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Book 1. (47 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	100	Then he attacked again, and my bird swerved again, but the attacking tarn had allowed for the maneuver, compensating for it an instant before my own bird turned, with the result that it met my bird in full collision.	10
4	24	One strikes the bird in the direction opposite to which one wishes to go, and the bird, withdrawing from the goad, moves in that direction.	10
12	101	I was conscious in that mad, terrible instant of the flash of steel-shod talons at the breast of my bird, and then my bird shook as though seized with a convulsion and opened his talons.	10
14	152	In a moment, given the wild motion of the bird, the entire saddle, to which the tarnsman was fixed by the saddle straps, slid from the bird's back and flew wildly into the depths below.	10
3	18	Torm was of slight build and reminded me of an angry bird which enjoys nothing so much as scolding squirrels.	10
3	252	I darted from under the bird.	10
3	255	Though the tarn, like most birds, is surprisingly light for its size, this primarily having to do with the comparative hollowness of the bones, it is an extremely powerful bird, powerful even beyond what one would expect from such a monster.	10
3	261	Disregarding the disproportion in size, the Earth bird which the tarn most closely resembles is the hawk, with the exception that it has a crest somewhat of the nature of a jay's.	10
3	266	Whenever a young bird soars away or refuses obedience in some fashion, he is dragged back to the perch and beaten with the tarn-goad.	10
4	10	The giant bird seemed almost to shudder in the air, and then he reeled, losing altitude, gaining it again.	10
4	23	The tarn-goad also is occasionally used in guiding the bird.	10
4	25	There is very little precision in this method, however, because the reactions of the bird are merely instinctive, and he may not withdraw in the exact tangent desired.	10
4	48	At last I managed to turn the bird, and we were streaking along in the wake of the Older Tarl.	10
4	54	"Har-ta! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" The great bird seemed to sense what I intended, or perhaps it was merely his sudden realization that the other tarn was in the lead, but a remarkable transformation swept over my sable, plumed steed.	10
4	57	"By the beards of the Priest-Kings," roared the Older Tarl as he brought his bird to the roof, "that is a tarn of tarns!" The tarns, released, winged their way back to the tarn cots, and the Older Tarl and I descended to my apartment.	10
5	1	Lights of the Planting Feast I mounted my tarn, that fierce, black magnificent bird.	10
5	165	I think the first of my pursuers had not realized I would turn the bird.	10
5	173	And to this day I bless the tarn keepers of Ko-ro-ba for the painstaking training they had given the great bird.	10
6	6	The great bird opened and closed his wings, his steel-shod talons ringing on the metal perch as he changed his position, moving back and forth upon it.	10
6	118	I imagined the girl alone on the back of the fierce tarn, unskilled in the mastery of such a mount, without even a tarn-goad to protect herself, if the bird should turn on her.	10
9	8	I sensed that with me, nominal captive though she was, she was freer than she had ever been before; she was like a naturally wild bird which has been raised in a cage and at last escapes from the confining wire bars.	10
10	12	The little eyes of the merchant swept the scene quickly, like a bird's, startling in their contrast with the plethoric giganticism of his frame.	10
12	84	The sudden weight of the frame swinging against my roped wrists and ankles, while the talons of the bird gripped my body, almost tore me apart.	10
12	99	My bird swerved dizzily, and the great assailant's talons passed harmlessly.	10
12	103	In that wild instant I saw my bird beginning to fall, flopping downward, and saw his attacker wheeling in my direction.	10
12	105	But I never reached it, for the attacking bird had swooped to intercept me and seized me in his beak much as one gull might seize a fish dropped by another.	10
12	110	The sound of my voice had an unusual effect on the bird.	10
12	114	The bird lifted his foot and backed away, still uncertain as to what to do.	10
12	119	The saddle and reins of the tarn were no longer on the bird and had undoubtedly rotted off or had been rubbed from his back by scraping against the rock escarpment backing its nest ledge.	10
12	136	Head jerking and eyes glassy, the bird twitched and trembled uncontrollably—a cluster of spasmodic reflexes.	10
12	163	Whether I could control the tarn or not would probably, at least for a time, depend on whether or not he had been successful in his hunt and on how well the tarn keepers had done their work with the young bird.	10
12	164	And would it not also depend on how deep the bite of freedom had been felt by the bird, how ready he would be to be controlled once more by man? With my spear I could kill him, but that would not rescue me from the ledge.	10
12	174	I then threw the saddle over the bird's back and crawled under its stomach to fasten the girth straps.	10
13	30	I brought the bird somewhat lower, in long, slow circles, keeping the larl in view.	10
13	46	The bird struck the ground between the diseased victim and the approaching larl.	10
14	144	When the bird drew again, there was a sharp pain as flesh was torn from my hand, but the rope darted off into the darkness, and I was swinging by my ankles from the other ropes.	10
14	147	I swung myself up and began to climb one of the two ropes leading to the great bird above me.	10
14	148	In a few wild moments I had gained the saddle straps of the bird and hauled myself nearly to the weapon rings.	10
14	150	He slashed downward, and I slipped down one talon of the bird, which screamed and became unmanageable.	10
14	156	Daring everything, I leaped in the darkness for the reins of the bird and with one scrambling hand managed to seize the guiding collar.	10
14	157	The sudden tug downward caused the bird to respond as I had hoped it would, as if pressure had been exerted on the four-strap.	10
14	160	My ankles were still fastened to the bird, and I quickly untied the ropes.	10
14	162	I released the bird, ran to the saddle, and removed the crossbow which, to my joy, was intact.	10
15	51	I tossed a silver tarn disk to the tarn keeper and ordered him to care for the bird, to groom and feed it and see that it was ready on an instant's notice.	10
17	114	Then, with the first flush of joy I had felt in weeks, I brought the great bird soaring into the sky.	10
18	108	The first time I hauled on the one-strap, the bird would not move; the second time he lifted into flight, almost immediately scraping the ceiling of the tunnel with his wings, protesting shrilly.	10
19	253	"It seems I belong to you, bold Tarnsman," she said, "What are you going to do with me?" In answer, I hauled on the one-strap, and the great bird rose into the air, higher and higher, even into the clouds, and she cried to me, "Let it be now, Tarl," and even before we had passed the outermost rampar...	10

Book 2. (65 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	73	The tarn-whistle, as one might expect, is used to summon the bird.	10
2	75	There is nothing surprising in this inasmuch as each bird is trained, by the Caste of Tarn Keepers, to respond to a different note.	10
2	76	When the tarn is presented to a warrior, or sold to one, the whistle accompanies the bird.	10
6	13	The tharlarions become unmanageable, and, though the tarn will essay the flight, the bird almost immediately becomes disoriented, uncoordinated, and drops screaming back to the plains below.	10
6	40	For that matter, though I did not seriously consider the possibility, being without a city, in effect an outlaw, I was entitled in the Gorean way of thinking to take the bird or its purchase price in any way I saw fit.	10
7	82	I heard a bird cry in the distance.	10
14	40	It would not attempt to fly while hooded; indeed, I doubted that the bird would attempt to fly while it dragged its bar of silver.	10
14	41	If it was the bird I thought it to be, it would not futilely contest the weight of the degrading hobble, would not provide a spectacle of its helplessness for its captors.	10
14	48	I wanted to see the ankle ring the bird wore.	10
14	53	As I stood beside the bird, I felt happy, though I knew it was intended to be my executioner.	10
14	55	Yet it was perhaps more, for as I stood by the bird, I felt almost as though I had come home to Ko-ro-ba, as though I stood here now with something in this gray, hostile city that knew me and mine, that had looked upon the Towers of the Morning, and had spread its wings above the glistening cylinder...	10
14	57	"This bird," I said to one of the yoked slaves, "is from Ko-ro-ba".	10
14	88	I wondered if the bird would recognize me.	10
14	92	It shook its head, as if to throw water from its feathers, and the leather hood was thrown far into the air and behind the bird.	10
14	105	Regardless of the danger I ran to the bird.	10
14	113	Gently the great bird thrust its beak beneath my arm.	10
14	119	It had not been forged in place inasmuch as it would be removed in the confines of the tarn cot, to allow the bird its perch, its exercise.	10
14	134	It did not take long for them to understand that the tarn, for whatever strange reason, was not going to attack me, and, whatever they considered my chances, it took only a moment longer to determine that it was my intention to free the bird.	10
14	150	The spearmen seemed frozen, and dropped back, as if the great bird could have freely attacked them.	10
14	152	"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ...	10
14	153	For an instant, perhaps an unworthy instant, I feared the bird would immediately take to the skies, but though the metal was shaken from its leg, though it was free, though the spearmen advanced, it did not move.	10
14	162	By exerting pressure on these reins, one directs the bird.	10
14	165	I did not fear much on this score, however, as I had seldom used the goad on this bird.	10
14	166	In the beginning I had refrained from using it often because I feared that the effect of the cruel stimulus might be diminished through overfrequent application, but eventually I had abandoned its use altogether, retaining it only to protect myself in case the bird, particularly when hungry, should ...	10
14	171	I wondered sometimes if that bird, my Ubar of the Skies, that tarn of tarns, of a race of birds spoken of by Goreans as Brothers of the Wind, might have considered himself as above the goad, resented its shocks and sparks, resented that that puny human device would pretend to teach him, he, a tarn o...	10
14	184	The cry of "Tabuk!" is used by the tarnsman on long flights when time is precious, and he does not wish to dismount and free the bird to find prey.	10
14	187	This was the first time I had called "Tabuk!" but the bird would have been conditioned to the call by the tarn-keepers of Ko-ro-ba years ago, and might still respond.	10
14	188	I myself had always freed the bird to feed.	10
14	189	I thought it well to rest the bird, unsaddle it, and, also, frankly I did not find myself eager to be present at the feeding of a tarn.	10
14	201	I clung fiercely to the bird.	10
15	3	I bitterly criticized myself for not having conditioned the bird to respond to voice commands.	10
15	9	The bird, of course, could not have been conditioned in so short a time, nor for that matter had it even been my intention to condition the bird—for I had spoken only for the benefit of Talena.	10
15	10	Moreover, even if it had been the case that the bird had been inadvertently conditioned in that short a time, it was not possible that it would still retain the memory of that casual imprinting, which had taken place more than six years ago.	10
15	12	The great bird veered to the left and began to climb slightly.	10
15	13	"Two-strap!" I called, and the bird now veered to the right, still climbing at the same angle.	10
15	14	"Four-strap!" I called, and the bird began to drop toward the earth, preparing to land.	10
15	16	I said no more and the bird leveled off, its wings striking the air in great rhythmical beats, alternating occasionally with a long, soaring, shallow glide.	10
15	32	More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free.	10
15	34	From beneath the bird there came a long, shivering moan, a helpless, uncontrolled sound from the golden prey seized in its talons.	10
15	53	The great bird paused in flight, braking with its wings, and then smoothly descended to a high ledge on one of the ridges, a ledge commanding the countryside for pasangs around, a ledge accessible only on tarnback.	10
15	56	The bird seemed puzzled.	10
15	62	The bird seemed to hesitate, and then, with a motion almost tender, it thrust its beak against my body.	10
15	64	With one last look at the Tatrix, the bird turned and stalked to the brink of that awesome ledge and, with a single snap of its great wings, leaped into space, its soaring shadow a message of terror to any game below.	10
15	230	I had no wish to contest this prize with the great bird.	10
15	237	I slapped the bird affectionately.	10
16	17	"Four-strap!" I cried to the bird, to bring it down on the pillar.	10
16	18	The bird seemed not to understand.	10
16	20	For some reason the bird seemed unwilling to land.	10
16	25	I tried to calm the bird.	10
20	42	When it approached me and extended its head, I wondered if what I had dared not hope might be true, that the bird might have been waiting for me to return.	10
20	92	What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and...	10
20	94	The bird's eyes, perhaps for the first time in his life, were filled with terror, blind uncomprehending terror.	10
20	96	Protesting, screaming, the great bird began to reel helplessly downward.	10
20	99	In drunken, dizzy circles, screaming, bewildered, helpless, the bird fell, while I, for my life, desperately clung to the thick quills of his neck.	10
20	101	The bird regained his strength and senses, except for the fact that it remained agitated, almost unmanageable.	10
20	109	Unwillingly the bird alighted on the grassy plains about a league from the Fair of En'Kara.	10
20	132	When I had said Ubar of the Skies, the bird had lifted its head, now more than a yard above my own.	10
20	134	The great bird stalked away from me, about fifteen yards, and then turned, looking at me again.	10
22	111	He scattered my council and defeated my armies and took me and stripped me and bound me naked across the saddle of his bird and then, with a great cry, he carried me to his city, and there I, once proud Tatrix of Tharna, wore his brand and collar".	10
23	81	As at the Pillar of Exchanges the bird had haunted the vicinity and now, for the second time, its patience was rewarded.	10
23	121	I freed the bird.	10
23	124	Perhaps mostly I wanted the bird to be free in case my hopes met with disaster, in case the Tatrix and I were to perish in some back street of Tharna.	10
24	146	And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace.	10
25	146	I watched the basket swinging below the bird as it winged its way from the city.	10
25	148	Then the bird was only a speck in the blue sky over the free city of Tharna.	10

Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	6	It had been caught in the shield of the Priest-Kings, invisible, not to be evaded, undoubtedly a field of some sort, which had so acted on the bird, perhaps affecting the mechanism of the inner ear, that the creature had become incapable of controlling itself and had fallen disoriented and confused ...	10
1	9	I regretted freeing the tarn, for it was a fine bird, powerful, intelligent, fierce, courageous, loyal.	10
17	145	A small, curious bird darted to the top of the stone, and then hopped from it to the blackened grass to hunt for grubs.	10
25	116	There was a huge, apparently flightless bird stalking about in another case.	10
32	199	I wondered how long it would take before it broke apart and scattered in a belt of dust across the solar system, only to bend inward at last and spiral like a falling bird into the gases of the burning sun.	10

Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	19	Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...	10
4	38	It was probably developed for hunting the tumit, a huge, flightless carnivorous bird of the plains, but the Wagon Peoples use it also, and well, as a weapon of war.	10
8	200	Indeed, it is not unknown that a Tuchuk will bet his entire stock of bosk on the outcome of a single kaiila race; as many as a dozen slave girls may change hands on something as small as the direction that a bird will fly or the number of seeds in a tospit.	10
20	129	"I am Harold of the Tuchuks," he said, "I am a skilled tarnsman—I have ridden over a thousand tarns—I have spent more time in the tarn saddle than most men on their feet—I was conceived on tarnback—I was born on tarnback—I eat tarns—fear me! I am Harold of t...	10
20	131	But the bird seemed utterly startled, if possible, dumbfounded.	10
20	148	Immediately the huge bird's wings began to beat and it sprang skyward.	10
20	150	As quickly as I could I then unhobbled the other bird and climbed to the saddle, fastening the broad safety strap.	10
20	151	Then I hauled on the one-strap and seeing Harold's bird wheeling about in circles against one of the Gorean moons sped to his side.	10
20	153	"The bird will follow this one!" "Very well," I heard him call, cheerily.	10
20	155	I took one long turn, seeing the torches and lights in the House of Saphrar below, and then guided my bird out over the prairie in the direction of the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
23	50	He had apparently, in the past several days since our escape from Saphrar's keep, been familiarizing himself with the saddle straps and the bird's habits and responses.	10
28	68	"Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot...	10

Book 5. (114 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	107	I noted that two of the tarns in this race were not of given factions, but were the property of private owners, not associated with the faction corporations; their riders, similarly, were not faction riders; the rider, incidentally, is quite as important as the bird, for an experienced rider often m...	10
13	266	Mip was fondling the beak of one bird, an older bird I gathered.	10
13	288	I fastened the saddle on the bird and, with a bit of difficulty, the bird sensing my unsure movements, the tarn harness.	10
13	306	The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im...	10
13	327	Mip and the bird remained there for some moments, and then I saw the bird lift itself and turn toward me.	10
22	170	Again and again Mip tried to pass above the bird of the Blues, ring after ring, and then, lifting the bird again, he suddenly cut low and to the left, executing the dangerous talon pass.	10
22	196	Then, to my horror, I saw the wings miss their beat and the bird screamed in pain, and began to turn in the air, Mip spinning with the bird, trying to control it.	10
22	428	Shortly before the first circuit of the track had been made I swept past the last bird, a nonfaction bird, whose rider, caught unaware, threw a wild glance over his shoulder as I, a shadow upon a flying shadow, hurtled by over his head and to the left.	10
22	496	Then we were struck by another bird, the Blue I think, and then by the bird ridden by the Torian, and then one of the others.	10
22	502	My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa...	10
22	555	A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veered away; I then drew my swor...	10
7	49	At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa...	10
7	110	The bird stalked out from under the overhang, poised itself on the edge of the shelf, and then, with a leap and a beating of its wings, entered its element.	10
12	3	The tarn, screaming, its wing useless, tumbled uncontrollably from the edge of the large, open, padded ring suspended over the net on the track, plunging into the net, its rider cutting the safety straps and leaping from its back in order that he not be slain beneath the bird struggling in the net.	10
12	4	The other bird, which had buffeted it against the edge of the ring, spun awkwardly through, turned in the air, and under the savage command of its control straps, and responding to a yellow flash of the tarn goad, regained its control and sped toward the next ring.	10
12	9	I could see the netmen expertly moving across the broad stands approaching them, loops in their hands to tie together the bird's beak, to bind its curved, wicked talons.	10
12	10	The wing of one bird was apparently broken, for the netmen, after binding it, quickly cut its throat, the blood falling through the net, staining it, soaking into the sand below in a brownish red patch.	10
12	11	Its rider took the saddle and control straps from the still-quivering bird and dropped with them through the broad strands of the net, to the sand some six feet below.	10
12	12	The other bird was apparently only stunned, and it was being rolled to the edge of the net where it would be dropped into a large wheeled frame, drawn by two horned tharlarion, onto a suspended canvas, where it was immediately secured by broad canvas straps.	10
12	15	A bird of the Yellow faction was in the lead, followed by Red, then Blue, Gold, Orange, Green and Silver.	10
12	34	The rider was wheeling the bird, trying to bring it under control, and returning to the ring.	10
12	92	The rider rode on the cart beside his bird, dressed in the silk of his faction.	10
12	93	The tarns were, of course, racing tarns, a bird in many ways quite different from the common tarns of Gor, or the war tarns.	10
12	94	The differences among these tarns are not simply in the training, which does differ, but in the size, strength, build and tendencies of the bird.	10
12	99	The racing tarn, interestingly, is an extremely light bird; two men can lift one; even its beak is narrower and lighter than the beak of a common tarn or a war tarn; its wings are commonly broader and shorter than those of the other tarns, permitting a swifter takeoff and providing a capacity for ex...	10
12	104	This would swing some silver to Green surely, for men, though they have their factions, yet will purchase the tiles of the bird they feel has the best chance of winning.	10
12	137	If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt...	10
12	138	This race was a short one, only five pasangs in length, and one of the nonfaction birds won, much to the displeasure of the crowd, saving those who had dared to accept the long odds on such a bird.	10
12	161	The racing fan of Ar commonly remains to the last race, and sometimes even later, discussing the races and commenting on how he would have flown such and such a race better than the bird's rider.	10
12	287	"Do not be frightened, little bird," said Sura soothingly in Gorean to Virginia.	10
13	240	Food for the tarns, which is meat, for that is their diet, is thrust on hooks and hauled by chain and windlass to the various perches; it might be of interest to note that, when any of the birds are free, meat is never placed on the hooks or on the floor below; the racing tarn is a valuable bird and...	10
13	247	With an agility that could come only from years in the cots he clambered about the tem-wood beams, sometimes forty feet from the floor, checking this bird and that; perhaps because I was slightly drunk I followed him; at last we had come to one of the four great round portals which give access to th...	10
13	268	"This is Green Ubar," said he, scratching the bird's neck.	10
13	269	I had heard of the bird.	10
13	277	"I am drunk," said Mip, fondling the bird's beak.	10
13	279	I wondered why the bird, as is usual, it now being rather old, surely past its racing prime, had not been destroyed.	10
13	297	Mip, scarcely seeming to touch the one-strap with his finger, almost a tap, took the old bird from the perch and in a whiplike flurry of its wings it struck the outside perch and stood there, its old head moving alertly, the wicked black eyes gleaming.	10
13	298	My bird, so suddenly I was startled, joined the first.	10
13	307	With a tap on the two-strap I took the bird in a sudden breathtaking sweep to the high right and in an instant had joined Mip in flight.	10
13	309	Then Mip turned his bird and it seemed to veer and slide through the air, the cylinders below slicing to the right, and he brought it to rest on a great rail above and behind the highest tier on Ar's Stadium of Tarns, where that afternoon I had watched the races.	10
13	322	I saw the bird stop on the first perch.	10
13	326	Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,...	10
13	330	Then he took his bird from the rail and I followed him.	10
13	354	"This afternoon," I said, "at the races, I saw a rider cut the safety straps and free himself from a falling bird".	10
15	79	I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me...	10
16	226	"Now that is a bird!" cried Ho-Sorl, as the low, wheeled platforms were being drawn on the track.	10
16	234	"They tell me," said Relius, "that the bird is from the city of Ko-ro-ba".	10
16	261	I leaped over the rail and strode to the bird.	10
16	267	I reached up and touched the fierce, curved beak of that mighty bird.	10
17	146	The great bird he rode was no racing tarn but its size, its swiftness, its sureness, its incredible power and ferocity made it a terrible foe in the wars of the suspended rings; indeed, never had it lost; many of the other tarns of the Steels, as well, were not bred racing tarns, but war tarns, ridd...	10
17	153	After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp...	10
21	421	I hauled upon the one-strap and took the bird from the heights of the Stadium of Blades, streaking in a moment through the cylinders of Ar, leaving behind me men with whom I had fought, stained sand, and whatever we had together begun there.	10
22	3	As my bird, with a flash of wings, struck the sand of the compound, four men armed with crossbows rushed forward.	10
22	27	"Yellows," said one of the men with the crossbow, "who tried to slay the bird".	10
22	29	I saw blood on the beak of the bird, its round black eyes, gleaming, wild.	10
22	31	I saw that even the steel-shod talons of the bird were bloodied.	10
22	59	"The bird is old," I said.	10
22	82	"The bird does not know him," said one of the men, he who had suggested I might be a spy of the Yellows.	10
22	92	The bird regarded me.	10
22	96	"We must ride, Ubar of the Skies," said I, approaching the bird.	10
22	98	The bird did not attempt to strike me.	10
22	100	"You fought well," said I to the bird.	10
22	103	The bird gently touched me with its beak.	10
22	111	I slapped the beak of the bird affectionately.	10
22	113	I strode from the bird's side and made my way through the readying compound of the Steels until I climbed the stairs inside the low wall separating it from the area leading out onto the broad path leading to the starting perches; I dropped over the wall and made my way across the sand until I came t...	10
22	133	The bird that had struck the ring was tumbling stunned into the net.	10
22	135	Menicius, I saw, savagely dragged his bird back to the center of the flight path, cursing, realizing how Mip had waited to take advantage of his momentary surrender of the center.	10
22	137	A tarn of the Reds, a large-winged bird, goaded almost to madness by a small, bearded rider, wearing a bone talisman about his neck, held the lead.	10
22	139	Then followed Green Ubar, Mip one with the winged beast, high stirrups, his small body hunched down, not giving the bird its head.	10
22	140	I wondered at the bird.	10
22	142	Its feathers lacked the fiery sheen of the young tarn; its beak was not the gleaming yellow of the other birds, but a whitish yellow; its breathing was not that of the other birds; but its eyes were those of the unconquerable tarn, wild, black, fierce; gleaming with pride and fury; determined that n...	10
22	155	I knew his bird.	10
22	160	Already he permitted his bird freedom of the reins.	10
22	162	I did not know the strength of the bird.	10
22	163	With a clear strike at the first of the end rings, however, the bird, headstrong, resenting the sudden pressure on the control straps, went wide.	10
22	165	Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows, tearing at the control straps of his bird, tarn goad showering sparks to the sand below, tarn screaming, fought his way, birds buffeting, past the Silver trying to regain the center of the rings.	10
22	167	I noted that the bird ridden by the rider in blue silk was tiring.	10
22	171	The bird of the Blues raked downward, with talons that could have torn Mip from the saddle, but Mip had judged the distance superbly.	10
22	205	Then the bird, which had in its time won a thousand races and more, addressed itself again to that fierce and familiar path in the Stadium of Tarns.	10
22	207	"Mip lives!" Mip now hung on the neck of Green Ubar, his body parallel to the saddle, clinging to the bird, his face pressed against it, his lips moving, speaking to it.	10
22	209	The crowd roared, the tarns screamed, and Green Ubar, his rider Mip, flew, eyes blazing, for those final moments marvelous and incandescent in his youth, like a bird and rider come from the dreams of old men, as they knew them once, when they too were young.	10
22	212	And what I saw seemed to be a young bird, in the fullness of his strength, at the pitch of his prime and pride, his cunning and swiftness, his fury and power.	10
22	214	When the bird came first to the perches of victory there was no sound from the crowd, that vast multitude totally silent.	10
22	217	The bird stood there on the perch, and Mip straightened himself painfully in the saddle.	10
22	218	The bird lifted its head, resplendent, fantastic, and uttered the victory scream of the tarn.	10
22	231	He stretched out his hand toward the bird and I lifted him, carrying him to the side of the inert, winged beast.	10
22	232	He put his arms about the neck of the dead bird, laying his cheek against that fierce, whitish-yellow beak, and he wept.	10
22	241	Mip lay dead across the neck of the bird he had ridden to victory.	10
22	301	His mount was the finest in their tarncots, Quarrel, named for the missile of the crossbow, a strong bird, very fast, reddish in color, with a discoloration on the right wing where, as talk had it, protagonists of the Silvers, long ago, had hurled a bottle of acid.	10
22	302	I thought it a good bird.	10
22	324	Menicius of Port Kar, his face white, climbed to the saddle of his bird.	10
22	345	When the attendant had unhobbled the bird it sprang to its starting perch, the first, or inside perch.	10
22	347	It seemed to me a fine bird.	10
22	350	An attendant for the Steels unlocked the hobble from the right leg of the bird and leaped aside.	10
22	352	Then the bird threw back its head and opened its wings, and, eyes gleaming, as though among the crags of the Thentis Range or the Voltai, uttered the challenge scream of the Mountain Tarn, shrill, wild, defiant, piercing.	10
22	423	I bent over the neck of the bird, the wind tearing at the mask on my face, my clothes.	10
22	430	This warned the rider of the eighth bird, a Gold, and he, bent low in the saddle, looked behind him to see, piercing the rings, eyes blazing, wings snapping, the great black tarn.	10
22	432	The bird, beautiful, fierce, talons lifted, wings beating, hanging almost motionless before the ring, faced us.	10
22	439	My bird was the swifter.	10
22	440	Both of us passed a startled rider for Silver, and then another nonfaction bird.	10
22	444	The wind racing against me, I shuddered, for striking such a ring edge, at the speed of the racing tarn, might well cut a man or bird in two.	10
22	447	He, no more than I, I am sure, cared to kill his bird or slay the opposing rider.	10
22	448	It is one thing to force a bird or rider into the padded bars, and another against the great, swinging knives that were now the rings.	10
22	475	I heard another bird, one following it, strike it, screams of rage, those of tarns and men.	10
22	477	He was on a swifter bird than the rider from Tor but he was not the rider that was the other.	10
22	479	Trying to block in the wrong position he nearly hit the top of the edged ring and the startled bird was carried far out of the ring track and had to wheel to reenter the track.	10
22	485	"On, Ubar of the Skies!" The bird, oblivious of the missiles, smote his way forward.	10
22	488	"On!" The bird sped on.	10
22	501	The Silver bird flashed past.	10
22	505	I saw the brightly plumaged bird, who had first contested a ring with us, in the net below, alive but trembling.	10
22	519	The bird gave a great scream and the wings began to strike the air with the fury of victory.	10
22	520	Low on the bird's neck I saw, ahead, the bent figure of Menicius of Port Kar, astride Quarrel, growing larger and larger.	10
22	537	Swiftly we passed one tarn, a nonfaction bird.	10
22	565	With a curse he jerked savagely at the control straps of Quarrel and that fine bird instantaneously responded and together Quarrel and Ubar of the Skies passed through the final ring; with a snap of his great wings Ubar of the Skies struck the winner's perch, seized it in his steel-shod talons and t...	10

Book 6. (29 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	283	Mine own had been black-plumaged, a giant tarn, glossy, his great talons shod with steel, a bird bred for speed and war, a bird who had been, in his primitive, wild way, my friend.	10
18	139	The bird was buffeted by the storm, but it was a strong bird.	10
18	144	Once the bird fell so low that the boy's feet and the bottom of the rope on which he stood splashed a path in the churning waters, and then the bird, responding to my fierce pressures on the one-strap, beat its way up again and again flew, but then only yards over the black, rearing waves, the roari...	10
1	8	A brightly plumaged bird sprang from the rushes to my left, screaming and beating its sudden way into the blue sky.	10
1	37	I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged.	10
1	45	I heard another bird, another marsh gant it seemed, some fifty yards away, but this time to my left.	10
2	7	It stuns the bird, which is then gathered from the water and tied, alive, in the craft.	10
9	208	In fury I had driven the bird away.	10
10	197	The injured galley then is like a broken-winged bird, and at the mercy of the other ship's ram as she comes about, flutes playing and drums beating, and makes her strike amidships.	10
13	307	Slowly the ship, like a sweet, fat bird, heavy and stately, began to move toward the opening between the two high, round towers that guard the entrance to the walled harbor of Telnus, capital city of the island of Cos, seat of its Ubar's throne.	10
17	246	The tarn is a land bird, generally of mountainous origin, though there are brightly-plumaged jungle tarns.	10
17	280	It looked like a good bird.	10
17	328	"If I can control the bird," I said, "follow me, and keep the instructions I have given you".	10
17	335	I gestured and the tarn hobble, fastening the right foot of the great bird to a huge bolt set in the ship's keel, was opened.	10
17	341	I drew again on the one-strap and again the bird's wings snapped, and he was on the long, sloping yard on the round ship's foremast.	10
17	344	I did not hurry the bird.	10
17	347	The bird did not move.	10
17	351	And then, suddenly, I gave a cry and jerked on the one-strap and the bird, by training and instinct, flung itself into the sleeting wind and began to climb the dark, running sky.	10
17	352	I was again on tarnback! The bird climbed until I released the one-strap and then it began to circle.	10
17	356	And suddenly I realized that the bird was trembling with excitement and pleasure, finding itself swift and alive and strong in a new world to his senses.	10
17	397	With the rope, taken from my belt, I tied the slave manacles to the right foot of the bird.	10
18	57	I took off my admiral's cloak and threw it over the shivering bird.	10
18	127	"Then," said he, "Captain, the bird having rested, let us be on our way".	10
18	141	The bird could not fly a direct line to Port Kar, because of the wind, and we managed an oblique path, cutting away from the fleet.	10
18	142	From time to time the bird, tiring, its wings wet, cold, coated with sleet, would drop sickeningly downward, but then again it would beat its way on the level, half driven by the wind, half flying.	10
18	143	The boy, Fish, cold, numb, wet, his hair and clothing iced with sleet, clung to the rope dangling beneath the bird.	10
18	146	And Thassa beneath us was suddenly streaked with the cold sunlight of Se'Kara, and the bird was across and through the storm.	10
18	148	We took the shuddering bird down among the trees.	10
18	149	Fish leaped free as I let the bird hover, then alight.	10

Book 7. (15 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	719	I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ...	10
5	30	I cried out as I saw a bird, tiny and purple, flash past overhead.	10
5	63	I heard a singing bird.	10
5	154	I heard a bird twittering.	10
5	155	It was a small bird, about the size of a sparrow, but it looked a bit like a tiny owl, with tufts over its eyes.	10
6	25	I heard the song of a bird, fresh in the morning.	10
8	526	There was only the laughter of the girls, the bubbling of the stream, the work, the blue sky and white clouds, the wind and the bending grass, clean air and, somewhere, the call of a tiny horned gim, the tiny purplish owl-like bird.	10
12	713	The tarnsman would then leap from the saddle and force the bird's talons from its prey, binding the hysterical girl's wrists and fastening her to a saddle ring, then remounting and hunting another.	10
13	578	I saw the bird turn, swirling in the sky.	10
13	580	The bird had wheeled in my direction.	10
13	583	I heard the scream of the bird behind me, and the beating of its great wings, closer and closer! I stumbled, screaming, then running again.	10
13	584	I might have been a golden-pelted tabuk, but I was a girl! The scream of the bird deafened me and its wings broke like thunder about my ears.	10
13	601	I felt my body dragged against the side of the bird, and then I felt my shoulder rub against the metal and leather of the saddle, and a man's leg.	10
13	866	My captor was thrusting upward, to keep the bird away.	10
18	97	More quarrels fell behind the great bird.	10

Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	11	I heard the throaty warbling, so loud for such a small bird, of the tiny horned gim.	10
7	12	Somewhere, far off, but carrying through the forest, was the rapid, staccato slap of the sharp beak of the yellow-breasted hermit bird, pounding into the reddish bark of the Tur tree, hunting for larvae.	10
11	447	"Slave silk befits such a pretty little bird," said another girl.	10
11	487	A bird cried in the distance.	10
22	75	I drew on the one-strap of Ubar of the Skies, and the great bird, giant and predator, screamed and, together, we thrust higher, and higher, into the bright, sunlit skies of Gor.	10

Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	460	When the bird had returned I, in fury, had driven it away.	10
3	351	In those mountains had the forebears of the bird been bred.	10
3	354	I hurled a golden tarn disk to the ground, to pay for my lodging in Kassau, and the care of the bird.	10
4	255	She used a bronze ladle, the handle of which was curved like the neck and head of a lovely bird.	10
4	257	It formed a collar for the bird's neck.	10
16	195	Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull.	10

Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	128	There I had sold the bird, for I did not wish to be conspicuous in Tor, as I would surely be as a tarnsman.	10
3	41	"In your hand," he said, "steel is alive, like a bird".	10
10	37	The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird.	10
10	40	This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide.	10
19	50	Hassan broke the bird's neck between his fingers and began to pull out the feathers.	10

Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	292	From through the trees, on the other side of the camp, came what I took to be the sound of a bird, the hook-billed, night-crying fleer, which preys on nocturnal forest urts.	10
9	743	"Come over here, pretty little bird," had said Melina, gesturing to me.	10

Book 12. (10 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1137	It eats bird's eggs and preys on the leem, a small arctic rodent, some five to ten ounces in weight, which hibernates during the winter.	10
11	356	I dragged back again on the one-strap, almost throwing the bird on its back, bringing its talons high.	10
11	357	I almost lost the saddle as my bird, struck by the next tarn, reeled buffeted, twisting backward, some forty feet in the air.	10
11	367	The fellow whose tarn was tearing at mine drew back, too, on his six-strap, and the bird swept upward and away, from my right.	10
11	399	In the end they had struck at the bird.	10
12	23	The best harvests of grass for use in this way occur, naturally, at the foot of the bird cliffs.	10
12	357	They nest in the mountains of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra.	10
12	358	The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological relation to the Hrimgar chains.	10
14	229	When we were children we would gather eggs together at the bird cliffs, and hold hands, and, together, fight the coming of sleep".	10
35	855	The dart, like an insidious bird, sped to the steel, smoking, and pierced its outer layer.	10

Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	432	"It is wrong for the tree to be a tree, the rock a rock, the bird a bird?" I asked.	10
18	265	In making such a cloak only two feathers are taken from the breast of each bird.	10
18	268	His head was surmounted by an elaborate headdress, formed largely from the long, white, curling feathers of the Ushindi fisher, a long-legged, wading bird.	10
26	22	We looked up and saw a brightly plumaged, short-winged, sharp-billed bird.	10
26	24	"That is a forest bird," said Kisu.	10
29	13	A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owllike bird, some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes, had leaped near the fire, and disappeared into the brush.	10
29	30	On the other hand, should a bird, such as a mindar or parrot, or a small animal, such as a leaf urt or tiny tarsk, become entangled in the net the spider swiftly emerges.	10
32	204	In the lower portion of the canopies, too, can be found heavier birds, such as the ivory-billed woodpecker and the umbrella bird.	10
34	261	"In one sense," I said, "no living human being, nor bird nor squirrel, can be an object.	10

Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1018	Too, they are often undecorated, save perhaps for a knot of the feathers of the yellow, long-winged, sharp-billed prairie fleer, or, as it is sometimes called, the maize bird, or corn bird, considered by the red savages to be generally the first bird to find food.	10
14	1117	It is sometimes also called the Corn Bird or the Maize Bird.	10
9	10	It was of peeled Ka-la-na wood and, from its top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes in Gorean called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it...	10
14	1116	The fleer is a large, yellow, long-billed, gregarious, voracious bird of the Barrens.	10
14	1123	In the compound sign fleer presumably occurs as a modifier in virtue of the bird's coloration.	10

Book 18. (28 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	24	Then the bird was climbing again.	10
27	40	These were intended to serve the same purposes as the swaying, almost invisible tarn wire sometimes strung in the high cities, wires which can cut the wings from a bird or tear off the head or arm of a rider.	10
37	91	It is not easy to kill such a bird with the bare hands, but that is the prescribed methodology.	10
37	99	The breath feathers, light and delicate, from the base of the bird's tail, are used, with the tail feathers, in the fashioning of bonnets or complex headdresses.	10
37	552	The bird, smiting its wings, darted towards us but, screaming, fell short on its belly in the grass, feathers flying about.	10
37	557	The bird, then, rising up, wings beating, took to flight, jerking the hobbling log from the pit, tearing it up through the sod roof and poles.	10
37	560	Struggling, wings beating, screaming, the bird, lunging and falling, and climbing again, fought the weight.	10
38	2	Ropes bound the beak of the bird tightly shut.	10
38	8	We had transported the bird to this grove of trees on a travois, drawn by two kaiila.	10
38	10	The bird struggled, and then lay still.	10
39	2	I held one end of the rope about the flopping bird's neck, keeping it taut, and Hci, on the other side, held the other.	10
39	4	Speaking soothingly, he approached the bird.	10
39	8	Cuwignaka suddenly leaped forward and locked his arms about the bird's beak.	10
39	9	He was almost thrown loose as the bird shook his head.	10
39	266	The bird changed its direction.	10
39	281	"I think the bird intends to land," said Cuwignaka.	10
39	289	"I will go a bit behind the path of the bird's approach," said Hci, exercising the tension in the small bow he had armed.	10
39	295	The bird soared towards us and then, several yards away, turned its wings, braking, and hovered for a moment in the air, its claws dropping, and then landed.	10
39	324	"Why has the bird landed?" asked Cuwignaka.	10
39	383	"The back of the bird, the feathers, are drenched with blood," he said.	10
39	528	The tarn, even an adult one, is a bird and is light for its bulk.	10
42	50	Beating its mighty wings the bird hung almost motionless in the air, its back a steep line.	10
47	162	The bird and the rider, in effect, are the projectile.	10
47	176	It caught the second tarn about the neck, as it swerved madly, by the grasping talons of its left foot, and I was thrown about, upside down, the ground seeming to be over my head, and the two birds spun in the air and then my tarn disengaged itself, the neck of the other bird flopping to the side, b...	10
47	177	Its rider's scream alerted the third rider, but, in a moment, the talons had locked upon him, his bird exhausted, struggling in the air, and he was torn upward from the girth rope.	10
47	223	The bird began to ascend.	10
47	290	Such reins are not made for leading and the stroke of the wings, so close to my bird, was irregular, uneven and frantic.	10
56	44	I thought it preferable that it, a trained bird, be left with the Kaiila.	10

Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	124	I looked at the bird more closely.	10
1	127	"What sort of bird is it?" I asked.	10
1	129	"Perhaps it is a bird from some mythology," he said, "perhaps a mere artist's whimsy".	10
15	311	I rose up and sped as furtively and swiftly as I could toward the area from which I had heard the bird's scream.	10
15	312	I stopped, seeing a bird take to the air, a tarn basket, on long ropes, trailing behind it.	10
33	686	Outside of Corcyrus, in a great field, have been found burned grass and three large, deep, geometrically spaced depressions, as though something of great heat and weight, perhaps some giant, heated steel insect or fiery mechanical bird, had alighted there.	10

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	346	"What do you think of this little bird on her perch?" he asked me.	10
27	224	It was like the closed talon of a bird of prey.	10

Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	305	It could only be, I conjectured, some sort of giant bird.	10
10	307	I would learn it was indeed a large bird, one called a "tarn".	10
10	364	Were there fields down there? Rivers? Forests? Would I be able to see the shadow of our passage, fleet and rippling, on the terrain below? What was the nature of the beast, or bird, that drew this carriage so swiftly through the sky? I wished I could see.	10

Book 23. (22 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	509	One brings the bird in to the left of the light, of course.	10
1	622	In a flash of lightning, illuminated clearly for a moment, I could see, over the palisade, hanging from its chains, from the crosspiece on the high pole, swinging in the storm, the huge sign with its emblematic representation of a bird, that with the vulturelike neck and the distorted, grasping righ...	10
2	210	From the condition of the bird, and its nature, its apparent ferocity and alertness, I speculated that it might be a warrior's mount.	10
2	211	Aside from the bird itself, however, there was no indication of this, no emblazoned saddlecloths, no insignia, no particular style of harness.	10
3	46	Ideally, they are taught to do this from the time of hatchlings, it being thrust into their mouths, given to them much as their mother bird would do in the wild.	10
8	15	"Ready the bird," I ordered.	10
8	35	He then entered the cot, to ready the bird.	10
8	268	The bird was finishing the meat, that which had earlier been suspended on the rope.	10
8	287	The bird thrust its beak into a tall, narrow vessel.	10
8	309	The woman, at the sight of the bird, shrank back, frightened.	10
8	315	The attendant led the bird about the cot and shed, toward the tarn gate.	10
8	317	There he led the bird up the ramp to the landing platform.	10
8	397	She was terrified of the bird.	10
8	580	I moved the harness, drawing the straps evenly, and the bird, anticipatory, alerted, stalked to the front edge of the landing platform, outside the portal of the tarn gate.	10
8	581	From such a platform the bird, with a single snap of its wings, addressing itself to flight, is immediately airborne.	10
8	632	I was aflight! For a time I muchly gave the bird its head, and then, some pasangs out, drew it about, to sweep the sky in a vast circle, this centering about the inn, far below.	10
8	655	The bird hovered well, arrested in flight.	10
8	665	In a few Ehn I had established the approximate ceiling of the bird.	10
8	731	I let the bird come within fifty yards of the earth before I reined back, and it swooped, low, leveling, over the grass.	10
8	748	She sobbed, moaned, gasped, cried out, whimpered, and screamed, in turn, in the darkness of the blindfold, clutching the pommel, as the bird, obedient to the obligations of the harness, bent itself to his maneuvers.	10
8	754	In the first pass I hovered the bird for a time, some fifty yards over a portion of the court on the top of the palisaded plateau, one rather behind and to the left of the main inn buildings, as one would face them, entering.	10
9	48	Had it not been for the strength of the bird and my start I might have been downed over the city.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1090	The last time I had seen him, before this evening, I aflight, astride his tarn, hovering the bird, preparing shortly to make away, he had been in the yard of the Crooked Tarn, chained naked there, still soaked wet from the bath, to a sleen ring.	10
13	336	"He is bringing the bird around," said a man.	10
13	344	"Beware!" I watched the smooth, gliding descent of the bird, the sloping pattern, the creature seemingly almost motionless in the air, but seeming to grow larger every instant.	10
13	350	The fellow on the observation platform, on the barge, watching the approach of the bird and rider, lowered his arms, puzzled.	10
13	353	It was like a whisper of light, terribly quick, little more than something you are not sure you have really seen, then the bird had snapped its wings and was ascending.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	204	Perhaps in one of these times, due to no fault of Mistress he was charmed by her voice, as by the songs of the veminium bird, or again, by her grace and manner, the consequences of a thousand generations of elegance and breeding, or again, once more through no possible fault of Mistress, perhaps in ...	10
23	24	The jard is a small scavenging bird.	10

Book 26. (14 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	651	Moving from the right toward the left, some yards above the level of the ledge, some seventy or so yards out from it, I saw a gigantic hawklike creature, a monstrous, titanic bird, of incredible dimension.	10
8	673	I was terrified of that gigantic bird.	10
8	690	I had seen the great bird, in all its magnificent power and savagery.	10
8	780	I shuddered, recalling the great bird in flight, the anonymous, helmeted warrior in its saddle.	10
8	946	I did not wish to be fed to one! But then I had presumably not been brought here, with such secrecy, over such a distance, merely to be fed to such a beast, no more than to that gigantic, carnivorous, hawklike creature, that titanic bird I had seen.	10
8	1061	Had there not been three slices of dried fruit in the bowl? But I had seen the great bird, I had seen the prowling beast, that fearsome guardian of narrow ledges.	10
9	286	Suddenly another great bird smote its way over the valley, this time moving to the right, returning apparently to its source of origin.	10
9	289	The bird was smaller than many, and with shorter wings.	10
10	207	The vulo is a small, soft, usually white, pigeonlike bird.	10
10	302	Then the gigantic bird had turned abruptly, wheeling about, and was making its way, it seemed, to the very heights, the very pinnacles, lofty and cloud-obscured, of the citadel itself.	10
13	331	She clung within it, sobbing and hysterical, like a small, wet, trembling, terrified bird.	10
14	1103	"A vulo is a kind of bird, a tasta is a kind of candy, often mounted on a stick".	10
24	177	I saw another great bird tangled in it, tearing at it, bloodily.	10
24	480	I saw one fellow cut away from the reins of his tarn, and the great bird rose, riderless, following those which had taken flight.	10

Book 27. (18 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	263	Above her, now darting away, was a gigantic bird, an enormous bird, a saddlebird, its wings with a span of thirty or more feet, and, seemingly tiny on its back, was a helmeted man! Ellen had heard an angry cry from the man above her, and words in Gorean she did not recognize, words that had certainl...	10
19	566	The tarn basket attached to the bird's harness, having slid on its leather runners from the platform, swung darkly on its ropes beneath the bird.	10
20	363	But the bird, the lance like a straw in its mighty bulk, struck the tarnsman and the other bird, grasping and biting.	10
20	384	When the bird turned away, to strike at another bird, Ellen, wildly, thrust the last rope free, and found herself in the water, the basket free of the harness, clinging to the remains of the basket, little more now than two sides and a flooring.	10
13	76	She thought she saw a bird in the distance, and watched it for a moment.	10
13	77	Yes, it was a bird, clearly.	10
16	476	And, too, interestingly, though she scarcely dared accept this, it seemed in its way a fascinating augury, as might be the brief sight of a bird, the finding of a branch in the water, evidence of new worlds.	10
18	89	The tarns were largely draft tarns, large, relatively slow birds, controlled either from a saddle or, by reins, from the tarn basket, slung below the bird.	10
19	567	Portus kept the bird low, and it moved in relative silence amongst the cylinders of the city.	10
20	302	He wound this rope about the pommel of his saddle and brought his bird to the lead.	10
20	343	But it surely seemed the same bird, or one muchly similar.	10
20	357	The attacking bird wheeled away.	10
20	365	The bird had its talons on the man but could not pull him free, because of the safety strap.	10
20	368	The tarnsman's bird, doubtless a war tarn, scenting blood and battle, almost on its back on the sky, ripped upward with its talons at its wild brother.	10
20	369	The lead tarnsman loosed, as he could, arrow after arrow into the body of the attacking bird, and then, drawing his sword, for he carried no lance, tried to close with it, to strike it somehow, across the back of the neck, in that tumbling tangle of rage and hunger.	10
20	375	One bird's wing was tangled in a loop of the line.	10
20	383	Ellen cowered back, as pieces of the basket were torn away, flung out into the water, the wicked, bright eyes of the bird near her, not a yard away, the beak slashing at the wicker.	10
27	1052	A great bird, a tarn, lay thrashing in the grass fifty yards away, amidst the debris of a tarn basket.	10

Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	44	This reference seems obscure, but the jard is a Gorean bird, a small, black, flocking bird, a scavenger.	10
13	122	At this point a cry, as of a bird, came through the trees.	10
14	6	The cry, as of the call of a bird, had surely been a warning, that a hunting party had entered the cylinder.	10
16	41	Cabot heard a cry, as of a bird.	10
16	51	He heard again the cry, as of a bird.	10
34	85	"A lake bird," said Grendel.	10
34	273	"Did you save the feathers of the lake bird?" asked Cabot of Lord Grendel.	10
35	21	He had fletched those arrows earlier finished with feathers of the lake bird, that apparently, in Cabot's mind, at least, resembling the Vosk Gull, binding the feathering to the shaft with stout threads, these obtained from the hem of his tunic, such threads being coarser, and stronger, than those w...	10
36	42	"It is not for nothing the arrow is sometimes spoken of as the bird of death.	10
36	45	Its gatherings, sometimes before battles, or in the vicinity of lengthy, desperate marches, are often regarded with uneasiness, and some see it as a bird of ill omen.	10

Book 29. (37 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	268	At that sound the smaller bird, or younger bird, or less aggressive bird, usually backs away.	10
12	229	In another area I saw a fellow mounted on a bird, the bird prevented from flying, hobbled, as were several others in the area.	10
12	272	Eventually the younger bird will grow stronger and fiercer and the older bird weaker and less fierce, and, sooner or later, a new Ubar, over the body of its torn, quivering foe, will scream its conquest, and its claiming of the flock.	10
12	276	Then the fellow put his hand out, on the bird's beak, which touch the bird, as though puzzled, suffered without protest.	10
14	73	I have always referred to the tarn as a bird, and will continue to do so, for it is surely that, at least in a sense, given its ecological place, its feathering, its wings, and such, but, zoologically, one supposes, it is something rather different from what are normally taken as birds, either on Ea...	10
16	15	A tarn flock will tend to cohere, to stay together, and it will also maintain a bird-to-bird distance.	10
17	70	I saw another net fall gracefully, like a broad, circular, open veil, on a bird starting to climb from the plaza, and the bird fluttered back to the earth, screaming, protesting, rolling in the dust, the rider caught in the safety straps, and then the helmeted head was twisted about, and the body wa...	10
3	187	The tarn is a dangerous bird, aggressive, carnivorous, often treacherous.	10
3	504	"The tarn is not a migratory bird," I said.	10
4	377	What had been hitherto no more than a dot on the horizon, perhaps no more than a sea bird resting on the waves, even sleeping, as they do, was now clearly, though still small, and far off, a sail.	10
5	316	At the same time the lateen sail was unfurled from its yard, and, swelling, took the wind, and the ship, like a stately bird, was aflight.	10
12	40	And would one not require the means to reach those sovereignties, which lay hundreds of pasangs to the west? The tarn is a land bird, and will not fly beyond the sight of land.	10
12	189	Tarn wire, for example, sometimes used to "roof a city," to defend it from tarn attack, is almost invisible, and can easily cut the wing from a descending bird.	10
12	232	Another fellow, further along, had the harnessing in place, with the rings and straps, by which he moved the head of the bird, back, or down, or to the sides.	10
12	237	It was true that most women were terrified of tarns, and with good reason, particularly the more imaginative, intelligent women, well aware of the danger of the bird and their own slightness, weakness, and vulnerability.	10
12	262	He was defenseless if the bird were to attack.	10
12	278	The fellow, of course, was not another bird, or a tabuk, or verr, but a different life form, the human, which is not an unknown form of prey for a tarn, but it is certainly not its customary prey.	10
12	282	The bird's eyes gleamed, brightly, wickedly, but it did not pull away.	10
12	283	The fellow then began to groom the bird, smoothing its feathers.	10
12	292	One supposes that the bird is dreaming, doubtless of flight, perhaps of the hunt.	10
14	67	The armor, light as it was, encumbered and slowed the bird, considerably decreasing not only its speed but its maneuverability.	10
14	68	It also, in its alien aspects, tended to make the bird harder to manage.	10
14	70	First, in most tarnflight, the beak and talons do not come into play, and, second, when they do come into play they are formidable weapons in themselves, as in, say, tearing at the eyes and vitals of an enemy bird, far above the ground.	10
14	94	On the other hand, if one were to use the bow, it was better for the stirrups to be shortened, so one could easily rise in the stirrups, if one wished, for firing over the head of the bird, over its wings, and so on.	10
14	100	Such a net, well cast, I hoped, might entangle an enemy tarn or its rider in the sky, interfering with the bird's flight or the rider's capacity to engage.	10
14	111	In summary, the tarnsman, as I envisioned him, would be primarily an archer, and his bird would carry a large number of arrows, far more than might be carried in the common quiver.	10
14	190	The bird clings to the cold branch.	10
16	20	I personally preferred solitary tarnflight, and I supposed most tarnsmen would, as there is a wild sense of freedom on tarnback, sometimes almost of exaltation, as one seems one with the bird.	10
16	22	One becomes almost another form of life, one with the bird, and one with the wind, the clouds, and sky.	10
16	82	I pulled the tarn up, further, and then, briefly, held it almost stationary in the air, drawing back on all the straps simultaneously, the bird then hovering, wings beating fiercely.	10
16	102	After a certain number of repetitions this cry alone would induce the bird to respond as though the one-strap had been drawn.	10
16	108	If the kaiila's track or the bird's flight tends to be erratic, for example, in the midst of shouts and confusion, in which it is tested, it will be rejected for purposes of war.	10
17	59	The enemy, to his relief, would often assume the danger past as the bird passed, only to be struck from behind by the backward flighted arrow, a device familiar to the Tuchuk.	10
26	84	The bird is downed, sluggish, drugged.	10
30	91	The tarn is a land bird and will not fly beyond the sight of land.	10
30	95	They may have taken the ships below as land, as islands, so to speak, or, perhaps, it was a mere matter that we had not triggered or engaged the bird's reluctance to forsake the sight of land.	10
39	2	He cast the guide straps to a tarnster, who then conducted the bird, with its stately gait, toward the large descent way to the in-ship cots.	10

Book 30. (18 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	157	We did not see the bird.	10
2	164	The tarn, you see, is a land bird, a hook-beaked, vast-winged, gigantic, crested, dreaded, fearsome monster of the skies.	10
3	329	I reached for the mounting ladder of Seremides' tarn, but it was jerked away, and, in a moment, I was in the shadow of those great beating wings, the bird lifting itself, scarcely able to keep my footing, my robes and veils whipping about me, and then the monster was in flight, and Seremides, and hi...	10
3	1266	Shortly thereafter the officer and the slave had reentered the tarn basket and the tarnster took the bird to flight, the basket trailing behind on its long harness ropes.	10
8	72	The tarn is a dangerous bird, half wild even when domesticated.	10
9	39	As the tarn is a large, dangerous, aggressive bird, and territorial in the wild, many of the ship tarns had separate stalls, or cages; others were chained apart, by the left foot; some others, crowded together, literally had their wings bound, their beaks strapped shut, save for feeding.	10
9	199	The birds were usually saddled and mounted in a narrow, shuttered area, and then led to one ramp or another, the first two ramps each leading to a higher deck, the last to the open deck itself, whence the bird might take flight.	10
9	238	The main deck, or most of it, I took it, was in the hands of mutineers, as many ran down the ramp, to try to free a tarn, sometimes to fight with others for the bird.	10
9	542	"Now," said Lord Nishida, "cut away their clothing, bloody them a little, and put them in the cage with the bird".	10
12	379	No bird so flies, not so swift, not so straight, so piercing the wind.	10
22	233	Some of the arrows passed over us, the fletching streaking in the wind, like a darting bird, a whisper of light, almost invisible.	10
25	74	They might take it as a dragon bird, whatever that might be.	10
26	123	The fellow was pointing to a high storey of the castle, where there was a beating of wings, dark against the sky, and then the tiny bird disappeared, within.	10
26	125	These, it seems, were placed in tiny wrappers, and fastened to one of the bird's legs.	10
27	109	Whatever might be the initial psychological impact of the tarn on those unfamiliar with its form of life, it would be only a matter of time before it became clear to the enemy that the tarn, however formidable, was a natural creature, limited, and mortal, nothing dreadfully mysterious, no unnatural ...	10
32	4	Each bird could carry, for a short way, some seven or eight men.	10
32	6	In a city, of course, one risks swaying, almost invisible tarn wire, capable of disemboweling or beheading a bird, cutting away a wing in flight.	10
32	12	Something went past, like a bird, a fierce whisper of wind, the rushing of a fletched shaft toward the starlit sky.	10

Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	88	How small the rider was compared to the bird! I think it fair to call it a bird, but it was no form of life with which I was familiar.	10
4	123	You may teach a bird that flight is evil, and break its wings, but its heart will always remember the sky.	10
15	91	In this sense, I did not know if such a monster were well thought of as a bird, or not.	10
15	93	Still it was clearly a bird, or very birdlike.	10

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	273	"He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the ...	10
44	242	The maw of the thing was then aligned with another bird and rider, and another burst of fire was emitted from what seemed the maw of the thing, and another rider and bird seemed to discolor the sky as though burning debris might have been cast suddenly on blue tiles.	10