| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 44 |
Primarily, I was exhilarated, being alone, with myself and the green pines and patches of snow. |
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| 1 | 61 |
I raced about in the woods a moment, shaking bushes, batting the snow from the low-hanging branches of pines. |
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| 1 | 207 |
The moon came out, and the mountainside was suddenly lit with its cold beauty, white on the snow in the trees and on the side of the slope, sparkling on the rocks. |
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| 1 | 224 |
It was silent and settled on the rock platform, scarcely disturbing the light snow that was scattered on it. |
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| 2 | 109 |
The fruit—grapes and peaches of some sort—was fresh and as cold as mountain snow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 69 |
Outside there was a light snow falling, soft as colored felt in the lonely neon lights of the street. |
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| 1 | 74 |
Cabot continued to stare out the window, watching the neon snow drifting aimlessly down to the gray, trampled sidewalk. |
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| 1 | 77 |
He shook his head, and continued to watch the snow. |
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| 1 | 126 |
We put on our coats and went out into the February evening, into the light snow. |
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| 1 | 127 |
Outside the bar we stood in the snow, not speaking. |
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| 1 | 128 |
Cabot, still half-drunk, looked about himself, at the brutal electric geometry of that great city, at the dark, lonely shapes that moved through the light snow, at the pale glimmering headlights of the cars. |
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| 1 | 144 |
When, shortly after dawn, I had finished the account, I looked at Cabot, who, all the time, had been sitting at the window, his chin on his hands, watching the snow, lost in what thoughts I could scarce conjecture. |
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| 20 | 86 |
The mountains before me were black, except for the high peaks and passes, which showed white patches and threads of cold, gleaming snow. |
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| 20 | 91 |
I wondered—an eerie suspicion that suddenly swept through me—if the Sardar Mountains might actually be empty—if there might be nothing, simply nothing but the wind and the snow in those gloomy mountains, and if men worshipped, unknowingly, nothing. |
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| 20 | 92 |
What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and... |
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| 21 | 186 |
He hurled the bucket of cold water, from the melted snow in the Sardar, on the chained girl, who, sputtering and shivering, opened her eyes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 60 |
Gradually the air grew more chill and wisps of snow blew about me; frost began to appear on the steps and I trudged past crevices filled with ice, deposits which had perhaps lain as they were without melting for hundreds of years. |
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| 2 | 62 |
Some four days into the mountains I heard for the first time in my journey the sound of a thing other than the wind, the sighing of snow and the groaning of ice; it was the sound of a living thing; the sound of a mountain larl. |
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| 32 | 296 |
Outside I saw the two snow larls turn to face the portal. |
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| 33 | 1 |
Out of the Sardar Vika and I, clad in robes cut from the pelt of the snow larl I had slain, set out for the great black gate in the somber timber palisade that encircles the Sardar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 41 |
The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i... |
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| 8 | 43 |
Thousands of the Wagon Peoples, free and slave, dug in the snow to find a handful of grass to feed their animals. |
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| 8 | 46 |
Here the snow was little more than a frost that melted in the afternoon sun, and the grass was live and nourishing. |
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| 8 | 47 |
Still farther north, another hundred pasangs, there was no snow and the peoples began to sing and once more dance about their fires of bosk dung. |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 149 |
In the distance far below, and to the right, I could see, through the cloud cover, the black, snow-capped crags of the Sardar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 34 |
They love the sky, the plains, the sea, the rain in the summer, the snow in winter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 318 |
I crossed a patch of snow, ankle deep, crusted, to ascend a snow-free, rounded rock. |
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| 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... |
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| 10 | 31 |
The men of the country of Ax Glacier fish for whales and hunt snow sleen. |
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| 11 | 77 |
But if these Kurii on the platform were snow-adapted, their fur did not suggest this. |
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| 11 | 78 |
I wondered if they might be from the steel ships, either recently, or within too few generations for a snow-adaptation pattern to have been developed. |
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| 11 | 79 |
If the Kurii were sufficiently successful, of course, there would be no particular likelihood of evolution selecting for snow adaptation. |
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| 11 | 303 |
In leaving the Thing-Field I saw, in the distance, a high, snow-capped mountain, steep, sharp, almost like the blade of a bent spear. |
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| 15 | 5 |
I shut my eyes against the glare of the sun on the snow. |
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| 15 | 152 |
In snow the Kurii, spreading their large, six-digited appendages, dropped to all fours. |
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| 15 | 154 |
It had taken the Forkbeard and I an Ahn, wading through crusts of snow, to reach our present position. |
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| 15 | 156 |
When snow gave way to patches of rock they would pause, momentarily, nostrils lowered, reading sign that would have been undetectable to a human. |
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| 15 | 170 |
My feet were cold from the ice, the snow. |
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| 15 | 255 |
We could, with some climbing, obtain ice or snow, but there was no food. |
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| 15 | 317 |
Although there is much snow on the heights of the Torvaldsberg, there were also, on the peak, many areas of bare rock, swept by the wind which, on the peak, seems almost constant. |
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| 15 | 340 |
They stood together, in the snow, looking out, over the world. |
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| 15 | 352 |
I rolled over it, hitting the snow, slipping. |
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| 15 | 368 |
I struck snow, rolling, half-blinded. |
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| 17 | 47 |
Clouds would be strangers to them; rain an inconvenience; snow a nuisance; a tree an anachronism; a flower an oddity, cut and frozen in a florist's refrigerator. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 139 |
In the north, I am told the snow sleen has been domesticated. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Snow sleen, however, remain white-pelted throughout their life. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 144 |
"Will that be sufficient?" I thought a snow sleen, one of those long, vicious animals, would surely be puzzled to find itself attached to a sled where there was no snow. |
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| 23 | 482 |
There was snow on his parka, for, apparently, snow had begun to fall outside during the feast. |
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| 24 | 10 |
"I trailed it to where I encountered sled tracks, and blood in the snow, and the trampling of the snow by many feet". |
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| 25 | 6 |
Karjuk stepped off the runners of his sled and called to his snow sleen, dragging back on the tabuk-horn uprights at the rear of the sled, by means of which he guided the snow vessel. |
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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 | 50 |
But, too, a skin bag, filled with snow, placed within the clothing, next to the body, which causes the snow to melt, may also be used. |
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| 26 | 112 |
I did as I was told, and Imnak, with a large, curved, bone, saw-toothed knife, a snow knife, began to cut at a nearby drift of snow. |
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| 26 | 359 |
Imnak added the new blocks to the snow shelter and, with his snow knife, cut those blocks he needed to finish the low, domed structure. |
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| 26 | 362 |
With the snow knife, on the outside, he trimmed and shaped the dwelling, and filled in the chinks with snow. |
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| 27 | 141 |
One brushes snow from the parka before leaning down and moving through the tunnel to the interior of the shelter, but, in the shelter, the residue of snow would melt, wetting the garment. |
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| 1 | 378 |
'In Lydius,' said he, 'we encounter often the furs of snow sleen, fresh and handsome and warm. |
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| 1 | 398 |
Oh!" "He wanted my tunic," I told her, "to take its measurements, that the jacket of the fur of the snow sleen might be well made". |
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| 3 | 39 |
I watched him press on through the crowds, toward the looming palisade which ringed the Sardar mountains, black and snow-capped, behind it. |
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| 3 | 171 |
More than one beauty who thought to have stood upon the platforms by the palisade, lifting laurel wreaths and in white robes singing the glories of the Priest-Kings, has found herself instead looking upon the snow-capped peaks of the Sardar from the slave platforms, stripped and heavily chained. |
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| 3 | 454 |
From where I stood I could see the great palisade, and the black, snow-capped mountains of the Sardar. |
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| 3 | 1126 |
It was snowy white, and thick, the winter fur of a two-stomached snow lart. |
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| 3 | 1131 |
The snow lart hunts in the sun. |
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| 3 | 1180 |
Two sorts of beasts are kept in domestication in the north; the first sort of beast is the snow sleen; the second is the white-skinned woman. |
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| 3 | 1303 |
I stood alone on the platform, and gazed at the snow-capped mountains, glistening under the mingled light of the three white moons. |
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| 4 | 41 |
At this time, particularly in the spring, the sun sparkling on the snow-strewn peaks, the mountains can be quite beautiful. |
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| 11 | 19 |
The hides can serve for harnesses for the snow sleen and their white-skinned, female beasts. |
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| 11 | 425 |
A dust of snow had fallen in the night. |
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| 11 | 430 |
One stopped to nuzzle at the turf, pushing back snow with its nose, to bite at moss. |
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| 11 | 434 |
It was coated with crystals of snow. |
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| 11 | 452 |
I threw some meat to the snow before her and, eagerly, she ate it. |
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| 11 | 455 |
"Crawl to me on your belly in the snow," I told her. |
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| 11 | 458 |
Then I reached down to where her head, as I sat cross-legged, lay in the snow by my knee. |
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| 11 | 488 |
I looked at her kneeling in the snow at my feet, her small, trim figure, her soft, sweet exquisite curves, her delicately beautiful throat and face, the pleading blue eyes, the lush wealth of auburn hair loose behind her naked shoulders. |
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| 11 | 512 |
"If you persist, I shall bind you, hand and foot, and leave you in the snow". |
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| 11 | 535 |
She lay at my feet in the snow, terrified. |
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| 11 | 593 |
I then threw her to her back in the snow, that I might begin to teach her the meaning of her collar. |
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| 12 | 171 |
She stood back, in the light snow, frightened of the red hunter. |
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| 12 | 350 |
Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes. |
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| 12 | 351 |
Snow that does fall, of course, is less likely to melt. |
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| 12 | 360 |
I saw a woman putting out a pan for a domestic snow sleen to lick clean. |
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| 13 | 91 |
"Akko, who is my friend," said Imnak, "says that to take such a woman would be to leap naked into a pit of starving snow sleen. |
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| 14 | 136 |
"There is no snow," I said to her. |
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| 14 | 143 |
"You would expect to carry a girl off in a sled drawn by white-skinned slave beasts! What a scoundrel you are! How insulting!" "I will borrow a snow sleen," said Imnak. |
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| 14 | 152 |
In a few minutes Imnak returned with a snow sleen on a stout leash. |
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| 14 | 155 |
"Someone has a snow sleen hitched to a sled outside of the tent of someone," called Imnak. |
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| 14 | 162 |
Imnak, for no reason that was clear to me, scouted about and located another snow sleen. |
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| 14 | 243 |
Imnak led the snow sleen, drawing the sled on the tundra, and I walked beside him. |
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| 14 | 260 |
The snow sleen padded along behind us, drawing the sled over the trodden turf. |
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| 16 | 25 |
It was a snow sleen, easily identified by the thickness of the coat, the narrowness of the ears, the breadth of the paws. |
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| 20 | 168 |
The Gorean moons, and even the stars, provide some light, which light reflecting from the expanses of the snow and ice is more than adequate to make one's way about. |
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| 20 | 182 |
Wild snow sleen, particularly when hunger drives them to run in packs, can be quite dangerous. |
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| 20 | 201 |
Sometimes there is a storm and the snow hides the breathing holes of the sleen". |
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| 23 | 4 |
Snow had fallen several times, though lightly. |
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| 23 | 24 |
"Akko has a snow sleen, Naartok another". |
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| 23 | 26 |
A running snow sleen can draw a sled far faster than a human being. |
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| 23 | 42 |
The snow was loud beneath our boots, crackling. |
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| 23 | 43 |
Moonlight bathed the village and the snow on the tundra, and the ice on the sea. |
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| 23 | 46 |
Several were on the meat racks, in the moonlight, trying to see out across the snow. |
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| 23 | 72 |
There are upon occasion wild snow sleen in the tundra, half starved and maddened by hunger. |
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| 23 | 82 |
We ran up, over a small hillock, the snow about our ankles. |
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| 23 | 94 |
I was running down the hillock, slipping and sliding in the snow, my lance in my hand. |
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| 23 | 101 |
In the moment that the Kur had turned to regard us the man had hastened to unhitch the snow sleen at the sled. |
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| 23 | 102 |
When the Kur turned back suddenly to regard him the snow sleen was free and leaping for its throat. |
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| 23 | 104 |
I saw it fling the dead, bloodied snow sleen, torn and half bitten through, from it. |
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| 23 | 105 |
The man had struck it again when it had seized the snow sleen but the blow, again, had not proved mortal. |
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| 23 | 110 |
The sleen, fresh-killed meat, lay behind in the snow. |
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| 23 | 130 |
We ran toward it but it turned suddenly and reached the body of the sleen first and, dragging it by a hind paw, hunched over, moved swiftly away over the snow-covered tundra. |
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| 23 | 168 |
"It was not after the snow sleen, or the food you were carrying," I said. |
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| 23 | 383 |
"I had them both for the pelt of a snow lart and the pelts of four leems," said Imnak, rather pleased with himself. |
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| 23 | 459 |
The Kur that I had seen outside the village, which had escaped with the slain snow sleen, had been white-pelted. |
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| 24 | 12 |
"I then trailed the beast further, some pasangs across the snow. |
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| 24 | 13 |
It had been wounded twice, and was found feeding on the carcass of a snow sleen with harness marks in its fur". |
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| 24 | 96 |
"We will take snow sleen and women," he said. |
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| 25 | 8 |
Karjuk had his own, and his own snow sleen. |
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| 25 | 23 |
Indeed, the visibility is often quite good, for the light of the moons, and even the stars, is reflected from the vastness of the ice and snow. |
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| 25 | 24 |
I looked about at the irregular and jagged shapes, weird and mighty, which loomed about us, of the pack ice, eerie in the deep shadows, and bright, strange light of the moons and snow. |
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| 25 | 45 |
At low temperatures snow becomes granular and has a texture somewhat like sand. |
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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 | 55 |
One may also take snow in one's mouth, melt it and spit it on the runners, but this takes time. |
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| 25 | 56 |
When one eats snow, incidentally, one melts it first, thoroughly, in the mouth, before swallowing it. |
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| 25 | 71 |
"Oh!" she cried, struck brutally to the snow. |
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| 25 | 76 |
I threw her to her knees in the snow before me, beside Arlene. |
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| 25 | 85 |
Karjuk stepped on the runners of his sled, and cracked his whip over the head of his snow 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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| 25 | 110 |
Interestingly, in his descriptions and rude maps of terrain, scratched in the snow, he shows little awareness of or interest in land masses or shapes. |
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| 25 | 122 |
A sufficiently hungry snow sleen will turn and attack its driver. |
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| 26 | 8 |
It then began to snow, the crystals whipping against our faces, driven almost horizontally over the level and among the pinnacles and turrets of the jumbled, bleak terrain. |
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| 26 | 17 |
"We must stop!" I heard the sleen in the traces squeal ahead of us, the noise torn in the fierce snow and wind. |
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| 26 | 19 |
I saw the girls then, too, their hands on their neck tethers, small, pelted, coated with snow, pathetic in the storm, weary, with us. |
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| 26 | 33 |
The sleen was there, already curled in the driving snow. |
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| 26 | 36 |
Snow was almost to my knees. |
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| 26 | 50 |
I made to move out into the snow, to search for her, but Imnak, bodily, obstructed me. |
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| 26 | 54 |
It would be madness to go forth into the howling darkness, the snow and wind, to search for her. |
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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 | 106 |
The storm had passed, and the light of the three moons was bright on the snow and ice. |
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| 26 | 109 |
Imnak, with his heel, traced a circle, some ten feet in diameter, in the snow near the sled. |
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| 26 | 110 |
"Trample down the snow inside the circle," he said. |
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| 26 | 121 |
He had begun to take snow blocks from the drift and place them in a circle, within the edge of the area I was trampling down. |
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| 26 | 125 |
Imnak ran toward her, snow knife in hand. |
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| 26 | 130 |
I saw Imnak strike her to the snow. |
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| 26 | 139 |
The blade of the saw-toothed snow knife was at her throat. |
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| 26 | 140 |
Then Imnak threw her angrily to her stomach in the snow. |
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| 26 | 148 |
Audrey wept in the snow. |
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| 26 | 170 |
"Even if we wished to turn back," I told Arlene, at my feet in the snow, "it does not seem we could do so". |
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| 26 | 182 |
He did not answer me, but continued, swiftly, not pausing, to cut blocks of snow. |
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| 26 | 191 |
Imnak completed the low, second row of snow blocks. |
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| 26 | 193 |
One of the first things that is done, following the lighting of the lamp, which serves as light, heat, and cook stove in the tiny shelters, is to melt snow for drinking water, and heat water for boiling meat. |
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| 26 | 201 |
"There! There!" The sleen squirmed but I, forcing it to its side in the snow, lashed shut its jaws. |
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| 26 | 220 |
He continued to cut blocks of snow, though he now made no effort to place them in the walls. |
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| 26 | 222 |
When the domed shelter is completed, as ours was not, the last block is placed on the outside and the builder then goes within, and, with the snow knife, trimming and shaping, slips it into place. |
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| 26 | 225 |
The snow knife suffices, when there is time, to shape the dwelling. |
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| 26 | 226 |
Chinks between blocks are filled with snow, as though it were mortar. |
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| 26 | 234 |
Too, I did not understand why Poalu should be busying herself with melting snow over the flat, oval lamp. |
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| 26 | 248 |
We could hear, too, in the cold air, even the panting of the animals, their gasping, the scratching of their claws, scattering snow and ice behind them, on the ice. |
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| 26 | 275 |
An animal leaped into the snow circle and I, bodily, under it, lifted it over the wall and hurled it among others. |
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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 | 354 |
We passed, literally, within feet of savage snow sleen, and scarcely did they notice us. |
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| 26 | 358 |
Several of the animals, gorged with meat, curled in the snow, in a white coil, and slept. |
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| 26 | 360 |
It does not take long to construct such a shelter, if the snow is appropriate. |
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| 26 | 363 |
Inside Poalu had relit the lamp and was already melting snow for drinking water and setting a pot to boil, hanging from the cooking rack, for meat. |
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| 27 | 2 |
It had been four sleeps now since we had left the first snow shelter, where we had been threatened by the sleen pack. |
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| 27 | 16 |
They should be out hunting snow bosk, or basking sea sleen, or burrowing and scratching inland for hibernating leems". |
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| 27 | 33 |
It did not seem likely that we could sustain the attack of five snow sleen without a shelter. |
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| 27 | 86 |
Once again, as he had before, he found a suitable drift of snow and began to cut blocks. |
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| 27 | 89 |
For example, it is not necessary for an igloo to be made from snow or ice. |
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| 27 | 127 |
Then, after a time, we heard the snow and ice crunch outside. |
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| 27 | 147 |
Usually a hide tent is hung inside the snow shelter, which provides additional insulation. |
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| 27 | 157 |
At the outer end of the tunnel, gently, I edged out the snow blocks which, for most practical purposes, closed the opening. |
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| 27 | 263 |
She looked at me, frightened, and swiftly knelt in the snow, in the moonlight, before me. |
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| 27 | 272 |
Imnak struck her to her side in the snow. |
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| 32 | 135 |
"A gas was introduced into your shelter of snow, from the outside, rendering you, and the others, unconscious". |
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| 34 | 192 |
The beast, step by painful step, bloody in the snow, followed. |
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| 35 | 1094 |
A few cowered, their weapons discarded, herded together by domesticated snow sleen, ravening and vicious, on the leashes of their red masters. |
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| 35 | 1104 |
The men with the domesticated snow sleen passed me. |
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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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| 35 | 1145 |
The power units in their suits would eventually be exhausted, and they would then be at the mercy of the snow and ice. |
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| 36 | 57 |
"Put her out in the snow," said Imnak. |
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| 36 | 90 |
"They are going to put me out in the snow!" she cried to Karjuk, agonized. |
10 |
| 36 | 91 |
"Are you going to put her out in the snow?" asked Karjuk. |
10 |
| 36 | 127 |
"And if you are not pleasing," he said, "I will put you out into the snow". |
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| 36 | 297 |
The snow sleen were already harnessed. |
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| 37 | 19 |
It drove ice and pelting, granular snow before it. |
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| 38 | 6 |
Outside a gentle snow had begun to fall. |
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| 38 | 21 |
I checked the harness on the snow sleen on my sled. |
10 |
| 38 | 34 |
Who could ask more from life than the opportunity to stand for a time on the slope of the mountain and sing?" The harness on the snow sleen was secure. |
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| 38 | 46 |
We wanted their hands free to help with the sled, when it became necessary to haul or push it over rough ground or through heaps of ice or broken snow. |
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| 38 | 50 |
The snow blew gently about them. |
10 |
| 38 | 185 |
There was a light snow about. |
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| 38 | 186 |
Some of the snow fell in her hair. |
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| 38 | 218 |
"In the snow you made me a slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 228 |
The tarnsmen of Treve, over the snow-capped crags of the scarlet Voltai range, had turned back the squadrons of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 814 |
We can also tell this from these dots, which represent snow". |
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| 1 | 838 |
He drinks melted snow, held in his mouth until it is warm. |
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| 1 | 897 |
"Even more plausibly, and interestingly," said Kog, "I suspect that the dark guest, in that moonlit snow, actually appeared to the man. |
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| 1 | 911 |
"If the helper had visited the man," said Samos, "would there not have been prints in the snow?" "Doubtless," said Kog. |
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| 1 | 928 |
A snow began to fall". |
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| 1 | 930 |
"The tracks, with the snow, and the wind, became obscured. |
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| 1 | 931 |
Still the man pressed on, knowing the direction of the kailiauk and following the natural geodesics of the land, such as might be followed by a slow-moving beast, pawing under the snow for roots or grass. |
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| 1 | 934 |
On snowshoes, of course, he could move faster through drifted snow than the kailiauk. |
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| 1 | 935 |
Indeed, over long distances, in such snow, he could match the speed of the wading kaiila. |
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| 1 | 939 |
It is almost never hunted on foot except in deep snow, in which it is almost helpless. |
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| 1 | 969 |
The snow has stopped falling. |
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| 1 | 1002 |
In the declivity below the rise there lay a slain kailiauk, dark in the snow. |
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| 1 | 1098 |
In the soft snow he has descended the slope silently". |
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| 1 | 1144 |
"The second mounted hunter, he who had held the lance ready, is thrown from the kaiila to the snow. |
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| 1 | 1149 |
He seizes the man who had fallen to the snow". |
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| 1 | 1151 |
"We may conjecture that the hunter in the snow has screamed," said Kog. |
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| 1 | 1154 |
The dark guest leaps to the carcass of the kailiauk, its blood red in the snow. |
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| 1 | 1155 |
Nearby, in the snow, lies he who had been the second mounted hunter. |
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| 2 | 243 |
A pond may unexpectedly freeze in En'Kara and, late in Se'Var, a foot or two of snow may be melted in a matter of hours. |
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| 9 | 9 |
It is of this height, apparently, that it may be seen above the snow, during the winter moons, such as Waniyetuwi and Wanicokanwi. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 161 |
A wall of brush, as a snow fence, in effect, may also be used. |
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| 12 | 131 |
"They are useful for digging under the snow for kailiauk chips," said a lad. |
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| 47 | 146 |
Below us, like birds springing wondrously from the snow, tarns and their riders emerged from the clouds, following us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 41 |
Carrying a tarn goad and moving about the stage in a certain manner suggests that one is riding a tarn; a kaiila crop, or kaiila goad, and a change of gait suggests that one is riding a kaiila; a branch on the stage can stand for a forest or a bit of a wall for a city; standing on a box or small tab... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 18 |
I blinked, gruel upon my face, its particles like wet, unmelting snow on my eye lashes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 765 |
The major Gorean fairs occur seasonally, incidentally, in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains, indeed, within sight of their black, snow-capped peaks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 3259 |
The bodies, Ellen realized, would be surrendered to nature, to wind and rain, to sleet and snow, to heat and cold, to sleen, to urts, to jards, to the vast, mysterious nature from which, long ago, they had sprung. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 3 |
Wind tore about the ramparts, and blinding snow. |
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| 66 | 4 |
Lord Grendel brushed snow from his face and eyes, and examined the wintry terrain extending to the habitats. |
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| 66 | 99 |
"I see no cattle humans below," said Cabot, half shutting his eyes against the snow, the swirling wind, the pelting of bits of ice. |
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| 66 | 107 |
The wind at the same moment ceased to blow, and the snow to fall. |
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| 67 | 33 |
There was much snow on the ground. |
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| 67 | 47 |
Shortly thereafter Cabot became less concerned with his trail, which had been obvious in the snow. |
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| 67 | 54 |
Commonly it helps to utilize snow-free, windswept rocks, but there were few to be encountered in his journey, save in the vicinity of the womb tunnel. |
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| 67 | 57 |
If the ice was thick, it was laden with snow; if the stream moved, however slowly, beneath a ceiling of ice, that ice, if thin, too often broke beneath a man's weight. |
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| 67 | 59 |
But as recorded, shortly after the strange message heard within the world, Cabot became less concerned with the obviousness of his trail, hitherto so obviously broken through the snow. |
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| 67 | 60 |
He had for Ahn, you see, waded through snow, much of it to his thighs. |
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| 67 | 61 |
But shortly after the strange message the snow ceased to be deep and dry, and began to subside into dampness, and, where it had been flat, and hard, and icy, he could see water beneath it, in bubbles, and tiny rivulets at the side. |
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| 67 | 64 |
He moved to a higher place, for the wrappings with which he had swathed his legs were now dark, wet from softening snow. |
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| 67 | 83 |
Cabot shuddered, as though to throw the remains of cold from him, as a sleen might shudder, to rid itself of snow or water. |
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| 67 | 99 |
The snow had melted and Cabot could find the ashes of cooking fires. |
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| 67 | 147 |
"After the supplies brought from the war camp, I have had little but berries, and, near the womb tunnel, some roots dug out from under the snow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 7 | 214 |
In the vicinity of the Red Hunters, there are snow sleen. |
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| 23 | 170 |
Is it not difference which takes one's attention, amongst snow sleen a darker fur, amongst the odor of penned verr, the suggestion, ever so slight, a whisper in the night, of the larl's scent? I might have called this to the attention of Lord Nishida but he had withdrawn from the tables. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 |
The Farther Islands Fall Astern "There," said Tarl Cabot, "do you see them, the three of them, the farther islands, Chios, Daphna, Thera?" They were dim, in the distance, in the snow, but one could make them out. |
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| 6 | 115 |
We stood there at the rail for a time, in the falling snow. |
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| 6 | 117 |
Before us was darkness and snow, and the surging of Thassa. |
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| 11 | 27 |
Who could concentrate on a single flake of snow in a blizzard, a particular grain of sand in a Tahari wind? The predator is distracted, and confused. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1366 |
Amongst the animals portrayed on the poster, snow larls, large, striped urts, snarling sleen, performing tharlarion, prancing kaiila, there was another, where the poster was half torn. |
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| 20 | 11 |
After a time, one is likely to encounter little but wild verr, and tiny snow urts, amongst the crags. |
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| 20 | 12 |
Water, on the other hand, if one is high enough, may be obtained easily enough from snow, which commonly lasts all year on the summits of many peaks. |
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| 20 | 251 |
As noted, at the higher altitudes, there is little to be found but wild verr and tiny snow urts. |
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| 20 | 253 |
I could see snow on some distant peaks. |
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| 25 | 11 |
Much snow lay sparkling about its heights. |
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| 25 | 12 |
As it was early in the month of En'var, there were darknesses about the lower slopes of the mountain, where snow was melting. |
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| 25 | 13 |
The higher elevations, as with many mountains in the Voltai, might be bright with snow all the year. |
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| 25 | 18 |
"Is it not like a ship," asked Trachinos, "sailing through the snow? Can you not see sails, the jutting prow?" "I would see the head of a tarn," said Lykos, "with the wings spread behind it". |
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| 37 | 54 |
"I am not eager to be hunted down by Kurii," said another, "now, later, in the cold, in the snow, in the thaws of spring, in the heat of summer, anytime". |
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| 40 | 13 |
Such a creature could move comfortably on rocky slopes, on ice, through snow. |
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| 46 | 8 |
Then, the winds rising, the chill blasts whistling amongst the mountains, the first scattering of snow hurrying betwixt the peaks, the parties had returned. |
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| 49 | 67 |
In any event, one snowy morning, several of us watched the departure of the small, remarkable ship, emerging from its housing, rising through the falling snow, then fading from sight, a ship with no crew, and with but one passenger, Tiresias, whom we all wished well. |
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| 49 | 115 |
Snow provided drink, and an occasional mountain verr was secured for food. |
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| 49 | 233 |
It was easier to remember him on his rope, ahead of the wagons, plunging his great staff through the snow, wary of concealed crevices. |
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| 49 | 234 |
Grendel had followed him, with his hands on the rope, the other end about his own waist, to draw him to safety if the snow gave way. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 10 |
The winds would rise, and the rains come, and the winter, with its ice and snow, and the awakening, green spring, and in two or three years the insistent, patient forest would repair and cover what men had done. |
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| 20 | 145 |
"Then snow," said yet another. |
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| 21 | 494 |
"We will leave them," he said, "for the forest, for the winter, for rain, for snow, for wind, for urts, for sleen, for panthers". |
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| 25 | 60 |
I knew enough of the forest within the wands to recognize many things outside them which might be eaten; leafy Tur-Pah, parasitic on Tur trees, of course, but, too, certain plants whose roots were edible, as the wild Sul; and there were flat ground pods in tangles which I could tear open, iron lfuit... |
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| 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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| 44 | 8 |
Once there had been a dusting of snow, the specks bright in the sunlight between the trees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 40 |
I felt a bit of snow. |
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| 2 | 56 |
A light snow continued to fall. |
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| 2 | 58 |
May a track in the snow not be a long, lingering arrow, one pointing to its unseen target? I must now be near the first encampment, that decimated weeks ago by the forces of Lord Yamada. |
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| 2 | 74 |
With the leather of the straps I wiped snow from my eyes. |
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| 2 | 108 |
The ground was covered with a soft snow, which was still, gently, falling. |
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| 2 | 113 |
I was reasonably confident that I would find, somewhere about the camp, somewhere in the snow and darkness, probably at its periphery, a contingent of the men of great Yamada, Shogun of the Islands. |
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| 2 | 117 |
The snow continued to fall. |
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| 2 | 120 |
It would be poor atonement, but might it not do? I lifted my head and stood in the falling snow. |
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| 2 | 127 |
The snow no longer fell, but its feel remained in the air. |
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| 2 | 130 |
It was quiet now, and the ashes, the charred planks and blackened poles, would lie beneath the coating of snow. |
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| 3 | 1 |
In the Vicinity of a Small Fire It was merely Ehn later when the tarn, responding to the straps, wings beating, hovering, descending, struck into the snow yards from the tiny fire, concealed amongst the rocks. |
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| 4 | 218 |
Then let us do contest here, in the falling snow. |
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| 4 | 226 |
I lowered the limp body of Tajima to the snow. |
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| 4 | 254 |
"Kill him! Kill him!" Then he spun about, cried out once, and then, in his heavy snow boots, plunged into the darkness, and, a moment later, I heard a cry, half of fear, half of misery, which was cut short. |
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| 4 | 288 |
The snow continued to fall, softly. |
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| 30 | 28 |
Such images were not infrequently encountered in the islands, but, more commonly, one encountered images of a gentler, more tranquil nature, snow-capped mountains, forests, winding streams, placid villages, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 106 |
A blizzard, with its bitter cold, fierce winds, and blinding snow enveloped the two armies, not only postponing hostilities, but rendering the most tentative efforts at reconnaissance impractical. |
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| 49 | 109 |
Thousands of tiny defts, a small, flocking, gray, migratory bird, undistinguished in its plumage and not noted for its song, on their way to the shores of the Cartius, had been caught in the storm, as well, and, paralyzed with cold, with wings coated with ice, unable to continue their journey, had f... |
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| 49 | 110 |
This became clear on the morning after the third day of the storm when the weather suddenly cleared, and, to the surprise of the potential combatants, a dreadful landscape was revealed, dark with the tiny bodies of stricken, half-frozen birds, partly buried in the snow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 312 |
How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 67 |
The girl smiled; her anxieties melted away like a spoonful of snow in a bowl of steaming black wine. |
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| 48 | 150 |
Do not tides come and go, and seasons change; does not water rush over rocks, and snow fall and melt; does not night follow day and day night? It is not unusual for a woodsman to ask forgiveness of the tree he intends to fell; or a hunter to respect the animal he hunts, or which hunts him. |
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