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| 1 | 47 |
I was pleased that I had regularly taken a turn or two around the college track. |
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| 2 | 8 |
It reminded me, with the vegetation and background and the classic serenity of the faces, of a Renaissance tapestry I had once seen on a vacation tour I had taken to Florence in my second year at the University. |
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| 2 | 48 |
I felt like a child, knowing nothing, taken to some complex factory or store, unable to sort out his impressions, unable to comprehend the new and strange things that flash incessantly upon him. |
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| 2 | 228 |
I regarded this story as improbable, at least in part, for several reasons, primarily having to do with the sheer spatial improbabilities of such a migration, which, even at a speed approximating light, would have taken billions of years. |
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| 3 | 145 |
The girl I had originally seen had been a slave, and what I had taken to be the jewelry at her throat had been a badge of servitude. |
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| 3 | 278 |
It sounded like something out of the Code of the Warrior, something which, if taken literally, would seem to encourage its believer to take not the slightest or most sane precautions for his safety. |
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| 4 | 47 |
His skill was such that he had taken a lead that it would be impossible to overcome. |
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| 5 | 31 |
As soon as we had taken flight, I had unfastened the restraining straps on her legs and wrists, leaving only the broad belt which lashed her securely to the back of the tarn. |
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| 5 | 140 |
They are diurnal hunters and eat only what they catch themselves, usually one of the fleet Gorean antelopes or a wild bull, taken on the run and lifted in the monstrous talons to a high place, where it is torn to pieces and devoured. |
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| 5 | 187 |
When I neared Ar, I crouched low in the saddle and hoped that the speck against a moon which might be seen by the watchmen of the outlying towers would be taken for a wild tarn, flying high over the city. |
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| 6 | 14 |
In a moment he had taken flight again, bawling out some semblance of a song about the woes of a camp girl, the bag of paga, flying behind him, dangling from its long straps. |
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| 6 | 176 |
I guessed it would have taken her slave girls hours to array her in such garments. |
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| 7 | 33 |
I had hardly taken her in my arms when she struck my face viciously with one muddy hand. |
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| 7 | 201 |
"If you had been a true warrior," she said, "you would have taken me on the back of your tarn, above the clouds, even before we had passed the outermost ramparts of Ar, and you would have thrown my robes to the streets below to show my people what had been the fate of the daughter of their Ubar". |
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| 8 | 162 |
I began to divide the rations I had taken from the pouches of the soldiers. |
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| 11 | 52 |
She seemed to be pleased when her friends were bought by handsome tarnsmen, and laughed delightedly when one girl, to whom she had taken a dislike, was purchased by a fat, odious fellow, of the Caste of Tarn Keepers. |
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| 15 | 49 |
Soon, my heart beating quickly, my features concealed by the helmet I had taken from the warrior in the Voltai, I approached the compound of Mintar. |
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| 15 | 131 |
"You have taken the City," he said, "but not the Home Stone". |
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| 17 | 16 |
If this had not yet taken place, it was momentarily expected. |
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| 17 | 57 |
A levy of seven thousand young men would be taken to fill the depleted ranks of his siege slaves. |
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| 19 | 178 |
The horde, taken by surprise, was disorganized, unformed for battle. |
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| 19 | 182 |
It knew only that it had been taken by surprise, at a disadvantage by undetermined numbers of disciplined troops that were pouring down on them, while from above, enemy tarnsmen, unchallenged, emptied their quivers into their ranks. |
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| 20 | 18 |
Those members of the Caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on Gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply Gor's oceans. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 37 |
This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home Stone of that city as my own... |
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| 6 | 92 |
There is no one she knows, or could know, because she has been taken from a hostile city, she is a woman of the enemy. |
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| 7 | 8 |
He, like his men, had been taken aback. |
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| 9 | 3 |
I had been taken for an assassin, or an outlaw, been assessed as a likely instrument for the furtherance of the foul schemes of one of Tharna's dissatisfied factions. |
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| 9 | 151 |
Some warriors entered, too, and instead of attempting to restore order had incredibly taken off their helmets, filled them with Kal-da and sat cross-legged with us, to sing and drink their fill. |
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| 10 | 97 |
"I demand," I said, "to be taken to the Tatrix". |
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| 12 | 119 |
I wished that I could have taken her in my arms, and comforted her. |
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| 13 | 70 |
"The Battles of Oxen," cried one of the silver masks, and her cry was taken up by ten and then a hundred others. |
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| 15 | 10 |
Moreover, even if it had been the case that the bird had been inadvertently conditioned in that short a time, it was not possible that it would still retain the memory of that casual imprinting, which had taken place more than six years ago. |
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| 15 | 160 |
"Would it be taken from me?" "And your robes," I said. |
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| 15 | 208 |
"Free all those used in the Amusements of Tharna!" The Tatrix seemed taken aback. |
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| 16 | 99 |
When it had seen me fall it had apparently taken flight. |
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| 17 | 22 |
To pump out the water and clear the shafts of bodies had taken weeks. |
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| 19 | 41 |
"To the Central Shaft!" I cried, holding a sword that had been taken from a guardsman now chained in the shafts behind. |
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| 20 | 1 |
The Invisible Barrier In my hand I held a sword, taken from one of the guardsmen in the mines. |
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| 20 | 8 |
Almost all of them had been broken into by the slaves, and whatever they held had been taken or scattered. |
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| 21 | 32 |
I gathered she had taken me for another slaver. |
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| 22 | 181 |
I have sensed how a man in Tharna longs to take the mask from a woman, and I have suspected how much a woman longs for her mask to be taken. |
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| 26 | 2 |
Tal to the men of Earth— In these past days in Tharna I have taken the time to write this story. |
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| 26 | 9 |
They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna. |
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| 26 | 25 |
Other Silver Masks had taken refuge in the mountains beyond the walls and these were hunted like sleen by converging rings of irate peasants, who drove them into the center of their hunting circles, whence, unmasked and bound, they were herded to the city to meet their fate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 27 | 4 |
The transportation disk which had originally taken me to the chamber where I had found Misk I had taken to the entrance to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and I thought it well that it should stay there, as if witnessing my entrance and my supposed failure to return. |
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| 1 | 51 |
If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape. |
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| 3 | 59 |
If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a... |
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| 7 | 45 |
I found myself congratulating myself that I had been taken to the chamber of Vika, for I had thought her the most beautiful. |
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| 8 | 67 |
It was the first kiss I had taken from the lips of my slave girl, and it had been a kiss of mad joy, one that astonished her, that she could not understand. |
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| 10 | 2 |
What in the passageways I had taken to be the scent of Priest-Kings had actually been the residue of odor-signals which Priest-Kings, like certain social insects of our world, use in communicating with one another. |
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| 18 | 91 |
I was somewhat annoyed to find the Home Stones, taken so seriously in the cities of Gor that a man might be slain if he did not rise when speaking of the Home Stone of his city, so airily dismissed by the lofty Sarm. |
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| 18 | 114 |
I then realized that he had touched himself at the points of entry taken by the wires which had been infixed in the young Priest-King's body on the stone table in the secret compartment below Misk's chamber. |
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| 21 | 3 |
At the entrance to the chamber, from a rack, Mul-Al-Ka had taken a Mul-Torch and broken off its end. |
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| 21 | 61 |
I assumed that the exudate or whatever it might be that had been taken from the Priest-Kings was Gur, and that I now understood what it was to retain Gur. |
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| 24 | 19 |
It seemed clear the creature did not yet understand what had taken place within its cavern. |
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| 27 | 5 |
I was less pleased to have left the translator with the disk but it seemed the better thing to do, for one would not have taken a translator into the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and if it were found missing from the disk it might occasion speculation not that I had returned from the tunnels of the ... |
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| 27 | 103 |
I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square e... |
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| 27 | 332 |
"The egg was taken from the Nest by two humans," she said, "men who were free—like yourself—not Muls—and hidden". |
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| 28 | 187 |
Indeed, many of the canisters of fungus now in the stores of Sarm were reportedly canisters of simple Mul-Fungus taken from the cases of Muls who had been killed or fled. |
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| 30 | 115 |
I myself was pleased that it had taken a Priest-King to have me chained at Vika's feet, that it had not been I myself who, in the hope of her favors, had fastened about my own throat the collar of a slave. |
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| 30 | 166 |
From what I could gather, only a handful of humans, some men, some women, had actually crossed the lines and taken service with Sarm. |
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| 33 | 3 |
Whereas it had taken four days for me to climb to the lair of Priest-Kings in the Sardar it was on the morning of the second day that Vika and I sighted the remains of the great gate, fallen, and the palisade, now little more than broken and uprooted timbers. |
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| 34 | 66 |
"Ko-ro-ba cannot be destroyed," said my father, "for its Home Stone has not perished!" My father had taken the Stone from the City before it had been destroyed. |
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| 34 | 68 |
I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I had taken Talena, my love, t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 14 |
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,... |
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| 2 | 73 |
It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a... |
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| 5 | 101 |
"You will sometime be taken into the presence of Kutaituchik," said Kamchak. |
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| 8 | 5 |
It is in the spring that the omens are taken, regarding the possible election of the Ubar San, the One Ubar, he who would be Ubar of all the Wagons, of all the Peoples. |
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| 8 | 18 |
"After the games of Love War," said Kamchak, "the omens will be taken". |
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| 8 | 26 |
Yet, each ten years, the omens are taken. |
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| 8 | 50 |
"The bosk are safe," they had cried, and the cry had been taken up by the women and carried from wagon to wagon, "The bosk are safe!" This year, perhaps because it was the Omen Year, the Wagon Peoples did not advance farther north than was necessary to ensure the welfare of the herds. |
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| 8 | 198 |
I could hear bets being taken. |
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| 8 | 305 |
On the other hand, I knew, in this sport no time would be taken for such matters; in a few heartbeats of the kaiila the girl's wrists and ankles would be lashed together and she would be, without ceremony, slung over the pommel of the saddle, it the stake, her body the ring. |
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| 8 | 484 |
I wondered how it could be that such a girl had never been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times. |
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| 8 | 486 |
Then I remembered the intelligence of her eyes, her confidence, that never had she been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times. |
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| 8 | 493 |
I had not taken even the time to dismount. |
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| 9 | 135 |
Indeed, the cloth, once loosened, may, if one wishes, be taken up and used as a slave hood, held in place by cords, secured about the girl's neck. |
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| 10 | 245 |
"The wenches!" he cried, and this shout was taken up by many of the others. |
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| 10 | 302 |
I hauled Kamchak out of the wagon before he began to bid on a chained-up little wench from Port Kar who had taken his eye. |
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| 11 | 114 |
Elizabeth Cardwell, unbound, had already taken her position on the other side of Kamchak's kaiila, beside his right stirrup. |
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| 11 | 195 |
"The first southern migrations of meadow kites," he said, "have already taken place. |
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| 12 | 40 |
She had surely taken his eye and, I shall admit, mine as well. |
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| 12 | 222 |
The bosk had been unhitched and taken elsewhere. |
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| 12 | 231 |
In Tuchuk fashion, I assured him that I had taken no offense, and, sweating, I at last made my way to Kamchak's side. |
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| 12 | 265 |
Gratefully Aphris of Turia had taken up the leather buckets and hurried away to fetch water. |
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| 12 | 305 |
But Elizabeth, with her free left hand had seized the paga bottle from Kamchak, and, to his amazement, had thrown back her head and taken, without realizing the full import of her action, about five lusty, guzzling swallows of paga. |
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| 13 | 142 |
Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r... |
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| 13 | 180 |
On the way we passed a girl, a girl from Cos taken hundreds of pasangs away in a raid on a caravan bound for Ar. |
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| 16 | 8 |
"I was only six years of age when I was taken to Turia, and I did not escape the city for eleven years". |
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| 16 | 70 |
Harold had already taken up a position, looking about, near the edge of the well. |
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| 19 | 127 |
"You are only a little Turian slave girl," said Harold, "who has taken my fancy". |
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| 21 | 119 |
Dina had lived for a time on the savings of the family, but had then taken them, sewn in the lining of her robes, and purchased a place on a caravan wagon bound for Ar, which caravan had been ambushed by Kassars, in which raid she herself, of course, had fallen into their hands. |
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| 21 | 207 |
I looked out over the prairie, in the direction that had been taken by the Tuchuk wagons. |
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| 21 | 314 |
Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the... |
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| 22 | 10 |
Kamchak had taken up quarters in the palace of Phanius Turmus, which, save for the looting and the ripping down of tapestries, the wanton defacing of wall mosaics, was unharmed. |
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| 22 | 20 |
After we had taken the girl and the potter and wine vendor to whatever safety their homes might afford, we set out for the House of Saphrar, where, after some examination of the scene, I convinced myself there was nothing immediately to be done. |
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| 22 | 43 |
"Turian women," said Harold, "taken by Tuchuks". |
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| 23 | 12 |
What I had taken to be merely a group of four outriders had actually been a gathering of Ubars of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 23 | 21 |
He did not, on the other hand, approve of the fact that the raid had taken place during the Omen Year, which is a time of general truce among the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 23 | 211 |
The saddle on the side had been cut and the quivas had been taken from their sheaths. |
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| 24 | 163 |
I had taken, as a share of battle loot, a hundred and ten bottles of paga and forty bottles of Ka-la-na wine from Tyros, Cos and Ar, but these I had distributed to my crossbowmen, with the exception of one bottle of paga which Harold and I had split some two nights ago. |
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| 26 | 21 |
I had taken her arms from about my neck and turned away. |
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| 26 | 84 |
Man by man, stone by stone of gold, Saphrar was dying, his walls and defenses being taken grain by grain from him, slipping away. |
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| 27 | 53 |
"The Omens have been taken," he said. |
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| 27 | 57 |
"Kamchak," they cried, "Ubar San!" The cry was taken up by all in the room, even myself. |
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| 27 | 191 |
"Yes," he said, "she had been a Turian girl—taken as slave by Kutaituchik—but he cared for her and freed her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 57 |
Kuurus had placed his spear against the wall behind him, and he had taken from his left shoulder his shield, his helmet and the sheathed short sword, which blade he had placed at his right hand on the low table. |
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| 2 | 134 |
"I have taken money," said Kuurus. |
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| 2 | 142 |
"I have already taken money," he said. |
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| 2 | 280 |
"How can this house of which you speak," asked Kuurus, "undersell so consistently? Is it that the number of slaves is so great that the profit taken on each is less?" "I have thought long on it," said Portus, "and that cannot be all of it. |
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| 3 | 149 |
The Vintner had taken his three-move option late in the game to build up an incredibly devastating attack. |
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| 4 | 188 |
"I am only a girl from the islands north of Cos, taken by pirates of Port Kar, sold to a tarnsman, carried to and sold again in the city of Turia, and hence for twenty boskhides traded to the Tuchuks, where I was ringed and branded". |
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| 5 | 35 |
Such a demand might seem importunate or to evince a concern for secrecy not in place in a house where I, supposedly, had taken gold for the use of my steel. |
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| 5 | 333 |
"Further," said Misk, "the Others are themselves a not uninteresting species, and we have permitted certain of them, prisoners taken from disabled probe ships, to live on this world, much as we have humans". |
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| 5 | 497 |
Papers will be prepared on you and you will be transmitted to the House of Clark in Thentis, whence you will be taken by tarn caravan to Ar, where you will be sold privately, your purchase to be effected by the agents of the House of Cernus, under the instructions of Caprus". |
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| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
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| 5 | 761 |
At that moment a bar, struck in a certain pattern by an iron hammer somewhere in the house, rang out, the sound taken up by other bars, also struck, on various floors of the House of Cernus. |
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| 6 | 18 |
Without being asked I had taken a position at the table of Cernus himself. |
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| 6 | 61 |
He was greeted with cheers and was immediately taken to the table on my left, where he was seated at the far end of the table, before a plate heaped with meat, which he began to devour, holding it in his hands, eyes wild, almost lost in the food, to the amusement of the watching men. |
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| 10 | 107 |
The collar had been taken from his throat. |
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| 11 | 274 |
"Strong men," said Flaminius, "have always, even in the course of your own planet's history, taken the females of weaker men for their slaves". |
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| 11 | 294 |
Now you find yourself in the position of the female of weaker men, taken as slave". |
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| 12 | 185 |
Piteously, hysterically, they had cried out to him, begging to be taken from the cages, begging to be trained. |
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| 13 | 221 |
And, instead of racing, many were discussing the case of the daughter of the Hinrabian Administrator, speculating on her whereabouts, arguing about how the abduction, if abduction it was, could possibly have taken place within earshot of dozens of Taurentian guardsmen. |
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| 14 | 7 |
When I was in the compartment, however, as I normally was at that time, she would not be secured, my presence being taken as a sufficient guarantee of her custody. |
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| 14 | 143 |
The hood to her ornate, marvelous robes of concealment had been taken from her; and her veil. |
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| 15 | 77 |
Several times we had taken racing tarns from the cot. |
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| 15 | 412 |
"They have taken my properties!" cried Portus. |
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| 16 | 223 |
Neither of them, incidentally, had ever seemed much taken aback by the fact that I commonly wore the black of the Assassin. |
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| 17 | 257 |
He was only a Scribe, and yet what he had done had taken great courage, probably more courage than that possessed by many Warriors. |
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| 17 | 637 |
I had taken the bottle with me, of course. |
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| 17 | 836 |
I remembered that the slave who had lost in hook knife had been wounded slightly before being taken to the beast. |
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| 18 | 213 |
These two, following the laws of the city, were taken for their first questioning to the courts of the High Initiate". |
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| 18 | 260 |
Curious I opened the door off the hall, through which the slave taken to the beast had been led. |
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| 19 | 6 |
The evening of the fourth day of the Love Feast is usually taken as its climax from the point of view of slave sales. |
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| 19 | 41 |
The papers are correlated with the lot number and the girls' fingerprints are taken and checked against those on the papers. |
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| 19 | 178 |
The crowd was taken aback, for such a wench would scarcely be presented on the meanest block of the smallest market in the city. |
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| 19 | 188 |
The crowd hooted and screamed for her to be taken away, while she looked at them in puzzlement, like a bosk cow, scarcely comprehending or concerned. |
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| 19 | 251 |
As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ... |
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| 20 | 37 |
Whimpering, Portus was dragged from the sand, leaving blood across the tiles, and was taken from the hall. |
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| 20 | 552 |
Relius and Ho-Sorl were laughing as, chained, they were taken from the room. |
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| 21 | 229 |
I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had brought once more to the gat... |
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| 21 | 281 |
It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,... |
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| 22 | 132 |
I noted that Mip had been following Menicius, and when Menicius had swerved Mip had taken advantage of the opening thus presented and, like a knife, had plunged for the heart of the ring. |
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| 22 | 154 |
The large-winged tarn had fallen back now, the lead being taken by the rider of the Blue, a small, shrewd man, a veteran rider but one too precipitate. |
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| 22 | 289 |
The body of Green Ubar was placed on a platform and taken from the area. |
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| 22 | 405 |
I wore my sword; I carried the killing knife I had taken from the back of Mip; lastly, thrust in my belt, was the double-edged quiva, the Tuchuk saddle knife. |
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| 23 | 64 |
I had taken my seat on the chair of Cernus; I had drawn my sword, and laid it across the wood before me. |
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| 23 | 105 |
"It was he who slew the Warrior of Thentis! Not I!" "I have taken gold," I told him. |
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| 24 | 21 |
"It has taken years for Marlenus to return," said Hup. |
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| 24 | 110 |
Only the day before their purple cloaks and helmets had been taken from them before the great gate; their swords had been broken and they had been conducted by common Warriors, to the music of flute girls, a pasang beyond the walls of Ar, and ordered from her environs. |
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| 24 | 137 |
"He is now, chained, on his way to the Sardar, along with the materials taken from the room of the beast and what had been brought in from the black ships. |
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| 24 | 140 |
"Was the strange crossbow taken to the Sardar?" I asked, referring to the rifle in that fashion. |
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| 24 | 179 |
When the men had taken their pick the girls were released from the common chain and the key, that which served to unlock collar, bracelets and anklet, was given to he who had chosen his prize. |
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| 24 | 270 |
Through corridor after corridor I walked, retracing the steps which had taken me from my compartment to the court of the Ubar. |
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| 24 | 402 |
Marlenus had taken the salt, lifted it from the tray, and replaced it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 335 |
They had cost me the concept that I had taken for my reality; they had torn from me a bright image, an illusion, precious and treasured, an unwarranted reflection of suppositions and wishes, not examined, which I had taken to be the truth of my identity. |
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| 9 | 273 |
I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we had obtained from the slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort put in the pouring sling, and reeled out of the tavern, making my way along the narrow walkway lining the canal... |
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| 15 | 107 |
And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the Council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the Council for my deeds and the awarding of its mos... |
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| 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. |
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| 1 | 102 |
The rence growers, in spite of the value of their product, and the value of articles taken in exchange for it, and the protection of the marshes, and the rence and fish which give them ample sustenance, do not have an easy life. |
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| 2 | 49 |
My weapons were taken. |
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| 3 | 38 |
It was true that my shield, and my clothes, now taken from me, bore no insignia. |
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| 3 | 159 |
She acted as though it were she herself who had taken me. |
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| 4 | 24 |
At noon, in the marshes, with the sun burning at meridian, she had taken another handful of rence paste from a wallet worn at her waist and thrust it in my mouth, again not permitting me the dignity of feeding myself. |
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| 4 | 43 |
Then she had taken a length of marsh vine from a packet on her rence craft. |
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| 6 | 142 |
I ran in the direction that Telima had taken. |
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| 7 | 11 |
I gathered that much rence paper had been taken from the four islands, before they had been set afire. |
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| 7 | 18 |
I supposed that had Telima been taken, that place might have been hers. |
10 |
| 7 | 36 |
One by one they were being taken from the net, the net being tightened again by slaves, and stripped and bound, hand and foot. |
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| 7 | 75 |
I had taken some of the reeds which had been heaped on the raft and, bundling them, had used them, paddling, to move the raft back to the island. |
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| 7 | 191 |
I looked westward, the direction that had been taken by the heavily laden barges of the slavers of Port Kar. |
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| 8 | 6 |
I had even, folded and stained from the salt of the marsh, the warrior's tunic, which had been taken from me even in the marsh, before I had been brought bound before Ho-Hak on the island. |
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| 8 | 246 |
And so I, with my shield and sword, helmeted, followed by Telima, a rence girl, carrying the great bow, with its arrows, many of them now bloodied, taken from the bodies of those of Port Kar, moved from barge to barge. |
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| 8 | 422 |
It was she who had done this to me, who had cost me myself, teaching me my ignobility and my cowardice, who had broken the image, casting it into the mud of the marsh, that I had for so many years, so foolishly, taken as the substance and truth of my own person. |
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| 8 | 529 |
I would have exchanged it all for Tarl Cabot, the myth, and the dream, that had been taken from me. |
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| 8 | 660 |
"You will be taken as slave girls to Port Kar," I said. |
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| 8 | 706 |
Tell Ho-Hak that I have taken some of his women. |
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| 8 | 743 |
"Had I been taken," said Telima, "doubtless I would have been first prow". |
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| 9 | 155 |
Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, ... |
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| 9 | 280 |
I had given her a brief tunic of silk, briefer even than had been the rence tunic she had worn when she had taunted me at the pole, and when she had danced before me, which had been taken from her by the slaver after she had been netted on the island. |
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| 9 | 363 |
I had taken much pleasure from Midice, and put her, as well, for she was slave, at the disposal of the others. |
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| 9 | 365 |
Shortly after we had taken our quarters, Midice had knelt before me, of her own accord, and put her hands upon my thighs, and looked up at me, and whispered, "Please let me pleasure you," and then she had added, "and in a thousand ways a thousand times—Master". |
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| 9 | 486 |
But, with the ankle rings, taken from her following the dance, I secured her. |
10 |
| 10 | 42 |
When Clitus, Thurnock and I, and our slaves, had first come to Port Kar, we had taken quarters not far from that holding. |
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| 10 | 189 |
Once before he had been permitted to present plans to the council, but they had been too fantastic to be taken seriously. |
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| 10 | 203 |
He had taken his ideas to Cos and Tyros, but there, too, he had met with only scorn. |
10 |
| 11 | 194 |
The damage to the arsenal, which I had seen with my own eyes, and had taken statistical reports on from scribes, had not been particularly serious. |
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| 11 | 419 |
I had taken the note which I had received the preceding afternoon from my wallet, that which had purported to be from Samos, which he had denied sending. |
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| 11 | 471 |
"And," I asked, "do we abide by their acceptance? Would there then be truly peace between Port Kar, and Cos and Tyros?" "That," smiled Samos, "may always be taken under consideration at a future meeting of the council". |
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| 11 | 509 |
I myself was taken aback. |
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| 11 | 595 |
There were risks, of course, but I had taken them into account. |
10 |
| 12 | 102 |
And I added, "And since you are a slave, you will be marked and collared, and taken to my holding". |
10 |
| 13 | 218 |
When, early the next morning, chained and under guard, I was taken from the palace of Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the streets were mostly deserted. |
10 |
| 13 | 515 |
Even so I found myself pressed and, to ease the difficulties of wharfage and mooring rights, I sold many a round ship taken, and some of the inferior long ships. |
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| 14 | 76 |
The slaves, eager for the capture of the vessel by one of my ships, could scarcely be expected to row with their full strength, and the masters, knowing full well the ship might be taken, feared, under the conditions obtaining, to seriously abuse or slay the chained oarsmen. |
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| 14 | 90 |
Although I had had the masts, with their yards, taken down and lashed to the decks, and the sails stored below, I had the flutists and drummers, not uncommon on the ram-ships of Thassa, strike up a martial air. |
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| 14 | 248 |
Since the principal weapons of the ram-ship are the ram and shearing blades, she is most dangerous taken head on. |
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| 14 | 294 |
Five of these search ships I sent in a net formation toward Cos, supposing this the most likely, if not the most wise, course that would soon be taken by the majority of the escaping round ships. |
10 |
| 14 | 360 |
I had, by agreement with the council, reserved to myself twelve shares of thirty divisions, as well as all slaves taken. |
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| 14 | 448 |
The other two girls were taken from my presence. |
10 |
| 14 | 456 |
The treasure from the ship, of course, will be placed aboard other ships, taken to Port Kar as prizes. |
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| 15 | 50 |
In the five days it had taken to reach Port Kar from the scene of the engagement with the treasure fleet, due to the slowness of the round ships, I had not kept Vivina, and her maidens, of course, at the prows of the ships. |
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| 15 | 102 |
In this very afternoon the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder had taken place in the chamber of the Council of Captains. |
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| 15 | 106 |
The treasures taken were rich beyond our wildest expectations, beyond the most remote calculations of our most avaricious scribes. |
10 |
| 15 | 122 |
A similar consolidation and unification had taken place, of course, in the realm of inspections and taxations, penalties and enforcements, codes and courts. |
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| 15 | 125 |
This fortress, it seems, might be taken by storm, but the effort would be costly. |
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| 15 | 199 |
I knew that Thurnock and Clitus, and others, had taken a liking to the boy. |
10 |
| 15 | 257 |
I recalled how they had taken a fancy to the boy, Fish, and had helped him with his work in weapons. |
10 |
| 15 | 716 |
I saw that, about her left arm, she wore again the armlet of gold, which I remembered from so long ago, that which I had taken from her to give to Midice. |
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| 16 | 50 |
"Yes," she taunted, "Slave!" I cast about for the slave collar I had taken from her throat. |
10 |
| 16 | 200 |
We had been taken totally unprepared. |
10 |
| 16 | 340 |
And I heard men behind him cry, "There is a Home Stone in Port Kar! There is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" This cry was taken up by thousands, and everywhere I saw men pause in their flight, and boats put about, and men pour from the entryways of their buildings onto the walks lining the canals. |
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| 17 | 61 |
Only slaves whose origin was of Cos or Tyros, or their allies, had been taken from the ships and left behind, chained in the warehouses of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 17 | 77 |
Coming on the heels of the round ships, with their masts high, these, I assumed, might well be taken for more round ships, for the mast of a tarn ship is always lowered before battle. |
10 |
| 17 | 86 |
Hopefully, the terror of being taken in the flank might cause many captains, or even Chenbar himself, to have the fleet put about, and, if so, this would make their ships the most vulnerable to our own. |
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| 17 | 176 |
In the turmoil of the battle I had little doubt that they would be taken, at first, and perhaps until it was too late, as a second wave of round ships. |
10 |
| 17 | 314 |
The tarn can scarcely be taken from the sight of land. |
10 |
| 17 | 397 |
With the rope, taken from my belt, I tied the slave manacles to the right foot of the bird. |
10 |
| 17 | 402 |
They had been taken unawares and resistance had been slight. |
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| 18 | 117 |
How else, I asked myself, had he been able to take an oar on the longboat in the canals when I had gone to the hall of the Council of Captains, or been able to board the Dorna, or taken his place in the longboat that had ferried me to the round ship? I, too, was not unfond of the boy. |
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| 18 | 176 |
They had permitted themselves to be taken, to be used as bait. |
10 |
| 18 | 386 |
"I was taken slave at the age of seven in a raid," she said, "and Samos, at a market, bought me. |
10 |
| 18 | 404 |
I was taken below to the pens. |
10 |
| 18 | 405 |
There, like a new girl taken from the rence islands, I was stripped. |
10 |
| 18 | 414 |
For days, though the other girls would beat me for it, I begged the Slave Master, the guards, to be taken before Samos. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 329 |
They would assume I had taken one. |
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| 3 | 363 |
But, as I regarded it, in fury, I could not help but be taken by its cursive, graceful insolence. |
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| 3 | 402 |
At the base of the mirror lay an opened lipstick tube, mine, which had been taken from my handbag, while I had showered. |
10 |
| 3 | 454 |
There would be no way of knowing which one I had taken. |
10 |
| 4 | 204 |
In these were the girls I had seen, those who had been taken from the truck. |
10 |
| 5 | 135 |
Everything edible, it seemed, had been taken. |
10 |
| 6 | 264 |
They looked on me as I had looked on plainer women, unimportant women, not to be taken account of, not to be considered seriously as a rival, simply as my inferiors in beauty. |
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| 7 | 1 |
I, With Others, Am Taken Northward Targo, my master, was a slaver. |
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| 7 | 15 |
Indeed, the preceding fall, at the fair of Se'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains, he had contracted with a marauder, Haakon of Skjern, for one hundred northern beauties, to be taken from the villages north of the Laurius and from the coastal villages, upward even to the edges of Torvaldsland. |
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| 7 | 25 |
When I was taken by Targo, he had only one high-caste girl on his chain, the tall girl, Inge, who was of the scribes. |
10 |
| 7 | 35 |
It is rather that she may be taken from you. |
10 |
| 7 | 84 |
Targo must have lost some eleven men, and some twenty of his girls were taken by the tarnsmen, but, after a bit, the tarnsmen withdrew. |
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| 7 | 88 |
Nineteen of his girls, separately, taken deep into the thicket, had had their wrists bound together, either before their body or behind their back, about small trees. |
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| 7 | 175 |
We were taken from the wagon and, chained outside, kneeling, were fed. |
10 |
| 7 | 182 |
Following our meal we were taken to a nearby stream where we washed ourselves. |
10 |
| 7 | 214 |
To my anger, the clothes that had been taken from me were brought to the circle. |
10 |
| 7 | 416 |
I was better! I was their superior! But now I was taken from my world. |
10 |
| 7 | 458 |
He was anxious that my presence on his chain not be taken as evidence of his poor judgment. |
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| 7 | 524 |
He has contracted to buy you privately in Ar, to be taken to his pleasure gardens on Tyros. |
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| 8 | 97 |
"That means they are men who were taken by women," said Ute. |
10 |
| 8 | 332 |
They were girls taken by the raiders of Haakon of Skjern, in the villages to the north of the Laurius, and from the coastal villages, upward even to the borders of Torvaldsland. |
10 |
| 8 | 385 |
On five of these days, in the morning, I was taken with four other girls into Laura, leashed with them, to bring back supplies. |
10 |
| 8 | 395 |
I was taken through a corridor to a special, rough room, where slaves were treated. |
10 |
| 8 | 492 |
On the fifth day the physician had taken his tests and pronounced the serums effective. |
10 |
| 8 | 602 |
It was the first clothing they had been permitted since they had been taken by the marauders of Haakon of Skjern. |
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| 8 | 682 |
I had seen it move, shambling on its hind legs, and on the knuckles of its forelegs, but now I saw that what I had taken as forelegs were not unlike arms and hands. |
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| 8 | 699 |
Frequently, especially when it had performed well, the mountebank would throw the animal a tiny piece of bosk meat, this taken from a large pocket in his robes. |
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| 8 | 755 |
He had then taken it from me and hurled it into a block of wood, head deep, more than a hundred feet away. |
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| 9 | 149 |
"Why," I asked, "was I taken?" Verna looked at me, for a long time. |
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| 9 | 179 |
"We should have taken slaves," said another, irritably. |
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| 9 | 215 |
I was being taken at night through the forest, a bound slave. |
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| 10 | 49 |
It was he who had taken my matches and cigarettes, who had leaned over me, and had blown smoke, as I had lain nude before him, bound and gagged, into my face. |
10 |
| 11 | 111 |
In private pens in Ko-ro-ba, where we were taken daily for training, we were taught to wear the garment. |
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| 11 | 340 |
Afterwards, after we had been hooded and taken to our private training pens in Ko-ro-ba, I trained well. |
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| 11 | 432 |
He, of course, would not have taken me, for fear of the wrath of Targo, but I had no doubt of his desire. |
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| 11 | 434 |
If it had not been for Targo he doubtless would have taken me, on the cement flooring, before the bars. |
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| 11 | 1050 |
"She has been taken by Marlenus of Ar!" "Marlenus has captured Verna, the outlaw girl!" I rushed to the bars of the cage, thrilled. |
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| 11 | 1125 |
It was also said that he would use a woman only once, claiming that he had, he, Rask of Treve, in once using her, emptied her, exhausted her, taken from her all she had to give, and that, thus, she could no longer be of interest to him. |
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| 11 | 1375 |
Lana had taken the pastry, which I had agreed to give her. |
10 |
| 12 | 297 |
Beautiful, barbaric Verna! Nothing, save her weapons, had been taken from her. |
10 |
| 12 | 380 |
I did not even own the camisk, the scandalous bit of cloth that had been granted me to cover my nakedness, and might be, at a word, taken from me. |
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| 13 | 115 |
For four years, Ute, then a beauty, passed from one master to another, taken from city to city. |
10 |
| 13 | 116 |
Then she was taken by a master, with others of his slaves, again to the Sardar, again to be sold, to defray business debts resulting from the loss of a caravan of salt wagons. |
10 |
| 13 | 453 |
They had taken her! But then I heard the shouts of another man, and then of both, and a crashing through brush. |
10 |
| 13 | 469 |
Ute had been taken. |
10 |
| 13 | 516 |
It was not long before I realized that if I did not alter my direction I would have departed the vast thicket, in which I had taken refuge. |
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| 13 | 783 |
To have been taken by such a man, I had no idea what my ultimate fate would be, other, of course, than that it would be whatever he pleased. |
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| 13 | 784 |
My wishes would not be taken into consideration, no more than those of any other animal. |
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| 15 | 591 |
And I and Techne, leashed together, had been taken from the stockade. |
10 |
| 15 | 607 |
The guard handed our buckets to other girls to be taken to the kitchen shed, and he then unleashed us. |
10 |
| 15 | 617 |
One of the guards who stood nearby was the one who had taken Techne and I beyond the palisade to gather berries. |
10 |
| 16 | 91 |
What did I care that the girl, Talena, was tonight sent to the tent of Rask of Treve? I hated him! I hated her, even more than him! I wished the guard had not taken my clothes. |
10 |
| 16 | 138 |
Doubtless I would be cuffed and taken to a post, and knelt there, my back against it, opposite the low tying ring. |
10 |
| 16 | 139 |
I would then be gagged, and have my wrists taken behind me, and bound there, together, behind the post, to the tying ring, that I might not even be able to rise to my feet, that I might be well held in place, on my knees, until it might please masters to free me, perhaps to work, perhaps to be beate... |
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| 16 | 287 |
On Gor, of course, her relationship to the master is open, public, institutionalized, accepted, taken for granted, and celebrated, a matter of law. |
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| 17 | 40 |
No scribe it seemed would own Inge, but she would belong to a brutal and powerful huntsman, the handsome Raf of Treve; and Rena's captain of Tyros, he who had contracted for her capture, must now surely be disappointed, and his gold lost, for his lovely prize has been taken by another, at whose feet... |
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| 17 | 109 |
They are sexually deprived, denied their femininity's right to be so powerfully desired, so lusted for, that they are taken in hand and made slaves. |
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| 17 | 238 |
I was taken, on tarnback, braceleted and hooded, to the city of Port Kar, in the delta of the mighty Vosk. |
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| 17 | 478 |
But I fear I may not be taken from Bosk of Port Kar. |
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| 18 | 102 |
"She has been taken from you!" "Fetch me," I said, "the object which was thrown to the walk behind the delta wall". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 45 |
He would also hold, of course, several female slaves, Sheera, Cara, Tina and Grenna, taken from my camp; Verna and her women, taken from the camp of Marlenus; and the girls of Marlenus, taken, too, from his camp. |
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| 1 | 62 |
"Talena, daughter of Marlenus of Ar, I learn, has been taken as slave to the northern forests," I said. |
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| 1 | 111 |
"She was taken to the northern forests, I have learned," I said, "by the outlaw girl, Verna, to serve as bait for her capture of Marlenus of Ar, who is presumed to be concerned for her rescue". |
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| 1 | 166 |
Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her... |
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| 1 | 211 |
When they wearied of me, I was taken, leashed and manacled, to a lonely beach, at the edge of Thassa, bordering on the western edge of the forests". |
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| 3 | 18 |
We had taken the Tesephone to mooring at a public dock. |
10 |
| 3 | 35 |
My business was to go to Laura, and there bargain for a hold of sleen fur, which might be taken south for much profit. |
10 |
| 3 | 76 |
We also saw cages filled with blond village girls, taken on raids to the north, they, too, in their cages brought on barges downriver from Laura. |
10 |
| 3 | 77 |
They would not be sold in Lydius, but, the cages emptied, would be taken by sea, chained in the holds of slave ships, to southern markets. |
10 |
| 3 | 78 |
We also passed a chain of male slaves, brought downriver from Laura, shaven-headed wretches, taken somewhere in the forests by fierce panther girls. |
10 |
| 4 | 11 |
The coins were from the profit taken on Tana and Ela. |
10 |
| 4 | 22 |
Neither had left the board to investigate the commotion which had, shortly before, taken place outside. |
10 |
| 4 | 294 |
I had not taken vengeance on her. |
10 |
| 5 | 2 |
We had taken on supplies, and my men, on shore, in the paga taverns, had rested, and had muchly pleasured themselves with the lovely recreations of the port. |
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| 5 | 104 |
I recalled how swiftly, how expeditiously, even Elizabeth Cardwell, who was a free woman, had been taken by them, and had been, when her vulnerable, helpless femininity was recognized, humiliatingly exhibited, bound to a pole, at the river's edge, where she had been purchased by Sarpedon, in whose t... |
10 |
| 5 | 239 |
Then their arms had been taken behind the bar and then pulled forward, and upward, tight against it. |
10 |
| 5 | 282 |
We were pleased that Arn, whom we knew, had taken her. |
10 |
| 6 | 151 |
"Verna has taken Talena to the forests, to bait a trap for Marlenus. |
10 |
| 6 | 261 |
It had taken the better part of the morning, but Rim and I, and Thurnock, had found the blazed tree, blazed with a spear point, several feet high on the trunk. |
10 |
| 6 | 325 |
We had taken the Tesephone from the wharves of Laura, and ascended the river some twenty pasangs. |
10 |
| 6 | 354 |
Verna, I was certain, would not be so easily taken a second time. |
10 |
| 6 | 416 |
"You understand," she asked, "that you might be now, should it please us, taken slave?" "Yes," I said. |
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| 6 | 677 |
I did not think she had taken it from me. |
10 |
| 6 | 681 |
Thurnock, who had not checked his pouch, knowing it had not been taken from him, snorted in derision, a great peasant snort, like a bosk. |
10 |
| 7 | 202 |
With a length of binding fiber, taken from her own pouch, I tied the slave bracelets tight against her belly. |
10 |
| 7 | 218 |
Then I knelt beside her and, with those skins I had taken from her, bound her wounds. |
10 |
| 7 | 301 |
Then, with another length of binding fiber, taken from my own pouch, I bound her by the belly, tightly, to the branch. |
10 |
| 7 | 313 |
The girl taken care of, I resumed my journey. |
10 |
| 8 | 17 |
It would gratify me, and give them a most humiliating memory to carry with them into their slavery, that they, the entire band, had been taken by a mere handful of males. |
10 |
| 8 | 25 |
This forces the girls into the forest where, theoretically, they may be separately taken. |
10 |
| 8 | 51 |
In the night they have been taken slave. |
10 |
| 8 | 167 |
We had eaten some foods we had brought with us, in our pouches, and, too, taken some food, bread and dried meat, which we had found in the huts. |
10 |
| 9 | 275 |
"I have heard," I said, "that panther girls, once taken, make splendid slaves". |
10 |
| 9 | 376 |
"It is you who have been taken slave". |
10 |
| 10 | 136 |
"She will then be taken to Ar, and may have quarters in the palace of the Ubar". |
10 |
| 11 | 6 |
He had, too, taken two sleen alive, and four panthers, and these were in stout cages of wood, lashed together with leather. |
10 |
| 11 | 92 |
Marlenus, with two huntsmen, had taken her within the Ahn. |
10 |
| 11 | 153 |
She was taken to the kitchen tent, where she was given lessons, as a slave girl, in the preparation and serving of food. |
10 |
| 11 | 522 |
When an individual is hamstrung he is often taken to a city where he is left, that he may, if he can, earn his living by begging. |
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| 11 | 758 |
He had taken, and owned, many women. |
10 |
| 12 | 43 |
Each of us, including the mighty Bosk, wore the two-and-one-half inch swath on our heads, running from our foreheads to the back of our necks, making it clear to all who it was who had taken us in the forests. |
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| 13 | 151 |
"The entire camp was taken," she said. |
10 |
| 13 | 184 |
"The ship, the Tesephone, which was here," I said, "was it taken, by a prize crew, downriver?" "Yes," she said. |
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| 13 | 191 |
The women, the four slaves, and he who wore the swath of panther girls, were taken, with the majority of the men of Tyros, into the forest". |
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| 13 | 240 |
They had taken with them Rim and the four girls. |
10 |
| 13 | 241 |
They had doubtless taken Rim, knowing him from Laura as an officer of mine. |
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| 13 | 247 |
Rim had been taken northward because he was an officer. |
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| 13 | 248 |
The girls had been taken northward because they were lovely. |
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| 13 | 272 |
"You were party," I told them, "to a plot in which my camp fell and my men, and certain slaves, were taken. |
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| 13 | 283 |
"You will be taken into the forest," I told them. |
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| 13 | 347 |
"I was taken by slavers and brought to Gor". |
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| 14 | 36 |
The attack had apparently taken the camp by complete surprise, and had been devastating and successful. |
10 |
| 14 | 43 |
He had been captured there, when the camp had fallen, and, according to the report of one of the paga slaves, had been taken into the forest. |
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| 14 | 163 |
She was only a weak girl of Earth, taken as slave to this barbaric planet. |
10 |
| 14 | 257 |
And yet by biology, by their beauty, by their aroused inwardness, they could not, in fact, own but only, in their true fulfillment, belong, be taken, be conquered. |
10 |
| 14 | 322 |
He would be branded, and taken to the coast as slave, for transportation to Tyros, island of his enemies. |
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| 15 | 9 |
Ilene would soon be taken. |
10 |
| 15 | 13 |
She would soon be taken. |
10 |
| 15 | 43 |
She would soon be taken. |
10 |
| 15 | 247 |
The men of Tyros, in their flight, had abandoned much baggage, their own, and baggage taken from the camp of Marlenus. |
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| 15 | 273 |
About the neck of the last panther girl in the coffle were slung seven quivers of arrows, which I had taken from various prisoners. |
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| 15 | 333 |
"No merchant," she said, "could have taken us as you did. |
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| 15 | 349 |
Among the baggage, too, I found items which had been brought from Verna's camp, which had been taken originally by Marlenus to his camp, and captured there by the men of Tyros and the band of Hura. |
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| 15 | 370 |
We would, at least in the beginning, follow a parallel trail to that taken by my fleeing enemies. |
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| 15 | 472 |
I carried with me four of the seven quivers of arrows taken from panther girls. |
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| 15 | 479 |
I returned and picked up the girls I had taken, the day's catch. |
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| 15 | 484 |
Too, I cut each of them a piece of the dried, salted meat taken from the abandoned camp of the men of Tyros and the girls of Hura. |
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| 15 | 560 |
"Then you were taken by Gorean slavers". |
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| 15 | 561 |
"I was taken by force," she said. |
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| 15 | 562 |
"Most slaves are taken by force," I told her. |
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| 15 | 747 |
In the night it had taken a full Ahn to an Ahn and a half to bring her to the point of yielding. |
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| 15 | 779 |
I would then have taken a good profit on the Earth-girl slave. |
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| 15 | 935 |
Her old name, her old identity, had been taken from her forever. |
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| 15 | 944 |
Then the name had been taken from her. |
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| 15 | 955 |
It might be changed; it might be taken away completely. |
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| 16 | 18 |
The arrows which had struck the men of Tyros had been those of panther girls, taken from my captures. |
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| 16 | 228 |
In my camp, there were several bottles of wine, which had been taken originally from Verna's camp by Marlenus, and then from his camp by the men of Tyros and the girls of Hura. |
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| 16 | 243 |
They were the same which had been taken before from her. |
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| 16 | 324 |
I had selected one and taken it to my camp. |
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| 17 | 122 |
We had taken them as easily as flowers. |
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| 18 | 68 |
After having taken the majority of Hura's girls, drugged at the camp, slave, I had not struck further at Sarus and his men, or Hura, and her minions. |
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| 18 | 207 |
Similar precautions were taken with the female slaves. |
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| 18 | 626 |
"We would have taken you with us," said he, "even if you had not served us as pleasantly as you did". |
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| 19 | 191 |
"I note," I said, "that you have taken slaves". |
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| 19 | 193 |
The escape of Chenbar would have taken place shortly after I had left the city. |
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| 19 | 228 |
"I have taken slaves," I admitted. |
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| 19 | 272 |
"I was captured by him and taken to the forest," wept Mira. |
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| 19 | 443 |
That cannot be taken from me". |
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| 21 | 106 |
She had, in that instant, taken the key. |
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| 21 | 163 |
It would have taken Ahns, but once a single man was freed and the tools lay ready, it was but a matter of time until all were freed. |
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| 22 | 10 |
Several were armed well, with weapons taken from those of Tyros. |
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| 22 | 11 |
Others carried merely knives, or light spears, taken from Hura's panther girls. |
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| 22 | 21 |
It would then be forgotten, what had taken place on this beach. |
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| 22 | 126 |
About his throat was a tangle of leather and claws, taken from panther women, with which he had adorned himself. |
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| 22 | 164 |
Within the Ahn Sheera had taken Mira, and, in the darkness, bent over, hand in her hair, she had returned Mira to my men. |
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| 22 | 196 |
I had taken his sword from him, and given it to one of my men. |
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| 22 | 208 |
From the belongings of the camp of Marlenus, which had been carried to the stockade, was taken the key to the collar. |
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| 22 | 216 |
One by one, collars were taken from their throats. |
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| 22 | 354 |
"Those who were crews from Tyros on the Rhoda and Tesephone," I said, "will be taken to Port Kar and sold on the wharves as slaves. |
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| 22 | 704 |
Goreans do not see the world in terms of metaphors taken from the artificialities of the theater. |
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| 22 | 863 |
Perhaps she would be sold south to Schendi or Bazi, or north to a jarl of Torvaldsland, Scagnar or Hunjer, or across Thassa to Tabor or Asperiche, or taken up the Vosk in a cage to an inland city, perhaps eventually to find herself in Ko-ro-ba, Thentis or Tharna, or even Ar itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 95 |
Whereas Initiates tend not to be taken with great seriousness by the high castes, or the more intelligent members of the population, except in matters of political alliance, their teachings and purported ability to intercede with Priest-Kings, and further the welfare of their adherents, is taken wit... |
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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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| 1 | 302 |
I was taken to the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 580 |
He had, finally, succeeded in making his way into the marshes, in the Vosk's vast delta, where he had been taken in by rencers, who live on islands, woven of rence reeds, in the delta. |
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| 1 | 737 |
A female slave is taken off slave wine only when it is her master's intention to breed her. |
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| 2 | 17 |
Kassau is the seat of the High Initiate of the north, who claims spiritual sovereignty over Torvaldsland, which is commonly taken to commence with the thinning of the trees northward. |
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| 2 | 22 |
It had, however, taken hold in many towns, such as Kassau. |
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| 2 | 30 |
The water is heated by placing rocks, taken from a fire, into the water. |
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| 2 | 51 |
But he had taken in fee from Chenbar Chenbar's weight in the sapphires of Schendi. |
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| 2 | 65 |
The slender, striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and fall, be taken in great numbers. |
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| 2 | 69 |
It is generally milled and taken northward. |
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| 2 | 110 |
They are taken by many Priest-Kings as an evidence of the aberrations of the human kind. |
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| 2 | 113 |
This particular teaching of the Initiates, it is interesting to note, is that taken least seriously by the general population. |
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| 2 | 186 |
Portions of the hymn were taken up by four delicate boys, standing outside the white rail on a raised platform. |
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| 2 | 210 |
The high altar, of marble, setting on a platform, also marble, of three broad steps, was surmounted by a great rounded circle of gold, which is taken often as a symbol of Priest-Kings. |
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| 2 | 297 |
The chant was taken up by the initiates, too, within the sanctuary. |
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| 2 | 316 |
It was first used at roadside shrines, to permit civil authorities to enter and slay fugitives who had taken sanctuary at the altars. |
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| 3 | 69 |
It must be taken behind the point with the swift blow of the forearm. |
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| 3 | 132 |
It is taken by many to mark the border between Torvaldsland and the south. |
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| 3 | 185 |
The fire had now climbed well unto the roof and had taken hold on another wall, near the railing, against which the women, earlier, had stood. |
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| 4 | 81 |
The battle of the 25th of Se'Kara had taken place in 10,120 C. |
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| 4 | 94 |
Somewhat behind us, between the benches, in the shade of the awning, among other riches taken in the sack of the temple of Kassau, were the bondmaids. |
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| 4 | 148 |
About his neck was a golden chain and pendant, doubtless taken once from a free woman of the south. |
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| 4 | 202 |
"Your Hall is taken," said the Forkbeard. |
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| 4 | 208 |
The hall had been taken in the middle game. |
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| 4 | 224 |
They had barely taken notice of them. |
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| 5 | 231 |
Ivar, and four men, had taken the longboat, which is tied, keel up, on the decking of the after quarter, and made their way to the skerry. |
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| 5 | 238 |
With him, in the longboat, in a round, bronze can, with twist lid, he had taken his scales, collapsible, of bronze and chain, with their weights. |
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| 5 | 274 |
The Forkbeard fingered the silver chain of office, looped about his neck, which he had taken from the administrator of Kassau. |
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| 5 | 341 |
Their bodies, bound, loot, prizes of the Forkbeard, lying in the darkness, among the glint of the gold taken in the sack of Kassau's temple, were very beautiful. |
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| 5 | 345 |
"You took ransom!" "I have taken more than ransom money," said he, "my large-breasted beauty". |
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| 6 | 375 |
"Last month," said Ottar, "a verr was taken". |
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| 6 | 440 |
"You have taken that much, or more," said I, "in the sack of Kassau's temple". |
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| 6 | 563 |
From about his neck he had taken the silver chain which had been the symbol of office of Gurt, Administrator of Kassau. |
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| 8 | 58 |
The perfumes I was displaying to her had been taken, more than six months ago, by the Forkbeard from a vessel of Cos. |
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| 8 | 186 |
How could it be made more clear that her captor scorned these as baubles, that he had no need of them, and that it had been the girl herself, and only she, her body and her person, that had been sought and boldly taken. |
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| 8 | 200 |
"For what reason then," begged she, "have I been taken?" "Are you so cold, Hilda the Haughty," asked he, "that you cannot guess?" "Oh, no!" she hissed. |
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| 8 | 233 |
We had thought Thorgard's roving, his gathering of the harvests of the sea, would have taken him much longer. |
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| 10 | 9 |
I heard bets taken, speculations exchanged. |
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| 10 | 33 |
Thorgeir, it so happened, of course, was the only man of the Ax Glacier country, which is usually taken as the northern border of Torvaldsland, before the ice belts of Gor's arctic north, who was at the Thing-Fair. |
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| 10 | 45 |
There was probably not one man at the Thing-Fair who took him truly to be of Ax Glacier; most obviously he did not have the epicanthic fold, which helps to protect the eyes of the men of Ax Glacier against extreme cold; further, he was much too large to be taken easily as a man of Ax Glacier; their ... |
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| 10 | 47 |
Only a madman, or a fool, might have taken seriously his claim to be of the Ax Glacier country. |
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| 10 | 94 |
Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the... |
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| 10 | 314 |
We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever... |
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| 10 | 429 |
They were fastened by a single chain, but it was not itself run through the projecting loop on their collars; rather, a heavy padlock, passing through a link of the chain and the projecting loop, secured them; in this way the chain, when a girl is taken from the chain, or added to it, need not be dr... |
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| 10 | 431 |
It had been taken from a sack slung about the shoulder of Blue Tooth's officer. |
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| 10 | 568 |
I supposed that the governments of Earth, or some of them, were aware of the slaving; perhaps merchants of Middle Eastern countries were suspected; there were, however, delicate negotiations concerning oil to be respected; it would not be well to be too bold in pressing accusations; what were a few ... |
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| 13 | 29 |
It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids. |
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| 13 | 230 |
Their kirtles of white wool, smudged and stained with grease, fell to their ankles; they hurried about; they were barefoot; their arms, too, were bare; their hair was tied with strings behind their heads, to keep it free from sparks; their faces were, on the whole, dirty, smudged with dirt and greas... |
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| 13 | 337 |
"How were you taken?" asked Svein Blue Tooth. |
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| 13 | 339 |
"In my own compartments was I taken, fettered and hooded". |
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| 14 | 76 |
The Kur who had taken the girl then took another leash from the interior of his shield, where there were several wrapped about the shield straps, and surveyed the hall. |
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| 15 | 154 |
It had taken the Forkbeard and I an Ahn, wading through crusts of snow, to reach our present position. |
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| 15 | 315 |
Not long after we had again taken to the rocks, we heard and saw the Kurii, some two hundred feet below and to one side, following us. |
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| 16 | 4 |
I heard the strike of two small pieces of iron pyrite on one another, taken from the Forkbeard's belt wallet, and saw a scattering of sparks. |
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| 16 | 74 |
Much of his education, of course, consists in being taken into a house, and taught arms, hunting and the sea. |
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| 16 | 169 |
It did not seem likely that robbers would have taken the body, and left the various treasures about. |
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| 17 | 36 |
He had taken dirt from beneath the feet of the Forkbeard and, kneeling, had poured it on his head. |
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| 18 | 212 |
Had it not been for the force of Svein Blue Tooth, the power of his voice, the mightiness of his presence, Kurii might then have taken the initiative. |
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| 20 | 176 |
In my belt was thrust the spiral ring of gold, taken from its arm. |
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| 20 | 179 |
"I have here three objects," I said, "acquired on the skerry, the head of a Kur, he who was commander of the Kur army, a spiral ring of gold, taken as loot from his carcass, and a slave girl". |
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| 21 | 27 |
She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she kne... |
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| 21 | 212 |
Much amusement on account of it is taken at his expense by his fellows of the court. |
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| 22 | 175 |
But it had taken longer to arouse her than is common in a slave girl. |
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| 22 | 229 |
There, too, heavy and spiraled, was a ring of gold, which I had taken from the arm of the Kur I had slain. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 149 |
History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ... |
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| 24 | 670 |
No notice was taken of me, though much notice was taken of the luscious slave who, so briefly and shamefully clad, preceded me. |
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| 1 | 25 |
A front corner of the silk was taken behind her and thrust, loose and draped, into the rolled silk knotted about her hips; a back corner of the silk was drawn before her and thrust loosely, draped, into the rolled silk at her right hip. |
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| 1 | 246 |
"It does not seem so," I admitted, "unless the Kurii, perhaps, feel that just such a move might put the Priest-Kings off guard, that it would be too obvious to be taken as a prelude to full war". |
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| 1 | 343 |
"It was taken southeast of Ar, proceeding in a southeasternly direction". |
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| 1 | 461 |
When the search is discontinued, after success or failure, these markers are destroyed, lest they be taken by travelers for water arrows, markers indicating the direction of water holes, underground cisterns or oases. |
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| 1 | 610 |
The beast had been taken southeast of Ar, while moving southeast. |
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| 1 | 780 |
The major probe of Kurii, the organization of native Kurii by ship Kurii, had taken place recently. |
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| 1 | 795 |
Was this where the new plan of Kurii, if there was such a new plan, touched this primitive world? "The path of the captured Kur," said Samos, pointing, "would have taken it here". |
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| 2 | 120 |
Water for these gardens, by contract with slave masters, was carried by chains of male slaves and emptied into house cisterns, whence, later, by house slaves, it would be taken in cans and sprinkled carefully, foot by foot, throughout the garden. |
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| 2 | 129 |
From Kasra I had taken a dhow upriver on the Lower Fayeen, until I reached the village of Kurtzal, which lies north, overland, from Tor. |
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| 2 | 130 |
Goods which are to be transported from Tor to Kasra sometimes are first taken overland to Kurtzal, and thence west on the river. |
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| 2 | 157 |
Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd... |
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| 2 | 162 |
We could, of course, have taken another girl from the pens of Samos. |
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| 2 | 637 |
It had taken only an instant, the chain leaving my hand, to determine that he was exactly where I had expected him to be, as he would have been at any time in following me, had I earlier turned, slightly to my right. |
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| 3 | 74 |
Unsheathed, followed through, of course, such a stroke would have taken off the top of his head, slashing upward through the hood of the burnoose. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 581 |
Why had my master permitted it? Was I not his slave? Did I mean so little to him? He had taken my virginity; he had taken much pleasure in me; he had won me, forcing from me my total surrender as a slave girl to his power; then he had permitted his men to amuse themselves with me. |
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| 22 | 320 |
"If the ship is taken, Mistress will be taken with the ship. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 126 |
She is not to be demeaned, not to be taken from herself and simply given to another, not to be owned, not to be taken in hand and dominated, and mastered, and trained, with ruthlessness or amusement, as would be a slave, who is, of course, a form of domestic animal. |
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| 29 | 55 |
To his camp, I suspect, come not only the captures of brigands, and the stripped females from the outskirts of the Salerian cities, taken by the raiding parties of Ar, but, too, even women taken by the warriors of Cos and of the cities of Saleria. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 15 |
Glyco and Tasdron, too, neither of whom could be taken as rash fellows, had been taken by the plan. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 67 |
"Who would have suspected it, of the sleen of Cos," said a soldier of Ar near me, one of several whom we had taken aboard, from the careening decks of the sinking Alcestis, which, yesterday, had been taken as a prize by the men of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1132 |
The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe... |
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| 14 | 694 |
Usually daughters are taken, for the red masters find them pleasing as slaves, but sometimes, too, young men are taken. |
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| 14 | 772 |
"I was taken from the enclosure when I was eight years old," she said, "taken home by a Kaiila warrior as a pretty little white slave for his ten-year-old son. |
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| 17 | 44 |
The same thong is then taken behind the yoke and passed through the center hole, whence, after having been knotted, to prevent slippage to the left, and having been looped about the girl's neck, usually some five times, and having been knotted again, to prevent slippage to the right, it is returned ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 252 |
Canka had also taken the dress which Hci had thrown contemptuously beside him, taken from the loot of one of the wagons, and wrapped it about the lance. |
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| 28 | 145 |
The first woman's hands are bound behind her back with one end of such a thong and then the other end is taken up and knotted about the neck of the woman behind her; this woman's hands are then bound behind her with another thong, its free end then being taken up and bound about the neck of the woma... |
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| 42 | 19 |
She, with three others, Inez, Corinne and Priscilla, had been taken from Grunt by Yellow Knives in the vicinity of the field where the battle had taken place between a coalition of red savages and the soldiers of Alfred, the mercenary captain from Port Olni. |
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| 42 | 22 |
This girl, however, had not been taken by Yellow Knives or Sleen; she had been taken by a Kaiila warrior, Canka; she was now Winyela, his slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 517 |
The last garment, for example, was undoubtedly really that which had been taken from me in the throne room of Corcyrus, before the very throne itself, before I had been taken naked and in chains outside, into the courtyard, to be placed in a golden cage. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 343 |
"The women are being taken behind you," I cried to the Cosians, "taken by those who have not even nicked their steel!" "Forward!" cried a Cosian officer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 844 |
In a few moments she wept, "I yield me, Master!" and I then held her like iron and cried out with joy and she sobbed "I am helpless and taken!" and Phoebe, too, in the arms of Marcus, cried out, herself as well taken, and he, too, uttered a wild cry and a then sudden, low, satisfying growl, and the ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 33 |
Her scent had been taken, as a slave's scent is taken. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 91 |
For example, a girl might be taken out, hooded, leashed, by one fellow, and, later, certain arrangements having previously taken place, arrangements unknown to her, she may, when she is knelt and unhooded, find herself, on her leash, looking up into the eyes of a stranger. |
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| 16 | 217 |
"Should Lord Nishida not be taken to his pavilion?" "Lord Nishida, of course," said the fellow, "would be taken to his pavilion". |
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| 27 | 43 |
Perhaps if the caste and council democracies, so to speak, had taken a different turn such individuals might have constituted a constituency, so to speak, exploitable by the unscrupulous, but the several forms of democracy, of aristocracies, of oligarchies, of tyrannies, and such, amongst which powe... |
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| 27 | 108 |
Surely she could have been taken as she had been taken, from the very height of the Central Cylinder, if Seremides' account was at all correct, only by means of either Kurii or Priest-Kings. |
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| 43 | 55 |
Those who are not promptly taken into custody, running into the arms of enemy soldiers, fallen into fragilely roofed siege ditches, rather like capture pits, finding themselves unable to scale walls of circumvallation, caught in slave wire, taken in slave snares or slave traps, and such, may be soug... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2003 |
"But, Master," I said, "is the testimony of slaves in courts not taken under torture, that they will not dare to lie?" "It would be better," said Menon, "for the testimony of free women to be taken under torture, for they are famous for saying whatever pleases them". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 200 |
"The Home Stone was taken," he said, "taken and destroyed". |
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| 17 | 27 |
Perhaps, naturally enough, she had taken them for granted, taken them to be her due, her right. |
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