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Tuchuks

Book 4. (225 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	14	I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ...	10
8	196	In the crowd, as well as Tuchuks and those of the Tuchuks, there were some Kassars, a Paravaci or two, even one of the Kataii.	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
20	111	"What is going on here?" "I am Harold of the Tuchuks," responded Harold of the Tuchuks.	10
20	129	"I am Harold of the Tuchuks," he said, "I am a skilled tarnsman—I have ridden over a thousand tarns—I have spent more time in the tarn saddle than most men on their feet—I was conceived on tarnback—I was born on tarnback—I eat tarns—fear me! I am Harold of t...	10
21	348	Some dozen dismounted Tuchuks were now at the great windlass on its platform slowly opening the gates to their maximum width, and when they had done so the Tuchuks, howling and waving their lances, entered the city in ranks of twenty abreast, thus only five ranks to the Hundred.	10
24	12	I knew that Kamchak was in constant touch, by means of riders, with the wagons of the Tuchuks, and so I did not speak with him of the looting of his wagon, nor of the fate of Aphris of Turia, nor did I deem it well to speak to him of Elizabeth Cardwell, for it seemed evident that he had sold her, an...	10
27	221	"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...	10
28	68	"Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot...	10
2	36	And there were four Wagon Peoples, the Paravaci, the Kataii, the Kassars, and the dreaded Tuchuks.	10
2	174	The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n...	10
2	181	"Hear my name," cried he, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks!" As suddenly as he had finished, as soon as the men had named themselves, as if a signal had been given, the four kaiila bounded forward, squealing with rage, each rider bent low on his mount, lance gripped in his right hand, straining to be th...	10
4	79	Suddenly the Tuchuk bent to the soil and picked up a handful of dirt and grass, the land on which the bosk graze, the land which is the land of the Tuchuks, and this dirt and this grass he thrust in my hands and I held it.	10
5	1	The Prisoner I followed the warrior Kamchak into the encampment of Tuchuks.	10
5	13	The Tuchuks and the other Wagon Peoples reverence Priest-Kings, but unlike the Goreans of the cities, with their castes of Initiates, they do not extend to them the dignities of worship.	10
5	15	It is to the sky that the Tuchuks pray when they pray, demanding victory and luck for themselves, defeat and misery for their enemies.	10
5	96	"He then is the Ubar of the Tuchuks?" I said.	10
5	99	"That robe," said Kamchak, "which is the throne of the Ubars of the Tuchuks".	10
5	103	I gathered from this remark that Kamchak was a man of no little importance among the Tuchuks.	10
5	107	"And the girl—she on the kaiila—is perhaps the daughter of Kutaituchik, Ubar of the Tuchuks?" "No," said Kamchak.	10
6	2	Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka...	10
6	4	The street was lined by throngs of Tuchuks and slaves.	10
6	5	Among them, too, were soothsayers and haruspexes, and singers and musicians, and, here and there, small peddlers and merchants, of various cities, for such are occasionally permitted by the Tuchuks, who crave their wares, to approach the wagons.	10
6	58	"Mad!" The Tuchuks and the others looked at one another, puzzled.	10
6	60	I was thunderstruck that a girl, apparently of Earth, who spoke English, should be brought to the Tuchuks at this time—at the time that I was among them, hoping to discover and return to Priest-Kings what I supposed to be a golden spheroid, the egg, the last hope of their race.	10
6	63	But if the Voyages of Acquisition had been resumed, why had they been resumed? Or was it actually the case that she had been brought to Gor by Priest-Kings? Were there perhaps—others—somehow others? Was this woman sent to the Tuchuks at this time—perhaps released to wander on th...	10
6	69	The Tuchuks and others, as one man, faced me.	10
6	75	It then occurred to me that it might have been for just this purpose that she had been sent to the Tuchuks, to single out the one man from among all the thousands with the wagons who could understand her and speak with her, thus identifying and marking him.	10
6	163	Dazed, exhausted, covered with sweat, dust on her face and legs, wine on her body, Elizabeth Cardwell, her wrists thonged behind her and her throat bound to a lance, stood captive before Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
7	1	La Kajira The wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, was drawn up on a large, flat-topped grassy hill, the highest land in the camp.	10
7	10	There were many Tuchuks, and some others, crowded about the dais, and, standing upon it, about Kutaituchik, there were several men who, from their position on the dais and their trappings, I judged to be of great importance.	10
7	11	Among these men, sitting cross-legged, was Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
7	18	It was undoubtedly that of which Kamchak had spoken, the robe upon which sits the Ubar of the Tuchuks, that simple robe which is his throne.	10
7	28	I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a...	10
7	69	The interrogation, to my surprise, was conducted largely by Kamchak, rather than Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
7	74	Although there were risks involved I tried to translate as exactly as I could, letting Miss Cardwell speak as she would, though her words must often have sounded fantastic to the Tuchuks, for it was largely of a world alien to them that she spoke—a world not of autonomous cities but of huge n...	10
7	88	It was perhaps only that she was convenient, and, of course, that she was lovely, thus a fitting bearer of the collar, herself a gift with the message to please the Tuchuks, and perhaps better dispose them toward its contents.	10
7	160	I was suddenly amused, for it occurred to me that neither of the Tuchuks could read.	10
7	181	I understood then that both men could read, though perhaps many of the Tuchuks could not.	10
7	192	I prepared to fight for my life, selling it as dearly as possible on the dais of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, for what Gorean would dare reject the command of Priest-Kings? I stood up, unsheathing my sword.	10
7	203	"No," said Kamchak, slapping his knee, "Priest-Kings do not need Tuchuks to do their killing".	10
7	235	"Are you zealous to please the fancy of Tuchuks?" I translated.	10
7	246	"Are you zealous to please the fancy of Tuchuks?" The men who held the girl allowed her to fall to her knees between them.	10
7	248	"Yes," she wept, her head to the rug, "I am zealous to please the fancy of Tuchuks".	10
7	262	She, a slave, had accepted meat from the hand of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
8	3	"It is the Omen Year," had said Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
8	25	The Tuchuks, like the other Wagon Peoples, are intensely independent.	10
8	101	I tried to talk to Kamchak and help him to understand the shock that the girl had undergone, the total alteration of her life and circumstances, unexplained—finding herself alone on the prairie, the Tuchuks, the capture, the return to the Wagons, her examination in the grassy avenue, the Siri...	10
8	108	I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...	10
8	116	I had been troubled that the shock of her radical transposition between worlds, coupled with her reduction to servitude, might disarrange her mind, might shatter her and make her worthless to the Tuchuks, who might then have simply cast her to the kaiila and herd sleen.	10
8	118	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks is your master," I said.	10
8	132	He was used to girls whose culture had prepared them for the very real possibility of slavery, though perhaps not a slavery as abject as that of being a wench of Tuchuks.	10
8	174	Elizabeth Cardwell never again brought a half-filled dung sack to the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
8	194	As soon as Kamchak had agreed to Albrecht's proposal the children and several of the slave girls immediately began to rush toward the wagons, delightedly crying, "Wager! Wager!" Soon, to my dismay, a large number of Tuchuks, male and female, and their male or female slaves, began to gather near the ...	10
8	199	The Tuchuks, not too unlike Goreans generally, are fond of gambling.	10
8	223	In the crowd, on the back of a kaiila, I noted the girl Hereena, of the First Wagon, whom I had seen my first day in the camp of the Tuchuks, she who had almost ridden down Kamchak and myself between the wagons.	10
8	243	The problem of the young man, and perhaps the reason that he had not yet won even the Courage Scar of the Tuchuks, was that he had fallen into the hands of Turian raiders in his youth and had spent several years in the city; in his adolescence he had, at great risk to himself, escaped from the city ...	10
8	246	Thus he had not been slain but had been allowed to remain with the Tuchuks.	10
8	254	I supposed that the young man would never be likely to wear the scar, without which, among the stern, cruel Tuchuks, he would be the continuous object of scorn, ridicule and contempt.	10
8	256	Such would have been a great joke among the Tuchuks.	10
8	262	Kamchak raced his kaiila over to the edge of the crowd, entering into swift negotiation with a warrior, one whose wagon followed ours in the march of the Tuchuks.	10
8	365	There was a cheer from the crowd, which, though largely composed of Tuchuks, relished a splendid performance.	10
8	454	The Tuchuks were commonly called the Wily Ones.	10
8	458	Little did we know that one of those girls was Dina of Turia, who, of course, would run not for the skilled Kamchak, but for his awkward friend, the clumsy Tarl Cabot, not even of the Wagon Peoples, new to the kaiila and bola! Conrad and Albrecht had perhaps even come to the camp of the Tuchuks with...	10
8	511	They were mostly Tuchuks, and were highly pleased with what they had seen, but I saw, too, that even the Kassars and the one or two Paravaci present and the Kataii were unstinting in their acclaim.	10
9	1	Aphris of Turia There was little doubt that I, in the worn, red tunic of a warrior, and Kamchak, in the black leather of the Tuchuks, seemed somewhat out of place at the banquet of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
9	187	"Still," Kamchak said, "the Tuchuks are fond of it".	10
9	202	I had learned now, if Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, undoubtedly the last egg of Priest-Kings, was in the wagon of Kutaituchik, said to be Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
9	212	"The Tuchuks," he said, "are fond of the golden sphere".	10
9	267	"How comes it," asked she, "that a Koroban rides in the stinking wagon of a Tuchuk sleen?" "The wagon does not stink," I said, "and Kamchak of the Tuchuks is my friend".	10
9	357	The girl looked at him gratefully and she, with the others, rose to her feet and to the astounding barbarity of the music performed the savage love dances of the Kassars, the Paravaci, the Kataii, the Tuchuks.	10
10	7	We moved slowly, walking the kaiila, in four long lines, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci, some two hundred or so warriors of each.	10
10	14	The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,...	10
10	131	It was best that she understand herself for what she was, a barbarian slave girl in the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
10	165	"Perhaps someday," I said, "even Kamchak of the Tuchuks will care for a slave girl".	10
10	204	Among the Tuchuks, though dismounted, I saw the young man Harold, he whom Hereena of the First Wagon had so sorely insulted at the time of the wagering with Conrad and Albrecht.	10
10	207	He had, as I mentioned, blond hair and blue eyes, not unknown among the Tuchuks, but unusual.	10
10	211	It might be mentioned, incidentally, that without the Courage Scar one may not, among the Tuchuks, pay court to a free woman, own a wagon, or own more than five bosk and three kaiila.	10
10	255	He took them angrily and, to the laughter of many of the Tuchuks present, withdrew with the animal.	10
10	491	The judge now entered the name of Kamchak of the Tuchuks on his list.	10
10	534	I would sorely miss my friend, the ribald, hard-drinking, stomping, dancing Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
10	574	"Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body.	10
10	575	And then, to my astonishment, and that of the throng who had gathered to witness the contest, I saw Kamras, Champion of Turia, weak from the loss of blood, fall to his knees before Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
11	97	The laugh of Kamchak of the Tuchuks was loud.	10
11	115	Then Kamchak, with his two women, and I, left the Plains of a Thousand Stakes and set out for the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
11	117	* * * * Some two hours later we reached the encampment of the Tuchuks and made our way among the wagons and the cooking pots and playing children.	10
11	153	I had wondered why Kamchak had not treated Elizabeth Cardwell as any other enslaved wench of Tuchuks.	10
12	1	The Quiva In the next days I several times wandered into the vicinity of the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
12	11	It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely ...	10
12	12	Yet I was hesitant to make the strike of a thief at the wagon of Kutaituchik—for the Tuchuks, in their bluff way, had made me welcome, and I had come to care for some of them, particularly the gruff, chuckling, wily Kamchak, whose wagon I shared.	10
12	13	It did not seem to me a worthy thing to betray the hospitality of Tuchuks by attempting to purloin an object which obviously they held to be of great value.	10
12	14	I wondered if any in the camp of the Tuchuks realized how actually great indeed was the value of that golden sphere, containing undoubtedly the last hope of the people called Priest-Kings.	10
12	26	At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, tr...	10
12	209	The Tuchuks, of course, were most in evidence, sitting cross-legged in circles rather about a large fire near the center of the enclosure.	10
12	228	When I returned with the bottle I had to step through, over, and once or twice on, Tuchuks.	10
12	241	I saw several of the Tuchuks present eye her with admiration.	10
12	260	We had slept late that day and finally when Kamchak managed to be up and around, after a late breakfast served rather slowly by Elizabeth, and had recollected Aphris and had opened the end of her sleeping quarters and she had crawled out backward and had begged, head to boot, to be allowed to draw w...	10
12	322	There were immediate offers from three or four of the Tuchuks gathered about, and I was afraid that Kamchak might, if the bids improved, part with Miss Cardwell on the spot.	10
13	3	Aphris, knowing the ways of Gor and the temper of Tuchuks, was terrified, and said almost nothing.	10
13	127	While near Kutaituchik's wagon, on the dais, he also conferred with several other high men among the Tuchuks.	10
13	128	Kamchak, as I had learned before, held a position of some importance with the Tuchuks.	10
13	137	On one side of this altar I saw the sign of the Tuchuks, and on the others, that of the Kassars, the Kataii and the Paravaci.	10
13	142	Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r...	10
13	231	I noted, too, the other Tuchuks in the wagon.	10
14	37	Suddenly, instead of giving pursuit, Kamchak drew his mount to a halt and behind him the rushing cavalries of the Tuchuks snarled pawing to a halt, holding their ground.	10
14	53	Surely great Ar was not at war with the Tuchuks of the southern plains.	10
14	54	They must be mercenaries! Kamchak did not return to his own wagon but now raced his kaiila, followed by a hundred men, toward the high ground on which stood the standard of the four bosk horns, on which stood the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
14	111	"There will now have to be a new Ubar of the Tuchuks," I said, softly.	10
14	116	"Kutaituchik," he said, "was not Ubar of the Tuchuks".	10
14	118	"He was called Ubar of the Tuchuks," said Kamchak, "but he was not Ubar".	10
14	120	"We Tuchuks are not such fools as Turians would believe," said Kamchak.	10
14	128	"Then the true Ubar of the Tuchuks is not slain," I said.	10
14	133	"Who is Ubar of the Tuchuks?" I asked.	10
15	1	Harold Turia, to some extent, now lay under siege, though the Tuchuks alone could not adequately invest the city.	10
15	4	There had been Kassars who had wanted to fight and some Kataii, but the calm heads of the Paravaci had convinced them that the difficulty lay between Turia and the Tuchuks, not Turia and the Wagon Peoples generally.	10
15	6	The cavalries of the Tuchuks, however, managed to maintain a reasonably effective blockade of land routes to Turia.	10
15	7	Four times masses of tharlarion cavalry had charged forth from the city but each time the Hundreds withdrew before them until the charge had been enveloped in the swirling kaiila, and then its riders were brought down swiftly by the flashing arrows of the Tuchuks, riding in closely, almost to lance ...	10
15	8	Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea...	10
15	54	Indeed, the difficulty of the Tuchuks with the Turians had possibly, I guessed, exerted its influence on an omen or two in passing.	10
15	84	I suspected, though the girl would not have dreamed of making the admission, that her heart as well as her body might now rightfully have been claimed as his by the cruel Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
16	4	Then I inquired, "How is it that you, a Tuchuk, can swim?" I knew few Tuchuks could, though some had learned in the Cartius.	10
16	63	I found myself wondering if the Tuchuks had an Idiocy Scar.	10
16	68	I decided that I would nominate both Harold and myself for an Idiocy Scar and let the Tuchuks take their pick.	10
16	86	The Tuchuks, to my irritation, tended on the whole not to notice or mind such things.	10
16	173	"Is it known to Saphrar," I inquired, "that you have received gold from the Tuchuks?" "Of course," said Ha-Keel.	10
16	175	But know, Tarl Cabot, that I am a merchant and understand men and the meaning of gold—I no more object to Ha-Keel dealing with Tuchuks than I would to the fact that water freezes and fire burns—and that no one ever leaves the Yellow Pool of Turia alive".	10
16	237	The plan was, it seems, that the message would be read, and that the Tuchuks would then use the girl to find you and when they had they would kill you.	10
16	243	"Also, I was certain there could not have been two among the Tuchuks with hair such as yours".	10
16	314	The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr...	10
16	322	Tuchuks do not make good spies, for they tend to be, albeit fierce and cruel, intensely loyal; and there are few strangers allowed in the wagon of a Tuchuk Ubar.	10
16	323	It occurred to me that perhaps the Tuchuks had made no secret of the presence of the golden sphere in Kutaituchik's wagon.	10
19	71	I looked them over and would have thought that any one of them would have been a prize, presuming it could be safely transported somehow to the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
19	118	Then she acted as though she had not noticed that she had been perfectly secured, that she was his prisoner, the prisoner of Harold of the Tuchuks.	10
20	155	I took one long turn, seeing the torches and lights in the House of Saphrar below, and then guided my bird out over the prairie in the direction of the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
20	160	Already fires had been lit and there was much activity in the camp of the Tuchuks, the cooking, the checking of wagons, the gathering and hitching up of the wagon bosk.	10
21	6	Somewhere in the wagon, fixed in a sitting position, weapons at hand, was Kutaituchik, who had been Kamchak's friend, and who had been called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
21	22	"The Tuchuks ride from Turia!" he cried.	10
21	35	"The Tuchuks ride from Turia," he said.	10
21	100	Then I realized that I had heard it among the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
21	139	In answer to her questions I told her the reason for which I had entered the city—to steal an object of value from Saphrar of Turia, which he himself had stolen from the Tuchuks.	10
21	184	"The Tuchuks are gone," she said.	10
21	209	It had seemed strange to me that Kamchak, the resolute, implacable Kamchak of the Tuchuks, had so soon surrendered his assault on the city—not that I expected it would have been, if prolonged, successful.	10
21	214	I would rather have expected Kamchak to have stood before the walls of Turia, his kaiila saddled, his arrows at hand, until the winds and snows had at last driven him, the Tuchuks, the wagons and the bosk away from the gates of the beleaguered city, the nine-gated, high-walled stronghold of Turia, i...	10
21	268	"You dull fool!" "Oh mercy, Master!" whined Harold of the Tuchuks.	10
21	271	"Tuchuks!" The guards suddenly looked about themselves startled.	10
21	273	"Tuchuks! Close the gates!" The officer looked up in alarm, and then he cried out to the men on the windlass platform.	10
21	276	"My name," he said, "is Harold—of the Tuchuks!" There was now screaming on the walls, the rushing of guardsmen toward the wagon.	10
21	314	Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the...	10
21	316	About us there were the stamping paws of kaiila, the crying of men, the sound of arms, and always more and more Tuchuks striking the top of the wagon and bounding into the city uttering their war cry.	10
21	322	"I am Harold of the Tuchuks," he was telling her.	10
21	342	Then I heard the twang of the small horn bows of Tuchuks.	10
21	352	And still more Tuchuks bounded into the city.	10
21	355	Another wall, on the other side of the avenue, tumbled downward, two Turian warriors leaping from it, being ridden down by Tuchuks, leaping over the burning debris on kaiilaback, lance in hand.	10
21	356	Then in the clearing inside the gate, on his kaiila, lance in his right fist, turning and barking orders, I saw Kamchak of the Tuchuks, waving men to the left and right, and to the roof tops.	10
21	360	He was flanked by officers of the Tuchuks, commanders of Thousands, mounted as he was and armed.	10
22	12	Harold, after the Tuchuks had entered the city, insisted on squiring the young woman home whom he had encountered under the wagon, and, for good measure, the wine vendor and potter as well.	10
22	15	Also I knew many of the Tuchuks were familiar with my perhaps too-red hair and might, seeing it, generously refrain from firing on its owner.	10
22	43	"Turian women," said Harold, "taken by Tuchuks".	10
22	64	"Korobans, though," remarked Harold, "are probably more impressed with such things than Tuchuks".	10
22	84	At that moment there was a scuffle and commotion at the gate to the inner courtyard and two Tuchuks, one laughing and with a bloody shoulder, were dragging a fiercely resisting, unveiled but clothed girl between them.	10
22	100	I knew that while the Tuchuks remained in Turia there would be in all the city no woman more safe than lovely Dina, she only of the Caste of Bakers.	10
22	103	Directed by Tuchuks we soon made our way to the throne room of Phanius Turmus, where, to my surprise, a banquet was in progress.	10
22	104	At one end of the room, on the throne of the Ubar, a purple robe thrown over his black leather, sat dour Kamchak of the Tuchuks, his shield and lance leaning against the throne, an unsheathed quiva on the right arm of the throne.	10
22	127	"The Ubar of the Tuchuks does not appear happy," I observed.	10
22	150	The Ubar of the Tuchuks listened impassively and then arose.	10
23	8	I had little hope that either of these peoples would come to the aid of Tuchuks.	10
23	14	Further, the Kassars, the Kataii and the Paravaci did not reveal their true Ubars with any greater willingness than the Tuchuks had.	10
23	15	Each people, as the Tuchuks had, had its false Ubar, its decoy to protect the true Ubar from danger or assassination.	10
23	19	As I expected, Hakimba's brown eyes and richly scarred countenance showed little interest in my presentation of the plight of the Tuchuks.	10
23	20	It was little to him, apparently, that the Paravaci should raid the herds and wagons of the Tuchuks when most of the Tuchuk warriors were engaged in Turia.	10
23	22	I sensed, however, that he was angry when I spoke of the probable complicity of the Paravaci with the Turians, striking when and how they did, even during the Omen Year, presumably to draw the Tuchuks away from Turia.	10
23	32	"Yes," I said, "and cutting out the nose rings to sell in Turia after the Tuchuks withdraw".	10
23	43	I drew on the one-strap and took the tarn into the air, striking out across the prairie skies to intercept my Thousand on its way to the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
23	55	Our kaiila were spent when we reached the wagons of the Tuchuks and the herds, and we were only two thousand.	10
23	68	In an instant we were embroiled among angry men—the half-formed, disorganized Hundreds of the Paravaci—striking to the left and right, shouting the war cry of the Tuchuks.	10
23	82	By the time the Paravaci had reformed my Tuchuks had managed to swing the herd, slow it, get it milling about and then drive it back to a perimeter about the wagons.	10
23	123	Some of the Tuchuks began to sing the Blue Sky Song, the refrain of which is that though I die, yet there will be the bosk, the grass and sky.	10
23	158	"To your animals!" And in an instant it seemed the wagon lashings had been cut by quivas and our hundreds of warriors, the pitiful remnant of our two Thousands, swept forth upon the Paravaci, riding as though they had been fresh rested and ready, shouting the wild war cry of the Tuchuks.	10
23	190	In the morning the warriors remaining of the two Thousands who had ridden with Harold and I would, with the help of other Tuchuks surviving among the wagons, move the wagons and the bosk from the field.	10
23	196	Each had also, as had the Tuchuks, set their own pickets.	10
23	197	Neither wished the other to withdraw secretly and do for them what they together had done for the Paravaci, and what the Paravaci had attempted to do to the Tuchuks.	10
24	1	The Wagon of a Commander Turia was now largely under the control of Tuchuks.	10
24	6	I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city.	10
24	11	I reminded myself, beyond this, that if his house should actually be forced, and himself threatened, he could always flee, with relative safety, at the last moment, abandoning his men, his servants and slaves to the mercies of ravaging Tuchuks.	10
24	13	I did ask Kamchak why, considering the probabilities that the Kataii and the Kassars would not have come to the aid of the Tuchuks, he had not abandoned Turia and returned with his main forces to the wagons.	10
24	50	The structures about the compound had been fortified by Tuchuks, and walls of stone and wood had been thrown into the streets and openings between the buildings, thus enclosing the compound.	10
24	51	I had been training some hundred Tuchuks in the use of the crossbow, dozens of which had now fallen into our hands.	10
25	36	For that matter many Tuchuks could not, and the engraving on the collars of their slaves was often no more than a sign which was known to be theirs.	10
25	120	"Tuchuks," I remarked, "regard the piercing of ears as a barbarous custom—inflicted on their slave girls by Turians".	10
25	126	"It would to Tuchuks," I said.	10
25	320	There were many things that seemed to me puzzling, and I thought of Gor, and of Kamchak, and the ways of the Tuchuks, so different from those native to Miss Cardwell and myself.	10
26	89	I even saw some slaves leaving the compound, and these, though they were slave, were given the four stone of gold as well, perhaps the more to insult those free men who had accepted the bribes of Tuchuks.	10
26	109	Behind me I heard hundreds of ladders and grappling hooks strike against the wall, and, turning, I saw, climbing over the walls, as well as entering through the open gates, hundreds and hundreds of men, until the walls were swarming with Tuchuks, and others of the Wagon Peoples.	10
26	112	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks, whose father Kutaituchik was slain by Saphrar of Turia, calls upon Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	115	"Give greetings to Saphrar of Turia from Kamchak of the Tuchuks," said Kamchak calmly.	10
26	117	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks," he said, "gives greetings to Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	123	The two guards broke from before the door, each picking up his sack of gold and fled through the Tuchuks.	10
26	159	Beneath his black mask I wager he turned white at the sight of Harold of the Tuchuks.	10
26	170	The young man did not move from his place, but set himself to take the charge of the Tuchuks.	10
26	270	The Paravaci's eyes were white in the black hood and his head turned wildly to regard the Tuchuks clustered in the far end of the room.	10
26	308	The Tuchuks stood about, in their black leather.	10
26	353	Then, tears bursting from his eyes, he held out his hands to Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
26	407	"You Tuchuks are indeed a suspicious lot," I remarked.	10
26	451	"I have watched you carefully, Tarl Cabot of the City of Ko-ro-ba," said he, Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
26	474	"If I did not know better—I would expect to have found it in the wagon of Kutaituchik—the wagon of the Ubar of the Tuchuks".	10
26	475	"I approve of your conjecture," he said, "but Kutaituchik, as you know, was not the Ubar of the Tuchuks".	10
26	477	"I am Ubar of the Tuchuks," he said.	10
26	488	"It was for such a reason," he said, "that we Tuchuks dyed the egg of a tharlarion and placed it in the wagon of Kutaituchik, letting its position be known".	10
26	537	"At any rate," continued Harold, "I know that he would have upheld the honor of the Tuchuks in such matters—and driven a hard bargain with the unwary Kassar".	10
26	560	Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo...	10
27	18	Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t...	10
27	19	I gathered that the proud Hereena might long be the slave of Harold of the Tuchuks.	10
27	21	Who is the Master of Turia?" "Kamchak of the Tuchuks," they would say, and be dragged away.	10
27	26	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks'," said they.	10
27	30	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks'," said the two men.	10
27	31	"Who," laughed Kamchak, "is Ubar of Turia?" "Kamchak of the Tuchuks," said the two.	10
27	192	She remained with him in the wagons until her death—the Ubara of the Tuchuks".	10
27	209	"No," she said, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks'".	10
27	219	"Ride with me, Aphris of Turia," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
28	2	In the camp of the Tuchuks Elizabeth had begged that I not free her for but another hour.	10
28	8	I recalled how cruel she had been to Elizabeth in the long months she had been with the Tuchuks, and how she had tormented her even when she was helpless in the cage of a sleen, mocking her and poking at her with the bosk stick.	10
28	39	"I wish you well, Kamchak of the Tuchuks," I said.	10
28	61	"If you should ever need the Tuchuks, Tarl Cabot," said Kamchak, "or the Kataii or the Kassars—or the Paravaci—you have only to speak—and we will ride.	10
28	66	"We Tuchuks know of many things," he said, "—of more than we tell".	10

Book 5. (9 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	179	The ponderous bosk, on which the Wagon Peoples live, among which are numbered the Kassars and the Tuchuks, also wear such rings, but there, of course, the ring is much larger and heavier.	10
4	188	"I am only a girl from the islands north of Cos, taken by pirates of Port Kar, sold to a tarnsman, carried to and sold again in the city of Turia, and hence for twenty boskhides traded to the Tuchuks, where I was ringed and branded".	10
13	123	I recalled Harold of the Tuchuks.	10
19	301	"It appears," said the auctioneer, "that this was once a wench of Tuchuks".	10
19	303	The Tuchuks, one of the distant Wagon Peoples, tend to be, to those of northern Gor, a people of mystery and intrigue; to those of the southern plains, of course, they tend to be little more than efficient, fierce and dreaded foes.	10
22	379	"Bring me," I said, to the crossbowman, standing at the foot of the perch, "from the belongings of Gladius of Cos, kept in the compound of the Steels, the bola of the Tuchuks, the kaiila rope, the southern quiva".	10
22	390	"Bring me," I said, "the small horn bow of the Tuchuks, the barbed war arrows of the Wagon Peoples".	10
22	394	An attendant, from beneath his cloak, threw to the saddle the tiny, swift bow of Tuchuks, the narrow, rectangular quiver, with its forty arrows.	10
22	399	Some of the riders of the Steels, I recalled, seeing it among the belongings of Gladius of Cos, had jested with me about it, asking if it were a toy, or perhaps a training bow for a child; these men, of course, had never, on kaiilaback, and it is just as well for them, met Tuchuks.	10

Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	496	I could never again face those I had known, Kron of Tharna, Andreas of Tor, Kamchak of the Tuchuks, Relius and Ho-Sorl of Ar, none of them.	10
9	140	Tuchuks, in the south, as I recalled, had also used sleen to hunt slaves, and, of course, to protect their herds.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	134	Perhaps the Tuchuks, one of the fierce Wagon Peoples, traditional enemies of Turia, her conquerors, had spared her for such reasons, that they might have outlet for their goods and a source for goods they could not well manufacture, or acquire, for themselves.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	11	I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...	10
12	76	They had once been enslaved by Tuchuks, but they were now free.	10
22	864	Perhaps she would be carried south in tarn caravan, or by slave wagon, and would be slave in Turia, or perhaps even in the wagons of the Wagon Peoples, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	27	Weapons are not to be carried in the temple of Priest-Kings but I had been taught, long ago, by Kamchak of the Tuchuks, at a banquet in Turia, that where weapons may not be carried, it is well to carry weapons.	10
20	127	Long ago, at a banquet in Turia, Kamchak of the Tuchuks had taught me this trick.	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	231	The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind.	10
2	238	I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
7	423	On our records they matched those of Miss Elizabeth Cardwell, of New York City, Earth, who had been brought to Gor to wear the message collar to the Tuchuks".	10
7	425	When first I had seen her, her yellow nylon stockings in shreds, her brief, yellow, with narrow orange stripes, Oxford-cloth shift, dusty and stained, her neck bound to a capture lance, her wrists bound behind her, on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, a captive of Tuchuks, she had worn it.	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	584	Indeed, among the Tuchuks, one of the Wagon Peoples of Gor, even free women wear nose rings.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	253	He was, I gathered, of one of the Wagon Peoples, most likely the Tuchuks.	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	2	"It would make a difference to a Tuchuk," said Kamchak, of the Tuchuks.	10
35	5	Again I held grass and earth with Kamchak, of the Tuchuks.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	116	"And when set upon by ten thousand Tuchuks in their own country routed them all?" "Eleven thousand," said Petrucchio.	10

Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	119	They were not isolated in vast plains areas, for example, as were certain subequatorial Wagon Peoples, such as Tuchuks and Kassars.	10
11	41	Among folks as different as Tuchuks and Torvaldslanders, for example, poetry is seldom written down.	10

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	11	This arrangement, incidentally, is not common with the southern wagon peoples, such as Tuchuks, if only because of the vast numbers of wagons.	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	199	With the unification of the Wagon Peoples under a Ubar San, Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, it is my impression that the riders of the swift kaiila now seldom ply their depredations against their own kind.	10
26	205	The Wagon Peoples themselves are not likely to confuse their own slaves, as the different peoples have different brands, the Tuchuks the brand of the four bosk horns, the Kassars the brand of the three-weighted bola, the Kataii the brand of a bow, facing left, and the Paravaci the brand of the inver...	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	456	"Do you know her disposition?" "She was sold south to Turia, but the caravan was ambushed by Tuchuks, a fierce nomadic people.	10

Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	95	Tuchuks regularly use shortened stirrups, but my fellows were not Tuchuks, not trained for years to the saddle.	10
8	31	The Tuchuks are, on the whole, short and broad, strong fellows, agile riders.	10
8	35	"Surely not all Tuchuks are disfigured," said Pertinax.	10
8	39	And, indeed, it was true that not all Tuchuks were scarred.	10
8	118	Although there can be some variation in these matters I had rehearsed a common formal greeting often exchanged amongst Tuchuks.	10
12	129	"In the land of the Wagon Peoples, long ago," I said, "I was honored to command a thousand, kaiila riders of the Tuchuks".	10
12	134	The riders of the Tuchuks were subtle clouds of war, almost impossible to close with, dangerous archers, with the short, horn bow, fit for clearing the saddle, to left or right.	10
14	48	The Tuchuks, for example, use the temwood lance, which is long, light, tough, and supple.	10
14	50	The Tuchuks also use the quiva, or saddle knife, which is balanced for throwing.	10
14	78	It is a formidable weapon on the ground, but, on tarnback, in resisting an aerial tarn attack, I thought that the light, slender temwood lance, favored by the Tuchuks, would be more formidable, being quicker, with its lightness, and longer, as well, giving the advantage of a greater reach.	10
16	104	This was not necessary to facilitate archery, incidentally, freeing the hands for the bow, as some might suppose, as the kaiila of the Tuchuks, or the tarns of my men, once set on a course, pursue it.	10
16	105	For example, although some Tuchuks retain the reins in the bow-gripping hand, many others have their hands fully free when using the bow, and only have recourse to the reins when they wish to alter the course of the kaiila.	10
19	36	For this reason, the Tuchuks, and others of the Wagon Peoples, and, I suppose, others, accustom their kaiila to the sight and smell of tharlarion.	10

Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	1352	"Tuchuks?" I asked.	10
35	24	"Tuchuks," said a man.	10

Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	109	Some, from the eyes, said they were Tuchuks, but others who had had the fortune, or misfortune, of encountering Tuchuks, as some looted, ransomed merchants, survivors of raided caravans, and such, denied this.	10
4	199	Some alleged the unusual buyers were Tuchuks, but others denied this.	10
4	200	The shading of their skin and the cast of their eyes suggested Tuchuk blood, but they were not armed as Tuchuks, and seemed, too, in so far as such things might be ascertained, unfamiliar with bosk, kaiila, and the terrains of the south.	10
4	201	Some said, too, they were taller than Tuchuks, and were more spare, more sedate, more studied, more formal, more withdrawn, more graceful, and perhaps more latently intense.	10
4	262	Professional buyers, speculators, tavern keepers, camp suppliers, and such, often buy more than one item She was purchased by an agent, one bidding on behalf of those strangely garbed fellows who had apparently been mistaken, by some, for Tuchuks.	10
6	110	Surely none wore the colorful, ritual, exploit scarring of the Tuchuks.	10

Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	23	Tuchuks, incidentally, commonly do not close with the enemy, certainly not in masses, but depend on the bow and the cast quiva, or saddle knife.	10
27	26	As mentioned, Tuchuks seldom close with their foe.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
59	366	That had been of interest, later, to a friend, on the Plains of the Wagon Peoples, Kamchak, of the Tuchuks.	10