alzabo

With a roar that echoed from the walls, the alzabo burst from this encircled band.

The Urth of the New Sun

Behind us was pandemonium, the sailors shouting and scuffling, the alzabo baying.

The Urth of the New Sun

I wrenched futilely at the manacles, then fumbled for the sliding link and shouted to Zak not to try to stop the alzabo without a weapon.

The Urth of the New Sun

The faces blurred and went out, like the flames of candles; only the eyes of the alzabo caught the fading light and shone like two red embers.

The Urth of the New Sun

The alzabo, certainly, and the blood bats and scorpions, perhaps; the snake called "yellow beard" and other poisonous snakes, and a few more.

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She turned aside as one turns from the mutterings and cracking bones when an alzabo savages a carcass, and Jolenta listened to nothing that did not concern herself.

The Shadow of the Torturer

_ "The alzabo had come, and its eyes burned in the blackness that had entered through the doorway of the Examination Chamber.

The Urth of the New Sun