Results

Importance

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	55	Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelik...	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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

Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	9	Apparently hearing is not of great importance, however, to them, considering the small number of hairs modified for this purpose.	10
17	80	Of course, if we know that something of interest or importance to us is occurring we lock onto its coordinates and follow its developments".	10
17	81	"Did you make a tape," I asked, "of the destruction of the City of Ko-ro-ba?" "No," said Sarm, "it was not of sufficient interest or importance to us".	10
26	198	I wondered if this were perhaps the first time in her life in a matter of importance to her that she had not had her way with a man.	10
28	166	When the lights flickered and then burst into clear, vital radiance there was a great cheer from the humans in Misk's camp, with the exception of the Gur Carriers, to whom the energy bulbs were not of great importance.	10
28	235	I gathered it would be something like a man being forced to lie on his back when something of importance is taking place.	10
30	86	Whereas I would not have abandoned Misk and freedom to join the forces of Sarm, I was forced to admit that the probable victory in the end would be his, and that his proposals might well be attractive to some former Muls, particularly those who had occupied a position of some importance in the Nest ...	10

Book 4. (11 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	103	I gathered from this remark that Kamchak was a man of no little importance among the Tuchuks.	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	208	Besides this, as far as I knew, Misk, who was my friend and between whom and myself there was Nest Trust, was still the highest born of the living Priest-Kings and the final authority in matters of importance in the Nest; I knew that Misk, if no other, would not have wished my death.	10
8	13	The mystery of the message collar, intriguing as it might be, was of secondary importance.	10
8	29	How was it, I wondered, that Kamchak was going to Turia in the spring? I sensed him to be a man of importance with the wagons.	10
8	134	Moreover, even if she is never enslaved, she is familiar with the duties of slaves and what is expected of them; if she should be enslaved she will know, on the whole, what is expected of her, what is permitted her and what is not; moreover, the Gorean girl is literally educated, fortunately or not,...	10
13	128	Kamchak, as I had learned before, held a position of some importance with the Tuchuks.	10
22	34	"We owe it to our importance," he said.	10
27	20	As fellow after fellow, men of importance in Turia, were dragged before his throne, in the Kes and chained, Kamchak would say to them, "Your goods and your women are mine.	10
27	114	"But where," I asked, "did you come by the notion that you are beautiful?" "My master told me," she sniffed, "and my master does not lie—does he?" "Not often," I said, "and particularly not about matters of such importance".	10
28	59	"But," I protested, "there have been many things of much greater importance than those in these years—the Siege of Turia, the Taking of the City, the Election of the Ubar San!" "We choose most to remember Tarl Cabot," said Kamchak.	10

Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	113	Kuurus surmised that Portus, doubtless a man of importance, had been troubled by the little fool Hup on more than one occasion, and had now decided to do away with him.	10
24	161	Many were the new appointments to posts of importance in the city.	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	134	We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i...	10
13	234	Every copper tarn disk, I told myself, in such a situation doubtless assumes greater importance than it normally would.	10
14	156	I had not realized my importance to the men of the two island Ubarates.	10
15	271	And it was thus that Luma, she of perhaps greatest importance in my house, saving its master, with us, yet chained and alone, apart, shared my feast of victory.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	448	I expected, however, because of the dangers of the shores of Thassa, and the importance of their mission, the Rhoda and Tesephone, though they might lie at anchor, would not make a beach camp.	10

Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	391	"It remained yet my hope," said Samos, "to recall you to a lofty service, one dignified and of desperate importance".	10
1	706	"To those with whom we deal Telima is of no importance".	10
2	343	On the platform the men of importance, and their families, observed the High Initiate, among them, craning her neck, looking over her father's shoulder, was the large blond girl, in her black velvet and silver.	10
10	153	When the first blood touches the cloak the match may, at the agreement of the combatants, or in the discretion of one of the two referees, be terminated; a price of three silver tarn disks is then paid to the victor by the loser; the winner commonly then performs a sacrifice; if the winner is rich, ...	10
17	144	These differences, negligible from the point of view of humans, are apparently of considerable importance among the Kurii themselves.	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	159	For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...	10
7	397	"What, in particular," I asked, "did you learn from the Earth slave girl, the former Miss Cardwell?" "Many things," said he, "but, doubtless of most importance, the weakness of the Nest".	10
7	525	"Such things are of enormous importance".	10
7	526	It might be noted, in passing, that high intelligence in a female, as nearly as I can determine, is almost always of great importance to Gorean slavers.	10
10	378	One tries different girls until one finds her, or those, who are the most exquisite, the most pleasing; one tends then, to keep them; this tends, too, to work out to the advantage of the women, the female slaves, but few, except themselves, are concerned with them, or their feelings; men, it is clea...	10
26	223	It was not impossible, through his work with Ibn Saran, that he knew matters of importance pertaining to the wars of Priest-Kings and Kurii.	10
26	979	Your feelings concerning, and your views of, your bondage, whether favorable or not, whether elating or terrifying, are of no interest or importance to me.	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	389	Of what importance could be a string of slave beads? Why might they have been put on me in the first place? And where, if they had been put on me, had they gone? Who would want them? And why should men come through a wilderness to obtain them? What could be their importance? What could be their secr...	10
4	38	Accordingly the brand is of considerable importance to her.	10
4	155	The attire of Gorean slave girls is of great importance to their masters.	10
4	609	But, indeed, now, what else was I? And I realized now that such things were right for me, exactly right, and that my feelings were no longer of interest or importance; accordingly, no note would be taken of them, and appropriately.	10
4	627	Matters of importance, I gathered, were being discussed.	10
4	648	He took it, scarcely noticing me, and returned his attention to the map in the dirt, which was of importance.	10
7	1168	"Of what importance is a nameless animal?" he asked.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	550	For most practical purposes, except for a few small, close islands, of little or no importance, the mosaic ended there.	10
12	260	Her carriage and the sharpness of her tongue, however, suggested she must be someone of importance.	10
13	1	Imnak Broaches to me a Topic of Some Importance; We Encounter Poalu One of the problems in approaching tabuk on the tundra is the lack of cover.	10
21	341	Now, for the first time in my life, they seem to me of profound importance and interest.	10

Book 13. (14 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	178	There was a time for slaves, and a time for matters of importance.	10
6	543	Schendi's most significant exports are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products also being of great importance.	10
6	560	This is one reason for the importance of the port.	10
7	161	Uchafu undoubtedly, because of the prices involved, understood that she was of some importance.	10
7	162	On the other hand, I do not think he understood the nature of that importance.	10
7	166	This tended to confirm in my mind that they did not understand the nature of her importance.	10
7	170	If Ulafi or Uchafu truly understood the nature of the girl's importance, that it had nothing to do with her being red silk or white silk, she would doubtless, by now, have been richly and abundantly raped.	10
13	525	Most importantly I had tried to impress upon her the fundamental importance of submission, and that she was a slave girl.	10
15	15	I entered the larger room, that in which we had conferred on matters of importance yesterday.	10
42	18	I think it would be impossible to overestimate its importance.	10
52	113	"With all due respect, Kisu, you are not of sufficient political importance to warrant a duel with a Ubar".	10
53	39	"Surely you can understand the importance of the ring to me".	10
57	69	The importance of the work of Bila Huruma and Shaba, one a Ubar, the other a scribe and explorer, could not, in my opinion, be overestimated.	10
57	97	In addition to its political importance it had given the talunas an opportunity to learn to dance and serve.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	184	It was not, surely, what seemed to me of overwhelming interest and importance in the situation in which I found myself.	10
13	46	It is regarded as being of great strategic importance.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	121	I took him to be a man of some importance.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	844	It reassures her, too, of her importance to him, and his seeing of her as a slave, which is important to her.	10
21	594	Gold is important on Gor, but it does not have anything like the importance that would be assigned to it on Earth.	10

Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	491	At any rate, be that as it may, I think the number six is of importance in this matter".	10
1	1069	Needless to say, the counting of coup, which is reflected in the feathers and adornments to which one is entitled, is a matter of great importance to the red savages.	10
3	141	The military and strategic importance of controlling the eastern termination of the Boswell Pass was clear.	10
13	333	"On the other hand," I said, "she knew you very well, and, in some way, may have been touching on something of importance".	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	1843	Nothing of importance had transpired.	10
16	274	"If you do not know what they are," I said, "perhaps you should not prejudge the issue of their importance".	10
17	464	The nature of the collar, per se, except for purposes of identification and security, and such, is not of great importance.	10
17	470	What is of great importance is not the nature of the collar, or such, but what it betokens, its meaning.	10
17	772	"You, being found with the soldiers," I said, "and obviously a personage of some importance, were singled out for punishment".	10

Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	181	Dreams, and dreaming on matters of importance, are taken very seriously by the red savages.	10
2	183	Such games, of course, have their role to play in honing skills and sharpening reflexes that may be of great importance in adulthood.	10
7	918	"I was somewhat disturbed by portions of the conversation between you, and Bloketu and Iwoso," I said, "in particular, the business about the enlargement of Watonka's importance".	10
25	113	A woman of such importance, of course, should have her own maiden.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	665	The presence in the room of a curule chair designated the room, in effect, as one to be appropriately occupied by an individual of some importance, or official standing, which assuredly was Drusus Rencius, my master.	10

Book 20. (8 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	401	This exaggeration in size and feature, I take it, is intended to be commensurate with their importance.	10
2	699	And surely the luscious creatures, though no more than animals bearing brands in their lovely hide, are aware of their desirability, their attractiveness, their importance, and meaning to men.	10
4	219	"I shall make him understand my importance," she said.	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
18	148	I still could not understand my importance to those in Brundisium.	10
19	87	He had thought to guarantee the safekeeping of something of great importance.	10
21	102	The true concealment of the papers, one assuredly calculated to deceive those individuals who might have some just notion of their value, one worthy of Belnar's brilliance, was to have them lying about, almost casually, mixed in, and seemingly belonging with, papers of no great importance.	10

Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	297	Indeed, happiness for a human female often involves the willing surrender of freedom in order to achieve things which are of greater value and importance to her.	10
15	568	It was partly as a result of their resentful, guarded comments, overheard by certain spies, that I came to realize her importance".	10
16	576	"Doubtless, then, you were formerly of some importance".	10
18	259	"If some women are natural slaves, and know this in their hearts," I said, "would you prefer that they conceal this from the world? Do such lies please you? Do you commend them, truly? Would you advise these women to indulge in deceit, to rejoice in the practice of hypocrisy? What do you say to thei...	10
19	480	I was now convinced more than ever of their importance, but also of the danger of carrying them.	10
26	364	The ideal, of course, given the necessity of marking women, the importance of which anyone recognizes, is to do it in such a fashion that it does not detract from a woman's beauty, but rather enhances it, and considerably.	10
27	131	Your life will now be a sexual one, a life in which your femaleness, for the first time, will be of undeniable and paramount importance, a life in which it will be overwhelmingly central.	10

Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1628	Too, at that time, I had not realized something of great importance, namely, how my body and nervous system could change under its uses, how my helplessness and needs could deepen, increase and intensify, how they could grow upon me and make me their prisoner.	10
16	84	"What she is truly worth, or what I might think she is truly worth," said Tupita, "is of no importance.	10
20	204	The farmer likes to be appreciated, and to have the importance and value of his work recognized.	10

Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	706	This helps her to become more aware of her needs, and their innocence and importance.	10
19	36	When one understands these factors, and that battles often last several hours, and are sometimes renewed for two or three days, it is easier to understand certain things which might otherwise seem anomalous in this form of warfare, for example, the respites between assaults, the fluctuations of line...	10
21	602	How desperately then do the slaves understand the importance of pleasing men! "What do you think should be your disposition?" he asked.	10
21	1083	They come to understand themselves at last as what they are, as what can no longer be denied, as living, desirable females, as sexual creatures, and that they are, perhaps for the first time in their lives, as such, of great interest and importance.	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	149	"These matters are of the utmost importance!" "Speak, lying spy," she laughed.	10
19	1167	"Perhaps you now understand the importance of rituals?" I said.	10
31	79	I thought it meet to inquire for his way of announcing this suggested that it might be of some importance.	10
31	194	I suppose he was appreciative of this not only for his own sake, but, too, because of certain delicacies of honor involved, these having to do with his family and its importance in the marsh.	10
45	110	Accordingly, many Earth girls who may have regarded themselves as quite plain, quite ordinary, in all respects, of no great interest or importance, and so on, discover that they are often regarded on Gor, at least at first, as being colorful and foreign, unusual and interesting, different and specia...	10

Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	1282	"It is your business to answer questions, with exactness, and with the fullness desired," I said, "not to evade them, not to comment on such matters as their supposed negligible importance, not to remark as to their propriety or appropriateness, such things".	10
20	525	What could compare in importance for Marcus, for example, to the recovery of his Home Stone, its rescue from its captivity in Ar? To be sure, I think Boots had overdone the matter a bit.	10
21	523	"Remember," I said, "it is only she being sold, not her reputation, not her political importance, not her symbolic value as an acquisition, not her value as a trophy, not her possible historical interest as a collector's item, and such, but only she, only the girl, only another slave".	10
26	470	"Do you think I am a common person? Do you think you can treat one of my importance in this fashion! I shall have Seremides have you boiled in oil!" "I am of the second Octavii," said Tolnar.	10
27	50	This results, of course, also in the cessation or diminishment of womanhood, but that does not concern the factions as it is only their own interests which are of importance to them".	10

Book 26. (20 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	4	I suspected, immediately, that my own will, my own feelings, and desires, were no longer of importance, at least to others.	10
2	48	The key to a collar such as mine, I suspected, would not be likely to be held personally by anyone of importance.	10
5	19	Thus the importance of the heralds, the criers, and such.	10
7	246	Could I be of some importance? Surely not! One such as I is not important.	10
7	564	I knew nothing of interest or importance to anyone.	10
7	921	It might be mentioned that Aynur, and Tima and Tana, despite their authority, and their importance, in the garden, were less than the least of the guards.	10
8	655	Indeed, what could be of importance here, what worth considering? I clung to the bars.	10
10	882	I did not really understand, fully, the import of what he was saying but I gathered enough to understand that he within, or he on the other side of that door, he before whom I might soon expect to appear, was of some importance in this place.	10
11	891	Such things have no relevance, or importance.	10
12	288	I am not clear as to what a Home Stone is, but I have gathered that it, whatever it might be, is regarded as being of great importance on this world.	10
14	1270	He seemed a fellow of some importance.	10
14	1526	As a last note, I might add that there does seem to be general agreement among authorities on the importance of a given number of types of kisses, and perhaps that is more important than whether one accounts a given kiss A to be a variation of B, or B to be a variation of A, and so on.	10
15	139	He must have some unusual importance or value.	10
15	143	Indeed, I was not even certain that he had known his own caste for a moment, a matter apparently of considerable importance to most on this world.	10
16	365	How reassuring, incidentally, that one is here recognized as being of sufficient interest and importance to be looked at, really looked at.	10
19	357	This was done in such a manner that I gathered that something of profound importance was to be understood as taking place.	10
19	862	They may condition and flavor our slavery, and make us of more or less interest to one man or another, but they are, in themselves, of no great importance.	10
19	864	That is what is of ultimate importance in these matters, our sex, our femaleness".	10
40	26	Perhaps it was only offering its homage to the world, to the environing mystery, that immensity from which we derive, one which spawns us and then abandons us, the unfathomable, uncaring immensity, leaving us conscious in the loneliness, in the knowledge that our laughter and our tears are of no imp...	10
40	199	"The match is apparently of importance to you," said the pit master, bitterly, sitting down, cross-legged, before the board.	10

Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	76	She insisted, of course, on the irrelevance of biology, the insignificance of human nature, if it might, in some trivial sense, exist, the importance of ignoring millions of years of evolutionary history, the meaninglessness of genes, of inherited behavioral templates, and such.	10
2	82	She insisted on the importance of social artifacts, for example that men and women were not natural beings, but mere social artifacts, the manufactured products of culture and conditioning, that that was all.	10
2	214	She did not understand the importance of this to her, or fully, but doubtless it had to do with the oddity of the resemblance, so remarkable, to the student, from so many years ago, he who was never forgotten, he who was recollected with ever fresh humiliation and anger, but, too, invariably, with f...	10
8	13	She had learned the importance of pleasing them, her ankleted superiors.	10
8	196	Their concept of gender studies would have more to do with the care, feeding and training of slave girls, how one puts them through their paces, and such, but I did give them some idea of the matter, of your certification, its ridiculously pretended importance, the eccentric, warped, and politically...	10
10	337	Would that not show that she was of some interest or importance to her master, that he would put the whip to her? Would that not be reassuring, that he correct her behavior, that he teach her the limits that she must not exceed, that he might take a moment now and then, whether she required it or no...	10
11	112	At least in the one case, she would have some importance to him.	10
11	1019	One might add, as well, that while beauty is of great importance, desirability is not always linked with beauty.	10
14	158	In the first case, the condition of virginity is regarded as one to be superseded; and, in the second case, it is regarded merely as something which comes before something else, something of greater importance, as an antecedent phase or prologue, so to speak.	10
14	173	Her virginity, accordingly, was of no more interest or importance to society, or an owner, than would be that of a pig.	10
15	357	I love him! But of what interest or importance might that be, the foolish love of a helpless slave, to one such as he, a master? "You understand," he said, "that this begging has nothing to do with whether you are a slave or not.	10
15	429	Such papers assume greater importance, of course, in the case of pedigree slaves or exotics.	10
18	349	She was a woman of Earth, and had been an intellectual, a person of stature and importance.	10
20	401	There were some cage wagons, perhaps carrying high slaves or women of political importance.	10
24	474	The first time Ellen had barely shown herself to the men, keeping herself concealed in veils, and had done little more, after her initial, clear and unmistakable acknowledgment of her abject bondage before them, that they would have no doubt as to what she was and how she understood herself, than mo...	10
27	602	Your feelings, sleek little collared animal, are of no interest or importance.	10
27	796	And doubtless it is not of great importance.	10

Book 28. (17 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	6	Nonetheless, to themselves, and to some of their kind, they seem of much importance.	10
1	16	How is it, in any event, that they so invest themselves with such importance? What a piteously naive arrogance is therein displayed.	10
1	136	One can well understand then its preciousness and importance to the Steel Worlds, its relevance to their projects, and such.	10
1	430	Certainly, too, she would not wish to share her importance and status with another pet.	10
1	544	Most commonly this is done with a quarry which is unpleasant, smug, nasty, insolent and vain, and who has, too, say, an overweening sense of her own qualities, importance, and superiority.	10
3	122	Beyond such things, of course, it is difficult to define but then, so, too, is almost anything of importance.	10
18	46	Later, however, as she learns her collar, and realizes its proclamation of her desirability, attractiveness, and beauty, and learns the joy of bondage, and her role in, and importance in, Gorean society, she is likely to walk proudly, head high, shoulders back, and brazenly display her master's prop...	10
26	172	"Certainly his small, well-formed companion, the small, sleek beast of which he is so unconscionably fond, has the coin of advantage and survival well in hand, information of importance to Agamemnon, and would spend it instantly to procure not only her life but his favor".	10
34	206	"Oh, yes," she said, "it is a matter of perfect legalities, and we are well aware of that, perfectly aware of that, that we are only goods and properties, no more, but what of our feelings, our emotions, our understandings of this?" "The feelings of a slave are of no interest, and of no importance,"...	10
36	115	Moreover, as a slave in a unapologetically and uncompromisingly male-dominated world, she is excruciatingly aware, as she might not be in a drabber, grayer, hypocritical world, of her femaleness, and its enormous importance.	10
36	119	On Gor, the slave, particularly if extracted from Earth's barbarisms of fatuity and denial, discovers, usually for the first time, the enormous importance of her femaleness.	10
36	124	On Gor the woman discovers then, often for the first time, fully, that she is a female, and the specialness, preciousness, wonderfulness, and importance of this.	10
63	119	We might suppose that given the odds involved and the importance of Lord Grendel that the Kurii of Agamemnon would have been charged with his capture, that he might be later exhibited and dealt with according to the dictates of the war and day, but it seems they had no such charge.	10
63	135	Whereas the hunting Kurii had not the least interest in the Lady Bina herself they had been well apprised of her importance to their target, this information having been supplied by Flavion, and so they began to converge on that locality from which had emanated the sound of the bell, and the scream.	10
64	91	Greed for significance, importance, power, and wealth is a motivation to which many humans are susceptible, and we must, in all honesty, acknowledge that it is one to which some Kurii, perhaps surprisingly, are not immune.	10
73	228	"So let her learn that she is without importance?" "Yes," said Cabot.	10
79	308	She is profoundly reassured of her specialness, her worth, her importance, her identity, slave, her desirability, her womanhood.	10

Book 29. (17 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	59	I think he was reassured then that Saru was, appropriately, not of importance, or at least of no particular importance.	10
1	192	It is difficult to convey the dignity, importance, and social standing of the Gorean free woman to one with no first-hand awareness of the matter.	10
9	79	Accordingly, it is not unprecedented that a female Kur agent on Gor, to increase her mobility and anonymity, may be dressed as though she were, despite her freedom and importance, no more than a slave.	10
9	85	A clever, beautiful young woman, she was well aware of his hapless infatuation, just as she was in the case of a number of other males of no interest or importance to her, whom she scarcely deigned to notice.	10
10	182	"If I may," I said to Lord Nishida, "I would now like to speak of matters of importance".	10
10	185	"Yes," said Lord Nishida, "we must speak of matters of importance, and soon, but, first, we should attend to a matter which is not important".	10
10	797	"Now," he said, "we may address ourselves to matters of importance".	10
15	77	This is cultural, of course, and Earth girls whose ears are pierced , something they have generally thought little of, are often startled when they are brought to Gor, to learn how this tiny thing, to which they have usually attached little importance, at least consciously or explicitly, can provoke...	10
16	81	Also, of great importance, but not included in the figure of two hundred, would be various forces on the ground, responsible for support, such as metal and leather workers, fletchers, tarnkeepers, suppliers of various sorts, and so on.	10
16	250	The importance of intelligence cannot be overestimated.	10
23	250	This practice also, of course, tends to distinguish her from the slave, a distinction which is of enormous importance in Gorean society.	10
26	294	What is of most importance to the law is not so much that a particular individual owns a slave as that she is owned by someone, that she is absolutely and perfectly owned.	10
27	142	In any event, the Earth-girl slave, having been starved of her sex on Earth, taught by a pathological, adversarial culture to fear, belittle, resent, and suspect it, discovers on Gor to her astonishment and elation that her sex is here not only of interest, but of inestimable importance and value.	10
34	78	"The importance of the Ubara," she said, "the height and grandeur of her place, your modest status, if I may remark it, Master, that we have heard nothing of the Ubara, that we are here, in a remote location, far from the cylinder cities, the ports, the caravan routes, the trading places, somewhere ...	10
34	105	Perhaps she was of insufficient interest or importance.	10
38	607	One would suppose that they might have been slaves in a city, or women of some value or importance.	10
43	103	That one can kill is impressive, but seems to me to provide little assurance that one possesses properties of perhaps even greater importance to a leader, such as reliability, discipline, judgment, and fidelity.	10

Book 30. (13 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	164	"I was of high caste, of high family, of position and importance, of influence, wealth, and power, and now," she sobbed, "I have this!" Her eyes filled with tears, and she put the fingers of her right hand to the flat, sturdy, metal band which closely encircled her throat.	10
3	1223	'" "You realize," I said, "that the slave, in such a situation, given the importance of the matter, might have been slain for such a lie?" "Truly?" she said.	10
4	167	"Have you anything of interest or importance to impart to us," asked Lord Nishida.	10
7	112	Did someone realize her possible political importance? Seremides, perhaps? Or was she confined this deeply within the ship because she had incurred the displeasure of masters, having been apprehended in a lie? She had, it seems, been discovered to be lash-worthy, and had been put under the lash.	10
12	239	Nothing of importance had occurred.	10
24	226	To hood several was merely to suggest that any particular one was not of paramount importance.	10
24	235	I assume, given the precautions exercised, and such, that they were well aware of her political and economic importance.	10
24	237	Indeed, why would she have been so mysteriously swept from the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, long ago? She must have some importance to Pani, or to someone, or something, but what it might be, I did not know.	10
26	228	"You fear," I said, "that he would return you to Ar, to the justice of Ar, to the impaling spear?" In the case of one of her importance, the impaling spear might be narrow, greased, and thirty feet in height, and, mounted on the wall, her slow descent, she writhing, trying her best to prevent it, un...	10
36	556	He had been denied passage on the River Dragon, which had been of desperate importance to him.	10
37	698	"It must be of great importance," I said.	10
37	1045	And one of not much importance".	10
37	1415	"Well," I said, "she was once a free woman in imperial Ar, a high lady, a woman of importance and power, of wealth and station.	10

Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	63	Certainly we are muchly sought for? Is it not for us that citadels are stormed and caravans raided, that we may be coffled and led naked to your markets? Surely you cannot deny our importance, negligible though we may be? Are we not somehow special amongst your animals, though we commonly sell for l...	10
7	253	Perhaps of importance, as well, was the natural way it was taught.	10
8	971	Given the seeming importance of the former Lady Persinna I did not understand how it was that she was being vended in such a market.	10
10	195	There, almost anyone may sit upon a chair, whereas here, particularly in private dwellings, such an ensconcement is often reserved for individuals of status or importance.	10
10	263	It is probably difficult for one of my former world to understand the awesome dignity and importance, the social and cultural status, of the Gorean free woman, for she possesses a Home Stone, a status incomparably far above that of the usual free woman of my former world.	10
10	282	Messages of great importance, such as might be transmitted between armies, or cities, are carried by free persons, and are sealed with wax, bearing the imprint of a signet ring.	10
15	46	Doubtless she understood such things, but perhaps did not see them as having much, if any, importance.	10
20	207	"But I gather it is of great importance to someone".	10
20	220	"Oh," she said, "someone, but someone of importance".	10
32	4	If humans of interest or importance were to be present, I supposed that the room would have been better lit.	10
37	69	"But before we leave we might be able to inflict a crushing blow, one of great strategic importance, on the hopes of Gorean Kurii, on the very conspiracy itself".	10
37	137	"I think it was that he would appear to have a personal grooming slave, which would seem to enhance his prestige, and suggest importance.	10
48	60	Striking a blow at the heart of the conspiracy, by doing away with Agamemnon, had seemed to him a consideration of paramount importance.	10
49	26	Indeed, it is quite possible, given the importance of the experiment, and its projected political aim, that of securing alliances with Gorean humans, that Agamemnon would have wished something of himself, his intelligence, vision, cunning, might, and power, to be incorporated in Grendel.	10
49	404	We have let the importance of the wine shop of Amyntas be known in certain quarters.	10
49	411	In this way we hope to obtain a number of prisoners, who, if not of the importance of Pausanias, and such, might be important, and, properly persuaded, might lead us to the higher, even the highest, conspirators.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	307	Its contents, I gathered, if not fragile, were of considerable importance.	10
9	308	I did not understand its importance.	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
14	276	In passing, one might mention that the offerings in the slave house were often flavored with former tree women of Ar, often once of high caste, importance, power, and wealth.	10
15	142	The bows used, though I did not realize the importance of this at the time, were short bows.	10
21	152	And, should the voyage be successful, it is of the utmost importance, a matter dealing with worlds, that the cargo reaches the right party".	10
51	3	"Surely you understand the importance of the secret cargo we boarded some nights ago, and disguised in the hold," he said.	10

Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	52	Yet, interestingly, such trivial things, a rag or such, can be of desperate importance to the little beasts, and they will often beg for a scrap of cloth, and labor zealously to obtain it, and to retain it, if it is allowed to them".	10
34	39	But even if it is so, that these are the four you sought, of what interest or importance would they be, for anyone, a free warrior, zealous for a shogun's rice; a field slave; a foreigner, probably a deserter from the camp of Temmu; and a peasant?" "Why does Yasushi, a march constable, concern himse...	10
35	21	"Our friend Yasushi," he said, "in his attempt to protect us, all of us, made much of the possibility that we were not connected, that we might not be the four sought, or such, or, if the four, that there was nothing of importance in our association, which might have been merely casual".	10
61	1075	"In the circumstances," said Lord Nishida, "you understand that the slave is no longer of interest, or importance".	10
61	1085	"So I am abandoned," she said, "cast aside, discarded!" "You are no longer of importance," I said.	10

Book 34. (17 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
6	481	How important clothing is to a woman! How much her sense of self, her sense of importance, of worth, of status, of what she is, depends on her garmenture! But we were naked now, stark naked, save for the tunics of slaves.	10
9	345	I did not really know what a Home Stone was, but it was apparently something of importance.	10
11	140	Despite the exalted status of free women, who are equal to men in the holding of a Home Stone, can hold money and property in their own right, may found, organize, and manage businesses, may occupy positions of importance and authority, even to the occupancy of thrones, and who may enter into relati...	10
14	51	Indeed, such laws existed in Market of Semris, but it seems they failed to be noted by Lysander, and, I suppose, by other individuals of influence or importance.	10
15	303	Can she not see it in the eager eyes of the brute who has spent his coins on her, and expects to obtain a thousand times his money's worth? But why had I been obtained? Could I truly believe that Tullius Quintus was smitten with my charms, those of a work slave, those of a cheap kitchen slave? And m...	10
26	77	I had no idea what might be the contents of this shipment, or its importance, or what it might have to do with me, or with my first master, Kurik, of Victoria.	10
31	83	To be sure, when a master decides to own a girl what she wishes is no longer of interest or importance.	10
33	87	"Thus," said Kurik, "I do not think our hirsute friends, considering the presumed importance of this business, would be so negligent or stupid as to omit instructions, or forget to provide a translator".	10
38	37	"I can think of little, or nothing, nothing of importance," I said.	10
38	40	"Nothing of importance, Master," I said.	10
46	379	There would be no doubt of her importance, and his concern for her welfare.	10
50	234	"I fear, noble lady," said Kurik, "that you far overestimate your importance".	10
56	123	And the hiatus, as I see it, is a proposal of Surtak, who, in the absence of Lord Agamemnon, sees little profit in pursuing projects of dubious importance or value".	10
61	524	For example, if all women were green or blue, or such, then the distinction between green and not green, or blue and not blue, would be of little practical interest or importance.	10
63	352	The locations of Brundisium and Victoria had not a little to do, it was speculated, with their economic importance.	10
68	126	I suspected it took longer for some women, particularly Gorean free women, with their pompous, exaggerated self-image, their ponderous, inculcated sense of self-importance, to realize that there was now a collar on their neck.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
46	72	Her importance, if importance she truly had, was not generally understood.	10
3	243	So one understands the importance of scales, and, as one might expect, the occasional charges and countercharges having to do with the accuracy of the weights used to balance the scales.	10
7	226	"What is her interest or importance?" asked another.	10
11	223	It can take months for the news of some event of importance in Schendi or remote Turia to reach Kassau or Hunjer, or Port Kar, or even Cos, or Tyros.	10
14	118	"One of importance, one muchly sought, one for whose recovery money would be paid, one from Ar," I said.	10
33	511	We must discuss matters of importance with him".	10
34	77	I gathered then that there was little importance now attaching to the former Lady Julia Leta, of Ar, or, more likely, given Adraste's recent withdrawal from the tavern, that I had been given false information, and that Adraste's former identity was not that of a Lady Julia Leta, of Ar.	10
37	100	Such garmenture attests to importance, dignity, station, honor, and display; too, it may intrigue the curious, appraising male to speculate about the wonders and treasures it may conceal; but it does little for freedom of movement, say, on occasions in which a fleet departure might be advisable.	10
42	268	Thus, I gathered, that the men of Seremides, including Vas of Anango, did not realize the importance of their rescued prisoner, did not understand that they had in hand the fabled, muchly sought Talena, sought by a thousand bounty hunters, she who had once been the Ubara of Ar.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	21	"I have brought twenty of my followers, unarmed, and of diverse ranks and importance," he said.	10