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Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	108	I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expre...
9	300	"Did you truly think," asked Aphris of Turia arrogantly, "that a tuchuk would be permitted to look upon the face of a free woman of Turia?" Kamchak's fists were clenched on the table, for no tuchuk likes to be fooled.
15	55	One could hardly blame the Kassars, the Kataii and Paravaci for not wanting to be led by a tuchuk against Turia—or for not wanting to acquire the tuchuk troubles by uniting with them in any fashion.
22	142	"She was our mistress!" cried one of the tuchuk girls leading the Turian girl, and struck her sharply with the switch, at which information the tuchuk girls at the tables clapped their hands with delight.
3	1	The Spear Gambling One, the tuchuk, I might have slain with a cast of the heavy Gorean war spear; the others would have had free play with their lances.
3	13	The four riders exchanged glances and then, at a sign from the heavy tuchuk, rode a bit away from me.
3	23	At last the tuchuk detached himself from the other three warriors and pranced his kaiila to within a dozen yards of me.
3	36	The tuchuk's face tightened.
3	44	"What is your business with the Wagon Peoples?" demanded the tuchuk.
3	56	Angrily the tuchuk pulled back on the reins of the kaiila, causing it to rear, snarling, pawing at the sky.
3	113	As I watched, the tuchuk took his long, slender lance and thrust it into the ground, point upward.
3	134	"Ho!" I heard, and spun to see the black lance fall and scarcely had it moved but it was seized in the fist of the scarred tuchuk warrior.
4	1	The Outcome of Spear Gambling The tuchuk warrior lifted the lance in triumph, in the same instant slipping his fist into the retention knot and kicking the roweled heels of his boots into the silken flanks of his mount, the animal springing towards me and the rider in the same movement...
4	4	I had no wish to kill the tuchuk.
4	5	The charge of the tuchuk, in spite of its rapidity and momentum, carried him no more than four paces beyond me.
4	9	All the time the tuchuk thrust at me with his lance.
4	18	The tuchuk laughed, throwing his head back.
4	30	To the astonishment of the tuchuk and the others who observed, I threw away the weapon.
4	31	The tuchuk sat still on his mount, as did the others.
4	34	Then the tuchuk drove his own lance into the dirt and hung on the lance his glossy shield.
4	36	Slowly, singing in a guttural chant, a tuchuk warrior song, he began to swing the bola.
4	45	The tuchuk handled it well.
4	51	How vain is he? How skillful is he? He would be both skillful and vain; he was tuchuk.
4	52	To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up...
4	56	The tuchuk stood struck with awe, in the grass, on the trembling plains in the dusty air.
4	59	The tuchuk removed his helmet and threw it to the grass.
4	63	The tuchuk now looked at me swiftly.
4	74	For a moment the tuchuk seemed stunned.
4	79	Suddenly the tuchuk bent to the soil and picked up a handful of dirt and grass, the land on which the bosk graze, the land which is the land of the tuchuks, and this dirt and this grass he thrust in my hands and I held it.
5	5	tuchuk women, unveiled, in their long leather dresses, long hair bound in braids, tended cooking pots hung on tem-wood tripods over dung fires.

Book 5. (28 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	176	"Kassar," he said, "isn't it?" "No, Master," said she, "tuchuk".
4	178	tuchuk women, both slave and free, have fixed in their noses a tiny ring of gold, small and fine, not unlike the wedding rings of Earth.
4	185	"I had a tuchuk girl once," said Cernus, "a wild girl of the wagons, of whom I was fond, but when she tried to kill me, I strangled her in the chain of the House of Cernus".
4	187	"I am not truly tuchuk," said Elizabeth.
4	190	"Kassars raided tuchuk wagons," she said.
5	114	Then, eyes closed, not moving, except the heel of the right foot, which beat the rhythm, she began to hum a tuchuk slave song; on the second measure, her hands came to her hips and she opened her eyes, looking at me; on the third measure, her body began to move and, to the melody, she ...
5	513	She still wore the brief, exciting leather of a tuchuk wagon girl and, when striding the high bridges, her hair in the wind, she attracted much attention, not only, obviously, from the men, but from women, both slave and free.
8	65	"It seems," I said, "the little tuchuk slave girl will again wear her nose ring".
8	193	I saw that she now wore in her nose the tiny, fine golden ring of the tuchuk woman.
12	252	"This one," she said, "was tuchuk.
12	325	"The tuchuk girl," she said, "keeps quarters with the Assassin.
15	235	Elizabeth's accent was interesting, for it was, in effect, tuchuk; the accent of the girls was that of Ar.
15	353	One thing that I thought was nice was that Elizabeth had asked Sura about the dance she had begun to perform but could not finish, when we had first come to the house of Cernus, the dance which is accompanied by the tuchuk slave song.
15	355	For good measure she also taught them the independent dance, sometimes called the Dance of the tuchuk Slave Girl, which I had once seen performed at a banquet in Turia.
19	284	Elizabeth had been clad in the brief leather of a tuchuk wagon girl, simple, rough, sleeveless, the short skirt on the left side slit to the belt, so that the saddle of the kaiila, mount of the Wagon Peoples, would be permitted her.
19	305	"Doubtless," called the auctioneer, "her tuchuk master used her well".
22	396	It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip...
22	401	Commonly, the tarn responds only to one voice command, that of "Tabuk," which tends, roughly, to mean "Hunt and feed"; further, I would have liked to use the tuchuk temwood thrusting lance from the saddle of a tarn.
22	404	The tuchuk horn bow was now strung, the quiver attached to the saddle, with the rope and bola.
22	405	I wore my sword; I carried the killing knife I had taken from the back of Mip; lastly, thrust in my belt, was the double-edged quiva, the tuchuk saddle knife.
22	528	I whipped out the tuchuk bow and, in the instant, found myself wheeling and fighting in the midst of more than a dozen tarnsmen, while many others, wheeling about, attempted to press in upon me.
22	531	The tarnsmen, packed together, impeding one another's movements, were fodder for the slaughter of the tuchuk bow, and then, crying out with fear, they turned aside their mounts and broke before us.
22	542	Again and again the tuchuk bow fired and again and again unwilling tarnsmen felt the lightninglike kiss of the barbed steel.
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, br...
22	553	Already the tuchuk bola was whirling, a blur of leather and lead.
22	554	Again the tarn cut through and two of the tarnsmen were screaming, trying to shield themselves from the weighted straps, flying about them; the weights in the tuchuk bola can crush a skull, the leather can strangle.
22	564	I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ...
24	429	The tiny, fine golden ring of the tuchuk woman was in her nose.

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	243	Had I used a broad-headed arrow, or the tuchuk barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound, drawing it out feathers last.

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
17	168	In one week I had even begged him to place in my nose the tiny golden ring of a tuchuk slave girl, and in that week I had served him as such, clad even in the Kalmak, Chatka and Curla, my hair bound back with the red Koora.

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
13	88	I did not need, as with the broad arrow or the tuchuk barbed arrow, to thrust the point through in order to free it.
13	263	It is a tuchuk custom, not to leave an enemy behind one.
14	132	The tuchuk brand, tiny and fine, is the paired bosk horns.
22	90	"It would matter," said Kamchak, "to a tuchuk".

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	505	He had, in the course of his practice in Turia, once given treatment outside of its walls to a young tuchuk warrior, whose name was Kamchak.
3	331	It has, too, the advantage that it is more manageable in close quarters than the peasant bow, resembling somewhat the tuchuk bow of layered horn in this respect.
20	122	Scarcely had it seen the flash of tuchuk steel, the saddle knife, its blade balanced, nine inches in length, which had slipped from my sleeve, turned, and, hurled, struck him.
20	163	I then, with the bloodied quiva, the tuchuk saddle knife, cut her clothes from her.

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	508	Then with my right hand, the tuchuk quiva in it, while still holding her with my left, as she continued to move to the music, I, behind her back, cut the halter she wore from her.

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
35	2	"It would make a difference to a tuchuk," said Kamchak, of the tuchuks.

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	123	I surrendered my sword to him, and the knife, too, I commonly carried, a quiva, a tuchuk saddle knife, balanced for throwing.
7	416	I did have a sword and I had also purchased a set of tuchuk quivas, their famed saddle knives.
7	417	The set consists of seven knives, one for each of the seven sheaths in the tuchuk saddle.

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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10	516	To be sure, I had been, upon occasion, given blankets or sheets to hold about myself, usually for warmth, and I had been, in my training, put in various costumes, mostly, I suppose, for my masters to see what I looked like in them, such as the common and Turian camisk, and the scandalous garb prescr...

Book 29. (23 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	28	"He is tuchuk".
8	30	He did not look tuchuk to me.
8	33	"tuchuk," said Pertinax.
8	84	You are the first tuchuk I have met".
8	86	I was reasonably certain he was not tuchuk.
8	87	The tuchuk face is commonly swarthy and broad.
8	88	This fellow's face, a subtle yellowish brown, was narrower than would be common with the tuchuk.
8	96	The tuchuk bosk, on the other hand, usually have wide, spreading horns.
8	116	"He is not tuchuk," I said.
8	119	In response to my first question, a tuchuk would most likely have informed me that the bosk were doing as well as might be expected; to my second question, that one tries to keep them that way, namely, sharp.
8	120	The quiva is a tuchuk saddle knife.
8	123	In response to my third question, a tuchuk would have been expected to agree, amicably, with some remark such as, "Yes, I believe so," or "Yes, I think so".
12	137	And when the tuchuk did close it was the quiva in flight, and the light, black temwood lance, thrusting and drawing back, and thrusting again, often against a foe on foot, fleeing, being ridden down.
12	138	The tuchuk, all in all, was a subtle and dangerous foe.
12	142	tuchuk war was characterized by deception and cunning.
12	309	For example, it seemed to me that much might be learned from the almost evanescent appearing and disappearing of tuchuk cavalry.
14	87	The obvious recourse then would seem to be something like the tuchuk saddle bow, which could easily clear the saddle to left and right, and could even be used, the rider turning in the saddle, to backward flight arrows.
14	96	Indeed, it is not uncommon for a tuchuk to be tied in the saddle as soon as he can sit up, even before he can walk.
16	137	On the other hand, given the usual proximity to targets in both cases, the rate and duration of fire of the short bow supplies it, in this sort of warfare, as it would in tuchuk warfare, with a clear advantage.
16	289	As tuchuk cavalry we would close as little as possible.
17	5	I knew the armament and tactics of such forces well, having been trained in them, and I had designed my forces, following the tuchuk model, to deal with massive infantry and earth-shaking tharlarion charges, now adapted to flight, to deal with them.
17	13	Too, the narrowness of its blade, in the tuchuk fashion, unlike the broader blade of the common war spear, was designed to minimize the danger of its anchoring in either a shield or body.
17	59	The enemy, to his relief, would often assume the danger past as the bird passed, only to be struck from behind by the backward flighted arrow, a device familiar to the tuchuk.

Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	14	Such eyes are sometimes referred to as tuchuk eyes.
9	101	Both bows are different from the short, stout tuchuk bow, or saddle bow, which, I had learned, had been introduced by the tarnsman, Tarl Cabot, into the weaponry of the tarn cavalry.
16	316	Within a handful of Ehn forty riders of the tarn cavalry were at the rail, each armed with the small tuchuk bow, used by the tarn cavalry, a weapon of considerable power, which may be swept easily from one side of a saddle to the other.
22	312	The great flood of darkness, confused, proximate, rushing, pounding, imminent, was some five yards from our steel when Cabot cried out, "Down!" We all crouched down, instantly, and, from behind us, over our heads, into the confused, rushing mass of men before us there poured a rain of arrows sped fr...
22	323	The strike of the tuchuk bow, short, of curved horn, requiring much strength to draw, is heavy, and, at close range, terrible, capable, like the thrust spear, of penetrating the typical four-layered shield.

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	200	The shading of their skin and the cast of their eyes suggested tuchuk blood, but they were not armed as tuchuks, and seemed, too, in so far as such things might be ascertained, unfamiliar with bosk, kaiila, and the terrains of the south.

Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	77	We used the supple temwood lance and a bow modeled on the tuchuk saddle bow, the lance lighter and longer than the spear, exceeding its reach, and the string bow capable, of course, of firing several missiles to one of the traditional crossbow.
27	24	Whereas shield and lance may be used for fencing with an isolated foe, commonly another tuchuk, they are most often used for riding down isolated enemies who are afoot.
40	35	I would have preferred a tuchuk quiva, for its weight and balance, but one must make do with what may be at hand.

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
8	79	I always found this ironic as the average peasant, like the average tuchuk, is commonly a bargainer whose sense of business shrewdness is not far removed from that of a practiced, marauding pirate.