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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	204	"You wonder," he said, "why the numerous, rather obvious deficits in our technology have not been repaired—in spite of the Priest-Kings.	10
2	259	My astonishment must have been obvious.	10
6	171	She seemed to have no fear of Nar, perhaps because of the familiarity of the citizens of Ar with the Spider People, but it was obvious she loathed the touch of his mandibles, and she shivered slightly as she tried to wipe the exudate from the sleeves of her gown.	10
10	149	It was obvious she did.	10
12	122	That he might soon change his mind, particularly if he found nothing on the plains below, was only too obvious.	10
18	10	I had puzzled on this for days, yet now it seemed obvious.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	26	One obvious danger lay in the road itself, and the fact that I had no light.	10
7	34	It was obvious that Thorn, unlike my old enemy Pa-Kur, who presumably had perished at the siege of Ar, was not a man above sensual vices, not a man who could with fanatical purity and single-minded devotion sacrifice himself and entire peoples to the ends of his ambition and power.	10
18	90	This would have been unusual solicitation on the part of a Whip Slave but it was as obvious to him as to the rest of us that Ost wished to speak with him alone, to communicate information of extreme importance.	10
24	195	"Is it not obvious?" I asked.	10

Book 3. (6 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	33	Now the chains were being slowly drawn in, much to the obvious frustration of the beasts.	10
5	209	I was well aware of the taunt of her flesh, the obvious challenge of her eyes and carriage.	10
11	29	Many of these signs would be far less obvious than the ones now displayed in the throes of anger.	10
12	142	"Is it not obvious?" asked Sarm.	10
19	26	It was obvious that the compartment was being fixed in such a way as to suggest that it had been broken open.	10
25	43	When I came to the portal where I had entered I found it closed as I had known it would be and there was, as I knew, no handle or obvious device for opening the door on this side, for no one returned, supposedly, from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	65	"Is it not obvious!" Harold was yelling at him.	10
25	655	I was briefly angry, annoyed with this spurious fervor, this obvious counterfeit of ardor.	10

Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	223	"It was really quite simple," the Saddle Maker was explaining, "even obvious".	10
15	364	The most obvious was that good prices are commanded on the Love Feast.	10
21	299	It seemed to me obvious that the men who faced me intended to do so as a group; already two had been lured from the picket and had died; I did not expect that another of the four would singly rush upon me.	10

Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1247	Some of these movements are, in standing, as obvious as the turning of a hip; in reclining, as obvious as the partial extension of a leg, the pointing of toes.	10
7	444	In any event, it is obvious that some of the most desirable of slaves, loving, needful and devoted, helplessly responsive to a master's least touch, are not those who might be chosen for the purposes of display, perhaps in a pleasure garden or on a silver neckchain bolted to a palanquin.	10
9	490	It was only too obvious that I was not free.	10
11	385	"You are so obvious, El-in-or," had said Inge.	10
13	809	It had been as obvious as crawling on my knees to the bars of a small slave cage and extending my arms imploringly to him! "A smelly, dirty little Kajira, with pierced ears, who steals meat from peasant villages?" he asked.	10
13	1108	It was amusing to stare them down, coldly, when I caught them trying to sneak a sly glance at what I had, of course, deliberately displayed with the obvious intent of arousing and troubling them.	10
15	919	Thus, who is to do such work? The answer seems obvious, that it will be done by the slaves.	10
17	146	"Do you think, hot, little slave girl," he asked, "a master cannot see through your pretenses?" My pathetic charades were obvious to my master.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	198	"Disregard," said Marlenus, "the obvious things, her pride, her anger, the clenched fists".	10

Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	90	Their education, generally, is of little obvious practical value, with its attention to authorized exegeses of dubious, difficult texts, purporting to be revelations of Priest-Kings, the details and observances of their own calendars, their interminable, involved rituals, and so on, but, paradoxical...	10
2	98	And, after all, who knows much of Priest-Kings, other than the obvious fact that they exist.	10
10	50	He had done less well in the singing contest, though he much prided himself on his singing voice; he thought, in that one, the judges had been against him; he did not score highly either in the composition of poetry contest nor in the rhyming games; "I am not a skald," he explained to me later; he d...	10
11	31	To me this seems preposterous, for ones so wise as Priest-Kings, but, in spite of its obvious falsity, Priest-Kings regard the Kurii and men as rather similar, almost equivalent species.	10
18	514	But I was forced to admit that the wench now before us, struggling to free her wrists, now revealed to us, luscious, sensuous, short, squirming, infuriated, was incredibly desirable; we considered her body, her face, her obvious intelligence; she would bring a high price; she would make a delicious ...	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	246	"It does not seem so," I admitted, "unless the Kurii, perhaps, feel that just such a move might put the Priest-Kings off guard, that it would be too obvious to be taken as a prelude to full war".	10
2	206	To me it seems obvious that one must experiment with the given girl.	10
2	456	Her body stiffened, and she shut her eyes, as his hands, those of a Gorean flesh appraiser, informed, sensitive, professional, proficient, made swift assessment of the textures of her skin, varying at different points on the body, the tensilities of her musculature, the varying softness and firmness...	10
4	222	An obvious example is the stimulation-chamber training which is overtly concerned with honing a physical and psychological responsiveness to surface sensation; this responsiveness, however, is reflected in the entire attitude, and expressions, of the girl.	10

Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	756	Too, it would have been pointless to have questioned me so closely; too, why, if I had been brought to this world for an obvious purpose of men, say, for my beauty, had the men prepared, in their anger, to end my life? Surely it must have been obvious to them that I was eager to do anything they wan...	10
3	394	Yet a girl who has been marked finds this obvious truth difficult to accept psychologically.	10
4	639	Too, I did not think it was a camp of bandits, for the men in the camp did not seem of the bandit sort; not only did the cut and differing insignia on their tunics suggest a uniform of sorts, but the clear-cut subordination, the obvious organization and discipline which characterized them and their ...	10
4	928	It had been obvious I had been trying to escape.	10
4	1093	The lesson seemed a reasonably obvious one, though perhaps one unpleasant for an Earth girl to accept.	10
5	333	It was night, and, even in the morning, her trail would be less fresh, less obvious.	10
5	683	An obvious trail had been left for the soldiers to begin to follow; then the men of my master had circled about to return to the camp.	10
9	880	"She is obvious collar meat," he said.	10
9	882	It was obvious to the eyes of a Gorean male that I was a slave.	10
9	2051	The attitude of kneeling is obvious.	10
13	172	Was that not obvious? No wonder the girls had thought me so foolish, so naive, or ignorant, or stupid, in the basket.	10
20	78	I was pleased to see that he understood my words not as a statement of the obvious, but, rather, as an "advertising girl's" expected hawking of wares, if not as a more personal invitation.	10
27	329	Similarly, a slave's needs may also be expressed nonverbally, but again, of course, in this case, utilizing obvious conventions.	10

Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	783	"Is it not obvious?" asked the dark-haired girl.	10
3	792	"No! It is not obvious!" The slender dark-haired girl shrugged, and, with a rustle of chain, turned away.	10
4	770	A twofold plan is thus manifested, a trap and a lure, but a lure which is obvious and explicit, not so much a lure as an invitation".	10
6	602	Some of the more obvious ones, too, I had erased with a branch.	10
8	152	"It is obvious," I said.	10
9	209	Too, attempting to disguise these things, now so much a part of the slave, tends to make the imposture, at least to a skilled eye, obvious.	10
10	98	Even trading in the north sometimes takes on the aspect, interestingly, of the exchange of gifts, as though commerce, obvious and raw, might somehow seem to offend the sensibility of the proud hunters.	10
23	41	It was clear and still outside, and sounds, even slight ones, were very obvious.	10
29	66	"Considering all these things, and the obvious fraud of the severed head, which you purported was that of the infiltrating ice beast, it seemed clear that you were in league with Kurii, and that, indeed, you and the first beast had presumably been traveling together.	10
31	253	Sometimes it seems to happen for no obvious reason; sometimes it happens when a nondominant is humiliated and worked beyond his level of tolerance.	10
35	27	The hatch through which I had exited did not have an obvious opening from the outside.	10
35	957	"The most obvious approaches to the chamber of Zarendargar," I said, "will probably be heavily guarded.	10
35	1142	I checked the ice cliffs, the ice about, to see if any organized sortie might be obvious.	10

Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	87	The woman who fears she cannot please men then sometimes tends to feel hostility toward them, perhaps turning her own rage and inward disappointment outward, laying the blame upon them, and developing the obvious defensive reactions of belittling sexuality and its significance, and attempting, inter...	10
3	109	It had not been difficult to detect his approach, even apart from the more obvious clues I had called to his attention.	10
4	173	"It is obvious," he said, to the praetor, "that this she-urt, whoever she is, wishes to implicate me in her guilt, that it will go easier on her".	10
4	353	Obvious ways of hiding would be to conceal herself among the boxes and bales at the wharves, to creep into a crate, or barrel, or to cover herself with sheets of sail canvas or with heavy coils of mooring rope.	10
4	359	I did not think my quarry would elect an obvious way of hiding, one in which she, if found, would be immediately exposed as a fugitive.	10
6	77	The word Schendi, as nearly as I can determine, has no obvious, direct meaning in itself.	10
6	502	Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...	10
14	545	For example, if she is somewhat farther away, it is easier for her to display herself in all her beauty; if she wishes to wheedle for his caress she may approach quite closely; if she is receiving instructions she may kneel a few feet away; if she is begging to serve his pleasure she may kneel at hi...	10
14	561	Too, of course, the ring is an obvious ornament.	10
16	147	"There are two obvious ways in which Bila Huruma might be stopped," said Ayari.	10
32	512	"'Is it not obvious?' he asked.	10
32	639	Frightened, I supposed that these seeming animadversions, this obvious hostility, must be directed toward the fellow, obviously one in authority, whose intervention had interfered with the ceremony, indeed, at whose word the ceremony had come to an end.	10
34	739	The sense in which you are not free is an obvious one.	10
45	70	I would leave an obvious trail.	10
48	158	The major inducement to submission in a woman is nothing so blunt or obvious as chains and whips, or gags, or blindfolds, or stocks, or such.	10

Book 14. (22 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	19	This is obvious in any woman, whether slave or free, but it is particularly and almost pathetically obvious among female slaves, who already know themselves explicitly and legally as properties and spoils.	10
1	572	They are reasonably obvious, however, to those familiar with the psychology of groups.	10
2	68	And, indeed, if you derive any reassurance from this remark, you are one of the most obvious natural slaves I have ever seen.	10
4	248	This is obvious in the study of primate biology.	10
4	270	"Is it not obvious?" she asked.	10
5	206	Can you not see that you have been conditioned into a morality of weakness, an invention of the weak to undermine and inhibit the strong? Is not the social utility of such a device, so congenial to the fears of the small and weak, obvious? Can you not see that a morality designed to cripple and thwa...	10
7	39	But if the people, truly, ruled, why and how could their planet's processes proceed in such obvious ways inimical to their welfare? How could their world be so miserable for the people if they were truly kings within it? But perhaps they were not kings within it.	10
7	417	Hitherto I had been impervious to the obvious, manifested displays of her need.	10
7	573	But if, in an unguarded moment, I had suddenly glimpsed my terror at the prospect of fulfilling myself, of accepting the responsibility, the joy and incredible power, energizing and exalting, of the mastership, of answering the obvious depth needs of the lovely, surrendered female before me, I swift...	10
7	592	Yet she was the obvious precipitant of my dilemma, my misery.	10
7	613	Sometimes, of course, he may strike her with no obvious reason whatsoever, even one which is trivial.	10
7	643	How could she have understood me, she a Gorean girl, collared, whom strong men had long ago taught her womanhood? Did she not know that I, because of my fears, was trying to make her like a man? Could she not, like many of the women of Earth, because of her own fears, try, too, to be like a man? Eac...	10
7	923	It is interesting to note the high regard in which certain civilizations are held which, from the human point of view, from the point of view of human happiness, would appear to be obvious catastrophes.	10
7	947	"Statistically, of course," I said, "there are vast and obvious differences between them, both psychological and physical, but some men can be found who are very feminine and some women can be found who are extremely masculine.	10
7	958	"And," she said, "would not the feminine man and the masculine woman, by their comparative rarity, tend not to cancel out the obvious differences between men and women but rather, in their relative uniqueness, tend to point up the contrasts and differences even more vividly?" I began to grow irritat...	10
12	216	"Why then," I asked, "did you fear you might not be able to deceive me?" "Is it not obvious?" she asked.	10
12	375	These general remarks, dealing only with major and obvious categories, should be understood as no more than a crude orientation to the subject matter as a whole.	10
19	427	What might have hitherto seemed implausible to me, even incredible, though I suppose it was obvious enough, at least to others, now seemed surely surprising, but also credible.	10
21	41	If she were not to be whipped and chained, and disrobed and raped, as might be the others, and for no obvious reason, such as being the favorite of one of the keepers, a reason a slave girl can understand, then puzzlement, and perhaps even consternation and dissension, might soon manifest itself in ...	10
27	132	What slave, truly, objects to the gasps of men, the dilation of their pupils, the sweat upon their foreheads, the clenchings of their hands, the licking of their lips, the excitement, interest and approval so obvious in their keenly admiring glances, which follows them everywhere.	10
32	117	"Is it not obvious?" I said.	10
32	133	But so much, I suppose, would be obvious to any woman, of any culture.	10

Book 15. (11 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	117	Similarly they are usually clad in such a way that their charms are manifest and obvious to even the casual onlooker.	10
4	257	"Is it not obvious?" I asked.	10
4	473	These are, of course, obvious and practical skills, simply called for and to be expected, in a social milieu of the nature of Gorean society.	10
11	362	Yet how much pain must be endured, how much crime and madness, how much unhappiness and misery, before human rationality, that pathetic reed, that frail staff, that small weapon, that fragile tool, must revolt and cry, "No!" How obvious must it be before human beings are willing to realize that a gr...	10
11	402	I knew at least one culture in which this obvious, biological truism would count as political heresy, to be punished by ostracism, slander and, when possible, by economic penalties.	10
14	7	"Is it not obvious?" I asked.	10
15	146	If you did not know the location of the topaz it seemed obvious to me that you could not reveal its location, unless by some chance inadvertence.	10
23	128	Sometimes, though I had tried not to make this obvious, I had, in effect, beaten his blade to the side, rather than merely turned it away.	10
23	170	This, conjoined with the music, and her beauty, and the obvious symbolism of her beauty beneath total male discipline, can be extremely, powerfully erotic.	10
24	780	"It is obvious," he said, and rose to his feet.	10
33	49	"Why is it not obvious to you that the traitor was the slave, Peggy?" I asked.	10

Book 16. (16 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	294	"Shirley!" "Is the answer to your question not now obvious?" I asked.	10
8	378	I did not make my surveillance obvious.	10
8	401	The tactics which seemed to me obvious in such a situation the Voskjard had not yet employed.	10
10	153	Is the token in this not obvious? Men are the masters, the conquerors and victors.	10
11	29	Did Miles of Vonda seek to conceal from me his affection for a mere slave? It was obvious that he cherished that slave.	10
11	199	There are many types of slave garments, of course, other than such obvious categories as tunics, camisks and Ta-Teeras.	10
17	170	"It is obvious.	10
18	82	This lack of privacy, to be expected, given the lowly condition of the slave, is revealed even in details so obvious as almost to be taken for granted, such as the fact that slave kennels and slave alcoves are almost invariably barred, rather than given opaque portals, say, with observation aperture...	10
19	441	Too, where else on the body, that the impossibility of escaping it could be more obvious, could it be placed? Surely the physics of widths dictates such a mounting.	10
19	914	It, or caste, on the other hand, tends to be very explicit and obvious on Gor.	10
19	1002	What woman does not wish to be claimed by the mighty, by the bold and strong, by the master? The fashion plate, so to speak, of course, may be astonished that she does not sell for as much as many other women, but the fellow who buys her thinks of this as an obvious advantage.	10
20	1408	"Is it not obvious?" she asked, weeping, twisting in the golden straps.	10
20	1598	They had wanted her, for obvious reasons.	10
21	427	"To me that was obvious".	10
21	428	"So obvious?" I asked.	10
21	510	The free woman, for obvious reasons, I suppose, hates the slave girl.	10

Book 17. (9 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	250	When the light had been struck, with the tiny noise, from the steel and flint, which would have been quite obvious to them, given the unusual degree of their auditory acuity, there had been only the slightest of muscular contractions.	10
1	1075	The institution of counting, or tallying, coup has several obvious effects on the structure and nature of the society of the red savages.	10
1	1132	The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe...	10
10	37	"It is so obvious," said Grunt, "that you have noted it, but have not considered its significance".	10
11	221	You would have understood then something of the grand themes of nature, of dominance and submission, and your own obvious, natural place in such an organic scheme.	10
13	322	"I wished to avoid the imminent and obvious fate of the debutante," she said, "to be bartered for position and power on the marriage market".	10
13	354	My talents would be obvious.	10
13	1459	"In English, as I see now, interestingly, virginity is spoken of as a positive property, and nonvirginity, in spite of its obvious and momentous importance, and even its necessity, presumably, for the continuation of the species, seems to be regarded as being merely the absence of a property, or the...	10
13	1724	In between these courses she may serve in many ways, usually under the vigilance of the master, who enjoys watching her; in the interstices of her more obvious intimacies she may cook, launder, sew, embroider, arrange flowers, prepare Bazi tea, play the kalika, dance, model tunics and chains, and so...	10

Book 18. (18 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	340	This gave me, as his property, a certain prestige, particularly as Canka himself treated me with obvious respect.	10
2	130	The collar is recommended, of course, and branding, by Merchant Law, for obvious reasons.	10
7	355	"Is the symbolism not obvious?" I asked.	10
7	441	"Is it not obvious, then, that this was intended as an addition to her punishment, that she, a slave, would then have to serve one who was also only a slave, and as her master?" "Perhaps," I said.	10
7	493	Similarly, it is natural to expect that the general, sex-linked orientations and predispositions, statistically obvious, both male and female, of human beings, presumably functions of genetic and hormonal differences, would tend to be reflected, broadly, in the sorts of tasks which each sex tends to...	10
7	502	The performance of even tasks which may be "sex-neutral," tasks that do not seem to have an obvious biological rationale with respect to gender, tends to be divided, in culture after culture, on a sexual basis.	10
7	664	Such obvious scrutiny would not have been appropriate, of course, if she had not been a slave.	10
12	422	Perhaps it is too obvious to mention but a point served by this original use of the couch is to break down the new slave's fear of the couch and encourage her to see it in a favorable light, indeed, as a place of relative safety, comfort and favor.	10
14	367	They forswear the most obvious truths of human nature.	10
16	185	Her distress was obvious.	10
28	104	Aside from the obvious fact that it might improve the price of a girl in her sale or resale, it can also be sheared and sold.	10
28	217	As we could protect ourselves reasonably well with shields from simple, distance archery it seemed obvious, then, that our two enemies would act in conjunction.	10
32	57	In my own concerns, in my own purposes in the Barrens, to locate and warn Zarendargar of his danger, I had given too little thought to the obvious role of the fierce Kurii in the military politics of the vast grasslands east of the Thentis mountains.	10
37	257	Usually, on the other hand, the properties sought are obvious, and the male, commonly, is handsome and strong.	10
40	826	"Yes," I said, "that is obvious.	10
43	120	"That is one of the most obvious, and common, things about them, that they are of sexual interest—of considerable sexual interest".	10
43	447	Given their obvious utility, among men who own and master women, they may have arisen independently in both places.	10
44	143	It was obvious, but not dramatically so.	10

Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	55	"It rules out an obvious hypothesis," said the man.	10
1	135	"No," he said, "aside, of course, from its obvious resemblance to ancient coins".	10
1	170	It shows no particular, obvious signs of wear but its surface is less perfect than would be required to qualify it as being Uncirculated or as being in Mint State.	10
3	398	And yet, now, how simple, how obvious and plausible, seemed such an explanation of the girl's garb, and of the mark on her body, and of the collar on her neck.	10
5	61	My education, so full and exacting in many ways, was incomplete in at least one obvious and glaring detail.	10
6	367	I would not have expected, given my Earth background, that a man of his obvious power and competence could care for anything, and so deeply, as innocent, delicate, and soft as a flower.	10
17	150	"Do you think it is unclear to anyone who looks upon you? Do you think I am stupid? Anyone could see that you are a slave! It is obvious!" Then she lashed me across the face and mouth with her gloves, several times.	10
29	106	It was obvious that such as he were the masters and such as I were the slaves.	10
30	145	I could not leave the city and, if I remained within it, it seemed obvious that I must be apprehended, if not by the sleen then by free citizens, probably guardsmen.	10
32	304	I wanted this proof of his categorical domination of me as a female, this obvious acceptance of me, this token that I had been found acceptable for his leather, this evidence that I was his, that he owned me, that I was his slave, and he was my master.	10
34	218	"Is it not obvious? It was to be made a female slave".	10
35	111	"You are indeed a natural slave," he said, "and an obvious one".	10
36	1282	Perhaps the most obvious difference between the common sexuality of Earth and that of Gor is that on Gor sexuality is fully animal and fully human, magnificently animal and human.	10

Book 20. (20 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	330	In this I supposed they tended to make their presence among the urts less obvious to outside observers and perhaps, too, less obvious, or obtrusive, to the urts themselves.	10
1	694	A bit of arm, a bit of leg, the lines of a slave tunic on a fair young body, the sight of a collar on a neck, sometimes have consequences which seem obvious enough to many, but may not have been fully understood or clearly enough anticipated by the lovely, young intruder.	10
2	179	To be sure, this understanding, as obvious and straightforward as it is, if brought to the clear light of consciousness, is likely to come as a revelatory and somewhat scandalous shock to the female.	10
6	44	There was laughter then, doubtless not only at the preposterousness of the situation but, too, at the incongruity of so obvious a slave, such a lovely Brigella, enunciating such a line.	10
6	95	It would not be unusual for her, in a crowded place, to overhear remarks, perhaps whispers or sneers, of which she is the obvious object, such as "Shameless slut," "Brazen baggage," "As immodest as a slave," "I wonder who her master is," and "Put a collar on her!" And if she should attempt to confro...	10
6	870	She, however, of course, her back stiff, pretended not to notice that she was the object of this rather obvious attention.	10
7	415	I supposed I would arouse enough suspicion in the neighborhood of Brundisium as it was, coming to their city as a lone male with no obvious business.	10
8	91	It is important, for obvious reasons, to be as clear as possible on such matters.	10
9	87	To be sure, aside from the obvious consideration of the inflexible efficiency of the shackling itself, given the large number of ways in which a woman may be used for a man's pleasure, the matter was primarily symbolic.	10
9	145	Too, I do not think he wanted any obvious connection to be noted between himself and the brigands, such as might be furnished by handling their slaves".	10
12	327	"Those such as you," he said, "particularly when they find themselves their victims, commonly salute as brilliancies even the most obvious trivialities".	10
12	416	That conjecture seemed obvious, if not inevitable, given the importance attached to them by the Lady Yanina, she of Brundisium, and her colleague, Flaminius, perhaps also of Brundisium.	10
13	212	What then could be the explanation for the attempt on my life in Port Kar, and for the obvious interest of certain parties in Brundisium in me? What, if anything, could be my importance to them? What, too, was the meaning of the messages I had intercepted? They had apparently been intended for certa...	10
13	331	Too, however, I knew the urt people could, and did upon occasion, as in their rare contacts with civilized folk, communicate in a type of Gorean, many of the words evidencing obvious linguistic corruptions but others, interestingly, apparently closely resembling archaic Gorean, a language not spoken...	10
14	238	Needless to say, I was not enthusiastic about either of the obvious alternatives.	10
20	249	The beast, accordingly, had simply darted into what, from its point of view, was an obvious opening.	10
21	34	Too, though there are many important qualities of a slave, clearly the first recognized, and most obvious, is her beauty.	10
21	74	Once here, I had begun my search, in various rooms, for obvious, unconcealed paraphernalia, of a sort that might be germane to Kaissa, such things as boards and pieces, books, sheaves of papers, and records.	10
21	150	If there is a battle of the sexes, or war of the sexes, which must inevitably be the case amongst competitive pseudoneuters, or dimorphic partisans culturally engineered to repudiate one of most obvious facts of nature, the complementarity of sexualities, it has been resolved on Gor, at least amongs...	10
22	166	"If giving her your permission in this matter bothers you," I said, "seeming to you perhaps a bit too indulgent, there exists an obvious remedy wherewith you may assuage your qualms".	10

Book 21. (18 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
25	199	This is also an obvious submission behavior, and has its obvious symbolism.	10
4	272	The advantages of having the wind at one's back are obvious.	10
4	275	His blow had been a simple, obvious one, and unless he had intended to use it in wearing down my strength or perhaps breaking the handle I carried, it made little sense.	10
5	434	One of the most obvious lessons is that men are stronger than she, and they can do that to her, if they wish.	10
5	449	The most important functions of binding, and such, however, aside from the obvious aspects of restraint, safekeeping, security, and such, seem to be clearly psychological.	10
11	272	Too, I might have misread what seemed to be numerous and obvious signs of need in her.	10
12	16	Too, the swiftest moving object, particularly that which moves silently, and with obvious menace or purpose, is often construed, and generally correctly, by the attacker as the most dangerous, that to be dealt with first.	10
15	167	Certainly it had nothing to do with pretentiousness or any obvious demonstrations of authority on his part.	10
15	288	"It is an obvious stratagem," he said.	10
15	301	"I am troubled by certain obvious problems," I said.	10
15	445	"What drug was mixed with the wine," I asked, "Tassa powder?" That seemed like the most obvious choice.	10
16	835	She tried to sound pleased, or relieved, but her frustration, her disappointment, was obvious.	10
21	141	My question had not been prompted, of course, merely by the obvious consideration that the ubar's cloak might seem an attractive prize to a strong, ambitious man, but by the sober understanding that Ar was in a situation of crisis, whether she knew it or not.	10
25	193	It is an obvious submission behavior.	10
25	194	Too, its symbolism is obvious: female beneath the whip.	10
25	1460	That was obvious.	10
25	2225	"I wonder who truly loves himself, and women," she whispered, "he who is true to himself and his nature, refusing to deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, and who fulfills women, as what they really are, or he who betrays himself, who lies to himself and who denies the true needs of women?" "Aside fr...	10
27	128	"Still," he said, "such things are only among the more obvious sexual modalities".	10

Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	7	Nonetheless my life had changed, somehow, in perspective or understanding, if not greatly in overt deed or obvious fact, that night when I had seen myself as I was, or might be, in the mirror, when I had come to incontrovertibly learn my true nature, a nature which must be forever denied, thwarted a...	10
4	102	"I think it must be obvious," he said.	10
6	619	It need not be simply construed in terms of such things as keeping us in a given place, or together, say, for purposes of custodial neatness, or rendering escape impossible, or discouraging thoughts of it, as if such thoughts needed discouraging, or reminding us that we were slaves, or disciplining ...	10
8	214	To be sure, the platforms made it obvious that this area, too, could, and did, serve another purpose, as well, the vending of yet another form of livestock, the female slave.	10
10	182	The most obvious thing about him, of course, now, from my point of view, was that he owned me, that he was my master.	10
10	255	That, of course, would have been obvious even to a tharlarion".	10
11	650	How absurd then, and artificial, and unreal, suddenly, seemed Earth, with all its preposterous political myths, its subversion of nature, its insidious conditioning programs, its pretendings to deny the simple, obvious truths of aristocracy, its contrived trammelings of right and power, its desperat...	10
11	830	The second sense is the obvious one in which it is a dance danced by a virgin, and usually just prior to the loss of her virginity.	10
11	1596	Then I realized he had laughed at me not so much to humiliate me, though perhaps he had enjoyed doing so, as I was an Earth woman, but because he was amused at my obvious readiness, unusual in so new a slave.	10
20	182	Whereas in the cities, where the rights of citizenship are clearest, where the sways of custom and tradition tend to be jealously guarded, where the influence of Home Stones is likely to be most keenly felt, free labor has generally held its own, the same cannot be said for all rural areas of Gor, p...	10
31	257	"But in my pleasure at seeing you again," he said, "such signs, obvious as they might have been, I overlooked.	10
31	300	That was only too obvious.	10

Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	77	"Why is Cos interested in Ar's Station?" "I am not fully sure," I said, "but there could be various reasons, and some of them would seem obvious.	10
2	144	The objections to this strategy, of course, were obvious.	10
2	468	Each had, in a sense, though free, prostituted herself to me, that she might thereby influence me to rescue her from her clear and obvious plight, that of a debtor slut.	10
16	282	"Desist, I beg you!" "Too, then, her kickings, and squirmings, can be more obvious to observers.	10
21	131	Also, interestingly, absurdly, it seemed that she was not altogether sure of her condition and status, obvious though it must be to anyone who looked upon her.	10
21	578	The symbolism of this is obvious.	10
21	1159	Why else would they wander the high bridges at night, why else would they take passage in small caravans, why else would they embark upon dangerous voyages? Many is the veil which has inadvertently slipped in public places, to be hastily and with obvious embarrassment readjusted and repinned.	10
21	1203	Too, it might be noted that few slave garments have a nether closure; two obvious exceptions to this are the Turian camisk and the curla and chatka, or cord and strip, of the Wagon Peoples.	10

Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	181	She is property, obvious loot, obvious booty.	10
1	1148	Too, it would not be necessary to cross the main camp's air space, which is usually, and for obvious reasons, kept inviolate.	10
26	178	"On the other hand," I said, "similarly, I can think of an obvious advantage which the female slave has over the free woman".	10
27	176	"Is it not obvious?" he asked.	10
36	37	It did not, for example, as might have rep cloth, a light, clinging fabric often used for slave garments, make obvious the lineaments of its occupant's figure.	10
37	139	Much of this becomes obvious when it is kept in mind that the last thing a slaver wants to do is to diminish the beauty, and, thus, the sales value, of his merchandise.	10
44	164	"I would have thought it obvious," I said.	10

Book 25. (17 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	401	Slave girls, as they are domestic animals, are, like other domestic animals, of obvious value to victors.	10
2	112	I did not make my inquiries of obvious loungers in its vicinity.	10
2	375	For example, there are not only such obvious things as the brand and collar, and the distinctive garbing of the slave, or the lack of garbing, but, far more significantly, the extreme closeness of the society, with its scrutiny of strangers, and the general nature of an uncompromising culture, with ...	10
3	182	Yet, in spite of his need, his intense desire for her, which it seemed he would choose to conceal from her, and her obvious, even explicitly expressed piteous need, which he chose to ignore, thereby supposedly, I suppose, indicating to her its meaninglessness to him, he had, as though nothing were a...	10
3	390	That was obvious in the pleading nature of her dance.	10
3	655	I did not know if a fellow such as this Teibar, who did not seem of the merchants, or rich, could have afforded a slave of such obvious value.	10
3	719	That is common with slave collars, and its appropriateness is obvious.	10
6	27	On the other hand, some owners, who prefer more obvious restraints for their women, who are, after all, slaves, use flatbedded wagons with mounted slave bars of various sorts, sometimes with intricate chainings or couplings.	10
8	730	This cleared area, though not evident from the front, was only too obvious from the back.	10
8	787	Though Marcus would not admit this, and would scorn the very idea, it seemed obvious to me that not only was Phoebe his love slave, but that he was to her as love master.	10
9	700	This is a recognition of their appeal to men, an acknowledgement of their attractiveness, and an obvious tribute to their beauty, to their female desirability.	10
11	247	"Surely there are only a few," I said, "perhaps a few madmen who cannot understand the barest essentials of the most obvious realities, political and prudential".	10
16	267	"Is it not obvious?" I asked.	10
19	988	These advances, so calculatedly ambiguous, and yet so obvious and meaningful, are reported to Appanius.	10
20	470	Some of this may have to do with something as simple and obvious as the greater amount of exposed skin, which is then much more aware of variations and subtleties in the atmosphere, and such, but it is rather, and primarily, a matter of the awakening of the entire, beautiful psychophysiological natu...	10
21	328	The obvious difference is that the collar is inappropriate on the free woman and appropriate on the slave.	10
27	388	Lavinia obeyed, but with obvious uneasiness.	10

Book 26. (27 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	270	I suppose it was obvious but I did not even consider it at the time.	10
4	340	The symbolism of kneeling, itself, is doubtless obvious.	10
6	19	There is a world of difference between us and certain other women, women unlike us, as you might suppose, but what is perhaps less obvious, and what might be pointed out, is that there are considerable differences amongst us, even those such as I, as well.	10
7	783	Given their position in the garden, and the considerable authority they held here, over me, and the others, I did not think it would be wise for me to permit myself to be detected remarking this in any obvious manner.	10
7	1067	It would do little good, I feared, to attempt to deny, to an observer as astute as Aynur, what would have been obvious.	10
10	516	Given these arrangements several permutations were possible, the most obvious being the gates shut and the platform withdrawn, the gates shut and the platform extended, and the gates open with the platform extended or withdrawn.	10
11	217	I wondered that the fellow accepted, with such apparent tolerance, what appeared an obvious manifestation of annoyance on the part of the slave, if not of actual insolence.	10
11	1347	Here it is obvious that we are the slaves and men the masters, and that we are to please the masters.	10
11	1839	Their most obvious purpose is to help make clear the beauty of a slave, by displaying it in a variety of movements, attitudes, and poses.	10
13	168	The contrast with the robes of concealment is obvious.	10
13	544	The value of such training, of course, is easy to see in matters as obvious as that recently noted.	10
13	545	What may not be as immediately obvious is its similar value in avoiding what may be even greater dangers, such as displeasing the master.	10
13	857	This reinforced, too, my understanding of my condition, which was bond, and its obvious concomitant, that of being subject to masters, fully, in all things.	10
13	1104	"I would suppose that would be obvious," she said.	10
14	1326	Were we regarded, because of what we were, rightly, as being worthy of less consideration than the delicate petals of a tiny blossom? Did they know us that well? Was our nature so obvious to them? Did they know, too, I wondered, that we were the secret enemy? Did they understand the secret war? But ...	10
16	229	An obvious one is the condition of bondage itself.	10
19	5	On the other hand, male slaves seldom do, for obvious reasons.	10
19	614	This is not really a slaver's "trick" because it is obvious what is being done.	10
19	740	The aesthetic aspects, too, are obvious, for such ties, as is the case, for example, with the hands-over-the-head ties, have a tendency to call attention to, accentuate, and enhance certain aspects of a woman's beauty.	10
19	811	The information I wished I could not well obtain from either a free person, without great risk, or, indeed, from a slave either, for they would presume that anything so obvious must either be known to me or for some reason forbidden to me.	10
24	59	And, indeed, women such as I, slaves, as we were domestic animals, constituted booty in a most uncontroversial, immediate and obvious sense, a form of booty as taken for granted here, as, on another world, cattle to Huns, horses to Indians.	10
29	671	It had been obvious, for some time, that she wanted desperately to submit herself to the mysterious visitor to Treve, to submit herself in the most perfect and complete way a woman can submit herself to a man, to be his ardent, devoted, helpless pleasure slave.	10
34	154	But then, too, on Earth, do not some men buy a certain car, or a certain house, or a certain painting, and such, largely to impress others? Too, on Earth some men will, in effect, purchase wives, so to speak, though the "exchange of coin" is less obvious.	10
37	145	This was not surprising, of course, given the pit master's obvious reservations concerning the intentions of the black-tunicked men.	10
42	147	Reasons for this are obvious, for example, that they might receive gratuities from guests and hide them; that they might take money from guards, or others, to further intrigues or to attempt to influence masters; that they be denied the power which coins might bring, in bribing guards or tradesmen, ...	10
44	97	There was, I feared, a different interest in me, one which might be far more sinister or insidious, one far less immediately intelligible than those associated with the typical, obvious values of a slave.	10
46	549	He apparently was quite clear about informing me of his displeasure that I had tried to turn the dagger against myself, even if it had been only my intent to relieve him of his dilemma, to resolve, at a stroke, so to speak, the fearful predicament in which he found himself, to protect him, to save h...	10

Book 27. (61 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	872	The answer to that was obvious, as obvious as the gleaming, snug, obdurate band encircling her throat.	10
13	283	Regardless of the interest or value of such speculations, the truth of which would in any event be veiled in the mysteries and darkness of the past, the fact of the matter was obvious, the fact of the congeniality of such bodies to the convenience of binding and tethering, as obvious as the perfecti...	10
18	350	How was it then, she wondered, given her obvious excellence and quality, her obvious value, that she had not been purchased by a rich man, someone important, a statesman, a general or a great merchant, surely by some significant personage in Ar.	10
25	241	The lanes, it seemed, were not going in any obvious order, at least in any order obvious to the occupants of the lanes.	10
1	85	She would surmise that the city involved, and such, may be sufficiently obvious, even concealed beneath the cloak of an imposed discretion.	10
2	84	Since the most obvious, simplest, uniform, universal explanation for this fact would seem to be congruence with biological predispositions, with human biogenetic templates, she had dismissed the question as naive and pointless.	10
4	195	Once, after such a display, she had seen him smile, knowingly, and he so young! How furious she had been! He had misunderstood! It was inexcusable! Were there only two in the class? She sensed now how she had been before him, how she, as a female, had tried to attract him, though, of course, not adm...	10
4	231	He knew many things about her, many things, she now realizes, and among them he doubtless knew that she drank seldom, if ever, and thus his joke of having her, of her own will, imbibe, to please him, for he knew she desired to please him, for nothing could have been more obvious, a drink much too st...	10
4	323	Her dismay was obvious.	10
4	343	Thus it is natural to suppose that on such a world many cultures would bear obvious signs of their origins.	10
11	11	Surely it was tastefully and elegantly appointed, and the quality of the rug, the furnishings, and such, was, without being obtrusive, obvious.	10
11	22	Such things would be muchly different, of course, she supposed, if their relationship were to be changed, radically, for example, if the husband were to make his wife, at least in the secrecy of his own home, an obvious, explicit slave.	10
11	193	Is it so obvious, she had asked herself, that I am a slave, that I should be a slave? But on a world such as this what could a woman such as I be but a slave? Is that not the purpose for which women such as I are brought to this world, to be the helpless, rightless slaves of absolute and sovereign m...	10
11	194	It was rather as though it were to be expected, as though it were something to be taken for granted, something obvious, something to be accomplished in the normal course of things, at least with one such as she.	10
11	324	Obvious historical imperatives may dictate policy, at least to those capable of understanding them, and with the power to act upon them.	10
11	636	She hoped that it had not been obvious, in the subdued light of the room.	10
12	468	"Then you are not only truly a slave, which is obvious, but you are prepared to acknowledge that you are truly a slave," said Gart.	10
13	281	And, perhaps in some minor, contributory evolutionary sense, in addition to more obvious biological considerations, this is true, given selections and such, women with bodies unable to elude such constraints being more susceptible to capture, mating and mastering.	10
13	424	It would then be less obvious.	10
13	640	One might, of course, if one's taste ran that way, prefer a society founded on a hypocritical denial of obvious differentiation, on concealments of power, on group conflict, on greed, on propaganda, on confusion, uncertainty, machinations, character assassination, spying, slander, and such.	10
15	231	It was obvious, slut.	10
16	441	Perhaps the helplessness of the slave is too obvious to mention.	10
17	1156	Such bowls, or vessels, of course, serve an obvious purpose, and are common in kennels and cells.	10
18	10	She desires, in her wonderful vanity, to be so, as all hormonally sufficient women desire to be attractive to men, though some might fear this feeling and be terrified to recognize its obvious, deeper meaning, but, even if she did not, she is subject to discipline.	10
18	30	To be sure, the reader familiar with Gorean conventions might have noted that Ellen, in her understandable unease, having been discovered, though through no obvious fault of her own, in what might seem a dalliance, or a laxity in her duties, had responded to Canio with the phrase 'my Master'.	10
18	300	To her horror, later, she found her body responding, first with tiny, begging movements, and then, as she was forced to higher levels of excitement, and arousal, with brazen supplicatory liftings, with obvious, shameless petitionary presentations of her body, which the masters, unnecessarily in her ...	10
20	665	Their function, apart from their obvious practical aspects, such as security and control, was symbolic and psychological, having to do with their relationship to the dominance/submission ratios of organic life.	10
21	98	Others were not now in obvious contact with the stream but were nearby, perhaps fed by waters which had occasionally exceeded the normal boundaries of the stream, or by waters which had drained downward naturally, overflowing the sunken walls, filling the area, cisternlike, the expected result of th...	10
21	101	And within the Ahn this possibility became even more obvious, and vivid.	10
22	6	Goreans do not eschew emotion; eagerness, zeal, warmth, heat and passion are common with them; they tend to be vehement, hearty, cordial, enthusiastic, ardent, impetuous; they are quick to anger, quick to forget, quick to laugh; they do not pretend to subscribe to obvious falsehoods; they value trut...	10
22	141	In the interests of advancing a particular political agenda she had had to deny large numbers of the most obvious facts of ethology, biology and anthropology.	10
22	523	"Serving wine," although it will usually have its obvious meaning, is commonly used as a euphemism on Gor for serving the pleasure of a master.	10
23	253	"Surely there is more in your concern than the obvious fact that I have become a true slave".	10
24	231	"That is obvious," said Feike.	10
24	546	Doubtless lovely Dara would bring a high price on the block, being valued not only for her skills as a dancer, but for her obvious possibilities as a common pleasure slave.	10
24	754	The more intelligent she is, of course, the better slave she is likely to make; I assume that that is obvious; she is likely to be more aware of the subtlest and almost unspoken desires of her master; she is less likely to make errors which might displease him; and she is likely to be not only hot, ...	10
25	170	"They have the right of masters, the obvious right of masters, to do with us, their slaves, as they please.	10
25	768	"That is obvious," called a man.	10
26	185	There were women on that world who did not even understand the meaning of their misery and who found themselves forbidden to search for it in the most obvious place, in the denial of nature, in the frustration and starvation of their most basic personal needs.	10
26	299	Such features are obvious, and require little attention.	10
26	303	Similarly certain other aspects of the collar would seem so obvious as to require no lengthy explication, such as its various aesthetic and psychological features, which have an impact on both the wearer and he beneath whose scrutiny she falls.	10
26	328	Let us now turn, as we originally intended, to matters which are interesting, at least in my view, but, I fear, which may be less obvious than those with which we have hitherto dealt.	10
26	354	The collar has this cast or aura, too, one always recognized, but seldom expressed, perhaps because it is too obvious.	10
26	1235	But our slave needs, thought Ellen, are not simply such needs, the needs of a pathetically aroused and cruelly intensified sexuality, as obvious as these things are.	10
26	1632	"And now you do," he said, with obvious satisfaction.	10
27	73	Some obvious criteria, among several others, are beauty, intelligence, and a latency, at least, for arousable, helpless passion.	10
27	490	Thus, on the symbolic level, where human sexuality luxuriates, thrives and flourishes, and aside from the obvious identificatory conveniences of Merchant Law, it was far more than a lovely piece of jewelry; it enhanced her beauty not only aesthetically but symbolically, overwhelmingly, devastatingly...	10
27	692	"It is obvious," said Mirus, "that this world exists, for we are upon it.	10
27	693	But what is not obvious is an explanation for its nature and location.	10
27	794	On the other hand, as most suppose, and as seems most plausible to the slave, these usages may very well have been developed independently, both based on the obvious consequences on the slave's body of a certain form of handling or manner of binding.	10
27	852	Only Mirus held his weapon, and he then, with obvious show, thrust it in his belt.	10
27	1220	"Sometimes such things are obvious".	10
27	2181	Do you understand?" They gave no obvious sign that they could comprehend speech, but from one, Kardok, it seemed there might have emanated some small, scarcely audible bestial sound, a half-heard growl, something which, if it were speech, could have been constituted by no more than two or three syll...	10
28	37	Whereas the men of Earth, like the women of Earth, are commonly starved for sex, and are, consequently, usually the most obvious or most public victims of unsatisfied sexual need, there is little parallel to this amongst Gorean males.	10
28	313	What beasts men are, thought Ellen, to openly compare the limbs of slaves! Are we animals? And then, of course, devastatingly, the obvious thought came to her that yes, of course, they were animals! "Get busy!" snapped Selius Arconious.	10
28	375	It is an obvious explanation.	10
29	104	Certainly it would not be wise to neglect such an obvious token of deference as an appropriate form of address.	10
30	23	It is particularly the case when a free woman is present, that she not be disturbed by, or offended by, the obvious availability and sensuality of the slave.	10
30	92	Know what it is to crawl fearfully to him, your master, bearing the whip in your teeth! Where are your brands and papers, dear free sisters? And have you ever stood stripped on an auction block, to be bid upon, as the property you are? On Earth Ellen had seldom, if ever, worn cosmetics, regarding th...	10
30	348	Thus the slave may kneel before the master, tears in her eyes, her heart offered up to him as can only be the heart of a slave, and this obvious to him, but she knows his love is to be reserved, if it be given, at all, to a free woman, not to a slave, an animal he might obtain in any market.	10
30	771	How then should she be treated? As she is an animal, the answer to that is obvious.	10

Book 28. (28 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	198	That such, the Priest-Kings, have form, and can interact with matter, however, seems obvious.	10
1	202	It is clear they were females, as the human species is characterized by an obvious and radical sexual dimorphism.	10
1	372	Who has not seen the difference in the behavior of even veiled free women when in the presence of men, how they stand, how they hold their heads, how they speak, with such pretended, insouciant indifference? And, too, who has not seen the even more obvious competitions amongst the girls on a slave s...	10
1	547	Such a quarry, at first, usually, misinterprets the clues she is given, however obvious they may be, with respect to the network of plans within which she is already enmeshed.	10
1	552	In time, however, as the net tightens, things will become ever more obvious.	10
1	556	You may find yourself in one, if your master permits it," or even things as obvious as, "You may begin, even now, to think of yourself as a Gorean slave," or "Be careful in your diet and see that you exercise well, that you may be more likely to obtain an affluent master when you are sold, from a sl...	10
1	642	She commonly dressed with a seemingly understated but yet all too obvious elegance.	10
1	702	He did not understand, of course, at that time, that she, whatever might be her native intelligence, which was surely considerable, lacked speech, and for a very obvious reason.	10
1	1019	It is not obvious that this is true.	10
2	347	That seemed obvious to him, given their unease, their behavior.	10
5	214	It was obvious.	10
11	121	There is little attempt on Gor to pretend that obvious differentiations in such matters do not exist.	10
18	120	But then these superiorities are obvious to all neutral observers.	10
32	484	"That is an obvious superiority of the free woman over the slave," he said.	10
34	101	How tiny, how clinging, how revealing, and how easily removed! And how obvious it is to its occupant and to others that its wearer could be no more than a slave.	10
36	348	Cabot went to the back of the cave, and Lord Arcesilaus subsided, in obvious pain.	10
43	347	"Suppose you were a slaver or raider," said Cabot, "and you had to choose between a woman so clad, an indisputable beauty, one with an obvious sales value, one who might go for several coins, and an unknown quantity, a woman heavily robed and veiled, who, stripped, might be of little interest even t...	10
51	103	"Certainly in nature there are obvious, pervasive complementarities, and they are females".	10
51	163	"It is obvious," said Lord Grendel.	10
55	295	With one foot Statius put her to her belly and then pulled her wrists up, behind her, so that their confinement might be obvious.	10
55	336	She is a free woman and as a free woman must accept the penalties incurred by her crimes, crimes both obvious and grievous.	10
62	16	"Your subterfuge of omens was transparent," said Flavion, "an obvious stratagem to buy Grendel time".	10
63	128	This must have been obvious to those in the revolutionists' lines, as they had access to more than one optical instrument of the sort with which Cabot had made his earlier determinations.	10
67	47	Shortly thereafter Cabot became less concerned with his trail, which had been obvious in the snow.	10
74	121	The prejudice against the crossbow, the writer suspects, is due largely to the fact that it is, for obvious reasons, the assassin's weapon of choice.	10
75	48	There are other commands, too, as you may suspect, but most are obvious, and I decline to make clear their nature.	10
80	129	"Much of it is obvious and impressive," said Cabot.	10
80	291	Even were it not for such law, of course, practical considerations would dictate some obvious ways of marking the distinction between the female slave and the free woman.	10

Book 29. (32 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	97	Major truths, no matter what the evidence in their favor, are often, in the beginning, denied, then ridiculed, then battled, and then, if the cultural situation permits, and insufficient numbers of the heretics, or proponents, of the new views are imprisoned or executed, grudgingly accepted, and the...	10
5	175	These would seem fairly obvious security measures.	10
5	637	I must not make my serious concerns too obvious.	10
6	8	This was obvious, for the reserves are gardened, or nearly so, shrubbery cleared, trees spaced, and such, that they may grow exuberantly upward, muchly straight, and tall.	10
6	46	"Is it not obvious?" I had asked.	10
7	170	Each sign had been reasonably obvious from the vantage point of the preceding sign.	10
7	313	My beauty is obvious.	10
9	173	The slave girl, incidentally, and I suppose this is obvious, does not serve a beverage to a free woman in the manner she would serve a male, and certainly not in the way she would serve her master.	10
9	176	The use of the girl comes with the price of the drink, and thus which girl is summoned to the table, or which, approaching the table, is accepted, has an import which might not be obvious to the stranger to such establishments.	10
9	275	The contrast with Cecily was obvious.	10
10	374	"Is it not obvious?" inquired Miss Wentworth.	10
10	589	"That is obvious.	10
10	707	This simple, obvious fact had not been so clear on her former world, though it was a fact there, as well as here.	10
12	95	Freedom for what is an obvious consideration.	10
12	102	I supposed much of the business of Kurii on both Gor and Earth would be conducted, for obvious reasons, by their humans.	10
12	103	An obvious inducement, or partial inducement, to certain Goreans, for example to certain members of the caste of slavers, for their assistance, in a variety of tasks, would be something all males understand, women.	10
13	344	As this would be a most obvious possibility, a most likely route for escape, it would have been guarded against with zealous care.	10
14	61	First, it might be easily slung at the saddle, freeing the tarnsman's hands, for a purpose which will soon be obvious, the use of the bow, and, second, as in some arena bucklers, it would have a bladelike edge, thus allowing it to be used to cut at an opponent's body, ideally the throat.	10
14	87	The obvious recourse then would seem to be something like the Tuchuk saddle bow, which could easily clear the saddle to left and right, and could even be used, the rider turning in the saddle, to backward flight arrows.	10
22	352	"You could have had your throat cut, and been thrust from the saddle to the forests below, shortly after the flight had begun, as soon as it became clear there was no obvious pursuit.	10
22	456	She was small before him, slight, lovely, desirable, and, deliciously obvious, as she was in nadu, a female.	10
22	609	I want one!" Too, of course, there are such obvious things as the natural feminine grace of the woman, the width of her love cradle, the betraying movements of her body within her garmenture, the noted movements of her thighs, and such".	10
23	148	Similarly, although slaves are often castigated as being "worthless," and such, even high slaves, who might sell for gold, it is quite obvious that slaves are not worthless, and not simply because they, as other goods, have a monetary value, nor simply because they are beautiful, as a fine animal is...	10
24	9	I did not know if Lord Nishida, given his cunning and warcraft, would be within the daimyo's tent or not, but it was surely the obvious place to bring my suspicions.	10
28	108	But it is obvious that an animal which is well cared for is likely to provide a much better service and last longer than one which is ill fed, frightened, and abused.	10
28	169	I am supposing the rationale for this is sufficiently obvious.	10
28	177	It seemed he had not forgiven her for having become a helpless slave, now in obvious, plaintive need, as other slaves, of the caresses of men.	10
28	203	This was obvious evidence of her specialness.	10
37	19	Whereas in the case of the free woman her legs are concealed within her enclosing garmenture, in the case of the slave, even in the winter, it is clear, however warmly they may be clothed, that she has legs, and that this is to be obvious to the scrutiny of men.	10
38	291	Round ships, incidentally, commonly made use of slaves, fastened to the benches, but the long ships, ships of war, commonly relied on free oarsmen, for reasons which, I suppose, are obvious.	10
38	420	This is related to the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species, the obvious complementarity of the sexes, and the dominance/submission ratios pervasive in nature.	10
43	42	An obvious application of sleen is in hunting, say, tabuk, wild tarsk, and such.	10

Book 30. (18 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	84	"His guilt is obvious!" "Too obvious," said Lord Okimoto.	10
1	120	That had been obvious only when the hoods had been disarranged in the stranger's attack.	10
3	129	She complied, but with obvious reluctance.	10
3	244	Initially it had been surmised the rebellion would be easily suppressed, but soon its extent and power became fearfully obvious.	10
3	322	It seemed obvious that such an ensuance could be explained, if at all, only in terms of a sky ship, and, such, if it existed, would presumably emanate from the Sardar, allegedly the abode of Priest-Kings.	10
3	498	Was that not obvious? 'But we all lick the feet of men!' she said.	10
3	679	Put a rope on her neck and she is yours! But I must not be brought back to Ar! As soon as I was stripped, as I would be, as a slave, my lack of a brand would be obvious, and then there would be inquiries, and the proscription lists would be certain to be examined.	10
3	982	He then ruthlessly demanded from me information upon information, information which would be common knowledge to anyone from Brundisium, things as obvious as to where lay her Street of Coins, her largest markets, how many gates she had, and such.	10
3	1253	You would dare to pass off so obvious a slave as the Lady Flavia?' 'It is she,' said the leader, 'she, enslaved!' 'Who are you?' demanded the officer.	10
4	104	"Is it not obvious?" asked Lord Nishida.	10
8	23	Surely that lacked all foundation in fact, and who, save the simplest and most gullible, might be deceived by so obvious and meretricious an enticement, so transparent a fabrication? And yet, I wondered, why would one of the seeming astuteness of Tyrtaios put himself so at risk, as he would be when ...	10
8	389	Might they not, too, be so attractive, were they so excitingly clad, so invitingly bared? And how angry they are that men, who should be above such things, look with such obvious favor on mere slaves! The slave, of course, may at first be miserably shamed to be so garmented, to be put in such a garm...	10
11	34	In such a case, the school, so obvious and visible, so large and slow moving, becomes a most perilous habitat.	10
16	37	"I am informed, commander, by Lord Okimoto," said Tyrtaios, "that the ship, as seems obvious, is a warning ship, and that it is perhaps one of several.	10
17	52	Is it not obvious that such women are slave stock, that they are suitably embonded, that they are by nature the rightful properties of masters? Surely they must long for the collar, and their fair limbs for the shackles, and the weight of chains, else they would not so blatantly invite them.	10
22	287	Too, was it not obvious that the enemy was massing, and approaching? I heard a stirring to my left.	10
31	24	Surely the Pani slaves and our ship slaves, despite obvious differences in appearance, had much in common.	10
36	210	That seemed obvious.	10

Book 31. (39 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	24	I have seen slave garments exhibited which were concealed beneath the clothing of women on your world, obvious slave garments, garments so tiny, so soft, so smooth, so stimulating to the base, possessive instincts of men.	10
4	109	Also, there seemed to be another criterion imposed on membership in our house, but, as obvious and generally recognized as it was, it was never mentioned explicitly.	10
4	140	What of the simple test of life consequences? Is it obvious that an unnatural culture which produces vehemence, confusion, hysteria, sickness, treachery, hypocrisy, mass murder, and hatred is obviously superior to a culture compatible with nature, and her kinds and differences, a culture in which na...	10
4	273	But, too, there are many places where the enemies of nature are less entrenched and powerful than here, places where it does not occur to men and women that obvious biotruths, such as the complementary nature of the sexes, are to be routinely suppressed".	10
4	666	And what would it be, to be at the feet of such a man? Could there be such man? Could there be such a place, such a world? Nora's questions were greeted with obvious agreement.	10
5	72	Surely that is obvious.	10
7	406	My condition, my treatment, my training, my collar, my tunic, my brand, doubtless played some role in an awakening within my body that I sensed, day by day, was becoming ever more obvious and irresistible.	10
8	1092	There are apparently a large number of reasons for this, aside from such obvious matters as the frequent dying of hair.	10
8	1116	But, then, was the matter not obvious? I closed my eyes briefly, and then looked quickly away, to the right, through the bars, that I not see the now-bared slave on the block.	10
8	1229	I supposed it was obvious.	10
8	1739	The reason for that is simple, and obvious.	10
9	60	It suddenly occurred to me that the woman, seemingly unfamiliar with such obvious things, might not be Gorean.	10
9	77	"Not in any obvious sense," said the man.	10
10	38	A low growl, of obvious menace, was emitted from the throat of the beast, and then men withdrew, and the door was shut, and I heard it bolted.	10
10	107	I wore no collar, true, for the collar of the gambling house had been removed, but the slave mark was in my thigh, small, lovely, obvious, unmistakable.	10
10	633	If one has no obvious means of support suspicion is aroused.	10
11	218	It was obvious to us that we were being looked upon, as the slaves we were.	10
16	148	What had been done, I wondered, to the men of my former world? How superior to me, in so many ways, were these brutes of Gor! How slave I felt before them! Were such as I not fittingly owned by such as they, as the females of so many species of my former world were, in effect, owned by their males? ...	10
17	205	To the Kur, on the other hand, certain differences were apparently offensively obvious.	10
17	381	"Come now, pretty slut," said Astrinax, "it was obvious.	10
19	152	How right I felt in it! It was as though the sign of something inside of me had been put on the outside of me, for all to see, something which was now obvious, something it was no longer possible to deny.	10
22	52	Many women of my old world would have scorned me for this, castigated me for being what I was, myself, would have insisted instead that I share their views and values, would have dictated to me, with terrible social and economic sanctions for noncompliance, would have demanded that I emulate them, a...	10
23	57	The liqueur of Falnus, as was now obvious, had been drugged.	10
27	252	It was obvious with such men, as with Goreans generally, that it was we who would be owned, and collared.	10
28	42	"That is obvious," she said.	10
28	46	"That is obvious," she said.	10
33	34	It did seem obvious that most of these goods, or supplies, had been transferred to the more restricted zones of the Cave, where there lay, supposedly, various laboratories and workshops.	10
33	128	These differences would have been instantaneously obvious to a Kur, but I am sure that many humans would have seen little or no difference between Grendel and a purely bred, or full-blooded, Kur.	10
34	11	"Is it not obvious?" asked Chloe, not pleased.	10
34	74	On the other hand, it is my surmise that to the masters, inspecting the available slaves, it had been a simple matter; Nora had been the obvious choice for first girl, the best choice for a girl to intimidate, control, and manage lesser girls.	10
35	175	"As you cannot read," said Master Desmond, "this is not obvious to you, but the small sheet which seems to be a game's annotation and the large sheet, whose squares contain letters, or meaningless marks, are both numbered".	10
35	322	"So there must be something simple here, so simple that it is hard to see, so obvious that it is not noticed".	10
37	144	It had jointed metal legs, and a metal torso, but no obvious head, unless the head and torso were one.	10
38	47	"It is not obvious we may leave with impunity," said Desmond.	10
41	149	"I suppose that is obvious".	10
41	161	Thirdly, the message itself is not obvious, even if discovered.	10
42	3	Three differences, or obvious differences, for I did not know what others might be being enacted privately, were that the container thought by some to be pertinent to the person of Agamemnon was now seldom publicly visible, the men in the Cave had been disarmed, even to knives, and policing in the C...	10
42	16	I did not understand the nature of these excursions, but I supposed they might be explicable in terms as obvious as escaping the tedium of the Cave, a zest for movement or fresh air, and perhaps even some light hunting.	10
47	54	Could she be free? It would seem so, for the comparative amplitude of her garmenture, but, too, it did not seem all that much, and it was fairly obvious that her robe was thin, and of but a single layer.	10

Book 32. (23 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	169	Their needs were obvious, from their faces, glimpsed behind the bars.	10
5	200	But where were they? Why did I never meet them? I suppose the answers to such questions are obvious.	10
5	257	The coin is worth only what it will buy This is obvious, but many on my former world, oddly enough, seem unaware of this.	10
6	49	On the other hand, I had gathered, from the reports of instructors and guards, as I had expected, that she was a woman who understood that she was a woman, and accordingly, in the order of nature, wished to defer to men, and be pleasing to them These inclinations are obvious consequences of the natu...	10
8	161	In this way it is not obvious, from the front, that it is there.	10
9	243	The most obvious way to mark this distinction publicly and conveniently is the collar, or its absence, and garmenture, say, the robes of concealment as against a tunic, or camisk.	10
9	250	The notion here seems to be that a roving tarnsman, a raider, a slaver, a girl hunter, and such, given the choice between a prey of obvious interest, say, a scantily clad slave girl, and one of an unknown quality, say, a free woman in the robes of concealment, given the risks involved, and such, is ...	10
10	10	Let the idealist and the fanatic curse the inevitable fruits of his success, the brass he took for gold, the unexamined shadow he took for substance, the bright illusion he took for reality; he does not lament the downfall of peoples and states, the carts of bones and the lakes of blood; his grief, ...	10
13	163	"The name must be short, and simple, an obvious slave name, and one that makes clear that you are without significance or importance, that you are a mere, negligible, chattel.	10
20	78	"It is obvious," said another, "even to look upon you.	10
20	164	"Is it not obvious?" said Relia.	10
21	383	"It was a gesture of contempt, a transparent sleight, an obvious insult".	10
22	113	Asperiche was a very intelligent woman, and in pretending shyness, a trepidation, an overt, too obvious unwillingness to speak, a fearing to speak, might have signaled her desire to speak, and, perhaps, thus call herself to the attention of a handsome fellow, if only for the nonce, as a vessel of in...	10
25	299	Unless her need is on her, her presence, while obvious and lovely, is unobtrusive.	10
27	85	Surely I could not ignore a patent feature obvious in the surface which I beheld, the reflection of an encircling metal band fastened about my neck.	10
29	47	It was then obvious why I had heard no response to the striking of the switch.	10
29	58	Too, there was nothing here of the grace, and beauty, and femininity, of the provocative softness, of the promise of secret delights, of the implicit, whispered needs, of the typical Gorean tree woman, obvious even in, and perhaps even enhanced by, the robes of concealment.	10
29	108	Surely, out here, in my current condition, that must be obvious.	10
42	39	I hoped that would be obvious to one of them in particular.	10
47	77	Not being a Panther Girl I doubted she could read signs, even something as obvious as territorial spoor markings.	10
50	633	"That is obvious," said the gowned slave.	10
52	611	But why, I asked myself, should I be embarrassed by, or shamed by, or disconcerted by, signs of, and the obvious consequences of, health, life, hormonal richness, and vitality? Had not nature made me so, designed me to be a yielded, surrendered slave in the arms of masters? And in the collar, and in...	10
54	99	He then told me what the collar would read, and I, for the first time, was apprised of the name of my master, which name, for obvious reasons, must not appear here.	10

Book 33. (16 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	40	It is then obvious what might be the nature of a most effective discipline.	10
15	50	On the other hand, I would later learn, interestingly, that this lack of an obvious warning arrangement, first, was intended to encourage an approach through the garden to the courtyard, which would then facilitate the entrapment of intruders between the double walls, those of the courtyard and thos...	10
21	75	It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the Priest-Kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final battle in a minor war in a far...	10
29	28	"It seemed obvious that a pursuit would be mounted," said Tajima.	10
29	287	The most obvious exceptions to this are of an instructive or punitive nature.	10
29	354	How was it that she had failed to exercise a greater caution? How anomalous an action that had been for a woman of her obvious intelligence.	10
30	96	The problematicity involved here is obvious.	10
31	178	And, although I may not have made this hitherto explicitly clear, amongst such commodities, as I suppose may be obvious, may be numbered women.	10
42	94	"I think it is obvious," I said.	10
42	137	In the position of the pleasure slave the woman kneels as an obvious pleasure slave.	10
45	21	"If it were frequently seen it would be obvious that, however awesome it is, it is not a living, breathing dragon, no egg-sprung beast of flesh and blood, but a contrivance of sorts, terrible though it may be.	10
45	22	It would be obvious that it is not the iron dragon of myth and legend, the source of which is lost in history, but a surrogate of that, a counterfeit".	10
45	148	"There is an obvious explanation why one would be withheld from the vending," I said.	10
46	317	There is more here than is obvious on the surface".	10
54	148	"That may be too obvious, and too simple, my dear friend," I said.	10
61	176	From the air the spectacular oddity of this arrangement should be obvious.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	55	I had been taught to deny the most obvious and profound biological realities, to dismiss or despise patent differences, to deny nature, the very nature of which I was an outcome.	10
1	174	"Is it not obvious?" he asked.	10
1	504	Why, then, did she not do so or, at least, strive to do so? Too, she was clearly uninformed of many things of obvious importance.	10
7	344	It is done on behalf of the free, that their slaves will retain their vitality, passion, youth, beauty, and health, this serving to keep them more attractive and appealing, which, of course, aside from a number of obvious advantages to the master, personal and aesthetic, has a number of economic con...	10
8	41	This very obvious difference, on my former world, had been ignored, or denied.	10