Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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Quote
5
27
He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the homestone.
He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the Home Stone.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 5, Sentence #27)
Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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5
24
Indeed, they had, in the fashion of Gor, driven my father's envoys from their Council Chambers with the whips normally used on slaves, an insult which, at another time, would have been answered by the War Call of Ko-ro-ba.
5
25
But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards.
5
26
Yet if the homestone of Ar, the very symbol and significance of the empire, could be removed from Ar, the spell of Marlenus might be broken.
5
27
He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the homestone.
5
28
He would be fortunate if he was not publicly impaled.
5
29
The girl on the saddle before me stirred, the effect of the drug wearing off.
5
30
She moaned softly and leaned back against me.
Indeed, they had, in the fashion of Gor, driven my father's envoys from their Council Chambers with the whips normally used on slaves, an insult which, at another time, would have been answered by the War Call of Ko-ro-ba.
But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards.
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.
He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the home stone.
He would be fortunate if he was not publicly impaled.
The girl on the saddle before me stirred, the effect of the drug wearing off.
She moaned softly and leaned back against me.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 5)