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Book 1. (93 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	137	"Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.	10
4	160	Sensing what was wanted, I replied, "My Home Stone is the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba".	10
5	45	The Home Stone of Ar, like most Home Stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities.	10
5	47	Any attempt on the Home Stone was regarded by the citizens of a city as sacrilege of the most heinous variety and punishable by the most painful of deaths, but, paradoxically, it was regarded as the greatest of glories to purloin the Home Stone of another city, and the warrior who managed this was a...	10
5	59	According to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, exactly at the time of the sacrifice, at the twentieth Gorean hour, or midnight, I was to drop to the roof of the highest cylinder in Ar, slay the daughter of the Ubar, and carry away her body and the Home Stone, discarding the former in the swamp co...	10
6	29	One of them must be the Home Stone of Ar, but which? How could I tell it from the others, the Home Stones of those cities which had fallen to Ar? Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na, that would be sprinkled with the seeds of grain! I felt the stones in frenzy, but several were d...	10
1	66	At last I realized he must have planted the odd object, left it for me to discover, and was probably on his way home by now or was perhaps camping somewhere nearby.	10
2	114	In all the languages of this planet, the word means Home Stone".	10
2	116	"Home Stone," he repeated.	10
2	119	It was carved with the family sign and was called the Home Stone.	10
2	121	"Later," said my father, "Home Stones were used for villages, and later still for cities.	10
2	122	The Home Stone of a village was always placed in the market; in a city, on the top of the highest tower.	10
2	123	The Home Stone came naturally, in time, to acquire a mystique, and something of the same hot, sweet emotions as our native peoples of Earth feel toward their flags became invested in it".	10
2	126	Indeed, there is a saying on Gor, a saying whose origin is lost in the past of this strange planet, that one who speaks of Home Stones should stand, for matters of honor are here involved, and honor is respected in the barbaric codes of Gor.	10
2	128	Some of the largest cities have small, rather insignificant Home Stones, but of incredible antiquity, dating back to the time when the city was a village or only a mounted pride of warriors with no settled abode".	10
2	131	"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.	10
2	138	"I shall show you someday," he said, "my own small Home Stone, which I keep in my chambers.	10
2	143	He added, "If you should live to earn a Home Stone".	10
2	146	"It is the occasional dream of a conqueror or statesman," he said, "to have but a single Supreme Home Stone for the planet".	10
2	157	The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-Gor, which means Light Upon the Home Stone.	10
3	35	At first only Torm and my father were my teachers, but as I began to master the language of my new home, numerous others, apparently of Earth stock, assumed responsibility for my lessons in special areas.	10
3	52	"You must learn," Torm had said matter-of-factly, "the history and legends of Gor, its geography and economics, its social structures and customs, such as the caste system and clan groups, the right of placing the Home Stone, the Places of Sanctuary, when quarter is and is not permitted in war, and ...	10
3	65	The Code of the Warrior was, in general, characterized by a rudimentary chivalry, emphasizing loyalty to the Pride Chiefs and the Home Stone.	10
3	211	After a few English sentences or a page or so in one of my father's books, I would be at home again in my native tongue, but the shift was there, and necessary.	10
4	159	"What is your Home Stone?" asked my father.	10
4	178	You are going to steal the Home Stone of Ar and bring it to Ko-ro-ba".	10
5	20	Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities.	10
5	26	Yet if the Home Stone of Ar, the very symbol and significance of the empire, could be removed from Ar, the spell of Marlenus might be broken.	10
5	27	He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the Home Stone.	10
5	48	The Home Stone of a city is the center of various rituals.	10
5	53	In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later in the day a W...	10
5	54	Most significantly, while these members of the High Castes perform their portions of the ritual, the Guards of the Home Stone temporarily withdraw to the interior of the cylinder, leaving the celebrant, it is said, alone with the Priest-Kings.	10
5	56	The member of the Ubar's family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards of the Home Stone resume their vigil.	10
5	62	Two girls were supposed to die that I might have time to escape with the Home Stone before the alarm could be given.	10
5	148	I kept my course by the luminescent dial of my Gor compass, the needle of which pointed always to the Sardar Mountain Range, home of the Priest-Kings.	10
5	158	He surely would have struck home had not my tarn veered wildly to the left, almost colliding with another tarn and its rider, who fired a bolt that sank deep in the saddle pack with a sound like slapping leather.	10
5	191	And now, down there, somewhere in that monstrous blaze of light, was a humble piece of stone, the Home Stone of that great city, and I must seize it.	10
6	2	As I dropped closer, I saw that the bridges were lined with the celebrants of the Planting Feast, many perhaps reeling home drunk on paga.	10
6	28	Which was the Home Stone? I kicked apart the rocks.	10
6	49	I placed the Home Stone in the saddle pack, snapping the lock shut, and then reached down to haul in the mounting ladder.	10
6	105	"Was it you who stole the Home Stone of Ar?" I paused, then, being confident the creature had no love for the men of Ar, answered affirmatively.	10
6	109	"How did you know the Home Stone of Ar was stolen?" I asked.	10
6	113	"I lost the Home Stone," I said.	10
6	115	I think tonight there will again be gladness in Ar, when the daughter of the Ubar returns the Home Stone".	10
6	117	"How is it that the daughter of the Ubar will return the Home Stone of Ar when you carry in your belt the tarn-goad?" Suddenly I realized the truth of what he had said and was amazed that it had not occurred to me before.	10
6	191	"You should ask," she said, "where is the Home Stone of Ar".	10
6	223	"And the Home Stone of Ar?" I asked.	10
6	225	I had locked the pack when I had placed the Home Stone inside, and the pack is an integral part of the tarn saddle.	10
6	226	When she had spoken, her voice had burned with shame, and I sensed the humiliation she felt at having failed to save the Home Stone.	10
6	227	So now the tarn was gone, returned to his natural wild state, the Home Stone was in the saddle pack, and I had failed, and the daughter of the Ubar had failed, and we stood facing one another on a green knoll in the swamp forest of Ar.	10
7	4	"It pleased the daughter of Marlenus," she said, "to inform you and your eight-legged brother of the fate of your tarn and of the Home Stone you sought".	10
8	10	The officer continued: "Marlenus lost the Home Stone, the Luck of Ar.	10
8	18	She was nothing now but the abominated daughter of the villain in whose reign the Home Stone, the Luck of Ar, had been stolen.	10
8	20	"I am the one who stole the Home Stone," I said.	10
8	27	She did her best to save the Home Stone of your city".	10
8	30	"They have decreed a sacrifice to the Priest-Kings to ask them to have mercy and to restore the Home Stone".	10
8	35	"Where," he demanded, "is the Home Stone?" "I don't know," I said.	10
8	40	She raised her head and said quietly, "The Home Stone was in the saddle pack of his tarn.	10
8	155	"We never believed you would try for the Home Stone".	10
9	27	It would be generally assumed that the mysterious tarnsman who had stolen the Home Stone and disappeared with the daughter of the Ubar must long ago have reached whatever unknown city it was to which he had pledged his sword.	10
9	130	"What news of the Home Stone of Ar and the daughter of Marlenus?" I asked, feeling it would be the sort of thing the warrior would expect me to be interested in.	10
9	131	"The Home Stone is rumored to be in a hundred cities," he said.	10
9	136	"I hope he has as much luck with her as the Home Stone.	10
10	6	It is a matter of caste, an expression of respect for those who share their station and profession, having nothing to do with cities or Home Stones.	10
11	9	It was I who had stolen the Home Stone of Ar, who had brought about the downfall of Marlenus, the Ubar, who had set the spark that had brought Ar to anarchy and the vultures below to feed on the divided carcass of what had been Gor's greatest city.	10
11	12	If I could have, I would in that moment have rewritten the past, would have selfishly abandoned the quest for the Home Stone—yes, willingly would have left the scattered hostile cities of Gor to face, one by one, the imperialistic depredations of Ar, if it were not for one thing—the gi...	10
12	143	It contained, as I'd known it would, the Home Stone of Ar.	10
12	148	The pack also contained, and more importantly from my point of view, the balance of my supplies, intended for the home flight to Ko-ro-ba.	10
12	169	Almost as an afterthought I had included the Home Stone of Ar, that simple, uncomely piece of rock that had so transformed my destiny and that of an empire.	10
14	4	I gathered that he had finally seen fit to terminate the suffering of the warrior who had stolen the Home Stone of his city.	10
14	12	Around his neck he wore the golden chain of the Ubar, carrying the medallionlike replica of the Home Stone of Ar.	10
14	19	"You are he who stole the Home Stone of Ar," said Marlenus.	10
14	25	Holding the Home Stone in both hands, Marlenus leaned forward.	10
14	34	Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution ...	10
14	37	Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war.	10
14	111	"You it was who stole the Home Stone of Ar," he said.	10
14	175	I rose into flight, not thinking about Ko-ro-ba again or the Home Stone.	10
15	131	"You have taken the City," he said, "but not the Home Stone".	10
15	139	It covered the Home Stone.	10
15	182	"You could return the Home Stone.	10
15	185	"I could return the Home Stone—and there are those who would follow me—but there are not enough, not enough.	10
15	191	"Strike for the Home Stones of those cities tributary to Ar—they are kept on the Central Cylinder.	10
15	192	If you seize them, you can divide Pa-Kur's horde, give the Home Stones to the contingents of the tributary cities, provided they withdraw their forces.	10
15	195	"Perhaps some of them fight for their freedom—for the right to keep their own Home Stone," I said.	10
15	198	"Besides, few of the soldiers of Gor, barbarians though they might be, would risk the destruction of their city's Home Stone—the luck of their birthplace".	10
16	48	I was certain that he had entered the city in some manner and was presumably waiting for his chance to strike at the Home Stones of the tributary cities, in order, if possible, to divide the horde of Pa-Kur.	10
16	50	Marlenus and several men had entered the city, it seemed, but had been discovered—and sealed off in the very cylinder of the Home Stones—indeed, in that cylinder that had been his palace in the days of his glory.	10
16	51	Marlenus and his men apparently had command of the top floor and roof of the cylinder, but there was little hope he could use the Home Stones that now lay within his grasp.	10
16	55	Also, Pa-Kur was not so much a fool as to bring the tributary Home Stones to his camp and risk disuniting his horde before the siege was completed.	10
16	56	Indeed, it was probable that Pa-Kur had no intention of returning the Home Stones at all but was determined to follow in the imperial footsteps of Marlenus himself.	10
16	60	At any rate, my plan for the division of the Home Stones had failed, and Marlenus, on whom I had depended, was, in the language of the game, neutralized if not removed from the board.	10
20	7	And I wonder if on that world a girl, now a woman, thinks of me, and perhaps, too, of the secrets I have told her lie behind her sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone.	10
20	14	The Home Stones of the Twelve Tributary Cities were returned, and those men who had served Pa-Kur from those cities were allowed to return to their cities rejoicing.	10

Book 2. (34 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	55	My Home Stone was the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba, that city to which I had seven years ago pledged my sword.	10
2	85	I was home, for where my love waited for me was home.	10
1	73	"Perhaps we had better go home," I said.	10
1	78	"Let's go home," I said.	10
1	80	"Where is home?" asked Cabot, staring into the half-filled glass.	10
2	2	I awakened naked in the wind-swept grass, beneath that blazing star that is the common sun of my two worlds, my home planet, Earth, and its secret sister, the Counter-Earth, Gor.	10
2	37	This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home Stone of that city as my own...	10
2	48	This love of their city tends to become invested in a stone which is known as the Home Stone, and which is normally kept in the highest cylinder in a city.	10
2	49	In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the...	10
2	51	It is almost as if the city itself were identified with the Home Stone, as if it were to the city what life is to a man.	10
2	52	The myths of these matters have it that while the Home Stone survives, so, too, must the city.	10
2	53	But not only is it the case that each city has its Home Stone.	10
2	54	The simplest and humblest village, and even the most primitive hut in that village, perhaps only a cone of straw, will contain its own Home Stone, as will the fantastically appointed chambers of the Administrator of so great a city as Ar.	10
2	86	Where my father had met me after more than twenty years of separation, where my warrior comrades and I had drunk and laughed together, where I had met and learned from my little friend, Torm, the Scribe, there was home.	10
3	24	They could strip a carcass in a matter of minutes, each carrying back some fluttering ribbon of flesh to the recesses of whatever dark cave the swarm had chosen for its home.	10
3	67	"I mean you and your Home Stone no harm," I said.	10
3	82	Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone.	10
3	83	Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto...	10
3	84	Indeed, frequent enough were the stories where even a warrior was overcome by an angry peasant into whose hut he had intruded himself, for in the vicinity of their Home Stones men fight with all the courage, savagery and resourcefulness of the mountain larl.	10
5	61	"Then be it so," he said, "you are henceforth condemned to wander the world alone and friendless, with no city, with no walls to call your own, with no Home Stone to cherish.	10
5	120	Like every man of Gor I knew the direction of the Sardar Mountains, home of the Priest-Kings, a forbidden vastness which no man below the mountains, no mortal, may penetrate.	10
5	121	It was said that the Supreme Home Stone of all Gor lay within those mountains and was the source of the Priest-Kings' power.	10
6	69	When he brings home his captive, bound naked across the saddle of his tarn, he gives her over, rejoicing, to his sisters, to be bathed, perfumed and clothed in the brief slave livery of Gor.	10
6	101	Then, to the barbaric, intoxicating music of the flute and drums, she dances for her captor, the bells on her ankles marking each of her movements, the movements of a girl stolen from her home, who must now live to please the bold stranger whose binding fiber she had felt, whose collar she wore.	10
8	11	Even the Caste of Peasants regarded itself as the "Ox on which the Home Stone Rests" and could seldom be encouraged to leave their narrow strips of land, which they and their fathers before them had owned and made fruitful.	10
14	55	Yet it was perhaps more, for as I stood by the bird, I felt almost as though I had come home to Ko-ro-ba, as though I stood here now with something in this gray, hostile city that knew me and mine, that had looked upon the Towers of the Morning, and had spread its wings above the glistening cylinder...	10
14	112	Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S...	10
15	6	When I had borne Talena home from Ar to Ko-ro-ba, I had tried to teach her the reins of the tarn-harness and help her, at least with me at hand, to learn to master the brute.	10
18	69	Here, underground, in the mines, home of that which was lowest and most degraded in Tharna, men came to look upon one another, and themselves, with satisfaction.	10
20	56	More commonly, though never in the context of time, the sun is referred to as Tor-tu-Gor, or Light Upon the Home Stone.	10
20	71	Its Home Stone, however, which I have seen, attests to a considerable antiquity.	10
20	73	Had I possessed a Gorean compass, its needle would have pointed invariably to those mountains, as though to indicate the home of the Priest-Kings.	10
21	237	Upon reflection it seemed clear to me that the chain must, in the end, be a lonely place for a girl, filled with life, knowing that her brand has destined her for love, that each of them must long for a man to care enough for them to buy them, that each must long to follow a man home to his compartm...	10
26	83	She, like myself, and all of Ko-ro-ba, is an exile, and exiles sometimes find it hard to call a foreign city home; sometimes they regard the risks of the wilderness as preferable to the shelter of alien walls.	10

Book 3. (13 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	90	"The analogy, of course," said Sarm, "is incorrect, for there is no Home Stone as such in the Nest of Priest-Kings, the Home Stone being a barbarous artifact generally common to the cities and homes of Gorean humans".	10
18	91	I was somewhat annoyed to find the Home Stones, taken so seriously in the cities of Gor that a man might be slain if he did not rise when speaking of the Home Stone of his city, so airily dismissed by the lofty Sarm.	10
18	88	"Sometimes this is spoken of as the Home Stone of all Gor," said Sarm, as we walked the long, winding, iron spiral that clung to the side of a vast, transparent blue dome.	10
18	92	"You find it hard to understand the love of a man for his Home Stone," I said.	10
18	94	"You have nothing like the Home Stone in the Nest?" I asked.	10
24	29	Both would be quite at home, incomprehensibly to a visually oriented organism, in utter darkness.	10
32	57	The Priest-Kings, of course, would not leave the Nest, and, to my surprise, most of the humans, many of whom had been bred in the Nest or now regarded it as their home, insisted also on remaining where they were.	10
33	42	There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ...	10
34	65	"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat Home Stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.	10
34	66	"Ko-ro-ba cannot be destroyed," said my father, "for its Home Stone has not perished!" My father had taken the Stone from the City before it had been destroyed.	10
34	68	I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I had taken Talena, my love, t...	10
34	70	"Yes," said my father, "here too is Ko-ro-ba, not only in the particles of its Home Stone, but in the hearts of its men".	10
34	98	You can find a home there".	10

Book 4. (24 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	8	"Beware," he said, "I carry a Home Stone".	10
1	11	One does not lightly dispute the passage of one who carries his Home Stone.	10
6	52	My home is in New York City".	10
6	109	"I don't know where I am—or how I got here—I want to get back to America—I'm an American citizen—my home is in New York City—take me back there—I will pay you—anything!" "Tell her," repeated Kamchak, "that she must learn Gorean quickly—and that...	10
6	113	"Further," I said, "we do not have the means of returning you to your home".	10
7	138	"My home is in New York City.	10
9	380	"I will take it home with me," said Kamchak.	10
10	415	I supposed he was home with Tenchika.	10
15	7	Four times masses of tharlarion cavalry had charged forth from the city but each time the Hundreds withdrew before them until the charge had been enveloped in the swirling kaiila, and then its riders were brought down swiftly by the flashing arrows of the Tuchuks, riding in closely, almost to lance ...	10
16	67	On the other hand, I reminded myself, my own probabilities of success and survival were hardly better—and here I was, his critic—climbing up the drum rope, wet, cold, puffing, a stranger to the city of Turia, intending to steal an object—the egg of Priest-Kings—which was ...	10
16	309	Thus, the Others might well infer that there was one, or more, concealed eggs, hidden away, which must now be secured that the new generation might be inaugurated, but hidden away quite possibly not in the Place of Priest-Kings itself, but elsewhere, out of the home of Priest-Kings, beyond even the ...	10
17	9	Saphrar was a rich man indeed to have energy bulbs in his home; few Goreans can afford such a luxury; and, indeed, few care to, for Goreans, for some reason, are fond of the light of flame, lamps and torches and such; flames must be made, tended, watched; they are more beautiful, more alive.	10
21	135	"But I would prefer in any case to remain in Turia—it is my home".	10
21	164	The Caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, weaponless, alone and friendles...	10
21	236	"Return to your home and lock yourself in.	10
21	239	"Do as I say! Go home, bolt the door to your rooms, do not leave the house!" "But, Tarl Cabot," she said.	10
21	334	"Then go home and lock yourself in the cellar," he said.	10
22	12	Harold, after the Tuchuks had entered the city, insisted on squiring the young woman home whom he had encountered under the wagon, and, for good measure, the wine vendor and potter as well.	10
22	93	Take her back to her home and while we remain in the city, guard her with your lives".	10
27	1	The Sparing of the Home Stone of Turia I gathered that the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold and others seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness.	10
27	32	"Bring the Home Stone of the city," commanded Kamchak, and the stone, oval and aged, carved with the initial letter of the city, was brought to him.	10
27	37	Tears formed in the eyes of Phanius Turmus and he held the Home Stone of the city to his heart.	10
27	46	I had not understood that it would be permitted to retain a Home Stone.	10
27	221	"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...	10

Book 5. (40 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	103	"Capture of Home Stone," announced Cernus, moving his First Tarnsman to Ubara's Builder One, where Caprus had, at that point in the game, been attempting to protect his Home Stone.	10
1	23	It was said, in the time of troubles, that the Home Stone had not been lost, and it had not.	10
1	24	And even Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, knew that a city cannot die while its Home Stone survives.	10
2	5	Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins, had led a league of tributary cities to attack Imperial Ar in the time when its Home Stone had been stolen and its Ubar forced to flee.	10
3	13	I remembered the night, so many years ago, when I had first streaked over the walls of Ar, on the Planting Feast, and had made the strike of a tarnsman for the Home Stone of Gor's greatest city, Glorious Ar.	10
3	23	The object of the game is the capture of the opponent's Home Stone.	10
3	148	Finally it grew late in the end game and it would be but a matter of four or five moves and the Player's Home Stone must be lost.	10
3	177	His Home Stone, in four moves, would fall.	10
3	193	The capture of the Player's Home Stone would take place on the next move.	10
3	200	"I capture your Home Stone on the next move," said the Vintner.	10
3	209	"Scribe takes Home Stone".	10
3	228	"Can I help you to your home?" "You are surely of High Caste," said the Player, "to have such gold".	10
3	229	"May I take you to your home?" I asked.	10
5	503	My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste...	10
5	507	I had come home.	10
6	27	I heard Cernus announce "Capture of Home Stone," and turned to see Caprus sit back in defeat, staring at the board.	10
6	104	The Home Stone, incidentally, is not officially a piece of the game, as it cannot capture, though it can move one square at a time; further, it might be of interest to note that it is not on the board at the beginning of play, but must be placed on the board on or before the seventh move, which plac...	10
12	76	He had fallen when I had purloined the Home Stone of the city.	10
12	78	Marlenus, because he had lost the Home Stone and because the men of Ar feared him and his ambitions, had been publicly denied bread, salt and fire, exiled from the city and forbidden to return on pain of death.	10
13	14	The institution of capture is universal, to the best of my knowledge, on Gor; there is no city which does not honor it, provided the females captured are those of the enemy, either their free women or their slaves; it is often a young tarnsman's first mission, the securing of a female, preferably fr...	10
15	56	"Capture of Home Stone," I heard Cernus say to Caprus, who spread his hands helplessly, acknowledging defeat.	10
16	30	When the lanterns on the bridges must be lit the people return home, singing, carrying small lamps, and give the night over to feasting and love.	10
17	202	Two members of the High Council, who had spoken out against the influence of Merchants in the politics of Ar, presumably a veiled reference to Cernus, were found slain, one cut down by killing knife and another throttled and found dangling from a bridge near his home.	10
17	336	I heard Caprus say, as though marveling, "I shall capture your Home Stone in three moves!" Cernus grinned and clapped his hands on the Scribe's shoulders.	10
17	748	I became now less concerned to suggest improvements in her play and more concerned to protect my own Home Stone.	10
17	758	"Capture of Home Stone!" she cried.	10
17	798	"Don't move there," she told me, "or you will lose your Home Stone in seven".	10
19	404	"Would it not be worth five hundred gold pieces," asked Elizabeth, "to put your leash on this one and lead her home, to teach her the worth of a man of Ar, if worth they have, and then send her weeping and aching to the kettles of the kitchen until she begs to sleep beneath your slave ring?" There w...	10
20	444	When he places his Home Stone you will be able to seize it in five moves".	10
20	510	"It is capture of Home Stone," said he, "in twenty-two".	10
20	529	"That is capture of Home Stone in eleven," he said.	10
20	544	In one small hand he held clutched a tiny piece of yellow wood, the Home Stone of Cernus.	10
22	555	A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veered away; I then drew my swor...	10
22	608	"He has come home.	10
24	28	I knew that men would, and had, deserted the Home Stone of their own city to follow him into disgrace and exile, preferring outlawry and the mountains to the securities of citizenship and their city, asking only that they be permitted to ride beside him, to lift their swords in his name.	10
24	450	"Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped.	10
24	453	"In the year 10,110, more than eight years ago, a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba purloined the Home Stone of the city".	10
24	456	"As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar".	10
24	468	"Would you," asked Hup, "betray the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba?" My hand leaped to the hilt of my sword.	10
24	472	"If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.	10

Book 6. (52 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	31	Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a...	10
16	220	I did not know if men did not love her because she had no Home Stone, or that she had no Home Stone because men did not love her.	10
16	291	"Hear them? Hear what they are crying outside?" "They are crying that there is a Home Stone in Port Kar," she said, "but there is no Home Stone in Port Kar.	10
16	293	"If men will that there be a Home Stone in Port Kar," I said, "then in Port Kar there will be a Home Stone".	10
16	340	And I heard men behind him cry, "There is a Home Stone in Port Kar! There is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" This cry was taken up by thousands, and everywhere I saw men pause in their flight, and boats put about, and men pour from the entryways of their buildings onto the walks lining the canals.	10
16	391	"They cry," said the boy, in his silk and velvet, "that in Port Kar there is a Home Stone!" "There is no Home Stone in Port Kar," said Antisthenes.	10
16	426	"I have seen it! The Home Stone of Port Kar!" "The Home Stone of Port Kar!" cried thousands.	10
3	75	Wild marsh gants, captured, even as young as gantlings, cannot be domesticated; on the other hand, eggs, at the hatching point, gathered from floating gant nests, are sometimes brought to the island; the hatchlings, interestingly, if not permitted to see an adult gant for the first week of their lif...	10
8	166	I was no longer worthy of the red of the warrior, no longer worthy of serving the Home Stone of my city, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning; it seemed to me then that there were only winds and strengths, and the motions of bodies, the falling of rain, the movements of bacilli, the beating of hearts...	10
8	366	"A Home Stone?" I asked.	10
8	438	I knew, in my heart, that it had been I, I myself, who had betrayed me, I who had fallen short of the warrior codes, I who had dishonored my own Home Stone, and the blade I bore.	10
8	683	"The Peasants," cried out Thurnock, his voice thundering over the marsh, "are the ox on which the Home Stone rests!" "But I am of the Rencers!" she wailed.	10
11	567	"I am grateful for your nomination," said Samos, "but I scarcely think, in these troubled times, it behooves he who is senior captain of the council to leave the city, voyaging abroad in search of peace when war itself looms at home".	10
15	311	And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...	10
16	216	"She has no Home Stone," said one of the men.	10
16	219	Port Kar, of all the cities on Gor, was the only one that had no Home Stone.	10
16	222	Port Kar had no Home Stone.	10
16	223	"How many of you think," I asked, "that Port Kar has no Home Stone?" The men looked at one another, puzzled.	10
16	224	All knew, of course, that she had no Home Stone.	10
16	229	"I," said one of the men, "wonder what it would be like to live in a city where there was a Home Stone".	10
16	230	"How does a city obtain a Home Stone?" I asked.	10
16	232	"Yes," I said, "that is how it is that a city obtains a Home Stone".	10
16	255	Tab said it, and quietly, "The Home Stone of Port Kar".	10
16	257	"I have never had a Home Stone before," he said.	10
16	259	"Not if we have a Home Stone," he said.	10
16	261	"Do we have a Home Stone?" I asked the men.	10
16	262	"I will accept it as my Home Stone," said the slave boy, Fish.	10
16	264	The first to accept the Home Stone of Port Kar was only a boy, and a slave.	10
16	270	And, suddenly, the room was filled with cheers and more than a hundred weapons left their sheaths and saluted the Home Stone of Port Kar.	10
16	275	"Release all the slaves! Send them throughout the city, to the wharves, the taverns, the arsenal, the piazzas, the markets, everywhere! Tell them to cry out the news! Tell them to tell everyone that there is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" Men ran from the room to carry out my orders.	10
16	287	Even from where I was I could hear, beyond the holding, the cries that there was a Home Stone in Port Kar, and could see torches being borne along the narrow walks which, in most places, line the canals.	10
16	311	We heard the cry about us sweeping the city, like a spark igniting the hearts of men into flame, that now in Port Kar there was a Home Stone.	10
16	317	"There is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" he cried.	10
16	334	Many of those we passed asked me, "Is it true, Admiral, that there is a Home Stone in Port Kar?" and I responded to them, as I had to the man before, "If you will have it true, it will be true".	10
16	339	"It is said that there is now a Home Stone in Port Kar".	10
16	396	"There is no Home Stone in Port Kar!" laughed Samos.	10
16	408	"But," said the boy, "I have seen the Home Stone of Port Kar".	10
16	409	"There is no Home Stone of Port Kar, Boy," said Samos.	10
16	414	"It is the Home Stone of Port Kar," said the boy.	10
16	416	Then Samos said, "Port Kar has no Home Stone".	10
16	432	"I see," said Samos, standing near to me, his voice indistinct in the wild cries of the crowd, "that there is indeed a Home Stone in Port Kar".	10
16	435	"I think," I said, "that there has always been a Home Stone in Port Kar.	10
17	11	Beyond this, we had three hundred and fifty ships furnished by the captains of the council who had not, prior to the time of the showing of the Home Stone, fled.	10
17	17	Had it not been for the finding of the Home Stone of Port Kar, if one may so speak, I doubt that we could have brought more than four or five hundred ships against Cos and Tyros.	10
17	60	Each was rowed either by citizens of Port Kar or by eager slaves, armed and unchained, that they might, if they chose, fight for their freedom and the Home Stone of a city.	10
17	120	He would have had no way of knowing, of course, that in Port Kar there was now a Home Stone.	10
17	156	Instead I had given them a Home Stone.	10
17	307	And I know that the Home Stone of Port Kar is not yours".	10
18	43	I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and malignant, but wh...	10
18	643	"It is the place of my Home Stone," he said.	10
18	785	"Then," said Samos, "it seems that the Home Stone of Port Kar is secure".	10
18	847	It was because of you that she now has a Home Stone".	10

Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	83	I recall my mother entertaining in our home.	10
3	200	I kept, usually, some fifteen thousand dollars, and jewelry, at home.	10
6	268	I hated them! I hated them! But the important thing was that I was rescued, that I could soon buy my way home to Earth.	10
7	364	I was certain that I could, with my resources on Earth, purchase swift passage back to my home planet.	10
7	445	Many an angry young man of modest means returns, disappointed and frustrated, from the market, leading home on his tether the most that he can afford, an item of what he takes to be second-rate merchandise; but he discovers, perhaps after introducing her to the house, and tying her and giving her th...	10
8	19	Would there be someone here who would send me home? How frustrated I was, chained in the wagon.	10
8	448	"Do you wish to wear your gag home to the compound?" he asked.	10
14	539	They hurry home to the master, to petition his attention.	10
17	483	It is my home, and my prison.	10

Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	470	"Mad!" "My Home Stone," I told him, "was once the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba.	10
1	61	He looked up at me, and defended his Home Stone by bringing his Scribe to Ubar One whence it could control his Ubar's Tarnsman Three, controlling as well the killing diagonal.	10
1	92	I moved my Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion to command the file on which the Home Stone of Samos lay richly protected.	10
1	159	I must defend my Home Stone.	10
1	175	My Home Stone was threatened.	10
1	180	"Home Stone to Ubar's Tarnsman One," I said.	10
10	94	"Yes," said Marlenus, "for long ago you had purloined the Home Stone of Ar".	10
10	108	"Ar is where the Home Stone of Ar lies!" He chuckled.	10
11	763	I moved my Ubar's Physician to my Ubara Six, interposing it between the Ubara and the Home Stone.	10
11	792	"Capture of Home Stone," said Marlenus.	10
13	348	"Where was your home?" I asked.	10
19	437	"Long ago," I said, "I dishonored my caste, my Home Stone, my blade.	10

Book 9. (15 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	107	He had sullied the sword, the honor, which he had pledged to Ko-ro-ba's Home Stone.	10
1	113	And was it not he who had been victor on the 25th of Se'Kara, in the great engagement of the fleets of Port Kar and Cos and Tyros? He had come to love Telima, and had freed her, but she, when he had learned the location of his former Free Companion, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, and resol...	10
1	313	"You are now without caste, without Home Stone, without family".	10
1	444	No longer had she caste, no longer a Home Stone.	10
1	449	She was no longer entitled even to call its Home Stone her own.	10
4	34	The Gorean compass points always to the Sardar, the home of Priest-Kings.	10
4	204	The taking of the Hall, in the Kaissa of the North, is equivalent to the capture of the Home Stone in the south.	10
6	16	They looked upon the new country, harsh, forbidding, which was to be their home.	10
8	38	The stamp of Ar, a single letter, that which appears on its Home Stone, the Gorean spelling of the city's name, was often forged by unscrupulous tradesmen and placed on their own goods.	10
10	94	Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the...	10
10	302	In the south, a girl is sometimes sent to the market clad only in her brand and collar; not infrequently, upon her return home, she begs her master for his touch.	10
17	118	, which terminology perhaps lingers from times when the heart was regarded not as a chemomechanical pump but as the throne and home of the emotions.	10
17	147	It is not impossible that the defertilization or destruction of their former home was a consequence of such altercations.	10
22	133	She had once, against my wishes, fled the Sardar, when I had wished, as a foolish Earthling, to return her to her home planet, for safety.	10
22	138	It is seldom that they, if not protected by a city and a Home Stone, escape the slave collar, the brand, the chains of a master.	10

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	83	Man, on Earth, had finally succeeded, after long centuries, in creating a society in which he had no essential place; he had, at last, built a house in which he could not live, in which he had left not one room suitable for human habitation; he called it a home; in it he was a stranger; his habitat,...	10
2	402	"I must hurry home," she said, "to prepare supper for my father".	10
4	149	History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ...	10
5	779	She might have been safe on Earth; she had chosen to be unsafe, as any beautiful woman without a Home Stone must be on Gor.	10
24	66	She lifts her hands and face and body to the sun and wind, come home at last, after years of banishment, to nature's world.	10
26	316	There she lived, free but of no status; she was no longer recognized, in the sight of its Home Stone, as a citizen of Ar; she had not even the collar of a slave girl for her identity; she was kept sequestered by Marlenus in the central cylinder, that his shame not be publicly displayed upon the high...	10
26	732	"As though I might be any girl, brought home from a market?" "Yes," I said.	10

Book 11. (34 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	275	A palace without a Home Stone is but a hovel; a hovel which contains a Home Stone is a palace.	10
9	1019	It is difficult to make clear to a non-Gorean the significance of the Home Stone, for the non-Gorean has never had a Home Stone, and thus cannot understand its meaning, its reality.	10
1	200	It was not my home.	10
3	132	In my home we had always had, as long as I could remember, both a maid and a cook.	10
3	279	Accordingly, particularly in the early phases of the game, the young males often devote their acquisitive attentions to those young women of the enemy city who are the most attractive to them personally, to those they would most enjoy taking home with them at the end of the day.	10
5	440	It was as though in my own home an almost final shield of modesty had been taken from me, leaving me only a bit of wide-strung netting, inviting the ripping hand of a master.	10
6	171	It was the Home Stone of Thurnus.	10
6	272	I looked at the Home Stone in the hut.	10
6	273	In this hut, for it was here that his Home Stone resided, Thurnus was sovereign.	10
6	274	In this hut, even had he been a lowly man or beggar, he, because of the presence in it of his Home Stone, was Ubar.	10
6	279	They shared the hospitality of his Home Stone.	10
7	27	Already, only some years ago, Ar had tasted the bitterness of enemies within her walls, when, in the political confusion following the temporary loss of her Home Stone and the deposition of her Ubar, Marlenus, there had been a revolt of tributary cities, organized and led by Pa-Kur, Master of the Ca...	10
9	1017	These remarks would not be complete without mentioning Home Stones.	10
9	1018	Perhaps the most significant difference between the man of Earth and the Gorean is that the Gorean has a Home Stone, and the man of Earth does not.	10
9	1020	I think that I shall not try to make clear what is the significance to a Gorean of the Home Stone.	10
9	1022	I think this is one of the saddest things about the men of Earth, that they have no Home Stone.	10
14	132	Then I saw that he had brought about capture of Home Stone.	10
16	169	This infamous port is the home port of the famed black slavers of Schendi, a league of slavers well known for their cruel depredations on shipping, but it is also a free port, administered by black merchants, and its fine harbor and its inland markets to the north and east attract much commerce.	10
16	172	They conduct their work commonly in more northern waters, returning to Schendi as their home port.	10
18	110	She was free only a few hours, however, for, as an unescorted free woman, guardsmen swiftly went to her protection, prepared to help her safely home.	10
22	69	Since they have everything, and anything, they want from her, and she is complete slave, and they total master, there is no struggle between them; she, accordingly, in a strange way, is prized and treasured; how many women of Earth, I wonder, are prized and treasured by their men; one can prize and ...	10
26	44	I had been turned about and marched home, to be put under the whip.	10
26	66	I had been left at home, chained to the ring at the foot of her couch.	10
26	203	First, were you of Ar, it would be my right, could I be successful, to make of you a slave, for we share no Home Stone.	10
26	206	Earth girls had no Home Stones.	10
26	214	"I am truly of Ar!" "Describe to me," said he, "the Home Stone of Ar".	10
26	218	In this ceremony the Home Stone of the city is held by each young person and kissed.	10
26	221	The youth of Earth have no Home Stone.	10
26	223	Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take the Home Stone of the city as his own.	10
26	225	The sharing of a Home Stone is no light thing in a Gorean city.	10
26	227	"Yet you cannot describe her Home Stone.	10
26	231	To claim a Home Stone as one's own when it is not is a serious offense among Goreans.	10
27	283	He will have, too, his own Home Stone".	10
27	358	This is as it should be, and, shortly after coming to Gor, this is brought home to her, clearly; on Gor she finds herself restored to the antique rights of her biological heritage, and meaning; she learns complementarity; she learns about dominance and submission, and that she is not dominant; at la...	10

Book 12. (51 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	403	Red controlled not one but four adjacent diagonals, unobstructed diagonals, each bearing on the citadel of yellow's Home Stone; the red Ubara threatened the Ubara's Scribe's Spearman at Ubara's Scribe Two; the Initiate threatened the Ubara's Builder at Builder Two, positioned directly before yellow'...	10
30	127	I suppose that is a drawback to caste membership, but if you did have Home Stones, it might be difficult to take fees on one whose Home Stone you shared".	10
3	59	For example, a piece which once in Ar had been called the "City" was now identified officially as the "Home Stone" even in Ar.	10
3	60	Indeed, some players in Ar had always called it the Home Stone.	10
3	176	Schendi, incidentally, is the home port of the league of black slavers.	10
3	831	"Masters," she whimpered, "take me home with you!" "Do you beg to be purchased?" asked one of the men.	10
3	1255	Taken home, she would soon become a satisfactory, hot slave, piteous and eager at her master's feet.	10
4	105	Games are adjudicated, when capture of Home Stone does not occur, by a team of five judges, each of which must be a member of the caste of players, and three of which must play at the level of master.	10
4	180	In Ar, when Scormus had achieved capture of Home Stone, Marlenus himself, Ubar of the city, had showered gold upon the board.	10
4	352	Scormus would place his Home Stone, of course, on the Ubara's side, probably at Builder One.	10
4	364	I suddenly realized that yellow had not yet placed his Home Stone.	10
4	368	Not one piece had yet been moved by yellow from the row of the Home Stone.	10
4	373	This would prepare for Builder to Builder Two, and, on the third move, for placement of Home Stone at Builder One.	10
4	377	If Scormus wished to place his Home Stone at either Ubar's Builder One or Ubara's Builder One, it would take three moves to do so.	10
4	379	He could place the Home Stone, of course, in two moves, if he would place it at Ubar's Tarnsman One, or Ubar's Scribe One, or Ubar One, or Ubara One, or Ubara's Tarnsman One.	10
4	380	But these placements permitted within two moves left the Home Stone too centralized, too exposed and vulnerable.	10
4	382	Already, though he had red, Centius of Cos was moving to place his Home Stone.	10
4	385	On his own eighth move Centius of Cos advanced his Ubara's Builder to Builder Two, to clear Builder One for placement of Home Stone.	10
4	386	On his ninth move Scormus of Ar, following suit, advanced his Ubara's Builder to Builder Two, to open Builder One for the positioning of the Home Stone on the tenth move.	10
4	388	Centius of Cos placed his Home Stone at his Ubara's Builder One.	10
4	392	Scormus of Ar, on his tenth move, inexplicably to many in the crowd, though he possessed yellow, a move behind, placed his Home Stone at Builder One.	10
4	393	The two Home stones, at their respective locations, faced one another, each shielded by its several defending pieces, Scribe and Initiate, one of the central Spearmen, a flanking Spearman, a Builder, a Physician, and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
4	405	The attack, of course, was not on the Ubar's side but on the side of the Ubara, where Scormus had placed his Home Stone.	10
4	406	Moves which had appeared to weaken red's position had served actually to produce an incredible lead in development; moves which had appeared meaningless or defensive had actually been deeply insidious; the timorous feint to the Ubar's side by red with the Ubara and Ubar had, in actuality, prepared a...	10
4	423	One of the men of the party of Cos which had now returned to the stage stood on the table of the game, the yellow Home Stone in his grasp.	10
4	443	He reached toward the man on the table who held aloft the yellow Home Stone.	10
4	449	Centius of Cos held, clutched, in his hand, the yellow Home Stone.	10
6	197	"Before I send men against one such as he," said the officer, "it will be to defend a Home Stone".	10
6	657	"You are free," she said, "protect me!" "What is your Home Stone?" I asked.	10
6	685	"I have no Home Stone," he shrugged.	10
7	34	The sword of the warrior, commonly, is pledged to a Home Stone, that of the assassin to gold and the knife.	10
8	186	They possessed no Home Stones.	10
8	188	Did they not know that they, not having a Home Stone, were subject to any man's collar? She looked at me.	10
9	230	Many young slave maidens are raised almost as daughters in a home.	10
10	277	"Imnak," I said, "would you like to go home?" "I have not seen the performance of a drum dance in four moons," he said.	10
12	127	"I am anxious to go home".	10
12	241	"I am home," he said.	10
13	216	Only he always forgets to bring the meat home.	10
14	211	"Well, let us go home then," I said, "for I have drunk enough tea at the tent of Kadluk and evaded enough missiles to last me for several years".	10
14	240	"Home," said Imnak.	10
14	316	"Now," said Kadluk, her father, "you will not come running home to the tent".	10
14	323	Indeed, she could not now go running home to the tent of her father.	10
15	952	When the husband returns home she is often, actually, engaged in labors.	10
22	228	"Let us tow it home," I said.	10
22	233	"Let us draw it home now behind us".	10
30	124	"What is your Home Stone?" I asked.	10
30	126	"Assassins, as I recall," I said, "have no Home Stones.	10
31	144	"Those of Earth, as I understand it, which is your home world, are the most despicable.	10
35	427	They would be protected with all the safeguards with which Goreans surround and honor exalted free females, equal sharers of the rights of Home Stones.	10
35	438	They have no Home Stones and no Gorean allegiances, or loves.	10
35	445	You see, they have no Home Stones.	10

Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	197	It is also the home port of the League of Black Slavers.	10
1	474	It was in that same year, incidentally, that Port Kar had first had a Home Stone.	10
1	742	It was also the home port of the League of Black Slavers but their predations were commonly restricted to the high seas and coastal towns well north and south of Schendi.	10
3	81	"You should be home".	10
3	82	"I have no home," she said.	10
4	66	I could not yet see the golden rim of Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone, rising in the east over the city.	10
5	344	"Do not forget that Schendi is the home port of the black slavers".	10
6	201	The Palms of Schendi would enter Schendi, her home port, in style.	10
10	65	He had, too, pressed his thumb against the coin, on both sides, feeling the ship, and, on the reverse, the sign of Port Kar, its initials, in the same script that occurred on her Home Stone.	10
14	54	A similar sort of thing is done sometimes when a master brings home a new girl to a house which is completely empty, if necessary, by prearrangement, and new to her, and orders her to enter alone.	10
15	296	Both could be driven home before I could hurl my captors from me.	10
16	51	The inland speech had been spoken in the home.	10
32	1017	"Perhaps, here and there, men will form themselves into small communities, where the names of such things as courage, discipline, and responsibility may be occasionally recollected, communities which, in their small way, might be worthy of Home Stones.	10
34	319	Not only are they free, but they may even share a Home Stone.	10
48	256	In having been enslaved she has lost all claim to her former Home Stone.	10

Book 14. (25 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	53	I would take her home, of course, in a cab.	10
1	863	"I will take you home," I said.	10
1	919	If you will not let me take you home, let me, at least, share the cab, so I can get back to my apartment without a great deal of inconvenience".	10
1	1010	Two bolts, one on each side, had been thrust home, securing the doors.	10
11	421	I think the best explanation for the Gorean political arrangements and attitudes is to be found in the institution of the Home Stone.	10
11	422	It is the Home Stone which, for the Gorean, marks the center.	10
11	423	I think it is because of their Home Stones that the Gorean tends to think of territory as something from the inside out, so to speak, rather than from the outside in.	10
11	425	For the Gorean the Home Stone would mark the point of the circle's center.	10
11	426	It is the Home Stone which, so to speak, determines the circle.	10
11	428	But let me not try to speak of Home Stones.	10
11	429	If you have a Home Stone, I need not speak.	10
11	430	If you do not have a Home Stone, how could you understand what I might say? "I am from a place called England," said the girl.	10
13	422	"Please take me home, Publius, and touch me," I heard a woman, in robes of concealment, say to he who walked with her upon that street.	10
16	176	It was a bit late now, and they were hurrying home.	10
16	177	When their master arrived home they would be expected to greet him, kneeling, his meal prepared.	10
16	197	' I thought again of the two slave girls who had been hurrying past, doubtless to arrive home in time to prepare their masters' meals and then to be ready, bathed, perfumed and in a bit of silk, kneeling, to greet him.	10
16	304	"Perhaps you should hurry home.	10
18	177	She resided now in Vonda, in a tiny, dingy holding, where she, as a citizeness of that city, would have, at least against foreign creditors, the protection of its Home Stone.	10
18	179	The Lady Florence, though she must have been aware of these things, never, it was said, at home or abroad, mentioned the name of the Lady Melpomene.	10
22	2	"It is nothing," said the Lady Florence, "for we are sharers of a Home Stone and are, too, fast friends".	10
22	99	"Let us all, together rejoicing," called out the Lady Melpomene, "prepare to lift our cups to our lovely and generous hostess, she with whom I share a Home Stone, my dearest friend, the Lady Florence of Vonda!" The Lady Melpomene reached for her cup.	10
22	124	"Take me home".	10
22	130	"Take me home!" she cried.	10
22	202	"Would you rather this be done on the platform of public shame in the great square of Vonda, where you might bring shame upon the Home Stone?" inquired the prefect.	10
27	134	Hopefully, however, they share a Home Stone with her master, which gives her perhaps the only safety and security she can rely upon.	10

Book 15. (28 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	57	The Home Stone of Port Cos, significantly, was not the Home Stone of Cos.	10
29	58	Ar's Station, on the other hand, did not have its own Home Stone, but its Home Stone remained that of Ar.	10
4	195	Her Home Stone was not that of Lara, times were troubled, and Strobius was master in his own inn.	10
4	470	Sometimes the manhood robe is associated, as well, with the ceremony of the Home Stone.	10
5	39	I think he was startled that he managed to strike home so seldom.	10
10	135	"And I have no Home Stone.	10
10	243	"I was saying," she said, "that I have no money, and that I have no Home Stone.	10
10	323	"Beast!" "Remember," I told her, "you have no Home Stone".	10
10	326	"I know! I have no Home Stone! You might just tear the sheet from me.	10
11	496	"Does she have a Home Stone?" she asked.	10
14	56	Doubtless I was eager to get her home.	10
14	63	On the way home I stopped in the market to buy a few things, some articles for which I thought I might find a use.	10
14	69	Also on the way home I purchased her a slave tunic and stopped at the shop of a metal worker, where I had her measured and purchased a collar for her.	10
14	228	"The Mistress will be home soon, and then, doubtless, you will be soon set to chores".	10
15	22	My pouch, left home, had been emptied out upon the floor.	10
16	1	Lola has not Greeted me as I Return Home; I Hurry to the Wharves "Lola!" I called.	10
16	12	"You know I like her at my feet when I come home".	10
20	1	The Tavern of Hibron; I Return Home Alone "Stand back," said the pirate.	10
20	8	"Come home with me now," I said.	10
20	14	"I do not wish to come home with you now," she said, lightly, a bit of Ka-la-na spilling from the silver goblet she held.	10
20	16	"Come home with me," I said, "you little fool".	10
20	47	"Come home with me, now".	10
20	53	"Come home with me, now," I said to the girl.	10
20	66	"I wish her to return home with me now," I said.	10
20	99	I then returned home.	10
20	102	When I returned home that night she had still not arrived, nor, again, by the next morning.	10
21	211	Which, of all of them, would you lead home, as your slave?" "She," I said, "the one whom we might call Beverly".	10
29	56	Most importantly, from the Gorean point of view, when the colony is founded, it will have its own Home Stone.	10

Book 16. (13 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1067	"Oh, Master," begged Florence, "please take me home, and use me! Please, my Master, take me home, and use me!" "It has been a pleasant evening," grinned Miles of Vonda, rising to his feet.	10
8	298	Perhaps one is that Earth girls are alien to Gor and have no Home Stones.	10
8	416	The self-frustrating futility of their attack, obstinate and unimaginative, had, at long last, apparently been brought home to its commander.	10
9	235	In the beginning, true to my resolves, I tried to be rebellious, but the impracticality of that was soon brought home to me.	10
17	479	It is as though I had come home to myself".	10
18	315	How far we have wandered from home.	10
18	418	She revels in this new-found freedom; she exults in the bold appraisals to which she now finds herself subjected, those which free men may fittingly bestow upon a slave; she inclines her head submissively as she passes free men; should they stop her, perhaps to question her, or inquire after directi...	10
18	443	The young Gorean male, we shall suppose, now brings his girl home.	10
18	454	The same girl whom he bought as a mere piece of slave meat from a sales block, for his pleasure, we shall suppose, when brought home, and put in a collar at his feet, turns out to be a highly intelligent, sophisticated, vulnerable and delicate organism.	10
19	126	Commonly, if the master is home, and she is not under orders, as in, say, running an errand, or conducting regular business, such as shopping or gardening, she must, on her knees, beg his permission to leave the house, usually specifying her itinerary and when she expects to return.	10
19	442	But, too, psychologically, where could it be more advantageously placed? Where else on the body might it be placed that its security, its effectiveness and its meaning could be more clearly brought home to its lovely captive? The collar also, of course, has other utilities.	10
20	34	For the last few days I had been boarding Shirley at a kennel in Victoria, but I had had her brought home this evening that she might help with the serving, and for another reason.	10
20	165	You may then take her home with you tonight when you go".	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	21	I myself, whose Home Stone was already placed, preferred a much earlier and more central placement of the Home Stone.	10

Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	1002	"Are you not going to take me home?" "Can you find your way home from here?" I asked.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	170	It is generally accepted in Gorean tradition that the Home Stone of Ar is the oldest Home Stone on Gor.	10

Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	69	Afterwards, they are usually conducted home by one of the young men, often he whose cords have bound them, and who may be interested in their acquisition, on his leash, usually to the home of their mother's owner, usually their father, to whom, in virtue of such a ceremony, they now legally count as...	10

Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	104	Given the anger in Ar at Ar's Station, and the fact that the Home Stone of Ar's Station had been sent to Ar, supposedly, according to the rumors, not for safekeeping, given the imminent danger in the city, but in a gesture of defiance and repudiation, attendant upon the supposed acceptance of a new ...	10
9	190	The Home Stone is safe! The Central Cylinder stands! How shall we make amends to our Cosian brother? What gift would be great enough to thank him for our Home Stone, our lives and honor? What sacrifice would be too much to express our gratitude?" "No gift would be too great!" cried men.	10
20	585	"If he does manage to obtain the Home Stone and you run him through, and it drops out of his cloak on the street, and it becomes immediately apparent to the guards about that there appear to be two Home Stones of Ar's Station in the vicinity, what then?" "I shall seize it up and make away," he said.	10
22	388	"Take me home! Take me home!" she wept.	10
28	18	Even a remote hut, far from the paved avenues of a town or city, may have a Home Stone, and therein, in the place of his Home Stone, is the meanest beggar or the poorest peasant a Ubar.	10
28	19	The Home Stone says this place is mine, this is my home.	10
28	26	In this primitive sense the Home Stone is simply that, and irreducibly, the Home Stone.	10
28	107	But, too, I speculated, there would be those of Ar to whom the Home Stone was a Home Stone, and not a mere rock, not a piece of meaningless earth.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	211	"By the Home Stone?" "By the Home Stone itself!" said the pit master, angrily.	10

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	77	Gorean decor varies from latitude to latitude, from city to city, and home to home, but, in general, it tends to simplicity and openness, this presumably a heritage deriving from some remote tradition.	10
11	750	"A Home Stone, Master?" "Commonality of Home Stone extends beyond concepts with which you are familiar, such as shared citizenship, for example.	10
17	722	Too, even if we had once shared a Home Stone, you are now without the rights of the Home Stone, having been enslaved.	10
18	219	His Home Stone was the Home Stone of Ar.	10
19	7	"Is your Home Stone the Home Stone of Ar?" inquired Portus, suddenly, fiercely, of Selius Arconious.	10
21	240	Could you not note its direction? Did I not hint such things to you? Why did you not listen? The Home Stone? The Home Stone of Ar is no more than a piece of rock".	10
30	806	I have at last come home, come home to myself, to the deepest truths of my being.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	933	For example, whereas I am not clear on the nature of "Home Stones," or their meaning, if any, it would be unusual, as I understand it, for a woman to be enslaved by a man with whom she shares a Home Stone.	10

Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	179	"So you chose caste, that of the foresters, and came here, to serve the Home Stone hundreds of pasangs away?" "The Home Stone of Port Kar may be served here as well as at the gulf, as well as in the shops of the arsenal, as well as on the wharves, as well as on the decks and benches of her ships".	10
3	255	"But elsewhere?" "My Home Stone," he said, "is the Home Stone of Port Kar".	10
19	17	Few, I suspected, would find their way back to their Home Stones, if Home Stones they had.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	933	"I knew a barbarian once," said Callias, "who not only lacked a Home Stone, but did not know what a Home Stone was".	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	11	What are we worthy of, we, we without Home Stones? To such as those with Home Stones, of what value could such as we be? I touch my collar, and suspect.	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	235	The free woman is a person, a citizen, and may possess a Home Stone; we are animals and properties, marked and collared as such, and we lack Home Stones, for such are denied to beasts.	10
15	306	We have Home Stones! Did you have a Home Stone?" "No," I said.	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	99	Two-strap! Into the clouds, to vanish! Home, Fellows, home!" Ichiro winded his horn, with the piercing note of assembly, and the riders, as one, wheeled their sky mounts toward the mountains.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	113	I did not even know if my master had a Home Stone, and, if so, what Home Stone it might be.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	57	Men who had betrayed Home Stones, men who had abandoned them, men who had, by deeds or words, dishonored Home Stones, men who had lived for years, lost and separate, alone and miserable, without Home Stones, looked suddenly at one another, wildly.	10

Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	141	"He who defeats himself," I said, "regardless of caste, dishonors his Home Stone, and he who dishonors his Home Stone has no Home Stone".	10
48	31	To attack one Home Stone is to attack all Home Stones.	10
48	32	To defend one Home Stone is to defend all Home Stones".	10