| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 29 |
One of them must be the Home Stone of Ar, but which? How could I tell it from the others, the Home Stones of those cities which had fallen to Ar? Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na, that would be sprinkled with the seeds of grain! I felt the stones in frenzy, but several were d... |
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| 1 | 180 |
The stones on which they had fallen were blackened. |
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| 2 | 121 |
"Later," said my father, "Home Stones were used for villages, and later still for cities. |
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| 2 | 126 |
Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor. |
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| 2 | 127 |
"These stones," said my father, "are various, of different colors, shapes, and sizes, and many of them are intricately carved. |
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| 2 | 128 |
Some of the largest cities have small, rather insignificant Home Stones, but of incredible antiquity, dating back to the time when the city was a village or only a mounted pride of warriors with no settled abode". |
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| 2 | 137 |
"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies. |
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| 5 | 20 |
Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities. |
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| 5 | 45 |
The Home Stone of Ar, like most Home Stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities. |
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| 6 | 26 |
I raced to the pile of stones at the center of the platform, the girl's screaming in my ears. |
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| 6 | 32 |
She fell to her knees and suddenly crawled to one of the stones, seized it up, and turned to flee. |
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| 8 | 15 |
Unresisting, the girl extended her wrists, and the soldier snapped slave bracelets on them—light, restraining bracelets of gold and blue stones that might have served as jewelry if it had not been for their function. |
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| 9 | 43 |
In the afternoon we moved on again, this time daring to use one of the wide paved highways that lead from Ar, highways built like walls in the earth, of solid, fitted stones intended to last a thousand years. |
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| 9 | 51 |
It seemed we had little to fear, and we had passed several of the pasang stones that line the side of the highway without seeing anything more threatening than a line of peasants carrying brushwood on their backs, and a pair of hurrying Initiates. |
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| 9 | 153 |
But Kazrak would not lay his sword on the stones at my feet. |
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| 10 | 6 |
It is a matter of caste, an expression of respect for those who share their station and profession, having nothing to do with cities or Home Stones. |
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| 15 | 191 |
"Strike for the Home Stones of those cities tributary to Ar—they are kept on the Central Cylinder. |
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| 15 | 192 |
If you seize them, you can divide Pa-Kur's horde, give the Home Stones to the contingents of the tributary cities, provided they withdraw their forces. |
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| 15 | 193 |
If they do not, destroy the Stones". |
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| 15 | 194 |
"The soldiers of the Twelve Tributary Cities," he said, "want loot, vengeance, the women of Ar, not just their Stones". |
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| 16 | 36 |
From the height of the walls, some two hundred feet above the towers, missiles would be fired and stones cast. |
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| 16 | 48 |
I was certain that he had entered the city in some manner and was presumably waiting for his chance to strike at the Home Stones of the tributary cities, in order, if possible, to divide the horde of Pa-Kur. |
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| 16 | 51 |
Marlenus and his men apparently had command of the top floor and roof of the cylinder, but there was little hope he could use the Home Stones that now lay within his grasp. |
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| 16 | 55 |
Also, Pa-Kur was not so much a fool as to bring the tributary Home Stones to his camp and risk disuniting his horde before the siege was completed. |
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| 16 | 56 |
Indeed, it was probable that Pa-Kur had no intention of returning the Home Stones at all but was determined to follow in the imperial footsteps of Marlenus himself. |
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| 16 | 60 |
At any rate, my plan for the division of the Home Stones had failed, and Marlenus, on whom I had depended, was, in the language of the game, neutralized if not removed from the board. |
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| 16 | 134 |
The heavy metal bars were coated with silver and set with precious stones. |
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| 20 | 14 |
The Home Stones of the Twelve Tributary Cities were returned, and those men who had served Pa-Kur from those cities were allowed to return to their cities rejoicing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 10 |
Surprisingly, though the pasang stones told me I was close to Ko-ro-ba, stubborn tufts of grass were growing between the stones, and occasional vines were inching out, tendril by tendril, across the great stone blocks. |
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| 3 | 14 |
The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the angle of these shadows, for the stones are set in such a way as to serve also as sundials, it was past the fourteenth Gorean Ahn, or hour. |
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| 5 | 53 |
Its stones and its people have been scattered to the corners of the world, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side". |
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| 21 | 18 |
"Tal," I said to two guardsmen who crouched at the side of a fire, playing Stones, a guessing game in which one person must guess whether the number of stones held in the fist of another is odd or even. |
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| 2 | 42 |
It is an entity with a history, as stones and rivers do not have history; it is an entity with a tradition, a heritage, customs, practices, character, intentions, hopes. |
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| 3 | 2 |
I recognized it, and even had I not, the cylindrical pasang stones that marked its length were each inscribed with the sign of the city and the appropriate pasang count to its walls. |
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| 3 | 11 |
It was late afternoon and, judging by the pasang stones, I was still some hours from the city. |
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| 3 | 27 |
After dark, various serpents seek out the road for its warmth, its stones retaining the sun's heat longer than the surrounding countryside. |
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| 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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| 3 | 84 |
Indeed, frequent enough were the stories where even a warrior was overcome by an angry peasant into whose hut he had intruded himself, for in the vicinity of their Home Stones men fight with all the courage, savagery and resourcefulness of the mountain larl. |
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| 3 | 138 |
He threw down the ax, which rang on the stones of the road to Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 4 | 1 |
The Sleen In the darkness I stumbled on toward the walls of Ko-ro-ba, striking the stones of the road with the butt of my spear, to keep on the road and to drive possible serpents from my path. |
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| 4 | 73 |
In spite of the icy wind and rain I could feel the heat of the stones through my sandals. |
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| 5 | 31 |
In pools of cold water lying among the stones of the road I could see the three moons of Gor. |
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| 6 | 59 |
Why was the girl alone? Had her protectors been killed? Was she perhaps an escaped slave, fleeing from a hated master? Could she be, like myself, an exile from Ko-ro-ba? Its peoples have been scattered, I said to myself, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side. |
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| 12 | 11 |
Exhausted, my body aching from the weight of the yoke and the sting of the lash, I lay on the stones and slept. |
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| 16 | 52 |
"Indeed, Warrior," said she, "for our Tatrix we would give you even the stones of our walls". |
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| 18 | 120 |
A trickle of water from above moved down the sides of the stones. |
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| 18 | 133 |
We heard him in the shaft, grunting, gasping, the sounds of chains scraping on stones as he began the torturous inch by inch ascent. |
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| 20 | 20 |
In the first streak of light, now gleaming through the dusty hut window, I saw that the scabbard was set with six stones. |
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| 21 | 20 |
The other, attempting to guess the stones, did not even look up. |
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| 21 | 207 |
"I will give you two of the stones from this scabbard for her," I said. |
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| 21 | 208 |
Actually I had no idea of the value of the stones, and didn't know if the offer was a sensible one or not. |
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| 21 | 211 |
I gathered that he was not bluffing, for how could he have known that I did not know the true value of the stones? How could he know that I had not purchased them and had them set in the scabbard myself? "You drive a hard bargain," I said. |
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| 21 | 215 |
Targo gazed at the stones appreciatively. |
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| 21 | 263 |
But perhaps if I had better known the value of the stones? The girl's eyes looked into mine, perhaps trying to read in my eyes what would be her fate, for her fate was now in my hands, for I was her master. |
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| 21 | 264 |
Strange and cruel are the ways of Gor, I thought, where six small green stones, weighing perhaps scarcely two ounces, and a damaged helmet, could purchase a human being. |
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| 22 | 125 |
"I would not," she said, "have given up his collar for all the gold and silver in Tharna, not for all the stones of her gray walls". |
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| 23 | 209 |
I too smiled for resistance was useless, yet I knew that I would resist, that I would not be disarmed until I lay dead on the stones of the street. |
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| 23 | 222 |
I was carried through the streets and others of the rebels, appearing from doorways and windows, almost from the very stones of the street, joined what turned into a procession of triumph. |
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| 24 | 206 |
He leaped down from the barricade and laid his sword on the stones at Lara's feet. |
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| 24 | 227 |
He leaped down from the wall and placed his sword also on the stones at her feet. |
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| 24 | 254 |
I could hear nothing but the quiet, almost noiseless sound of my own sandals on the stones of the corridor. |
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| 25 | 8 |
Only an instant after myself Thorn's shield too was flung to the stones of the chamber floor. |
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| 25 | 18 |
The head rolled sideways on the stones. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 96 |
I myself had traveled in a ship of the Priest-Kings which had twice carried me to this world; I had seen their power so subtly exercised as to alter the movements of a compass needle, so grossly demonstrated as to destroy a city, leaving behind not even the stones of what had once been a dwelling pl... |
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| 7 | 61 |
My footsteps rang hollowly on the stones of the floor. |
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| 9 | 4 |
The stones of the floor are hard and the Gorean nights are cold and it is a rare girl who, when unchained in the morning, does not seek more dutifully to serve her master. |
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| 9 | 7 |
Thus when she has been irritable or otherwise troublesome even a Free Companion may find herself at the foot of the couch looking forward to a pleasant night on the stones, stripped, with neither mat nor blanket, chained to a slave ring precisely as though she were a lowly slave girl. |
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| 9 | 199 |
In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he... |
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| 9 | 226 |
She lowered her head to the stones and wept. |
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| 13 | 11 |
Scents, of course, will fade in time, but the specially prepared synthetic products of the Priest-Kings can last for thousands of years and, in the long run, will surely outlast the fading print of human books, the disintegrating celluloid of our films, perhaps even the carved, weathering stones so ... |
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| 17 | 35 |
"Perhaps you would like a supply of scarce metals and stones?" "No," I said. |
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| 17 | 112 |
I, in the very Nest of Priest-Kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of Priest-Kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar. |
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| 18 | 91 |
I was somewhat annoyed to find the Home Stones, taken so seriously in the cities of Gor that a man might be slain if he did not rise when speaking of the Home Stone of his city, so airily dismissed by the lofty Sarm. |
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| 21 | 36 |
Grinding out the Mul-Torch on the stones, I crouched down with them behind some of this debris and together we watched the door. |
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| 23 | 62 |
"Forgive me!" I fell to my knees beside her and thrust the Mul-Torch into a space between two stones in the floor. |
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| 24 | 20 |
I seized the Mul-Torch from between the stones where I had placed it and, with a great shout, thrust it towards the creature's face. |
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| 30 | 84 |
To the females of Misk's forces he offered gold, jewelry, precious stones, delicious silks, the permission to allow their hair to grow, and male slaves, the latter again to be provided after the projected defeat of Misk's forces. |
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| 31 | 100 |
Misk covered my body with his own and then with his great strength, reared up, stones falling from his back like water from the body of a swimmer. |
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| 31 | 110 |
I climbed over the fallen stones and ran from the room and leaped on the first transportation disk I could find. |
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| 31 | 164 |
More stones fell from the ceiling of the chamber now, clattering and bouncing off the surface of the blue, scarred seething dome. |
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| 31 | 176 |
I could not leap to the sides, for there was only the smooth sheer curve of the blue globe and I would slide to my death and fall like one of the stones from the roof above to the dusty, smoking rubble below. |
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| 32 | 41 |
A great opening, from the sides of which stones still fell, had appeared in the ceiling of the Nest complex, opening the thick, numerous strata above it until at last through that rupture could be seen the beautiful calm sky of the world above. |
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| 32 | 88 |
We stood now on the uneven, shifting stones of the floor. |
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| 32 | 197 |
With uncanny speed it seemed we almost floated to a tunnel entrance and I looked behind us and saw the ceiling descending with incredible softness, almost like a snowfall of stones. |
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| 32 | 341 |
"We will cover the body with stones," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 105 |
"But I am of the Caste of Warriors," I said, "of a high city and we do not stain our spears for the stones of men—not even such stones as these". |
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| 3 | 85 |
Last to approach me was the warrior of the Paravaci, with his hood and cape of white fur, and the glistening broad necklace of precious stones encircling his throat. |
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| 3 | 91 |
"Do you not covet the stones," he prodded, "these riches?" "No," I said. |
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| 3 | 97 |
"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples". |
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| 3 | 100 |
"Regard the worth of those stones!" he cried. |
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| 7 | 3 |
The hundred, rather than eight, bosk that drew his wagon had been unyoked; they were huge, red bosk; their horns had been polished and their coats glistened from the comb and oils; their golden nose rings were set with jewels; necklaces of precious stones hung from the polished horns. |
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| 7 | 210 |
There must be others—others, who did not wish me to succeed in my work, who wished Priest-Kings, the race, to die, others who were capable even of bringing humans from Earth for their purposes—technologically advanced—others who were, perhaps, cautiously, invisibly, at war with ... |
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| 17 | 13 |
I was puzzled by the manner in which the heat and humidity were introduced to the room, for I saw no vents nor cauldrons of boiling water, or devices for releasing drops of water on heated plates or stones. |
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| 20 | 8 |
It is difficult to fire from the outside, and the roundness—like the roundness of Gorean towers in general—tends to increase the amount of oblique hits from catapult stones. |
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| 21 | 3 |
I had spent my last tarn disk to buy a couple of handfuls of tiny stones, many of them of little or no value; yet their weight in my pouch gave me some pretext for being in the city. |
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| 21 | 38 |
Before leaving the wagons I had joined them briefly on their march, long enough to purchase my peddler's disguise and the pound or so of stones which was to complete it. |
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| 21 | 49 |
As I hobbled through the city of Turia, one eye half shut, staring at the street as though I hoped to find a lost copper tarn disk among the stones, I made my way toward the compound of Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 21 | 64 |
To my chagrin I was not admitted into the compound, but my pitiful stock of almost worthless stones was examined outside the gate by a steward in the company of two armed warriors. |
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| 21 | 65 |
It took him only a few moments to discover the value of the stones and, when he did, with a cry of disgust, he hurled them away from the gate into the dust, and the two warriors, while I pretended fright and pain, belabored me with the hilts of their weapons. |
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| 21 | 67 |
I hobbled after the stones, and fell to my knees in the dust, scrabbling after them, moaning and crying aloud. |
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| 21 | 113 |
Downstairs the wooden screens that had separated the shop from the street had been splintered apart; the counter had been broken and the ovens ruined, their oval domes shattered, their iron doors twisted from their hinges; even the top stones on the two grain mills had been thrown to the floor and b... |
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| 21 | 122 |
"I have very little," I said, taking the pouch and spilling the stones in a glittering if not very valuable heap on the small table in her central room. |
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| 21 | 141 |
"Is this truly all you have?" she asked, pointing at the pile of stones. |
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| 21 | 195 |
She leaned over the parapet, looking skeptically down at the stones some hundred feet below. |
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| 24 | 22 |
During the day and night, taking hours of sleep where we could, sometimes on the rugs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, sometimes on the stones of the streets by watch fires, Harold and I, at Kamchak's orders, performed a variety of tasks, sometimes joining in the fighting, sometimes acting as liaiso... |
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| 26 | 1 |
The Egg of Priest-Kings In the dampness and darkness long before dawn the forces of Kamchak, crowding the streets of Turia in the vicinity of Saphrar's compound, waited silently, like dark shapes on the stones; here and there the glint of a weapon or accouterment could be made out in the fading lig... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 |
Cernus of Ar, of the House of Cernus, studied me, his large face impassive, his eyes revealing nothing, like gray stones. |
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| 5 | 730 |
She lay there on the stones, half-stripped, turned away, bound hand and foot, her throat fastened to the slave ring by the heavy collar and chain. |
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| 6 | 121 |
There was a long, incredibly weird, horrifying scream, coming from far away, and yet seeming to penetrate the very stones of the hall where we enjoyed ourselves. |
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| 8 | 2 |
She was, of course, precisely where I had left her, though she had managed to lie on her side on the stones and get one or two Ahn sleep that night. |
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| 12 | 194 |
He shoved the heads of both to the stones of the floor. |
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| 12 | 197 |
She said nothing but stood there, wrists braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three Ihn; and then she s... |
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| 12 | 221 |
Flaminius rose to his feet, leaving the two girls lying on the stones, sobbing. |
10 |
| 12 | 238 |
Sura spat on the stones before Elizabeth. |
10 |
| 12 | 322 |
"Kneel," said Sura, pointing to the stones before her feet. |
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| 12 | 361 |
The three girls lying in pain on the stones looked up at her in fear, even the proud Elizabeth, their bodies trembling, their eyes wide. |
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| 12 | 369 |
At one corner in the descending ramp there was a small knot of young men, weavers by their garments, who were gambling with the inked knucklebones of verr, shaking them in a small leather cup and spilling them to the stones. |
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| 15 | 289 |
Phyllis leaped upon her and in an instant the two girls were rolling and scratching on the stones, screaming at one another. |
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| 16 | 177 |
He glared down at Phyllis, who, this time, did not meet his eyes but looked down at the stones of the ramp on which she knelt. |
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| 17 | 69 |
Suddenly the two girls on the ankle ropes jerked on their ropes and I fell heavily forward, spilling the wine to the stones. |
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| 17 | 84 |
Then while the girls shrieked and the long-legged girl cried out in rage I swept her into my arms and leaped into the small room, where I dropped her to the stones and spun about, throwing the door shut and bolting it. |
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| 17 | 280 |
Lana landed with a considerable bump on the stones of the hall, the wine flying backward. |
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| 17 | 282 |
Lana scrambled to her feet, angry, her pitcher of wine set aside on the wet, red stones. |
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| 17 | 525 |
Behind her the men began crying out, watching the tumbling of the knucklebones on the stones of the floor. |
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| 17 | 535 |
She was kneeling on the stones, bent over, her head down, the hair falling forward, clad only in the bit of red silk, her wrists braceleted behind her back. |
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| 17 | 539 |
I looked from face to face, and then I shook the knucklebones and scattered them, the four of them, on the stones at my feet. |
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| 18 | 15 |
There was an intense eruption of needlelike sparks and Sura screamed in pain and fell stumbling to one side, weeping, crying out on the stones of the floor. |
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| 18 | 22 |
It passed to the left of my head, struck the wall with an explosion of sparks and lay burning on the stones. |
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| 18 | 281 |
Suddenly there was a wild cry from behind the door, of almost maniacal intensity, and I thought I heard something moving on the stones behind it, uncontrollable, clawed. |
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| 18 | 345 |
"Touch me!" But the males lay in drunken sleep on the stones. |
10 |
| 18 | 475 |
At this distance the bolts would pass through my body, shattering against the stones behind me. |
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| 19 | 20 |
The purpose of the blocks, which are used where the streets are curbed, is to provide stepping stones for crossing the street when there have been heavy rains. |
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| 19 | 28 |
Those who jeered me or sported with their straps and stones would have little reason for not thinking me slave. |
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| 19 | 46 |
I stumbled again, on one of the large, broad, flat stepping stones, and fell forward and was jerked by the chain tearing at the back of my neck, and struggled again to my feet, hearing through the thick layers of leather in the slave hood the laughter of the guards, as though far away. |
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| 19 | 51 |
I heard two girls laugh and I felt my ankles seized and held while small hands thrust on my back, taking me by surprise and throwing me heavily forward; I struck my shoulder on the back of the cart and the booted foot of a Warrior thrust me from the cart and I fell to my knees on the stones; when I ... |
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| 24 | 148 |
Soon we had emerged in the great domed chamber set with lights and stones in which, on a high, stepped dais, sits the marble throne of the Ubar of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 317 |
When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds. |
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| 13 | 219 |
It had rained the night before and, here and there, there were puddles among the stones of the street. |
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| 14 | 98 |
Fires were being stoked to heat pitch and stones; bundles of tarred javelins would be shaken out near the springals and light catapults. |
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| 15 | 764 |
In rage I hurled the blade away and it struck the stones of the wall thirty feet across the room and clattered to the floor, and I sank to my knees weeping, my head in my hands. |
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| 16 | 29 |
In that overcrowded desert of hypocrisies and hysterical, meaningless violences, she would surely wither and blacken, like some rare and beautiful plant of the marshes uprooted and thrust down among stones to die. |
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| 17 | 58 |
Thus the round ships might, hopefully, be able to envelop their formation, surround it, and attack on the flanks, with their not inconsiderable barrage of flaming javelins, heated stones, burning pitch and showers of crossbow bolts. |
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| 18 | 522 |
We heard grappling irons with knotted ropes fly over the parapet, scrape across the stones, and wedge in the crenels. |
10 |
| 18 | 528 |
I caught sight of the boy, Fish, running past, a spear held over his head in both hands, and heard a horrible cry, long and wailing, ending with the abrupt striking of a body far below on the stones. |
10 |
| 18 | 539 |
They picked up stones from the roof of the keep, and ran to the walls, to hurl them at point-blank range against the men climbing. |
10 |
| 18 | 581 |
We heard the rush of hundreds of feet on the stones below. |
10 |
| 18 | 588 |
The girls took up stones and swords, and stood beside us. |
10 |
| 18 | 595 |
We heard the men nearing us, on the other side of the wall, the scraping of swords and spears on the vertical stones of the keep. |
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| 18 | 617 |
And now archers were running down the side walls, and leaping to other roofs, that every point at the foot of the keep might be within the assailing orbit of the string-flung missiles, and the girls, and the men, too, flung stones from the top of the keep down on the men trying to hide behind it, an... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 809 |
The "stones" are usually pebbles or beads, but in the cities one can buy small polished, carved boxes containing ten "stones," the quality of which might vary from polished ovoid stones, with swirling patterns, to gems worth the ransom of a merchant's daughter. |
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| 8 | 797 |
Others played "Stones," where one player guesses the number of stones held in the other's hand. |
10 |
| 3 | 441 |
Snarling and spurting the Maserati leaped into life, spitting stones and dust from its rear wheels, whipping about the corner of the bungalow. |
10 |
| 7 | 496 |
I was surprised to see, glowing near our wagon, a small, hot fire, banked with stones. |
10 |
| 8 | 368 |
The wind driven by their pounding, snapping wings, with hurricanes of dust and small stones, could hurl a man from his feet. |
10 |
| 8 | 506 |
I did not object either, at the stream on stones, near the compound, to washing their garments. |
10 |
| 8 | 806 |
At "Stones," however, I was genuinely pleased with myself. |
10 |
| 8 | 808 |
Each player has the same number of "stones," usually two to five per player. |
10 |
| 8 | 810 |
The object of the game is simple, to guess the number of stones held in the other's hand or hands. |
10 |
| 8 | 812 |
Usually your opponent tries to outwit you, by either changing the number of stones held in his hand or, perhaps, keeping it the same. |
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| 8 | 815 |
I challenged Lana to "Stones," but she would not play with me. |
10 |
| 12 | 295 |
I could hear its wheels on the stones before I could see it. |
10 |
| 12 | 325 |
Men seized them, and disarmed them of their sticks and switches, and then threw the girls to the stones at their feet, where they cowered, at the sandals of free men, and then the men ordered them from the street. |
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| 14 | 219 |
Against its far wall I could see great chests, heavy and bound with iron, filled doubtless with a raider's abundant booty, gems and golden wire, and necklaces and coins, and pearls, and jewelries, and bracelets and bangles, set perhaps with precious stones, which might serve to adorn the limbs of ex... |
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| 14 | 529 |
Too, it is said that it is only a fool who frees a slave girl, and who would be fool enough to free one such as this? In the early morning, in the dawn and dampness, and chill, weary, purchased, she follows her master, barefoot, not permitted clothing, back-braceleted, on her leash, her head down, f... |
10 |
| 15 | 290 |
A bowl of water was nearby, and a fire, over which, on an iron plate fixed on stones, there were, heating, five, small, flat-bottomed, rounded, wooden-handled Gorean irons. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 162 |
I pounded on the stones of the wall. |
10 |
| 3 | 75 |
Too, from Laura, much in evidence, were great barrels of salt, stacks of lumber, and sleds of stones, on wooden runners, from the quarries to her east. |
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| 4 | 195 |
They took me to the banks of the Laurius where they tied me to a pole set in the stones, my hands over my head, my neck, belly and ankles, too, bound to it. |
10 |
| 5 | 39 |
She went below the wharf and, standing on stones, washed her feet in the water. |
10 |
| 6 | 342 |
Meanwhile, portions of the crew not engaged in such labors, would be carrying stones from the shore and cutting saplings in the forest, to build the narrow rectangular wall which shields such camps. |
10 |
| 6 | 817 |
"You, Master," said Tina, to a handsome young seaman, who wore a wristlet studded with purplish stones, amethysts from Schendi, "would you be so kind as to rise and come forward". |
10 |
| 7 | 152 |
Crushed leaves, broken twigs, turned stones, bent grass, footprints, all spelled the trail clearly to the detecting eye. |
10 |
| 7 | 319 |
In the center of the camp there was a cooking hole, banked with a circle of flat stones. |
10 |
| 18 | 6 |
He had then stumbled down the beach, falling twice, until he came to the shallows and the sand, among driftwood, stones and damp weed, washed ashore in the morning tide. |
10 |
| 18 | 35 |
His men, fifty-five men of Tyros, some falling, made their way down the beach, across the stones, to the edge of the water. |
10 |
| 18 | 181 |
One end they forced into the ground high on the beach, among the stones. |
10 |
| 18 | 236 |
In Port Kar I had seen the fingernails of girls torn to the quick as they scratched at stones against which they were tied. |
10 |
| 18 | 303 |
There were many large, flattish, rounded stones on the beach. |
10 |
| 18 | 355 |
At the fringe of the forest, overlooking the sloping beach, covered with its stones, and, lower, with its sand, I found a strong, slender tree, with an outjutting branch some five feet from the ground, the branch facing away from the water. |
10 |
| 18 | 409 |
We three stood together on the beach, on the sands, among the stones, and observed Thassa, the murmuring, gleaming, elemental vastness, Thassa, the sea, said in the myths to be without a farther shore. |
10 |
| 18 | 443 |
Together we picked our way down the beach, across the stones, across the soft sands, until we came to the side of the great accumulation of branches and driftwood which we had earlier prepared. |
10 |
| 19 | 24 |
The group of five men picked their way across the stones toward me. |
10 |
| 19 | 185 |
With their axes they broke through to him, shattered the rings from the stones, and carried him safe to Tyros. |
10 |
| 21 | 166 |
They had come prepared, though naked, to make war, though it be with but the branches of trees and the stones of the forest. |
10 |
| 21 | 220 |
The beacon of Sarus was now only reddish stones of wood, like the eyes of beasts, looming in the darkness, lying on the sand. |
10 |
| 22 | 105 |
His eyes had been expressionless, like stones, or orbs of glass. |
10 |
| 22 | 135 |
She stumbled once on the stones, struggled to her feet and again approached us. |
10 |
| 22 | 215 |
They stood on the beach, among the stones, rubbing their wrists. |
10 |
| 22 | 600 |
I looked at the uprooted, strewn logs of the palisade, scattered on the stones by Marlenus' men. |
10 |
| 22 | 780 |
There, high on the stones, rose the beacon, tier upon tier of crossed logs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 151 |
It had burned, long and fiery in the Gorean night, on the stones of the beach, and then, in the morning it would have been ashes, and the winds and rains would have scattered them, and there would be little left, save the stones, the sand and the prints of the feet of sea birds, tiny, like the thief... |
10 |
| 16 | 63 |
He had been taught some rune signs as a boy, that he could understand important stones, for in these stones were the names of mighty men and songs of their deeds, but it had not been expected of him that he would be in any sense a fluent reader. |
10 |
| 1 | 197 |
"Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which ... |
10 |
| 4 | 104 |
Two others, elsewhere, played Stones, a guessing game. |
10 |
| 5 | 154 |
This would provide the miserable wenches, terrified and fettered, some measure of protection from missiles, stones and darts. |
10 |
| 6 | 334 |
Stones mark sections off into sleeping quarters. |
10 |
| 11 | 3 |
This hill was set with stones, rather in the manner of terraces. |
10 |
| 11 | 4 |
On these stones, set in semicircular lines, like terraces, stood high men and minor jarls, and rune-priests, and the guard of Svein Blue Tooth. |
10 |
| 11 | 94 |
"As many as the stones of the beaches," said the Kur, "as many as the needles on the needle trees". |
10 |
| 11 | 153 |
"As many," said the Kur, "as the stones on the beaches, as many as the needles on the needle trees". |
10 |
| 12 | 94 |
"Will you swear, too," he asked, "by the grains of your fields, the boundary stones of your holdings, the locks on your chests and the salt on your table?" "Yes, yes!" said Svein Blue Tooth, irritatedly. |
10 |
| 13 | 265 |
Until this time I had been familiar only with the bluish stones. |
10 |
| 13 | 266 |
I had little doubt, however, that the stones were genuine. |
10 |
| 13 | 267 |
Chenbar, the Sea Sleen, would have insisted on the fee for his rescue being paid in genuine stones, as a matter of pride. |
10 |
| 13 | 268 |
Too, the Forkbeard, in dealing with his Jarl, Svein Blue Tooth, would not use false stones. |
10 |
| 13 | 271 |
I had no doubt that the spilled glory heaped gleaming in the dirt of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth was what it seemed, true stones, and an incredible treasure. |
10 |
| 13 | 274 |
The weight of the stones was more than that of a full-grown man. |
10 |
| 15 | 227 |
He went to a corner of the ledge where, heaped, there were several large stones. |
10 |
| 15 | 228 |
"The stones I then gathered are still here," he said. |
10 |
| 15 | 301 |
"If the Kurii are above us," I said, recalling the rain of stones, "is this not our opportunity to descend?" "Kurii corner their prey," said the Forkbeard. |
10 |
| 16 | 51 |
Many of the columns carved, with painted surfaces, on the walls, reminded me of rune stones. |
10 |
| 16 | 52 |
These stones, incidentally, are normally quite colorful, and can often be seen at great distances. |
10 |
| 16 | 54 |
Religious rune stones are repainted by rune-priests on the vigil of the fest-season of Odin, which, on Gor, takes place in the fall. |
10 |
| 16 | 55 |
If the stones were not tended, either by farmers on whose lands they lie, or by villagers in whose locales they lie, or by rune-priests, in a few years, the paint would be gone, leaving only the plain stone. |
10 |
| 17 | 44 |
They would not care for the blackened grass growing between the bricks; they would take no note of the spider's architecture, nor marvel at the flight of a wren darting to its nest among the smoke-blackened, carved stones. |
10 |
| 20 | 184 |
I carried her, wading on the stones, to the side of the longboat. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 193 |
A merchant passed me, climbing the stones of the street. |
10 |
| 3 | 118 |
"I have a few small stones which I would like to sell at the Oasis of Nine Wells, to buy date bricks to return and sell in Tor". |
10 |
| 3 | 204 |
Torches were lifted as men looked to the stones of the courtyard. |
10 |
| 3 | 206 |
Then I, too, gave my attention to the stones of the courtyard. |
10 |
| 4 | 208 |
Now her skin would be much more aware of such tiny things as a change in air movement in a room, temperature, humidity, and such; also she would now be more keenly sensitive to differences in textures with which her body might come in contact, such as the granulation of the stones on which her feet ... |
10 |
| 4 | 247 |
I pointed to the stones at my feet. |
10 |
| 4 | 305 |
He then stepped back, jerked her ankles from under her and flung her to the stones, and knelt across her back. |
10 |
| 4 | 306 |
She wept and struck the stones with her fists. |
10 |
| 5 | 27 |
I had made certain I knew, within marketing ranges, the values of the stones, and what, within reason, they would bring in weights of pressed dates. |
10 |
| 5 | 34 |
Suleiman, with his finger, pushed back certain of the stones toward me. |
10 |
| 5 | 37 |
Both sorts of stones were rare in the Tahari gem trade. |
10 |
| 5 | 64 |
Suleiman, reluctantly, pushed two more stones back toward me. |
10 |
| 5 | 228 |
Before Suleiman, now, there lay five stones, three sereem diamonds, red, sparkling, white flecked, and two opals, one a common sort, milky in color, and the other an unusual flame opal, reddish and blue. |
10 |
| 5 | 229 |
Opals are not particularly valuable stones on Earth, but they are much rarer on Gor; these were excellent specimens, cut and polished into luminescent ovoids; still, of course, they did not have the value of the diamonds. |
10 |
| 5 | 230 |
"What would you like for these five stones?" he asked. |
10 |
| 5 | 238 |
Suleiman studied the stones. |
10 |
| 5 | 251 |
"You carry stones, which you wish to sell to Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai," had said the lieutenant. |
10 |
| 5 | 283 |
It is their intention to divert them, or most of them, to the Oasis of the Stones of Silver". |
10 |
| 5 | 286 |
Dew had formed on the large flat stones thereabouts and, in the light of the dawn, had made them, from a distance, seem to glint like silver. |
10 |
| 5 | 287 |
Dew, incidentally, is quite common in the Tahari, condensing on the stones during the chilly nights. |
10 |
| 5 | 289 |
Nomads sometime dig stones before dawn, clean them, set them out, and, later, lick the moisture from them. |
10 |
| 5 | 295 |
Rather he said, "Give me the stones, I will keep them safe for you. |
10 |
| 5 | 305 |
"Give me the stones," he said. |
10 |
| 5 | 506 |
He studied the stones. |
10 |
| 5 | 516 |
The true worth of the stones, which I had had appraised carefully in Tor, against their best information as to the date yields, was between sixty and eighty weights in pressed date bricks. |
10 |
| 5 | 524 |
As a portion of my assumed identity, I wished to sell him stones. |
10 |
| 5 | 825 |
"Seventy weights of dates for the stones," said Suleiman to me. |
10 |
| 5 | 833 |
"You have shown me hospitality," I said, "and I would be honored if Suleiman Pasha would accept these unworthy stones for sixty weights". |
10 |
| 7 | 26 |
I detected the odor of kort rinds, matted, drying, on the stones, where they had been scattered from my supper the evening before. |
10 |
| 7 | 33 |
Then I sat back against the stones. |
10 |
| 7 | 82 |
I heard the chain subside to the stones. |
10 |
| 7 | 85 |
Then, furious, I sat back against the stones. |
10 |
| 7 | 148 |
Then was it dropped to the stones. |
10 |
| 7 | 158 |
He did not look upon the gruesome sight which lay upon the stones at his feet. |
10 |
| 7 | 161 |
Some of them were unable to take their eyes from what lay on the stones. |
10 |
| 7 | 237 |
The light fell from the barred window onto the gray stones of the straw-strewn floor. |
10 |
| 7 | 248 |
Ten feet in the air, against the stones of the ceiling, twisting, crying out, screaming, he writhed. |
10 |
| 7 | 264 |
The blood, between the stones, formed tiny rivers. |
10 |
| 7 | 275 |
Then drops of blood, as if from nowhere, dropping, one after the other, to the stones. |
10 |
| 7 | 286 |
I smiled, seeing, in the confusion, the blood, drop by drop, slip to the door of the cell, move across the stones, out into the hall, and through the threshold, then up the twisting, narrow, concave stairs. |
10 |
| 7 | 308 |
The cell had been cleaned, straw and wastes removed, rinsed down; most of the blood had been scrubbed from the stones; behind remained, here and there, only some stubborn, darkish stains; new straw had been spread; the kort rinds had been taken. |
10 |
| 7 | 351 |
Food may be fried on the stones at Klima. |
10 |
| 7 | 688 |
It hung against the stones, on the two chains. |
10 |
| 13 | 38 |
The walls in such a kasbah are several feet thick, formed of stones and mud brick; the walls in this kasbah, as in most, too, were covered with a sheen of plaster, whitish pink, which, in the years of exposure to the heat and sun, as is common, had flaked abundantly. |
10 |
| 14 | 37 |
Tafa, sweet and warm, on straw, strewn over the cool stones, lay against me, in my arms. |
10 |
| 14 | 42 |
The stones were broad, heavy blocks, cool, wet in places, over which lay a scattering of damp straw. |
10 |
| 14 | 50 |
An urt scampered across the stones, disappearing between two blocks of stone in the wall. |
10 |
| 14 | 66 |
An urt skittered past her, having emerged from a crack in the floor between two stones and moved swiftly across the floor, along one wall, and vanished through the crack which had served as exit for its fellow a few moments earlier. |
10 |
| 14 | 83 |
I picked up, where it lay on the stones, fastened to the plate and ring near mine, the chain which ran, looped, lying on the floor, to her collar, several feet away. |
10 |
| 14 | 145 |
Tafa, sweet and warm, on the straw, on the cool stones, lay against me, in my arms. |
10 |
| 14 | 150 |
The fifth man unsnapped the collar from my throat, and dropped it, with its chain, to the stones. |
10 |
| 17 | 158 |
Music he will make among the stones and silence. |
10 |
| 21 | 397 |
Beside the ship I found the remains of a shelter of stones and tarpaulins. |
10 |
| 21 | 472 |
I made my way to the stones and tarpaulin; there, feeling about, I located one of the bodies, which was mostly whole. |
10 |
| 26 | 1166 |
Rather, I, suddenly, with a larl's ferocity, thrust my lips to hers, cruelly, in the raping kiss of the master, and pressed her savagely back into the straw, against the very stones of the dungeon cell in which she lay slave, chained, beneath me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 916 |
I felt the pebbles and stones of the bank beneath my feet. |
10 |
| 6 | 127 |
It is marked with pasang stones. |
10 |
| 9 | 1017 |
These remarks would not be complete without mentioning Home Stones. |
10 |
| 10 | 38 |
The great road to Ar is marked with pasang stones. |
10 |
| 10 | 43 |
In the distance, even from the pool, I could see the white, looming walls of the merchant keep, Stones of Turmus, a Turian outpost, licensed for the storage of goods within the realm of Ar. |
10 |
| 10 | 71 |
I looked up to the keep of Stones of Turmus in the distance. |
10 |
| 10 | 78 |
I continued to look at the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 10 | 147 |
We soon took the road to Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 11 | 52 |
I half sat, half lay on the stone floor, my legs to the side, the palms of my hands on the stones, my head down. |
10 |
| 11 | 77 |
I collapsed to the stones. |
10 |
| 11 | 83 |
I lay on the stones. |
10 |
| 11 | 201 |
"You are slave now within the Keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 11 | 211 |
Both banner and shield of Stones of Turmus, however, were Turian. |
10 |
| 11 | 212 |
Stones of Turmus was Turian. |
10 |
| 11 | 222 |
"There are twenty-seven girls in Stones of Turmus," continued Sucha. |
10 |
| 11 | 356 |
My hair then I washed, and dried, and combed and brushed, taking from it the dust of the road leading to Stones of Turmus, and the sweat of the afternoon and early evening. |
10 |
| 12 | 8 |
I had been more than a month now in the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 11 |
I was a different girl now from the one who had been sold for six copper tarsks to Borchoff, Captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 32 |
There had been twenty-seven girls in Stones of Turmus before my purchase. |
10 |
| 12 | 36 |
There were, incidentally, I was pleased to learn, no free women in Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 40 |
There were twenty-nine girls now, however, in the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 63 |
This was prevented at Stones of Turmus by the whip of Sucha. |
10 |
| 12 | 114 |
"Fetch in the prisoner," called Borchoff, captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 128 |
The stones were hot to my bare feet. |
10 |
| 12 | 204 |
"Yes, Master," I said to Borchoff, captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 220 |
Muchly was he herewith, by means of a slave girl, insulted by Borchoff, captain of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 289 |
The prisoner was thrown to his knees before Borchoff, captain of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 364 |
I was well learning, in the keep of Stones of Turmus, how to serve men. |
10 |
| 12 | 476 |
I had been conducted through it on my first day in Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 532 |
Gasping, my bare feet hurting on the stones, I ran back down the passageway. |
10 |
| 12 | 616 |
He placed the sword he carried behind him on the stones of the flooring and crouched behind me. |
10 |
| 12 | 624 |
Now I wore his binding fiber, and was alone with him, in a dark passageway deep below the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 704 |
I turned my head to the side, and heard the small sound of the silver leaf, on its tiny loop, fastened in my ear, touch the stones of the flooring of the passage. |
10 |
| 12 | 785 |
I wanted to see, though I feared to do so, what was going on, the men who now owned us, their movements, the tarns, the ropes and chains, the slaves bound over saddles, and fastened at stirrups, the flames, the wild, racing, distorted shadows, the parapets and towers of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 818 |
"I am glad to be leaving Stones of Turmus!" whispered another. |
10 |
| 12 | 872 |
His tarn, screaming, departed the walls of the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
10 |
| 12 | 880 |
I could see the keep of Stones of Turmus in flames, dropping away below us. |
10 |
| 13 | 143 |
Her weight is 29 stones. |
10 |
| 16 | 195 |
It had been rubbed with deck stones, and washed down and scrubbed. |
10 |
| 23 | 65 |
Life then to me was but stones and ashes. |
10 |
| 25 | 216 |
Since that time I had been the slave of Clitus Vitellius, of Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, of the Keep of Stones of Turmus, and of the Belled Collar. |
10 |
| 26 | 206 |
Earth girls had no Home Stones. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 225 |
The carts she had been trained to draw so meaninglessly, so laboriously, had been filled with the stones of ignorance and hatred. |
10 |
| 3 | 158 |
Down the corridor between tents, now those of the carvers of semiprecious stones, came four men, in the swirling garb of the Tahari. |
10 |
| 3 | 187 |
The Ubar discovers he cannot tax the bosk and the Peasant discovers his grain cannot grow on the stones of the city streets. |
10 |
| 3 | 385 |
I saw male slaves thrusting a cart filled with quarry stones. |
10 |
| 4 | 393 |
The two Home stones, at their respective locations, faced one another, each shielded by its several defending pieces, Scribe and Initiate, one of the central Spearmen, a flanking Spearman, a Builder, a Physician, and a Rider of the High Tharlarion. |
10 |
| 7 | 252 |
I sank to one knee, and then I fell on my shoulder to the stones of the alley. |
10 |
| 8 | 186 |
They possessed no Home Stones. |
10 |
| 10 | 197 |
Near the platform there were piled some logs and heavy stones, carried there by other laborers the preceding afternoon. |
10 |
| 10 | 200 |
"Carry these stones". |
10 |
| 11 | 77 |
They carried stones and clubs. |
10 |
| 11 | 89 |
Now there were some three hundred and seventy men encircling the hall, all armed in one way or another, some even with stones. |
10 |
| 14 | 75 |
She seized a heavy iron pan, of the sort used out of doors across stones for cooking. |
10 |
| 15 | 10 |
Poalu had showed them how to cut the meat and lay it out on stones to dry. |
10 |
| 30 | 126 |
"Assassins, as I recall," I said, "have no Home Stones. |
10 |
| 30 | 127 |
I suppose that is a drawback to caste membership, but if you did have Home Stones, it might be difficult to take fees on one whose Home Stone you shared". |
10 |
| 35 | 427 |
They would be protected with all the safeguards with which Goreans surround and honor exalted free females, equal sharers of the rights of Home Stones. |
10 |
| 35 | 438 |
They have no Home Stones and no Gorean allegiances, or loves. |
10 |
| 35 | 445 |
You see, they have no Home Stones. |
10 |
| 36 | 69 |
"He is Karjuk, Master," she whispered, "once of Bright Stones Camp, who became the guard". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 |
In their right hands, grasped, were deck stones, soft, white stones, rounded, which are used to smooth and sand the boards of the deck. |
10 |
| 1 | 301 |
In one long corridor we passed two girls, naked, on their hands and knees, with brushes and water, scrubbing the stones of the corridor floor. |
10 |
| 1 | 333 |
There were trickles of water at the walls here and, in places, water between the stones of the floor. |
10 |
| 3 | 6 |
Here and there small lamps, set in niches, high in stone walls, or lanterns, hung on iron projections, shed small pools of light on the sides of buildings and illuminated, too, in their secondary ambiance, the stones of the sloping walkway on which I trod, one of many leading down to the wharves. |
10 |
| 4 | 255 |
The face of Turgus was not a pretty sight, as I had dashed it into the stones, and had then struck the side of his head against the nearby wall. |
10 |
| 6 | 14 |
Later, when finished with the deck stones, they would again rinse and, again on their hands and knees, with rags, dry the deck. |
10 |
| 6 | 170 |
"Yes, Master," they said and, with a rustle of chain, fell again to their knees and, seizing up the deck stones, once more, Shoka near them, vigorously addressed themselves to their labors. |
10 |
| 32 | 870 |
There were mighty carvings on many of the stones. |
10 |
| 32 | 1017 |
"Perhaps, here and there, men will form themselves into small communities, where the names of such things as courage, discipline, and responsibility may be occasionally recollected, communities which, in their small way, might be worthy of Home Stones. |
10 |
| 51 | 208 |
There were bruises on her body, for I had taken her on the stones. |
10 |
| 53 | 16 |
Shaba's men had, to some extent, refortified the ruin, placing stones within the threshold so that only one man at a time might enter. |
10 |
| 53 | 17 |
Too, between the edges of the walls, over the stones, they had erected a barrier of lashed poles. |
10 |
| 53 | 183 |
I spun about to see one of Shaba's men reel about and then plunge bloody from the wall's height to the stones below. |
10 |
| 53 | 194 |
Eight or ten more Kurii dropped inside the wall, lightly for their weight, and crouched there for the moment, pangas in their fangs, the knuckles of their paws on the stones. |
10 |
| 53 | 199 |
I saw Kurii, too, thrusting their arms through the barrier of lashed poles mounted over the stones at the threshold. |
10 |
| 53 | 224 |
I scrambled, leaping, half crawling, to the place on the stones where Ngumi had, after putting me in manacles, dropped my belt, sheath and dagger. |
10 |
| 53 | 261 |
"They are breaking through!" I ran to the threshold and, leaping upon the stones, screaming, struck at the arms and paws which were thrusting back the barrier of lashed poles. |
10 |
| 53 | 288 |
The beast sank to its knees and snapping crawled toward the retreating askari for more than a dozen feet until it collapsed on the stones. |
10 |
| 53 | 302 |
Others pressed again now at the lashed poles over the stones at the threshold. |
10 |
| 53 | 354 |
We fell back from the stones, literally swept from our rampart by the irruption of the wood and the flood of massive, charging bodies. |
10 |
| 53 | 362 |
I slipped free as the animal screamed and reeled about, then fell, falling among the stones and wood, scratching at the stone. |
10 |
| 53 | 382 |
I removed the golden chain and lashed it in the face and it fell backwards from the wall, to the stones some twenty feet below. |
10 |
| 53 | 435 |
We looked to the stones at the threshold. |
10 |
| 53 | 453 |
Msaliti leaped down from the stones and withdrew from the fortresslike enclosure. |
10 |
| 53 | 480 |
I shook loose of Turgus and Kisu and ran to the stones at the threshold. |
10 |
| 53 | 484 |
I descended from the stones which had been piled in the threshold by Shaba's men, the better to fortify the walled area. |
10 |
| 54 | 108 |
We do not even know who raised and aligned these stones, forming walls and temples, and laying out gardens and broad avenues. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 13 |
The stones were damp. |
10 |
| 3 | 389 |
She then put the pan of meat down on the stones, where I might reach it. |
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| 3 | 391 |
She placed it within my reach, on the stones. |
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| 5 | 128 |
* * * * I lay on the stones of the cell, naked, in blood, my wrists and ankles chained. |
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| 7 | 66 |
I laughed, and lowered the bench slowly to the stones. |
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| 7 | 336 |
Then she was at my feet, on the stones, kneeling in the straw, her head down, her hair before her face. |
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| 7 | 355 |
"Yes, Master," she said, "yes!" I prepared to hurl her to her back on the straw and stones, and treat her as what she was, a woman, and a slave. |
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| 7 | 361 |
She was then on her hands and knees, on the stones. |
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| 9 | 2 |
The slave box in which I was being transported to the market of Tima had been placed on the stones near a trough at which the carrying slaves, now chained, were being watered. |
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| 11 | 3 |
I lifted my head, slightly, from the flat stones. |
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| 11 | 140 |
I heard the striking together of stones, probably iron pyrites, and saw sparks. |
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| 11 | 146 |
The stones struck together again, and again I saw her, kneeling over a bit of moss, tinder, which she was intent upon igniting. |
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| 11 | 158 |
I wanted to thrust apart her knees and, taking her by the hair and an ankle, throw her to her back, on the stones. |
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| 11 | 251 |
The girl faced them, making herself small, kneeling, the palms of her hands on the floor, her head down to the stones. |
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| 11 | 295 |
I looked at the collar, lying on the stones. |
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| 11 | 423 |
I think it is because of their Home Stones that the Gorean tends to think of territory as something from the inside out, so to speak, rather than from the outside in. |
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| 11 | 428 |
But let me not try to speak of Home Stones. |
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| 13 | 283 |
The sound of these bootlike sandals on the stones of the street was clear and regular. |
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| 13 | 335 |
I did not wish to risk crawling on my stomach, over stones, under whips, perhaps for pasangs, to the nearest slave market. |
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| 13 | 706 |
I sprawled sideways, losing my footing, slipping to the stones. |
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| 13 | 707 |
I was half kneeling, half lying, on the stones. |
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| 13 | 801 |
I stood on the stones of the avenue of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 16 | 327 |
My feet, bare, scraped on the flat stones of the street. |
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| 16 | 359 |
In a few moments I could feel the movement of the iron-rimmed, wooden wheels of the wagon over the stones of the alley. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 108 |
"This was taken from a free woman, now scrubbing stones in the plaza of Iphicrates". |
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| 7 | 156 |
It was decorated sensuously with colorful wooden beads, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. |
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| 10 | 179 |
Swiftly the girl, before I could put the coin in the box, lay on her back, on the stones of the street, before me. |
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| 10 | 327 |
You might just throw me down in the threshold, on the stones, under the lantern, and rape me, and re-enslave me!" "I could!" I said, angrily. |
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| 22 | 193 |
I seized the figure, his body poised, hunched over the sword, its point to his belly, its hilt in his hands, braced against the stones of the dark street. |
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| 22 | 207 |
Then the blade lowered and the man sobbed, and backed against the wall, and lowered himself, sitting to its base, the sword on the stones beside him. |
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| 22 | 285 |
He closed his fist and pressed it against the stones of the dark street. |
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| 26 | 223 |
She lay there, then, on the stones, weeping. |
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| 27 | 113 |
Carefully, I removed one of the heavy granite blocks of stone, building stone, rectangular, some six inches by six inches, by eighteen inches, from the tiered pile of stones. |
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| 31 | 50 |
Then we would awaken, to the straw, to the cold, to the stones, to the damp, cold, heavy iron of our chains. |
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| 32 | 284 |
I saw the steel, blade by blade, sheathed and unsheathed, put to the stones of the walk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 105 |
Our own catapults returned fire, with pitch and stones. |
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| 1 | 159 |
Stones and pitch, at point-blank range, pounded and exploded between ships. |
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| 3 | 14 |
Gear, too, and catapult stones, had been slid to the stern deck. |
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| 3 | 98 |
Two stones looped into the air and then, gracefully, began their descent toward one of the pirate ships. |
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| 6 | 75 |
"We are out of stones and pitch," said a man. |
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| 7 | 18 |
More than one, at the waterline, or on her decks, it falling among crowded men, had been smitten with stones cast from the catapults of their own ships. |
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| 8 | 298 |
Perhaps one is that Earth girls are alien to Gor and have no Home Stones. |
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| 8 | 325 |
Only in her troubled sleep, perhaps, did the Earth girl dream of the slaver's noose or the harsh, flat stones of the dungeon on which she might be forced to kneel. |
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| 10 | 85 |
"What is it which becomes whole when stones are joined?" "That ship which sails a topaz sea". |
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| 16 | 140 |
I looked down at several of the heavy, tapering heads projecting from the water, at the eyes like filmed stones. |
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| 17 | 69 |
I regarded her, in the yellowish, flickering light of the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp, late at night, on the rude stones of that dark, narrow street in Victoria. |
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| 17 | 113 |
And then she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, of New York City, of Earth, and was now Linda, knelt before me, on the rude stones of that narrow street in Victoria. |
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| 17 | 319 |
She might lie, fully, on the stones, and be moved about on them, if I chose. |
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| 17 | 324 |
I looked at the girl, kneeling on the stones before me. |
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| 17 | 333 |
She dropped her tunic behind her, on the stones. |
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| 17 | 424 |
I then pressed her back to the stones. |
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| 17 | 558 |
Beverly knelt happily beside me, and I lay back, on my back, on the tunic, on the stones of the street. |
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| 17 | 708 |
I stood up, and looked down upon her, kneeling on the stones, in the gray light of the Gorean dawn. |
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| 17 | 783 |
She lay there at my feet, on the stones, on her side, breathing deeply. |
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| 17 | 784 |
She turned to look at the vendor of bosk milk, and then again lay on her side, the right side of her head on the stones, her eyes, half glazed, regarding the surface of the street. |
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| 17 | 920 |
It fell between her breasts, and then to the stones of the street. |
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| 17 | 945 |
She then lay back on the stones before me, obedient, agonized. |
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| 17 | 946 |
I brushed back the bell, and coin box, and they lay then on the stones, beside the left side of her neck. |
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| 18 | 160 |
Then, last night, on the rude stones of the Street of the Writhing Slave, she helpless in my arms, locked in the chain collar of a Coin Girl, with the flattish bell and coin box, I had instructed her, and thoroughly, in the respect due, did he but assume his mastery, to one who was once of Earth. |
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| 18 | 164 |
Two men, it seemed, she loved, he whom she had served in the holding of Policrates, he who had treated her with the insolence commonly accorded an Earth-girl slave by Gorean masters, and he whom she had served on the stones of the Street of the Writhing Slave, he who had treated her as a full and lo... |
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| 18 | 596 |
I did all that I could before him, as a piteous and lascivious slave, one begging his least touch, one helplessly his, should he but pay his coin, only a girl at his feet, one begging to be had, one supplicating her rape on the stones of the street. |
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| 19 | 429 |
But who, truly, is the superior woman? Many Goreans believe that it is the girl who kneels on the stones. |
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| 20 | 2003 |
She saw now that the chains had been the loops of a single, graceful body chain, sinuous and glossy, closely meshed and dark, ornamented with colorful beads of wood, semiprecious stones and bits of leather. |
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| 20 | 2072 |
Some such chains, of course, such as those sometimes worn by high slaves, are quite expensive, being of gold and set with such stones as rubies, sapphires and diamonds. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 |
I Throw Stones on the Road to Kailiauk I stepped aside, to the side of the road. |
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| 7 | 103 |
Too often, I suspected, a suspicion of cheating at stones or disks, or a dispute over a slave, might lead to the flash of steel, the sudden movement of a knife. |
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| 16 | 25 |
"If that is true," I said, "we should find the remains of evening fires, large cooking fires, with circled stones, near the wagons, not the absence of fires, nor the smaller remains of midday fires". |
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| 16 | 40 |
"There are the remains here of evening fires," I said, moving the kaiila past some circles of stones. |
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| 19 | 107 |
He is of the Isbu Band, the Little Stones". |
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| 19 | 335 |
I am of the Little Stones. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 56 |
As the stones cooled, of course, they would be removed from the hide pot and replaced with hot stones, the first stones meanwhile, if needed, being reheated. |
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| 18 | 261 |
This part of the work, heating the stones, bringing the water, reheating the stones, and so on, ideally, is not done by the individual or individuals within the sweat lodge. |
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| 1 | 109 |
The movement of this group of animals had been reported in the camp of the Isbu Kaiila, or the Little-Stones band of the Kaiila, for more than ten days now, in a rough map drawn to the east of the camp, with notched sticks, the notching indicating the first and second day, and so on, of the animals'... |
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| 1 | 172 |
The Casmu will hunt! The Isanna will hunt! The Napoktan will hunt! The Wismahi will hunt! The Kaiila will hunt!" The Isbu, or Little-Stones band; the Casmu, or Sand, band; the Isanna, the Little-Knife band; the Napoktan, or Bracelets, band; and the Wismahi, or Arrowhead band, are the five bands whic... |
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| 1 | 174 |
It seems probable that the Little-Stones and the Sand bands may have had their names from geographical features, perhaps those adjacent to riverside encampments. |
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| 4 | 55 |
Fire-heated stones would then be placed in the water, heating it, eventually, to boiling. |
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| 12 | 420 |
Until her slave skills improve her place will be on furs, or a mat, or on the bare stones or tiles, at the foot of the couch. |
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| 14 | 24 |
"I am Tatankasa, Red Bull," I said, "the slave of Canka, Fire-Steel, of the Isbu Kaiila, of the Little-Stones band of the Kaiila," in a mixture of both Kaiila and Gorean. |
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| 18 | 249 |
In the small confines of a sweat lodge, fasting, and with steam and hot stones, he would try to come to grips with these things which had happened. |
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| 18 | 259 |
The stones for use in the sweat lodge are heated in a fire outside the lodge and, held on sticks, taken within, where water is poured upon them, creating the needed heat and steam. |
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| 24 | 20 |
Cuwignaka's upward thrust, however, was easily turned by the Yellow Knife's stout war shield, of rawhide thickened and hardened by shrinking over heated stones, from the neck, between the shoulders, or the humped back, behind the head, bearing the trident of the bull kailiauk. |
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| 35 | 4 |
The stones were cold some twenty pasangs west of the Casmu-Kaiila camp at Two Feathers. |
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| 35 | 25 |
"It is a hurricane of stones!" cried Hassan, the wind tearing back his burnoose. |
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| 35 | 35 |
My cheek lay on the cold wet stones. |
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| 35 | 39 |
It rattled and struck about me, leaping up from the stones. |
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| 35 | 42 |
I covered my head and lay on the stones. |
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| 35 | 90 |
A small package, oblong, heavy, brought from among the articles in Grunt's lodge, in the festival camp, lay near me on the stones. |
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| 35 | 91 |
I struggled to sit up, cross-legged, on the stones. |
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| 35 | 119 |
In the center there is a hole, in which the hot stones, passed in from the outside on a forked stick, are placed. |
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| 35 | 120 |
Cups of water are poured on the stones. |
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| 35 | 121 |
When the stones cool they are removed from the lodge and reheated. |
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| 35 | 122 |
There are many rituals and significances connected with the sweat lodge, having to do with such things as the stones, the fire, the orientation of the lodge, the path between the lodge and the fire, the amounts and ways in which the water is poured, and the number of times the lodge is opened. |
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| 35 | 126 |
My helpers, tending the fire and aiding with the stones, were Canka and Cuwignaka. |
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| 35 | 175 |
How absurd that I lay here, on these stones, daubed with white clay, in a vision place, alone with the trees and stars. |
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| 35 | 216 |
I heard small stones slipping and falling backward, down the slope. |
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| 44 | 477 |
"No!" Lodges, with their poles, were thrown back and men emerged, dragging at the ropes of small travois, heavily laden with stones. |
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| 44 | 478 |
Others, with their hands, and levers, began to roll larger stones, even boulders, toward the edge of the escarpment. |
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| 44 | 485 |
Then began the lethal hail of stones, hundreds flung from above, dozens rolled and toppled over the edge. |
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| 44 | 486 |
These stones, striking down, could not fail to find marks. |
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| 44 | 488 |
Some of the larger stones even did their work more than once, striking men or kaiila from the trail at one point and then, bounding downward, striking the face of the rock here and there, to shatter into yet more men at a lower point in the ascendant trail. |
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| 44 | 490 |
Yellow Knives raised their shields but this did little good for the potency of the stones lay primarily not in their capacity to cut or penetrate but to transmit their considerable force, bluntly, crushingly, suddenly, to the target surface. |
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| 44 | 498 |
Their retreat was harried by the further flinging of stones and rolling boulders. |
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| 44 | 506 |
The stones had been gathered over a period of days and brought to the height of Council Rock. |
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| 44 | 581 |
Stones would not be likely to be too effective against men on foot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 223 |
Then, angrily, he spit upon it and flung it to the stones of the street. |
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| 6 | 139 |
I loved the markets and bazaars, the smells, the colors, the crowds, the quantities and varieties of goods, the tiny shops, the stalls, the places of business which sometimes were so small as a tiny rug on the stones, on which a peddler displayed his wares. |
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| 10 | 72 |
I heard a sword laid on the stones behind me. |
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| 14 | 26 |
Often in that miserable journey, suspended in the cage, carried between jeering crowds, I had been pelted with small stones, garbage and dung. |
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| 16 | 120 |
It seemed constructed of large, square stones. |
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| 30 | 62 |
In the front of the crowd, their snouts down to the ground, almost on the paving stones themselves, were two gigantic gray sleen. |
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| 30 | 479 |
She was struck to her belly on the stones, by the wall. |
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| 30 | 483 |
She lay on the stones, gasping and shuddering. |
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| 36 | 48 |
I stood, tears in my eyes, naked, collarless, on the flat stones of the courtyard. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1598 |
But then, too, they could probably not understand a crowded, cruel, scratching, polluted world, a world without Home Stones. |
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| 4 | 50 |
They were sitting cross-legged in the grass, playing stones. |
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| 4 | 189 |
Power in Gorean cities tends to vary with the power of the Home Stones, which tends to fluctuate with the military and economic fortunes of the city. |
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| 12 | 510 |
Still, I recognized that it was the power of Priest-Kings which, in its way, protected both Gor and Earth from the onslaught of lurking Kurii, concealed in their steel worlds, hidden among the orbiting stones and mountains, the small worlds and moons, of the asteroid belt. |
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| 13 | 4 |
"I had warned you," had moaned Boots, in his camp, "but you would not listen!" Five days ago I had been returning to the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit, coming back from a nearby village where I had gone to fetch Sa-Tarna grain, from which the girls, back at the camp, using stones and flat rocks, sifters a... |
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| 14 | 7 |
It, too, had been cut from the stones and sides of the narrow sewers through which we had made our way. |
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| 14 | 322 |
It reverberated in the area, striking against the nearby cliffs, the stones and outcroppings, rebounding, resounding, again and again in that natural bowl, torturing the ear, tearing and shocking the air, seeming as though it must affright and terrify even the clouds themselves, which seemed to flee... |
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| 16 | 1113 |
The pieces, with the exception of the Home Stones, were marshaled on the board. |
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| 16 | 1115 |
The two Home Stones cannot be placed on the board before the second move nor later than the tenth. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 94 |
As soon as I had spoken she crawled over the flat stones to the ashes of the fire, and began to prod among them, stirring them with a narrow stick, searching for covert vital embers. |
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| 2 | 130 |
She knelt near it, on her bare knees, in the tiny, coarse tunic, on the flat, sooted, stained stones, tending it. |
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| 2 | 140 |
Immediately Feiqa, trembling, went to her belly on the stained, sooted stones near the fire. |
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| 2 | 222 |
She put them down on the stones, between us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 341 |
The two stones are circular grinding stones. |
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| 1 | 344 |
It also has shallow, radiating surface grooves through which the grindings may escape between the stones, to be caught in the sturdy boxlike mount supporting the stones, often then funneled to a waiting receptacle or sack. |
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| 16 | 82 |
He was crouching beside a pile of stones, building stones, and tiles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 |
The Camp "Stones! Guess stones!" called a fellow. |
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| 3 | 2 |
"Who will play stones?" This is a guessing game, in which a certain number of a given number of "stones," usually from two to five, is held in the hand and the opponent is to guess the number. |
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| 8 | 461 |
Here and there upon the walls, among those working, were silked flute girls, sometimes sitting cross-legged on flat stones, rather even with or even below the heads of workers, sometimes perched cross-legged on large stones, above the heads of workers, sometimes moving about among the workers, somet... |
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| 22 | 518 |
When near him she lifted her head slightly, hardly daring to meet his eyes, and then she knelt before him, as before a master, doing obeisance onto him, her head down to the stones before his golden sandals, the palms of her hands, too, on the stones. |
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| 28 | 12 |
Yet for these stones, and on account of these stones, these seemingly inauspicious, simple objects, cities have been built, and burned, armies have clashed, strong men have wept, empires have risen and fallen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 19 |
And about the top of the defile were now better than two dozen humans again hurling stones downward, stones easily the size of a man's head. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 17 |
Few, I suspected, would find their way back to their Home Stones, if Home Stones they had. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 |
The Floating Stones; Unusual Precautions are Taken; I Converse with Tarl Cabot Many of the crew, and certainly myself, were fascinated by the floating stones which appeared occasionally in the water, as we sailed west. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 11 |
What are we worthy of, we, we without Home Stones? To such as those with Home Stones, of what value could such as we be? I touch my collar, and suspect. |
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| 18 | 985 |
This was because here the pasang stones measured the length of the aqueduct from Ar, and the pasang stones were largely a convenience to the caste of Builders, concerned with the care of the aqueduct. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 57 |
Men who had betrayed Home Stones, men who had abandoned them, men who had, by deeds or words, dishonored Home Stones, men who had lived for years, lost and separate, alone and miserable, without Home Stones, looked suddenly at one another, wildly. |
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