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Book 4. (242 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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...	10
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10
3	13	The four riders exchanged glances and then, at a sign from the heavy tuchuk, rode a bit away from me.	10
3	23	At last the tuchuk detached himself from the other three warriors and pranced his kaiila to within a dozen yards of me.	10
3	36	The tuchuk's face tightened.	10
3	44	"What is your business with the Wagon Peoples?" demanded the tuchuk.	10
3	56	Angrily the tuchuk pulled back on the reins of the kaiila, causing it to rear, snarling, pawing at the sky.	10
3	113	As I watched, the tuchuk took his long, slender lance and thrust it into the ground, point upward.	10
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.	10
4	1	The Outcome of Spear Gambling The tuchuk warrior lifted the lance in triumph, in the same instant slipping his fist into the retention knot and kicking the roweled heels of his boots into the silken flanks of his mount, the animal springing towards me and the rider in the same movement...	10
4	4	I had no wish to kill the tuchuk.	10
4	5	The charge of the tuchuk, in spite of its rapidity and momentum, carried him no more than four paces beyond me.	10
4	9	All the time the tuchuk thrust at me with his lance.	10
4	18	The tuchuk laughed, throwing his head back.	10
4	30	To the astonishment of the tuchuk and the others who observed, I threw away the weapon.	10
4	31	The tuchuk sat still on his mount, as did the others.	10
4	34	Then the tuchuk drove his own lance into the dirt and hung on the lance his glossy shield.	10
4	36	Slowly, singing in a guttural chant, a tuchuk warrior song, he began to swing the bola.	10
4	45	The tuchuk handled it well.	10
4	51	How vain is he? How skillful is he? He would be both skillful and vain; he was tuchuk.	10
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...	10
4	56	The tuchuk stood struck with awe, in the grass, on the trembling plains in the dusty air.	10
4	59	The tuchuk removed his helmet and threw it to the grass.	10
4	63	The tuchuk now looked at me swiftly.	10
4	74	For a moment the tuchuk seemed stunned.	10
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.	10
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.	10
5	12	By one fire I could see a squat tuchuk, hands on hips, dancing and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds, dancing, according to Kamchak, to please the sky.	10
5	14	I suppose the tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simpl...	10
5	16	The tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mention...	10
5	109	"She seems different from the other tuchuk women," I said.	10
7	2	Beside the wagon, on a great pole fixed in the earth, stood the tuchuk standard of the four bosk horns.	10
7	34	When Kamchak had finished he held out his right hand and a man, not a tuchuk, who wore the green robes of the Caste of Physicians, thrust in his hand a goblet of bosk horn; it contained some yellow fluid.	10
7	37	He grinned a tuchuk grin.	10
8	83	It is not an easy transition to make, that from a bright, lovely young secretary in a pleasant, fluorescently lit, air-conditioned office on Madison Avenue in New York City—to a slave girl in the wagon of a tuchuk warrior.	10
8	141	Moreover, he did not brand her, nor fix in her nose the tiny golden ring of the tuchuk women, nor did he even, incomprehensibly, put her in the Turian collar.	10
8	149	"But it was the length of the leather dresses of the tuchuk women," Elizabeth had dared to protest.	10
8	168	On the whole, it seemed to me that Kamchak treated his little barbarian slave notably well, considering that he was tuchuk.	10
8	169	This does not mean that she was not worked hard, nor that she did not receive a good drubbing now and then, but, on the whole, considering the normal lot of a tuchuk slave girl, I do not think she was ill used.	10
8	184	He was tuchuk.	10
8	200	Indeed, it is not unknown that a tuchuk will bet his entire stock of bosk on the outcome of a single kaiila race; as many as a dozen slave girls may change hands on something as small as the direction that a bird will fly or the number of seeds in a tospit.	10
8	203	It is a great honor to a girl to stand as a stake in tuchuk gambling.	10
8	212	In the hour that followed I rejoiced that I had spent much of the last several months, when not riding with Kamchak in the care of his bosk, in the pleasant and, to a warrior, satisfying activity of learning tuchuk weaponry, both of the hunt and war.	10
8	225	She, and others like her, had been encouraged and spoiled from childhood in all their whims, unlike most other tuchuk women, that they might be fit prizes, Kamchak had told me, in the games of Love War.	10
8	233	"I am tuchuk".	10
8	235	"Beneath your furs you wear, I wager, the Kes!" "I am tuchuk," he responded, looking angrily away.	10
8	239	He was called Harold, which is not a tuchuk name, nor a name used among the Wagon Peoples, though it is similar to some of the Kassar names.	10
8	243	The problem of the young man, and perhaps the reason that he had not yet won even the Courage Scar of the tuchuks, was that he had fallen into the hands of Turian raiders in his youth and had spent several years in the city; in his adolescence he had, at great risk to himself, escaped ...	10
8	278	She would have contributed to the victory of a Kassar over a tuchuk.	10
8	294	tuchuk girls, Elizabeth and Tuka, would run for the Kassars; the two Kassar girls would run for Kamchak and myself; naturally each slave does her best for her master, attempting to evade his competitor.	10
8	300	Already a grizzled tuchuk had his hand, palm flat, on the silken side of the standing kaiila.	10
8	334	A tuchuk warrior slashed apart the thongs with his quiva and Tuka, only too pleased to be free of the circle, leaped up and ran quickly to the side of her master.	10
8	431	"tuchuk sleen!" she cried, eyes flashing.	10
8	462	Albrecht and Conrad had come for a simple purpose, to best a tuchuk and, in the process, pick up a girl or two; Elizabeth Cardwell, of course, was the only one we had on hand.	10
8	553	In this matter I must be tuchuk.	10
9	94	Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp...	10
9	184	Kamchak shrugged, his wily tuchuk trading shrug.	10
9	237	"Two years ago," said Kamchak, "in such a place at such a time—you recall it was then you called me a tuchuk sleen".	10
9	242	"It was then," he said, "that you turned away, calling me a tuchuk sleen".	10
9	253	"The tuchuk and his friend are guests, and ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples—they must not come to harm!" Aphris of Turia laughed merrily and Kamras, embarrassed, returned to his seat.	10
9	267	"How comes it," asked she, "that a Koroban rides in the stinking wagon of a tuchuk sleen?" "The wagon does not stink," I said, "and Kamchak of the tuchuks is my friend".	10
9	302	No tuchuk, I knew, cares to be the butt of a joke, especially a Turian joke.	10
9	311	"It is one thing to order the death of a tuchuk," he said.	10
9	344	"If the tuchuk does not wish to see the girls, let us dismiss them".	10
9	359	One girl, the leader of the dancers, she who had spoken to Kamchak, was a tuchuk girl, and was particularly startling, vital, uncontrollable, wild.	10
9	361	At the height of one of her dances, called the Dance of the tuchuk Slave Girl, Kamchak turned to Aphris of Turia, who was watching the dance, eyes bright, as astounded as I at the savage spectacle.	10
9	371	It had been at that time that she had called him a tuchuk sleen, presumably because he had dared present her with a gift.	10
9	401	"Bold tuchuk sleen!" he hissed.	10
9	416	There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta...	10
9	429	There were cries on all sides, "Slay the tuchuk sleen!" "Torture for him!" "The oil of tharlarions!" "Leech plants!" "Impalement!" "Tongs and fire!" But Kamchak seemed unmoved.	10
9	430	And none rushed upon him, for in his hand, and he was tuchuk, there gleamed the quiva.	10
9	434	He, a tuchuk, had looked upon her face.	10
9	439	"A joke! A tuchuk joke!" "Slay him!" screamed Aphris of Turia.	10
9	443	"The tuchuk must be slain!" "It is not possible, my dear," wheezed Saphrar.	10
9	461	"Wily tuchuk," I heard him mutter.	10
9	462	Yes, I said to myself, wily tuchuk.	10
9	464	It was something he would not buy with the golden sphere from Saphrar the merchant; it was something he was clearly capable of arranging, with tuchuk cunning, by himself.	10
9	466	"No, my dear," Saphrar was saying to the girl, "you must not expect satisfaction for this frightful injury which has been wrought upon you—you must not even think of the games—you must forget this unpleasant evening—you must try not to think of the stories that will be told of y...	10
9	483	There was a cry of delight from the crowd, confident now that the tuchuk sleen would be fittingly punished for his bold use of the richest daughter of Turia.	10
9	492	"Have no fear, Saphrar of Turia," Kamras was saying, "I shall slay the tuchuk sleen—and I shall do so slowly".	10
10	8	Kamchak rode near the head of the tuchuk line.	10
10	53	"If this is a tuchuk joke," she wept, "kill me swiftly".	10
10	117	I think it was then, perhaps the first time since her first coming to the Wagon Peoples, that she fully understood her plight—for Kamchak had, on the whole, been kind to her—he had not put the tuchuk ring in her nose, nor had he clothed her Kajir, nor put the brand of the...	10
10	180	The wily tuchuk, of course, had had me spit first.	10
10	182	For all his uproarious stomping about the wagon last night, paga bottle in hand, singing gusty tuchuk songs, half frightening Miss Cardwell to death, he seemed in good spirits, looking about, whistling, occasionally pounding a little rhythm on the side of his saddle.	10
10	410	"Meet him, tuchuk!" she cried.	10
10	417	"Please, tuchuk!" she wept.	10
10	446	Thus if Kamras chose a weapon with which Kamchak did not feel at ease, the tuchuk might, with some grace, decline the combat, in this forfeiting only a Kassar girl, which I was sure would not overly disturb the philosophical Kamchak.	10
10	459	"But I am only a poor tuchuk," wailed Kamchak.	10
10	463	"But how would I, a poor tuchuk," Kamchak was moaning, "know anything of the sword?" "Then withdraw," said Kamras, loftily, "and I will take this Kassar wench slave to Turia".	10
10	470	"Fight him, filthy tuchuk!" screamed Aphris of Turia, pulling against the retaining rings.	10
10	483	"All right, tuchuk," he said, "I will permit you to choose weapons agreeable to us both".	10
10	505	Inwardly I moaned, for in the past months I had come to respect and feel an affection for the shrewd, gusty, brawny tuchuk.	10
10	533	He was tuchuk.	10
10	539	He had little more wish to slay the clumsy tuchuk than he would have a peasant or a potmaker.	10
10	562	Each time the Turian struck and I would have thought Kamchak slain, somehow, incomprehensibly, at the last instant, nearly causing my heart to stop, with a surprised, weary little twitch, the blade of the tuchuk would slide the Turian steel harmlessly to the side.	10
10	565	"Die, tuchuk!" cried Kamras, now enraged, rushing upon him.	10
10	573	"Kill him!" But now, almost like a drunk man, Kamras was fighting for his life and the tuchuk, like a bear, scarcely moving more than arm and wrist, followed him about, shuffling through the sand after him, touching him again and again with the blade.	10
10	576	Kamras tried to lift his sword but the boot of Kamchak pressed it into the sand, and Kamras lifted his eyes to look dazed into the scarred, inscrutable countenance of the tuchuk.	10
11	2	"Why is a slave," he asked, "masquerading in the robes of a free woman?" "Please, no, tuchuk," she said.	10
11	7	"Well done, tuchuk!" said the girl, saluting Kamchak.	10
11	50	"Is it my understanding," asked Saphrar, the golden drops over his eyes rising, "that you would—upon reaching your majority—transfer your entire fortunes to a tuchuk, merely to obtain your freedom".	10
11	75	He then turned to Kamchak, "What, tuchuk, did you say her price was?" "I have lowered it," said Kamchak.	10
11	134	I wondered how many of the girls in her New York office could have run as she beside the stirrup of a tuchuk warrior.	10
11	139	"There are bosk to be groomed," he informed her, "and their horns and hoofs must be polished—there is fodder to be fetched and dung to be gathered—the wagon must be wiped and the wheels greased—and there is water to be brought from the stream some four pasangs away and meat to h...	10
11	171	"Is a tuchuk too poor," she asked, "to clothe a miserable slave?" "I have many diamonds in the wagon," said Kamchak, "which you may wear if you wish—but nothing else will you wear until it pleases me".	10
11	199	Singing tuchuk songs, we managed to make it back to the wagon.	10
11	362	"I think," I said, "that you have won this night but I warn you that the girl from Turia will think again of the quiva and the heart of a tuchuk warrior".	10
11	379	The tuchuk looked puzzled.	10
11	383	You may, tuchuk, slay Aphris of Turia if it pleases you, but know that she will never serve your pleasure—never".	10
11	384	"Well," said the tuchuk, "tonight I am pretty drunk".	10
12	6	Even on my kaiila I was certain I could be outdistanced by numerous riders, each leading, in the tuchuk fashion, a string of fresh mounts.	10
12	32	I supposed he was curious about me, not a tuchuk, not a merchant or singer, yet among the Wagons.	10
12	105	"I am a tuchuk," said Kamchak, "I might be tempted to swallow seeds".	10
12	231	In tuchuk fashion, I assured him that I had taken no offense, and, sweating, I at last made my way to Kamchak's side.	10
12	232	He had rather good seats, which hadn't been there before, obtained by the tuchuk method of finding two individuals sitting closely together and then sitting down between them.	10
12	247	The girl had neither been branded nor had the tuchuk nose ring been affixed.	10
12	252	"Wily tuchuk, eh?" I thought to myself.	10
12	432	"Tonight," she begged, "please, Master, tonight!" With a roar of triumph Kamchak swept her up and slung her, hobbled as she was, over his shoulder and she cried out and he, singing a tuchuk song, was stomping away with her from the curtained enclosure.	10
13	16	Before I could remonstrate with the angry tuchuk the hunting sleen suddenly seemed to go wild, rearing on their hind legs, scratching in the air, dragging against the chains.	10
13	105	Kamchak, for a tuchuk, was not unkind.	10
13	132	Then, to my delight, Kamchak, borrowing two kaiila, which he seemed to have no difficulty doing—from a tuchuk warrior I had not even seen before—rode with me to the Omen Valley.	10
14	105	The tuchuk then looked around himself, sadly, and then again gazed on the sitting, bent-over figure of Kutaituchik.	10
15	10	In the field the tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile...	10
15	43	Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia.	10
15	52	Meanwhile the Omen Taking, even with the participation of the tuchuk haruspexes, continued—for the haruspexes of the people would remain behind until even the final readings had been completed.	10
15	100	He was eating a piece of bosk meat in the tuchuk fashion, holding the meat in his left hand and between his teeth, and cutting pieces from it with a quiva scarcely a quarter inch from his lips, then chewing the severed bite and then again holding the meat in his hand and teeth and cutt...	10
15	110	"Yes," I said, "and you are Harold—the tuchuk".	10
15	112	"Yes," he said, "I am Harold—the tuchuk".	10
15	143	"You will be slain in Turia," said Harold, finishing his meat and wiping his mouth in tuchuk fashion on the back of his right sleeve.	10
16	1	I Find the Golden Sphere It was not a pleasant path to Turia that Harold the tuchuk showed to me, but I followed him.	10
16	4	Then I inquired, "How is it that you, a tuchuk, can swim?" I knew few tuchuks could, though some had learned in the Cartius.	10
16	44	"Of course," he said, "I am tuchuk".	10
16	55	"I am a tuchuk".	10
16	155	The man's hand went white on the quiva, and I feared he might leap to his feet and thrust the quiva to its hilt in the breast of the tuchuk youth.	10
16	172	"tuchuk sleen!" "May I introduce," inquired Saphrar, "Ha-Keel of Port Kar, chief of the mercenary tarnsmen".	10
16	322	tuchuks do not make good spies, for they tend to be, albeit fierce and cruel, intensely loyal; and there are few strangers allowed in the wagon of a tuchuk Ubar.	10
16	326	Kamchak himself had told me the golden sphere was worthless—poor tuchuk! But now, I said to myself, poor Cabot! However it came about—and I could not be sure—Others than Priest-Kings had now entered the games of Gor—and these Others knew of the egg and wante...	10
18	120	Could I have but put my hands on him at the time I might have wrung a tuchuk neck.	10
19	24	"Of course," he said, "I am a tuchuk".	10
19	29	"I am a tuchuk".	10
19	99	Then, startled, as she moved her head a bit, restlessly on the rug, I saw that in her nose was the tiny golden ring of a tuchuk girl.	10
19	110	"It is I," said Harold, "Harold the tuchuk".	10
19	136	Hereena struggled furiously, unable to speak, the young tuchuk's hands separating her jaws.	10
19	165	"Of course," he said, "you are tuchuk".	10
19	168	"Of course," said Harold, "though you are tuchuk, you are also female".	10
20	140	I felt genuine pity for the tuchuk girl.	10
21	11	Clustered about the hill, in ranks, on their kaiila, black lances in the stirrup, were several of the tuchuk Hundreds.	10
21	19	Slowly, wagon by wagon, the long columns of the tuchuk retreat were formed, each wagon in its column, each column in its place, and, covering pasangs of prairie, the march from Turia had begun.	10
21	47	Peasants streamed through them returning to their fields and also hundreds of townsfolk for an outing, some of them to walk even as far as the remains of the old tuchuk camp, hunting for souvenirs.	10
21	101	It was a tuchuk tune, a wagon tune, sometimes sung by the girls with the bosk sticks.	10
21	189	We stood on the wall near the main gate of Turia, through which I had entered the city some four days ago, the morning after the departure of the tuchuk wagons for the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, beyond which lay the vast, gleaming Thassa itself.	10
21	207	I looked out over the prairie, in the direction that had been taken by the tuchuk wagons.	10
21	259	The narrow column, and probably the tuchuk spacing, a Hundred and then the space for a Hundred, open, and then another Hundred, and so on, tends to narrow the front of dust, and the spaces between Hundreds give time for some of the dust to dissipate and also, incidentally, to rise suff...	10
21	262	I now saw a sudden flash of light as the sun took the tips of tuchuk lances.	10
21	308	"You tuchuk idiot!" I screamed.	10
21	331	"So you tell them that you are already the slave of Harold the tuchuk, understand?" She nodded again.	10
21	350	Already I saw a tuchuk with a dozen silver cups tied on a string to his saddle.	10
21	354	I could hear in three or four places the clash of arms, the hiss of the bolts of crossbows, the answering feather-swift flight of the barbed tuchuk war arrows.	10
22	1	Kamchak's Feast It had, of course, been the tuchuk turn.	10
22	7	Most of the High Council of Turia, too, now reposed in tuchuk chains.	10
22	14	I had no wish to be brought down with a tuchuk arrow in the streets as a Turian civilian.	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
22	45	I was astonished when, at the gate to the palace of Phanius Turmus, the four tuchuk guards smote their lances three times on their leather shields.	10
22	78	Two tuchuk guards stood over them.	10
22	85	It was Dina of Turia! The laughing tuchuk, he with the bloody shoulder, hauled her before us.	10
22	94	The two men were startled, but tuchuk discipline is relentless.	10
22	105	At the low tables, perhaps brought from various places in the palace, there sat many tuchuk officers, and even some men without rank.	10
22	106	With them, now freed of collars, were exuberant tuchuk girls bedecked in the robes of free women.	10
22	111	Behind them stood tuchuk guards, quivas in their right hands.	10
22	118	Sometimes one of the serving girls would be seized by an ankle or arm and dragged screaming to the cushions among the tables, much to the amusement of the men and the tuchuk girls.	10
22	140	At one point three tuchuk girls, in swirling silks, switches in their hands, came into the room dragging a wretched, stripped Turian girl.	10
22	143	Then, two or three other groups of tuchuk girls straggled in, each leading some wretched wench who had but hours before owned them.	10
22	146	Then one of the tuchuk girls pointed to her ex-mistress and cried out, "What am I offered for this slave!" and one of the men, joining in the sport, would cry out a price, some figure in terms of copper tarn disks.	10
22	147	The tuchuk girls would shriek with delight and each joined in inciting buyers and auctioning their mistresses.	10
22	148	One beautiful Turian girl was thrown, weeping and bound, into the arms of a leather-clad tuchuk for only seven copper tarn disks.	10
22	153	Phanius Turmus, Kamras and the others were dragged from the tables by their tuchuk guards.	10
23	6	Thundering behind each of us was a Thousand, which would continue on toward the main tuchuk encampment, several Ahn away.	10
23	9	Then, on the path to the main tuchuk encampment, Harold and I were each to join our Thousand, subsequently doing what we could to protect the bosk and wagons.	10
23	17	I was nearly slain by arrows when I dropped the tarn amidst the startled blacks of the Kataii, but my black jacket with the emblem of the four bosk horns, emblem of the tuchuk courier, soon proved its worth and I was led to the dais of the Ubar of the Kataii.	10
23	20	It was little to him, apparently, that the Paravaci should raid the herds and wagons of the tuchuks when most of the tuchuk warriors were engaged in Turia.	10
23	53	For much the same reasons as the Kataii, Conrad was unwilling to commit his forces to the defense of tuchuk herds.	10
23	61	I swept with my Thousand about the outskirts of the herds until we found some hundred or two hundred Paravaci engaged in the grisly work of destroying tuchuk bosk.	10
23	105	Some of the rear ranks actually climbed fallen and struggling comrades and leaped over the wagons to the other side, where they were cut down by archers and dragged from their kaiila to be flung beneath the knives of free tuchuk women.	10
23	187	Later in the afternoon the last of the Paravaci had been cleared from the tuchuk wagons, wherever they might be found.	10
23	194	The Kataii main force and the Kassar main force camped separately some pasangs from the tuchuk camp and the field and would, in the morning, return to their own wagons.	10
23	205	I was told by a tuchuk woman that they had not been in the cage when the Paravaci had struck—but rather that Aphris had been in the wagon and the barbarian, as she referred to Miss Cardwell, had been sent to another wagon, the whereabouts she did not know.	10
24	4	Some Ahn after departing from the tuchuk camp I encountered the wagon that carried my tarn, and its guard, still advancing toward the camp.	10
24	9	I and Kamchak expected Saphrar to flee by tarn at any moment, for it must now be clear to him that the strike of the Paravaci against the tuchuk wagons and herds had not forced Kamchak to withdraw; indeed, his forces were now supplemented by Kataii and Kassars, a development which must...	10
24	12	I knew that Kamchak was in constant touch, by means of riders, with the wagons of the tuchuks, and so I did not speak with him of the looting of his wagon, nor of the fate of Aphris of Turia, nor did I deem it well to speak to him of Elizabeth Cardwell, for it seemed evident that he ha...	10
24	29	I asked him about this, for tuchuk warfare, as I understood it, was complete, leaving no living thing in its wake, killing even domestic animals and poisoning wells.	10
24	45	Long ago I had learned not to press the tuchuk when he did not wish to speak.	10
24	54	The crossbow, though its rate of fire is much slower than the tuchuk bow, has a much greater range.	10
24	76	"You are perhaps going to sleep on the back of a bosk—because you are a tuchuk or something?" I thought that a rather good one, at any rate for me.	10
24	78	"A tuchuk," he informed me loftily, "may—if he wishes—rest comfortably on even the horns of a bosk, but only a Koroban is likely to recline on a marble floor when he might just as well sleep upon the pelt of a larl in the wagon of a commander".	10
24	92	I merely looked at him, wondering if it were merely Harold the tuchuk at work again.	10
24	115	"To a tuchuk," said Harold, "success is courage—that is the important thing—courage itself—even if all else fails—that is success".	10
24	132	"All right," said Harold, "it is well known you are only a Koroban, and not a tuchuk".	10
24	157	"Harold the tuchuk," I said, "I am tired".	10
24	205	There were two tuchuk guards outside.	10
24	211	The two tuchuk guards saluted us, striking their lances three times on their shields.	10
24	231	I watched Harold ride towards his wagon, whistling a tuchuk tune.	10
25	86	In her nose, as I had suspected, there glinted the tiny, fine golden ring of the tuchuk woman.	10
25	128	I added, "And it is one of the great fears of a tuchuk girl that, should she fall into Turian hands, it will be done to her".	10
25	164	I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...	10
25	169	"I don't know," she responded lightly, "I must be a tuchuk slave girl".	10
25	244	"Can it be," she asked, "that the commander of a tuchuk Thousand does not know what to do with a girl such as I?" I reached toward her, to take her into my arms, but I found the bowl of wine in my way, deftly so.	10
25	295	She was not natively Turian, nor tuchuk.	10
25	380	"The tuchuk women," said Elizabeth, "have a miserable lot".	10
25	562	"The kiss of a tuchuk slave girl!" Then she laughed and turned away, looking over her shoulder.	10
26	86	Kamchak, in his tuchuk cruelty, would stand quietly to one side and, coin by coin, bit by bit, buy Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	119	"Kill him!" Silently a dozen tuchuk bowmen, with the short horn bow, stood afoot before Kamchak's kaiila, their arrows trained on the hearts of the two guards.	10
26	167	"Stand back, tuchuk," cried the young man.	10
26	175	"Save your gold, tuchuk sleen," said the young man.	10
26	184	"Be a tuchuk," he said.	10
26	186	"Never, tuchuk sleen, never!" Kamchak turned to certain of the warriors with him.	10
26	190	Put him in the leather of a tuchuk.	10
26	291	"It had to have been the Ubar of the Paravaci—for who else could have sent their riders against the tuchuk wagons, who else could have promised a mercenary tarnsman half the bosk and gold and women and wagons of the Paravaci?" I was only dimly aware of their conversation.	10
26	397	"I think, Tarl Cabot," he said, "you would never make a tuchuk".	10
26	406	"But what does it matter?" "It would matter to a tuchuk," said Kamchak.	10
26	489	I was speechless, and could not respond to the tuchuk.	10
26	504	"Wily tuchuk," I said.	10
26	526	"It is hard to outwit a tuchuk in a bargain," remarked Harold, turning back, rather confidently.	10
26	528	Well did I recall how Kamchak had made Albrecht of the Kassars pay dearly for the return of his little darling, Tenchika, and how he had roared with laughter because the Kassar had paid such a price, obviously having allowed himself to care for a mere slave girl, and she a Turian at that! "I would g...	10
26	546	Kamchak's eyes, had they been jets of fire, would have frizzled the young, blond tuchuk in his saddle.	10
26	549	Then a wry glint of amusement sparkled in the tuchuk's eyes and the furrowed face wrinkled into a sheepish grin.	10
26	560	Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo...	10
27	6	Indeed, Saphrar's secret hordes alone, kept in dozens of vast underground storehouses, would have been enough to have made each and every tuchuk, and perhaps each Kataii and Kassar as well, a rich man—a very rich man—in any of the cities of Gor.	10
27	9	Kamchak, as a tuchuk, could not bring himself to be quite as generous with the city's women, and the five thousand most beautiful girls of Turia were branded and given to the commanders of Hundreds, that they might be distributed to the bravest and fiercest of their warriors; the other...	10
27	14	In the palace of Phanius Turmus, on his throne, sat Kamchak, the purple of the Ubar's robes thrown casually over one shoulder, over his tuchuk leather.	10
27	47	It seemed to me a strange act for a conqueror, for a tuchuk.	10
27	55	"For the first time in more than a hundred years," said the Paravaci, "there is a Ubar San, a One Ubar, Master of the Wagons!" Kamchak stood up and threw from his shoulders the purple of the Turian Ubar and stood in the black leather of a tuchuk.	10
27	68	Shortly before Albrecht and Tenchika had been there, and Dina of Turia with her two tuchuk guards, who had kept her safe from harm during the fall of the city.	10
27	133	It was hard for me to believe that this marvelous, collared beauty in my arms was once a simple girl of Earth, that this astounding wench, tuchuk and Gorean, was the same as Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, the young secretary who so long before had found herself inexplicably thrust into intri...	10
27	161	"You are free," said the tuchuk.	10
27	169	All of us knew the peril, the hardship and danger the tuchuk had sustained in her acquisition; all of us knew the price he had been willing to pay only recently that she, fallen into the hands of another, might be returned to him.	10
28	14	Elizabeth's tuchuk leather had been half torn from her but Tuka, who had been clothed only Kajir, had fared not even this well.	10
28	41	"You are not bad yourself," I granted, "—for a tuchuk".	10
28	48	Now, diagonally, like a scarlet chevron coursing the flight of the cheek bones, there blazed on the face of Harold the tuchuk the Courage Scar.	10

Book 5. (28 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	176	"Kassar," he said, "isn't it?" "No, Master," said she, "tuchuk".	10
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.	10
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".	10
4	187	"I am not truly tuchuk," said Elizabeth.	10
4	190	"Kassars raided tuchuk wagons," she said.	10
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 ...	10
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.	10
8	65	"It seems," I said, "the little tuchuk slave girl will again wear her nose ring".	10
8	193	I saw that she now wore in her nose the tiny, fine golden ring of the tuchuk woman.	10
12	252	"This one," she said, "was tuchuk.	10
12	325	"The tuchuk girl," she said, "keeps quarters with the Assassin.	10
15	235	Elizabeth's accent was interesting, for it was, in effect, tuchuk; the accent of the girls was that of Ar.	10
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10
19	305	"Doubtless," called the auctioneer, "her tuchuk master used her well".	10
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...	10
22	401	Commonly, the tarn responds only to one voice command, that of "Tabuk," which tends, roughly, to mean "Hunt and feed"; further, I would have liked to use the tuchuk temwood thrusting lance from the saddle of a tarn.	10
22	404	The tuchuk horn bow was now strung, the quiver attached to the saddle, with the rope and bola.	10
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10
22	542	Again and again the tuchuk bow fired and again and again unwilling tarnsmen felt the lightninglike kiss of the barbed steel.	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, br...	10
22	553	Already the tuchuk bola was whirling, a blur of leather and lead.	10
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.	10
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 ...	10
24	429	The tiny, fine golden ring of the tuchuk woman was in her nose.	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10
13	263	It is a tuchuk custom, not to leave an enemy behind one.	10
14	132	The tuchuk brand, tiny and fine, is the paired bosk horns.	10
22	90	"It would matter," said Kamchak, "to a tuchuk".	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10
20	163	I then, with the bloodied quiva, the tuchuk saddle knife, cut her clothes from her.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	2	"It would make a difference to a tuchuk," said Kamchak, of the tuchuks.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	123	I surrendered my sword to him, and the knife, too, I commonly carried, a quiva, a tuchuk saddle knife, balanced for throwing.	10
7	416	I did have a sword and I had also purchased a set of tuchuk quivas, their famed saddle knives.	10
7	417	The set consists of seven knives, one for each of the seven sheaths in the tuchuk saddle.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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...	10

Book 29. (23 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	28	"He is tuchuk".	10
8	30	He did not look tuchuk to me.	10
8	33	"tuchuk," said Pertinax.	10
8	84	You are the first tuchuk I have met".	10
8	86	I was reasonably certain he was not tuchuk.	10
8	87	The tuchuk face is commonly swarthy and broad.	10
8	88	This fellow's face, a subtle yellowish brown, was narrower than would be common with the tuchuk.	10
8	96	The tuchuk bosk, on the other hand, usually have wide, spreading horns.	10
8	116	"He is not tuchuk," I said.	10
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.	10
8	120	The quiva is a tuchuk saddle knife.	10
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".	10
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.	10
12	138	The tuchuk, all in all, was a subtle and dangerous foe.	10
12	142	tuchuk war was characterized by deception and cunning.	10
12	309	For example, it seemed to me that much might be learned from the almost evanescent appearing and disappearing of tuchuk cavalry.	10
14	87	The obvious recourse then would seem to be something like the tuchuk saddle bow, which could easily clear the saddle to left and right, and could even be used, the rider turning in the saddle, to backward flight arrows.	10
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.	10
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.	10
16	289	As tuchuk cavalry we would close as little as possible.	10
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10

Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	14	Such eyes are sometimes referred to as tuchuk eyes.	10
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.	10
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.	10
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...	10
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.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10

Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10