| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 242 |
He drew the robes of the Afflicted once more around his gigantic frame and picked up a gnarled staff he carried. |
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| 15 | 244 |
With the staff he poked me good-naturedly in the chest. |
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| 15 | 246 |
Marlenus left the tent, seemingly one of the Afflicted, a bent wreck of humanity pathetically scratching at the earth in front of him with the staff. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 61 |
I wrapped my cloak more firmly about myself and using my spear as a staff I forced my way upward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 9 | 21 |
Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record... |
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| 2 | 281 |
I know this business well, the costs of information, organization, planning, acquisition, transportation and security, the care and feeding and training of the animals, the guards, the costs of the auctions, the taxes on sales, the deliveries to distant cities—and the staff of the house I spe... |
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| 4 | 131 |
Moreover, he probably knew it anyway, as she had been assigned to his staff, primarily to run errands in the city, for Caprus, it was said, seldom cared to leave the House of Cernus. |
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| 4 | 230 |
During this time, since Elizabeth was nominally of the staff of Caprus, we could surely find time to be about our work, for which purpose we had arranged to enter the House of Cernus. |
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| 5 | 496 |
"It will be arranged," said he, "that you will be placed as a slave in the House of Cernus, as a member of the staff of Caprus. |
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| 5 | 596 |
Without that, of course, it would be improbable that Caprus could have justified adding her to his staff. |
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| 6 | 94 |
She would be hungry tonight and in the morning would have to go to the feed troughs in the quarters of the female staff slaves, probably for water and a porridge of grain and vegetables. |
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| 7 | 113 |
"Hurry!" called the man with the Thief's scar, and those of the staff of the House, including even the tarnsmen, stood lined before the panel and received various goods which they placed in the carrying baskets. |
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| 8 | 38 |
"So," she said, "I have not had anything to eat since yesterday morning and if I am not at the trough in the quarters for female staff slaves by the small bar after the eighth bar I will miss breakfast. |
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| 8 | 108 |
There were some men in the room, mostly men-at-arms but some staff members, a Metal Worker, two Bakers and a pair of Scribes. |
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| 8 | 132 |
I shared the breakfast with Elizabeth, who informed me that it was better than the porridge below in the trough in the feeding room for female staff slaves, marvelous though the latter might have been. |
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| 9 | 19 |
The only difference between these facilities in the House of Cernus and such facilities in other houses would probably have been in size, numbers of staff and lavishment of appointment. |
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| 10 | 87 |
I could also see members of the staff moving about, and could hear doors being closed and locked. |
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| 11 | 112 |
"They do not speak Gorean?" "There is no girl here," said Flaminius, "for whom there is not at least one member of our staff who can speak their language". |
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| 12 | 389 |
In his right hand there was a heavy peasant staff, some six feet in height and perhaps two inches in width. |
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| 12 | 403 |
There had been no mistaking the man in the garments of a peasant, he with the great staff. |
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| 14 | 56 |
It was thought that I, as a mercenary in the house, or Elizabeth, as a staff slave, might be able to locate and seize the documents in question. |
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| 15 | 1 |
Portus Comes to the House of Cernus I observed Phyllis Robertson performing the belt dance, on love furs spread between the tables, under the eyes of the Warriors of Cernus and the members of his staff. |
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| 15 | 63 |
She would not eat with the staff, of course, for she was slave. |
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| 15 | 143 |
In the past two months, in particular, I noted two young Warriors, guards, recent additions to the staff of the House. |
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| 15 | 147 |
The staff, incidentally, had been increased in the last month, largely due to the increasing number of slaves being processed by the House but perhaps also, in part, in preparation for the approaching spring, which is the busiest season on the Street of Brands, for then, after the winter, slave raid... |
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| 15 | 309 |
It is, incidentally, one of the perquisites of employment in the house of a slaver that a member of the guard or staff may ask for, and generally receive, the use of whatever Red Silk Girls he pleases. |
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| 15 | 381 |
Several of the guards and staff had left the tables, retiring. |
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| 16 | 213 |
Not only is it expensive to buy or rent tarncots, acquire racing tarns, hire riders and Tarn Keepers, and the entire staff required to maintain a faction organization, but there is a large track fee for new factions, during the first two probation years. |
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| 17 | 411 |
Then the slave girls about the table began to go wild, throwing things and where possible pouring liquids on the heads of the guards and members of the staff, who, leaping up, seized them when they could catch them, kissing them, holding them, making them cry out with delight. |
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| 17 | 502 |
Now only guards and members of the staff remained in the room. |
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| 17 | 527 |
It was merely another of the turnabouts of Kajuralia, but in it was perhaps more; Sura's pride and her position in the House, though she was slave, had been resented by many of the men and staff; perhaps even Cernus felt she had overstepped herself; surely he seemed pleased that she would now be hum... |
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| 18 | 183 |
Unfortunately, for spite and for gold, word of our work was brought to the High Initiate, by a minor Physician discharged from our staff for incompetence. |
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| 18 | 196 |
"Before the next passage hand," said he, "armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously damaged; our work, our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away". |
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| 18 | 217 |
"Everything was gone," said Flaminius, "the records, our equipment, the animals; several of my staff had been slain; those who survived, in large part, did not wish to continue the work". |
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| 18 | 297 |
* * * * I continued to wander about the House, here and there bumping into inebriated guards or staff members, who would invariably hail me with "Kajuralia!" to which greeting I would respond in turn. |
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| 19 | 15 |
In the House of Cernus, however, to all, he had been known simply as Caprus, having been introduced to the staff and guards in this fashion by Cernus. |
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| 19 | 16 |
He had been a member of the staff of Caprus, the agent of Priest-Kings, until the latter had disappeared, presumably because he had displeased Cernus; Philemon of Tyros had then assumed Caprus' position and duties. |
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| 19 | 40 |
The papers of most of the girls, including those of Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis, had been transmitted days before to the staff of the Curulean, to be checked for authenticity, and for the updating of certain endorsements. |
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| 19 | 42 |
Some girls, whom the House had determined late would be sold, arrive at the Curulean with a small leather cylinder tied about their collar, which contains their papers, which girl is then, by the staff of the Curulean, assigned a lot number. |
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| 19 | 45 |
When the members of the staff of the Curulean are satisfied that the girl's papers are in order the ticket with her lot number is stamped approved. |
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| 24 | 106 |
At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 544 |
It is fastened to the staff by the staff's fitting through a hollow, ringlike socket at its termination. |
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| 9 | 1502 |
Bran Loort stood with both hands on his staff, one hand grasped in its center, the other hand, his left, some eighteen inches below the center of the staff. |
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| 9 | 1698 |
Thurnus seized the staff and, suddenly, with strength like that of a larl, jerked the young man toward him, at the same time kicking upward savagely, blasting the fellow in the teeth with the heel of his sandal, the young man reeling back, blood spattering from his nose and mouth, clutching at his f... |
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| 9 | 1701 |
"A good staff," said Thurnus, "must be one with which one can thrust," and, saying this, looking at one young man, he drove the staff, like a spear into the ribs of another, "and slice," added Thurnus, who then smote the first fellow, whose attention was now on his struck fellow, along the side of t... |
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| 9 | 1737 |
He had turned, and parried it, and then slipped behind the other's staff, bringing up the lower end of his own staff. |
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| 6 | 145 |
The other common peasant weapon is the great staff, some six feet in length, some two inches in width. |
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| 6 | 157 |
He had, one morning, years ago, bow upon his back and staff in hand, seed at his thigh, after months of wandering, come to a place which had pleased him. |
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| 9 | 542 |
The peasant hoe has a staff some six feet in length. |
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| 9 | 543 |
Its head is iron, and heavy, some six inches at the cutting edge, tapering to four inches where it joins the staff. |
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| 9 | 545 |
A wedge was driven between the interior edge of the socket and the staff to tighten the wood in the socket. |
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| 9 | 546 |
In some such hoes the socket is drilled and the staff is held in place by means of a pin, usually of wood, sometimes of metal. |
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| 9 | 1237 |
I lifted the heavy hoe, with the stout staff and great metal blade, again and again. |
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| 9 | 1449 |
Bran Loort stood forward, his staff in his left hand, my neck rope in his right. |
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| 9 | 1450 |
His eight young men stood near to him, each with his staff. |
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| 9 | 1463 |
The staff he held was over six feet in length and some two to three inches in width. |
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| 9 | 1514 |
He gripped the long, heavy staff more firmly, standing ready. |
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| 9 | 1565 |
He set his staff, butt down, in the dirt. |
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| 9 | 1620 |
Bran Loort lifted his staff. |
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| 9 | 1624 |
The staff will speak. |
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| 9 | 1686 |
"Will you not require a staff?" asked Bran Loort, grinning. |
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| 9 | 1692 |
"You will need a staff," pointed out Bran Loort. |
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| 9 | 1704 |
"But," said Thurnus, "a good staff must also be strong". |
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| 9 | 1708 |
Thurnus was behind him and smote down, shattering the heavy staff across the fellow's back. |
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| 9 | 1710 |
The staff had been more than two inches in diameter. |
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| 9 | 1711 |
"That staff, you see," said Thurnus, instructing the younger men, "was flawed. |
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| 9 | 1715 |
"Such a staff may not be relied upon in combat". |
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| 9 | 1717 |
"Give me another staff," he said to one of them. |
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| 9 | 1718 |
The young man looked at him and, frightened, threw him the staff, not wanting to come close to him. |
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| 9 | 1719 |
"A better weapon," said Thurnus, hefting the staff. |
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| 9 | 1720 |
He looked at the fellow who had thrown him the staff. |
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| 9 | 1723 |
"The first lesson you must learn," said Thurnus, swiftly jabbing the staff deeply, without warning, into his stomach, "is never to give a weapon to an enemy". |
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| 9 | 1727 |
"You should keep your guard up," said Thurnus to one of them, who immediately, warily, raised his staff. |
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| 9 | 1746 |
He held his staff ready. |
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| 9 | 1758 |
Bran Loort hesitated only an instant, and then he struck down, the staff stopped, striking across Thurnus's turned shoulder. |
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| 9 | 1761 |
"Too, to earn the respect of peasants," said Thurnus, straightening up, retrieving his staff, his sandal tied, "the caste leader should be strong". |
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| 12 | 739 |
Below in the courtyard, chained together, I could see Borchoff, and the soldiers and staff of the keep. |
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| 27 | 129 |
He leaped to his feet and he and Thurnus, who was carrying his great staff, met, embracing, among the tables. |
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| 27 | 151 |
"Sul paga!" cried Thurnus, pounding on the small table with his great staff. |
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| 27 | 157 |
The great staff banged on the table. |
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| 27 | 209 |
"And you are of the peasants!" He flung his staff to Bran Loort, who caught it. |
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| 27 | 210 |
Out stabbed the staff. |
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| 27 | 212 |
About swung the staff and men tried to struggle backward. |
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| 27 | 213 |
The staff whirled about, almost invisible, a branch lashed in a hurricane. |
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| 27 | 217 |
The staff punched out, thrusting into another man's stomach. |
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| 27 | 224 |
Bran Loort held the staff and, behind him, using half of the broken table, Thurnus protected him, fending blows and thrusting out, now and again, with the shattered table. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 111 |
Originally, in its preparation, the message ribbon is wrapped diagonally, neatly, edges touching, about a cylinder, such as the staff of a marshal's office, the shaft of a spear, a previously prepared object, or so on, and then the message is written in lines parallel with the cylinder. |
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| 3 | 156 |
I decided it would be best to search for a merchant who was on the fair's staff, or find one of their booths or praetor stations, where such information might be found. |
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| 3 | 243 |
"Is this girl bothering you?" asked a merchant, one whose head bore the talmit of the fair's staff. |
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| 3 | 1328 |
She had been the slave who had followed me earlier in the day, who had bitten at my sleeve near the puppet theater, whom I had saved from a beating by the guardsmen under the aegis of the officer of the fair's merchant staff. |
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| 15 | 989 |
There are the girls who staff the public kitchens and laundries. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 |
It is a simple mark, and rather floral, a staff, with two, upturned, frondlike curls, joined where they touch the staff on its right. |
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| 1 | 69 |
The two frondlike curls indicate femininity and beauty; the staff, in its uncompromising severity, indicates that the femininity is subject to discipline; the upturned curves on the frondlike curls indicate total openness and vulnerability. |
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| 5 | 85 |
He then held the loops against the whip's staff, her neck encircled by them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 173 |
The straight line is supposed to represent the staff of discipline and the two fronds the beauty of a woman. |
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| 4 | 174 |
The significance of the whole, then, would be beauty subject to the staff of discipline. |
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| 7 | 309 |
I resisted the impulse to trace lightly in the palm of her left hand a small cursive "Kef," the staff and fronds, that letter used commonly in the branding of female slaves. |
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| 12 | 132 |
"No! There must be true men on Earth!" The whip of the Lady Tendite, suddenly, its blades folded back against its staff, struck me on the side of the face. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 362 |
Yet how much pain must be endured, how much crime and madness, how much unhappiness and misery, before human rationality, that pathetic reed, that frail staff, that small weapon, that fragile tool, must revolt and cry, "No!" How obvious must it be before human beings are willing to realize that a gr... |
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| 24 | 162 |
I regarded it, the staff and fronds, delicate and incisive, beauty subject to discipline. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 257 |
I folded the blades of the whip back against the staff, and held out the staff and blades to her. |
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| 16 | 26 |
An instant later he had caught another pirate by the neck, with the horizontally mounted hook on the staff and pulled him backward. |
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| 18 | 248 |
She took the staff of the whip, which is about an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in diameter, gently between her teeth, and looked up at me. |
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| 18 | 249 |
The staff of the whip was crosswise in her mouth. |
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| 18 | 259 |
"I kiss your whip, my Master," she said, gratefully, continuing to kiss the brutal, uncompromising blades and staff. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 92 |
I thought the cursive Kef, sometimes referred to as the staff and fronds, beauty subject to discipline, would look well upon her thigh. |
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| 17 | 215 |
Tactical instructions in a melee, incidentally, are normally administered to the red savages, in their units, commonly warrior societies, or divisions of such societies, by blasts on a whistle, formed from the wing bone of the taloned Herlit, or movements of a long, feathered battle staff. |
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| 19 | 7 |
In a moment it was following the line of withdrawing warriors, led by their war-party leader, he followed by the banner-bearer, carrying the crooklike, feathered staff, used in giving directions in battle, and then the others. |
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| 19 | 608 |
He picked up the lance, using it as a staff to maintain his balance. |
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| 19 | 674 |
He stood, unsteadily, clinging to the lance, as though to a staff. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 305 |
I then, regally, imperiously, pointed to the chieftain of the Kinyanpi, he most prominent among them, he next to the bearer of the feathered staff, the battle staff. |
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| 20 | 77 |
"I am going to fetch the battle staff". |
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| 37 | 156 |
Then I discovered they were cursive Kefs, the common Kajira sign, sometimes called the staff and fronds, that sign which marks the thigh of so many enslaved Gorean beauties. |
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| 48 | 75 |
"Bring the staff and thongs," he said to me. |
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| 48 | 76 |
I brought the long staff, about seven feet long. |
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| 49 | 4 |
"Surely! Certainly! Agreed!" The two women, kneeling before the men, the staff bound behind their necks, their hands tied behind their backs, trembled. |
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| 49 | 14 |
The girls, their heads down, the heavy staff behind their necks, did not speak. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 525 |
Then, humbly, my head down, submissively, near the point where the five long, soft blades join the staff, holding it in both hands, I kissed it. |
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| 7 | 94 |
That you are a totally free woman, and not a slave, or a capture enroute to the collar, will be known to several members of the staff. |
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| 7 | 96 |
Certain other members of the staff will not know that you are free. |
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| 7 | 101 |
"No one will know, even high members of the staff, will they," I asked, "that I am actually the Tatrix of Corcyrus". |
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| 19 | 272 |
Speusippus, awakened, came over to the trunk, and, frightening me, beat on its top with something heavy, perhaps a staff or club. |
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| 31 | 18 |
I supposed that it was only I, of all the girls, and perhaps of all those on the staff of the agency itself, who suspected the reasons for this trip to Argentum and the rationale of the security. |
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| 33 | 348 |
Descriptions of this 'Lady Lita' were furnished by several members of the staff. |
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| 34 | 91 |
Between her teeth was the staff of the whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1294 |
She wore the common Kajira brand, the tiny staff and fronds. |
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| 7 | 97 |
He may, of course, have been one of the fellows on the fairs' permanent staff. |
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| 9 | 50 |
It is sometimes, too, spoken of as the "Staff and Fronds". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1410 |
Similarly walking sticks and staffs often have one or more such compartments in them, reached by unscrewing various sections of the stick or staff. |
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| 21 | 93 |
"I trust that the regent, your high councils, your military leaders, the general staff, and such, are well informed". |
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| 25 | 1922 |
I folded back the blades of the whip and inserted them in their clip, near the butt end of the staff. |
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| 28 | 12 |
It was the common kajira mark, as I had expected, small, delicate, and beautiful, the cursive Kef, the staff and fronds, lyrically feminine, but unmistakable, a brand marking property, worn by most Gorean female slaves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 161 |
I would let myself in through the staff entrance. |
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| 4 | 256 |
"You are alive," he said, coiling the blade back against the staff. |
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| 14 | 210 |
"Only Tupita, first girl, other than staff, and assigned kitchen slaves, had had access to the area before it had been seen to be missing. |
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| 29 | 1398 |
But he crouched down then, the point of the blade in the dirt, his hands on the guard, steadying himself with the weapon, almost as with a staff. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 159 |
Too, of course, like a staff of office, a rod, a baton or scepter, it is an authority device. |
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| 1 | 566 |
Her thigh, as I determined, in turning her about, and caressing her, first, by feel, and then in a flash of lightning, wore the common Kajira brand, the small, delicate "Kef," for "Kajira," sometimes called the staff and fronds, suggesting beauty subject to discipline. |
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| 24 | 616 |
"It was a good voyage," said the keeper, reaching out with a staff and hook to draw Publia, by the chain from which her harness was suspended, close to the rail. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
It was the common kajira brand, the staff and fronds, beauty subject to discipline, worn by most female slaves on Gor. |
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| 1 | 306 |
It was difficult to tell if he had heard them or not, but once, at least, he must have for he, with his staff, struck the bars of a cage, strictly ordering its fair occupant to silence. |
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| 9 | 119 |
"That is Ina, Lady of Ar," said a man, "attached to the staff of Saphronicus, a political observer, said to be a confidante of, and to report to, the Lady Talena, of Ar, herself". |
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| 12 | 52 |
"I am Ina, Lady of Ar," she said, "of the staff of Saphronicus, general in the north". |
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| 12 | 151 |
"Some of those most highly placed in the city are party to this treachery, among them Seremides, high general, and Saphronicus, to whose staff you are adjunct. |
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| 19 | 1701 |
"I was on the staff of Saphronicus," she said. |
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| 27 | 157 |
"She was of the staff of Saphronicus, and surely privy to his treason". |
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| 28 | 325 |
She looked over to me, pleadingly, pathetically, the once-rich, once-powerful, once-haughty Lady Ina, of Ar, she who had been of the staff of Saphronicus, she who had been mistress of the purple barge, she who was confidante to, and observer for, Talena, once the daughter of Marlenus of Ar. |
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| 39 | 37 |
There was much skilled staff work in progress, the staffs often behaving in unison, circling about, changing hands, striking on the floor together, seeming to poke at the victim, to strike her and such. |
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| 42 | 71 |
In the course of several inquiries, a bit of information given here, another bit there, I finally learned that he, with his immediate staff and guards, was quartering at the Jeweled Whip". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 49 |
The female slave began to sob and it seemed she would try, within the net, to put her body between that of the male slave and the lashing staff, but he turned her, forcibly, away from the staff, holding himself over her, sheltering her. |
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| 1 | 333 |
In a moment we could see the lifted golden circle, on its staff, approaching. |
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| 1 | 353 |
An adult Initiate, in his flowing white robe, carried the staff surmounted with the golden circle, a figure with neither beginning nor end, the symbol of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 437 |
When one, turning the ring by means of the knobs, keeping track of the prayers that way, comes to the circular knob, rather like the golden circle at the termination of the Initiate's staff, one knows one has completed one cycle of prayers. |
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| 3 | 89 |
Archery is popular with the peasants and combats with the great staff. |
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| 3 | 197 |
Two fellows, brawny lads, in half tunics, were doing staff contest. |
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| 3 | 206 |
The lad from Rarir, as I understood it, then managed to pierce the guard of his opponent and thrust the staff into the fellow's chest. |
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| 3 | 611 |
From the latter manner of greeting, I gathered this Teibar might be excellent with the staff, or sword. |
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| 8 | 419 |
I had lingered by her path to the theater, with others in a crowd, but I had been able to see only her palanquin, its curtains drawn, borne not by slaves but by stout fellows apparently of the staff of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 8 | 868 |
Did he think that the color of a fellow's garments was what made him a warrior? Surely he must realize that one not of the warriors might affect the scarlet, and that one who wore the grimed gray of a peasant, one barefoot, and armed only with the great staff, might be of the scarlet caste. |
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| 9 | 783 |
"Our thanks, Ubara," said he, "those of myself and my polemarkos, and, too, of course, those of our staff members, guards and accompanying officers". |
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| 16 | 32 |
More than one fellow in the crowd had a staff, that simple weapon which can be so nimble, so lively, so punishing, in the hands of one of skill. |
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| 16 | 35 |
With respect to the staff, it serves of course not only as a weapon but, more usually, and more civilly, as an aid in traversing terrain of uncertain footing. |
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| 16 | 81 |
A fellow flourished a staff. |
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| 19 | 857 |
"Mostly men in the house, on the staff," she said, "those who wanted me for the night. |
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| 24 | 290 |
Appanius lifted his staff, angrily. |
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| 24 | 291 |
I took no note of the raised staff. |
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| 24 | 300 |
He lowered his staff, angrily. |
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| 24 | 378 |
The staff, except in the hands of an expert, is not a weapon to put against the blade. |
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| 25 | 3 |
Almost at the same time, weeping with misery and rage, he had rushed into the front room, his staff raised, followed by his four retainers, all seemingly sharing their employer's wrath and indignation, as befitted such fellows. |
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| 25 | 47 |
Appanius then, with a cry of rage, seizing his staff with both hands, struck down with it, smiting the male slave on the shoulder. |
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| 25 | 51 |
Seven or eight times the slave received heavy blows from the staff. |
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| 25 | 63 |
"Do not hurt her!" Appanius drew back the staff again to thrust at Lavinia, but then I managed to get my hands on it, and held it back, away from the slaves. |
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| 25 | 74 |
I released the staff of Appanius, as the slave had dared to address the master by the master's name. |
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| 25 | 84 |
Twice more the staff fell on the male slave, who now shuddered in the net. |
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| 25 | 86 |
He then raised his staff against Lavinia. |
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| 25 | 87 |
I held the staff. |
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| 25 | 113 |
Appanius then, as Lavinia wept, struck the male slave twice more with his staff for speaking without permission, and twice again, for lying. |
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| 25 | 539 |
Indeed, from the marks, I suspect the staff of Appanius to have been cored with lead. |
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| 26 | 35 |
I was pleased that his back had not been opened by the staff of Appanius. |
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| 28 | 51 |
Well could I imagine Seremides storming about, striking subordinates, denouncing his staff, threatening his officers, and all Ar, overturning furniture, tearing down hangings, picking up the pen, putting it down again, spilling ink, shouting orders, rescinding them, issuing them again, and demanding... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 183 |
"She has become even more so, since she came here," said he who was first of those present, he who was of the staff of the house. |
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| 7 | 43 |
How could he have known that? I was sure he was not of the staff. |
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| 7 | 427 |
To be sure, sometimes a flower would disappear, but then so, too, usually, would have a guard, or member of the staff. |
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| 7 | 429 |
But he was not of the house, or of the staff, or the guards, I was sure of that. |
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| 7 | 975 |
In all intrigues within the garden, involving the outside, a guard, or staff member, is almost always involved. |
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| 7 | 980 |
Too, of course, such liaisons might be initiated by a guard or staff member, for such are not as ignorant of the contents of a garden as is sometimes supposed. |
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| 8 | 314 |
The foot of the "T" ties about the neck and the staff of the "T" goes before one, and then, between the legs, is drawn up snugly behind and tied closed in front where the beveled edges of the bar of the "T," wrapped about the body, have been brought forward, meeting at the waist. |
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| 19 | 244 |
The crowd parted to my left and I saw, making its way through the crowd, some sort of standard, a golden staff surmounted by a golden circle. |
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| 19 | 359 |
This circular gesture, it seems, reminiscent of the circle surmounting the staff, the symbol of eternity, was the "sign of the Priest-Kings". |
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| 31 | 698 |
Your weapon is the great staff, perhaps the great bow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 67 |
His whip, on its staff ring, blades folded back, and clipped, against the staff, which is long enough to be held with both hands, was at his belt. |
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| 12 | 402 |
Or perhaps one of the kitchen staff, who ladled gruel into the shallow depressions in the bins. |
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| 17 | 79 |
"Don't whip me, please!" she cried, seeing Barzak loosen the whip, removing the staff ring from the hook at his belt, and unclipping the blades. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 846 |
The most common types are the staff and fronds, and the Dina, resembling a small and common flower of that world. |
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| 21 | 345 |
Kurii, however, might play with such a device as with a wand, or as a brawny peasant might with his stout, well-grasped defensive staff, a punishing implement which, well used, might overcome a blade. |
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| 50 | 140 |
Cabot reached down and retrieved the whip, and then, slowly folding its blades back, against the staff, he touched it, gently, to her back. |
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| 70 | 180 |
"I will cut a branch, to be used as a staff," said Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 389 |
They must think me a mere slave! 'Whose compartments are these?' demanded a man, with a sharpened half-staff. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1062 |
In this way your right hand, which might wield a weapon, a dagger or staff, faces the stranger whom you pass. |
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| 18 | 832 |
Certainly he carried no staff, no great bow, no sheaf of long arrows, at his left hip. |
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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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| 52 | 122 |
I was pleased to see that he was folding the five blades of the slave whip about the staff, which might easily accommodate a two-handed grip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 31 |
It is sometimes called the staff and fronds, beauty subject to discipline. |
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| 10 | 35 |
The common military ensign is a metal standard, raised on its pole or staff, bearing its device, and, usually, identifying a unit, whether it be an army, a division, or a company. |
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| 50 | 393 |
My brand was the small, tasteful, but unmistakable "Kef," the "staff and fronds," beauty subject to discipline. |
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| 53 | 145 |
"Please do not beat me!" He held the whip, two hands on the staff. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 138 |
I saw no ax, no staff, no club, not even a knife, in the grasp of Lord Grendel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 76 |
I conjectured that the newcomer carried a staff, which he, for some reason, saw fit to strike on the floor before him, as he moved. |
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| 21 | 93 |
I had no immediate fear of him, as I could move far more swiftly than he, supporting half his weight on that stout crutch or staff. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 16 |
"I will fetch my staff," said Thurnock. |
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| 60 | 17 |
This was the peasant staff, less an accessory to walking than a stout weapon, some six or seven feet in length, some two inches, or so, in thickness. |
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| 60 | 25 |
Thurnock then joined us, staff in hand. |
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| 60 | 43 |
Thurnock, turning away, spun his staff, twice, and thrust at some imaginary foe. |
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| 60 | 100 |
Thurnock, with his staff, as though curious, had joined us. |
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| 60 | 136 |
In this way I could be approached only frontally, or on my right, and on my right was Thurnock, with his weighty, formidable staff. |
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| 60 | 162 |
The second man had intended to coordinate his attack with that of the first, but he failed to reach me, the front of his skull broken in by a thrust of Thurnock's mighty staff. |
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| 60 | 264 |
Thurnock, with his staff, rolled the body from the dock. |
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| 60 | 268 |
Thurnock disposed, as well, of two minions, he whose skull he had broken with his staff and he whom Ctesippus had slain for insubordination. |
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| 60 | 269 |
Then, staff in hand, he returned to my side. |
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| 60 | 275 |
Thurnock, with his staff, moved the body to its back. |
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