| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 18 |
Behind the great ditch, separated from it by some hundred yards, there was a smaller ditch, perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, also with a rampart formed from the excavated earth. |
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| 1 | 10 |
I thought him dead until I received his strange message, more than twenty years after he had vanished. |
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| 1 | 173 |
I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back. |
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| 3 | 170 |
I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards. |
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| 7 | 105 |
We had been wading for about twenty minutes when the girl suddenly screamed, and I spun around. |
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| 10 | 54 |
"Twenty tarn disks," Mintar proposed. |
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| 10 | 91 |
In the wagon there were some twenty girls, dressed in the slave livery of Gor, perhaps ten on a side, chained to a metal bar which ran the length of the wagon. |
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| 10 | 121 |
When urged to speed, however, the high tharlarion bounds, in great leaping movements that carry it twenty paces at a time. |
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| 13 | 53 |
When, twenty feet away, the great, bounding beast, fangs bared, leaped for its prey, it encountered instead only the slender needle of my spear, set like a stake in the ground, braced by the half-naked body of a warrior of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 15 | 2 |
Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharlarion wagons abreast on their... |
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| 16 | 123 |
We stopped before a resplendent tent of yellow-and-red silk, some forty feet in diameter and twenty feet high at the dome. |
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| 18 | 112 |
In this chamber, though empty of human beings, was a monstrous tarn cot, in which some twenty gigantic, half-starved tarns huddled separately on the tarn perches. |
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| 18 | 158 |
When I reached that portion of the stairwell adjoining the upper floors, devoted to the private use of the Ubar, I saw some twenty or thirty guardsmen, behind them a barricade of tile and tarn wire which they had erected. |
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| 19 | 210 |
There was only the sheer wall of the cylinder, broken once by a tarn perch some twenty feet below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 59 |
It was well balanced, vicious, double-edged and about twenty to twenty-two inches in length. |
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| 15 | 59 |
The rocky shelf on which we found ourselves was perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, about the size that a tarn chooses for nesting. |
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| 2 | 68 |
The tarn-goad is a rodlike instrument, about twenty inches long. |
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| 2 | 86 |
Where my father had met me after more than twenty years of separation, where my warrior comrades and I had drunk and laughed together, where I had met and learned from my little friend, Torm, the Scribe, there was home. |
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| 3 | 15 |
The Gorean day is divided into twenty Ahn, which are numbered consecutively. |
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| 4 | 76 |
I had hardly moved another step when, in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur dark, slick with rain, its fangs bared, its wide nocturnal ... |
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| 10 | 28 |
After we had walked for perhaps some twenty minutes through the drab, graveled, twisted streets of Tharna, its gray citizens parting to make way for us and to stare expressionlessly at the scarlet-clad prisoner, we came to a broad winding avenue, steep and paved with black cobblestones, still shiny ... |
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| 10 | 46 |
Some twenty feet below the level of the door, in the absolute darkness, with brutal impact, I struck bottom, a stone floor covered with wet straw. |
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| 10 | 86 |
I looked about the room, which curved to a dome some twenty-five feet above the floor. |
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| 15 | 227 |
In its talons it held a great piece of meat, bloody and raw, which had been torn from some kill, perhaps a bosk more than twenty pasangs away. |
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| 17 | 9 |
It was ventilated inadequately by a set of tiny circular apertures, about an inch in diameter, placed every twenty feet. |
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| 24 | 138 |
The first rampart was perhaps twelve feet high, the second perhaps twenty. |
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| 26 | 1 |
A Letter from Tarl Cabot Inscribed in the City of Tharna, the Twenty-Third Day of En'Kara in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Lara, Tatrix, of Tharna, the Year 10,117 from the Founding of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 75 |
The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his ... |
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| 1 | 84 |
This chain of reflections was occasioned in my mind by sight of some men of Port Kar, a savage, coastal city on the Tamber Gulf, who were displaying a sullen chain of twenty freshly branded girls, many of them beautiful. |
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| 2 | 81 |
A case is known of a larl who traveled more than twenty-five hundred pasangs to seek a certain shallow crevice in the Voltai in which he had been whelped. |
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| 3 | 14 |
I lifted the shield, for, to my horror, in reversing his position on the chain he had suddenly added some twenty feet to the fearful perimeter of the space allotted to him by that hated impediment. |
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| 3 | 15 |
Two great clawed paws smote my shield and hurled me twenty feet against the cliff. |
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| 5 | 264 |
The Gorean day is divided into twenty Ahn. |
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| 8 | 159 |
Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one. |
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| 11 | 9 |
Then it backed away perhaps some twenty feet. |
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| 12 | 104 |
"I assume," I said, "you have more than twenty-eight human slaves". |
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| 12 | 105 |
There were twenty-eight characters in the Gorean alphabet. |
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| 13 | 3 |
We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots. |
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| 16 | 131 |
"It was saturated with Flame Lock, and its combustion index was set for twenty Ehn following opening". |
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| 25 | 53 |
In the vicinity of the portal itself I remembered, when I had had the Mul-Torch, seeing a ventilation shaft some twenty or thirty yards inside the passage and fixed in the ceiling of the passage some nine feet from the floor. |
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| 27 | 96 |
There, from a great golden bowl, about five feet deep and with a diameter of perhaps twenty feet, setting on a heavy tripod, he would take a bit of whitish liquid, undoubtedly Gur, in his mouth. |
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| 31 | 229 |
Then in the last spasmodic throb of death Sarm's body broke free of the jaws of the Golden Beetle and reared up once more to its glorious perhaps twenty feet of golden height. |
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| 32 | 292 |
He seemed to float down to the floor and, touching one sandaled foot to the ground only every twenty yards or so, began to leave the chamber in slow dreamlike bounds. |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 105 |
A kaiila, which normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding. |
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| 1 | 27 |
There is also a system of latitude and longitude figured on the basis of the Gorean day, calculated in Ahn, twenty of which constitute a Gorean day, and Ehn and Ihn, which are subdivisions of the Ahn, or Gorean hour. |
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| 3 | 89 |
"It will buy ten bosks," said he, "twenty wagons covered with golden cloth, a hundred she-slaves from Turia". |
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| 8 | 41 |
The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i... |
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| 8 | 364 |
"Twenty-five!" announced the judge. |
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| 8 | 385 |
"He will not beat twenty-five," said Conrad. |
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| 8 | 387 |
I knew myself that twenty-five was a remarkable time. |
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| 12 | 408 |
The chain to which the collar was attached was a good deal longer than that of the Sirik, containing perhaps twenty feet of length. |
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| 12 | 409 |
Then, to the music, the girl seemed to twist and turn and move away from him, as he played out the chain, until she stood wretched some twenty feet from him at the chain's length. |
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| 14 | 60 |
There were some fifteen or twenty guards slain, mostly by arrows. |
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| 14 | 67 |
Near the center of the wagon, alone, his head bent over, on the robe of gray boskhide, sat Kutaituchik, perhaps fifteen or twenty arrows imbedded in his body. |
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| 21 | 348 |
Some dozen dismounted Tuchuks were now at the great windlass on its platform slowly opening the gates to their maximum width, and when they had done so the Tuchuks, howling and waving their lances, entered the city in ranks of twenty abreast, thus only five ranks to the Hundred. |
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| 23 | 60 |
I knew that in little more than fifteen or twenty Ehn his forces would be lost, dissipated among the wagons, and yet surely the Paravaci must be met and fought there as well as on the prairie. |
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| 23 | 83 |
It was now near nightfall and I was confident the Paravaci, who greatly outnumbered us, perhaps in the order of ten or twenty to one, would wait until morning before pressing the advantage of their numbers. |
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| 26 | 67 |
We would outnumber the desperate defenders of his walls perhaps by twenty to one. |
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| 26 | 161 |
The other man with them was a young man, dark-haired and eyed, a simple man-at-arms, perhaps not more than twenty. |
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| 26 | 341 |
At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 53 |
Beyond the area of the sand and the many tables there was a high wall, some twenty feet or so high, in which there were four levels, each containing seven small curtained alcoves, the entrances to which were circular, with a diameter of about twenty-four inches. |
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| 17 | 155 |
Since the beginning of En'Kara he had fought more than one hundred and twenty times, and one hundred and twenty foes had fallen before him, which, following his unusual custom, he had never slain, regardless of the will of the crowd. |
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| 1 | 68 |
Without speaking the man took twenty pieces of gold, tarn disks of Ar, of double weight, and gave them to Kuurus, who placed them in the pockets of his belt. |
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| 1 | 83 |
Yet he had in the pockets of his belt twenty gold tarn disks, and of double weight. |
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| 2 | 271 |
"My house," said Portus, "is twenty generations old. |
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| 2 | 297 |
"A hundred tarnsmen, well organized," said Kuurus, "could strike barbarian villages, bind a hundred wenches, and return in twenty days". |
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| 2 | 328 |
"Use Twenty-seven," said the man, handing Kuurus a bit of silk, Pleasure Silk, wrapped about a set of slave chains. |
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| 2 | 330 |
Not speaking, but woodenly, she climbed the ladder and crawled onto the shelf near the tiny alcove marked with the Gorean equivalent of twenty-seven and entered, followed by Kuurus, who drew the curtains behind them. |
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| 3 | 22 |
The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s... |
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| 3 | 134 |
I myself had seen chess masters on Earth play twenty boards simultaneously and blindfolded. |
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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 | 303 |
"But it has been so for twenty thousand years," said Misk. |
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| 5 | 366 |
"Yet, for twenty thousand years we have stood them off, because of superior power". |
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| 5 | 548 |
"Twenty gold pieces, I'd say," appraised Elizabeth. |
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| 5 | 549 |
"I'd give twenty-three," said one of the men watching, the same fellow whom Elizabeth had slapped. |
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| 5 | 559 |
"I would say twenty-five gold pieces," she said. |
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| 5 | 609 |
It was one day to Thentis by tarn, but in the wagon we knew the trip would take perhaps the better part of one of the twenty-five day Gorean months. |
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| 5 | 610 |
There are twelve twenty-five day Gorean months, incidentally, in most of the calendars of the various cities. |
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| 9 | 5 |
It had bred slaves as well as handled them for more than twenty-five generations. |
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| 12 | 167 |
It was now some twenty days after the girls had been brought in from the Voltai. |
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| 17 | 27 |
Here, unexpectedly, I ran into a pack of some fifteen or twenty girls who, shrieking and laughing, surrounded me in a moment. |
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| 19 | 80 |
Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;... |
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| 19 | 159 |
She was sold for twenty-five gold pieces. |
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| 19 | 243 |
"Twenty gold pieces!" I heard cry. |
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| 19 | 244 |
"Twenty-five!" I heard from another area. |
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| 19 | 272 |
"A hundred and twenty," said another, soberly, matter-of-factly, this man, too, a professional Slaver, he wearing on his left shoulder the sign of Tyros. |
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| 19 | 358 |
"Five hundred and twenty!" called the Slaver of Tor. |
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| 20 | 510 |
"It is capture of Home Stone," said he, "in twenty-two". |
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| 22 | 79 |
The run of the chain was perhaps twenty-five feet. |
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| 22 | 362 |
To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev... |
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| 22 | 396 |
It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip... |
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| 22 | 416 |
I looked at the poles bearing the twenty wooden tarn heads, signaling the circuits of the track to be made. |
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| 22 | 468 |
At the beginning there had been, on each set of poles, twenty wooden tarn head, five to each pole. |
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| 22 | 530 |
Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt... |
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| 24 | 134 |
"In attempting to enter the compartments of Cernus he triggered a pit-lock device, and plunged twenty feet into a smooth-sided capture pit. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 407 |
"Take then those that were with her," I said, "and distribute them to the extent of their number among our other ships, the twenty most beautiful to our twenty tarn ships now with the fleet, and the most beautiful of that twenty to the prow of the Dorna, and the other twenty set at the prows of twen... |
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| 14 | 56 |
If we suppose a trebly-banked ship with one hundred and twenty oarsmen, say, in three banks of twenty each to a side, I think we can see she would have to be a rather large ship, and a good deal heavier than the single-decked, three-men-to-a-bench type, also with one hundred and twenty oarsmen. |
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| 17 | 211 |
My fifth wave was divided into two portions, the pincer blade striking from the north under the command of the tall, long-haired Nigel with his fifteen ships, supplemented by twenty-five of the arsenal, and the pincer blade from the south under the command of Chung, with his twenty ships, supplement... |
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| 14 | 52 |
The Dorna carried twenty groups of three to a side, and so used one hundred and twenty oarsmen. |
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| 14 | 328 |
The round ship, although she often carries over one hundred, and sometimes over two hundred, chained slaves in her rowing hold, seldom, unless she intends to enter battle, carries a free crew of more than twenty to twenty-five men. |
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| 14 | 329 |
Moreover, these twenty to twenty-five men are often largely simply sailors and their officers, and not fighting men. |
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| 15 | 35 |
Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c... |
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| 1 | 80 |
The paper is then attached, sheet to sheet, to form rolls, usually about twenty sheets to a roll. |
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| 6 | 173 |
Then, some twenty yards to my left, and ahead of me, I saw a single torch. |
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| 8 | 9 |
There were seventy arrows, fifty of which were sheaf arrows, twenty flight arrows. |
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| 8 | 280 |
I now had twenty-five. |
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| 8 | 282 |
Of the twenty-five arrows, eighteen were sheaf arrows and the remaining seven were flight arrows. |
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| 9 | 44 |
There was something of an uproar as a large, fierce-looking fellow, narrow-eyed, ugly, missing an ear, followed by some twenty or thirty sailors, burst into the tavern. |
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| 10 | 15 |
There are commonly about one hundred and twenty captains who form the council, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less. |
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| 10 | 30 |
Medium class for a long ship, or ram-ship, is determined not by freight capacity but by keel length and width of beam; a medium-class long ship, or ram-ship, will have a keel length of from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet Gorean; and a width of beam of from ten to fifteen feet Gorean. |
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| 10 | 46 |
Although there were some one hundred and twenty captains in the council, seldom more than seventy or eighty, either in person or by proxy, made an appearance at its meetings. |
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| 10 | 136 |
The approximately one hundred and twenty captains of the Council of the Captains of Port Kar have, pledged to their personal service, some thousand ships. |
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| 10 | 138 |
Beyond these ships there are some twenty-five hundred ships which are owned by some fifteen or sixteen hundred minor captains of the city, not wealthy enough to sit on the Council of Captains. |
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| 11 | 335 |
"I refer to the ships of the minor captains, in the number of better than twenty-five hundred!" "In the streets," said Samos, "I have heard the cry 'Power to the council!'" "Proclaim Henrius Sevarius sole Ubar," said Lysias numbly, "and your lives will be spared, and you will be granted amnesty". |
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| 12 | 8 |
At the base of the wall, extending for some twenty yards, there was a tiled expanse, which suddenly dropped off, sheer, into a canal, itself some ninety feet wide; we had closed off the canal, where it might give access to the city or sea, by sea gates. |
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| 14 | 11 |
Her keel, one hundred and twenty-eight feet Gorean, and her beam, sixteen feet Gorean, mark her as heavy class. |
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| 14 | 25 |
Besides her stem and stern castles the Dorna carried two movable turrets amidships, each about twenty feet high. |
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| 14 | 32 |
Although the Dorna's true beam is sixteen feet Gorean, her deck width is twenty-one feet Gorean, due to the long rectangular rowing frame, which carries the thole ports; the rowing frame is slightly higher than the deck area and extends beyond it, two and one half feet Gorean on each side; it is sup... |
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| 14 | 41 |
The length of those oars on a tarn ship commonly varies from twenty-seven to thirty foot Gorean. |
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| 14 | 42 |
A thirty-foot Gorean oar, the most inboard oar, would commonly weigh thirty stone, or about one hundred and twenty pounds. |
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| 14 | 67 |
Of the forty ram ships, twenty-five were heavy class, and fifteen medium class. |
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| 14 | 68 |
Of my thirty ram-ships, twenty were heavy class, and ten medium class. |
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| 14 | 130 |
I counted, clearly, some twenty ships, fanned out in a long enveloping line, moving towards us. |
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| 14 | 286 |
Some of the round ships, intelligently, had scattered, but, of the thirty originally in the fleet, there were now twenty-two ringed with our vessels. |
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| 14 | 297 |
This left, after the last of my original eleven ships had returned, twenty of my ships with the treasure fleet, more than enough to counter any returning enemy tarn ships. |
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| 14 | 300 |
I looked upon my twenty-three round ships, and was not unsatisfied. |
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| 14 | 314 |
Penned in among the twenty-three round ships was a long galley, a purple ship, flying the purple flag of Cos. |
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| 14 | 463 |
And, of tarn ships, I have one captured, your flagship, and, from the reports of my captains, some eighteen or twenty have been seriously damaged or sunk. |
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| 14 | 469 |
"Thurnock," said I, "signal seventeen of my twenty ships to present themselves to our approaching friends. |
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| 16 | 188 |
The fleet would consist, according to my information, of forty-two hundred ships, twenty-five hundred from Cos and seventeen hundred from Tyros. |
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| 16 | 348 |
Of the usual seventy or eighty, or so, captains of the approximately one hundred and twenty entitled to sit in the council, only some thirty or forty were present. |
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| 17 | 5 |
The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from... |
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| 17 | 14 |
Lastly, I was pleased, though astonished, to accept the service of thirty-five ships of two of Port Kar's Ubars, twenty from the squat, brilliant Chung, and fifteen from tall, long-haired Nigel, like a war lord from Torvaldsland. |
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| 17 | 202 |
I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades. |
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| 18 | 43 |
I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and malignant, but wh... |
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| 18 | 44 |
I wondered how many men would claim to have fought on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, abroad on Thassa. |
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| 18 | 266 |
Twenty yards beyond, running, she stopped, and turned to look upon me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 228 |
One stopped at my floor, the twenty-fourth. |
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| 5 | 64 |
At last, about twenty yards from the ship, I circled it, fearfully. |
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| 6 | 100 |
At the front of it, standing on the grass, were some fifteen or twenty girls, unclothed. |
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| 7 | 31 |
It seemed not unlikely that one of Targo's village girls, if trained and brought to Ar, might net him from ten to fifteen, perhaps even twenty, gold pieces. |
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| 7 | 73 |
His men, at that time, had numbered more than twenty. |
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| 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 | 394 |
The wagon was flanked by perhaps forty warriors, with spears, twenty to a side. |
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| 8 | 65 |
Targo was charged twenty-one copper tarn disks for myself, the other girls, the new girl, and his four bosk. |
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| 9 | 280 |
It was some twenty-five to thirty yards in diameter, ringed by the lofty trunks of Tur trees. |
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| 11 | 798 |
The prevailing northern winds, carrying rain and moisture, had coated the northern sides of the high trees with vertical belts of moss, extending some twenty to thirty feet up the trunks. |
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| 13 | 90 |
It had been decided that she should now undertake the journey to the Sardar, which, according to the teachings of the Caste of Initiates, is enjoined on every Gorean by the Priest-Kings, an obligation which is to be fulfilled prior to their attaining their twenty-fifth year. |
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| 13 | 100 |
Besides, she knew well that, some year, prior to her twenty-fifth year, such a journey must be undertaken by her. |
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| 13 | 102 |
If she did not undertake the journey then, she would be simply, prior to her twenty-fifth birthday, removed from the domain of their authority, placed alone outside their jurisdiction, beyond the protection of their soldiers. |
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| 14 | 123 |
There were many warriors about, perhaps a hundred or more, the men of Rask of Treve, and perhaps some twenty girls, lovely ones, in brief work tunics, busying themselves with their tasks, cooking, cleaning leather, polishing shields. |
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| 17 | 473 |
Bosk, I am told, set my price at twenty pieces of gold, that he might, as a merchant, take his profit on me. |
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| 17 | 480 |
This house has withstood a siege of thousands, within the last two years, in the time of the warrings of the Ubars and the Council of Captains, and the great engagement between the fleet of Port Kar and that of Tyros and Cos, on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of A... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 145 |
The slaves in the stockade, the twenty-two wenches behind the circle of the men of Tyros and the women of Hura, and beyond them, lying on their stomachs, chained, facing the back wall of the stockade, Marlenus and the twenty others, could know little or nothing of what was transpiring. |
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| 2 | 61 |
This galley, one of my swiftest, the Tesephone of Port Kar, had forty oars, twenty to a side. |
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| 2 | 463 |
"A steel knife for each," I proposed to Sheera, "and twenty arrow points, of steel, for each". |
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| 2 | 619 |
"The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa". |
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| 2 | 742 |
Go twenty such trees. |
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| 2 | 745 |
Again go twenty such trees. |
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| 3 | 356 |
"Twenty copper pieces!" cried a leather worker. |
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| 3 | 360 |
"Twenty-two copper pieces," called a metal worker. |
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| 3 | 373 |
"Twenty-five copper pieces," called a pastry vendor. |
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| 3 | 374 |
"Twenty-seven!" cried a seaman. |
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| 4 | 342 |
He will not charge more than twenty pieces of gold for me". |
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| 4 | 349 |
Now this girl, once Elizabeth Cardwell, of Earth, now a paga slave in Lydius, would bring only fifteen to twenty-five pieces of gold. |
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| 6 | 325 |
We had taken the Tesephone from the wharves of Laura, and ascended the river some twenty pasangs. |
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| 7 | 2 |
At my hip was slung the quiver, with sheaf arrows, twenty of them, of black tem wood, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the Vosk gull. |
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| 7 | 355 |
Such bands of girls scarcely ever number more than twenty. |
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| 13 | 41 |
"Surrender!" cried their leader, stopping some twenty feet from me. |
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| 13 | 80 |
The girls had tangled themselves in the brush not twenty yards into the trees. |
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| 14 | 35 |
Twenty-five of the fallen wore the yellow of Tyros. |
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| 14 | 46 |
I supposed that the men of Tyros, those who had been engaged in the attack, now numbered somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty-five. |
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| 15 | 234 |
There were now twenty-one prisoners, each of them a beauty. |
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| 15 | 418 |
Following the men came a coffle of twenty-four slave girls. |
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| 15 | 482 |
There were twenty-five girls now in the chain. |
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| 17 | 116 |
I had had, before the morning, twenty-five girls, captured, in the coffle. |
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| 17 | 124 |
She now retained twenty-one, including Mira. |
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| 17 | 126 |
Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros, by my count, when the march had begun had had one hundred and twenty-five men. |
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| 17 | 155 |
I then left the chain, and took up again the trail of the men of Tyros, and that of the girls of Hura, who were now of the number of twenty-one. |
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| 18 | 47 |
Now, sullen, angry, at the edge of the forest, I saw a slave chain of twenty-one men. |
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| 18 | 67 |
Then, of course, after having laid this impediment in the path of his pursuer or pursuers, he, with his choice male prisoners, Marlenus chief among them, and the twenty-four captured slave girls, including Verna, Cara, Grenna and Tina, continued their flight to the shores of gleaming Thassa and thei... |
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| 18 | 69 |
She, with twenty-one girls left, including Mira, had come with Sarus to the sea. |
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| 18 | 91 |
It interested me that none of the twenty-four girls had been abandoned. |
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| 18 | 108 |
The other twenty men, Rim behind him, and then Arn, and then men of Marlenus, chained, followed him. |
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| 18 | 161 |
Under the orders of Mira, the twenty-four slave girls in their coffle knelt on the sand, near the water's edge, in the position of pleasure slaves. |
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| 18 | 168 |
They placed this wood at a point on the beach some twenty yards above the line of high tide, forming with it a great beacon. |
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| 18 | 214 |
Then, on the other side of them, closer to the sea, lay the gagged, helplessly thonged slave girls; then came the blankets and supplies of Hura's twenty-one women; then came the equipment of the fifty-five men of Tyros, almost at the margin of the animal fires. |
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| 18 | 352 |
The pile of branches and driftwood was some twenty pasangs south of the camp of the men of Tyros. |
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| 19 | 231 |
"There are twenty-two female slaves here, lying bound," said Sarus. |
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| 19 | 268 |
Hura and her twenty-one girls, including Mira, were tied, neck to neck. |
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| 22 | 71 |
"And men, so long as they shall live, and fathers shall tell sons of fine deeds, so long as that shall the story be told of what occurred on gleaming Thassa on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 223 |
I chose, and cut, a path which it might follow, to the last twenty feet; for the last twenty feet I cut shallow holds in the surface, adequate for a man, climbing carefully, but too shallow for the fingers of a Kur". |
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| 1 | 295 |
In it are twenty girls. |
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| 2 | 80 |
If we count these perhaps we might think of greater Kassau as having a population in the neighborhood of some twenty-three hundred persons. |
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| 2 | 135 |
It was a twenty bencher, but this nomenclature may be confusing. |
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| 2 | 136 |
There were twenty benches to a side, with two men to each bench. |
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| 2 | 183 |
The litany and responses of the congregation were now completed and the Initiates, some twenty within the rail, began to sing in archaic Gorean. |
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| 2 | 204 |
It is some one hundred and twenty feet in length, and forty feet in width and height. |
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| 3 | 35 |
I saw, twenty feet from me, screaming, the giant, he of incredible stature, striking down at the kneeling people, who were crying out and trying to crawl away. |
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| 3 | 90 |
He then drew with the handle of his ax a circle, some twenty feet in diameter, in the dirt floor of the temple. |
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| 4 | 41 |
In a day, a full Gorean day of twenty Ahn, with a fair wind they can cover from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pasangs. |
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| 5 | 296 |
"One hundred and twenty pieces". |
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| 5 | 319 |
Their weight, apiece, is not great, being little more than twenty-five Gorean stone, or about one hundred Earth pounds. |
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| 6 | 319 |
It was about one hundred and twenty feet Gorean in length. |
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| 7 | 42 |
The growing season at this latitude, mitigated by the Torvaldstream, was about one hundred and twenty days. |
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| 9 | 145 |
The beating had been quite light, only twenty strokes. |
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| 10 | 54 |
Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,... |
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| 10 | 199 |
I then took both of the boys, by the scruff, and threw them, stumbling, more than twenty feet away to the grass. |
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| 10 | 291 |
We passed one fellow whom we noted seized up two bars of red-hot metal and ran for some twenty feet, and then threw them from him. |
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| 10 | 666 |
I put twenty sheaf arrows into the target, until it bristled with wood and the feathers of the Vosk gull. |
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| 14 | 72 |
There there waited another Kur, who held in his tentacled hand the leashes of more than twenty bondmaids, who knelt, terrified, about its legs. |
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| 14 | 264 |
Another portion of the roof fell, not more than twenty feet from me. |
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| 15 | 76 |
The Kurii, for more than twenty thousand years at least, had possessed deep-space capability. |
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| 15 | 241 |
The second Kur was some twenty-five feet below. |
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| 15 | 380 |
I fell to a ledge twenty feet below. |
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| 15 | 434 |
I expected not more than twenty or thirty feet at most. |
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| 16 | 47 |
It was still squarish, some twenty feet in height and width. |
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| 18 | 226 |
It was my supposition that their square contained, now, better than twenty-three hundred beasts. |
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| 20 | 14 |
It rises some fifteen to twenty feet from the water. |
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| 20 | 83 |
The Kur rested back on its haunches, some twenty feet from me. |
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| 20 | 117 |
With his left paw the beast brushed her, rolling and sprawling, twenty feet across the stone. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
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| 16 | 22 |
The raft is some twelve feet in width and some twenty-four or twenty-five feet in length. |
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| 21 | 477 |
Given the attitude of the ship, however, the ladder was roughly at a twenty-degree angle to the ground, and some twenty feet from the sand; it was useless to me. |
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| 2 | 324 |
They are adjustable, with rings, from a length as small as two inches, for security, to a stride length of about twenty inches. |
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| 3 | 86 |
There are twenty hours, or Ahn, in the Gorean day. |
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| 3 | 211 |
The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ... |
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| 4 | 56 |
About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched, with lanceolate leaves. |
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| 4 | 467 |
Some twenty of them, with Farouk, and certain guards, began to work their way down the caravan, beast by beast, checking the drovers and kaiila tenders. |
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| 5 | 236 |
"Twenty weights of date bricks," he said. |
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| 5 | 508 |
"Twenty-five weights of date bricks," he said. |
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| 5 | 521 |
Several thousand people, I think some twenty thousand people, lived at the oasis, mostly small farmers, and craftsmen, and their families. |
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| 5 | 823 |
"In my Pleasure Gardens," smiled Suleiman, "I have twenty such women". |
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| 7 | 13 |
I looked to the door, some twenty feet across the stone floor; it was of beams, sheathed with iron. |
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| 11 | 12 |
For twenty days we had been upon the desert. |
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| 11 | 295 |
Had Ba'Arub destroyed or fouled the public wells at Red Rock, those outside the walls of the kasbah, Hammaran would have been forced to retire in twenty-four hours, and perhaps lose most of his men on the return march to his country. |
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| 11 | 367 |
He took one of the water bags, which was still full, which held some twenty gallons of water. |
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| 13 | 62 |
Tahari salt accounts, in its varieties, I would suspect, for some twenty percent of the salt and salt-related products, such as medicines and antiseptics, preservatives, cleansers, bleaches, bottle glass, which contains soda ash, taken from salt, and tanning chemicals, used on known Gor. |
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| 13 | 159 |
You were little more than twenty Ahn in her keeping". |
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| 14 | 14 |
For twenty days had we marched. |
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| 14 | 420 |
For twenty days had we marched. |
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| 14 | 620 |
There were twenty prisoners standing in the crusts. |
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| 14 | 648 |
Twenty had come to Klima. |
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| 16 | 14 |
The poles used are weighted at the bottom, and are some twenty feet in length. |
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| 16 | 190 |
We, in the darkness, felt the salt water drench us, heard the great body, more than twenty feet long, fall back in the water. |
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| 24 | 1 |
I Bind a Girl, Reserving Her for Myself; I Then Address Myself to the Duties of Steel The outcome of the battle, some twenty pasangs from the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, had never been in doubt. |
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| 24 | 2 |
That Ibn Saran met us at all, with the twenty-five hundred mercenaries he could muster does him much credit. |
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| 24 | 8 |
I came once within one hundred and fifty yards of Ibn Saran; Hassan, or Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, came within twenty yards of him, fighting like a wild animal, but was turned back at last by a wall of bucklers, a hedge of lances. |
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| 26 | 18 |
He was accompanied by twenty riders. |
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| 26 | 110 |
She was the twenty-third girl from the first girl on the line. |
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| 26 | 116 |
"You are in the first group, twenty-third girl," I said. |
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| 26 | 347 |
He tossed a Gorean slave whip to the tiles, some twenty feet from the girl. |
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| 26 | 356 |
The Gorean day consists of twenty Ahn; the Gorean Ahn, or hour, of forty Ehn, or minutes; the Ehn consists of eighty Ihn, or seconds. |
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| 26 | 465 |
She is naked; she is not permitted to rise; she may not even speak, for the whip must be held between her teeth; to drop it is twenty extra lashes. |
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| 26 | 700 |
The first twenty strokes were used to punish the slave, timing them differently, placing them variously. |
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| 26 | 701 |
The second twenty strokes would be easier to bear, with an accountable rhythm, and a more centered placement, from below the neck to above the small of the back. |
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| 26 | 716 |
The first twenty strokes did I give the slave girl. |
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| 26 | 724 |
"I shall now," I informed her, "give you twenty more strokes". |
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| 26 | 762 |
If she does not, she may receive the missing strokes, plus an additional twenty. |
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| 26 | 771 |
"But for the second," I said, "twenty strokes is not an uncustomary number, neither too few nor too many, suitable, one supposes, for an initiatory beating, an induction beating, a beating of welcome, a salutational whipping". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 485 |
Twenty men may breech a wall held by a hundred men, if the twenty men but attack where the wall is defended by only two. |
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| 13 | 363 |
"Did you truly think," he hissed, "we would take a profit of only a copper tarsk on you? Do you think us fools to buy a girl for twenty and sell her for twenty-one? Do you not think we know our trade, little slut?" I screamed for mercy. |
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| 16 | 174 |
It was some twenty feet wide at its broadest point and some one hundred and twenty feet in length. |
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| 2 | 99 |
I am some five feet five inches in height and weigh about one hundred and twenty pounds. |
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| 2 | 282 |
The approaching man stopped singing about twenty yards from us, and stood grinning in the grass. |
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| 2 | 413 |
It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap... |
10 |
| 2 | 692 |
He turned again when I was some twenty yards from him. |
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| 2 | 895 |
I thought my head would fly from my neck, with such swift savageness was I struck! The blow was open-handed, taking me on the left side of the face, but it must have been clearly audible for a hundred and fifty yards about; I rolled, stinging, crawling, for more than twenty feet; I threw up in the g... |
10 |
| 2 | 1074 |
It was perhaps twenty feet in length, perhaps eleven hundred pounds in weight. |
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| 2 | 1147 |
Approaching, in the darkness, we saw some twenty torches. |
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| 5 | 343 |
I suspect that of the seventy or eighty men in the camp twenty or more had immediately plunged after me, perhaps even more. |
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| 5 | 580 |
"I will give you twenty Ihn," said he, "to remove the clothing of a free woman and to fall naked on your belly before me". |
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| 6 | 41 |
The field tabuk now make their crossing some twenty pasangs northwest of Tabuk's Ford, but the village, founded in the area of the original crossing keeps the first name of the locale. |
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| 6 | 123 |
It is some twenty pasangs or so from the "Vosk road". |
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| 7 | 293 |
The girls of Clitus Vitellius, I among them, stood at the line scratched in the dirt within the peasant village of Tabuk's Ford, some four hundred pasangs to the north and west of Ar, some twenty pasangs or so, west, from the Vosk road. |
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| 8 | 108 |
The critical attacking distance for a sleen in the wild is about twenty feet. |
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| 8 | 138 |
The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet. |
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| 9 | 541 |
I had been twenty days slave at Tabuk's Ford. |
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| 11 | 214 |
"There are twenty men who are ancillary personnel, a physician, porters, scribes and such". |
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| 11 | 222 |
"There are twenty-seven girls in Stones of Turmus," continued Sucha. |
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| 11 | 334 |
The gates were separated by about twenty feet. |
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| 12 | 32 |
There had been twenty-seven girls in Stones of Turmus before my purchase. |
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| 12 | 33 |
Accordingly, upon my purchase, I became the twenty-eighth girl. |
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| 12 | 34 |
Sucha, of course, had counted herself among the twenty-seven girls. |
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| 12 | 40 |
There were twenty-nine girls now, however, in the keep of Stones of Turmus. |
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| 12 | 541 |
I stopped once again, trying to twist the slave bells, one by one, from the five-linked anklet which I wore, with its twenty bells. |
10 |
| 13 | 13 |
There were twenty steps to the height of the block. |
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| 13 | 56 |
I shared my cage with twenty girls, each of us with a chain and disk on our throats. |
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| 13 | 126 |
The block was circular, and some twenty feet in diameter. |
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| 13 | 270 |
The slaver who had purchased me had sold me to the house of Publius for twenty copper tarsks. |
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| 13 | 303 |
"Twenty," called a man. |
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| 13 | 304 |
"Twenty," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 308 |
"I have a bid of twenty copper tarsks for this lovely little beauty," said the auctioneer. |
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| 13 | 311 |
I knew the house had paid twenty tarsks for me. |
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| 13 | 312 |
"Twenty-one," called a man. |
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| 13 | 313 |
"Twenty-one," said the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 317 |
Twenty-one tarsks had been bid upon me. |
10 |
| 13 | 320 |
What is the cost of gruel and a whip? "I have heard a bid of twenty-one tarsks," called the auctioneer. |
10 |
| 13 | 330 |
"It seems," said the auctioneer, "that we must let this little beauty go for a mere twenty-one copper tarsks". |
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| 13 | 392 |
And I knew that I was not being sold merely as a beautiful girl, for such a girl might have gone for twenty-one tarsks, but as something more, as a beautiful slave girl. |
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| 14 | 125 |
I had been twenty days slave here and she had been with us only six. |
10 |
| 14 | 126 |
There were twenty-two slaves in the tavern, not counting the dancers, of which there were five. |
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| 16 | 22 |
This ship, a small one, had only twenty such cages, arranged amidships in two rows, back to back, two cages high, five cages long. |
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| 16 | 85 |
Each girl, all in all, has a space private to her slavery of some twenty-five inches in width, by some eighteen inches in height, by some six feet five inches in length. |
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| 16 | 244 |
The twenty girls from the deck were then with us. |
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| 18 | 3 |
It is built on four levels, a large, open court, wooden floored, an encircling dais, some twenty feet deep, and, over the dais, two encircling balconies, each some ten feet deep. |
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| 18 | 8 |
I brushed against other girls, and customers, coming and going on the wooden ramps; I managed the tray with care; it is not well to drop a tray; many girls worked at the Chatka and Curla, more than one hundred; I climbed carefully; the ramps have raised, slatted ridges; these are spaced some twenty ... |
10 |
| 18 | 39 |
I was some twenty-five feet or more above the wooden flooring. |
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| 20 | 134 |
When I had first been sent to the wharves, some weeks ago, my wrists had been braceleted behind me, and I had been accompanied by other girls; later I had been permitted to go alone, my wrists still locked behind my back; later I had been permitted to go alone to the wharves in wrist rings and chain... |
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| 20 | 139 |
There were some twenty of them. |
10 |
| 21 | 83 |
It was some twenty feet wide. |
10 |
| 21 | 115 |
"A chain of twenty men of Ar," he said. |
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| 21 | 152 |
The oars, in unison, twenty on each side, dipped into the waters of the harbor, drew and lifted, the water falling from them in bright droplets, splashing back into the harbor. |
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| 22 | 9 |
There were some twenty vessels in the convoy. |
10 |
| 22 | 161 |
"There are now twenty to a side". |
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| 22 | 623 |
A few feet from the raft, rolling lifeless in the water, was a grotesque marine saurian, fishlike but reptilian, more than twenty feet in length. |
10 |
| 24 | 8 |
A ship was approaching, a medium-class galley, with twenty oars to a side, dipping unhurriedly. |
10 |
| 27 | 205 |
Then we saw Bran Loort backed against the wall, with what must have been twenty angry men of Ar encircling him. |
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| 27 | 208 |
"There are only twenty!" called Thurnus. |
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| 28 | 59 |
There were one hundred and twenty girls in the line. |
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| 28 | 154 |
At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in... |
10 |
| 28 | 159 |
With one hundred and twenty girls the most serious bidding would presumably come somewhere between Girl 80 and Girl 95. |
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| 28 | 163 |
Sometimes special sales, well-publicized, are held, in which as few as fifteen or twenty girls, of great quality or interest, are sold. |
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| 28 | 172 |
Early in the sale, for the first twenty girls, the chain had been intact, one chain for us all. |
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| 28 | 177 |
Then, after the first twenty girls, when our nerves were keen and taut, we were separated into coffles of ten. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 121 |
There was a movement among some of the younger players to divide the sand in such a way that each player would have one Ahn for the first twenty moves, and one Ahn for the second twenty moves, subject to the same forfeiture conditions as the two-Ahn clock. |
10 |
| 32 | 74 |
It consists of between twenty-one hundred and twenty-two hundred animals. |
10 |
| 1 | 65 |
How incredibly beautiful and soft she seemed; she was curled in the furs; she was half covered by them; I lifted them away, that I might see her fully; she stirred; her hands moved a bit on the furs; she drew her legs up; she reached as though to pull the furs more about her but her hands did not fi... |
10 |
| 1 | 198 |
The animal was some twenty feet in length, some eleven hundred pounds in weight, a forest sleen, domesticated. |
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| 3 | 167 |
Each young person of Gor is expected, before their twenty-fifth birthday, to make the pilgrimage to the Sardar, to honor the Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 3 | 327 |
Few people would accept a bet of even twenty to one under such circumstances. |
10 |
| 3 | 340 |
I was now some twenty men from the table. |
10 |
| 3 | 678 |
It had occurred on the twenty-fourth move of red, played by Philemon, Physician to Physician Six, generally regarded as a flawed response to Ossius' Ubar to Ubara's Scribe Five. |
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| 4 | 256 |
Too often master-level Kaissa becomes overly routine, almost automatic, particularly in the first twenty moves. |
10 |
| 4 | 413 |
On what would have been his twenty-second move Scormus of Ar, saying nothing, rose to his feet. |
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| 6 | 14 |
I stood in the midst of fields south of the Laurius river, some forty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa, some one hundred and twenty pasangs south-southeast of the river port of Lydius, lying at the mouth of the Laurius river, on its farther side. |
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| 6 | 903 |
One of the sleen leaped more than twenty feet into the air, tearing at her, but fell back to the turf, twisting, squealing. |
10 |
| 8 | 72 |
I did not think she weighed more than one hundred and twenty Earth pounds. |
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| 15 | 78 |
"Twenty strokes, and goodly strokes, such as are not easily forgotten, to each". |
10 |
| 15 | 723 |
Her degree of heat, in such a situation would also be listed, of course, among her other properties, on her sales sheet, posted in the vicinity of the exhibition cages, available twenty Ahn before her sale. |
10 |
| 15 | 879 |
"Ten," she asked, "twenty?" "Perhaps some four or five thousand," I said. |
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| 18 | 9 |
It was some twenty feet in length and some five feet in its beam. |
10 |
| 20 | 181 |
I looked at the high meat racks, some with tiers, some twenty feet or more in height, to protect the meat from sleen, both those domesticated and the wild sleen that might prowl to the shores as the hunting, the leems hibernating, grew sparse inland. |
10 |
| 22 | 188 |
It was some eighteen to twenty feet in length and perhaps a thousand pounds in weight. |
10 |
| 22 | 288 |
New blood was splashed more than twenty-eight inches along the shaft. |
10 |
| 23 | 6 |
Some three weeks ago, more than twenty sleeps past, Imnak and I had taken three sleen in kayak fishing. |
10 |
| 23 | 122 |
"I am ready for you!" The Kur pulled up short, some twenty yards from me, baring its fangs. |
10 |
| 26 | 249 |
Imnak now, with a knife, cut down at the ice some twenty feet from the partially erected shelter. |
10 |
| 26 | 284 |
Then the sleen were outside, some twenty or thirty feet away, dark on the ice, though they were snow sleen. |
10 |
| 26 | 292 |
Some sleen packs run as high as one hundred and twenty animals. |
10 |
| 26 | 355 |
Some fifteen or twenty sleen had been killed, all by other sleen in the pack. |
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| 28 | 114 |
"I, and five other girls, serve twenty men, in one portion of this place. |
10 |
| 28 | 132 |
"I, and my five sisters in bondage, serve twenty men". |
10 |
| 30 | 31 |
Behind my cage, and in the wall, some twenty feet in height, there was a mirror. |
10 |
| 30 | 44 |
They stood, then, opposite to one another, facing one another across some twenty feet of sand. |
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| 31 | 26 |
Oddly, certain portholes, or apertures, or whatever they might be, were set high, too, some twenty feet from the floor, ringing the dome. |
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| 31 | 33 |
I sat down, cross-legged, some twenty feet in front of the platform, and waited. |
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| 32 | 56 |
"We have only two hundred humans here and some twenty of our people". |
10 |
| 34 | 74 |
It must have contained fifteen or twenty pieces of meat. |
10 |
| 34 | 160 |
Thoughtlessly the beast must have devoured fifteen or twenty of the hidden traps. |
10 |
| 35 | 99 |
The last twenty feet I slipped and, pushing and thrusting, fell clattering to its bottom. |
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| 35 | 189 |
Once I did encounter some twenty men, in a column of twos, moving swiftly down one hall. |
10 |
| 35 | 1113 |
"There are more, before they have finished coming, than twenty-five hundred". |
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| 35 | 1311 |
The Kur day was divided into twelve hours, the Gorean day into twenty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 |
The Gorean alphabet has twenty-eight characters, all of which, I suspect, owe their origin to one or another of the alphabets of Earth. |
10 |
| 1 | 361 |
It was some twenty feet in length. |
10 |
| 2 | 167 |
"Twenty-two tarsks," called a man in the crowd. |
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| 2 | 168 |
"Twenty-four!" called another. |
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| 2 | 172 |
"Twenty-seven tarsks," called a man. |
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| 2 | 175 |
"Twenty-eight tarsks," called a man. |
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| 2 | 179 |
"Twenty-nine tarsks," called a man. |
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| 2 | 189 |
Procopius Minor owned about twenty girls. |
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| 3 | 24 |
The dark-haired, shapely girl from Tyros had gone for twenty-nine tarsks. |
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| 3 | 28 |
She was hot and she had cost him not forty but only twenty-nine tarsks. |
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| 4 | 453 |
I began to follow her, some twenty or thirty feet behind her. |
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| 4 | 658 |
"We have twenty Ahn". |
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| 7 | 44 |
They are some twenty feet long and five feet deep, and four feet high. |
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| 10 | 76 |
I had little doubt that Kipofu, who was reputed to have extremely sharp senses, might have heard breathing within a radius of twenty feet, even in the square. |
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| 15 | 132 |
"There are twenty thousand tarns of gold there," I said. |
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| 17 | 14 |
"Twenty thousand tarns of gold," I said. |
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| 21 | 41 |
We then heard a thrash in the water, as a tharlarion, perhaps the same one which had thrust its snout against the bars of our cage, struck against wood in the darkness, some twenty yards from us. |
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| 23 | 354 |
Nervously I saw that there were several askaris about, more than I had originally realized, some twenty of them, with their shields and stabbing spears. |
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| 24 | 243 |
"No," she cried, "no! I am a true slave!" The four tharlarion were now some twenty yards away. |
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| 26 | 4 |
We had been twenty days upon the lake, living by fishing, drinking its water. |
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| 27 | 87 |
We had learned that three boats, with more than one hundred and twenty men, several in blue tunics, had passed this village several days ago. |
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| 29 | 2 |
A great spined anteater, more than twenty feet in length, shuffled about the edges of the camp. |
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| 32 | 6 |
The canoe, on our shoulders, tilted upward at a twenty-degree angle. |
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| 32 | 43 |
I suspected, from the degree of recovery of the jungle following the passage of Shaba and his men, that he was not more than fifteen or twenty days ahead of us on the river. |
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| 32 | 158 |
These rains are often accompanied by violent winds, sometimes, I conjecture, ranging between one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty pasangs an Ahn. |
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| 32 | 178 |
Some of these palms have leaves which are twenty feet in length. |
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| 32 | 179 |
One type of palm, the fan palm, more than twenty feet high, which spreads its leaves in the form of an opened fan, is an excellent source of pure water, as much as a liter of such water being found, almost as though cupped, at the base of each leaf's stem. |
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| 32 | 193 |
This level is roughly from a hundred and twenty-five feet Gorean to two hundred feet Gorean. |
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| 32 | 197 |
The canopy, or zone of the canopies, ranges from about sixty to one hundred and twenty-five feet high, Gorean measure. |
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| 32 | 216 |
More than six varieties of anteater are also found here, and more than twenty kinds of small, fleet, single-horned tabuk. |
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| 46 | 7 |
More than twenty of them struggled, impeding one another's movement, in a long vine net about them. |
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| 47 | 57 |
I watched the black, segmented bodies of some fifteen or twenty ants, some two hundred yards in advance of the column, approach the meat. |
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| 49 | 103 |
They were, many of them, long war canoes, containing as many as fifteen or twenty men. |
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| 51 | 91 |
The blonde was about five and a half feet tall, and would have weighed, I conjecture, about twenty-nine stone, Gorean, about one hundred and sixteen pounds. |
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| 53 | 382 |
I removed the golden chain and lashed it in the face and it fell backwards from the wall, to the stones some twenty feet below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 |
Beverly Henderson was twenty-two years old and a graduate student in English literature at one of the major universities in the New York City area. |
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| 1 | 31 |
At the time of our meeting I was twenty-five years old. |
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| 2 | 178 |
In it, aligned, each held in its place by the construction of the interior of the case, each in its cushioned slot, was the remainder, some six or so, of what must once have been a series of something like twenty steel anklets. |
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| 3 | 178 |
They were, some of them, as much as twenty feet in length. |
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| 4 | 67 |
Lola, I conjecture, was in the neighborhood of five feet four inches tall and would have weighed about one hundred and twenty pounds; Tela, who was a bit smaller, I would conjecture would have been about five feet three inches tall and would have weighed a pound or two less, perhaps about one hundre... |
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| 4 | 162 |
I was then twice beaten, each time with twenty strokes. |
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| 5 | 71 |
What, truly, was the point of it? What was so wrong, really, with being a man? "Twenty strokes!" cried Lola to Tela. |
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| 5 | 114 |
Too, tell the guard you are to receive twenty strokes". |
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| 6 | 11 |
Extending in a line to my left, the same line in which I formed the initial point, stripped, secured as I was, were twenty more male slaves. |
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| 7 | 129 |
I recalled, most of all, how she had spilled the wine in the training session, had accused me of it, and had prescribed twenty blows of the snake. |
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| 7 | 131 |
Twenty blows of the snake, I had little doubt, might cost some men their lives. |
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| 7 | 153 |
I did not think that Lola, in her cruelties, or when she had played the cruel trick with the wine, and had prescribed the twenty blows of the snake, had anticipated that she would, one day, be braceleted in my cell, at my mercy as a naked slave girl. |
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| 7 | 154 |
"Why twenty blows of the snake?" I asked. |
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| 7 | 156 |
"Twenty blows would not kill you. |
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| 7 | 333 |
It was she who had wished for me to receive twenty blows of the snake. |
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| 12 | 421 |
"Three six!" 'Three ten!" "Three twenty!" The bidding was at four eighteen when I had jerked back my head from the flaming cubes, my right shoe thrown from my teeth into the fire. |
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| 13 | 438 |
Some twenty yards away two palanquins, heading in opposite directions, were stopped. |
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| 15 | 121 |
I knew that twenty blows of that fearsome whip could kill some men. |
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| 16 | 196 |
I recommend twenty lashes. |
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| 19 | 23 |
My feet seldom moved more than some twenty inches apart; earlier in my training my ankles had been shackled; now, kinesthetically, habitually, without thinking, I tended almost invariably to maintain a sensible measure between my feet; I stayed, too, generally on my toes; this reduces friction and e... |
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| 21 | 143 |
Overheard we had seen some one hundred and twenty-five tarnsmen. |
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| 21 | 146 |
The pennon of the standard bearer, long and narrow, fluttering back some twenty feet from his spear, was that of Vonda. |
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| 22 | 84 |
"I herewith publicly sign," said the Lady Melpomene, "this loan note, made out to the Lady Florence of Vonda, for the full sum of one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold". |
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| 22 | 180 |
"I demand that you now pay me the sum of one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold". |
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| 22 | 418 |
He grinned and lifted before her eyes the bank draft, drawn on the bank of Reginald in Vonda, certified, and signed by the Lady Florence, for one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold. |
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| 27 | 265 |
"He cost me twenty copper tarsks," said another man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 134 |
"Twenty-five tarsks!" "Twenty-six!" "Twenty-seven!" "Twenty-eight!" "Thirty!" "Buy her," a voice seemed to say to me. |
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| 29 | 173 |
I will give you twenty men, if so many will volunteer, and if Aemilianus, of Ar's Station, will similarly supply another twenty. |
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| 4 | 700 |
She turned once, after about twenty yards, to look back. |
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| 6 | 106 |
The floor areas are commonly wood except for a central strip of dirt some twenty feet wide. |
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| 7 | 103 |
About her throat alone there must have been twenty necklaces. |
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| 8 | 78 |
There, about twenty feet away, in a dirty woolen himation, stood a tall, unshaven man. |
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| 9 | 125 |
"Twenty-two tarsks!" called a man. |
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| 9 | 126 |
"Twenty-three!" called another. |
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| 19 | 67 |
In most exchanges it is valued at a hundred copper tarsks, each of which is valued, commonly, at some ten to twenty tarsk bits. |
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| 21 | 282 |
It commonly takes fifteen to twenty minutes to bring a free Earth female to orgasm. |
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| 23 | 8 |
"In twenty days," I said, "allowing for my return and the fitting of our ships, we shall be at your sea gate". |
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| 23 | 201 |
The classical question in this respect, almost universal on Gor, is "Wine, Master?" "Do you think, truly," asked Policrates, "that the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, fully rigged and fitted, can be here in twenty days?" "I see no difficulty in the matter," I assured him. |
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| 29 | 201 |
"Give me twenty men," I said to Callisthenes. |
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| 29 | 202 |
"I think I can supply you with twenty volunteers," he said. |
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| 29 | 204 |
"If Port Cos can give you twenty men for such a venture," said Aemilianus, "Ar's Station, surely, could supply no smaller a number". |
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| 31 | 15 |
I had some twenty-four inches of play for my hands. |
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| 32 | 188 |
I stood on a board walk, some twenty feet wide, which borders the lakelike courtyard of the holding. |
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| 33 | 164 |
It is thought he commands some fifty ships and twenty-five hundred men. |
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| 33 | 174 |
"Ten at the chain, and twenty in the vicinity of the south guard station," said Callimachus. |
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| 33 | 176 |
"There are another twenty at Port Cos, of course," said Callimachus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 64 |
These five ships, this small, uneasy, slender line, were all we had to oppose the might of the Voskjard, surely still some twenty-eight or twenty-nine ships, now being marshaled off our bows. |
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| 1 | 40 |
Callimachus, twenty feet above me, his hands on the stem-castle railing, peered out into the fog. |
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| 3 | 66 |
Twenty others lay to in the waters near the south guard station, which post was held by Callisthenes. |
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| 3 | 183 |
"His twenty ships, summoned from the south guard station, will be crucial," said Callimachus. |
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| 4 | 3 |
We lay to, twenty-two ships, in a double line. |
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| 4 | 160 |
Few of these ships boasted more than twenty oars. |
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| 4 | 173 |
These heavy constructions were some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven or eight feet in width. |
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| 4 | 226 |
I could not but think, bitterly, that if the Voskjard, truly, had had only some fifty ships, as we had gathered from the intelligences supplied to us by Callisthenes, we, if supplemented by the twenty ships of Callisthenes, yet to appear, would now have outnumbered him. |
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| 5 | 185 |
On the deck of the Portia there seemed no more than fifteen or twenty figures. |
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| 5 | 199 |
These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart. |
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| 6 | 121 |
"The tide turns!" Callisthenes commanded twenty ships. |
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| 6 | 149 |
It was for such a purpose that we had placed the twenty ships of Callisthenes at that point, to guard against this major weakness in our defenses. |
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| 7 | 36 |
A longboat was some twenty yards away. |
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| 11 | 5 |
It led onto a narrow balcony, screened by intricate grillwork, which, some twenty feet above the floor, encircled the area of the central slave quarters. |
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| 12 | 112 |
"There must be twenty ships in the yard," I said. |
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| 14 | 19 |
Of his original three fleets, numbering in the neighborhood of some one hundred and fifty or sixty ships, he must now retain less than twenty. |
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| 14 | 59 |
"You retain, at most, no more than twenty ships," said Policrates. |
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| 16 | 163 |
The weight, thrashing and tearing, must have been some fifteen or twenty pounds. |
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| 20 | 226 |
Each girl carried a tray of desserts, and each wore two light, graceful, gleaming chains, one of which, some twenty inches in length, by means of ankle rings, joined her ankles, and the other of which, some eighteen inches in length, put confinement on her wrists, each fair wrist being clasped snugl... |
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| 20 | 1613 |
One want list I heard of requested a female Classics Scholar, between the Earth age of twenty and thirty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 938 |
It is a gigantic, dangerous beast, often standing from twenty to twenty-five hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as four thousand pounds. |
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| 1 | 510 |
The bronze head might have weighed some twenty pounds. |
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| 1 | 735 |
The iron bolts of these devices, weighing about a pound apiece, were capable of sinking some four inches into solid wood at a range of some twenty yards. |
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| 1 | 1073 |
In other tribes, such a man, if he is over twenty-five, is permitted to mate, but he is not allowed to paint his mate's face. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 167 |
The Fleer usually use twenty, the Sleen twenty-two and the Kaiila twenty-four. |
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| 1 | 166 |
Adult males can stand as high as twenty or twenty-five hands at the shoulder and weigh as much as four thousand pounds. |
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| 44 | 533 |
He saw the two stakes, some twenty to twenty-five feet above him, and the naked, roped beauties who graced them. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 312 |
In a moment I had heard twenty-two, and twenty-seven. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 27 |
One, a foot thick and twenty feet in length, managed by ten men with ropes, mounted at an angle of some twenty degrees on an improvised pivot of heaped stone, swept the bridge an instant after it struck the crenelation, then tumbled off, used once, to fall behind the parapet. |
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| 17 | 104 |
On such a narrow path I hoped twenty men might hold against a thousand, for there the thousand could put against them no more than twenty. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 8 |
There were twenty-three in their party, the leader, a lieutenant, the fellow called 'Gito', and twenty men. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 599 |
"Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first to open her a... |
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| 23 | 262 |
Now you are angry with yourself! You are angry that I have become a true slave! And I think you are angry that I have become beautiful, and desirable! Yes, I am that, Master, and I will go for silver, I assure you, not copper! There have been twenty-one bids on me already, twenty-one! And there is s... |
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| 25 | 1010 |
"The bid was of twenty silver tarsks," called the auctioneer, "not twenty copper tarsks". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 117 |
"Do not follow him! Remain here!" Concealed amongst the cattle humans were somewhere between twenty and twenty-five Kurii, these picked minions of the elite of Lord Agamemnon's forces, each armed with a power weapon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 126 |
Let us suppose that a crossbowman on tarnback had twenty bolts, and, drawing and cocking the cable, and extracting the bolt, and placing it in the guide, and aiming, could fire one every twenty Ihn. |
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| 17 | 98 |
With a laugh Torgus then, with a declination of his lance, followed by that of his bannerman, followed by the twenty, in its four prides, in its ranks, that twenty which was his personal guard, swooped downward to join the fray below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1263 |
"Twenty, twenty, twenty". |
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| 8 | 1274 |
"Twenty-five, twenty-five, thirty," was saying the auctioneer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 212 |
"Twenty, twenty, twenty?" called the auctioneer. |
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| 4 | 226 |
"Twenty, twenty, yes, twenty- five," called the auctioneer. |
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| 4 | 193 |
None had sold for less than twenty- forty copper, namely twenty copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits. |
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| 15 | 135 |
Shortly thereafter four waves, or ranks, of tarnsmen swept by, the lowest wave perhaps no more than five yards from the ground, the highest perhaps twenty or twenty- five yards from the ground. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 87 |
"I see no more than twenty, no more than twenty-five or thirty here," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 18 |
"Twenty-one copper tarsks then!" called out the fellow who had bellowed forth the supposed offer of twenty tarsks but a moment ago. |
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| 28 | 37 |
The coin had been dropped into the cup by the fellow who had made the supposed bids of twenty and twenty-one copper tarsks for me. |
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| 60 | 8 |
I was not sure of the numbers but I would have hazarded that the number might more closely approximate some forty Kurii, say, twenty in the stands, and twenty on the ground. |
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| 61 | 490 |
Test the might of your single ax against twenty spears, from twenty sides!" I saw men encircling us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 194 |
I could see some twenty to twenty-five small craft departing from the islet. |
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| 7 | 127 |
What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the Priest-Kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like a bird of prey, "let us give glad heed to ... |
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| 31 | 28 |
"Close the gate! Brush! Flames! Fire arrows!" Some twenty fellows rushed to the gate and pulled it shut, tying the two, in-swinging leaves together, and another twenty hurried to the closed gate with thick bundles of brush, grass, and straw which they piled before the tethered gate. |
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