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Book 1. (51 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	259	Black tarns are used for night raids, white tarns in winter campaigns, and multicolored, resplendent tarns are bred for warriors who wish to ride proudly, regardless of the lack of camouflage.	10
3	243	I had never seen one of the tarns before, except on the tapestry in my apartment and in illustrations in certain books I had studied devoted to the care, breeding, and equipment of tarns.	10
4	57	"By the beards of the Priest-Kings," roared the Older Tarl as he brought his bird to the roof, "that is a tarn of tarns!" The tarns, released, winged their way back to the tarn cots, and the Older Tarl and I descended to my apartment.	10
5	124	For a hundred tarns one might have the daughter of an Administrator, for a thousand perhaps even the daughter of the Ubar of Ar! A thousand tarns would make a formidable addition to the cavalry force of a Gorean warlord.	10
3	258	The plumage of tarns is various, and they are bred for their colors as well as their strength and intelligence.	10
3	262	Tarns, who are vicious things, are seldom more than half tamed and, like their diminutive earthly counterparts, the hawks, are carnivorous.	10
3	269	The tarn is one of the two most common mounts of a Gorean warrior; the other is the high tharlarion, a species of saddle-lizard, used mostly by clans who have never mastered tarns.	10
4	51	The thought flashed through my mind that tarns should be trained to respond to voice commands as well as to the numbered straps and the tarn-goad.	10
4	62	"That tarn," he said, "was bred for you, specially selected from the best broods of the finest of our war tarns.	10
4	63	It was with you in mind that the keepers of the tarns worked, breeding and crossbreeding, training and retraining".	10
5	79	You must have ridden tarns before.	10
5	82	"Women are seldom permitted to ride on the backs of tarns," she said.	10
5	112	She replied proudly, "My bride price would be a hundred tarns".	10
5	123	Then I thought to myself, a hundred tarns indeed! Forty perhaps, because she was a beauty.	10
5	141	Needless to say, tarns are a threat to any living matter that is luckless enough to fall within the shadow of their wings, even human beings.	10
5	174	Or perhaps I should bless the fighting spirit of that plumed giant, my war tarn, that terrible thing the Older Tarl had called a tarn of tarns.	10
5	177	I was suddenly aware, dizzily conscious, that one of the enemy tarns was sinking downward, flopping wildly, falling into the recesses of the swamp forest below.	10
6	3	Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t...	10
6	213	"We were somewhere over the swamp forest," said the girl, "when we flew into a flock of wild tarns.	10
9	115	There is a camp there such as you have never seen—a city of tents, pasangs of tharlarion corrals; the wings of the tarns sound like thunder overhead.	10
10	118	Moreover, they needed far less water than tarns.	10
12	87	The tarn, a brown tarn with a black crest like most wild tarns, streaked for that vague, distant smudge I knew marked the escarpments of some mountain wilderness.	10
12	117	I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue.	10
13	74	As an act of charity, Initiates have arranged at various places Dar-Kosis Pits where the Afflicted may voluntarily imprison themselves, to be fed with food hurled downward from the backs of passing tarns.	10
14	71	"She would have brought a thousand tarns," said Marlenus.	10
14	103	The loose ends of the fiber were then attached by broad leather straps to two tarns, one of them my own sable giant.	10
14	114	The warriors of the Ubar moved back, to give the tarns room.	10
14	132	He asked no more if he should kill me, but rose to his feet and walked away, under the snapping wing of one of the tarns, and waved farewell.	10
15	232	"She would have brought a bride price of a thousand tarns," said Marlenus bitterly, "and now she is of less value than a trained slave girl".	10
16	42	Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders.	10
16	52	He and his men had no tarns, and their retreat was cut off.	10
17	24	Some of the defenders were opening the veins of surviving tarns, to drink the blood.	10
18	112	In this chamber, though empty of human beings, was a monstrous tarn cot, in which some twenty gigantic, half-starved tarns huddled separately on the tarn perches.	10
18	114	The floor of the tarn cot was littered with the bones of perhaps two dozen tarns.	10
18	115	I reasoned that the tarns must be those of the men of Marlenus, left in the tarn cot when he entered the city.	10
18	117	Left without care for weeks, the tarns had had nothing to feed upon but one another.	10
18	130	In less than a few seconds the first of the scraggy tarns had lit on the floor of the cot and poked his ugly head through the door.	10
18	140	The other tarns, poking out of the tarn cot, seemed to hesitate and then to notice the open door into the cylinder.	10
18	143	One of the starved tarns, with a leap and stroke of his wings, lunged upward, catching the man in his beak.	10
18	147	Immediately the hunger-wild tarns surged upward, eager for flesh.	10
18	148	The tarns, all of them, entered the cylinder, the palace of Marlenus.	10
18	149	In the great hall I could hear the fearful noise of unnatural carnage, the screams of the men, the screams of the tarns, the hiss of arrows, the wild blows of wings and talons.	10
18	150	I heard someone shout, a weird, terrified cry, "Tarns!" An alarm bar, a hollow metal tube struck by hammers, began to ring in frenzy.	10
18	153	Some fifteen tarns were feeding on the remains of a dozen or so guardsmen, detaching and devouring limbs.	10
18	154	Several tarns were dead; some were flopping about awkwardly on the marble floor, pierced by arrows.	10
18	161	Some of the guardsmen had undoubtedly fought below with the tarns.	10
19	1	The Duel Marlenus and his men and I raced down the long stairs to the main hall of the Central Cylinder, where we came on the remains of the grisly feast of the tarns.	10
19	4	He lifted a tile in the floor of the great hall and revealed a valve; with it, he closed the secret door through which the tarns had come.	10
19	6	We led our tarns to one of the large circular ports of the cylinder.	10
19	173	The sky was filled with tarns.	10
19	232	Sana stood in the arms of Kazrak, and I knew that the former slave girl had found the man to whom she would give herself, not for a hundred tarns, but for love.	10

Book 2. (27 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	171	I wondered sometimes if that bird, my Ubar of the Skies, that tarn of tarns, of a race of birds spoken of by Goreans as Brothers of the Wind, might have considered himself as above the goad, resented its shocks and sparks, resented that that puny human device would pretend to teach him, he, a tarn o...	10
2	71	It is used for controlling tarns, the gigantic hawklike saddlebirds of Gor.	10
2	74	Usually, the most highly trained tarns will respond to only one note, that sounded by the whistle of their master.	10
6	12	For some reason neither the fearless hawklike tarns, nor the slow-witted tharlarions, the draft and riding lizards of Gor, would enter the mountains.	10
6	125	Surprisingly enough, a woman who is bought from her parents, for tarns or gold, is regarded as a Free Companion, even though she may not have been consulted in the transaction.	10
14	10	Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o...	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	191	It was truly a tarn of tarns, my Ubar of the Skies! It was a desperate plan I had seized upon, no more than one chance in a million, unless the great tarn could tip the scales in my favor.	10
15	39	Tharna did not maintain large cavalries of tarns, but it would surely be able to launch at least some squadrons of tarnsmen to rescue and avenge its Tatrix.	10
15	43	Though I scrutinized the sky behind me, looking for those tiny specks that would be distant tarns in flight, I saw nothing.	10
15	90	What more could I tell her? That it had not killed me, knowing the nature of tarns, seemed almost as incredible to me as it did to her.	10
15	91	Had I not known more of tarns, I might have guessed that it held me in some sort of affection.	10
16	5	The solid pillar would not allow entrance to men on the ground, and approaching tarns would be easily visible for miles before they could reach it.	10
16	8	On the pillar itself there were three tarns, and as many warriors, and one woman, who wore the silver mask of Tharna.	10
16	42	"I shall add," she said, "the weight of five tarns in gold, a room of silver, helmets filled with jewels!" "You truly love your Tatrix," I said.	10
16	50	"Give him in addition to what he asks, the weight of ten tarns in gold, two rooms of silver and a hundred helmets filled with jewels".	10
16	103	Thorn seized me by the wrist shackles and dragged me across the top of the pillar to one of the three tarns that waited.	10
16	106	I was chained to the ankle ring of one of the tarns.	10
16	109	His fellow stood near me, among the tarns, perhaps to watch me, perhaps to steady and soothe the excitable giants.	10
20	67	Chronology in Ar is figured, happily enough, not from its Administrator Lists, but from its mythical founding by the first man on Gor, a hero whom the Priest-Kings are said to have formed from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns.	10
20	82	In it would not be heard the cry of tarns and the roar of larls.	10
20	112	Why did I not leap again to his back and once more cry "One-strap!" Why did we not try once more? I slapped his beak affectionately and, digging among his neck feathers with my fingers, scratched out some of the lice, about the size of marbles, that infest wild tarns.	10
22	123	In his arms I learned mountains and flowers and the cry of wild tarns and the touch of a larl's claw.	10
24	132	Word had swept ahead as if on the wings of tarns that the rebels, abandoning their tactics of ambush and evasion, were at last marching on the palace.	10
24	143	Tarns, however, would not be too effective against the rebels in the city.	10
24	146	And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace.	10
25	52	"The roof!" I cried, remembering the tarns.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	73	I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, animals s...	10
6	21	But perhaps they were not Ta grapes, for Cos was far distant, and even if carried by tarns, the grapes would probably not seem so fresh.	10
34	4	I felt a sudden blow on my back and nearly lost my breath and twisted to see the gigantic, brawny Older Tarl, my former Master at Arms, who clapped me on the shoulders, his hands like the talons of tarns.	10

Book 4. (24 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
14	56	We heard a new thunder of wings and looking overhead saw the tarnsmen, like a black storm, drum beating and tarns screaming, streak by overhead.	10
15	28	I suppose I was angered because I myself was a tarnsman, and it seemed somehow improper for warriors astride the mighty tarns to barter their favors indiscriminately for gold to either side.	10
16	42	"In escaping," he informed me, "we shall steal two tarns and make away".	10
18	112	"Tarns! Kaiila!" "No," he cried, "Saphrar's Pleasure Gardens!" and disappeared down the other side of the dome.	10
19	20	"Their movements will undoubtedly be coordinated in the house of Saphrar—and some tarns and their riders, if only messengers or officers—will surely be available".	10
20	3	"Wherever the tarns happen to be," he responded.	10
20	39	The roof of the tower, which might have been fortified with impaling spears and tarn wire, was now clear, to permit the descent of tarns and their riders.	10
20	43	When we were sure there were at least two tarns on the roof of the keep I leaped down from the roof and landed on the light bridge, struggling to retain my footing as it began to swing under my feet.	10
20	83	"Let us proceed," I said, "lest the tarns be flown from the roof and we be isolated in the tower".	10
20	88	On the roof there were five tarns.	10
20	90	The other was releasing the tarns one by one.	10
20	125	Harold once more had Hereena over his shoulder and was boldly approaching the tarns.	10
22	27	The standing wall about the compound kept the Tuchuk bowmen far enough from the roof of the keep within that tarns might, without too great a danger, enter and leave the compound.	10
23	2	On one of these wagons, with the top removed, were the two tarns Harold and I had stolen from the roof of Saphrar's keep.	10
24	55	With the crossbow in our hands, the business of bringing tarns in and out of the compound became proportionately more hazardous, which, of course, was what I intended.	10
24	56	In fact, to my elation, some of my fledgling crossbowmen, on the first day, brought down four tarns attempting to enter the compound, though, to be sure, several escaped them.	10
24	58	I feared, of course, that this addition to our armament might hasten Saphrar's departure, but, as it turned out, it did not, perhaps because the first word Saphrar had of our intentions was the tumbling of dying tarns behind the walls of the compound.	10
24	120	"That in entering Turia—and escaping as we did—even bringing tarns to the camp—we—the two of us—won the Courage Scar".	10
24	145	"She was not in the sleen cage the morning of our return from Turia with the tarns," said Harold.	10
26	10	The tarns that Harold and I had stolen from Saphrar's keep several days ago had both been brought into the city and were nearby, for it was thought that such might be needed, if only to convey reports from one point to another.	10
26	29	"Did tarns enter or leave the compound last night?" I asked.	10
26	35	"But," he added, "there are, by my count some three or four tarns from before within the compound".	10
26	68	The fighting would be fierce, but it did not seem that the outcome would be in doubt, even from the beginning—particularly now that the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel had left the city, the saddle packs of their tarns bulging with Turian gold.	10

Book 5. (92 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	93	The tarns were, of course, racing tarns, a bird in many ways quite different from the common tarns of Gor, or the war tarns.	10
12	100	Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...	10
17	146	The great bird he rode was no racing tarn but its size, its swiftness, its sureness, its incredible power and ferocity made it a terrible foe in the wars of the suspended rings; indeed, never had it lost; many of the other tarns of the Steels, as well, were not bred racing tarns, but war tarns, ridd...	10
12	96	Usually these birds fly more slowly and are less vicious than the war tarns or racing tarns.	10
12	98	War tarns, whose talons are shod with steel, tend to be extremely dangerous birds, even more so than other tarns, none of whom could be regarded as fully domesticated.	10
12	137	If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt...	10
22	1	The Stadium of Tarns I brought the tarn down behind the tiers in the Stadium of Tarns, in the Readying Compound of the Steels.	10
22	551	Ubar of the Skies did not hesitate but hurtled into their midst, beak rending, and then was clear; they turned in pursuit but four of them, caught in the wide loop of the Tuchuk rope, were cursing, cutting at it, while the tarns, suddenly startled, finding their movements inhibited, broke formation;...	10
4	122	"Four pieces of gold," said Cernus, "double tarns, will be sent to your rooms".	10
5	616	It is true that if she, with other girls, were shipped by wagon to Ar, this schedule would not be met; but we knew that the House of Clark, in the case of select merchandise, under which category Elizabeth surely fell, transported slaves by tarn caravan to the markets of Ar, usually binding them in ...	10
5	739	On the other side of the belt, there hung a slave goad, rather like the tarn goad, except that it is designed to be used as an instrument for the control of human beings rather than tarns.	10
5	743	Both goads, interestingly, emit a shower of yellow sparks when touched to an object, a phenomenon which, associated with the pain involved, surely plays its role in producing aversion to the goad, both in tarns and men.	10
7	11	On the roof there were eight tarns, beside five of which there were carrying baskets attached to tarn harness.	10
7	52	Once landed the tarns and baskets were moved back beneath the overhang, beneath which we took up our post as well.	10
7	186	"We return to the House of Cernus," said a man-at-arms, and I, and the others, entered our baskets or mounted our tarns.	10
7	187	In a moment the tarns left the rocky ledge, and in another moment or two, in the distance, I could see the lights of distant Ar.	10
12	6	The next seven tarns, strung out, sped through the ring and wheeled in flight to take the next ring.	10
12	8	This was only the third lap in a ten-lap race, and yet already two tarns were down in the net.	10
12	83	He had been such that standing before men and lifting his hand, a thousand swords would be unsheathed in the sun, a thousand throats would cry his name, a thousand men would march or a thousand tarns would fly.	10
12	86	I heard the judge's bar ring three times and I could now see the tarns coming forth.	10
12	90	Eight tarns were flying in this race, and, hooded, they were brought forth on low, sideless wheeled platforms, drawn by horned tharlarion.	10
12	94	The differences among these tarns are not simply in the training, which does differ, but in the size, strength, build and tendencies of the bird.	10
12	95	Some tarns are bred primarily for strength and are used in transporting wares by carrying basket.	10
12	97	The war tarns, of course, are bred for both strength and speed, but also for agility, swiftness of reflex, and combative instincts.	10
12	99	The racing tarn, interestingly, is an extremely light bird; two men can lift one; even its beak is narrower and lighter than the beak of a common tarn or a war tarn; its wings are commonly broader and shorter than those of the other tarns, permitting a swifter takeoff and providing a capacity for ex...	10
12	101	The tarns were now being unhooded and they leaped up, with a snap of their wings, to their perches, numbered and chosen by lot.	10
12	105	The same perches that are used in starting the race, incidentally, are the perches which the tarns will take after the race.	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
12	130	The judge's bar rang once and there was a cry from the crowd and all leaped to their feet as, with a flurry of beating wings, almost at the instant the white cord was whipped away from in front of them, the tarns took flight.	10
12	132	The track flown by the tarns is one pasang in length.	10
12	136	Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners; and then they encounter three more rectangular "rings" and then come to the second ...	10
12	372	There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...	10
12	377	I was approached twice by men who had small scrolls to sell, reputedly containing important information on forthcoming races, the tarns to be flown, their riders, their times recorded in previous races and such; I supposed this would be little more than what was publicly available on the large track...	10
12	384	As I was passing under the main arch of the stadium, going to the broad street beyond, called The Street of Tarns because of its proximity to the stadium, I heard a voice behind me.	10
13	219	About the walls, here and there, were lists and records, inked on narrow boards; there were also, here and there, hanging on the walls, some memorabilia, such as saddle rings and tarn harnesses, suitably labeled as to their origin; there were also representations of tarns and some drawings of famous...	10
13	222	There had apparently been no tarns near the central cylinder during the time, and, according to report, no strangers were known to have entered the cylinder.	10
13	226	Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco...	10
13	227	Mip, for some reason, seemed to like me, and he spoke much during the evening, as we drank together, of the factions, of the organizations of the races, of the training of tarns and riders, of the hopes of the greens and the other factions, of given riders and given birds.	10
13	240	Food for the tarns, which is meat, for that is their diet, is thrust on hooks and hauled by chain and windlass to the various perches; it might be of interest to note that, when any of the birds are free, meat is never placed on the hooks or on the floor below; the racing tarn is a valuable bird and...	10
13	273	"Are you familiar with tarns?" asked Mip.	10
13	276	"Yes," I said, "I am familiar with tarns".	10
13	296	"These are not war tarns".	10
13	309	Then Mip turned his bird and it seemed to veer and slide through the air, the cylinders below slicing to the right, and he brought it to rest on a great rail above and behind the highest tier on Ar's Stadium of Tarns, where that afternoon I had watched the races.	10
15	77	Several times we had taken racing tarns from the cot.	10
15	78	He had even showed me, at night in the empty Stadium of Tarns, certain tricks of racing, about which he seemed to know a great deal, doubtless because of his connection with the Greens.	10
15	221	By the end of the twelfth week of their training they were eating well, and by the end of the fifteenth, very well, generally low-calorie foods, nourishing, a good amount of protein, diets supervised as carefully as those of racing tarns or hunting sleen; Elizabeth was the only girl who had, so to s...	10
16	164	The judge's bar rang three times, signaling that the tarns were coming to the track for the next race.	10
16	200	Race followed race, and, eventually, we heard the judge's bar ringing three times, signaling that the tarns were being brought out for the eleventh race, the last of the day.	10
16	211	If a substantial proportion of races are not won in the first two seasons the law of the Stadium of Tarns discontinues its recognition of that faction.	10
16	213	Not only is it expensive to buy or rent tarncots, acquire racing tarns, hire riders and Tarn Keepers, and the entire staff required to maintain a faction organization, but there is a large track fee for new factions, during the first two probation years.	10
16	272	Vaguely I was aware about me of the sounds of men, tense, speaking curt words, mounting into the high saddles of tarns.	10
16	274	"Do not forget what I have taught you in the Stadium of Tarns," said Mip, "as we have ridden together so many nights".	10
17	141	But, as this lawlessness grew, and it became such that men would not walk the bridges without arms, the frenzy over the races and the games grew more rabid; it became rare on the streets and bridges to pass a person who would not, either for himself or for someone he knew, wear a faction patch, even...	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
17	216	Further, at this time, the Odds Merchants of the Stadium of Tarns made it known that the Administrator was heavily in debt, and they, not to be left out, demanded their dues.	10
17	333	The man who had been dancing the ship dance had now left the pit of sand and, over against one wall, in the shadows of the torchlight, largely unnoted, danced alone, danced for himself the memories of gleaming Thassa and the swift black ships, the Tarns of the Sea, as the galleys of Port Kar are kno...	10
19	50	This was the evening of the fourth day of the Love Feast, the climax of the feast insofar as the sales of slaves was concerned; this was the night Cernus would put his barbarian beauties on the block; tomorrow would be the concluding races and games, wild, dizzying hours in the Stadium of Tarns and ...	10
21	70	I do not think he will appear at the Stadium of Tarns".	10
21	405	"Surely," said he, "Gladius of Cos races this afternoon in the Stadium of Tarns?" "You know of him?" I stammered.	10
21	409	"Through the streets," said he, "we march to the Stadium of Tarns".	10
22	37	I heard the judge's bar ringing three times signaling tarns to the starting perches.	10
22	46	With Callius wounded and tarns at, or near, their perches, the Steels would have no rider.	10
22	86	The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...	10
22	129	Again the furious passage of the tarns overhead was marked in the beating of wings, the cries of the riders, now the flash of tarn goads, the turbulence of the air slashed from their path driving against us.	10
22	138	He was followed by two brown racing tarns, their riders wearing the silk of the Blues and the Silvers.	10
22	153	The tarns, like a torrent of beating wings and talons, swept by again.	10
22	205	Then the bird, which had in its time won a thousand races and more, addressed itself again to that fierce and familiar path in the Stadium of Tarns.	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	213	It was Green Ubar as I had heard speak of him, Green Ubar of the legends, Green Ubar as he had been in the stories told by men who had seen him years before, Green Ubar, greatest of the racing tarns, holder of awards, victorious, triumphant.	10
22	244	"Long ago," said the crossbowman, "there was a rider of racing tarns.	10
22	246	He was dropped broken into the path of following tarns, torn, and fell again to the lower bar of the ring and then to the net.	10
22	286	The platforms, bearing the tarns for the ninth race, were being wheeled onto the track area, approaching the starting perches.	10
22	375	The starting rope was strung before the tarns.	10
22	406	There was a sudden clang of the judge's bar and the rope stretched before the tarns was jerked away.	10
22	407	The tarns, with the exception of my own, hurled themselves screaming, wings snapping, from the perches and streaked for the first of the side rings.	10
22	418	Its prize is the greatest, a thousand double-tarns of gold.	10
22	426	I wanted the tarns before me to space themselves, so that I might pass them singly if possible.	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	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	475	I heard another bird, one following it, strike it, screams of rage, those of tarns and men.	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	533	"The race!" The tarn, to my amazement, turned from the fray in an instant and smote his way from the environing, reeling tarns and struck out again for the rings.	10
22	535	In the time we had fought four tarns had passed us, though the rest were still behind, either fallen from the race or unable to pass the rings where tarnsmen still wheeled in disarray.	10
22	586	One after another of the tarns of the race, those who could complete the race, struck the finishing perches but no one paid them heed.	10
22	588	Then gates leading onto the sand burst open and thousands of citizens, come from the Stadium of Blades, marching and singing, entered the Stadium of Tarns, at their head, helmeted and mighty, sword in hand, the magnificent Murmillius, hero of the Stadium of Blades.	10
23	6	Word had apparently reached the House of the doings at the Stadium of Blades before it had come to the Stadium of Tarns, much farther away.	10
23	72	The door burst open and five men entered, Cernus, wild-eyed, suddenly haggard, and behind him Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes, the man who had commanded the fifty tarnsmen who had ridden against me in the Stadium of Tarns, and two Taurentian guardsmen.	10
24	74	Then Marlenus, as Murmillius, entered the Stadium of Tarns, followed by his hundreds, followed by their thousands.	10
24	75	Men had been turned against Cernus in both the Stadium of Blades and in that of Tarns, and in both by the cruelty and treachery of the man they had honored as Ubar.	10
24	230	I had been given the thousand double tarns of gold for the victory in the Ubar's race.	10
24	232	Eight hundred double tarns I gave to him that he might begin well his research once more.	10
24	245	Of the two hundred remaining double tarns from the victory in the Ubar's race I gave all but one to free Melanie, who had served in the kitchens of Cernus, and arrange a livelihood for her.	10

Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	403	Besides, I told myself, it was still rather early to determine on which curule chairs the tarns of power might alight.	10
17	246	The tarn is a land bird, generally of mountainous origin, though there are brightly-plumaged jungle tarns.	10
17	247	The tarns crowded into the holds of the round ships were hooded.	10
17	275	"You have, in the ten round ships," I said, "one hundred tarns, with riders".	10
17	293	"Of all the tarnsmen in Port Kar," I said, "and of all the captains, you alone have accepted the risks of this venture, the use of tarns at sea".	10
17	316	These tarns had been hooded.	10
17	320	I knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride them out over Thassa from the shore.	10
17	321	But I hoped that the tarns, finding themselves out of the sight of land, might accommodate themselves to the experience.	10
17	339	The other tarns below in the hold, some ten of them, shifted and rattled their hobbles.	10
17	357	Already, below me, I saw tarns being unhooded, and the straps that bound their beaks being unbuckled, and cast aside.	10
17	359	I saw tarns leaping to the decks of the round ships, and I saw the knotted ropes being attached to the saddles, and picked seamen, experts with the sword, five to a rope, taking their positions.	10
17	370	Almost instantly the ship was the center of a great beating of wings and descending tarns.	10
17	408	"Hold your fire!" Then the first of the tarns returned to the flagship, having cast down its flaming bombs of burning oil.	10
17	412	More tarns returned and more of my men, sometimes six and seven to a rope, were carried away from the ship.	10

Book 7. (20 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	85	Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly,...	10
8	169	Far away, through the sky, from the east of Laura, following the forest line, there came a flight of tarnsmen, perhaps forty of them, mounted on the great, fierce, hawklike saddlebirds of Gor, the huge, swift, predatory, ferocious tarns, called Brothers of the Wind.	10
8	366	Beyond the compound of Haakon of Skjern I could see the compound of his tarns, where, hobbled, the great birds beat their wings, threw back their heads and screamed, and tore at the great pieces of bosk thrown before them.	10
8	373	I do not know why it is that women fear tarns so terribly, but we do.	10
11	1048	* * * * Some four days before we were to depart Ko-ro-ba for Ar, the news swept like tarns through the pens.	10
11	1271	The skies remained clear of the thunder and screams of the tarns of Treve, the war cries of her spear-bearing warriors.	10
12	621	"Tarns!" In the distance, in a set of four, long, narrow, extended "V's," there came a flight of tarnsmen.	10
12	650	I watched with horror as, in a few moments, again the sky filled with tarns, and the beating of wings and the screams of the great birds.	10
12	701	"I'll come!" I now saw the tarnsmen returning from the burning wagons, racing to their tarns.	10
12	711	We saw tarnsmen, in flight, riding down running girls, the tarns no more than a few feet from the grass, beating their wings, screaming.	10
13	327	There were two tarns hobbled nearby.	10
13	850	The two tarns wheeled again, for another passage.	10
13	871	Then the tarns swooped together again, side by side, saddle to saddle, while blades flashed over my head, in a swift dialogue of steel, debating my possession.	10
13	873	The tarns then, rearing up in the sky, facing one another, began to tear at one another with their beaks and talons, and then, talons locked, they began, beaks snapping and tearing, to twist and roll, turning, locked together, falling, climbing, tumbling, wings beating, screaming in rage.	10
14	122	It had its compound where tarns were hobbled, and its cooking and washing sheds.	10
15	40	With their own tarn goads, Rask of Treve then drove their tarns from their camp.	10
15	292	Behind the kitchen shed, I had not been able to see the alighting of the tarns.	10
15	997	Laughing, bloody tarnsmen, with strings of pearls thrown about their necks, and cups and goblets tied at their saddles, and their saddle packs bulging with the weight of golden tarn disks, had brought their tarns down, wings beating, to receive the greetings of the camp.	10
15	1002	"Tonight," had cried Rask of Treve, blood on his shield, his eyes like those of laughing tarns, "we will feast!" The men had clashed their weapons on their shields and the girls had scurried away that the feast might be prepared.	10
17	68	And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	108	He might speak in the accents of Tyros, but startle you with his knowledge of the habits of wild tarns, knowledge one would expect to find only in one of Thentis.	10
9	155	"Speak," said Verna to Mira, "what else you saw, before their camp was broken, before their tarns took flight".	10
18	430	Clouds, like tarns from the north, swept in some stratospheric wind, were moving southward.	10
18	476	In Gorean legends the Priest-Kings are said to have formed man from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns.	10
19	460	"And once I saw you remove your helm in the stadium of tarns, and claim again the throne of Ar".	10
22	42	Then there was the roar of Thassa but not of Thassa but of the crowds in the Stadium of Tarns, in Ar.	10
22	575	He would return to his camp north of Laura, where his tarns waited.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	352	"As the daughter of Marlenus of Ar my companion price might be a thousand tarns, five thousand tharlarion!" "You are no longer the daughter of Marlenus of Ar," I told her.	10
1	619	In the engagement of the 25th of Se'Kara we had used tarns at sea, but they had been kept below decks in cargo ships until beyond the sight of land.	10

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	136	It is used to prevent the descent of tarns into the courtyard of a fortress.	10
12	421	The wire had been cut, with bladed hooks, swung on long lines below tarns, cut, and torn from its posts.	10
12	717	There there were several tarns, great fierce saddle birds of Gor.	10
12	720	Goods were bound over the saddles of tarns.	10
12	756	Then Rask of Treve looked about himself, making swift inspection of his men and tarns, and their burdens, riches and slave girls.	10
12	785	I wanted to see, though I feared to do so, what was going on, the men who now owned us, their movements, the tarns, the ropes and chains, the slaves bound over saddles, and fastened at stirrups, the flames, the wild, racing, distorted shadows, the parapets and towers of the keep of Stones of Turmus.	10
12	793	Tarns lifted and spread their wings, uneasily.	10
18	126	Once, when a tarnsman snapped by, pursued by guardsmen, mounted, too, on tarns, she had torn the veils from her face and, boldly, supplicatingly, had lifted her robes, revealing her left thigh to the hip.	10

Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	357	"Fourteen hundred tarns of gold," said I, "on Ar's champion".	10
3	379	I stood now to win a hundred golden tarns.	10
3	976	"I need a wench," said the man, "one who will cost me little, one to keep in the cots by day, to shovel the excrement of tarns, one to keep in my stall by night, as a pot-and-mat girl".	10
4	27	It had cost me two golden tarns.	10
4	76	I would win a hundred golden tarns.	10
4	282	I grew cold with fury, though I stood to win a hundred golden tarns.	10
4	327	I did not think my hundred tarns were in danger, for it would be madness on the part of the odds merchants to repudiate the documented bargainings they had arranged.	10
4	451	"Cos! Centius! Cos! Centius!" I had lost fourteen hundred tarns of gold.	10
4	497	Overhead, with some regularity, I saw tarns streaking from the fair, many with tarn baskets slung beneath them, men and women returning to their cities.	10
6	695	"Tarns cannot live at that latitude," I said.	10
6	698	"Not tarns," I said.	10
6	700	"Not tarns".	10
6	701	Tarns were not migratory birds.	10
23	258	"But, too," I said, "tarns, like most birds, will fly in the arctic only during those seasons".	10

Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	132	"There are twenty thousand tarns of gold there," I said.	10
17	14	"Twenty thousand tarns of gold," I said.	10
17	52	I will pay you a hundred tarns of gold and I myself will then return the ring to the beasts".	10
18	141	I was later supposed to receive a hundred tarns of gold and my freedom.	10

Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	84	"I herewith publicly sign," said the Lady Melpomene, "this loan note, made out to the Lady Florence of Vonda, for the full sum of one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold".	10
22	180	"I demand that you now pay me the sum of one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold".	10
22	418	He grinned and lifted before her eyes the bank draft, drawn on the bank of Reginald in Vonda, certified, and signed by the Lady Florence, for one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold.	10
25	358	I then realized that what I saw in the sky, in the distance, were birds, indeed, but tarns, and that doubtless mounted upon them, armed and purposeful, were men.	10
27	44	The brigands, indeed, had taken their departure, bringing their tarns to flight, their loot sacks bulging and, tied helplessly at their saddle rings, lovely, naked slaves.	10

Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	498	I then turned my steps toward the Street of Tarns, that somewhere among its many shops and cots I might arrange transportation northward, toward the Salerian city of Lara.	10
3	317	Some tarns had apparently recently arrived from the west.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1784	Not until the last of the tiny birds disappeared to the south did the shield signals flash and the drums beat, the tarns take wing, the tharlarion begin to tread, and infantrymen march.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	281	"There are tarns in the tarn cot," I said.	10
1	357	The tarns in the tarn cot moved about.	10
1	1367	"Fire!" With the titanic beating of wings the two tarns, the creatures mounted on them, took flight from the ruins of the tarn cot.	10
1	1372	I saw the creatures mounted on the tarns, silhouetted against one of Gor's three moons, fleeing over the marshes.	10

Book 18. (51 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
47	108	There were eighteen of these beasts, that which had been a Kinyanpi mount which had come to us on the prairie, the two wild tarns we had captured by means of the tarn pits, and the fifteen tarns we had managed to secure in our subsequent raid.	10
56	45	Tarns were precious to them, particularly in connection with acquiring new tarns.	10
27	75	Other tarns, I could see, had suddenly swerved or begun to climb.	10
27	89	I saw, looking wildly about, tarns flying erratically, hit with arrows.	10
35	10	In this distance I heard the roars of the crowds in Ar's Stadium of Tarns.	10
38	42	"Even with good fortune we cannot snare enough tarns by winter to combat the Kinyanpi".	10
39	103	"What lucky, soft little things they are," she said, "being sold naked off sales blocks to the whips and chains of strong masters, with little more to worry about than the heat of the kitchens, the steaming water of the laundering tubs, the dangers, from young, prowling ruffians, of shopping in the ...	10
39	233	"How laughable and delicious would the little collared chits find it that I, who so scorned them, am not only now, too, a slave, but a low slave, one with only a leather collar, one not even permitted clothing, a cheap, inexpensive slave, thousands of pasangs from civilization, a meaningless slave i...	10
39	302	This suggests that the Kinyanpi had probably domesticated kaiila before tarns and that their domestication of the tarn was achieved independently of white practice, as exemplified, say, by the tarnsmen of such cities as Thentis.	10
39	303	The common guidance apparatus for tarns in most cities is an arrangement involving two major rings and six straps.	10
39	338	Not only will it be unnecessary to break it but it will be of great use, in a brace harness, in training the two tarns we have already caught".	10
39	339	This is a common method of training new tarns.	10
39	342	"You may be pleased to learn," I told her, "that for our purposes we now have tarns enough.	10
39	414	"There are many black tarns," I said.	10
41	7	"You were gone," she said, shuddering, "with Cuwignaka and Canka, training tarns.	10
41	42	"How can you think in this way? How can you act like this?" "You know more of tarns than I, Tatankasa," he said.	10
41	43	"Do tarns behave in this fashion?" "No," I admitted, "not normally".	10
42	10	Behind each of us, strung together by neck ropes, swept five tarns.	10
42	12	In the vicinity of a Yellow-Knife camp, their allies, amongst tribes unfamiliar with tarns, they had feared nothing.	10
42	26	"We have as many tarns as we can well handle now," I had said to Cuwignaka and Hci, slipping the noose over the head of the last tarn.	10
42	27	"Let us go!" We would have preferred to walk the tarns a bit from the camp, before taking to flight, but we had not time, the camp being roused, to do so.	10
42	38	"Go on without me!" "We will release the tarns!" cried Cuwignaka.	10
42	42	"Conduct the tarns to camp! We must have them!" "No!" cried Cuwignaka.	10
42	105	Almost at the same time the flanking riders had, in seeming terror, in disarray, their formation lost, burst like a star about me and then, frantically, on all sides of me, as though I might no longer be of interest to them, wheeled their tarns about and, like their leader, sped away.	10
42	150	"Counting your tarn, Hci," I said, "and not counting my tarn or the tarn of Cuwignaka, we have sixteen tarns.	10
43	477	I trusted that Canka, on one of the tarns we had purloined from the Kinyanpi, would soon make his appearance.	10
43	489	The tarns of Cuwignaka and Hci, with their lovely cargoes, were now far in the distance.	10
43	492	I then turned my tarn to follow the tarns of my friends.	10
47	101	"And throw back the lodge covers and poles which conceal our tarns.	10
47	107	Before morning, some singly, some in groups of two or three, under the cover of darkness, our tarns had been brought to Council Rock, there to be concealed within specially prepared lodges.	10
47	109	These tarns we had brought from Two Feathers to the Waniyanpi compound commanded by Seibar.	10
47	117	Tarns were revealed.	10
47	120	Canka, Hci and Cuwignaka hurried to mount their tarns.	10
47	126	I heard other tarns, too, screaming behind me, and heard the beatings of wings.	10
47	129	Suddenly bodies and tarns seemed to be exploding about me as we entered, penetrating, the startled formations of the Kinyanpi.	10
47	140	Tarns swirled about us, below us.	10
47	143	Four tarns began to follow us.	10
47	146	Below us, like birds springing wondrously from the snow, tarns and their riders emerged from the clouds, following us.	10
47	154	The other tarns, strung out now, struggling, wings beating painfully, sporadically, against the thin air, hung below us.	10
47	200	Secondly, I had had the men and their tarns train as fighting units, not only the man and his mount, but the men and their mounts, in pairs and prides, as well.	10
47	204	Five riders had done so, when it had appeared suddenly, unexpectedly, behind me, in the vicinity of a Yellow-Knife camp in which they had been sojourning, where we had captured the fifteen tarns.	10
47	210	Perhaps they had feared less than might have Yellow Knives, Fleer or Kaiila, because they were more familiar with tarns than such tribes.	10
47	216	Screaming, men scattered on their tarns.	10
47	234	Three tarns, riderless, returned to the formation below.	10
47	313	Then tarns, screaming, talons raking, wings beating, hurtled among the startled soldiers on the ledge, seizing and tearing at them, blasts of wind even from the wings forcing some back over the edge.	10
47	315	We landed our tarns among a litter of bodies, red and white, on the ledge.	10
47	317	"Let those with tarns, who lost women and children at the summer camp, attend to these," I said.	10
47	318	In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes and men, torn loose from hand and footholds, unsupported,...	10
47	428	Some of our men who were tarnsmen brought their tarns into the fray, raking down at the Yellow Knives.	10
54	135	"You gave the alarm," I said, "when I, and two friends, stole tarns from Kinyanpi at a Yellow-Knife camp".	10
56	53	If tribes without tarns could not hold their own against those who had them, then these other tribes would presumably be forced from their lands and into westward migrations.	10

Book 19. (26 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	14	I could smell the tarns, gigantic, crested saddlebirds, on their perches some hundred feet away, to our right.	10
6	70	He had glanced to our right, to the tarns on their perches.	10
6	77	Drusus Rencius looked back from the tarns.	10
6	131	He looked at the tarns.	10
6	255	One of the tarns moved on the perch, several feet to our right.	10
6	258	The proximity of the tarns made it less pleasant than it might otherwise have been.	10
6	285	He looked again then to the tarns.	10
6	587	The tarns on their perches were now on my left.	10
6	682	The tarns, now, were again on my right.	10
6	775	Its proximity to those fearful tarns, only feet away, had been unsettling.	10
6	780	What was there here, other than the tarns, which need not be closely approached, to be nervous about? "You seem strange today, Drusus Rencius," I said.	10
6	797	"Here I would be alone with the Tatrix of Corcyrus, near saddled tarns," he said.	10
6	809	I glanced at the tarns.	10
12	62	"The tarns?" asked Ligurious.	10
13	142	Ligurious and the woman, and the others, had doubtless, by now, on tarns, made good their escape.	10
15	332	Then other tarns were brought, one by one, to the platform.	10
29	304	Perhaps even little Susan would not recognize the lofty Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus, in the collared, branded, trained, lascivious pleasure slut, Tiffany, a girl of Feast Slaves, of the Enterprises of Aemilianus, the Plaza of Tarns.	10
30	8	We were on the Street of Hermadius, off the Plaza of Tarns.	10
30	112	This street, like Hermadius, leads to the Plaza of Tarns.	10
30	113	But I was not seeking the Plaza of Tarns and the agency.	10
30	115	This is the street which leads directly between Ar's west gate, called the Tarn Gate, and the Plaza of Tarns.	10
30	189	"Tiffany," I said, "of Feast Slaves, of the Enterprises of Aemilianus, the Plaza of Tarns".	10
30	201	"You are a long way from the Plaza of Tarns," he said.	10
30	356	Accordingly, they must have switched trails, probably in the vicinity of the Plaza of Tarns.	10
30	679	Moving south on Emerald we came, after about an Ahn, to the Plaza of Tarns.	10
30	701	I was Tiffany, of Feast Slaves, of the Enterprises of Aemilianus, the Plaza of Tarns.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	236	"Three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits," said Lecchio.	10
16	263	"It is only that two days ago, in the morning," said Chino, "in Pseudopolis, a sum of three double tarns, fifteen tarns, eighteen silver tarsks, twenty-seven copper tarsks, and one hundred and five tarsk-bits was stolen from the vintner, Groppus, by three female slaves masquerading as free women, re...	10
1	443	This, of course, is not strictly true, not in a world where most goods can be carried on the back of a man, not in a world where there are tarns.	10
5	376	After some days of sport and recreation at the fair, we may then, if we wish, from the fairgrounds themselves, take tarns to Port Kar, an expensive proposition to be sure, but one which your resources will doubtless prove sufficient to fund.	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	309	I am sure you do not have enough tarns to evacuate your men".	10
20	38	I did not forget the house of Cernus, the Stadium of Tarns, the great tarn, Ubar of the Skies, the racing factions, the Stadium of Blades, the bloodied sands of the arena.	10
21	17	"You could try the southern insulae," he said, "such as those below the Plaza of Tarns".	10

Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	44	It might be of interest to note that when I had come to Gor, some years ago, domestic tarns, like wild tarns, almost always made their own kills.	10
8	47	Whereas these dimensions permit ordinary saddle tarns, war tarns, and such, an entry in flight, the landing platform is generally used.	10
3	43	The references to "greens" and "meat," and such, were pertinent to draft tharlarion and tarns, and so, too, the references to stabling and cots, respectively.	10
3	48	With older birds, on the other hand, captured wild tarns, for example, the training usually takes the form of tying fresh meat on live animals, and then, when the tarn is accustomed to eating both, effecting the transition to the prepared meat.	10
8	48	It is always used, of course, by draft tarns carrying tarn baskets.	10
8	59	Such a construction, of course, requires the more time-consuming, hovering landing of all birds, not simply draft tarns, carrying tarn baskets.	10
8	481	A great many women, particularly the most sensitive and intelligent among them, fear tarns greatly.	10

Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	55	The tarns aflight from the Semnium roof were fine tarns, naturally, and for Ahn they eluded their pursuers.	10
1	184	'I paid your bill for three silver tarns, a fortune to me at the time, and put in travel money, too, that you might return to Cos!' 'It is not I!' she said.	10
1	513	Too, his bravery, his skill with tarns and the sword, and such, were valued.	10
1	1150	It is difficult, as well as dangerous, to move in the vicinity of unfamiliar tarns, particularly at night.	10
1	1209	A tent, like this, incidentally, would not accompany the tarnsmen in their flights, borne by draft tarns, but would follow in the supply wagons of the main body.	10
28	4	The eyes of men and tarns can detect even a tiny movement within a large visual expanse".	10
40	51	"I did not think a few men, on tarns, would have difficulty escaping the city," said a man.	10
40	53	"The night came," said our narrator, "and, precisely as Myron's informant, Mincon, had assured him, a dozen tarns took wing from the roof of the Semnium.	10
40	56	Yet the pursuers had been prepared for this and had extra mounts in their train, changing to fresh tarns every Ahn.	10
40	70	"By morning," said our narrator, "the escaping tarns had been apprehended, but in their saddles, bound and gagged, were Cosian prisoners".	10
40	105	"But someone must have set the fires in Torcadino," said a man, "on the night the tarns took flight, on the night Myron waited in vain to the north".	10
47	109	"There are no tarns in camp," said one of the men.	10

Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	1	The Plaza of Tarns "She," said Talena, Ubara of Ar, "she is chosen".	10
9	4	The woman, held now by the upper left arm, by a guardsman, was conducted to a point on the platform, erected now in the Plaza of Tarns, a few feet from a rather narrow, added side ramp, where she was knelt, to be manacled.	10
9	86	At a gesture from one of the guardsmen on the platform another woman in a white robe came forward, leaving the long line behind her, one extending across the platform to the small ramp on the other side, down the ramp, across the far side of the Plaza of Tarns, and thence down Gate Street, where I c...	10
9	201	They had then, this morning, been transported to a location on Gate Street, in the vicinity of the Plaza of Tarns.	10
9	202	Some women who had failed to report to the great theater were brought later that evening to the Stadium of Tarns by guardsmen, both regulars and auxiliaries.	10
9	365	Here the Plaza of Tarns rang with the cheering of men.	10
9	639	"Oh!" said she who had been the next to be assessed, then the first in the line, now, turned about, at the rear of the long line, stretching still across the platform, down the ramp, and across the Plaza of Tarns.	10
9	646	I did not think, at any rate, that the Cosians would send cage wagons for them in full daylight to the Plaza of Tarns, in the view of a crowd.	10
9	651	Thence I supposed they would be transported to the Stadium of Tarns, as had been the first batch of women, in their turn to be incarcerated, given the robes of penitents and assigned their place in line.	10
9	867	As we moved from the Plaza of Tarns the streets seemed muchly deserted.	10
10	450	It is like vulos legislating for tarns, the end of which legislation is the death of the tarn, or its transformation into something new, something reduced, pathological and sick, celebrated then as the true tarn".	10
10	462	"In Ar," he said, "there are no larls, there are no tarns".	10
11	232	"And it is a mark of the old Ar, the Ar I knew in war, the Ar of spears and standards, of rides and marches, of dust and trumpets, of tarns and tharlarion, the Ar of imperialism, of glory, of valor, and pride.	10
18	387	"You wish the Central Cylinder moved? You wish the walls of Ar rebuilt overnight? You wish a thousand tarns tamed in one afternoon?" "He is a magician!" said Marcus.	10
23	87	"Surely you remember his recounting of his powers? Surely you remember him asking if I wished the Central Cylinder moved, if I wished the walls of Ar rebuilt overnight, if I wished a thousand tarns tamed in one afternoon!" "Yes," I said.	10

Book 26. (36 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	326	Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, if none others,...	10
11	1370	"Tarns can fly there?" asked one.	10
11	1374	"Tarns do not care to leave the sight of land," said another, as though reminding his peer of something.	10
18	10	I could see the tarns, in the distance, one by one, approaching.	10
18	225	Already the tarns, one by one, were alighting.	10
19	1	There were some folk still crossing the bridge, though fewer now that the tarns had alighted.	10
19	12	More than a hundred and fifty tarns had landed in the docking area.	10
19	22	Some of the mighty saddle birds, like gigantic, crested hawks, they are called "tarns," moved about uneasily.	10
19	86	Men from the city were near the front of the line of tarns, conferring there with one who may have been the expedition's leader, and certain others.	10
19	208	One of the tarns suddenly snapped its wings and a great rush of air blasted toward us.	10
19	275	It went to the end of the docking area and then turned about, and made its way back, before the crowd, but between the tarns and raiders on one side and the captives, on the other.	10
19	295	"We are favored by the Priest-Kings!" He half turned to his left, and then to his right, gesturing expansively behind him, first in one of these directions, and then in the other, indicating accumulations of treasure, among and before the tarns and raiders, piles of it, boxes of it, chests of it, bu...	10
19	480	Several of the other tarns, disburdened of loot, had also, now, been conducted from the docking area.	10
23	198	He would surely realize the control of the tarns, the surveillance, the dangers of the mountains.	10
24	18	I could see, now, over the balustrade, a line of tarns, perhaps some twenty or so, knifing their way toward some part of the city, to my right, beyond the bridge, beyond the docking area.	10
24	29	One of the tarns screamed.	10
24	32	What could twenty men, or so, do against a city? The line of tarns in the distance had now disappeared.	10
24	40	Some more tarns, from the city, hastened by, overhead.	10
24	61	Many other sorts would have, as well, even the mighty tarns.	10
24	127	It was another flight of tarns.	10
24	130	"Tarns!" said another fellow, now, too, pointing.	10
24	132	The tarns seemed larger now.	10
24	134	It seemed clear that there were more tarns in this group than in the first group, perhaps considerably more, but by how much the numbers of this group might exceed those of the first group it would be very difficult to say, that for two reasons, their formation and orientation.	10
24	175	"Run!" Suddenly, overhead, only yards above us, there was a terrible sound of screaming tarns, and a blasting storm of wings.	10
24	190	I saw more tarns darting through the wire, guided by a fellow, still mounted on his tarn, on the terrace.	10
24	194	I saw one of the tarns on the terrace seize a fellow in its beak, and then half of him was cast to the side.	10
24	198	I could see more tarns coming over the mountains.	10
24	417	Toward the center of the terrace some intruders held the reins of several tarns.	10
24	420	There were several tarns in flight, moving rapidly in this direction.	10
24	457	I saw some of the intruders mount their tarns.	10
24	475	The men who had guarded the group near the center of the terrace now rushed from the group, some to seize the reins of tarns, others running toward the stairway.	10
24	478	Some men fought at the tarns.	10
24	479	Some seven or eight tarns rose into flight.	10
24	482	Tarns of Treve flew overhead.	10
29	241	"It is because of you that I have lost the most exquisite, beautiful, and desirable slave in all the world, the woman I love! Yes, here in this retreat of tarns, I found my love slave.	10
38	107	"It was the first time tarns were used at sea," said Terence.	10

Book 27. (62 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	941	"Tarns, tarns!" she heard cry, a few moments later, from somewhere behind her.	10
17	1229	"Tarns! This is a place of tarns!" She cried out in misery and, naked, hooded, wrists braceleted behind her, chained by the neck, scrambled to the far corner of the stall, bruising herself, and tried to burrow down in the straw, trembling, trying to hide there, trying not to move.	10
18	89	The tarns were largely draft tarns, large, relatively slow birds, controlled either from a saddle or, by reins, from the tarn basket, slung below the bird.	10
19	484	There were thus two free tarns, so to speak, with baskets, and then a line of seven tarns, strung together, five with baskets, two without.	10
20	274	The two lead tarns and baskets, those of Portus Canio and Fel Doron, continued on their way, apparently unaware that Tersius Major had left the train, and that his trailing tarns had been, in effect, loosed.	10
20	286	Were they loosed to be retrieved by allies? As these thoughts raced through Ellen's head she noted, approaching from her present left, what would have been the right before her tarns had begun, leaderless, to veer about, and circle, a storm of wings, perhaps as many as thirty tarns.	10
20	293	Two tarnsmen of the flighted squad wheeled from their formation, and began to approach the loose, leaderless line of six tarns, which had been the fourth through the ninth tarns in the original train, the fourth through the seventh with baskets, Ellen in the last basket, that carried by the seventh ...	10
20	382	The tarn then, to whose harness Ellen's ruined basket was insecurely fastened, began to strike out, perhaps crazed with fear, for tarns abhor water, biting, at the line, at the other tarns, at the basket, perhaps in its fear, or madness, or to rid itself of perceived obstructions or impediments.	10
20	439	After a few minutes one of the tarns, that which had been fourth in the original line, and had been the leader of the six tarns once the line had been loosed or cut, lifted itself, wings beating, a few feet from the water, only to be dragged back down by the line linking it to his fellows.	10
27	9	Whereas the fate of Tersius Major was at this time unknown, one supposed that, in an Ahn or so, the pursuit of the riderless tarns would be resolved, the tarns taken in hand, or, at least, that it would have been determined that most of them, for they would have scattered, had been riderless.	10
11	515	She understood them to be a part of the mythology of this strange world, nonexistent, like sleen, tarns, and such.	10
13	163	"Those of the Warriors, or sometimes mercenaries, or outlaws, or raiders, or bandits, whoever mounts, masters and rides tarns".	10
13	168	I have certainly seen sleen, and tarns.	10
13	206	She was not sure, at that time, that such things existed, no more than larls, sleen, tarns, and such.	10
17	943	Half closing her eyes against the sun, looking upward, she saw some five tarns in flight.	10
18	80	To the left, as one might look outward from the great portal, barred and gated, was the general housing for tarns, with its perches and roosting areas, hooks for meat, reservoirs for water, and such.	10
18	85	The area directly within the great portal, a large area, as one might suppose, served for the departure and entry of tarns.	10
18	94	"Do not have me with tarns, Master!" she begged.	10
18	102	"Whom do you fear more," he asked, "tarns, or men?" "Men, Master!" she wept.	10
18	103	"I am a slave! I fear men more!" "Your duties, little vulo," said he, "do not, and will not, involve you in great danger, or at least not from tarns.	10
18	124	"I still fear tarns!" she said.	10
18	125	"We all fear tarns," he said, and he then left the platform, re-entering the lofty barnlike area.	10
18	267	* * * * And so Ellen reached down and picked up the heavy basket of meat, which she must carry to the feeding area, a section within the housing for tarns, and set forth, piece by piece, climbing the wall railings, impaling it on the hooks, for the mighty birds, seven of them, due to return with the...	10
18	320	The leather was black, and glossy, some half of an inch in thickness, and some three to four inches in width, and there were buckles attached, for its fastening on tarns.	10
18	334	Let him stew, and cry out, and suffer! He cannot have me! I am not for such lowly sorts! Suffer, Selius Arconious, suffer! You cannot have me!" In the barred feeding area, the gate shut against the housing for returning tarns, Ellen put the basket of meat on the floor, and, moving about, and climbin...	10
18	335	From those hooks, sometimes as they fluttered in the feeding area, feet from the floor, it would be torn by the feeding tarns.	10
18	336	Sometimes, too, when the tarns were in the feeding area, she would throw the meat upward, between the bars to them.	10
18	339	"We all fear tarns," Portus Canio had told her once, on the platform.	10
18	808	"They might annoy the tarns," he said.	10
19	51	"Tarns can come and go, and leave the city," said Portus.	10
19	52	"Where there are tarns they will be suspicious.	10
19	64	Two of the tarns went to it, and put their beaks down to it, but they then withdrew, as it apparently contained nothing of interest to them.	10
19	74	"How many tarns have you?" asked the officer.	10
19	87	They did not, of course, enter the area occupied by the tarns.	10
19	112	"There are tarns there," said a man.	10
19	117	"These are only draft tarns," said Portus, "slow, clumsy, gentle birds.	10
19	123	The tarns instantly, alertly, regarded him.	10
19	125	"Only cowards fear tarns," said Portus Canio.	10
19	126	The officer thrust through the gate, but scarcely had he entered the area, a stranger, one unknown to the tarns, than one of the birds flew at him, aggressively, and he sprang back through the narrow opening and the great, yellow, scimitarlike beak snapped on the bars, not a foot from his hand.	10
19	382	"Harness tarns".	10
19	405	"Seven tarns are ready harnessed for cargo," said Selius Arconious, emerging from the tarn cage, and two others are haltered, ready for tandem, trailing flight.	10
19	406	What is this all about?" Two tarns, it seemed, were to be left behind.	10
19	478	The tarns, interestingly, were arranged in order within the loft area, rather than outside, on the platform.	10
19	481	Tersius Major would come third, with the third basket, but, from his tarn's harness, a long line extended to the fourth tarn and basket, and from the harness of that tarn, with its basket, there ran another line to the fifth tarn, and so, too, to the sixth and seventh tarn, this forming a string of ...	10
19	482	The eighth and ninth tarns were in harness but bore no baskets.	10
19	483	They did form, as they too were joined to the others by a line, a part of the tandem progress of attached tarns.	10
19	485	This left behind, in their barred housing, two of the eleven tarns which had been originally in the loft.	10
19	486	These two tarns were left in the care of Selius Arconious, who had chosen to remain behind.	10
19	487	Cosians would presumably be less suspicious if some tarns remained in the loft.	10
19	497	Draft tarns are usually controlled from the basket.	10
19	515	She was terrified of tarns, and frightened of heights.	10
19	569	Then followed the train of tarns led by Tersius Major.	10
19	646	She looked up as the tarns swept by overhead.	10
19	656	He made no move to signal the train of tarns nor did he rush to sound an alarm.	10
19	767	Wagonloads of gold, hundreds of tarns, have been exchanged for high slaves.	10
20	175	When the tarns in the progress of Tersius Major had come to the ground, Fel Doron, already landed, came to the last of the seven baskets, and lifted Ellen from the basket.	10
20	189	Its meat was fed to the tarns.	10
20	270	How then could he signal them? Then, to her amazement, she sensed that something was very different in the tarn train, and realized, with a start, that the line connecting the tarn and basket of Tersius Major and the following tarns and baskets was free, perhaps cut.	10
20	278	The tarns and baskets of Portus Canio and Fel Doron continued on their way.	10
20	285	Or one of perhaps several points of rendezvous? Would Fel Doron be the next to leave the train? But why would Tersius Major have freed the tarns and baskets in his winged retinue? That seemed to make no sense.	10
20	287	She knew these were not wild tarns, because of the orderly approach, the measured, three-dimensional spacing of the birds.	10
20	352	But it is not likely to attack its own kind, tarns.	10

Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	20	As the tarns of the dismounted enemy were on the plaza of training, and we now held that ground, they had no access to the tarns without challenging us.	10

Book 33. (4 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	168	Thus, if a schedule is not well kept, or if any attempt should be made to obtain the tarns, the tarns, in the keeping of the remaining tarnsman, will take flight, returning safely to your camp, and the cavalry will have lost only two junior officers.	10
21	88	Could it, unaided, make its way to that board on which the dice were to be cast, the islands beyond the Farther Islands? If not, is the game not done? And if perchance such a ship, a large ship, a transport for men and tarns, as no other before it had done, might brave the perils of Thassa, what the...	10
21	294	We looked upward and, against the yellow moon, were seen three tarns, a lead tarn with mounted tarnsman, and two other tarns, riderless, but each on a long, looping lead.	10
61	161	"The beast, Yamada, has no tarns!" The two tarns which had been at the disposal of Lord Yamada were no longer available to the shogun.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	69	"Five mighty tarns, draft tarns, each with a string of ten men, hovered at the parapet.	10