10 |
| 44 | 456 |
I saw one of the war chiefs of the Yellow Knives, whom I remembered from the summer camp, on his kaiila, slip over the ledge. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 206 |
I let the coverlet slip to my hips. |
10 |
| 13 | 71 |
In that audience he had looked upon her as though she might not be likely to quickly slip his mind. |
10 |
| 16 | 59 |
I could not slip under the gate, or dig out under it, if the porter was there. |
10 |
| 16 | 136 |
I let myself slip down further in the ditch. |
10 |
| 21 | 12 |
I had then, tipping and lifting the trunk, been able to slip between the two iron bands which reinforced its strength, bands which joined with the hardware of the two locks, making it impossible to cut or saw around the locks. |
10 |
| 28 | 76 |
I pretended to slip slave silk from my shoulders. |
10 |
| 31 | 300 |
"Slip from the chair now," he said, "and go to all fours, and then, in this fashion, crawl ten feet away, and then turn and, in this fashion, face me". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1681 |
In such an arrangement the apparent security of a nether closure is a sham, of course, for the string is fastened with a slip knot at the left hip, convenient for a right-handed man, who may then strip the woman, commonly a slave, utterly, with as little as a casual, insolent tug. |
10 |
| 7 | 1 |
The Tent; I Slip from the Tent "Oh!" she wept, clutching me, squirming, helplessly pressing her embonded flesh against mine. |
10 |
| 10 | 344 |
Similarly her ankles were not cut or abraded as though she might have tried to slip the iron from her fair limbs. |
10 |
| 13 | 37 |
"Later we saw her slip from the camp. |
10 |
| 16 | 1236 |
If this matter should slip your mind, you will receive fifty". |
10 |
| 22 | 63 |
"Did he perhaps slip on the steps of your wagon?" "No," said Andronicus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 47 |
'Write,' he then said, and dictated to me this poem, which I, for my very life, hastily scribbled on this slip of parchment". |
10 |
| 13 | 71 |
We had not put the tethers on Feiqa and Tula because we feared they might try to slip away from us in the crowds, but to keep them with us, to make certain that they were not swept from us, or perhaps seized and pulled away into the crowd. |
10 |
| 16 | 427 |
I might slip from the city, without them, I thought. |
10 |
| 16 | 435 |
I wondered if I should slip from the city. |
10 |
| 25 | 1026 |
I saw her cut the strings of his purse and slip it inside her dress. |
10 |
| 26 | 315 |
Reaching forth I took it by its hair that I might locate it and hold it in place and moved the point of the quiva, the blade held sideways, that it might slip between the ribs, a tiny bit into its side, about half the width of a drop of blood. |
10 |
| 26 | 2000 |
Girls do not slip such collars. |
10 |
| 29 | 114 |
Too, they had permitted Achiates to slip away, in spite of the fact that he must have been engaged in the business of warning me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 319 |
I had belled myself as might have a slave, who knows that her bells must be on her tightly, firstly for psychological reasons, that she knows herself belled, and is conscious of all the erotic and humiliating richness of this, she, a belled animal, and secondly and thirdly, of course, for mechanical... |
10 |
| 6 | 87 |
Too, as I, locked in my hood, had foolishly permitted to slip my mind, there is often a guard there, towards its end. |
10 |
| 19 | 148 |
Whereas it is sometimes possible for a male to slip such a chain, because of his straight hips, they stay well on females. |
10 |
| 28 | 238 |
It was a slip knot, such that masters might remove it at a tug. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 151 |
"If the wagon slips," said the leader of the brigands, "we could be crushed, mangled beneath the wheels!" "See that it does not slip," I said. |
10 |
| 6 | 645 |
"I am sorry I am in the wrong space! I apologize! Forgive me! It was stupid of me!" The newcomer let him slip to the floor and the fellow hastily, crawling, fetched his belongings from space 99. |
10 |
| 8 | 502 |
In this way, as she wore slave bracelets, although she might slip, she could not fall, and her hands would be kept in the vicinity of the pommel. |
10 |
| 15 | 93 |
I would not slip. |
10 |
| 16 | 307 |
She could not slip down the spear because of the spear's insertion in the sheath. |
10 |
| 17 | 30 |
Many clung to the pole, as they could, and many strove to slip under it or climb over it. |
10 |
| 17 | 86 |
I saw one of Ar's Station run through, and slip to one knee, and then disappear back, over the interior edge of the walkway, probably to plunge to the rubble there, and then roll down to the court, behind the wall. |
10 |
| 18 | 355 |
Then she pulled her robes away from her shoulders and breasts, and then, a moment later, at an impatient movement of the sword, which made her wince, thrust them down over her hips, and let them slip to her knees. |
10 |
| 21 | 112 |
She felt the ankle rings and the chain between them, and the neck chain, and then, with each hand, she tried to slip the wrist ring from the opposite wrist. |
10 |
| 21 | 897 |
Then, suddenly, in a moment, as of panic, seemingly unable to help herself, she tried the chains, those on her wrists, trying to slip them from her wrists, then jerking at them, but they held her well. |
10 |
| 24 | 645 |
"The expeditionary force of Cos will never be able to slip between them and the river," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 289 |
Then, in the darkness, we might slip away. |
10 |
| 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 | 502 |
I could not slip to one side or the other. |
10 |
| 17 | 294 |
Often did the leather slip on the wet wood. |
10 |
| 28 | 40 |
Too, if attacked, it is easier to scatter and slip away in the darkness". |
10 |
| 46 | 10 |
There might be a chance, I thought, though I was not sanguine about it, for Ina to slip away there, or hide, or lose herself amongst others. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 97 |
The two usual modalities in which such folks work are to cut the strings of the wallet from the belt, carrying it away, or to slit the bottom of the wallet, allowing the contents to slip into their hand. |
10 |
| 7 | 146 |
"It will give me a chance to slip a knife into a few of these fellows," said Marcus. |
10 |
| 9 | 16 |
"You cannot slip them," said a man. |
10 |
| 17 | 301 |
I had known the ponderous fellow to slip up in such matters. |
10 |
| 20 | 362 |
I looked away, as she stood up, to slip it over her head and arms, and smooth it down on her body. |
10 |
| 22 | 424 |
Perhaps Appanius had let that slip his mind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 24 |
I could not begin to slip it. |
10 |
| 4 | 153 |
Sometimes that the tongue one speaks is not native to one is revealed by so little as an occasional slip in pronunciation, say, the shifting treatment of a consonant, perhaps under conditions of stress, such as anger, or fear. |
10 |
| 6 | 195 |
For example, I could never slip a chain on my waist, fastening me perhaps to a beam. |
10 |
| 7 | 455 |
I had, of course, in chains, and in ropes, learned what such as he could do to me, how they could bring me again and again, gently, surely, cruelly, as it might amuse them, to such a point, to such a delicate, exact point, to the very threshold of release, to the very edge of ecstasy, to where I was... |
10 |
| 10 | 915 |
I could not, of course, hope to slip such a tether. |
10 |
| 10 | 944 |
I still could not slip it, of course. |
10 |
| 13 | 127 |
Too, if I grew excited, or confused, I would surely betray myself by some slip. |
10 |
| 13 | 1501 |
One does not slip them. |
10 |
| 14 | 5 |
Such things, from training, and from force of habit, sometimes slip out. |
10 |
| 37 | 456 |
That their foe, blade in hand, in the darkness, might come through, either to do them greater injury or slip past them. |
10 |
| 44 | 72 |
I was afraid it would slip from my shoulders. |
10 |
| 45 | 76 |
I heard a knife slip from a sheath, a soft sound. |
10 |
| 46 | 155 |
I therefore guarded my feelings, confessing to no one the torment in my heart, occasioned by a mere branded slip of a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 192 |
She went to slip the two golden loops from her left wrist, but the young man shook his head, almost imperceptibly, negatively. |
10 |
| 11 | 216 |
"See the collar!" "How nicely it fits!" "Slip it, slut!" "Oh, you cannot, can you?" moaned another in mock sympathy. |
10 |
| 13 | 279 |
It might have snared even a man, so neatly and quickly it was slipped on its quarry, before he could thrust it from his straight, muscular, linear body, but, positioned as it was on Nelsa, a woman, nicely centered, between the flare of her hips and the swelling of her bosom, she could not even have ... |
10 |
| 16 | 65 |
She could not slip it. |
10 |
| 17 | 409 |
"It is only that I, poor business man that I am, generous creature and unwary humanitarian, let them slip from my grasp at bargain prices". |
10 |
| 17 | 1137 |
She could not slip the bracelets. |
10 |
| 19 | 469 |
In this fashion each has his own grip, and if one hand should slip, the other will hold. |
10 |
| 20 | 332 |
When they land, thought Ellen, I will try to slip away. |
10 |
| 25 | 162 |
She could not slip it, of course. |
10 |
| 25 | 804 |
Perhaps! Then show dear Mirus what he gave up, what a fool he was to let something like me slip away! If he would have me now he will pay and pay! He will pay dearly! I do not care if he would empty his purse! But he will not bid upon me because he would look like a fool to do so, after letting me g... |
10 |
| 30 | 704 |
You will not, of course, be able to slip it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 30 |
If he charges, thought Cabot, he may slip on the tiles. |
10 |
| 21 | 397 |
He wished, doubtless, to remain in the vicinity of the pet, lest the attacker might the more easily slip past him. |
10 |
| 36 | 239 |
"And should that slip her mind?" she asked. |
10 |
| 36 | 367 |
"These are metal! I cannot slip them!" "They are not intended to be slipped," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 40 | 73 |
"It is close-fitting, is it not?" "Yes, Master!" "It is locked on you, is it not?" "Yes, Master!" "Can you slip it?" he asked. |
10 |
| 42 | 86 |
She looked at them, once, wildly, startled, astonished to see them here, and then, regarding them, laughed merrily, and then, suddenly aware of her location and the press behind her in the now-narrowed passageway, admitting now only a single file, she turned about, and seized the small gate to her r... |
10 |
| 74 | 21 |
On rough ground other formations were more effective, smaller, coordinated groups of men, groups which, to the movements of standards, the blasts of horns, could break apart from other groups, rejoin, slip to the rear, be replaced with fresh groups, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 368 |
It is tied with a slip knot, which may be loosened with a casual tug, at the left hip, as most masters are right-handed. |
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| 3 | 164 |
It was the Gorean short sword, or gladius, light, easily unsheathed, convenient, designed for wickedly close work, to move behind the guard of longer, heavier weapons, to slip about buffeted shields or bucklers. |
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| 3 | 371 |
No hand is free, for example, to grasp a dagger, or slip powder into the drink. |
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| 5 | 186 |
It had been in my knapsack and I had managed to slip it free and let it fall to the snow, which it melted, for yards about. |
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| 11 | 21 |
It is fastened with a slip knot that it may easily, with a tug, be undone. |
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| 19 | 229 |
Shortly, even before the third fire was burning, there was movement within the stable as I had hoped and several foes, concealed within, realizing their danger, and the greater danger of morning, rushed outward, to slip away before the entire area might be illuminated. |
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| 27 | 119 |
One then has them raise their arms, and one can slip the tunic over them, perhaps jerking it down and tight, so that they will well understand that the garment is a slave garment, and is put upon them by a male. |
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| 42 | 22 |
My fingers began to slip from the fur. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 111 |
In a few Ehn I saw the first galley, to shouts of gladness, slip into the open water. |
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| 12 | 52 |
One can lose one's footing, particularly in heavy weather, or when the platform is iced, and slip between the platform and the ring, which is waist high. |
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| 17 | 33 |
Did the slut not know she was marked, incisively, unmistakably, and quite nicely; did she think she could slip a collar? I recalled her insolence in the place of dining. |
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| 24 | 23 |
Treasure in hand, from the Vine Sea, what more was to be gained on a dangerous shore, at the World's End? The orientation of the great ship, bow to sea, would allow it, should the fleet of Lord Yamada be sighted, to slip its moorings and escape the cove, to the security of the open sea. |
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| 28 | 176 |
Now that the feast was in progress, I felt I might slip away, unnoticed. |
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| 34 | 60 |
And sometimes, it must be mentioned, a veil might slip a little, or require some hasty, furtive, readjustment. |
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| 36 | 7 |
I had gathered that the movements of the forces of Lord Temmu were much restricted in the islands, with the result that an overseas trade, as it might slip through the blockades of Lord Yamada, might provide an access to goods otherwise less available, in particular, weaponry, missiles, cloth, leath... |
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| 37 | 620 |
"I could slip half of this into my purse," I said, "while you two are carrying on, as it is said, dizzy on the heights of desire, wandering on the roads of delight, lost in the forests of rapture, drunk on the wines of love, swimming about in one another's eyes, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 516 |
It is slipped over the head, and belted snugly, commonly with a double loop of thong or binding fiber, this fastened with a slip knot at the left hip, that it may be convenient to a right-handed man. |
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| 4 | 518 |
The slip knot at the waist of the camisk is similar to the disrobing loop at the left shoulder of some slave tunics, by means of which the garment may be conveniently removed, a simple tug loosening it, permitting it to fall gracefully about the ankles of its occupant. |
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| 9 | 245 |
I was looking up, from my knees, these positioned closely together, as though I might still be white-silk, when the woman's veil seemed to slip, as though inadvertently. |
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| 19 | 176 |
He then prepared to slip from the wagon. |
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| 20 | 52 |
Surely I should not have let those fateful words slip out. |
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| 23 | 120 |
Do not slip. |
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| 23 | 131 |
I gasped, as I saw his foot slip. |
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| 29 | 38 |
I tried to slip past him, but was prevented from doing so. |
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| 45 | 252 |
Then, when it is opportune, slip into the Cave". |
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| 46 | 67 |
I supposed that a mind as mighty and ambitious as that of Agamemnon, filled with the visions of grandiose ventures, frustrated by its dependence and limitations, encountering reverses, balked in its projects, might incline to irrationality, might slip into madness. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 68 |
The bars, too, are widely spaced, though not so widely spaced that a girl may slip between them, to enable customers, passers- by, and others, to enjoy a relatively unimpeded view of the goods to be offered later in the day A girl may be called to the bars, for a closer inspection, and she must, if ... |
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| 14 | 286 |
Could they not forget the past, and realize that the lovely, aroused, tethered beast at their disposal is now only another slave? And one supposes, as well, that many of these women, escaped from proscription lists, and perhaps wanted in Ar, were grateful for the opportunity to slip unnoticed into t... |
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| 15 | 779 |
What if I might dig roots, or venture out, to gather fire wood? It would be easy to slip between the wands and hurry away, into the forest. |
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| 20 | 1 |
I tried to slip the shackle from my ankle. |
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| 20 | 24 |
"You cannot slip your shackle," said Relia. |
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| 20 | 208 |
"Then slip your shackle," said Relia. |
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| 27 | 44 |
A boulder might slip, dislodged in the rain, and tumble down an incline. |
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| 31 | 18 |
It will be a raid, unanticipated and effective, over and done with before the enemy fully comprehends what has occurred, before any defense can be mounted, after which the raiders will slip away, returning to the forest, long before any pursuit can be organized. |
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| 38 | 300 |
"And should you slip your tunic," he laughed, "your sweet, pale body would stand out, as well". |
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| 39 | 61 |
Did we think we could slip the neck loops? But how foolish it would have been, too, to try to flee. |
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| 39 | 172 |
It would be easier to slip amongst the trees here than at Shipcamp. |
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| 50 | 4 |
A tunicked slave amongst tunicked slaves might attract little attention; she might even slip away again; a naked slave amongst tunicked slaves, on the other hand, is quickly noticed. |
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| 50 | 525 |
And, if she should slip it away, she would have no other, and would then be as easily noticed as any other stripped kajira. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 7 |
Darkness is the friend of assassins, of arrows springing from the night, and it may form the shield and shelter of the fugitive who might, upon the arrival of unwelcome intruders, slip away unseen. |
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| 5 | 16 |
What if Tajima might be unsteady, or falter? What if his foot should slip at the stirrup? What if his hands were not sure on the reins? "I am ready, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," he said. |
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| 13 | 482 |
Perhaps she unrolls a scroll and finds within it a slip of paper, "You are a slave," or perhaps on the very mirror of her vanity, drawn in grease pencil, she discovers an image, the small, lovely, cursive "Kef," much like the one which might be burned into her left thigh, somewhat below the hip. |
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| 16 | 62 |
"Perhaps," he said, "you would like to seize such a mount, and slip away, discourteously declining the hospitality of the shogun". |
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| 19 | 280 |
Then suddenly a slave rushed to the wooden, polelike bars, and pressed herself against them, as though she might slip through them, or burst them, reaching out, piteously, to Pertinax. |
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| 21 | 468 |
"Perhaps there is a way you might slip unnoticed from this garden," I said. |
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| 30 | 413 |
The thongs resided in the notches in the high ends of the stakes, so they could not slip. |
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| 38 | 15 |
Ideally, men might slip in small numbers through more than one opening in the bars. |
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| 38 | 113 |
"Crawl, slip through, take your leave, go!" Yards to the side I heard the movements of other men. |
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| 44 | 114 |
An urt would be fortunate to slip from the camp otherwise". |
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| 61 | 1251 |
I saw the wharf, water risen almost to the planks, begin to slip to the side. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 22 |
One can well imagine the feelings of a former Gorean free woman, who might have, in daring, scandalous boldness, occasionally allowed a glove to slip a little, affording a glimpse of wrist, finding herself exposed in public, tunicked and collared, only another slave. |
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| 13 | 33 |
I held the pan firmly down on the flat stone, that it might not slip. |
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| 14 | 145 |
It would not do, I perhaps faltering, to have any slip over the rim. |
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| 15 | 80 |
"Slip her into the slave sack," said Tullius Quintus. |
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| 22 | 22 |
"It is not here, of course," he said, "no parchment, no small scroll, no slip of paper, no tiny note, coded or not. |
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| 37 | 19 |
"I am surprised that a display slave could so easily slip her chains," I said. |
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| 37 | 20 |
"A girl does not slip her chains," she said. |
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| 37 | 22 |
Have you not worn them, felt their weight, felt them clasp your limbs, your throat, so obdurately? Do you think you could slip them? What is wrong with you this morning?" "Why are you here?" I asked. |
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| 42 | 199 |
"Surely you do not think this matter is so expeditiously settled," she said, "that you are now going to leap up and rush off to your master, that you will be allowed to slip away with impunity?" "I do not understand," I said. |
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| 56 | 82 |
"Too," said Lord Grendel, "I need not abide by the code of the Assassin, to make no kill from which I cannot slip away in safety. |
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| 61 | 838 |
If there are two hundred fellows, say, who wish to participate, though you are under no obligation to do so, we will put two hundred numbers on slips of paper in a helmet, and give each fellow a slip of paper with a number. |
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| 61 | 938 |
"Well," said the Lady Bina, imperiously, "bring paper, enough of it, and a marking stick, and a helmet!" "There will be no slip of paper for this one," said a quiet, menacing voice. |
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| 62 | 20 |
One does not slip the Gorean slave collar. |
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| 63 | 211 |
A wagon such as ours could not easily slip by, unnoticed amongst other wagons. |
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| 68 | 431 |
"Dear Master," I said, "in the restaurant, you inquired of this slave if there were an Exchange House in the vicinity, and having been informed that this was so, you commanded her to slip from the restaurant, and, meeting outside, to conduct you there personally, to be returned to the restaurant whe... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 259 |
Once I pretended to slip before a fellow of Earth, and, for a moment, I was on my knees before him, looking up, into his eyes, but he did not hold me in place, but hastened, red-faced and embarrassed, to lift me to my feet, as though I had actually fallen. |
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| 8 | 224 |
One might occasionally slip a wrist ring, but no girl slips a neck ring or, for that matter, an ankle ring. |
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| 9 | 9 |
We were naked, and our ankles were shackled a few inches apart, presumably less for security than to help us keep in mind that we were slaves, as though, on this world, that might somehow slip our mind. |
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| 11 | 183 |
Sharks are rare in the canals, but they occasionally slip through the sea gates, either from the marshes or from the Tamber itself. |
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| 12 | 82 |
It had a light belt of yellow cloth, supported by four loops, which belt, fastened by a slip knot, might be easily undone, allowing the folds of the tunic to be delicately or rudely parted. |
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| 17 | 79 |
"Anything could slip under the chain," said Euphrosyne. |
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| 24 | 22 |
Perhaps less successful voyages when they return, if they return, do slip into the city by means of the arsenal sea gate. |
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| 30 | 84 |
If it is too shallow, a foot may slip". |
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| 31 | 49 |
Bruno of Torcadino seemed to slip for a moment, and then recover his balance. |
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| 33 | 379 |
I saw one of the bowmen on the boat discard his bow and slip over the side of the boat. |
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| 35 | 8 |
One does not slip such bracelets. |
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| 38 | 254 |
If he knew you were in the keeping of his enemies, what would your life be worth? In such a case, I would avoid the windows, for a quarrel, sped from the saddle of a gracefully soaring tarn might slip between the bars. |
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| 43 | 162 |
I saw the barred leaves of the Southern Gate, fastened back, high on each side, slip past. |
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| 46 | 475 |
"That one!" I tried to move away, unnoticed, to slip through the beaded curtain, but the Vat Master's sudden grip on my upper left arm held me in place. |
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| 47 | 255 |
Indeed, as you are quite likely to betray yourself sooner or later by some slip, linguistic or otherwise, it would be wise not to permit any doubt about the matter, lest you be subjected to some appropriate chastisement. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 129 |
"Slaves are not to slip in and out of collars as they please," I said. |
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| 7 | 116 |
Sooner or later, somehow, a word will slip, a contact will be made, a plan will be discovered". |
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| 27 | 106 |
And many men, to please them, to appear important, and such, will let slip a sly sentence or so, with respect to what is in the offing". |
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| 51 | 122 |
I saw a helmeted figure slip beneath the water, seemingly drawn under the surface, one hand raised, as though it might be grasped by someone. |
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| 52 | 86 |
I could not slip away". |
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| 53 | 74 |
In the night you may slip sway!" "Back," I called, "free yourself in the open water". |
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| 53 | 279 |
These factors gave us the start we needed to slip into the lowering dusk. |
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| 54 | 58 |
"You hope to slip away in darkness?" said Sakim. |
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| 59 | 173 |
"Rigged and provisioned," said Sakim, "a whisper and both can slip free". |
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