| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 171 |
I struck and parried and struck again, my sword flashing forth and drinking blood again and again. |
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| 1 | 23 |
This outcome struck me as being a pleasant if perplexing state of affairs. |
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| 1 | 113 |
A thought struck me with sudden swiftness, and I was afraid, but I knew what I must do. |
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| 1 | 192 |
As the thin, sharp beam struck the face of the compass, my heart stopped. |
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| 2 | 211 |
Sometimes bold individuals create or acquire such war materials and sometimes for as long as a year escape the Flame Death, but sooner or later they are struck down". |
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| 3 | 159 |
Had it struck me with that force, it would have passed through my body. |
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| 3 | 213 |
Once, when struck by the Older Tarl, I had cursed in Gorean, and he had laughed. |
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| 3 | 222 |
He snapped the switch in the barrel to the "on" position and struck the table. |
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| 4 | 3 |
He lunged twice, and I struck it twice. |
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| 4 | 5 |
In that instant I switched the tarn-goad to the "on" position, and when the great beak flashed downward again, I struck it viciously, trying to force it away from me. |
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| 4 | 91 |
At the same moment the iron bolt of a crossbow, fired through one of the narrow windows, struck the wall behind my chair-stone and ricocheted viciously about the room. |
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| 4 | 167 |
Had they been armed, my caste brothers in the last tier would have struck their spear blades on their shields. |
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| 5 | 35 |
Raiders from Ar had struck at the tarn flocks and the outlying cylinders of Thentis, and the girl had been captured. |
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| 5 | 158 |
He surely would have struck home had not my tarn veered wildly to the left, almost colliding with another tarn and its rider, who fired a bolt that sank deep in the saddle pack with a sound like slapping leather. |
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| 6 | 24 |
As my tarn struck down on the platform and I leaped from its back, I heard a girl's scream. |
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| 6 | 35 |
She struck at me and pursued me to the tarn, which was excitedly shaking his wings, preparing to forsake the tumultuous roof of the cylinder. |
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| 7 | 33 |
I had hardly taken her in my arms when she struck my face viciously with one muddy hand. |
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| 7 | 159 |
I turned, just in time to seize the wrist of the daughter of the Ubar as she struck savagely down at my back with a long, slender dagger. |
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| 8 | 61 |
With all the weight of the heavy manacles on my wrist, I struck him across the temple, and he sank to his knees. |
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| 8 | 68 |
Talena had picked up his sword and struck off the hand that held the dagger. |
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| 12 | 83 |
Savagely those vast talons struck and closed on my body, forcing the frame for an instant beneath the water, then the tarn was beating the air angrily with his wings, struggling to lift his prey, and suddenly both myself and the heavy frame were pulled free from the water. |
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| 13 | 46 |
The bird struck the ground between the diseased victim and the approaching larl. |
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| 14 | 83 |
"Damn your precious stinking honor!" Without realizing what I was doing, I had shaken the two restraining tarnsmen from my arms as if they had been children, and I rushed on Marlenus and struck him violently in the face with my fist, causing him to reel backward, his face contorted with astonishment... |
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| 14 | 95 |
As I found a moment's respite, I spun to face him, hoping to have it out with the Ubar himself, but as I did so, the shackles that I had worn struck me forcibly in the face and throat, thrown like a bolo by Marlenus. |
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| 18 | 134 |
I struck at him with the tarn-goad, but the instrument seemed to have no effect. |
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| 18 | 150 |
I heard someone shout, a weird, terrified cry, "Tarns!" An alarm bar, a hollow metal tube struck by hammers, began to ring in frenzy. |
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| 18 | 165 |
"Die, Assassin!" one of them screamed, and struck downward with his blade. |
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| 19 | 43 |
The tarn's steel-shod talons struck the marble roof of the cylinder with a flash of sparks. |
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| 19 | 63 |
The spear flashed through the air like a bolt of lightning and struck the oncoming magistrate in the chest, passing through his body and burying itself in the heart of his companion. |
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| 19 | 195 |
I struck the blade from his hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 105 |
And in that sudden instant of startled, awe-struck silence, I heard him clearly, intensely, repeat in a hoarse whisper that strange phrase, "Ta-Sardar-Gor!" The bartender, a heavy, soft-faced man, waddled to the table. |
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| 3 | 103 |
The squat, misformed giant of a man seemed almost to recoil as if struck, and to tremble. |
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| 4 | 5 |
Two fangs had struck into my calf. |
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| 4 | 57 |
Now that I had not seen the lights of Ko-ro-ba, as I would have expected, it struck me more forcibly that I had not even seen the lights of peasant cooking fires glowing in the hills surrounding the city, or the torches of rash sportsmen who hunt the sleen by night. |
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| 4 | 58 |
Yes, and by now I should have been challenged a dozen times by Ko-ro-ba's night patrols! A monstrous chain of lightning exploded in the night about me, deafening me with the shock and roar of its thunder, splitting the darkness in violent fragments, breaking it to pieces like a clay bowl struck with... |
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| 4 | 67 |
The blinding fury of the lightning like a whip of electricity struck again and again into the hills dazzling me for an instant of crashing agony, then vanishing again into the darkness. |
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| 4 | 72 |
I continued forward and stood where it had struck. |
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| 4 | 104 |
In that brief moment, in the tiny pool of blood I held, I saw not myself but a strange face, like a globe of gold with disklike eyes, a face like none I had ever seen, a face that struck an eerie terror into my heart. |
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| 5 | 27 |
The thought struck me that I, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, a mortal, here in the night on this road, might be looking upon the face of a Priest-King. |
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| 7 | 14 |
Indeed, even if the missile struck and penetrated my shield, I would have to cast the shield away and would find myself at a serious disadvantage. |
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| 9 | 88 |
What struck me most about them had nothing to do with caste, but rather their lack of spirit. |
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| 10 | 46 |
Some twenty feet below the level of the door, in the absolute darkness, with brutal impact, I struck bottom, a stone floor covered with wet straw. |
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| 10 | 47 |
Ost's body struck mine almost at the same time. |
10 |
| 10 | 75 |
Again and again it struck downward like lightning bolts of leather fire. |
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| 11 | 259 |
Again and again she struck me, yet through it all I managed to stay on my knees, not to fall. |
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| 12 | 152 |
He stumbled through the entire room before he struck the wall with the yoke. |
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| 13 | 18 |
Suddenly he was struck from behind, brutally in the back by the butt of a spear, and, with a groan, he sank downwards. |
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| 13 | 19 |
The spear struck me, too, again and again, in the back and across the shoulders, but I stood, somehow strong in the yoke, like an ox. |
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| 13 | 20 |
Then with a harsh crack a lash suddenly struck my legs and curled about them like a fiery snake. |
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| 13 | 95 |
Then it seemed as though what I had said struck, deep within him, some responsive chord. |
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| 13 | 150 |
He savagely struck me across the face with his coiled whip. |
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| 14 | 39 |
I saw the great wings snap, smiting the air, the hurricane from their blow spilling slaves into the sand, tangling chains, as the great beast, lifting its head and smelling the open air, struck it with his wings. |
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| 14 | 44 |
I jerked the whip from his hand, and with my arm struck him aside. |
10 |
| 14 | 146 |
Another spear struck the wood, closer than the first. |
10 |
| 14 | 148 |
Another spear struck the wood, creasing my leg. |
10 |
| 14 | 169 |
He seemed to resent the goad, to fight it, to behave erratically when it was used; when struck with it he might even slow his flight, or deliberately disobey the commands of the tarn straps. |
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| 14 | 194 |
The awnings had been struck, but the stands were still filled, as the thousands of silver masks of Tharna waited for the golden Tatrix herself to be the first to leave that scene of the macabre amusements of the gray city. |
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| 14 | 210 |
The tarn struck. |
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| 15 | 1 |
A Bargain is Struck The tabuk-cry is the only word to which a tarn is trained to react. |
10 |
| 15 | 95 |
I knew that if there was anything that struck terror into the heart of the Tatrix, it was the tarn. |
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| 15 | 111 |
Her gloved fists struck at me. |
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| 17 | 108 |
Seven times the whip struck me, and I did not flinch. |
10 |
| 17 | 118 |
Kron's wrist chains struck him across the cheek and ear, and the bread flew from his mouth. |
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| 19 | 40 |
We had soon come on the hammers that would strike our chains from us and, one by one, we filed past the great anvil where Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, with expert blows, struck them from our wrists and ankles. |
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| 19 | 59 |
I climbed one of the great chains to the huge windlass set above the shaft and found myself among hundreds of cheering men, their chains struck off, their hands boasting weapons even if only a piece of jagged rock or a pair of shackles. |
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| 19 | 90 |
"In this cause," I said, "whether you are of the Caste of Peasants, or Poets, or Metal Workers, or Saddle-Makers, you must be warriors!" "We shall," said Kron of Tharna, his fist holding the great hammer with which he had struck off our shackles. |
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| 20 | 97 |
Its vast wings futilely, wildly, struck out, uncoordinated and frenetic, like the limbs of a drowning swimmer. |
10 |
| 20 | 117 |
The tarn had struck a field of some sort, which perhaps acted on the mechanism of his inner ear, resulting in the loss of balance and coordination. |
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| 23 | 76 |
Shackles had been struck off and weapons seized. |
10 |
| 23 | 98 |
The army of Tharna had struck here and there, at reported hiding places of slaves, but almost invariably they had found nothing. |
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| 23 | 186 |
No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock. |
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| 25 | 88 |
It now had its eyes fixed on the man with the sword, he who had struck this new blow. |
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| 25 | 140 |
The body of Dorna the Proud recoiled as if struck by five blows. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 |
I was struck with wonder, though I was careful to keep beyond the range of their chains, for I had never seen white larls before. |
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| 8 | 4 |
So suddenly had she arisen that she had struck her knee against the couch and this had not much pleased her. |
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| 8 | 82 |
Six times the hilt of my sword struck against the sensors and six times there was a hissing pop like the explosion of hot glass and a bright shower of scarlet sparks. |
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| 20 | 159 |
I suddenly felt as though a hammer had struck me, for though I hated Vika of Treve I would not have wished her dead. |
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| 26 | 205 |
She reacted as if struck and tears welled in her eyes. |
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| 27 | 167 |
Once again Sarm leaped in, his bladed projection lifted to strike, but this time Misk suddenly straightened himself promptly on the leg which had seemed to fail him and whipped his antennae back behind his head an instant before the stroke of Sarm's blade and when Sarm struck he found his appendage ... |
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| 27 | 168 |
Sarm seemed to tremble and he struck with his other foreleg but this one too Misk seized with his other foreleg and once again they stood rocking on their posterior appendages, for Misk, having learned their strengths in the first grappling, and lacking the swiftness of Sarm, had decided to close wi... |
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| 27 | 170 |
Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri... |
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| 27 | 183 |
Then to my horror I saw him remove the translator on its chain from his throat and wielding this like a mace and chain he rushed upon Misk and struck him viciously from behind. |
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| 27 | 259 |
A hideous splash of greenish fluid struck me in the face and I leaped aside, in the same movement shaking my head and wiping the back of my fist across my eyes. |
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| 27 | 262 |
I returned to the place where I had struck the blow. |
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| 30 | 91 |
Again and again the lash struck me, wielded by the gloved hand of a girl. |
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| 30 | 96 |
She struck me again. |
10 |
| 30 | 102 |
Her face was transformed with rage and she struck me again, this time across the face. |
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| 32 | 303 |
The portal struck the animal's back and, frightened, it reared up, forcing the portal up, twisting it in the frame. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 8 |
The kaiila struck, and then withdrew, and then struck again. |
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| 4 | 10 |
Four times the point struck me drawing blood, but he did not have the weight of the leaping animal behind his thrust; he thrust at arm's length, the point scarcely reaching me. |
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| 4 | 56 |
The Tuchuk stood struck with awe, in the grass, on the trembling plains in the dusty air. |
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| 8 | 228 |
She struck him twice with the leather quirt in her hand, sharply, viciously. |
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| 8 | 339 |
By the time Kamchak had cuffed the girl from the animal's neck and struck the kaiila's snapping jaws from her twice-bitten leg and returned to the circle, he had used thirty-five beats. |
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| 8 | 362 |
She had misjudged the heartbeat or had not understood the swiftness of the kaiila, never having before observed it from the unenviable point of view of a quarry, because when she turned to see if her hunter had left the vicinity of the circle, he was upon her and as she cried out the bola struck her... |
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| 8 | 469 |
The girl had released the stirrup and her feet struck the ground. |
10 |
| 8 | 608 |
The girl had been swallowing it, rather than show she had been struck. |
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| 10 | 555 |
In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow. |
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| 10 | 562 |
Each time the Turian struck and I would have thought Kamchak slain, somehow, incomprehensibly, at the last instant, nearly causing my heart to stop, with a surprised, weary little twitch, the blade of the Tuchuk would slide the Turian steel harmlessly to the side. |
10 |
| 11 | 17 |
It might have been the first time she had ever been struck. |
10 |
| 11 | 155 |
This struck fire in Aphris of Turia. |
10 |
| 11 | 347 |
Kamchak then removed the quiva from his belt and hurled it across the room until it struck in one of the poles of the frame supporting the wagon hides, two inches in the wood, beside the throat of the girl. |
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| 13 | 118 |
At one point, he wrapped a heavy fur and leather robe about his left arm and struck the beast suddenly on the snout with his right hand. |
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| 13 | 119 |
It had not struck back at him swiftly enough to please him, and there were only four needlelike scratches in the arm guard before Kamchak had managed to leap back and the kaiila, lunging against its chain, was snapping at him. |
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| 13 | 138 |
I had not mentioned the matter of the Paravaci quiva which had almost struck me last night, having been in the morning disturbed about the disappearance of Elizabeth Cardwell and in the afternoon busy following Kamchak about in his rounds. |
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| 15 | 19 |
"I wonder," I said, "why the tarnsmen have not struck at the wagons—with fire arrows—why they do not attack the bosk themselves, slaying them from the air, forcing you to withdraw to protect the beasts". |
10 |
| 16 | 318 |
Perhaps they had now struck more openly and quickly—employing Gorean tarnsmen—fearing that I might myself seize the egg first and return it to the Sardar. |
10 |
| 18 | 67 |
It seemed that the living, amorphous globe of matter which I struck began to move away, slithering away in the yellow fluids, but I pursued it, one hand in the torn membrane and continued to slash and tear at it. |
10 |
| 18 | 68 |
Crowded about my body now were entangling filaments and spheres trying, like hands and teeth, to tear me from my work, but I struck and tore again and again and then entered the secret world beneath the membrane slashing to the left and right and suddenly the fluid began to loosen and withdraw above... |
10 |
| 18 | 92 |
But before I reached them my quiva, with the underhand hilt cast, had struck the guardsman on my left. |
10 |
| 18 | 96 |
Four times he struck and each time I parried and then I had regained my feet. |
10 |
| 20 | 74 |
A quarrel now struck the flooring of the tower at my feet and skidded into the building. |
10 |
| 20 | 75 |
I struck again and the other rope burst from my stroke and the bridge swung rapidly back against the wall of the building opposite with a clatter of sticks and cries, knocking the remaining, clinging guardsmen from it, dropping them like wood senseless to the foot of the wall. |
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| 20 | 77 |
Just as I did so the bolt of a crossbow struck the door and splintered through it, its head projecting some six inches on my side. |
10 |
| 20 | 128 |
I shut my eyes as he vigorously struck it once, authoritatively, across the beak. |
10 |
| 21 | 216 |
I looked down from the wall, and to my amusement, though I felt sorry for the distraught driver, saw that the right, rear wheel of the wide, heavy wagon had slipped the axle and that the wagon, obviously heavily loaded, was now tilting crazily, and then the axle struck the dirt, imbedding itself. |
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| 21 | 306 |
The great alarm bars of the city were now ringing, struck by iron hammers. |
10 |
| 22 | 65 |
By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped... |
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| 22 | 142 |
"She was our mistress!" cried one of the Tuchuk girls leading the Turian girl, and struck her sharply with the switch, at which information the Tuchuk girls at the tables clapped their hands with delight. |
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| 23 | 67 |
Our bosk horns rang out and my brave Thousand, worn in the saddle, weary, on spent kaiila, without a murmur or a protest, turned and following my lead struck into the center of the Paravaci forces. |
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| 23 | 78 |
And then, as the Paravaci bosk horns sounded frantically, our bosk began to run, their mighty heads with the fearsome horns nodding up and down, and the earth began to tremble and my men cried out more and jabbed animals, riding with the flood and the Paravaci with cries of horror that coursed the l... |
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| 25 | 450 |
Suddenly she drew back in fury and struck me with the flat of her hand, a vicious slap, and then again and again, and again. |
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| 26 | 181 |
To my astonishment I saw that not one of the arrows had penetrated his torso or head or abdomen, but that each had struck only an arm or leg. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 502 |
My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa... |
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| 5 | 761 |
At that moment a bar, struck in a certain pattern by an iron hammer somewhere in the house, rang out, the sound taken up by other bars, also struck, on various floors of the House of Cernus. |
10 |
| 22 | 564 |
I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ... |
10 |
| 2 | 114 |
The man who held the sniveling Hup held him with one hand and struck him with the other, and then threw him to one of his three fellows, who similarly abused him. |
10 |
| 2 | 137 |
Then a coin of gold struck the table before the Assassin, ringing on the wood. |
10 |
| 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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| 3 | 1 |
The Game When I deemed it wise to depart from Vella, I knotted her yellow slave livery about her neck and cried out, "Begone, Slave!" and then slapped my hands together at which juncture she let forth a howl as though she had been struck, and then, blubbering hysterically and crying out, she scrambl... |
10 |
| 3 | 156 |
The Vintner acted as though struck. |
10 |
| 3 | 205 |
I myself removed my sword from its sheath and with it struck my shield. |
10 |
| 5 | 15 |
In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually... |
10 |
| 5 | 514 |
Once a slave girl bumped into her on one of the bridges and struck at her, thinking she was only slave, but Elizabeth, with a swift blow of her small fist, downed the girl, and managed to seize one ankle and prevent her from tumbling from the bridge. |
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| 11 | 64 |
The guard, with a heavy stick he carried, struck the bars viciously before her face and she cried out, jerking back and crouching at the rear of the cage. |
10 |
| 11 | 213 |
Flaminius gestured to the guard and he, with his club, suddenly struck the bars in front of Phyllis Robertson's face and she screamed and darted back in the cage, where she crouched away from the bars, tears in her eyes. |
10 |
| 12 | 356 |
Then suddenly she struck at the three kneeling girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 358 |
Again and again Sura struck and the girls, half stunned, half crazed with pain, seemed unable to even move, but could only scream and cry. |
10 |
| 12 | 386 |
It struck me that there was something familiar about the voice. |
10 |
| 13 | 297 |
Mip, scarcely seeming to touch the one-strap with his finger, almost a tap, took the old bird from the perch and in a whiplike flurry of its wings it struck the outside perch and stood there, its old head moving alertly, the wicked black eyes gleaming. |
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| 15 | 18 |
She now writhed on the furs at his feet, moving as though being struck with a whip. |
10 |
| 15 | 60 |
Then, after this instant of silence under the torches, the music struck the final note, with a mighty and jarring clash of cymbals, and the Warrior had lowered her to the furs and her lips, arms about his neck, sought his with eagerness. |
10 |
| 15 | 167 |
I had once been struck with a tarn goad and knew substantially what her pain must be; further, the shower of yellow sparks, though perhaps in itself innocuous, was, conjoined with the sudden pain, terrifying. |
10 |
| 16 | 172 |
The fellow Ho-Sorl had flung down the ramp rolled for some feet, struck the wall at the turn, struggled to his feet and drew a knife. |
10 |
| 16 | 255 |
The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon. |
10 |
| 16 | 256 |
Then the tarn threw back its head and once more screamed, wild, eerie, fierce, savage, a cry that might have struck terror into the heart of a larl, but I did not fear it. |
10 |
| 17 | 297 |
At this point Virginia Kent put down her pitcher of wine, seized Lana by the shoulder, spun her about and struck her a rather severe blow near the left eye. |
10 |
| 17 | 604 |
I dropped the doll, spun and managed to catch her wrist as she struck downward with the burning goad. |
10 |
| 18 | 2 |
In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr... |
10 |
| 18 | 22 |
It passed to the left of my head, struck the wall with an explosion of sparks and lay burning on the stones. |
10 |
| 18 | 27 |
"You struck him from behind," I said, "the blow of a coward". |
10 |
| 18 | 289 |
Behind it I heard an enraged, frustrated roaring, weird and terrible; I heard clawing at the wood; I saw the heavy door, as if struck with great force, buckle out against the beams. |
10 |
| 19 | 21 |
Occasionally, unexpectedly, I would be struck by a stone or a strap and hear a jeer or mocking cry. |
10 |
| 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 ... |
10 |
| 19 | 60 |
Within, the hood was, to my satisfaction, removed; when the large wad of soured leather was removed from my mouth I threw up against one wall; the guards laughed and struck me; the lights, lamps, though they were feeble, seemed very bright, and ringed with many colors; the hood had been dark and hot... |
10 |
| 20 | 33 |
"Please! Please! Caste Brother!" he cried, as the slave, swift, eager, laughing, struck him again and again, with impunity. |
10 |
| 20 | 171 |
A Warrior in the hire of Cernus struck me across the mouth. |
10 |
| 20 | 221 |
Cernus then, for no reason I understood clearly, struck Sura with the back of his hand, hurling her to the tiles. |
10 |
| 21 | 85 |
The voice struck me as familiar, as being one I had heard somewhere before. |
10 |
| 21 | 98 |
I then heard a heavy sound, as though someone had been struck heavily from behind. |
10 |
| 21 | 227 |
The steel struck my own and I parried the blow, moving the blade aside easily. |
10 |
| 21 | 230 |
Then the Taurentian struck again and again I moved his steel to one side. |
10 |
| 21 | 255 |
The crowd, struck, was silent. |
10 |
| 21 | 273 |
One of the attendants with a whip struck me as I fought and I spun on him. |
10 |
| 21 | 306 |
One man lunged for me, but stumbled across another fallen Taurentian and his fellow, moving forward, fell across him; rather than attack the men who had fallen, on whom the attack would be expected, I struck the remaining man, he standing, the leader, engaging him singly in the moment and felling hi... |
10 |
| 22 | 3 |
As my bird, with a flash of wings, struck the sand of the compound, four men armed with crossbows rushed forward. |
10 |
| 22 | 133 |
The bird that had struck the ring was tumbling stunned into the net. |
10 |
| 22 | 245 |
In a given race, attempting the head pass, he misjudged the distance and was struck bodily from the saddle by the high bar of the first of the center side rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 433 |
My tarn struck him like a screaming saber of black lightning flashing through the ring. |
10 |
| 22 | 495 |
My tarn struck the other two and in a moment, tarn goads flashing, talons clutching, birds screaming and biting, we found ourselves as in a clenched, winged fist of fury, beating and turning before the left center ring. |
10 |
| 22 | 496 |
Then we were struck by another bird, the Blue I think, and then by the bird ridden by the Torian, and then one of the others. |
10 |
| 22 | 533 |
"The race!" The tarn, to my amazement, turned from the fray in an instant and smote his way from the environing, reeling tarns and struck out again for the rings. |
10 |
| 22 | 555 |
A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veered away; I then drew my swor... |
10 |
| 22 | 563 |
The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f... |
10 |
| 22 | 565 |
With a curse he jerked savagely at the control straps of Quarrel and that fine bird instantaneously responded and together Quarrel and Ubar of the Skies passed through the final ring; with a snap of his great wings Ubar of the Skies struck the winner's perch, seized it in his steel-shod talons and t... |
10 |
| 22 | 567 |
Quarrel, automatically, had struck the second perch only an instant behind us. |
10 |
| 22 | 586 |
One after another of the tarns of the race, those who could complete the race, struck the finishing perches but no one paid them heed. |
10 |
| 23 | 134 |
The knife struck the back of the chair before which I stood, striking through the wood, stopping only with the hilt. |
10 |
| 24 | 178 |
There were shouts of pleasure, and screams, and protests, and cries and laughter, as the men clapped their hands on wenches who struck their fancy. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 327 |
She struck me savagely, across the mouth, flinging my head to one side. |
10 |
| 4 | 57 |
Then she struck me suddenly, with savagery. |
10 |
| 4 | 171 |
She struck together, over a copper bowl, a bit of steel and flint, the sparks falling into some dried petals of the rence. |
10 |
| 4 | 223 |
She struck me with savagery, four times. |
10 |
| 5 | 78 |
Then his mother ran to him and struck him across the side of the head, scolding him, dragging him away. |
10 |
| 6 | 133 |
Then something, probably a club or the butt of a spear, struck the side of my head and I fell to the matting of rence that was the island surface. |
10 |
| 6 | 145 |
He struck down at me with the double-edged sword. |
10 |
| 6 | 220 |
My leg slipped from the island into the water and suddenly a tiny tharlarion struck it, seizing his bit of flesh and backing, tail whipping, away. |
10 |
| 8 | 64 |
Doubtless he had been dead before he struck the water. |
10 |
| 8 | 73 |
I struck first their helmsmen, and soon none would ascend to the tiller deck. |
10 |
| 8 | 81 |
We had struck from various sides, at various times. |
10 |
| 8 | 87 |
That the great bow was used they understood from the time I struck the second helmsman, pinning him to his tiller beam. |
10 |
| 8 | 125 |
When the torch first flickered I put the arrow into the heart of the man who held it, and he and the torch, as though struck by a fist, spun and reeled off the far side of the barge. |
10 |
| 8 | 281 |
Several of the warriors struck by the arrows had plunged into the water; others had been thrown overboard by their fellows. |
10 |
| 8 | 386 |
He struck himself on the chest. |
10 |
| 8 | 505 |
Furious at her mockery, I leaped from the chair of the oar-master and struck her with the back of my hand, snapping her head to one side. |
10 |
| 9 | 291 |
Piles he had already commissioned from a smith; and Thura, on his command, this afternoon, with a bit of stick, had struck down a Vosk gull, that the shafts he fashioned, whether from Ka-la-na or tem-wood, would be well fletched. |
10 |
| 12 | 26 |
Before they could reach the gate Thurnock's great bow had struck twice more. |
10 |
| 12 | 28 |
One of the bodies Thurnock had struck lay dark, sprawled on the tiles, some fifteen yards from the gate; the other lay, inert and twisted in the shadows, at the very portal itself. |
10 |
| 13 | 231 |
Having no particular interest in being struck to silence, I refrained from pointing this out to him. |
10 |
| 13 | 304 |
The keleustes struck the great copper drum before him with the leather-cushioned mallet. |
10 |
| 13 | 344 |
"Two more ships astern!" The heavy, leather-cushioned mallets of the keleustes struck again and again on the copper-covered drum. |
10 |
| 13 | 369 |
"Silence!" cried one of the seamen, and struck us each a stroke with the whip. |
10 |
| 13 | 380 |
And an officer rushed down the steps into the rowing hold, and struck the oar-master from his chair. |
10 |
| 14 | 92 |
Since the ram-ships of the enemy had not yet struck their masts, it would be only a matter of moments before we were sighted. |
10 |
| 14 | 151 |
By this time, of course, the balance of my fleet, eighteen ram-ships, would have struck the treasure fleet, now protected only by some ten ram-ships, from the northwest. |
10 |
| 14 | 183 |
Crossbow quarrels struck the reinforced parapet protecting my rowers. |
10 |
| 14 | 187 |
The nearest was not more than a hundred yards before the one we had just struck. |
10 |
| 14 | 189 |
We saw the ship ahead of us trying to come about, but, before she could make four points of the Gorean compass, our ram struck the corner of her stern, skidding through and freeing itself, the ships, the Dorna's port oars inboard, grating together, and then the Dorna was clear, free, and we were dri... |
10 |
| 15 | 646 |
Enraged I took the bag of gold, what was left of it, and hurled it out into the hall, spilling a rain of golden tarn disks before it struck the tiles. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 17 | 139 |
The ships of my first wave had now struck the lines of the fleet of Cos and Tyros. |
10 |
| 17 | 162 |
She had struck the line of Cos and Tyros, had torn her way through, and was now coming about, to strike again. |
10 |
| 17 | 169 |
Several of the ships in the lines near the point where my task force had struck were now coming about to meet their enemy. |
10 |
| 17 | 227 |
He would use his superior numbers on my tarn ships, leaving the round ships for later, when they might be struck by as many as four or five tarn ships simultaneously. |
10 |
| 17 | 340 |
The sleet struck down, cutting my face. |
10 |
| 17 | 386 |
I threw him against the sternpost and his back and head struck against the post. |
10 |
| 17 | 390 |
I released the sword hand of the admiral of Tyros and struck him in the stomach with my left fist. |
10 |
| 17 | 391 |
As he sank forward I wrenched free my sword hand and, holding the sword still in my fist, struck him a heavy blow across the jaw with my fist. |
10 |
| 17 | 416 |
Another ship struck our side, shearing oars. |
10 |
| 18 | 1 |
How Bosk Returned to His House When we struck the icy, wind-driven decks of the Dorna my men rose at their benches and, cheering, waved their caps. |
10 |
| 18 | 21 |
I stood on the icy, wind-struck deck of the Dorna, my back turned to the storm. |
10 |
| 18 | 33 |
The wind struck the side of the hull and the ship heeled to leeward. |
10 |
| 18 | 213 |
I saw the boy, with a lightning thrust, flash four inches of steel through a body, returning to the on-guard position before the man realized he had been struck. |
10 |
| 18 | 540 |
Telima, wildly, her two hands on the sword, struck a man from behind in the neck and he fell away from the blade. |
10 |
| 18 | 541 |
Then she had lost the blade, as an invader struck it from her hand. |
10 |
| 18 | 543 |
I saw a man on the parapet fall screaming backward, struck by a rock as large as his head, hurled from the small hands of Luma. |
10 |
| 18 | 546 |
I threw a man whom I had struck, even before he died, over the parapet, striking another, who, clinging desperately to the siege pole, carried it back in a long arc with him as he fell. |
10 |
| 18 | 598 |
Then, to my amazement, I saw something, like a streak of light, leap from the delta behind the wall, and the leader of the crossbowmen spun about as though struck with a war hammer and dropped, inert, from the wall. |
10 |
| 18 | 603 |
Suddenly more than a hundred irons with ropes struck the delta wall, wedging in the crenels, and I saw the irons tighten in the crenels and strain with the weight on them. |
10 |
| 18 | 711 |
When Henrak struck, Ho-Hak caught his wrist. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 860 |
With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi... |
10 |
| 2 | 139 |
My body struck the side of the wall, the bricks. |
10 |
| 2 | 146 |
Again I struck the wall. |
10 |
| 3 | 479 |
The Maserati struck a large stone. |
10 |
| 4 | 66 |
Then it seemed my whole hand and wrist and arm was struck with some fantastic, numbing shock. |
10 |
| 4 | 76 |
But the beam that had struck me I had not seen. |
10 |
| 4 | 94 |
He touched the bloodied cut on my belly, where the branch had struck me. |
10 |
| 5 | 131 |
Its silken body struck my leg as it ran from the galley. |
10 |
| 5 | 208 |
Something struck, stinging at my ankle. |
10 |
| 5 | 222 |
The thing suddenly struck at me. |
10 |
| 5 | 225 |
It struck again and again, as though sensing me by smell or heat, but it was rooted, and I was beyond its reach. |
10 |
| 6 | 193 |
It struck me then what was familiar about the language Targo spoke. |
10 |
| 6 | 202 |
The language, though it struck my ear as strange, was not unpleasant. |
10 |
| 6 | 234 |
It was also scarred in several places, as though it had been struck with sharp objects. |
10 |
| 6 | 237 |
I further noted that the boards of the wagon, besides being struck and splintered in certain places, were, in other places, darkened, as though by smoke. |
10 |
| 6 | 312 |
The governesses and nurses who had raised me had scolded me, and frequently, but they had never struck me. |
10 |
| 6 | 314 |
In all my life I could not remember ever having been struck. |
10 |
| 6 | 316 |
The girl struck, with her small fierce strength, again and again, over and over, viciously, fiercely, as hard as she could, again and again. |
10 |
| 6 | 414 |
I cried out with pain, and humiliation, as the switch struck my body. |
10 |
| 6 | 429 |
And yet we were struck! I dared not protest. |
10 |
| 6 | 459 |
The switch struck again and I wept. |
10 |
| 7 | 75 |
Fortunately for Targo he had managed to bring his caravan to the edge of a vast Ka-la-na thicket just before the tarnsmen struck. |
10 |
| 7 | 81 |
Then, but moments before the tarnsmen struck, Targo, with his men driving the girls and the bosk, fled into the thicket. |
10 |
| 7 | 109 |
When the tarnsmen had struck, the girls had been freed from the wagons, to be driven into the thicket. |
10 |
| 7 | 291 |
And suddenly, the thought struck me, and seemed to shake me, as it had not before, that I was merchandise, that I could be sold, and would then belong, like a dog, or a cat, or a pig, to a master, and would then be his to do with as he pleased—perfectly. |
10 |
| 7 | 557 |
I wore a camisk! In fury I struck her face. |
10 |
| 7 | 559 |
"Slave!" I struck her again. |
10 |
| 8 | 14 |
Suddenly the butt of a spear struck at the canvas where we were looking and we quickly put down the side wall. |
10 |
| 8 | 212 |
There was a slight shock as the heavy, wet, rolled hides tied at the back of the barge struck the pier. |
10 |
| 8 | 367 |
Sometimes they tore at their hobbles and struck at their keepers with their great yellowish, scimitarlike beaks. |
10 |
| 8 | 453 |
And the guard uses not the handful of leather straps with which Lana, only with her woman's strength, had struck me, but the five-strap Gorean slave whip, wielded with the full, terrible strength of a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 718 |
We might even have been free women! How pleased we were! We leaped up and down, we clapped our hands with pleasure, we struck our left shoulders, we cried out, we thrust our hands through the bars to him, and, to our delight, though we were slave, he came to the bars and kissed and touched our hands... |
10 |
| 8 | 725 |
It struck the bars, reaching through them, its teeth grating on them, its chain striking against the iron, its claws scraping towards us. |
10 |
| 8 | 1087 |
The man who had held me leaped half to his feet, crying out, when something large and heavy struck him on the side of the head. |
10 |
| 9 | 12 |
If I should stop in pain, struck, or stumble, the merciless choke leash, closing on my throat, impelled me forward again. |
10 |
| 9 | 191 |
I cried out, suddenly, when a branch, unexpectedly, struck me across the belly. |
10 |
| 9 | 194 |
With the free end of the leash she struck me five times across the back. |
10 |
| 9 | 197 |
Again branches struck me, but I did not cry out. |
10 |
| 9 | 340 |
Sometimes she bit at another girl or struck at her, if she dared approach the square more closely than she. |
10 |
| 9 | 374 |
I tasted a bit of blood in my mouth, where my lip had been struck against my teeth. |
10 |
| 10 | 496 |
He closed the small, flat golden cigarette box and struck a small match. |
10 |
| 10 | 629 |
It squealed and hissed in fury, struck by the whip, and then it caught it in its teeth and tore it away from the man. |
10 |
| 10 | 631 |
Then the man picked up a piece of wood, kindling, from near the fire, and struck the sleen. |
10 |
| 11 | 240 |
I struck the wall, and slid down it, to my knees. |
10 |
| 11 | 1009 |
But if not all women were slaves, I knew one who, to her fury, and chagrin, was, Elinor Brinton! I struck the steel plating in fury, with my small fist. |
10 |
| 12 | 127 |
I struck at her. |
10 |
| 12 | 199 |
I struck at her, but she caught my hair and pulled my head down to the canvas. |
10 |
| 12 | 226 |
I had, as I thought I could with impunity, struck at her. |
10 |
| 12 | 333 |
How arrogant and superior she seemed! How I hated her, and hated her! A spear butt struck at the wood of the wagon, near where we peeped out. |
10 |
| 12 | 515 |
Suddenly I struck at her with the stick, and she flinched, but did not cry out. |
10 |
| 12 | 519 |
Lana and I, laughing, spun the cage back and forth, and, when I could, I struck Verna through the bars. |
10 |
| 12 | 520 |
We struck her, and spat on her, and threw dirt on her. |
10 |
| 12 | 658 |
Tarnsmen now struck the earth, leaping from their birds, to the east of the wagon square and, swords drawn, rushed among the burning wagons. |
10 |
| 13 | 153 |
Once its rough scales struck the front of my leg, above the ankle. |
10 |
| 13 | 197 |
Then, suddenly, very swiftly, Ute struck for it. |
10 |
| 13 | 458 |
I struck her suddenly in the side of the head with the stone. |
10 |
| 13 | 461 |
The men would assume she had fallen and struck her head. |
10 |
| 13 | 505 |
It seemed like the shouting of men, and a clanging and beating of metals, as though pans or kettles might be being struck. |
10 |
| 13 | 845 |
It struck the other's shield, piercing it. |
10 |
| 13 | 846 |
If the other man had not been fastened in his saddle by the great strap the force of my captor's blow would have struck him from the saddle. |
10 |
| 13 | 851 |
Again the other's spear struck, and again the blow was countered by my captor's shield. |
10 |
| 13 | 855 |
Again the spear struck, but this time my captor took the point in the shield. |
10 |
| 13 | 861 |
He struck again and the spear shaft, with a scattering of wood, split apart. |
10 |
| 13 | 881 |
Then, suddenly, with a cry of rage, of frustration, the blade of the other struck downwards toward my face. |
10 |
| 13 | 898 |
It had been blood from this cut which had struck my face. |
10 |
| 15 | 4 |
The left side of her forehead was still discolored where I had struck her with a rock. |
10 |
| 15 | 1270 |
My feet, belled, struck in the sand. |
10 |
| 15 | 1294 |
Then, as the music struck towards its swirling peaks I unaccountably, boldly, for no reason I understood, faced Rask of Treve, and before him, my master, I danced. |
10 |
| 15 | 1310 |
There were many shouts of acclaim, and pleasure, from the men, and even from the girls, who struck their left shoulders with the palms of their hands. |
10 |
| 18 | 85 |
The tarn's talons struck the delta wall, and, wings beating, it clung there, and put back its head and screamed. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 854 |
Even when she was not being struck Ilene would sometimes cry out, "No! Don't hit me!" Sometimes, waiting, unstruck, she would cry out as though she had been struck. |
10 |
| 2 | 328 |
Another panther girl, behind the man, struck him suddenly, unexpectedly, with a whip. |
10 |
| 3 | 412 |
As Thurnock, by her arm, led the girl down the stairs of the wagon, the other slave girls, who had moved the wagon, struck at her, spitting and jeering. |
10 |
| 7 | 104 |
And then the paga slaves, as the mood struck them, might do so or not. |
10 |
| 7 | 133 |
The arrow struck the trunk of a tree not inches from my face. |
10 |
| 7 | 160 |
Another arrow struck near me, with a quick, hard sound, followed by the tight vibrating of the arrow. |
10 |
| 8 | 302 |
An arrow struck near me. |
10 |
| 9 | 455 |
None of the spears had struck me. |
10 |
| 11 | 429 |
She struck Verna in the shoulder with the butt of her spear, that of a free woman. |
10 |
| 12 | 193 |
This only now struck me as unusual. |
10 |
| 13 | 30 |
They were struck for a moment, seeing me, standing some hundred and fifty yards from them, regarding them. |
10 |
| 14 | 8 |
The tents had been struck, and were gone. |
10 |
| 14 | 159 |
With a rock I struck down a forest urt. |
10 |
| 15 | 107 |
The men of Tyros, and Hura and Mira, wished to find and destroy the assailant who had struck down the man of Tyros the preceding evening. |
10 |
| 15 | 326 |
She struck two of the girls with stinging stripes. |
10 |
| 15 | 362 |
"We are not the porters of a man!" It was she who was struck first with the switch by the red-haired girl, who leaped among them, striking and slashing with the supple lash. |
10 |
| 15 | 427 |
Eight men of Tyros, with whips, struck the male slaves. |
10 |
| 15 | 445 |
She was then struck more with switches. |
10 |
| 15 | 581 |
She reacted as if struck. |
10 |
| 15 | 842 |
The red-haired girl went swiftly to the girl who had spoken and struck her twice. |
10 |
| 15 | 970 |
"Stand straight!" She struck another girl. |
10 |
| 16 | 6 |
They had been struck off that the column might move with greater speed. |
10 |
| 16 | 18 |
The arrows which had struck the men of Tyros had been those of panther girls, taken from my captures. |
10 |
| 16 | 37 |
Even the panther girls in charge of the coffle of captive females struck them less now with the switch. |
10 |
| 16 | 54 |
They struck the girls in the coffle less frequently now. |
10 |
| 16 | 69 |
In the day, through the morning and long afternoon, from cover, I had struck, again and again. |
10 |
| 16 | 112 |
Mira never knew when she would be struck. |
10 |
| 16 | 212 |
It struck the sleen on the side of the snout. |
10 |
| 16 | 271 |
"Then, Slaves," cried a man, blade uplifted, "die!" But he struck no one. |
10 |
| 17 | 10 |
She struck them with her switch. |
10 |
| 17 | 38 |
She struck them again. |
10 |
| 18 | 59 |
These had been struck off earlier in the march, that the entire column might move more quickly. |
10 |
| 18 | 68 |
After having taken the majority of Hura's girls, drugged at the camp, slave, I had not struck further at Sarus and his men, or Hura, and her minions. |
10 |
| 18 | 115 |
In the last two days, following the night of the drugging of many of Hura's girls, I had not struck further at the men of Tyros with the swift arrows of the great bow. |
10 |
| 18 | 299 |
"It seems he struck his head upon a stone". |
10 |
| 18 | 322 |
Behind us we heard men calling out the name of another man, doubtless that of the guard, he struck unexpectedly by the blow of a stone. |
10 |
| 19 | 277 |
"I will tear out your eyes! I will cut your throat! She-sleen! She-sleen!" Sarus struck Hura, with the back of his hand, suddenly, knocking her head to one side, splattering blood across her teeth. |
10 |
| 19 | 313 |
She did not wish to be struck again. |
10 |
| 19 | 375 |
A slave lash struck again and again. |
10 |
| 19 | 376 |
The women, one by one, did not seem to understand what was happening, but each, in turn, was struck twice, at an interval of a few Ihn, that the pain of the first blow be truly felt and understood before the second was delivered. |
10 |
| 19 | 384 |
She looked at Sarus "Please, Sarus," she begged, "do not have me struck again". |
10 |
| 20 | 67 |
"I have slain him!" But it was not I whom he had struck. |
10 |
| 20 | 70 |
Then I struck another. |
10 |
| 20 | 112 |
He struck out wildly. |
10 |
| 20 | 134 |
Twice more my blade struck. |
10 |
| 20 | 229 |
Twice my blade struck. |
10 |
| 20 | 241 |
I caught him at the gate and, with my fist, sword in it, struck him across the face. |
10 |
| 20 | 255 |
The man I had struck lay unconscious before them. |
10 |
| 20 | 288 |
"He who held this bow," said Verna, "lies now wounded in the darkness, struck by one of his own fellows. |
10 |
| 21 | 59 |
He could not strike for she stood in his way, and did his arm move, her finger, even were she struck, would jerk on the trigger of the weapon, flinging its iron-headed quarrel through his body, perhaps even to the palings behind. |
10 |
| 22 | 185 |
"Stand straight!" cried Ilene, and struck Rissia with a switch. |
10 |
| 22 | 195 |
He had not struck her, a woman. |
10 |
| 22 | 279 |
I, too, was struck with silence. |
10 |
| 22 | 848 |
Picking up the switch from the sand, with which Ilene had often beaten her, she struck her. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 56 |
Shortly after the first "knock off," in which the ball is served to the enemy, Gorm, who was Ivar's partner, was struck cold with the ball, it driven from an opponent's bat; this, I gathered, is a common trick; it is very difficult to intercept or protect oneself from a ball struck at one with great... |
10 |
| 1 | 605 |
I wondered if the beast had struck for hunger. |
10 |
| 1 | 641 |
"The beast struck once, and once only?" I asked. |
10 |
| 1 | 700 |
With a howl of rage I struck the table with the side of my fists, shattering the boards. |
10 |
| 2 | 239 |
The hollow bars on their great chains, hanging from timber frames outside the temple, had been struck. |
10 |
| 3 | 70 |
The spear caromed away and struck the wall of the temple, fifty feet behind me. |
10 |
| 3 | 211 |
It moved unsteadily, rocking back and forth, and then rolled from the altar, struck the steps and broke apart. |
10 |
| 4 | 260 |
One girl who did not care to feed was struck twice across her back by a knotted rope in the hand of Gorm. |
10 |
| 4 | 330 |
"They will beat us!" Gorm was then at her, and struck her five times with his knotted rope. |
10 |
| 5 | 159 |
One struck in the mast. |
10 |
| 5 | 161 |
A javelin struck in the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 190 |
The javelin struck the deck. |
10 |
| 5 | 193 |
The other two arrows struck, ringing, the plate of the temple of Kassau, and hung, broken, in the boskhide awning that covered the Forkbeard's loot, both that of gold and flesh, and then another javelin fell behind us, into the sea, and the bowmen returned to their benches. |
10 |
| 5 | 315 |
Suddenly an arrow struck the side of the ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 324 |
Two more arrows struck the ship. |
10 |
| 5 | 332 |
"Let this be a lesson to you," he called to them, "never trust the men of Kassau!" At the oars the men struck up a rowing song. |
10 |
| 6 | 101 |
The gangplank was then thrust over the rail of the serpent and struck on the heavy, adzed boards of the dock. |
10 |
| 6 | 131 |
Many clasped him, and struck him on the back. |
10 |
| 6 | 248 |
Several of his men cried out with pleasure, others struck their left shoulders with the palms of their right hand. |
10 |
| 6 | 251 |
The men cheered, and struck their shoulders, and again, the spear blades smote upon the shields. |
10 |
| 6 | 373 |
"One has struck here," said Ottar, suddenly. |
10 |
| 6 | 449 |
Sarus of Tyros, acting under his orders, had struck to capture both Marlenus of Ar and myself. |
10 |
| 6 | 537 |
I saw her body struck again and again, she clinging to him, helplessly. |
10 |
| 6 | 544 |
He struck her back on the furs. |
10 |
| 7 | 12 |
Once more the great ax struck the post. |
10 |
| 7 | 15 |
Then suddenly he struck at me with his own ax. |
10 |
| 7 | 37 |
"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ... |
10 |
| 7 | 121 |
He struck Wulfstan, the thrall, Tarsk, behind the back of his neck with the handle of his ax. |
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| 7 | 295 |
Then, behind it I saw an uplifted ax, and the ax struck down, cutting its backbone a foot beneath its neck. |
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| 7 | 298 |
He did not seem in a frenzy; nor did he seem human; he had struck, when others, Gautrek, Gorm, I, even the Forkbeard, had been unable to do other than look upon it with horror. |
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| 9 | 70 |
Twice in the afternoon Gorm struck away sea sleen from the girl's body. |
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| 9 | 88 |
Suddenly, in fury, Hilda struck at them. |
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| 9 | 131 |
In this time, she screamed, over and over, "I will obey you!" Then he struck again. |
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| 9 | 132 |
Her body, again, was struck against the post; her hands twisted in the binding fiber; her entire body rubbed on the post, in agony, pressing against it; tears burst from her eyes; she was on her tiptoes, pressing against the post; her thighs were on either side of the post; but the post did not yiel... |
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| 9 | 133 |
Then he struck again. |
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| 9 | 136 |
"I beg to obey you! I beg to be permitted to obey you! I want to obey you! I want to obey you! I will obey you! I will obey you! I will obey you!" When he next struck she could only close her eyes in pain. |
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| 9 | 142 |
Was the beating done? Then she was struck again. |
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| 9 | 423 |
My left hand held her left arm; with my right hand I forced her right wrist behind her back; I thrust it up; she cried out, suddenly, with misery; I threw her to the furs; scarcely had she struck them, crying out, belly down, than I had clasped the fetter of black iron about her ankle; chained, she ... |
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| 10 | 14 |
I heard hands striking the left shoulders; weapons struck on shields. |
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| 10 | 15 |
Suddenly the champion's fist struck toward me, beneath the rope. |
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| 10 | 54 |
Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,... |
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| 10 | 73 |
Blows are not to be struck at the Thing, but not even the law of the Thing, with all its might, would have the temerity to advise the man of Torvaldsland to arrive or move about unarmed. |
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| 10 | 147 |
Such duels, commonly, are held on wave-struck skerries in Thassa. |
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| 10 | 240 |
"It is struck," I said. |
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| 12 | 47 |
Spear blades struck the surfaces of the round, painted, wooden shields. |
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| 13 | 420 |
My heart bounded, my blood raced, I struck, again and again, my left shoulder with the palm of my right hand. |
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| 14 | 12 |
Again I was struck from my feet, again lost my footing, and fell again, but then managed to force my way to my feet. |
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| 14 | 125 |
An ax struck toward me. |
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| 14 | 137 |
They could not move, so struck with terror they were. |
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| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
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| 15 | 168 |
The sun struck the cliff. |
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| 15 | 176 |
A rock struck near me, shattering into the granite of the mountain, scarring it. |
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| 15 | 239 |
The first Kur was some eight or ten feet below us when, suddenly, it slipped on the rock and, with a wild shriek, scratching at the stone, slid some four feet downward and then plunged backward, turning in the air, howling, and, some five Ihn later, struck the rocks far below. |
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| 15 | 243 |
The rock hurled by Ivar struck it from the almost vertical wall of stone. |
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| 15 | 306 |
I recalled the two Kurii, precariously clinging to the wall of rock, one of which had fallen attempting to reach us, the other of which Ivar had struck from the wall with a heavy stone. |
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| 15 | 367 |
The heavy shield, with fantastic force, with a sidelong motion, a sweep, struck me, fending me away, hurtling me for forty feet through the air. |
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| 15 | 368 |
I struck snow, rolling, half-blinded. |
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| 15 | 371 |
Again the shield struck me, like a hammer, the striking surface of which is more than a yard across. |
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| 15 | 403 |
The rock struck the shield, bounding with a clang away, down into the abyss. |
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| 17 | 42 |
The distant light in the great cities, unknowing, soon to be occupied with the concerns of their days, piercing the haze of daily, customary poisons, first struck the heights of the lofty buildings, reflecting from the rectangular windows, like sheets of burnished copper reflecting the fire of the s... |
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| 18 | 125 |
Eagerly the slaves, when their manacles had been struck away, picked up weapons and sought Kurii. |
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| 18 | 142 |
The Forkbeard struck one, felling him. |
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| 18 | 286 |
The bosk, in their charging hundreds, heads down, hoofs pounding, maddened, relentless, driven, struck the square. |
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| 18 | 576 |
But he struck little. |
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| 18 | 593 |
It puzzled me that the Forkbeard had not yet struck the final blow. |
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| 20 | 122 |
Scarcely had it seen the flash of Tuchuk steel, the saddle knife, its blade balanced, nine inches in length, which had slipped from my sleeve, turned, and, hurled, struck him. |
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| 21 | 174 |
Upon my return to Tyros, Sullius inquired if our foes had been wounded, and I informed him that indeed we had struck you, drawing blood. |
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| 21 | 208 |
The next day, when the bar of noon was struck on the wharves, we administered to him the antidote. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 338 |
He struck her across the face, with the quirt, as she had struck him, twice. |
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| 1 | 281 |
"Sell me! Sell me!" A guard struck his leather switch against the bars before her face, and she fled back within the enclosure. |
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| 1 | 436 |
It was struck by storm, and a kaiila, maddened by wind and sand, broke its hobble, plunging away into the darkness. |
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| 1 | 443 |
The sand, struck by the sun, can reach temperatures on its surface of more than 175 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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| 1 | 636 |
On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood. |
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| 1 | 698 |
They struck the tables, and cried out. |
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| 2 | 617 |
It struck me suddenly strange that he should be in the area of the bazaar, which, in the lower area in the city, is in the vicinity of the wells. |
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| 2 | 641 |
One foot struck him in the chest, the other snapped his head back. |
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| 2 | 644 |
He struck it, upside down, full along his back and head, and, tumbling, fell beside the other fellow, who lay inert. |
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| 3 | 6 |
With a backward sweeping cut the sheathed blade struck him, as he hung from his saddle, on the back of the neck. |
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| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
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| 4 | 297 |
She struck him twice before he, angry, took the quirt from her and threw it aside. |
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| 4 | 306 |
She wept and struck the stones with her fists. |
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| 4 | 339 |
And he then struck her twice more. |
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| 4 | 500 |
Water, more than a century ago, had been struck there, during the fourth passage hand, in the third year of the Administrator Shiraz, then Bey of Tor. |
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| 5 | 868 |
He struck a roof below, and then another roof, and then was to the ground, racing away, men turning to look after him. |
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| 5 | 875 |
"Who struck me?" he said. |
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| 6 | 36 |
"Did you see who it was who struck noble Suleiman Pasha?" "Yes," she cried. |
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| 6 | 47 |
"He it was," said I, "who struck Suleiman". |
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| 6 | 86 |
"Who struck noble Suleiman Pasha?" asked Ibn Saran, quietly. |
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| 6 | 89 |
"He it was who struck Suleiman Pasha". |
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| 6 | 93 |
"In the confusion," said Ibn Saran, "it was he, the accused, who struck Suleiman Pasha, and then went, with others, to the window". |
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| 6 | 100 |
"Pretty Zaya," said he, "has given witness that it was the accused who struck Suleiman Pasha". |
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| 6 | 111 |
"Was it he who struck Suleiman Pasha?" asked Ibn Saran. |
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| 6 | 118 |
"Was it he who struck Suleiman Pasha?" "It was he," she said. |
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| 7 | 162 |
With the flat of his blade he struck more than one of them. |
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| 7 | 278 |
I heard two more howls of rage, for twice more had they struck the beast. |
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| 7 | 297 |
The animal, at least four times, had been struck, and with the razor-sharp scimitars of the Tahari. |
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| 7 | 300 |
So struck, four times, I found it not difficult to believe that the animal, even if unfound, would have sought a dark place, and there, in silence, bled to death. |
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| 7 | 447 |
"I was interested to note, as well," said I, "that she testified that I had struck Suleiman Pasha". |
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| 7 | 460 |
"It was with much pleasure that the vicious little slave falsely testified that it had been your blade which had struck Suleiman Pasha. |
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| 8 | 46 |
A rider, wheeling after him, struck him in the back of the neck with the butt of his lance. |
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| 10 | 49 |
"They struck here last night," said the merchant. |
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| 10 | 132 |
When the whip snapped, a heavy whip in the hand of one of the merchant's brawny aides, the girl cried out, and her body reacted, in terror, as though struck. |
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| 10 | 318 |
"It is thought, I understand," he said, "that it was you, Hakim of Tor, who struck Suleiman". |
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| 10 | 324 |
"Is it known to you, Hakim of Tor," asked he, "who it was who actually struck Suleiman?" "Yes," I said, "it is known to me. |
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| 11 | 71 |
I struck at them, and crushed them, until I realized the foolishness of doing so. |
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| 11 | 471 |
Two arrows struck the wood, splintering needles of wood into my cheek; then the shutters were pulled closed, fastened; another arrow burst half through one, hanging on our side. |
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| 12 | 39 |
The kaiila crop of a guard had struck me across the mouth. |
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| 12 | 41 |
He, too, was struck. |
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| 12 | 539 |
I took the neck of each and, in the instant before they could react, struck together their heads, felling both. |
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| 12 | 590 |
Before the man on my right could recover, or unsheath his weapon, I had struck him unconscious; I then, at my leisure, did the same with the other fellow. |
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| 13 | 16 |
The lash struck me. |
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| 13 | 338 |
"Perhaps you would have better fortune than when you in stealth struck Suleiman Pasha," I said. |
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| 14 | 2 |
The lash struck again across my back. |
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| 14 | 11 |
Twice more the lash struck. |
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| 14 | 498 |
The lash struck me twice. |
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| 14 | 505 |
The lash struck again. |
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| 14 | 595 |
Then he screamed as the lance struck him, turning him about. |
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| 14 | 601 |
This time, the man, stumbling, trying to turn away, had been struck on the left arm, high, just below the shoulder. |
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| 16 | 153 |
The raft tipped, struck by its back, as it turned and, twisting, glided away into the darkness. |
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| 16 | 205 |
I heard splintering wood, the retaining vessels, the salt tubs, struck and shattered, flung bounding and rolling from the frame. |
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| 16 | 206 |
I heard men scream, sensed men struck yards from the raft, heard them strike the water. |
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| 16 | 240 |
The two rafts gently struck one another. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 521 |
"I am sorry I struck you as hard as I did," I told the girl I had last struck. |
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| 53 | 411 |
I struck it with the panga, and then struck it again. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 31 |
I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p... |
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| 44 | 419 |
Two kaiila, with their riders, slipping and scrambling, slid from the trail and then, unsupported, flailing, turning in the air, the riders and their mounts separating, they fell a hundred feet, struck some rocks, bounded out from the escarpment and fell the final two hundred feet to the lower, slop... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 1116 |
I screamed, struck, sobbing! I knew he had not struck me with his full strength. |
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| 36 | 1131 |
I knew he had not struck me with his full strength and, indeed, I had been struck only five times. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 260 |
To be sure, I had struck her harder than the first time, for she was now a slave, and slaves, of course, are whipped differently from free women, but I had not, truly, struck her with great force. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 188 |
The leader of the strangers struck wildly down at the first animal, slashing its jaw and the side of its face, turned to orient its jaws to its prey, cutting into it, with his blade, and the force of its charge struck him back and the beast, shoulders hunched, was on him, he on his back, screaming, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 159 |
She screamed, and put down her head, and was struck again, and raised her head and put it back, sobbing, and was again struck. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 275 |
Cabot lunged to the side, to his right, as another spear struck into the stone behind him, marking it as though struck with a hammer. |
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| 19 | 82 |
The larl tried to strike the object from its path with its paw, and there was a raking, scraping sound, but it might as well have struck against a wall of iron, and there was, as a consequence of the blow, which might have struck a man yards from its path, almost no movement in the machine. |
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| 39 | 54 |
Clearly the next Kur who fell had been struck from a different direction, and then another fell, too, struck from yet another quarter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 350 |
I was struck! Struck!" I now understood the bruise on her left cheek. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 329 |
Some enemy officers struck about themselves with swords, trying to stop the rout, but these, too, were as often struck by terrified men who, in the darkness, were unclear as to their foe, his power, or even his nature. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 282 |
She is to be struck, if she is to be struck, to discipline her, to improve her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 207 |
"Hold that wagon! Hold that wagon!" Instantly Tullius Quintus released the brake and struck the beasts forward, and the wagon, tipping downward, rattled down a slope and struck into the water. |
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| 65 | 339 |
Lucilius roared with rage and leapt at Lord Grendel, with a mighty stroke of the great ax, but Lord Grendel crouched down and, lifting his own ax, gripped in two hands, or paws, struck upward, bringing the blade of his own ax into play, against the higher end of the shaft of the descending ax, and t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 132 |
He struck, and then was seen no more, until he struck again. |
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| 50 | 10 |
It was as though the Tesephone had inadvertently struck, or had been struck by, some enormous living mountain, a mountain which could live and breathe, could lift itself and then, trembling, subside, and draw away. |
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