| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 185 |
I knew that the fires on the wharves of Chung still blazed, and that they had spread northward to the free wharves south of the arsenal. |
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| 9 | 13 |
She danced under ships' lanterns, hanging from the ceiling of the paga tavern, it located near the wharves bounding the great arsenal. |
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| 11 | 59 |
From there, in the late afternoon sun, we could see smoke from the wharves and arsenal to the west. |
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| 11 | 62 |
I indicated wharves. |
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| 11 | 63 |
"Those wharves," I said, "are those of Chung and Eteocles?" "Yes," said one of the captains. |
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| 11 | 64 |
"And those," I asked, indicating other wharves, farther to the south, "are those of Nigel and Sullius Maximus". |
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| 11 | 68 |
"And along the wharves generally," said the second. |
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| 11 | 111 |
The wharves of Chung, Eteocles, Nigel and Sullius Maximus, I conjectured, from the blazings along the waterfront on the west and south, would not fare as well. |
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| 11 | 116 |
I, and the three other captains, stood on the sloping roof of the hall of the council and watched the ships burning at the wharves. |
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| 11 | 130 |
I looked out over the city, at the arsenal, at the burning wharves on the west and south. |
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| 11 | 137 |
I pointed to the burning wharves. |
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| 11 | 148 |
And those who had used the open wharves did not seem to have suffered damage. |
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| 11 | 149 |
The only wharves fired were apparently those of the four Ubars. |
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| 11 | 184 |
"We have the reports on the damage to the wharves of Chung," said a scribe, pressing into my hands the documents. |
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| 11 | 204 |
His ships and wharves are well defended. |
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| 11 | 232 |
"They were hired by the men of Henrius Sevarius, some to slay captains, some to fire the wharves and arsenal". |
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| 11 | 407 |
Even before dawn walls were being raised about the holdings of Henrius Sevarius, and his wharves were being blockaded with ships of the arsenal, while large watches were being maintained on the holdings of the other four Ubars. |
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| 12 | 6 |
His wharves, moreover, were, with arsenal ships, almost immediately blockaded by sea. |
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| 14 | 71 |
I had even had it observed by men at the various slave wharves, presumably inspecting the merchandise. |
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| 16 | 275 |
"Release all the slaves! Send them throughout the city, to the wharves, the taverns, the arsenal, the piazzas, the markets, everywhere! Tell them to cry out the news! Tell them to tell everyone that there is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" Men ran from the room to carry out my orders. |
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| 16 | 276 |
"Officers," I cried, "to your ships! Form your lines beyond the harbor four pasangs west of the wharves of Sevarius!" "Yes, Captain!" they cried. |
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| 16 | 321 |
I had heard already that men with larger ships, hundreds of them, had put out to sea, and that the wharves were packed with throngs, bidding exorbitant amounts of gold for a passage from Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 495 |
They also serve, frequently, as porters at the wharves. |
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| 3 | 26 |
It is quite near the wharves in Lydius. |
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| 3 | 42 |
Indeed, at the wharves I had even seen two green ships. |
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| 3 | 245 |
We walked along the front of the street, until we came to a side street, leading down to the wharves. |
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| 3 | 275 |
The wagon stopped on the broad street, before the wharves, where the crowd could gather about. |
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| 5 | 61 |
I wanted to see her, for the first time, walk the wharves of Lydius as a slave girl. |
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| 6 | 186 |
Turning slowly, sweetly, into the wharves of Laura was the heavy-beamed, large medium galley, bright with the yellow of Tyros. |
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| 6 | 195 |
It was, on the wharves, attracting attention. |
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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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| 6 | 698 |
This time lovely Tina, beneath her tan, from the wharves of Lydius, blushed red, and put down her head. |
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| 6 | 844 |
I well recalled how well she had robbed me in our first acquaintance on the wharves of Lydius. |
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| 18 | 389 |
How long ago it seemed she had cut my purse in a street along the wharves of Lydius. |
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| 22 | 354 |
"Those who were crews from Tyros on the Rhoda and Tesephone," I said, "will be taken to Port Kar and sold on the wharves as slaves. |
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| 22 | 447 |
If found guilty in the court of the arsenal, the male thief would be sentenced, for a week to a year, to hard labor in the arsenal or on the wharves; the female thief would be sentenced to service, for a week to a year, in a straw-strewn cell in one of Port Kar's penal brothels. |
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| 22 | 451 |
Few thieves of Port Kar have not served time, depending on their sex, either in the arsenal or on the wharves, or in the brothels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 237 |
This word had been brought from the wharves to the High Initiate. |
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| 3 | 272 |
Swiftly, down the dirt street to the wharves from the temple, striding, but not running, moved Ivar Forkbeard with his men, and his loot, both that of female flesh and gold. |
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| 3 | 277 |
Like wolves, crying out, shouting, lifting their fists, they ran behind us as we made our way toward the wharves. |
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| 3 | 297 |
A hundred yards from the wharves we saw a crowd of angry men, perhaps two hundred, blocking the way. |
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| 6 | 428 |
Ten ships he had at his own wharves, and, it was said, he could summon a hundred more. |
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| 8 | 232 |
To one of the wharves of the holding of Thorgard of Scagnar, silently, like the serpent of the sea it was, carrying two lanterns at its prow, came Black Sleen. |
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| 10 | 627 |
I was on my way to the shopping booths, those near the wharves, where the best merchandise is found, when I stopped to observe the shooting. |
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| 21 | 208 |
The next day, when the bar of noon was struck on the wharves, we administered to him the antidote. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 8 | 189 |
The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu... |
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| 20 | 1 |
A Slave Girl's Revenge I walked in the morning, an Ahn before noon, on the wharves of Telnus. |
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| 20 | 5 |
Beneath the planking of the wharves, here and there, I could see water, and small boats tied at pilings. |
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| 20 | 41 |
I continued on, down the wharves. |
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| 20 | 55 |
On the other hand, I did not want to encourage him to seize me as I was, on the wharves, and further his explorations. |
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| 20 | 117 |
I looked about, at the boxes and bales on the wharves. |
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| 20 | 121 |
I perched on top of a large box on the wharves, holding my legs closely together. |
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| 20 | 162 |
I was not chained now; the last four times I had been permitted to come to the wharves unchained; Aurelion, I think, was pleased with me. |
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| 20 | 177 |
I looked about the wharves. |
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| 20 | 194 |
He boarded one of the numerous ships at the many wharves, going below decks. |
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| 20 | 200 |
Though I now wore no chains on the wharves I was still, of course, in a sense, chained in my bondage. |
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| 20 | 202 |
Masters take little risk with their girls when they send them to the wharves. |
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| 20 | 203 |
They are as slave on the wharves as behind the barred gates. |
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| 20 | 217 |
Girls are not sent to the wharves for the delights of smelling the fresh sea air. |
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| 20 | 432 |
Now, in faraway Cos, on the wharves, I kneel at your feet in the collar of a paga slave". |
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| 20 | 467 |
"And Yata," I wheeled, "was detained upon the wharves". |
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| 21 | 4 |
"Come, Yata," said Strabo, taking his direction toward the wharves. |
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| 21 | 39 |
We continued on our way toward the wharves. |
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| 21 | 46 |
I could now smell fish and salt, for we were quite near the wharves. |
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| 21 | 48 |
We descended toward the wharves. |
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| 21 | 71 |
Strabo pulled me through the crowds, and conducted me swiftly toward one of the wharves. |
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| 21 | 104 |
On the wharves men seemed still agitated. |
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| 21 | 110 |
Other ships, too, I saw were edging from their wharves. |
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| 21 | 117 |
I was sure these must be the same men I had seen some days ago on the wharves, when, later, I had encountered my master, Clitus Vitellius. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 94 |
On the wharves leading to the tavern, in many places, I had seen bales of hide. |
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| 7 | 120 |
"There are many bales of hide on the wharves," I said. |
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| 7 | 126 |
"On the wharves," I said, "there are thousands of hides". |
10 |
| 7 | 181 |
I knew where, on the wharves, there was a slave market. |
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| 15 | 497 |
It is applied in such places as the quarries, the roads, the great farms, in certain types of cargo galleys, on the wharves, at the walls of cities and in the forests. |
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| 23 | 242 |
"Sarpelius and his men, before we sold them from the wharves as naked slaves, were persuaded to speak". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 |
Here and there small lamps, set in niches, high in stone walls, or lanterns, hung on iron projections, shed small pools of light on the sides of buildings and illuminated, too, in their secondary ambiance, the stones of the sloping walkway on which I trod, one of many leading down to the wharves. |
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| 3 | 62 |
They are called the she-urts of the wharves. |
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| 3 | 168 |
A black seaman ran past me, he, too, heading toward the wharves. |
10 |
| 4 | 127 |
The height of the praetor's desk, he on the high stool behind it, permits him to see a goodly way up and down the wharves. |
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| 4 | 159 |
Her guilt is well known, I gather, on the wharves. |
10 |
| 4 | 347 |
She would probably then, in my opinion, try to find her way to markets or stay about the wharves. |
10 |
| 4 | 350 |
She was then, probably, in the vicinity of the wharves. |
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| 4 | 353 |
Obvious ways of hiding would be to conceal herself among the boxes and bales at the wharves, to creep into a crate, or barrel, or to cover herself with sheets of sail canvas or with heavy coils of mooring rope. |
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| 4 | 460 |
In a few moments, beside one of the canals leading down to the wharves, in the vicinity of the Spice Pier, we came on four she-urts. |
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| 5 | 267 |
"Before the general alarm was permitted to sound in Port Kar, in the matter of apprising the wharves of the news of an escaped slave," said Ulafi, "we, naturally, conducted a search for her ourselves. |
10 |
| 6 | 195 |
The Palms of Schendi would make her entrance in the morning, when the wharves were busy, the shops open and the traffic bustling. |
10 |
| 6 | 296 |
I then turned my full attention to the sweet, squirming, collared Sasi, the branded, curvaceous little beast from the wharves of Port Kar. |
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| 6 | 325 |
"That will lead to the general merchant wharves. |
10 |
| 6 | 331 |
That the buoy line was marked in yellow and white stripes was indicative of the wharves toward which it led. |
10 |
| 6 | 527 |
As we moved toward the wharves three ships passed us, moving toward the open sea. |
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| 6 | 528 |
There are more than forty merchant wharves at Schendi, each one of which, extending into the harbor, accommodates four ships to a side. |
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| 6 | 529 |
The inmost wharves tend to have lower numbers, on the starboard side of the port, as one enters the harbor. |
10 |
| 6 | 530 |
We could see men on the docks and on the outjutting wharves. |
10 |
| 6 | 533 |
Many of the wharves were crowded and there were numerous ships moored at them. |
10 |
| 6 | 534 |
On the wharves and in the warehouses, whose great doors were generally open, I could see much merchandise. |
10 |
| 6 | 535 |
Most in evidence were spice kegs and hide bales, but much else, too, could be seen, cargoes in the warehouses and on the wharves, some waiting, some being actively carried about, being embarked or disembarked. |
10 |
| 6 | 536 |
As the Palms of Schendi, her canvas now taken in and the long yards swung parallel with the deck, oars lifting and sweeping, moved past the wharves many men stopped working, setting down their burdens, to wave us good greetings. |
10 |
| 6 | 604 |
Two men from the desk of the nearest wharf praetor, he handling wharves six through ten, a scribe and a physician, boarded the ship. |
10 |
| 7 | 24 |
Uchafu's market was back of the merchant wharves, nearer the harbor mouth. |
10 |
| 9 | 13 |
Outside, from the wharves and from the interior of the city, I could hear the ringing of alarm bars. |
10 |
| 14 | 393 |
I did not know such women could exist, until I saw several in Cos, when I was free, and some on the wharves of Port Kar and Schendi, after I myself, sold in a market, became a slave". |
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| 14 | 764 |
You have lived as a she-urt on the wharves of Port Kar. |
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| 57 | 135 |
The wharves were busy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 336 |
The next level of slaves, not generally thought to be of great value, tends to be male work slaves, usually used in cargo galleys, on the wharves, and in the fields or quarries. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 49 |
I lifted my hand, acknowledging that I had heard him, and continued my pace toward the wharves of Fina. |
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| 7 | 3 |
She was being sold from a rough platform on the wharves of Victoria. |
10 |
| 7 | 6 |
I pressed through the throngs on the wharves. |
10 |
| 7 | 7 |
The wharves were crowded with goods and men. |
10 |
| 7 | 55 |
I stepped aside as a string of eight peasants, with bundles of Sa-Tarna grain on their shoulders, made their way toward the wharves. |
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| 7 | 142 |
"The goods have already been sold," said the man, "at the merchant wharves". |
10 |
| 10 | 124 |
"I have taken a small room, near the wharves," I said. |
10 |
| 11 | 479 |
I must to work early at the wharves. |
10 |
| 12 | 14 |
I had rented a small house a few blocks from the wharves. |
10 |
| 12 | 17 |
On the small earnings I made at the wharves it was somewhat expensive for me, but it was not altogether impractical. |
10 |
| 13 | 31 |
I did not, normally, carry it to the wharves. |
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| 14 | 36 |
"Lola," I had said, my mouth full, chewing on the meat I had bought on the wharves. |
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| 15 | 2 |
I had returned early from the wharves. |
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| 16 | 1 |
Lola has not Greeted me as I Return Home; I Hurry to the Wharves "Lola!" I called. |
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| 16 | 25 |
I then, with a switch, conducted her to the wharves, where I sold her". |
10 |
| 16 | 51 |
"To the wharves," I said. |
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| 16 | 59 |
I began to run toward the wharves. |
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| 18 | 5 |
"He is an honest worker, well known on the wharves. |
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| 18 | 29 |
"He is an honest worker, well known on the wharves. |
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| 20 | 10 |
Returning from the wharves to the house I had not found her on the premises. |
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| 20 | 13 |
Then, after two Ahn of searching, I had found her here, near the wharves, unattended, in the tavern of Hibron, a miserable tavern, a low place, called the Pirate's Chain. |
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| 20 | 20 |
It is too close to the wharves. |
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| 21 | 1 |
I Hear the Ringing of an Alarm Bar; I am not Accompanied to the Wharves "Forget her, Master," whispered Peggy. |
10 |
| 21 | 80 |
"Glyco, the merchant of Port Cos, has spoken freely of your bravery on the wharves, in your recovery of his purse". |
10 |
| 21 | 109 |
"Glyco stays with the guardsmen of Port Cos, near the wharves". |
10 |
| 21 | 387 |
"It is coming from the wharves". |
10 |
| 21 | 392 |
"To the wharves," I said. |
10 |
| 21 | 404 |
I did not answer him, but left the tavern and then, running, made my way toward the wharves. |
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| 22 | 1 |
What Occurred at the Wharves; What Occurred in the Vicinity of the Tavern of Tasdron "Stand back, lest you be hurt!" cried a man. |
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| 22 | 6 |
Other citizens, with ship poles, of the sort used on Gorean galleys in casting off and thrusting from the wharves, pressed back the crowd. |
10 |
| 22 | 17 |
I watched the pirates, perhaps some fifty or sixty of them, unchallenged, moving between warehouses and the wharves, where two pirate galleys were moored. |
10 |
| 22 | 57 |
I wondered why such a woman would come to the wharves in a time of such danger. |
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| 22 | 182 |
I made my way slowly away from the wharves. |
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| 22 | 213 |
"I have but returned from the wharves," I told him. |
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| 22 | 214 |
"Surely you, and the others, from the tavern of Tasdron, did not fail to hear the alarm?" "There is no business of mine at the wharves," he said. |
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| 22 | 216 |
Will you tell me you were not bound for the wharves?" "I can do nothing," he said. |
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| 22 | 219 |
"This street leads to the wharves". |
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| 22 | 222 |
"Do you wish to hear what occurred at the wharves," I asked, angrily. |
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| 22 | 226 |
"At the wharves," I said, "there were pirates, few more than half a hundred of such men, under the command of Kliomenes, lieutenant to Policrates". |
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| 22 | 240 |
"There was no leadership at the wharves," I said. |
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| 22 | 246 |
Flames linger yet on the wharves. |
10 |
| 22 | 249 |
"We missed you on the wharves," I said. |
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| 22 | 275 |
"Had you been upon the wharves," I said, "things might have gone differently". |
10 |
| 22 | 292 |
"We were youths together on the wharves of Port Cos," he said. |
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| 23 | 213 |
It was the free woman, or the woman who had been free, who had been ordered from the crowd on the wharves of Victoria. |
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| 23 | 369 |
She was the woman who had been free, whom I had seen enslaved on the wharves of Victoria, only a few nights past. |
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| 26 | 235 |
Perhaps they knew, too, of my outspoken displeasure at the wharves when the pirates had looted and burned there, punishing Victoria for having at that time refused their demands for tribute. |
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| 27 | 1 |
What Occurred on the Wharves, Shortly before Midnight It was now the nineteenth Ahn, an Ahn before the twentieth Ahn, the Gorean midnight. |
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| 27 | 6 |
I spun about, near a pile of lumber on the wharves. |
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| 27 | 103 |
I began to walk, slowly, among the materials on the wharves. |
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| 27 | 118 |
Also it lay no more than four hundred yards from the hiring yard on the wharves, to which I often went in seeking work. |
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| 27 | 159 |
"Ho, there! What are you doing here? Who are you! Get away from there! We do not permit pilfering on these wharves!" The man trembled with rage. |
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| 27 | 164 |
"You may not steal here, Fellow! This is Victoria, you know!" "What is going on there?" called a voice, from along the wharves, behind me. |
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| 30 | 170 |
Whoever had betrayed us must be, or be in contact with, the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, he who had tried to obtain the topaz from me on the wharves of Victoria. |
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| 32 | 76 |
Little else, these days, it seemed, was spoken of in the taverns, in the markets, and on the wharves. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 194 |
The planks of our fleet might litter the river to the wharves of Turmus. |
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| 4 | 91 |
There are three poles which, customarily, with Gorean ships are used in casting off, in thrusting away from the wharves. |
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| 9 | 273 |
"She took me to the wharves, while you were at work. |
10 |
| 12 | 48 |
I had met him on the wharves of Victoria, late at night. |
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| 12 | 180 |
"I was attacked by him on the wharves. |
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| 15 | 8 |
Other ships, too, were nosing into the numerous wharves lining the water front of Victoria, and were being tied to mooring posts, and to one another. |
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| 16 | 31 |
Still more citizens were running forth, from buildings, from further down the wharves, with spears and swords. |
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| 16 | 66 |
The wharves, now, were crowded with men. |
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| 16 | 79 |
"Well done!" "We shall return!" screamed Policrates to the wharves. |
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| 16 | 90 |
On the wharves I could see kneeling pirates, being stripped and bound. |
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| 16 | 134 |
If we could get to free water I did not think the eels would pursue us far from the wharves and shore. |
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| 16 | 196 |
On the wharves and along the water front I could see hundreds of the citizens of Victoria. |
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| 16 | 274 |
Some forty yards away, across the water, some hundred yards or so out in the river, off the wharves, half afire, I saw the ship of Ragnar Voskjard. |
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| 16 | 279 |
A dozen ships off the wharves must have been in flames. |
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| 16 | 285 |
There is commonly little danger of eels near Victoria, save near the shadows and shallows of the wharves themselves. |
10 |
| 16 | 398 |
The waters off the Victoria wharves seemed crowded, but many of the ships were aflame. |
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| 16 | 402 |
At the front edge of the concourse, near the wharves, pirates, in rows, stripped and bound, lay on their bellies. |
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| 16 | 484 |
"You will be able to hear, from the wharves at Victoria, the ringing of a hammer, pounding on iron, on an anvil. |
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| 16 | 561 |
I could hear, too, from the wharves of Victoria, the ringing of the hammer, closing links of chain and curving collars of iron about the throats of helpless pirates. |
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| 17 | 2 |
It is dark and narrow, and not far from the wharves. |
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| 17 | 19 |
The Street of the Writhing Slave winds tortuously upward from the wharves, threading its narrow way through a commercial district upward towards a hilly residential district. |
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| 20 | 116 |
Two of the men at the table had been signatories to the treaty of the Vosk League, solemnly signed under festive canopies on the wharves of Victoria yesterday at the tenth Ahn, Glyco, who had signed on behalf of Port Cos, and Tasdron, Administrator of Victoria, who had signed on behalf of Victoria. |
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| 20 | 1992 |
This also gave me the opportunity I desired, unseen by her, to fetch forth from the chest an object which, long ago, I had purchased for her on the great concourse near the wharves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1391 |
It is difficult to get access into the city, other than her closed-off wharves and trading places". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 540 |
She could not have been more helpless had she been staked out in the Barrens, lashed to an oar in Torvaldsland, chained as a prize to the stirrup of a war tharlarion on the Vennan road, kneeling buckled, hand and foot, waiting, in a slave harness on Tyros, fastened to a pleasure rack in a dingy, hal... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 747 |
That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 218 |
These structures are most common in harbor cities, near the wharves. |
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| 14 | 123 |
The noncombatants, the able-bodied men, the soldiers, the garrison, what is left of it, will then be forced to withdraw to the wharves and piers. |
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| 24 | 1072 |
It was one of those narrow streets leading up between buildings, leading up, away from the wharves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 66 |
The great arsenal at Port Kar has its shipyards, as well as its warehouses and wharves. |
10 |
| 2 | 179 |
"So you chose caste, that of the foresters, and came here, to serve the Home Stone hundreds of pasangs away?" "The Home Stone of Port Kar may be served here as well as at the gulf, as well as in the shops of the arsenal, as well as on the wharves, as well as on the decks and benches of her ships". |
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| 5 | 350 |
And, indeed, was her disguise not required of her, that she might, in relative safety, arousing little suspicion, negotiate the realms of Gor, her markets and streets, her fields and bridges, her wharves and roads? To Goreans, a free female of Earth would be surprising, at least. |
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| 5 | 951 |
"Some hundreds of us were then soon within the walls of Brundisium," said a fellow, "and were conducted to the wharves, thence, over several days, to be embarked on various ships, toward points unknown". |
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| 31 | 33 |
"They are mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "and the dregs of such, chosen for skill and venality, brought from a hundred cities, from the ruins and rubble of Ar, from the alleys of Besnit and Harfax, from the wharves of Brundisium and Schendi, men without Home Stones, thieves, outlaws, murderers, ou... |
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| 32 | 2 |
One could hear the cry of birds, the lapping of the Alexandra at the sand, and about the pilings of river wharves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 184 |
In this market, the Jewels of Brundisium, not to be confused with the paga tavern of the same name near the wharves, one usually, as tonight, divides the evening into five segments; the first and second segments, save for a special item or two, to encourage early attendance, are intended to set the ... |
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| 6 | 100 |
Some, armed with clubs, hunted urts by the wharves. |
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| 6 | 120 |
Guarded compounds near the wharves are stacked with boxes, barrels, bales, clay vessels, like blunt-bottomed amphorae , tied together by the handles, bulging sacks, and weighty crates. |
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| 6 | 420 |
"You will exit the tavern, and walk to the left, toward the wharves". |
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| 8 | 9 |
The wharves were crowded. |
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| 8 | 17 |
It was from such wharves that the small ships, mostly coasting vessels, not round ships, one every two or three days, had been plying north. |
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| 8 | 181 |
If any inquire after me, tell them I may be found at the wharves, and will be armed". |
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| 8 | 197 |
One did not know when the long poles might thrust one ship or another from the wharves, the sail take the wind, or the low-banked oars enter the water, and rise again, shedding their sparkling showers in the early morning light. |
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| 8 | 221 |
As it had been chilly in the gray light, in the vicinity of the wharves, I had wrapped my cloak about me, and she had heeled me, hurrying behind me, unbidden, to the inn of Tasdron. |
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| 8 | 362 |
By the time I reached the wharves she was tunicked and leashed. |
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| 8 | 400 |
From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged. |
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| 8 | 404 |
Three guards were with the coffle, one on one side, two on the other, the two on the side facing the approach to the wharves. |
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| 8 | 529 |
"I am afraid on the wharves," she said, "the men, how they look at me". |
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| 8 | 532 |
"Sometimes," she said, "slaves, even free women, disappear from the wharves". |
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| 15 | 313 |
"I have heard of some Gorean free women, unveiled, on the wharves," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
No further excursions in force had been risked against the enemy, the forces of the shogun, Lord Yamada, which had soon invested the holding, even to blockading the wharves below, denying access to the sea. |
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| 1 | 159 |
On the seaward side, a single, narrow, walled trail ascended tortuously from the wharves below to the courtyard of the holding. |
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| 1 | 504 |
When we had arrived at the holding, at the wharves below, we had had some two hundred slaves aboard. |
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| 4 | 95 |
"The holding is invested, even the wharves are closed. |
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| 7 | 92 |
Might not a climber, dark in the night, as silent as a snake, attain the parapet, cut a throat, and set meager stores ablaze? Might not a rush to a gate, up one of the high trails, perhaps that from the wharves below, be too belatedly recognized? What if a thousand fire arrows should be launched at ... |
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| 9 | 13 |
Moments later, crying out with fear, awed by what they had seen, they hurried back, down the trail, about the wharves, and to the plain, so far below the lofty walls of the holding, on which stood the pavilion of Lord Yamada. |
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| 9 | 42 |
* * * I supposed that after the months of the siege, the inactivity, the waiting, the watching, the routine patrols, the endless drills, and such, the eagerness, the unruliness, the excitement, the greed of hundreds of the men of General Yamada, rushing as they could up the steep trail from the whar... |
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| 54 | 176 |
The wharves, too, will be guarded, to prevent an escape by sea, even in small boats". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 5 |
The greater wharves are the central and northern wharves. |
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| 27 | 7 |
The lesser wharves, or piers, are the southern wharves or piers, where they are divided by the Dacia, as it feeds into Thassa. |
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| 23 | 158 |
"He is Arnold, a renegade from Harfax, a vagrant who haunted the wharves of Brundisium. |
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| 26 | 76 |
My master, for I was not owned by the court, frequently occupied himself in the city, I think in the vicinity of the wharves, presumably waiting for, or searching for, the mysterious shipment that was supposed to arrive at Brundisium, claimedly deriving from a "steel world". |
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| 26 | 240 |
If so, it is presumably on one of the wharves or in one of the wharf warehouses. |
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| 27 | 3 |
We were now in the vicinity of the southern wharves, or piers. |
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| 27 | 4 |
The wharves of Brundisium curl about its harbor. |
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| 27 | 19 |
At least the street would soon begin to lead downward toward the wharves. |
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| 27 | 83 |
Too, the shipment is almost certain to be in the vicinity of the wharves or warehouses. |
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| 27 | 84 |
We have, without fortune, prowled the northern and central wharves, and will do so again, and time and time again, if necessary. |
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| 27 | 87 |
The southern wharves are rife with smugglers, their vessels, their goods. |
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| 27 | 89 |
And if Kurik of Victoria wishes to conceal his presence, as he may well wish to do, where better than in the district of the lower wharves". |
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| 33 | 734 |
We had turned right, in the alley, and were making our way between buildings onto a street, that which we had originally descended, leading toward the wharves, where we turned left. |
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| 33 | 735 |
Some men were hurrying by, toward the wharves. |
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| 33 | 738 |
"I think a fire, at the wharves," said Kurik. |
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| 33 | 743 |
The street was steep, descending to the wharves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 223 |
I wondered if it were safe for free women to attend a night auction in the vicinity of the wharves. |
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| 4 | 11 |
I recalled that two of the slaver's men, before I had ascended the block, had been bemused that such an item, supposedly worthy of the central block of the Curulean, whatever that was or wherever it might be, should be offered in this market, near the wharves, in an evening sale. |
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| 4 | 209 |
"I do not know why they hold sales this time of night," she said, "here, near the wharves. |
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| 4 | 262 |
I did not know who owned me, only that I must no longer be the property of the house of Anesidemus, near the wharves, in the coastal metropolis of Brundisium. |
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| 6 | 9 |
Most were moving down the street, presumably toward the wharves. |
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| 6 | 20 |
Hundreds are at the wharves. |
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| 6 | 37 |
"Much is being brought forth, set on the wharves," said a man. |
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| 6 | 43 |
"Let us hurry to the wharves," said another, "quickly, before order is restored, where loot, strewn about, invites seizure". |
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| 6 | 113 |
"I have come from the wharves," said a man. |
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| 6 | 191 |
I realized that I was being carried downward toward the wharves. |
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| 6 | 223 |
We then continued on our way, down the street, toward the wharves. |
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| 7 | 15 |
The ship was, I conjectured, from the movement, not at sea, but moored, presumably one of a great many ships berthed at the wharves of Brundisium. |
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| 7 | 66 |
Chance bestowed upon us a signal advantage, as, delightfully, an independent fire broke out on the wharves, originating in the house of Flavius Minor. |
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| 7 | 196 |
The wharves may be watched". |
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| 8 | 216 |
It was early, but there was already business on the wharves, calls and cries, men coming and going. |
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| 8 | 228 |
I did not know how many streets we might have passed, streets leading up, away from the wharves. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1 |
Disturbing Reports have been Received; Tab Learns of the Fair of the Farther Islands; The Tesephone will Depart with the Tide In my tent, high amidst the crags of the Cove of Harpalos, I angrily thrust aside the reports of several selected men, chosen from the crews of the Dorna and Tesephone, thes... |
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| 17 | 260 |
"Much is said of him," she said, "in the tavern, The Living Island, and I am told elsewhere, in taverns and brothels, in bazaars and markets, at the wharves and in the streets, everywhere. |
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| 18 | 29 |
Already one could hear voices from the wharves, loading captains, stevedores, berthless mariners at the hiring tables. |
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| 62 | 154 |
"Two hundred men," said Archelaos, "are not enough to enfire so much, a city, wharves, and ships". |
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