| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 122 |
I put my arms around her, sheltering her as well as I could from the swift, chilling blast of the wind. |
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| 6 | 140 |
I rushed between its mouth and the girl, and with a swift downward slash of my blade severed that foul brown tongue. |
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| 6 | 167 |
But across the marsh, with his swift prancing stride, came Nar, and in his mandibles, held gently but firmly, the daughter of the Ubar Marlenus. |
10 |
| 8 | 24 |
"Do not fear—though there are many in Ar who rejoice in your deed, your death will not be pleasant or swift". |
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| 12 | 30 |
Just as the tiny object, black against the blue sky, reached its apogee, I heard the click of the trigger, the vibration of the string, and the swift hiss of the quarrel. |
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| 12 | 95 |
The flight of the tarn was serene, and I, grateful to be free at last of the painful Frame of Humiliation, found myself, strangely enough, almost reconciled to the savage but swift fate I knew awaited me. |
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| 12 | 107 |
Soon my swift captor had reached his mountains, and the vague, distant smudge that I had seen had become a lonely, frightening, inaccessible wilderness of reddish cliffs. |
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| 14 | 18 |
I did not expect that I would be granted a swift death. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 15 |
I supplemented my diet with fresh fruit picked from bushes and trees, and fish speared in Gor's cold, swift-flowing streams. |
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| 6 | 25 |
As was wise, I avoided cities in my long journey, though I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement. |
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| 7 | 22 |
He had seen the swift engagement with his swordsmen and he was probably considering whether or not he could match my prowess. |
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| 15 | 32 |
More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free. |
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| 18 | 155 |
We heard a sudden, loud swift rushing of water. |
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| 19 | 55 |
Cell after cell was emptied of its wretched chained occupants, only to be refilled with shackled guardsmen and Whip Slaves, men who knew that the least sign of resistance would bring only a swift and bloody death. |
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| 20 | 140 |
I had not walked more than a pasang when, from a cluster of trees to my right, on the other side of a thin, swift stream that flowed from the Sardar, I heard the terrified scream of a girl. |
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| 23 | 181 |
In another dozen steps the six spears would fly hurled from that swift even pace. |
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| 25 | 70 |
Its ratlike scamper was incomprehensibly swift and almost before I could set myself for its charge it had crossed the cylinder roof in two or three bounds and pounced to seize me in its bared fangs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 65 |
The resemblance is, I suppose, due to the mechanics of convergent evolution, both animals having been shaped by the exigencies of the chase, the stealth of the approach and the sudden charge, and by the requirement of the swift and devastating kill. |
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| 4 | 110 |
The Gorean night above, often black and beautiful with stars, now seemed to be approaching with swift stealth. |
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| 15 | 114 |
How else could learning take place? This device is merely a comparatively considerate, swift and efficient means to an end that is universally regarded as desirable by rational creatures". |
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| 22 | 44 |
"Then there is no swift way to kill a Priest-King?" I asked. |
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| 24 | 61 |
How was it then, I asked myself, that such a slow, awkward, clumsy creature, no matter how formidable at close range, could capture and slay an organism as alert and swift as a Priest-King? I moved Vika's limbs and rubbed her hands to see if I could restore her circulation to a more normal level. |
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| 27 | 87 |
It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world. |
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| 27 | 258 |
And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw... |
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| 33 | 4 |
The speed of our return journey was not due primarily to the fact that we were now on the whole descending, though this helped, but rather to the gravitational reduction which made it possible for me, Vika in my arms, to move with a swift disregard for what, under more normal conditions, would have ... |
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| 35 | 136 |
The wind seemed now very cold and very swift. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 |
On the north they claimed lands even to the rush-grown banks of the Cartius, a broad, swift flowing tributary feeding into the incomparable Vosk. |
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| 2 | 147 |
Needless to say, they can be almost as swift and delicate in their address as a saber. |
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| 3 | 120 |
Here and there I saw riders, darting about, all mounted on the swift, graceful kaiila. |
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| 4 | 27 |
As swift as may be the kaiila I had no doubt that I was swifter. |
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| 4 | 52 |
To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up... |
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| 4 | 53 |
The quiva reversed itself in his hand, an action so swift I was only aware of it as his arm flew back, his hand on the blade, to hurl the weapon. |
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| 7 | 28 |
I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a... |
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| 7 | 32 |
For him there could no longer be the swift races across the frozen prairie; the meetings in arms; even the dancing to the sky about a fire of bosk dung. |
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| 7 | 74 |
Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n... |
10 |
| 7 | 133 |
Then, after some hours stumbling confused, terrified, hungry through the high, brown grass, she had seen two riders, mounted on swift, strange beasts. |
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| 8 | 1 |
The Wintering If I had hoped for an easy answer to the riddles which concerned me, or a swift end to my search for the egg of Priest-Kings, I was disappointed, for I learned nothing of either for months. |
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| 8 | 262 |
Kamchak raced his kaiila over to the edge of the crowd, entering into swift negotiation with a warrior, one whose wagon followed ours in the march of the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 8 | 359 |
One of the best among the wagons I had heard was a Kassar slave, a swift Turian wench whose name was Dina. |
10 |
| 8 | 586 |
The gait of the kaiila was swift and even. |
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| 9 | 124 |
Many were swift-tongued, witty wenches, utterly charming and uninhibited. |
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| 10 | 265 |
It might also be mentioned that the Turian warrior, in his opinion, too seldom encounters the warrior of the Wagon Peoples, who tends to be a frustrating, swift and elusive foe, striking with great rapidity and withdrawing with goods and captives almost before it is understood what has occurred. |
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| 10 | 449 |
In all my time among the wagons I had not seen one of the Gorean short swords, so fierce and swift and common a weapon among those of the cities. |
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| 12 | 421 |
Certain of these phases are very slow, in which there is almost no movement, save perhaps the turning of a head or the movement of a hand; others are defiant and swift; some are graceful and pleading; some stately, some simple; some proud, some piteous; but each time, as the common thread, she is dr... |
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| 12 | 504 |
I was only about a quarter of the way through the bottle and was passing the side of a wagon when I saw a swift flicker of a shadow suddenly leap on the lacquered boards and by instinct I threw my head to one side as a quiva flashed past and buried itself three inches deep in the timber side of the ... |
10 |
| 14 | 4 |
Those who are unfamiliar with the Wagon Peoples, or who know them only from the swift raid, sometimes think them devoid of organization, sometimes conceive of them as mad hordes or aggregates of wild warriors, but such is not the case. |
10 |
| 15 | 8 |
Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea... |
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| 16 | 116 |
We had scarcely cleared the portal and set foot in the street when we heard a swift rustle of heavy wire and, startled, looking up, saw the steel net descend on us. |
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| 17 | 90 |
The steam rhythm was now swift, and the gases or fumes mixed with that moisture, noxious. |
10 |
| 19 | 103 |
He then gave the girl a short, swift kick, not to hurt her, but simply, rather rudely, to startle her awake. |
10 |
| 21 | 200 |
"It is unfortunate," she said, "that you do not have a swift kaiila and then you might, in broad daylight, hurtle past the guards and make your way into the prairie". |
10 |
| 21 | 354 |
I could hear in three or four places the clash of arms, the hiss of the bolts of crossbows, the answering feather-swift flight of the barbed Tuchuk war arrows. |
10 |
| 25 | 844 |
She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from... |
10 |
| 26 | 391 |
"It is said," remarked Kamchak, "that the sword of Ha-Keel is scarcely less swift and cunning than that of Pa-Kur, the Master of Assassins". |
10 |
| 27 | 134 |
Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f... |
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| 28 | 69 |
Elizabeth Cardwell was weeping, and I put my arms about her, to comfort her, and to protect her from the blasts of the swift air. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 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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| 5 | 729 |
I gave Elizabeth a swift kiss and then jerked the slave livery to her waist and turned her about, putting her on her side at the foot of the couch, facing away from the door. |
10 |
| 12 | 359 |
Even Elizabeth, whom I knew was swift and spirited, seemed paralyzed and tortured by the goad. |
10 |
| 13 | 19 |
I knew the Taurentians to be skilled Warriors, wary and swift, and I would have thought the women of the Hinrabians would have been the safest of the city. |
10 |
| 13 | 82 |
In a matter of about ten Ihn, however, seeing me approach ever more closely, she began to move with a deliberate, swift ease. |
10 |
| 13 | 321 |
Mip on his tarn, Green Ubar, seemed a swift, dark movement against the white sand and tiers, the shadow coursing behind them, seeming to break geometrically over the tiers. |
10 |
| 13 | 326 |
Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,... |
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| 17 | 153 |
After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp... |
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| 17 | 330 |
He was a cutthroat but there were drunken tears in his eyes as he hopped about, pantomiming the work of one of the swift galleys. |
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| 17 | 333 |
The man who had been dancing the ship dance had now left the pit of sand and, over against one wall, in the shadows of the torchlight, largely unnoted, danced alone, danced for himself the memories of gleaming Thassa and the swift black ships, the Tarns of the Sea, as the galleys of Port Kar are kno... |
10 |
| 17 | 414 |
I made sure I got my hands on Elizabeth Cardwell, though she dodged well and was a swift wench, and taking her in my arms carried her to one side. |
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| 19 | 389 |
"Here," said she, tauntingly, "is a slim beauty, lithe and swift, White Silk, intelligent, curious for the touch of a man, who for the right man would be the most abject and servile wench a beast could wish. |
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| 20 | 33 |
"Please! Please! Caste Brother!" he cried, as the slave, swift, eager, laughing, struck him again and again, with impunity. |
10 |
| 21 | 269 |
My world now was small, bright, alive, consisting of little other than swift, flashing, ringing patterns before me, then to the side, and once more before me. |
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| 22 | 181 |
I watched the dark, swift flight of the quarrel, like a black needle, and saw it drop into the back of the Taurentian, who suddenly stiffened, seeming inches taller, the metal fins of the bolt like a tiny dark triangle in the purple of the cloak, and pitched lifeless from the wall. |
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| 22 | 190 |
Menicius of Port Kar, his tarn young, swift, competitive, was making his move, gaining rapidly. |
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| 22 | 338 |
The strike was made doubtless from the back of a racing tarn, a small swift tarn, maneuverable, darting among the bridges". |
10 |
| 22 | 353 |
I think there were none in that vast stadium who did not for the moment, even in the sun of summer, feel a swift chill, suddenly fearing themselves endangered, suddenly feeling themselves unwitting intruders, trespassers, wandered by accident, unwilling, into the domain of that majestic carnivore, t... |
10 |
| 22 | 394 |
An attendant, from beneath his cloak, threw to the saddle the tiny, swift bow of Tuchuks, the narrow, rectangular quiver, with its forty arrows. |
10 |
| 22 | 530 |
Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt... |
10 |
| 22 | 540 |
Another crossbow bolt feathered its swift way, a line of blurred light, soft, past me. |
10 |
| 23 | 138 |
In an instant our blades had met in the swift discourse of flashing steel. |
10 |
| 24 | 27 |
I thought of the magnificent Marlenus, swift, brilliant, decisive, stubborn, vain, proud, a master swordsman, a tarnsman, a leader like a larl among men, always to those of Ar the Ubar of Ubars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle. |
10 |
| 3 | 142 |
Then there came the clean, swift, singing flash of the bowstring and the flight arrow was aloft. |
10 |
| 3 | 263 |
"The teeth of the tharlarion," said he, "are swift, Warrior". |
10 |
| 6 | 151 |
I took it in my left hand and jerked him forward, at the same time moving my blade in a swift, easy arc, transversely and slightly upward, towards him. |
10 |
| 6 | 178 |
With a few swift motions he fastened them together. |
10 |
| 9 | 592 |
Surbus threw the girl from him and, with a swift, clean motion, unsheathed his blade. |
10 |
| 10 | 247 |
My fifth voyage was one to satisfy my interest, and made in a light swift galley. |
10 |
| 11 | 144 |
The coup intended to destroy them, swift as the falling of the assassin's blade, had failed. |
10 |
| 14 | 13 |
She is long, low and swift. |
10 |
| 14 | 60 |
The other type of ship, though found occasionally, does not seem, at least currently, to present a distinct challenge to the low, swift, single-banked ships. |
10 |
| 15 | 115 |
My guards had even turned away the mad, half-blind shipwright, Tersites, with his fantastic recommendations for the improvement of tarn ships, as though ships so beautiful, so swift, and vicious, might be improved. |
10 |
| 16 | 166 |
I looked from face to face, the great Thurnock, now calm, swift, strong Clitus, the shrewd oar-master, the others. |
10 |
| 16 | 286 |
Outside the holding, on the broad promenade before the holding, bordering on the lakelike courtyard, with the canal gate beyond, I ordered a swift, tharlarion-prowed longboat made ready. |
10 |
| 17 | 78 |
Accordingly I hoped the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros, seeing the sails, would think their new enemies were single-masted round ships, of which there are some types, and either misjudge their speeds or rush on them unwarily, finding out, too late, that they were plunging headlong toward swift, maneuve... |
10 |
| 17 | 197 |
And then I had seen fleet ships, in their fifties, come about to move against what they had taken to be a new wave of round ships, only to be taken off-guard by the rams and shearing blades of ships as swift and terrible as their own. |
10 |
| 17 | 228 |
The round ships, of course, were too slow to offer the swift, decisive support to my tarn ships which they would surely need shortly. |
10 |
| 17 | 353 |
Its movements were as sure and as swift as though it might have been over the familiar crags of the Voltai or the canals of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 17 | 356 |
And suddenly I realized that the bird was trembling with excitement and pleasure, finding itself swift and alive and strong in a new world to his senses. |
10 |
| 18 | 113 |
I have fought with warriors who were less swift than you". |
10 |
| 18 | 255 |
Then, with a swift motion, he leaped behind her and, with the flat of his blade, dealt her a sharp, stinging blow. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 290 |
With the electric switch he raised the door for me, and I drove out into the swift traffic, out into the hot August night. |
10 |
| 3 | 307 |
I had soon left the city, crossing the George Washington Bridge, and taking the swift parkways north. |
10 |
| 4 | 233 |
It was swift, and frightening, but not painful. |
10 |
| 5 | 46 |
What I thought was a petaled flower underneath the swift, cold surface of the brook suddenly broke apart, becoming a school of tiny yellow fish. |
10 |
| 5 | 177 |
I had not run far when I stopped, for, in the sky, in the distance, I saw a swift, silverish, disklike object. |
10 |
| 7 | 183 |
I was reluctant to enter the water but, at a word from Targo, I immersed myself, shuddering, teeth chattering, in the swift, chill stream. |
10 |
| 7 | 364 |
I was certain that I could, with my resources on Earth, purchase swift passage back to my home planet. |
10 |
| 8 | 169 |
Far away, through the sky, from the east of Laura, following the forest line, there came a flight of tarnsmen, perhaps forty of them, mounted on the great, fierce, hawklike saddlebirds of Gor, the huge, swift, predatory, ferocious tarns, called Brothers of the Wind. |
10 |
| 8 | 455 |
I would be compliant, swift to obey and be pleasing in all things. |
10 |
| 8 | 514 |
I stood knee deep in the swift stream. |
10 |
| 8 | 519 |
I listened to them chat gaily together, pounding and rinsing the fabrics, in the sunlight, at the edge of that swift stream. |
10 |
| 8 | 539 |
I returned to my work, Elinor Brinton, one slave girl among others, primitively washing the clothes of masters at the edge of that swift stream on a beautiful, distant world. |
10 |
| 9 | 200 |
They were swift, and beautiful and arrogant, like Verna. |
10 |
| 10 | 55 |
He suddenly snapped his fingers and, in the swift double gesture of a Gorean master, pointed to a place on the dirt floor before him, almost simultaneously turning his hand, spreading his first and index fingers, pointing downwards. |
10 |
| 10 | 581 |
Again he made the swift, almost ferocious, imperious gesture, that to assume position, of the Gorean master. |
10 |
| 11 | 462 |
"Oh!" I said, again sped through the opening with a swift, good-natured, stinging slap. |
10 |
| 11 | 1110 |
Even girls brought to Treve as slaves, obedient within her harsh walls, looking up, seeing her rushing, swift skies, did not know wherein lay the city in which they served. |
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| 13 | 1 |
I Feel the Capture Loop I stood in the swift stream, the water coming to somewhat above my knees. |
10 |
| 13 | 9 |
With a spattering of water and a flurry of pebbles the swift, squirming body twisted away. |
10 |
| 13 | 742 |
Marlenus had set a swift fleet of light, Vosk galleys to clear the river waters adjoining his Ubarate of pirates. |
10 |
| 13 | 838 |
A crossbow bolt flashed by, like a swift, hissing needle in the sky. |
10 |
| 13 | 854 |
My captor was trying to close with him, to bring him within the range of his own steel, his now-drawn, swift, unadorned blade. |
10 |
| 13 | 871 |
Then the tarns swooped together again, side by side, saddle to saddle, while blades flashed over my head, in a swift dialogue of steel, debating my possession. |
10 |
| 14 | 132 |
I watched two warriors practicing with their swift, short blades on a square of sand. |
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| 15 | 505 |
"Splendid!" Now the melody became more swift, and it burned like flame in the girl's slave body. |
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| 15 | 946 |
I knew that my body was a slave body, and that it was owned, and that it stood in constant jeopardy of fierce, swift punishment by a strong master, whether it might deserve that punishment or not. |
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| 15 | 1271 |
The perfume was wild about me, swift in the brightness and the shadows. |
10 |
| 17 | 50 |
The huntsman lives a free and open life, as wild and swift, and secret, as the beasts he hunts, and his slaves, whom he insists on accompanying him, must, too, learn the ways of the forests, the flowers and the animals, the leaves and wind. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 23 |
Men scrambled on the long yard of the lateen-rigged light galley, a small, swift ram-ship of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 2 | 66 |
They are commonly used for patrols, and swift communication. |
10 |
| 2 | 364 |
They have little respect for anyone, or anything, saving themselves and, undeniably, the beasts they hunt, the tawny forest panthers, the swift, sinuous sleen. |
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| 2 | 542 |
Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small... |
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| 5 | 102 |
And there were panther girls, too, who would be swift to pounce on an escaped female slave. |
10 |
| 7 | 10 |
Overhead were several birds, bright, chattering, darting, swift among the branches and green leaves. |
10 |
| 7 | 154 |
Twice I saw a motion in the green and shadows, in the dappled sunlight, swift, furtive. |
10 |
| 8 | 229 |
To one side, behind me and to the left, I saw a net, swift and white, heavily corded, weighted, drop over a man. |
10 |
| 8 | 275 |
Panther girls are swift, fierce hunters. |
10 |
| 9 | 48 |
I had little doubt that she was swift of mind. |
10 |
| 9 | 406 |
I looked up at the large, white, swift moons. |
10 |
| 13 | 211 |
But its tail did not snap for the swift strike. |
10 |
| 14 | 290 |
The drum was now very heady, swift. |
10 |
| 15 | 7 |
Two panther girls were swift on her trail, running easily. |
10 |
| 15 | 39 |
This, however, would not be of interest to her swift pursuers. |
10 |
| 15 | 832 |
There was the swift hiss of the switch and then the slap of its strike. |
10 |
| 15 | 852 |
Then suddenly there would be the hiss and, somewhere on her body, the swift, lashing fall of the switch. |
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 | 134 |
There were swift, white clouds in the sky. |
10 |
| 18 | 136 |
There was a salt smell in the air, swift and bright in the wind. |
10 |
| 18 | 433 |
What turbulence there was was remote, seemingly far removed from us, a matter only of clouds silently whipped in distant, unfelt winds, like rivers, invisible in the sky, breaking their banks, hurling and flooding in the night, carrying the intangible debris of darkness before them, soon to extingui... |
10 |
| 18 | 475 |
It is said they appear as though from nowhere to pillage, and to burn and rape, and then, among the flames, as quickly, vanish to their swift ships, carrying their booty with them, whether it be bars of silver, or goblets of gold, or silken sheets, knotted and bulging with plate, and coins and gems,... |
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| 19 | 105 |
Some seemed alert, swift. |
10 |
| 19 | 314 |
She had felt a man's blow, though a light, swift one, suitable for the disciplining of women. |
10 |
| 20 | 5 |
He who had thrust at me fell, slipping to his hands and knees, startled, red swift in the firelit yellow of his tunic. |
10 |
| 20 | 12 |
Twice more I thrust, shallow thrusts, swift, delicate, like the biting of the ost, that the blade not be ensnared. |
10 |
| 20 | 19 |
I heard the swift snap of the leaves of a crossbow, the leaping hiss of the quarrel. |
10 |
| 22 | 742 |
She would be swift and free in the dark green glades. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
She was a scrawny girl, not attractive, but with deep eyes, blue; and she was a superb scribe, in her accounting swift, incisive, accurate, brilliant; once she had been a paga slave, though a poor one; I had saved her from Surbus, a captain, who had purchased her to slay her, she not having served h... |
10 |
| 1 | 672 |
"Bring to me the blade of Port Kar, swift, fit with inhilted jewels". |
10 |
| 2 | 50 |
He was said to be fearless, and mighty, swift with sword and ax, fond of jokes, a deep drinker, a master of pretty wenches, and a madman. |
10 |
| 2 | 176 |
They can be brought to land in either direction, a valuable property in the rocky, swift northern waters. |
10 |
| 2 | 179 |
It is almost impossible to ram one of the swift ships of the north. |
10 |
| 3 | 69 |
It must be taken behind the point with the swift blow of the forearm. |
10 |
| 3 | 328 |
We brushed through the scrabbling workers and saw before us the wharf, and the serpent, sleek and swift, of Ivar Forkbeard, at its moorings. |
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| 4 | 40 |
The ships of the men of Torvaldsland are swift. |
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| 5 | 325 |
Others slipped past in the darkness, their passage marked by the swift whisper of the feathers and shaft. |
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| 7 | 37 |
"Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ... |
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| 7 | 243 |
"Perhaps," suggested Gorm, "it is diseased or injured, and can no longer hunt the swift deer of the north?" In these cases, too, I supposed one of the Kurii might be driven, by teeth and claws, from its own caves. |
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| 8 | 11 |
My accent might not have fooled one of Ar, but it was not bad, and to those not often accustomed to the swift, subtle liquidity of the speech of Ar, melodious yet expressive, it was more than adequate. |
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| 8 | 271 |
It had seemed in its full health, swift and powerful. |
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| 10 | 253 |
I gathered, from the swift looks on their faces, that they had thought it rather neatly done, though they are supposed to be objective in such matters. |
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| 14 | 47 |
Men came before them and threw themselves to their knees, that they might be spared, even were it but for the Ahn, but these, like others, no differences drawn between them, were cut down, destroyed by strokes of the swift axes. |
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| 17 | 25 |
It had been carried to the Inlet of Green Cliffs, to Thorstein Camp, from Ax Glacier to Einar's Skerry; it had been carried to the high farms, to the lakes, to the coast; it had been carried on foot and by swift ship; a thousand arrows, each touched to the arrow of Torvald, had been carried, and whe... |
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| 17 | 196 |
We saw her fleeing before them, trying to escape the swift, terrible jaws. |
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| 18 | 19 |
I charged him, my ax swift before he could strike. |
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| 18 | 302 |
That there is an apparent avenue of escape serves to make the enemy think in terms of escape; a cornered foe, desperate, is doubly dangerous; a foe who thinks he may, by swift decision, save himself, is less likely to fight with ferocity; he is quicker to abandon his lines, quicker to give up the co... |
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| 18 | 347 |
The fight was swift, sharp. |
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| 18 | 620 |
When she turned about, the Forkbeard dealt her a mighty blow, swift and stinging, with the flat of his sword. |
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| 21 | 254 |
"If he dies," he said, "your death will be neither swift nor pleasant". |
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| 22 | 284 |
Somewhere, above that placid sky with its swift, white clouds, closer now, were Kurii. |
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| 5 | 630 |
Her lip was swift to tremble, her eyes swift to moisten, filling with bright tears. |
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| 2 | 64 |
I knew the light lance, and the swift, silken kaiila. |
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| 2 | 370 |
One who rides the swift kaiila, who handles the scimitar and lance, chooses the burnoose. |
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| 2 | 456 |
Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness... |
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| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
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| 5 | 103 |
He had leaped to his feet and, swift, with fingers like pliers, had administered a sharp, jocular bit of instruction to the bold wench. |
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| 7 | 189 |
"Upon my signal," said Ibn Saran, speaking in swift Gorean, "attacking in a line, slash every inch of this room. |
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| 7 | 222 |
When there is need the men of the desert can move with swift, menacing efficiency. |
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| 7 | 656 |
"We will drag the body into the cell when you have made good your swift escape". |
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| 9 | 158 |
To scribble Taharic is generally regarded not as proving oneself a swift, efficient fellow, but something of a boor, insensible to beauty. |
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| 10 | 141 |
For more than four Ehn he put her through a swift, staccato regimen of movements, a set of slave paces, assessment paces, designed to exhibit, vulnerably, decisively and publicly, her beauty, in all of its major attitudes and positions. |
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| 10 | 142 |
"Hands on hips! Be insolent! Hands behind back! Hands crossed before you, as though bound! Hands at throat, as though chained to collar, fingers before mouth! Fall to the floor! Kneel! Head down! Head up! Bend backwards! Farther! Roll to the floor, on your side, on your back, right leg high, now fle... |
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| 10 | 250 |
Outside, shortly before dawn, when drops of moisture beaded on the rocks, Hassan and I, and his men, put our left feet into the stirrup of our saddles and mounted our swift beasts. |
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| 11 | 32 |
I had, at first, welcomed the clouds, and thrown back my burnoose to feel the swift, fierce rain pelt my face. |
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| 11 | 77 |
I did not find myself, however, longing for a swift return of rain. |
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| 12 | 61 |
"Excellent," she cried, "excellent!" Even among warriors I had been agile, swift. |
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| 13 | 161 |
The man shrugged, a Tahari shrug, tiny, subtle, like a swift smile, acknowledging the compliment of Hassan. |
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| 14 | 252 |
"Your death would be swift". |
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| 21 | 49 |
He himself broke free a haunch and, with swift motions, with his teeth, holding it, ripped the dry meat from the bone. |
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| 21 | 360 |
Then I heard the howling of a Kur, and four sudden, swift explosions. |
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| 21 | 455 |
The howling of the wind screened the sounds of my movements; its swift, lacerating blasts must have torn the atmosphere of my scent to pieces, scattering it wildly about, affording the Kur only sudden, misleading, fleeting, confused sensations. |
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| 21 | 521 |
I heard the Kur's claws swift on the steel outside, scraping, climbing. |
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| 25 | 149 |
"May your eye be keen, your steel swift," said Suleiman Pasha. |
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| 25 | 484 |
I had then dragged her by the neck to her own couch, that swift instruction be administered to her. |
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| 26 | 12 |
Behind Suleiman, on a swift kaiila, rode Shakar, with silver-tipped lance, a high captain of the Aretai. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 115 |
It was clean and clear; it was fresh, almost alive, almost sparkling with the exhilaration of swift, abundant, pristine oxygen. |
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| 2 | 74 |
Suddenly he struck me with his right hand, a swift, savage, open-handed slap. |
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| 2 | 511 |
In a swift, though measured fashion, he had exercised himself, sharply and well, respecting his foe, not permitting the foe to understand his full power with the blade, the devastating and subtle skill which now seemed to lend terrible flight to the rapid steel. |
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| 2 | 895 |
I thought my head would fly from my neck, with such swift savageness was I struck! The blow was open-handed, taking me on the left side of the face, but it must have been clearly audible for a hundred and fifty yards about; I rolled, stinging, crawling, for more than twenty feet; I threw up in the g... |
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| 2 | 1087 |
Commonly such a beast scouts prey, surreptitiously, and then, unless suspecting a trap, as with a tethered victim, perhaps a staked-out girl, used as a lure, makes its swift, unexpected strike, its kill charge. |
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| 3 | 285 |
At the same time that he had cried out this word he had swung the switch and struck Eta a swift, stinging blow below the small of the back, making her cry out, identifying her original position and, with a jangle of bells, starting her into motion. |
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| 6 | 129 |
Such roads permit the swift movement of thousands of men, useful either in the defense of borders, the meeting of armies, or in the expansions of imperialism, the conquests of the weak. |
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| 9 | 1336 |
I realized, suddenly, I had more to fear from them than from the swift switch of an angry Thurnus or Melina. |
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| 9 | 1930 |
She did not know she was so desirable! She makes swift adjustments. |
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| 9 | 2436 |
The billowing, scudding clouds were swift in the night. |
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| 11 | 250 |
"Be swift, Sulda," whispered Sucha. |
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| 12 | 413 |
They were fierce, swift men, efficient, terrible. |
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| 12 | 620 |
With a swift movement it was torn away. |
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| 12 | 756 |
Then Rask of Treve looked about himself, making swift inspection of his men and tarns, and their burdens, riches and slave girls. |
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| 13 | 22 |
Swift, expert assessment had been done upon me. |
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| 14 | 465 |
Suddenly, on my closely placed wrists, as I went to lift the cup, with a startling flash of metal and two swift snaps, slave bracelets locked. |
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| 17 | 61 |
With others it was swift, lethal and horrifying. |
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| 22 | 90 |
It might be noted, however, if it is of interest, that the swift, square-rigged ships of Torvaldsland are single ruddered, and on the right side. |
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| 22 | 164 |
Its lack of height in the water had not indicated a weight of freighting, buts its design, swift and terrible, like a mighty racing shell. |
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| 22 | 171 |
Now not only the flag of Port Kar but another flag, too, snapped on its line at the stem castle of the approaching vessel, hurling toward us, like a swift knife, its oars flashing. |
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| 22 | 177 |
I screamed and saw the new ship, suddenly large, seem to lift itself in the water, and then heard the shattering splintering wreckage of wood and the loud swift swirl of water the ship struck and men screaming and saw the lines loose wild the yard and sail leaning awry the deck shifting and becoming... |
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| 28 | 419 |
I heard the swift sound of the leather in flight. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 702 |
His play was swift, decisive, brilliant, merciless; more than one player had given up the game after being indulged, and then toyed with, and humiliated, by the genius of Scormus. |
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| 4 | 262 |
The Center Defense seemed an implausible candidate however from which to project a brilliancy, unless perhaps the brilliancy might involve some swift and devastating exploitation of red's temerity by yellow. |
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| 4 | 511 |
I thought I might rather ply toward the horizon beckoning betwixt Cos and Tyros in the Dorna or the small, swift Tesephone. |
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| 9 | 115 |
They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift, many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted, antelopelike quadruped of the south. |
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| 22 | 138 |
Normally, though it is swift to attack an object moving about in the water, like a swimmer, it will not attack a vessel. |
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| 22 | 183 |
The bone head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood. |
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| 26 | 250 |
The sleen were now some two hundred yards away, swift, frenzied. |
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| 30 | 172 |
"I will be swift," I told him. |
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| 34 | 3 |
The wind was twisting and swift. |
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| 34 | 133 |
Its breathing was swift. |
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| 35 | 46 |
Neither of these men, I gathered, had ever hunted the swift sea sleen. |
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| 35 | 59 |
Not only was dispatch of tactical significance but exposure to the arctic winter could bring a swift death on the summit of the ice island. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 376 |
Such tiny, swift tharlarion, in their thousands, can take the meat from a kailiauk in an Ehn. |
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| 6 | 161 |
To be sure, one merchant ship, like the Palms of Schendi, could have made little effective resistance to the ships which had just passed us, nor could she, though swift for a round ship, have outrun them. |
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| 13 | 677 |
"It was so swift, and brutal," she said. |
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| 32 | 57 |
Kisu, sitting, was looking down through the trees at the swift, churning water of the river. |
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| 34 | 11 |
They are cunning, persistent, and swift. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 297 |
"It will be swift," said the heavy man. |
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| 7 | 88 |
Let men again put their hands to the oars; let the low, swift ships be launched once more. |
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| 13 | 440 |
The pace of life in a Gorean city, even a large city such as Ar, does not tend to be swift. |
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| 19 | 18 |
After she had inspected me, it had seemed to me that she had brought her inspection to a rather swift termination. |
10 |
| 21 | 271 |
How swift and nimble were their fingers, how fine and exact their work. |
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| 24 | 270 |
I gave her a swift and stinging slap below the small of the back. |
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| 25 | 171 |
The combination was swift and delivered at close range. |
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| 26 | 277 |
I had no doubt but what, in an instant, there would be swift pursuit of me and my fair prisoner. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 28 |
Caught in a swift combination he buckled to the sand. |
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| 11 | 476 |
I put her beneath me, in the capture position, and subjected her to swift slave rape. |
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| 21 | 82 |
"And the thief, Grat, the Swift, who has long been a nuisance in Victoria, has fled the town, obedient to your command". |
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| 26 | 234 |
Too, perhaps they had learned of my dismissal of Grat, the Swift, the thief, from Victoria, and how I had entered the tavern of Hibron to extract Miss Henderson from her danger there, though in this I had been unsuccessful. |
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| 27 | 56 |
That, of course, is a swift use. |
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| 32 | 229 |
Then, again, the blade struck, swift as an ost, toward me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 |
It was swift. |
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| 1 | 152 |
Arrows traversed the air in swift menace. |
10 |
| 2 | 44 |
"We were as fierce as they," I said, wonderingly, "as swift, as vicious". |
10 |
| 2 | 187 |
"In a free battle, on the river, we will stand little chance against the swift ships of the Voskjard". |
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| 4 | 149 |
"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pound... |
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| 5 | 144 |
Did Ar's Station truly think to match such swollen, ponderous freighters against the swift, sleek menace of the Voskjard's warships? And to aggravate the situation the ships of Ar's Station seemed undermanned. |
10 |
| 5 | 207 |
Vicious and swift, clean, exact, merciless, was the steel of professional warriors. |
10 |
| 7 | 60 |
By the buffeting of those mighty shields, by the thrusting of great spears, by the swift, ringing flash of well-tempered steel, wave after wave of boarders was repelled, cut to pieces, swept back like rabble. |
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| 10 | 55 |
She had fallen prey to the swift Tais. |
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| 16 | 409 |
I then dragged him, half strangling him, up the sloping deck to the starboard rail, where, with a swift knot, I tied him to one of the uprights supporting the rail. |
10 |
| 16 | 543 |
In the quarries and on the galleys the chains are heavy and the whips are swift. |
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| 18 | 462 |
Her least insolence she knows may be rewarded with exact, swift punishment, such as the whip or close chains, nudity in the streets or public rental, or the deprivation of food. |
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| 19 | 490 |
Then, when her breathing was calmer, though still deep and swift, I released her mouth. |
10 |
| 20 | 880 |
I also smiled, detecting the swift, astonished breathing of the little slave near me. |
10 |
| 20 | 1898 |
"Please, Master," she said, "may I beg one thing! Let it be swift, efficient and uncaring. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 174 |
In both cases, of course, for a right-handed individual, the scabbard is at the left hip, facilitating the convenient and swift across-the-body draw. |
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| 9 | 52 |
They are used, generally, for the swift acquisition of bloody trophies. |
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| 13 | 499 |
I would spin before the mirror, to make certain the dress swirled well and provided a swift glimpse of my calves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 79 |
My mount, a lofty black kaiila, silken and swift, shifted nervously beneath me. |
10 |
| 1 | 120 |
More to them than meat for the stomach and clothes for the back is the kailiauk to them; too, it is mystery and meaning for them; it is heavy with medicine; it is a danger; it is a sport; it is a challenge; and, at dawn, with a lance or bow in one's hand, and a swift, eager kaiila between one's knee... |
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| 1 | 143 |
There were members of his own society who feared to ride with him, so swift, so fierce, so careless of danger he was. |
10 |
| 2 | 75 |
The swift strokes of the supple switch will have it no other way. |
10 |
| 7 | 163 |
"A shamed, humiliated slave, tied and beaten, is usually swift thereafter to learn her lessons," I said. |
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| 7 | 492 |
Similarly it seems men, with their strength, aggressiveness and size, would be better suited for the hunt, pursuing the swift, trident-horned, belligerent kailiauk at full speed than the slighter, softer women, and that the women, with their patience, their sense of color, with their small, nimble f... |
10 |
| 20 | 80 |
The sky itself seemed blotted out with swift torrents of terrible forms. |
10 |
| 24 | 14 |
The passage was so swift he could not bring his own lance over that of his foe. |
10 |
| 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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| 28 | 188 |
May your movements be swift and sure. |
10 |
| 29 | 5 |
Her own hair, similarly, had been cut short, closely, at the back of her neck, where the girl behind her, with swift strokes of a blade, had been freed. |
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| 29 | 28 |
It would be a greater danger, presumably, for a girl to hide in a lodge where, perhaps being mistaken for a free person, she might be struck by arrows, the skins of the lodge cover perhaps being riddled from above by the swift, flighted riders. |
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| 34 | 36 |
We had made remarks in their hearing to which they, if they had understood Kaiila adequately, presumably would have responded, probably by swift flight. |
10 |
| 37 | 88 |
It may be strangled; it may be crushed beneath the knees, with the hunter's weight; or it may be put on its belly, its back to be broken by a swift blow of the foot. |
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| 39 | 211 |
Sometimes, rather, she, stripped, and presented before officers, is offered the choice between swift, honorable decapitation and slavery. |
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| 43 | 146 |
With one long, even, swift stroke of the knife I opened the back of the lodge. |
10 |
| 43 | 370 |
I turned the kaiila in a wide circle at the end of the promenade, the bags, like swift, twin plows, taut on their ropes, throwing up two trails of dust. |
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| 44 | 610 |
They were not the large, oval shields of Turia, or the large rounded shields common to Gorean infantry in the north, behind which a warrior might crouch, hoping for a swift surcease to the storm of missiles. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 391 |
As they thrust at one another and fended blows, moving with great speed and skill, in their swift passages, under the watchful eye of the referee, backed by two independent scorers, I could scarcely conjecture what would be involved in actual swordplay, with steel unencumbered with sheaths. |
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| 6 | 429 |
He whom the girl had favored, and whom I had favored, had won, a swift, lithe, bronzed giant of a youth. |
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| 30 | 485 |
They were swift and perfunctory but I think she learned much from them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 295 |
"In spite of the fact that I am willing to accord you the dignity of a swift and honorable death, one fitting for a free woman, you would choose instead, and prefer, the degradation of slavery?" "Yes," she said. |
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| 2 | 940 |
A swift stroke or two is usually sufficient to correct a momentary lapse in a slave, to recall her to the civilities and proprieties attendant upon her condition. |
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| 6 | 63 |
"I mean, of course," she said, "that I apologize for having to veil myself so hastily, making such swift and resourceful use of whatever materials might be at hand". |
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| 8 | 209 |
The fellow's draw was swift and smooth. |
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| 10 | 857 |
The question is usually repeated three times, each time receiving the same response, and followed by the same swift admonitory stroke. |
10 |
| 12 | 82 |
"My triumph here will be all the sweeter for having experienced so many swift, casual, outrageously humiliating defeats at your hands". |
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| 14 | 314 |
Its passage's swift route was actually visible in the animals, like a wave spreading along, and registered in, their backs and fur, in their sudden stillness, then in the sudden alertness of them, then in the quivering agitation which seemed to transform the entire pack, hitherto seemingly so tranqu... |
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| 16 | 108 |
"No," admitted Lecchio, which response brought a swift kick in the shins. |
10 |
| 16 | 764 |
"Move, Lana!" said Lecchio, speeding her into motion with a swift stroke of the fierce, supple switch. |
10 |
| 16 | 766 |
"You, too, Bana!" said Lecchio, adding a swift, smart stripe to her, as well, as she, moaning, at the end of the chain, tried to hurry past him. |
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| 17 | 21 |
The exchange was swift. |
10 |
| 19 | 162 |
He had then apparently taken his swift leave. |
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| 20 | 248 |
Even if they had been regrouped and set, the distance was so short and the attack of the beast so precipitous and swift that there had been no time to align their weapons in a practical, properly angled, defensive perimeter. |
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| 21 | 81 |
The fall is swift, but not destructive. |
10 |
| 22 | 76 |
"To be sure," I said, "I did not realize the descent on the tarn wire, with the flanged wheel, would be that swift. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 38 |
They were swift. |
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| 13 | 268 |
The penalty for the unauthorized male will be swift and honorable execution, that for the unauthorized female being fed to sleen, or, if she is comely enough, and zealous enough to please, perhaps bondage". |
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| 18 | 84 |
And as she, with her high intelligence, is swift to learn how to move as a slave, with a slave's beauty and grace, and to serve and kneel, and perform obeisance, and to wear revealing tunics and silks, appropriate to her status, so, too, she is quick to learn how to wear chains, and move in them, an... |
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| 19 | 286 |
"There is only one word in the poem?" I began to suspect I had penetrated the secret of the poem's swift completion. |
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| 25 | 1415 |
That would earn her a swift whipping. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 253 |
Often the urts, those tiny, swift, sleek, furtive rodents, bold in their familiarity with, and seemingly assumed privileges in, the place, would rush to food before we could reach it and, almost at our cheek, snatch it up and scurry away to their holes, through the narrowly spaced bars and small cre... |
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| 11 | 470 |
In a moment or two, as Mirus solicited further interest among the customers, I heard the sounds of the instruments, the czehar and kalikas being tuned, the flautist trying passages, the drummer's fingers light on the taut skin of his instrument, the kaska, then adjusting it, then trying it again, th... |
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| 26 | 229 |
He was still following! One stroke of his sword, I knew, if it were his decision to be swift with me, could remove my head. |
10 |
| 26 | 232 |
But I did not even know if he would be swift with me. |
10 |
| 29 | 4 |
It was almost as though the right side of his face had been abraded by some terrifying, fierce passage, by some swift, lengthy, terrible friction, as of being dragged over rock. |
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| 29 | 1527 |
I could not even follow the movements of the steel, so swift they were. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 82 |
The two fellows exchanged swift glances. |
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| 8 | 615 |
It is little wonder that peoples knowing not the horse fled in terror when they first encountered riders, taking the rider and his mount for one thing, something half animal, half human, an awesome, unbelievably swift, gigantic, armed chimera, something that could not be outrun, that seemed to fly u... |
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| 8 | 657 |
The ascent was steep and swift. |
10 |
| 8 | 660 |
More than once it had carried me above adversaries, their attack speed prohibiting so swift an adjustment in their trajectory. |
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| 10 | 153 |
I had not seen what passed between them but I suspect that he had seen in her eyes something swift, some flash of sudden fear and recognition, that she had seen him as her master. |
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| 11 | 329 |
"Hanging is too swift a death for a spy". |
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| 13 | 171 |
"Is impalement swift?" she asked. |
10 |
| 17 | 376 |
This would make possible to whomsoever might be so inclined a convenient and swift immobilization of the slave. |
10 |
| 19 | 38 |
It is not simply that the squares are more tactically flexible, being capable of functioning on broken terrain, and such, but also that they facilitate substitutions in the front lines, permitting the swift injection of fresh troops at crucial points. |
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| 24 | 218 |
Too, it seems she possesses swift, covert channels of communication. |
10 |
| 24 | 457 |
Then she threw back her head and shrieked, for the lash, swift, instantaneous, like lightning and fire, had called to her attention the mistaken nature of her claim. |
10 |
| 24 | 737 |
But even if the image on the coin had been that of the swift, silken kaiila or the fierce, wide-winged tarn well might the slaves have understood that decisions pertaining to them had not even been left to the will of masters but rather to the winds of chance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 455 |
They had seen times in which only the swift, ruthless and inexorable survive. |
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| 14 | 254 |
More injuries, I think, were suffered as the result of their thrashing about, the swift movements of those gigantic tails, the strokes of which could break legs, and hurl a fellow yards away, than from the laceration of numerous, white, curved, hooklike teeth, than from the pounding closings of thos... |
10 |
| 14 | 287 |
Then like wind, swift, everywhere, as though the air were alive, shafts, in flights, from all sides, sprung from the darkness of the marsh, swept the bar. |
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| 18 | 56 |
This movement was sudden and swift, almost blurring. |
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| 18 | 174 |
I turned to see it fall in the water and, at the same time, heard the swift departure of steel from a Gorean sheath. |
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| 26 | 199 |
With the unification of the Wagon Peoples under a Ubar San, Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, it is my impression that the riders of the swift kaiila now seldom ply their depredations against their own kind. |
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| 29 | 144 |
When he left, she looked after him, with a swift intake of breath. |
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| 4 | 74 |
Further, its lines of communication, from the palace at Telnus, in Cos, to the tent of Myron, the polemarkos, were swift and reliable. |
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| 8 | 1068 |
Too, compounding her misery, was doubtless the fact that Marcus, in his swift, imperious, almost thoughtless usage of her, had done little more than intensify her needs, the helpless prisoner of which, as a slave girl, she was. |
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| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
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| 19 | 3 |
Although our mounts were such, they are not to be confused with the high tharlarion commonly used by Gorean shock cavalry, swift, enormous beasts the charge of which can be so devastating to unformed infantry. |
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| 24 | 269 |
There is something to be said in favor of the swift disrobing in certain contexts, of course, aside from its more unusual employments, as in plans such as mine. |
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| 8 | 497 |
Aside from my possible independent interest to men, I do not doubt but what this success was largely due to my swift progress in readiness, need and heat, which progress was sure, profound and irreversible. |
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| 12 | 60 |
We are weaker than they, we are less swift than they. |
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| 13 | 529 |
I screamed! From either side of the passage, with a swift, loud, rattling sound, there had suddenly sprung forth a set of sharpened metal projections. |
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| 19 | 74 |
The flash of the mirrors, the sight of the smoke signal, the glimpse of a fire, such things, it might be recollected, convey their message at the speed of light, far faster than a tarn can fly, incomparably more swift, even, than the flighted sound of a distant bar. |
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| 30 | 10 |
"Fecha, Janice," said the pit master with a swift gesture, "to your kennels!" I quickly pulled my tunic off and hurried to the kennel, backing into it, pulling shut the gate after me. |
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| 37 | 77 |
He would not know for a time that the swift beasts pursued him, padding swiftly through the dark halls. |
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| 22 | 250 |
Suddenly she heard a fierce movement in the air, behind her, an unexpected but unmistakable swift hiss, and, almost at the same time, below the small of the back, she felt a stinging stripe, the swift, sharp blow of a supple switch, a yard in length. |
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| 4 | 306 |
Should they detect a breach of one of their ordinances, say, one forbidding certain varieties of weapons to humans, it seems they are capable of imposing swift, unmistakable and effective sanctions". |
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| 16 | 13 |
How vigorous and remarkable, and diverse, and expressive, seemed that strange tongue, at once so lively, bright and fluent, even delicate, and then suddenly so explosively rude and brutal, at one moment loud, at another soft, at one moment rapid, even careless, at another measured and stately, at on... |
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| 17 | 370 |
Ellen was lying on the shelf, her eyes closed against the sun, when suddenly, almost at her side, there was a loud, swift, scuffling noise and there was suddenly something large, extremely large, and alive, at least fifteen or twenty feet long, and weighing easily several hundred pounds, on the shel... |
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| 17 | 395 |
She could still feel the roughnesses from the beast's swift, inquisitive investigations of her body, the forcible thrustings of its snout about her, its coldness, the rapid, exploratory movements of the hot, moist, rasplike tongue on her breasts and belly. |
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| 21 | 167 |
If a girl did not beg there was always the possibility that the attendant would simply return her, unbathed, filthy, smelling, to the coffle, at which point one would not wish to be that girl, for discipline would be swift and severe. |
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| 25 | 171 |
Have you not yet learned the nature of this world, and what you are on this world? What a silly little vulo you are! What a stupid little pudding you are!" Later, rising to a half-reclining, half-sitting position, she brought her legs together, to one side, with smooth, swift, sinuous grace. |
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| 27 | 477 |
Mirus urged his tharlarion, a swift, bipedalian tharlarion, forward. |
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| 27 | 1930 |
Such beasts can move with great rapidity on all fours, faster than a swift man. |
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| 30 | 665 |
Know, too, proud, vulnerable woman of Earth, that you might be observed, yes, you, literally you, personally you, exactly you, you who are now reading this, observed, carefully observed, scrutinized and noted, perhaps in the bright, cool office where you work; perhaps at the beach, where you thought... |
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| 1 | 676 |
Perhaps, even, the container might have been slowly filled with mud or sand, or with fast-growing poisonous molds, or with dark water, in which swam the tiny, razor-teethed eels kept in large pools at the palatial villas of some Gorean oligarchs, both as a delicacy, and as a standing admonition to s... |
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| 6 | 117 |
"I am swift, I am strong, even for Kurii. |
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| 8 | 33 |
Cabot conjectured the jaws could shake and cut a normal river tharlarion in two, that the tail, with a swift blow, might shatter stone or fell trees. |
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| 10 | 289 |
He wished he had his weapons, the mighty Gorean spear, the great bow, even the swift short blade, like part of his own hand, which could strike like the ost. |
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| 15 | 23 |
Already, with swift signs, he was clearly giving orders pertaining to the breaking of the camp. |
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| 16 | 38 |
He was as strong, as swift, and possibly as ruthless, as a Kur. |
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| 18 | 118 |
* * * * Cabot understood that he would be unable to distance either sleen or Kurii, for the sleen is a swift, tireless tracker and the Kur, particularly when descending to all fours, its accouterments fastened to its body, can easily outrun a man, either in a short race, for speed, or in one ranging... |
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| 21 | 192 |
How many of your dogs recall in appearance and demeanor their remote, swift, hungry, far-ranging ancestor, the gray wolf?" "We would not breed even dogs so," said Cabot, in fury. |
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| 34 | 37 |
The raft, mighty as it was, began to respond to the force of swift, rising swells. |
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| 35 | 50 |
A swift motion in one's vicinity is likely to be the strike of the predator and he who pauses to reflect in such a situation is unlikely to reflect long, or again. |
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| 36 | 33 |
"The spear can be swift," said Lord Grendel. |
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| 36 | 361 |
There were two swift, decisive clicks, almost simultaneous, and the slave, frightened, tried to separate her wrists. |
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| 43 | 264 |
Lita threw him a swift glance, of relief, of joy, of gratitude. |
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| 56 | 63 |
It seems reasonably clear then that the Nameless One, in its wisdom, or its blind, adventitious lotteries, casting its cards as it pleased, favored swift optical adjustments in the Kur, and the sleen, and doubtless in several other forms of life, as well. |
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| 73 | 7 |
"How splendid he was, how massive and swift, how splendid of visage, so clear of eye, so quick of hand". |
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| 73 | 221 |
"I thought you were earlier interested in her most swift recovery". |
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| 77 | 278 |
A swift flight of this mighty tool swept toward Cabot and he sprang back. |
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| 79 | 297 |
Surely the instruction of the switch's swift, stinging admonitions would be more than sufficient for her control, management, and improvement. |
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| 2 | 176 |
In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallyi... |
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| 3 | 150 |
Constantina cast a swift glance at me, and Pertinax looked down. |
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| 5 | 479 |
I recalled that Dietrich of Tarnburg had fought a tenacious holding action at Torcodino, to delay the advance on Ar, to give her time to meet the avalanche, the swift confluences, of armed men who would descend upon her. |
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| 9 | 109 |
Later, she was occasionally less certain of the wisdom of her choice in recruiting White, for he was much larger and stronger than she, was, in his way, strikingly good looking, and, annoyingly, was as swift, if not more so, than she, in learning Gorean and certain ways of Gor. |
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| 11 | 210 |
Saru cast a swift, distressed glance at Cecily, who was standing behind me, a bit to my left. |
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| 16 | 17 |
In this fashion a flock of birds, even in the wild, will engage effortlessly in what appear to be astonishingly swift and complex maneuvers. |
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| 16 | 95 |
One might also note, in passing, the rapidity of communication by tarn, the timely reporting of developments, the swift conveyance of messages, and such. |
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| 16 | 272 |
In the distance, far off, coming from the south, it seemed a cloud had formed, obscure, uncertain, at first, and then swift and dark, and then, in a moment or two, it seemed the cloud might be a flight of insects, a dark swarm, a plague of predators. |
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| 18 | 263 |
"The slave learns quickly to respond to its discipline, to its swift, informative, lashing sting, its sudden monitory caress on her soft, smooth skin". |
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| 19 | 234 |
"Some, less swift, some less valorous, some more fearful, some less frightened, some more circumspect, some more clever, may remain within," I said. |
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| 20 | 185 |
In it, of course, she is positioned perfectly for a swift and secure binding. |
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| 20 | 218 |
"I will need a tarn," he said, "a swift tarn, and none are to follow. |
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| 22 | 14 |
Tassa powder is a harmless, tasteless, swift-acting drug. |
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| 22 | 316 |
"Be swift, if you would". |
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| 23 | 175 |
So, too, it might be said that in the kingdom of the addled and staggering, he is king who is sober, swift, and purposeful. |
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| 25 | 126 |
Both modalities facilitate the swift, across-the-body draw. |
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| 30 | 164 |
It was not made for approaching, difficult to detect, low on the horizon, for the raid and swift departure. |
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| 32 | 4 |
I had little doubt that I might have eluded them easily, would not two swift, unexpected blows have sufficed, but there were others about, many others. |
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| 2 | 139 |
Its maneuverability would be so sluggish that the deft adjustments of shearing blades, responsive to subtleties of the ship's movement, so common in the swift movements of Gorean naval warfare, would be impractical, if not impossible. |
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| 2 | 197 |
Stories had it that they rode within ships, but strange ships, round, flat ships, like disks, disks of metal, which moved like clouds, swift as thought, in silence. |
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| 3 | 780 |
One swift motion of that blade and my neck would have been half cut through. |
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| 4 | 33 |
Might that not be to her advantage? Yet, in his haste to make a swift, unencumbered escape, she had been abandoned, left on the roof of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 5 | 28 |
It takes time, usually, to beat a fellow bloody and senseless, and he is likely to recover sooner or later, and perhaps put an end to the quarrel over a jug of paga, but an angry word, a swift movement, and a flash of steel, and one may well have lost a shipmate, and eventually, given the friendship... |
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| 5 | 273 |
Let the slow and clumsy perish, let the swift and skillful live. |
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| 8 | 92 |
One caught at a pole and snapped it apart with one swift, wrenching closure of its wide, double-fanged jaws, like a toothed trap door set low in that broad, viperlike head. |
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| 9 | 143 |
Three men were dead in the corridor; one was of the Pani, probably the room guard, posted outside the door, and two others, who may have fallen to his swift, small sword, each, apparently, by a single stroke. |
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| 9 | 254 |
One thrust at him with a spear, doubtless stolen from a weapon room, but he caught the weapon and jerked its wielder forward, startled, wide-eyed, onto the sharp blade of the small swift sword, the warrior's gladius. |
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| 9 | 287 |
I saw him disable another man, and then twice slash his face, once on each side, and then his blade, swift as a striking ost, entered the throat and withdrew, only a hort, but enough. |
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| 12 | 379 |
No bird so flies, not so swift, not so straight, so piercing the wind. |
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| 22 | 315 |
And as succeeding ranks surmounted their fellows, they, too, encountered the rapid fire of the small, powerful, swift bows, developed over generations of warfare amongst the Wagon Peoples of the Southern Plains. |
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| 25 | 76 |
Not only would tarns be new to these islands, but they were unfamiliar as well, as far as I knew, with the swift, lofty, silken kaiila, common in the Tahari, on the southern plains, in the Barrens, and such. |
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| 25 | 78 |
The Pani did have, however, one swift mode of communication. |
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| 25 | 81 |
It was the swift-flighted, message-carrying Vulo, released, seeking its familiar cot and roost. |
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| 26 | 124 |
Though I had never been in that room, its window high, unshuttered, open to the sky, it obviously housed a number of the swift-flighted, messenger vulos, by means of which Pani might convey messages. |
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| 27 | 111 |
In this way it differs from the crashing thunder of a tharlarion charge, or the swift attack of kaiila-mounted lancers. |
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| 34 | 153 |
"And so," I said, "the lame might denounce the swift, and the weak the strong". |
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| 4 | 450 |
You will be swift to respond to summoning, of any sort, for example, to bring a laver of scented water to a place, that the guest may rinse his hands, or to lend your body, clothing, or hair, if a guest wishes, to wipe grease from his fingers. |
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| 10 | 689 |
And the knots had been warrior knots! I was scarcely aware of its movements so swift it was, and I felt myself seized up, lifted, in mighty paws, and I sensed nails within them, and heard a roar of rage, and I was flung a dozen feet across the room, striking into a wall. |
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| 10 | 696 |
It was my first experience of the sudden rage of that form of life, a rage easily aroused, swift, unexpected, unpredictable, terrible and overwhelming, a rage almost impossible to subdue. |
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| 10 | 1125 |
I heard its swift rush through the air. |
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| 15 | 12 |
How could he know that, if he were not going to assure himself of it, with, say, a swift blow, a grasping paw on the throat, an embrace which might break a back? The tiniest sound, the scuttling of an urt, the fluttering of a vart, come over the walls from the countryside, almost made me scream with... |
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| 18 | 920 |
I could not follow the movement of the blades, so sudden, so swift they were, but, a moment later, I realized they had crossed six times, from the sound. |
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| 48 | 81 |
"Kill him now! Be swift! Be done with it!" "He is a man," said another Kur. |
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| 48 | 330 |
Grendel stepped forward, to the center of the room, and Lucius, with a cry of rage, unintelligible in the translator, rushed forward and his ax, bright and double edged, described its swift, terrible arc, and in a moment might have cut away a head and part of a shoulder, but it was suddenly arrested... |
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| 6 | 155 |
Such men could be kept in line, I was sure, only by paga, gold, the promise of women, and an uncompromised discipline as swift and merciless as the strike of an ost. |
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| 11 | 64 |
Suddenly, briefly, we heard a succession of thunderous snapping noises from above the canopy, and we looked up, and leaves fluttered about us, and we were cast into a flight of shadows, as though swift, fierce, jagged clouds would blot out the sun, one following another, but these shadows were cast ... |
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| 14 | 119 |
"A quick eye, a swift hand, of course," he said. |
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| 14 | 428 |
"Unseen like the wind, mighty like the sea, wise as the stars, swift like the flash of lightning". |
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| 19 | 80 |
There were rumors, whispers, stories, of course, of lightning sticks, tubes of fire, bows which cast quarrels so swift and small one could not even see them in flight, of metal rocks which burst apart like ripe pods in the Schendi death plant, and such. |
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| 21 | 440 |
The blow had been unhesitant, efficient, unwavering, swift, clean, firm, deep, to the hilt, exact, powerful, a blow worthy of the dark caste itself. |
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| 23 | 142 |
And the vessels of war were like knives in the water, swift, low, multiply oared, and concave prowed, armed with deck engines, rams, and crescent-like blades, which might shear away timbers and oars. |
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| 24 | 88 |
"The quarry," I said, "is not swift. |
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| 39 | 207 |
It was planned then to dispatch a small, but swift, terrible force, perhaps only two hundred men, to destroy this ship before it could reach Thassa". |
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| 43 | 367 |
A swift, unexpected blow across the back of the neck with a gladius would sever the vertebrae. |
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| 43 | 1141 |
With a few swift strokes, he cut Genserich's bonds away. |
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| 48 | 58 |
But, too, more consciously, I did realize, even if I felt I could move, any swift movement on my part would be likely to trigger the pursuit response common in most predators. |
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| 48 | 119 |
I could scarcely follow their movements, so rapid they were, so swift and fierce was the tumult of their engagement. |
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| 3 | 17 |
Some might have seen the tarn descend, black, brief, swift, against the yellow moon. |
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| 5 | 1 |
Report of a Brief Conversation; This Took Place in the New Encampment I blocked the swift, lashing, whiplike blow of the supple bamboo. |
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| 23 | 264 |
"Would he not keep some birds, who would home to the holding of Temmu, that he might make use of them upon occasion, perhaps to mislead the forces of Temmu, say, putting them at their ease, while he plotted swift and devastating actions?" "Surely there would be some sign enclosed with the messages, ... |
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| 23 | 295 |
"I shall," I said, "and I shall also attempt to devise an arrangement for further communication, one swift but not dependent on caged vulos". |
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| 25 | 61 |
Haruki, as I understood it, some days ago, had been apprehended in, or in the vicinity of, the cot where attendants of Lord Yamada housed his small, swift-flighted, messengers. |
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| 43 | 37 |
He then cut the air with the switch, with a swift hiss, and the slaves stirred uneasily in their harnessing. |
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| 46 | 187 |
Then, like the ost, so swift one could not mark its movement, but was only aware of it a moment after, it had struck. |
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| 49 | 59 |
I cast her a swift glance, enough to determine that the shogun had exquisite taste, and was generous. |
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| 57 | 39 |
These reports, certainly at first, given the confusion at the front, the haste with which they were drafted, and the limitations on content imposed by the nature of the small, swift carriers, as well as the contradictory nature of some of these accounts, seemed to have created little more than alarm... |
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| 59 | 189 |
"You must be as in the dojo, alert, and calm, cool, quick, steady, but not as in the dojo," said Nodachi, "for here you must be more, even more, for here it is different, for here you are facing steel which intends to cut you, swift steel intent upon entering your flesh, quick steel which is intent ... |
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| 60 | 50 |
Sunlight flashed on swift blades. |
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| 60 | 87 |
He then addressed a medley of blows to Nodachi so swift and fierce, so varied, and so deftly met that Tajima cried out in awe. |
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| 60 | 205 |
In the pause which followed Nodachi's swift, almost casual, felling of Lord Akio's two men, that small, eager, ill-fated vanguard unwisely addressing themselves, woefully unsupported, to their foray, both he and Lord Yamada had replaced their companion swords in their sashes and drawn up their field... |
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| 2 | 62 |
I have found myself barefoot in those green fields, I have glimpsed far horizons from the bow of a swift galley, knelt trembling before a master". |
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| 7 | 9 |
I recalled Paula's appearance at the apartment, her freeing me of the handcuffs, and, later, the sudden, swift ingress of three men into the apartment, the simplicity and ease of our capture, the ride in the van, the arrival at the warehouse or storage facility, the cell, the taking of our clothing,... |
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| 13 | 24 |
He was swift with the switch. |
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| 21 | 13 |
Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against the tiny urt's ... |
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| 30 | 316 |
At that moment there was, from beyond the leather curtain, the sudden skirl of a flute, the swift strumming of a kalika, and the pounding of the tabor. |
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| 33 | 683 |
I watched, in horror, as the beast spread this oil like a fuse about the floor, and into the midst of crates and bales, which fuse, a moment later, took fire, and, ignited, coursed its way like a swift, burning snake through the stored wealth it would claim as its tinder. |
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| 42 | 63 |
A swift wrenching of those mighty jaws, I was sure, could tear an arm from my body. |
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| 55 | 29 |
Eve cried out in dismay but I think, truly, that Lord Grendel's apparent lapse of attention to those who had been behind us was not what it had seemed, given his swift turn, which preceded Eve's outcry, to face the Kur scrambling forward, from those behind, ax raised. |
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| 61 | 262 |
Kurii, a life form that tends to be large, agile, swift, fierce, and powerful, tend to be contemptuous of humans, which they commonly regard as an inferior life form. |
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| 61 | 265 |
It reached, snarling, for Drusus Andronicus, and the sword of the latter, like a striking ost, swift, clean, and deep, almost invisible in its movement, penetrated that massive body, only to be instantly withdrawn, that it might be freed for another thrust. |
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| 8 | 247 |
Had I not felt it before? Is it not an experience sufficiently familiar to an attractive, negligible female slave? I had been stung sharply below the small of my back, with a sudden, forcible blow, delivered with the fierce, swift flat of a man's hand. |
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| 8 | 288 |
Only a few Ehn before, I had been struck below the small of my back, a swift, sharp slap. |
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| 11 | 49 |
There are few who have met the long, low, swift, knifelike ram ships of Port Kar, often painted green, which color blends in with many of the moods of Thassa, either as corsairs or attack vessels, who do not respect, even dread and fear them. |
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| 17 | 42 |
A slave tunic does little to soften the blows of a swift, hissing switch. |
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| 27 | 134 |
It was fierce, swift, and heavy. |
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| 27 | 170 |
I had heard just one sound, a small, swift sound, bright and quick, when Bruno of Torcadino, fiercely turned, leaning on the crutch, parried the assailant's blade, following which he thrust. |
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| 33 | 10 |
How often I had hoped to flee from him! It was not merely that I was leashed, but, when passersby were about, or we forded crowds, a simple cry from Bruno of Torcadino, "Stop her," or "Running slave," or such, would have put a dozen men, swift, long-legged brutes, after me. |
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| 36 | 76 |
Bosk of Port Kar's smallest ship was the swift Tesephone, it also bearing a woman's name, though one of a rather Cosian ring. |
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| 41 | 77 |
These swift, terrible, broad-winged monsters were rare in the vicinity of Port Kar. |
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| 42 | 41 |
Given the size, weight, and height of the barricade, that militating against its swift dismantling, and the unreliability of its footing should one attempt to climb it, a small number of men was sufficient, at least for a time, to defend it against a much larger force of attackers. |
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| 42 | 183 |
A cloak and hood await, and a swift ship, ready to bring you in honor to Cos". |
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| 43 | 46 |
"Soon lads," said Seremides, calling to the rowers, "we will be at the Southern Gate, and from thence to the Skerry of Lars, near which a swift, ready vessel, foreign and unmarked, awaits". |
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| 43 | 174 |
Fear rather terrible ships yet unseen, narrow ships, swift and long oared, even now coursing in our wake". |
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| 43 | 277 |
"Green, difficult to detect, low in the water, long-oared, swift, two masts down, to be raised and mounted, if the wind for Cos be fair". |
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| 52 | 89 |
As a sleen, tenacious and swift, can follow scent on land, tenacious and swift, a living island can follow sounds, disturbances, stirrings, in the water, schooling fish, the wake of a passing vessel, and such. |
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| 1 | 78 |
"The work was well done, organized, swift, and thorough". |
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| 1 | 121 |
Word spreads, swift, like the wind". |
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| 3 | 1 |
We Set Course for Thera; I Speak with Aktis; We Encounter a Surprise at Sea I stood on the stern castle of the Dorna, Builder's Glass in hand, above the twin rudders, the small, swift Tesephone, shallow-drafted, capable of negotiating rivers, abeam. |
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| 3 | 21 |
It was inconspicuous, helm-responsive, and swift. |
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| 5 | 66 |
"The Dorna and Tesephone are sleek and swift," I said. |
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| 7 | 127 |
What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the Priest-Kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like a bird of prey, "let us give glad heed to ... |
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| 13 | 52 |
Our attack was swift, and unexpected. |
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| 13 | 56 |
"I regret only that I could not affix certain messages to the small, swift carriers," I said. |
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| 17 | 239 |
I thought it wise to get her out of nadu, before I might seize her by the hair or by a wrist or ankle, and put her to swift, vigorous slave use. |
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| 19 | 1 |
We Attend the Fair at Mytilene Clitus had cast his net expertly, it enveloping and settling about the opponent like a swift, soft, corded rain. |
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| 20 | 46 |
Interest, like a swift rivulet, coursed amongst those present. |
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| 26 | 7 |
Such dances often involve intricate footwork and swift, if rhythmic, bodily movements. |
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| 26 | 22 |
"The Tesephone is light, swift, and shallow-drafted," said Sakim. |
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| 29 | 13 |
"And find themselves in them," said Captain Tab, currently assigned the captainship of the Dorna, fifty-oared, larger and more formidable than the light, swift Tesephone, sped by twenty oars. |
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| 29 | 78 |
That can be cause for swift and savage discipline. |
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| 32 | 95 |
"What could they have to hope for but a swift and bloody death, pitting themselves against our vast numbers". |
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| 33 | 72 |
He who claimed to be Bosk of Port Kar, and those of his oddly assorted retinue, men high and low, exchanged swift glances of relief and gladness. |
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| 35 | 83 |
I recall thinking that our speed must be unusually swift, measuring it against a presumably stationary island. |
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| 40 | 53 |
This swift, inadvertent act had not been unnoted by Thrasymedes. |
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| 49 | 101 |
"We are swift and dangerous". |
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| 50 | 6 |
And if a contact of this size had been made with a reef, there would have been a hideous tearing and splintering of wood, like thunder at one's ear drum, a swift inrush of cold water rising to the gunwales. |
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| 51 | 25 |
"The Tesephone is swift," I said. |
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| 51 | 33 |
"Our men are strong, the Tesephone is swift," said Clitus. |
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| 52 | 15 |
But, masts down, it can be difficult amongst the waves of gleaming Thassa to detect the presence of a swift, shallow-drafted Gorean fighting ship. |
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| 53 | 73 |
The Tesephone is swift! You may be able to elude the enemy, even with his shifts of rowers, until dark. |
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