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Book 9. (331 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	397	The Kurii, of course, with which the men of Torvaldsland might have had dealings, might have been removed by as much as generations from the Kurii of the ships.	10
6	398	It was regarded as one of the great dangers of the war, however, that the Kurii of the ships might make contact with, and utilize, the Kurii of Gor in their schemes.	10
11	75	On the other hand, the Kurii on the platform, and other Kurii I had encountered, had been dark-furred, either brownish, or brownish red or black.	10
11	191	I had little doubt but what the Kurii, perhaps organized by Kurii from the steel worlds, were to begin a march in Torvaldsland, which might extend, in a generation to the southern pole of Gor.	10
13	452	Then, other Kurii behind it, crowding about it, past it, it shrieked, lips drawn back, with a hideous sound, which, somehow, from its lips and mien, and mostly from its eyes, I took to be a sign of pleasure, of anticipation; I would learn later that this sound is instinctively uttered by Kurii when ...	10
15	53	If Kurii native to Gor could, within the laws of Priest-Kings, not violating technology restrictions, much advance the Kurii cause on the planet, those on the ships had little to lose and much to gain.	10
15	301	"If the Kurii are above us," I said, recalling the rain of stones, "is this not our opportunity to descend?" "Kurii corner their prey," said the Forkbeard.	10
17	171	Human prisoners of Kurii, incidentally, are usually stripped; Kurii see no reason to give animals clothing.	10
18	31	Many were the men of Thorgard who fell beneath the teeth and steel of Kurii, and several were the Kurii who fell to the weapons of Thorgard's men, as they fought madly to defend themselves.	10
18	130	"Across the camp is the true rally, hundreds of Kurii! All falls before them! This was a ruse to draw men here, permitting Kurii to regroup in numbers elsewhere!" My heart leaped.	10
18	225	Within the square, formed into ragged "Hands," "Kurii," and "Bands," with their appropriate leaders, were massed a considerable number of Kurii, ready to charge forth should the shield wall open, or to support it if it seemed in danger of weakening.	10
18	287	We heard, even from behind the herd, Ivar, and I, and a hundred men, screaming and shouting, the howling, the startled shrieks of Kurii, the enraged roars of Kurii.	10
18	288	We heard the scraping of horns on metal, the screams of gored Kurii, the howls of Kurii fallen beneath the hoofs.	10
18	656	I supposed native Kurii did not command the respect of the educated, trained Kurii of the ships.	10
1	627	"It could only have been one of the Kurii," said Samos.	10
1	628	"The Kurii?" I asked.	10
1	632	If Samos were correct that 'Kurii' was a Gorean corruption of the name of such animals for themselves, and that the word was used in Torvaldsland as a designation for beasts, then it seemed not unlikely that such animals were not unknown in Torvaldsland, at least in certain areas, perhaps remote one...	10
3	225	"Kurii?" he asked.	10
6	370	"I hunt one of the Kurii".	10
6	376	I knew then that it could not be the one of the Kurii I sought.	10
6	385	I did not tell Ivar that those he knew as Kurii, or the beasts, were actually specimens of an alien race, that they, or those in their ships, were locked in war with Priest-Kings for the domination of two worlds, Gor and the Earth.	10
6	386	In these battles, unknown to most men, even of Gor, from time to time, ships of the Kurii had been shattered and fallen to the surface.	10
6	388	If the marooned Kurii abided by the weapon and technology laws of Priest-Kings, they, like men, another life form, were permitted to survive.	10
6	389	The Kurii I knew were beasts of fierce, terrible instincts, who regarded humans, and other beasts, as food.	10
6	396	Their own world destroyed, the Kurii now wished another.	10
6	399	Men and the Kurii, where they met, which was usually only in the north, regarded one another as mortal enemies.	10
6	400	The Kurii not unoften fed on men, and men, of course, in consequence, attempted to hunt and slay, when they could, the beasts.	10
6	404	"How will you know the one of the Kurii whom you seek?" asked Ivar.	10
6	466	"You hunt one of the Kurii," said Ivar.	10
6	499	He might know the haunts of Kurii; he might know dialects of the north, some of which are quite divergent from standard Gorean, as it is spoken, say, in Ar or Ko-ro-ba, or even in distant Turia; the habits and customs of the northern halls and villages might be familiar to him; I had no wish to be t...	10
7	226	"This has been killed by one of the Kurii," he said.	10
7	236	There might, for all we knew, be somewhere in the lands of Ivar Forkbeard one of the Kurii.	10
7	240	"It could be, for those of the Kurii are quite rare this far to the south".	10
7	243	"Perhaps," suggested Gorm, "it is diseased or injured, and can no longer hunt the swift deer of the north?" In these cases, too, I supposed one of the Kurii might be driven, by teeth and claws, from its own caves.	10
7	244	Kurii, I suspected, those of Gor as well as those of the ships, did not tolerate weakness.	10
7	322	"Kurii," said Ivar Forkbeard, "are fond of human flesh".	10
7	323	Humans, like other animals, I knew, are regarded by those of the Kurii as a form of food.	10
8	268	"One of the Kurii," he said.	10
8	286	"Then," said he, "if I should survive, we will hunt Kurii".	10
8	292	But I had no wish to pursue Kurii at random.	10
8	293	"How will you know the one of the Kurii whom you seek?" Ivar had asked me, in his hall.	10
8	306	The Kurii and men, as far as I knew, met only in feeding and killing.	10
10	569	I speculated that Earth governments, or some of them, were reasonably well aware that their planet must now be the locus of frequent alien slave raids; but why would the alien power not make itself known and openly demand their jewels among the female resources of the planet; the governments would n...	10
10	572	Accordingly, I supposed, this very night, on Earth, there were completely unsuspecting beautiful girls, thinking it a night like any other, who would undress themselves and snap off the light, and retire, not knowing that they had been, perhaps for weeks, scouted by slavers; I wondered if they would...	10
10	683	"A Kur," it was said, "One of the Kurii would address the assembly of the Thing!" The girl looked at me, pulling against the fiber that bound her wrists.	10
11	17	Kurii, I had been told, usually, in meeting men, laid the ears back against the sides of their heads, to increase their resemblance to humans.	10
11	21	The trailing capacities of the Kurii are not as superb as those of the sleen, but they were reputed to be the equal of those of larls.	10
11	24	There was little doubt that the day vision of the Kurii was equivalent to that of men, if not superior, and the night vision, of course, was infinitely superior; their sense of smell, too, of course, was incomparably superior to that of men, and their sense of hearing as well.	10
11	30	Interestingly, Priest-Kings, who are not visually oriented organisms, find little difference between Kurii and men.	10
11	31	To me this seems preposterous, for ones so wise as Priest-Kings, but, in spite of its obvious falsity, Priest-Kings regard the Kurii and men as rather similar, almost equivalent species.	10
11	46	Behind the Kur, to one side, stood two other Kurii.	10
11	56	The two Kurii behind him, each, had a golden pendant hanging from the bottom of each ear.	10
11	57	The prehensile paws, or hands, of the Kurii are six-digited and multiple jointed.	10
11	74	I knew that Kurii did not, for the most part, inhabit areas frequented by men.	10
11	76	I wondered if it were only the darker-furred Kurii that roamed southward.	10
11	77	But if these Kurii on the platform were snow-adapted, their fur did not suggest this.	10
11	79	If the Kurii were sufficiently successful, of course, there would be no particular likelihood of evolution selecting for snow adaptation.	10
11	80	Too, it could be that, in summer, the Kurii shed white fur and developed, in effect, a summer coat.	10
11	81	Still I regarded it unlikely that these Kurii were from as far north as his words might suggest.	10
11	82	"How many gather?" asked Svein Blue Tooth, who was on the platform with the Kurii.	10
11	102	"There is not a man here who believes Kurii to gather in the country of snows.	10
11	108	I looked at the great axes in the hands of the two Kurii who accompanied the speaker.	10
11	113	"They are Kurii".	10
11	126	I wondered if the stomach or stomachs of the Kurii could digest vegetable food.	10
11	133	The Kurii, then, had some understanding of laughter.	10
11	136	That the Kurii possessed a sense of humor did not much reassure me as to their nature.	10
11	157	"It would be madness," said the Forkbeard to me, "to permit large numbers of Kurii into our lands".	10
11	162	The Kur stepped back with the other Kurii.	10
11	163	They spoke together in one of the languages of the Kurii, for there are, I understood, in the steel worlds, nations and races of such beasts.	10
11	166	"What crop," asked Ivar Forkbeard, who wore a hood, of the platform, "do the Kurii most favor in their agricultural pursuits?" I saw the ears of the Kur lie swiftly back against its head.	10
11	178	Some spoke for granting the permission to the Kurii for their march, many against it.	10
11	179	Finally, it was decided that it was indeed germane to the decision to understand what the Kurii would offer to obtain this permission.	10
11	180	I, in this time, had come to understand that Torvaldsland stood, in effect, as a wall between the Kurii and the more southern regions of Gor.	10
11	185	That now, suddenly, large numbers of Kurii were conjoined, and intent upon a march southward, could not be a coincidence in the wars of such beasts with Priest-Kings.	10
11	187	It was Gorean Kurii that were clearly, substantially, involved.	10
11	190	In the laws of Priest-Kings it was up to such species, those of Kurii and men, to resolve their differences in their own way.	10
11	192	The Kurii were now ready to reveal themselves.	10
11	195	In their mercy or disinterest, Priest-Kings had spared many Kurii who had been shipwrecked, or shot down, or marooned on Gor.	10
11	196	These beasts, over the centuries grown numerous and strong, might now be directed by the Kurii of the steel worlds.	10
11	199	The Kurii native to Gor, or which had been permitted to survive and settle on Gor, would surely not be likely to have this facility.	10
11	201	The Kurii, I gathered, did not wish to fight their way to more fertile lands south, but to reach them easily, thus conserving their numbers and, in effect, cutting Torvaldsland from the south.	10
11	205	This would permit an assessment of the power of Priest-Kings, the extent and nature of which was largely unknown to the Kurii, and, perhaps, to lure them into exposing themselves in such a way that a space raid might be successfully launched.	10
11	209	This was, to my knowledge, the boldest and most dangerous move of the Others, the Kurii, to this date.	10
11	210	It utilized large forces on Gor itself, largely native Kurii, in its schemes.	10
11	211	Kurii from the ships, of course, as organizers, as officers, might be among them.	10
11	214	It was possible, of course, that the Kurii would attack Torvaldsland when well within it, without large forces marshaled against them.	10
11	216	It was possible, too, of course, that the Kurii had become gentle beasts, fond of farming, renouncing their warlike ways, and turning humbly to the soil, and the labors of the earth, setting perhaps therein an excellent example for the still half-savage human animals of Gor, so predatory, so savage,...	10
11	217	Perhaps we could learn much from the Kurii.	10
11	220	We would then have overcome our manhood, and become one with the snails, the Kurii and the flowers.	10
11	228	Among the Kurii, in their various languages, were words referring to edible meat, food.	10
11	231	The human being was regarded, by Kurii, as falling within the scope of application of such terms.	10
11	232	The term translated "cattle" was sometimes qualified to discriminate between four-legged cattle and two-legged cattle, of which the Kurii were familiar with two varieties, the bounding Hurt and the human.	10
11	237	The soft flesh of the human female, I knew, was regarded as a delicacy among the Kurii.	10
11	238	"We have better uses for our bondmaids," said Svein Blue Tooth, "than to feed them to Kurii".	10
11	240	I knew, however, that if such a levy was agreed upon, the girls would be simply chained and, like the cattle they would be, be driven to the Kurii march camps.	10
11	255	And I supposed that to one of the Kurii they had indeed been generous.	10
11	274	The two Kurii behind the speaker growled, soft, like irritated larls.	10
11	286	"Do we, free men of Torvaldsland," called out Svein Blue Tooth, "grant permission to the Kurii to traverse our land?" "No!" cried one man.	10
11	294	"The peace of the Thing is upon them!" Men fell back, and, between them, shambling, swiftly moved the three Kurii.	10
14	2	Kurii leapt down the long sides of the hall, slashing, cutting men down as they fled to their weapons.	10
14	4	More than once the blades of the Kurii axes bit through the spines of men, reaching for their weapons, and splintered, gouging, in the beams of the hall.	10
14	33	He was trying to thrust Hilda, held by the arm, toward one of the side rooms, between killing Kurii.	10
14	36	I could not hear him in the shouting, the screams, the howling of the frenzied Kurii.	10
14	39	Those nearest the Kurii tried to crawl back within the throng.	10
14	40	The Kurii axes, in their sweeps, at the edges of the throng, kept us helpless, crowded together.	10
14	42	Some men, behind Kurii, fled away, out of the great, opened, double doors of the hall.	10
14	44	But outside, too, I saw, silhouetted against the flames, waiting Kurii.	10
14	45	Many fled into the axes of the Kurii in the yard of the hall.	10
14	46	Then Kurii stood before the threshold, snarling, axes lifted.	10
14	48	Kurii take prisoners only when it pleases them.	10
14	60	Rollo, though the room about him was frenzied with Kurii and their killing, did not seem disturbed.	10
14	64	The blood of Kurii, like that of men, is red, and of similar chemical composition.	10
14	75	I knew human females were regarded as delicacies by Kurii.	10
14	86	His sword was drawn, but it would prove of little efficacy against the great metal shields, the sweeping axes of the Kurii.	10
14	94	The Kurii now, on both sides, stood between us and the weapons.	10
14	96	Kurii, too, stood before the entrance to the hall, axes ready, eyes flaming.	10
14	100	"Let us use our axes!" Trying to draw back from the Kurii, approaching slowly, great, bloody axes ready, terrified men pushed back, further and further.	10
14	101	I managed to free myself from the crowd, and take a position on its fringe, between men and Kurii.	10
14	104	I saw the lips of one of the Kurii drawing back.	10
14	106	The Kurii crept closer.	10
14	108	I saw then that Kurii held the balcony.	10
14	113	I saw, too, the nostrils of the Kurii closing to narrow slits.	10
14	129	The other Kurii looked at it, puzzled; then it fell into the dirt.	10
14	131	The horror of what I had done then was understood by the leader of the Kurii.	10
14	135	Mere humans, they dared not set themselves against Kurii.	10
14	142	The eyes of the leader of the Kurii, whom I knew to be my enemy, blazed upon me.	10
14	147	Again in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth rang the blood shriek of the Kurii.	10
14	148	On each side of the leader, plunging toward us, howling, swept Kurii.	10
14	151	Kurii themselves, axes like sheets of iron rain, shattered that fearful throng, splitting it into hundreds of screaming fragments of terror.	10
14	171	Kurii looked upward.	10
14	178	I saw, across the room, the leader of the Kurii, it with the golden band on its arm.	10
14	187	Kurii were between me and the opening.	10
14	192	I saw ten Kurii leap to the back of the hall, to where Svein Blue Tooth and his men had made their opening, to prevent the escape of others.	10
14	204	I saw Kurii, methodically, blow after blow, striking the fallen, lest any might have sought to hide among the dead.	10
14	208	The Kurii, I realized, were efficient; they were, of course, intelligent; they were, of course, like men, rational animals.	10
14	210	He was cut down immediately, running almost headlong into a Kur, one of the Kurii set before the killing line, to intercept such fugitives.	10
14	212	Kurii now encircled the group of men near the western wall of the hall.	10
14	214	I saw two Kurii turn in my direction.	10
14	217	He looked red and terrible in the reflection of the flames; the veins on his forehead looked like red cables; his eyes, almost like those of the Kurii themselves, blazed.	10
14	223	In the presence of Kurii they seemed only cattle.	10
14	224	I saw the lips of Kurii draw back.	10
14	241	The two Kurii who had turned toward me now lifted their axes.	10
14	245	I heard the startled snarls of the Kurii.	10
14	251	Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...	10
14	261	The ring, through which the chain passed, unable to bear longer the weight of Kurii, splintered free of the wood.	10
14	263	Four Kurii, climbing, two leaping free, two clinging to the chain, fell to the earth below.	10
14	265	Below, covered with sparks, scarcely visible in the smoke, I saw Kurii looking up, cheated of their prey.	10
15	9	Climbing down, I had seen Kurii moving about, but near the front of the hall.	10
15	11	Some Kurii, squatting among them, fed.	10
15	13	Several Kurii, not feeding, carrying shields, axes, moved to and fro.	10
15	21	To our astonishment the countryside was swarming with Kurii.	10
15	26	We saw, at one point, two Kurii fighting over a body.	10
15	30	As many as four or five times we crept within yards of feeding Kurii, oblivious to our presence.	10
15	32	Even more to our astonishment than the Kurii, and their numbers, about, was the presence of men, wearing yellow scarves, among them, men whom they did not attack.	10
15	34	Kurii, as is often the case, had enlisted human allies.	10
15	41	"Black Sleen," said Ivar, "the ship of Thorgard of Scagnar!" There were hundreds of Kurii between us and the ships.	10
15	45	Kurii are land animals, not fond of water.	10
15	49	The Kurii march would have its sea arm, its naval support.	10
15	50	Kurii, as I have indicated, are rational animals.	10
15	54	It was even possible that Priest-Kings, a usually consistent form of life, might permit the Kurii conquest of Gor rather than surrender their accustomed neutrality.	10
15	56	But if Priest-Kings, eventually, should halt the invasion, that, too, might be of interest to the Kurii of the steel ships, remote, prowling outside the fifth ring, that of the planet on Earth called Jupiter, that on Gor called Hersius, after one of Ar's legendary heroes.	10
15	57	Not only would the decision to halt the invasion be in violation of the practices and commitments of Priest-Kings, which would doubtless create dissension in the Nest, producing a leverage the Kurii might be able to exploit, but, if the invasion were halted, it being a large movement, and complex, i...	10
15	67	The movements of Kurii and their allies were becoming bolder.	10
15	68	Their boldest move had begun most recently, the gathering of the Gorean Kurii, the initiation of the march to the south, the incursion into lands of human habitation, the beginning of the invasion from the north.	10
15	69	This was the boldest and most fearful probe of the Kurii of the ships, directed toward humans but doubtless, in fact, a testing of the will and nature of Priest-Kings, their true foes.	10
15	70	If Priest-Kings permitted the conquest of Gor, perhaps over a generation or two, by Kurii, they would have lost the security of their own base; they would become an island in the midst of a hostile sea; it would then be a matter of time until the end, until adequate weaponry could be smuggled to Gor...	10
15	72	Sooner or later, if Gor fell to native Kurii, those of the ships would destroy the denizens of the Sardar.	10
15	76	The Kurii, for more than twenty thousand years at least, had possessed deep-space capability.	10
15	81	Kurii were not among them.	10
15	90	Ivar had thrust the yellow scarf into his belt; I looped mine over the left shoulder, fastening it loosely at the right hip; we left Thorgard's two men for the Kurii.	10
15	130	Far off, we could hear the howls of Kurii.	10
15	136	We could not make out clearly the lineaments of the Kurii pursuing us.	10
15	148	The Kurii were now a pasang away, on the rocky, lower slopes, scrambling upward.	10
15	152	In snow the Kurii, spreading their large, six-digited appendages, dropped to all fours.	10
15	155	Kurii, it was evident, would accomplish the same distance in a much shorter time.	10
15	160	Below us we heard Kurii, seeing him, howl with pleasure.	10
15	164	The Kurii then, with redoubled speed, began to move toward us.	10
15	190	Kurii are excellent climbers, well fitted for this activity with their multiple jointed hands and feet, their long fingers, their suddenly extendable claws, but they followed us, nonetheless, with difficulty.	10
15	194	"Kurii," he said, "cannot reach this ledge by the same route".	10
15	212	I had suspected earlier that he knew the mountain, this facilitating our ascent, and that this explained why the pursuing Kurii, natively better climbers than men, could do little better than keep our pace, if that.	10
15	249	The other two Kurii crouched below on the slopes, looking up.	10
15	257	As hunters Kurii were patient beasts.	10
15	262	Kurii have superb night vision.	10
15	273	"Let us descend and meet the Kurii, while we still have strength," I said.	10
15	278	The two Kurii, by a parallel route, were following.	10
15	280	We huddled on a ledge, between rocks, sheltered from the wind, shivering with cold, miserable, listening for Kurii.	10
15	285	"Yes," I said, "it might drive the Kurii away".	10
15	289	"Song, you see," said Ivar, "soothes even Kurii".	10
15	306	I recalled the two Kurii, precariously clinging to the wall of rock, one of which had fallen attempting to reach us, the other of which Ivar had struck from the wall with a heavy stone.	10
15	315	Not long after we had again taken to the rocks, we heard and saw the Kurii, some two hundred feet below and to one side, following us.	10
15	337	Approaching were the two Kurii.	10
15	343	The Kurii unslung their shields, their axes.	10
15	345	The Kurii fixed on their left arms the heavy, rounded iron shields, took the great axes, seven feet in length, grasped some two feet from the bottom of the handle, in their massive right fists.	10
15	346	I had never thought much of it before, but Kurii, like men, were dominantly right handed.	10
15	348	Ivar and I leaped from the rock; the two Kurii, one to each of us, approached.	10
15	350	Priest-Kings, I recalled, regarded Kurii and men as rather equivalent species, similar products of similar processes of evolution, similar products of similarly cruel selections, though on worlds remote from one another.	10
15	392	The two Kurii stood on the flat above, snarling.	10
15	401	One of the Kurii, snarling, leaped to the ledge with us.	10
15	415	Outside, we could see the heads of the two Kurii, peering within.	10
15	421	Kurii are patient hunters.	10
15	429	The Kurii were waiting.	10
16	133	In his hope to find one strong enough to stand against Kurii, one who could rally the men of the north, he was bound to be disillusioned.	10
16	140	We stood, perhaps, within, or at the brink, of the tomb of Torvald, lost for long ages until now, until we two, fleeing from Kurii, from beasts, had stumbled upon it.	10
16	235	"We have two Kurii to kill," he said.	10
17	1	Torvaldslanders Visit the Camp of Kurii It was very quiet.	10
17	3	Below us, in the valley, spread out for more than ten pasangs we saw the encampment of Kurii.	10
17	61	Never before, to my knowledge, had men attacked Kurii.	10
17	77	Below us, in the valley, we could see the coals of thousands of fires in the camp of the Kurii.	10
17	79	The field shelters of the Kurii are made of skins and furs, arched over bent saplings.	10
17	83	Kurii drop to all fours to enter and leave them.	10
17	87	The Kurii herds were quiet.	10
17	91	I could smell, too, the odors of Kurii, and the trampled dung of bosk.	10
17	93	They would, effectively, prevent the Kurii from slipping free on the south.	10
17	95	The northern pole of the camp would be left free, as a seeming avenue of escape, to lure embattled Kurii, should the tide of the war turn against them, into flight northward.	10
17	97	Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve...	10
17	100	The Kurii had been in no hurry to initiate their march to the south.	10
17	106	In these days I had much spied on Kurii, living on the land, returning more than once to the Blue Tooth's war camp.	10
17	111	A typical Kurii foraging squad consists of six animals, called a "hand," with its "eye," or leader.	10
17	114	This seems peculiar perhaps but is explained by ancient Kurii belief, that thought is a function of the blood.	10
17	116	Contemporary Kurii understand, naturally, that cognitive processes are brain-centered, or largely brain-centered, but the ancient terminology, in their songs, poetry, and even military lexicon, remains.	10
17	121	Twelve "Kurii," in the sense of military units, constitutes one "Band".	10
17	126	The rings of rank are quite plain, being of some reddish alloy, and are to be distinguished from decorative rings, of which many Kurii are fond.	10
17	127	Kurii, generally, like men, seem vain beasts, but there appears to be an inverse correlation between height of rank and intricacy and variety of ornamentation.	10
17	137	This may refer to a military march, of course, but, I suspect, the term being apparently ancient, that it may also refer to migrations in the remote history of the Kurii, on their own world, putatively no longer existent or viable.	10
17	142	The Kurii, as I may have mentioned, consist of several "Peoples".	10
17	144	These differences, negligible from the point of view of humans, are apparently of considerable importance among the Kurii themselves.	10
17	146	Kurii, in their past, at least, were apparently torn by internecine strife, disrupted by "racial" and "civil" wars among themselves.	10
17	151	It will be noted that the military arrangements of the Kurii are based on the number twelve or divisors and multiples of twelve.	10
17	152	Kurii use, I understand, a base-twelve mathematics.	10
17	154	Sometimes the foraging squads of the Kurii had been accompanied by trained sleen, often four of them.	10
17	156	The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, ...	10
17	157	A sleen may bring a girl in, stumbling and weeping, from pasangs away, driving her, as Kurii take little notice, through their very camp, until she is entered into a herd.	10
17	163	Kurii burden the males heavily; they can think of little more than the weight they carry, and the next step; furthermore, their wrists are usually tied to the straps of their improvised backpacks.	10
17	164	Kurii, unlike Goreans, do not subject bondmaids to heavy labor; it toughens their meat; the bondmaids are separated from the males, that they be deprived of leadership; furthermore, the technique of keeping prisoners in single file, separating them by some feet, and preventing speech between them, t...	10
17	169	The line of prisoners and sleen is, on both sides, flanked by the Kurii foragers.	10
17	174	Below us, in the broad valley, the camp of the Kurii lay still in darkness.	10
17	176	I wondered if Kurii dreamed.	10
17	182	The Kurii would take little note of the sleen.	10
17	201	Near the center of the camp but somewhat to the south and east of the center, behind its poles and crossbars, lashed together, was a different herd of Kurii livestock.	10
17	217	We would soon see if such feared sleen and Kurii more, or Gorean males, their masters.	10
17	227	It was by such a device that the Kurii had recognized their confederates in the men of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
17	233	It seemed strange to me that men, only men, would dare to pit themselves against Kurii.	10
17	267	"Kurii," I heard someone say.	10
17	268	"Kill Kurii," I heard.	10
17	269	"Kill Kurii".	10
17	296	There were the lodges of the Kurii.	10
17	299	"Kill Kurii," I heard.	10
17	305	"Madness!" In the lodges below slept Kurii, who had killed, who had massacred in the night.	10
17	307	Below, unsuspecting, they lay, the enemy, the Kurii.	10
17	320	Below us lay the Kurii.	10
18	1	What Then Occurred in the Camp of the Kurii The Kur dropped back from the blade.	10
18	11	I was pleased to note that the women feared more the men of Torvaldsland than even sleen and Kurii.	10
18	16	Many Kurii, springing from their tents, emerging from the leather and fur shelter tunnels, confused, first saw only the sleek, two-legged cattle streaming past, until perhaps axes fell upon them.	10
18	29	Many Kurii, confused in the beginning, had fallen to the axes of scarved men, putatively their allies.	10
18	33	But Ivar was blocked by Kurii and warriors, and joined in their combat.	10
18	35	I saw two Kurii converging on Gorm.	10
18	38	Gorm, in his madness, was cutting at the bodies of the Kurii fallen now before him, shrieking.	10
18	41	There was the howling of Kurii.	10
18	111	"There is a rallying of Kurii by the verr pens!" cried a man.	10
18	114	Spears fell among the determined Kurii.	10
18	116	Near the verr pens we found chained male slaves, picked up by Kurii on foraging expeditions, and used as porters.	10
18	125	Eagerly the slaves, when their manacles had been struck away, picked up weapons and sought Kurii.	10
18	126	"Do not permit Kurii to escape to the south," said Svein Blue Tooth to Ketil, keeper of his high farm, who had been famed as a wrestler.	10
18	131	No wonder the commander of the Kurii had left his forces here, disappearing.	10
18	138	We heard the howling of Kurii, from almost a pasang away, on the other side of the camp.	10
18	150	About it swept Kurii.	10
18	155	Kurii, overextended, meeting this new resistance, to piercing howls, fell back, to regroup for another charge.	10
18	159	We saw the overlapping shields of the Kurii line, the axes.	10
18	160	There must have been better than two thousand Kurii formed.	10
18	161	Then, to our surprise, from within the Kurii lines we saw two or three hundred slave girls whipped forth.	10
18	164	They were cattle, caught and tethered in the camp, in the confusion, by Kurii.	10
18	170	Behind them, rapidly, the Kurii advanced.	10
18	173	Not ten yards before the clash took place, Svein Blue Tooth and his lieutenants before the running line, as the girls, under the whips of Kurii, fled, terrified, seeing the axes, the leveled weapons, toward them, made a sign no bondmaid of the north mistakes, the belly sign.	10
18	174	Almost as one the girls, crying out, flung themselves to their bellies among the bodies and the charge of the men of Torvaldsland, missing not a step, took its way over them, striking the startled Kurii with an unimpeded impact.	10
18	175	I cut down one of the Kurii with its whip.	10
18	183	The Kurii, some seventeen or eighteen hundred of them, fell back.	10
18	196	The girls, those who could, fled the field, to return to the pen in which the Kurii had originally confined them.	10
18	203	With a great howling, again Kurii ran toward us.	10
18	210	Twice more were there charges, once by Kurii, once by men.	10
18	212	Had it not been for the force of Svein Blue Tooth, the power of his voice, the mightiness of his presence, Kurii might then have taken the initiative.	10
18	214	"Regroup! Spears to the second line!" A hedge of spears, projecting from the lines of men, men with axes between them, waited for Kurii, should they try to press their advantage.	10
18	216	A hundred yards of bloodied grass, of bodies, of men and Kurii, separated two species of warring animal.	10
18	217	Kurii from within the camp, where they could, streamed to join their comrades.	10
18	219	It seemed startling to me that we had stood against Kurii, but we had.	10
18	220	The Kurii showed no signs of emerging from the shield wall.	10
18	223	We could see the two front lines, one kneeling, one standing, of Kurii.	10
18	224	Similar lines, fierce, obdurate, protective, extended about the formation, on all sides, forming the edges of the Kurii war square.	10
18	241	"Go to Kurii fallen.	10
18	253	Many Kurii wear such rings, and necklaces and earrings.	10
18	259	I expected he stood as a commander from one of the steel worlds themselves, sent to unite and command native Kurii.	10
18	261	"Kurii react to blood, reflexively".	10
18	264	Even I could smell blood, mixing with the smoke of fires, where Kurii lodges burned.	10
18	265	But the Kurii square held.	10
18	280	* * * * Kurii lifted their heads, apprehensive.	10
18	292	Dazed, injured Kurii, their formations disrupted, reeled, only to find, among them, screaming men, the launched horde of Svein Blue Tooth.	10
18	294	Screaming men, axes raised, emerged from the dust, running, falling upon the devastated Kurii.	10
18	296	Kurii, howling, fled, knots of men following individuals.	10
18	299	No quarter!" Once again the camp became a melee of small combats, only now the Kurii, where they could, fled.	10
18	305	Where we came on them we killed Kurii.	10
18	336	Many times had his ax in the ferocities of combat drunk of the blood of Kurii.	10
18	363	Wulfstan lifted his head and uttered a long, shrill whistle, of the sort with which Kurii summon herd sleen.	10
18	383	Here and there, mounted on stakes, were the heads of Kurii.	10
18	384	We stepped over broken axes, shattered poles, torn leather, from the lodges of the Kurii.	10
18	399	We picked our way among bodies, mostly those of Kurii, for the surprise, the fury, had been ours.	10
18	405	From the crossbar, hung by their ankles, were the bodies of five Kurii.	10
18	501	Indeed, she did not wear the heavy leather collar, with ring and lock, which Kurii fastened on their female cattle.	10
18	626	We saw, in a long line, shackled, fur matted, Kurii being herded with spear butts through the camp.	10
18	634	Single, or scattered, Kurii might, as before, forage south, but I did not think they would again regroup in vast numbers.	10
18	638	The demonstration would not have been lost, either, on the advanced Kurii of the steel worlds.	10
18	649	What else need one know of a man? "What is to be done with these captive Kurii?" I asked Svein Blue Tooth, indicating the line of imprisoned beasts, some wounded, being driven past us, survivors of the slaughter on the Bridge of Jewels.	10
18	653	The great plan of the Others, of the Kurii of the steel worlds, their most profound and brilliant probe of the defenses of Priest-Kings, had failed.	10
18	654	Native Kurii, bred from ships' survivors over centuries, would not, it seemed, if limited to the primitive weapons permitted men, be capable of conquering Gor, isolating the Priest-Kings in the Sardar, until they could be destroyed, or, alternatively, perhaps be used to lure the Priest-Kings into a ...	10
18	661	I looked at the ragged line of defeated, shackled Kurii.	10
18	663	But already, I suspected, Kurii, fresh, brilliant, calculating, masters in the steel worlds, in their command rooms, their map rooms and strategy rooms, were, even before the ashes in this remote valley in the north had cooled, engaged in the issuance of orders.	10
18	669	I, myself, more familiar with Kurii, with the secret wars of Priest-Kings, suspected that men had not yet heard the last of such beasts.	10
19	34	Women fear Kurii, terribly.	10
20	40	"In the marshes," she said, "I was contacted by Kurii".	10
20	67	"The Kurii, misunderstood," she said, "are a gentle people.	10
20	79	It had been he who had rallied the Kurii in the raid on their camp, in the ensuing battle.	10
20	80	It had been he, doubtless a Kur from the steel worlds themselves, who had commanded the Kurii army, who had been the leader of their forces.	10
20	85	"May I present," inquired Telima, "Rog, emissary of peace from the Kurii".	10
20	102	It is unfortunate that you do not know the ways of Kurii, or the dynasties of our clans.	10
20	103	In my way, to use concepts you may grasp, I am a prince among my people, not only in blood, but by battle, for in such a way only does one become prince among the Kurii.	10
20	106	The Kurii know you, and, though you are a human, an animal, this honor they do to you".	10
20	112	That you should stand first among such beasts as Kurii says much for your worth, the terribleness of your power, your intellect.	10
20	138	Long ago, in the Sardar, Misk, the Priest-King, had told me that Priest-Kings see little difference between Kurii and men, that they regarded them as equivalent species.	10
21	142	The wars of Priest-Kings and Others, the Kurii, were of ancient standing.	10
22	19	He knew well, now, what had been her role, her willing role, in the plan of the Kurii.	10
22	97	I thought of the Kurii.	10
22	277	Even Kurii, on its height, stunned, had stopped to gaze.	10
22	284	Somewhere, above that placid sky with its swift, white clouds, closer now, were Kurii.	10

Book 10. (87 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	780	The major probe of Kurii, the organization of native Kurii by ship Kurii, had taken place recently.	10
1	41	"Kurii, Others," I said, "following the failure of the northern invasion of native Kurii, halted in Torvaldsland, have been quiet, have they not?" "Beware of a silent enemy," said Samos.	10
1	255	The invasion of native Kurii from the north, survivors and descendants of ship Kurii, for generations, had been stopped in Torvaldsland.	10
1	211	He knew more than I of the affairs of Others, the Kurii, and Priest-Kings.	10
1	213	She, stripped, half drugged, the identification anklet of the Kurii locked on her left ankle, had lain on her stomach, with other girls, in the fresh grass of Gor.	10
1	246	"It does not seem so," I admitted, "unless the Kurii, perhaps, feel that just such a move might put the Priest-Kings off guard, that it would be too obvious to be taken as a prelude to full war".	10
1	251	"But I think the Kurii, who are rational creatures, will not risk full war until reasonably assured as to its outcome.	10
1	253	The organization of native Kurii, which would have constituted a splendid intelligence probe, and was doubtless intended primarily as such, yielded them little information".	10
1	356	"Perhaps not all Kurii are rational," he said.	10
1	605	Few of the Kurii can.	10
1	719	"Kurii have delivered to the Sardar an ultimatum".	10
1	725	"For what reason should this world be surrendered to Kurii?" "It seems insane," said Samos.	10
1	726	"Yet Kurii are not insane," said I.	10
1	734	"Misk, a Priest-King," said he, "one high in the Sardar, has asked Kurii for a further specification of details".	10
1	742	"Nothing more has been heard from Kurii?" I asked.	10
1	744	"Doubtless it is a bluff on the part of Kurii," I said.	10
1	749	"Sometimes I think Priest-Kings do not well understand Kurii.	10
1	751	They may not have the passions, the energies, the hatreds to fully comprehend Kurii".	10
1	754	Priest-Kings surely had energies and passions, but, I suspected, they were, on the whole, rather different from those of men, or, indeed, those of Kurii.	10
1	766	"Sometimes," once had said Misk to me in the Nest, "I suspect only men can understand Kurii".	10
1	770	Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that Priest-Kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii.	10
1	772	There was little place in the placid, lucid categories of Priest-Kings for comprehending the bloods and madnesses of either men or Kurii.	10
1	773	They, Kurii and men, understood one another better, I suspected, than the Priest-Kings understood either.	10
1	774	As long as the Kurii remained behind the fifth ring, that determined by the orbit of the planet called on Earth Jupiter, on Gor, Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, the Priest-Kings were little concerned with them.	10
1	777	But now the Kurii worlds, sensing the weakness of the Sardar, following the Nest War, damages that had destroyed their basic power source and had split the very Nest open to the sky, prowled more closely.	10
1	783	Ship Kurii, still, then, did not know the extent to which the power of Priest-Kings remained crippled.	10
1	785	Kurii, cautious, like sharks, did not wish to commit their full attack until assured of its success.	10
1	788	Moreover, I knew there were factions among Kurii.	10
1	795	Was this where the new plan of Kurii, if there was such a new plan, touched this primitive world? "The path of the captured Kur," said Samos, pointing, "would have taken it here".	10
1	898	"There are factions among Kurii," I said.	10
7	40	I thought little of that now, however, for Abdul had been the water carrier in Tor, surely a minor agent of Others, the Kurii, little to be feared, no more than a gnat in the desert.	10
7	211	I gathered that the man did not know the strength of Kurii.	10
7	216	Few on Gor knew of the secret war of Priest-Kings and Others, the Kurii.	10
7	218	It might also, of course, attract the vengeance of Kurii on the community or district involved.	10
7	442	"She serves Kurii now?" I asked.	10
7	642	"Actually you are agents of Priest-Kings, secretly seeming to work for Kurii.	10
7	646	"Obviously it was the intention of Kurii to kill me, for they sent one of their kind to do so.	10
7	663	"It was essential for us, to protect appearances with Kurii, to appear to attempt to delay you, to forestall you in the completion of your inquiry for Priest-Kings".	10
11	416	The Others, the Kurii, had stopped slave runs from Earth to Gor.	10
11	423	Abdul had been the lowly water carrier in Tor, a minor agent, presumably of Others, the Kurii, who had wished to keep me from the Tahari.	10
12	124	The slave raiders of the Kurii, the Others, as nearly as I could determine, selected, among other things, for high intelligence in their victims.	10
13	354	He would be a most formidable minion of Kurii.	10
13	367	"You serve Kurii," I said.	10
13	373	"Not so formidable as Kurii," said he.	10
13	385	I did not know if Priest-Kings, with all their brilliance, and all their great stores of knowledge on their scent-tapes, had a glandular and neurological system with which the motivations and nature of Kurii could be understood.	10
13	386	The true nature of the Kurii might elude them, almost physiologically, like a menacing color they could not see, a terrible sound to which their sensors were almost inert.	10
13	392	"I shall not ask you to serve Kurii," said the man.	10
14	217	"Slave runs to Earth by agents of Kurii," I said, "have been discontinued".	10
14	226	"I am not privy," said he, "to the war conferences of the Kurii".	10
14	227	"What is your charge in the desert, on behalf of Kurii?" I inquired.	10
14	280	"You have given Kurii, and their agents, much trouble," said he.	10
14	290	"You remember, perhaps," said Hamid, looking up, "the delicious slave, Vella, whom the Kurii found of much use, who testified against you in the court at Nine Wells, who, by her false testimony, assisted in having you sent to the pits of Klima?" "I recall the slave," I said.	10
14	449	It pleases Kurii, I thought, that Tarl Cabot will serve at Klima.	10
14	670	On it, still, lingered the perfume of a slave girl, one who, purchased, had been useful to Kurii, who had testified falsely against me at Nine Wells, who had, contemptuously, insolently, cast me a token of her consideration, a bit of silk and scent, to remember her by, when I served at Klima.	10
16	148	I thought of Priest-Kings, and Others, the Kurii, and their wars.	10
19	25	"Are they not mythical, creatures of stories?" "Kurii exist," I said to him.	10
20	32	Many Kurii are vain beasts.	10
21	289	"Surrender Gor," had been the message to the Sardar, from the Kurii ships.	10
21	291	The Priest-Kings, of course, would have been only puzzled; their response would have been curiosity, inquiry; it would never occur to them, rational creatures, what might be the enormity of the plan of Kurii.	10
21	294	I did not think it would be desirable, among Kurii, to be among a party which had fallen from power.	10
21	303	Kurii, I suspected, were as little united as men, for they, too, are jealous, proud, territorial beasts.	10
21	406	Kurii, no more than men, willfully commit themselves to destruction.	10
21	410	I supposed many Kurii had competed for this honor.	10
21	412	Kurii do not believe in immortality.	10
21	449	Among Kurii I was not certain how effective it would be.	10
21	450	Kurii, like men, are visually oriented organisms, but their hearing and their sense of smell is incomparably more acute.	10
21	579	I did not know the rate of revolution of the Kurii's original planet, nor the rate of its rotation.	10
22	8	As I had surmised, there was contact between the ship and the nearest agents of Kurii, the men of Abdul, Ibn Saran, the Salt Ubar.	10
22	10	Presumably there would be routine provisionings or communications with Kurii agents, though not by radio or any similar device which might attract the attention of listening stations in the Sardar.	10
22	12	The schedules would have been designed to carry through and beyond the date set for the planet's destruction, in order not to arouse curiosity or suspicion among the Kurii's human agents.	10
22	66	They were truly agents of Kurii, minions of Ibn Saran, Abdul, the Salt Ubar.	10
24	25	I fingered the ring of the Kurii, which hung about my neck on its leather string.	10
24	95	She, in a dungeon, in a holding somewhere of agents of Kurii, had betrayed Priest-Kings.	10
24	105	Once she had served Priest-Kings; then, later, she had well served others, the Kurii and their agents; I watched her comb her hair; now I suspected she was for most practical purposes useless in the politics of planets; but she had been spared; I watched her movements; I smiled; I, too, would have s...	10
24	289	"It could mean the loss of Earth and Gor, the ultimate victory of Kurii".	10
25	81	The other fought for Kurii.	10
26	223	It was not impossible, through his work with Ibn Saran, that he knew matters of importance pertaining to the wars of Priest-Kings and Kurii.	10
26	291	"Yes! I served Kurii! Yes! And I am glad I did, glad! Yes, glad! Glad! Glad!" Her eyes blazed.	10
26	364	I'm pleased that I served Kurii.	10
26	1194	"I knew another," said Hassan, "quite as strong, who fought for Kurii".	10
26	1200	Somewhere up there, beyond atmospheres, beyond the orbits of Gor, and Earth and Mars, in a boulder-strewn, enigmatic blackness of space, in the silence of the fragments of the asteroid belt, were the steel worlds, the lairs and domiciles of Kurii.	10
26	1203	It was desired, too, by Kurii.	10
26	1204	I did not think that Kurii, again, would be willing to sacrifice this world, to achieve another.	10
26	1215	The Kurii, I suspected, did not want Earth, but Gor.	10
26	1217	What then could be the next step? The uprising of native Kurii had been foiled in Torvaldsland.	10
26	1222	Surely Kurii must, by now, sense the weakness of the Nest.	10
26	1225	It might well seem to Kurii that they must strike soon.	10

Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	349	It is called the Kurii.	10
25	225	"He is a great war general of the Kurii," said Samos.	10
25	227	"He has doubtless come to Gor to take charge of the operations of Kurii upon this world".	10
25	228	I did not understand this talk of Kur and Kurii.	10
26	107	"I charge you," said he, "in the name of the Priest-Kings of Gor, with being an agent of Kurii, and as such subject to the penalties connected therewith".	10
26	366	"You are an agent of Kurii," he said, "and are a valuable as well as beautiful catch".	10

Book 12. (35 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	63	These too, I assumed would be native Kurii, the survivors of stranded ship Kurii, perhaps crashed, brought down or marooned generations ago.	10
31	220	"But there are native Kurii on Gor," I said, "or, at any rate, Kurii who have reproduced themselves on this world".	10
1	16	It began, I suppose, some thousands of years ago when Kurii, in internecine wars, destroyed the viability of a native world.	10
1	39	The Priest-kings, for thousands of years, had defended the system of the yellow star against the depredations of the prowling Kurii.	10
1	40	Fortunes had shifted perhaps dozens of times, but never had the Kurii managed to establish a beachhead on the shores of this beautiful world.	10
1	42	I do not think the Kurii are certain of this, or of the extent of the reduction.	10
1	49	Perhaps even now the ships of Kurii flamed toward Gor, as purposeful and silent as sharks in the waters of space's night.	10
1	58	The Kurii moved now, at last, with dispatch and menace.	10
1	168	She had served the Kurii in the Tahari.	10
1	237	Kurii respect the sleen, and that says much for the sleen, for its courage, its ferocity and its indomitable tenacity.	10
1	283	"So, my dear," I said, "you labor still in the service of Kurii".	10
1	313	"You labor still for Kurii," I said.	10
1	389	"I think he was an agent of Kurii".	10
1	394	"I think we have here, too," I said, holding her, "another agent of Kurii".	10
2	1	The Message of the Scytale; I Converse with Samos "The arrogance of Kurii may yet prove their undoing," said Samos.	10
2	9	"Perhaps to some," I said, "those who are soldiers, but surely not to Kurii in general.	10
2	15	"Kurii were ready once," said I, "or some party of them, to destroy Gor, to clear the path to Earth, a world they would surely favor less.	10
2	23	"I think the Kurii are too clever, too shrewd, too determined," said I, "to be taken at their face value in this matter.	10
2	135	"It is Half-Ear," said Samos, "high Kur, war general of the Kurii".	10
2	138	The Kurii are not men but beasts.	10
2	373	"The Kurii wish us to sail now for the world's end," I said.	10
2	396	"Why," I asked, "should the message be addressed to me?" "The Kurii know you," said he.	10
2	447	"The Kurii stand between us and the stars," said Samos.	10
2	478	"The Kurii must be met!" said Samos.	10
3	107	The Kurii were not active in Torvaldsland.	10
4	564	"It is Half-Ear," had said Samos, "high Kur, war general of the Kurii".	10
4	720	"You work for Kurii," I said.	10
4	730	Kurii do not care for water.	10
4	739	"There are tensions in the Kurii high command," I said.	10
4	769	And why not? Because you were confederates of Kurii.	10
5	24	"He took fee from Kurii agents," said Samos.	10
5	39	Can you not recognize that as a ruse to mislead you northward, while Kurii pursue unimpeded their fierce schemes at the world's end?" "Perhaps," I said.	10
5	42	"Kurii," said Samos, "are without honor".	10
5	69	"The ship may have been destroyed by Tersites, in fee to Kurii," snapped Samos, "precisely to prevent you from reaching the world's end!" "Perhaps," I admitted.	10
5	78	"And Kurii?" I asked.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
53	211	Many of the Kurii, I suspected, were Gorean Kurii, wild, degenerate Kurii, descendants of marooned Kurii or survivors of crashed ships.	10
53	325	These Kurii were, on the whole, wild Kurii, not ship Kurii.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	329	Just as human beings often found it difficult to distinguish among various Kurii, so, too, many Kurii, apparently, often found it difficult to distinguish among various human beings.	10

Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	1	The Stray "Hold!" commanded Cabot, and the two smaller Kurii, lesser Kurii, scavenger Kurii, not even worthy of the ships, stopped.	10
2	176	When the victim is dead, some of its choice parts, the organ meat, usually, is eaten first by some of the Kurii, particularly if others are about, but others of the Kurii, usually when alone, will save it for the last, finishing their meal with the most savory morsels.	10
17	25	In moments, four Kurii were dead, and there was not one other that was not bloodied, and the six remaining Kurii, snarling, and tearing and biting, and sweeping about them with their spears, broke through the opening, and the massed humans, to the forest beyond.	10
18	199	The greatest danger to her, thought Cabot, would presumably be from the surviving members of the decimated hunting party, or from others who knew of it, for she, the bait girl, had not been used by Kurii to entrap humans, but by humans to entrap Kurii.	10
26	71	"If we were between the Kurii and their arsenals," said Cabot, "it would be difficult for the Kurii to reach those weapons".	10
39	55	Most, if not all, of these Kurii, were world Kurii and unfamiliar with the bow, and certainly the great bow, and it was not even clear that many, at first, even understood the method of propulsion used in this attack.	10
53	112	They did tend to hate Kurii, and their easily initiated murderous rages often targeted isolated Kurii, whom they would swarm upon, regardless of their own safety, and destroy as they could.	10
54	17	"The area is dangerous, clearly, for Kurii," said Cabot, "and yet our human foragers and scouts, alone, and those accompanied by Kurii, our brothers, have traversed the same terrain with impunity".	10
57	5	His Corinna was eagerly heeling him, Statius' female hurried forth, to kneel at his feet, rubbing her head against his leg, and other slaves crowded about, kneeling, weeping with joy, and the seven or eight humans and Kurii who had been commanded, to their sorrow, to stay within the camp, to protect...	10
70	52	Where might he find others? Too, whereas many Kurii, large Kurii, might manage, at least with good fortune, to survive the attack of a typical sleen, say, a smaller, wild sleen, the quarry, though large for a human, was not large for a Kur, and Ramar was an unusually large, dangerous animal.	10

Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	80	Both would presumably be aware that the coordinates had been supplied to Kurii on the Steel World, formerly that of "Agamemnon," later that of "Arcesilaus," by Priest-Kings, and that, accordingly, some Kurii, at least, perhaps unauthorized Kurii, despite the supposed confidentiality of the matter, m...	10
4	19	These, I was sure, stood in place of Kurii, some Kurii.	10
12	118	Clearly she had been recruited as an agent of Kurii, even if she had not the least idea what Kurii might be.	10

Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	152	"I have seen high Kurii, whose translators are on golden chains, such as Lucius, Timarchos, and Lysymachos, and several silver-chain Kurii, and a great many iron-chain Kurii, but, as far as I know, I have not seen a Kur named Agamemnon".	10
35	68	Thus, at the end of the first phase one would have a conquered world putatively shared by men and Kurii, men who have served Kurii, and Kurii who have directed and managed men, the men unaware of their manipulation, all this theoretically achieved in compliance with the weapon and technology laws of...	10
27	101	The lighting tended to differ from area to area, depending on whether the area was largely utilized by humans or Kurii, humans desiring more light, and Kurii needing less, or wanting less, at least as compared to the humans.	10
31	73	All three were what we might call "golden-chain Kurii," namely high Kurii, their station witnessed by the golden chains from which depended their translators.	10
31	83	I think little love was lost between the iron-chain Kurii and the golden- or silver-chain Kurii.	10
33	86	The temperature in the Cave is kept equable by the Kurii, largely for the sake of their human allies, as Kurii, given their pelting, can easily sustain temperatures which, to a human, would be not only uncomfortable, but dangerous.	10
35	63	Kurii perhaps think them much like Kurii.	10
35	66	Given the limited numbers of Kurii on Gor at this time, they will begin by forging alliances with dissident elements in given cities, the resentful, envious, and jealous, those of thwarted ambition, and such, for there are always such, to bring them to power in their own cities, and then it will be ...	10
35	69	The next phase, which I have referred to as that of extermination, or virtual extermination, would be that of the now-augmented numbers of Kurii turning on the considerably war-reduced human population of Gor, perhaps in a hundred coordinated nights of massacre, perhaps in a set of campaigns, in whi...	10
39	29	How I wanted to please him, as a naked slave! * * * * We had not anticipated a Kur revolt, the rising of several of the iron-chain Kurii against the silver- and gold-chain Kurii.	10
41	38	The machine, of course, was supported by Kurii loyal to Agamemnon, including Timarchos and Lysymachos, and the ax-bearing Kurii were soon forced to withdraw.	10

Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
58	233	Did Priest-Kings favor Lord Temmu or Lord Yamada? Which, if either, was favored by Kurii? Surely both Kurii, or some Kurii, and Priest-Kings, or some Priest-Kings, had collaborated in the readying of, and the flight of, the iron dragon.	10
21	75	It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the Priest-Kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final battle in a minor war in a far...	10
21	78	If the dice fell in favor of the bestial Kurii, the Priest-Kings would surrender to their intrusion and habitation the surface of their world, and should the dice fall in favor of the Priest-Kings, the Kurii would withdraw to their steel worlds, to live in peace, or seek another star.	10
45	69	In temperament the Kurii tend to be imperialistic, tenacious, ambitious, and fierce, and the Priest-Kings, on the whole, tend to be pacific and nonaggressive, content, on the whole, to defend their world, rather than seek out Kurii in their strongholds and methodologically destroy them.	10
45	95	"With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with Priest-Kings or any others, and surely Priest-Kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggressive species like the Kurii to their world, it seems p...	10
50	139	But where was the great mechanical beast I had hoped to discover, and then disable? There were two Kurii in the room, one facing us, half bent over, as Kurii often stand, on the other side of the threshold, and one back, near the cistern, little more than a large mound of fur, a haunch of meat in on...	10
54	10	And who but Kurii might manage the enormous mechanical beast? Who else might risk bringing such a dreadful thing forth from its lair? Who else might dare to pilot such a thing? And who else would have the skills to do so? Most likely it would be supposed that we had failed to obtain an entrance to t...	10
54	14	And if the Kurii were unresponsive, who would be so rash, at least upon reflection, to reprimand so large, unpredictable, and dangerous a form of life? So, the first time we had opened the door, near the twentieth Ahn on the second night of our stay in the chamber, we had propped up the bodies of th...	10
54	330	No, Kurii, other Kurii, would by far be the more likely conjecture".	10
58	234	It seemed Kurii, or some Kurii, might have favored Lord Temmu, as I had been brought within his compass on a northern beach long ago, in a ship departed from a steel world.	10

Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
60	13	I did not know this at the time, as I found Kurii difficult to distinguish from one another, as perhaps they did humans, but the two Kurii there were the two Kurii who had been colleagues of Surtak, and had assisted in the raid in Brundisium, which had succeeded in capturing Eve, she apparently inte...	10
34	151	"Kurii may war not only upon other forms of life," he said, "but, as you would suppose, given the destruction of their world, on Kurii, as well".	10
60	274	There was then a roar in Kur that coursed through the stands amongst the Kurii therein, that was taken up by the Kurii about, on the ground, those apparently waiting for the sounding of the trumpet, to signal the new hunt.	10
61	317	Had they not now noted, this taking place before their very eyes, rampaging Kurii, unprovoked, attacking unarmed men? Who then, or what then, is friend or foe? Might they be the next to fall to those fangs? Surely Kurii had threatened them at the margins of the field.	10