| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 188 |
Who knew the nature of the things or forces that were afoot that night in the mountains, things and forces that might perhaps smash me, casually, as one innocently steps on an insect without being aware of it or caring? I still had the compass, and that constituted a firm link to reality. |
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| 6 | 22 |
In the center of the circle was a low, round platform, some ten paces in diameter, reached by four circular steps that extended about the perimeter of the platform. |
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| 16 | 96 |
In a few minutes I gathered together my own gear and put on the heavy black helmet of the Assassin, left the tent, and turned my steps in the direction of the tents of Pa-Kur. |
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| 17 | 100 |
My steps were determined when I left the tent. |
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| 18 | 185 |
I removed my helmet and set it on the steps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 76 |
I had moved but a few steps when his voice arrested me. |
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| 9 | 74 |
I descended three steps, and found myself in a warm, dimly lit, low-ceilinged room, cluttered with the low tables common on Gor, around which huddled groups of five or six of the gray-robed men of Tharna. |
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| 10 | 22 |
In all likelihood three spears would have transfixed my body within my first few steps toward freedom. |
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| 11 | 19 |
On the broad steps leading to the throne, there were curule chairs, on which sat, I supposed, members of the High Council of Tharna. |
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| 11 | 202 |
There was even a slight sound of amusement from the silver-masked figures who sat upon the steps to the throne. |
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| 11 | 248 |
"No," screamed the Tatrix, and, to the astonishment of all, herself descended the broad steps of the dais. |
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| 11 | 263 |
She ran up the steps and turned only when she stood at last before her throne. |
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| 13 | 120 |
I heard his short, quick, running steps in the sand, thudding toward me in a bull-like charge. |
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| 14 | 206 |
In one instant that must have been the most terrifying in her life, the Tatrix stood alone, looking up, deserted by all, on the steps before her golden throne in the midst of tumbled cushions and trays of candies and sweetmeats. |
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| 21 | 187 |
Targo, with his short, rolling steps, went to the girl and placed one thumb, wearing a large ruby ring, under her chin, pushing her head up. |
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| 23 | 181 |
In another dozen steps the six spears would fly hurled from that swift even pace. |
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| 24 | 4 |
I descended the low, wide steps to the interior. |
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| 24 | 263 |
On the steps before the throne there stood a warrior, fully armed, who held in his hands the blue helmet of his city. |
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| 26 | 28 |
I myself had stood at the foot of the steps to the golden throne when Lara had commanded that the giant mask of gold which hung behind it be pried by spears from the wall and cast to the floor at our feet. |
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| 26 | 30 |
The men of Tharna watched almost in disbelief as the great mask loosened, bolt by bolt, from the wall, leaned forward and at last, dragged down by its own weight, broke loose and plunged clattering down the steps of the throne, breaking into a hundred pieces. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 60 |
Gradually the air grew more chill and wisps of snow blew about me; frost began to appear on the steps and I trudged past crevices filled with ice, deposits which had perhaps lain as they were without melting for hundreds of years. |
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| 2 | 115 |
The path was steep but its ascent, here and there, was lightened by high steps. |
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| 4 | 25 |
Parp puffed his way up the nine steps of the dais and climbed onto the stone throne. |
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| 7 | 102 |
Maddened beyond understanding I began to race down the passageway, retracing my steps to confront what might be in the passage. |
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| 9 | 255 |
It was stalking in long, delicate steps down the passageway. |
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| 17 | 89 |
It was an exceedingly long chamber and built on four levels, almost like steps. |
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| 21 | 66 |
His abdomen, drained of Gur, was now normal and he stalked regally to the door, moving on those light, feathery feet with the delicate steps of one of nature's masters. |
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| 25 | 110 |
When one of the does moved I saw that moving beside her with dainty steps were two young tabuk, the first I had ever seen, for the young of the tabuk seldom venture far from the shaded, leafy bowers of their birth in the tangled Ka-la-na thickets of Gor. |
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| 27 | 62 |
I quickly retraced my steps to the ventilator shaft, pried open the bottom of the grille, squeezed inside and soon found myself making my way rapidly through the ventilating system in the direction of the Chamber of the Mother. |
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| 27 | 179 |
Misk slowly turned away from Sarm and with slow, delicate steps approached the Mother, before whom he stood, great chunks of greenish coagulated body fluid marking the wounds on his body. |
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| 29 | 17 |
I cried out with dismay but knew what I must do, and retraced my steps to try the ditch. |
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| 31 | 148 |
Slowly I climbed the walkway, stepping with care past the ruined portions of the steel steps leading to the crest of the dome. |
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| 31 | 237 |
I turned and retraced my steps down the walkway. |
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| 32 | 225 |
He looked down at me kindly and in a step or two seemed to float down the steps and stood beside me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 203 |
In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ... |
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| 9 | 329 |
More girls approached rapidly, their feet taking small running steps in a turning line that sped forth from a small room in the back and to the right. |
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| 11 | 404 |
"Sleen! Sleen! Sleen!" I followed Kamchak down the steps of the wagon and, blinking and still sensible of the effects of the paga, gravely held open the large dung sack near the rear left wheel of the wagon. |
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| 12 | 36 |
I turned and retraced my steps to the wagon of Kamchak. |
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| 12 | 381 |
About that time the black-clad figure of a woman appeared on the steps of the slave wagon. |
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| 12 | 390 |
The figure of the woman, swathed in black, heavily veiled, descended the steps of the slave wagon. |
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| 13 | 136 |
On the top of this platform was a huge, four-sided altar which was approached by steps on all four sides. |
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| 14 | 1 |
Tarnsmen Outside, as Kamchak and I bounded down the steps of the slave wagon, the darkness was filled with hurrying men, some with torches, and running kaiila, already with their riders. |
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| 17 | 96 |
I took a few more steps out into the pool. |
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| 18 | 44 |
Then suddenly, the yellow, encircling cementlike substance had oozed from my limbs and I could take two or three free steps. |
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| 19 | 68 |
Here we climbed several low, broad marble steps and passed down a columned porch and entered the central building, finding ourselves in a dim, lamp-lit hall, bestrewn with carpets and cushions and decorated, here and there, with carved, reticulated white screening. |
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| 22 | 101 |
I sprang up the steps, followed by Harold, and we soon found ourselves in the marbled entry hall of the palace. |
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| 24 | 236 |
Wearily I gave the kaiila to one of the guards and mounted the steps of the wagon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 31 |
Then, stripped, chained by the throat, in a long chain of girls, each separated from the other by about ten feet, secured not even by the dignity of a collar but only by a loop of the communal chain bolted or padlocked about her neck, each is dragged up the steps of the minor block, bid upon while a... |
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| 11 | 409 |
We then, following Ho-Tu, retraced our steps on the iron walkway, descended the steps, and, taking our way between the metal branding rack and the glowing, perforated steel drum containing irons, left the room. |
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| 2 | 149 |
Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the other two men st... |
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| 4 | 147 |
I was amused, for she had run as a slave girl is sometimes taught to run, with rapid short steps, her legs almost straight, her feet scarcely leaving the ground, back straight, head turned to the left, arms at her sides, palms out at a forty-five degree angle, more of a dancer's motion than a true r... |
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| 6 | 67 |
One of them carried a large pitcher of the diluted Ka-la-na wine and stepped behind us, climbing the two steps to the broad wooden dais on which our tables were set. |
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| 6 | 102 |
But Elizabeth, rightly or wrongly, was banished from my mind for the moment because I heard, from a side door, the rustle of slave bells, and was pleased to note that seven girls hurried in, using the short, running steps of the slave girl, arms to the side, palms out, head to the left, eyes averted... |
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| 13 | 378 |
I tossed him back the knife and retraced my steps along the narrow perch. |
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| 14 | 114 |
I found that my steps had inadvertently brought me to the corridor with the heavy bolted door, that door leading to the hallway off which lay the cell for Special Captures, earlier shown to me by Ho-Tu. |
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| 17 | 2 |
I had caught up with her in five steps and kissed her roundly, swatted her and sent her packing. |
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| 18 | 259 |
My steps, as I was lost in thought, brought me back to the hall of Cernus, in which we had sat table. |
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| 19 | 144 |
They were driven up the steps by a whip slave and forced to kneel at the center of the block. |
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| 19 | 212 |
The auctioneer sprang to the block and, from the darkness at the foot of the steps, was hurled a chain leash, and then two more. |
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| 19 | 251 |
As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ... |
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| 19 | 470 |
Then, fighting the chain and bracelets, she was dragged stumbling down the steps. |
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| 22 | 601 |
Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, removed his purple cloak and his helmet, and walked down the steps from the box to the sand. |
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| 22 | 615 |
Then I retraced my steps to the tarn. |
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| 24 | 153 |
At his side and about the steps, in rough garb, stood Warriors who had been with him as long ago as his exile in 10,110, who had fled with him to the Voltai and shared his outlawry, and now shared the glory of his restoration. |
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| 24 | 270 |
Through corridor after corridor I walked, retracing the steps which had taken me from my compartment to the court of the Ubar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 277 |
With the first length of binding fiber I tied her wrists behind her back; I then carried her and placed her, on her knees, on the second of the broad steps leading up to the tiller deck, two steps below that in which is fixed the chair of the oar-master; she now knelt below that chair, and to its le... |
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| 8 | 266 |
I ascended the steps of the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 329 |
She did, and then I ordered them both back to the tiller deck of the first barge, making them stand on the rowing deck, below the steps of the tiller deck, to my left near the rail, where I might see them, where they might not, unnoticed, attempt to free others. |
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| 8 | 424 |
"You have destroyed me!" I hissed to her, and flung her from me down the steps of the tiller deck. |
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| 8 | 631 |
I turned away and descended the foredeck, and returned between the slaves to the steps below the tiller deck. |
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| 9 | 508 |
My steps took me again to the paga tavern where I had begun this night. |
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| 13 | 60 |
She rose to her feet, and, small gloved hand in the hand of Chenbar, descended the steps of the dais on which sat the thrones of Lurius and Chenbar, and stood before me. |
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| 13 | 380 |
And an officer rushed down the steps into the rowing hold, and struck the oar-master from his chair. |
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| 13 | 401 |
At that moment the officer again came down the steps, entering the rowing hold. |
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| 13 | 451 |
And I walked up the steps, carrying the officer's sword. |
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| 14 | 225 |
He then went down the steps of the stern castle, to the helm deck, and then down to the chair of the oar-master. |
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| 15 | 144 |
One day, after he had been three weeks slave in my house, the door to my audience chamber had suddenly burst open, and he had stumbled in, breathless, the kitchen master but two steps behind him, with a heavy switch. |
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| 16 | 133 |
The steps were close now, and then I heard a pounding at my door. |
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| 16 | 417 |
"Captains," said I, "accompany me to the steps of the hall". |
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| 16 | 418 |
They followed me, and I left the chamber of the council, and, in a few moments, stood on the top of the broad marbled steps leading up to the hall of the Council of Captains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 200 |
My steps now, inadvertently, took me toward the center of the camp. |
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| 18 | 62 |
Thurnock climbed the steps of the keep. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 309 |
He unfastened the chain that bound her against the curved leather at the end of the pole, and, holding her by the arm, her wrists still tied behind her, led her to the rear of the wagon, and up the steps. |
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| 12 | 184 |
My steps quickened. |
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| 15 | 377 |
She took quick steps. |
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| 15 | 399 |
Behind me I could hear her quick, light steps, and, behind me, farther back, I could hear the chain of the slave coffle. |
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| 22 | 968 |
I heard Thurnock's steps going down to the deck from the stern castle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 210 |
The high altar, of marble, setting on a platform, also marble, of three broad steps, was surmounted by a great rounded circle of gold, which is taken often as a symbol of Priest-Kings. |
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| 2 | 279 |
Then the High Initiate rose from his throne, and went slowly to the altar and climbed the steps. |
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| 2 | 313 |
It was incredible honor that was being shown to these men, that they might, themselves, on the platform of crossed spears, carry the body of Ivar Forkbeard, in death penitent, to the high steps of the great altar. |
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| 2 | 321 |
The four men of Torvaldsland carried the huge body of Ivar Forkbeard up the steps of the altar, on the crossed spears. |
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| 3 | 211 |
It moved unsteadily, rocking back and forth, and then rolled from the altar, struck the steps and broke apart. |
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| 7 | 199 |
She turned and ran toward the hall, but, after a few steps turned, and faced me. |
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| 10 | 92 |
Their eyes were bright; their steps were eager; they had been long isolated on the farm; rural slave girls, the Forkbeard's wenches, they were fantastically stimulated to see the crowds; they looked upon the Thing-Fields with pleasure and excitement; even had they been permitted, some of them, to lo... |
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| 10 | 329 |
Soon she, barefoot, was climbing the wooden steps to the platform. |
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| 10 | 353 |
At the foot of the steps leading down from the platform, the Forkbeard stopped, and bowed low. |
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| 12 | 48 |
There were steps leading to the dais. |
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| 13 | 69 |
I ascended the steps of the dais and stood at the back of the Forkbeard, hand on the hilt of the sword, to protect him if necessary. |
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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. |
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| 18 | 622 |
She cried out, startled, sobbing, and stumbled more than a dozen steps before she regained her balance. |
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| 20 | 124 |
It took two steps forward. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 354 |
She then, as satisfied as she could be without a mirror, smiled at Hassan and went to him, with small measured steps, as Aya had taught her, the sort of steps which might be regulated by the length of an affixed walking chain. |
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| 2 | 609 |
There were steps, broad, flat, worn, in concentric circles, leading down to the water. |
10 |
| 2 | 610 |
At this time of year eight of the steps were uncovered by the water. |
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| 2 | 619 |
He descended the steps and submerged his bag, grinning at me, remembering me from earlier in the day. |
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| 3 | 268 |
I was not surprised to find the water carrier waiting for me, sitting on the steps. |
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| 4 | 460 |
I rode my kaiila out a few steps, toward the men, then returned it to the caravan. |
10 |
| 7 | 153 |
I heard men descending the steps. |
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| 11 | 390 |
Last to enter the inn, head down, taking short, careful steps, bent under her burden, the heavy, bulging leather sack of water, was Alyena. |
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| 14 | 419 |
Time seemed measured in steps, the blows of the whip, the slow turning of the sun, over the Ahn, from one shoulder through the heat to the other. |
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| 21 | 87 |
We retraced our steps to the point at which we had left the trail, and continued our journey. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 309 |
I had gone no more than a dozen steps when I heard one of the guards at the camp cry out, "Halt! Stand! Name! City! Stand!" I did not stop, but pressed on. |
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| 6 | 106 |
The entrance was reached by a flight of rough, narrow steps. |
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| 6 | 306 |
Then he, too, turned, and, descending the steps, left the vicinity of the hut. |
10 |
| 9 | 629 |
Angrily Melina turned and climbed the steps into the hut. |
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| 9 | 630 |
At the top of the steps she turned. |
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| 9 | 1824 |
She carried a metal goblet, and, slowly, in stately fashion, descended the steps to the ground, approaching Thurnus. |
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| 13 | 13 |
There were twenty steps to the height of the block. |
10 |
| 13 | 58 |
I heard the man hurrying up the steps behind me. |
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| 13 | 179 |
There were aisles at the side, and two aisles in the tiers, with steps. |
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| 18 | 155 |
I climbed the five steps into the alcove and crawled within. |
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| 20 | 381 |
I ran toward him, with short steps, and knelt before him. |
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| 22 | 119 |
The oar master took his place on the steps below the helmdeck. |
10 |
| 22 | 133 |
I stood near the railing, below the steps leading to the helmdeck. |
10 |
| 22 | 281 |
"You will go below of your own free will," said he, "or I will have you put there, chained to the bottom of the steps". |
10 |
| 22 | 521 |
We climbed the steps of the hold, each screaming. |
10 |
| 26 | 856 |
In time I heard steps approaching, climbing stairs to the level of the compartments. |
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| 28 | 451 |
He lifted his shield and took up his spear, and then descended the steps of the great block. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 381 |
I turned my steps toward the main market. |
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| 3 | 1307 |
I descended the stairs of the platform and turned my steps toward the public tent where I had, earlier in the morning, reserved a lodging for myself. |
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| 10 | 136 |
It was some twelve feet square, and some four feet in height, its surface reached by steps. |
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| 11 | 282 |
"What are you going to do?" I thrust her up the steps, onto the platform. |
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| 11 | 412 |
I was weary then, and I had lost blood, from the wound in my leg, so I turned away, descended the steps of the whipping platform, and made my way to the hall, where I would sleep. |
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| 11 | 416 |
The sun was high and bright, and I had fed well, and had rigged a backpack, in which I had placed supplies and my things, when I again climbed the steps to the whipping platform. |
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| 11 | 437 |
I then descended the steps of the platform. |
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| 35 | 881 |
Near its top the girl stumbled and fell, bound, rolling, down several steps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 166 |
I soon hurried my steps, for an alarm bar had begun to ring. |
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| 3 | 167 |
I heard steps running behind me, too, and I turned about. |
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| 4 | 717 |
If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets Thassa, the sea. |
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| 29 | 203 |
The lovely slave lying on the narrow, damp steps, hidden beneath the iron door, shut out again from the sun, cried in the lonely, quiet darkness, her existence once again denied. |
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| 32 | 579 |
At the end of the street, before a group of men standing on the wide steps and the surface of a broad, stone platform, some ten feet in height, we stopped. |
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| 32 | 593 |
Men then began, by these wrist leashes, to drag me up the steps. |
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| 32 | 865 |
I walked through the city and then, coming to a great temple, or building, with stone steps, I was told to stop. |
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| 50 | 33 |
At the back of the landing, leading upward were flights and levels of steps, extending the full length of the some four hundred yards of the landing. |
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| 54 | 127 |
I turned away from the Ubar, and began to descend the steps to the waiting vessels. |
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| 55 | 2 |
The Ubar and I descended the steps together, that we might make our departure from the landing, from the eastern shore of Lake Shaba. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 498 |
I then turned my steps toward the Street of Tarns, that somewhere among its many shops and cots I might arrange transportation northward, toward the Salerian city of Lara. |
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| 4 | 626 |
I then flung her down the wide, shallow steps and some fifteen feet into the street beyond. |
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| 22 | 317 |
I purchased a bottle of paga which I then took from the tavern, retracing my steps to the slumped, dark figure sitting against the wall. |
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| 30 | 11 |
Again Policrates signaled and this time Lita, who had once been a free woman of Victoria, pausing only to discard the bit of silk she wore on the marble steps, hurried to kneel beside me. |
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| 30 | 12 |
I noticed how the bit of yellow silk lay on the steps. |
10 |
| 32 | 293 |
"Before you could run two steps," I told him, "I could have you half on my sword or cut your head from your body". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 78 |
On the steps of the stern castle, below the helm deck, the oar master would be watching. |
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| 3 | 211 |
"Yes, Captain," I said, and then descended the steps of the stern castle. |
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| 5 | 51 |
In two steps I climbed the archer's platform and leaped behind the blind. |
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| 10 | 186 |
Callimachus, followed by his file of men, raced up the steps toward the walls. |
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| 10 | 187 |
I saw two pirates, cut from the steps, fall twisting and striking against stone to the sea yard below. |
10 |
| 12 | 139 |
Our men, too, from the wall, streamed down the steps to assist their fellows. |
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| 16 | 260 |
Two men rushed down the steps toward Callimachus. |
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| 18 | 252 |
Head down, then, on all fours, to the small sounds of the slave bells on her wrists and ankles, and collar, she slowly ascended the three broad steps of the carpeted dais. |
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| 18 | 635 |
I was thrown to its deck, near the foot of the steps leading up to the height of the stem castle. |
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| 19 | 40 |
Too, of course, I did not use the steps, which might have been counted. |
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| 20 | 962 |
She then, with small, hurried steps, bent over, described a wide circle on the tiles. |
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| 20 | 1426 |
Too, it is not surprising that a guardsman may be in the vicinity, for he may have followed her, noting, under the stolen robes and veils, the body movements, the hesitant, uncertain steps, the tormented breathing, perhaps even the confused, trembling responses to civil inquiries, of a woman in the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 28 |
They then turned the woman about and dragged her down the steps and back into the compound. |
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| 8 | 405 |
The first two men, between them, carried a branding rack, which they placed near the steps on the right, as I faced the block, and then slid to the center of the block, rather forward on the block. |
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| 19 | 679 |
He took two or three faltering steps, supporting himself with the lance. |
10 |
| 19 | 683 |
He took another two or three faltering steps, supporting himself with the lance, after Canka and the others, but then, again, fell heavily in the grass. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 284 |
I then, for no reason I clearly understood, turned my steps toward the lodges of the Isanna. |
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| 34 | 438 |
I quickly turned my steps toward the lodge of Kahintokapa. |
10 |
| 39 | 504 |
We did not wish to be slowed by her shorter steps and lesser strength. |
10 |
| 40 | 513 |
Radish, bent over, with short steps, those of a length permitted her by her leather shackles, made her way to Carrot. |
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| 54 | 115 |
I turned my steps toward my lodge, that which I shared with Cuwignaka, and his slave, Cespu, and with she who was now my own slave, she to whom I now held full legal title, lovely, obedient blond Mira. |
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| 54 | 162 |
Grunt, retracing his steps, had located the scene of the attack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 96 |
At one time, later, we passed by a set of low, broad, recessed-from-the-street, cement steps or shelves. |
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| 4 | 97 |
Behind these levels, these shelves or steps, there was a high cement wall. |
10 |
| 4 | 98 |
There were several women, perhaps ten or eleven, on these steps or shelves. |
10 |
| 5 | 23 |
About the throne, here and there, spilled on the steps of the dais, in the manner of Corcyrus and some other cities, was a tasteful display of riches, rich cloths, golden coins and some chained female slaves. |
10 |
| 5 | 27 |
Doubtless new riches would soon grace the steps of the dais. |
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| 5 | 110 |
"I see rich cloths here," he said, indicating the cloths spread tastefully about the steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 5 | 111 |
"I see that there is gold in Corcyrus," he said, indicating the coins in their plenitudes, seemingly casually spilled about the steps. |
10 |
| 5 | 235 |
I remembered the sight of the silver tarsk from Argentum, in the hand of Miles of Argentum, and the way it had looked, on the soft carpeting of the dais, on one of the broad steps leading up to the throne. |
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| 12 | 88 |
I ascended the steps of the dais, conducted by Ligurious. |
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| 13 | 16 |
He ascended the first two steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 13 | 162 |
Then, in his arms, I was carried rapidly down the steps of the dais and down the aisle, between the halves of the parted crowd. |
10 |
| 21 | 51 |
There was another reason I was retracing our steps on the Argentum road. |
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| 30 | 234 |
Frightened by the guardsman's warning, and not wishing to retrace my steps on Emerald I turned to my left, to take a side street to the Wall Road, which I assumed would be safe. |
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| 30 | 499 |
She was then pulled from the table and, stumbling, with faltering steps, terrified, was drawn by Hassan between the snarling sleen. |
10 |
| 31 | 217 |
The angle would be similar to that which he had had from the floor of the great hall, or from the lower steps of the dais, looking up at me on the throne. |
10 |
| 32 | 39 |
I heard steps coming around behind me. |
10 |
| 33 | 140 |
"Forth!" Startled, frightened, I parted the beaded curtain with my chained hands and, with the small, measured, graceful steps of a woman whose ankles are chained, hurried to him. |
10 |
| 33 | 592 |
He took one or two steps backward. |
10 |
| 36 | 484 |
"Even last night," he said, "in your writhing on the steps, you made me wild for you. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 878 |
The last time I saw her Hassan had put her in the bottom of a longboat at Samos' steps, descending to the canal. |
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| 1 | 1152 |
He accompanied me from his holding to the small landing, with its steps, leading down to the water, outside. |
10 |
| 1 | 1159 |
We then pushed off, thrusting against the steps with the port oars. |
10 |
| 2 | 854 |
I turned my steps, curious as to what might be involved, toward the purple booths. |
10 |
| 8 | 117 |
"Titus!" called one of the brigands, emerging from a wagon, pausing on the steps at the rear. |
10 |
| 8 | 125 |
"He should be back with Bort by now," said the man on the wagon steps. |
10 |
| 8 | 168 |
The two men at the rear doors of the wagons, on the steps, looked across at one another. |
10 |
| 8 | 181 |
The fellow descended from the steps of the wagon, warily. |
10 |
| 8 | 187 |
"Teibar!" cried the other fellow on the steps. |
10 |
| 8 | 204 |
"Fetch the cup," said the leader to the fellow who had now descended from the steps of the wagon. |
10 |
| 10 | 613 |
"Precede me up the steps into the wagon," I said. |
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| 10 | 614 |
She preceded me up the several steps. |
10 |
| 12 | 831 |
He looked at the door of the wagon, reached by climbing the flight of steps at the back of the wagon. |
10 |
| 22 | 63 |
"Did he perhaps slip on the steps of your wagon?" "No," said Andronicus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 3 |
We were at the foot of the low, broad steps of the Semnium, the hall of the high council, which building, it seemed, might now serve as the headquarters of the new masters of Torcadino. |
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| 14 | 4 |
These steps extended before the building, for the entire length of its portico. |
10 |
| 14 | 20 |
I then, and the others, followed him up the steps of the Semnium. |
10 |
| 15 | 290 |
"Had you used it earlier," I said, "it would now be a part of military history, of the lore associated with your name, something which all garrisons in appropriate cities would now anticipate and take steps to prevent". |
10 |
| 16 | 1047 |
In a few moments I was descending the outside steps of the Semnium, Feiqa heeling me, carrying my pack. |
10 |
| 19 | 338 |
Our own lines moved forward a few steps. |
10 |
| 22 | 317 |
I then retraced my steps to the opening to the upper level, where the loft had been converted into even more rooms. |
10 |
| 22 | 321 |
He then turned about and went down the steps, and I, with the lamp, returned to the room. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 5 |
I had climbed, on all fours, up the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and now lay, on my belly, half on its surface, the lower part of my body, my right knee flexed, across the final two steps before its height. |
10 |
| 6 | 34 |
I took measured, graceful steps. |
10 |
| 10 | 499 |
"Crawl back down the steps, facing me," he said, "and then kneel at the foot of the dais". |
10 |
| 10 | 722 |
I now understood why I had been spread as I had, on the steps. |
10 |
| 14 | 16 |
I climbed the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and knelt before him. |
10 |
| 14 | 328 |
"No, Master!" Then I saw him approaching me suddenly, descending the steps, swiftly for so large a man, his arm drawn back. |
10 |
| 23 | 10 |
I could take only short steps for my ankles were shackled, the run of chain between them only some eight to ten inches. |
10 |
| 29 | 723 |
"Before you could run two steps I would put Borko on you". |
10 |
| 29 | 1094 |
He turned about, and retraced his steps across the meadow. |
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| 29 | 1499 |
Fulvius stepped back a few steps, and turned to look. |
10 |
| 30 | 172 |
He went to the slave wagon, climbed the steps and swung open the iron door. |
10 |
| 31 | 370 |
I crawled across the ground to the slave wagon, and up the steps. |
10 |
| 31 | 377 |
I heard the door being locked, and then heard his steps descending the stairs. |
10 |
| 34 | 106 |
Indeed, it is commonly expected of the Gorean master that he will take steps to significantly improve the moral character of his slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 329 |
"You may move more swiftly," I said, "if you rise up on your toes and take short steps". |
10 |
| 5 | 361 |
She appeared through the swinging door, carrying a bowl in her chained hands, desperately moving toward me in short, careful, frightened steps. |
10 |
| 5 | 377 |
She hastened toward me, terrified, with quick, small steps. |
10 |
| 5 | 492 |
Swiftly she performed obeisance, and then rose to her feet, and, moving carefully, with small steps, as she could, hurried to the kitchen. |
10 |
| 6 | 589 |
If the fellow coming up the steps was indeed who I expected it was, and had rented the space near me, and if things proceeded as I expected, I thought I might be able to enlist the support of the fellow in the corner. |
10 |
| 11 | 6 |
To one side of the curule chair, kneeling below it, on one of the broad steps, collared and briefly tunicked, was a pale, blond slave. |
10 |
| 16 | 91 |
Near the steps to the raised platform I passed two men with long-handled tridents. |
10 |
| 16 | 102 |
I hurried up the broad stone steps to the surface of the platform over the main gate. |
10 |
| 17 | 135 |
This occurred to me as he spun about, blood gushing from beneath his helmet, falling back down the steps. |
10 |
| 17 | 261 |
A young fellow, one of the two of an age to be lads whom I had seen on the wall, appeared on the steps leading to the upper battlements. |
10 |
| 17 | 423 |
I watched them descending the steps to the central walkway. |
10 |
| 19 | 149 |
I could hear his steps when he came within a few yards of me. |
10 |
| 19 | 207 |
He had not taken more than five steps before a number of Cosians, who had been waiting on the landing, hurried onto the walkway. |
10 |
| 20 | 223 |
Its captain, who had been standing on the stern castle, issuing orders, now descended the steps, past the posts of the two helmsmen. |
10 |
| 21 | 10 |
Aemilianus sat on the deck, rather before the steps leading up to the helm deck and, above that, to the height of the stern castle, leaning against a backrest of canvas and rope. |
10 |
| 21 | 94 |
She was led forth, before us, in her small steps, by a hand on her left arm. |
10 |
| 21 | 110 |
The smallness of her steps had been a function of the current adjustment of her ankle chaining. |
10 |
| 21 | 626 |
I saw the figure's eyes, frightened, meet mine as she was drawn forth, with small, hurried steps. |
10 |
| 21 | 1474 |
He then climbed the steps behind Aemilianus, to the helm deck. |
10 |
| 24 | 775 |
Publia was then drawn to her feet by an arm and conducted back, through the passage between the starboard rail and the stem castle, back amidships, to the gangplank, Claudia, responding to the cues of the chain, helpless in the hood, with tiny steps, hurrying behind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 134 |
One of the gates leading down the steps to the stock pit had been opened and she had apparently fled through it, to cross the pit and ascend the steps on the other side, to flee back further in the camp. |
10 |
| 13 | 81 |
The door aft, leading down two or three steps to the interior of the cabin, hung awry. |
10 |
| 18 | 33 |
Indeed, though I did not wish to retrace the steps of the column, there were many things, even shields and such, which had been discarded in the marsh. |
10 |
| 39 | 70 |
Then, to a passage of music, all rose up, hunted and hunters, all now in the net, and, in the small, pretty running steps of hastening slave girls, hurried from the floor. |
10 |
| 43 | 109 |
We had scarcely gone ten steps before he stopped, and tore himself free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 226 |
Then, in a moment, we left, retracing our steps, moving north on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, past shops, fountains, columns and such, until we would make our left turn, toward Emerald Street, Phoebe heeling him, her hands now fastened behind her in the bracelets. |
10 |
| 7 | 355 |
Gnieus Lelius, then, former regent of Ar, in the motley rags suitable to a comedic mime, his ankles shackled, his upper body wrapped in chains, bent far over, held in this fashion by the short chain between his neck and ankles, trying to keep his balance, taking short steps, was dragged by Cosians f... |
10 |
| 8 | 799 |
Quickly she pulled from him, and hurried a few steps back, toward Harness Street, turning then to look back, pleadingly at him. |
10 |
| 8 | 1063 |
We turned our steps once more toward our lodging. |
10 |
| 10 | 352 |
The cloth shackling in which we had placed her allowed her only tiny, awkward steps. |
10 |
| 16 | 225 |
"In the morning see that it is found on the steps of the Central Cylinder". |
10 |
| 17 | 311 |
There was then applause and cheering, and bows were taken by the troupe, the assistants and the ponderous fellow, and the girl, for her part, performing obeisance to the audience, and then, to the delight of the audience, being conducted off, in her chains, with tiny, short steps, no more permitted ... |
10 |
| 19 | 327 |
"Let us now retrace our steps. |
10 |
| 19 | 1317 |
She moved then a little from the vicinity of the tank, a few steps. |
10 |
| 22 | 517 |
She approached with rapid, small steps, her head down, her hands to the side, slightly extended, palms back. |
10 |
| 23 | 16 |
Moreover, Marcus, an agile fellow, could make it over the rope and get to the vicinity of the Home Stone in something like one or two steps. |
10 |
| 25 | 210 |
If Appanius would not sell Milo, then I could simply keep Appanius, and the others, with the exception of Milo, bound and gagged somewhere, say, in the pantry in the back, and use Milo, still the slave of Appanius, to achieve my objective in a slightly different fashion, one then merely involving tw... |
10 |
| 28 | 58 |
I wondered if she would be uneasy, or perhaps even terrified, realizing the folly in which she was now enmeshed, daring to ascend the dais, not to lie on its steps as a half naked slave, collared, at a Ubar's feet, an item of display, but to sit upon the throne itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 80 |
Of course, that is what must be done! But when the steps returned, I was again absolutely quiet, terrified. |
10 |
| 2 | 81 |
As the steps passed, I did not even breathe. |
10 |
| 2 | 90 |
I gasped with relief, as the steps passed. |
10 |
| 2 | 92 |
Indeed, shortly after the steps had passed, I scrambled to my knees! I must be angry! I must pound upon the door! I must call out! I must insist upon attention! I must demand to see someone! I must demand release! I must bluster and threaten! I must attempt to confuse my jailers, and terrify them in... |
10 |
| 11 | 9 |
At the far side of the large area, away from the door, near the outer circumference of the circle, was a stone dais, reached by some three steps, on the top of which was a thronelike chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 424 |
I backed down the steps of the dais, on all fours, and then, at its foot, rose to my feet. |
10 |
| 11 | 427 |
Dorna, angrily, descended the steps of the dais behind the thronelike chair and went again to the table beneath the roofed defense work. |
10 |
| 11 | 594 |
She then hurried down the steps, and showed it to others. |
10 |
| 11 | 604 |
The collar was then returned to Dorna and she came down the steps of the dais and stood near me, where I knelt. |
10 |
| 11 | 975 |
Dorna turned about and hurried up the steps of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1051 |
"No!" She leaped to her feet and turned about, fleeing, stumbling down the steps of the dais and then, at its foot, half bent over, turned about, facing the man in the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 1145 |
"No! No!" She suddenly, wildly, crawled up the steps of the dais, and flung herself to her belly before the man in the chair. |
10 |
| 11 | 1529 |
In an instant, with rapid steps, sure-footedly, the jailer had reached me, lifted me up, turned about and returned me, trembling, wild-eyed, to the foot of the dais. |
10 |
| 11 | 1533 |
This was not a place where, nor were these men among whom, false steps would be wise. |
10 |
| 12 | 827 |
It moved with small steps. |
10 |
| 12 | 831 |
The thing, whatever it was, with its small steps, its lurching gait, came shuffling, shambling, behind her, snuffing, sniffing, and grunting. |
10 |
| 14 | 11 |
We were now climbing steps to the upper terraces and courts. |
10 |
| 14 | 950 |
"I would not, as the sort of slave I am supposed to be, be kneeling thus, would I?" We were kneeling on the broad steps leading to the upper terraces. |
10 |
| 14 | 1082 |
We had ascended but two or three steps when I heard one of the men say something to the other. |
10 |
| 16 | 142 |
"Surely you know something of the basic steps," he said, "the walks, the glides, the presentations, the turns, the arm movements?" "A little, Master," I said, in misery. |
10 |
| 24 | 189 |
Some fled toward the steps at the end of the terrace. |
10 |
| 24 | 623 |
A sign was given and one of the soldiers went down the wall, permitting what slaves were there to leap up and speed from the terrace, some through buildings, some over the bridge, others, crossing the terrace, to descend by the far steps. |
10 |
| 24 | 939 |
In a few moments then we were making our way across the terrace to the broad steps far from the wall. |
10 |
| 24 | 940 |
At the height of the steps I asked the Lady Constanzia to wait for a moment, while I looked back, across the expanse of the terrace. |
10 |
| 24 | 984 |
In two places on the steps I saw dark stains, which I supposed to be blood. |
10 |
| 27 | 9 |
"Are you insolent?" he asked, not looking back, continuing to move before me, with those short, irregular steps. |
10 |
| 44 | 312 |
I heard the steps of the men, heavy with the weight they were bearing, cross the floor above, and then, in a moment, as they set themselves to a new flight of stairs, diminish. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 46 |
No longer was she kept in a cell but was housed now in a slave kennel, on the sixth level of an entire wall of such kennels, reached by steel steps and grilled walkways. |
10 |
| 9 | 210 |
Then, inch by inch, she approached the dais, ascended the steps, and was then before him. |
10 |
| 10 | 221 |
Slowly, head down, she crawled to him, and then, after crawling up the steps of the dais, she lifted her head to him. |
10 |
| 10 | 227 |
She backed down the steps of the dais, crawling, and then went, crawling backward, to where her garment lay on the floor and then knelt beside it, in position, looking at him. |
10 |
| 15 | 812 |
She sank to her side on the steps, before the curule chair. |
10 |
| 15 | 833 |
Then, rising angrily from the chair, with his bootlike sandal, he thrust her forcibly, rolling, down the steps of the dais to the floor at its foot. |
10 |
| 15 | 834 |
He came down the steps, and, it seemed, was ready to spurn her yet again with the bootlike sandal. |
10 |
| 16 | 96 |
There were steps at either end, giving access to its surface. |
10 |
| 16 | 194 |
She heard someone mount the cement steps to her right. |
10 |
| 16 | 200 |
Steps approached Ellen, who had, of course, supposing herself the "new girl," remained in position. |
10 |
| 16 | 201 |
The steps seemed short, and a bit ponderous. |
10 |
| 16 | 1320 |
The fellow came to the surface of the shelf, climbing directly onto it, whereas Targo hurried about, to the side, went up by the steps, and joined him near Cotina. |
10 |
| 16 | 1357 |
"Be careful on the steps," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 1362 |
Ellen, between Lydia and Cichek, descended the shelf steps and, in a moment, entered the building. |
10 |
| 16 | 1364 |
"The steps are to the left," said Barzak. |
10 |
| 16 | 1367 |
At the foot of the steps be again as you were". |
10 |
| 16 | 1369 |
The steps were of cement, and narrow, steep and dark. |
10 |
| 17 | 1021 |
In a moment, still carried, helplessly hooded and bound, her head to the rear, as a slave is carried, she felt herself brought again into the sunlight, and up the few steps to the surface of the shelf, where she was knelt down, she thought near the forward edge of the shelf. |
10 |
| 17 | 1095 |
When Ellen became alarmed at the height to which she was being carried, she began to count the steps, or rungs, one after the other. |
10 |
| 17 | 1096 |
There were more than three hundred such steps, or rungs, after she had begun to count. |
10 |
| 17 | 1098 |
She feared they might be swept from the steps or ladder. |
10 |
| 24 | 500 |
And the czehar player underlined these steps. |
10 |
| 25 | 105 |
Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som... |
10 |
| 25 | 581 |
Crying out, the former free woman was dragged toward and then, stumbling, up the steps. |
10 |
| 25 | 603 |
To the right of the block, at the foot of wide, low, rounded steps, the kneeling slaves, chained, jammed together, huddled together, exchanged sudden startled, fearful, glances. |
10 |
| 25 | 727 |
In a moment she was being dragged up the broad steps to the surface of the large block from which livestock, fleshstock, such as she was being vended. |
10 |
| 25 | 1158 |
Ellen then lay on her belly in the sawdust, her head toward the exit steps from the great block. |
10 |
| 26 | 608 |
Her steps became light. |
10 |
| 27 | 2417 |
Had he been aware before, she wondered, of the latent passion in women, waiting to be called forth by the summons of masters? Had he even, until then, begun to comprehend the joy of living on a natural world, one too wise to take false steps, one unspoiled by millennia of madness, a world on which m... |
10 |
| 27 | 2462 |
The slave can stand in such a device, though often with difficulty, and can walk, though, too, with difficulty, taking slow tiny steps. |
10 |
| 29 | 51 |
The sight of such as she, you see, provides a pleasure, a luscious glimpse, a pleasant interlude, for weary travelers upon a long road, at the least an incentive to increase one's pace, to hurry one's steps to the nearest paga tavern". |
10 |
| 30 | 312 |
"Yes, Master," she said and crawled to the stairs, across the dark boards of the hall, and then, on all fours, her back doubtless rich with stripes, ascended the steps, landing by landing. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 69 | 107 |
The steps of the palace were gouged with flame, chips of stone showered aflight, exploding from the steps, dark lines of flame laced them, the very air was smoking and burning, and Lucullus and Crassus, and several others, those who could, fled in rout back to the shelter of the palace". |
10 |
| 35 | 124 |
They attack and slaughter Kurii as they can, but are a slight match for them, and hundreds die on the steps of the palace, burned alive by power weapons. |
10 |
| 36 | 89 |
"You would not prefer to run nobly up the palace steps and be burned alive?" asked Cabot. |
10 |
| 47 | 44 |
He took several more steps and suddenly his feet left the steel, and he turned about, helplessly, in the air, and he spun about, and tried to thrash toward the steel, and floated some feet from it. |
10 |
| 66 | 115 |
"Lord Arcesilaus is to be executed tomorrow, at noon, on the palace steps," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 67 | 35 |
Cabot had no particular destination in mind but he found his steps tending toward Lord Grendel's abandoned forest camp. |
10 |
| 69 | 78 |
Thus, in the presence of Lord Arcesilaus, who was chained, and was still weak from wounds, standing on the steps of the palace, begging them to neglect him and renew the struggle, they must petition the loyalists to fire upon them". |
10 |
| 73 | 172 |
Tomorrow we feast!" Outside the palace Cabot and Lord Grendel paused, on the steps. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 585 |
"Steps," cried the man, "did you not hear me call 'Steps'?" But the figures, of course, could not see the steps, nor know their height nor width, nor number. |
10 |
| 10 | 51 |
The women would walk with short, graceful steps, which gave them an unusual, distinctive gait. |
10 |
| 18 | 229 |
To one side I saw two women in their kimonos, with their small steps, being ushered forward by one of the Ashigaru. |
10 |
| 24 | 99 |
Too, with a gesture, Lord Nishida released the two contract women and they, rising to their feet, with small steps, took their exit from the tent. |
10 |
| 25 | 173 |
I would encounter the guard group at the far end of the track, and then, a bit later, after circling the training area, the field, cots, and sheds, retrace my steps. |
10 |
| 35 | 145 |
Lord Okimoto then clapped his hands, sharply, and one of his contract women, with small steps, her head bowed, ushered herself gracefully into the presence of the daimyo. |
10 |
| 38 | 576 |
At various points along the wharf there were steps leading to its surface from the shore. |
10 |
| 38 | 579 |
"Steps," we heard, uttered by the fellow who had the leash on the first figure. |
10 |
| 38 | 580 |
There was a cry of pain as the first figure on the chain was drawn against the steps, and stumbled, and was then jerked to its feet. |
10 |
| 38 | 589 |
I think that in that clumsy, agonizing ascent, there was not one who did not fall, and more than once, upon the steps, thence to struggle frantically to regain its feet, only sometimes, drawn unexpectedly, off balance, by the chain again, to fall yet again, and some were unable to regain their feet,... |
10 |
| 41 | 69 |
"Ho!" I cried, suddenly, frightened, to the officer of the watch, and climbed the steps past the helm deck, to the stern castle. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 73 |
I saw nothing beyond it but the wall of the hold, the steps which had led down to this level, the small tharlarion-oil lamp on its chain, moving a bit with the rhythm of the ship. |
10 |
| 7 | 162 |
"Do not slacken!" called a fellow, Torgus, from the steps of the companionway, behind us, and to our right. |
10 |
| 7 | 170 |
The fellow, Torgus, turned about and, with his pole, ascended the steps. |
10 |
| 7 | 261 |
"I hear steps on the companionway," I said. |
10 |
| 7 | 273 |
Did they not understand their station? Had they so little dignity? How could they expect to keep the respect of their men, if they so lowered themselves, if they so demeaned themselves, if they so compromised their position? But, too, I thought, would men not die for such officers? I saw Tyrtaios wa... |
10 |
| 9 | 122 |
He then, cautiously, ascended two or three more steps. |
10 |
| 12 | 751 |
We heard others climb the steps to the stem-castle deck. |
10 |
| 25 | 61 |
These women, demure in their kimonos, their tiny hands in their sleeves, would sometime, in their short, careful steps, visit the kenneled slaves. |
10 |
| 28 | 297 |
I hastened down the steps from the wall. |
10 |
| 30 | 92 |
He then gestured that the disarmed, weary, disconsolate Tereus be conducted, his arm stained, his steps slow, in his turn, to a prison barracks. |
10 |
| 37 | 272 |
Numbly, she turned, and retraced her steps, and then stood before him, head down, small before his size and power. |
10 |
| 37 | 279 |
Her wrists, now confined before her, were some six inches apart, and her ankles were something like a foot apart, permitting her to shuffle, or walk with small, careful, measured steps, but not allowing her to run. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 429 |
There were steps on the outside leading up to this circular, cement platform, the steps which I had doubtless recently ascended, assisted by the guard. |
10 |
| 45 | 78 |
I turned away, and retraced my steps, just a few steps. |
10 |
| 8 | 316 |
"There are steps here, kajira," he said. |
10 |
| 8 | 317 |
He then guided me, carefully, and assisted me up some five or six steps, onto a circular platform, cement, it seemed, but covered with a carpet, or heavy cloth, and then to the left. |
10 |
| 8 | 936 |
"May she serve her goblets well, and nicely grace the chains of your alcoves," had said the auctioneer to her buyer, while his man led her down the steps to the street, into his keeping. |
10 |
| 8 | 1099 |
We are all women, and, being women, might we not be, all of us, appropriately, the slaves of men, the slaves of our masters? The auctioneer stood up, and the slaver's man ascended the steps of the block, and disappeared into the short passage to the left. |
10 |
| 8 | 1138 |
A fellow below the block extended his hand, and assisted the slave down the steps. |
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| 8 | 1350 |
The slaver's man, from behind, took me by the arms, lifted me up, my feet some inches above the surface of the platform, and descended the steps of the platform, to the street, and placed me before the bearded fellow in the short, girded-up robe. |
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| 8 | 1564 |
Usually she would have expected me to turn about and move back, retracing my steps, removing myself from her path. |
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| 15 | 82 |
The platform is reached by a set of wooden steps. |
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| 18 | 788 |
I heard steps approaching. |
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| 23 | 26 |
If only I were a free woman, and worthy of him! A few steps forward, and he called back, cheerily, "I like sluts!" "I am one!" I called out, in the rain. |
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| 42 | 58 |
I backed away a few more steps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 363 |
As I climbed the steps of the stairway I wondered a little at the breadth of the steps. |
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| 4 | 208 |
Men brushed past me, to climb the steps to the exits. |
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| 7 | 8 |
I felt even more helpless than when in the sirik, for in the sirik one may move about, with its small steps, and lift one hands to one's mouth, to feed oneself, when permitted to use one's hands. |
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| 7 | 125 |
They were the guards, or attendants, who brought girls down the steps, or escorted them upward, and beyond the gate. |
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| 14 | 315 |
They moved with short, delicate steps. |
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| 39 | 275 |
The play of chain would allow them only small steps. |
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| 39 | 453 |
Now, move!" The four prisoners then, with short steps, and a rustle of shackle chains, began to move again, carefully, slowly, toward the edge of the camp. |
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| 39 | 472 |
The prisoners, with their short steps, tried to hasten. |
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| 41 | 198 |
I took only a few steps, when I stopped, for the sleen, reclined, had lifted its head, and looked at me. |
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| 43 | 1215 |
Rorton had run no more than five steps before the weight of Tiomines struck against him and sent him rolling down the slope toward the shore. |
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| 43 | 1289 |
For its weight the sleen steps lightly. |
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| 46 | 28 |
Could it be I was somehow his, I asked myself, that I belonged to him as an object to its owner, as a slave to her master? Had I not sensed such things before, of this callous, uncompromising, dominant brute, many times? Could I return, somehow, retrace my steps, seek him out, put myself to his feet... |
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| 50 | 355 |
To one side, there was a steep wooden stairway, with broad steps, leading up from the beach to the level, where I could see something of the higher parts of the walls, and the roofs, of several small buildings, and the carved points of the palings of the stockade. |
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| 52 | 213 |
"The steps are broad, but, as you are braceleted, it would be well to exercise caution". |
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| 54 | 179 |
Is it only that they have failed to sully soil and water, refused to create poisoned atmospheres, refused to reduce and shame themselves, had no interest in ascending prescribed treadmills, placed in the midst of nothing, leading nowhere? Can the steps of a false journey not be retraced? It is possi... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 42 |
I drew the tarn with its rigid, stalking steps about the fire. |
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| 7 | 394 |
Sumomo then, her head down, demurely hurried away, with short steps. |
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| 12 | 35 |
She backed away, with short steps, her hands now in her sleeves, her eyes cast down. |
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| 15 | 34 |
We continued on our way, occasionally crossing a rivulet of water on a small, railed wooden bridge, between flowering shrubs and patches of bright flowers, some of which were terraced amongst steps of rocks. |
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| 15 | 42 |
How long, for example, would it take to traverse, say, the corridor between the gate of the garden, if I could reach it, from the courtyard, or palace steps, and the cover of the garden, and between this cover, and the exterior wall? I considered the height of the walls. |
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| 20 | 305 |
He then followed Sumomo down the three steps into the beckoning, moonlit garden. |
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| 20 | 329 |
I think very little time had passed when Sumomo, holding her kimono about herself, her face dark with anger, ascended the three steps, went behind the table, and resumed her position, kneeling. |
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| 24 | 132 |
Three other individuals were parties to this small procession, two more masked Ashigaru, each of which was behind one of the two center individuals, some steps back, of the four who sounded the small gongs, and a smaller figure, barefoot, and clad in simple white, who preceded them. |
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| 25 | 18 |
Sumomo, bound, an Ashigaru holding to each arm, ascended the three wide steps encircling the pool. |
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| 25 | 53 |
It was reached by broad and winding steps. |
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| 25 | 54 |
Sumomo's bound, unconscious body was held between the two Ashigaru, these abreast, ascending the steps, each with a bound arm in his keeping. |
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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 | 234 |
Are there two steps remaining, are there five? Move. |
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| 29 | 55 |
I knew the black dagger was not easily attained; it is won in but one way, the ascent, as it is said, of the nine steps of blood. |
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| 30 | 406 |
What of slave shelves, public cages, sales racks, sales wagons, exhibition poles, and such? Is not any slave in a coffle or on a rope exhibited? What of leashed slaves on promenade? What of those chained to the throne of a Ubar? Is not any girl fastened to a public slave ring exhibited? What of the ... |
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| 40 | 40 |
"In two steps I could be at your throat". |
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| 49 | 11 |
I had scarcely finished the final chestnut, which I had been saving for dessert, when I heard steps outside the door. |
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| 49 | 16 |
The steps seemed to be those of a single male, which was all to the good. |
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| 57 | 237 |
"Now," I said, "with the leather which bound her wrists fasten her ankles together, shackling her, allowing her steps of only three or four horts in length". |
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| 58 | 103 |
We had proceeded but a few steps, and we heard her plaintive cry from behind, and the pattering of her bare feet on the tiles. |
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| 58 | 195 |
"Perhaps the scratches do not lead to a trophy room, but merely blaze a trail, that Nodachi might not inadvertently retrace his steps". |
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| 59 | 315 |
There were many steps, and many were covered with blood". |
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| 60 | 33 |
I recalled his remark about steps leading to the dais, many of which were covered with blood. |
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| 61 | 325 |
Some ascend the steps of blood and paint the black dagger. |
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| 61 | 472 |
He had gone only a few steps when Aiko ran after him, put herself in his path, threw herself to her knees, and cried out, face uplifted, tears run upon her cheeks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 146 |
One of my steps was unsteady. |
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| 7 | 152 |
I had taken only a few steps when I realized that we had been drugged. |
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| 10 | 275 |
I then heard steps near me. |
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| 20 | 257 |
Instead I turned my steps toward Venaticus, rushing through the half-light. |
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| 26 | 65 |
It is not easy to climb the nine steps of blood. |
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| 26 | 195 |
We had scarcely gone three steps when Porus called out to us, "Wait, sweet kajirae," he said, "I did but jest". |
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| 26 | 207 |
As my master continued his watch, or prolonged his inquiries, I was occasionally allowed out of the court, usually to fetch water from the stone steps under the Cloth Maker's Bridge, which, with other bridges, spanned the Lena, one of the two streams that flowed through the city and debouched into T... |
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| 28 | 252 |
He then turned about and retraced his steps, once more downward, toward the pier district. |
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| 29 | 92 |
Do not loiter here! Run! He is of the dark caste! You are hunted! Neither dismiss nor ignore this threat! You are not dealing with an ordinary man! He is of the dark caste! He is one who has ascended the nine steps of blood". |
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| 31 | 174 |
"The slut is yours," said the auctioneer, thrusting the woman down the steps of the block to his left where an attendant seized her and threw her to the feet of her new master, counting out his coins at the pay table. |
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| 36 | 48 |
"Did you not think it strange that a display slave should be loose in the streets of Ar, not on a chain following a borne palanquin, not reclining on flower petals or luxurious furs, on the steps before a curule chair, not shut within a pleasure garden?" "I did not think of it," I said. |
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| 48 | 79 |
She then rose, bowed her head, and backed to the door, where she turned, and began to descend the steps. |
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| 55 | 30 |
The charging Kur was struck fully on the side of the neck by that storm of chain, and I screamed for the headless body, blood pumped by that mighty heart showering into the air, staggered toward us, two, and then three, steps, paws outstretched, and then fell before Lord Grendel, who swept the trunk... |
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| 57 | 89 |
One can move only in short, awkward steps, and the slightest miscalculation, or haste, may plunge one to the ground. |
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| 60 | 189 |
I have ascended the Nine Steps of Blood. |
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| 62 | 87 |
Indeed, many of the "Laws of the Priest-Kings" seem intended to discourage humans from inquiring into certain forms of knowledge, for example, those leading to technologies by means of which, eventually, after a cascade of steps, a planet might be rendered unlivable, even shattered and destroyed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 5 |
There were six steps leading to the surface of the block, as there are six letters in the Gorean expression 'Kajira', the most common word in Gorean for a female slave. |
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| 3 | 7 |
The steps were broad, but I was afraid to stand on them. |
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| 6 | 192 |
We had gone only a few steps when one of the men whispered, "A guardsman". |
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| 9 | 68 |
"Beware," whispered the girl to my right, she at another of the four double basins, "I hear steps!" I tensed, waiting. |
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| 17 | 34 |
Accordingly we had conspired that we would, after our individual releases from the tavern, meet near the steps of the Palace of the Council of Captains, on Palace street. |
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| 17 | 117 |
On Palace Street, returning to the Golden Chain, we were crossing the square that fronts the broad steps leading up to the Palace of the Council of Captains. |
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| 21 | 11 |
Only a few steps from the pantry, however, distraught and confused, the tunic in my hand, I turned about, wildly, and rushed back to the pantry, to beg him for some intelligence as to what this whole mad business, so curious and mysterious, might be about, but the pantry was empty. |
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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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| 24 | 33 |
It was a common shelf market, backed against a wall, its surface reached by shallow steps from the street. |
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| 24 | 64 |
If an individual is seriously, or even moderately, interested in obtaining a slave, or, say, adding another to his chain, he is likely to ascend the steps, examine the merchandise more closely, consult with a slaver's man, speak with the slave, and such. |
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| 24 | 134 |
"Ascend to the platform, consider taking her, or another, home with you this evening!" Several fellows and some women did ascend the broad steps to the surface of the shelf. |
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| 24 | 224 |
"Dolt!" she said, and then spun about, and hurried down the steps to the street. |
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| 30 | 52 |
Wooden steps, associated with aisles, led down into the pit. |
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| 30 | 56 |
In this way he had convenient access to steps leading down to the sand. |
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| 31 | 12 |
But Bruno of Torcadino had already accessed the steps downward, toward the sand. |
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| 31 | 104 |
"Challenge, and Last Blood! Last Blood!" screamed a distraught figure, disheveled and agitated, racing down the steps to the sand, a sword in hand. |
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| 33 | 224 |
"It is overcome in the third of the Nine Steps of Blood," said the man in the boat. |
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| 35 | 43 |
"There are steps," said a male voice. |
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| 35 | 45 |
I was then, in strong male arms, carried up several steps. |
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| 35 | 55 |
I supposed the steps leading up from the landing had brought me to the ground floor of the holding itself. |
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| 35 | 208 |
"The girls of the Golden Chain," he said, "should be stripped, shackled, and switch-driven to the steps of the palace of the Council of Captains, there to be publicly whipped, that they may then the better learn that they are slaves". |
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| 37 | 69 |
One then steps from the boat directly into the house. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 198 |
When she is not working, why do you not chain her at the foot of the steps to the stem deck?" There was a ring there, which might well serve such a purpose, as well as one aft, at the foot of the steps to the stern deck. |
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| 40 | 100 |
Steps, running steps, sounded in the hall outside. |
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| 3 | 5 |
The large peasant ascended the steps of the stern castle. |
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| 3 | 145 |
"Rest oars!" "What land is here?" I asked Aktis, who was partly down the steps to the deck. |
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| 3 | 147 |
I hurried past him, down the steps, and, in my passage to the stem castle, was joined by Thurnock, who seemed as puzzled as I. |
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| 4 | 49 |
Thurnock called these instructions back to our keleustes, whose post was close to the foot of the steps leading down from the stern deck, his drum on its stand between the two helmsmen. |
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| 22 | 7 |
"When one lives at the edge of a cliff," said Clitus, "one should watch where one steps. |
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| 37 | 107 |
It was not practical without steps, a ramp, a crane structure, pulleys, and counterweights, or such, to add a fourth layer. |
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| 45 | 73 |
Even a novice, climbing the third of the nine steps of blood, aspiring to membership in the Black Caste, would not wear sandals in such a business, but would go barefoot or wrap his feet in rags, his sandals tied about his neck or to his belt. |
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| 58 | 41 |
"Captain Tab," said a seaman, from below us on the steps of the stem deck, "as he deems battle is imminent, has signaled for permission to lower his mast and sail". |
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