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Prey

Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	83	Savagely those vast talons struck and closed on my body, forcing the frame for an instant beneath the water, then the tarn was beating the air angrily with his wings, struggling to lift his prey, and suddenly both myself and the heavy frame were pulled free from the water.	10
12	86	I would have a few moments more of life, the same brief reprieve nature grants the mouse carried by the hawk to its nest; then on some barren crag my body would be torn to pieces by the beast whose prey I was.	10
13	24	But tonight a pride of larls was hunting, and the cries of the three beasts were driving cries, herding the prey, usually several animals, toward the region of silence, herding them in the direction from which no cries would come, the direction in which the remainder of the pride waited.	10
13	53	When, twenty feet away, the great, bounding beast, fangs bared, leaped for its prey, it encountered instead only the slender needle of my spear, set like a stake in the ground, braced by the half-naked body of a warrior of Ko-ro-ba.	10
13	92	I feared the disease as I had not feared the larl, but I could not leave him here in the mountains to fall prey to one beast or another.	10

Book 2. (11 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
10	55	For some time the animal, moving backwards, its prey seized in its jaws, scrambled through the tunnel.	10
14	65	Then the great yellow beak, hooked for rending prey, now belted shut, turned curiously, slowly, toward me.	10
14	157	There were cries of rage that drifted up from below as the silver masks of Tharna began to understand that they had been cheated of their prey, that the Amusements had turned out badly.	10
14	184	The cry of "Tabuk!" is used by the tarnsman on long flights when time is precious, and he does not wish to dismount and free the bird to find prey.	10
14	185	When he spots a tabuk in the fields below, or, indeed, any animal in the prey range of the tarn, he may cry "Tabuk!" and this is the signal that the tarn may hunt.	10
14	212	And so for an instant stood the tarn, its head and beak extended, its wings snapping, its prey locked in its grasp, and uttered the terrifying capture scream of the tarn, at once a scream of victory, and of challenge.	10
15	34	From beneath the bird there came a long, shivering moan, a helpless, uncontrolled sound from the golden prey seized in its talons.	10
15	57	Had I not cried "Tabuk!"? Was this thing it had seized not now to be devoured? Was it not prey? I shoved the tarn back and away from the girl, and gathered her in my arms.	10
21	244	She could not go with me into the Sardar, of course, and when I abandoned her, she, alone and unprotected, would soon fall prey to a beast or find herself on yet another slaver's chain.	10
25	125	She might fall prey to beasts, perhaps even to her own tarn, or be captured by a roving tarnsman or a band of slavers.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	81	The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans.	10
2	76	But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ...	10
24	51	Yet I knew that somewhere back there it would still be coming, that it would not yield its vengeance and its prey so easily.	10
24	53	I wondered at the nature of the Beetle's pursuit of his prey.	10
24	58	And yet it seemed strange to me to think of the Beetle as pursuing its prey in these tunnels for hours, perhaps days.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	1	The Pleasure Gardens At the very instant that Saphrar had called out there was a great blast of steam and fumes that seemed to explode from the fluid about me as though the monster in which I found myself had now, its prey satisfactorily entrapped, dared to respire and, at the same time, I felt the...	10
26	262	The animals raged against the chain leashes, maddened as they were drawn farther from Saphrar, their prey.	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	146	Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...	10
19	324	There, slumped in a marble chair, was an indolent figure, yet indolent as is the satisfied beast of prey.	10

Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	66	I recalled Samos, slumped in his marble chair at the Curulean in Ar, seemingly indolent, but indolent as might be the satisfied beast of prey.	10
3	9	These deep center wells, actually holes cut in the island, permit its movement, though slowly when used alone, without exposing any of its inhabitants at its edges, where they might fall easier prey to the missile weapons of foes.	10
3	13	Incidentally, when the island is to be moved under siege conditions, divers leave the island by means of the wells and, in groups of two and three, attempt to cut a path in the direction of escape; such divers, of course, often fall prey to underwater predators and to the spears of enemies, who thru...	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
9	107	One might think that Port Kar, divided as she is, a city in which are raised the thrones of anarchy, would fall easy prey to either the imperialisms or the calculated retaliations of other cities, but it is not true.	10
13	516	My round ships, as much as possible, I engaged in commerce, usually acting on the advice of Luma, the slave girl, my chief accountant; the ram-ships I sent against Cos and Tyros, usually in twos and threes; I myself commonly commanded a fleet of five ram-ships, and spent much time searching the seas...	10
17	206	The sea was now growing high, and the darkness in the north was now half the sky, looming like a beast with wild fur rooting and sniffing for its prey.	10

Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	775	Indeed, it would have been probable that I, naked and bound, alone, defenseless in the forest, would have died of exposure or fallen prey to panthers or sleen.	10
11	1064	But I hoped she would be put in slave rouge, and silk, and bells! Let her know slavery! How I hated the proud Verna! How pleased I was that she, as I, had fallen prey to men! I looked about the cage, flushed, furious.	10
11	1130	Rask of Treve, it was said, like many Gorean warriors, preferred free women, enjoying the delicious agonies of his prey, as he reduced them to the utterness of the surrendered female slave.	10
12	713	The tarnsman would then leap from the saddle and force the bird's talons from its prey, binding the hysterical girl's wrists and fastening her to a saddle ring, then remounting and hunting another.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	371	They might remain behind, naked and bound, tethered, as prey to sleen or panthers, did they wish.	10
14	259	Woman is the natural love prey of man.	10
15	10	She was easy prey.	10
15	50	They seemed natural prey to Goreans.	10
15	153	"You are only prey, and bait," I told her.	10
16	197	The prey did not move.	10
16	213	Startled, it growled with rage, and leaped back, away from the prey.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	233	"They are terrible beasts, using girls as their prey!" She looked about at the bondmaids.	10
14	265	Below, covered with sparks, scarcely visible in the smoke, I saw Kurii looking up, cheated of their prey.	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

Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	73	The feather gills of the salamanders, it seems, allow them to hunt the same areas as the lelts for the same prey, the vibration effects of these organs being similar, without frightening them away, thus disturbing the water and alerting possible prey.	10
16	63	It swims slowly and smoothly, its fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to its own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods.	10
16	76	Following the lelt, not disturbing it, often helps the salamander find prey.	10
16	77	On the other hand, the salamander, by means of its legs and feet, can dislodge prey inaccessible to the lelt.	10
16	79	It takes little prey while swimming freely.	10
16	83	The long, narrow legs also lift the salamander's head and body from the floor, enabling it, with its sensors, to scan a greater area for prey.	10
16	84	The upright posture in men delivers a similar advantage, visually, in increasing scanning range, this being useful not only in the location of prey, but also, of course, in the recognition of dangers while remote, hopefully while yet avoidable.	10
17	50	It swims slowly, conserving its energy, not alerting its prey, commonly flatworms and tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods.	10
24	798	Males who satisfy their nature are vital and joyful, and, statistically, live long; those who deny their nature are miserable and, statistically, shorter lived, their tortured body chemistry falling prey frequently to hideous diseases".	10
25	479	For example, do they regard themselves as the equals of men, or their superiors? Or, have they been taught, forcibly and clearly, that they are not the dominant organism? Have they been put, helpless, beneath the will of a male? Have they learned their delicious vulnerability, that they are the male...	10

Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	236	"Make me your slave," I whispered, "—Masters!" How startled I was that I had called them Masters, and yet, how natural, it seemed, for I was a girl, suitable prey for such as they, a natural quarry and prey for such as they, and they, as I sensed, were the natural masters, by the dark laws of...	10
2	1087	Commonly such a beast scouts prey, surreptitiously, and then, unless suspecting a trap, as with a tethered victim, perhaps a staked-out girl, used as a lure, makes its swift, unexpected strike, its kill charge.	10
8	147	It will attack almost anything, but its preferred prey is tabuk.	10
22	528	The attacking ship had withdrawn, seeking other prey.	10

Book 12. (5 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	651	Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey.	10
6	877	They crept forward, there must be no mistake, no risk of losing the prey.	10
22	139	Its attack instincts are apparently not triggered by that configuration, or perhaps there is no stimulating smell or familiar pressure patterns, such as it would commonly associate with its prey or a vulnerable object, in the water, from the passage of the craft and the stroke of the paddle.	10
26	147	An analogy would be the hunter's pleasure when first he actually catches sight of the prey.	10
27	24	Though sleen were not fastidious, men were surely not their preferred prey.	10

Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	29	Interestingly the movement of the web in the air, as it is stirred by wind, does not activate the spider; similarly if the prey which strikes the web is too small, and thus not worth showing itself for, or too large, and thus beyond its prey range, and perhaps dangerous, it does not reveal itself.	10
6	127	"Do they never prey on ships of Schendi?" I asked.	10
24	182	The tharlarion, when it takes large prey, such as tabuk or tarsk, or men, commonly drags the victim beneath the surface, where it drowns.	10
24	244	They, sensing the static position of their prey, slowed their approach.	10
24	250	This has the effect of minimizing the pressure waves projected before their bodies, an effect that might otherwise alert a wary, but unsuspecting prey.	10
24	260	There would then be a sudden lunge, and the snapping of the great jaws, the fighting for the prey.	10
24	263	At the same time, sensing the sudden movement of the prey, the four tharlarion, lashing the water with their tails, cut toward her.	10
29	31	It is fully capable of taking such prey.	10
32	221	Perhaps it is because in the rain forest food is usually plentiful for them, and, thus, there is little temptation for them to transgress the boundaries of their customary prey categories.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	55	She had fallen prey to the swift Tais.	10

Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	999	Their most common prey is tabuk.	10
9	10	It was of peeled Ka-la-na wood and, from its top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes in Gorean called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it...	10
13	883	The more intelligent woman, more in tune with her nature and needs, and who is inclined to have a rich inner life, has in her fantasies and dreams enacted realities upon herself whose roots lie in the most secret recesses of her subconscious mind, in the dispositional latencies of her most secret he...	10

Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	142	The response disposition of lying down, apparently selected for in some varieties of tabuk, tends to be useful in an environment in which high grass is plentiful and one of the most common predators depends primarily on vision to detect and locate its prey.	10
37	375	The leisurely, high-altitude hunting circles of our prey sometimes manifested a diameter of pasangs.	10
37	380	The distance vision of our prey would be truly remarkable.	10
37	483	It is for such a reason that the larl commonly crouches when stalking prey.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	113	"Let us return to the palace," he said, "before I leave you here in the darkness, a prey to those who, more than I, would see to it that you get what you deserve".	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	1026	"She is our legitimate prey.	10
8	141	Though panthers and larls can be extremely dangerous to men they will usually attack men only if they are disturbed or other prey is not available.	10
20	231	On the other hand, I am not now in the position of the target, or prey, but in that of the trainer".	10

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	218	Others, like the one referred to by the proprietor, encourage the young man to see the female in terms of her most basic and radical meaning, in the terms of her deepest and true nature, that nature which is most biologically fundamental to her, that nature which is that of the inestimable prize, th...	10
27	224	It was like the closed talon of a bird of prey.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	208	I had been woman prey, a hunter's curvaceous quarry.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	391	I recalled that the brigands, after having descended to prey upon them, had been prepared to withdraw, hearing that the wagon carried a Home Stone.	10
3	49	Needless to say, a hunting tarn is extremely dangerous, and although its favorite prey may be tabuk, or wild tarsk, they can attack human beings.	10
19	22	Often the fish fought for their prey, sometimes under the walkway itself.	10
21	1039	This is the result of hundreds of Irish girls, unusually exquisite girl prey, Irish females then as now being well noted for their beauty, brought back to Iceland chained between the oar benches, following the depredations of Norsemen.	10

Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	318	Although such tharlarion can be extremely dangerous man is not their common prey.	10
17	319	Also, used to taking prey in the water, or near the water, they are unlikely to clamber upon rafts, and such.	10
18	249	Men are not, no more than for the tharlarion, the natural prey of such creatures.	10
18	250	Accordingly men, being unfamiliar prey for them, are usually scouted first, bumped, rubbed against, and so on, before the courage, or confidence, is built up for a strike.	10
19	20	It might, on the other hand, I supposed, be managed quite easily by a bait girl, tethered, bound, to a stake like a verr, by rencer hunters to attract dangerous prey, usually tharlarion.	10
19	754	It then, for what reason I am not sure, perhaps because of its memory of fire, perhaps because of the injuries I had caused it, perhaps because of a mere desire to safeguard its prey, smote its great wings, and, blasting sand about, bending nearby rence almost to the water, began to rise into the ai...	10

Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	62	"They prey on credulity, they exploit fear, they purvey superstition," he said.	10
22	94	Lavinia, then, timidly, left the vicinity of the wall, and began to follow in the wake of the palanquin and its putative prey.	10
22	102	Lavinia, released, hurried away, to follow in the wake of the palanquin and its putative prey.	10

Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	252	We are, after all, their natural prey.	10
8	925	How did I know that it was not some wild creature of the mountains, come to the ledges, hunting for prey? There were various reasons for supposing that unlikely, even if it had not been for one item.	10
9	201	Once, a large formation, consisting of perhaps two hundred such creatures, wheeled about in diverse aerial maneuvers, sometimes in abrupt, breath-taking turns, and ascents and descents, sometimes breaking into smaller groups and then reuniting, as though converging on aerial prey, to piercing whistl...	10
37	125	I think, rather, it has to do, at least in part, with the common prey of the sleen in the wild, which is usually the tabuk, a single-horned antelopelike creature.	10
37	188	The leader of the strangers struck wildly down at the first animal, slashing its jaw and the side of its face, turned to orient its jaws to its prey, cutting into it, with his blade, and the force of its charge struck him back and the beast, shoulders hunched, was on him, he on his back, screaming, ...	10
37	196	A blade then found its heart, and in its death throes, not releasing its new prey, it rolled and shook, and half of it fell free to the side.	10
37	707	It was almost as though they were alive, seeking prey.	10
37	968	The latter hypothesis was an interesting one, as water urts sometimes secure prey under the water, saving it for later, rather as certain predatory beasts will bury a kill, or place it in a tree, to be finished later.	10
37	982	He is magnificent prey.	10

Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	721	"As foxes are the natural prey of fox hunters, as deer are the natural prey of deer hunters, so women are the natural prey of slave hunters," said the girl.	10
11	807	They wish to allure, to be attractive prey to men, the predator sex.	10
16	1075	It is not a chronological classification; it is a signal that he regards her as lying within an ideal prey range for his aggressive dispositions.	10
17	1204	To men such as these, the mighty, untamed, unreduced men of Gor, what can women be but prey and quarry? What can we be before such men but intimidated, dominated slaves, but eager, yielding, responsive, supplicatory slaves? Such men are true men, men as nature intended them to be, and before them, a...	10
20	347	The most common prey of the wild tarn is the small single-horned, usually yellow-pelted, gazellelike creature called the tabuk.	10
20	348	On the other hand, it is ready to prey upon, and sample, a variety of game.	10
25	839	She had been told that slavers on Earth occasionally passed by beautiful women, to take as prey women perhaps less beautiful, but more intelligent, more latently passionate, those who, in their view, would make better slaves.	10
27	327	"Like shadows, like serpents, as silent as the leech plant bending toward its prey," said another.	10
27	2752	Needless to say, the common prey of the wild sleen is not the human being, but the human being is not safe from them.	10
27	2753	He lies within their prey range.	10

Book 28. (29 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	94	The purpose of the bait is to cluster the prey, and keep it together, but the frenzy of the jangling must surely now suggest the need for speed in the pursuit, the noise perhaps signaling the escape and scattering of startled prey.	10
1	26	Or fall prey to a prolific, invasive mite, a thousand mutations from an eye or claw, a mite not even visible to his eye.	10
2	148	It is not unusual for Kurii, incidentally, to quarrel over prey, fighting for it, tearing it apart, each withdrawing then with its secured portion, to crouch down and feed, alert, watching the others.	10
2	174	Sometimes the head is bitten free and the spurting neck is covered with the predator's mouth, which is then drenched with the imbibed, flighted blood; another way is shared by certain other forms of predator, such as the larl or forest panther, in which the prey is seized, say, at the shoulder, and ...	10
11	286	"Unusual humans?" "They have been bred to be elusive, dangerous prey animals.	10
12	19	"And they prey on humans?" "Some," said Pyrrhus, "larls, sleen".	10
13	16	They wore skins, which reassured Cabot he was not dealing with simple prey animals but animals which were, in their turn, fully capable of predation.	10
14	43	Too, he might have hoped that after a suitable interval his colleagues' work might prove unnecessary, for Cabot might in the meantime have succumbed to other terrors of the forest, presumably wild beasts of one sort or another, perhaps even to those dangerous prey animals of his own species.	10
15	18	Too, of course, this mode of garmenting the slave tends to make her the likely prey of the raider, and thus diverts attention from the free woman.	10
16	16	Certainly she held the human animals of the forest, prey animals, as worthy of little respect, saving how they might constitute for her a dreadful imperilment.	10
16	72	We need now only the bells, signaling the locus of the prey, perhaps clustered about the bait.	10
16	93	Certainly the intensity of the noise, the jangling of the bells, might suggest rapidity, and urgency, perhaps associated with fleeing prey animals.	10
17	8	This doubtless puzzled the Kurii, for it was uncharacteristic of cunning prey animals to allow themselves to be trapped in such a manner.	10
18	117	When leashed, however, and used as controlled hunting animals, they often drag against their leashes, and harnesses, attempt to hurry the hunters, growl in frustration, and sometimes utter an angry squealing sound, as though protesting the supposed dalliance of the leash masters, the seemingly unnec...	10
18	121	And one need not, one supposes, remark further on the greater strength of the Kur, nor the massiveness of its jaws, the penetrability of its fangs, the capacity of its claws, particularly on the hind feet, to disembowel prey, and so on.	10
18	151	Both were more intent on the trail and its freshness than the fact that the prey was actually in view.	10
18	231	When sleen are used in hunting slaves, if the slave is to be recaptured, and not slain, the hunters usually carry meat with them, to reward the beast once the prey is in custody.	10
19	139	It seems I was mistook as a prey human by noble hunters".	10
33	116	There is more forage closer to shore, for fish, for herbivores, for their prey".	10
33	202	The beasts, of course, were not accustomed to men, or Kurii, both so unlike their usual prey.	10
47	138	It is not unknown amongst larls and sleen, but the sleen usually strikes for the throat and the larl, where practical, particularly after it has bled and exhausted its prey, bites through the back of the neck.	10
49	15	The forest panther sometimes drags its prey into a tree, presumably to keep it safe from smaller predators, or from scavengers.	10
49	16	The larl will often sleep in the vicinity of prey half eaten, thusly guarding it.	10
49	17	Who would challenge a larl? Smaller beasts wait patiently, until it abandons its prey, and stalks away in its disinterested, lordly fashion.	10
49	18	The sleen will commonly drag prey to a concealed location, where it may feed undisturbed, in solitude.	10
49	21	It is in its way a single-minded beast and will follow a trail on which it has begun even through the midst of similar or different, even more desirable, prey animals.	10
63	142	The leader of the cattle humans, blood about his teeth, where he had bitten his prey, was seized in the mighty paws of Lord Grendel, lifted high in the air, and then flung to the earth, this breaking the back and neck of the leader of the cattle humans, who was then, as Lord Grendel had not loosened...	10
64	110	She had then been taken into the forests and released, to be hunted down by, and devoured by, one or another of the sleen which had been released into the world to prey on humans.	10
70	14	A mere word from Cabot dissuaded the mighty animal, once it was within some hundreds of yards of its prey, from rushing forward and attacking it.	10

Book 29. (17 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	200	They will certainly attack humans, and humans are surely within their prey range, but, given a choice, they will usually choose prey to which they are accustomed, wild tarsk, wild verr, tabuk, and such".	10
12	278	The fellow, of course, was not another bird, or a tabuk, or verr, but a different life form, the human, which is not an unknown form of prey for a tarn, but it is certainly not its customary prey.	10
25	146	In this manner the scent of the prey is borne to them, and their own scent is carried backward, away from the prey.	10
25	148	Some predators, interestingly, will favor male prey over female prey, particularly in times of estrus.	10
25	149	The favoring of male prey, it is conjectured, tends statistically, over time, to increase the number of prey animals.	10
5	486	These troops, as planned, had been decimated in the delta of the Vosk, and largely lost, the prey of heat and insects, of salt water and quicksand, of armed rencers, of serpents and tharlarion.	10
7	199	Too, the human is unfamiliar prey to most carnivores, the panther, the sleen, the larl, and such.	10
12	19	The roar of the larl commonly startles and freezes the prey.	10
14	116	I was not sure of the practicality of the net in aerial combat but its use in handicapping opponents and snaring prey was well established on the ground.	10
14	118	Indeed, the Gorean woman is well aware that outside the compass of her Home Stone, outside a certain circuit of civility, beyond comfortable environs in which her loftiness, nobility, and preciousness are unquestioned, she is likely to be viewed not so much as an esteemed fellow citizen and an untou...	10
25	145	The sleen, as most predators, whether panthers, larls, or such, will stalk in such a manner as to approach the prey from downwind, from the direction toward which the wind is blowing.	10
25	147	To such animals scent not only detects prey, but can be informative as to its distance, movements, numbers, and sex.	10
28	236	Vigilance is certainly to be recommended, but, on the whole, the human is not the common prey of sleen.	10
28	479	One could see where the sleen had made its leap, from the deeper indentations in the soil, and the absence of prints between that point and the point where the prey was struck.	10
30	48	Such blades are designed to shear away a galley's oars, thus crippling her, and preparing her for a ramming, usually amidships, which is a blow of considerable force, easily sufficient to rupture and flood the prey vessel, and occasionally sufficient to snap her in two.	10
38	18	The shark, being a hunter, is likely to frequent prey areas, the banks, and the shallower waters.	10
41	46	Its body is snakelike, and it approaches its prey silently, gliding, usually from the rear right or left, and propels itself, when making its strike, by the sudden lashing of its tail.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	93	This is not as surprising as it might seem, as the poison of the ost, as that of many poisonous snakes, is prey-selective, deadly against warm-blooded animals, such as tiny urts, its customary prey, or even larger animals, such as verr and tabuk, but harmless to other snakes, to certain forms of tha...	10
1	112	This was not a typical hunt, I gathered, in which the tunic is worn openly, the sign emblazoned publicly upon the brow, the prey helpless, cornered, as vulnerable as a vulo.	10
2	117	Our common concern, or prey, were small boats, with a crew of four or five, tiny merchantmen, or smugglers, if you like, hoping to run the blockade to the farther islands.	10
2	166	Its most common prey is the delicate, flocking, single-horned tabuk.	10
3	740	Sleen can be terribly dangerous to humans, but the human is not its familiar prey.	10
3	742	On one scent it will often pass by, even ignore, more ample or superior prey.	10
8	87	Its usual prey is parsit fish, or grunt.	10
8	88	In the case of the northern shark it is both prey and predator.	10
11	24	It is difficult for a predator to single out prey.	10
22	176	A moment of panic, an unpredictable loss of nerve, can, in a moment, turn rows of desperate, brave men into disorganized, fugitive, vulnerable prey.	10

Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	35	"Perhaps, on the other hand," she said, "it is by such brands that the hunters mark out their picks, their selections, their prey, for a later, convenient acquisition, a preliminary, provisional mark, scarcely noticeable, which will do, until a more appropriate marking, in the pens".	10
8	1091	When I better learned your language, I was surprised to learn that you tend to regard the women of my world as natural slaves, and thus legitimate and appropriate prey for slavers.	10
8	2084	Perhaps they should concern themselves more with the character of their prey".	10
10	458	I had been told that larls stalking tabuk would sometimes delay their charge until their prey grazed beside a cliff, a wall of stone, a dense thicket.	10
10	459	Indeed, sometimes they would herd, and drive, their prey against such barriers.	10
10	764	That I thought might be even more frightening, for the human would be of one's own kind, selected for according to the radical, dimorphic relationships of master and slave over countless generations, one well aware of, and sensitive to, the psychology, the needs, the fears, the vulnerabilities, the ...	10
17	487	"Even in a serving slave's tunic you would be an attractive little prey animal".	10
17	488	"'Prey animal'?" "Yes," he said.	10
24	108	"Commonly it pounces from behind, and bites through the back of the neck, or, approaching frontally, sinks its teeth in the shoulder, and, with its rear legs, disembowels the prey".	10
27	14	In the banquet hall there were three prominent, visible Kurii, he referred to as "Lucius," who seemed to be first in the Cave, and two who crouched in the background, like beasts of prey, surveying the festivities.	10
46	93	The man whose sexual needs are well satisfied tends to be content, and he who is content is commonly happy, and he who is happy has no need to disrupt his society, hurt others, or prey on his fellows.	10

Book 32. (27 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	520	Round ships are the preferred prey of the "sleen of the sea," but the sleen, when hungry, do not disdain smaller prey.	10
9	189	I did know they were beasts of prey, apparently large beasts of prey I had seen, in the training house, a sleen, a restless, vicious, agile, six-legged, carnivorous, sinuous, snake-like mammal.	10
9	250	The notion here seems to be that a roving tarnsman, a raider, a slaver, a girl hunter, and such, given the choice between a prey of obvious interest, say, a scantily clad slave girl, and one of an unknown quality, say, a free woman in the robes of concealment, given the risks involved, and such, is ...	10
9	254	Too, of course, one may always hope that the prey, when brought to the camp and stripped, may prove a prize.	10
11	109	Happily, most carnivores, if young, if fresh in their skills and strength, if healthy, are unlikely to attack humans, as the human is not their natural prey.	10
11	111	In any event, the human is an unusual quarry for an animal, and is seldom its first choice for prey If it feels threatened, intruded upon, or hunted, of course, it can be extremely dangerous.	10
11	112	The greatest danger to a human is usually an animal which is older, or in poor health, one which is unable to, or finds it difficult to, secure its more natural prey.	10
11	114	Too, once an animal, any animal, has fed on human, it will be likely, thereafter, to include it in its prey range.	10
21	118	A tissue of noises which were far from human, but might rather have been the unintelligible emanations of a beast of prey, of a lari, or sleen, emerged from the throat of the beast who held the tiny box, or that which seemed tiny in its grasp.	10
22	154	"Only a fool comes between a lari and its prey," I said.	10
24	42	"That is not my prey," I said.	10
24	50	"To see terror on the countenance of one's prey is an exquisite pleasure".	10
25	360	Older animals, of course, may be reduced to hunting slower, less-desirable prey Where the sleen ranges, peasants, foresters, and such, commonly remain indoors at night, or, if venturing out, are likely to do so in armed groups.	10
27	48	Prey would be quiescent, withdrawn, unstirring, not venturing out; sign would be little deposited, if at all.	10
29	169	The panther is dangerous, elusive prey; it is territorial and aggressive; and in such a situation it is seldom clear who is the hunter and who the hunted.	10
30	14	If we came upon the prey, I trusted Axel could control the beast.	10
30	28	"Surely you have no interest in this slave, save for the sport of the hunt, no more than in any other, save as prey?" he said.	10
30	56	"The prey is furtive, and light.	10
38	226	"We cannot have him rushing amongst the prey, nor either of you, as well".	10
38	233	"The prey," said Aeson, "seems overconfident.	10
38	292	"Let me go, unleashed," she said, "that I may lead the masters directly to the prey Let me announce the acquisition".	10
39	624	"There is one way to make sure of one's prey," said a man.	10
39	642	"This is a worthless piece of collar meat," he said, "sleen prey, thus a fled kajira.	10
41	348	I made it a point to stand quite close to the sleen master's fellow, he who had accompanied him on his hunt, the hunt in which I had been the prey, which had ended with my capture.	10
43	1290	This has to do with the softness and width of the paws, like broad, velvet cushions from which knives might spring, curved knives, for anchoring prey.	10
48	52	Too, if there were any warrant for my fears, why had I not, in all this time, if it were a predator, been attacked? To bring down, and feed upon, a prey such as I might be, an unarmed kajira in the forest, would pose no difficulty to any likely predator.	10
48	138	"A panther not driven by hunger will often linger in the vicinity of prey, or follow it, at a convenient distance".	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	17	Whereas a human being is not the common prey of a wild tarn, the usual objects of its interests being verr and tabuk, the tarn can be dangerous to humans, particularly if a nest is approached.	10
10	18	The tarn commonly kills in hunting by breaking the back of its prey, but it can seize a verr and bear it aloft, to drop it to its death, after which it feeds, or carry it to its nest, where fledglings fight for the meat, the swiftest and most aggressive surviving, often at the expense of its sibling...	10
20	467	Such a man would no longer look upon such as she as some distant and unobtainable object, a goddess, a denizen of remote stars, something far above and beyond him, but now as something quite real, something which she truly was, a live, breathing female, a lovely prey animal at hand, an animal design...	10
50	130	Had I been so wrong? There seemed no hanger here, or cage, large enough for the enormous, mechanical beast of prey I wished to find, and feared to find.	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	107	In this way an animal might escape a larger, more formidable animal entering its burrow, or, more frequently, utilize the additional opening to withdraw from its lair unnoticed, which may be of advantage in deceiving watchful prey, in surprising an enemy, and so on.	10
20	193	Certainly, backed into the doorway, and kneeling, we would have been easy prey for such a thing.	10
49	260	"They enjoy such sport, taking prey in flight, and then feeding".	10
55	14	It is likely that humans, or their predecessors, after the loss of the forests, were pack hunters, who might pursue and harry a prey for pasangs, until it collapsed, exhausted, and the pack would close in for the kill.	10
61	85	In the arena we put upon the sand only the finest of fighters, in the tarn races only the swiftest of tarns, and so, too, here, we do not stint on the quality of our prey animals.	10
61	284	Some reached the soldiers, and a Kur, threatened by a forest of spears, would turn away, seeking other prey.	10
61	646	And in its rest, now, a new quarrel, like a poised bird of prey, like a cartridge in a rifle, lay in wait.	10
61	905	And I let myself, at this crucial moment, be distracted! I have lost my prey!" Lyris, from her side, put her head down, fearing to meet the eyes of her master.	10
65	199	More than one road had been lined with the impaled bodies of their prey.	10

Book 35. (11 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	169	The same extended, tapering snout which facilitates a smooth knifelike movement in the water militates against a direct seizing of prey.	10
8	815	It seemed harmless at the moment, like a carnivore, now at ease, resting, waiting, content that the chase was now done, eyeing spent prey.	10
10	7	But I suspect they were seldom less hungry than their putative prey.	10
11	26	Those who do not fall prey to the predators of the marshes are picked up by Rencers.	10
11	99	More dangerously it approaches more slowly, but wholly submerged, either rising in the water below the prey or from the side.	10
11	100	In any event, as the urt rushes to make its strike, to seize its prey, the hunter launches his harpoon.	10
25	131	Annoyed with her or not, I did not envy her, the vulnerable prey sought by intent hunters.	10
33	159	If one is unable to free oneself, perhaps by spreading out, getting to one's back, and working one's way to more solid ground, one might drown in rising tides, fall prey to tharlarion, or even, eventually, die of exposure or hunger.	10
33	642	But it could not be so, for such a beast seizes its prey, precipitously, and then drags it under water to drown it, after which it feasts.	10
38	96	What predator does not acquaint himself with the habits and gathering places of prey? Might not keen-eyed, shambling creatures before humans have looked in secret on one another, noted comings and goings, scouted numbers, weapons, and defenses; does the pleasant beast, feigning amity, have more in m...	10
41	201	The men who had followed Addison Steele, including Florian and Miles, fell like beasts of prey on the laden crowd of intruders who fell against one another, stumbling, losing their balance, buffeting and impeding one another.	10

Book 36. (18 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	57	One may wish to return, for new fruit, return when there is a slowly accumulated, renewed wealth, when there is a declined vigilance, when the prey thinks itself safe, when there is a new harvest, freshly reaped, to be gathered in, a new generation of females to be fastened in chains, ripe for deliv...	10
7	127	What are six or seven ships against twenty, twenty naval vessels, manned by trained crews, vessels fierce and swift, like hungry sea sleen, armed with snouts of iron?" "By the Priest-Kings," said Archelaos, enthusiastically, his fist striking the table like a bird of prey, "let us give glad heed to ...	10
22	90	"Leaving the fair," I said, "the corsairs will seek prey at sea.	10
22	96	"Three round ships, together or not, would be easy prey for seven knife ships," I said.	10
26	38	The catapult master conjectures and the prey conjectures.	10
26	42	Some catapult masters have an almost uncanny sense of a prey's next move, but I trusted that the corsairs, being the hired brigands they were, would not be likely to have the services of a seasoned, skillful catapult master at their disposal.	10
26	57	What will seem right or appropriate to the prey, for whatever mysterious, perhaps unconscious, reasons, may be sensed by the predator.	10
26	58	The prey may vary his pattern but might not the variations, too, have their pattern? The marked stone was pressed into my hand.	10
51	51	"The birds of prey spread their wings," said Thurnock.	10
51	87	After the third coil the great head of the beast caught the left side of the stem deck in its fanged jaws, and bit into it, as though to fasten itself in living prey, as though the ship might be alive, and attempt to free itself, splintering planks and railings.	10
51	98	"It takes prey of many dimensions," said Sakim.	10
51	99	"Its largest natural prey is sea tharlarion, of various kinds".	10
51	102	"I think that is a biological reflex to anchor prey," said Sakim.	10
51	104	"It is within its prey rage," said Sakim.	10
51	117	"First would come the movement of oars, particularly of several oars, the disturbance in the water, alerting the hith to the presence of an intruder, then the discovery of a large, dark shape entering his domain, and then, only after the attack, would it be likely to sense possible prey, thrashing i...	10
52	57	"Dear Captain," I said, "I had hoped, mast high, posing as a tempting prey, to draw the corsair fleet away from you.	10
53	183	"Five ships, now joined, like birds of prey, pursue," he said.	10
56	65	"Thus," said Sakim, "the beast shocks and paralyzes prey, commonly fish".	10