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Book 1. (37 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	249	My first impression was that of a rush of wind and a great snapping sound, as if a giant might be snapping an enormous towel or scarf; then I was cowering, awe-stricken, in a great winged shadow, and an immense tarn, his talons extended like gigantic steel hooks, his wings sputtering fiercely in the...	10
4	41	The great tarn snapped his wings out, catching the air under them, and smoothly began to fly a straight course, his wings beating slowly but steadily in a cruising speed that would soon take us far beyond the towers of the city.	10
1	205	Once I saw two eyes in the darkness and screamed and ran from them, hearing the flap of wings behind me and the startled cry of an owl.	10
3	250	"Stand clear of the wings," shouted the Older Tarl.	10
3	253	One stroke of those wings would hurl me yards from the top of the cylinder.	10
3	256	Whereas large Earth birds, such as the eagle, must, when taking flight from the ground, begin with a running start, the tarn, with its incredible musculature, aided undoubtedly by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, can with a spring and a sudden flurry of its giant wings lift both himself and his ...	10
3	282	He raised his curved beak to the sky and screamed, lifting and shaking his wings.	10
4	6	The effect was startling: there was the sudden bright flash of yellow glittering light, the splash of sparks, and a scream of pain and rage from the tarn as he immediately beat his wings, lifting himself out of my reach in a rush of air that nearly forced me over the edge of the roof.	10
4	28	I drew back on the one-strap and, filled with terror and exhilaration, felt the power of the gigantic wings beating on the invisible air.	10
4	36	"Do you seek to climb to the Moons of Gor?" I suddenly realized I felt dizzy, or slightly so, but the magnificent black tarn was still climbing, though now struggling, his wings beating fiercely with frustrated persistence against the thinning, less resistant air.	10
4	39	Fortunately, before losing consciousness, I drew on the four-strap, and the tarn leveled out and then lifted his wings over his back and dropped like a striking hawk, with a speed that left me without breath in my body.	10
4	55	His neck straightened and his wings suddenly cracked like whips in the sky; his eyes became fiery and his every bone and muscle seemed to leap with power.	10
4	56	In a dizzying minute or two we had passed the Older Tarl, to his amazement, and had settled again in a flurry of wings on the top of the cylinder from which we had departed a few minutes before.	10
4	90	There was a rush of wings outside the window of my apartment, and the Older Tarl flung himself across the room and dragged me to the floor.	10
5	84	She paused, and the wind whistled past, a steady sound mingling with the rhythmical stroke of the tarn's beating wings.	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	170	They swept toward me, about five yards apart, to close on either side of me, to force the wings of my tarn up and hold it for the moment they would need, trapped motionless between their own mounts.	10
6	6	The great bird opened and closed his wings, his steel-shod talons ringing on the metal perch as he changed his position, moving back and forth upon it.	10
6	7	At last, satisfied, he brought his wings against his body and remained still, except for the alert movements of his great head and the flash of those wicked eyes scrutinizing the streams of men and women on the nearby bridges.	10
6	35	She struck at me and pursued me to the tarn, which was excitedly shaking his wings, preparing to forsake the tumultuous roof of the cylinder.	10
6	39	I cursed as an arrow creased my shoulder, as the tarn's great wings smote the air and the monster took to flight.	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
12	83	Savagely those vast talons struck and closed on my body, forcing the frame for an instant beneath the water, then the tarn was beating the air angrily with his wings, struggling to lift his prey, and suddenly both myself and the heavy frame were pulled free from the water.	10
12	98	My hair froze as I heard the shrill, angry cry of another tarn; he was an enormous creature as sable as the helmet of Pa-Kur, his wings beating like whips, bearing down relentlessly on my captor.	10
12	120	After a few minutes of my ministrations the tarn, satisfied, spread his wings and took flight, to continue the search for food which had been interrupted.	10
12	135	His legs gave way, and his body, wings outspread, sank to the granite flooring of the ledge.	10
13	16	Perhaps the men of the mysterious camp heard the beating of the tarn's wings, perhaps I had been outlined for an instant against one of Gor's three circling moons, but suddenly the fires disappeared, kicked apart in a flash of sparks, and the glowing embers were smothered almost immediately.	10
13	86	I gestured to the tarn, which was impatiently opening and closing his wings.	10
13	118	Within a minute the air was filled with the beating of wings, as some half a hundred wild tarnsmen brought their birds down about us.	10
15	6	The wings of a striking tarn would be cut from its body by such wires.	10
17	104	Still, the days in the tarn cot, gigantic though it was, must have been confining for that Ubar of the Skies, my tarn, and I knew he would relish flight, the chance to pit his wings once again against the fierce winds of Gor.	10
18	84	He then reached his beak out to an apparently blank wall and withdrew it, repeating this three or four times, and then began to walk back and forth, snapping his wings impatiently.	10
18	108	The first time I hauled on the one-strap, the bird would not move; the second time he lifted into flight, almost immediately scraping the ceiling of the tunnel with his wings, protesting shrilly.	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	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
19	44	The great wings smote the air twice, raising a small hurricane that caused the startled onlookers to stagger backward.	10
19	174	Thousands of the great birds, their wings clapping like thunder, were descending on the city, flying onto the bridges and down to the streets, darting among those spires no longer protected with the terrible defense of the tarn wire.	10

Book 2. (24 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	39	I saw the great wings snap, smiting the air, the hurricane from their blow spilling slaves into the sand, tangling chains, as the great beast, lifting its head and smelling the open air, struck it with his wings.	10
14	55	Yet it was perhaps more, for as I stood by the bird, I felt almost as though I had come home to Ko-ro-ba, as though I stood here now with something in this gray, hostile city that knew me and mine, that had looked upon the Towers of the Morning, and had spread its wings above the glistening cylinder...	10
14	93	Now it spread its wings and smote the air, and lifted its beak and uttered the terrifying challenge scream of its kind.	10
14	112	Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S...	10
14	155	What I would have given for a tarn saddle and the broad purple strap that fastens the warrior in the saddle! As soon as it felt my weight, the tarn cried again and with an explosion of its broad wings sprang into the air, climbing in dizzy circles.	10
14	175	I saw the towers of Tharna, and the glittering oval of its arena, that cruel amphitheater, dropping away beneath the wings of the tarn.	10
14	192	Its wicked eyes gleamed, scanning the ground, its head and beak thrust forward, its wings still, gliding silently in great sweeps, lower and lower, over the gray towers of Tharna.	10
14	199	Its talons, shod with steel, dropped like great hooks; it seemed to tremble almost motionless in the air; and then its wings, parallel, lifted, almost enfolding me, and were still.	10
14	212	And so for an instant stood the tarn, its head and beak extended, its wings snapping, its prey locked in its grasp, and uttered the terrifying capture scream of the tarn, at once a scream of victory, and of challenge.	10
14	216	With a storm of wings the tarn smote the air and rose, in the sight of all, above the stands, above the arena, above the towers and walls of Tharna, and sped toward the horizon, the golden-robed body of the Tatrix clutched in its talons.	10
15	16	I said no more and the bird leveled off, its wings striking the air in great rhythmical beats, alternating occasionally with a long, soaring, shallow glide.	10
15	19	Its wings smote on, unresponsive, paying me no attention.	10
15	53	The great bird paused in flight, braking with its wings, and then smoothly descended to a high ledge on one of the ridges, a ledge commanding the countryside for pasangs around, a ledge accessible only on tarnback.	10
15	64	With one last look at the Tatrix, the bird turned and stalked to the brink of that awesome ledge and, with a single snap of its great wings, leaped into space, its soaring shadow a message of terror to any game below.	10
15	226	In that moment the shadow of the tarn covered the ledge and, with a great beating of wings, the monster rejoined us.	10
16	79	Behind me the tarn suddenly screamed with rage and its wings smote the air.	10
20	39	I had seen its shadow and feared it was wild, and had prepared to sell my life dearly, but the great beast, my own plumed giant, who may have haunted the Pillar of Exchanges for weeks, settled on the plains no more than thirty yards from me, its great wings shaking, and stalked to my side.	10
20	43	He offered no resistance, he showed no anger, when I leaped to his back and cried, as before, "One-strap!" at which signal, with a shrill cry and a mighty spring, those gigantic wings cracked like whips and beat their way aloft in the glory of flight.	10
20	90	I took the tarn as high as I could, until his wings beat frantically against the thin air, but could see nothing in the Sardar Mountains that might be the habitation of Priest-Kings.	10
20	97	Its vast wings futilely, wildly, struck out, uncoordinated and frenetic, like the limbs of a drowning swimmer.	10
20	136	It shook its wings and screamed, and hurled itself against the wind.	10
23	84	Those round blazing eyes regarded me, those great wings lifted and shook, his beak was lifted to the sky and he screamed the shrill cry of the tarn.	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
25	144	"Do not forget Dorna the Proud, for we have an account to settle!" The hands in their gloves of silver jerked back savagely on the one-strap and the wings of the tarn burst into flight.	10

Book 3. (15 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	4	The Beetle wavered, its entire shell of golden, fused wings trembling, and it seemed as if those fused wings shook as though to separate and fly but they could not, and it pulled its head back under the shelter of the wings.	10
15	46	What most astonished me was that he had wings, long, slender, beautiful, golden, translucent wings, folded against his back.	10
15	55	I looked at the long, golden wings of the creature.	10
24	8	The back itself seemed divided into two thick casings which might once, ages before, have been horny wings, but now the tissues had, at the points of touching together, fused in such a way as to form what was for all practical purposes a thick, immobile golden shell.	10
24	15	It backed up a bit and withdrew its head further beneath the shell of its fused, golden wings.	10
24	26	It seemed to me that it would be very difficult to injure the Golden Beetle, particularly when its head was withdrawn beneath the shell of its enclosing wings.	10
24	30	On the other hand I could hope that somehow the sensory field of the antennae might be similarly, at least partially, restricted by their withdrawal beneath the casing of the fused, horny wings.	10
24	37	Now the Beetle began to poke its head out from beneath the shelter of those domed, golden wings and its short antennae, tufted with golden fluff, thrust out and began to explore the chamber.	10
27	87	It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world.	10
27	90	I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new N...	10
27	281	Suddenly, strangely carried on the many translators in the room, were the words, "I remember him—I have never forgotten him—in the sky—in the sky—he with wings like showers of gold".	10
27	287	"Yes," she said, "he had wings like showers of gold".	10
27	366	It said: "I see him, I see him, and his wings are like showers of gold".	10
31	209	Slowly the heavy body with its domed, fused wings pressed past me, its tiny, tuftlike antennae extending towards Sarm, its long, hollow pincerlike jaws opening.	10
32	47	His wings, she had said, had been like showers of gold.	10

Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	68	"Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot...	10
14	43	In the distance we heard a sound like a thunder of wings and then, against the three white moons of Gor, to my dismay, we saw tarnsmen pass overhead, striking toward the camp.	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
20	30	Then overhead in the darkness we heard the beat of a tarn's wings and saw one of the monstrous birds pass above us.	10
20	148	Immediately the huge bird's wings began to beat and it sprang skyward.	10
26	46	The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range.	10

Book 5. (35 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	326	Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,...	10
7	49	At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa...	10
7	110	The bird stalked out from under the overhang, poised itself on the edge of the shelf, and then, with a leap and a beating of its wings, entered its element.	10
12	20	"Oh Priest-Kings," cried a man nearby, a Leather Worker, "speed the wings of red!" Everyone in the crowd seemed to be on their feet, even those who sat in the marbled tiers beneath the awnings of purple silk.	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	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
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	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
13	297	Mip, scarcely seeming to touch the one-strap with his finger, almost a tap, took the old bird from the perch and in a whiplike flurry of its wings it struck the outside perch and stood there, its old head moving alertly, the wicked black eyes gleaming.	10
13	306	The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im...	10
13	325	Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall.	10
15	372	Outside, in the air overhead, we heard a storm of wings, tarnsmen aflight.	10
16	255	The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon.	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
22	3	As my bird, with a flash of wings, struck the sand of the compound, four men armed with crossbows rushed forward.	10
22	109	I heard the judge's bar, a bristling fire of wings, and the sudden, wild roar of the crowd.	10
22	120	The birds, some nine of them, only a few feet overhead and to one side, flashed past, wings cracking like whips, beaks extended, the riders hunched low in the saddles.	10
22	122	I caught a glimpse of Green Ubar, Mip in the saddle, lost in the flurry of whipping wings.	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	153	The tarns, like a torrent of beating wings and talons, swept by again.	10
22	195	I saw Green Ubar begin then to hold his lead, his wings striking with the accelerating, timed frenzy of the racing tarn, each stroke seeming to carry him swifter and farther than the last.	10
22	196	Then, to my horror, I saw the wings miss their beat and the bird screamed in pain, and began to turn in the air, Mip spinning with the bird, trying to control it.	10
22	204	Suddenly Green Ubar, in the flash of the wings and the cries of the riders passing him, righted himself and with a cry of rage and pain burst toward the rings, Mip sagging in the saddle.	10
22	346	It stood there, its head extended, snapping its wings.	10
22	352	Then the bird threw back its head and opened its wings, and, eyes gleaming, as though among the crags of the Thentis Range or the Voltai, uttered the challenge scream of the Mountain Tarn, shrill, wild, defiant, piercing.	10
22	370	I took the great tarn up with a snap of his wings to my starting perch, the fourth.	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	422	With a sudden scream and a snap of the wide black wings the War Tarn of Ko-ro-ba was aloft.	10
22	430	This warned the rider of the eighth bird, a Gold, and he, bent low in the saddle, looked behind him to see, piercing the rings, eyes blazing, wings snapping, the great black tarn.	10
22	432	The bird, beautiful, fierce, talons lifted, wings beating, hanging almost motionless before the ring, faced us.	10
22	519	The bird gave a great scream and the wings began to strike the air with the fury of victory.	10
22	526	Suddenly, to my dismay, I heard about us shouts and the thunder of wings and, closing in upon us, and following us, and rushing to meet us, were tarnsmen.	10
22	534	Menicius of Port Kar was now far in the advance but my tarn, silent, save for the crack of his great wings, eyes bright, blood on its beak and steel-shod talons, again took up the pursuit.	10
22	565	With a curse he jerked savagely at the control straps of Quarrel and that fine bird instantaneously responded and together Quarrel and Ubar of the Skies passed through the final ring; with a snap of his great wings Ubar of the Skies struck the winner's perch, seized it in his steel-shod talons and t...	10
24	522	I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, wings beating, lifted itself beautifully from the cylinder.	10

Book 6. (12 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	48	I did see a large, harmless zarlit fly, purple, about two feet long with four translucent wings, spanning about a yard, humming over the surface of the water, then alighting and, on its padlike feet, daintily picking its way across the surface.	10
2	33	This was a paraphrase of a saying common on Gor, given by passing strangers to those through whose territories they would travel: Only the span of the wings of my tarn, only the girth of my tharlarion, only the width of my body, and no more, and that but for the time it takes to pass.	10
8	11	Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls.	10
8	172	High overhead, passing, I heard the squeals of four Uls, beating their way eastward on webbed, scaled wings.	10
17	248	Feeling the wind and the cold suddenly strike them they threw back their heads and beat their wings, pulled against the chains that bound them to the keel timbers.	10
17	337	To my delight the tarn, with a snap of its wings, leaped from the hold.	10
17	338	He stood on the deck of the round ship, opening and closing his wings, looking about himself, and then threw back his head and screamed.	10
17	341	I drew again on the one-strap and again the bird's wings snapped, and he was on the long, sloping yard on the round ship's foremast.	10
17	370	Almost instantly the ship was the center of a great beating of wings and descending tarns.	10
18	132	In a few moments the tarn spread his wings before the black wind and, caught in the blast, was hurled before the Dorna, and began, in dizzying circles, to climb in the wind and sleet.	10
18	142	From time to time the bird, tiring, its wings wet, cold, coated with sleet, would drop sickeningly downward, but then again it would beat its way on the level, half driven by the wind, half flying.	10
18	150	I unsaddled it and let it shake the water from its wings and body.	10

Book 7. (19 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	159	It looked at me for a moment, and then, with a flurry of wings, darted out of the ship.	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	368	The wind driven by their pounding, snapping wings, with hurricanes of dust and small stones, could hurl a man from his feet.	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	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
12	715	Another would fly low and to the side of the running girl, and a beat of the tarn's great wings would send her rolling and sprawling for a dozen yards across the grass.	10
13	581	It was now screaming, descending, wings beating, streaking towards me.	10
13	583	I heard the scream of the bird behind me, and the beating of its great wings, closer and closer! I stumbled, screaming, then running again.	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	634	Then, with a jolt to my back, and with a scattering of dust and a snapping of wings, the tarn alit.	10
13	719	I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ...	10
13	867	Then its talons locked over the shield and it smote its wings, ripping the shield straps, half tearing my captor from the saddle, and the tarn was away, the shield then dropping like a penny, turning, toward the field below.	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	2	When his tarn had dropped, wings beating, into the clearing among the tents, they ringed with a palisade of sharpened logs, some twelve feet high, there had been much shouting, much welcome.	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
17	207	The tarn screamed and began to beat its wings.	10
18	82	There was from the broken cover of clouds, like a bolt of dark, beating lightning, the thunder of the wings of a tarn.	10
18	85	The tarn's talons struck the delta wall, and, wings beating, it clung there, and put back its head and screamed.	10
18	96	The tarn screamed and, wings beating, smote the air from its path, and began to climb into the dark, windy sky, streaking toward the moons of Gor.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	449	It is like a tarn with wings of gold, that sits but once upon a warrior's helm, and when it departs, it returns no more.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	347	It smote the air with its wings, and beat its way into the smoky skies of Kassau.	10
6	227	These rings, when the wings of the collar are joined, are aligned, those on one wing on top and bottom, that on the other in the center.	10
16	195	Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull.	10
22	263	I wondered how she might feel, the gag hood drawn over her head from behind, locked shut behind her neck, stripped, thrown on her back over the saddle of a tarn, bound, swept away, with a beating of wings, into total bondage.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	493	I heard, a short time later, wings, the alighting of one or more large birds.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	793	Tarns lifted and spread their wings, uneasily.	10
12	869	Rask of Treve's tarn smote the air with its mighty wings.	10
12	871	The span of those wings may have been thirty feet or more.	10

Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	901	The tarn, given the sudden force on the one-strap, reared and, smiting the air with his mighty wings, lifted itself into the air.	10
11	354	The winged monster screamed with rage and reared upward, wings cracking like whips at the air.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	167	"Even the larl grows sometimes weary, and the tarn, upon occasion, must find a place in which to fold its wings".	10
26	25	The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch, for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	239	A squadron of Ar's tarn cavalry, the stroke of their wings synchronized with the beat of the drum, passed by, overhead.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	18	The wings of the Voskjard had been cruelly clipped.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	283	I then saw it lift its wings, opening and shutting them twice.	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	1368	I staggered back in the wind from the wings.	10
14	1114	It was like the beating of wings.	10

Book 18. (24 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
27	40	These were intended to serve the same purposes as the swaying, almost invisible tarn wire sometimes strung in the high cities, wires which can cut the wings from a bird or tear off the head or arm of a rider.	10
27	71	A tarn, its wings like thunder, some twenty feet over our heads, smote the air, and then another.	10
29	42	I heard the beating of wings.	10
29	65	Then great wings smote the air above us, the air tearing at our clothes, raising dust in affrighted clouds on the field.	10
30	170	A tarn's wings smote the air above us, not twenty feet over our heads.	10
37	89	In the latter two fashions, the wings are put to the side.	10
37	552	The bird, smiting its wings, darted towards us but, screaming, fell short on its belly in the grass, feathers flying about.	10
37	557	The bird, then, rising up, wings beating, took to flight, jerking the hobbling log from the pit, tearing it up through the sod roof and poles.	10
37	560	Struggling, wings beating, screaming, the bird, lunging and falling, and climbing again, fought the weight.	10
38	5	Ropes, as well, encircled its wings, binding them to its body.	10
39	11	In a few moments we had secured its wings and then, working together, Hci and I, bound its legs together.	10
39	295	The bird soared towards us and then, several yards away, turned its wings, braking, and hovered for a moment in the air, its claws dropping, and then landed.	10
42	28	Accordingly we swiftly took to flight, the screaming of the birds, the smiting of their wings, serving further to alert the camp, both Yellow Knives and Kinyanpi.	10
42	50	Beating its mighty wings the bird hung almost motionless in the air, its back a steep line.	10
42	60	They shouted among themselves, over the beating of the birds' wings.	10
42	68	The birds, wings snapping and striking, their backs almost vertical, the men leaning forward on them, were an impressive sight.	10
47	88	We crouched down, dust and rocks flying past us, that we not be forced from the edge of the escarpment by the turbulent blasts of those mighty, beating wings.	10
47	126	I heard other tarns, too, screaming behind me, and heard the beatings of wings.	10
47	154	The other tarns, strung out now, struggling, wings beating painfully, sporadically, against the thin air, hung below us.	10
47	175	Again the tarn aligned itself, smote downward, then lifted its wings, almost folded on either side of me, its talons, like great hooks, lowered.	10
47	238	My tarn braked in the air, spreading and beating its wings.	10
47	290	Such reins are not made for leading and the stroke of the wings, so close to my bird, was irregular, uneven and frantic.	10
47	421	He extended his mighty wings and smote them against the air.	10

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	24	I heard wings overhead.	10
15	318	I heard the snapping of wings.	10
15	323	I crawled forward and, as the men were concerned with the tarn, it moving about and occasionally stretching and snapping its wings, crawled into the last basket.	10
15	356	There seemed suddenly a storm of wings in the air, and I heard the striking of tarn talons on the platform.	10
15	411	Suddenly there was a storm of wings and the basket, a moment later, was jerked forward, slipping along the leather skids and then, in another instant, taking my breath away for an instant, it was lofted like the others high into the air.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	941	"I see him, I see him," she had said, "and his wings are like showers of gold".	10
19	12	It can cut the head or wings from a descending tarn.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	172	Surmounting this plate, clutching it in its talons, is a tarn, done in silver, its wings outstretched".	10

Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	322	It opened its wings.	10
8	396	The tarn opened and closed its wings, and she lowered her head, turning it to the side, and shrank down, frightened, cringing, so low that her head was but inches from the ground.	10
8	581	From such a platform the bird, with a single snap of its wings, addressing itself to flight, is immediately airborne.	10
8	614	I drew back, decisively, on the one-strap, and the tarn screamed and smote the air with its wings, and, my servant crying out in terror and clutching the pommel, was aflight! Those who are horsemen know the exhilaration of riding, the marvelous animal, its strength, its pacings, its speed, its respo...	10
9	41	The ears of the delicate Phoebe must have burned as she heard the snapping of wings near us and the shouting of ribald, raucous jests, of which her beauty and its probable disposition were the subject.	10
17	440	It was important to me to coordinate the withdrawal of both wings, to keep balance in the positions, to prevent flanking movements.	10

Book 24. (27 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	224	It is produced by the movement of wings, the intense, almost unimaginably rapid beating of millions upon millions of small wings.	10
19	809	It opened its wings to try to climb again, perhaps some fifty feet or so, above the marsh, and did climb, yard by yard, as though it would ascend to the clouds, but then it fell slowly, its wings beating, toward the marsh.	10
1	1094	I had not been able to make out what he had been howling upward, crouching there, chained, what with the wind, and the beating of the tarn's wings.	10
5	64	I once saw, outlined against one of the moons, membranous, clawed wings outspread, the soaring shape of the giant, predatory ul, the dreaded winged tharlarion of the delta.	10
13	342	There was a smoothness in it, the turning, and now, as I had feared, the wings of the tarn were outspread.	10
13	349	"It is an attack pattern!" Could they not see that? Did they not understand what was happening? Could they not understand the rationale of that steadiness, the menace of the motionlessness of those great wings? Could they not see that what was approaching was in effect a smoothly gliding, incredibly...	10
13	353	It was like a whisper of light, terribly quick, little more than something you are not sure you have really seen, then the bird had snapped its wings and was ascending.	10
17	171	It was the sound of large wings, moving rapidly.	10
17	173	The zarlit fly is very large, about two feet long, with four large, translucent wings, with a span of about a yard.	10
19	5	It opened its wings, suddenly.	10
19	38	I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan...	10
19	41	It had opened its wings, suddenly.	10
19	104	"Go away!" Again it opened its wings.	10
19	109	The creature then snapped its wings, again and again.	10
19	115	With a beating of the giant wings the creature ascended, struggling with the weight of the tharlarion, and then, after a moment, perhaps from a height of a hundred feet or so, dropped it into the marsh.	10
19	197	If it were its intention to smite me with the wind from the beating of those mighty wings I thought it best to withdraw into the rence.	10
19	202	But the ul did not beat its wings.	10
19	207	Then it suddenly smote its wings and ascended two or three yards into the air, hovering, reaching for me with its clawed feet.	10
19	214	It snapped its wings.	10
19	226	It began to pursue me, sometimes hovering, its wings beating over the rence, flattening the stalks, forcing them to the water, agitating the water itself, producing waves fleeing before that force.	10
19	721	Then the ul struck its huge wings against the air, lifting itself above the rence, hovering.	10
19	734	Once I saw its entire body, moving with great speed, impelled by a snap of those huge skin wings.	10
19	754	It then, for what reason I am not sure, perhaps because of its memory of fire, perhaps because of the injuries I had caused it, perhaps because of a mere desire to safeguard its prey, smote its great wings, and, blasting sand about, bending nearby rence almost to the water, began to rise into the ai...	10
19	795	The great wings no longer beat frenziedly.	10
19	1535	"Drive me there, as though by wings and whips.	10
27	368	"Forced to appear on a public stage scandalously clad, or naked," she asked, "dancing, singing, saying lines, being struck with paddles, and such, your master all the time in the wings with a whip?" "If you like," I said.	10
45	116	Should we admonish the tarn for spreading his wings in a stormy sky? Should we recommend to the larl that it feed on grass? It does not care to do so, and who will gainsay its will? Do we disapprove of seasons, of the heat of the sun, of the cool of the night? We may do as we wish, but things will b...	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	201	Such are the wings of rumors.	10

Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	89	What a strange dream! It seemed the basket flew! Sometimes it seemed I heard the smiting of air, as though in the beating of giant wings.	10
8	672	I had thought I had heard great snapping sounds, doubtless now the beating of wings, and certain cries, doubtless, now, of such a creature, or of one somewhat like it, utilized for draft purposes.	10
9	200	Twice I had heard drums and rushed to the bars to see perhaps twenty such winged monsters aflight, the second stroke of the wings keeping the cadence of the drums.	10
9	289	The bird was smaller than many, and with shorter wings.	10
19	23	Sometimes wings would snap and air would rush about.	10
19	208	One of the tarns suddenly snapped its wings and a great rush of air blasted toward us.	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	176	I heard a terrible scream of a tarn and saw one of its wings cut from its body by the almost invisible, swaying tarnwire.	10

Book 27. (14 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	565	In a moment the tarn had leapt from the platform, spread its wings, soared for a brief moment, swooping downward, and had then, with a sudden snapping of those mighty wings, begun to fly.	10
13	261	There was a wild cry, piercing, at hand, not more than fifteen feet above her, surely the loudest and most terrifying sound she had ever heard, as of some living, immense, monstrous creature, and she was in shadow and then not in shadow, in a shadow that moved and leapt and was shattered with bursts...	10
13	263	Above her, now darting away, was a gigantic bird, an enormous bird, a saddlebird, its wings with a span of thirty or more feet, and, seemingly tiny on its back, was a helmeted man! Ellen had heard an angry cry from the man above her, and words in Gorean she did not recognize, words that had certainl...	10
13	273	May her women be put in collars! May they, and her other slaves, be herded away! May her towers be burned and salt cast upon their ashes!" The approach of the second tarn, soaring, borne on the wind, its wings still, was silent.	10
13	343	The tarn came down, wings beating, hovering, and then alit on the roof.	10
13	479	The tarn then smote the air, leapt from the roof, soared for a moment, and then, wings beating, rose higher, leveled in its flight, and then streaked from the city, in a direction other than that taken by those in pursuit of the Trevean raiders.	10
17	938	Once she heard the scream of a tarn as it swept between buildings, and felt the blast of wind from its wings which half thrust her to the wall.	10
19	20	A tarn, one of several in the nearby caged areas, screamed, and snapped its wings.	10
19	120	A tarn can thus stalk through one, but could not spread its wings and fly through one.	10
19	642	Better a collar on Gor than a throne on Earth! How glorious to be a woman and live upon a natural world, a world in which I must occupy my rightful place in the order of nature, my place at the feet of masters! The beat of the tarn's wings above her was steady, and smooth.	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	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
20	444	The first then lifted itself from the water, furiously beating its soaked wings, plunging down, striking the water, then sweeping up again, the wet feathers scarcely sustaining its flight.	10
27	1018	But at that moment there was indeed a beating of wings in the sky, a whirl of wind, a blasting of grasses, the screams of mighty forms overhead, wild gigantic darting shadows darkening the grass, the shouts of men, the piercing sounds of tarn whistles.	10

Book 28. (17 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	85	"See the wings," said Grendel.	10
40	159	"By the canvas and leather wings, beating against the atmosphere".	10
46	175	"Build wings," said Lord Grendel.	10
46	200	"Let us begin to build wings".	10
47	60	As they neared, discernible became the slow, rhythmic beat of gigantic canvas wings, harnessed to massive bodies.	10
47	62	The canvas wings sought their purchase in the world's atmosphere, thrusting against it, cleaving it, as they neared.	10
47	63	"Grendel!" called Cabot, as Lord Grendel folded his wings and gently came to rest on the ledge beside him.	10
47	92	It should be understood that the control of the wings, as they are commonly constructed, requires the use of both arms, and, resultantly, it is difficult, and, in some cases, impractical, to use certain weapons while in flight.	10
47	114	And so Lords Grendel and Statius stood, seemingly convinced that further flight was futile, wings spread, in the great threshold of the barren arsenal.	10
47	120	Cabot, shielded by the wings of his friends, sensed that the purple scarves were very close, no more than feet from the ledge itself.	10
47	122	At the same time Lords Grendel and Statius pushed from the ledge and with a blow of the wide canvas wings were each entangled with a foe.	10
47	139	Cabot saw loops of gut loose amongst the beating wings, and Statius' foe, striking Statius' jaws away from his shoulder with a mighty blow, turned about, erratically, and tried to strike away.	10
47	143	To free the weapon, a shoulder weapon, the Kur had had to abandon his control of the wings, and he floated, without control, some yards from the ledge.	10
47	144	Lord Grendel thrust up the weapon with his wing, and then, spinning about, close to his foe, who floated before him, had one hand loose from the wing harness and tore the weapon from the Kur's grasp, and the Kur recovered control of the wings, and backed away, warily.	10
47	156	The body, harnessed within the wings, was now little more than some fifty yards from the ledge, drifting aimlessly, eccentrically, sometimes rolling over, a length of its entrails wrapped about a leg.	10
47	168	Lord Grendel then turned his back on the two Kurii, and, with one sweep of the wings, returned to the ledge.	10
74	32	Tarn cavalries, as it is explained to me, have similar exercises, and maneuvers, to the beating of drums, these often coordinating the stroke of the great wings.	10

Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	42	They are not sea birds which can rest on the wind, aloft for Ahn, wings spread, not moving, and, if they wished, descend, and rest on the sea itself.	10
12	222	Elsewhere in the open area, which was, it seems, a training plaza, some tarns were out, some with wings bound, others, farther along in their training, hobbled, a heavy log chained to a taloned foot, and, in each case, held in ropes, so that if the tarn charged one trainer, it could be restrained by...	10
14	65	Given the size of the tarn, the beating of its wings, and such, there is no simple way to protect it from arrow fire, either aerial fire or fire from the ground.	10
14	73	I have always referred to the tarn as a bird, and will continue to do so, for it is surely that, at least in a sense, given its ecological place, its feathering, its wings, and such, but, zoologically, one supposes, it is something rather different from what are normally taken as birds, either on Ea...	10
14	94	On the other hand, if one were to use the bow, it was better for the stirrups to be shortened, so one could easily rise in the stirrups, if one wished, for firing over the head of the bird, over its wings, and so on.	10
16	82	I pulled the tarn up, further, and then, briefly, held it almost stationary in the air, drawing back on all the straps simultaneously, the bird then hovering, wings beating fiercely.	10
16	110	In this respect, obviously, the smooth flight of the tarn, particularly in its soaring, wings-spread approach, is far superior to the gallop of the racing kaiila.	10
18	11	Dust swirled, raised by war and the beating wings of tarns, the gigantic, monstrous saddle birds of Gor.	10
20	82	Some commanders, well aware of this dynamic, increase the depth of their left wings, a tactic which often leads to victory.	10
26	196	I could see the sheen on the wings of the tarn, the streaking on its beak.	10
26	321	I loosened the guide straps and the tarn extended its head, snapped its mighty wings, spraying water back, and sped toward the shelter of the cots.	10
40	29	And so it was that at the mouth of the Alexandra, mighty, its passage now uncontested, as tarns returned to the ship, one by one, canvas fell from the yards, took the wind, and the ship of Tersites, her wings spread, set her prow westward.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	329	I reached for the mounting ladder of Seremides' tarn, but it was jerked away, and, in a moment, I was in the shadow of those great beating wings, the bird lifting itself, scarcely able to keep my footing, my robes and veils whipping about me, and then the monster was in flight, and Seremides, and hi...	10
3	1144	At that point, we heard the hovering beating of a tarn's wings, and, looking up, I saw a tarn, with tarn basket, preparing to alight in the stable yard.	10
8	59	One even now struck the deck, its wings snapping, soon to be led below.	10
9	39	As the tarn is a large, dangerous, aggressive bird, and territorial in the wild, many of the ship tarns had separate stalls, or cages; others were chained apart, by the left foot; some others, crowded together, literally had their wings bound, their beaks strapped shut, save for feeding.	10
9	82	It is impressive to see such mighty beasts in flight, the stroke of the wings to the beating of the tarn drum, the wheelings and maneuvers, in unison, to the signals of banners and trumpets.	10
9	197	An open space was provided fore and aft in each cot area, in which some birds were chained in place, and others, in effect, bound, wings pinioned by ropes, beaks strapped shut, save for feeding.	10
9	200	Whereas the tarn, in virtue of its strength, can take flight directly, interestingly, almost vertically, from a horizontal surface, they would usually, on the ship, as from a cliff, launch themselves through an arranged opening in the bulwarks, spread their wings, catch the air, and then strike thei...	10
9	242	Several tarns, sensing the sky, the hatch now open to the far, bright stars, with a great snap of their wings, sometimes dragging saddle and harnessing behind them, disappeared into the cold night.	10
26	123	The fellow was pointing to a high storey of the castle, where there was a beating of wings, dark against the sky, and then the tiny bird disappeared, within.	10
32	1	Lines are Severed; Torches Fall Into the Sea Dust was roiling in the courtyard from the beating of wings.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	18	"Is it not like a ship," asked Trachinos, "sailing through the snow? Can you not see sails, the jutting prow?" "I would see the head of a tarn," said Lykos, "with the wings spread behind it".	10

Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	123	You may teach a bird that flight is evil, and break its wings, but its heart will always remember the sky.	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
14	504	"It is said," he said, "on the wings of Priest-Kings".	10
15	81	Before, in the forest, I had known them only as large, frightening shadows overhead, rapid, monstrous darknesses overhead, storms of wings smiting the air, whose passage had torn leaves from the canopy, these then showering downward, scattering about us.	10
15	94	It had talons, a beak, long and wicked, and mighty wings.	10
15	134	The fellow who had arrested our progress, then, with a snap of wings and a shower of dust, departed the field.	10
27	59	I would not be aboard when she descended the Alexandra, and would open the wings of her canvas to the winds of Thassa, capricious, vast, turbulent Thassa, the sea.	10
31	15	The blow must be struck soon, before the bird spreads its wings.	10
52	933	How small the man appeared next to this terrible, winged monster, its broad wings restless, its head, with its fearful beak, high above the beach, moving alertly about, the large, wicked, round, shining, black eyes.	10
52	972	The tarnsman drew on one of the straps, threaded through its ring, and the huge bird screamed, and smote the air with those great wings, scattering sand and pebbles about, and was into the air, low, several feet over the river.	10

Book 33. (42 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
53	45	Do not all dragons have vast, fearful batlike wings? In a sense then, the wings were quite essential, to convey the illusion.	10
53	46	Indeed, lacking wings, or seeming wings, this remarkable machine might not have been instantly identified, in the minds of thousands, with the fabled iron dragon of legend.	10
1	94	The beating of its wings could lash the leaves from trees.	10
1	253	"I do not think the iron dragon has yet spread its wings".	10
2	6	I buckled the safety strap, and snapped the reins, and my mount leapt from the wall, spread its vast wings, and, after soaring a few Ihn, struck against the air and surged upward.	10
2	60	I had been at the holding, idle, waiting, doing nothing! I cried out with rage, startling the bird, which swerved to the left, and lost a beat of the great wings.	10
2	177	"Up!" I cried, leaping to the mounting ladder, which swung beside the saddle, and the tarn screamed, and its mighty wings smote the air, and it ascended, I clinging to the mounting ladder.	10
3	1	In the Vicinity of a Small Fire It was merely Ehn later when the tarn, responding to the straps, wings beating, hovering, descending, struck into the snow yards from the tiny fire, concealed amongst the rocks.	10
7	238	When it awakens and spreads its wings, it signifies loss and defeat, the changing of things, the darkening of the sun, the coming of night, the downfall of dynasties, the end of great houses".	10
10	9	As tarns alit several emitted tarn cries, as though to announce their arrival and claim for their own the ground on which, wings snapping, dust in the wind, they stood.	10
10	106	The mighty wings of my tarn struck the air, and I saw one fellow stumble, his forearm over his eyes, lost in a sheet of driven dust, and I was aflight.	10
11	241	"Lord Yamada," said Tajima, "has had read for him the bones and shells, and in these troubled days of strange things and darkness, fears that the iron dragon will awaken, and if awaken, will spread its wings and fly".	10
11	247	"Why should this worry Lord Yamada?" "Who knows what will occur should the iron dragon spread its wings?" asked Tajima.	10
12	252	"Rather than surrender," said Daichi, "Lord Temmu would prefer the termination of his line and the destruction of the holding altogether, even should the iron dragon spread its wings".	10
17	210	With a blast of dust, and a snapping of wings, Tyrtaios brought the tarn down some forty or fifty paces away, at the far end, to the right of the archery court.	10
21	371	I heard a cry of pain, the snap of mighty wings, and dust carried even to where I stood, wavering, looking backward.	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
25	273	"He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the ...	10
27	162	How the pasangs slipped away, beneath those mighty, beating wings! "I looked about, I inquired," I said.	10
44	142	* * * Overhead was the snap of wings, like whips, and, below, on the parapets, flighted shadows darted on the walkways, and then, smaller, on the valley below.	10
44	239	"Signal Ichiro, on the summit, signal, 'Retreat' and 'Scatter'! 'Retreat' and 'Scatter'!" The large object now turned about, gracefully, the large, slow-moving wings orienting it.	10
44	254	It then, soft as a winged cloud, turned south, and, wings slowly moving, disappeared over the forces of Lord Yamada, which were now reassembling.	10
44	292	"The brutality, the size, the fangs of steel, the scales, the vast, skinlike wings, the ridged, spikelike tail, the claws of steel, the shining eyes about the head, the breath of fire?" "Yes, great lord," I said.	10
44	311	"You saw its size, its shape, the wings, its terribleness, the tail, the scales, the claws, its ferocity, its fangs, its breath of fire".	10
47	13	The tarn cavalry cannot withstand the fire of the iron dragon, which is even now poised to spread its wings.	10
48	80	"I want its eyes, and its wings".	10
48	112	"At dawn," said Lord Yamada, "the iron dragon will spread its wings.	10
50	158	At dawn the iron dragon was to spread its wings.	10
51	11	"One of its wings would not fit in this place," said Tajima.	10
53	1	The Dragon has Spread Its Wings "It is in flight!" cried Pertinax.	10
53	41	"The dragon," said Tajima, "has spread its wings".	10
53	43	The wings, of course, given the technology involved, were not necessary for flight, though I supposed they might provide some lift.	10
54	137	"First," I said, "the cause of Yamada must find itself beneath the shadow of its wings".	10
54	206	Who can look into the heart of a dragon?" "As you do not attack, and continue to circle," said Tajima, "surely many will lose their fear, and see the dragon as their ally, a monstrous beast who spreads its wings on behalf of the house of Yamada".	10
54	263	And those who did not believe now need only lift their eyes to the sky and behold the spread of these mighty wings, the thing come alive, as from nowhere".	10
54	269	The beat of its wings drives the currents of destiny; its approbation dignifies and ennobles houses; its frown foretells stricken futures.	10
57	65	Who would choose to hold ground or counterattack under a sky in which might suddenly appear the stern, beating wings of fate's implement, a gigantic dragon sprung alive from legend and myth, capable of palpable arson and destruction, appearing in a world where the canvas over one's head might burst ...	10
60	183	"Of course," said Lord Akio, lifting his war fan, spreading its wings, and locking them in place.	10
60	395	"Much may be done in the shadow of the iron dragon's wings," said Arashi.	10
61	130	That night, about the Twentieth Ahn, the silhouette of a tarn was cast briefly on the white moon, and, a bit later, the snap of mighty wings disturbed the canvas of several tents.	10
61	177	Who would not investigate such an anomaly? The great wings snapped over my head, dust pelting me, flames roaring to the sides, as though driven by the wind, the tarn hovering, and I grasped the flung, uncoiling, knotted rope, and, in a moment, was swinging wildly beneath the climbing tarn, the camp ...	10
61	753	Then there was smoke, blasts of light, a vehicle which moved like a cloud of steel, or a steel bird without wings, and I lost consciousness.	10

Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
63	156	We cried out in fear for there was a sudden sound, striking us like a bludgeon, a sudden snap of wings, great wings, not twenty feet from us, over us, air rushing about us, buffeting us, we covered for an instant by a vast, fleet shadow.	10
7	59	"There are no wings, no tail.	10
7	196	I had seen no engines, no wings, no tail.	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
24	30	Shortly thereafter I heard the ascent of the dangling mounting ladder, the sound of restless talons on wood, and the snap of wings.	10
49	109	Thousands of tiny defts, a small, flocking, gray, migratory bird, undistinguished in its plumage and not noted for its song, on their way to the shores of the Cartius, had been caught in the storm, as well, and, paralyzed with cold, with wings coated with ice, unable to continue their journey, had f...	10
54	64	"The mighty tarn soars in the sky, putting clouds beneath its wings.	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
63	151	The tarn drums kept the cadence of the flight, the wings of the great birds beating in unison.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	551	At that moment it seemed chaos broke out havoc loose down striking gigantic form dreadful fierce scarcely glimpsed out of darkness descending splintering wood lantern struck aside sinking into marsh shouting men curses cries leather wings broad wide vast alive beating once twice long narrow jaw so q...	10
1	102	One trembles, one struggles, one tears one's flesh and wings, but one can escape.	10
3	369	That is the slave world! Values and conventions become not roads, mountains, horizons, and wings, but fences and shackles.	10
32	18	But now these trembling, glowing possibilities, as tenuous and uncertain as they might be, had closed their wings and were still.	10
33	663	Portions, from the impact and the blows of the struggle, the beating wings, had been splintered free.	10
40	59	"Rumors have wings, even at sea," said the newcomer.	10
40	65	"Rumors may have wings at sea," said Florian, then relaxed, "but it seems some fly slowly.	10
40	68	"And some rumors, it seems," said the newcomer, soberly, "spread their wings closer to home, in the arsenal itself".	10
43	170	"Her wings are clipped.	10

Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	137	"You are all well acquainted with the governor and the Admiral, Archelaos and Nicomachos," I said, "and men often speak pridefully and loosely in the presence of attentive, beautiful women, especially if lifted upon the gentle wings of paga or ka-la-na".	10
48	67	When we approached the object, a clutter of small birds, scavenging jards, took flight with a reproachful burst of wings.	10
51	51	"The birds of prey spread their wings," said Thurnock.	10
63	188	"The wings of the tarn are strong.	10