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Tabuk

Book 2. (21 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	182	"Tabuk!" The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a small graceful animal, one-horned and yellow, that haunts the Ka-la-na thickets of the planet and occasionally ventures daintily into its meadows in search of berries and salt.	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
6	16	Once I brought the carcass of a tabuk, one of Gor's single-horned, yellow antelopes, which I had felled in a Ka-la-na thicket, to the hut of a peasant and his wife.	10
9	72	I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests.	10
14	167	In several cases tarns have devoured their own masters, and it is not unusual for them, when loosed for feeding, to attack a human being with the same predatory zest they bestow on the yellow antelope, the tabuk, their favorite kill, or the ill-tempered, cumbersome bosk, a shaggy, long-haired wild o...	10
14	181	And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ...	10
14	184	The cry of "Tabuk!" is used by the tarnsman on long flights when time is precious, and he does not wish to dismount and free the bird to find prey.	10
14	187	This was the first time I had called "Tabuk!" but the bird would have been conditioned to the call by the tarn-keepers of Ko-ro-ba years ago, and might still respond.	10
14	190	The great sable tarn, upon hearing the cry of "Tabuk!", to my joy, began to describe its long, soaring hunting circles, almost as if it might have received its training yesterday.	10
14	196	"Tabuk!" I cried.	10
14	197	"Tabuk!" The great predator wheeled in the sky, turning as smoothly as a knife on wire.	10
14	214	It trembled in terror, quivering uncontrollably like that of a graceful, captured tabuk, waiting to be borne to the nest.	10
15	1	A Bargain is Struck The tabuk-cry is the only word to which a tarn is trained to react.	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
15	60	Standing between the Tatrix and the winged carnivore, I cried "Tabuk!" It began to stalk toward the girl, who rose to her knees, her back pressed against the unyielding wall of the cliff, and screamed.	10
15	61	"Tabuk!" I cried again, taking the great beak in my hands and turning it toward the open fields below.	10
15	63	"Tabuk," I said quietly, once more turning it toward the open fields.	10
15	67	Sometimes when the tarn strikes a tabuk, the animal's back is broken.	10
18	31	"The tarn carried her off like a tabuk!" His laughter, which spread to the other slaves in the room, those chained to me, was uproarious, and I understood better than I had understood before the affection with which the Tatrix of Tharna was held in the mines.	10
20	124	"Tabuk!" I said.	10
20	126	"Tabuk!' I repeated.	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	110	When one of the does moved I saw that moving beside her with dainty steps were two young tabuk, the first I had ever seen, for the young of the tabuk seldom venture far from the shaded, leafy bowers of their birth in the tangled Ka-la-na thickets of Gor.	10
17	155	"The same right you have to slaughter the bosk and the tabuk, to feed on the flesh of the tarsk".	10
25	109	In a vast low case, on the floor of which apparently grew real grass, I saw a pair of shaggy, long-horned bosk grazing, and in the same case but in a different corner was a small herd, no more than five adult animals, a proud male and four does, of tabuk, the single-horned, golden Gorean antelope.	10
25	112	When one of the attendant Muls happened to pass near the case the two little tabuk immediately froze, becoming almost invisible, and the mother, her bright golden pelt gleaming, began to prance away from them, while the angry male lowered his head against the Mul and trotted in a threatening manner ...	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	401	Commonly, the tarn responds only to one voice command, that of "Tabuk," which tends, roughly, to mean "Hunt and feed"; further, I would have liked to use the Tuchuk temwood thrusting lance from the saddle of a tarn.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	44	Small straight bows, of course, not the powerful long bow, are, on the other hand, reasonably common on Gor, and these are often used for hunting light game, such as the brush-maned, three-toed Qualae, the yellow-pelted, single-horned tabuk, and runaway slaves.	10
6	115	Then I saw, under the light of the torches, fleet as the tabuk, running, the dark-haired, lithe girl, she who was so marvelously legged in the brief rence tunic.	10
8	14	I was not a rencer and, when possible, when using the bow, I intended to stand; indeed, it is difficult to draw the bow cleanly in any but a standing position; it is not the small, straight bow used in hunting light game, tabuk, slaves, and such.	10
17	187	Overhead the white clouds swept past, like white, leaping tabuk fleeing from the jaws of the black-maned larl.	10

Book 7. (10 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	790	Once I nearly stumbled on a sleen, bending over a slain tabuk, a slender, graceful, single-horned antelopelike creature of the thickets and forests.	10
11	795	As I fled I sometimes startled small animals, and once a herd of tabuk.	10
11	859	Bound, naked, helpless as a tabuk, I was snared.	10
13	165	She had also shown me how, with binding fiber, a log and a stick trigger, to make a snare large enough to catch a tabuk, but we did not actually make such a snare.	10
13	168	Further, it would have been difficult for Ute and I to have placed the log in such a snare, and, besides, without a knife, and wishing to move swiftly, tabuk would have been heavy game for us.	10
13	318	There were small birds about, and I saw a scurrying brush urt, flowers, even a lovely, yellowish tabuk fawn.	10
13	454	To my dismay, terrified, frantic, her eyes wide, hands extended, fleet as a tabuk, Ute was fleeing back down the trail.	10
13	529	Some animals fled past me, away from the din, tabuk and brush urts.	10
13	584	I might have been a golden-pelted tabuk, but I was a girl! The scream of the bird deafened me and its wings broke like thunder about my ears.	10
13	1051	I felt like a golden-pelted tabuk, lying between the paws of the black-maned mountain larl.	10

Book 8. (21 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	546	In such a sea literally, in spite of their beams and chains, they can break in two, snapping like the spines of tabuk in the jaws of frenzied larls.	10
3	73	We passed, too, through goods which had been brought downriver from Laura, and would pass through Lydius, bales of sleen fur, and bundles of panther hides and tabuk pelts.	10
3	435	She is a juicy, fat little tabuk is she not?" "Indeed," granted Rim.	10
6	106	"The tabuk he expects to net," I said, "are not unlikely panthers, she-panthers, following him, intent upon their own hunt".	10
7	320	On a wooden spit, set on sticks, grease dropping into the fire and flaming, was a thigh of tabuk.	10
7	323	The thigh of tabuk was tended by a squatting panther girl, who, from time to time, picked bits of meat from it and thrust them in her mouth.	10
10	268	"Lead us, little tabuk," said Marlenus, "to your stall".	10
11	401	Verna was a lovely tabuk.	10
15	111	That night I hunted and felled a tabuk, which kill I brought back to my camp, that my prisoners and the paga slaves, now the keepers of my prisoners, might feed.	10
15	499	In the forest I was hunting game other than tabuk.	10
15	926	A she-verr, a tarsk sow, a tabuk doe had no more nor less name than she.	10
16	207	Her body pulled back, shuddering like that of a tethered tabuk set out by hunters for larls.	10
16	215	Then the two paga slaves other than Vinca came forward, dragging the carcass of a tabuk.	10
16	218	After much snarling and growling the sleen turned to the side, its snout still stinging, and seized up the tabuk and disappeared in the brush.	10
18	223	I washed with a bit of water from a stream, ate some tabuk strips from my wallet, and went again to the edge of the forest.	10
18	368	I thrust some strips of tabuk meat from my wallet into her mouth.	10
18	381	I thrust some strips of tabuk meat into her mouth.	10
18	393	I fed from the tabuk strips in my wallet, looking out to sea, and then drank from the canteen of the guard.	10
18	413	I took water from the canteen, and ate strips of tabuk meat from my wallet.	10
18	420	When I had satisfied my hunger on the tabuk strips, there was but one left.	10
21	139	"They flee!" Hura and her women, and Mira, too, who had, surreptitiously, the attention of those within the stockade being distracted, been nearing the gate of the stockade, suddenly had broken into flight, like a bevy of tabuk, rushing into the darkness.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	295	"Hurry, lazy girls! There is a feast to be prepared!" The bondmaids, Thyri and Aelgifu among them, fled, like a frightened herd of tabuk, across the short, turflike green grass, to the gate of the palisade, to be put to work.	10
13	43	There was a lovely scene of the hunting of tabuk in a forest.	10

Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	42	The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...	10
7	71	The flesh of a desert tabuk which dies in the desert, perhaps separated from its herd, and unable to find water, if undisturbed by the salivary juices of predators, remains edible for several days.	10
19	141	The sky was black with sand; brush, like startled, bounding tabuk, leaped, driven, over my head; the wind howled.	10
21	46	There was a half-eaten tabuk by the water hole.	10
21	229	It was water from the last large water hole we had visited, where the half-eaten tabuk had been found, held for days in the beast's storage stomach.	10

Book 11. (69 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	38	Tabuk's Ford receives its name from the fact that field tabuk were once accustomed, in their annual migrations, to ford the Verl tributary of the Vosk in its vicinity.	10
6	41	The field tabuk now make their crossing some twenty pasangs northwest of Tabuk's Ford, but the village, founded in the area of the original crossing keeps the first name of the locale.	10
2	1088	The beast had been on another scent, probably that of tabuk, a small, single-horned antelopelike creature, its common game, and, on its trail, we had constituted only a distraction.	10
3	698	It was roast tabuk.	10
4	979	In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein...	10
6	1	Tabuk's Ford My master extended his cup to me, and I, kneeling, filled it with Sul paga.	10
6	8	The still, with its tanks and pipes, lay within the village, that of Tabuk's Ford, in which Thurnus, our host, was caste leader.	10
6	35	He was caste leader in Tabuk's Ford.	10
6	36	Tabuk's Ford was a large village, containing some forty families; it was ringed with a palisade, and stood like a hub in the midst of its fields, long, narrow, widening strips, which radiated from it like the spokes in a wheel.	10
6	42	Tabuk's Ford is a rich village, but it is best known not for its agricultural bounty, a function of its dark, fertile fields in the southern basin of the Verl, but for its sleen breeding.	10
6	43	Thurnus, of the Peasants, of Tabuk's Ford, was one of the best known of the sleen breeders of Gor.	10
6	122	The village of Tabuk's Ford lay some four hundred pasangs from Ar, generally to the north and west.	10
6	156	To one side, against the wall of the hut, there rested, on a small table, a piece of plain, irregularly shaped rock, which Thurnus, years earlier, when first he had founded the farm, later to be the community, of Tabuk's Ford, had taken from his own fields.	10
6	165	Then, following tabuk, in the basin of the Verl, he had come to a place which had pleased him.	10
6	193	Angrily, Melina, who was the free companion of Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, rose to her feet and left the hut.	10
7	3	Slave Beads stumbled to the long line scratched in the dirt in the village of Tabuk's Ford.	10
7	293	The girls of Clitus Vitellius, I among them, stood at the line scratched in the dirt within the peasant village of Tabuk's Ford, some four hundred pasangs to the north and west of Ar, some twenty pasangs or so, west, from the Vosk road.	10
7	426	Thurnus had purchased her in Ar and brought her on a rope behind his wagon to Tabuk's Ford.	10
7	932	Several, apparently, had flushed her out and, together, run her down like a startled, confused tabuk hind.	10
7	1423	"I, and the men, and other girls," he said, "will leave Tabuk's Ford in the morning.	10
8	48	Thurnus, of Tabuk's Ford, was now my master.	10
8	147	It will attack almost anything, but its preferred prey is tabuk.	10
8	189	The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu...	10
8	338	"She does not want to be left in Tabuk's Ford," said one of the men.	10
8	348	"You are a slave girl in the village of Tabuk's Ford," he said.	10
9	90	Or, perhaps it was merely that the last wrist-ring had then been open, I being left in Tabuk's Ford, and thus there was no reason for her any longer to be excluded from the coffle.	10
9	112	"I, and the men, and other girls," he had said, "will leave Tabuk's Ford in the morning.	10
9	522	I was in a cage at Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	535	"I am going to be first in Tabuk's Ford," whispered Bran Loort.	10
9	541	I had been twenty days slave at Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	554	On the road from Tabuk's Ford I could see the cart of Tup Ladletender, the itinerant peddler, he between its handles, bent over, drawing it.	10
9	631	"You do not have much longer to give orders in Tabuk's Ford, Thurnus," she said.	10
9	816	This might easily suggest, again perhaps only on a subconscious level, that I might be removed from the post, have my hands tied behind my back, and be led away, like a tethered tabuk doe, to the master's pleasure.	10
9	994	"My master is Thurnus," I said, "caste leader in Tabuk's Ford, of the caste of peasants, one who makes fields fruitful and is, too, a trainer of sleen".	10
9	1187	Tup Ladletender's cart had now disappeared down the road leading from Tabuk's Ford, he between its handles, bent over, drawing it.	10
9	1222	"I am going to be first in Tabuk's Ford," whispered Bran Loort.	10
9	1253	I would have been willing to be anything he had wanted at the post, anything to interest him, anything to escape Tabuk's Ford, but he and Melina, in their cleverness, had manipulated me in such a way that I was unable to be anything but what I was, an Earth-girl slave whose passions put her helpless...	10
9	1258	I would have done anything to escape Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	1464	"I am going to be first in Tabuk's Ford," had Bran Loort once said to me.	10
9	1489	Much and well had the young men of Tabuk's Ford pleasured themselves with the girl from Earth, the former Judy Thornton, now the helpless Gorean slave girl, Dina.	10
9	1535	"Do you threaten me, Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford?" asked Bran Loort.	10
9	1581	"Are you caste leader in Tabuk's Ford?" asked Thurnus.	10
9	1594	"In Tabuk's Ford," said Bran Loort, angrily.	10
9	1595	"Have you conveyed this intelligence to Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford?" inquired Thurnus.	10
9	1597	"I am first in Tabuk's Ford".	10
9	1598	"I speak for Thurnus, caste leader in the village of Tabuk's Ford," said Thurnus.	10
9	1601	"In the name of Thurnus, he of the peasants, caste leader of the village of Tabuk's Ford," said Thurnus, "I speak.	10
9	1655	The rape-rack at Tabuk's Ford is a specially prepared horizontal stock, cut away in a V-shape at the lower end.	10
9	1768	Bran Loort was not unskilled, and he was young and strong, but no match was he for the grim and mighty Thurnus, caste leader of Tabuk's Ford, my master.	10
9	1770	At last, bloodied and beaten, Bran Loort lay helpless at the feet of Thurnus, caste leader of the village of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	1808	He left the village of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	1812	"Tabuk's Ford," they said, sullenly.	10
9	1813	"And who is caste leader in Tabuk's Ford?" asked Thurnus, sweating, grinning.	10
9	1963	"Let there be a feast!" called Thurnus, caste leader of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	1979	Therein she was fastened, the beams locking her ankles and neck, and wrists, in place, and, as her left thigh was held by strong men, branded by the hand of Thurnus, caste leader of the village of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	2005	"I drink to the hospitality of Tabuk's Ford".	10
9	2008	"And, too, this night," said Ladletender, "I drink to one with whom I do not share caste but that which is stronger than caste, the blood of brotherhood, Thurnus, he of Tabuk's Ford".	10
9	2038	"I see," said he, caste leader of Tabuk's Ford.	10
9	2266	"Yes, Master!" "So," said he, scornfully, "she who was the proud free woman, Melina, of Tabuk's Ford, is now a needful slave".	10
9	2432	I pulled Tup Ladletender's cart through the gate and out onto the dusty road leading from Tabuk's Ford.	10
11	387	"Before that?" "Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, of the Peasants," I said.	10
14	73	Bran Loort, who had once been of Tabuk's Ford, carrying a low table, entered the tavern.	10
14	92	He had left the village of Tabuk's Ford.	10
18	104	I had been made aware of this sort of thing in Tabuk's Ford.	10
19	51	It seemed I had knelt here before, or somewhere like this, in a dream which had once tormented me in Tabuk's Ford.	10
25	216	Since that time I had been the slave of Clitus Vitellius, of Thurnus of Tabuk's Ford, of the Keep of Stones of Turmus, and of the Belled Collar.	10
27	89	I remembered the young, blond giant, Mirus, how he had put her on the coffle in Tabuk's Ford.	10
27	144	I recalled the dishonor and agony in which Bran Loort had been banished from Tabuk's Ford.	10
27	145	Rather than permit himself to be seen in tavern work by Thurnus, Caste Leader of Tabuk's Ford, I thought he might choose death.	10

Book 12. (99 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	102	In the summer there was a gathering for the great tabuk hunt, when the herd of Tancred crossed Ax Glacier and came to the tundra, but, even in the summer, later, the smaller groups, still pursuing tabuk, would scatter in their hunts, following the casual dispersal of the tabuk in their extended graz...	10
1	203	I had thought it was trained to hunt tabuk with archers, but it clearly was not tabuk it hunted now.	10
1	443	"I had thought it a sleen trained to hunt tabuk, in the company of archers, little more than an animal trained to turn and drive tabuk, and retrieve them".	10
2	584	"It is a herd of northern tabuk," said Samos, "a gigantic herd, one of several.	10
2	599	They depend on the tabuk in the summer for food".	10
2	605	The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen.	10
4	50	Then he reached into a fur sack at his feet and, gently, took forth a representation of the northern tabuk, carved in blue stone.	10
4	53	He put the tiny tabuk on the boards at his feet, and then again lifted his arms to the mountains.	10
4	55	"I give you this tabuk," he said.	10
4	62	I looked at the tiny tabuk left behind on the boards.	10
6	22	Usually one spots game from the saddle and calls "Tabuk," which is the tarn's hunting signal.	10
6	797	I stood near the tarn, which had returned in the night, its beak smeared with blood and the hairs from the small yellow tabuk, of the sort which frequent Ka-la-na thickets.	10
7	95	It was hide of the northern tabuk.	10
7	130	"Is it common," I asked, "for the hides to be so plentiful in Lydius in the spring?" Normally hide hunters prefer the fall tabuk, for the coats are heavier.	10
7	144	It was one of the largest migratory herds of tabuk on the planet.	10
9	6	Beyond the wall there milled thousands of tabuk, for it had been built across the path of their northward migration.	10
9	25	A flock, like flies, can strip the meat from a tabuk in minutes.	10
9	114	I looked out over the milling tabuk.	10
9	115	They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift, many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted, antelopelike quadruped of the south.	10
9	116	On the other hand, they, too, were distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk.	10
9	190	"Free our tabuk!" he said.	10
9	329	"The red hunters depend on the tabuk," I told her.	10
9	349	"Why are you holding the tabuk?" I asked.	10
9	356	I was confident that I saw the point of stopping the tabuk.	10
10	99	He who dares to pursue the twisting, sinuous dangerous sea sleen in the arctic waters, fended from the teeth and sea by only a narrow vessel of tabuk skin and his simple weapons and skill, does not care to be confused with a tradesman.	10
10	145	We were served gruel, mixed with thick chunks of boiled tabuk, by the blonde, she who had once been Barbara Benson, now Thimble, and the dark-haired girl, who had once been the rich girl, Audrey Brewster, now the slave girl, Thistle.	10
10	210	In cold weather they, like the men, wear one or more hooded parkas of tabuk hide.	10
10	211	Tabuk hide is the warmest pelt in the arctic.	10
10	212	Each of the hairs of the northern tabuk, interestingly, is hollow.	10
10	254	This weakness was to the left of the platform, looking out toward the tabuk.	10
10	255	The center of the wall had been built across the main run of the tabuk migration.	10
10	265	On the other side of the wall there were thousands of tabuk.	10
10	331	As soon as one log was tortured out of the earth and lifted away Imnak slipped through the opening, out among the tabuk.	10
10	344	Suddenly a tabuk, better than eleven hands at the shoulder, thrust through the opening, buffeting men aside.	10
10	363	Two more tabuk bounded through the rupture in the wall.	10
10	366	Some four more tabuk, as though sensing freedom, trotted past.	10
10	371	Two more tabuk bounded through.	10
10	373	Four more tabuk trotted past.	10
10	374	There would not be enough tabuk! The guards now crept more close, blades ready.	10
10	377	Forty or more tabuk suddenly, with startling rapidity, a tawny blur, trotted past me.	10
10	384	Floodlike, like a tawny, thundering avalanche, blurred, snorting, tossing their heads and horns, the tabuk sped past me.	10
10	386	He watched the tabuk streaming past him and then he bounded from the hillock, and, racing, made his way to the head of the herd.	10
10	387	More tabuk now, a river better than sixty feet wide, thundered past me.	10
10	391	In minutes the river of tabuk was more than two hundred yards wide.	10
11	17	At the end of the wall Imnak wept, seeing the strewn fields of slaughtered tabuk.	10
11	18	The fur and hide of the tabuk provides the red hunters not only with clothing, but it can also be used for blankets, sleeping bags and other articles.	10
11	154	Any who leave before the work is done, trailed and recaptured, are to be staked out among the fallen tabuk".	10
11	171	In many places, too, the wall had been weakened by the buffeting tabuk over the past weeks.	10
11	426	I saw a group of five tabuk, stragglers, cross the line that had been the wall.	10
11	506	I recalled how she had responded when, before I had won my freedom, I had informed her that the red hunters might starve, if the tabuk were not permitted to continue their northward migration.	10
12	9	The bone Imnak had dropped was carved in the shape of a small tabuk.	10
12	10	Each of the bones is carved to resemble an animal, such as an arctic gant, a northern bosk, a lart, a tabuk or sleen, and so on.	10
12	35	The tiny tabuk which Imnak had dropped remained standing upright.	10
12	56	I dropped the tiny carved tabuk I held.	10
12	58	Imnak picked up his tiny carved tabuk and held it over the fur mat.	10
12	88	I dropped the tiny carved tabuk which was mine, that which was my piece in the game.	10
12	124	"It was you," said he, "who freed the tabuk".	10
12	139	In good years, when the weather is favorable, there tends to be enough sleen and tabuk, with careful hunting, to meet their needs.	10
12	326	I smelled roast tabuk.	10
12	341	Whatever the explanation the tabuk, generally, will postpone breaking the "wall" as long as possible.	10
13	1	Imnak Broaches to me a Topic of Some Importance; We Encounter Poalu One of the problems in approaching tabuk on the tundra is the lack of cover.	10
13	5	Some eleven tabuk were grazing on the mosses some one hundred yards from us.	10
13	6	The horn bow, unfortunately, formed of pieces of split tabuk horn, bound with sinew, is not effective beyond some thirty yards.	10
13	18	A running tabuk can leave a trail of such steam drifting behind it.	10
13	20	I cursed inwardly, as the tabuk trotted a few yards farther away, grazing.	10
13	32	We were trying to move close to a large bull tabuk.	10
13	37	When the bull tabuk would turn, lifting its head, ears high, we would stop, remaining immobile.	10
13	113	"I will have Poalu!" The tabuk trotted away.	10
13	114	"The tabuk have gone," I said.	10
13	117	"The tabuk have gone," I said.	10
13	120	"The tabuk have gone," I added.	10
13	122	"The tabuk have gone," I said.	10
13	176	The tabuk are gone and I am soaked and freezing.	10
13	188	"At least we have the tabuk slices from the kills we made earlier," I said, glumly.	10
13	189	"Kadluk likes tabuk," said Imnak.	10
14	132	We in Imnak's tent could use that Bazi tea, those furs and the tabuk steaks.	10
14	214	"Too," I pointed out, "I was of aid in freeing the tabuk at the wall".	10
14	287	He pulled her from the tent, stumbling, to the pole behind the tent, that from which tabuk meat was sometimes hung to dry.	10
15	8	Imnak and I had brought down four tabuk.	10
15	103	When Imnak won he might have the use of Arlene, if he chose, or a tabuk steak.	10
16	1	Imnak Carves Imnak sat in the corner of the tent, aimlessly whittling at a piece of tabuk horn.	10
17	103	"But the tabuk are not yet fat," he said, "and their coats are not yet thick and glossy".	10
17	107	This is the time to hunt tabuk".	10
17	111	"The tabuk are not yet fat".	10
17	122	"Let us hope the tabuk grow fat slowly," he said.	10
17	126	"But the tabuk are not yet fat," I said.	10
18	10	The skins which were sewn over its frame, interestingly, were those of tabuk and not sea sleen.	10
20	30	Its frame is generally of wood and its cover, of hide, usually tabuk hide, is fixed on the frame by sinew.	10
20	48	Sometimes they sing of feasting clothes, and lovers, and their skill in quartering tabuk.	10
20	52	The next song dealt with a rascal who, supposedly hunting for tabuk, lay down and rubbed his boots on a rock, later returning to his companions with a report of luckless hunting, indicating his worn boots as evidence of his lengthy trekking.	10
20	96	Hides, too, were tied on the inside, from tabuk tents, affording additional protection from the cold.	10
20	173	Too, the families, coming north, had dragged and carried what dried tabuk meat they could with them.	10
22	7	A light rawhide line, of twisted tabuk sinew, ran to the head.	10
25	6	Karjuk stepped off the runners of his sled and called to his snow sleen, dragging back on the tabuk-horn uprights at the rear of the sled, by means of which he guided the snow vessel.	10
25	79	I then tied the two loose ends of the tethers about the base of the tabuk-horn upright at the rear, right-hand side of the sled.	10
26	18	I sensed Imnak turning about, and then again he was at the tabuk-horn uprights at the sled, glimpsed momentarily in a break in the clouds.	10
27	49	He then tied the baleen, tensed as it was, together with some stout tabuk sinew.	10
32	61	"You wanted to close the tabuk off in their northward migration to drive the red hunters south and away from the area?" I asked.	10
33	73	"I want you to know that I, and all the People," he said, "will be forever grateful to you for having freed the tabuk".	10

Book 13. (3 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	941	She was as nameless as a tabuk doe or a she-verr.	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
32	216	More than six varieties of anteater are also found here, and more than twenty kinds of small, fleet, single-horned tabuk.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	492	They are regarded as game, much as tabuk or wild verr might count as game, only in this instance as "slave game," and the men of one city, particularly those of the caste of warriors, often delight in the pleasure of "woman hunt," trying, as it is said, their "chain luck".	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	999	Their most common prey is tabuk.	10
14	1342	This was the moon following the next moon, which is known variously as Takiyuhawi, the moon in which the tabuk rut, or Canpasapawi, the moon when the chokecherries are ripe.	10

Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	136	Once a tabuk, a prairie tabuk, tawny in the Barrens, single-horned, gazellelike, had grazed nearby.	10
1	14	The current moon was Takiyuhawi, the moon in which the tabuk rut.	10
1	502	This was only Takiyuhawi, the moon in which the tabuk rut, or, as some call it, Canpasapawi, the moon in which the chokecherries are ripe.	10
3	10	Her long shirtdress of soft-tanned tabuk hide was almost white.	10
11	5	"He is permitting her a dress of soft tabuk skin," said Cuwignaka, "creamy white and soft-tanned, though, to be sure, of slave length.	10
37	138	In a sense this had pleased me, suggesting that our quarry might be in the vicinity; in a sense it had displeased me, suggesting that abundant, alternative game might also be in the vicinity, the tabuk tending to travel in herds.	10
37	139	Some varieties of prairie tabuk, interestingly, when sensing danger, tend to lie down.	10
37	140	This is counterinstinctual for most varieties of tabuk, which, when sensing danger, tend to freeze, in a tense, standing position and then, if alarmed further, tend to scurry away, depending on their agility and speed to escape predators.	10
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	144	Any tabuk, of course, if it is sufficiently alarmed, will bound away.	10
37	486	I wondered how long it would take, say, a startled tabuk or ground animal, of a burrowing sort, to regain its composure, to return to its normal activities.	10
37	500	I supposed that a tabuk, by now, might have returned to grazing.	10
54	201	Across the back of the kaiila, before the lad, lay a tabuk.	10
54	216	The tabuk was then slid from the back of the kaiila into the girls' arms.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	423	We give the sleen something which, supposedly, bears the scent of the Tatrix, and then the sleen follows that scent, no differently than it might the scent of a wild tarsk or a yellow-pelted tabuk.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	119	Sleen, of course, prefer tabuk, or wild verr.	10

Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	32	In moving slowly one tends to convey, on a very basic level, that one is not intending harm; to be sure, even predators like the larl occasionally abuse this form of signaling, for example, in hunting tabuk, using it for purposes of deception; more rapid movement, of course, tends to precipitate def...	10
25	740	I set out in my hunting leather with crossbow, upon a pacing tharlarion, after tabuk".	10
25	744	"I was after tabuk," she said, "but others, too, were abroad that day, who sought a slower, softer game".	10
25	749	"I spotted a tabuk, and set off in hot pursuit, across the fields," she said.	10
25	752	The tabuk harried to exhaustion, helpless, lying gasping on the grass, I rode to it, my crossbow ready.	10
25	759	'The tabuk is mine!' 'No,' he said, 'it is you who are ours.	10
25	768	I saw the exhausted tabuk recover and rise unsteadily to its feet, and trot away.	10
25	771	I was in the place in which I would have brought home the tabuk, save I would have had him on his belly, so bound.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	732	"In the wild it commonly hunts tabuk and wild tarsk," he said, "but it is an intelligent beast, and it can be trained to hunt anything".	10
29	372	"It is probably on the trace of tabuk, from last night," said the small man.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
8	730	Its force, even arrested at the last moment, can break the back of a full-grown tabuk.	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1142	Too, there seemed some small boats in the water, torches fixed in their bows, much as are used for hunting tabuk and tarsk at night, from behind blinds.	10
45	120	Shall the verr decide the diet of the larl, the tabuk that of that tarn? But there are laws here, too; nature denied is not nature overcome, but nature twisted; nature repudiated is not nature conquered but nature poisoned, and poisons have their nature, as well; in the end she will have her vengean...	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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

Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	187	Caravans in forests often keep verr or tabuk with them, tethering them in the camp at night, as the agitation of such animals sometimes gives warning of the presence of sleen in the vicinity.	10
20	188	Portus, within the thicket, with a crossbow, stalked and slew a small tabuk.	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
27	3240	He carried, across his shoulders, the body of a freshly killed grass tabuk.	10
27	3255	Fel Doron threw the small tabuk to the grass before them.	10
28	176	"It was you who brought the tabuk to the camp?" said Fel Doron.	10

Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	254	The human female could not, for example, in three or four Ihn, tear loose a limb from a terrified, struggling tabuk.	10
2	51	Those of a male could wrench the head from a tabuk in a single motion.	10
3	313	So might a lovely tabuk doe be tethered in the straw, thought Cabot, though for such, lacking hands, a light strand on the neck might do.	10
7	36	It moves in the wind, in the churning sea, in the sheetings of rain, in the cry of lightning, in the tremors of the earth; it whispers in lava scalding the affrighted air; it prowls with the panther; it soars with the tarn; it bounds with the startled tabuk".	10
18	206	This remark startled Cabot, for he was unused to thinking as Kurii, to whom humans are little different from verr or tabuk.	10
53	113	They were no more concerned with their own survival than might have been a cloud of varts descending on an isolated tabuk or verr.	10
67	140	A trail of misery and death in one case, and of health and vitality in another, lies at the roots, here and elsewhere, of what might seem to be a thousand matters of coincidence, but are no more coincidences, or inexplicable accidents, than the scimitarlike sharpness of the larl's fangs, or the erra...	10

Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	70	Hurry, wrap the tabuk strips on their skewers, and put them to the fire.	10
3	197	There is no assurance that its strike will be directed on a tabuk or wild tarsk, or verr.	10
3	221	"I think the tabuk strips, the suls and turpah, the soup, all, must be ready," said Pertinax.	10
3	258	Cecily had carefully, earlier, removed the tabuk strips from their skewers and had laid them on a plate to the side.	10
4	29	A tabuk doe, so to speak, amongst larls, will not be long without her collar.	10
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	177	To one side there was a tank for water and there were several racks from which hung meat, probably tabuk, forest tarsk, and forest bosk.	10
12	260	In a tarn strike on a tabuk the animal's back is usually broken by the strike, and then the beak, like a shearing engine, slashes through the back of the neck.	10
12	278	The fellow, of course, was not another bird, or a tabuk, or verr, but a different life form, the human, which is not an unknown form of prey for a tarn, but it is certainly not its customary prey.	10
12	280	It is not unknown for tabuk to graze in its presence, if it has alighted.	10
13	88	Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who detects the od...	10
17	107	Commonly the tarn strike breaks the back of the verr or tabuk, and then it begins to feed, while the animal is still alive.	10
23	73	There was plenty of tabuk and tarsk, and the slaves brought it to the men on steaming platters.	10
41	22	In a galley one would normally take down the mast and yard, that they not be lost in the wind, or, if necessary, rig the smallest of her sails, the storm sail, get the storm astern and run before her, as might a tabuk attempting to elude a pursuing larl.	10
43	42	An obvious application of sleen is in hunting, say, tabuk, wild tarsk, and such.	10

Book 30. (8 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	166	Its most common prey is the delicate, flocking, single-horned tabuk.	10
3	232	And so might the small, yellow, single-horned tabuk be persuaded to abandon its one weapon, that it might thus be safer amongst prowling sleen.	10
4	25	Woe to the tabuk which might ignore such a form.	10
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
4	197	Indeed, how is a state to wax great save by the spear, the blade? If this is the way of Cos, is it not also the way of Ar, Turia, and a hundred other cities? How are trade routes, cities, fields, mines, slaves, and such to be conveniently purchased save by steel? The larl rules his domain; he does n...	10
14	124	I thought of the sleen whose hunt is done, who has the tabuk or verr cornered before him.	10
25	398	As a slaver on a maiden of choice, unaware in the baths, as a hungry sleen on the grazing tabuk.	10
28	199	Does she truly wish to conceal her beauty? Does she not rather, in her heart, desire to reveal it? How different is it, truly, from that of a thousand other beauties, that of grass and wine trees, that of tabuk, of sleen, or kaiila? Is it not a thing with which to be pleased? Let the slave, brazen i...	10

Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	7	On the other hand, I have here seen disputes resolved with blades, fleet tabuk felled with arrows, men confronting larls with no more than spears.	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	460	It was not so strange then that tabuk commonly grazed in open, or lightly wooded, areas.	10
35	158	It is not as though it was a game from the records of Centius of Cos, Scormus of Ar, Corydon of Thentis, Olaf of Tabuk's Ford, or such.	10
50	36	Now, when there was little, or nothing, to fear, I was as skittish as a tabuk doe who has caught the scent of a sleen.	10
52	310	How bright his eyes were, how tense his body! Might not a starving larl so gaze upon a tethered tabuk doe, a hungry sleen upon a penned verr? In the streets of Ar I had once seen a leashed slave being dragged running and stumbling, weeping, toward a domicile, but the master found himself unable to w...	10

Book 32. (20 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	147	How different from her world! Was she not as a vulnerable tabuk doe amongst laris? "Excellent," said a fellow beside me.	10
4	254	So might a kaiila be praised for lameness, a sleen for the inability to track even a wounded tabuk, a tarn for not daring to spread its wings and fly.	10
8	24	I recalled the first time I had seen her, in her quaint, concealing, barbarous garments, and how our eyes had met, and her eyes had widened, and her lips parted, and it seemed she might fall, and she was so frightened, was so much like a startled, wide-eyed, helpless tabuk doe finding herself beneat...	10
16	204	I have not felt myself as owned, as overcome and helpless, as the tabuk doe in the jaws of the lari, the young she-verr clasped in the talons of the tarn.	10
24	40	"There is provender aplenty in the kitchens," he said, "forest tarsk, long-haired bosk, even tabuk.	10
25	161	I saw a tabuk, small, graceful, single-horned, here in the woods brown pelted, startled, lift its head from a water-filled declivity, and dart away.	10
25	323	I had glimpsed it only briefly, but it was a tabuk.	10
25	326	I found that surprising, for it is difficult to approach a tabuk, as they are alert, skittish animals.	10
25	331	But that is not unusual in a tabuk, if it is alarmed.	10
25	355	The sleen, I gathered, was pursuing the tabuk, and, accordingly, I had been to it no more than an unexpected distraction.	10
26	221	Try pursuing tabuk with a spear.	10
27	65	It was light when I awakened, and I drank, as might have a tabuk doe, from a puddle of clear, gathered water in a hollow, in the wet grass.	10
38	41	On the other hand I saw no tabuk, dangling from poles, nor skins slung over the shoulders of any of the fellows.	10
38	149	"You are hunters," I said, "but it does not seem that you are after tabuk, tarsk, bosk, or panther".	10
39	486	Did they not know we might bolt as quickly as graceful tabuk, disappearing amongst the trees? I must wait my chance.	10
42	174	But he had not summoned me to him! Why had he not done so? Could it be that he, truly, did not want me, that I was nothing to him, only another slave? Had he truly pursued me only for pleasure, only for the hunt, as one might pursue any animal, a verr, a tabuk? I did not think so.	10
43	1099	So, too, I thought might a tabuk be uneasy in the company of a panther, a verr at the side of a sleen.	10
46	102	Why should I not be? The fleet, graceful tabuk, for example, is not the ponderous, clumsy, lumbering, shaggy bosk, not the gigantic, tearing, voracious lari.	10
48	53	I lacked the stealth and speed of the tabuk, the horns of the forest bosk, the tusks of the tarsk boar.	10
48	59	And turning one way, away from one beast, even had I the agility and speed of the small, graceful tabuk, might have brought myself within the compass of the other.	10

Book 33. (6 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	99	He expects to find his cot, warm, dry straw, and raw tabuk on its hook.	10
6	180	At the cavalry's encampment matters, though austere, were less harrowing and strained, given the smaller numbers involved, and the availability of local game, tarsk, tabuk, and verr.	10
7	93	Not only might their presence be distractive, for who does not fail to note the flanks and figures of slaves, their glances, and the turns of their heads, but, too, it was feared that, if they were about, openly, rather like tabuk amongst starving larls, the mercenaries might seize them and fight am...	10
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
21	79	I had no idea whether or not these speculations were grounded in reality, or were no more than the arrant conjectures of an ignorant few who were, perhaps, as little aware of the springs and engines on which the world turned as the grazing tabuk feeding in the meadows, the sheltering wood nearby, or...	10
25	266	"It is diving!" The bird was not diving, not from the ambush of the sun, as it might strike the unsuspecting tabuk, commonly breaking its back, but, wings spread was engaged in a soaring descent.	10

Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	504	I felt sick, perhaps as a tabuk might, with nowhere to run, a tabuk ringed with sleen.	10
21	13	Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against the tiny urt's ...	10
33	168	And these linguistic aptitudes, favoring survival, like beauty and appetition, like the graceful fleetness of the tabuk, the hearing of the larl, the tracking capacity of the sleen, are transmissible.	10
33	366	"What graceful tabuk, in its sunlit glade, would envy the sleen its burrow?" "Do not mock me," it said.	10
33	616	What an unwelcome revelation to the verr to learn that sleen exist, to the tabuk that it shares its world with the larl! I feared I might lose consciousness.	10
33	633	What could such monsters fear from that slighter, far-less-imposing monster? Surely she was not a form of life that one might wish to exterminate before it could multiply, as one might, with a stone, sufficiently apprised and motivated, crush the egg of the first ost, as the verr might choose to des...	10
34	184	"It would be a foolish tarsk or tabuk," he said, "that would ally itself with a larl".	10
34	188	"It would be a foolish tarsk or tabuk," he said, "that would ally itself with a larl".	10
50	310	It was unlikely she could tear away the head of a tabuk with her teeth.	10
58	22	Does nature not, in its thoughtless processes, in its blind, dark game, favor the organ sensitive to light, the organ sensitive to sound, the capacity to discriminate tastes and odors, the capacity to grasp, to feel, to think? Does it not, without thought or heart, fashion the wings of the tarn, the...	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	627	Are they obtuse? Does the tabuk note the presence of the larl with equanimity? Does the verr choose to ignore the prowling sleen?" "If there were truly danger," I said, "the men would evince agitation; they would behave differently".	10

Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
57	16	"You do not aim at a herd of tabuk, you aim at one tabuk".	10
18	77	As it was not herbivorous, one supposes it preyed on animals as small as the tabuk and as large as tharlarion, even carnivorous tharlarion, the encounters with which must have produced epic battles.	10
51	40	"I do not think the High Admiral of the fleet will be aboard one of those vessels, each surveying the Tesephone like a hungry sleen eyeing a cornered tabuk.	10
52	109	"I turned about," said Tab, "and, circling, and charging, for the Dorna, for her size, is like a tabuk, stove in the hull of the nearest pursuer, but the ram anchored itself athwart the keel of the enemy, and before I could disengage it, my oars were being sheared, rudders torn away, and planking ru...	10
63	162	"She is much as a pathetic tabuk doe," I said, "pursued by swarms of larls and sleen, a vulnerable quarry universally sought, friendless and fleeing, nowhere to step, nowhere to hide, every hand turned against her".	10