| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 193 |
As we fought and I forced him back step by step toward the edge of the lofty marble cylinder, I said calmly, "I can kill you". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 131 |
Step by step, he approached me, the ax held over his shoulder with both hands. |
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| 24 | 153 |
Step by step I climbed the black avenue, wondering if the truce would be respected. |
10 |
| 25 | 23 |
Slowly, numbly, she descended the throne, step by step, and then to my amazement she fell to her knees beside Thorn and lowered her head to his bloody chest, weeping. |
10 |
| 2 | 84 |
My step was light, my heart was happy. |
10 |
| 3 | 33 |
I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body. |
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| 4 | 76 |
I had hardly moved another step when, in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur dark, slick with rain, its fangs bared, its wide nocturnal ... |
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| 8 | 20 |
They walked in this city unattended, with an imperious step, the men of Tharna moving to let them pass—in such a way that they never touched. |
10 |
| 11 | 1 |
Lara, Tatrix of Tharna I passed through the opening, and painfully began to climb a small, circular passage, staggering with each step under the weight of the heavy metal yoke. |
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| 23 | 238 |
"Welcome to Tharna!" "Yes," said Kron, only a step behind him, seizing my arm. |
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| 24 | 6 |
It was hard to see where to step. |
10 |
| 26 | 73 |
It was not her intention to condemn her sisters of Tharna into interminable and miserable bondage but to force them to take this strange first step on the road she herself had traveled, one of the unusual roads that may lead to love. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 15 |
Looking up I saw Misk, disdaining the rope, bend himself backwards through the aperture in the ceiling and, step by dainty step, walk across the ceiling upside down and then back himself nimbly down the side of the wall. |
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| 21 | 68 |
The Priest-King, escorted by Muls, then began to move slowly, step by majestic step, down the passage outside of the chamber. |
10 |
| 24 | 25 |
I withdrew a step and it, on its six short legs, moved forward a step. |
10 |
| 4 | 144 |
It clattered noisily against the first step. |
10 |
| 5 | 280 |
I took a step toward her and she turned stumbling with a cry and ran to the corner of the room. |
10 |
| 8 | 231 |
Vika took another step and then it seemed her legs would fail her and she might swoon. |
10 |
| 11 | 82 |
I took a step toward Sarm. |
10 |
| 24 | 34 |
As I touched the girl the Beetle took another step forward. |
10 |
| 27 | 232 |
Sarm moved back a step. |
10 |
| 27 | 237 |
Sarm moved back another step. |
10 |
| 28 | 124 |
I turned and left the case and Vika, as was proper, fell into step happily two paces behind me. |
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| 31 | 196 |
Behind me, inching its way up the narrow walkway, clinging with its six small legs, slowly lifting its heavy domelike golden body a step at a time, came the Golden Beetle I had seen below. |
10 |
| 32 | 165 |
Kusk took a step toward the Beetle. |
10 |
| 32 | 225 |
He looked down at me kindly and in a step or two seemed to float down the steps and stood beside me. |
10 |
| 33 | 21 |
It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 106 |
I took a step towards the ring and the spheres, doubtless moved by the fluids displaced in my step, seemed to slowly disperse and move away. |
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| 7 | 46 |
I turned to see a stout man-at-arms step to the dais, carrying in his arms, folded in the furs of the scarlet larl, a girl. |
10 |
| 12 | 228 |
When I returned with the bottle I had to step through, over, and once or twice on, Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 14 | 27 |
Then he bounded from the top step of the wagon onto the back of his kaiila and sped toward the sound of the bosk horns. |
10 |
| 14 | 66 |
One could not step without breaking and snapping them. |
10 |
| 26 | 129 |
He would throw furniture down stairs towards us, but we would step around it. |
10 |
| 26 | 260 |
"Go back with your men!" cried Saphrar, backing away from us a step. |
10 |
| 26 | 348 |
Saphrar took a step deeper into the pool and the pool permitted this, and he now stood with the fluids level with his chest. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 401 |
"In this war of yours," said I, "what is the next step?" "It is your step," said he, "Tarl Cabot, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba". |
10 |
| 5 | 152 |
The Priest-King took a step toward me on its four supporting posterior appendages, and stopped, as though it dared not move more. |
10 |
| 5 | 164 |
Bracing himself against the wind, the antennae struggling to retain their focus on me, he took one delicate step toward me across the metal surface of the disk. |
10 |
| 8 | 80 |
"What is our next step?" she asked. |
10 |
| 8 | 124 |
The girl nodded and, rising gracefully, backing away a step or two, head down, turned and went to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 12 | 305 |
Awkwardly, painfully, they did so, stumbling to the edge of the room, then leaning against the wall, taking a step at a time. |
10 |
| 12 | 321 |
"Of course," said Flaminius, backing away a step, bowing his head. |
10 |
| 12 | 393 |
Angrily I tried to step about him, but then there were others pressing between myself and the large man in the peasant's garments, and he had disappeared. |
10 |
| 16 | 173 |
Ho-Sorl immediately took a step toward him and the fellow screamed, threw down his knife, and ran. |
10 |
| 17 | 401 |
Then, to my horror, I saw Elizabeth, her back straight, her step determined, walk straight to Cernus and then, slowly, as his mouth flew open and he seemed scarcely to understand what was occurring, pour the rest of the contents of the vessel of Ka-la-na directly on his head. |
10 |
| 21 | 228 |
I saw the Taurentian step back, could sense his surprise. |
10 |
| 21 | 231 |
He then stood back, stunned, and withdrew a step, and put himself at the ready. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 34 |
I turned and, step by step, carrying the great table, advanced toward the large door leading to the hallway. |
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| 8 | 120 |
I heard two men, missing their step in the darkness, moving from one barge to the next, plunge screaming into the marsh. |
10 |
| 8 | 310 |
Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot, kneeling on the second broad step of the stairs leading up to the tiller deck, looked up at me. |
10 |
| 18 | 261 |
I took a step toward her. |
10 |
| 18 | 264 |
I took another step toward her. |
10 |
| 18 | 268 |
I took another step toward her and, wildly, she wheeled and, barefoot, fled stumbling down the passageway. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 241 |
But shortly thereafter one of the men in a black tunic, wearing sandals with metal plates on the bottoms, stepped carefully, step by step, across the steel plating. |
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| 5 | 62 |
Slowly, frightened, I approached the ship, step by step. |
10 |
| 9 | 276 |
Each step was torture. |
10 |
| 10 | 107 |
"Step back," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 427 |
He clapped his hands and took a step toward me, and I turned and fled stumbling away again, hearing his laughter in the hallway behind me. |
10 |
| 11 | 727 |
I had known his step. |
10 |
| 11 | 1020 |
I heard the step of a guard outside. |
10 |
| 11 | 1021 |
I knew several of them by their step. |
10 |
| 14 | 681 |
"Step before me, naked," said Rask of Treve. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 16 |
And then he turned about, and, slowly, step by step, marking the drier sand with his wet sandals, made his way again back up the beach. |
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| 1 | 266 |
She took a step backward, clutching the two-handled paga vessel. |
10 |
| 6 | 1057 |
She tried to step back. |
10 |
| 11 | 682 |
"Put down the wine," said Marlenus, "and step before us". |
10 |
| 19 | 11 |
The guard took a step backward. |
10 |
| 19 | 93 |
I led the way to the stockade, the men of Sarus falling into step beside me. |
10 |
| 21 | 2 |
"Step away from your steel," ordered Thurnock, gesturing that they should stand to one side. |
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| 22 | 469 |
"Yes," she said, "you beast! You will! You will!" He took a step toward her, and she stumbled away, and fell against the longboat, and then climbed into it, laughing, watching him. |
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| 22 | 814 |
The Earth girl took a step backward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 588 |
Then Ivar Forkbeard, as we followed, step by step, drove Thorgard back. |
10 |
| 2 | 322 |
Then, still beneath its white shroud, they laid it gently on the highest step of the altar. |
10 |
| 7 | 37 |
"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ... |
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| 10 | 194 |
I went to the young man, who was preparing to step into the area of hazel wands. |
10 |
| 11 | 213 |
This march might be the first step in an invasion, to culminate with the beaching of silver ships, in their thousands, raiders from the stars, on the shores of Gor. |
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| 17 | 163 |
Kurii burden the males heavily; they can think of little more than the weight they carry, and the next step; furthermore, their wrists are usually tied to the straps of their improvised backpacks. |
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| 18 | 174 |
Almost as one the girls, crying out, flung themselves to their bellies among the bodies and the charge of the men of Torvaldsland, missing not a step, took its way over them, striking the startled Kurii with an unimpeded impact. |
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| 18 | 323 |
"Thank you, my Jarl!" she wept, leaping to her feet, and falling into step on his left, two steps behind him. |
10 |
| 18 | 582 |
Thorgard stepped back another step, warily. |
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| 22 | 67 |
They walked slowly, bent over, placing each step carefully, that they not lose their balance, heavy skins, bulging and damp, across their shoulders. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 156 |
I thought I heard a step behind me. |
10 |
| 3 | 161 |
No more did I hear a step behind me. |
10 |
| 4 | 211 |
It was a step toward sensuality. |
10 |
| 8 | 275 |
She took another step backward. |
10 |
| 14 | 1 |
The March to Klima I took another step, and my right leg, to the knee, broke through the brittle crusts. |
10 |
| 21 | 52 |
Fed, watered, I followed him, though each step, because of my exhaustion, was torture. |
10 |
| 26 | 1217 |
What then could be the next step? The uprising of native Kurii had been foiled in Torvaldsland. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1629 |
Slowly, step by step, Thurnus descended the stairs from his hut. |
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| 4 | 412 |
How could he permit this? Did it mean nothing to him that he had, the preceding night, taken my virginity from me? Did it mean nothing to him that he had, for long hours, pleasured himself with my body? Did it mean nothing to him that he had won me, that I had yielded to him, that I had surrendered ... |
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| 5 | 554 |
"Step from your slippers," he said. |
10 |
| 7 | 260 |
"You will take your first step with your left foot," said Lehna, "upon my signal. |
10 |
| 9 | 1256 |
Being a whore is but a small step in the direction of being a slave girl. |
10 |
| 9 | 1332 |
"Drop it upon the ground and step upon it, grinding it into the dirt," said Bran Loort. |
10 |
| 13 | 44 |
I heard the step of the man on the stairs behind me. |
10 |
| 13 | 103 |
* * * * I felt the hand of the man tight on my arm, beside me on the step. |
10 |
| 14 | 21 |
I rose and, carrying the vessel of paga, went to the door of the tavern, to step outside, to taste the air. |
10 |
| 18 | 100 |
It was not possible there for a girl to even step outside for a breath of air as it is in most taverns. |
10 |
| 26 | 186 |
"Step forth," he said, "keeping your hands lifted". |
10 |
| 26 | 636 |
"Do you not hear the step of your master, descending the stairs outside the compartments?" I asked. |
10 |
| 26 | 639 |
"You will learn to listen for that step," I told her. |
10 |
| 26 | 858 |
I knew the step. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 520 |
She and the last two girls would have been extremely similarly attired; they all wore, or had worn, the male-imitation uniform which I gathered must be popular among such girls, girls apparently striving to copy a masculinity which hormonally and anatomically would be forever denied to them; better ... |
10 |
| 34 | 170 |
Slowly, step by step, it began to move toward me, its paws outstretched. |
10 |
| 34 | 192 |
The beast, step by painful step, bloody in the snow, followed. |
10 |
| 2 | 67 |
The girl tried to step forward but the shafts of two spears, wielded by her flanking guardsmen, barred her way. |
10 |
| 2 | 76 |
She again tried to step forward but this time the points of the guards' spears prevented her. |
10 |
| 21 | 199 |
"You and Thistle had better watch your step," I warned her, "or I will have Thimble thrash you both". |
10 |
| 23 | 127 |
I took another step toward the Kur, threatening it with the lance. |
10 |
| 34 | 153 |
It tried to take a step toward me, and then its face contorted with excruciating pain. |
10 |
| 34 | 196 |
Each step must have been torture for it. |
10 |
| 35 | 411 |
I heard some men about a corner, running in step. |
10 |
| 35 | 569 |
I took a step toward her. |
10 |
| 35 | 577 |
"Step from your slippers," I told her. |
10 |
| 35 | 599 |
"Step from the robes," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 176 |
"Look at his eyes," said the paga attendant, backing away another step. |
10 |
| 12 | 79 |
Your step was light. |
10 |
| 14 | 648 |
"Nonetheless, the intellectual recognition, abstract and superficial as it is, is a useful first step in the transformation of your consciousness, and the freeing of your deepest self, with her profundities of emotions and needs". |
10 |
| 18 | 136 |
It would then be a short step to making clear his involvement with the ring. |
10 |
| 50 | 83 |
I started up the stairs, Kisu a step behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 466 |
Hating the master they find themselves hoping to hear his step outside the door; furious, they long to be ordered to their knees; angry, they hope that he will hold his whip to their lips, that they may lick and kiss it with grateful deference. |
10 |
| 10 | 52 |
I continued to walk forward and the two guards, not speaking, fell into step behind us. |
10 |
| 23 | 82 |
Even Barus and myself must watch our step". |
10 |
| 27 | 272 |
If I watched my step, I did not think I truly had anything to fear from them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 643 |
But she had gone only a step or two when she saw some five other men at the end of the street, also approaching her. |
10 |
| 5 | 54 |
"Who will next step upon the sand?" But none more, as I had expected, ventured forth to meet me. |
10 |
| 8 | 55 |
He advanced another step. |
10 |
| 8 | 60 |
He took another step closer. |
10 |
| 8 | 63 |
The fellow grinned, and advanced another step. |
10 |
| 8 | 65 |
He grinned again, and advanced yet another step. |
10 |
| 8 | 89 |
"Who are you?" demanded the man who had threatened me, taking another step back. |
10 |
| 22 | 48 |
"You there, Female," called a pirate, his eye roaming the crowd, "step forth!" The men holding the ship's pole, frightened, lowered it. |
10 |
| 22 | 49 |
"Step forth!" said the pirate. |
10 |
| 22 | 59 |
"Step forth, Beauty," said the pirate. |
10 |
| 23 | 108 |
With one foot I moved aside the low table, watching Kliomenes, that he not attack me as I step upon the table, maintaining an uneven balance. |
10 |
| 24 | 100 |
I then helped her step within the tub. |
10 |
| 25 | 42 |
When he went about in public it seemed his shoulders were bent, his eyes bleared, his step uncertain, his hand unsure. |
10 |
| 26 | 208 |
I stepped away from Krondar, and backed up a step. |
10 |
| 26 | 209 |
Miles of Vonda, sword ready, advanced a step. |
10 |
| 27 | 160 |
He advanced a step. |
10 |
| 28 | 302 |
Aemilianus backed up a step. |
10 |
| 29 | 218 |
"Step back," I said to Callimachus. |
10 |
| 32 | 332 |
He backed away, a step. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 551 |
There was a step on the stairs leading down to the companionway. |
10 |
| 8 | 554 |
Slaves, like many domestic animals, can often recognize the step of their master. |
10 |
| 8 | 557 |
The step had approached down the companionway, and halted before the cabin door. |
10 |
| 8 | 586 |
I thrust her a step toward the window, holding her by the arm. |
10 |
| 17 | 53 |
My step was casual, unhurried. |
10 |
| 20 | 1075 |
Step quickly. |
10 |
| 20 | 1228 |
Callimachus followed her a step or two, and then he turned, and faced me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 108 |
"You," I said, indicating a dark-haired woman, "step forward". |
10 |
| 22 | 111 |
"Step carefully," I said. |
10 |
| 33 | 367 |
"When I give the signal," I said, "lean forward and step out with your left foot. |
10 |
| 33 | 372 |
"Now," I said, "step forward". |
10 |
| 39 | 212 |
If she chooses slavery, she may be expected to step onto a submission mat, and kneel there, head down, enter a slave pen of her own accord, or, say, fully acknowledging herself a slave, belly to an officer, kissing his feet. |
10 |
| 39 | 214 |
"If you are a free woman, speak your freedom and advance, now, to the headsman's block, or, if you are truly a slave, and have only been masquerading until now as a free woman, step now, if you wish, upon the mat of submission and kneel there, in this act becoming at last, explicitly, a legal slave"... |
10 |
| 44 | 344 |
But a step behind him was the redoubtable Kahintokapa, of the Casmu, of the Yellow-Kaiila Riders. |
10 |
| 47 | 413 |
He took a step forward but none, clearly, intended to follow him, "Attack!" he cried. |
10 |
| 54 | 174 |
They took place in the shadows, behind lodges and at places marked in the high grass, where they might lie in one another's arms, if only fearfully and briefly, fearing the step of a master, the shadow of a whip. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 |
"Now, please, step into the sand box," he had said. |
10 |
| 7 | 38 |
"Step forth," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 536 |
Each step, too, was taking me closer to the room! I wished that I had never seen slaves, and the house of Kliomenes. |
10 |
| 15 | 61 |
I, my head down, my hair about my neck and shoulders, hopefully tending to conceal the bareness of my neck, the absence there of a steel circlet, fell into step behind them, seemingly, I hoped, only another slave on her way back to her master. |
10 |
| 20 | 181 |
Surely the next natural step in his vengeance would be to make me a legal slave and own me. |
10 |
| 24 | 265 |
"Step forth, and kneel," he said. |
10 |
| 25 | 82 |
"Step forth, here, child," said the young man, "and turn slowly before me". |
10 |
| 27 | 62 |
The girl who wears this must watch her step, lest the master grow impatient with her. |
10 |
| 36 | 171 |
"I love you! Teach me that you own me!" He took a step, further back. |
10 |
| 36 | 546 |
"I am on my step," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 75 |
Step back, step back, please". |
10 |
| 20 | 240 |
The men began to move forward, slowly, step by step. |
10 |
| 2 | 190 |
I took a step towards her and she turned hastily away, frightened, and began to make her way through the crowd. |
10 |
| 2 | 1740 |
I took another step or two, and then I slipped to one knee. |
10 |
| 6 | 824 |
"Our disguises are perfect! She takes us for merchants!" "Would you please step aside, good sirs," she said. |
10 |
| 6 | 1021 |
"Now if you will be so kind as to step aside, we will get our ropes on her". |
10 |
| 8 | 252 |
He stumbled forward a step. |
10 |
| 8 | 293 |
I took one step and released the blade. |
10 |
| 10 | 502 |
"No," she said, taking a step backward, clinging to the wagon wheel. |
10 |
| 10 | 872 |
A slave, like a sleen, tends to recognize, and be alert to, the tiny sounds, his step and such, which might betoken the approach of her master. |
10 |
| 11 | 116 |
"Step back, please," warned Boots, gravely. |
10 |
| 16 | 342 |
"It is an unspeakable insult! I shall have the magistrates on you for this!" Chino took a quick step toward her, and she stepped back hastily, fumbling with the hood and veil. |
10 |
| 17 | 9 |
"Step from the shadows," he said, backing away. |
10 |
| 18 | 517 |
I prepared to step forth into the hall. |
10 |
| 19 | 23 |
"Step aside," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 193 |
"Let us step back inside, away from the door," he said. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 423 |
To be sure, she should watch her step in such matters. |
10 |
| 16 | 1478 |
"Watch your step". |
10 |
| 19 | 141 |
A man or two took a step forward, but none challenged me. |
10 |
| 19 | 149 |
To be sure he did not step boldly forth. |
10 |
| 22 | 256 |
Feiqa backed away another step. |
10 |
| 25 | 1063 |
She rose to her feet, her head down, backed away a step or two, and then turned and hurried back to her place with the other girls. |
10 |
| 26 | 1016 |
I took a step towards her. |
10 |
| 29 | 173 |
I then fell into step within the column of men, marching in their midst. |
10 |
| 29 | 180 |
"Let us step lively," said the captain. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 623 |
"Place your left foot on the first step," he said, "and put your right foot here, on the third step". |
10 |
| 3 | 315 |
They would know where I was! Again I must run! I leapt up, crying out, and fled again, irrationally, terrified, wildly, miserably, weeping, my every step again betrayed by bells, this time about the far end of the tiny side aisle between the shelves, away from the main aisle, away from where I thoug... |
10 |
| 6 | 717 |
"Step carefully. |
10 |
| 6 | 725 |
"Here, now," he said, "lovely naked lady, step up a little". |
10 |
| 10 | 620 |
"Come here," he said, "and lie down, on your back, on this step". |
10 |
| 10 | 621 |
He had indicated the second step leading to the height of the dais. |
10 |
| 10 | 651 |
He then came back, and crouched down, near me, above me, on the third step. |
10 |
| 10 | 675 |
My head was held down, back on the second step. |
10 |
| 10 | 679 |
Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow!" I would have screamed and reared up, but I was thrust back, helpless, half strangled, scarcely able to utter a sound, to the step. |
10 |
| 10 | 771 |
I was shuddering on the step. |
10 |
| 11 | 552 |
If she is not, but is as your other women, then, noble friend, we pray you, step back from her, leaving her upon the floor before us". |
10 |
| 11 | 1147 |
I felt the man step up, over the high threshold of the alcove. |
10 |
| 24 | 49 |
Sometimes, too, I was made to step over the chain, bringing it up behind me, which tends to hold the hands, as they might twist or struggle, back, near my waist or hips. |
10 |
| 28 | 260 |
Indeed, it is a not uncommon first step in the enslavement of a free woman merely to dress her as a slave. |
10 |
| 29 | 1126 |
"Step forward, my half-naked beauty," said the bearded man, coaxingly, gesturing with his hand. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 319 |
Surely one must understand that that last few hundred yards, that last inviting, beckoning pasang or so, may be the most dangerous step in a dangerous journey. |
10 |
| 19 | 190 |
The ul took a step in my direction. |
10 |
| 19 | 194 |
I took a step back, into the rence. |
10 |
| 19 | 195 |
It took a step forward. |
10 |
| 28 | 190 |
"That is the first step out of the delta," I said. |
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| 28 | 647 |
"But I would watch my step if I were you," I said. |
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| 45 | 12 |
If someone were to approach the camp in the darkness, not looking for them, unaware of their presence, he would presumably step on one or more of these small alarms, crushing it or snapping it, thus alerting me to his presence. |
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| 46 | 122 |
Suddenly, with a wild sob, she leaped to her feet and ran toward the men, but she had scarcely gone a step or two when she stopped, in terror. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 51 |
Instead of having one driver, or a driver and a fellow, a relief driver or one to help with the unloading, and perhaps a lad to help through the city in the darkness, each wagon had at least four or five full-grown men with it, armed, usually two or three on the wagon box, and another two or three o... |
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| 9 | 865 |
Some of the women at the front of the chain had probably had to be informed that the first step taken in coffle is with the left foot. |
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| 18 | 208 |
Marcus took another step back. |
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| 18 | 293 |
Were I a member of the troupe I had no doubt but what he might have been persuaded to step aside, withdrawing from the role of bearer in my favor. |
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| 19 | 18 |
In places the earth cracked under their step. |
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| 22 | 201 |
He backed away a step. |
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| 26 | 308 |
He made as though to step toward her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 811 |
"Left foot first, step! Step!" The coffle was then marched past me. |
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| 5 | 23 |
We are forbidden, even, to step upon the perimeter of sharpened stones, that lining its interior side. |
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| 9 | 16 |
I had also been warned by more than one guard that I should watch my step with particular care among such creatures, as they enjoyed being incredibly cruel, petty and vindictive towards those such as I, who, doubtless for reasons of their own, they regarded with utter contempt and hatred. |
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| 10 | 36 |
The beast put its head down and moved forward, a quick, stealthy step, little more than the movement of one paw. |
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| 10 | 62 |
I heard the animal growl, a low, rumbling noise, and sensed it move forward another step. |
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| 10 | 364 |
He indicated that I should step into the bag, putting my feet through the apertures, and I did so, one foot at a time. |
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| 11 | 253 |
The next tidbit of meat he tossed to the first step of the dais, where I retrieved it. |
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| 11 | 254 |
I looked up at him, the palms of my hands on the first step of the dais, my knees on the flagging below the dais. |
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| 11 | 255 |
He tossed the next piece of meat to the second step. |
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| 11 | 1061 |
She took a step backward, aghast. |
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| 11 | 1491 |
"Beware, slave," said the man in the chair, "of making a false step". |
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| 11 | 1530 |
"Beware of making a false step," said he in the chair. |
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| 11 | 1778 |
I put my head down to the floor before the first step of the dais. |
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| 13 | 1032 |
"There is little danger," she said, "if you watch your step". |
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| 14 | 73 |
"It is more modest to kneel," I said, kneeling on the broad step, my legs together. |
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| 19 | 339 |
To be sure, I supposed that he had best watch his step. |
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| 19 | 1132 |
"Your first step will be taken with the left foot," they were informed by a worker. |
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| 19 | 1139 |
"Your first step is taken with the left foot," I heard. |
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| 29 | 382 |
"Do you step forward, eagerly? So close to me? Do you look up to me so? Your eyes are filled with tears. |
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| 29 | 713 |
He turned about, and took a step toward the door. |
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| 37 | 179 |
The leader of the strangers took another step back and drew his blade. |
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| 37 | 562 |
"Step from behind the slaves," the lieutenant ordered the lead man. |
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| 37 | 772 |
Surely to the collar would now be but a short step for her. |
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| 42 | 125 |
It is they who decide on which step of the dais, so to speak, we may kneel, or even if we may approach the dais at all. |
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| 46 | 27 |
He approached me, a step or two. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 206 |
Scarcely able to stand Ellen rose, unsteadily, looked about herself and moved, step by uncertain step, toward the entrance of the tent. |
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| 24 | 499 |
She took a step backward, and then another step. |
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| 24 | 753 |
He delights then to take such an interesting, lovely, remarkable creature in hand and, step by step, with great patience, reduce her to an unquestioning, passionate, obedient chattel. |
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| 8 | 62 |
She heard a step on the steel ladder outside, some yards below her kennel. |
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| 15 | 91 |
The guard had followed her, staying a step or two behind her. |
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| 16 | 926 |
Ellen supposed that Targo and Barzak might have been in the vicinity during the scene with the guardsmen, but, doubtless wisely, wishing to avoid further unpleasantness, if not actual danger, did not step forward and identify themselves. |
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| 18 | 327 |
She then turned away, but, after a step, stopped, looked back over her shoulder and smiled, slyly, and then, saucily, suddenly, bid Selius farewell with a toss, beneath her brief, thin tunic, of her small, well-outlined derrière. |
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| 18 | 328 |
"She-sleen!" he cried, taking a step toward her, but she sped away. |
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| 20 | 706 |
Ellen had feared she could not go another step. |
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| 26 | 1149 |
And then they step aside, as though noticing nothing, while these fires periodically rage. |
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| 27 | 933 |
"Step away from the body," said the first rider. |
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| 27 | 1002 |
She feared that the smallest movement, the tiniest sound, the most diminutive influence, might prove critical, like the smallest jarring, or jostling, like a small thing which might tip a balance, a carelessly dislodged pebble that releases an avalanche, the particle of static electricity which trig... |
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| 27 | 3173 |
Portus Canio rose up, and took a step toward Tersius Major. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 22 |
From down the hall, beyond the curtain, Cabot heard a sound as of metal, a step, and then a scraping, and another step, and a scraping. |
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| 1 | 1014 |
Does she not know she is a debased, worthless creature, unworthy to lace a man's sandals? Does she not know she is a rightless, domestic animal, subject to buying and selling, her thigh branded, her throat encircled with its locked, debasing insignia of bondage? How is it that she can sing at her wo... |
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| 15 | 2 |
But these were not the proportioned janglings of such bells, measured to the step of a slave who well knows their effect on men, and uses them to present the slave of her. |
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| 20 | 4 |
Peisistratus, too in splendid robes, stood near him, on a step below the surface of the platform of the witness. |
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| 20 | 56 |
"The witness may step down," said the prosecutor. |
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| 20 | 57 |
Cabot descended from the platform, and Peisistratus, who had been near to him, waiting on a step, accompanied him. |
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| 20 | 319 |
"Here is your lodging," said Peisistratus, pausing on a step, leading up to the small villa set aside for Cabot's use, nestled in the side of a hill. |
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| 43 | 67 |
"Step back," said the butcher. |
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| 53 | 143 |
"Be careful where you step," said Grendel. |
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| 53 | 195 |
"Be careful where you step!" said Lord Grendel. |
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| 53 | 212 |
"Step back. |
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| 80 | 81 |
For example, if the master sits upon a bench at table, his dish will be upon the table, whereas the slave's dish, as she kneels near him, is likely to be on the bench itself; similarly, if the master reclines on a supper couch, the slave, kneeling, is likely to have her dish upon the couch's step, w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 126 |
I then, with some difficulty, descended into the ditch, and, then, on the other side, slowly, step by carefully placed step, made my way to the level. |
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| 15 | 418 |
"Step by step walk the thousand-mile road," he said. |
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| 5 | 162 |
Step away. |
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| 5 | 262 |
Sullius Maximus backed away a step or two, looked briefly back, to the round ship, some hundred yards offshore. |
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| 20 | 193 |
"Another step forward," said Licinius, "and she dies". |
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| 20 | 214 |
"Step back," said Licinius. |
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| 34 | 85 |
"Thank you, Master," she said, rose lightly to her feet, backed away a step or two, and then turned, and left the room. |
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| 38 | 532 |
"You are curious, you wish to accompany the cavalry, you find it difficult to resist the unknown, you are unwilling to step aside from the path to adventure, a trait with which we of the Pani are not unfamiliar, and you are interested in a far shore". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 757 |
Then, step by step, with great care, I moved away from the stirring, agitated growths, and continued my journey. |
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| 16 | 266 |
As few could not, by simple movement, a subtle alteration of position, a simple variance of attack, quickly dispatch a foe so handicapped, I thought Seremides must be a fellow of great courage, to have dragged himself to the deck, and worked his way, painfully, awkwardly, his body suspended on his c... |
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| 7 | 264 |
He stood on the first step of the companionway, and carefully lowered the butt of the stick to the deck, under the water. |
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| 10 | 62 |
Hearing the step of her master on the stairs, or beyond the door, she may suddenly become aware of the exact feeling of the collar on her neck, his collar, which she cannot remove, a sensation of which she had been heretofore totally oblivious. |
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| 24 | 124 |
The first step is taken with the left foot. |
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| 29 | 69 |
Go back!" "Step aside, friend of Rutilius," said Tereus, "or meet our steel". |
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| 36 | 184 |
The Pani, discovering that the Initiates were not marketing their golden pans but expected to receive something for nothing, as it were, or nothing tangible, asked them to step aside, as they were impeding the way of honest tradesmen. |
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| 37 | 1102 |
"Step back," said Callias to me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 198 |
"No, Mistress!" I then seized up the handles of the buckets and, step by step, slowly, carefully, for the weight, and that no water be spilled, frightened, miserable, made my way toward the shop of Epicrates. |
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| 13 | 9 |
From the fountain I had made my way, sick and fearful, to the domicile, and, step by slow step, had brought the buckets upstairs. |
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| 6 | 108 |
The first step is made with the left foot. |
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| 7 | 433 |
The sorority stood as one important step, among several, to a splendid future. |
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| 7 | 730 |
I was not encircled with conventions and formalities; I was not one for whom strong men were to step deferently aside, who might be carried in a palanquin, for whom ways were to be cleared, one who was expected, I gathered, at least if of high caste, to speak boldly, even sharply, and with haughty c... |
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| 8 | 271 |
"Step!" said one of the guards, and, gratefully, we moved forward. |
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| 9 | 405 |
Could one hear a step so soft, the drawing of a cable, the laying of a quarrel in the guide? "You will live," came from the translator. |
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| 9 | 425 |
I screamed in terror, sprang to my feet, and tried to run back toward the cages, but had moved not a step or two before I was caught in the rear portal by one of the fellows there, and held. |
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| 10 | 919 |
In this way an intruder would have to pass me, indeed, step over me, and, in this passage, would be likely to be discovered. |
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| 12 | 11 |
"Step aside, girl," said a woman's voice, and I backed away, my head lowered. |
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| 46 | 53 |
It is a sensible first step in civil conquest. |
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| 50 | 119 |
He then gave me a sharp, stinging slap below the small of the back, and I cried out, and stumbled away, before I caught my step. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 501 |
"Together, move together, step, step!" I saw the shackled prisoners then, on their neck rope. |
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| 10 | 99 |
Then I said to the slave, "Step away from me, back, to the left, and side". |
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| 15 | 303 |
They step aside. |
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| 17 | 104 |
Even Gorean males who may have a dozen servitors and own a hundred women, and be followed by a score of clients, will step from her path, and defer to her. |
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| 29 | 80 |
What were they doing here? The small caravan had passed, and I backed away, a step, would turn, and would resume my flight, moving to the north, and then, again, follow the Alexandra west. |
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| 37 | 264 |
The first step is taken with the left foot. |
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| 39 | 3 |
When she lowered her hand, we would move, making the first step with the left foot. |
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| 39 | 450 |
"Left foot, the first step is with the left foot! Do you know nothing? You are being marched. |
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| 43 | 666 |
Girls are taught to step gracefully from such a tunic. |
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| 43 | 765 |
"Clearly," she laughed, backing away another step, "Master finds a slave of interest!" "No!" I cried, in fury. |
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| 43 | 822 |
"And let her know that I am behind her, and observe each step she takes". |
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| 43 | 852 |
"The step has been taken," whispered Axel to me, "from which there is no return". |
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| 46 | 27 |
How pleased I should be that I had escaped from the brute I hated, and now so terribly feared, but, too, strangely, and piercingly, I felt alone and incomplete, even lost, with each step, apart from him, apart from his attention, his size, power, and presence, almost as might, I supposed, a kajira s... |
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| 52 | 60 |
"Step carefully". |
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| 52 | 212 |
"Step carefully here," he said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 378 |
Tajima began to reel in the leash, and she, hands holding to it, could not help but move toward us, step by unwilling step. |
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| 57 | 240 |
"If you take a step, even a small step, beyond the length permitted by the leather, you will plunge awkwardly to the tiles. |
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| 4 | 171 |
I had taken but one step toward the tarn when it lowered its head, the feathers of the neck and crest spreading like a crackling war fan, this considerably enlarging an image which was formidable enough in its natural state, and glared into the dimness beyond the fire. |
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| 4 | 199 |
"Step toward the fire," I said. |
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| 9 | 12 |
How tentative they were, and furtive! Crouching and hesitant, a step at a time, they crept, bit by bit, to the great threshold, and peered within. |
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| 13 | 309 |
Surely much could be done with the robes of concealment, with their layerings and drapings, their bright colors, so ingeniously arranged, with veils slack or disarranged, even diaphanous, the street veil brazenly neglected, with loose, casual hoods from which strands of hair might escape, as though ... |
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| 14 | 14 |
"Bring torches! And you, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, please step forward". |
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| 25 | 106 |
Will there be a next, uncertain, fearful step, or has the board ended? Perhaps his balance is in jeopardy, and he might not even prolong his life to the end of that narrow, wooden, fateful path, might not even reach the end of the board, and how long is the board, he does not know, and how many step... |
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| 25 | 168 |
She had traversed only some third of the board's length, but, for all she knew, her next step could be her last. |
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| 25 | 175 |
Sumomo moved but half a step further on the board, which now bent slightly under her. |
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| 25 | 208 |
Sumomo, half bent over, with great care, bound, blindfolded, barefoot, hort by hort, feeling ahead of her with each step, bit by bit, moved toward the end of the board. |
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| 25 | 238 |
You will step into nothing! Then you will fall, and, after a time, bathe with your friends below. |
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| 29 | 335 |
"Step forward, slave," said Tajima. |
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| 43 | 185 |
"It is easier to step into a trap than remove its teeth from your ankle". |
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| 59 | 193 |
"Step in," I said to Nodachi. |
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| 59 | 232 |
"Please step aside," said Katsutoshi, politely. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 220 |
I moved backward, retreating step by step, and half tripped, and turned, stumbling, and struck my thigh against the edge of the desk. |
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| 7 | 213 |
I began to climb, step by step. |
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| 61 | 633 |
"Kill her!" cried Decius Albus, and one of the Kurii at the foot of the stands lunged toward the small figure, who brought up her parasol between them, and the Kur crashed into it, shook his head, seized it in one hand, or paw, and tore part of the silk away, and then crouched down, jaws opened, fan... |
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| 1 | 157 |
"Would you please step over here, to the center of the room and turn before me?" he asked. |
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| 1 | 282 |
I heard him descend the stairs, his step placid and measured. |
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| 5 | 83 |
"Step ahead," said the fellow with us. |
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| 6 | 2 |
"Step back," he said. |
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| 9 | 427 |
"One might step upon an ost and suffer, but one cannot be insulted by an ost. |
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| 10 | 355 |
I clutched the crude board within the threshold, the board to my left, serving as a banister, and took a step downward, into the darkness. |
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| 17 | 47 |
Ar, I gathered, was a typical "high city," with its noisy, colorfully garbed, bustling crowds, its affluent quarters and its sorrier districts, some of which were not to be frequented at night; here were places of lofty towers, often linked by graceful, narrow, arching, railless bridges, which I fea... |
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| 25 | 68 |
"I had thought he would have reached the fourth step," said a man. |
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| 26 | 194 |
She then backed away, a step or two, as did I, and turned to leave. |
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| 33 | 692 |
It took a step toward me. |
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| 34 | 291 |
"Therefore, our next step is clear," he said. |
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| 39 | 69 |
Kurik of Victoria, a step behind me, flung shut the door and drew me back into the room. |
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| 46 | 1 |
Fed now, I heeled Lord Grendel closely and with a sprightly step. |
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| 49 | 429 |
Stand, wait for the nod, and then pour, deferentially, and carefully, very carefully, and then step back, head down, lest one's eyes meet those of a free person, in particular those of a free woman. |
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| 49 | 469 |
We had gone but a step or two when we heard a cry of rage from the Lady Alexina, and the shattering of glass in our wake. |
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| 51 | 36 |
"Your step is uncertain, you are trembling," he said. |
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| 60 | 67 |
"How can one better approach the Cities of Dust," he said, "than with a light step and a laugh on one's lips?" "I shall plead on your behalf," I said. |
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| 65 | 98 |
"And again, and again, always fearing small sounds, an unrecognized step, an unfamiliar face? They will take a stand, one calculated to discourage pursuit". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 267 |
I had gone only a step or two, when I heard him call, "Zia". |
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| 21 | 90 |
Was this some accident? Had I been mistaken for someone else? Who would wish to attack me? Who would wish to kill me, and why, I, a helpless slave? What had I done? Was this some terrible mistake? Was I, unknown to myself, involved in intrigues, plots, or schemes about which I knew nothing? Was I th... |
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| 23 | 93 |
When they turned away, as I by gesture bade them do, I made certain to lag behind them, a step or two, to their left, heeling them. |
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| 27 | 90 |
"Let her alone! She is a poor, helpless slave! She cannot even speak!" He hobbled a step toward me, as though he might intervene, but the first man, with a bitter laugh, and a sweep of his foot, kicked the crutch from under him and he fell heavily, awkwardly, to the walkway. |
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| 31 | 15 |
Each step down was gained with seeming difficulty. |
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| 38 | 128 |
What might an unfamiliar scent or step portend? When an unseen hand casts the dice, who will read them first? Men differ. |
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| 40 | 299 |
How frightful if, at one time or another, they might not be aware of my presence! How bothersome that would be! Well, they had little to worry about now! I could not move a step without those bells marking my every move! As instructed, I had crawled, unfed, to the kitchen. |
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| 45 | 95 |
"I do not care to step within the compass of your blade". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 155 |
They will form rows for the advance, which would then proceed, step by step. |
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| 2 | 18 |
In the presence of a stranger, in a lonely place, many Goreans will not step into the firelight. |
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| 19 | 137 |
"Watch where you step," I said. |
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| 22 | 8 |
Even a small step can lead to a long fall". |
10 |
| 57 | 142 |
They will step with care". |
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| 59 | 372 |
Thurnock, wide hands open, took a sudden, savage step toward Glaukos. |
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| 63 | 162 |
"She is much as a pathetic tabuk doe," I said, "pursued by swarms of larls and sleen, a vulnerable quarry universally sought, friendless and fleeing, nowhere to step, nowhere to hide, every hand turned against her". |
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| 63 | 172 |
"Surely you see the hideous irony here," I said, "a piteous fugitive, widely sought for torture and impalement, living in terror, fearing each small, unexpected sound, each unfamiliar step, for months, and then, suddenly, she is given hope, senses the bright beacon of refuge, is promised asylum, pro... |
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