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Book 1. (30 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
4	160	Sensing what was wanted, I replied, "My home stone is the home stone of Ko-ro-ba".
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...
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 cast...
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 ci...
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.
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, discardin...
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 o...
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.
2	114	In all the languages of this planet, the word means home stone".
2	116	"home stone," he repeated.
2	119	It was carved with the family sign and was called the home stone.
2	122	The home stone of a village was always placed in the market; in a city, on the top of the highest tower.
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".
2	131	"Where a man sets his home stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.
2	138	"I shall show you someday," he said, "my own small home stone, which I keep in my chambers.
2	143	He added, "If you should live to earn a home stone".
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".
2	157	The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-Gor, which means Light Upon the home stone.
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 i...
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.
4	159	"What is your home stone?" asked my father.
4	178	You are going to steal the home stone of Ar and bring it to Ko-ro-ba".
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.
5	27	He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the home stone.
5	48	The home stone of a city is the center of various rituals.
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.
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.
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.
6	28	Which was the home stone? I kicked apart the rocks.
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.

Book 2. (30 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
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.
2	85	I was home, for where my love waited for me was home.
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
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.
2	52	The myths of these matters have it that while the home stone survives, so, too, must the city.
2	53	But not only is it the case that each city has its home stone.
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.
3	67	"I mean you and your home stone no harm," I said.
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.
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 ho...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
20	71	Its home stone, however, which I have seen, attests to a considerable antiquity.
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".
6	61	The thought ran through my head, no stone may stand upon another stone.
17	68	There would not be a stone set upon another stone.
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 lea...
1	73	"Perhaps we had better go home," I said.
1	78	"Let's go home," I said.
1	80	"Where is home?" asked Cabot, staring into the half-filled glass.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.

Book 3. (30 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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".
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.
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.
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, a...
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.
18	92	"You find it hard to understand the love of a man for his home stone," I said.
18	94	"You have nothing like the home stone in the Nest?" I asked.
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.
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".
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.
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".
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".
24	29	Both would be quite at home, incomprehensibly to a visually oriented organism, in utter darkness.
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.
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 e...
34	98	You can find a home there".
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.
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.
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 imp...
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.
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.
3	54	I carefully regarded the small, rotund gentleman who stood framed so incongruously in the massive stone portal.
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.
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.
4	21	Our footsteps echoed hollowly across the great stone floor.
4	25	Parp puffed his way up the nine steps of the dais and climbed onto the stone throne.
5	4	I lay on my back on a large stone platform, some twelve feet square.
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.
5	29	I sat upright, cross-legged in the Gorean fashion, on the stone platform.
5	35	She then again approached the stone platform and knelt before me, lifting the bowl.

Book 4. (30 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
1	8	"Beware," he said, "I carry a home stone".
1	11	One does not lightly dispute the passage of one who carries his home stone.
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 ...
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.
27	37	Tears formed in the eyes of Phanius Turmus and he held the home stone of the city to his heart.
27	46	I had not understood that it would be permitted to retain a home stone.
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...
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.
6	52	My home is in New York City".
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 quicklyâ...
6	113	"Further," I said, "we do not have the means of returning you to your home".
7	138	"My home is in New York City.
9	380	"I will take it home with me," said Kamchak.
10	415	I supposed he was home with Tenchika.
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 ...
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, be...
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 ...
21	135	"But I would prefer in any case to remain in Turia—it is my home".
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...
21	236	"Return to your home and lock yourself in.
21	239	"Do as I say! Go home, bolt the door to your rooms, do not leave the house!" "But, Tarl Cabot," she said.
21	334	"Then go home and lock yourself in the cellar," he said.
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.
22	93	Take her back to her home and while we remain in the city, guard her with your lives".
13	134	In the grassy area, perhaps about two hundred yards in diameter, there were literally hundreds of small, stone altars.
13	135	There was a large circular stone platform in the center of the field.
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".
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.
20	7	The keep, in the private houses of Goreans, is most often a round, stone tower, built for defense, containing water and food.

Book 5. (30 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
1	23	It was said, in the time of troubles, that the home stone had not been lost, and it had not.
1	24	And even Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, knew that a city cannot die while its home stone survives.
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.
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.
3	23	The object of the game is the capture of the opponent's home stone.
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.
3	177	His home stone, in four moves, would fall.
3	193	The capture of the Player's home stone would take place on the next move.
3	200	"I capture your home stone on the next move," said the Vintner.
3	209	"Scribe takes home stone".
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 fr...
6	27	I heard Cernus announce "Capture of home stone," and turned to see Caprus sit back in defeat, staring at the board.
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 ...
12	76	He had fallen when I had purloined the home stone of the city.
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.
15	56	"Capture of home stone," I heard Cernus say to Caprus, who spread his hands helplessly, acknowledging defeat.
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.
17	748	I became now less concerned to suggest improvements in her play and more concerned to protect my own home stone.
17	758	"Capture of home stone!" she cried.
17	798	"Don't move there," she told me, "or you will lose your home stone in seven".
20	444	When he places his home stone you will be able to seize it in five moves".
20	510	"It is capture of home stone," said he, "in twenty-two".
20	529	"That is capture of home stone in eleven," he said.
20	544	In one small hand he held clutched a tiny piece of yellow wood, the home stone of Cernus.
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 swo...
24	450	"Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the home stone?" I gasped.
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".
24	456	"As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the home stone of Ar".
24	468	"Would you," asked Hup, "betray the home stone of Ko-ro-ba?" My hand leaped to the hilt of my sword.

Book 6. (30 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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...
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.
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.
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".
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 ...
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.
16	426	"I have seen it! The home stone of Port Kar!" "The home stone of Port Kar!" cried thousands.
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 ba...
8	366	"A home stone?" I asked.
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.
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.
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 standard...
16	216	"She has no home stone," said one of the men.
16	219	Port Kar, of all the cities on Gor, was the only one that had no home stone.
16	222	Port Kar had no home stone.
16	223	"How many of you think," I asked, "that Port Kar has no home stone?" The men looked at one another, puzzled.
16	224	All knew, of course, that she had no home stone.
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".
16	230	"How does a city obtain a home stone?" I asked.
16	232	"Yes," I said, "that is how it is that a city obtains a home stone".
16	255	Tab said it, and quietly, "The home stone of Port Kar".
16	257	"I have never had a home stone before," he said.
16	259	"Not if we have a home stone," he said.
16	261	"Do we have a home stone?" I asked the men.
16	262	"I will accept it as my home stone," said the slave boy, Fish.
16	264	The first to accept the home stone of Port Kar was only a boy, and a slave.
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.
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...
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.
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.

Book 7. (26 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	83	I recall my mother entertaining in our home.
3	200	I kept, usually, some fifteen thousand dollars, and jewelry, at home.
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.
7	364	I was certain that I could, with my resources on Earth, purchase swift passage back to my home planet.
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...
8	19	Would there be someone here who would send me home? How frustrated I was, chained in the wagon.
8	448	"Do you wish to wear your gag home to the compound?" he asked.
14	539	They hurry home to the master, to petition his attention.
17	483	It is my home, and my prison.
3	479	The Maserati struck a large stone.
7	6	It is a clearing house for many goods, wood, salt, fish, stone, fur and slaves.
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.
8	192	We could see stone, and timber and barrels of fish and salt stored on docks on the shore.
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	85	He took one and put it on the fire at the side of the room, in a shallow, rimmed, stone hearth.
10	87	Smoke found its way upward through a rudely fitted stone venting.
11	493	But there was little beauty in the pens, with their heavy blocks of stone and stout bars, and straw, and the smells.
13	458	I struck her suddenly in the side of the head with the stone.
14	186	It was fixed in a heavy stone, buried level with the grass.
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.
15	168	This ring was set in a heavy stone, which was buried in the ground.
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.
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.
15	1231	I dipped the wine vessel into the great stone jar, again filling it.
16	4	It was fastened in the heavy ring, in the heavy block of stone, set deep in the small, grassy knoll.
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.

Book 8. (22 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
19	470	"Mad!" "My home stone," I told him, "was once the home stone of Ko-ro-ba.
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.
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.
1	159	I must defend my home stone.
1	175	My home stone was threatened.
1	180	"home stone to Ubar's Tarnsman One," I said.
10	94	"Yes," said Marlenus, "for long ago you had purloined the home stone of Ar".
10	108	"Ar is where the home stone of Ar lies!" He chuckled.
11	763	I moved my Ubar's Physician to my Ubara Six, interposing it between the Ubara and the home stone.
11	792	"Capture of home stone," said Marlenus.
19	437	"Long ago," I said, "I dishonored my caste, my home stone, my blade.
13	348	"Where was your home?" I asked.
1	216	"And a stone of hard candies, from the kitchens of Ar," smiled Samos.
2	469	"And a stone of candies," she said, looking up, suddenly.
6	520	The weight is ten Gorean stone.
6	521	A Gorean stone is approximately four pounds in weight.
7	146	A bent leaf, a dislodged stone, guided me.
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.
18	299	"It seems he struck his head upon a stone".
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.
18	444	From my wallet I took a small, smooth stone and a tiny, flat metal disk.
22	448	They are chained by the left ankle to a ring in the stone.

Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	107	He had sullied the sword, the honor, which he had pledged to Ko-ro-ba's home stone.
1	313	"You are now without caste, without home stone, without family".
1	444	No longer had she caste, no longer a home stone.
1	449	She was no longer entitled even to call its home stone her own.
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.
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.
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.
1	262	No stone would be allowed to stand upon a stone, no man of Ko-ro-ba to stand by another.
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...
4	34	The Gorean compass points always to the Sardar, the home of Priest-Kings.
6	16	They looked upon the new country, harsh, forbidding, which was to be their home.
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	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.
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.
17	147	It is not impossible that the defertilization or destruction of their former home was a consequence of such altercations.
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.
1	2	The walls of stone, some five feet in thickness, formed of large blocks, loomed about me.
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.
3	130	"Yes!" "Five nights from this night," said Ivar Forkbeard, "on the skerry of Einar—by the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark".
3	131	I had heard of this stone.
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.
4	3	"We are one day's rowing," said he, "from the skerry of Einar and the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark".
4	141	In it, twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown, squirmed more than a stone of parsit fish.
5	162	A stone bounded from the rail at the top of the port gunwale, splintering it.
5	217	It was there, at the rune-stone of the Torvaldsmark, that Ivar Forkbeard would receive her ransom.
5	235	Too, against the sky, I could see the tall rune-stone, looking like a needle against the stars, which forms the Torvaldsmark.
5	319	Their weight, apiece, is not great, being little more than twenty-five Gorean stone, or about one hundred Earth pounds.
6	188	Nearby, on a large, flat stone, to keep it from sinking into the ground, was the anvil.
6	320	Its walls, formed of turf and stone, were curved and thick, some eight feet or more in thickness.
6	439	"How much," asked I, "is the wergild?" "A hundred stone of gold," said Ivar.

Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 ...
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.
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 publ...
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...
2	402	"I must hurry home," she said, "to prepare supper for my father".
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.
26	732	"As though I might be any girl, brought home from a market?" "Yes," I said.
1	277	We passed through two processing rooms; off one corridor was a medical facility, with mats and chains; we passed exercise rooms, training rooms; we passed the branding chamber; I saw heated irons within; we passed, too, the dreaded room of slave discipline; there were, in this room, suspended rings,...
1	325	I heard the rings groan in the stone.
1	417	Each cylinder, roped to others, weighed in the neighborhood of ten stone, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight".
1	808	"And what," I asked, "of the message on the stone, 'Beware the steel tower'?" "It is a mystery," said Samos, "and the answer lies here".
2	30	A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds.
2	387	At one place, on a stone shelf, under awnings, several girls, chained naked, were for sale, interestingly, at set prices.
2	396	I looked to the discarded chains on the stone shelf.
2	399	"In another year," I told her, "you will kneel again on the stone shelf, beneath the awnings".
4	228	I saw her eyes briefly close, relishing the feel of the stone floor, as she knelt back on her heels, on her knees and the tops of her toes; I saw her body straighten itself, exposing itself, drinking in the atmosphere of the room.
4	304	Then, with considerable force, as she cried out with misery, he flung her, the length of her body, belly front, against the stone wall.
7	5	I sat against the stone wall, formed of heavy blocks.
7	7	To the heavy collar of iron, to each of its two, heavy welded rings, one on each side, there was fastened a short chain, fixed to a ring and plate, bolted through the drilled stone.
7	12	I sat on the stone, on straw, soiled, which was scattered on the floor to absorb wastes.
7	13	I looked to the door, some twenty feet across the stone floor; it was of beams, sheathed with iron.
7	46	On the trip to Nine Wells, in the company of Achmed; his father, Farouk; Shakar, captain of the Aretai; Hamid, his lieutenant, and a guard of fifteen riders, I had seen the stone, led to it by Achmed.
7	48	"It lay here!" The stone, however, remained, and the message scratched upon it.
7	79	I leaned back against the stone.
7	282	Suddenly there was a scrambling sound and I saw the bars in the small window shake and scrape, one wrenching loose, with a shower of stone and dust from the wall.
7	284	"It will escape!" He leaped to the barred window, striking madly about, against the stone.
7	290	Ibn Saran spun from the wall, his blade battered, nicked and dull, from pounding on the stone.
8	17	These are long, rectangular bricks, weighing about a stone apiece, or, in Earth weight, about four pounds.
10	199	Under torches men had labored, removing stone and sand in leather buckets on long ropes.
10	391	"Are you familiar with a stone," asked he, "near the route between Tor and Nine Wells, which bears an inscription?" "Yes," I said.

Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	275	A palace without a home stone is but a hovel; a hovel which contains a home stone is a palace.
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.
6	171	It was the home stone of Thurnus.
6	272	I looked at the home stone in the hut.
6	273	In this hut, for it was here that his home stone resided, Thurnus was sovereign.
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.
6	279	They shared the hospitality of his home stone.
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...
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.
9	1020	I think that I shall not try to make clear what is the significance to a Gorean of the home stone.
9	1022	I think this is one of the saddest things about the men of Earth, that they have no home stone.
14	132	Then I saw that he had brought about capture of home stone.
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.
26	214	"I am truly of Ar!" "Describe to me," said he, "the home stone of Ar".
26	218	In this ceremony the home stone of the city is held by each young person and kissed.
26	221	The youth of Earth have no home stone.
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.
26	225	The sharing of a home stone is no light thing in a Gorean city.
26	227	"Yet you cannot describe her home stone.
26	231	To claim a home stone as one's own when it is not is a serious offense among Goreans.
27	283	He will have, too, his own home stone".
1	200	It was not my home.
3	132	In my home we had always had, as long as I could remember, both a maid and a cook.
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.
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.
9	1017	These remarks would not be complete without mentioning home stones.
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...
16	172	They conduct their work commonly in more northern waters, returning to Schendi as their home port.
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.
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 ...

Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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, positi...
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".
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.
3	60	Indeed, some players in Ar had always called it the home stone.
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.
4	180	In Ar, when Scormus had achieved capture of home stone, Marlenus himself, Ubar of the city, had showered gold upon the board.
4	352	Scormus would place his home stone, of course, on the Ubara's side, probably at Builder One.
4	364	I suddenly realized that yellow had not yet placed his home stone.
4	368	Not one piece had yet been moved by yellow from the row of the home stone.
4	373	This would prepare for Builder to Builder Two, and, on the third move, for placement of home stone at Builder One.
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.
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.
4	380	But these placements permitted within two moves left the home stone too centralized, too exposed and vulnerable.
4	382	Already, though he had red, Centius of Cos was moving to place his home stone.
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.
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.
4	388	Centius of Cos placed his home stone at his Ubara's Builder One.
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.
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.
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...
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.
4	443	He reached toward the man on the table who held aloft the yellow home stone.
4	449	Centius of Cos held, clutched, in his hand, the yellow home stone.
6	197	"Before I send men against one such as he," said the officer, "it will be to defend a home stone".
6	657	"You are free," she said, "protect me!" "What is your home stone?" I asked.
6	685	"I have no home stone," he shrugged.
7	34	The sword of the warrior, commonly, is pledged to a home stone, that of the assassin to gold and the knife.
8	188	Did they not know that they, not having a home stone, were subject to any man's collar? She looked at me.
30	124	"What is your home stone?" I asked.
3	176	Schendi, incidentally, is the home port of the league of black slavers.

Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	474	It was in that same year, incidentally, that Port Kar had first had a home stone.
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	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.
34	319	Not only are they free, but they may even share a home stone.
48	256	In having been enslaved she has lost all claim to her former home stone.
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.
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.
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, sudd...
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.
1	197	It is also the home port of the League of Black Slavers.
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.
3	81	"You should be home".
3	82	"I have no home," she said.
5	344	"Do not forget that Schendi is the home port of the black slavers".
6	201	The Palms of Schendi would enter Schendi, her home port, in style.
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.
15	296	Both could be driven home before I could hurl my captors from me.
16	51	The inland speech had been spoken in the home.
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.
1	55	Why can truth not be the foundation of culture, rather than its nemesis? Can one not build upon the stone cliffs of reality rather than dash one's head against them? But how few human beings can think, how few dare to inquire, how few can honestly question.
1	327	Then her back touched the stone wall, startling her, and they seized her, and threw her to a blanket for their pleasure.
3	6	Here and there small lamps, set in niches, high in stone walls, or lanterns, hung on iron projections, shed small pools of light on the sides of buildings and illuminated, too, in their secondary ambiance, the stones of the sloping walkway on which I trod, one of many lea...
6	341	At its eastern end, of course, at one point, the Nyoka, channeled between stone embankments, about two hundred yards apart, flows into it.
6	542	Many goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, ...
6	548	Sometimes, however, the stone is carved to resemble a tiny kailiauk or kailiauk head.
10	7	He was sitting, cross-legged, on a flat, rectangular stone, broad and heavy, about a foot high, at the western edge of the large Utukufu, or Glory, square.
10	8	The stone was his etem, or sitting place.
32	499	We were examining the ruins of an ancient civilization, great blocks of stone, huge, frightening carvings".
32	579	At the end of the street, before a group of men standing on the wide steps and the surface of a broad, stone platform, some ten feet in height, we stopped.
32	609	It was long and translucent, eighteen inches in length, of slender, bluish stone.

Book 14. (30 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
11	422	It is the home stone which, for the Gorean, marks the center.
11	425	For the Gorean the home stone would mark the point of the circle's center.
11	426	It is the home stone which, so to speak, determines the circle.
11	429	If you have a home stone, I need not speak.
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.
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.
22	2	"It is nothing," said the Lady Florence, "for we are sharers of a home stone and are, too, fast friends".
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.
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.
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.
1	53	I would take her home, of course, in a cab.
1	863	"I will take you home," I said.
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".
1	1010	Two bolts, one on each side, had been thrust home, securing the doors.
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.
11	428	But let me not try to speak of home stones.
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.
16	176	It was a bit late now, and they were hurrying home.
16	177	When their master arrived home they would be expected to greet him, kneeling, his meal prepared.
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.
16	304	"Perhaps you should hurry home.
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.
22	124	"Take me home".
22	130	"Take me home!" she cried.
3	10	I lay on a flooring of large blocks of fitted stone.
3	19	There was, attached to it, as I conjectured, hearing the tiny sound of its movement and its clink on the stone beneath my body, a smaller piece of metal, perhaps a ring of some sort.
3	105	I fell to my stomach on the stone and straw.
7	384	I struck the heavy stone then with my fists, moaning.
11	6	My feet and ankles were chained together, the chain joining them apparently run through a ring in the stone.

Book 15. (30 results) Rogue of Gor

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

Book 16. (30 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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".
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.
20	583	This is thought to be owed to the home stone.
20	775	You acted, too, doubtless, in accordance with your conception of your duty as an officer and your sense of the obligations of citizenship, that the honor of the home stone of Port Cos not be compromised".
20	782	Similarly, my duties as an officer and a citizen, the sharer of a home stone, were not implicated in the matter".
20	1189	Since that time Victoria has not had a home stone.
20	1190	What had once been our home stone served then as nothing more than a pledge symbol amongst the buccaneers of the river.
20	1193	That, then, shall be the new home stone of Victoria".
20	1197	"No longer may it serve as a home stone".
20	1805	The slave has no home stone.
20	1836	Has she not broken their implicit pact, uttered that which is unspeakable, neither to acknowledge that love could exist between such disparate beings as they, a free man, a lordly fellow, one with a home stone, and a mere beast, an animal, collared, a degraded, meaningles...
21	599	The Gorean, on the other hand, would regard the man of Earth who might disagree with him in this matter as being strange or incomprehensible, and worse, perhaps even unworthy of his manhood, and certainly unworthy of a home stone.
8	298	Perhaps one is that Earth girls are alien to Gor and have no home stones.
8	416	The self-frustrating futility of their attack, obstinate and unimaginative, had, at long last, apparently been brought home to its commander.
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.
17	479	It is as though I had come home to myself".
18	315	How far we have wandered from home.
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...
18	443	The young Gorean male, we shall suppose, now brings his girl home.
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.
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.
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.
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.
20	165	You may then take her home with you tonight when you go".
20	168	"This is for when you take her home with you tonight," I said.
20	312	They, by actually putting a physical bond on her, and one which she knows she is powerless to break or escape, one in which she is absolutely helpless, bring her slavery home to her in a clear and unmistakable manner.
20	610	She does not want to be known at home, in her own city, as a compromised free woman, one who in terror unworthily, disgracefully, bared her body publicly.
20	1113	"Do you have another binding strap," asked Callimachus, sheepishly, "something to take her home in?" "By some odd chance, I do," I said, grinning, and threw him such a strap.
20	1145	I had little doubt that when he arrived home he would play well upon her body, making it the instrument of his attentions.
20	1241	"We might discuss this at greater length, but, as you might understand," he said, jerking a thumb at the nude, bound Peggy, waiting for him on the landing, "I am in a hurry to get this slave home".

Book 17. (23 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
2	103	Also, to be candid, Port Kar is still muchly thought of on Gor, though she now has a home stone, as a lair of thieves, a den of pirates, and so on.
2	136	That year, incidentally, is also regarded as significant in the history of Port Kar because it was in that year that, as it is said, a home stone consented to reside within the city.
5	10	Some of them, I suspected, might even be men without a home stone.
11	48	So, too, will such things as the fact that you have no home stone and no caste, and will be ignorant of a thousand things known to any Gorean.
8	179	The fact that she was dressed as she was led me to believe that the woman worked in business and that she had been taken by the slavers on her way home from work.
13	359	"I took money and left home," she said.
13	604	Only then has she come home.
13	1555	"But the main thing, in my opinion," I said, "is the psychological effect on the woman, the bringing home to her, in clear, forcible and undeniable terms, the reality of her situation, that she is helpless, that she is at his mercy, that she, regardless of her will, is now his to do wi...
14	529	"Did you not see how they struck the girls on their flanks, so possessively, so pridefully, so good-naturedly? They are more than enough pleased to have such girls on their tethers, to lead them home, to add them in with their kaiila and other stock".
14	772	"I was taken from the enclosure when I was eight years old," she said, "taken home by a Kaiila warrior as a pretty little white slave for his ten-year-old son.
14	1226	"The larger party has done its work and is returning to its home, presumably under the command of a Blotanhunka, a war-party leader, usually a fellow of mature and experienced judgment.
16	300	"You are far from home," I said.
17	384	"Yes, Garden Eleven, our home," said Pumpkin.
1	29	I threw back the heavy furs on the great stone couch.
1	67	The coals in the brazier to the left of the great stone couch had burned out during the night.
1	69	The walls, of heavy stone, too, saturated with the chilled, humid air, would be cold and damp, and the defensive bars set in the narrow windows, behind the buckled leather hangings.
1	175	I then went again to the side of the fur-strewn, great stone couch, at the side of which, on the tiles, chained by the neck, knelt the beautiful slave.
1	725	These are rubbed into the hide, and worked into it, usually with a soft flat stone.
1	1027	The head, of metal, or of bone or stone, with sinew or rawhide, and also sometimes with metal trade rivets, is then mounted on the lance.
2	197	Already there is talk among the merchants in rep-cloth and the lumber and stone merchants".
9	48	It is not likely to fracture as a stone point might.
13	1365	You thus begin again, anew, your struggle to convince a master that there may be some point in keeping you about, that there may be some point in putting a bit of gruel in a bowl, or hollowed stone, for you, or thrusting a crust of bread in your mouth.
14	490	Common games are lots, dice and stone guessing.

Book 18. (30 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
34	444	It is removed from the case, or cover, also, of course, when it is sunned, set forth to draw in power and medicine from the yellow, life-giving, blazing star of two worlds, Sol or Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the home stone.
54	311	It now, in the Gorean fashion, for the first time, tended to be identified with a home stone.
54	312	The community could now, if it wished, the home stone moving, even migrate to new lands.
54	313	In Gorean law allegiances to a home stone, and not physical structures and locations, tend to define communities.
4	23	This is analogous to the secret slaveries which sometimes exist on Earth, where a woman, returning home, kneels and waits to be collared.
4	24	How startled would be the fellows in the office to discover that that trimly figured, luscious co-worker of theirs, to them seemingly so cool, aloof and inaccessible, is at home another man's slave.
4	30	When he arrives home she is awaiting him, naked, kneeling, on the slave mat, at the foot of his bed, her collar before her.
4	199	In his club, so to speak, he might be able to find a bit of peace and quiet which seems to have eluded him at home.
14	19	"Radish is the leader of our small expedition to the camp," said Pumpkin, "and is, for most practical purposes, first in the compound, in our home, Garden Eleven, although we all are, of course, the same".
18	36	He had taken her home with him and given her, as a slave, to his ten-year-old son.
39	464	Even in such small ways is a woman's slavery brought home to her.
1	138	It had been given to him by a Yellow Knife in mounted combat, the result of a stroke by a long-handled, stone-bladed tomahawk, or canhpi.
4	52	In the old days it was prepared by stone-boiling.
18	168	She was sharpening the scraper on a stone in front of her.
18	227	He was grooving a stone for a hammerhead.
18	228	This is done with a dampened rawhide string, dipped in sand, and drawn again and again, patiently, across the stone.
18	232	"Today," said the man, drawing the rawhide string across the stone, "Mahpiyasapa is in sorrow.
18	253	"Is it your understanding that Wopeton accompanied Mahpiyasapa?" "That is what I think," said the man, drawing the wet string, sand adhering to it, firmly and slowly, carefully, across the stone.
18	254	He had probably been working for more than two days on the stone.
18	257	"And that, too, is interesting," said the man, looking at the stone.
18	260	When a stone cools it is then reheated.
18	265	I backed off a bit, on my knees, and then rose to my feet, and then withdrew from the presence of the fellow who was patiently working on the stone.
35	26	"Maybe it will be cold tonight," speculated Imnak, bending over the slate point of his harpoon, methodically sharpening it with a stone, in the light of the small sleen-oil lamp.
43	425	I dismounted and pulled the two slave sacks across the stone to my feet.
44	462	Lances snapped against the stone and the barricade.
46	183	She did so, expelling the wet stone into the palm of his hand.
47	367	They rolled and tore at one another and blood, from drenched fur, marked the stone, leaving the pattern of the fur.
47	389	Zarendargar screamed and leaped on the stone, and, scratching, climbed a bit up the rock face from the trail, and then fell back, and leaped again.
48	16	Both of the girls, naked, knelt on the stone at his feet.
48	34	"Oh!" she cried, putting her head down to the stone.

Book 19. (23 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
6	111	In the end he is convinced by his own reflections, and those of others, of the propriety of keeping the honor of his own home stone.
16	193	"What is your home stone?" he asked.
16	302	You apparently have no home stone.
17	16	It had been determined that my home stone, if I had one, was not that of Venna, or Ar, or of one of their allies.
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.
2	10	I had returned home to my small apartment only a few minutes earlier, from the local supermarket.
6	40	I had asked to be brought home early.
10	177	"Will we light the torch on the way home?" I asked.
23	21	It is my hope that you will be kind to me, giving me food and clothing, and money and guidance, so that I may return to my home in Lydius.
27	60	It is a hair-do favored by some free women, usually in the atria or courts of their home, or perhaps at private suppers amongst intimates, but it is not outlawed for slaves.
29	295	The feast was now finishing and most of the guests, including Hassan, the guest of honor, had gone home.
30	675	The other girls were in no doubt as to the route home.
36	1518	"Doubtless it brought my slavery home to me," I said, carefully.
6	2	We stood on the height of the walls of Corcyrus, on a stone riser behind the parapet, which permitted us to look out over the parapet, rather than through its apertures, on the surrounding fields.
6	382	These involved such things as races, javelin hurling and stone throwing.
8	51	I felt the stone of the tunnel beneath my feet, the steel holding my wrists helplessly behind me.
16	97	As I crouched in the grass I saw, in a valley below me, in a flash of lightning, like a wet stone ribbon, a road.
20	1	The Stream; The stone I knelt on a flat rock near the side of a small stream, pounding and rinsing a tunic.
20	221	Then, when no one was looking, I bent down and picked up a small, sharp stone from the edge of the stream.
21	1	The Road I fled along the stone road, eastward, back toward the Viktel Aria.
21	4	It had taken me two nights, with the sharp stone, to cut through the wood, under the blanket, in the trunk.
21	8	By day I hid the stone in the blanket, and the blanket itself covered the traces of my work.
30	401	The dwelling within, which fronted on the yard, was a two-story building of dark, fitted stone.

Book 20. (30 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
1	21	I myself, whose home stone was already placed, preferred a much earlier and more central placement of the home stone.
1	11	He positioned his home stone.
1	15	The home stone must be placed by the tenth move.
1	19	He was also fond of placing the home stone late, usually on the ninth or tenth move.
1	22	I did not wish to be forced to sacrifice a move for home-stone placement in a situation that might, for all I knew, not turn out to be to my liking, a situation in which the obligatory placement might even cost me a tempo.
1	23	Similarly, although a somewhat more central location of the home stone exposes it to more lines of attack, it also increases its mobility, and thereby its capacities to evade attack.
1	38	Samos, his home stone positioned, looked up.
1	434	"I had placed my home stone," said Samos, turning his attention to the board.
1	438	I considered the board and the placement of his home stone.
1	669	One of the strongest chains binding a slave, even to a hated master, is her need for sexual relief; she is, after all, a slave; frequently, and perhaps even to her misery, if the master is hated, she begins to sense her growing restlessness, her uneasiness and discomfort; she may fight it, but it is...
1	1013	This movement of the Builder produced a discovered attack on his home stone by my Ubara's Initiate.
1	1015	The Initiate's attack, of course, continued the threat on the home stone.
1	1035	"It is capture of home stone in four," I said.
1	1037	He removed his home stone from the board, resigning.
2	411	In fourteen moves he did it! In fourteen moves he captured three pieces and it would have been capture of home stone on the next! Perhaps there were illegal moves.
2	454	It was the position which would be arrived at on the seventeenth move of the Ubara's Gambit Declined, yellow's home stone having been placed at Ubara's Builder One, providing red had, on the eleventh move, departed from the main line, transposing into the Turian line.
12	28	"If you do not defend, it will be capture of home stone on the next move".
12	30	His home stone was at Ubar's Initiate One.
12	33	No Builder move could now protect the home stone.
12	36	The configuration of pieces on the board was as follows: On my first rank, my home stone was at Ubar's Initiate One; I had a Builder at Ubar's Scribe One.
12	39	One of my Riders of the High Tharlarion, as I indicated earlier, was now at Ubar's Initiate Eight, threatening capture of home stone on the next move.
12	48	They were, as I indicated earlier, his home stone, located at Ubar's Initiate One, and a Builder, located at Ubar's Builder One.
12	59	Ubar's Initiate Nine, that square from which I might effect capture of home stone, was now protected by his Ubara.
12	67	"You may now protect your home stone," I said, "but only at the cost of your Ubara".
12	68	I would now move my Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, threatening capture of home stone.
12	118	I had waited a very long time for this victory, and I would savor every move until capture of home stone.
12	230	When I move him to Ubar's Initiate Nine you can prevent capture of home stone only by giving up your Ubara.
12	238	"Threat to home stone," he said.
12	239	To be sure, his Ubara now threatened the home stone.
12	241	"Threat to home stone," he said.

Book 21. (29 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
26	1002	"Are you not going to take me home?" "Can you find your way home from here?" I asked.
14	32	She had, it seemed, for whatever reason, presumably opportunism or greed, betrayed the pledge of her home stone.
21	164	"I do not think she has a home stone," I said.
21	165	"Gnieus Lelius permitted her to kiss the home stone," he said.
23	43	"Are you supposed to be carrying the home stone in your pouch?" "There could be trouble," I said.
25	173	"But when it was learned that she had been so foolish as to have permitted herself to be captured," said my hostess, "she was cast off by her family, and sworn from the home stone".
2	179	It thus came home to her, I think, fully, perhaps for the first time, what it could be to be a Gorean slave.
3	146	They do not fight for home stones.
24	657	"It has been a long time, my dear," he said, "but you are now home".
25	203	She has the sense, sometimes tenderly and gently, sometimes tremblingly, sometimes shaking, with sobs and tears, that she has at last come home to herself, that she has at last discovered herself, that she is now, for the first time in her life, fully free, though she is helpless, thou...
25	592	"Our customers do not come here," said the hostess, "for attentions which they could receive at home from their free companions.
25	771	I was in the place in which I would have brought home the tabuk, save I would have had him on his belly, so bound.
25	930	"The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks".
25	2159	She has then come home to herself.
26	43	I want to love and serve you! Buy me, take me home with you! Own me! You have made me yours!" I then heard her breathing, and gasping, and a small movement of chains.
26	856	"And it is much what would have happened to you except that you would have been free, naked and bound, the tarsk bit at your belly, to try and make your way home".
26	1313	"How will I get home?" she asked.
26	1410	"I think I will take you home now," I said.
26	1411	"I thought you would not take me home," she said.
26	1461	"We must get you home soon," I said.
26	1706	And both the Gorean woman and the Earth girl, embonded, learning there is no escape for them and that they are irrevocably slaves, unless masters choose to free them, an act which is not only rare and foolish, but almost nonexistent, soon adjust to their new life and, sometimes to their surprise, an...
2	5	I stood on the lowered circular floor, dug out of the earth, packed down and tiled with stone, behind a part of a wall.
3	65	It creaked under perhaps a hundred and fifty Gorean stone of such stores.
3	124	"Oh!" cried Feiqa, suddenly stung by a stone, hurled by another woman.
14	41	One depicted the laying of the first stone in Torcadino's walls, an act which presumably would have taken place more than seven hundred years ago, when, according to the legends, the first wall, only a dozen feet high, was built to encircle and protect a great, sprawling encampment at ...
20	99	Yes, I thought, it is all there, the habitats of culture, the intricate poetries of stone, the incredible places where, their heads among clouds, common bricks have been taught to speak and sing, the meanings uttered scarcely understood by those who walk amongst them; yes, it is all th...
25	1498	Its oval "stone" was of white porcelain, mounted in a red-metal bezel.
25	1503	It had the Tur tree, emblem of Turia, in the southern hemisphere, on the porcelain "stone".
29	3	I saw then that it was small Achiates, he who was the landlord of the insula in which I lodged, which shabby structure now lay only a stone's throw away, down the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla.

Book 22. (30 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
20	170	It is generally accepted in Gorean tradition that the home stone of Ar is the oldest home stone on Gor.
19	44	Other common "nationalities," so to speak, are membership in a kinship organization, such as a clan, or phratry, a group of clans, or a larger grouping yet, a tribe or analogous to a tribe, a group of phratries, and a pledged allegiance to a home stone, usually that of a ...
20	153	Besides, the free laborers share a home stone with the aristocracies of these cities, the upper castes, the higher families, the richer families, and so on.
20	154	Accordingly, because of this commonality of the home stone, love of their city, the sharing of citizenship, and such, there is generally a harmonious set of economic compromises obtaining between the upper castes, and classes, and the lower castes, and the labor force, in...
20	157	Some think that out of such crises came the invention of the home stone.
20	158	There are, of course, several mythical accounts of the origin of the home stone.
20	162	He was told, however, that what they gave him was indeed worth far more than gold and silver, that it was a "home stone".
20	167	"Whose home stone is it?" asked the people, "yours or ours?" "Ours," responded Hesius.
20	205	He thinks of his caste as "the ox on which the home stone rests".
26	87	Some I am freeing, because they are from Brundisium, whose home stone, before my outlawry, was mine.
29	179	"But," said the small fellow, "whatever you choose to call them, or however you choose to think of them, we made a bargain!" "You have no home stone," said the bearded man.
29	185	Too, anyone whose citizenship, for whatever reason, is rescinded or revoked, with due process of law, is no longer entitled to the protections and rights of that polity's home stone.
29	186	That home stone is then no longer his.
29	192	"What then is your home stone?" he asked.
29	195	"You do not have a home stone," announced the leader, with a grin.
29	197	"And meat, much meat!" "You do not have a home stone," grinned the leader.
34	672	The free woman was noble and glorious, was the lofty equal of the free man, and might even share a home stone with him.
3	13	I had taken the paper home.
6	106	I then heard a rattle of chain, the thrusting home of a heavy bolt and the closure of what sounded like a heavy, dangling padlock, one with a bolt perhaps a half-inch thick.
10	71	Indeed, considering the social and political deserts in which we were sexually starved, it would not have surprised me in the least, if we, once it became clear to us, to our joy, that we now had no culturally prescribed alternatives to being women, that we were now no longer subjected to social pre...
13	1148	He is having problems with his companion at home.
17	47	In the late afternoon, after the baths, the men tend to wend their way home, looking forward to their evening meal.
17	48	Sometimes rich men are followed home by their "clients".
20	182	Whereas in the cities, where the rights of citizenship are clearest, where the sways of custom and tradition tend to be jealously guarded, where the influence of home stones is likely to be most keenly felt, free labor has generally held its own, the same cannot be said f...
25	52	Interestingly the girl who may be excessively modest in public may be the same girl who, without another thought, at home, naked, in her collar, gives all of herself, shamelessly, unstintingly, joyfully, to her master.
29	28	"There is not one there who, stripped, would not bring high bids on the block! Is there one there whom a man would not dream of marching home naked before him, to fasten her to his slave ring! See those faces, those slave curves! There is not one of them who is not worth five tarsks!" ...
29	168	What more would they have wished to do, put us to their full pleasure? Perhaps they could take us home for a week on a trial basis! "Very well," said the little fellow.
29	182	There is a Gorean saying that only Priest-Kings, outlaws and slaves lack home stones.
29	184	For example, animals of all sorts, such as tarsks and verr, as well as slaves, do not have home stones.
6	249	When we had begun our training, shortly after we had been branded and collared, we had been kept in a lower level of the house, in a dank, dark, cold, musty area, seeming to consist largely of narrow corridors and cells, an area of damp, cold stone walls, of shadows and pools of water,...

Book 23. (30 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 ...
1	57	"I carry a home stone in this wagon".
1	59	They would not choose to do business with one who carried a home stone, even though they were three to two.
1	225	If one shares a home stone with the victim, of course, the punishment is often more humane.
1	391	I recalled that the brigands, after having descended to prey upon them, had been prepared to withdraw, hearing that the wagon carried a home stone.
1	392	Those with a home stone in their keeping are commonly formidable adversaries.
1	394	Warning them that he carried a home stone indicated that the driver suspected their intentions.
1	396	I wondered if the driver had actually been carrying a home stone or if his assertion had been merely a trick to discourage predation.
18	563	"Obviously, if you did not impale her," he said, "you did not wish her impaled, and you have done service to Ar's Station, whatever may be your own home stone.
20	24	"Its home stone survives".
20	36	"So," said Aemilianus, "though I did continue to hope, I would not risk the home stone.
20	90	Warriors, it is said in the codes, have a common home stone.
21	1366	One who is willing to betray her own home stone would presumably not hesitate to betray someone else's.
24	24	To be sure, the home stone, somewhere, supposedly, survived.
24	262	"The home stone has reached Ar," he said.
24	377	"And what do you think we, we who were abandoned by Ar, we whom she holds in dishonor and contempt, we whose home stone she spits upon, we whom she has pronounced renegades owe to her—now?" "We owe her nothing," said Marcus, bitterly.
24	677	Was Publia, who was first, thought most beautiful, and thus led the chain, or was it perhaps that Claudia's crime, treachery, the betrayal of a home stone, and such, was thought most heinous, and that this explained her position, perhaps that of greatest degradation and s...
1	342	The bottom stone has a small hub on its upper surface which fits into an inverted concave depression in the upper stone.
20	188	"But a topaz is a stone," I said, "a kind of semiprecious stone".
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.
1	476	Indeed, sometimes the soldiers, particularly if they are levied citizen soldiers, may wish to return home simply to attend to their own business, such as gathering in the harvest.
5	299	When wine is drunk with Gorean meals, at home, incidentally, it is almost always diluted, mixed with water in a krater.
10	48	Blondes sometimes bring higher prices as their hair color is rarer, but once they are home, in the collar, they are, of course, no more than any other slave.
12	250	I was then drawn to my home, where my money and jewels were found, notes of my next reports, and the letter of safety, with the acknowledgment of services.
12	253	The evidence pertinent to my case, both from the parapet and from my home, was presented before him.
15	172	"I ran home to my bed," she said, "to strike it with my fists, and to weep and squirm with frustration".
15	217	Lastly it might be noted that many Gorean free women, particularly those of high caste, wear gloves outside the home, this shielding the softness of the palms, and concealing as well the lovely area at the wrist, between the hand and the forearm, where one might conveniently, and snugl...
15	312	It makes clear, in the home and on the street, her status, that of a slave, that of a domestic animal.
20	303	We do not know where they came from, nor what might be their home ports".
20	373	"The same which serves as the home port of my ship," he said.

Book 24. (30 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 ceremon...
3	478	"That is a den of cutthroats and pirates!" "In Port Kar," I said, "there is a home stone".
19	148	But let us hope they share a home stone.
19	150	But what if they do not share a home stone? And what if another, such as he, from elsewhere—? Well, let her guard herself, lest she find herself in a distant place, one unfamiliar to her, on a large, rounded block, stripped, ankle deep in sawdust, being vended to t...
19	497	"What is your home stone?" she asked, suddenly, fearfully.
19	1463	"Forget," she said, "that I am your enemy, that you hate me, that you hold me in contempt, that you despise me, that I have betrayed my home stone, that I am a spy of Cos! Think of me now only as a woman who has for the first time begun to feel her womanhood, and hold me!...
26	62	The boys, as a portion of the home stone Ceremony, take an oath of mastery, in which they swear never to surrender the dominance which is rightfully theirs by nature.
26	65	In the same ceremony the young women of Tharna are also brought into the presence of the home stone.
28	78	"I am surprised to hear such sentiments," I said, "from those who must once have held and kissed the home stone of Ar".
28	79	This was a reference to the citizenship ceremony which, following the oath of allegiance to the city, involves an actual touching of the city's home stone.
28	80	This may be the only time in the life of a citizen of the city that they actually touch the home stone.
28	121	"Her home stone survives," said another.
35	27	"It is the city of my home stone," said Plenius.
36	150	The streets are, after all, the streets of their city, and their city is, after all, the place of their home stone.
44	140	"We do not share a home stone," I said.
48	471	On the other hand, there was now a home stone in the city.
3	564	Do you object, or does this thrill you? Do you feel in a sense that the pain is over, that you have come home, that you are now, at last, where you belong? You are not truly the same as a man, are you? What then are you? Can you not guess? Be ready.
19	1856	"By making his home his own brothel?" she said.
31	94	"You are a long way from home," I said.
37	191	Nature! Nature! Is that truly so hard to understand? Women desire strong men; they long for true masters; women despise weak men; they want to be taken in hand by strong men, and owned; they know males are dominant by nature, and they want them to be so; how else can they be fulfilled women; they re...
47	9	I saw a girl flee out from behind the counter but she was a brunet and presumably the merchant's, probably used as a model, useful for fellows who did not have their own slave along, or perhaps wished to surprise her by flinging her a new outfit when he returned home, one which she mus...
3	600	One must distinguish between the slave girl who is put to a stirrup as a discipline, who might be taken into the country like this, even on dirt roads, to gasp and sweat, and struggle, at the stirrup, and the girl who, in a city, or on a smooth stone road, of great fitted blocks, serve...
19	174	The ul, unfortunately, in my opinion, did not seem much bothered about the stone I had thrown.
19	176	I picked up another stone and let it fly.
22	16	For this purpose she would use a small, sharp stone.
22	27	I watched her kneeling by the stone, working on the grunts.
29	132	I watched the fellow sharpening the knife, moving it on the stone, turning it, moving it again.
29	154	He was wiping the stone with a cloth.
29	155	The stone and the cloth he would replace in his pack, in a wrapper.
37	288	From where we were I could have thrown a stone among the tents.

Book 25. (30 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 s...
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...
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.
28	26	In this primitive sense the home stone is simply that, and irreducibly, the home stone.
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.
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, w...
28	19	The home stone says this place is mine, this is my home.
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.
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".
22	388	"Take me home! Take me home!" she wept.
1	316	Further, though there was much talk in the city of resistance, of the traditions of Ar, of her home stone, and such, I did not think that the people of Ar, stunned and confused by the apparently inexplicable succession of recent disasters, had the will to resist the Cosia...
2	61	During the siege of Ar's Station its home stone had been smuggled out of the city and secretly transported to Ar for safekeeping.
2	98	The home stone of Ar's Station, as I have suggested, was in Ar.
4	1	Within Ar "Revile the home stone of Ar's Station while you may," said the guard to a tradesman.
4	47	If he were successful in his mad attempt to obtain the home stone of his city he would doubtless be a recognized wanted man.
4	86	"No one must be permitted to again revile the home stone of Ar's Station!" said Marcus.
4	89	I looked back to the enclosure within which was the home stone of Ar's Station, it resting on the plank, supported by the two terra-cotta vats.
4	91	"I do not think you are likely, at this time," I said, "to seize the home stone by force.
4	97	"It is not your home stone," he said.
7	169	"Talena intends to sacrifice herself for us, for the city, for the home stone!" wept a man.
7	339	"She, in her own name, and in the name of the people and home stone of Ar, gives thanks to our friends and brothers of Cos, for the delivery of her city from the tyranny of Gnieus Lelius and for the liberation of her people!" At this point, doubtless by a prearranged sign...
8	118	After the medallion, Talena had been given the home stone of Ar, that she might hold it in her left hand, and a scepter, a rod of office, signifying power, that she might hold in her right.
8	135	"The home stone of Ar's Station is no longer exhibited publicly," said Marcus, gloomily.
9	216	"And is this sacrifice we ask of you, in the name of the city, and its home stone, any more than that which I myself was prepared to make?" "No, my Ubara," wept the Lady Fulvia.
9	390	"Conspiracy, seditious assertions, betrayal of the home stone, support of the wicked regime of Gnieus Lelius, former tyrant of Ar".
9	395	"In not opposing such wicked policies, you betrayed the home stone of Ar," said Talena.
9	471	"Enemy of Ar, enemy of the people of Ar, enemy of the home stone of Ar, Claudia Tentia Hinrabia," said Talena, "you are to be embonded, and before nightfall".
10	9	"The major blow," said he, "was doubtless the movement of the home stone to Telnus".
10	12	Later, however, when the ceremony of citizenship, in which the home stone figures, was postponed, speculation had become rampant.
10	13	There had been demands by minor Initiates, of smaller temples, outside the pomerium of the city, first, for the ceremonies to be conducted, and, later, these ceremonies not taking place, for the home stone to be produced.

Book 26. (30 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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...
40	211	"By the home stone?" "By the home stone itself!" said the pit master, angrily.
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...
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.
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.
12	287	That caste is sometimes referred to as "the ox on which the home stone rests".
12	288	I am not clear as to what a home stone is, but I have gathered that it, whatever it might be, is regarded as being of great importance on this world.
12	289	So, if that is the case, and the Peasants is indeed the caste upon which the home stone rests, then it would seem, at least in my understanding, to be a very important caste.
13	643	"What was her home stone?" asked a woman.
24	800	They have shamed the city, and the home stone.
24	971	Gone would be the protection of the law, of guardsmen, of the shared home stone.
31	27	You are sheltered by her home stone.
31	246	"I spit upon the home stone of Ar!" said the leader of the strangers.
31	304	"You do not share our home stone," said the pit master.
31	312	I fear lest the home stone be stained".
31	377	Why would you defend this monster?" "We share a home stone," said the officer.
34	45	"Capture of home stone," said the pit master.
38	168	"Surrender your home stone," said the other guard.
38	172	"I will defend the home stone while yet a Spearman remains," said the other, irritably.
38	231	"Capture of home stone," said Terence.
40	104	I have shamed the home stone".
40	153	"I give you my word," said the officer, "within the rights of my code, and sworn in the name of the home stone itself, that if you shall accomplish upon yourself this injustice, I shall see that she will be free to follow you, whether it be from this ledge, or by the cord...
40	270	You have not betrayed the home stone of Treve.
40	323	"You cannot leave the city of your home stone!" I said.
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<...
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	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	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	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 ...
28	77	The flames sped from paste stone to paste stone, and the whole was then dropped to the side, flickering and smoldering.

Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
11	750	"A home stone, Master?" "Commonality of home stone extends beyond concepts with which you are familiar, such as shared citizenship, for example.
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.
18	219	His home stone was the home stone of Ar.
19	7	"Is your home stone the home stone of Ar?" inquired Portus, suddenly, fiercely, of Selius Arconious.
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".
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.
30	806	I have at last come home, come home to myself, to the deepest truths of my being.
4	415	The world is called, after one of its cultural artifacts, "home stone".
11	749	It is not as though you were a free person, and had a home stone".
16	758	"If he has a home stone," said another.
16	760	"Does Targo, I mean, the master, have a home stone?" asked Ellen.
17	720	We do not share a home stone.
18	217	As a slave, of course, she could not have a home stone, no more than any other animal.
18	218	Her master, however, Portus Canio, she knew, had a home stone.
19	415	"It is an organization," said Portus, "formed largely, but not entirely, from veterans of the great disaster of the Vosk delta, where they were betrayed by treason in high places, denied supplies, abandoned, left to die, who muchly suffered in their retreat from the delta, and found themselves despi...
22	193	She does not have a home stone.
25	1119	She has, after all, a home stone.
26	699	"Death to the Ubara!" "She shall know the penalties for betraying the home stone, those to be suitably inflicted upon a traitorous free person," said a man.
26	756	On the other hand, we do share a home stone".
26	842	"In Port Kar," said the red-haired man, he like a larl, "there is now a home stone".
26	1113	Do not peasants upon occasion hide their daughters? Do not the men of the Tahari order their slaves to the tents upon the approach of strangers, and so on? On Gor, it might be mentioned, that some of these things might be better understood, women tend to be regarded as goods and prizes, as loot and ...
26	1313	The free woman is a person; she is a citizen; she has standing before the law; she has a home stone; she is noble, lofty, and exalted.
26	1454	"Were you, a meaningless, wretched slave, given permission to touch the body of one whose home stone is that of Ar?" he asked.
26	1743	Perhaps an Ahn later, shortly before the first rays of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the-home-stone, the common star of Earth and Gor, began to glimmer in the east, rising there as it does on Earth, they rose together, he suddenly to his feet, casting the blanket aside, she quic...
27	1180	"I have a home stone," said Portus Canio.
27	1497	And the slave, for her part, finds this very pleasurable, particularly if she is secure in her master's collar, if those about are likely to share a home stone with him, and such.
27	1817	"You are less than an urt of Ar," said Portus Canio, "for you have betrayed your home stone".
27	1819	"It is only that his home stone is not yours.
27	2187	The sun was now dipping into the grasslands in the west, as the sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the-home-stone, the common star of Gor and Earth, now took its rest after its diurnal labors, as the first knowledge would have it, or, as the second knowledge would have it, as th...
27	2517	In becoming a slave, you see, she has dishonored its home stone.

Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
1	935	Too, it is generally accepted that a man may enslave a woman who has insulted him or in some way treated him badly, but this option is seldom acted upon, it seems, if a home stone is shared.
1	938	One supposes then that they are relying on the assumed protection of a common home stone.
1	951	They are relatively safe, usually, only within the walls of their city, and amongst those with whom they share a home stone, but not always, as suggested, even then.
1	952	To make this matter more clear, and to be fairer to the customs of Gor, it should be noted that any woman, any woman whatsoever with whom one does not share a home stone, is understood to be fair game for the capture loop.
1	1048	To be sure, the codes make it abundantly clear that this pertains only to females with whom one shares a home stone.
1	1058	Whereas it is true that Warriors might scorn a fellow of their caste who had lost his honor, it is not at all clear that they would have regarded the usage of two females, neither of whom had a home stone, as it turned out, as in any way involving a loss of honor.
1	1082	Was she unaware that she was beautiful and naked? Was she unaware she was a woman and he was a man? Did she not know he was of the Warriors, and that she, with all her loftiness and pretensions, luscious and unclothed, easily within his grasp, did not even possess a home stone
30	114	"The thief?" "Surely, has he not availed himself of another's property without authorization, has he not stolen a use?" "But one can rape a free woman?" "Surely," he said, "and the penalties for that can be grievous, particularly if a home stone is shared".
30	115	"What is a home stone, Master?" she asked.
80	317	"You are attractive, and you have no city, no village, no home stone.
81	103	"She has no home stone," said Cabot.
1	1026	And the human female does not come home to herself until she is on her chain.
1	1248	Too, she was quite unfamiliar with Gorean males, and how they viewed women, in particular those with whom they do not share home stones.
2	277	It is, of course, a pleasure more safely indulged in by free women than slaves, for, in the case of slaves, men, rather than spending their time being troubled and tormented, may simply buy the slave and bring her home, collared and braceleted.
3	396	Doubtless, often, she had been led from the market, back-braceleted, and leashed, perhaps hooded, led as might be any other newly purchased animal, to her new home.
5	9	"Because of the saurians there," responded Arcesilaus, "descendents of saurians from the home World".
5	11	"Where is the home World?" asked Cabot.
5	293	"I would have thought," said Cabot, "it would have been adjusted to that of your home World".
5	294	"Much has been lost," said Pyrrhus, "pertaining to the home World".
11	146	Perhaps he buys her, and takes her home.
11	210	"You may take her home with you, to the hillside villa in the Steel World," said Peisistratus, "and keep her as long as you wish".
26	83	"How else do you suppose ten thousand small villages from Torvaldsland to Turia, from Thentis to Schendi, have retained the liberty of their home stones for centuries?" "We are not peasants," said Peisistratus.
43	313	In this way another aspect of her slavery was brought home to her.
1	17	Are they truly so unaware of their small place in the yard of existence, so ignorant of the length of space and the breadth of time, of the flight of galaxies, of the journeys of streaming light, perhaps touching nothing for a hundred thousand years; are they unaware even of the patience of st...
5	335	"What could protect you from radiation," asked Cabot, "or from debris, of the sort which might be destroyed and scattered in a normal atmosphere?" "The habitats are shielded, of course," said Arcesilaus, "with several yards of slag, steel, stone, and such".
8	5	The encircling walls were of yellow stone.
8	6	At one end of the room, opposite the portal through which Cabot and Peisistratus had entered, was a low, stone dais.
8	33	Cabot conjectured the jaws could shake and cut a normal river tharlarion in two, that the tail, with a swift blow, might shatter stone or fell trees.
17	12	At that point the first large stone, hurled from above, struck one of the Kurii on the shoulder, and he spun about, howling, holding his arm, which now seemed to dangle uselessly from his shoulder.

Book 29. (30 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 wharv...
3	255	"But elsewhere?" "My home stone," he said, "is the home stone of Port Kar".
19	17	Few, I suspected, would find their way back to their home stones, if home stones they had.
1	142	How did she expect to become a Ubara? She did not even have a home stone.
1	143	And there was a Ubara in Ar, if only a Cosian puppet on the throne, Talena, a traitress to her home stone, Talena, once the daughter of the great Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, whose whereabouts, as far as I knew, were unknown.
2	53	For example, aside from the usual impropriety of challenging one with whom one might share a home stone, Gorean honor militates against, if it does not wholly preclude, casual or unprovoked challenges.
2	80	"Your home stone," I said, "is that of Port Kar?" "Yes," he said, "but I have not seen her for years".
2	166	"How is it that a forester," I said, "claims as his the home stone of Port Kar?" "I once lived there," he said, "before I took caste.
2	168	She had no home stone.
2	172	"I think once she had no home stone," I said.
2	174	"Can you conceive of a city, a town, a village, a hamlet, without a home stone?" "There are probably such places," I said.
2	176	In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallyi...
2	192	They regard themselves as the "ox on which the home stone rests," and, in a sense, they may be right.
2	200	"What is your home stone?" he asked.
2	207	"My sword, once, long ago," I said, "was pledged to the home stone of Ko-ro-ba".
2	223	"Have you ever seen the home stone of Port Kar?" he asked.
2	224	"How is it that I, one not of Port Kar, should have seen her home stone?" I asked.
2	293	On the throne of Ar sits an arrogant puppet Ubara, a traitress to her home stone, a woman named Talena, a hypocrite and villainess, a female once the daughter, until disowned, of the great Marlenus of Ar himself".
2	398	"He has never seen the home stone of Port Kar," I said.
3	249	"You have a home stone here somewhere?" I said to Pertinax.
3	250	Usually the home stone is displayed in a place of honor.
3	252	In his own hut, if it has a home stone, it is said that even a beggar is a Ubar.
3	254	I have no home stone here".
3	409	"You have no home stone here," I said.
4	27	Such women did not even have the protection of a home stone.
4	339	For example, you have no home stone".
4	340	"What is a home stone?" she said.
4	361	Compared to a Gorean free woman, sheltered by her home stone, secure within her walls, complacent in the unquestioned arrogance of her station, the women of Earth do not even understand what it is to be free.
4	385	In the codes such matters are gray, for it is commonly supposed that a home stone would be shared.
4	389	This is particularly the case if there is no shared home stone.

Book 30. (30 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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".
1	281	But even so, it was not unknown in the lower castes, and I have encountered it even amongst the Peasants, the fundamental caste, the "Ox on which the home stone rests".
1	283	It was only after that time that some masters outside of Ar, in various far cities, and even as faraway as Cos and Tyros, in their contempt for the new Ubara, regarded as having betrayed her home stone, might place that now-contemptible name upon some slaves, usually defi...
1	290	It seems that long ago, during the Planting Feast of Ar, a bold tarnsman, thought to be from the north, seized the home stone of Ar, which catastrophe brought about the temporary downfall of the Ubar, who fled from the city with chosen men.
1	291	In the disruptions and chaos ensuing upon the loss of the home stone, leagues of cities, enemies to Ar, under the leadership of an Assassin, Pa-Kur, marched on the troubled, disunited city.
1	384	"She betrayed her home stone," said another.
1	391	It was true that Talena was no longer of Ar, as she had betrayed its home stone.
1	392	She was now without a home stone, a fugitive, no longer protected by law.
3	25	Better put, they were lost men, scattered men, hunted men, men with few resources, outlaws, vagabonds, wanderers, many without a home stone, perhaps even having dishonored or betrayed it, rude men, rough men, dangerous men, mercenaries, of a sort, recruited by mysterious ...
3	35	We had tried to burn their ship, and how fearsome and dangerous is fire at sea! Too, how could I betray the home stone of Jad, or forswear my allegiance to my Ubar, mighty Lurius of Jad? And how could I serve with those of Ar or, say, Port Kar, sworn enemies? Of what valu...
3	157	My home stone is that of Jad".
3	168	Bribery and corruption had been rampant and those with the ear of the Ubara, those on whom she might choose to smile, prospered, while the common citizenry suffered, struggled to live, knew fear and uncertainty, peril and want, and must endure the contumely and abuse not only of undisciplined, garri...
3	559	'I and other sandal slaves of the hated Lady Flavia of Ar, traitress to the home stone of Ar, have been sent to the perimeter, that we might identify our former mistress, should she attempt to elude the justice of Ar.
3	822	'May I inquire,' I asked, 'what home stone Masters revere?' This could, of course, make a great deal of difference in what might then ensue.
3	970	'Describe its home stone,' he said.
4	73	"Do you have a home stone?" asked Lord Nishida.
4	164	"Are you prepared to deny your home stone?" asked Lord Nishida.
5	111	"My home stone is that of Jad, on Cos.
5	112	Perhaps some of you share her home stone with me.
5	321	"My home stone," I said, "is that of Jad".
5	324	"You must," said Lord Nishida, addressing me, "be prepared to forswear your home stone".
5	327	"Have you forsworn the home stone?" I asked Philoctetes.
5	347	"I could not kill one whose home stone I shared," I said.
5	349	"I did not forswear my home stone," I said.
5	352	"What if I had forsworn my home stone?" I asked.
7	84	The rape of a free woman with whom one shares a home stone, on the other hand, is a very serious offense.
7	161	Tomorrow would be the first day of the Ninth Passage Hand, at the end of which is the winter solstice, and the first day of Se'var-Lar-Torvis, the month of the Second Turning of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-home-stone.
8	3	Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-home-stone, was low, lying almost upon the gray horizon.
9	307	Why should the gold be his and not mine? She was a traitress, a conspirator, a criminal, a profiteer, a betrayer of her home stone, once even the confidante of the arch traitress herself, Talena, of Ar.
9	526	"He has, as I recall, what you speak of as a home stone".

Book 31. (30 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
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.
2	33	If you have attained, on the other hand, to the Second Knowledge, you understand it is alleged to be a different world, one of several orbiting Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-home-stone, but, even so, many of you, even with the Second Knowledge, remain skeptical, regarding it...
7	725	I was not a free woman, a person, a citizen, the possessor of a home stone.
8	225	Even the Peasants, commonly regarded as the lowest of castes, regards itself proudly, and with justification, as "the ox on which the home stone rests".
8	535	You betrayed your home stone, as much as Talena of Ar or Flavia of Ar.
8	969	You know her well for her betrayal of the home stone, for her profiteering, for her collaboration with the hated invaders.
8	1250	She has no home stone.
8	1251	She has never had a home stone.
8	1660	"My home stone," she said, "is that of Ar".
8	1662	Although his establishment was within the walls of Ar, it was not likely he shared its home stone.
10	263	It is probably difficult for one of my former world to understand the awesome dignity and importance, the social and cultural status, of the Gorean free woman, for she possesses a home stone, a status incomparably far above that of the usual free woman of my former world.
10	265	No longer is she a man's equal, or superior, the haughty, protected possessor of a home stone, but a master's property.
10	847	You do not even have a home stone".
10	873	"You lack a home stone".
10	926	Too, she had no home stone, no family, no clan, no caste.
11	44	She would doubtless have been recognized as barbarian, suspected to lack a home stone, and one thing might have led to another.
13	30	Where might he be? Was he no more? Had he met his end on Clive? Who had been in those bloodied shreds of black and gray, the colors of the Metal Workers? Could it have been he? To be sure, what could he, a stranger, be to me, and what could I, a slave, be to him, a free man? Were we not muchly dispa...
17	131	"My home stone," said he, "is that of Harfax".
18	997	She had little sense of the risks to which she might be exposed as a defenseless woman in Ar, a barbarian lacking a home stone.
46	108	I was sure that the Kurii did not realize the possible consequences which might attend denying kajirae to Gorean males, men accustomed, almost from the ceremony of citizenship, when they are allowed to hold and kiss the home stone, to having such conveniences inexpensivel...
52	253	One might risk one's life or die for a free woman because she is free, or because a home stone is shared, or because it is expected, or because it is thought to be a duty, or a matter of honor, but why might one risk one's life for, or die for, a slave? What could be the ...
2	3	You value your lives, surely, and your home stones, and your fellows, but I wonder if you value your world, truly, or, perhaps better, value it enough.
2	4	Perhaps you will value it more if you could see it, if only for a moment, through the eyes of another, one astonished, one from a quite different world, a world which was much like a charnel house, or a smoke house, a world with little pride, but much vanity, a world of crowding, scrambling about, c...
2	5	I suppose you find that strange, a world without home stones.
2	6	Indeed, I wonder if you believe me, that there could be such a world, one without home stones.
2	10	Conceive then, if you can, a world such as that from which I was obtained, a world without home stones, a world so meaningless, so forlorn, so petty, so empty.
8	263	"Demetrius will be home soon," said a fellow, reassuringly.
8	929	She had spoken well to me, earlier in the cell, despite the fact that I was a "barbarian," and, too, we were both, so to speak, far from home.
10	8	Occasionally, caught in such a contretemps, I had seen a girl mercilessly switched, until she cowered, rolling under the blows, sobbing and crying out, and I scarcely dared to speculate what might occur when she was marched home to a whipping ring.

Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
15	306	We have home stones! Did you have a home stone?" "No," I said.
6	88	Even in the open fields they were pursued and hunted, sometimes from the sky by tarnsmen of Ar, no longer enrolled in the sorry task of protecting uniformed looters and policing a sullen, resentful citizenry with which they shared a home stone.
6	149	On the other hand, honor, the allegiance to a home stone, the promise of loyalty, and such, did not seem a requirement for the service contemplated.
7	137	The free individual has caste, clan, and home stone.
8	347	I would not have behaved as I did, of course, if my home stone had been that of Brundisium.
8	348	Had that been the case, it would have been expected that I would endure uncomplainingly, and graciously, the contumely of the women, however prolonged and unpleasant it might be, for they were free, and a home stone would have been shared.
8	350	On the other hand, not all Gorean males are patient with women, even those with whom a home stone might be shared.
10	49	The matter worsens, of course, if the free woman insists on the privileges of the deck, or, say, if she is careless of how she stands when the wind whips her robes, and matters may become intolerable indeed should she delight herself with certain pleasures not unknown to occasionally appertain to he...
13	126	Such names will mark her as barbarian, and suggest that she is born for the collar, as opposed to a Gorean woman of caste and home stone, and may be treated accordingly.
13	132	How is it that there is such a difference between the free woman and the slave, and then, again, that there is no difference? A radical distinction is drawn between the Gorean free woman, with caste and home stone, and the slave.
15	308	"Not everyone has a home stone," I said.
22	19	"If a home stone is shared, or such," she said.
25	12	They are taught to estimate the time of day by the position of Tor-tu-Gor, Light- Upon-the-home-stone, rather as they are taught to recognize fruits and blossoms, trees and flowers, and a thousand small things within their environment, things which children of my world se...
40	154	"They are free, and share no home stone," he said.
47	69	It is his role to warn against illegal moves, and to announce captures, threats to the home stone, and such.
52	90	"Masters!" Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the- home-stone, the common star of two worlds, Earth and Gor, was rising.
54	15	"If I am not to be sold," I said, "why are we going to Victoria?" "It is the town of my home stone," he said.
54	16	"You have a home stone?" I said.
4	132	The usual reason a slave is brought to an auction is merely that their masters enjoy having them at hand, relish them, and do not wish to leave them at home, caged, kenneled, chained to a couch ring, or such; on the other hand, many masters enjoy being seen with slaves whom others migh...
5	31	I thought he might seem one less familiar with escalators than mountains, less at home with engines and calculators than with horses and falcons, than with fire, bows, and steel.
5	115	One night, I returned home, a Wednesday evening in November, a cool night, late from the store, for we had been open later than usual, for a sale, prepared a small supper, and then, weary from the day, retired.
6	104	"Where is your shield," they might be asked, "where is your sword?" In Brundisium, on the other hand, a busy port, with access to the northern and southern coastal trade, and an access to the major island ubarates westward, Cos and Tyros, there was considerable prosperity, for the coin that leaves o...
6	282	How different were the women of Earth from them, those of Earth lacking home stones, with their brazenly unveiled features, their openly displayed ankles, the pleading silk of their secret lingerie, so fit for slaves.
7	313	They would come home to themselves, in being owned and mastered.
8	47	Ships were being hired, and men recruited, not merely shipsmen, pilots, helmsmen, oarsmen, and such, but men-at-arms, as well, hundreds, mercenaries, many lacking home stones, many perhaps indistinguishable from ruffians, vagabonds, brigands, thieves, and cutthroats.
8	298	"Take me home," she said.
9	252	A common test for a young tarnsman is to steal a free woman from an enemy city, bring her home, brand and collar her, and have her serve and dance before his family and friends at his victory feast.
9	274	"But many lovely free women of Ar," he said, "profiteers, traitresses, collaborators, conspirators, betrayers of their home stones, fleeing, taken in hand, had their hair cropped and were collared".
14	191	Several had mocked and forsworn home stones.

Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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.
1	9	Following the last day of the Ninth Passage Hand, Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the-home stone, had rested.
12	168	After all, she was not a Gorean free woman, as across the sea, veiled, hidden in the robes of concealment, a woman exalted and resplendent in status and dignity, a woman safe in her station and secure in her privileges, even one who possessed a home stone.
13	250	"It put gold before the home stone".
13	283	She possesses a home stone".
13	287	"You had no home stone," I said.
21	76	The possibility had suggested itself to some, a possibility which seemed plausible to me, that the Kurii, frustrated at the current failure of their designs, and the Priest-Kings, annoyed by probes, and predatory intrusions, might be willing to gamble for a world's surface, which space was seldom tr...
25	78	Following the coming onto Port Kar of a home stone, the Council of Captains had forbade this practice to its captains.
25	293	"One of the first missions of a young tarnsman," I said, "is to capture a young woman from an enemy city, one with an alien home stone.
37	6	It is the ox on which the home stone rests".
37	11	"What is a home stone?" inquired Haruki.
37	21	"It is the ox on which the home stone rests," said Haruki.
37	79	"And it is on such as I," said Haruki, "that the home stone rests?" "Precisely," I said.
38	151	How did you manage it, peasants, and peasants from different villages, suspicious, grasping fellows, wary of men of quality, working together, joining in such a common effort?" "I told them, noble one," said Haruki, "that they were the ox on which the home stone rests".
58	148	"She," said Tajima, "is not one of your distant, exalted free women on the continent, one of mighty towers and high cities, resplendent in the rich, colorful robes and veils of concealment, one possessing a home stone.
61	327	Others will die for a home stone".
61	722	"I never betrayed a home stone," I said.
61	770	"I never betrayed a home stone," I said.
61	803	"And even then," she said, "when Samos would have put me to the lash, even had me cast bound to the urts in the canals of the city, you did nothing, but requested that Samos deliver me to the city of my home stone, Ar, and to my father, Marlenus, as a free woman!" "He did...
1	177	Men see land differently, the merchant in terms of profitability, the sage in terms of quietude, the poet in terms of mood, the painter in terms of beauty, the peasant in terms of home, in terms of soil, fertility, tillability, and yield.
7	39	She has come home to what she is, radically, anciently, biologically, profoundly, a woman, a slave.
10	227	"Let us then suppose," I said, "that fourteen or fifteen hundred men were committed to the ambush, and that this would deplete an already restricted home guard, and that these men are far from Yamada's major holdings, and are all afoot".
12	66	"They do not have home stones," I said.
23	264	"Would he not keep some birds, who would home to the holding of Temmu, that he might make use of them upon occasion, perhaps to mislead the forces of Temmu, say, putting them at their ease, while he plotted swift and devastating actions?" "Surely there would be some sign enclosed with ...
23	277	"And," I said, "the apprehended birds, those captured from the secret cot, which will home to the holding of Lord Temmu".
25	64	He was then to release the bird, and trust that it would home to the message cot of the holding of Temmu.
25	294	She is taken home and collared.
32	34	"Doubtless we outnumber them, even with losses!" I had, of course, no knowledge of what might be the case outside the inn, but it was brought home to me, forcibly, the common military strategy of confusing one's enemies as to the nature and quantity of one's strength.
42	202	Few things bring a woman's slavery home to her better than the sight of the whip which may be used upon them, if they should fail to be pleasing, fully pleasing.
45	66	Both Priest-Kings and Kurii possess technologies which are well beyond those available now on our home planet.

Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
16	113	I did not even know if my master had a home stone, and, if so, what home stone it might be.
1	54	How foolish I had been! I was a barbarian, I could not even speak the language, I had no home stone, and yet I had dared to stand before him! How natural it had seemed then; how frightful it would seem now! But I do not think I should have been blamed.
8	235	They have never had a home stone.
8	293	Considering these things, I shook with terror, for here I was not a free woman, exalted in society, possessed of a home stone.
9	136	Also, allegiance to a home stone, and frequent internecine warfare, tends to keep the Gorean population decentralized, so that ambition and intelligence does not, over time, gravitate toward particular cities, say, larger, wealthier population centers, to the detriment of...
9	344	"I have a home stone," she said, "that of Victoria, jewel of the mighty Vosk!" "Yes, Mistress," I said.
9	345	I did not really know what a home stone was, but it was apparently something of importance.
9	346	As far as I knew, I did not have a home stone.
9	349	Indeed, it is something of an honor for a slave, I suppose, to be the property of one who possesses a home stone.
9	566	"I doubt we shared a home stone," he said.
9	580	Even a lowly peddler, I would learn, if a home stone is shared, thinks nothing of expecting a free meal and a night's lodging from a high merchant, who may own caravans, mines, and fleets.
11	140	Despite the exalted status of free women, who are equal to men in the holding of a home stone, can hold money and property in their own right, may found, organize, and manage businesses, may occupy positions of importance and authority, even to the occupancy of thrones, a...
11	141	It is men who carry spears and maintain walls; it is men who encounter the violence of the enemy; it is men who stand, armed and resolute, between the home stone and its desecration or destruction; it is men, the masters, who will decide what respect and privileges will b...
13	43	Too, he may share a home stone with the rich man, which means he is more likely to view the rich man as a fellow and compatriot than a thief and enemy.
14	135	"Phyllis," said Lysander, "serve Tullius Quintus, our guest, our associate and dear friend, welcome in our midst, though we share no home stone".
16	107	For example, I was not at all sure that his home stone was truly that of Ar.
16	112	One may be the most easily traced by means of caste, and city, and home stone.
20	97	But I know not her caste nor home stone.
23	19	I did not know the name, the nature, the disposition, the intent, the caste, the home stone, anything about my captor.
26	8	The city, it seems, was in disarray, and its Ubar challenged, following the temporary loss of its home stone, purloined by an unidentified tarnsman during the revels of the Planting Feast.
26	26	Such men may, for example, pursue a fugitive from city to city with impunity, regardless of caste, warfare, and home stone.
40	197	"The lady," said he, "is a strange, imperious little thing, whose home stone I do not know, but her pet, though large, is pleasant, sweet, and gentle.
43	65	In some respects she is imminently practical, and, in others, oblivious of practicalities which, to a normal person, suitably acculturated, would seem patent, practicalities of home stone, of family, of caste, of station, of power, and such.
51	109	"Too, of course," he said, "she may be investigated by means of her home stone, her family, her friends, her connections, her doings, her address, and so on".
51	201	You do not even have a home stone.
60	15	On his right was Drusus Andronicus, long-armed, handsome, and stalwart, in suitable scarlet, betokening his caste, who stood high in the house, and, on his left, clad openly, brazenly, unapologetically, in the hues of the night, was Tyrtaios, of the caste whose members acknowledge no home<...
61	339	"Soldiers of Ar," cried Drusus Andronicus, "those of you who are men, those of you who are worthy of the home stone of Ar, would you let lovely properties that should be yours, and may be yours, perish under the fangs of maddened beasts?" "No!" cried a man.
61	532	One is a person, and, in favored cases, a citizen, and may even possess a home stone.
61	548	The soldiers doubtless took it for granted that the small, graceful figure passing through their ranks was that of a compatriot, a woman of Ar, one with whom they shared a home stone.
61	627	"I trust," said Decius Albus, clutching the railing of the box, "your home stone is that of Glorious Ar".

Book 35. (30 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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 s...
1	15	We spoke of it as the sun, or Sol; they speak of it as Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-home-stone.
1	57	Who but barbarians would taint their food, poison their atmosphere, foul their rivers, lakes, and seas, and crowd, despoil, and disfigure a lovely, innocent world, their own? Have they no understanding, no love? Have they no guilt, no shame? Have they no home stone? What ...
3	68	"That world from which she has been removed," said the auctioneer, "is a world without a home stone".
3	172	Have we not seen even more deplorable behavior, upon occasion, in the first, or even the second, sale of a former Gorean free woman, taken, say, in a slave raid, or acquired as a part of the loot of a fallen city? If a first sale can be surprising, or trying, even for a mere barbarian, one clearly b...
5	50	"It is rumored that Talena, she who betrayed the home stone of Ar, Talena, the puppet Ubara, the false Ubara, the traitress, the fugitive, is hiding in Brundisium".
6	54	Clearly they do not share our home stone".
6	55	"Perhaps they have no home stone," said another.
8	197	Each, I supposed, had its home stone, probably as much cherished there, in such a remote, humble place, as were those elsewhere, even those of mighty cities, such as Ar, Turia, or Brundisium.
8	198	And each dwelling, too, I supposed, even a shack or hut, would have its own home stone.
8	199	In his own hut, with its own home stone, even the least of men, it is said, is a Ubar.
11	45	I think this epithet was generated in an earlier time when Port Kar had no home stone, when it may have been, indeed, little more than a "a den of pirates, thieves, and cutthroats," as dangerous to its own citizens as to its enemies, in particular, the great maritime Ubar...
11	55	As scavengers flee from the killing beast come to reclaim his prize, as urts speed from the path of the stalking larl, as bandits hasten to elude nearing, searching, avenging guardsmen, so the thieves, brigands, rowdies, miscreants, cheats, liars, cowards, and criminals of Port Kar, men without a
11	58	Port Kar had a home stone! Men then, resolute and joyous, no longer fled, but, weeping, embraced one another as fellows and brothers, and rushed to the great arsenal to seize oars and take their places on the rowing benches of waiting ships.
11	61	Port Kar had a home stone.
11	240	She had apparently betrayed her home stone, conspiring with others to bring about the downfall of Ar, a large city in the middle latitudes of Gor's northern hemisphere, far to the south and east of Port Kar.
12	5	I supposed he might be diffident or ill at ease in the presence of one of those exalted, lofty Gorean free women, secure in her status, haughty, mercenary, and demanding, protected by a shared home stone, but his relation to the female slave, a half-naked property, purcha...
14	221	It is regarded as dishonorable to steal from one with whom one shares a home stone.
16	18	"I do not know his name, nor his rank, nor his station, nor even his home stone".
16	19	"Such a man may not have a home stone," said another.
23	138	"What is your home stone?" I was asked.
24	128	"Seriously, noble patrons," he continued, "you know the taste and discrimination of the noble Samos of your own city, lovely Port Kar, Jewel of Gleaming Thassa, he with whom you share a home stone.
24	152	They are protected by their freedom, and, one supposes, often, a shared home stone.
25	56	I wish to return her to her family, one incidentally of wealth and standing, that she be returned to the bosom of loved ones and sheltered within the protection of her home stone.
33	241	"Who is wanted as a traitor to Ar, a betrayer of its home stone, a fugitive from proscription," said the man in the boat.
33	337	I wish to return to the city of my home stone in honor and glory.
33	520	"Now, pretty kajira," said Pa-Kur, "you will tell us all you know of Bruno of Torcadino, his true identity, his antecedents and background, his home stone, his caste, his past, his business in Port Kar, his plans, how he came to the marshes tonight, what he was looking fo...
34	79	If I was not aware that the fabulous Talena, of Ar, so despised and hated, so grievously sought, the treacherous Ubara, the scheming traitress to her city, the betrayer of her home stone, the colleague of mortal enemies to Ar, was now safe in Cos, the guest of Lurius of J...
36	52	I wondered if this were a heritage from the days when there was no home stone in Port Kar, when she was known broadly as the "Scourge of Thassa," a den of thieves, pirates, and cutthroats, rather than as she now chose to speak of herself, as the "Jewel of Gleaming Thassa"...
36	55	Who knew what names were his earlier, or what deeds might have led one such as he to a city with no home stone.

Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote
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".
48	31	To attack one home stone is to attack all home stones.
48	32	To defend one home stone is to defend all home stones".
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.
1	193	"Where is your home stone?" I asked.
1	195	"You and your sort have not done enough? You come for the home stone!" He half sat up.
1	200	"The home stone was taken," he said, "taken and destroyed".
1	204	I will never betray the home stone".
1	208	"The home stone is safe," he said.
2	19	"Aktis," I said, "as is Thurnock, is of the peasants, the most fundamental of all castes, the ox on which the home stone rests".
4	12	He thinks a shabby village on Chios is worthy of a home stone, not merely that it has one, but that it is worthy to have one.
11	143	"You are far from your home stone," he said.
11	153	That is why you are far from your home stone.
20	1	The Meeting in the Long Tent "Dear friends," said Aktis, "caste brothers, members of the first and greatest of castes, members of the mightiest of castes, members of the caste upon which the home stone rests, be welcome".
20	45	"Its home stone, hidden, survives," said Aktis.
20	87	"I decline," said Aktis, "in the name of the home stone of Nicosia".
30	47	"But, as a precaution, Zeuxis has been evacuated and its home stone concealed".
39	52	"He who wastes moves in kaissa," said Thurnock, "asks for the loss of his home stone".
41	22	Lastly, the enemy were hastily recruited mercenaries, not intensively trained troops, not disciplined troops, perhaps having the same home stone, troops familiar to one another, troops having confidence in themselves and their officers.
41	56	"If so," I said, "it is the madness which is your only hope, the madness which stands between you and death, between you and the end of Mytilene, between you and the destruction of your home stone".
41	90	The next morning some four hundred male citizens of Mytilene abandoned the town of their home stone and, rejoicing at their deliverance from danger, and encouraging others to follow their example, exited the great gate.
41	115	"Glory to the home stone of Mytilene," I said.
41	127	"His home stone is not ours.
41	129	What hold have we on one whose home stone is not our own?" "The hold of the sword brotherhood, the hold of fellowship," said Thurnock.
41	141	"It is the place of your home stone," I said.
41	144	It is not the place of your home stone.
44	31	"His home stone is not that of Mytilene".
48	72	"He betrayed his home stone," said Thrasymedes.
48	87	"He betrayed his home stone," said Thrasymedes.
48	89	I recalled another who had betrayed her home stone.