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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	167	"You're not serious?" "I am," he said.	10
3	184	I had belonged to a fencing club at Oxford and had fenced for sport and pleasure at the college in New Hampshire, but this current business was serious.	10
5	46	It was, of course, kept well-guarded and at the first sign of serious danger would undoubtedly be carried to safety.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	19	He asked me, and I am certain he was serious, to meet him at the same place in three days.	10
7	14	Indeed, even if the missile struck and penetrated my shield, I would have to cast the shield away and would find myself at a serious disadvantage.	10
8	5	Most of the male citizens wore gray tunics, perhaps indicative of their superiority to pleasure, their determination to be serious and responsible, to be worthy scions of that industrious and sober city.	10
12	71	That would be a serious matter in Gorean eyes.	10
15	137	I could tell that she was not certain that I was serious, that she did not really believe I could mean what I said.	10
24	17	Theirs, like the Caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the flame may spread.	10

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

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	80	Thus one practical effect of the edict of the Priest-Kings is that each Gorean girl must, at least once in her life, leave her walls and take the very serious risk of becoming a slave girl, perhaps the prize of a pirate or outlaw.	10
12	120	It was built over a period of two centuries by Kusk, the Priest-King, as a way of escaping in his leisure hours from the burdens of his serious biological investigations".	10
27	14	I assured him I would give the matter serious consideration and departed, hearing him congratulate me on my good fortune in having been permitted to become a Mul rather than having to remain a lowly Matok.	10

Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	89	I suspected that this might be due to the hostilities and bickerings of the peoples among themselves; where people did not wish to unite, where they relished their autonomy, where they nursed old grievances and sang the glories of vengeance raids, where they considered all others, even those of the ...	10
8	192	"No," cried Albrecht, "I am serious!" "Done!" cried Kamchak.	10
11	323	He seemed satisfied that the wound was not serious, and picked up the piece of meat which he had dropped, which he tossed to Elizabeth, who, in silence, ate it.	10
13	214	He leaned back, serious for a moment.	10
22	29	As yet, cut off, he probably had no way of knowing how serious his danger was.	10
24	93	"I am serious," he averred.	10
26	408	"What would have happened to the body?" asked Harold, and it seemed he was serious.	10

Book 5. (13 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	230	He seemed a splendid individual, but very serious and very quiet.	10
6	57	It was not a serious wound.	10
11	141	That can be quite serious.	10
13	65	"Is Master serious?" she asked.	10
13	136	"Are you serious?" I asked.	10
15	187	Phyllis, it seemed, to Elizabeth's amusement, had actually, on Earth, been a rather serious, ardent feminist.	10
16	209	It might be noted, however, that a serious investment is involved in attempting to form a faction.	10
17	348	Ho-Tu apparently gave the matter very serious thought.	10
17	717	"Is Kuurus serious?" she asked skeptically.	10
17	719	"Kuurus is serious".	10
18	127	The wound was not at all serious.	10
18	283	"Go!" "But it is not a serious wound," I said, pinching it a bit, letting some blood move from it, trickling down my forearm.	10
21	7	It provides comic relief between the serious bouts and the animal fights to follow.	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	19	Yet, as a weapon, it has serious disadvantages, and on Gor the crossbow, inferior in accuracy, range and rate of fire, with its heavy cable and its leaves of steel, tends to be generally favored.	10
10	240	Ashore my crews were roisterous and brawling but on the ships, strange as it is to relate, they were serious and disciplined men.	10
11	194	The damage to the arsenal, which I had seen with my own eyes, and had taken statistical reports on from scribes, had not been particularly serious.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	900	The cut was not serious.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	126	"For a moment I thought you were serious," she said.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	135	That seemed true, and was surely more serious.	10
10	54	Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,...	10

Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	76	Her more serious training had taken place over the last several days at the oasis, which is, in effect, a town in the desert, with a population of several thousand.	10
13	167	Perhaps I could return it to you, if you were serious about its recovery".	10
13	280	These were serious offenses.	10
25	350	"A more serious problem," he said, "will occur in leading her through the halls".	10
25	434	Still the problem was serious.	10
25	732	"Are you serious?" I asked.	10
26	270	"You cannot be serious," she said.	10
26	549	I am sure that if we both bend our most serious and finest efforts to the matter we can work out a meaningful relationship".	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	268	The game of Girl Catch is played variously upon Gor; it can be played as informally and simply as it was in the camp of my captor, for the pleasure of his men, or it can be a fairly serious business, closely supervised and regulated in a sophisticated manner, as it is by merchant administrators in t...	10
5	430	This is regarded as an extremely serious offense, fit to be followed by terrible punishments.	10
5	854	That would be serious, and not to be tolerated.	10
6	257	"Let us then waste no more time sporting with slave girls," said Thurnus, "but turn our attention to more serious business".	10
26	231	To claim a Home Stone as one's own when it is not is a serious offense among Goreans.	10
28	159	With one hundred and twenty girls the most serious bidding would presumably come somewhere between Girl 80 and Girl 95.	10
28	340	Could I be still a slave girl? Could he be serious? Was it his intention to keep me still as a slave? Surely not.	10

Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	10	I understand their commitment in these matters to be serious and one involving their deep concern".	10
2	11	"Would that all men were as serious," said Samos.	10
2	531	Kaissa is a serious matter for most Goreans.	10
2	597	"It is more serious than that," he said.	10
5	135	"That would be serious," I admitted.	10
9	283	Race, incidentally, is not a serious matter generally for Goreans, perhaps because of the intermixtures of people.	10
13	60	"I wanted to come hunting with you," said Imnak, "because I have something serious to discuss with you".	10
13	62	"My business is serious," he said.	10
13	70	"Your business is more serious than mine," I said.	10
15	691	"They are known to him as serious, bonafide buyers.	10
15	714	"I jest," I said, "but, too, I am serious.	10
23	350	Lying, serious lying, is not permitted to them.	10
27	152	The general reason for the tunnel dimensions is to prevent wear and tear on mittens and clothing, which can be a very serious matter in subzero temperatures; a needle and thread in the arctic can be as important as a knife and a harpoon.	10
29	148	"If I were you," said Imnak, "I would give the matter serious consideration".	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	176	"But let us not speak of slaves," I said, "girls who serve for our diversion or recreation, but of serious matters, of the concerns of men".	10
8	74	What if the beggar had made a serious purchase of the girl on behalf of the tavern keeper? What if she were merely being delivered here to be trained as a mere paga girl? I glanced around.	10
11	248	Bejar, in my opinion, was one of the most responsible, decent, and serious captains in Port Kar.	10
12	41	This confirmed in my mind the soundness of the speculation of Samos that the false ring involved some serious threat or danger.	10
12	621	"I will take six tarsks for her," said he, "if you are serious in the matter".	10
23	207	This chauvinism can sometimes be so serious as to blind certain individuals to the natural superiority of English, or, perhaps, Gorean.	10
27	146	He had, I conjectured, made a serious mistake, a misjudgment surprising in one of so subtle a mind.	10
32	486	It is interesting that considerable attention, upon Earth, should be directed toward relatively minor, but certainly serious and real, threats to human life, such as the inhalation of, or the ingestion of, certain substances, while the ill effects of a pervasive pathological conditioning program, wh...	10
34	37	"Is it serious, Master?" she asked.	10
35	115	Whereas rivalries among men can be serious and dangerous, the most that rivalries among slave girls can be is petty and vicious; that is to be expected; they are, after all, only small, lovely animals.	10

Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	70	"If you didn't, you would be in a very serious condition".	10
18	170	As the story went, and my own knowledge, as far as it went, corroborated the story, she had wagered what were, in effect, her last serious financial resources, the proceeds garnered from the sale of her house in Venna, on the outcomes of certain tharlarion races.	10
21	163	"You do not think there will be serious trouble, do you?" pressed one of the men.	10
32	344	"You cannot be serious about selling me," she said.	10

Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	173	"You are serious?" he asked.	10
25	27	Then when he had recalled himself to the codes of his caste he had resolved to forgo the victories and the rights, and the joys and triumphs, of the mastership until certain serious, projected works had been accomplished.	10
27	40	"The rape of a free woman is a serious offense," I said.	10
28	360	"That is best," admitted Tasdron, "for there are serious things of which to speak".	10
31	151	The work afoot, thus, was doubtless too serious to be left now to subordinates.	10

Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	531	"What a little fool I was! I thought for a moment that you were serious, that you might have an actual intention of keeping me as a slave!" I did not bother responding to her.	10
19	545	"You cannot be serious about keeping me as a slave," she said.	10

Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	162	This is so, I gather, that when they have served their serious purposes, there is always something else that may be done with them.	10
8	427	"You cannot be serious!" She then learned that the intention of the iron with respect to her body was quite real.	10
11	164	"You are serious?" asked Ginger.	10
13	89	Too, it is not merely that the woman's desire to be attractive, and her efforts to be so, are accentuated in bondage, and extremely so, but that men, for some women for the first time, at least in a serious way, begin to be attractive to them, often acutely, even painfully, so.	10
17	343	In performing such intimate acts, and on the mere beast of the master, the humbled suppliant, the captured girl, acknowledges to both herself and others, nonrepudiably and publicly, that she is proposing herself as a serious candidate for bondage, that she is begging to be enslaved.	10
19	164	In spite of countervailing considerations, perhaps serious ones, he had decided that it would be he, and no other, who would own her.	10

Book 18. (6 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	474	The marking of his countenance, though surely not what a fellow would be likely to elect for cosmetic purposes, did not seem to me sufficiently serious to warrant his reaction to it.	10
9	234	My response, I thought, appropriately dismissed from serious consideration the fantastic desirability and attractiveness of the female slave.	10
15	263	"Be serious," I said.	10
28	271	One of the most common, and serious, mistakes that can be made in crosscultural encounters is to assume that everyone one meets is, in effect, very much like oneself.	10
46	95	Undefended, it posed no serious obstacle to men afoot.	10
56	107	"That was a serious miscalculation on their part," he said.	10

Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	242	"Are you serious?" he asked.	10
13	32	Face-stripping a free woman, against her will, can be a serious crime on Gor.	10
18	138	"I shall take all of these matters under the most serious consideration," said Speusippus, nodding soberly.	10
24	246	Sometimes the simple comprehension that a woman understands that such things can not be convincingly shammed and that serious consequences, the whip or such, will follow upon the detection of their fraudulence brings her around almost instantly.	10
26	247	And even free women are well aware of these virile sports, and understand that in a very serious sense their culture understands them as females, and thus as prizes.	10

Book 20. (25 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	206	Had they so dallied in their compliance, hesitating perhaps even an instant in their immediate and absolute obedience, serious punishments would doubtless have been theirs.	10
2	268	The role of the Golden Courtesan, incidentally, when it occurs in more sophisticated Gorean comedy is usually played, like the other roles in such comedies, and in most forms of serious drama, masked.	10
2	269	One possible reason for this, though I think tradition probably has much more to do with it, is that such roles in more sophisticated comedy, like roles in more serious drama, are generally played by men.	10
2	278	I have mentioned that masks are commonly worn in serious drama and sophisticated comedy, such as it is; I might also mention that they are not worn in most of the minor forms, such as mime or story dance, unless called for by the plot, as in the case of brigands, and so on; farce, on the other hand,...	10
2	398	It might have stalked off one of the long, narrow, roofed stages of Ar, such as serve commonly for serious drama, spectacle and high comedy.	10
2	400	Such costumes are often used by major characters in serious dramas.	10
2	921	It is a serious punishment, incidentally, for a slave to have her head shaved, or to be shorn.	10
6	21	In serious drama or more sophisticated comedy, when women are permitted roles within it, the female roles usually being played by men, and the females are slaves, their collars are sometimes removed.	10
6	85	It must be understood, of course, to fully appreciate what was going on, that the public exposure of the features of a free woman, particularly one of high caste, or with some pretense to position or status, is a socially serious matter in many Gorean localities.	10
6	90	Such serious measures, of course, are seldom required to protect such familiar Gorean proprieties.	10
6	387	Occasionally an actor is struck unconscious by a more serious projectile.	10
7	378	And one cannot always be too serious about art, you know.	10
7	383	To be sure, we will still remain fundamentally true to the theater, for we are primarily, when all is said and done, serious actors.	10
8	69	"Hold! You cannot be serious! Such an act would desecrate the theater! That is the finest Chino on all Gor!" "I do not like the idea either," said Chino, "on independent grounds".	10
9	255	In joining us you have undertaken a grave responsibility and a most serious charge.	10
9	365	Indeed, those slave curves of hers, even routinely put up for sale on a block, would be almost certain to elicit active and serious bidding.	10
10	57	"You're serious!" she suddenly said, alarmed.	10
10	273	"I am quite serious," I said.	10
10	511	"Are you serious?" she said.	10
10	861	If it is not, there is always the switch or, in serious cases, the lash.	10
15	79	This often produces serious consequences to the efficacy of their actions.	10
16	155	"Though, to be sure, if it were not for my confidence in your acuity and unerring judgment, I would suspect there might be cause for serious alarm".	10
16	982	"I cannot believe the great Belnar is serious," said the player.	10
18	462	I submit that attention be given to more serious matters than the apprehension of an elusive brigand".	10
22	52	"No, a thousand!" "That is a very nasty bump," I said, replacing the bandages, "but it is nothing serious".	10

Book 21. (12 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	1474	"The analogy is not perfect between the whip and more serious penalties, of course," I said, "for the girl, or most girls, will presumably never experience any of the more serious penalties, such as, say, being penalty branded as a thief or liar.	10
4	13	Sewage and sanitation, which might be expected to present serious problems, do not do so, because of the frequent moving of the camps.	10
5	359	Accordingly you are not to mutilate them or cause them permanent or serious injury unless they prove themselves to be, in some small way, at least, disobedient or displeasing".	10
11	238	"Be serious," he admonished me.	10
11	266	"You have serious sexual needs, which you have been frustrating for too long.	10
22	424	It was a rather serious mistake.	10
24	533	"That is very serious, my dear," said the man.	10
24	584	The leash is long to permit it being used in a variety of ways, for example, for binding the female or, looped, or loose, for giving her the encouragement of the whistling leather, or, if desired, the administration of more serious lash discipline.	10
25	1378	Another danger, and perhaps one more serious, is that a misdirected response would be provoked in which, say, angry males, perhaps unable to take direct action because of the numerous, carefully wrought political traps and snares trammeling them, would think themselves, consciously or subconsciously...	10
26	150	I suspected somewhat more serious things were on their minds.	10
26	235	"That sounds serious," I granted him.	10
29	65	This seemed, suddenly, a serious business.	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	223	I had diffidently called this to the attention of a fitter some two weeks ago but, after he had checked it, and had determined to his satisfaction that the matter was not serious enough to have warranted my complaint, he had simply cuffed me, and sent me, blood in my mouth, back to my lessons.	10
19	29	For a slave to claim caste is a serious matter.	10
19	31	That, too, is a terribly serious offense.	10
24	582	He would doubtless regard it as politic, at least from the point of view of soothing possible apprehensions in his constituency, to become a bit more scrupulous about proprieties, at least in so serious a situation.	10

Book 23. (10 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	807	She would be made first girl over the coffle of "free women," the Lady Temione, and the others, that she might teach them something of discipline and the basic arts of giving pleasure to men, lessons which might soon make a serious difference not only with respect to the quality of their lives, but ...	10
15	1054	I rejected the idea of clawing at the back of the knee as that, I think, is somewhat severe, and is usually followed by the administration of a serious discipline for malingering.	10
21	516	We must rather consider matters which, I believe, are more pertinent in your case, and, I fear, unfortunately for you, far more serious".	10
21	553	"It is a serious matter," said Aemilianus to her, "when a she-tarsk claims not to be a she-tarsk".	10
21	564	It is a very serious "cause for punishment" on the part of a slave to conceal or deny her status.	10
21	766	We are prepared to overlook your attempt to abet her escape, serious though this is, in view of your action on the wall, and elsewhere".	10
21	845	The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a Home Stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she must then, in law, in most c...	10
21	869	"Yet," I said, "slavery is a most serious matter".	10
22	91	"Surely masters will protect me from serious harm," she said.	10
23	136	"And even a moment ago," she said, "I, a slave, dared to question your usage of me!" "That is more serious," I said.	10

Book 24. (14 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1297	He was a very serious young man, and was very serious about these plans.	10
19	138	This form of play, of course, has its more serious purpose, as well, given the culture.	10
19	956	Taking a woman with me, however, and, in particular, one such as you, seems to impose, as you might well imagine, a handicap of a very serious nature".	10
19	1660	"You cannot be serious!" I thrust the pole down into the mud and propelled the raft forward, and about.	10
19	1661	"You cannot be serious!" she said.	10
25	99	There was some redness, and some minor abrasions from scraping, on the ankles, and neck, but it was nothing serious.	10
27	381	"Of course," she said, "there are more serious roles".	10
27	466	"You cannot be serious," she said.	10
27	467	"Oh!" "I am very serious," I said, "though I am somewhat reluctant to admit it".	10
32	116	"Are you serious?" I asked.	10
40	35	Indeed, I mention it openly only in order that we may scoff at it, none of us extending to it serious consideration.	10
44	44	"You make a serious mistake in attempting to deceive us, my friend," said the leader.	10
44	127	"You cannot be serious!" she wept.	10
48	168	He had an unusually grim expression on his face, grim even for Marcus, who was a very serious young man.	10

Book 25. (24 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	549	Although Marcus had spoken in irony, Phoebe's response was quite serious, and appropriately so.	10
10	218	Similarly, such charades provide, in more serious cases, a way of expressing one's alienation from one's own society, one's repudiation of it, and one's contempt of it.	10
12	488	"And hurled sweets at them?" "Be serious," said he, irritably.	10
13	43	"I am serious! That is the same thing, but for the intellectuals, the scribes, the high castes!" "And will they bring back the marbles from Cos for the art center?" I asked.	10
13	44	"I am serious, Tarl," he said.	10
14	325	"It is a serious thing you are charged with," I said.	10
14	713	It is one thing to tax, expropriate and confiscate in the name of various rights and moral principles, all interestingly tending to the best interests of particular parties, and quite another to enact serious reprisals against a supposedly allied citizenry".	10
15	72	"Be serious," he said.	10
15	73	"The fact that Seremides, if I read him aright, set such a trap for the Delta Brigade, supposedly with the delta records, indicates if nothing else that he is quite serious in his suspicions of the delta veterans, and that he may act against them".	10
17	20	These fellows, I think, were serious.	10
17	224	I think he was serious.	10
17	226	He was serious.	10
18	137	Also, of course, it is not unusual, in serious cases, for a debtor's properties to be seized and auctioned, that his debts may be satisfied.	10
18	376	"You are craftier than a battering ram," he said, "and your subtlety would put to shame that of most tharlarion of my acquaintance, but this young man is serious".	10
18	522	"I am serious," I said.	10
18	534	"There are serious risks involved," I said to the fellow.	10
19	1189	"Also, of course," I said, "we are not your master, and it seems that serious or grievous disciplines should be the prerogative of the master.	10
19	1340	"Should you speak that way," I asked, "of the former free woman, Lavinia of Ar?" "Be serious," he said.	10
19	1463	"You are serious then," he said, "about bringing her within the scope of your whip?" "Quite," I said.	10
22	33	But I did not wish any serious injury to be inflicted upon her.	10
22	292	"I am serious".	10
22	543	I was prepared, of course, to interfere if it seemed likely she might be in danger of disfigurement or serious injury.	10
23	109	"I am serious," I said.	10
26	478	"The law in question is a serious one," said Tolnar.	10

Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	591	I thought of my old world, and its buildings, its streets, its roads, its signs, its crowding, its people, so many of them so wonderful, so precious, so many of them so miserable and sad, their mode of dress, now seemingly so unnatural, or eccentric, the vanities, the hostilities, the offensive, dis...	10
10	319	That would be a serious offense.	10
11	1614	It is usually a very serious thing to lose caste in this society.	10
12	263	But I did not doubt she had in mind some more serious sense of freedom, and one that made me uneasy.	10
12	485	He tends to be happy, and happy men are not likely, on the whole, and absent serious provocations, to disrupt society.	10
14	18	Had I not done so, in some failure to comply with your request, I might have risked serious discipline".	10
19	265	They seemed so smug, so furtive, so sly, so sanctimonious, so hypocritical! How serious they were.	10
29	661	"Then you are serious," she said.	10

Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	141	She had never married, and had never had a serious relationship with a male.	10
11	153	"You can't be serious," said the woman.	10
11	398	The business of capturing, transporting and selling well-curved, helpless living flesh might, she suspected, be little more than a byproduct of more serious enterprises.	10
12	438	But despite sharing with her free sister her charming prostitute tendencies the slave is, in a more serious sense, not a prostitute.	10
15	578	But he could not be serious! What could he have in mind! Surely he could not be doing this to her, not to her, not to her! Had he no respect for her? What of her dignity? Was he not of Earth? Could he not remember Earth? "Please, Master!" she wept.	10
16	536	To a girl from Earth this matter of veiling may seem at first rather inconsequential, but she soon learns that it is a very serious matter.	10
16	597	And there was, of course, another serious thread in the Gorean culture, that which required the display and exposure of the slave.	10
18	204	Ellen did not participate in this socialization, as she feared her accent would reveal her as a barbarian, with perhaps serious consequences to her person, or worse, to her laundry.	10
18	560	She wondered if that were because she was the property of Portus Canio, or merely because these were serious men, who had more important things on their minds than such as she.	10
19	175	I have seen myself in the mirror! "She is young," said the officer, "but if you think she is homely, I suspect you have serious difficulties with your vision".	10
19	335	Serious matters of some sort were afoot.	10
21	169	And it is far more terrifying when the interval is long, say, overnight, for that commonly signifies that the master is according some serious thought to the matter of her punishment.	10
22	206	Indeed, many seem to regard reading as an accomplishment ill befitting decent, serious folks, an accomplishment more appropriate, at least, to the high castes than to theirs.	10
26	906	"You cannot be serious!" "They are doubtless good fellows," said Selius Arconious.	10
27	54	"Your figure is too exciting, and too lusciously beautiful, and, thus, when one looks upon you it is hard to keep one's mind on serious matters".	10
27	2303	Ellen had undergone the shifting of the wagon with no serious injury.	10
30	115	"I think, Ellen," she said to herself, "that you are worth money, yes, money, serious money.	10

Book 28. (9 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	31	If she is not acquiescent she can inflict serious injury.	10
18	47	No longer does it concern her that free women will hate her and that other Gorean female slaves will now regard her as a serious rival.	10
32	28	"I have no serious weapon, and I cannot outrun you".	10
55	349	It is not serious.	10
61	56	"Our humans will be at a serious disadvantage in the night," said Statius.	10
65	28	"Our Kurii cannot be serious".	10
65	29	"They are quite serious," said Lord Grendel.	10
73	98	"I gather," said Lord Grendel, "you believed that a certain slave, who had fled our forest camp, certainly an unwise thing to do, and a most serious offense, one whose gravity she may not have fully understood, had fallen into the company of Flavion".	10
79	89	"I am of Earth! You cannot be serious!" "I have not fastened you standing at the post," he said, "your hands over your head, for I feared you might be driven against the post, and injured".	10

Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	195	One in such a society would not be likely to think of bedding such an individual, at least as a serious project.	10
5	637	I must not make my serious concerns too obvious.	10
9	319	"You cannot be serious," I said.	10
14	36	The exercises and contests within the dojo were obviously intended to provide serious and detailed martial training, and I am sure they had great value in this regard.	10
14	80	Obviously, to lose a lance from kaiilaback is a serious matter.	10
22	284	"Surely you were not serious, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," said Tajima.	10
22	447	Or do they know themselves slaves, lacking only a master? How, I thought, might a civilization distort and pervert truth! How it can veil nature and conceal reality! How it can demean one thing and bedeck another, how it can in so many ways flee the serious, mighty, and worthy, and embrace the insig...	10
30	38	This information made me somewhat apprehensive, for it suggested that the designer of the ship was planning it not for swiftness and maneuverability, common features of a Gorean galley, even the so-called "round ships," but for stability in serious weather.	10
33	145	"You cannot be serious about taking the ship to sea," I said.	10
43	109	"Lord Okimoto has made a serious mistake," I said.	10

Book 30. (18 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	641	This was, it seems, a serious attempt to break out of the city, one now involving perhaps more than a hundred men, accompanied by women, mostly stripped, and on ropes.	10
5	27	It adds to the authority of officers, and tends to reduce the likelihood of serious harm amongst the men.	10
5	330	"You are serious?" he asked.	10
7	84	The rape of a free woman with whom one shares a Home Stone, on the other hand, is a very serious offense.	10
7	88	I would not have minded, of course, putting her to my purposes, and had mulled over the thought often enough in Ar, and since Ar, after she had, more than once, lowered her veil before me, almost as though insolently daring me to take her in my arms, which might have been a serious and dangerous bus...	10
9	26	The most serious fires on a ship are likely to originate in the kitchens.	10
9	206	It was there the serious fighting, after that in the corridors and companionways, would take place.	10
12	64	It was not a serious hail, but it would keep the deck largely untenanted.	10
26	21	On the other hand, as far as I could tell, there was a serious likelihood that we might be seriously outnumbered in any pitched battle.	10
28	120	"Surely you cannot be serious," she said.	10
30	14	We do not know how serious they are, but we cannot risk the loss of the cavalry".	10
31	6	A weapons inventory had been ordered for the loyal armsmen, and all weapons more serious than daggers were to be put into the great dojo, or training house, to be counted.	10
36	96	Perhaps most serious is the fact that many of our armsmen respect him as an astute leader, and surely favored, with him, the cause of desertion.	10
36	405	"I fear," said the captain, "matters are far more serious".	10
37	589	"Be serious," I said.	10
37	724	The pounding of spear shafts and butts produces serious bruising.	10
37	838	"Be serious," I said.	10
37	934	"That is more serious," I granted him.	10

Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	170	Serious matters are afoot".	10
26	331	I have serious reservations concerning your character".	10
27	347	"A serious male," she said, "soon saw through your shallowness and hypocrisy.	10
28	24	Usually the punishment was not as serious as a lashing, though I had been bound and lashed twice.	10
34	27	"Are you serious?" she asked, alertly, brightly.	10
35	330	"Are you serious?" he asked.	10
49	412	If this plan proceeds to fruition we will not have ended the conspiracy, of course, which is far reaching, and may have support from various steel worlds, but it should deal it a serious blow".	10
52	188	And for such things there are serious consequences, even for a slave".	10
52	221	"But you came to understand, I trust," I said, "that she was not some sort of traitress to a species or world, a cognizant conspirator, a cooperating, malevolent, unscrupulous villainess?" "That sort of thing would have serious consequences," he said, "for a free woman, one supposes impalement, and,...	10

Book 32. (8 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	116	Some serious project is afoot.	10
14	131	"One supposes," he said, "one might expect courage from one of such a caste, perhaps a willingness, under certain conditions, to accept risks, perhaps serious risks, if the end in view might justify such an acceptance.	10
14	213	It had become clear, after the attack, that this wilderness was not only a remote, miserable, dangerous venue in which we, far from civilization, were for most practical purposes incarcerated, and, under discipline, were put to manual tasks befitting the lower castes, but was, in addition, somehow i...	10
15	114	After all, there had been, I had gathered, serious difficulties in Ar, a large city, in the recent past.	10
20	54	"Surely she has more serious opinions," said another, "as to the ranking of the nine classic poets, the values of the Turian hexameter, should prose be allowed in song drama, the historicity of Hesius, the reform of the calendar, the dark geometries, the story of the czehar, the policies of the Sala...	10
25	100	I also found another root, and carelessly bit into it, which turned out to be a most serious, even hideous, mistake, unless, perhaps, one were on the brink of dying of starvation.	10
38	120	Surely the leader of the strangers could not be serious, if he were suggesting a straight exchange, a single, kneeling, scarlet-clad beauty for a trained sleen.	10
39	292	"You cannot be serious," said Tuza.	10

Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	298	"You cannot be serious," she said.	10
20	19	I suspected that the matter might not be as serious as Lord Yamada feared, and might require little more than some rearrangement of his plans, the ensconcement of a new spy, a fresh, suitable revelation for Daichi to find in his bones and shells, and such, but, as I knew the shogun, his displeasure ...	10
23	241	"You are serious?" he asked.	10
34	61	"You cannot be serious," said Yasushi.	10
42	77	The repetition of a command is commonly a cause for discipline, unless there is a serious reason to suppose that the command has not been heard, or has not been understood.	10
57	195	"Be serious," I said.	10
58	76	"There is no serious reason, in a muchly deserted palace, in a dangerous, lawless time, why she might not lead us to the trophy room, if she knew its location.	10

Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	216	"The blow was more serious, of course," he said.	10
1	499	One was quiet, plain Paula, short, and sweetly bodied, simply and conservatively dressed, who seemed to live much within herself, shy, serious Paula, who listened well, so patiently, Paula, who refrained from participating in our gossip, often so frivolous and cruel, Paula, who, of all things, read ...	10
4	32	"Surely he does not expect us to believe that there is such a place, supposedly another planet, supposedly another world!" "Your serious training will take place in one of several houses," he said.	10
14	110	"The men will now discuss serious matters," said our first girl, Selena, "the affairs of the day, trade, crops, jurisprudence, markets, ambitions, intrigues, politics, subjects empty-headed free women would find boring.	10
16	121	"Tunicked," he said, "collared, and branded? Surely you are not serious".	10
56	157	"You cannot be serious," said the Lady Bina to Lord Grendel.	10
69	142	"I was serious," he said.	10
69	145	What rational man, fortunate enough to own a desirable woman, would let her out of his collar? "I am serious," he said.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	541	"Surely you cannot be serious," I said.	10
18	37	I had learned the whip early in this world, even before my serious training had begun.	10
25	133	What I did not understand was why a crime, serious as it might be, against a minor banking house in Ar, far away, thousands of pasangs away, should provoke so much interest in so many parties, and generate so seemingly relentless a pursuit of its perpetrator.	10

Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
41	229	There is no serious suggestion there of organization, discipline, or control.	10
42	189	"You are serious about your plan, about going visiting?" asked Thrasymedes.	10
44	14	In this way, one attacker, at one time, would meet one defender, with the attacker, given his position, at a serious disadvantage.	10