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Book 1. (39 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	22	In a matter of time Ko-ro-ba would be forced to match its comparative handful of tarnsmen against those of the Empire of Ar.	10
5	45	The Home Stone of Ar, like most Home Stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities.	10
6	3	Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t...	10
6	4	Boldly I dipped my tarn downward, into the midst of the cylinders, just another of the wild tarnsmen of Ar.	10
6	47	All the tarnsmen of Ar would be flying tonight.	10
6	180	In the barbaric world of Gor, the Robes of Concealment are deemed necessary to protect the women from the binding fibers of roving tarnsmen.	10
8	11	He, with fifty tarnsmen, disloyal to the city, seized what they could of the treasury and escaped.	10
9	118	"Scavengers come to feast on the bodies of wounded tarnsmen".	10
11	7	"Scavengers," she said, "come to feast on the bodies of wounded tarnsmen".	10
11	15	We fought off three groups of raiders from the camp on the river, two of them small, undisciplined contingents of mounted warriors, but the other a lightning strike of a dozen tarnsmen on the weapons wagon.	10
11	52	She seemed to be pleased when her friends were bought by handsome tarnsmen, and laughed delightedly when one girl, to whom she had taken a dislike, was purchased by a fat, odious fellow, of the Caste of Tarn Keepers.	10
11	61	I had noticed that there was among the crowd one tall, somber figure who sat alone on a high, wooden throne, surrounded by tarnsmen.	10
11	117	There was a sudden rush of men behind me as tarnsmen broke into the tent.	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
13	118	Within a minute the air was filled with the beating of wings, as some half a hundred wild tarnsmen brought their birds down about us.	10
14	5	One of the tarnsmen of Marlenus thrust his hand in my hair and forced my lips down to his sandal.	10
14	64	As if this were a signal, some of his tarnsmen entered the cave and seized me.	10
14	66	The tarnsmen began to unlock the shackles, that I might be impaled freely on the lance, perhaps so that my struggles might provide a more interesting spectacle to the onlookers.	10
14	73	The tarnsmen grasped my arms more securely.	10
14	83	"Damn your precious stinking honor!" Without realizing what I was doing, I had shaken the two restraining tarnsmen from my arms as if they had been children, and I rushed on Marlenus and struck him violently in the face with my fist, causing him to reel backward, his face contorted with astonishment...	10
14	87	Some five or six tarnsmen ran toward the wide opening of the shallow cave, but I rushed forward, holding the lance parallel to my body, striking them with almost superhuman strength and forcing them over the ledge near the mouth of the cave.	10
14	88	Their screams mingled with shouts of rage as the other tarnsmen rushed forward to capture me.	10
14	92	I engaged and dropped the first of the tarnsmen to reach me and wounded the second, but was pressed back toward the rear of the cave.	10
14	96	I choked, and shook my head to clear the blood from my eyes, and in that instant was seized by three or four of the Ubar's tarnsmen.	10
14	101	"Has this warrior not earned his right to the tarn death?" "He has indeed," said one of the tarnsmen, who held a wadded lump of tunic over his slashed rib cage.	10
14	134	With a sickening lurch and sharp jolt of pain the two tarnsmen brought their birds into the air.	10
14	135	For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions.	10
14	140	I could hear the curses of the tarnsmen above me and saw once or twice the flash of the striking tarn-goad.	10
14	145	It might take a moment for the tarnsmen to realize what had happened.	10
15	25	Tarnsmen would make the attack at the summit of the walls.	10
15	236	"Well, then," said Marlenus, smiling, "perhaps I would only beat her and throw her naked to my tarnsmen".	10
16	20	In these battles the skies would be filled with tarnsmen, from Ar and from the camp, firing into the massed warriors below, engaging one another in savage duels hundreds of feet in the air.	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	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
18	32	Why is this? Take it down in order that his tarnsmen may enter the city unimpeded".	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
19	180	Many of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen were already streaking from the city, seeking their own safety.	10
19	182	It knew only that it had been taken by surprise, at a disadvantage by undetermined numbers of disciplined troops that were pouring down on them, while from above, enemy tarnsmen, unchallenged, emptied their quivers into their ranks.	10
19	187	Even as I watched, my father's tarnsmen were roping them together.	10

Book 2. (18 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	79	"A hundred tarnsmen have tried to mount this beast, and one hundred tarnsmen have died.	10
4	55	Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns...	10
8	17	The purpose, incidentally, of the brief garment of the female slave is not simply to mark out the girl in bondage but, in exposing her charms, to make her, rather than her free sister, the favored object of raids on the part of roving tarnsmen.	10
14	111	I wondered if it too recalled the thunder of the wind, the clash of arms as tarnsmen dueled in flight, the sight of Gor's tarn cavalries wheeling in formation to the beat of the tarn drums, or the long, steady, lonely soaring flights we had known together over the green fields of Gor.	10
14	164	Indeed, I did not even have a tarn-goad, without which most tarnsmen would not even approach their fierce mounts.	10
15	39	Tharna did not maintain large cavalries of tarns, but it would surely be able to launch at least some squadrons of tarnsmen to rescue and avenge its Tatrix.	10
15	41	Yet I knew there would be tarnsmen in Tharna, and good ones, for her name was respected among the martial, hostile cities of Gor.	10
15	42	Her tarnsmen might be mercenaries, or perhaps men like Thorn, Captain of Tharna, who in spite of their city thought well of themselves and maintained at least the shreds of caste pride.	10
19	75	"Think, Kron of Tharna," I cried, "soon tarnsmen will fly from the walls of Tharna and the infantry will move against us".	10
19	84	We will be pursued and ridden down by the lancers who ride the high tharlarions! We will be hunted and slain from the air by the bolts of tarnsmen!" "But we will die free!" cried Andreas of Tor, and his cry was echoed by hundreds of voices.	10
20	6	I knew that I didn't have a great deal of time, for the avenging tarnsmen of Tharna would soon be visible against the three moons.	10
20	25	There were no tarnsmen yet in sight.	10
20	35	I had sought equipment, but I had found only a scabbard and a damaged helmet, and soon the tarnsmen of Tharna would arrive.	10
20	37	I had only reached the shelter of a line of trees when I saw, some thousand yards behind me, descending on the Compound of the Mines, like clouds of wasps, the tarnsmen of Tharna.	10
21	72	I knew tarnsmen sometimes silenced their captives in the same way.	10
23	101	The sorties of tarnsmen were more successful, but on the whole the slave bands, now almost regiments, moved only at night and concealed themselves during the day.	10
23	103	Often indeed ambushes were laid wherein a small band of slaves would allow itself to be trailed into the rocky passes of the ridge country about Tharna, where their pursuers would be assailed by hidden cohorts; sometimes tarnsmen would descend to capture a slave only to meet the arrows of a hundred ...	10
23	114	It was true that we could see tarnsmen and their mounts here and there among the cylinders, but none came to challenge us.	10

Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	114	A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai.	10
8	147	Thus when the tarnsmen of Treve came to the grain fields of Ko-ro-ba, which lie for the most part some pasangs from the city, toward the Vosk and Tamber Gulf, they would find her tarnsmen arrayed against them.	10
8	102	Her tarnsmen were ranked with those of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, and Ko-ro-ba, even great Ar itself.	10
8	113	Each year in the fall legions of tarnsmen from Treve were said to emerge from the Voltai like locusts and fall on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they needed and burning the rest in order that a long, retaliatory winter campaign could not be la...	10
8	121	If they were it was surprising that tarnsmen from all the cities of Gor would not have descended on the place, as the saying goes, to try chain luck.	10
8	143	Perhaps Treve has never attacked Thentis because she, too, is a mountain city, lying in the Mountains of Thentis, or more likely because the men of Treve respect her tarnsmen almost as much as they do their own.	10
8	150	Thus if one tower failed to report when expected the alarm bars of Ko-ro-ba would soon ring and her tarnsmen would saddle and be aflight.	10
8	151	Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among...	10

Book 4. (25 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	22	The land between the Cartius and the Vosk had once been within the borders of the claimed empire of Ar, but not even Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, when master of luxurious, glorious Ar, had flown his tarnsmen south of the Cartius.	10
9	199	"I could send mercenary tarnsmen from the north, but I would prefer not to have war".	10
14	1	Tarnsmen Outside, as Kamchak and I bounded down the steps of the slave wagon, the darkness was filled with hurrying men, some with torches, and running kaiila, already with their riders.	10
14	43	In the distance we heard a sound like a thunder of wings and then, against the three white moons of Gor, to my dismay, we saw tarnsmen pass overhead, striking toward the camp.	10
14	51	I was startled by the appearance of tarnsmen on the southern plains.	10
14	55	Among the wagons the tarnsmen would have found only slaves, women and children, but not a wagon had been burned or looted.	10
14	56	We heard a new thunder of wings and looking overhead saw the tarnsmen, like a black storm, drum beating and tarns screaming, streak by overhead.	10
14	91	"Surely," said Kamchak, "for who could hire tarnsmen but Saphrar of Turia—or arrange for the diversion that drew fools to the edge of the herds?" I was silent.	10
15	9	The mercenary tarnsmen of Turia were most feared by the Tuchuks, for such could, with relative impunity, fire upon them from the safety of their soaring height, but even this dread weapon of Turia could not, by itself, drive the Tuchuks from the surrounding plains.	10
15	10	In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour...	10
15	11	The archery of tarnsmen, of course, is most effective against massed infantry or clusters of the ponderous tharlarion.	10
15	12	Also, perhaps not unimportantly, many of Turia's mercenary tarnsmen found themselves engaged in the time-consuming, distasteful task of supplying the city from distant points, often bringing food and arrow wood from as far away as the valleys of the eastern Cartius.	10
15	19	"I wonder," I said, "why the tarnsmen have not struck at the wagons—with fire arrows—why they do not attack the bosk themselves, slaying them from the air, forcing you to withdraw to protect the beasts".	10
15	21	There was, after all, no place on the prairies to hide the wagons or the bosk, and tarnsmen could easily reach them anywhere within a radius of several hundred pasangs.	10
16	172	"Tuchuk sleen!" "May I introduce," inquired Saphrar, "Ha-Keel of Port Kar, chief of the mercenary tarnsmen".	10
19	19	"For tarnsmen to be called in to aid in the search," he said.	10
19	22	Undoubtedly tarnsmen, mounted, would come from time to time during the night to the House of Saphrar.	10
21	202	Tarnsmen would have little difficulty in finding a rider and mount on the open prairie near Turia.	10
21	210	Indeed, I respected his wisdom—withdrawing in the face of a situation in which there was nothing to be gained and, considering the vulnerability of the wagons and bosk to tarnsmen, much to be lost.	10
24	7	The House of Saphrar still stood, and the tower that had been fortified by Ha-Keel's tarnsmen.	10
24	66	Ha-Keel had, we estimated, most of a thousand tarnsmen still with him, plus many Turian guardsmen.	10
26	54	"Beware," I warned, "the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel—they might yet turn the brunt of battle against you".	10
26	56	"The thousand tarnsmen of Ha-Keel," said Harold, "left before dawn for Port Kar.	10
26	68	The fighting would be fierce, but it did not seem that the outcome would be in doubt, even from the beginning—particularly now that the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel had left the city, the saddle packs of their tarns bulging with Turian gold.	10
27	5	Turia had been a rich city, and though much gold had been given to the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel and the defenders of the House of Saphrar, it was a tiny amount when compared with the whole, not even counting that lost by being carried by civilians through the gates Kamchak had designated as escapes from ...	10

Book 5. (36 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	403	The tarnsmen, of course, centuries before, had been developed from land forces; it had always seemed to me that the tarn cavalries of Gor might be considerably improved by a judicious alteration of weapons and training practices; however, I had never had a command of tarnsmen of my own, and my ideas...	10
22	397	The small bow, interestingly, has never been used among tarnsmen; perhaps this is because the kaiila is almost unknown above the equator, and the lesson of kaiilaback fighting has not been much available to them; perhaps it is because of tradition, which weighs heavily in Gorean life, and even in mi...	10
2	297	"A hundred tarnsmen, well organized," said Kuurus, "could strike barbarian villages, bind a hundred wenches, and return in twenty days".	10
3	22	The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s...	10
3	38	The odds are usually one to forty, one copper tarn disk against a forty-piece, sometimes against an eighty-piece, and sometimes the amateur who would play the master insists on further limitations, such as the option to three consecutive moves at a point in the game of his choice, or that the master...	10
5	617	I had decided to wait until the Fourth Passage Hand, that following En'Var, and then take tarn for Ar, where I would pose as a mercenary tarnsman seeking employment in the House of Cernus, but when the Warrior from Thentis, who resembled me, was slain early in En'Var, I decided to go to Ar in the gu...	10
7	10	Some were tarnsmen, others members of the House.	10
7	46	The other three baskets, however, had no control attachments and those birds wore saddles and were guided by tarnsmen.	10
7	113	"Hurry!" called the man with the Thief's scar, and those of the staff of the House, including even the tarnsmen, stood lined before the panel and received various goods which they placed in the carrying baskets.	10
7	136	"Ah," said one of the tarnsmen, seeing the man on the ship hand out the first of several heavy squares of gold.	10
7	164	The girls had now been placed on their stomachs and two tarnsmen, with short lengths of binding fiber, were fastening the ankles of each together and binding the wrists of each behind her back.	10
12	100	Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...	10
13	275	Some Assassins are, as a matter of fact, skilled tarnsmen.	10
15	372	Outside, in the air overhead, we heard a storm of wings, tarnsmen aflight.	10
15	414	I have no men! I have no gold! I have only the garb on my back! Tarnsmen! Soldiers! The very men of the street! With torches and ropes! I barely escaped with my life.	10
16	231	Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...	10
17	215	The Scribes of the Central Cylinder examined the records and, to their horror, discrepancies were revealed, in particular payments to members of the Hinrabian family for services it was not clear had ever been performed; most outstandingly there had been a considerable disbursement for the construct...	10
20	443	"Develop your Tarnsmen.	10
22	86	The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...	10
22	387	"There are tarnsmen," said he, "Taurentians, but in plain garb, gathering outside the stadium".	10
22	398	I suspect, however, that the truest reason is that tarnsmen, never having learned respect for the small bow, tend to despise such a weapon, regarding it as unworthy a Warrior's hand, as being too puny and ineffective to win the approval of a true Gorean fighting man.	10
22	427	I was certain their riders had had orders from the box of Cernus to see that I did not win; it would be difficult for a single tarn to block a ring, but two together might well manage; further, in not taking the lead immediately, which I believe I could have done, I hoped to postpone the entry into ...	10
22	486	Out of the corner of my eye I saw perhaps fifty tarnsmen on the wall over the high tier on my right, perched there, waiting.	10
22	526	Suddenly, to my dismay, I heard about us shouts and the thunder of wings and, closing in upon us, and following us, and rushing to meet us, were tarnsmen.	10
22	528	I whipped out the Tuchuk bow and, in the instant, found myself wheeling and fighting in the midst of more than a dozen tarnsmen, while many others, wheeling about, attempted to press in upon me.	10
22	530	Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt...	10
22	531	The tarnsmen, packed together, impeding one another's movements, were fodder for the slaughter of the Tuchuk bow, and then, crying out with fear, they turned aside their mounts and broke before us.	10
22	535	In the time we had fought four tarns had passed us, though the rest were still behind, either fallen from the race or unable to pass the rings where tarnsmen still wheeled in disarray.	10
22	541	When I came to the right center rings I again encountered tarnsmen, now regrouped.	10
22	542	Again and again the Tuchuk bow fired and again and again unwilling tarnsmen felt the lightninglike kiss of the barbed steel.	10
22	544	I heard an exultant shout from behind me and saw the leader of the tarnsmen signal his men across the dividing wall again, to meet me at the left center rings.	10
22	550	Then, suddenly before me, at the left side rings, closing the rings to us, hovered some ten tarnsmen, weapons ready.	10
22	554	Again the tarn cut through and two of the tarnsmen were screaming, trying to shield themselves from the weighted straps, flying about them; the weights in the Tuchuk bola can crush a skull, the leather can strangle.	10
22	555	A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veered away; I then drew my swor...	10
23	72	The door burst open and five men entered, Cernus, wild-eyed, suddenly haggard, and behind him Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes, the man who had commanded the fifty tarnsmen who had ridden against me in the Stadium of Tarns, and two Taurentian guardsmen.	10
24	197	Many times did he send Assassins and spies, and tarnsmen, to the Voltai, to find me and my men, and destroy us".	10

Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	165	Tarnsmen, I thought, tarnsmen.	10
9	116	Further, it was open to attack from the air by means of the cavalries of mercenary tarnsmen of Port Kar, of which she has several.	10
9	118	Ha-Keel alone commanded a thousand men, tarnsmen all.	10
9	159	Tarnsmen, aflight, might annoy her with arrows or fire, but it did not seem they could seriously harm her, not unless they come in thousands upon thousands, and not even Ar, Glorious Ar, possessed tarn cavalries so great.	10
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
17	267	Once the tarnsmen of Treve had withstood the tarn cavalries of even Ar.	10
17	293	"Of all the tarnsmen in Port Kar," I said, "and of all the captains, you alone have accepted the risks of this venture, the use of tarns at sea".	10
17	362	Soon, behind me, there were some hundred tarnsmen, and below each, dangling, hanging to the knotted ropes, were five picked men.	10
17	364	At this time, before their numbers could have been well ascertained by the enemy, before the enemy could be much aware of anything more than the unexpected flanking attacks, I, followed by the tarnsmen, with the picked seamen, darted through the sleeting, windy skies over the locked fleets.	10
17	427	I waved away other tarnsmen, returning to the flagship to pick up men.	10
18	136	Terence of Treve, mercenary captain of the tarnsmen, had refused to return to Port Kar before the return of the fleet.	10
18	137	The environs of Port Kar might now be filled with tarnsmen, other mercenaries, but in the hire of the rebellious Ubars, and Claudius, regent of Henrius Sevarius.	10
18	159	We had encountered no tarnsmen over the city.	10
18	278	Heavy wooden mantelets, mounted on posts, were nearby, under which we might protect ourselves from crossbow fire from tarnsmen.	10
18	286	Before my return to the holding, Samos, with his men and mine, had withstood eleven assaults on the keep, both by tarnsmen and besieging infantry.	10
18	521	Standing even on the mantelets under the tarn wire, with spears and swords, we thrust at the tarnsmen dropping to the wire, letting go of the ropes to which they had clung.	10

Book 7. (44 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	84	Targo must have lost some eleven men, and some twenty of his girls were taken by the tarnsmen, but, after a bit, the tarnsmen withdrew.	10
7	3	Shortly before he made me one of his girls, some two or three days before, he had been attacked by outlaw tarnsmen, some four days journey north by northeast from the city of Ko-ro-ba, which lies high in the northern temperate latitudes of the planet Gor, which is the name of this world.	10
7	74	Two days out of Ko-ro-ba, crossing the fields northward toward Laura, the sky had darkened with a flight of outlaw tarnsmen, more than a hundred of them, under the command of the terrible Rask of Treve, one of the most dreaded warriors on all Gor.	10
7	75	Fortunately for Targo he had managed to bring his caravan to the edge of a vast Ka-la-na thicket just before the tarnsmen struck.	10
7	81	Then, but moments before the tarnsmen struck, Targo, with his men driving the girls and the bosk, fled into the thicket.	10
7	82	The tarnsmen alighted and ransacked the wagons, setting fire to them.	10
7	85	Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly,...	10
7	109	When the tarnsmen had struck, the girls had been freed from the wagons, to be driven into the thicket.	10
8	169	Far away, through the sky, from the east of Laura, following the forest line, there came a flight of tarnsmen, perhaps forty of them, mounted on the great, fierce, hawklike saddlebirds of Gor, the huge, swift, predatory, ferocious tarns, called Brothers of the Wind.	10
8	186	The tarnsmen had now, somewhere behind Laura, brought their great birds to the earth.	10
8	378	I had seen tarn keepers about, but, except for Haakon of Skjern, I had seen no tarnsmen.	10
8	380	It was no wonder that some men, even warriors, hated and envied the arrogant, regal tarnsmen, one night rich, the next impoverished, always at the elbow of adventure, and war and pleasure, wearing their pride and their manhood in their walk, in the steel at their side and the look in their eyes.	10
11	914	"Sometimes he comes north, with some hundred tarnsmen, for the hunting in the forests," said the guard.	10
11	1086	Koroban tarnsmen flew at all hours, in the high sun, in the cold morning, at dusk, even when the beacon fires burned upon the lofty walls, flew patterned sorties, and irregular sorties, but never did they find the elusive, marauding band of the terrible Rask of Treve.	10
11	1094	Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit.	10
11	1105	It lay somewhere among the lofty, vast terrains of the rugged Voltai, perhaps as much a fortress, a lair, of outlaw tarnsmen as a city.	10
11	1268	Certain of the tarnsmen of Ko-ro-ba boasted of having driven him from the lands of the state, but others, as I learned from guards, were only silent.	10
11	1277	Haakon, with his tarnsmen, it seemed, came in peace.	10
11	1285	Furthermore, in Ko-ro-ba Targo had purchased additional girls, and guards, and his caravan southeast to Ar would be a substantial one, one surely not to be endangered by some forty to fifty tarnsmen.	10
11	1287	He seemed truly to be arranging for supplies, and his men, in their leisure, gambled and drank in the inns and taverns of the city, spending their time striking up acquaintances with men here and there, other tarnsmen, mostly men like themselves, from other cities, now, too, by coincidence within th...	10
12	621	"Tarns!" In the distance, in a set of four, long, narrow, extended "V's," there came a flight of tarnsmen.	10
12	647	Swiftly the formation of tarnsmen wheeled and withdrew.	10
12	658	Tarnsmen now struck the earth, leaping from their birds, to the east of the wagon square and, swords drawn, rushed among the burning wagons.	10
12	671	Not all the tarnsmen had dismounted.	10
12	674	I saw one of the tarnsmen, yet mounted on his tarn, remove his helmet and wipe his forehead, and then replace the helmet.	10
12	684	There must have been more than a hundred tarnsmen with Haakon.	10
12	701	"I'll come!" I now saw the tarnsmen returning from the burning wagons, racing to their tarns.	10
12	711	We saw tarnsmen, in flight, riding down running girls, the tarns no more than a few feet from the grass, beating their wings, screaming.	10
12	718	Others, flying low and to the side, roped the girls as they ran, using their slender ropes of braided leather, familiar to all tarnsmen.	10
12	721	It is a favorite sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one.	10
13	814	Among such riches, I, Elinor Brinton, realized that to such a man, a warrior, a tarnsman among tarnsmen, I was of little account, only another girl and perhaps a poor sort of one at that.	10
13	860	With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi...	10
14	208	It seemed strange to me to think of such tarnsmen, such brutal, wild men, caring for such a small pleasantry.	10
14	241	Ena, who had been sewing a talmit, a headband sometimes worn by tarnsmen in flight, came to me.	10
14	428	But, too, I think some tarnsmen enjoy the sport of introducing a free woman to bondage.	10
14	431	Some men, of course, not just warriors, tarnsmen, and such, find pleasure in obtaining a new girl, a new slave, and then initiating her into the ramifications and consequences of her condition, in seeing that she is well familiarized with, and is well inducted into, a variety of dimensions of her ne...	10
14	665	In his belt I saw that he had thrust an eighteen-inch strip of black leather, binding leather; it was not jeweled; it was common leather; it was about three quarters of an inch in width; it was supple, that it might well encircle limbs; it was flat, that it might well fit against them; it was of a s...	10
15	180	Often during the day, and sometimes for days at a time, most of the tarnsmen of Rask of Treve would be aflight.	10
15	182	They were applying themselves to the work of the tarnsmen of Treve, attack, plunder and enslavement.	10
15	196	When the tarnsmen would return, with their captives and booty, there would be a feast.	10
15	219	Others came to buy the plunder of the tarnsmen.	10
15	227	I hated him! One afternoon, after I had been some three weeks in the camp, Rask and his tarnsmen returned from a raid far to the north.	10
15	891	The tarnsmen, in their flights, did not have much luck, and many were the times when they returned, their saddle packs empty, their saddles bare of helpless beauties lashed across them.	10
15	997	Laughing, bloody tarnsmen, with strings of pearls thrown about their necks, and cups and goblets tied at their saddles, and their saddle packs bulging with the weight of golden tarn disks, had brought their tarns down, wings beating, to receive the greetings of the camp.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	481	Soon the camp had gathered around, huntsmen, tarnsmen, retainers, slaves.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	451	For it she might be suspended naked, bound by the wrists, on a forty foot rope from one of the high bridges, to be lashed by tarnsmen, sweeping past her in flight.	10
4	53	Instead of Tarnsmen, there are two pieces called the Axes.	10
8	148	It is sometimes used by tarnsmen; it is often used by slavers.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	179	Each city's young tarnsmen, then, in testing their mettle, were offered convenient, well-displayed, delicious, female acquisition-targets.	10

Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	50	I looked up and saw, far overhead, some four tarnsmen in flight.	10
10	58	I watched the tarnsmen disappear in the distance.	10
10	59	Twice earlier, on the great road to Ar, Tup Ladletender had pointed out tarnsmen in flight, presumably messengers.	10
12	415	Their leather told me they were tarnsmen.	10
12	422	The tarnsmen had approached from the dark quadrant, away from the moons, low, not more than a few feet from the ground, hidden by the shadows of the world, and then had, without warning, little more than a quarter of a pasang from the keep, swept into the air, the first wave striking at the wire, th...	10
12	448	"We lie within the patrol limits of the tarnsmen of Ar".	10
14	45	One or two tarnsmen, on patrol, I saw in the sky.	10
26	379	Tarnsmen, periodic and aflight, patrolled the city.	10

Book 12. (18 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	1	I Reward Two Messengers, Who Have Rendered Good Service "Will he use the Two Tarnsmen opening?" asked a man.	10
4	191	"Some thought Scormus would use the Two Tarnsmen Opening," said another fellow.	10
6	691	"Tarnsmen, on patrol," said he.	10
9	339	"There are five tarnsmen here," she said, "though now they are on patrol.	10
10	63	But unfortunately it was I, taken by five tarnsmen on the river, who found myself chained.	10
10	78	"Who would have thought there would be tarnsmen north of Torvaldsland," said Ram.	10
10	103	One ship would have done little to alleviate the distress, the danger of starvation, even had it managed to slip through the air blockade of the Kurii's tarnsmen.	10
10	201	I, with Ram and Imnak, and Tasdron, who had been the captain in the fee of Samos, he whose ship had been lost to the tarnsmen, shouldered one of the logs.	10
10	278	"Tasdron," said I, "would you like a new ship?" "I would fit it to fight tarnsmen," said he.	10
11	55	"He is waiting," said Ram, "for the return of the tarnsmen, those on patrol".	10
11	60	The dispersal of my men, of course, would provide Sorgus and his men with their opportunity, under the covering fire of their tarnsmen aloft, to escape from the hall.	10
11	61	"When are the tarnsmen due to return from patrol?" I asked.	10
11	71	"When do you expect your tarnsmen to return?" I asked.	10
11	130	"When are the tarnsmen due?" I asked.	10
11	147	"If the tarnsmen return before the afternoon of the first day of the passage hand," I said, handing the man who controlled her her dagger, "cut her throat".	10
11	281	"Tarnsmen," I said, "will soon be here, will they not?" "Yes," she said, angrily.	10
11	335	* * * * The tarnsmen were wary.	10
23	250	Tarnsmen transported the workers, drugged, to the wall".	10

Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	143	Overheard we had seen some one hundred and twenty-five tarnsmen.	10
21	147	Yet Vonda, herself, I knew, did not have tarnsmen.	10
21	165	He looked after the disappearing tarnsmen.	10
21	226	Such an action could precipitate a new expedition into the Voltai by the tarnsmen of Ar".	10
21	228	The tarnsmen of Treve, over the snow-capped crags of the scarlet Voltai range, had turned back the squadrons of Ar.	10
25	1	I Fight Krondar, Slave of Miles of Vonda; Tarnsmen The leather slave hood was pulled from my head.	10
25	254	"Men of Cos, tarnsmen, have struck at the suburbs of Ar!" cried a man.	10
25	361	"Tarnsmen!" he said.	10
25	376	The tarnsmen then, in a moment or two, again took flight.	10

Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	77	In the skies our tarnsmen turned aside the mercenaries of Artemidorus.	10
2	8	"Tarnsmen of Ar," had said he, "patrol the corridor between Vonda and Ar, but are insufficient in numbers to guard the sky beyond the corridor.	10
2	14	"We have been successful here," he said, "defeating in battle both the forces of Vonda and those of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus of Cos.	10
4	244	Tarnsmen of Ar, the rumors had had it, were soon to be aflight toward Lara.	10
4	374	"It was feared there would be an attack of tarnsmen from Ar," I said.	10
6	18	The troops from Ar, tarnsmen, had not burned Lara.	10
6	35	The tarnsmen of Artemidorus, incidentally, had not molested the slave wagons moving southward.	10
6	37	The tarnsmen of Artemidorus, then, had flown past, overhead, heedless of the uplifted hands and cries of the women.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	635	She also knows that given the almost constant warfare amongst the small Gorean states, and the frequencies of raids, even of lone tarnsmen out to try "chain luck," and such, that slavery, with all its helplessnesses and vulnerabilities, its degradations and miseries, is a fate which might actually b...	10

Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	89	In the Central Cylinder, if nowhere else, she was surely safe from the bracelets and nooses of marauding tarnsmen.	10
21	25	"Tarnsmen cannot take the camp," I said.	10
21	51	The primary interest of the tarnsmen, I had little doubt, would have been the council lodge and the area about it.	10
22	26	"It is under attack by both tarnsmen and Yellow Knives.	10
39	302	This suggests that the Kinyanpi had probably domesticated kaiila before tarns and that their domestication of the tarn was achieved independently of white practice, as exemplified, say, by the tarnsmen of such cities as Thentis.	10
42	30	It seemed we had hardly seen the camp fall away beneath us but what red tarnsmen were aflight, plying their pursuit in our hurried wake.	10
42	147	"We must now, in the next weeks, train tarnsmen," I said.	10
47	179	He would fall, I conjectured, through the Kinyanpi formation below, that formation being by now, I supposed, arrested by the other tarnsmen, those from Council Rock.	10
47	189	Our bold tarnsmen from Council Rock fought amidst circling Kinyanpi.	10
47	428	Some of our men who were tarnsmen brought their tarns into the fray, raking down at the Yellow Knives.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	75	Their riders, or tarnsmen, were not in the immediate vicinity, but were, as is common, quite close, in this case in a guard station at the foot of the wall.	10

Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	966	"Tarnsmen from Treve have raided the outskirts of Ar," said Samos.	10
2	482	He looked angrily at me, and then, too, he threw his Tarnsmen into the leather bag, with drawstrings, at the side of the table.	10
6	1111	Binding or chaining to saddle rings or stirrups is usually used if there is more than one capture, as in, say, a successful raid or group hunt, these usually conducted by a coordinated pride of tarnsmen.	10

Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	202	The common military response to aerial attack from tarnsmen is the "shield roof" or "shield shed," a formation the same as, or quite similar to, a formation once known on Earth as the testudo, or "tortoise".	10
3	359	"Have you seen tarnsmen in the sky?" I asked.	10
3	361	Cos, of course, would have tarnsmen at her disposal.	10
3	369	Surely it seemed that Ar might be expected to apply her tarnsmen to the effort to disrupt the enemy's lines of supply and communication.	10
3	370	Perhaps her tarnsmen had not been able to reach the wagons.	10
3	375	"What would you do if tarnsmen of Ar arrived?" I asked.	10
10	39	"Not tarnsmen," said Mincon.	10
22	400	Too, of course, the lack of veiling permitted the slave makes her the more likely target of roving tarnsmen, brigands, slavers, and such.	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	101	Tarnsmen, too, frequently aflight, conducted patrols.	10
25	74	These serve as guides to tarnsmen aflight, and, too, may be used to signal their recall, and such.	10
25	75	Between some of them tarn wire would not be stretched; between others it would; which would be known to the tarnsmen.	10
29	1633	Such might attract the attention of men about, or perhaps of tarnsmen aflight, even as far away as Venna.	10

Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	234	"If the storm ceases, and the cloud cover scatters, the tarnsmen of Artemidorus may strike at the columns".	10
2	71	If it were true, however, why had Ar's tarnsmen not attempted to interdict these supply routes? If they had, I had heard nothing of it.	10
8	61	The construction at the Crooked Tarn, incidentally, was more typical of a military installation, in that it permitted the more rapid deployment and return of tarnsmen, coupled with the capacity to open and close the tarn gate in a matter of Ihn.	10
8	509	Now, in his absence, he having vanished in the Voltai Mountains, on a punitive raid against the tarnsmen of Treve, it seemed that her fortunes were recovering.	10
9	46	I had been immediately pursued and fired upon by flights of Cosian tarnsmen.	10
15	970	There, spread before me, in the bright morning sun, under the clear blue sky, bright with glittering spear blades and shields, with nodding plumes, with the standards of companies and regiments, dotted with engines, here and there a tharlarion stalking about, tarnsmen in the sky, in serried ranks, s...	10
17	50	In the field they may serve as foundations for camouflage, for example, effecting concealments from tarnsmen.	10
20	382	Some tarnsmen flew overhead, but none fired downward.	10
21	1264	Perhaps to some extent, too, such garmenture, in its lovely degradation, protects the slave from the fury of free women—is the slut not already sufficiently exposed and shamed, but why do they bear their beauty with such defiant and brazen pride? What right have they to be so content, so radi...	10

Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	263	Such precautions serve primarily to defend against attacks of tarnsmen.	10
1	273	The patrols are usually composed of two or more tarnsmen.	10
1	448	He wore the uniform and insignia of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus, the well-known Cosian mercenary.	10
1	486	"Borton!" called a fellow cheerfully, from well across the enclosure, "has it been necessary to redeem you from any inns lately!" "I think I paid something in that fee!" called another, a fellow also in the uniform of the tarnsmen of Artemidorus.	10
1	506	"Other tarnsmen in the command of Artemidorus, some days later, stopped at the inn.	10
1	1209	A tent, like this, incidentally, would not accompany the tarnsmen in their flights, borne by draft tarns, but would follow in the supply wagons of the main body.	10
1	1210	A company of tarnsmen, such as that of Artemidorus, is not burdened in flight with the transport of such items.	10
3	48	They afforded me a priceless cover, for example, from the investigations, if not the sudden, unprovoked attacks, of Cosian tarnsmen.	10
13	363	"Where are our tarnsmen?" asked a fellow.	10

Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	320	Marlenus of Ar had vanished months ago on a punitive raid in the Voltai, directed against the tarnsmen of Treve.	10
3	63	Here and there fires were lit on the walls, beacons serving to guide tarnsmen.	10
3	1076	Here and there, on the walls, like shadows flickering against the tarn beacons, I could see the return of tarnsmen.	10
4	64	Who knew what dangers might lie outside the walls? Too, they could always be overtaken by tharlarion cavalry or Cosian tarnsmen.	10
4	78	"Tarnsmen!" "They are clad in blue," cried a man.	10
4	79	"Cosian tarnsmen over the city!" cried another.	10
4	83	Yet the appearance of Cosian tarnsmen over Ar indicated to me that Cos must now control the skies, as she had in the north.	10
23	350	"Yes, but there are thousands upon thousands like her on Gor," I said, "and it is not like armies of tarnsmen would be launched to acquire her".	10

Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	74	Tarnsmen draw lots and the winner sets out to obtain the particular woman.	10
19	33	Naturally, too, there are numerous outposts of the city in the mountains, at which tarnsmen are always on the alert.	10
24	43	"Strangers! Tarnsmen!" he heard.	10
24	76	There must have been nearly a hundred tarnsmen now in flight.	10
24	88	Too, tarnsmen and guardsmen from about the city had doubtless rendezvoused at that point by now.	10
24	89	But moments ago I had seen tarnsmen even from this part of the city hurrying in that direction.	10
24	217	But what if the tarnsmen of Treve, those in the vicinity, were in pursuit of the first flight? What if it had drawn them away? Could they hear the alarm bars behind them, in the city? Could they be recalled? Could a messenger catch up with them? How much time would it take to do so, and then return?...	10
24	222	In a sense, were they not now isolated, trapped? There must be tarnsmen left in the city, though.	10

Book 27. (28 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	161	"It is spring," said Laura, "and that is a popular time for the hunts of tarnsmen, not that those monsters need any seasonal excuse for their predations".	10
13	162	"What are tarnsmen?" asked Ellen.	10
13	212	"But there are no tarnsmen here," said Ellen.	10
13	224	"Do tarnsmen exist?" asked Ellen.	10
13	227	"Tarnsmen do not really exist".	10
13	294	"They were tarnsmen of Treve.	10
13	330	Two tarnsmen of the city snapped by in pursuit of the fellow with the free woman.	10
13	428	"He is waiting for tarnsmen to leave the city?" "Yes," said Laura.	10
13	443	At that moment several flights of tarnsmen, dozens in each flight, swept overhead.	10
13	516	"We have lost two slaves, to tarnsmen, Master," said blond-haired, blue-eyed Ina.	10
14	76	Too, warriors, tarnsmen, slavers, and such, might prefer plainer custodial devices for early captures, transportation, simple holding, and so on.	10
17	545	Gorean warriors, tarnsmen and such, are not infrequently concerned with the abduction of women from enemy cities.	10
19	472	It has its value, too, of course, among tarnsmen, tarnkeepers, tarnsters, and such, who must occasionally move from saddle to saddle, or from basket to basket, and such, while in flight.	10
19	500	Might that not be a disguise for roving tarnsmen, who might then jettison the baskets and wing their way free to whatever mischief they might portend? "Untie the slave," Portus called to Selius, "and put her in the last basket".	10
20	289	"Tarnsmen," she gasped.	10
20	293	Two tarnsmen of the flighted squad wheeled from their formation, and began to approach the loose, leaderless line of six tarns, which had been the fourth through the ninth tarns in the original train, the fourth through the seventh with baskets, Ellen in the last basket, that carried by the seventh ...	10
26	1042	"Tarnsmen will be aflight in moments!" "Should we not exhibit some interest in these matters?" asked Fel Doron.	10
27	193	"Are they tarnsmen?" asked a man, looking forward.	10
27	198	"If they are tarnsmen, there would be only five then," said a man.	10
27	221	If they were tarnsmen, or soldiery, one would expect them to approach, to alight and inquire into our identity and destination".	10
27	251	But they saw nothing more of tarns and tarnsmen, or merchants, or aerial soldiery that day.	10
27	872	"Tarnsmen!" he cried.	10
27	873	"Tarnsmen!" What happened then was scarcely clear to Ellen.	10
27	1006	"Tarnsmen!" said Selius Arconious.	10
27	1007	"Tarnsmen!" Men tensed, the hands of riders almost darted to their weapons.	10
27	1011	"Tarnsmen," repeated Selius Arconious.	10
27	1015	"Tarnsmen," said Portus Canio.	10
27	1053	Cosian men at arms, some armed with short bows, such as may be used with convenience from tarn baskets, which may clear the bulwarks and fire amongst the ropes, saddle bows, actually, such as are favored for similar reasons by tarnsmen, were drawing away, afoot.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	178	Sometimes they are put on the bridges late at night, in the light of the moons, and when a marauding tarnsman makes his strike, the city's tarnsmen may take flight and close in upon him.	10
18	180	When foreign tarnsmen, intent on plying chain luck, descend to acquire this seemingly vulnerable trove of loveliness, they are surprised, for numerous guardsmen emerge suddenly from concealed pits and encircle them.	10

Book 29. (31 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	557	"Few but hardy tarnsters, or tarnsmen themselves, would dare to approach them in their present state.	10
5	914	We would not want reconnoitering tarnsmen, flighted from Ar, to suspect that they might be refugees from the proscription lists, lest determined efforts be made to recover them".	10
5	923	"We were afflicted from the air, arrowed by avenging tarnsmen.	10
12	39	Similarly it seemed that formidable island ubarates such as Tyros and Cos would have little to fear from, say, a squadron of bandit tarnsmen.	10
12	148	"You understand, do you not," he asked, "the drums, the synchronization, the ascents and descents, the circlings, the wheelings, to left and right?" "You do not need me, great lord," I said, "surely a thousand tarnsmen might serve you as well, or better".	10
12	197	"Who are the tarnsmen?" I asked.	10
12	198	"Some are tarnsmen," he said, "but many of your people, and mine, must learn the tarn".	10
12	219	"In your veins," he said, "flowed the blood of warriors, of tarnsmen".	10
13	316	Our hair was shortened, that we not appear free women to flighted tarnsmen, and we were soon chained by the neck, and conducted from camp to camp, until we reached the vicinity of Brundisium, from which port, subsequently, we, cargoed, were shipped by sea to the north, where we made landfall".	10
14	62	I did not expect there would be much call for this latter feature unless the tarnsman was on foot, but sometimes tarnsmen do lock in combat, even on tarnback, as the birds, spinning about, buffeting one another, screaming and twisting about, do grapple in the sky.	10
16	20	I personally preferred solitary tarnflight, and I supposed most tarnsmen would, as there is a wild sense of freedom on tarnback, sometimes almost of exaltation, as one seems one with the bird.	10
16	31	This was conveyed by notes to our tarnsmen.	10
16	44	Groups of tarnsmen are often referred to as prides, so, in a sense, any of the divisions, including the cavalry as a whole, might be accounted a "pride".	10
16	92	Such troops should possess their own tarnsmen, to clear the skies as they can.	10
16	268	How can the eye see itself, and even in water, or burnished plates, or bright mirrors, it sees but an image of itself, and who knows what lies behind it? "Tarnsmen," said Lord Nishida, "have been recruited from better than two dozen cities".	10
17	1	The Battle I had no doubt that the cavalries ranked against us, which would intend to confront us and engage in the traditional modalities of Gor's aerial warfare, consisted of veteran tarnsmen.	10
17	17	The capture of females of the enemy is a popular sport with tarnsmen, in which tallies are kept, and many a collared, tunicked beauty in a given city has, at one time or another, felt the suddenly encircling capture rope tighten mercilessly upon her.	10
17	32	And what man does not want one at his feet? Lord Nishida had informed me that these tarnsmen had been recruited in more than two dozen cities.	10
17	42	All I could see at the time were hundreds of tarnsmen, some so closely clustered that the birds, unable to keep their spacings, literally, here and there, buffeted into one another.	10
17	44	As hundreds of birds alighted in the plaza of training, tarnsmen dismounted, to fire the camp.	10
17	50	I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins.	10
17	52	When groups of enemy tarnsmen, in their rear, or at the sides, would flight after our fellows, our fellows would simply flight away, and leave them behind, separated from their group, and thus, soon, spread out, to be exposed to the crossfire of tens and twenties who seemed to appear from nowhere.	10
25	225	This will mean that one or more tarnsmen, waiting below, mounts saddled, will join him to take his report, or to assist him in making further determinations.	10
26	192	Tarnsmen may be aflight even now".	10
30	99	"The size of the vessel," said my informant, "is such as to house tarns, their tarnsmen, their tarnsters, their gear, their provender, and such.	10
30	187	"Do not fear," he said, "tarnsmen, tarnsters, and such are precious.	10
39	11	I gathered that few tarnsmen cared to meet with the cavalry after the battle of Tarncamp.	10
40	15	Our tarnsmen, launched from the ship, attended not to them.	10
40	19	Isolated infantrymen fare less well against tarn attack, as the tarnsmen can pick and choose their targets, with relative impunity.	10
40	22	The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore.	10
40	27	Too, roofing, where practical, if not sheathed in metal or coated in wet hides, would succumb to the canisters of pitch and fire, lit and cast by our tarnsmen.	10

Book 30. (13 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	394	If it were even suspected she might be in Brundisium, a thousand tarnsmen of Ar might be aflight within an Ahn".	10
2	172	So astonishing then that men, so tiny beside its bulk, might saddle and use such monsters as mounts! Such men are called tarnsmen.	10
3	297	We could see rebel tarnsmen in the sky.	10
3	327	Too, to such an event, there must have been a number of witnesses, not only on the roof, but in the sky, tarnsmen, others in cylinders and on bridges, the crowds in the street below, and such.	10
3	329	I reached for the mounting ladder of Seremides' tarn, but it was jerked away, and, in a moment, I was in the shadow of those great beating wings, the bird lifting itself, scarcely able to keep my footing, my robes and veils whipping about me, and then the monster was in flight, and Seremides, and hi...	10
3	632	They were not professional soldiers and I did not think they could stand before well-armed, desperate mercenaries, though they might hold them long enough for more effective troops, summoned by the bar and the horns, to arrive, even tarnsmen flighted from the city.	10
3	688	It is common amongst outlaws and rogue tarnsmen.	10
3	1131	Tarnsmen make wants known at such places, exchange informations, carry intelligences elsewhere, and so on.	10
9	41	Few but tarnsmen or tarnkeepers would approach them, and then with great caution.	10
15	34	Toward noon we saw tarnsmen returning to the great ship, hastily, almost frantically.	10
19	141	This, I take it, may have been a result of the stifling, burning air ascending to the high, cold sky, familiar to jacketed tarnsmen, where, condensing, it fell as a soft, washing rain.	10
22	16	"Tarnsmen," I heard, "to saddle!" It was the voice of Tarl Cabot.	10
22	103	"Let tarnsmen, armed, who dare, return with you," said Cabot.	10

Book 32. (9 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	88	Even in the open fields they were pursued and hunted, sometimes from the sky by tarnsmen of Ar, no longer enrolled in the sorry task of protecting uniformed looters and policing a sullen, resentful citizenry with which they shared a Home Stone.	10
15	135	Shortly thereafter four waves, or ranks, of tarnsmen swept by, the lowest wave perhaps no more than five yards from the ground, the highest perhaps twenty or twenty- five yards from the ground.	10
15	147	How frightening, I thought, to be the quarry of such marksmen! I would later learn that there had been, some days previous, an attack on this camp, which had been repulsed, in part by such tarnsmen.	10
15	150	"Do you want to run any of your girls?" asked the tarnsmen.	10
34	65	"Tarnsmen might be dispatched.	10
39	161	Then the knife continued its rude work and Emerald and Hiza lay at men's feet, no different from other free women, perhaps more refined, gentler creatures, who might, say, have been driven from sacked, burning cities, snared on bridges by soaring tarnsmen, netted on outings, lured into taverns, seiz...	10
52	974	"If our tarnsmen had been about," he said, "that fellow could not have come within fifty pasangs of Shipcamp.	10
52	977	"Our tarnsmen," he said, "are differently armed.	10
52	991	"It is not unusual for tarnsmen to raid for females," he said.	10

Book 33. (15 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	39	Of fighting men then, discounting the tarnsmen withdrawn into the mountains, at their camp, Lords Nishida, Okimoto, and Temmu had less than thirty-five hundred men.	10
1	72	We retained seventy tarnsmen and twenty auxiliary personnel.	10
1	149	Communication between the camp and the holding would be by tarnsmen, two or more tarns to be housed in the castle area.	10
1	522	Did they really think, I wondered, that I, or others, tarnsmen, would set a flight line directly to a camp allegedly secret, a line which, well marked, might be followed by seekers, or hunters, on foot? I had ordered my men, in leaving the castle, to choose randomly amongst pieces of silk, each insc...	10
14	64	You took soldiers and mercenaries and forged tarnsmen.	10
14	81	"It is strange," I said, "that tarnsmen would so scout the palace of General Yamada, here, this night.	10
22	60	Two tarnsmen, who purchased their lives by capitulation, wisely changed their banner".	10
29	51	"You train your tarnsmen well.	10
29	97	"Twice," said Tajima, "tarnsmen returned, circling about, at a great height, and we must conceal ourselves, once in the reeds and mud near a small stream, once in leaves and brush".	10
44	246	Ichiro on the summit winded his battle horn, and the ranks of the tarnsmen seemed to erupt about, as though cast by an invisible hand into the wind.	10
57	38	It seems that Tyrtaios and his colleague, the two tarnsmen at the disposal of Lord Yamada, had been held at the palace, and the first information pertaining to the new, startling developments in the north were a result of the communications borne by several message vulos.	10
60	472	What I have to say will, I think, convince either Lord Nishida or Lord Okimoto, or both, to withdraw, or camp, and seek orders from the holding of Temmu, conveyed by tarnsmen.	10
61	95	If you deem it wise, you may then advance, or, if not, communicate with the house of Temmu, by message vulo, and await a response from the house of Temmu, brought by tarnsmen".	10
61	103	The tarnsmen would almost certainly be of the cavalry.	10
61	750	Tarnsmen wheeled about.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
39	79	Tarnsmen come and go, during the day and night.	10
63	49	The skies of Gor, particularly in certain areas, can be dangerous, sometimes due to bandit tarnsmen, but more frequently due to municipal patrols intent on protecting a city's territorial claims, which claims are often exaggerated, pretentious and unclear.	10
63	147	"Tarnsmen," said Paula, looking up.	10
63	148	Overhead there was a flight of tarnsmen, perhaps a hundred men and mounts.	10
63	183	Some tarnsmen, I knew, were raiders, raiders for women.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	31	"Her tarnsmen are aflight, high in the night, in their hundreds, hurling vessels of fire on Brundisium".	10
13	195	No more than fifty pasangs from the caravanserai of Hogarth it was set upon, in a desolate area, by a small pride of rogue tarnsmen, or, possibly, licensed raiders from Treve.	10
41	76	Those rash enough or mad enough to risk ascent to their saddles were called "Tarnsmen," an unusual and fearsome breed of men.	10