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Larl

Book 1. (16 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	12	Shielded among the crags of the Voltai, invisible except from directly above, I saw four or five small cooking fires, such as might mark the camp of a mountain patrol or a small company of hunters, perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral-horned verr, or, m...	10
13	20	As the tarn wheeled upward, I heard the wild, uncanny hunting cry of the larl, piercing the dusk from somewhere in the peaks below.	10
13	23	When the larl hunts alone, it hunts silently, never uttering a sound until the sudden roar that momentarily precedes its charge, the roar calculated to terrify the quarry into a fatal instant of immobility.	10
13	30	I brought the bird somewhat lower, in long, slow circles, keeping the larl in view.	10
13	38	One would suppose that the larl might be unconcerned with a single animal escaping its net of noise and fear and would neglect an isolated kill in order to keep the hunting circle closed, but that is not true.	10
13	39	For whatever reason, the larl will always prefer ruining a hunt, even one involving a quarry of several animals, to allowing a given animal to move past it to freedom.	10
13	40	Though I suppose this is purely instinctive on the larl's part, it does have the effect, over a series of generations, of weeding out animals which, if they survived, might transmit their intelligence, or perhaps their erratic running patterns, to their offspring.	10
13	41	As it is, when the larl loses its hunt, the animals which escape are those which haven't tried to break the circle, those which allow themselves to be herded easily.	10
13	42	Suddenly, to my horror, I saw the quarry of the larl.	10
13	46	The bird struck the ground between the diseased victim and the approaching larl.	10
13	47	Rather than risk casting my spear from the safe but unsteady saddle of the tarn, I leaped to the ground, just as the larl, furious that it had been discovered, uttered the paralyzing hunting roar and charged.	10
13	51	Then, as swiftly as it had come, that nightmarish instant of immobility passed and I set my spear to take the jolt of the larl's attack.	10
13	54	The spearhead disappeared from sight in the furry breast of the larl, and the shaft of the spear began to sink into it as the weight of the animal forced it deeper into its body.	10
13	92	I feared the disease as I had not feared the larl, but I could not leave him here in the mountains to fall prey to one beast or another.	10
13	102	From perhaps a pasang away I heard the frustrated roar of a larl, probably one of the companions of the beast I had killed, puzzled about the failure of the hunt.	10
20	26	There, I suppose to this day, in that inhospitable vastness, he reigns; in the scarlet mountains of the Voltai, Marlenus still rules, a larl among men, an outlaw king, to his followers always the Ubar of Ubars.	10

Book 2. (12 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	29	With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder.	10
3	84	Indeed, frequent enough were the stories where even a warrior was overcome by an angry peasant into whose hut he had intruded himself, for in the vicinity of their Home Stones men fight with all the courage, savagery and resourcefulness of the mountain larl.	10
3	105	Zosk, I felt, would have faced a larl armed only with his ax, but yet, here, he seemed frightened.	10
4	91	It is said that only the heart of the mountain larl brings more luck than that of the vicious and cunning sleen.	10
7	5	I suddenly turned on the warrior on my right with the spear and with the swiftness of the mountain larl sprang at him, evaded his clumsy, startled thrust, and drove my blade between his ribs, jerking it free and turning just in time to meet the sword attack of his companion.	10
12	154	He was an unkempt, strong-looking lad, with cheerful blue eyes and a mop of hair like the mane of a black larl.	10
14	180	There was Andreas of Tor, of the Caste of Singers, young, valiant, irrepressible, his hair wild like the mane of a black larl, who would rather die than try to kill me, condemned to the Amusements or the mines of Tharna.	10
18	66	And as time passed I learned from the food slaves that this revolution, as unannounced and silent as the foot of a larl, had begun to spread from mine to mine.	10
19	112	He mopped back that mane of black hair like a larl's and grinned at me.	10
20	84	Yet when I looked upon it, more than the gloriously savage, larl-haunted Voltai, I feared it.	10
22	33	She might have stood thus before a larl in the Voltai.	10
22	123	In his arms I learned mountains and flowers and the cry of wild tarns and the touch of a larl's claw.	10

Book 3. (51 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	77	I then understood that the larl I had heard must be a larl of Priest-Kings, for no animal and no man enters or exists in the Sardar without the consent of Priest-Kings, and if it was fed it must be at the hand of Priest-Kings or their servants.	10
2	62	Some four days into the mountains I heard for the first time in my journey the sound of a thing other than the wind, the sighing of snow and the groaning of ice; it was the sound of a living thing; the sound of a mountain larl.	10
2	63	The larl is a predator, clawed and fanged, quite large, often standing seven feet at the shoulder.	10
2	66	If there is an optimum configuration for a land predator, I suppose on my old world the palm must go to the Bengal tiger; but on Gor the prize belongs indisputably to the mountain larl; and I cannot but believe that the structural similarities between the two animals, though of different worlds, are...	10
2	67	The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's, can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylig...	10
2	68	The pelt of the larl is normally a tawny red or a sable black.	10
2	69	The black larl, which is predominantly nocturnal, is maned, both male and female.	10
2	70	The red larl, which hunts whenever hungry, regardless of the hour, and is the more common variety, possesses no mane.	10
2	72	I had once killed a male red larl in the Voltai Range within pasangs of the city of Ar.	10
2	74	I was puzzled that I might encounter a larl in the Sardar.	10
2	76	But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ...	10
2	79	None of the men below the mountains, the mortals, had ever succeeded in taming a larl.	10
2	80	Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were bo...	10
2	81	A case is known of a larl who traveled more than twenty-five hundred pasangs to seek a certain shallow crevice in the Voltai in which he had been whelped.	10
2	90	In the Voltai Range bands of hunters, usually from Ar, stalk the larl with the mighty Gorean spear.	10
2	99	He does not hurl himself to the ground in order that he will remain conspicuously in the larl's field of vision and thus be the object of its wounded, maddened onslaught.	10
2	100	It is thus that, should the spears miss their mark, he sacrifices his life for his companions who will, while the larl attacks him, make good their escape.	10
2	102	First Spear is normally the best of the spearmen because if the larl is not slain or seriously wounded with the first strike, the lives of all, and not simply that of Last Spear, stand in considerable jeopardy.	10
2	106	I once asked a Gorean hunter whom I met in Ar why the larl was hunted at all.	10
2	116	I have never cared to have an enemy above me, nor did I now, but I told myself that my spear might more easily find a vulnerable spot if the larl leapt downwards toward me than if I were above and had only the base of its neck as my best target.	10
2	118	The larl's skull is an even more difficult cast, for its head is almost continually in motion.	10
2	121	On the other hand if I were under the larl I would have a brief but clean strike at the great, pounding, eight-valved heart that lies in the center of its breast.	10
2	124	I might kill one larl, but then I should almost certainly die under the jaws of its mate.	10
2	131	At last I came to the bend in the path and braced myself for the sudden bolt about that corner in which I must cry aloud to startle them and in the same instant cast my spear at the nearest larl and set upon the other with my drawn sword.	10
3	16	I rolled and scrambled back further for the stroke of the larl had dashed me into the radius of its mate.	10
3	17	My cloak and garments were torn from my back by the stroke of the second larl's claws.	10
3	19	"Well done," I said to the larl.	10
3	25	My back felt wet with the blood from the second larl's claws.	10
3	93	I found it strange that a Priest-King should fear a larl.	10
4	111	In the far distance, perhaps from some passage leading away from the Hall of Priest-Kings, I heard the roar of a larl.	10
4	113	"Is a Priest-King frightened of a larl?" I asked.	10
4	119	"You are a Priest-King," I said, "why do you not simply lift your hand and destroy it?" "Of what use is a dead larl?" asked Parp.	10
5	92	I gathered her in my arms and she fought like a she-larl, screaming.	10
6	93	I donned this, as my own had been torn by the larl's claws.	10
8	203	Insolently she approached me, slowly, gracefully, as silken in her menace as the she-larl, and then to my astonishment when she stood before me, she knelt, her hands on her thighs, her knees in the position of the Pleasure Slave, and dropped her head in scornful submission.	10
9	20	Then with his own hand he throws upon the stone floor of his chamber luxurious love furs, perhaps from the larl itself, and commands her to them.	10
9	86	"He was a pompous little fool," she said, "and afraid even of the cry of a larl".	10
9	119	He could not even bear to hear the cry of a larl".	10
22	158	It cleared the leather as easily and swiftly as a larl might have bared its fangs.	10
27	340	"Half larl, half Priest-King".	10
27	341	"No," I said, "half larl, half man".	10
32	304	The larl backed away but the portal, in spite of Parp's efforts, now refused to close.	10
32	324	Parp reversed the cylinder and leveled it at the breast of the nearest larl.	10
32	325	He turned it suddenly and a jolt of fire that threw him five feet back into the cave leapt from that tiny instrument and the nearest larl suddenly reared, its paws lifted wildly, its fangs bared, its snowy pelt burned black about the hole that had once housed its heart, and then it twisted and fell ...	10
32	328	"Can you strike through to the heart of a larl?" he asked.	10
32	331	The second larl, enraged, roared and crouched to spring.	10
32	332	"Good," said Parp, not flinching, "follow me!" Vika screamed and I cried out for him to stop, but Parp dashed forward and threw himself into the jaws of the startled larl and it lifted him in its jaws and began to shake him savagely, and I was at its feet and thrust my sword between its ribs, plungi...	10
32	333	The body of Parp, half torn apart, neck and limbs broken, fell from the jaws of the larl.	10
32	335	I drew out the sword and thrust it again and again into the heart of the larl until at last it lay still.	10
32	342	"And I will cut robes from the pelt of the larl.	10
33	1	Out of the Sardar Vika and I, clad in robes cut from the pelt of the snow larl I had slain, set out for the great black gate in the somber timber palisade that encircles the Sardar.	10

Book 4. (27 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	19	Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...	10
2	18	He had said to me, "Man is a larl to man; if we permitted him, he would be so to Priest-Kings as well".	10
3	2	I might have thrown myself to the ground as the larl hunters from Ar, once their weapon is cast, covering myself with the shield; but then I would have been beneath the clawed paws of four squealing, snorting kaiila, while the riders jabbed at me with lances, off my feet, helpless.	10
7	46	I turned to see a stout man-at-arms step to the dais, carrying in his arms, folded in the furs of the scarlet larl, a girl.	10
7	48	The man-at-arms placed Elizabeth Cardwell before us, and Kutaituchik, and drew away the pelt of the scarlet larl.	10
7	72	During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik dangling from the Tur...	10
7	85	Piteously, with a rustle of chain, the girl's head and shoulders fell forward, and, though she still knelt, her head touched the pelt of the larl, her shoulders and back shaking, trembling.	10
7	231	Then uncontrollably, piteously, suddenly, trembling in the Sirik, she put her head down to the pelt of the larl.	10
7	254	How she had challenged him, how she had walked, how insolent she had been! Perhaps in that moment she thought how amused the man might be could he see her now, that proud girl, now in the Sirik, her head to the pelt of a larl, kneeling to barbarians, begging to be a slave girl; and if she thought of...	10
8	85	La Kajira!" Kamchak had folded her, still weeping, clad in the Sirik, in the richness of the pelt of the red larl in which she had originally been placed before us.	10
8	88	He had then carefully wrapped her, shivering and weeping, in the pelt of the red larl.	10
8	109	In the morning I awakened to find Elizabeth sitting, red-eyed, at the side of the wagon, leaning back against one of the poles that supported the wagon hides, wrapped in the pelt of the red larl.	10
8	128	He looked at her, her back tight against the wagon pole, clutching the pelt of the larl about her with her braceleted hands.	10
8	143	For clothing he permitted her to cut and sew, as well as she could, a sleeveless garment from the pelt of the red larl.	10
8	274	Lastly, but perhaps not least, Elizabeth Cardwell had been given for her garment the pelt of a larl, while she, Tuka, must go about the camp like all the others, clad Kajir.	10
8	285	Elizabeth did so and stood before us in the pelt of the larl, with the other girls.	10
8	355	Elizabeth Cardwell, barefoot, in the larl's pelt, streaked for the black lance in the distance.	10
9	144	Elizabeth Cardwell's being permitted the pelt of the red larl was, as you have doubtless understood, unusual amongst the wagons.	10
10	15	Elizabeth Cardwell, barefoot, in the larl's pelt, walked beside Kamchak's stirrup.	10
11	392	"Perhaps then," said Kamchak, "I should have sheets of crimson silk brought, and the furs of the mountain larl".	10
12	53	The pelt of the larl which Elizabeth wore had been freshly brushed.	10
12	414	Then with a suddenness that almost made me jump and the crowd cry out with delight the music began again but this time as a barbaric cry of rebellion and rage and the wench from Port Kar was suddenly a chained she-larl biting and tearing at the chain and she had cast her black robes from her and sto...	10
13	63	He ripped the larl's pelt from her and I gathered that she would wear the garment no longer.	10
15	95	"Where now is the pelt of the red larl, Slave?" Tuka would taunt Elizabeth, threatening her with the bosk stick.	10
20	9	Making our way up the flower tree with Hereena, who fought like a young she-larl, was not easy.	10
21	299	Moreover, his hair was red—like a larl from the sun—whereas yours is a rather common and, if I may say so, a rather uninspired black".	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

Book 5. (9 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	81	Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and...	10
14	142	It was a strikingly, but cruelly beautiful girl, who walked from one end of the room to the other, in fury, like a young, caged she-larl.	10
16	256	Then the tarn threw back its head and once more screamed, wild, eerie, fierce, savage, a cry that might have struck terror into the heart of a larl, but I did not fear it.	10
17	332	A moment later another guard leaped into the pit of sand and, to the amusement of the girls, began a dance of larl hunters, joined by two or three others, in a file, dancing the stalking of the beast, the confrontation, the kill.	10
17	825	I had heard it cry out and knew that it was not a sleen, nor a larl.	10
18	87	"In you, Ho-Tu," said she, "I have found the heart of a larl and the softness of flowers.	10
19	265	How startling, and incredibly beautiful she was! She seemed fine and savage, as vital and dangerous and beautiful as the she-larl.	10
24	27	I thought of the magnificent Marlenus, swift, brilliant, decisive, stubborn, vain, proud, a master swordsman, a tarnsman, a leader like a larl among men, always to those of Ar the Ubar of Ubars.	10
24	394	I stood before him, and looked into the eyes of Marlenus, that larl among men, Ubar of Ar, he, Ubar of Ubars.	10

Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	256	It might have been a larl that had spoken.	10
11	267	If a larl might have been transformed into a man and yet retain its instincts, its heart and its cunning, I think it might look much like Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
11	523	He was a strange man, that larl of a man.	10
15	303	And of he I sing whose hair was like a larl from the sun of he who came once to the walls of Ar Glorious Ar he called Tarl of Bristol.	10
17	187	Overhead the white clouds swept past, like white, leaping tabuk fleeing from the jaws of the black-maned larl.	10
17	265	Treve is a bandit city, high among the crags of the larl-prowled Voltai.	10
18	849	Samos was the predator, the cruel, insensitive larl of a man, the hunter, the killer.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	1051	I felt like a golden-pelted tabuk, lying between the paws of the black-maned mountain larl.	10
14	45	Rask of Treve threw back his great head, like the head of a larl, and laughed.	10
15	912	It would have been like the larl with a broom.	10

Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	787	The red-haired girl, first girl in the camp, she who held the switch, was now up, stretching like a she-panther, yawning like a she-larl.	10
22	953	Now, like a maimed larl, heavy, bitter, weighty with pain, he returned to his lair.	10

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	85	That young man with fiery hair, laughing, innocent, seemed far from me now, this huddled mass, half paralyzed, bitter, like a maimed larl, sitting alone in a captain's chair, in a great darkened hall.	10
6	552	I looked to one side; there, at a bench, lethargic, somnolent, like a great stone, or a sleeping larl, sat Rollo, he of such great stature, with grayish skin.	10
11	23	Again it is equated with that of the larl, and not the sharply-sensed sleen.	10
11	283	Then it lifted its head and, fangs wild, like a maddened larl, roared in fury.	10
13	187	"I feel," I said, "as though I were walking into the jaws of a larl".	10
13	192	"Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl.	10
17	238	It was a snarl, a growl, like the sound of a larl, awakening from its sleep.	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	339	Any of the chains might have held a bosk or a larl.	10
24	530	I should have seen that before, when she was brought to the camp of the Wagon Peoples, her neck bound to the lance, run between kaiila, when she had been in the pelt of the red larl, when she had worn the nose ring, and been exhibited in the chatka and curla, the kalmak and koora.	10
25	19	Haroun spun about, his burnoose swirling, and, angrily, leaped to the dais of the Salt Ubar, and strode upon it, like a frustrated larl.	10
26	1166	Rather, I, suddenly, with a larl's ferocity, thrust my lips to hers, cruelly, in the raping kiss of the master, and pressed her savagely back into the straw, against the very stones of the dungeon cell in which she lay slave, chained, beneath me.	10

Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	1698	Thurnus seized the staff and, suddenly, with strength like that of a larl, jerked the young man toward him, at the same time kicking upward savagely, blasting the fellow in the teeth with the heel of his sandal, the young man reeling back, blood spattering from his nose and mouth, clutching at his f...	10
9	1769	As well might a young larl with spotted coat be matched against a giant, tawny claw Ubar of the Voltai.	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	461	The sleen can follow a track better than a larl or a Kur.	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	38	Why does the nibbling urt chatter and laugh at the larl? Is it because he himself is not a larl, or is it because he fears its paw? I looked up at the high, conical ceiling, of interwoven branches and grass, of the court of Bila Huruma.	10
6	167	"Even the larl grows sometimes weary, and the tarn, upon occasion, must find a place in which to fold its wings".	10
29	6	It could then, of course, rearing on its hind legs, with its heavily clawed forefeet, uttering an enraged whistling noise, clubbing and slashing, lacerating, eviscerate even a larl.	10
32	226	It can be extremely dangerous to men, even more so, I think, than the Voltai, or northern, larl.	10
53	169	"How is it," I asked, "that you fear you may have wronged Bila Huruma?" That seemed as unlikely to me as a fellow worrying about wronging a larl who was padding along upon his trail.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	92	The female larl, her flanks bleeding, yields to the male, after which she bears his young and hunts for him.	10
17	182	"What a chained larl you are!" she laughed.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	46	They needed not know that he who had fallen had now risen; that once more the codes were kept with pride; that the cords with which he had once, with such pain and skill, bound himself, he had now sundered and torn from him, like an enraged larl emerging fiercely from a net now too frail to hold him...	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	401	And in such a world who will argue with the larl as to whether or not it should feed, or with a man as to whether or not he should be a man? In such a world the larl hunts, and the man is a man".	10
7	61	Yet I knew that in the end even the mighty larl, if chained, must eventually succumb to the attack of endless streams of hissing urts.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1003	There could be no mistaking what, alert, huge, catlike, like a larl, crouched behind the kailiauk.	10
19	474	He was not refusing to fight with me as the larl might refuse to fight with the urt.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	21	This sort of thing occurs in the animal world, incidentally, as when the cry of the male larl freezes game for the coordinated attack of his mate, the she-larl.	10
37	483	It is for such a reason that the larl commonly crouches when stalking prey.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	153	I had then preceded him to his quarters, moving swiftly, but scarcely swiftly enough, it seemed, from the point of view of Drusus Rencius, striding fiercely behind me, like some impatient, grumbling larl.	10

Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	644	How the little animals would scurry if the larl emerged from its cage! Did she not know how easy it would be for her to be stripped and returned to her place in nature, at his feet? Did she in her heart fear the larl might one day say, "The joke is finished.	10
8	139	"It could be a panther come from the woods, or a strayed larl," said one of the men.	10
9	115	I thought of vulos swarming forth to peck up scattered feed, of urts in the canals of Port Kar nosing swiftly toward emptied garbage, of sharks following a galley, of a larl lifting its head, to test the night air, of a sleen emerging from its burrow, silent, serpentine, hungry, intent.	10
12	642	But what if the larl should free itself? "Weakling!" she cried.	10
19	200	I myself would have had great difficulty locating him in Brundisium, but I, on the other hand, could not follow him softly, swiftly, silently, through numerous passages, with the tenacity of a sleen, with the menace of a larl, intent upon his tracks.	10
21	297	"I fought like a larl.	10

Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	32	In moving slowly one tends to convey, on a very basic level, that one is not intending harm; to be sure, even predators like the larl occasionally abuse this form of signaling, for example, in hunting tabuk, using it for purposes of deception; more rapid movement, of course, tends to precipitate def...	10
19	311	I think she was prejudiced somewhat by her affection for the stocky larl, Hurtha.	10
21	136	Such things are not uncommon amongst idealists, so tender and thoughtful, so loving and trusting, prisoners of verbalisms, dazzled by inventions and dreams, projecting their own benevolence unto the larl and the forests, skeptical of reality, construing the world in the metaphor of the flower.	10

Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	487	"As far as I know, there has not been a panther or larl in the vicinity of Venna in more than a hundred years," she said.	10
24	489	"They were not the tracks of a panther or larl," she said.	10
27	253	This thing over me was not human, but, too, it was no sleen, or larl.	10
29	147	"What is more to be feared than sleen," he asked, "saving perhaps a larl?" "There are things," said the small fellow.	10
33	356	It was a release from the fear of death, it was a thanksgiving for fate and fortune, it was an affirmation of life, it was the cry of a wild verr in the mountains, the leaping of a fish in the sea, the roar of the larl, the hiss of the sleen, the scream of a tarn in the sky.	10

Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	734	I would be as placid as a larl feigning sleep, as placid as a Dietrich of Tarnburg.	10
21	1294	How hard it is to withstand the lovely dangers of their discourse! Have not countless thousands fallen victim to the toils of their cleverly cast nets? What cunning she-sleen they are! How skilled they are with so subtle, surprising and keen a weapon! There is a Gorean saying to the effect that a la...	10

Book 24. (11 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	368	Also, of course, the Cosians were presumably moving toward either Brundisium, which had been the port of entry of their invasion fleet, or south to join Myron in the vicinity of Torcadino, where Dietrich of Tarnburg, the mercenary, lay at bay, like a larl in his den.	10
3	94	I would sooner try to enter Torcadino that I might there communicate with its current master, Dietrich of Tarnburg, at bay there like a larl in its lair.	10
3	251	It is dangerous to follow a warrior, as it is a larl or sleen.	10
18	51	At such a time I thought a larl might tread unnoticed amongst them.	10
31	116	If you kick a larl you can not very well blame it for taking notice of the fact".	10
45	116	Should we admonish the tarn for spreading his wings in a stormy sky? Should we recommend to the larl that it feed on grass? It does not care to do so, and who will gainsay its will? Do we disapprove of seasons, of the heat of the sun, of the cool of the night? We may do as we wish, but things will b...	10
45	119	How shall they see one another, and how shall they be to one another? Is man an inexplicable particle, a magical mote, a surprising tune with no instrument, no history, no meaning, something independent of, and unrelated to, the world that gave him his substance, every atom in his flesh, his birth, ...	10
45	120	Shall the verr decide the diet of the larl, the tabuk that of that tarn? But there are laws here, too; nature denied is not nature overcome, but nature twisted; nature repudiated is not nature conquered but nature poisoned, and poisons have their nature, as well; in the end she will have her vengean...	10
47	105	I would move toward one or another, and that fellow would give way, but the cloud, like a pack of sleen scouting a larl, waiting for it to tire, or make a mistake, stayed with us.	10
48	443	"Do with me as you will!" He cried out like a larl, in fury.	10
49	14	I have heard, for example, that he was beset by a larl, far from its accustomed habitats, that he was torn to pieces by a tarn, and that his head was torn, or partly torn, from his body by a dozen madmen armed with hooks of steel.	10

Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	449	"It is like seeing a larl tricked into destroying himself," I said, "as though he were told that the only good larl is a sick, apologetic, self-suspecting, guilt-ridden larl.	10
14	338	Do you not think the intelligent, the strong, the aggressive, even the evil, will rule, under whatever forms are convenient? The larl, as a larl, must survey verr, or sleen will tend them, pretending to be themselves verr".	10
3	888	The chances of obtaining a "larl" with one throw of one die is one in six, of obtaining "larls" with two dice, one in thirty-six, of obtaining "larls" with three dice, one in two hundred and sixteen, and so on.	10
3	895	If two dice are in play a "verr" and a "larl" would be equivalent on a numerical scale to ten points, or, similarly, if the dice are numbered, as these were, one would simply count points, though, of course, if, say, two sixes were thrown, that would count as "larls".	10
10	174	"If Marlenus were alive, and might return," I said, "that might bring Ar to her feet, angry and mighty, like an awakened larl".	10
10	456	"The larl makes a poor verr," I said.	10
10	461	"It is long since I have heard the roar of the larl, the cry of the tarn," I said.	10
20	353	He, too, gasped, and then suddenly he laughed, a mighty laugh, almost a roar, a laugh of triumph, like an exultant larl, joyful in his mastery of the beauty.	10
24	413	Two of them glanced back uneasily at Marcus, much as they might have at a larl behind them.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	206	"We can leave her bound, at the mouth of a larl's cave".	10

Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	661	The other was a large man, a strong, a dangerous-appearing man, who moved with the grace of a larl.	10
26	842	"In Port Kar," said the red-haired man, he like a larl, "there is now a Home Stone".	10
26	1035	Selius Arconious was there, and Portus Canio, and Fel Doron, and others, including the red-haired man, he so much like a larl, claimedly from Port Kar, it seemed of the Warriors, and his fellow, the dark-haired, lithe man, said to be of Ar's Station, also it seemed of the Warriors, which was somewhe...	10
28	144	He called Bosk of Port Kar, that fearful larl of a man, drew then his blade and went behind the beast, seized the fur of its head, thus holding the head, and then, with two terrible strokes of that small, wicked weapon, cut away the head.	10

Book 28. (45 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	83	The larl, irritated, puzzled, put its muzzle closer to the machine, trying to fathom its nature, and the mouth of the machine, very gently, opened, and took the throat of the larl in its metal jaws.	10
1	37	It is conscious in countless minds, of course, in that of the mouse, and cat, in that of the urt and verr, in that of the barracuda, in that of the viper and leopard, in that of the hith and larl.	10
1	53	For example, if a leopard or a lion, or a larl or a sleen, had a name for you you would doubtless not recognize it as a name, let alone as your name.	10
1	110	And so they are encouraged to emulate the stealth and savagery of the larl, the cunning and tenacity of the sleen, the vigilance and swiftness, the alertness, of the mighty tarn.	10
2	14	Kurii, incidentally, require oxygen for life, as well, as does the cobra and ost, the leopard and larl.	10
2	45	They were large-eyed, these creatures, now with verticalized pupils, in the light, pupils which could, as those of the sleen and larl, swiftly adapt themselves to anything short of total darkness.	10
2	174	Sometimes the head is bitten free and the spurting neck is covered with the predator's mouth, which is then drenched with the imbibed, flighted blood; another way is shared by certain other forms of predator, such as the larl or forest panther, in which the prey is seized, say, at the shoulder, and ...	10
2	222	Did she think they would understand what she said? Doubtless not, but surely her terror, her plaintive mien might be intelligible, perhaps even to a lion or larl! But did she think her pleas might move such beasts, prepared to feed? Cabot struggled, but could not free himself.	10
17	24	When one tried to defend itself from a sharpened stick three or four other humans, like sleen hanging on the flanks of a larl, drove their points deep into hairy bodies.	10
17	29	The larl, for example, will commonly circle, or double back, and stalk its hunters.	10
18	88	The branches would be likely to break beneath a larl and the sleen, a ground animal, is reluctant to climb.	10
18	292	And now Cabot himself was netted, though not in the light toils of a weighted slave net, which he might have torn open and shredded, a net unsuitable for a man but inescapable for a female, but in a mighty net, stoutly woven, thickly stranded, cast by a Kur, a net that might have held a larl.	10
19	1	The Intervention of the Steel Larl There was suddenly above Cabot a rushing sound and a torrent of fire and Cabot turned his head away, half blinded, and was barely aware of the gigantic, headless trunk above him, the parts of arms, striking about him, and the charred particles of parts of a blacke...	10
19	19	On several of the translators of the hunters, almost simultaneously, Cabot heard, "No!" Through the trees into the clearing emerged a machine, slowly, menacingly, in the form of a gigantic larl.	10
19	20	The larl is known on Gor.	10
19	22	The ecological niche on the planet Earth, which is usually filled with large predators of a feline nature, such as the lion, the tiger, and such, is filled, or mostly, on Gor by the larl, and a diversity of smaller predators, primarily pantherine in form.	10
19	23	The adult Gorean larl is usually in the range of seven feet at the shoulder and over a thousand pounds in weight.	10
19	27	Its weight would be difficult to ascertain without a better sense of its construction, but it was doubtless considerably heavier than a natural larl.	10
19	43	"Larl," Cabot heard.	10
19	53	A larl, thought Cabot, might have been brought to the clearing by the smell of blood.	10
19	59	It is not only the larl which can smell blood, thought Cabot.	10
19	72	It was at this point that the larl advanced.	10
19	75	The larl did not understand of course the menace of the power weapons, and their scope, so unlike single arrows, weapons which might have transformed him in a moment into a little more than a mound of burned meat, like a small mountain, smoking and bubbling, beneath a descending, gentle scattering o...	10
19	78	The larl, no more than the sleen, reacted to the machine as a living thing, no more than it might have to a rock or tree.	10
19	79	But the mouth of the machine, and its fangs, raked the flank of the larl as it tried to brush past.	10
19	80	The larl snarled with rage, and turned, and licked at its bloodied flank, and then tried to pass, again.	10
19	82	The larl tried to strike the object from its path with its paw, and there was a raking, scraping sound, but it might as well have struck against a wall of iron, and there was, as a consequence of the blow, which might have struck a man yards from its path, almost no movement in the machine.	10
19	84	The larl did not understand this, for it sensed nothing alive, but then its eyes widened, and it tried to pull its neck free, but the jaws very gently, continued to close, as might have an electronic vice.	10
19	85	Then the larl pulled and snarled, and then blood spurted from its nostrils, and then, as it twisted, ever more weakly, its head was bitten away.	10
19	105	The head of the machine, as it sat, like a larl, was several feet above his head.	10
19	116	There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th...	10
19	167	"Do you think we are barbarians?" Cabot looked about, at the sleen, the larl, the blood-soaked ground, the headless bodies.	10
21	12	And would it not be demeaning to you, beloved of Agamemnon, to be caged alone, and I left free?" "I learned from Agamemnon, in the forest, he the metal larl, or within it, somehow, or controlling it, somehow, that you are his human".	10
21	519	A praetor now approached the seventh challenger, and placed in his huge paws a gigantic ax, some ten feet in length, and double-bladed at each end, an ax which, in the grip of one such as he, one of such strength, might have decapitated a larl, and perhaps even, with three or four blows, Gor's might...	10
27	22	"It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t...	10
36	63	"Perhaps the larl might feel that cowardly, or unfair," said Cabot.	10
42	117	"Neither is a larl or sleen," said Cabot.	10
46	90	"Some see him in the ost, others in the larl, or shark, or tharlarion, or sleen," said another.	10
47	117	Moreover, Cabot, in his time in the world, had become adept at reading not only the body language of Kurii, which is little harder, if at all, to decipher than that of the larl or sleen, but, to a large extent, also, the character or import of what was being said, for example, challenge, anger, cajo...	10
47	138	It is not unknown amongst larls and sleen, but the sleen usually strikes for the throat and the larl, where practical, particularly after it has bled and exhausted its prey, bites through the back of the neck.	10
49	16	The larl will often sleep in the vicinity of prey half eaten, thusly guarding it.	10
49	17	Who would challenge a larl? Smaller beasts wait patiently, until it abandons its prey, and stalks away in its disinterested, lordly fashion.	10
56	39	"I feel like a tethered verr," said he, "staked out by hunters, hoping to lure in a larl".	10
58	51	"He is in his way beautiful," said Cabot, "as the shark, or larl, is beautiful, but it is true he is dangerous".	10
67	140	A trail of misery and death in one case, and of health and vitality in another, lies at the roots, here and elsewhere, of what might seem to be a thousand matters of coincidence, but are no more coincidences, or inexplicable accidents, than the scimitarlike sharpness of the larl's fangs, or the erra...	10

Book 29. (29 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	14	It is a world that contains not only the beauty of grass and the blossoming of the talendar but the fangs of the ost, the coils of the hith, the jaws of the larl, the frenzies of flocking, feeding jards, the sudden, wrenching, twisting strike of the nine-gilled shark, the claws of the sleen, the bea...	10
5	48	"You are a barbarian, more of a larl than a man.	10
5	560	"It is then," said another, "as the story goes, that he stood upright amongst the partisans, like a larl amongst panthers, and said, 'Bring me a banner of Ar.	10
5	1167	Then, to my surprise, I heard, from deep within the forest, what was, unmistakably, the roar of a larl.	10
5	1169	The larl is not indigenous to the northern forests.	10
7	199	Too, the human is unfamiliar prey to most carnivores, the panther, the sleen, the larl, and such.	10
9	198	I had, in wandering about, intended, for my interest, to cross the border of the wands, to scout the area, but I had been warned back by a prowling larl, which was, as nearly as I could determine, although it was not collared, a guard beast.	10
9	259	I suppose one could define the true tarn as one that does not fly, the true larl as one that does not hunt, and so on, but this does not seem helpful in understanding the world.	10
9	490	At that moment I heard the roar of a larl.	10
10	262	She had perhaps never seen a larl before, and even if she were familiar with these large carnivores, finding oneself in their vicinity, without viewing them through thick bars or ascertaining that they were, say, tethered on stout chains, would be enough to unnerve a heart more experienced and stout...	10
10	265	The larl, of course, is never fully tamed.	10
10	274	On the other hand, as noted earlier, no larl is ever fully tamed.	10
12	9	At that moment, from afar off, perhaps two hundred to two hundred and fifty yards to our right and ahead, there was a terrible roar, surely of a larl, followed, a moment later, by a harrowing scream.	10
12	16	Do not disturb a larl when it is feeding".	10
12	19	The roar of the larl commonly startles and freezes the prey.	10
12	20	Then the larl is upon it.	10
12	350	Is the beast not always at one's elbow? Behind the facade of a painted screen a larl may lurk.	10
13	88	Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who detects the od...	10
14	11	One-on-one combat can be stylized amongst the Pani, and may proceed rather formally, for all its sudden swiftness and violence, alternating with an almost unnatural stillness, reminiscent of a larl or panther, intent, immobile, subtly quivering, before its attack.	10
18	35	He who would throw himself into the jaws of a larl may not be a coward, but he is surely a fool.	10
19	71	Had a larl by some incantation taken the form of a man, I thought it might be such a man.	10
23	41	It was almost a madness, almost as though a larl might, in the presence of food, his natural provender, fitted to his appetite by a thousand generations of hunting, seizure, and feeding, torment himself, and refuse himself not only the food he wanted, for which his hunger raged, but without which he...	10
23	170	Is it not difference which takes one's attention, amongst snow sleen a darker fur, amongst the odor of penned verr, the suggestion, ever so slight, a whisper in the night, of the larl's scent? I might have called this to the attention of Lord Nishida but he had withdrawn from the tables.	10
26	140	As a free woman she could not be touched, given the codes, but it was as though steaming, juicy, roasted meat had been put before a starving larl, one forbidden to so much as touch his tongue to its heat, to its temptation.	10
30	207	The larl, as noted, is not native to the northern forests.	10
32	41	One might despise his exterior, thinking it pathetic, swollen, and sluggish, that it housed no more than something fat, sly, and ugly, something complacent with power, something which might idly toy with cruelty, but, at the same time, one sensed that somewhere within that mound of flesh something w...	10
40	2	A dozen small boats, unable to escape, many fastened together, were crushed in the passage of the mighty bow of the great ship, and she brushed others aside, dozens, brushed them aside as the limb of a stately, insouciant larl might sweep leaves from its path, scarcely noticing this consequence of i...	10
41	22	In a galley one would normally take down the mast and yard, that they not be lost in the wind, or, if necessary, rig the smallest of her sails, the storm sail, get the storm astern and run before her, as might a tabuk attempting to elude a pursuing larl.	10
43	9	"The larl is large and noble," said Lord Nishida.	10

Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	35	It is always preferable to anticipate the larl and meet the urt, than expect the urt and meet the larl.	10
1	358	He sprang to his feet, a larl amongst men.	10
4	24	He reminded me of a seemingly somnolent larl, pretending to be asleep, lying in the grasses, near a watering hole.	10
4	26	The larl does not always move whilst hunting.	10
4	197	Indeed, how is a state to wax great save by the spear, the blade? If this is the way of Cos, is it not also the way of Ar, Turia, and a hundred other cities? How are trade routes, cities, fields, mines, slaves, and such to be conveniently purchased save by steel? The larl rules his domain; he does n...	10
5	275	It is the way of nature, that of the tarn, of the sleen and larl.	10
6	60	One could not blame a girl for being uneasy if she were being drawn, say, wrists bound behind her, naked, on a tether, into a larl's den.	10
9	87	Who greets a larl without a spear in one's grasp? Of the three weapon rooms we knew about, two were forward, and one amidships.	10
9	268	Such a blade, though short, could reach the heart of even a larl.	10
16	161	"They are all about!" "Does the larl fear urts?" inquired Lord Okimoto.	10
16	162	"A thousand urts may easily kill the larl," said Cabot.	10
23	23	Who will deny to the tiny ost the shield and threat of its venom, who convince the tarsk boar to put aside his short, curved tusks? How will the unarmed larl defend his territory, or life; how would the unarmed sleen defend its burrow, its brood, its life? Who most desires you to be disarmed? He who...	10
36	248	He had scarcely moved, when the hooded figure, he in the robes of the Merchants, saw him, and stiffened, reacting as might a hunter, catching sight of a sleen in the shrubbery, a larl amongst rocks of the Voltai, not yet expected, yards away, just noticed.	10
36	253	The stranger's blade was like an extension of his arm, seemingly as natural, and as thoughtless, as uncalculating, as the now-exposed claws on the paw of a stalking larl.	10

Book 31. (44 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	124	"A larl then," I said, "or a sleen?" "No," she said, "the larl, the sleen, kill in their own ways.	10
11	113	"Could a larl be in the city," I asked, "or a wild sleen?" "Unlikely," she said.	10
11	153	"Some months ago," she said, "hunters in the Voltai, seeking larl, found an unusual beast in their net, almost man-like, but larger, covered with hair, large-jawed, fanged and clawed, fierce, twisting, and howling.	10
12	94	"The true Kur is beautiful, large, agile, proud, long-armed, glossy, wide-nostriled, with six-digited appendages, with a voice a larl might envy.	10
12	116	"Then a larl, a sleen, or such, perhaps a sewer tharlarion, must be about".	10
12	135	"A larl is loose in the city," said the Tarnster.	10
12	136	"It was no larl," said the Peasant.	10
12	175	"Then the larl must be about," I said, frightened.	10
12	176	"If it is a larl," she said.	10
14	106	"A larl, in the streets," I said.	10
15	190	Then there issued from that monstrous thing on the other side of the stall a series of low noises, almost as though they might have been those of larl, or sleen.	10
18	822	Twice we had heard, at night, when we were shackled in the slave wagon, from somewhere back in the mountains, the roar of a larl.	10
23	181	The spear is the weapon of choice against a charging larl, or, I suppose, Kur.	10
24	104	"This is the work of a larl," said Trachinos, "a pride of larls".	10
24	107	"That is not the way a larl kills," said Lykos.	10
29	15	Again I heard some sounds in Kur, to my ears still little more than a bestial rumbling, reminiscent of sounds which one might expect from something like a larl, or sleen, but, oddly enough, different, seemingly articulated.	10
33	48	"It is a larl," said the first guard.	10
33	49	It was the first larl I had seen, though I had heard much of them.	10
33	54	The larl is probably the most fearsome land predator on Gor.	10
33	61	"There is little to interest a larl here".	10
37	58	"The hunted larl, the hunted sleen," said a man, "often becomes the hunter".	10
42	47	Kurii were no more likely to chew food than a larl or sleen.	10
45	47	I recalled I had seen a larl from the great portal once, perhaps one at much this distance from the Cave.	10
45	91	At one point I cried out in fear, and clutched the beast's fur, for, not more than a dozen paces from us, over a shelf of rock, I saw the lifted head of a larl, broad, triangular, quizzical.	10
45	93	The larl had not charged.	10
46	15	Anything that large, moving in such a way, in this vicinity, could only be a larl.	10
46	19	The larl had not followed us.	10
46	25	In the light of the lanterns the eyes of the larl, catching the light, the body turned toward the portal in the darkness, blazed like tarn disks of gold.	10
46	27	The two with spears brandished their weapons and stepped threateningly toward the larl, but did not, I noted, much leave the vicinity of the threshold.	10
46	28	All four were shouting Kur at the larl.	10
46	30	As attention was fastened on the larl I slipped about the corner of the portal, unnoticed, into the Cave, and, in an instant, was being embraced by Jane and Eve, and there were other kajirae about, too.	10
46	32	Looking out, I saw that the larl, as though displeased, had padded away, into the darkness.	10
49	35	The guard was the larl with which Tiresias, in his exile, had formed a symbiotic relationship.	10
49	37	Tiresias shared this food with the larl in question.	10
49	38	In this fashion, the larl received food and it, in its turn, not only refrained from attacking Tiresias, the source of the food, but guarded him against the inroads of other predators.	10
49	39	Tiresias had managed to get the larl to cross the entryway of the great portal on the night of my return to the Cave simply enough, by luring it with food from the opposite side.	10
49	40	The larl had been stationed near the exit of the Cave by the food signal, which it had come to recognize.	10
49	42	If none had attempted escape, Grendel would have seen to it that food, in the usual manner, would have been delivered to the larl.	10
49	43	A strange Kur, Lucius, whose scent was unfamiliar to the larl, was taken for food, and attacked.	10
49	44	Had Lucius realized what was involved he would have taken food with him, to cast to the larl, but he knew nothing of this.	10
49	45	From the larl's point of view, which had been given the food signal, it seemed that that which emerged from the Cave must either bring food or be food.	10
49	48	Some days later, no longer fed, the larl had drifted away.	10
49	49	One supposes it may have been the same larl which, in the chaos of the revolt, when the great portal was temporarily unguarded, had wandered into the Cave.	10
52	310	How bright his eyes were, how tense his body! Might not a starving larl so gaze upon a tethered tabuk doe, a hungry sleen upon a penned verr? In the streets of Ar I had once seen a leashed slave being dragged running and stumbling, weeping, toward a domicile, but the master found himself unable to w...	10

Book 33. (17 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	109	"It is a larl, a larl with fangs of steel," wept a man.	10
61	1235	Do you think men are so willing to relinquish manhood, or so stupid as to submit like dumb animals to their impoverishment, belling, and slaughter? Even the mighty larl can be brought down by a swarm of squealing urts, but this does not prove the superiority of the urt to the larl, to the lonely, pr...	10
2	140	The urt often survives where the larl perishes.	10
3	29	It is much the same with many wild creatures, certainly the sleen and larl.	10
4	98	He is like a sleen waiting for a larl to die.	10
7	224	"The urt gains little by casting himself into the jaws of the larl.	10
10	15	Its beak can tear a head from a body and its talons can tear loose the backbone of a larl.	10
11	235	He is like an angry larl, quiescent in his den.	10
13	150	I had been very impressed with General Yamada, much as one might be impressed when one has entered a cave and, turning about, finds that one is now under the scrutiny of a charming, watchful larl crouched at the entrance.	10
17	51	I had thought of the frightening, martial grace of a swordsman faraway, a short, unkempt, thickly bodied, ugly man known as Nodachi, Sword, ugly save when his blade was drawn, and his unprepossessing persona seemed somehow enlarged and transformed, transformed into something different, something awe...	10
26	62	Pani of the peasant classes tend to be polite, stolid, resigned, and reconciled, at least until a breaking point is reached, at which time they may become as secretive and clever as the urt, as subtle as the ost, as dangerous as the cornered sleen, as fierce as the enraged larl, discovering the clai...	10
35	42	After all, the fearsome larl does not build ramparts behind which to tremble, fearing the depredations of urts.	10
46	137	Do you, mountebank and peasant, lowly one, despicable fraud, speak my words false?" "I suggest," said the magician, who looked up, I was reminded of the way a larl might raise its head, "the honorable one is mistaken".	10
50	100	"It is not likely to survive the attack of a larl," I said.	10
50	119	Initially, it would strike one as the sort of sound one might expect from a large, predatory animal, a tiger, a leopard, a lion, a larl, a sleen.	10
58	239	And who would presume to give law to the savage larl? She who had been the Lady Kameko was outside, in the corridor, kneeling, bent over, bound.	10
61	224	"There is no guarantee," I said, "that the sea sleen will not swim, that the larl will not hunt, that the ost will not strike".	10

Book 34. (40 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	13	Were the beautiful lines of the leaping, fleet tabuk not fashioned by the artistry of the larl, its claws and fangs; did the same blind, nameless gods not balance the swirling school of parsit fish against the strike of the swift-swimming shark; the keenness of the hawk's eye against the tiny urt's ...	10
40	135	"A larl is a larl," he said, "a man is a man".	10
54	66	Do not judge the tarn by the larl, or the larl by the tarn.	10
54	67	The tarn is not a failed larl, nor the larl a tarn gone awry.	10
20	218	"Like a sleen, a larl?" I asked.	10
20	222	"Or a larl?" I said.	10
20	224	"No, not like a larl either.	10
29	65	The bandage he wore is a hoax! His sight is as keen as that of the tarn! He is as dangerous as the larl in rutting time.	10
33	101	"A larl, a sleen, could do as well".	10
33	168	And these linguistic aptitudes, favoring survival, like beauty and appetition, like the graceful fleetness of the tabuk, the hearing of the larl, the tracking capacity of the sleen, are transmissible.	10
33	562	At that moment I heard a horrifying roar, husky, piercing, claimant and enunciatory, as if a larl might speak, or a storm possess a throat, a sound I shall never forget, and a huge form dropped down from the rafters, struck the flooring, and then crouched in place, surveying us.	10
33	616	What an unwelcome revelation to the verr to learn that sleen exist, to the tabuk that it shares its world with the larl! I feared I might lose consciousness.	10
33	633	What could such monsters fear from that slighter, far-less-imposing monster? Surely she was not a form of life that one might wish to exterminate before it could multiply, as one might, with a stone, sufficiently apprised and motivated, crush the egg of the first ost, as the verr might choose to des...	10
33	760	"But it is said, as well," said Kurik, "that one would be no match for a larl".	10
33	798	It is the same with a sleen or larl".	10
34	184	"It would be a foolish tarsk or tabuk," he said, "that would ally itself with a larl".	10
34	188	"It would be a foolish tarsk or tabuk," he said, "that would ally itself with a larl".	10
41	16	As the ancient joke has it, many a track leads into the den of the larl but few lead out".	10
41	18	"So, too, is the larl," said Kurik, "until it is hungry, or needful, or surprised or annoyed, or suspects its territory is transgressed".	10
41	25	One does not tamper with the plans of the larl.	10
44	56	If no translator was present, of course, the average human would find Kur unintelligible, as much so as the snarling of a sleen or the growling of a larl.	10
44	159	"What of a larl?" I said.	10
44	160	"Surely a larl is similarly impressive".	10
44	163	"A larl is a beast!" he said.	10
46	8	Then it occurred to me that their night vision might be far more acute than that of the normal human, and more akin to that of the larl or sleen.	10
49	140	"As the larl?" said Kurik.	10
49	299	Would one, say, give paga to a larl or sleen? "Paula!" I thought to myself.	10
50	33	The cage, large and thickly barred, would have held a larl.	10
50	211	Still, even a larl or sleen might have understood something of the Lady Alexina's revulsion.	10
52	125	Might it not be dangerous to give ka-la-na or paga to a larl? "I am fond of a barbarian," said Drusus, "a hot, shapely slut whom I put to frequent, ruthless use.	10
54	65	The larl rules the mountains and forests.	10
55	4	Would not such a cry, as the roar of the larl, startle and momentarily immobilize a quarry, or foe, allowing for the rapid, unchallenged advance, the strike or pounce, of the predator, the assailant? I suspected it was an ancient cry, such as might well have antedated the working of metals, a cry th...	10
56	170	"You are familiar with the saying, I take it," said Kurik, "that many a track leads into the den of the larl but few lead out".	10
56	171	"Yes," said Lord Grendel, "but let me add to the saying, that those tracks that lead out may be awash with the blood of the larl".	10
57	72	Thus, it is quite possible that the first sight of such a creature might precipitate flight, as from a larl or sleen.	10
57	208	But there could be no larl here, no forest panther, so close to Ar! And there were armed guards about, and it did not seem they were engaged.	10
58	22	Does nature not, in its thoughtless processes, in its blind, dark game, favor the organ sensitive to light, the organ sensitive to sound, the capacity to discriminate tastes and odors, the capacity to grasp, to feel, to think? Does it not, without thought or heart, fashion the wings of the tarn, the...	10
59	81	Who, knowingly, would give paga to a larl? Who, knowingly, would break through the thin crust concealing a seething volcano? Lord Grendel had spoken of ancient gates, behind which lurk ancient things, things best shut away, things best left unstirred.	10
61	47	In the presence of a larl or an upraised knife one sobers instantly.	10
61	278	What verr would dare to slay a larl, what tarsk a sleen? Could such a thing be understood? Had not nature itself been outraged? "Peace, peace!" called Decius Albus, in his robes, soaked with the blood of Aelius.	10

Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	357	The larl must pretend to be a verr, lest it be devoured by swarms of urts.	10
8	627	Are they obtuse? Does the tabuk note the presence of the larl with equanimity? Does the verr choose to ignore the prowling sleen?" "If there were truly danger," I said, "the men would evince agitation; they would behave differently".	10
11	55	As scavengers flee from the killing beast come to reclaim his prize, as urts speed from the path of the stalking larl, as bandits hasten to elude nearing, searching, avenging guardsmen, so the thieves, brigands, rowdies, miscreants, cheats, liars, cowards, and criminals of Port Kar, men without a Ho...	10
36	109	He has the boldness of the larl and the agility, tenacity, and reflexes of the sleen".	10
36	110	I had never seen a larl or sleen, but I had acquired a vicarious knowledge of such animals, and others, from various chain sisters, overheard conversations in the tavern, and such.	10

Book 36. (17 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	103	Only a fool rushes into a lair within which a larl might repose".	10
2	24	"Many a larl might envy it".	10
15	63	"The larl and sleen are patient," I said.	10
17	80	What tyrant is so stupid as not to do so? Urts and jards take care not to wake the larl on whose kill they feed.	10
17	302	Instead, if you wish, send gentle verr to seek the fanged, voracious larl".	10
17	327	The verr is no match for the larl".	10
20	26	You think you are safe until the larl claws at your gate.	10
20	66	Seize up the stealth and cunning of the sleen, the courage of the mighty larl.	10
39	60	Why not blow trumpets in your stealth, or carry torches to offend a needed blanket of darkness?" "All right," said Thurnock, "we will paint her green, the green of Thassa, green as night is to the sleen, green as high, tawny grass is to the larl".	10
40	37	"Then you are of the breed of corsairs," said a man, "wanting us to flee from a shadow, an invented foe, a larl that does not exist, so that you might despoil Mytilene at your leisure".	10
45	161	"It is better to die as a well-fed larl than a starving verr," I said.	10
51	48	"In passing the den of a larl," said Sakim, "it behooves one to tread softly".	10
52	70	"One should not sing in the vicinity of a sleeping larl," said Thurnock.	10
53	98	"You are rushing into the jaws of the larl," said Sakim.	10
54	64	"Sometimes a clever urt can escape the descending paw of the larl," I said.	10
56	80	"It is unwise to wake the sleeping larl," said Thurnock.	10
63	212	"Were you not denied bread, fire, and salt? Do you think mighty Marlenus will welcome you? Does the verr challenge the larl? Might you not be slain the moment you stepped within the pomerium of Glorious Ar? Does the tarsk rush to knock on the door to the slaughter house?" "I must to Ar," I said.	10