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Birds

Book 1. (17 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	267	Rings, comparable to those which are fastened on the legs of the young birds, are worn by the adult birds to reinforce the memory of the hobbling wire and the tarn-goad.	10
14	135	For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions.	10
2	6	There was a tapestry to the right, a well-woven depiction of some hunting scene, I took it, but fancifully done, the spear-carrying hunters mounted on birds of a sort and attacking an ugly animal that reminded me of a boar, except that it appeared to be too large, out of proportion to the hunters.	10
3	41	Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were ...	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	256	Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his ...	10
3	257	In Gorean, these birds are sometimes spoken of as Brothers of the Wind.	10
3	268	Later, of course, the adult birds are not fastened, but the conditioning given them in their youth usually holds, except when they become abnormally disturbed or have not been able to obtain food.	10
5	175	Beak and talons rending, uttering ear-shattering screams, my tarn slashed at the other two birds.	10
13	118	Within a minute the air was filled with the beating of wings, as some half a hundred wild tarnsmen brought their birds down about us.	10
14	134	With a sickening lurch and sharp jolt of pain the two tarnsmen brought their birds into the air.	10
14	138	The birds were pulling against one another, stabilized in their flight, each trying to pull away from the other.	10
14	139	Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut.	10
14	141	Then the birds would throw their weight again on the ropes, bringing another flashing wrench of agony.	10
17	110	It would buy one of the great birds themselves, or as many as five slave girls.	10
19	2	The great birds, fed, were once again as tractable as such monsters ever are, and with the tarn-goads Marlenus and his men were again in command.	10
19	174	Thousands of the great birds, their wings clapping like thunder, were descending on the city, flying onto the bridges and down to the streets, darting among those spires no longer protected with the terrible defense of the tarn wire.	10

Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	72	Indeed, the birds are conditioned to respond to the goad, almost from the egg.	10
3	12	Though it was still bright, many of the colorfully plumed birds had already sought their nests.	10
8	10	Even men of a caste as low as that of the Tarn-Keepers were intolerably proud of their calling, for who else could raise and train those monstrous birds of prey? I supposed Zosk the Woodsman was proud in the knowledge that he with his great broad-headed ax could fell a tree in one blow, and that per...	10
14	8	Hideous though the death might seem to the silver masks of Tharna, they did not know that I was a tarnsman, and knew these birds, their power, their ferocity; that in my way I loved them; and that as a warrior I would not find a death by tarn ignoble.	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
15	25	Once one has been a tarnsman, it is said, one must return again and again to the giant, savage birds.	10
15	31	He continues to mount the birds, to climb to their saddle with a heart filled with joy, to draw upon the one-strap and, with a cry of exultation, to urge the monster aloft.	10

Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	3	The slightly acrid odor I had noticed tends to be a common property of all such signals, much as there is a common property to the sound of a human voice, whether it be that of an Englishman, a Bushman, a Chinese or a Gorean, which sets it apart from, say, the growling of animals, the hiss of snakes...	10
25	119	In none of the cases did I spy a tarn, one of the great, predatory saddle birds of Gor, perhaps because they do not thrive well in captivity.	10

Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	8	I heard a haruspex singing between the wagons; for a piece of meat he would read the wind and the grass; for a cup of wine the stars and the flight of birds; for a fat-bellied dinner the liver of a sleen or slave.	10
11	120	"What were you?" Then he turned his kaiila suddenly toward them and they would break and run screaming and laughing and then, like a flock of birds, take up once more the pursuit.	10
11	185	"What about the flight of birds?" asked Kamchak.	10
11	188	I knew, of course, that it was spring and, in this hemisphere, most birds, if there were any migrating, would be moving south.	10
11	191	We then waited about a minute, and I saw several birds, river gulls—flying north.	10
20	30	Then overhead in the darkness we heard the beat of a tarn's wings and saw one of the monstrous birds pass above us.	10
20	102	He had already released two of the great birds, driving them from the roof with a tarn goad.	10
20	105	He sent one more of the great birds winging from the roof.	10
20	126	There were two of the great birds left on the roof, both fine specimens, huge, vicious, alert.	10
27	1	The Sparing of the Home Stone of Turia I gathered that the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold and others seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness.	10

Book 5. (33 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	239	Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ...	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
5	15	In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...	10
7	46	The other three baskets, however, had no control attachments and those birds wore saddles and were guided by tarnsmen.	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
12	14	Already the birds had turned the twelve-ring track and were again approaching.	10
12	19	The birds swept past us again.	10
12	32	Across the track, on the far side, I heard a judge's bar clang indicating that one of the birds had missed a ring, and a colored disk, silver, was hauled to the top of a pole.	10
12	35	By this time the other birds had flashed through it.	10
12	37	The birds were now flashing through the great rings before me.	10
12	96	Usually these birds fly more slowly and are less vicious than the war tarns or racing tarns.	10
12	98	War tarns, whose talons are shod with steel, tend to be extremely dangerous birds, even more so than other tarns, none of whom could be regarded as fully domesticated.	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
13	227	Mip, for some reason, seemed to like me, and he spoke much during the evening, as we drank together, of the factions, of the organizations of the races, of the training of tarns and riders, of the hopes of the greens and the other factions, of given riders and given birds.	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	265	I turned about and walked back on the perch and again stood on the thick, beamed framework of tem-wood that formed the vast housing for numerous racing birds.	10
13	289	Mip and I, moving the lock levers, removed the hobble and chain from the two birds and took the saddle.	10
13	332	We returned the birds to their perches and put the tarn hobble on them there.	10
13	333	We removed the small saddles and control straps from the birds, and hung them on vertical beams, a portion of the perch framework.	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
15	80	Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position.	10
16	231	Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...	10
16	233	I now stood on my feet, stupefied, staring down at the wagons, the birds being brought to the perches.	10
16	250	I was now some forty yards from the birds.	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
22	86	The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...	10
22	120	The birds, some nine of them, only a few feet overhead and to one side, flashed past, wings cracking like whips, beaks extended, the riders hunched low in the saddles.	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	249	He feared then the rings, the birds.	10
22	319	I heard the judge's bar ring three times, signaling the birds to their perches.	10
22	415	Already the other birds in the race, nine of them, were approaching the first turn.	10
22	495	My tarn struck the other two and in a moment, tarn goads flashing, talons clutching, birds screaming and biting, we found ourselves as in a clenched, winged fist of fury, beating and turning before the left center ring.	10
22	504	"On!" There were now three birds beyond us, the Red, the Silver, and the Yellow.	10

Book 6. (11 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	380	As one set of birds hovered over the deck and their men dropped to its planks, the birds darted away, and another set took their place.	10
1	92	Yet, not surprisingly, because of the rence, the rushes and sedge, I could not see the birds.	10
2	4	In her hand was a curved throwing stick, used for hunting birds.	10
2	8	The birds are later, on the rence islands, killed and cooked.	10
2	13	There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft.	10
3	66	Over her shoulder were slung the four birds she had caught in the marshes; their necks were now broken and they were tied together, two in front and two over her back.	10
8	74	Then warriors climbed down to the punt, to help the slaves cut marsh vine and sedge, to clear the way, but these warriors, exposed, fell easy prey to the birds of the bow.	10
17	282	It was a reddish brown tarn, a fairly common coloring for the great birds.	10
17	285	"I will have a hundred stone of gold for the use of these birds and my men," said Terence of Treve.	10
17	322	I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds.	10
17	381	And then, their fighters disembarked, the birds with their riders swept away, up into the black, vicious sleeting sky, to light the oily rags, one by one, in the clay flasks of tharlarion oil and hurl them, from the heights of the sky, down onto the decks of ships of Cos and Tyros.	10

Book 7. (24 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	672	Some were still astride the great birds, though the birds stood now on the grass.	10
5	60	I saw some small birds fluttering about it.	10
6	31	Once, looking up, I saw a flight of large, white, broad-winged birds.	10
8	170	The men seemed small on the backs of the great birds.	10
8	173	I had heard of such birds, and such men, of course.	10
8	186	The tarnsmen had now, somewhere behind Laura, brought their great birds to the earth.	10
8	366	Beyond the compound of Haakon of Skjern I could see the compound of his tarns, where, hobbled, the great birds beat their wings, threw back their heads and screamed, and tore at the great pieces of bosk thrown before them.	10
8	370	Even separated as I was by three walls of bars, that of their compound, that of the far wall of Haakon's compound, and that of our common wall, these birds terrified me.	10
8	372	Sometimes when one of the great birds screamed, several of them would scream, too, and run, huddling away against our bars, or flying into their log dormitory.	10
12	122	Some carried heavy baskets of fruits and nuts on their shoulders, or strings of gourds; others bore wicker hampers of flowers, or carried brightly plumaged forest birds, tied by string to their wrists.	10
12	260	Only from this pole, supported by the crossed diagonal poles, there hung no snared birds, no gutted tarsks, no drying skins of panthers or sleen.	10
12	650	I watched with horror as, in a few moments, again the sky filled with tarns, and the beating of wings and the screams of the great birds.	10
12	658	Tarnsmen now struck the earth, leaping from their birds, to the east of the wagon square and, swords drawn, rushed among the burning wagons.	10
13	169	She had also shown me how to make shelters of various sorts and use a small, curved stick for striking down birds and tiny animals.	10
13	174	I, however, contented myself with nuts and fruits, and roots, and water creatures which resembled those with which I was familiar, and, of course, the flesh of small birds and animals.	10
13	187	Over her shoulder she had two small, furred animals, hideous forest urts, about the size of cats, and in her left hand she carried four small, green-and-yellow-plumaged birds.	10
13	209	I then helped her carry our catch, she bearing the fish, and the small birds, to our camp.	10
13	242	She had only roved about the thicket, hunting birds and checking her snares.	10
13	249	When we had cleaned the animals, and the birds, and the fish, which latter job I left to Ute, for I did not like to touch the creature, Ute bent over the fire drill.	10
13	318	There were small birds about, and I saw a scurrying brush urt, flowers, even a lovely, yellowish tabuk fawn.	10
13	357	If she was cooking, she must have caught birds or meat".	10
13	497	Occasionally I would supplement this diet with the raw flesh of small birds, or that of an occasional brush urt, which I would manage to snare.	10
15	858	Then I was happy, even, to see someone pass by, or birds alight on the grass and peck for seeds.	10
17	38	"I see you have caught two pretty birds," had laughed Rask of Treve.	10

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	911	I heard night birds cry in the forest.	10
7	10	Overhead were several birds, bright, chattering, darting, swift among the branches and green leaves.	10
7	44	Who knew how high might be raised the chair of Bosk? The birds carried on above me, as I passed slowly, carefully beneath them.	10
7	131	The birds had stopped singing.	10
7	170	I listened, not moving, to the birds, intently.	10
7	172	I noted where the birds moved, and where they did not.	10
7	180	Birds moved about, above me.	10
14	19	Some birds flew over the ruins of the camp.	10
18	135	I heard the cry of sea birds, broad-winged gulls and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in the sand for tiny mollusks.	10
22	959	The tracks of sea birds might, like the thief's brand, be found in the sand, but they too, in time, would be washed away.	10
22	1000	The tracks of sea birds might, too, like the thief's brand, be found in the sand.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	151	It had burned, long and fiery in the Gorean night, on the stones of the beach, and then, in the morning it would have been ashes, and the winds and rains would have scattered them, and there would be little left, save the stones, the sand and the prints of the feet of sea birds, tiny, like the thief...	10

Book 10. (15 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	489	Skeletons, unless picked by birds or animals, are seldom found in the desert.	10
2	24	To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, r...	10
4	42	The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...	10
11	73	We dismounted and led the kaiila, and let the birds hunt them for flies.	10
14	493	I heard, a short time later, wings, the alighting of one or more large birds.	10
14	494	Such birds, broad-winged, black and white, from afar, follow the marches to Klima; their beaks, yellowish, narrow, are long and slightly hooked at the end, useful for probing and tearing.	10
14	495	The birds scattered, squawking, as a Kaiila sped past.	10
14	496	The birds are called zads.	10
19	37	Hassan saw five birds overhead in flight.	10
19	41	To my surprise the five birds began to circle.	10
19	46	Hassan began to kiss rhythmically at the back of his hand, his head down, but moving so as to see the birds.	10
19	48	There was a squawk as he seized one of the birds which, curious, ventured too near.	10
19	94	I followed Hassan, he orienting himself by the sun and the flights of certain birds, migrating.	10
21	9	The Kur watched the flight of birds.	10
21	15	We killed four birds and ate them raw.	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	138	The grass was richly green, alive, vast; the sky was blue, deeply blue, far deeper than I had known a sky could be; the clouds were sharp and white, protean and billowing, transforming themselves in the pressures of their heights and the winds which sped them; they moved at different heights at diff...	10
4	10	I heard birds, calling to one another.	10
4	28	How grateful, and elated, held, I had been! My master was pleased with his girl! I listened to the birds outside, in the glistening velvet of the soft dawn.	10
12	717	There there were several tarns, great fierce saddle birds of Gor.	10
26	436	I saw some small birds in flight.	10
26	444	More birds flew by.	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	172	Colorful birds screamed to one side, on their perches.	10
3	289	There were carvings of sea sleen, and fish, and whales, and birds, and other creatures, large and small, of the north.	10
6	697	"Indeed, thousands of birds migrate each spring to the nesting cliffs of the polar basin".	10
6	701	Tarns were not migratory birds.	10
11	358	Then, both birds, screaming, talons interlocked, grappled in the air.	10
20	56	Two women sang after this, the first one about gathering birds' eggs when she was a little girl, and the other one about her joy in seeing the face of a relative whom she had not seen in more than two years.	10
23	258	"But, too," I said, "tarns, like most birds, will fly in the arctic only during those seasons".	10

Book 13. (17 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	23	"Those are Schendi gulls," said Ulafi, pointing to birds which circled about the mainmast.	10
6	33	She looked up at the birds.	10
6	37	He pointed upward, at the birds.	10
6	542	Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vege...	10
6	547	They are usually carved in the shape of tiny panthers, but sometimes other animals are found as well, usually small animals or birds.	10
18	264	Behind and about him had swirled a gigantic cloak of yellow and red feathers, from the crested lit and the fruit tindel, brightly plumaged birds of the rain forest.	10
23	168	Far off, across the marsh, we could hear the noises of jungle birds, the howling of tiny, long-limbed primates.	10
32	26	Overhead bright jungle birds flew.	10
32	200	In the level of the emergents there live primarily birds, in particular parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits.	10
32	202	In the second level, that of the canopies, is found an incredible variety of birds, warblers, finches, mindars, the crested lit and the common lit, the fruit tindel, the yellow gim, tanagers, some varieties of parrot, and many more.	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
32	206	In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and land gim.	10
32	207	Along the river, of course, many other species of birds may be found, such as jungle gants, tufted fishers and ring-necked and yellow-legged waders.	10
32	231	I listened to the noises of the jungle night, the chattering, and the hootings, and the clickings and cries, of nocturnal animals, and birds and insects.	10
32	730	This seems to be the case with certain birds and rodents and, possibly, even with an animal as important to the Gorean economy as the bosk.	10
49	65	About some of these bodies there circled scavenging birds.	10
50	13	Birds perched on the heads and shoulders of the great figures.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	240	There must have been some forty birds and riders.	10
25	356	I also saw what I took, at first glance, to be a flock of birds in the sky, back and to the right.	10
25	358	I then realized that what I saw in the sky, in the distance, were birds, indeed, but tarns, and that doubtless mounted upon them, armed and purposeful, were men.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1781	A war between two cities was once temporarily suspended to rescue flocks of small birds, migrating hurlits, which had fallen frozen, stricken, on the plains between armies, the victims of sleet and wind.	10
20	1784	Not until the last of the tiny birds disappeared to the south did the shield signals flash and the drums beat, the tarns take wing, the tharlarion begin to tread, and infantrymen march.	10
21	139	I could hear birds in the garden.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	250	Many times such storms have destroyed flights of migrating birds.	10
6	44	It does not, for example, like certain flocks of birds, venture annually in roughly linear paths from the north to the south, and from the south to the north, covering thousands of pasangs in a series of orthogonal alternations.	10
12	229	I turned about in the saddle to view once more the torn, bloodied grass, the motionless figures, the insects and birds, the place where, yesterday, in brief compass, carnage had touched the prairie.	10
14	491	Betting, too, may take place in connection with such things as the fall of arrows, and the appearance and movements of animals, particularly birds.	10

Book 18. (11 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	14	"The Kinyanpi!" "Maybe it is smaller birds, a flock, much closer," said a man.	10
27	25	Some called upon their medicine helpers for assistance, usually birds and animals.	10
27	83	Two other birds hung in the netting, one with its neck broken and the other with a wing half torn away.	10
35	45	I could hear the birds in the jungle of the Ua.	10
37	106	To make a headdress often requires several birds.	10
42	28	Accordingly we swiftly took to flight, the screaming of the birds, the smiting of their wings, serving further to alert the camp, both Yellow Knives and Kinyanpi.	10
42	60	They shouted among themselves, over the beating of the birds' wings.	10
42	68	The birds, wings snapping and striking, their backs almost vertical, the men leaning forward on them, were an impressive sight.	10
42	77	If it was the feather of Wakanglisapa, then why should they not attempt to capture it, to secure its mighty medicine for themselves? The five riders then broke their formation by swerving to the side and began to circle, to build up momentum, and then, soon, they had brought their birds onto an atta...	10
47	146	Below us, like birds springing wondrously from the snow, tarns and their riders emerged from the clouds, following us.	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

Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	74	The birds, thus, for most practical purposes, could be brought to flight almost immediately.	10
6	365	How few children of Earth, I thought, are taught the names and kinds of the trees and shrubs, the plants, the insects and birds, which surround them constantly.	10
6	785	Then why would you have so suddenly, so belatedly, have found my suggestion agreeable? Had something happened to make you change your mind? Why, too, earlier, did you seem so distracted, as though your thoughts were elsewhere? Too, of all these places on the wall, why did you bring me here, so close...	10
6	810	They were gigantic, fierce birds.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	3	Judging from the condition of the bodies, the effects of the predations of birds, some still about, jards primarily, and the tattering of the winds and rains, they had been there for several weeks.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	129	I was their captive! Surely somewhere in nature there must be an accounting for them, as there was an accounting for the dances of bees and the fragrance of flowers, for the fleetness of the antelope and the teeth of the lion, for the migrations of fish and birds, for the swarming of insects, for th...	10
34	576	* * * * In the morning the birds sang us awake.	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	48	With older birds, on the other hand, captured wild tarns, for example, the training usually takes the form of tying fresh meat on live animals, and then, when the tarn is accustomed to eating both, effecting the transition to the prepared meat.	10
8	59	Such a construction, of course, requires the more time-consuming, hovering landing of all birds, not simply draft tarns, carrying tarn baskets.	10
16	70	With these, too, there were some wooden quarrels, blunt-headed, such as boys sometimes use for bringing down birds.	10
17	263	Even the blunt-headed wooden quarrels, suitable for stunning birds, were gone.	10
18	148	I saw the two quarrels leave the bows like metal birds.	10
18	183	These were fine quarrels, crafted by metal workers, not sharpened rods, not blunt sticks, fit for stunning birds.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	22	Too, the disturbance of their passage, given the noise, the splashing and such, had doubtless driven much of the normal game, particularly birds and fish, from the area.	10
14	192	"We are speaking of simple fishermen," said the officer, "of hunters of birds, of harvesters of rence".	10
45	114	There are the equations of winds and tides, the silent turning of worlds on their axes, the movements of clouds, the descent of rain, the turbulent dynamics of gases, the freezing points of liquids, the melting temperatures of copper and iron, the migrations of birds, the habits of sleen.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	948	Many Goreans will worry about such things as the tracks of spiders and the flights of birds.	10

Book 26. (22 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	5	I could hear some birds, among the trees.	10
9	197	At various times in the past days I had seen one or more of the gigantic birds, coming or going, aflight over the valley between my location and the mountains in the distance.	10
9	198	Sometimes there seemed great speed in the flights, moving to the left, at other times the birds smote the air with leisurely precision.	10
9	203	Sometimes I would see birds leaving or returning to whose harness were slung baskets, sometimes open, sometimes closed.	10
9	206	Once I saw some ten birds returning in straggling formation, some struggling to remain aflight.	10
9	210	On some birds there were two riders.	10
9	299	How terrified I was of the men I had seen, masters of such monsters as the mighty birds I had seen! I was pleased that I had learned how to wear silk and iron.	10
10	210	It is notoriously incapable of eluding hawks and other forms of predatory birds, by which it can easily be torn to pieces.	10
10	511	It was large enough that one of the great birds could have landed on it.	10
10	548	Here and there on the platform were deep gouges, where weapons might have struck, or the talons of the great birds.	10
11	681	I had seen the great birds.	10
18	48	In a sense, I suppose, we are part of the beauties of a city, an aspect of its scenic delights, part of the attractions of the area, as might be her flower trees and brightly plumaged birds.	10
18	53	Think of the flower trees, the brightly plumaged birds! Surely, in some way, we not only characterize, but adorn, a city.	10
19	22	Some of the mighty saddle birds, like gigantic, crested hawks, they are called "tarns," moved about uneasily.	10
19	27	I saw some of the captives, stripped women, hooded, being led forth, in their chains, from cage baskets, slung to the harnesses of the mighty birds.	10
19	156	Some knelt, even front-shackled, in sirik, head down, near the very talons of the great birds.	10
24	161	Even riderless birds, as I understand it, will often respond to these signals, the charge, the wheel to one attitude or another, the ascent, the dive, the retreat, and such.	10
24	179	Two birds thrust through the wire, darting within its interstices.	10
24	274	Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro...	10
24	458	Some of the great birds smote their way upward through the dislodged wire, to meet the newcomers.	10
29	976	We did stop for a moment on the terrace, to watch a tarn caravan in flight, one of more than fifty birds, one which had left in the vicinity of sunset.	10
37	969	Some birds impale insects on thorns, for a similar purpose.	10

Book 27. (21 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	371	Different birds beat their way, confused, frightened, in different directions, and were then jerked up short, and lines began to twist, and the birds to scream.	10
6	64	Such beasts, she was confident, could not exist in reality, serpents nearly a hundred feet in length, six-legged, sinuous, nocturnal predators, gigantic hawklike birds, and such.	10
13	144	She could see nothing in the distance but a flock of birds.	10
13	246	She could see, in the distance, what appeared to be a flock of birds.	10
13	249	Other birds seemed to rise from her side of the wall, lifting momentarily against the darkness of the wall and then suddenly appearing in the sky, hastening specks, the hills and fields beyond.	10
17	1228	"Birds!" she thought.	10
18	83	Such individual cages, too, are often used with new birds, in their training, in accustoming them to saddling and harnessing, and such.	10
18	84	They are also valuable given the occasional necessity of tending ill or wounded birds.	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
18	90	Birds and baskets could be rented, or purchased, and drivers, or tarnsters, hired.	10
18	92	On the second day of her service in the establishment, before she had been permitted clothing, Ellen had screamed and fled from one of the birds, when it had turned its head, sharply, to view her.	10
18	267	* * * * And so Ellen reached down and picked up the heavy basket of meat, which she must carry to the feeding area, a section within the housing for tarns, and set forth, piece by piece, climbing the wall railings, impaling it on the hooks, for the mighty birds, seven of them, due to return with the...	10
18	371	"I see the first of the birds in the distance.	10
19	59	The birds drew back from the goad uneasily, angrily, and, against the far wall of that immense cot, that great cage, beneath straw, Portus concealed the mysterious bundle.	10
19	117	"These are only draft tarns," said Portus, "slow, clumsy, gentle birds.	10
19	126	The officer thrust through the gate, but scarcely had he entered the area, a stranger, one unknown to the tarns, than one of the birds flew at him, aggressively, and he sprang back through the narrow opening and the great, yellow, scimitarlike beak snapped on the bars, not a foot from his hand.	10
19	570	All kept their birds low, moving swiftly and silently through the forest of cylinders, toward the walls, none visible against the three moons.	10
20	287	She knew these were not wild tarns, because of the orderly approach, the measured, three-dimensional spacing of the birds.	10
20	353	What then? Or perhaps it is territorial, and resents the intrusion of these new birds into its hunting area.	10
20	367	The two birds wheeled, and spun in the air, falling, climbing, screaming, falling.	10
20	435	Free of the harness it was forced away from the birds by their very struggles, their movements creating rolling swells of water, swirling into the darkness.	10

Book 28. (13 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	6	The forest had been rather silent as he had entered it, save for certain cries, as of the calls of birds.	10
28	41	Too, they are cheaper than a kaiila, or trained sleen, and far less expensive than a tarn, one of Gor's mighty saddle birds.	10
39	43	Cabot, however, at the moment of becoming aware that his assault from the rear was discerned, looked for those individuals most ideally positioned for surveying the terrain, those not on the ground, and so the perceptive Kur on the pole, scarcely raising his paw to point, fell from the pole some twe...	10
39	57	Certainly they flew through the air, swiftly, almost invisible, until they struck, and were feathered, as birds.	10
43	443	"To be sure," said Cabot, "it seems a pity to think of that pretty little body disfigured and mangled, burned with irons, torn by hooks, coated with honey, and then put out, alive, staked out naked, helplessly, for the delectation of flocks of tiny, carnivorous song birds.	10
43	478	"There are no tiny, carnivorous song birds," said Lord Grendel.	10
47	89	"Few of the birds of death are left," said Statius.	10
52	5	"I do see several bodies, rotted, no longer of interest even to birds, dangling, hanging from trees".	10
55	226	Cabot then, bow strung, an arrow to the string, a quiver at his hip, laden with the birds of death, emerged from the forest.	10
67	21	The hunters, of course, wary of the birds of death, it should be noted, would not go into the forests subjecting themselves to the self-imposed limitations to which they had been accustomed in the sport world.	10
74	33	Although I have never seen this, I am informed that these evolutions are remarkably beautiful, hundreds of birds, with their riders, ascending, descending, whirling about, separating, rejoining, and so on.	10
77	267	For example, it would presumably have been easy enough for Cabot, bow in hand, and a quiver filled with the birds of death, to have slain Flavion days ago, in the forest.	10
78	165	Lord Grendel later cut off the head, and then sacked the body, and its parts, and dragged them into the forest, where he emptied them, for the feeding of birds, and small animals.	10

Book 29. (24 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	66	As the birds milled above, crowded and screaming, hemmed in by our fellows, their riders, wise now to the dangers of breaking formation, but much aware now, too, of hundreds of arrows fired into their mass of birds and men, which constituted a large, almost stationary target in the sky, knew themsel...	10
17	68	And unto this mass, from above, were hurled dozens of weighted nets, which tangled the birds, and riders, and dozens, half crippled, unable to fly, fell brokenly toward the earth, and some riders freed themselves of the safety straps and tried to leap to the saddle rings of other birds, and some fai...	10
12	42	They are not sea birds which can rest on the wind, aloft for Ahn, wings spread, not moving, and, if they wished, descend, and rest on the sea itself.	10
12	188	Rope netting is used rather than wire to protect the birds.	10
12	288	It is sometimes hard to know when the tarn is asleep as it, as many birds, sleeps with its eyes open.	10
14	62	I did not expect there would be much call for this latter feature unless the tarnsman was on foot, but sometimes tarnsmen do lock in combat, even on tarnback, as the birds, spinning about, buffeting one another, screaming and twisting about, do grapple in the sky.	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	17	In this fashion a flock of birds, even in the wild, will engage effortlessly in what appear to be astonishingly swift and complex maneuvers.	10
16	100	One of the major innovations I had introduced was to condition the birds to associate ring cries with ring tensions.	10
16	274	Torgus and Lysander had already marshaled it, and the first birds, in line, were already climbing.	10
17	9	His preference was to bring the combatant birds together, to the point at which, across the saddle, his spear might come into play.	10
17	14	To be sure, the major value of the lance, as I saw it, would be in fencing away enemy birds, or, in a low, swooping flight, attacking ground troops or tharlarion riders.	10
17	42	All I could see at the time were hundreds of tarnsmen, some so closely clustered that the birds, unable to keep their spacings, literally, here and there, buffeted into one another.	10
17	44	As hundreds of birds alighted in the plaza of training, tarnsmen dismounted, to fire the camp.	10
17	53	Many fled back to the group where the birds milled, confused, and arrows, then, like sleet, unmet, fell amongst them.	10
17	56	Hundreds of the enemy must have already alit in the plaza of training and set about their work, but even now others, newly arrived, startled, looking upward, saw birds diving, soaring in, and, in moments, were in the midst of sheets of arrows.	10
17	67	Indeed, men tried to bring their birds into the center of the flock, to protect themselves from arrows, and the interior positions were then fought for, as the enemy competed with one another, and wounded and lacerated one another, to command this cover.	10
17	74	Above, in the sky, suddenly, the gigantic, tumbling, fighting knot of birds and men broke, like a burst of alarmed jards, startled in their feeding, and hundreds fled.	10
18	11	Dust swirled, raised by war and the beating wings of tarns, the gigantic, monstrous saddle birds of Gor.	10
18	23	Several understood their peril and abandoned their loot, and slaves, and, drawing their weapons, hurried toward the waiting birds.	10
26	197	Tarns, as other birds, do not much care to flight in the rain.	10
32	2	One could hear the cry of birds, the lapping of the Alexandra at the sand, and about the pilings of river wharves.	10
33	46	He spoke of a world we did not know, of strange ships, and great birds".	10
38	75	The birds would be brought aboard later, in some four days, joining us near the mouth of the Alexandra.	10

Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	155	These are large, broad-winged birds, which occasionally fish three and four hundred pasangs from the delta.	10
9	197	An open space was provided fore and aft in each cot area, in which some birds were chained in place, and others, in effect, bound, wings pinioned by ropes, 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	331	And, in any event, there were fewer tarns than mutineers, even from the beginning, and certainly after the killings, the slaughter, the injuring of birds, and the escape of several.	10
11	29	It will lunge into the mass, to break it apart, that single victims may be separated and tracked, but the schooling instinct, like that of flocking birds, swiftly returns the fish to the group.	10
11	54	Great schools of migratory Parsit migrate seasonally, moving from the austral summer to the northern summer, as some birds, thus availing themselves of seasonal efflorescences of plant life.	10
11	55	They fatten before each migration and, thousands of pasangs later, arrive, like migratory birds, lean and hungry, at familiar banks, thousands of pasangs from each other, where they are welcomed, again, with abundances of food.	10
12	54	We had had two hail storms of great severity when farther north, storms such as those which, in the Barrens, north and east of the Voltai, sometimes decimate flocks of migrating birds, striking them from the sky, flocks which, obedient to their hereditary imperatives, refuse to land and seek shelter...	10
25	20	This mammal, which usually preys on insects and small urts, like several species of birds, is communally territorial.	10
25	69	Rumors were being spread by Lord Temmu's men, disguised as fishermen, herdsmen, and such, of new allies for Lord Temmu, strange warriors, arrived from far off, and, terrifyingly, of dragon birds, which might fly forth and destroy armies.	10
32	3	The great birds did not land, but hovered, some yards from the ground; long knotted ropes, fastened to their saddle rings, spilled to the earth.	10
32	22	A moment later, the birds hovering over the deck, men loosed their grip on the ropes, and dropped to the planking.	10

Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	129	Astrinax and Lykos, too, released the birds of steel from their housings.	10
31	114	Some role may be found for select humans, grooming, fetching, carting wastes, perhaps decorative objects, as exotic fish or colorful birds, and, certainly, for those who enjoy the taste, food.	10
33	40	Who knew what clandestine gold might now have found its home in a new purse? Might the fellow beside you suddenly turn on you? Accordingly, much of the financing involved in such matters would doubtless be accomplished by means of drafts, notes, letters, and such, things mysterious, even unreal, to ...	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	97	Too, consider eyes, and how widely spread they are amongst diverse life forms, insects, fish, mammals, birds, and such.	10
15	99	Accordingly, I supposed, evolution might provide a place on diverse worlds for birds, or birdlike creatures, creatures of keen eyesight, creatures which might attack, grasp, and tear, creatures not bound to the earth, creatures which might negotiate and traverse the very atmosphere itself.	10
15	232	"I was frightened by the archery," I said, "the birds, the waves, the strikes, the ferocity, the accuracy, the penetration".	10
20	162	"Men do not kill kajirae," said Relia, "no more than they would kill pretty birds or kaiila".	10
21	208	Many Goreans, I suppose, might seem callous, heartless, or cruel to many of Earth, but they commonly, as those of Earth often do not, love their world, love growing things, trees, grass, flowers, and the world itself, the day and night, the seasons, the wind and sky, the stars, the sound of water in...	10
33	32	Too, my chances of survival were much higher here than if I were alone, here with these armed, skilled, dangerous, and mighty women, almost like creatures of the forest themselves, who could detect sign and move with stealth, whose passage would be little marked by the forest floor, who could read t...	10
52	678	There was only the empty river, quiet in the morning sun, and the cries of some birds, fishing, skimming its surface, sometimes diving under the water, and there was smoke, here and there, drifting about.	10

Book 33. (46 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	119	Would not the arrival of such monsters most easily be understood in terms of preternatural agencies? Indeed, Lord Temmu, shortly after the great ship of Tersites had been wharfed below the holding, had sowed the seeds of such alarms by means of spies, spreading rumors of terrifying winged beasts, de...	10
12	423	"You have commanded demon birds, dragon birds, brought from across the sea.	10
23	276	"In the cot of Lord Yamada," he said, "will be found the birds come from the holding of Lord Temmu, and those birds who are to be transported thence, to return later".	10
1	55	I learned later of the nature of the attack, the silent, signaling smoke arrows coordinating the four prongs of the attack, from four passes, the following blasts of conch horns, and the rolling of drums, the streaming into the valley of armed men, the small, narrow, rectangular banners of Lord Yama...	10
1	56	Several of the cotted birds were freed by our own men, that they might not be killed, and these, unencumbered, might return to the wild.	10
1	60	Some of the birds from the cots were hastily saddled and successfully flown.	10
1	61	Although this had occurred weeks ago, as is common in military matters, several birds and riders, and others, were unaccounted for.	10
1	62	We presumed the birds dead, or reverted, and the men dead, or, scattered, possibly lost, or hiding, in the mountains, attempting to evade enemy patrols and kill squads.	10
3	45	Riders have their favorites, and perhaps, too, the mighty, winged creatures themselves, but it is important that the birds accept different riders.	10
3	46	Birds might be slain, and riders separated from their accustomed mounts.	10
10	40	Our work was often marked by hundreds of birds alighting on the spilled stores, who would soon compete with returning draymen, who would gather what rice they could and carry it away to their villages, where it might be concealed from the tax collectors of Lord Yamada.	10
10	41	We would depart, smoke in our wake, leaving behind us the scramblings of hungry men and the cries of clouds of small birds.	10
11	133	Those who control demon birds control the clouds, and those who control the clouds control the sky, and those who control the sky control the earth".	10
12	220	"Across Thassa," I said, "there are places where the livers of verr are examined, where formations of clouds are noted, the flights of birds observed, such things".	10
12	240	Small objects lie about mute, planets go about their business, birds fly where they wish, but such things are interpreted.	10
12	383	"He is a sorcerer," said another, "whose words conjure demon birds from the sky".	10
13	89	"Earth must once have been like this," she said, "the freshness, the rain, the air, the flight of birds, the blue sky, the water, the food with taste".	10
14	36	"He who has demon birds may come and go as he pleases.	10
14	37	He who has demon birds is elusive and may strike unexpectedly, in the day or night, at dawn or dusk.	10
14	38	He who has demon birds, in time, could rain fire from the sky, far above futile, angrily brandished glaives, and burn with impunity where archers are not.	10
14	51	"He expected to deliver you to me, and merely appoint a new commander of the demon birds.	10
15	35	Colorfully plumaged birds occasionally fluttered overhead.	10
17	27	"What would we, mere Pani, know of demon birds?" he asked.	10
23	113	"To the nest of the demon birds?" he asked.	10
23	255	The cartsman and the birds were apprehended".	10
23	259	"Perhaps some bloodied birds were found?" I said.	10
23	264	"Would he not keep some birds, who would home to the holding of Temmu, that he might make use of them upon occasion, perhaps to mislead the forces of Temmu, say, putting them at their ease, while he plotted swift and devastating actions?" "Surely there would be some sign enclosed with the messages, ...	10
23	266	Otherwise, given the possibilities of spies, birds could be brought from either holding, that of Temmu or that of Yamada, which might then, with false messages, be released to return to either holding.	10
23	275	"But if I am right," I said, "the birds will be at hand".	10
23	277	"And," I said, "the apprehended birds, those captured from the secret cot, which will home to the holding of Lord Temmu".	10
23	318	"Perhaps, one day," he said, "the demon birds will fly".	10
23	320	"You wish to summon demon birds?" he said.	10
24	44	"Such birds, well prepared," said Lord Akio, "are a delicacy".	10
24	159	"At present," said Lord Yamada, "I am better aware of what transpires in the camp of the demon birds than many in the camp itself".	10
24	162	"Much animus burns in the camp of the demon birds.	10
25	328	Those birds would be rested.	10
27	126	When I deem the way is safe, some days from now, you may continue on, to the holding of Temmu or, if you prefer, to the nest of the demon birds".	10
27	128	"There is no place for me in the holding of the hated Temmu," he said, "nor in the aerie of demon birds".	10
27	169	"It is my understanding that such birds occasionally utter a loud, shrill cry," said Haruki.	10
30	40	"But are there not demon birds to fear?" inquired Tajima.	10
34	10	"It is thought," said Yasushi, "that the bold tarnsman and his fair captive, Sumomo, outdistanced their pursuit and that she is now a prisoner in the holding of Temmu, the Wicked, or somewhere in a nest of demon birds".	10
34	18	"It is speculated the mysterious tarnsman and his prize are afoot?" "Yes," said Kazumitsu, "and doubtless attempting to reach the holding of Temmu, or the camp of the demon birds".	10
47	298	"Five paces before you could bring me within the compass of your blade, you would be greeted by fifteen well-fletched birds of death.	10
59	10	The images were of natural objects, such as trees, flowers, and animals, predominantly birds, and, amongst them, predominantly, of water fowl.	10
61	513	"Astride demon birds," suggested the barbarian, who, as you might suppose, was I.	10
61	628	The room was a typical Pani room, ample, airy, tasteful, and sparsely furnished, with a few mats, a low table, and a painted screen, suggesting marsh birds in flight.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
49	111	In short, the truce standards were raised, and hundreds of men, from each army, came onto the field, gathered up the birds in their helmets and the basins of their shields, and returned to their respective camps, where the birds were nursed, being warmed and fed, and, two days later, on a common sig...	10
23	191	My sources inform me that it is to Kurik of Victoria, in Brundisium, that the package is to be delivered, Brundisium, a great port, familiar with exotic cargos, unusual birds, mighty serpents, surprising beasts, a port where such cargos are not likely to elicit undue attention.	10
49	48	Some Initiates dabble in signs, omens, and such, the formations of clouds, the flights of birds, the eating habits of sacred fowl, the livers of sacrificial animals, and so on, but that work, which commonly pays less well, is usually surrendered to augurs, haruspices, and such.	10
49	110	This became clear on the morning after the third day of the storm when the weather suddenly cleared, and, to the surprise of the potential combatants, a dreadful landscape was revealed, dark with the tiny bodies of stricken, half-frozen birds, partly buried in the snow.	10
63	151	The tarn drums kept the cadence of the flight, the wings of the great birds beating in unison.	10

Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	37	There are many differences in animals, as well, and in birds and insects.	10
11	12	The delta is rich in fish and birds.	10
11	150	One dealer had set up a stall on the walkway, to sell brightly plumaged birds.	10
33	169	We are at the mercy of the strength of birds, the stamina of kaiila, the beat of the long oars and the accommodations of congenial winds.	10
33	661	I awakened in the early morning, half lying across my makeshift vessel, to the sound of marsh birds.	10
38	127	And some men, when the twig snaps and the branch moves, when birds rise unexpectedly from the grass, when the calls of the marsh kite and the Vosk gull cease, are more attentive than others.	10

Book 36. (12 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	53	"And there are many strong-winged birds, shore birds and sea birds, for example, the sea kite, much like the Vosk gull".	10
1	158	On the continent, there are thousands of villages, sovereign and proud, prosperous and free, too costly to attack, defended by flights of the birds of death".	10
1	259	"Yes," said he, "where lies a citadel of ruthless cunning, of envy, violence, wrath, murder, and greed, of arrant ambition, a lawless, bestial port, feared from Torvaldsland to Schendi, a port the scourge of turbulent Thassa, a den of thieves and cutthroats, a lair of pirates, near whose walls fish ...	10
13	13	These small, strong-winged birds are not native to the wilds of the Farther Islands.	10
13	53	There was no time to affix messages to the birds.	10
16	193	"Like most birds, message vulos have keen eyesight, and the homing circles of a message vulo, searching for its cot, can range over hundreds of pasangs".	10
19	161	"The terrible bow," he said, "from which fly the birds of death".	10
48	67	When we approached the object, a clutter of small birds, scavenging jards, took flight with a reproachful burst of wings.	10
48	69	The thin necks of the small, hook-billed birds were bare, lacking feathers.	10
51	51	"The birds of prey spread their wings," said Thurnock.	10
53	47	There was much screaming, much confusion, a splintering of ladders, a tumbling of rectangular blocks of stone, intended originally to be ammunition for the great catapults, the tearing loose of tent pegs which had been pounded into the flesh of the island, and a scattering of tents rising from the b...	10
53	183	"Five ships, now joined, like birds of prey, pursue," he said.	10