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Book 1. (160 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	1	In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea...	10
8	150	"Pa-Kur, Ar's Master Assassin, was dispatched to kill you, but failed".	10
11	21	That night we brought the caravan into the palisaded keep prepared for Mintar by Pa-Kur, the Master Assassin, who was the Ubar of this vast, scarcely organized, predatory horde.	10
11	24	I noted with satisfaction that Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, proud leader of perhaps the greatest horde ever assembled on the plains of Gor, had need of Mintar, who was only of the Merchant Caste.	10
12	10	"I am Pa-Kur," said the man.	10
12	20	The men behind Pa-Kur muttered at my impudence.	10
12	27	Pa-Kur raised his hand with an imperious gesture.	10
12	29	It was a tarn disk hurled by one of Pa-Kur's men.	10
12	32	The men of Pa-Kur stamped their feet in the sand and clanged their spears on their shields.	10
12	33	"I spoke as a fool," I said to Pa-Kur.	10
12	39	Pa-Kur gestured to the men to desist.	10
12	40	"What have you done with the girl?" "She is Talena, daughter of the Ubar Marlenus," said Pa-Kur.	10
12	43	"She has accepted me," said Pa-Kur, "and will rule by my side".	10
12	51	Then, each of the men of Pa-Kur, as is the custom before a frame is surrendered to the waters of the Vosk, spit on my body.	10
12	52	Lastly, Pa-Kur spit in his hand and then placed his hand on my chest.	10
12	53	"Were it not for the daughter of Marlenus," said Pa-Kur, his metallic face as placid as the quicksilver behind a mirror, "I would have slain you honorably.	10
12	69	The image of the treacherous, beautiful Talena, in her dancing silks, as she had lain in my arms, tormented me—she who would gladly give her kisses to the cold Pa-Kur for a place on the throne of Ar, she whose implacable hatred had sent me to this terrible death, not even permitting me the ho...	10
12	92	Had we done so, I might have seen the war horde of Pa-Kur on its way to Ar, with its marching columns, its lines of tharlarion riders, its foraging cavalries of tarnsmen, its supply wagons and pack animals.	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	153	That would mean that I had unknowingly passed over the great highway, but whether ahead of or behind Pa-Kur's horde I had no idea.	10
13	10	To the southwest I could see dimly the evening light reflected from the spires of Ar, and to the north, approaching from the Vosk, I could see the glow from what must be thousands of cooking fires, the night's camp of Pa-Kur.	10
14	126	"She agreed to be the mate of Pa-Kur, the Assassin," he said, "in order that you might have one small chance of life, on the Frame of Humiliation".	10
14	128	"It is common knowledge in the camp of Pa-Kur," replied Marlenus.	10
15	9	Beyond the walls were Pa-Kur's lines of investment, set forth with all the skill of Gor's most experienced siege engineers.	10
15	21	Behind this wall were the innumerable tents of Pa-Kur's horde.	10
15	26	When it came time for Pa-Kur to attack, bridges would be constructed over the ditches.	10
15	29	One aspect of the siege which I knew would exist but which I obviously could not witness would be the sensitive duel of mine and countermine which must be taking place between the camp of Pa-Kur and the city of Ar.	10
15	33	Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ...	10
15	35	Pa-Kur had not protected his rear with the customary third ditch and rampart.	10
15	37	I reasoned that Pa-Kur had nothing to fear and consequently chose not to employ his siege slaves and prisoners in unnecessary and time-consuming works.	10
15	40	I brought the tarn down near the far ranges of Pa-Kur's tents, where his camp ended, seven or eight miles from the city.	10
15	41	I was not too surprised when I was not challenged; Pa-Kur's arrogance, or simply his rational assurance, was such that no sentries, no signs and countersigns, had been arranged at the rear of the camp.	10
15	65	Normally, the merchant camp, like the better-organized military camps, not the mélange that constituted the camp of Pa-Kur, is laid out geometrically, and, night after night, one puts up one's tent in the same relative position.	10
15	160	"And Pa-Kur," I said, "is the Assassin".	10
15	169	"And," I went on, "when Pa-Kur falls, the garrison will be divided, and a revolution may take place—" "Led by a Ubar," said Marlenus, looking fixedly at the game piece in his hand.	10
15	173	"You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur among the spires of Ar, butcher...	10
15	192	If you seize them, you can divide Pa-Kur's horde, give the Home Stones to the contingents of the tributary cities, provided they withdraw their forces.	10
15	196	"Surely not all of Pa-Kur's horde are adventurers, mercenaries".	10
15	214	"But it is presumed that she is kept in the tents of Pa-Kur".	10
15	216	"On the day that Ar falls, she will wed Pa-Kur and rule beside him.	10
15	231	"And rumor has it," said Mintar, not looking up from the board, "that she pledged herself to Pa-Kur only that some tarnsman she loved might be given a small chance of life".	10
15	259	"Where are the tents of Pa-Kur?" I asked.	10
15	267	Suppose Marlenus regains Ar—will Mintar not receive the monopolies he wishes?" "Yes," I said, "but Pa-Kur will guarantee those monopolies as freely as Marlenus".	10
15	268	"Even more freely," corrected Mintar, turning his attention again to the board, "but, you see, Pa-Kur does not play the game".	10
16	4	In the meantime, until the city fell or Pa-Kur altered his plans, she would presumably be safe.	10
16	5	It seemed unlikely that Pa-Kur would be so politically naive as to use the girl before she had publicly accepted him as her Free Companion, according to the rites of Ar.	10
16	7	On the other hand, the thought of her in the tents of Pa-Kur enraged me, and I knew I would be unable to restrain myself indefinitely.	10
16	15	When this occurred, inevitably the spearmen and lancers of Pa-Kur, following the lead of siege slaves through the maze of stakes and traps, would engage the men from Ar.	10
16	16	Sometimes the forces of Pa-Kur drove the warriors of Ar back to the very walls of the city, forcing them through the gates.	10
16	17	Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch.	10
16	18	Still, there was little doubt that Pa-Kur's men had the best of things.	10
16	19	The human resources on which Pa-Kur could draw seemed inexhaustible, and, as important, he had at his command a considerable force of tharlarion cavalry, an arm almost lacking to the men of Ar.	10
16	21	But gradually the tarnsmen of Ar were diminished, overwhelmed by the superior forces which Pa-Kur could, with ruthless liberality, throw against them.	10
16	22	On the ninth day of the siege the sky belonged to Pa-Kur, and the forces of Ar no longer emerged from the great gate.	10
16	35	Through small postern gates other defenders rushed against the towers on the ground, only to be met by Pa-Kur's clustered support troops.	10
16	38	One of Pa-Kur's towers was undermined, and it tilted crazily and they crashed into the dust, amidst the screaming of its doomed occupants.	10
16	42	Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders.	10
16	44	On the twentieth day of the siege there was great rejoicing in the camp of Pa-Kur, because in one place the wires had been cut and a squad of spearmen had reached the main siege reservoir, emptying their barrels of toxic kanda, a lethal poison extracted from one of Gor's desert shrubs.	10
16	48	I was certain that he had entered the city in some manner and was presumably waiting for his chance to strike at the Home Stones of the tributary cities, in order, if possible, to divide the horde of Pa-Kur.	10
16	54	Pa-Kur, of course, was pleased to leave Marlenus precisely where he was, to be destroyed by the men of Ar.	10
16	55	Also, Pa-Kur was not so much a fool as to bring the tributary Home Stones to his camp and risk disuniting his horde before the siege was completed.	10
16	56	Indeed, it was probable that Pa-Kur had no intention of returning the Home Stones at all but was determined to follow in the imperial footsteps of Marlenus himself.	10
16	66	"The siege might be lifted," I said, "if a force could take Pa-Kur by surprise, a force of some thousands of warriors attacking from the unprotected side of the camp".	10
16	75	"How long will it last," I queried, "with Pa-Kur on the throne of Ar?" Kazrak seemed suddenly to darken with thought.	10
16	76	"Pa-Kur will not destroy the city," I said, "and he will keep as much of his horde as he can".	10
16	79	"Marlenus had a dream of empire," I said, "but the ambition of Pa-Kur will yield only a nightmare of oppression and tyranny".	10
16	82	"But Pa-Kur," I said, "as Ubar of Ar, will threaten all Gor".	10
16	84	"Why should not the free cities of Gor unite to defeat Pa-Kur?" "The cities never unite," responded Kazrak.	10
16	86	"But surely, if Pa-Kur is to be stopped, this is the time, not after he is master of Ar".	10
16	96	In a few minutes I gathered together my own gear and put on the heavy black helmet of the Assassin, left the tent, and turned my steps in the direction of the tents of Pa-Kur.	10
16	98	There, on a hillock overlooking the palisades that rimmed the rampart to the ditch, I saw the wall of black silk that surrounded the compound of Pa-Kur.	10
16	104	It would be suicide to attempt to cut my way in, but Pa-Kur was in the environs of Ar, directing the siege operations, and I might, with luck, pass myself off as his messenger; who would be bold enough to deny entrance to one whose helmet bore the golden slash of the courier? Without hesitation I cl...	10
16	105	"A message from Pa-Kur," I said, "for the ears of Talena, his Ubara-to-be".	10
16	110	"Do you deny admittance to the messenger of Pa-Kur?" "I do not know you," he growled.	10
16	111	"Give me your name," I demanded, "so that I may report to Pa-Kur who it is that denies his message to his future Ubara".	10
16	117	Pa-Kur was not as careless about his own safety as I had conjectured.	10
16	126	"My message is for the ears of she who is pledged to Pa-Kur, and for her ears alone".	10
16	151	"I am the messenger of Pa-Kur," I said.	10
16	153	"Pa-Kur is kind," said the girl.	10
16	155	Indeed, I was momentarily overwhelmed with the cunning of Pa-Kur and rejoiced that I had followed something of Kazrak's counsels of patience and caution, that I had not disclosed my identity, that I had not attempted to cut my way to her side and bring her out by the blade of the sword.	10
17	1	Chains of Gold I had been outwitted by the brilliance of Pa-Kur.	10
17	5	I had no doubt that these minions of Pa-Kur whom I either cajoled or terrorized surely believed that the girl in the cage was Talena.	10
17	6	Of those actually living in the compound of Pa-Kur, it was perhaps only he who knew the true location of the girl.	10
17	7	In despair I realized I had done nothing more than make clear the fact that someone was desperately interested in the whereabouts of the girl, and, if anything, this information would make Pa-Kur redouble his precautions for her security and doubtless attempt to apprehend the individual responsible ...	10
17	9	Four times I eluded special patrols of Pa-Kur, led by men I had questioned at sword point.	10
17	11	I considered attempting the destruction of Pa-Kur, but this would not only be unlikely of success but would bring me no nearer my goal of rescuing Talena.	10
17	17	The siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall.	10
17	19	Moreover, hundreds of light "flying bridges" were being constructed; at the moment of the final assault these would be extended from the first wall to the second, and the men of Pa-Kur would scramble upward toward the looming ramparts of Ar's last defense.	10
17	28	In the camp of Pa-Kur we expected the city to fall any day, any hour.	10
17	39	In a short time Pa-Kur appeared on the first wall, opposite the Supreme Initiate, and performed the same gestures.	10
17	43	The first condition for their surrender was that Pa-Kur grant a general amnesty for themselves and their temples.	10
17	46	Pa-Kur willingly granted this condition.	10
17	50	There were a variety of smaller, more intricate concessions desired by the Initiates and granted by Pa-Kur, mostly having to do with the provisioning of the city and the protection of its tradesmen and peasants.	10
17	51	Pa-Kur, for his part, demanded and was granted the usual savage fees imposed by the Gorean conqueror.	10
17	55	The thousand most beautiful women of Ar would be given as pleasure slaves to Pa-Kur, for distribution among his highest officers.	10
17	56	Of the other free women, the healthiest and most attractive thirty percent would be auctioned to his troops in the Street of Brands, the proceeds going to the coffers of Pa-Kur.	10
17	60	Near dawn, to the brave sound of tarn drums, a mighty procession left the camp of Pa-Kur, and as it crossed the main bridge over the first ditch, I saw in the distance the great gate of Ar slowly opening.	10
17	62	Pa-Kur rode at the head of the garrison troops, ten thousand strong.	10
17	64	Pa-Kur himself rode a black tharlarion, one of the few I had seen.	10
17	68	The palanquin was set down beside the tharlarion of Pa-Kur.	10
17	76	A chain of gold was slung to Pa-Kur, who fastened it to the saddle of his tharlarion.	10
17	77	The free end of Pa-Kur's saddle chain was then secured to Talena's shackles.	10
17	78	The procession resumed to the beat of the tarn drums and Talena, bound in chains of gold, walked, slowly, with dignity, beside the tharlarion of her captor, Pa-Kur, the Assassin.	10
17	83	"She was to be the bride of Pa-Kur, to be Ubara of Ar".	10
17	86	"To save face before the citizens of Ar, they have demanded that Pa-Kur respect their decree and impale her".	10
17	87	"And Pa-Kur agreed?" "Of course," said the man.	10
17	90	I ran blindly through the now deserted streets of Pa-Kur's camp and found myself at last in the compound of Mintar.	10
18	27	"Pa-Kur approaches the city," I cried.	10
18	35	"Obey the word of Pa-Kur".	10
18	41	I was not, of course, concerned with facilitating the entry of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen, who, as far as I knew, did not even constitute a portion of the garrison force, but I was concerned with opening the sky over the city in case I, and others, might be able to utilize it as a road to freedom.	10
18	43	"Pa-Kur wishes to know if the false Ubar, Marlenus, still lives".	10
18	54	"Where," I asked, "shall Pa-Kur take the daughter of the false Ubar to be executed?" The officer pointed to a distant cylinder.	10
18	65	I streaked from the walls of Ar, noting with dismay that the procession of Pa-Kur was only a short distance from the great gate.	10
18	67	I wondered if Pa-Kur might be curious to know who was the rider of that solitary sable tarn which flashed above his head.	10
18	68	In what seemed like an hour, but must have been no more than three or four minutes, I was behind the camp of Pa-Kur and searching for the dreaded Dar-Kosis Pits, those prisons in which the Afflicted may freely incarcerate themselves and be fed, but from which they are not allowed to depart.	10
18	121	I knew that when I entered the palace my presence would be inexplicable to the guardsmen and that I would not long be able to pass myself off as a herald of Pa-Kur, certainly not when it became clear that it was my intention to depart with Marlenus.	10
19	13	"The garrison of Pa-Kur is well within the city.	10
19	30	I noted grimly, as I flew, that large portions of the horde of Pa-Kur were crossing the great bridges over the first ditch and moving toward the city, the sunlight flashing on their weaponry.	10
19	35	I could see the white robes of Initiates and the variegated colors of soldiers, both of Ar and of Pa-Kur's horde.	10
19	50	"What is the meaning of this!" cried a strident voice, that of Pa-Kur.	10
19	55	The approaching swarm of Pa-Kur's horde was visible, and the dust rose a thousand feet into the air.	10
19	57	"Who are you?" cried Pa-Kur, drawing his sword.	10
19	61	"Impale her," shouted Pa-Kur.	10
19	70	"Are you truly the men of never-conquered, imperishable Ar? Or are you but slaves who will exchange your freedom for the collar of Pa-Kur?" "Down with the Initiates!" cried one man, drawing his sword.	10
19	80	Both the men of Ar and those of Pa-Kur fell back.	10
19	87	Pa-Kur himself seemed awed.	10
19	114	The voice of Pa-Kur was heard, level and unnaturally calm.	10
19	117	Pa-Kur was said to be the finest swordsman on Gor.	10
19	122	Pa-Kur, without taking his eyes off me, gestured with his sword toward the men of Ar.	10
19	124	Instantly the Assassins and the men from Pa-Kur's horde fell upon the men of Ar, who stood firm under the sudden onslaught, meeting them blade for blade.	10
19	126	Pa-Kur approached warily, confident in his superior swordsmanship, but, as I expected, determined to take no chances.	10
19	128	Pa-Kur feinted, not exposing himself, his eyes seeming to watch my shoulder, noting how I parried the blow.	10
19	132	Pa-Kur slid the blow lightly to one side, almost casually.	10
19	133	While we touched blades almost as if involved in some bizarre ritualistic dance, there was the ringing, the clanging of fiercer swordplay around us, as the men of Pa-Kur engaged the men of Ar.	10
19	134	At last Pa-Kur stepped back, out of the range of my blade.	10
19	143	That, in its way, had been a rhetorical gesture on the part of Pa-Kur.	10
19	144	A momentary annoyance flickered through the stony eyes of Pa-Kur, and then a small, sour smile appeared on his lips.	10
19	158	Pa-Kur withdrew coolly, meeting my attack effortlessly, letting me weary my sword arm; hating him, I admired him; wanting to destroy him, I acclaimed his skill.	10
19	159	When my attack lapsed, Pa-Kur did not press his own.	10
19	162	As we fought, the men of Ar, fighting brilliantly for their city, their honor and loved ones, pushed back the men of Pa-Kur again and again, but from the interior of the cylinder swarmed more men of the Assassin.	10
19	165	Pa-Kur and I engaged again and again, I pressing the attack, he withstanding it and waiting.	10
19	167	Seeing her and the fear for me in her eyes, I seemed to gain redoubled strength, and for the first time it seemed to me that Pa-Kur was not meeting my attack as surely as he had previously.	10
19	169	Pa-Kur and I backed away from one another, each quickly trying to see what was happening.	10
19	175	In the distance the camp of Pa-Kur was in flames.	10
19	180	Many of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen were already streaking from the city, seeking their own safety.	10
19	181	Undoubtedly, the horde of Pa-Kur greatly outnumbered the attackers, but it did not understand this.	10
19	186	The Assassins of Pa-Kur were throwing down their swords and removing their helmets.	10
19	188	Pa-Kur had seen what I had seen, and now once again we faced one another.	10
19	190	Pa-Kur snarled and rushed forward.	10
19	191	I met the attack cleanly, and after a minute of fierce interplay both Pa-Kur and I realized I could withstand the best he had to give.	10
19	199	Like a striking cobra, Pa-Kur snatched up the sword.	10
19	202	Suddenly Pa-Kur, who sensed this as well as I, hurled his sword.	10
19	205	Pa-Kur and I looked at each other, now without hatred.	10
19	213	Pa-Kur was dead.	10
19	234	In the distance Pa-Kur's camp was only a framework of blackened poles.	10
20	13	Due, I believe, partly to my arguments and the prestige of what I had done, unprecedented lenience was shown to the surrendered armies of Pa-Kur.	10
20	14	The Home Stones of the Twelve Tributary Cities were returned, and those men who had served Pa-Kur from those cities were allowed to return to their cities rejoicing.	10
20	17	The officers of Pa-Kur, instead of being impaled, were treated in the same manner as common soldiers, to their relief, if scandal.	10
20	18	Those members of the Caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on Gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply Gor's oceans.	10
20	19	Oddly enough, the body of Pa-Kur himself was never recovered from the foot of the Cylinder of Justice.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	64	It had crossed with that of Pa-Kur, master assassin, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, when I had fought for my love, Talena.	10
5	86	"On the Cylinder of Justice I fought with you against Pa-Kur and his assassins".	10
7	34	It was obvious that Thorn, unlike my old enemy Pa-Kur, who presumably had perished at the siege of Ar, was not a man above sensual vices, not a man who could with fanatical purity and single-minded devotion sacrifice himself and entire peoples to the ends of his ambition and power.	10
8	109	Since the siege of Ar, when Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, had violated the limits of his caste and had presumed, in contradiction to the traditions of Gor, to lead a horde upon the city, intending to make himself Ubar, the Caste of Assassins had lived as hated, hunted men, no longer esteemed mercenaries ...	10
14	52	It recalled the tarn cots of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, the Compound of Mintar in Pa-Kur's City of Tents on the Vosk, the outlaw encampment of Marlenus among the crags of the Voltai Range.	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	258	And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw...	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	181	"Your swordplay with Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, was superb".	10
26	391	"It is said," remarked Kamchak, "that the sword of Ha-Keel is scarcely less swift and cunning than that of Pa-Kur, the Master of Assassins".	10
26	392	"Pa-Kur is dead," I said.	10
26	402	"Pa-Kur," I said, "defeated in personal combat on the high roof of the Cylinder of Justice in Ar, turned and to avoid capture threw himself over the ledge.	10

Book 5. (9 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	3	Not for many years had the black tunic of the Assassins been seen within the walls of Ar, not since the siege of that city in 10,110 from its founding, in the days of Marlenus, who had been Ubar; of Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins; and of the Koroban Warrior, in the songs called Tarl of...	10
2	5	Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins, had led a league of tributary cities to attack Imperial Ar in the time when its Home Stone had been stolen and its Ubar forced to flee.	10
2	6	The city had fallen and Pa-Kur, though of low caste, had aspired to inherit the imperial mantle of Marlenus, had dared to lift his eyes to the throne of Empire and place about his neck the golden medallion of a Ubar, a thing forbidden to such as he in the myths of the Counter-Earth.	10
2	7	Pa-Kur's horde had been defeated by an alliance of free cities, led by Ko-ro-ba and Thentis, under the command of Matthew Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, the father of Tarl of Bristol, and Kazrak of Port Kar, sword brother of the same Warrior.	10
2	8	Tarl of Bristol himself on the windy height of Ar's Cylinder of Justice had defeated Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins.	10
2	189	Moreover, Kazrak had been one of the leaders of the forces that had preserved Ar in the time of its troubles with Pa-Kur, master of the Assassins; as the tale was now told in the streets, the men of Ar themselves, alone, had overthrown the invader; Kazrak seemed a living reminder that Glorious Ar ha...	10
12	77	Later he had helped to free Ar after it had fallen to the horde of Pa-Kur, master of the Assassins, who had wished to become Ubar of the City, inheriting the medallion of office and putting about his shoulders the purple cloak of empire.	10
17	207	I had known Maximus Hegesius Quintilius only briefly several years ago, when he had been a captain, in 10,110 from the Founding of Ar, in the time of Pa-Kur and his horde.	10
18	181	"For many years," said Flaminius, "and this was even before 10,110, the year of Pa-Kur and his horde, I and others worked secretly in the Cylinder of Physicians.	10

Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	311	And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	122	I recalled her from the fields near the Swamp Forest south of Ar, in the caravan of Mintar, at the great camp of Pa-Kur's horde, as she had been upon Ar's lofty Cylinder of Justice, as she had been in lamp-lit Ko-ro-ba, when, with interlocking arms, we had drunk the wines of the Free Companionship.	10
22	38	The grayish face of Pa-Kur, and the expressionless eyes, stared down into mine.	10
22	77	Pa-Kur had leaped from its height.	10
22	86	Pa-Kur was dead.	10
22	106	Pa-Kur stared down upon me.	10
22	108	"Pa-Kur is alive!" I screamed, rising up, throwing aside the furs.	10
22	969	I wondered if Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, yet lived.	10

Book 9. (203 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	251	Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...	10
7	281	"Kur! Kur!" I heard men cry.	10
11	203	I had strong doubts, of course, as to whether a Kur invasion of the south was practical, unless abetted by the strikes of Kur ships from the steel worlds.	10
11	289	"A thousand of you can die beneath the claws of a single Kur!" cried the Kur.	10
14	66	The major difference between the blood content of the Kur and of men is that the plasma of the Kur contains a greater percentage of salt, this acting in water primarily as a protein solvent.	10
14	73	The Kur who had leashed his catch then handed the leash to the other Kur, who accepted it, adding it to the others.	10
14	93	Then her leash was surrendered into the keeping of the Kur who held the others, and then the first Kur, leaving his prize in the care of the other, turned about, to hunt yet another delicacy from the herd within the hall.	10
14	154	I saw Ivar Forkbeard, his sword gone, lost in the body of a nearby Kur, his knife in his hand, one hand thrusting away and upward the jaws of a Kur, repeatedly plunge his knife into the huge chest of the beast.	10
14	250	I heard a Kur below me scream with pain; I looked down, and hauled myself up to avoid the stroke of an ax; one Kur reeled about; the left side of its furred head, wet, drenched in oil, was aflame; it screamed hideously; it clawed at its left eye.	10
18	339	The Kur cast about and suddenly darted its great hand down and clutched an ax, a Kur ax.	10
20	179	"I have here three objects," I said, "acquired on the skerry, the head of a Kur, he who was commander of the Kur army, a spiral ring of gold, taken as loot from his carcass, and a slave girl".	10
7	1	The Kur The next five days were pleasant ones for me.	10
7	306	With chains and poles the body of the Kur was dragged and thrust from the hall.	10
7	313	"This is a small Kur," said the Forkbeard.	10
8	296	I was certain that the Kur which I sought would know me, and well.	10
8	303	If the Kur within it were he whom I sought, I had little doubt but what we should later meet.	10
10	1	A Kur Will Address the Thing Roped together by the waist, on the turf of the Thing-Fair, we grappled.	10
10	683	"A Kur," it was said, "One of the Kurii would address the assembly of the Thing!" The girl looked at me, pulling against the fiber that bound her wrists.	10
11	19	It is apparently physiologically impossible for a Kur to attack without its shoulders hunching, its claws emerging, and its ears lying back against the head.	10
11	32	One difference they do remark between the human and the Kur, and that is that the human, commonly, has an inhibition against killing.	10
11	33	This inhibition the Kur lacks.	10
11	34	"Fellow rational creatures!" called the Kur.	10
11	39	"Fellow rational creatures!" called the Kur.	10
11	40	The Kur has two rows of fangs.	10
11	46	Behind the Kur, to one side, stood two other Kurii.	10
11	59	In spite of the shortness of the legs the Kur can, when it wishes, by utilizing its upper appendages, in the manner of a prairie simian, like the baboon, move with great rapidity.	10
11	68	"We come in peace," said the Kur.	10
11	71	"In the north, in the snows," said the Kur, "there is a gathering of my kind".	10
11	91	"We come in peace," said the Kur.	10
11	94	"As many as the stones of the beaches," said the Kur, "as many as the needles on the needle trees".	10
11	96	"We come in peace," said the Kur.	10
11	106	"You know us, unfortunately," said the Kur, to the assembly, "only by our outcasts, wretches driven from our caves, unfit for the gentilities of civilization, by our diseased and our misfits, and our insane, by those who, in spite of our efforts and our kindness, did not manage to learn our ways of ...	10
11	114	"Even now," said the Kur, the skin drawing back from its fangs, "there are those among you who wish our death, who urge our destruction".	10
11	116	The Kur had heard and understood their speech, though he stood far from us, and above us, on the platform of the assembly, that platform cut into the small, sloping hill over the assembly field.	10
11	129	The Kur did not seem angry at the laughter.	10
11	131	To the Kur it might be only a human noise, as meaningless to him as the cries of whales to us.	10
11	141	"We were not always simple farmers," said the Kur.	10
11	153	"As many," said the Kur, "as the stones on the beaches, as many as the needles on the needle trees".	10
11	155	The Kur turned to the assembly.	10
11	158	"We seek empty lands to the south, to farm," said the Kur.	10
11	162	The Kur stepped back with the other Kurii.	10
11	166	"What crop," asked Ivar Forkbeard, who wore a hood, of the platform, "do the Kurii most favor in their agricultural pursuits?" I saw the ears of the Kur lie swiftly back against its head.	10
11	181	The Kur, moreover, tends to be an inveterate land animal.	10
11	204	The point of the probe, indeed, might be to push Kur power as far south as possible, and, perhaps, too, for the first time, result in the engagement of the forces of Priest-Kings to turn them back.	10
11	208	If the Priest-Kings did not do this, perhaps for reasons of pride, their laws having been given, then, in effect, Gor might become a Kur world, in which, given local allies, the Priest-Kings might finally be isolated and destroyed.	10
11	221	"What will you pay," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "for permission to traverse our land, should that permission be granted?" "We will take little or nothing," said the Kur, "and so must be asked to pay nothing".	10
11	223	"But," said the Kur, "as there are many of us, we will need provisions, which we will expect you to furnish us".	10
11	226	"We will require," said the Kur, "for each day of the march, as provisions, a hundred verr, a hundred tarsk, a hundred bosk, one hundred healthy property-females, of the sort you refer to as bondmaids".	10
11	233	"Yes," said the Kur.	10
11	235	The Kur, this time, did not seem amused.	10
11	245	"We will require, too," said the Kur, "one thousand male slaves, as porters, to be used, too, in their turn, as provisions".	10
11	246	"And if all this be granted to you," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "what will you grant us in return?" "Your lives," said the Kur.	10
11	251	"Consider carefully your answer, my friends," said the Kur.	10
11	261	The Kur looked into the bucket, at the yellow grain.	10
11	268	The Kur looked at it.	10
11	271	The Kur reached out and took the loaf.	10
11	276	The Kur looked upon the loaf, as we might have looked on grass, or wood, or the shell of a turtle.	10
11	279	I knew then that this Kur, if not all, was carnivorous.	10
11	291	The speaker, the Kur, with the golden spiral bracelet, turned angrily away.	10
13	449	In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps som...	10
13	450	It threw back its head and opened its jaws, eyes blazing, and uttered the blood roar of the aroused Kur; then it bent over, regarding us, shoulders hunched, its claws leaping from its soft, furred sheaths; it then laid its ears back flat against the sides of its great head.	10
13	453	This cry, like a stimulus, acted upon the others, as well; almost instantly, with the velocity that the stranger signal can course through a pack of urts, this shriek was picked up by those with it; then, the hall filled with their horrid howling, eyes blazing, led by the Kur with the golden band, f...	10
14	15	The Kur axes fell again and again.	10
14	21	I saw another man-at-arms hanging from the jaws of a Kur.	10
14	29	Then the Kur's jaws closed.	10
14	37	A great Kur ax swept near me.	10
14	67	The Kur can eat and digest quantities of meat which would kill a man.	10
14	70	I saw a Kur leash her.	10
14	72	There there waited another Kur, who held in his tentacled hand the leashes of more than twenty bondmaids, who knelt, terrified, about its legs.	10
14	76	The Kur who had taken the girl then took another leash from the interior of his shield, where there were several wrapped about the shield straps, and surveyed the hall.	10
14	91	I saw the Kur who had pursued the bondmaid now again going toward that holding area near the door.	10
14	120	To one side I saw the Kur with the golden band on its arm.	10
14	126	It had been wielded by the Kur whose lips had drawn back.	10
14	132	A Kur had been killed.	10
14	138	The body of the dead Kur, inert, lay heavy, crooked, in the dirt.	10
14	145	A Kur had been killed.	10
14	153	I managed, as the Kur was twisting his ax, trying to free it of the body, to drive my blade through its neck, under the right ear.	10
14	164	It passed half through the body of a Kur.	10
14	175	I saw Ivar Forkbeard, with a spear, set himself against the charge of an unarmed Kur.	10
14	177	The spear's shaft gouged a trench six inches deep behind him, and then stopped, and the Kur, biting in the air, eyes like fire, backed away, and fell backward; Ivar leaped away as another ax sought him.	10
14	180	In rage it had cried, "A thousand of you can die beneath the claws of a single Kur!" There were perhaps now no more than a hundred or a hundred and fifty men left alive in the hall.	10
14	198	I saw the Kur who held the leashes of the caught bondmaids dragging the girls from the hall.	10
14	201	The leashes were some fifteen feet in length, allowing in this radius one Kur to hold several captives at once.	10
14	202	The Kur left the hall.	10
14	210	He was cut down immediately, running almost headlong into a Kur, one of the Kurii set before the killing line, to intercept such fugitives.	10
14	218	His long sword, now again in his hand, which he had recovered from the body of the Kur in which he had left it, was again bloodied, and freshly so; his left sleeve was torn away; there were claw marks on his neck.	10
14	256	I thrust at the next Kur, driving the blade through its ear into the brain.	10
14	259	I cut down at the next Kur.	10
15	28	Once a Kur passed within a yard of my hand.	10
15	43	We now understood the meaning of the Kur we had seen on Black Sleen, long ago, who had accompanied Thorgard of Scagnar into his holding.	10
15	91	In the journey to Ivar's tent a Kur loomed before us, snarling.	10
15	92	"Foolish beast, stupid animal," said Ivar, brandishing his scarf, "can you not see the yellow scarf?" He then brushed past the Kur.	10
15	96	The Kur, doubtless, could not understand Gorean.	10
15	111	We looked down on the carcass of a dead Kur, its jaws opened, its eyes staring at the moons.	10
15	180	I heard a Kur climbing below me.	10
15	217	We heard, some sixty feet below us, a Kur scraping with its claws on the mountain below us, feeling for crevices or chinks.	10
15	218	"This ledge," said the Forkbeard, "is a Kur trap.	10
15	219	In my youth I was hunted by a Kur in this vicinity.	10
15	223	I chose, and cut, a path which it might follow, to the last twenty feet; for the last twenty feet I cut shallow holds in the surface, adequate for a man, climbing carefully, but too shallow for the fingers of a Kur".	10
15	225	"As a boy, thus," said Ivar, "I slew my first Kur".	10
15	230	I did not envy the Kur below.	10
15	236	Behind the first Kur, some feet below, was a second.	10
15	239	The first Kur was some eight or ten feet below us when, suddenly, it slipped on the rock and, with a wild shriek, scratching at the stone, slid some four feet downward and then plunged backward, turning in the air, howling, and, some five Ihn later, struck the rocks far below.	10
15	240	"The hand holds," said Ivar, "were not cut to be deep enough to support the weight of a Kur".	10
15	241	The second Kur was some twenty-five feet below.	10
15	248	Even as a boy he had been a dangerous foe, in guile and wit the match even for an adult Kur.	10
15	351	"Kur," I wondered, "are you my brother?" The great ax swept toward me.	10
15	358	The Kur, not hurrying, ax ready, stalked me.	10
15	365	It was what the Kur desired.	10
15	387	The lips of the Kur drew back, revealing the fangs.	10
15	390	"Ivar!" I heard the blood shriek of an unseen Kur.	10
15	406	The second Kur dropped to the ledge.	10
15	408	It, too, with a sound of granite on metal, was fended away, this time by the shield of the second Kur.	10
15	411	One of the long arms of a Kur thrust inside, reaching for us.	10
15	413	The Kur withdrew its arm.	10
15	419	The Kur withdrew.	10
15	426	I had learned that the Kur shield could be as devastating a weapon as the war hammer of Hunjer.	10
17	12	It had tasted the blood of a Kur guard.	10
17	31	In the night of the attack he, at the Forkbeard's encampment near the Thing-Fields, with an ax, had slain a Kur.	10
17	84	No Kur enjoys sleeping exposed.	10
17	112	Two such "hands," with their "eyes," constitutes a "Kur," or "Beast".	10
17	113	The military Kur, in this sense a unit, is commanded by a "Blood".	10
17	119	The commander of a military Kur, thus, might better be thought of as the "brain" or "mind," but continues, in their languages, to be spoken of as the "blood".	10
17	148	No Kur, however, I am told, of whatever race or type, will eat the meat of another.	10
17	153	The prehensile, appendage of the normal Kur is six digited.	10
17	158	Four days ago I had seen a girl drive in which several sleen, fanning out over a large area of territory, had scented out scattered, hiding slave girls and, from various points, driven them into a blind canyon, where a waiting Kur had swung shut a wooden gate on them, fastening them inside.	10
17	170	There are thus five lines, the center line of prisoners and spoils, its flanking lines of sleen, and, on either side, the flanking lines of the Kur foragers.	10
18	1	What Then Occurred in the Camp of the Kurii The Kur dropped back from the blade.	10
18	18	A Kur lifted its great ax.	10
18	25	I stood mighty and terrible, the ax ready, my clothes drenched with blood, the Kur rolling and jerking at my feet.	10
18	27	I saw a Kur seize a man of Thorgard of Scagnar's camp and tear his head from his body.	10
18	42	I saw a Kur, barred with brown, turning, backing away, snarling, limping, from Ottar, who kept the Forkbeard's farm.	10
18	45	With a cry he thrust his spear through the chest of a Kur.	10
18	47	A Kur charged.	10
18	49	I saw another Kur, undecided, startled.	10
18	66	I met the attack of the Kur squarely.	10
18	68	Slowly I reared up, forcing the handle, now held in the two paws of the Kur, upward and backward.	10
18	82	The Kur, turning, now facing me, moved backward; it stumbled against a tent rope, jerking loose its peg.	10
18	92	The Kur, backing away, with its right arm, reaching across its body, tore up one of the tent poles, wrenching it free of the earth, the tent.	10
18	108	There was Kur blood on his chest and against the side of his face.	10
18	119	The rally had been led by the Kur who had been foremost in the attack on his hall.	10
18	120	This Kur, it seemed, had disappeared, scattering with the others.	10
18	121	The Blue Tooth stepped over the body of a fallen Kur.	10
18	153	No Kur who approached the signal spear did not die.	10
18	179	Bodies, human and Kur, fell bloodied to the grass.	10
18	232	The Kur has excellent night vision.	10
18	248	Svein Blue Tooth threw Kur meat into the dirt, in disgust.	10
18	251	I saw the general within their square, the huge Kur whom I had seen before, in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth, it with the golden ring on the left arm.	10
18	324	We heard, behind a tent, the snarl of a Kur.	10
18	326	It was a large Kur, brownish, with blazing eyes, rings in its ears.	10
18	330	Blocking the path of the Kur was a man, in a kirtle of white wool, a collar of black iron at his throat.	10
18	332	The Kur snarled, but the man, Tarsk, Thrall of the Forkbeard, once Wulfstan of Kassau, did not move.	10
18	337	The Kur threw the girl to one side.	10
18	342	The lips of the Kur drew back.	10
18	346	She watched the two beasts, contesting her, the Kur and the human beast, terrible with the bloodied ax, Wulfstan of Kassau.	10
18	352	At his feet lay the bloodied Kur.	10
18	388	We passed a group of men who had captured a Kur.	10
18	400	We passed five men, about a fire, roasting a haunch of Kur.	10
18	415	Only the blood of a Kur.	10
18	417	"May the ferocity of the Kur be in you!" cried the man.	10
18	422	He was cutting, with a ship's knife, a ring of reddish alloy from the arm of a fallen Kur.	10
18	431	Over her iron collar she wore a heavy leather Kur collar, high, heavily sewn, with its large ring.	10
18	432	He thrust her two wrists, before her body, into the ring he had cut from the Kur.	10
18	435	He then threw her, on her back, over the body, head down, of the fallen Kur.	10
18	436	He took the two loose ends of the binding fiber and, taking them under the body of the fallen Kur, dragged her wrists, elbows bent, over and above her head; he then, bending her knees, tied one of the loose ends about her left ankle, and the other about her right.	10
18	438	He then, regarding her, cut the Kur collar from her throat with the ship's knife.	10
18	442	She moved, lying across it, on the body of the Kur.	10
18	466	I had seen this, or much of it, earlier in the morning, when I had pursued the Kur to the tents of Thorgard of Scagnar.	10
18	485	By the ring of the Kur collar which she wore Ivar Forkbeard jerked her to her feet, so that she stood on her tiptoes, looking up at him.	10
18	500	"I am not a Kur girl," she cried.	10
18	632	"Several," he said, "but I think the men of Torvaldsland now need fear little the return of any Kur army".	10
18	655	The plan had been brilliant, though careless of the value, if any, placed on Kur life.	10
18	658	The failure of the Kur invasion, of course, moved the struggle to a new dimension.	10
18	666	The Kur is a tenacious beast.	10
19	1	The Note The Kur came that night, the night of the battle, in the light of torches, ringed by men with spears.	10
19	4	Down a hall of men, standing in the field, came the Kur.	10
19	10	At the feet of the two leaders the Kur laid the pieces of the broken ax.	10
19	25	Again the lips of the Kur drew back from its teeth.	10
20	52	In the marshes was I contacted by a mighty Kur, but one courteous, one strong and gentle.	10
20	56	A Kur was seen.	10
20	59	The Kur departed north.	10
20	70	I saw now, head first, then shoulders, then body, a Kur, climbing to the surface of the skerry.	10
20	71	He was large, even for a Kur, some nine feet in height.	10
20	76	I knew the Kur.	10
20	80	It had been he, doubtless a Kur from the steel worlds themselves, who had commanded the Kurii army, who had been the leader of their forces.	10
20	83	The Kur rested back on its haunches, some twenty feet from me.	10
20	108	It was a Kur ax, its handle some eight feet in length, the broad head better than two feet in sharpened width.	10
20	113	Though I am only human, neither Kur nor Priest-King, I give you salute".	10
20	139	The lips of the Kur drew back.	10
20	142	It was a Kur smile.	10
20	154	From my pouch I drew forth a leather Kur collar, with its lock, and, sewn in leather, its large, rounded ring.	10
20	160	"It is the collar of a Kur cow," I told her.	10
20	164	Then, by a length of binding fiber, looped double in the ring of her collar, tied her on her knees to the foot of the Kur.	10
20	165	Then, with the knife, I knelt at the Kur's throat.	10
20	175	I lifted the head of the Kur in my right hand over my head.	10
21	17	She had worn a Kur collar before, and, with hundreds of others, had been rescued from the pens.	10
21	18	The fixing of the Kur collar, it had been decided by Svein Blue Tooth, was equivalent to the fixing of the metal collar and, in itself, was sufficient to reduce the subject to slavery, which condition deprives the subject of legal status, and rights attached thereto, such as the right to stand in co...	10
21	94	But as the men cried out, and cheered, and the weapons clashed on shields, I looked to a place in the hall where, mounted on a great stake, was the huge, savage head of the Kur which I had slain on the Skerry of Vars.	10
21	96	I looked at the huge, somber, shaggy head of the Kur, mounted on its stake, some eight feet from the ground.	10
21	99	The Kur, it seemed to me, in virtue of its distant, doubtless harsh evolution, was well fitted to be a dominant form of life.	10
21	103	I regarded the huge, somber head of the Kur.	10
21	131	He turned to regard the huge, shaggy head of the Kur, mounted on its stake.	10
21	144	It seemed to me not unlikely that the Grendel of legend had been a Kur, a survivor perhaps of a forced landing or a decimated scouting party.	10

Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	589	It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr...	10
21	520	Perhaps the Kur with whom I had trekked had, with the frenzy of a Kur's strength, wrenched it aside, before meeting the four charges of the other Kur's weapon.	10
13	387	A man, I felt, could know a Kur, but Priest-Kings, I suspected, could only know about a Kur.	10
21	458	I was puzzled that the Kur with whom I had trekked, who had worn the ring, had been hit four times, accurately, with the weapon of the Kur who stalked me.	10
21	461	It seemed likely then that the Kur must have been struck as it had framed itself, perhaps in an opening, the other Kur, smelling it, hearing it, firing when it had tried to enter.	10
21	558	The Kur's arm was long enough to reach the ring, as mine was not, but the piping beneath which it had fallen was too closely set to accommodate the large arm of the Kur.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	99	The Kur who is only a beast is less dangerous in most situations than the Kur who is more than a beast.	10
31	177	This form of Kur is smaller than the dominant or the nondominant, speaking thusly of the nonreproducing form of Kur".	10
34	88	The Kur's lips drew back, in a Kur grin, seeing my action.	10
34	117	The origins of that cry, I conjecture, are lost in the vanished antiquities of the prehistory of the Kur, or of the beast that, in time, became the Kur.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
53	370	The Kur roared with pain and I lost the dagger, it wrenched away as the Kur threw its claws to its face.	10
53	425	To my surprise I saw the Kur leader, a huge, brown Kur, doubtless from one of the far ships, lift his panga in salute to the black Ubar.	10

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	324	With something like a thousand men he had entered the Barrens, with seventeen Kurii, an execution squad from the steel worlds, searching for Half-Ear, Zarendargar, the Kur war general who had been in command of the supply complex, and staging area, in the Gorean arctic, that which was being readied ...	10
32	34	Given the irritability and territoriality of the Kur, it had seemed likely that there would have been but one Kur to a wagon.	10
51	11	This was the Kur I had come to think of as the eighth Kur.	10

Book 28. (53 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
69	89	It is one thing for a Kur to challenge a Kur, Kur to Kur, as in the rings.	10
21	114	It is sometimes annoying to a Kur that some humans cannot immediately, similarly, distinguish between a Kur male and a Kur female.	10
39	45	A large Kur on the ground, looking wildly about, seemingly issued orders to a fellow Kur, doubtless a subordinate, who then, instantly, as one expects a Kur to obey, climbed one of the poles, turned about to view the terrain, and died.	10
44	253	How long, Cabot wondered, had this Kur sensed the dominant latent within him? The Kur then placed one large, clawed foot on the back of the bellied she-Kur, pinning her to the grass.	10
73	85	Lord Grendel's body shook, and Cabot feared, once more, as he had once feared it in the camp, that he might become something other than he would recognize, something terrible, fanged, merciless, stormlike, predatory, something unmitigatedly and primitively Kur, Kur as Kur might once have been, emerg...	10
1	336	She knew her name in Kur and could respond to certain commands in Kur.	10
4	3	I think I have made clear the difficulties of replicating in a human tongue the phonemes of Kur, as we shall refer to the language of this particular habitat, one, actually, of several in the worlds, and, correspondingly, naturally, the difficulty of reproducing in Kur the phonemes of typical human ...	10
4	6	It is possible, of course, for a Kur to recognize certain sounds in, say, Gorean, and for a human to recognize certain sounds in Kur.	10
10	229	Too, are not Kur pets often so treated?" "Certainly Kur pets are often so treated," said Peisistratus, "but I am certain, in this case, that Pyrrhus hopes you will be provoked, perhaps to an uncivil word, a protest, an insult, perhaps even a blow".	10
11	48	As the names of these two individuals are in Kur we shall refer to them, as is our wont, by choosing, almost at random, names whose phonemic nature will be accessible to readers who may be supposed unfamiliar with Kur.	10
18	35	The Kur female is large and dangerous, but the Kur male is even larger and more dangerous, and, in the final accounting, he may hold her in place, and do with her as he wishes.	10
18	241	"No," said the Kur, "but I am Kur".	10
18	244	The question, "Are you Kur?" can be asked even of a Kur.	10
19	108	The Kur who held the wadded tunic threw it before the feeding sleen, who looked upon it, and then crawled toward it, and then, suddenly, as though recovering from some distraction, perhaps its experiences at the ledge, its attack on the Kur, its fight with its wild fellow, the satisfying of its hung...	10
20	81	"And let this, too, be so recorded, and I speak as Kur," called Pyrrhus, his voice rising from the cement pit, in which, to rings, he was chained, "I am guilty of no treason against the species or the world!" This caused a considerable stir on the tiers, for it was clear Lord Pyrrhus had spoken as K...	10
20	113	"Kur to Kur!" cried Lord Pyrrhus, shackled, but mighty, looking upward, fangs bared.	10
20	115	"Kur to Kur!" The Kurii on the tiers leaped up and down, howling with pleasure.	10
21	74	"It is here that Lord Pyrrhus will attest his innocence against Agamemnon, Kur to Kur".	10
21	115	It is less annoying that they sometimes fail to distinguish between a typical Kur male and a Kur nondominant.	10
21	264	"When," asked Cabot, "will Lord Pyrrhus and Lord Agamemnon meet, Kur to Kur?" "Presently," said Peisistratus.	10
21	317	"Is he not Kur?" "Part Kur".	10
21	461	Grendel's left arm, slowly, surely, doubtless with considerable pain to himself, encircled the throat of the Kur he held, and he drew back a mighty fist, and this fist, with a blow that might have felled a tharlarion, he drove into the back of the Kur's neck, better than two inches, breaking the sku...	10
21	497	Did it truly think the struggle was for the weapon? Did it not understand that the struggle was for who should live and who should die? Suddenly Grendel released the weapon and thrust out his massive clawed paw and the fingers of his right paw thrust through the left eye of the Kur and the rest of t...	10
21	611	Agamemnon is not without courage to face such an enemy, Kur to Kur".	10
21	618	"Agamemnon himself will do battle, Kur to Kur," said Peisistratus.	10
21	654	"They were to meet, Kur to Kur," said Cabot.	10
24	124	"War of Kur upon Kur?" "There is a history of such things, a long and bloody history," said Grendel.	10
36	354	Cabot and the slave set supplies within reach of the weakened, anguished Kur, water in vessels which were available from the purchases of Lord Grendel earlier, and what was left of edibles suitable for Kurii, meat from huntings, and some of the processed edibles which had been chemically designed fo...	10
43	190	"He is Kur," she said, "and a poor Kur, one deformed, consider his hands, his voice".	10
44	31	Some beam devices, too, had proved of value, and flares, particularly in assisting humans to detect Kur patrols, Kur marches, the advance of raiding parties, and such.	10
44	46	Needless to say, amongst the allies, it was understood that feeding on one another, Kur upon human, human upon Kur, was not to take place.	10
44	284	Lord Grendel and Cabot then turned about, and the Kur drew on the she-Kur's leash, and pulled her to her feet, where she stood, unsteadily.	10
44	307	They were the sort of Kur female who were despised by the Kur females who knew only nondominants, but then the latter sort of females, those who knew only nondominants, are perhaps to be forgiven for their views, as they lacked certain experiences.	10
46	27	"It is strange to think that he was once no more than a scavenger Kur," said a Kur.	10
46	71	"You are not Kur," said a Kur.	10
47	99	"We shall flight against these," said Statius, "and meet them Kur to Kur, tooth to tooth, claw to claw".	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	187	"Not every Kur is Kur," said Lord Grendel.	10
53	145	"Many humans," said Lord Grendel, "particularly at first, have difficulty telling the Kur male from the Kur female.	10
56	205	Who better in such a cause than a human warrior to bear to Kur warriors the ring of Arcesilaus, mightiest of Kurii, mightiest of the foes of Agamemnon?" "I think," said Cabot, ruefully, "that they might have been shamed to face a fellow Kur in such role, one still with pride and status, who did not ...	10
60	6	"They are true to the ways of the Kur," said a Kur.	10
60	61	"Kur ways, such as striking first, retaliating instantly, seeking vengeance, annihilating an enemy, eliminating weakness, punishing failure, improving the folk, pledging loyalty, and keeping it, unquestioning obedience to command, ruthlessness, breeding for Kur virtues, power and energy, savagery, i...	10
65	40	"You are not Kur," said a Kur.	10
65	62	"Without the way of Kur," said Lord Grendel, "we are not Kur".	10
66	25	"Is there anything in the way of Kur which insists upon a particular hour, or day, or moment?" "No," said a Kur.	10
69	87	"The treachery of the amnesty betrayal still rankled with many," said a Kur, "for that was not Kur".	10
69	91	"It is not Kur," said another Kur.	10
69	133	"It would not be Kur," said a Kur.	10
73	133	"Female Kur slaves!" exclaimed a Kur, shocked.	10
73	139	"And free Kur females will be denied entrance to the festivals," said a Kur.	10
78	143	Whereas Cabot, as a human, had shortly found himself in immoderate difficulties with the Kur, Flavion, adept with a great Kur ax, Flavion, himself, found himself at a severe disadvantage when unexpectedly confronted with Lord Grendel, who was much larger than Flavion, much stronger, was similarly ar...	10
78	160	"Remember the Lady Bina," Lord Grendel had whispered to the fallen, shuddering Kur, and then he had straightened up, and backed away, and lifted his head to the far ceiling of the world and howled, as a primeval Kur might have howled, a cry of rage, of hatred, of victory, and satisfaction.	10
80	153	Down at the gate a Kur, who had perhaps been waiting for this signal, turned aside, disappeared for a moment beyond the wall, and then, in another moment, reappeared, together with another Kur, and another figure, one much smaller.	10

Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	263	I do not think that she was objectively superior to the Kur pet, and might even have brought a lower price than the Kur pet in most markets, but she was somehow very special to me.	10
25	96	In a way he reminded me of Pa-Kur, once master of the Assassins, save that Pa-Kur was not such as to be distracted by flowers, by poetry, the servings of tea, by sake, by the delights of delicate women under contract.	10

Book 31. (15 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
48	234	It was the Kur who, when an iron-chain Kur, had stood before Agamemnon with another Kur in the audience chamber, a silver-chain Kur.	10
33	133	In any event, however it might seem to a Kur, I saw little difference between the Kur of Grendel and that of his Kur fellows with whom he readily and frequently conversed.	10
48	99	"Repudiate Agamemnon! How can he be Kur? He has no body! I know his world! It rejected him! He is no Kur! He is only the brain that once inhabited a Kur body! Now he is an artificial thing, a brain armed with a hundred artificialities, an artifact of your wondrous science.	10
12	65	"Indeed, on the world once of Agamemnon, Eleventh face of the Nameless One, it was a great honor to be the pet of a Kur, particularly if one were only a human being, and not a female Kur, defanged and declawed, kept in chains and chastisable by the rod.	10
26	82	"It is in Kur," she said, "but I cannot read Kur".	10
29	30	The guard, backed now by the second Kur, the armed Kur, motioned that Lord Grendel should retreat to the rear of his cell, which he did.	10
32	7	Looking about myself, as inconspicuously as possible, I noted that almost every Kur in the room was a silver-chain Kur.	10
33	117	Part Kur, he was perhaps more than Kur, adding to the horror of one species the worst of another.	10
33	128	These differences would have been instantaneously obvious to a Kur, but I am sure that many humans would have seen little or no difference between Grendel and a purely bred, or full-blooded, Kur.	10
33	132	I gathered that his Kur was closer to Kur, than his Gorean to Gorean.	10
37	169	Following this two Kurii were presented to the machine, one a silver-chain Kur and one an iron-chain Kur.	10
47	91	One of Desmond's Kur guards started after him, but men crowded together, as though preparing to follow Desmond and his guards, and the Kur must thrust them from his path, following which he stopped and wildly looked about, nostrils flaring.	10
48	124	Back in the room, closer to the portal through which the newcomers had emerged, Kur struggled with Kur.	10
48	237	The silver-chain Kur had then been slain, most unpleasantly, by Agamemnon, then housed in the large, crab-like metal body, and the silver chain, with garlands, had been awarded to former iron-chain Kur.	10
49	28	The experiment, as noted, had a political end in view, that of producing a Kur-like thing, with Kur allegiances, with enough human characteristics to interact profitably with Gorean humans, garnering alliances, and such.	10

Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	419	"I found a fellow, in a marsh beside the Cartius," he said, "bitten at the shoulder, ribs and intestines torn from his body, who cried out the words, 'Kur, Kur,' and died".	10

Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	16	I once saw one in Torvaldsland disembowel a Kur, before the ax half severed its head and the Kur began to feed, one paw thrusting its intestines back into its body, holding them in place.	10
49	84	Indeed, it had been difficult for me, at first, to distinguish a male Kur from a female Kur, a difficulty which would be incomprehensible amongst Kurii themselves.	10
50	237	The other Kur had spun about, rushed to the side, and now had the great Kur ax lifted, ready to strike, when two glaives were thrust into his body, again and again.	10

Book 34. (20 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	325	Decius Albus, his robes bloody, standing in the box, ax-bearing Lucilius wild and snarling at his side, while the field was broken into warring factions, men against Kur, Kur against men, men against men, Kur against Kur, remonstrated again and again with his men, "Peace! Peace! Do not threaten our ...	10
33	103	"Could you speak Kur, any dialect of Kur?" "I could not make such noises," said he who had admitted us.	10
33	184	I had learned it was too small to be a male Kur, and, for all I knew, it might be smaller, even, than the female Kur.	10
33	667	How had he dared to place himself, armed with naught but that sliver of a knife, between a Kur and its quarry? The largest Kur, it whom I took to be their leader, it with the two rings on its left wrist, to whom the others had seemingly deferred, stood near the fallen lantern, and looked about.	10
34	193	Kur fought Kur.	10
40	141	"Lord Grendel is part Kur, and the Kur tends to be violent, short-tempered, and unpredictable, easily provoked, easily excited to attack.	10
44	176	Something was said in Kur, to which Lord Grendel responded, also in Kur.	10
44	181	It then said something in Kur, to which Lord Grendel responded in Kur.	10
45	121	"It was only a Kur, or something much like a Kur".	10
49	264	"He will not," said Decius Albus, "he is Kur, or much like a Kur".	10
50	13	I took it that that sound was half in articulate Kur, which I was able to at least recognize as Kur, and half, perhaps, in nothing that could even be understood as intelligible discourse, but might better be interpreted as no more than shrieks and cries, a frightful ventilation of frustration and fu...	10
50	200	I gathered that the Lady Alexina had never seen a Kur before, or anything similar to a Kur.	10
52	66	Doubtless, from the point of view of Surtak, such an exchange was an indication of simple madness or an incredible lack of perception on the part of Lord Grendel, to return Lyris, an unusually beautiful Kur female, I had gathered, for a monstrosity, part human and part Kur, Eve.	10
55	68	"He is Kur, Kur".	10
60	103	Who knows how long it has been since they have fed in the ways they most wish to feed, and feed to their fill, on abundant, living, bloody meat, either on a steel world or here, on verdant Gor? You and the others, I fear, have been brought forth for Kur feeding, and Kur sport, as much as the eviscer...	10
61	287	Then I saw a Kur attack another Kur.	10
61	327	"Let Kur not fight Kur! Do not do war upon one another!" But I feared that few of those Kurii embroiled with one another in that melee, adherents of Surtak or Lucilius, tearing at one another, teeth locked in bodies, rolling in the grass, much attended to the plea of he who had been, but shortly bef...	10
61	650	"A shield, a shield!" cried Decius Albus, "and one, as well, for noble Lucilius!" The large Kur beside him in the box was crouched down, and the broad, double-edged blade of the Kur ax it bore was held across its body, before its chest, covering its heart.	10
61	716	Who is to retreat, who is to yield, human or Kur? Whose will is to hold sway? The Kur cannot, and will not, yield".	10
65	108	"Kur, kur," said Paula.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	193	It was Addison Steele! Why was I startled? Was it not to be expected? Was he not a minion of Pa-Kur? Had he not been present, in the retinue of Pa-Kur, at the interview with the metal monster in the marshes? Had he not been present in the apartment of Dorna the Proud, an ally of Pa-Kur, when I had b...	10