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Book 1. (93 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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
4	160	Sensing what was wanted, I replied, "My Home Stone is the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba".	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	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
2	17	Aside from these things and two stone blocks, perhaps chairs, and a mat on one side, the room was bare; the walls and ceiling and floor were smooth as marble, and a classic white.	10
2	19	I rose from the stone table, which was indeed what it was, and went to the window.	10
2	32	I strode over to it and nearly bruised my thigh on the stone structure.	10
2	114	In all the languages of this planet, the word means Home Stone".	10
2	116	"Home Stone," he repeated.	10
2	118	"In peasant villages on this world," he continued, "each hut was originally built around a flat stone which was placed in the center of the circular dwelling.	10
2	119	It was carved with the family sign and was called the Home Stone.	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	131	"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.	10
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
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	147	Then, after a long moment, not looking at me, he said, "It is rumored there is such a stone, but it lies in the Sacred Place and is the source of the Priest-Kings' power".	10
2	154	We both sat down again, the stone table between us, and my father calmly and methodically explained many things to me.	10
2	157	The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-Gor, which means Light Upon the Home Stone.	10
3	14	I imagined him with a carpenter's hammer, angrily cracking and banging away at the wall, chipping away the stone that more light might enter his room.	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	189	He flung down his sword with a crash on the stone tiles and clasped me to his bleeding chest, laughing.	10
4	91	At the same moment the iron bolt of a crossbow, fired through one of the narrow windows, struck the wall behind my chair-stone and ricocheted viciously about the room.	10
4	132	Benches of stone, on which the members of the Council sat, rose in five monumental tiers about the walls, one tier for each of the High Castes.	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	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	42	She had risen and walked across the room, her feet bare on the stone floor, and dropped to her knees before me, lowering her head and lifting and extending her hands to me, the wrists crossed.	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	48	The Home Stone of a city is the center of various rituals.	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	55	Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelik...	10
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	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
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
6	25	I lunged for the center of the platform, breaking under my foot a small ceremonial basket filled with grain, kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface.	10
6	28	Which was the Home Stone? I kicked apart the rocks.	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
6	34	The Guards were on the roof! I leaped after the heavily robed figure, seized her, spun her around and tore from her hands the stone she carried.	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	42	The Stone is gone".	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	58	Weeds were growing between cracks in the stone flooring of the highway, and the ruts of the tharlarion carts had all but disappeared.	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
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
12	9	The eyes were inscrutable, as if they had been made of glass or stone and set artificially in that metallic mask of a countenance.	10
12	13	The eyes, like glass or stone, revealed nothing.	10
12	44	The stone eyes regarded me, expressionless.	10
12	143	It contained, as I'd known it would, the Home Stone of Ar.	10
12	146	At the time the stone was carved, Ar, in all probability, had been one of dozens of inconspicuous villages on the plains of Gor.	10
12	147	Impatiently I set the stone aside.	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	13	In his hands he held the Stone itself, that humble source of so much strife, bloodshed and honor.	10
14	19	"You are he who stole the Home Stone of Ar," said Marlenus.	10
14	21	"It was well done," said Marlenus, looking at the Stone, holding it so the light reflected variously from its worn surface.	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	195	"Perhaps some of them fight for their freedom—for the right to keep their own Home Stone," I said.	10
18	90	Then, in frustration, I backed slowly away, hoping to see some lever or perhaps some suspicious crevice higher in the escarpment, something that might play its role in opening the passage I was sure lay hidden somewhere behind that seemingly solid mass of stone.	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

Book 2. (40 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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	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
5	64	"What of my father, my friends, the people of my city?" "Scattered to the corners of the world," said the robed figure, "and not a stone may stand upon a stone".	10
6	61	The thought ran through my head, no stone may stand upon another stone.	10
17	68	There would not be a stone set upon another stone.	10
26	106	I have wondered about the Priest-Kings and their power, their ships and agents, their plans for their world and mine; but most importantly I must learn why my city was destroyed and its people scattered, why it is that no stone may stand upon another stone; and I must learn the fate of my friends, m...	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	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
3	10	Surprisingly, though the pasang stones told me I was close to Ko-ro-ba, stubborn tufts of grass were growing between the stones, and occasional vines were inching out, tendril by tendril, across the great stone blocks.	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	110	His hands fumbled on the cords and the great bundle of wood loosened and clattered to the stone flooring of the road.	10
4	3	Was I not Tarl of Ko-ro-ba? Was there not such a city? Each pasang stone proclaimed there was—at the end of this road.	10
4	49	In a flash of light I spied a pasang stone and eagerly rushed to it.	10
4	50	In the mounting wind and darkness I traced the numbering on the stone.	10
4	55	Why were the lanterns not hung on the lofty bridges? Why were the lamps of a hundred colors and flames not lit in the compartments of the city, telling in the lamp codes of Gor of talk, of drinking, of love? Why were the huge beacons on the wall not burning, not summoning Ko-ro-ba's far-roving tarns...	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	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
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
10	46	Some twenty feet below the level of the door, in the absolute darkness, with brutal impact, I struck bottom, a stone floor covered with wet straw.	10
10	56	It dragged me in a series of quick, vicious jerks through the tunnel, scraping me on its stone walls, lacerating me, ripping my tunic.	10
10	57	At last it dragged me into a round, globelike space, lit by two torches in iron racks, which were set into the fitted-stone walls.	10
10	67	I tried to rise but was pressed down, my face to the stone.	10
12	6	The floor and the walls were of black stone, quarried in giant blocks of perhaps a ton apiece.	10
12	7	The lamp dried the stone in its vicinity, but, on the floor and most of the walls, there was a dampness and the smell of mold.	10
13	32	Some seemed to be conversing among themselves, perhaps laying wagers of one sort or another, but most sat still on the stone benches, glum and silent in their gray robes, their thoughts not easily read.	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
16	22	The great giant landed on the marble pillar, its steel-shod talons ringing on the stone.	10
17	13	I nodded, and leaned back against the damp, solid stone that formed the sides of the chamber.	10
18	5	The ore shafts are like narrow wells sunk in the stone and their platforms can scarcely accommodate a slave's sack of ore.	10
18	104	There was an iron grating set in the stone, about eight feet high in the shaft.	10
19	9	And the eyes of Ost, too, like those of a terrified urt, looked from face to face, pleading, but Ost found no pity in those eyes that looked upon him as though they might have been composed of stone.	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
23	186	No sooner had we reached the spiraling stone stairwell which led down from the wall than the six spears, their points describing a circle of perhaps a yard in diameter, struck the wall over our head with a splintering of rock.	10
26	35	Graveled streets are now being paved with blocks of colored stone set in patterns to delight the eye.	10

Book 3. (90 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	80	She leaped from the stone couch and ran to me, seizing my sword arm, but with my left hand I flung her back and she fell stumbling back against the side of the stone couch.	10
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
34	17	"My son," he said, "the people of Ko-ro-ba were scattered and none could be together and no stone of that city might stand upon another stone".	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	72	"I understand," said my father, "from what you have told us, that now once more a stone may stand upon a stone, that two men of Ko-ro-ba may once again stand side by side".	10
2	59	I encountered no animals, nor any growing thing, nothing save the endless black rocks, the black cliffs, and the path cut before me in the dark stone.	10
3	32	Then I heard the movement of chains and I saw that the two chains which fastened the larls were not hooked to rings in the stone but vanished within circular apertures.	10
3	35	One side of this area was formed by the sheer cliff which had been on my right and now curved about making a sort of cup of stone; the other side, on my left, lay partly open to the frightful drop below, but was partly enclosed by another cliff, the side of a second mountain, which impinged on the o...	10
3	38	Thus a passage of sorts was cleared between them, but the passage led only, as far as I could see, to a blank wall of stone.	10
3	43	I had not long to wait for only a few moments later, perhaps no more than ten Gorean Ihn, a section of stone rolled silently back and upward revealing a rock passage beyond of perhaps some eight feet square.	10
3	54	I carefully regarded the small, rotund gentleman who stood framed so incongruously in the massive stone portal.	10
4	1	The Hall of Priest-Kings As I followed the man who called himself Parp down the stone passage, the portal behind me closed.	10
4	19	In this great dome there was nothing save that at its very center there was a high dais and on this dais there was a large throne carved from a single block of stone.	10
4	21	Our footsteps echoed hollowly across the great stone floor.	10
4	25	Parp puffed his way up the nine steps of the dais and climbed onto the stone throne.	10
5	4	I lay on my back on a large stone platform, some twelve feet square.	10
5	8	The walls were of plain dark stone with energy bulbs fixed in them; the furnishings seemed to consist mostly of two or three large chests against one wall.	10
5	29	I sat upright, cross-legged in the Gorean fashion, on the stone platform.	10
5	35	She then again approached the stone platform and knelt before me, lifting the bowl.	10
5	36	I took it and first drank from it and then set it on the stone platform before me, and washed.	10
5	44	She then returned into the vicinity of the stone platform, and knelt again before me, though some feet away.	10
5	52	A look of angry defiance flashed in her eyes, but she rose to her feet and slowly approached me, and knelt beside the stone platform.	10
5	80	I arose and walked through the portal and found myself in a long stone passageway beyond it which stretched as far as I could see in either direction.	10
5	90	She crawled and stumbled away, for some reason terrified, until she found herself in the stone corner of the chamber.	10
5	91	She shrieked and clawed at the stone.	10
5	103	I looked but I saw nothing other than the stone sides of the portal and on each side three rounded red domes, of perhaps four inches width apiece.	10
5	197	"And instead," she cried, "I have only these walls of stone and the steel collar of a slave girl!" She helplessly, enraged, tried to tear the slender, graceful, obdurate band from her white throat.	10
6	94	Vika had unrolled a straw mat which she placed on the floor at the foot of the great stone couch in the chamber.	10
7	58	I wondered how many men had fallen at her feet, how many men she had forced to sleep at the foot of the great stone couch, in the shadow of the slave ring, while she herself reclined on the pelts and silks of the master.	10
7	90	For all I knew, a Priest-King could wait like a stone or tree, nerveless until necessary.	10
8	3	She had been lying on the straw mat at the foot of the stone couch.	10
8	45	I leaped to the center of the stone platform.	10
8	50	Vika screamed and crouched behind the stone platform.	10
8	69	She remained standing on the stone platform, bewildered, her fingers at her lips.	10
8	236	I lifted her and carried her to the stone couch.	10
8	242	I gently placed Vika on the great stone couch.	10
9	1	The Priest-King I would allow Vika to share the great stone couch, its sleeping pelts, and silken sheets.	10
9	20	Then with his own hand he throws upon the stone floor of his chamber luxurious love furs, perhaps from the larl itself, and commands her to them.	10
9	21	I had placed Vika gently on the great stone couch.	10
9	199	In that moment I sensed once more that slightly acrid scent which I had experienced in the corridors beyond the chamber, and I pressed my mouth hard into Vika's until her lips were cut by my teeth and I had pressed her back until only my arm kept her from falling to the stones of the floor, and I he...	10
9	213	I found myself tempted to break her head against the foot of the stone couch, for she was worthless, treacherous, seductive, cruel, vicious, worthy only of the collar, irons and the whip! She shook her head numbly as though denying charges I had not voiced.	10
10	59	In the depths of this canyon and on the terraces that mounted its sides were innumerable structures, largely geometrical solids—cones, cylinders, lofty cubes, domes, spheres and such—of various sizes, colors and illuminations, many of which even towered to the level of the platform whe...	10
12	184	Before the other could regain his balance, I had leaped to him and seized him in my hands and lifted him high over my head and hurled him on his back to the stone flooring of the long chamber.	10
14	179	Beneath the case I saw a flat stone with a recessed ring.	10
15	44	Eight wires led from this box into the body of a Priest-King which lay on its back, inert, in the center of the room on a moss-softened stone table.	10
15	60	He paused for a long time and the antennae regarded the inert figure on the stone table.	10
15	82	"It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay...	10
15	96	My torch lifted, I regarded with awe the inert body of the young Priest-King on the stone table.	10
15	137	I looked again at the young Priest-King lying on the stone table.	10
16	105	Misk looked down at the young Priest-King on the stone table.	10
17	2	I could not forget the winged figure on the stone table.	10
17	136	The face of the rock was blackened and some stone had been chipped from its surface.	10
17	144	Then once again, aside from the blackened grass and stone, the scene was peaceful.	10
17	145	A small, curious bird darted to the top of the stone, and then hopped from it to the blackened grass to hunt for grubs.	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	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	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
18	105	I saw, surrounding the bluish dome, in a greater concentric dome of stone, walkway upon walkway of paneling and instrumentation.	10
18	114	I then realized that he had touched himself at the points of entry taken by the wires which had been infixed in the young Priest-King's body on the stone table in the secret compartment below Misk's chamber.	10
21	62	Finally the last of the unusual Muls stood below on the stone flooring.	10
22	17	I heard the bar I had just left slide out and fall like its predecessor to the stone floor below.	10
22	81	Misk, the Muls and I now stood on the stone floor of the chamber near the door.	10
23	64	With my sword I dug out the egg and crushed it and its occupant with the heel of my sandal on the stone floor.	10
24	52	It was still coming, somewhere back there in the darkness, slowly, patiently, implacably, like the coming of winter or the weathering of a stone.	10
25	2	They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag...	10
25	25	Its tiny mouth on the underside of its body touched the stone flooring here and there like the poking finger of a blind man and the long, whitish, rubbery body gathered itself and pushed forward and gathered itself and pushed forward again until it lay but a yard from my sandal, almost under the she...	10
26	261	As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ...	10
27	200	The rows of Priest-Kings seemed to rustle in confusion and anguish but in a moment, incredibly enough, they were as immobile as ever, standing as if statues of golden stone, regarding me.	10
27	263	To one side I saw the bladed projection lying at the foot of one of the low stone tiers on which Priest-Kings stood.	10
27	338	The huge, tarnished head lying on the stone platform tried to lift itself but could not.	10
27	363	And from a thousand translators rang the message she cried out over those golden heads to the blank stone ceiling and walls of her chamber and I shall never forget it as it was in all the sorrow and the joy of her trembling dying magnificence; I and all could read it in the attitude of her body, the...	10
27	367	Then slowly the great form sank to the platform and the body no longer trembled and the antennae lay limp on the stone.	10
29	7	Through the very stone of the tunnel which lay outside Misk's compartment, now opened like a deep window, I could see the next large Nest complex which lay beyond.	10
29	8	I ran across the flooring of the tunnel and through the swath of nothingness that had been cut through the stone and looked on the complex.	10
29	15	At one point I was faced with a ditch, cut by the disruption cones with geometrical precision in the very stone of the Nest.	10
29	50	The second craft shot wildly toward the ceiling of the complex and shattered on the stone ceiling, falling back to the ground in a shower of wreckage.	10
31	105	In the distance we could hear the domed side of a complex begin to crumble, raining down huge blocks of stone on the buildings beneath.	10
31	112	In a few moments, though the disk was damaged by falling stone and I could barely see through the powdery drifts of rock hanging in the collapsing tunnels, I had come to the Power Plant and leaped from the disk and raced to its doors.	10
31	155	One wall to the left began to crumble, fitted stone from its sides edging outwards and breaking loose to clatter down the ramps and tumble even to the floor so far beneath.	10
31	181	Drifts of rock powder hung in the air, fitted stone tumbled to the flooring far below, the walls trembled, the very globe and walkway fastened to it seemed to shift and shudder.	10
32	21	But the Priest-King paid me no attention, trying to move a great block of stone which had fallen across one of the supporting appendages of the dead Sarm.	10
32	27	Together Misk and I, as the blue lavalike mass began to hiss over the rubble bubbling towards us, forced aside the great block of stone and Misk tenderly gathered up the broken carcass of Sarm in his forelegs and he and I sped toward the opening, and the blue molten flux of burning, seething, hissin...	10
32	90	Some more tons of stone fell from the hole torn in the ceiling, raining down on the buildings beneath, breaking through the roofs, shattering to the streets.	10
32	95	I supposed the dust that clung to his thorax and abdomen, that adhered to the sensory hairs on his appendages might be distressing to him, more so perhaps than the fear that he might be totally crushed by one of the great blocks of stone that occasionally fell clattering near us.	10
33	49	His left hand, fat and soft, wore a heavy ring set with a large, white stone, carved with the sign of Ar.	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	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	77	"The word will spread," said my father, "and they will come in twos and threes from all corners of Gor, singing, each carrying a stone to add to the walls and cylinders of their city".	10

Book 4. (28 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	84	Man by man, stone by stone of gold, Saphrar was dying, his walls and defenses being taken grain by grain from him, slipping away.	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
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
13	134	In the grassy area, perhaps about two hundred yards in diameter, there were literally hundreds of small, stone altars.	10
13	135	There was a large circular stone platform in the center of the field.	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	205	"A man met me," said Saphrar, "a tall man—rather dreadful actually—with a face as gray as stone and eyes like glass".	10
19	61	I then followed Harold along one of the smooth, stone paths leading among the trees, brushing our way through the clusters of blossoms, skirting the edge of the nearer blue pool.	10
20	7	The keep, in the private houses of Goreans, is most often a round, stone tower, built for defense, containing water and food.	10
20	36	The first sixty feet or so of the tower would presumably be solid stone, to protect the tower from forced entrance or the immediate, efficient use of battering rams.	10
20	60	I backed rapidly along the bridge and another quarrel sped past me, striking sparks from the stone tower behind me.	10
21	69	I had just picked up the last stone and tucked it back in my pouch and was about to rise from my knees when I found myself staring at the high, heavy sandals, almost boots, of a warrior.	10
22	23	Doubtless rocks and large pieces of building stone had already been piled behind the gates.	10
23	213	Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles.	10
24	50	The structures about the compound had been fortified by Tuchuks, and walls of stone and wood had been thrown into the streets and openings between the buildings, thus enclosing the compound.	10
26	74	They filed before us in the street below, each under the contemptuous eyes of the warriors of the Wagon Peoples, each in turn going to a long table whereon were placed many pairs of scales, and each at that table was weighed out four Gorean stone of gold, about six Earth pounds, which he put in his ...	10
26	76	Four Gorean stone of gold is a fortune.	10
26	89	I even saw some slaves leaving the compound, and these, though they were slave, were given the four stone of gold as well, perhaps the more to insult those free men who had accepted the bribes of Tuchuks.	10
26	98	About the pommel of Kamchak's saddle were tied several bags of gold, each weighed out to four stone.	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	33	He lifted the stone over his head and read fear in the eyes of the two men chained before him.	10
27	34	But he did not dash the stone to the floor.	10
27	35	Rather he arose from his throne and placed the stone in the chained hands of Phanius Turmus.	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	43	I had thought that Kamchak might destroy the stone, thus breaking the heart of the city, leaving it in ruins in the minds of men.	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. (63 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	22	These men of Ko-ro-ba, he knew, when their city had been destroyed by Priest-Kings, had been scattered to the ends of Gor but, when permitted by Priest-Kings, they had returned to their city to rebuild it, each bearing a stone to add to its walls.	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
2	47	It gave her about a two-foot length of chain, fastened to a slave ring bolted into the stone.	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
4	3	His large hands rested over the arms of the curved curule chair in which he sat, which was mounted on a platform of stone, about a foot high and twelve feet square.	10
4	14	Set in the wall to my left, as in the base of the stone platform, were slave rings, a dozen or so.	10
4	17	The room was lit, and grayly, by sunlight now filtering in through several narrow, barred windows set very high in the thick stone of the walls.	10
4	146	She ran rapidly to a place before the stone platform, before the curule chair of Cernus, where she fell to her knees in the position of pleasure slave, head bowed.	10
4	240	Elizabeth had her head down to the stone floor.	10
4	258	Elizabeth collapsed weeping before the stone platform.	10
5	29	Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occ...	10
5	128	At this I swept her from her feet and carried her to the broad stone couch in the room, where I placed her on the piles of furs that bedecked it.	10
5	191	Those of Ko-ro-ba have come from the corners of Gor, each singing, each bearing a stone to add to the walls.	10
5	197	Not one stone could be placed in either wall or tower by a man or woman who was not free.	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
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
8	46	I kicked the love furs halfway across the room and sat down on the edge of the stone couch.	10
11	29	The kitchen for the pens is on this level, and the infirmary, and certain facilities for smiths; Ho-Tu kept his chair of office on this level; also, discipline was administered on this level, I gathered, seeing certain racks and chains, certain stone tables with straps, certain carefully arranged in...	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
12	145	As I did so I passed several chained slave girls kneeling on a stone tier.	10
12	367	* * * * I left the tiers of the racing stadium and began to walk down the long, sloping stone ramp, level by level.	10
14	16	I turned up the lamp and noted that the floor of the compartment had been washed down with sponge and towel, that the chests and cabinets had been dusted and straightened, that cleaned furs lay neatly folded on the stone couch.	10
14	119	His stone gray eyes regarded me.	10
15	56	"Capture of Home Stone," I heard Cernus say to Caprus, who spread his hands helplessly, acknowledging defeat.	10
15	340	"How many ways are there," I asked, sitting cross-legged in the center of the compartment, on the stone couch, "to enter a room?" "It depends on the city," said Elizabeth.	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	607	I hurled her some feet across the room and retrieved the goad; it had stopped rolling and now, burning, had begun to sink through the stone.	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
18	396	The key box was about a yard to the left of the keyhole; and about four feet from the observation panel; it is a small, heavy metal box bolted to the stone of the wall; it opens and shuts to the left, by means of a round-knobbed screw, which must be turned several times before the small metal door o...	10
18	410	Each of his limbs, and his throat, was separately confined, each chained individually to the wall, each chain running to a separate ring bolted in the stone; any one of the chains would have been sufficient to hold a man; I gathered that this prisoner must be unusual indeed; I observed, further, tha...	10
18	413	As I did so I saw four or five urts run for various small crevices in the stone.	10
18	423	I looked on that small, trembling, skeletal body, the straggly hair, the sores; the mutilated ear; angrily I rose to my feet and searched about, finding some loose stone which, with my foot, I wedged into the several crevices through which the urts had darted.	10
18	443	He then indicated behind himself, on the wall, a large number of tiny, regularly formed scratches in the stone, perhaps cut there by a pebble or the edge of the tin drinking dish.	10
19	17	I was barefooted and not used to so walking the stone streets of Ar.	10
19	19	Particularly was I angered by the occasional large, flat blocks of stone placed across the streets, low enough to permit a wagon to pass over them, and separated by enough distance to allow the passage of a wagon's wheels, but surely a threat to a tethered fool, shackled and hooded, led on a chain b...	10
19	21	Occasionally, unexpectedly, I would be struck by a stone or a strap and hear a jeer or mocking cry.	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
21	100	I fought the heavy chain that bound me to the stone table on which I sat.	10
21	142	One of the girls had found the key to the chain that bound me by the waist to the stone table.	10
21	414	I looked back down the long valley of stone tiers to the sands far below, seeing there in the circle of the arena, seeming small, Murmillius, Ho-Sorl, Relius, Ho-Tu, the milling, stirring crowd.	10
24	6	Sitting on the edge of the stone couch I bent down to tie my sandals.	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. (79 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
10	29	The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the Council of Captains.	10
10	37	Port Kar's Merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone".	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
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
9	506	I looked at the brick, the stone, watched the patterns and shadows playing on the walls of the buildings of Port Kar.	10
10	23	I have calculated this figure from the Weight, a Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth pounds.	10
10	24	A Weight is ten Stone.	10
10	26	The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities.	10
10	27	The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar.	10
10	28	Four times a year, on a given day in each of the four great fairs held annually near the Sardar, it is brought forth with scales, that merchants from whatever city may test their own standard "Stone" against it.	10
10	36	As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the Merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it.	10
10	221	In these first voyages I was content, quite, to carry tools and stone, dried fruit, dried fish, bolts of rep-cloth, tem-wood, Tur-wood and Ka-la-na stock, and horn and hides.	10
10	227	It is scarcely worth the risk of crew and ship, unless desperate, to win a hold filled with lumber or stone.	10
10	233	I instructed Luma to discharge any such with a gift of gold, of half a stone's weight.	10
11	103	Accordingly many of her warehouses, shops and foundries are built of stone, with slated or tinned roofs.	10
11	234	"Tonight," he said, "Sevarius was to be Ubar in Port Kar, and each was to have a stone of gold".	10
11	410	Other studies, the results of which would be kept similarly private to the council, dealt with the city defenses, and her stores of wood, grain, salt, stone and tharlarion oil.	10
14	40	The oars themselves usually weigh about one stone a foot, or roughly four pounds a foot.	10
14	42	A thirty-foot Gorean oar, the most inboard oar, would commonly weigh thirty stone, or about one hundred and twenty pounds.	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
15	703	I walked slowly about in the room, and then I sat on the edge of the stone couch, on the furs, and put my head in my hands.	10
15	781	"Midice!" Then I rose to my feet, and stood there, and shook my head, and wiped the sleeve of my tunic across my eyes and then, catching my breath, I walked to the bottom of the stone couch and sat down, my head down.	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	278	In this I wrapped the stone.	10
16	285	I turned away from them, and, with the stone, wrapped in its silk, strode from the room.	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	424	And then, suddenly, I lifted my right arm, and held in my right hand, high over my head, was the stone.	10
16	427	"The stone!" There were great cheers, and cries, and shouts, and the lifting of torches and weapons.	10
16	430	And I saw fathers lift their sons upon their shoulders that they might see the 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	285	"I will have a hundred stone of gold for the use of these birds and my men," said Terence of Treve.	10
17	302	"I will want the hundred stone," said Terence, "regardless of the outcome of your plan".	10
17	305	"A hundred stone," I said, "though a high price, seems small enough considering the risks you will encounter.	10
17	306	It is hard for me to believe that you ride only for a hundred stone of gold.	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	409	Then my wrists were tied widely apart to wrist rings mounted in a stone wall, and I was whipped.	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. (17 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	479	The Maserati struck a large stone.	10
7	6	It is a clearing house for many goods, wood, salt, fish, stone, fur and slaves.	10
8	88	Moving downstream I could see other barges, moving the goods of the interior downriver, such objects as planking, barrels of fish, barrels of salt, loads of stone, and bales of fur.	10
8	192	We could see stone, and timber and barrels of fish and salt stored on docks on the shore.	10
8	312	The compounds are formed of windowless log dormitories, floored with stone on which straw is spread; the dormitory then opens by one small door, about a yard high, into the barred exercise yard.	10
10	85	He took one and put it on the fire at the side of the room, in a shallow, rimmed, stone hearth.	10
10	87	Smoke found its way upward through a rudely fitted stone venting.	10
11	493	But there was little beauty in the pens, with their heavy blocks of stone and stout bars, and straw, and the smells.	10
13	458	I struck her suddenly in the side of the head with the stone.	10
14	186	It was fixed in a heavy stone, buried level with the grass.	10
14	189	Oddly enough, there was also an iron ring, set in a stone, buried in the ground, beneath the center of the horizontal pole.	10
15	168	This ring was set in a heavy stone, which was buried in the ground.	10
15	611	Near that pole, near the iron ring set in the stone, which was buried in the ground, Ute told Techne and I to kneel.	10
15	749	I felt my ankles lashed together, and then a strap tied them to the ring below, that set in the stone, which was buried in the ground.	10
15	1231	I dipped the wine vessel into the great stone jar, again filling it.	10
16	4	It was fastened in the heavy ring, in the heavy block of stone, set deep in the small, grassy knoll.	10
18	91	I saw the helmeted figure rear up in the saddle, and with an imperious gesture fling a dark, heavy object to the stone walk behind the wall.	10

Book 8. (21 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
1	216	"And a stone of hard candies, from the kitchens of Ar," smiled Samos.	10
2	469	"And a stone of candies," she said, looking up, suddenly.	10
6	520	The weight is ten Gorean stone.	10
6	521	A Gorean stone is approximately four pounds in weight.	10
7	146	A bent leaf, a dislodged stone, guided me.	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
10	218	The sharpened stone clutched in the hand of a shambling beast is a delicate instrument compared to the clumsy noises, these piteous vocabularies, with which we, unwary men, dare to speak of realities.	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
18	299	"It seems he struck his head upon a stone".	10
18	322	Behind us we heard men calling out the name of another man, doubtless that of the guard, he struck unexpectedly by the blow of a stone.	10
18	444	From my wallet I took a small, smooth stone and a tiny, flat metal disk.	10
19	437	"Long ago," I said, "I dishonored my caste, my Home Stone, my blade.	10
22	448	They are chained by the left ankle to a ring in the stone.	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	262	No stone would be allowed to stand upon a stone, no man of Ko-ro-ba to stand by another.	10
1	2	The walls of stone, some five feet in thickness, formed of large blocks, loomed about me.	10
1	70	I looked about the hall, at the great walls of stone, the long table, the tiles, the narrow apertures through which I could glimpse the far stars, burning in the scape of the night.	10
1	107	He had sullied the sword, the honor, which he had pledged to Ko-ro-ba's Home Stone.	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
3	130	"Yes!" "Five nights from this night," said Ivar Forkbeard, "on the skerry of Einar—by the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark".	10
3	131	I had heard of this stone.	10
3	379	It seemed Aelgifu, proud and rich, would go barefoot, like a peasant wench or a stripped bondmaid, by the will of Ivar Forkbeard, until her ransom was paid on the skerry of Einar five nights from this night, by the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark.	10

Book 11. (2 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

Book 12. (1 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

Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	603	The males average about four hundred to five hundred Gorean stone in weight, some sixteen hundred to two thousand pounds, and the females average about three to four hundred Gorean stone in weight, some twelve hundred to sixteen hundred pounds.	10
32	595	'No!' I screamed, when I reached the top of the platform, for I then saw, before me, a large, oblong piece of stone, a massive, primitive stone altar, discolored with huge stains of dried blood, with iron rings.	10
34	470	Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ...	10
53	19	While the rest of our two parties, including Bila Huruma, had waited within the threshold, I was conducted across the broad stone court to its center, where, on a huge stone couch, of ancient design, lay Shaba.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	193	It was a yellowish stone, with an intricate and unusual brownish discoloration at the point where it had apparently been broken from a larger stone.	10
27	113	Carefully, I removed one of the heavy granite blocks of stone, building stone, rectangular, some six inches by six inches, by eighteen inches, from the tiered pile of stones.	10
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

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1185	"What you do not know," said Tasdron, "is that long ago, over a century ago, this stone, unbroken, was the Home Stone of Victoria".	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	218	It was now, again, pulling toward the center of the road, the high iron-rimmed wheels trundling on the stone, seeking the long, shallow, shiny, saucerlike ruts, polished in the stone by the earlier passage of countless vehicles.	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 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. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	342	The bottom stone has a small hub on its upper surface which fits into an inverted concave depression in the upper stone.	10
20	188	"But a topaz is a stone," I said, "a kind of semiprecious stone".	10
20	254	I was startled, for no sooner had the two pieces of stone been fitted together than it seemed there suddenly emerged, as now from a single stone, unriven, the image of a galley.	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

Book 25. (11 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
7	501	I would expect, eventually, that her walls, stone by stone, will be taken down.	10
8	435	Stone after stone was being tumbled down from the walls, to the outside of the city.	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
10	17	Certain youths refused then to participate in the ceremony and certain others, refusing to touch the surrogate stone, uttered the responses and pledges while facing northwest, toward Cos, toward their Home Stone.	10
20	728	How far we were from the cave and the stone knife, I thought, and yet, again, in a way, how close! Could one not see in the blade of steel, so much keener and more dangerous, the knife of stone? Could one not recollect in the spacious courts of the palace the dim recesses of limestone caves? And who...	10
23	21	"That was a nice blow," said a fellow nearby, turning to me, "the concept of a stone jard and likening the Home Stone to unfit mineral carrion".	10
23	294	"If you were in the guard, and you discovered that the stone was fraudulent, surely you would fear either that the stone had been stolen in your watch, or would be thought to have been stolen in your watch".	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	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. (12 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	579	I saw the chains straighten, the rings straighten; the plate on our right, the peasant's left, out from the stone, and the very stone in which it was fastened, too, drawn an inch or more out from the wall, and the other chain, too, I saw, it still fastened to its ring and plate, these tight on the s...	10
10	1001	He then, suddenly, without warning, jerked the leash upward, and its leather was tight under my chin and I was jerked up to my knees, and I looked at him wildly, helplessly held in place; he then, with ease, with flicks of the leash, flung me to one side and the other, bruising me on the stone and t...	10
31	530	It seemed the bolt behind the stone had drawn tight against the stone and it could not move further, not without pulling the very stone itself from the wall.	10
31	666	And then the stone struck against the side of the portal and the stone burst from the portal, a cubic foot of wall there broken from its place, but the stone, too, on the chain, shattered, splitting at the bolts, and fell in two halves away.	10
8	751	Perhaps, in my eagerness and curiosity to see them, for I had not seen free women of this world before, I had allowed some imperfection in my position, say, with respect to the angle of my body, the backs of my hands beside me, resting on the stone, the touching of the stone with my forehead? But th...	10
9	35	I returned instantly to my belly, fully, arms down and back, the backs of my hands on the stone, my forehead against the stone.	10
10	63	I looked up, again, and then, frightened, knelt forward, putting my head to the stone flooring, my palms, too, down on the stone, in a common attitude of obeisance.	10
10	343	I was being herded! I was now being driven upward, like a pig, toward what I knew not! Then, gasping, trying to hold the gag in my mouth, I sank to my knees before part of the stone mountain, a sheer wall of stone, at the end of the trail.	10
10	1002	How well I had been controlled by the leash, even though my hands were free! I lay there prone, trembling, sweating on the stone, the tunic tight between my teeth; he then put his foot on my back, holding me down, pressing me to the stone, and, leaning forward, pulled up the leash, the leather again...	10
28	77	The flames sped from paste stone to paste stone, and the whole was then dropped to the side, flickering and smoldering.	10
31	580	Again the peasant lunged against his chains, and there was a squeal of metal and there was, as though reluctant, crying out, protesting, another tiny yielding, a grating of stone, another tiny movement, another tiny fearful slippage, of a ponderous block of stone.	10
40	211	"By the Home Stone?" "By the Home Stone itself!" said the pit master, angrily.	10

Book 27. (5 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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

Book 29. (2 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

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
8	1663	As he was of the Peasants, I supposed his Home Stone, the community stone, so to speak, not that of his domicile, would be that of some village in the environs of Ar.	10

Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	4	The miller's man, at intervals, from his ladder, would pour the grain, sa-tarna, the "life daughter," into the opening on the top of the stone, and the stone, when turning, would press down upon it, and grind it, the resultant flour, by means of three descending troughs, being gathered in waiting sa...	10
11	93	He set his ladder against the stone, climbed the ladder, and poured the grain into the cavity within the stone.	10
11	103	With a heavy, grinding, sound, one we knew well, the heavy, conical stone began to rotate slowly on the thick, flat, circular, platelike stone from which the troughs descended.	10
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 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
37	182	Why is this stone brought in from Pylos on Daphna when there is quarry stone conveniently available on Thera? Surely not because the stone is cheaper on Daphna.	10
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
41	78	On the fourth day of the siege, Thrasymedes and the council attempted to negotiate a withdrawal of the corsairs, offering them fifty stone of gold for their departure and a pledge never to return, and then, later, a hundred stone of gold for their simple departure.	10
41	80	They reasoned, one supposes, that where there might be a hundred stone of gold there might be more than a hundred stone of gold.	10