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Rider

Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	256	Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his ...	10
3	263	It is not unknown for a tarn to attack and devour his own rider.	10
4	27	It tends to become less effective if often used, and the rider is then at the mercy of the tarn.	10
5	158	He surely would have struck home had not my tarn veered wildly to the left, almost colliding with another tarn and its rider, who fired a bolt that sank deep in the saddle pack with a sound like slapping leather.	10
9	92	In a minute the rider appeared in view—a fine, bearded warrior with a golden helmet and a tharlarion lance.	10
18	67	I wondered if Pa-Kur might be curious to know who was the rider of that solitary sable tarn which flashed above his head.	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	64	Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus...	10

Book 4. (40 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	210	There is a priority of honor involved in being first rider, but points scored are the same by either rider, depending on his performance.	10
8	211	The first rider is, commonly, as one might expect, the more experienced, skilled rider.	10
23	90	"It will take the rider, if he gets through, seven Ahn to reach Turia and even if Kamchak rides with his full force the moment the rider comes to the gates of the city, it will be eight Ahn before their vanguard can reach us—and by then it will be too late".	10
2	68	On the saddle there also hung, on one side, a coiled rope of braided boskhide and, on the other, a long, three-weighted bola of the sort used in hunting tumits and men; in the saddle itself, on the right side, indicating the rider must be right-handed, were the seven sheaths for the almost legendary...	10
2	93	The rider had clearly seen me and was moving his mount steadily toward me.	10
2	109	Now the rider had reined in the kaiila.	10
2	112	The second rider had halted there.	10
2	118	The third rider placed himself, reining in suddenly, pulling the mount to its hind legs, and it reared snarling against the bit, and then stood still, its neck straining toward me.	10
2	120	This rider, too, wore a wind scarf.	10
2	121	Beneath it, however, partially concealed by the cloth, was apparently a mask of chain, presumably not unlike that of the first rider, the chain depending from the helmet.	10
2	124	I turned and was not surprised to see the fourth rider, motionless on his animal, already in position.	10
2	126	The fourth rider was dressed in a hood and cape of white fur.	10
2	130	His lance had a rider hook under the point, with which he might dismount opponents.	10
2	132	About the neck of the fourth rider there was a broad belt of jewels, as wide as my hand.	10
2	164	Now the rider in front of me lifted the colored chains from his helmet, that I might see his face.	10
2	181	"Hear my name," cried he, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks!" As suddenly as he had finished, as soon as the men had named themselves, as if a signal had been given, the four kaiila bounded forward, squealing with rage, each rider bent low on his mount, lance gripped in his right hand, straining to be th...	10
3	6	Not a rider was thrown or seemed for an instant off balance.	10
3	67	"That," said the rider, "speaks to me of courage".	10
4	1	The Outcome of Spear Gambling The Tuchuk warrior lifted the lance in triumph, in the same instant slipping his fist into the retention knot and kicking the roweled heels of his boots into the silken flanks of his mount, the animal springing towards me and the rider in the same movement, as if one wi...	10
4	29	But I did not wish to slay the animal, nor its rider.	10
7	28	I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a...	10
7	74	Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n...	10
8	73	The rider who had made the unsatisfactory thrust suddenly whirled the kaiila toward the girl, and she fell to her knees, realizing she should not have revealed her pleasure at his failure, putting her head to the grass.	10
8	75	The rider's kaiila was now rearing over the girl, and he brought the beast to rest.	10
8	180	"Will you wager for her?" pressed the rider.	10
8	209	I was second rider to Kamchak, as Albrecht was to Conrad, he of the Kassars, the Blood People.	10
8	290	A rider beside it, on a kaiila, marked its place.	10
8	292	If one did, of course, the rider would decree her safe.	10
8	299	The object of the rider is to effect her capture, secure her and return her, in as little time as possible, to the circle of the whip.	10
8	316	The judge had begun to count again, starting with one, the second counting, which would determine the rider's time.	10
8	382	"My second rider must ride".	10
8	388	Albrecht was a fine rider and skilled in this sport and, of course, this time, his quarry had been only an untrained barbarian slave, indeed, a girl who had never before run from the bola.	10
15	10	In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour...	10
21	202	Tarnsmen would have little difficulty in finding a rider and mount on the open prairie near Turia.	10
21	314	Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the...	10
21	341	I heard the hiss of crossbow quarrels and one rider and his mount stumbled off the wagon top, falling and rolling to one side, others bounding over him.	10
23	88	Taking council with Harold, we dispatched a rider to Kamchak in Turia, informing him of the situation, and that we had little hope of holding out.	10
23	188	Harold and I sent a rider back to Kamchak with news of the victory.	10
24	214	"The race," I said, "is all in the rider".	10
26	51	"Who is the rider?" I queried.	10

Book 5. (53 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	436	The seventh rider was a nonfaction rider, but a veteran rider, who, upon orders from the Ubar or not, did not intend to wheel his tarn to face me, thus surrendering his opportunity of victory.	10
12	107	I noted that two of the tarns in this race were not of given factions, but were the property of private owners, not associated with the faction corporations; their riders, similarly, were not faction riders; the rider, incidentally, is quite as important as the bird, for an experienced rider often m...	10
13	292	On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...	10
22	154	The large-winged tarn had fallen back now, the lead being taken by the rider of the Blue, a small, shrewd man, a veteran rider but one too precipitate.	10
22	209	The crowd roared, the tarns screamed, and Green Ubar, his rider Mip, flew, eyes blazing, for those final moments marvelous and incandescent in his youth, like a bird and rider come from the dreams of old men, as they knew them once, when they too were young.	10
22	477	He was on a swifter bird than the rider from Tor but he was not the rider that was the other.	10
3	180	"Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion," said the Player, "to Ubar's Physician Eight".	10
3	184	Was this man not a Player? Relentlessly the Vintner forced through again with his Second Spearman, this time capturing the Player's Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
3	210	The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's Scribe, one of the leas...	10
12	3	The tarn, screaming, its wing useless, tumbled uncontrollably from the edge of the large, open, padded ring suspended over the net on the track, plunging into the net, its rider cutting the safety straps and leaping from its back in order that he not be slain beneath the bird struggling in the net.	10
12	7	Their leader was a brown racing tarn, whose rider wore red silk, and whose small saddle and tight control straps were of red leather.	10
12	11	Its rider took the saddle and control straps from the still-quivering bird and dropped with them through the broad strands of the net, to the sand some six feet below.	10
12	34	The rider was wheeling the bird, trying to bring it under control, and returning to the ring.	10
12	44	In a few moments, with a cry of victory, the rider of the Yellow brought his tarn to the first perch, followed closely by the Red and the Green.	10
12	92	The rider rode on the cart beside his bird, dressed in the silk of his faction.	10
12	161	The racing fan of Ar commonly remains to the last race, and sometimes even later, discussing the races and commenting on how he would have flown such and such a race better than the bird's rider.	10
13	272	Its rider, one of the great ones in the tradition of the greens, had been Melipolus of Cos.	10
13	354	"This afternoon," I said, "at the races, I saw a rider cut the safety straps and free himself from a falling bird".	10
16	41	The Yellows carried the first day of the races, led by Menicius of Port Kar, claiming more than six thousand wins, perhaps the most famed rider since the days of Melipolus of Cos, who even in his own time had been a legend, said to have accumulated more than eight thousand wins.	10
16	217	Further, it is common among older factions not to hire riders who have ridden for the new factions, though sometimes, in the case of a particularly excellent rider, this practice is waived.	10
17	153	After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp...	10
21	44	"Menicius of Port Kar, of the Yellows, greatest rider in the races, rides for Cernus".	10
22	15	Near it, being tended for wounds, lay its intended rider, groaning.	10
22	20	"This tarn was slain and the rider direly wounded.	10
22	46	With Callius wounded and tarns at, or near, their perches, the Steels would have no rider.	10
22	119	"No, Fool, not Gladius of Cos!" "Assassins lurk!" "Flee, Rider, flee!" "Flee, Gladius of Cos!" "Be silent," said the man with me, he who had given me the mask, the leader of the crossbowmen, quieting with his command the cries and admonitions of those about us.	10
22	137	A tarn of the Reds, a large-winged bird, goaded almost to madness by a small, bearded rider, wearing a bone talisman about his neck, held the lead.	10
22	159	Second in the race was now the rider who wore the silk of the Silvers.	10
22	164	Mip took advantage of this cutting in closely, following now the rider in blue silk.	10
22	167	I noted that the bird ridden by the rider in blue silk was tiring.	10
22	172	I heard the rider of the Blues curse and those who favored the Steels leaped roaring to their feet.	10
22	200	The tarn of the Blues, and then of the Silvers, and then of the Reds flashed past the reeling tarn and its rider.	10
22	244	"Long ago," said the crossbowman, "there was a rider of racing tarns.	10
22	268	"He was then," I asked, "well known as a rider".	10
22	298	On a large board, against the dividing wall, on which the day's results were tallied, and lists and odds kept of the coming races, I saw them place as the winner of the eighth race Green Ubar, and his rider Melipolus of Cos.	10
22	428	Shortly before the first circuit of the track had been made I swept past the last bird, a nonfaction bird, whose rider, caught unaware, threw a wild glance over his shoulder as I, a shadow upon a flying shadow, hurtled by over his head and to the left.	10
22	430	This warned the rider of the eighth bird, a Gold, and he, bent low in the saddle, looked behind him to see, piercing the rings, eyes blazing, wings snapping, the great black tarn.	10
22	440	Both of us passed a startled rider for Silver, and then another nonfaction bird.	10
22	441	He was now the fifth rider and I the sixth.	10
22	443	I heard a scream of horror from behind us as one rider, pressing another, forced him against the side of the edged ring.	10
22	446	I could have forced my way past the nonfaction rider ahead of me but, with the edged rings, it would be at great risk to both of us, and to our tarns.	10
22	447	He, no more than I, I am sure, cared to kill his bird or slay the opposing rider.	10
22	448	It is one thing to force a bird or rider into the padded bars, and another against the great, swinging knives that were now the rings.	10
22	450	Yet, unfortunately, though the man ahead of me was a veteran rider he had ridden little at the Stadium of Tarns, being from distant Tor.	10
22	473	I heard a curse as I shot past the startled rider, who seemed suddenly confused, looking about.	10
22	476	By the time there were seven tarn heads remaining on the poles I had caught up to the rider for the Blues, who held a poor fourth.	10
22	490	Then, to my horror, I saw that both the rider for the Reds and he for the Greens had wheeled their tarns and stood ready at the left center ring to block my passage.	10
22	492	It did not occur to me at the moment but the fact that one of these men was the rider for Green had made the allegiance of the Ubar clear to all.	10
22	497	The Green, rider cursing, tumbled back out of the fist, bleeding at the side of the throat, out of control, screaming.	10
22	498	The Red rider broke free and returned to the race.	10
22	502	My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa...	10
22	547	I could see the talisman of bone flying behind the neck of the bearded rider on Red.	10
22	548	I had seen the maddened eyes of the rider on Red, his frenzy with the tarn goad; he was clearly, Ubar or no Ubar, intent upon the race.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	579	I saw the sun, for a brief instant, flash from the helmet of its rider.	10
13	841	The other tarn streaked away, and its rider, standing in his stirrups, braced in the saddle, held to it by the broad safety strap, was redrawing his crossbow, a quarrel held in his teeth.	10
13	889	Once more, over my head, there was a flash of steel, and I heard a cry of pain, and then suddenly the other tarn veered sharply away, and I saw its rider, clutching his shoulder, reeling in the saddle.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	92	I moved my Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion to command the file on which the Home Stone of Samos lay richly protected.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	43	There was no mistaking the quadruped on which the rider was mounted.	10

Book 10. (28 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	36	Two kurdahs were seized in the hand of a rider, by their frames, and jerked to the side on the kaiila, spilling their occupants, free girls, in a flurry of skirts, to the gravel.	10
8	40	Some of these kaiila were pulled together, their reins in the hands of a rider.	10
8	41	One of the burdens tied among others on the back of one of the pack kaiila was transferred to another beast, one whose rein was held by the rider.	10
8	46	A rider, wheeling after him, struck him in the back of the neck with the butt of his lance.	10
13	51	"You two have been troublesome," said the rider.	10
13	79	"Kneel, Slaves," said the rider, the leader of the men who had captured us.	10
13	89	"Herd the slaves before their master," said the rider, he the leader of our captors.	10
14	168	A rider, on kaiila, was moving toward us, on the sand about the edge of the wall.	10
14	172	The rider pulled the kaiila up beside me, drawing back on the single rein.	10
14	175	"Greetings, Tarl Cabot," said the rider.	10
14	577	The man stood in the crusts, looking after the rider, stupidly.	10
14	596	The second rider had been skillful.	10
14	599	The first rider cursed.	10
14	611	Clearly the second rider had been the finest.	10
22	42	If I attacked one rider, invisible, the other, alarmed, might simply flee, panic-stricken and terrified.	10
22	87	One often feints with the point, dropping it, or lifting it, or moving it to the one side or the other, dropping or lifting, or horizontally, in war; but in sport accuracy and not deception is paramount; I observed the rider; I saw him smile; I saw the kaiila rear up; I saw the lance fall into posit...	10
22	88	He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w...	10
22	103	The other rider turned his kaiila about, and fled.	10
22	108	I took what I needed, weapons and boots and clothing from the fallen rider.	10
23	91	"Come, Slave," said the rider, he who now held the tether.	10
23	94	The rider moved his kaiila away.	10
23	153	Near him a rider held the Kavar pennon of command.	10
23	163	I heard the drums change their beat; I saw the lines of riders ordering themselves; I saw pennons, the pennons of preparation, lifted; I assumed that when they lowered the pennons of the charge would be lifted on their lances, and then that the lances would drop, and with them the lance of every rid...	10
23	171	Slowly, not hurrying, between the lines, came a single rider, in swirling Kavar white.	10
23	174	Baram, swiftly, with his guard, rode to meet the rider.	10
23	177	I saw the lance with its mighty pennon, that of the rider in white, veiled, dip and circle, and then dip and circle again.	10
23	280	The tethers of the wretches were given to a rider.	10
26	224	Two chains ran to his metal collar, on opposite sides, leading, respectively, to the stirrup of a mounted rider on each side of him.	10

Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	244	Yellow simply advances the Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
4	278	Red would now advance his Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion, to develop his Ubar's Initiate and, simultaneously, expose the yellow Spearman to the Initiate's attack.	10
4	306	He must now, at last, take the advancing yellow Spearman, so deep in his territory, with his Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
4	307	If he did not take with the Rider of the High Tharlarion at this point it, too, would be lost.	10
4	309	Did he not know his Rider of the High Tharlarion was en prise! Was he a child who had never played Kaissa? Did he not know how the pieces moved? No, the explanation was much more simple.	10
4	331	"Spearman takes Rider of the High Tharlarion," said the man next to me, bitterly.	10
4	335	He was four pieces down, three Spearmen and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
4	338	The response of Centius of Cos to the loss of his Rider of the High Tharlarion was to retake with his Ubar's Initiate.	10
4	372	On his seventh move Centius of Cos advanced his Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubara's Builder Three.	10
4	383	Now, on his eighth move, Scormus of Ar angrily advanced his Rider of the High Tharlarion to Builder Three.	10
4	393	The two Home stones, at their respective locations, faced one another, each shielded by its several defending pieces, Scribe and Initiate, one of the central Spearmen, a flanking Spearman, a Builder, a Physician, and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
4	403	Red controlled not one but four adjacent diagonals, unobstructed diagonals, each bearing on the citadel of yellow's Home Stone; the red Ubara threatened the Ubara's Scribe's Spearman at Ubara's Scribe Two; the Initiate threatened the Ubara's Builder at Builder Two, positioned directly before yellow'...	10
4	407	On his tenth move Centius of Cos moved his Rider of the High Tharlarion, which had been at Builder Three, obliquely to Builder Four.	10
4	409	The power of this major piece now, in conjunction with the might of the Ubar, focused on yellow's Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
6	814	"It can carry, if need be, a rider and freighted tarn basket".	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	249	Its rider was mounted in a high, purple saddle, with knives in saddle sheaths.	10

Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	84	If the rider is right handed he usually inserts his right foot in the stirrup and leans to the right in drawing the cable; this procedure is reversed, of course, usually, if the rider is left handed.	10
1	1145	The man must, thus, in the instant, change his aim to the third mounted rider, he who held the lance across his body.	10
6	83	The cavalry crossbow does have an iron stirrup in which the rider, without dismounting, may insert his foot, thus gaining the leverage necessary for drawing the cable back with both hands.	10
6	85	While this procedure permits the rider to reload without dismounting and tends to improve, at some cost to striking power, the bow's rate of fire, it still provides, in my opinion, no adequate compensation for the loss of rapidity of fire.	10
14	1045	"A rider?" I asked.	10
15	34	The rider had appeared very suddenly, over a small rise in front of us, some twenty yards away.	10
15	247	I watched the rider racing away.	10
19	98	"The Yellow-Kaiila Rider," said Grunt, "is Kahintokapa, One-Who-Walks-Before, of the Casmu, or Sand, Band".	10
19	150	The Yellow-Kaiila Rider then said something to Grunt, and then pulled back his beast, retiring again to the background.	10
19	253	"What did the Yellow-Kaiila Rider say to you," I asked, "after he had spoken to the youth, before he had returned to his place?" "That the youth was within his rights," said Grunt, "that he could claim her, under the circumstances, by right of slave capture".	10

Book 18. (58 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
47	177	Its rider's scream alerted the third rider, but, in a moment, the talons had locked upon him, his bird exhausted, struggling in the air, and he was torn upward from the girth rope.	10
47	280	The arrow, fired from not more than fifteen feet away, entered the body of the rider on the right below the left shoulder blade and almost at the same instant Ubar of the Skies, screaming, with those hooklike, terrible talons tore the body of the rider on the left from the girth rope.	10
1	122	A rider, a red savage, was approaching rapidly.	10
2	248	The red savage, particularly the males, will usually be a skilled rider by the age of seven.	10
4	229	The rider guides the animal primarily by his knees.	10
4	233	If the rider, then, is dismounted in the tumult of the hunt, he may, hopefully, by seizing this rope, sometimes a strap, retain control over his mount and, hastily, safely, regain his seat.	10
4	252	Hci then turned his kaiila about, and went, following his fellow rider.	10
6	81	About it, slowly, his kaiila walking, came a single rider.	10
21	7	The rider, clad only in a breechclout, his body bright in purple and yellow paint, thrust towards us with the long tarn lance.	10
21	33	We saw a rider on a kaiila racing towards us.	10
22	3	The rider on the kaiila, bent low, his lance in the attack position, charged, dust scattering back from the pounding paws of the kaiila.	10
24	23	The rider brought the lance over the beast's neck, inside of the shield on his left arm.	10
24	24	In this position, the enemy to the left, the rider affords himself the protection of the shield.	10
24	29	I tried to get to the rider's right.	10
24	31	I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p...	10
24	32	With a trained kaiila, the animal aligning itself in such a way as to optimize the play of the rider's lance, there is little defense against this sort of thing.	10
24	35	The rider spun the kaiila about, to his right, keeping his shield between himself and my arrow.	10
24	38	The rider dropped his point for the kill.	10
24	43	The rider cried out in anger.	10
24	46	I was now only a few feet from the rider.	10
24	47	The rider was bent down, struggling to retain control of the lance.	10
24	49	The rider, not unaware of my presence, jerked the kaiila about, bringing his shield once more between us.	10
24	50	The rider jerked at the lance and it tore against the palms of Cuwignaka's hands, blood at the wood.	10
24	54	Cuwignaka was on his feet, sprinting after the rider.	10
25	2	A rider was approaching, the feathers on his lance streaming behind it, the lance upright.	10
27	40	These were intended to serve the same purposes as the swaying, almost invisible tarn wire sometimes strung in the high cities, wires which can cut the wings from a bird or tear off the head or arm of a rider.	10
27	82	Its rider was held on its back, lifeless, his knees under the girth rope, his body riddled with arrows.	10
27	86	One rider fell from the back of a struck tarn and caught in the netting, hanging head down.	10
27	91	One rider I saw fall from the back of a tarn, some few hundred yards to the west and north of the camp.	10
28	303	I saw another man toward the rear, an archer, discharge an arrow, and leap to the side, to avoid a rider.	10
28	304	He was hit by the next rider, one of those in the succeeding wave, its riders staggered with those of the first.	10
28	306	This is supposed to provide the next rider with a suitable response interval.	10
28	307	If the first rider misses the target the second, thus, has time to adjust for its change of position.	10
28	310	The primary purpose of the staggering of the attack-wave riders is to bring a target which may have escaped from the attack lane of one rider almost immediately into the attack lane of another.	10
28	314	This is a moment within which the target may find itself within the lance range of the next rider.	10
28	318	The archer, struck by the rider, was carried a dozen feet on the lance, before the blade, twisting, with the weight of the kaiila behind it, was dragged loose.	10
36	13	A solitary rider, one of the Kinyanpi, was taking his way northwestward.	10
39	326	"Probably it wishes to be freed of the remains of the rider.	10
39	391	"The rider," he said, "surely only something from the medicine world could have done that to him.	10
39	514	"Something did what it did to the rider, to he of the Kinyanpi," said Cuwignaka.	10
39	530	"Why would a tarn, if it was a tarn, have attacked a rider in flight.	10
39	536	"Perhaps the rider had found the feather and was carrying it, when Wakanglisapa came to reclaim it".	10
39	539	"Perhaps it had been dropped by the rider".	10
42	85	Their point rider would pass within lance range.	10
42	87	Whatever adjustment is made to meet the point rider will presumably provide at least one of the following, flanking riders with an exploitable advantage.	10
42	91	The lead rider was now in the neighborhood of a hundred yards away.	10
42	99	The lead rider, when only a few yards away, had jerked back wildly on the reins of his tarn.	10
44	430	We heard the scream of another kaiila and saw it, and its rider, plunging downward.	10
44	513	A single rider, a Yellow Knife, in breechclout and paint, and with a full bonnet of Herlit feathers, was urging his kaiila up the trail.	10
44	517	The rider, tall on the kaiila, singing medicine, disdaining to lift his shield, rode past, below us.	10
47	23	"There is a Kinyanpi rider," said Cuwignaka, pointing upward.	10
47	132	My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l...	10
47	162	The bird and the rider, in effect, are the projectile.	10
47	181	The fourth rider made good his escape, descending through the clouds, disappearing.	10
47	212	Perhaps they had feared less because the tarn bore reins, a girth rope, a rider, and had approached them from Council Rock.	10
47	281	I seized the reins of the tarn whose rider I had struck with the arrow.	10
47	285	I did not want visible evidence of how the rider had met his end.	10
47	287	The other rider was screaming, locked in talons below me.	10

Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	320	A tarn, with its rider, alighted on the platform.	10
15	378	"You are the only rider this morning bound for Ar.	10
15	416	The rider took the tarn once about the camp, doubtless to satisfy his curiosity.	10

Book 20. (25 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	69	His only defense would be the capture of the Rider of the High Tharlarion with his Ubara, at which point, of course, I would recapture with the Scribe, thus exchanging the Rider of the High Tharlarion for a Ubara, an exchange much to my profit.	10
12	285	If he did advance it in that fashion, promoting it presumably to a Rider of the High Tharlarion, to bring the Home Stone under immediate attack, and prevent me from advancing my own Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, finishing the game, I would take it with my Builder.	10
1	713	I moved my Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubara's Scribe Three.	10
1	824	He moved his Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubara's Builder Three.	10
1	827	My Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion was amply protected.	10
4	30	A rider, mounted on a high tharlarion, flanked by two footmen, had been approaching.	10
12	27	I thrust my Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Eight.	10
12	37	On my second rank, I had a Spearman at Ubar's Builder Two, a Scribe at Ubara Two, and another Rider of the High Tharlarion at Ubara's Scribe Two.	10
12	51	"You could bring your Ubara over to your Ubar's Initiate Five, threatening the Rider of the High Tharlarion," I said.	10
12	52	"But you would then retreat to your Ubar's Initiate Seven, the Rider of the High Tharlarion then protected by your Scribe at Ubara Two," he said.	10
12	64	He could not take it with his Ubara, of course, sweeping down his Ubara's Tarnsman's file, because it was protected now by my other Rider of the High Tharlarion, that hitherto, seemingly innocent, seemingly uninvolved piece which had just happened, apparently, to be posted at Ubara's Scribe Two.	10
12	68	I would now move my Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, threatening capture of Home Stone.	10
12	229	"I have a protected Rider of the High Tharlarion at Ubar's Initiate Eight.	10
12	243	"Further, you are losing it for a mere Spearman, not even a Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
12	244	Further, when I remove it from the board, my Rider of the High Tharlarion is but one move from capture of Home Stone".	10
12	250	"My Rider of the High Tharlarion is but one move from capture of Home Stone," I reminded him.	10
12	265	If I had done so this would have permitted the diagonal move of the Spearman to his Ubar's Initiate Ten, my Ubar's Initiate One, at which point it would doubtless have been promoted to a Rider of the High Tharlarion, thusly effecting capture of Home Stone.	10
12	270	I eyed my Rider of the High Tharlarion at Ubar's Initiate Eight.	10
12	280	A Spearman who attains the rear rank of the enemy has the option of being promoted, if promotion is desired, to either a Tarnsman or a Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
12	282	Indeed, in many adjudication procedures the Tarnsman is valued at eight points and the Rider of the High Tharlarion at only two.	10
12	289	If he did this, however, it would give me the move I needed to effect capture of Home Stone, by advancing my Rider of the High Tharlarion to the coveted Ubar's Initiate Nine.	10
12	294	"Rider of the High Tharlarion," he said, replacing the Spearman now with the appropriate piece.	10
12	299	I swept my Builder to my left, capturing the new Rider of the High Tharlarion at my Ubar's Initiate One.	10
12	302	It seemed he had done nothing more than deliver his new Rider of the High Tharlarion promptly, and for nothing, into my prison pit.	10
16	1167	"Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubara's Builder Three," said the player.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	626	Something of the same joy of the rider, and mystique of the rider, exists on Gor in connection with the tarn as existed on Earth in connection with the horse.	10
8	615	It is little wonder that peoples knowing not the horse fled in terror when they first encountered riders, taking the rider and his mount for one thing, something half animal, half human, an awesome, unbelievably swift, gigantic, armed chimera, something that could not be outrun, that seemed to fly u...	10
8	621	The mystique of the rider lingered unquestioned for centuries.	10
8	624	The very word for "Knight" in German is "Ritter," which, literally, means "Rider".	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	417	It was only when the ground had shaken near me, and I had spun half about, almost buffeted by a saddle tharlarion, and saw the running mercenary caught between the shoulder blades with the point of the lance, thrown then to the dust, rolling and bloody, and saw the tharlarion trampling the body, the...	10
13	350	The fellow on the observation platform, on the barge, watching the approach of the bird and rider, lowered his arms, puzzled.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	230	Myron, or he who was acting on his behalf, then, by means of a dismounting stirrup, not the foot stirrup, the rider's weight lowering it, descended to the ground.	10

Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	691	And I had seen its rider, too, paying me no attention, so careless of the cells.	10
9	288	The rider was not armored.	10
10	303	The rider, now in the distance, moving swiftly, looking back, lifted his arm to the jailer, and the jailer, grinning, raised his whip in salute.	10
19	459	I saw a tarn, now disburdened of its loot, surrendered by its rider into the care of a tarnkeeper, who would conduct it to its cot.	10
24	202	Its rider, now dismounted, drew his sword, and, with one stroke, cut its throat.	10

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	269	"Clumsy oaf!" she screamed after the retreating rider.	10
13	271	"Down with Treve!" cried Nelsa, shaking her fist after the rider in the distance.	10
13	274	Nelsa, of course, did not see it, as she was facing away from it, crying out, shaking her fist at the retreating figure of the other rider, now muchly in the distance.	10
13	344	The rider leaped from the saddle, and pulled the net to the side.	10
17	947	A rider had reined in, turning, a light tharlarion, a delicate, quickly moving, bipedalian, reptilian mount.	10
27	877	And in that sudden, confused moment the startled, angry rider had been dragged from the saddle, struck half senseless, and dragged backward, stumbling, groggy, his body shielding that of Arconious, toward the wagon.	10
27	888	The rider who had come forward a little smiled.	10
27	891	"We wish only to leave in peace," said the rider.	10
27	920	"Of course," said the first rider.	10
27	923	Very slowly the first rider drew an automatic pistol from its holster.	10
27	933	"Step away from the body," said the first rider.	10
27	935	At a sign from the first rider, a fellow in the back suddenly cried out to the sleen, "Now!" Ellen screamed as the two gray bodies scrambled past her.	10
27	952	All regarded the beast, all in awe, save he who was the first rider, he closest to the wagon, whose weapon was still in his grasp.	10
27	963	The first rider smiled.	10
27	966	"You have two crossbows," said the assailant, the first rider.	10
27	971	"I think, then, we have a truce," said the first rider.	10
27	977	The first rider tensed.	10
27	979	"There are five of us," said the first rider, "and two sleen".	10
27	982	"Actually," said the first rider, "there are ten of us".	10
27	984	"So, five," shrugged the first rider.	10
27	986	Something seemed to move behind the eyes of the first rider.	10
27	991	"It seems so," granted the rider.	10
27	995	"It seems our kaissa has come to a locked position," said the rider.	10
27	999	"Ah," said the first rider, as though resigned.	10
27	1008	"Do you think we are fools?" asked the first rider.	10
27	1010	"You do us little honor, tarnster," said the first rider.	10
27	1014	"Your trick is older than the Sardar itself," said the first rider.	10
27	1016	"Desist," snarled the first rider.	10
27	1019	"Aii!" cried the first rider, wheeling in the saddle.	10
27	1112	She has spoken of him hitherto by such expressions as "the first rider," in virtue of his having brought his tharlarion forward, in advance of his fellows.	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	100	Such a net, well cast, I hoped, might entangle an enemy tarn or its rider in the sky, interfering with the bird's flight or the rider's capacity to engage.	10
12	7	"No," said Tajima, "you are a rider, and a warrior".	10
12	230	Its beak was strapped shut, so it could not turn and seize the rider.	10
14	87	The obvious recourse then would seem to be something like the Tuchuk saddle bow, which could easily clear the saddle to left and right, and could even be used, the rider turning in the saddle, to backward flight arrows.	10
16	123	Each rider, as indicated, had two broad quivers at his disposal, in each of which was a hundred arrows.	10
17	70	I saw another net fall gracefully, like a broad, circular, open veil, on a bird starting to climb from the plaza, and the bird fluttered back to the earth, screaming, protesting, rolling in the dust, the rider caught in the safety straps, and then the helmeted head was twisted about, and the body wa...	10
17	109	To one side I heard a long, wailing cry and saw a fellow dropped from some two or three hundred feet to the ground below, the riderless tarn, reverted without its rider, then descending to feed.	10
22	43	"When the rider lost consciousness, it was no longer controlled," I said.	10
25	248	You will see a lantern, a rider.	10
26	85	Both mount and rider, I assure you, are unharmed.	10
26	89	I supposed the downed rider would have the signal lantern, and might make his presence known to searchers.	10
26	90	Too, if the fellow aflight with me spoke the truth, they might both, mount and rider, before morning, return to the cots.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	60	Its rider, now dismounting, was one of the Pani, a man called Tajima, who was of the retinue of Lord Nishida, but serving in the cavalry.	10
8	73	It would be an easy thing to resist the reins, and turn upon a rider.	10
8	75	And then, presumably, one must die, tarn or rider.	10
8	76	And if the rider survive, how will he live, afoot, alone, in the cold, in the long night? But the man Tajima had returned.	10
8	77	I suspected he was an able rider.	10
9	45	I knew little of tarns, the control of such monsters, their dispositions and habits, their ranges of flight, and such, but it seemed improbable, given our conjectured position, so far west of even the farther islands, that one might reach land, say, Torvaldsland, before the tarn might, even with the...	10
9	251	I saw Tarl Cabot, and his confrere, Pertinax, and the fellow, Tajima, a fine rider, fighting, to protect tarns.	10
9	494	I had understood little or nothing of that of which Tajima, the rider, had spoken, that about night, a battle, the waiting at the beach, and such.	10
24	38	So, too, might a kaiila be hooded before being raced through the flames of a burning forest, in which arrested, it and its rider would perish.	10
32	18	A fire bowl was ignited, I think by the rider of the lead tarn, it flown, I suspected, by Tarl Cabot himself, and the bowl, trailing its tiny flag of fire, descended gracefully toward the stone flooring of the trail, before the defensive barricade, and splashed into the combustibles put there on the...	10

Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	154	The dismounted rider then regained his saddle and he, and the others, sped about the wagon, raising dust, following the first rider, and the running tarsk.	10
21	140	Suddenly a new form came bounding down the hillside, scattering rocks, and I put down my head as a bipedalian tharlarion, mounted by a brightly capped, lance-bearing rider, literally leapt over the wagon, and landed on the far side.	10
21	149	The rider lost his saddle, and plunged to the dirt.	10
21	150	The tarsk spun about to charge, again, but the tharlarion, apparently trained, interposed its body between the tarsk and the rider, its head down, jaws gaping.	10
21	151	The beast never reached either the tharlarion or the rider, for its body had been penetrated by three lances, which pinned it in place.	10
21	152	The dismounted rider then hurried about the beast, and leapt on it from behind, seized its long hump mane, and plunged his dagger into its side.	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	88	How small the rider was compared to the bird! I think it fair to call it a bird, but it was no form of life with which I was familiar.	10
52	934	The rider descended the mounting ladder, and looked about himself, warily.	10

Book 33. (23 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	242	The maw of the thing was then aligned with another bird and rider, and another burst of fire was emitted from what seemed the maw of the thing, and another rider and bird seemed to discolor the sky as though burning debris might have been cast suddenly on blue tiles.	10
3	8	Any, however, of those contingents of Lord Yamada likely to be in the mountains, his patrols and kill squads, would know of tarns, from the raid on the first encampment or reports of the raid, and they, marking the descent of a tarn and its rider, would know that an enemy was in their midst.	10
3	24	It seemed clear to me I had given enemies time to attack, or emerge from hiding, intent upon a kill or capture, of a bird or rider, or both.	10
3	47	Without training a tarn may reject an unfamiliar rider, a rejection often registered by means of a slashing beak and tearing talons.	10
5	13	Even the kaiila can sense trepidation, or hesitation, when it is approached, and may shy about, distressing, even resisting, a rider.	10
5	15	It is one thing to train a tarn to accept an unfamiliar rider and another to reduce its predatory instincts, which are often elicited by an appearance of fear, uncertainty, or weakness.	10
14	7	"It is one rider," I said.	10
14	16	The rider was circling, and would shortly be near again.	10
14	19	"Do you know the rider?" "It could be one of several," I said.	10
14	22	"The rider," said Lord Yamada, "may be so equipped, with what you call a glass of the Builders?" "Almost certainly," I said.	10
14	28	As the rider approaches, please stand forward, please, even more so, Tarl Cabot san, there, in the light, and please, if you would, lift your hand, pleasantly acknowledging his presence, and inquiry".	10
14	30	I lifted my hand, waving, to the rider, after which he whirled away.	10
17	31	If both tarns were used, neither would be overburdened, such a weighting taxing the beast and diminishing its speed, the rider's work thusly being brought more expeditiously to its conclusion".	10
21	358	All three tarns would now be free to fly separately, obedient to their rider.	10
25	291	"That," I said, pointing to the sky, and the departing tarn, now scarcely visible, with its rider and prisoner.	10
27	17	If the Pani had access to the lofty kaiila I would not doubt that the glaive would be designed additionally, like the halberd, with its hook, to dismount a rider, putting him at the mercy of the dagger.	10
27	25	In battle, if troops are massed, the kaiila can be penned in, and immobilized, this rendering it susceptible to a common form of attack, being stabbed from beneath in the belly, by a crouching, lunging foe, following which the animal becomes unmanageable, is likely to throw the rider, and may eventu...	10
30	213	If we are not those whom the rider of the demon bird sought, we may be others of interest.	10
34	9	"The rider of a demon bird has visited a hundred villages, alerting them to watch for a tarnsman and Sumomo, the stolen daughter of the shogun".	10
40	37	* * * "Demon rider!" said Lord Akio, rising to his feet, spilling tea.	10
44	234	A burst of flame rushed forth from what seemed the maw of the thing and the bird and rider, in a flash of fire, were incinerated before our eyes, and, blackened and smoking, enridged for a moment with lingering fire, a scattering of remains tumbled to the valley below.	10
44	247	Another bird and rider perished in a blast of fire, and remains descended, smoking, to the ground.	10
61	164	How would the rider, whom I surmised would be either Tajima, Pertinax, or Ichiro, locate me? Whereas the camp was not nearly as large as the vast road camps of the earlier advance of Lord Yamada on the holding of Temmu, it was large enough.	10

Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	73	I had glimpsed the rider, helmeted, seemingly small on his mighty mount.	10
24	6	Certainly a common laborer would not be likely to be able to hire a tarn rider and tarn, and tarn basket, for a journey as far as Brundisium.	10
24	19	Our rider, or driver, he on tarnback, proved discreet.	10
24	27	I do not know where, for the body hood, in the vicinity of Brundisium, that the tarn rider brought his immense, broad-winged beast to earth, but I think it must have been near the coast, probably south of the port, as we had come from Ar, for I heard gulls and smelled Thassa, the sea.	10
63	43	A kaiila, with a post rider, raced by.	10
63	45	Occasionally we saw a tarn in flight, it, too, with its post rider.	10