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Book 1. (69 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	160	Sensing what was wanted, I replied, "My home stone is the home stone of Ko-ro-ba".	10
5	47	Any attempt on the home stone was regarded by the citizens of a city as sacrilege of the most heinous variety and punishable by the most painful of deaths, but, paradoxically, it was regarded as the greatest of glories to purloin the home stone...	10
5	53	In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the home stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his cast...	10
2	137	"Yet there is a hierarchy of home stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the home stone of their village or of the ci...	10
5	45	The home stone of Ar, like most home stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities.	10
5	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...	10
6	29	One of them must be the home stone of Ar, but which? How could I tell it from the others, the home stones of those cities which had fallen to Ar? Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na, that would be sprinkled with the seeds o...	10
5	191	And now, down there, somewhere in that monstrous blaze of light, was a humble piece of stone, the home stone of that great city, and I must seize it.	10
2	114	In all the languages of this planet, the word means home stone".	10
2	116	"home stone," he repeated.	10
2	119	It was carved with the family sign and was called the home stone.	10
2	122	The home stone of a village was always placed in the market; in a city, on the top of the highest tower.	10
2	123	The home stone came naturally, in time, to acquire a mystique, and something of the same hot, sweet emotions as our native peoples of Earth feel toward their flags became invested in it".	10
2	131	"Where a man sets his home stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself.	10
2	138	"I shall show you someday," he said, "my own small home stone, which I keep in my chambers.	10
2	143	He added, "If you should live to earn a home stone".	10
2	146	"It is the occasional dream of a conqueror or statesman," he said, "to have but a single Supreme home stone for the planet".	10
2	157	The more common expression for the sun was Tor-tu-Gor, which means Light Upon the home stone.	10
3	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...	10
3	65	The Code of the Warrior was, in general, characterized by a rudimentary chivalry, emphasizing loyalty to the Pride Chiefs and the home stone.	10
4	159	"What is your home stone?" asked my father.	10
4	178	You are going to steal the home stone of Ar and bring it to Ko-ro-ba".	10
5	26	Yet if the home stone of Ar, the very symbol and significance of the empire, could be removed from Ar, the spell of Marlenus might be broken.	10
5	27	He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the home stone.	10
5	48	The home stone of a city is the center of various rituals.	10
5	54	Most significantly, while these members of the High Castes perform their portions of the ritual, the Guards of the home stone temporarily withdraw to the interior of the cylinder, leaving the celebrant, it is said, alone with the Priest-Kings.	10
5	56	The member of the Ubar's family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards of the home stone resume their vigil.	10
5	62	Two girls were supposed to die that I might have time to escape with the home stone before the alarm could be given.	10
6	28	Which was the home stone? I kicked apart the rocks.	10
6	49	I placed the home stone in the saddle pack, snapping the lock shut, and then reached down to haul in the mounting ladder.	10
6	105	"Was it you who stole the home stone of Ar?" I paused, then, being confident the creature had no love for the men of Ar, answered affirmatively.	10
6	109	"How did you know the home stone of Ar was stolen?" I asked.	10
6	113	"I lost the home stone," I said.	10
6	115	I think tonight there will again be gladness in Ar, when the daughter of the Ubar returns the home stone".	10
6	117	"How is it that the daughter of the Ubar will return the home stone of Ar when you carry in your belt the tarn-goad?" Suddenly I realized the truth of what he had said and was amazed that it had not occurred to me before.	10
6	191	"You should ask," she said, "where is the home stone of Ar".	10
6	223	"And the home stone of Ar?" I asked.	10
6	225	I had locked the pack when I had placed the home stone inside, and the pack is an integral part of the tarn saddle.	10
6	226	When she had spoken, her voice had burned with shame, and I sensed the humiliation she felt at having failed to save the home stone.	10
6	227	So now the tarn was gone, returned to his natural wild state, the home stone was in the saddle pack, and I had failed, and the daughter of the Ubar had failed, and we stood facing one another on a green knoll in the swamp forest of Ar.	10
7	4	"It pleased the daughter of Marlenus," she said, "to inform you and your eight-legged brother of the fate of your tarn and of the home stone you sought".	10
8	10	The officer continued: "Marlenus lost the home stone, the Luck of Ar.	10
8	18	She was nothing now but the abominated daughter of the villain in whose reign the home stone, the Luck of Ar, had been stolen.	10
8	20	"I am the one who stole the home stone," I said.	10
8	27	She did her best to save the home stone of your city".	10
8	30	"They have decreed a sacrifice to the Priest-Kings to ask them to have mercy and to restore the home stone".	10
8	35	"Where," he demanded, "is the home stone?" "I don't know," I said.	10
8	40	She raised her head and said quietly, "The home stone was in the saddle pack of his tarn.	10
8	155	"We never believed you would try for the home stone".	10
9	27	It would be generally assumed that the mysterious tarnsman who had stolen the home stone and disappeared with the daughter of the Ubar must long ago have reached whatever unknown city it was to which he had pledged his sword.	10
9	130	"What news of the home stone of Ar and the daughter of Marlenus?" I asked, feeling it would be the sort of thing the warrior would expect me to be interested in.	10
9	131	"The home stone is rumored to be in a hundred cities," he said.	10
9	136	"I hope he has as much luck with her as the home stone.	10
11	9	It was I who had stolen the home stone of Ar, who had brought about the downfall of Marlenus, the Ubar, who had set the spark that had brought Ar to anarchy and the vultures below to feed on the divided carcass of what had been Gor's greatest city.	10
12	143	It contained, as I'd known it would, the home stone of Ar.	10
12	169	Almost as an afterthought I had included the home stone of Ar, that simple, uncomely piece of rock that had so transformed my destiny and that of an empire.	10
14	4	I gathered that he had finally seen fit to terminate the suffering of the warrior who had stolen the home stone of his city.	10
14	12	Around his neck he wore the golden chain of the Ubar, carrying the medallionlike replica of the home stone of Ar.	10
14	19	"You are he who stole the home stone of Ar," said Marlenus.	10
14	25	Holding the home stone in both hands, Marlenus leaned forward.	10
14	34	Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their home stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety...	10
14	37	Marlenus set the home stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war.	10
14	111	"You it was who stole the home stone of Ar," he said.	10
14	175	I rose into flight, not thinking about Ko-ro-ba again or the home stone.	10
15	131	"You have taken the City," he said, "but not the home stone".	10
15	139	It covered the home stone.	10
15	182	"You could return the home stone.	10
15	195	"Perhaps some of them fight for their freedom—for the right to keep their own home stone," I said.	10
20	7	And I wonder if on that world a girl, now a woman, thinks of me, and perhaps, too, of the secrets I have told her lie behind her sun, Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the home stone.	10

Book 2. (17 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	55	My home stone was the home stone of Ko-ro-ba, that city to which I had seven years ago pledged my sword.	10
2	48	This love of their city tends to become invested in a stone which is known as the home stone, and which is normally kept in the highest cylinder in a city.	10
2	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	10
2	51	It is almost as if the city itself were identified with the home stone, as if it were to the city what life is to a man.	10
2	52	The myths of these matters have it that while the home stone survives, so, too, must the city.	10
2	53	But not only is it the case that each city has its home stone.	10
2	54	The simplest and humblest village, and even the most primitive hut in that village, perhaps only a cone of straw, will contain its own home stone, as will the fantastically appointed chambers of the Administrator of so great a city as Ar.	10
3	67	"I mean you and your home stone no harm," I said.	10
3	82	Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own home stone.	10
3	83	Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own ho...	10
5	61	"Then be it so," he said, "you are henceforth condemned to wander the world alone and friendless, with no city, with no walls to call your own, with no home stone to cherish.	10
5	121	It was said that the Supreme home stone of all Gor lay within those mountains and was the source of the Priest-Kings' power.	10
8	11	Even the Caste of Peasants regarded itself as the "Ox on which the home stone Rests" and could seldom be encouraged to leave their narrow strips of land, which they and their fathers before them had owned and made fruitful.	10
14	112	Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S...	10
20	56	More commonly, though never in the context of time, the sun is referred to as Tor-tu-Gor, or Light Upon the home stone.	10
20	71	Its home stone, however, which I have seen, attests to a considerable antiquity.	10
2	85	I was home, for where my love waited for me was home.	6

Book 3. (9 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	90	"The analogy, of course," said Sarm, "is incorrect, for there is no home stone as such in the Nest of Priest-Kings, the home stone being a barbarous artifact generally common to the cities and homes of Gorean humans".	10
18	91	I was somewhat annoyed to find the home stones, taken so seriously in the cities of Gor that a man might be slain if he did not rise when speaking of the home stone of his city, so airily dismissed by the lofty Sarm.	10
34	66	"Ko-ro-ba cannot be destroyed," said my father, "for its home stone has not perished!" My father had taken the stone from the City before it had been destroyed.	10
34	68	I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the home stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, a...	10
18	88	"Sometimes this is spoken of as the home stone of all Gor," said Sarm, as we walked the long, winding, iron spiral that clung to the side of a vast, transparent blue dome.	10
18	92	"You find it hard to understand the love of a man for his home stone," I said.	10
18	94	"You have nothing like the home stone in the Nest?" I asked.	10
34	65	"Here," said my father, reaching into a leather sack that he wore slung about his shoulder, "is Ko-ro-ba," and he drew forth the small, flat home stone of the City, in which Gorean custom invests the meaning, the significance, the reality of a city itself.	10
34	70	"Yes," said my father, "here too is Ko-ro-ba, not only in the particles of its home stone, but in the hearts of its men".	10

Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	32	"Bring the home stone of the city," commanded Kamchak, and the stone, oval and aged, carved with the initial letter of the city, was brought to him.	10
1	8	"Beware," he said, "I carry a home stone".	10
1	11	One does not lightly dispute the passage of one who carries his home stone.	10
16	67	On the other hand, I reminded myself, my own probabilities of success and survival were hardly better—and here I was, his critic—climbing up the drum rope, wet, cold, puffing, a stranger to the city of Turia, intending to steal an object—the egg of Priest-Kings—which was ...	10
27	1	The Sparing of the home stone of Turia I gathered that the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold and others seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness.	10
27	37	Tears formed in the eyes of Phanius Turmus and he held the home stone of the city to his heart.	10
27	46	I had not understood that it would be permitted to retain a home stone.	10
27	221	"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...	10

Book 5. (31 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	103	"Capture of home stone," announced Cernus, moving his First Tarnsman to Ubara's Builder One, where Caprus had, at that point in the game, been attempting to protect his home stone.	10
1	23	It was said, in the time of troubles, that the home stone had not been lost, and it had not.	10
1	24	And even Kuurus, of the Caste of Assassins, knew that a city cannot die while its home stone survives.	10
2	5	Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins, had led a league of tributary cities to attack Imperial Ar in the time when its home stone had been stolen and its Ubar forced to flee.	10
3	13	I remembered the night, so many years ago, when I had first streaked over the walls of Ar, on the Planting Feast, and had made the strike of a tarnsman for the home stone of Gor's greatest city, Glorious Ar.	10
3	23	The object of the game is the capture of the opponent's home stone.	10
3	148	Finally it grew late in the end game and it would be but a matter of four or five moves and the Player's home stone must be lost.	10
3	177	His home stone, in four moves, would fall.	10
3	193	The capture of the Player's home stone would take place on the next move.	10
3	200	"I capture your home stone on the next move," said the Vintner.	10
3	209	"Scribe takes home stone".	10
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...	10
6	27	I heard Cernus announce "Capture of home stone," and turned to see Caprus sit back in defeat, staring at the board.	10
6	104	The home stone, incidentally, is not officially a piece of the game, as it cannot capture, though it can move one square at a time; further, it might be of interest to note that it is not on the board at the beginning of play, but must be placed on the board on or before ...	10
12	76	He had fallen when I had purloined the home stone of the city.	10
12	78	Marlenus, because he had lost the home stone and because the men of Ar feared him and his ambitions, had been publicly denied bread, salt and fire, exiled from the city and forbidden to return on pain of death.	10
15	56	"Capture of home stone," I heard Cernus say to Caprus, who spread his hands helplessly, acknowledging defeat.	10
17	336	I heard Caprus say, as though marveling, "I shall capture your home stone in three moves!" Cernus grinned and clapped his hands on the Scribe's shoulders.	10
17	748	I became now less concerned to suggest improvements in her play and more concerned to protect my own home stone.	10
17	758	"Capture of home stone!" she cried.	10
17	798	"Don't move there," she told me, "or you will lose your home stone in seven".	10
20	444	When he places his home stone you will be able to seize it in five moves".	10
20	510	"It is capture of home stone," said he, "in twenty-two".	10
20	529	"That is capture of home stone in eleven," he said.	10
20	544	In one small hand he held clutched a tiny piece of yellow wood, the home stone of Cernus.	10
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...	10
24	450	"Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the home stone?" I gasped.	10
24	453	"In the year 10,110, more than eight years ago, a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba purloined the home stone of the city".	10
24	456	"As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the home stone of Ar".	10
24	468	"Would you," asked Hup, "betray the home stone of Ko-ro-ba?" My hand leaped to the hilt of my sword.	10
24	472	"If a Ubar does not respect the law of the home stone, what man shall?" "None," said I.	10

Book 6. (50 results) Raiders of Gor

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

Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	107	He had sullied the sword, the honor, which he had pledged to Ko-ro-ba's home stone.	10
1	313	"You are now without caste, without home stone, without family".	10
1	444	No longer had she caste, no longer a home stone.	10
1	449	She was no longer entitled even to call its home stone her own.	10
4	204	The taking of the Hall, in the Kaissa of the North, is equivalent to the capture of the home stone in the south.	10
8	38	The stamp of Ar, a single letter, that which appears on its home stone, the Gorean spelling of the city's name, was often forged by unscrupulous tradesmen and placed on their own goods.	10
22	138	It is seldom that they, if not protected by a city and a home stone, escape the slave collar, the brand, the chains of a master.	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	149	History on Earth, long ago, had taken a turning away from the body, from nature, from the needs of men and women, from genetically linked psychobiological realities; this turning away, ultimately and inevitably, had produced an unloved, exploited, polluted planet swarming with miserable populations ...	10
5	779	She might have been safe on Earth; she had chosen to be unsafe, as any beautiful woman without a home stone must be on Gor.	10
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...	10

Book 11. (21 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	275	A palace without a home stone is but a hovel; a hovel which contains a home stone is a palace.	10
9	1019	It is difficult to make clear to a non-Gorean the significance of the home stone, for the non-Gorean has never had a home stone, and thus cannot understand its meaning, its reality.	10
6	171	It was the home stone of Thurnus.	10
6	272	I looked at the home stone in the hut.	10
6	273	In this hut, for it was here that his home stone resided, Thurnus was sovereign.	10
6	274	In this hut, even had he been a lowly man or beggar, he, because of the presence in it of his home stone, was Ubar.	10
6	279	They shared the hospitality of his home stone.	10
7	27	Already, only some years ago, Ar had tasted the bitterness of enemies within her walls, when, in the political confusion following the temporary loss of her home stone and the deposition of her Ubar, Marlenus, there had been a revolt of tributary cities, organized and led...	10
9	1018	Perhaps the most significant difference between the man of Earth and the Gorean is that the Gorean has a home stone, and the man of Earth does not.	10
9	1020	I think that I shall not try to make clear what is the significance to a Gorean of the home stone.	10
9	1022	I think this is one of the saddest things about the men of Earth, that they have no home stone.	10
14	132	Then I saw that he had brought about capture of home stone.	10
26	203	First, were you of Ar, it would be my right, could I be successful, to make of you a slave, for we share no home stone.	10
26	214	"I am truly of Ar!" "Describe to me," said he, "the home stone of Ar".	10
26	218	In this ceremony the home stone of the city is held by each young person and kissed.	10
26	221	The youth of Earth have no home stone.	10
26	223	Further, the youth of Gor, in most cities, must be vouched for by citizens of the city, not related in blood to him, and be questioned before a committee of citizens, intent upon determining his worthiness or lack thereof to take the home stone of the city as his own.	10
26	225	The sharing of a home stone is no light thing in a Gorean city.	10
26	227	"Yet you cannot describe her home stone.	10
26	231	To claim a home stone as one's own when it is not is a serious offense among Goreans.	10
27	283	He will have, too, his own home stone".	10

Book 12. (29 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	403	Red controlled not one but four adjacent diagonals, unobstructed diagonals, each bearing on the citadel of yellow's home stone; the red Ubara threatened the Ubara's Scribe's Spearman at Ubara's Scribe Two; the Initiate threatened the Ubara's Builder at Builder Two, positi...	10
30	127	I suppose that is a drawback to caste membership, but if you did have home stones, it might be difficult to take fees on one whose home stone you shared".	10
3	59	For example, a piece which once in Ar had been called the "City" was now identified officially as the "home stone" even in Ar.	10
3	60	Indeed, some players in Ar had always called it the home stone.	10
4	105	Games are adjudicated, when capture of home stone does not occur, by a team of five judges, each of which must be a member of the caste of players, and three of which must play at the level of master.	10
4	180	In Ar, when Scormus had achieved capture of home stone, Marlenus himself, Ubar of the city, had showered gold upon the board.	10
4	352	Scormus would place his home stone, of course, on the Ubara's side, probably at Builder One.	10
4	364	I suddenly realized that yellow had not yet placed his home stone.	10
4	368	Not one piece had yet been moved by yellow from the row of the home stone.	10
4	373	This would prepare for Builder to Builder Two, and, on the third move, for placement of home stone at Builder One.	10
4	377	If Scormus wished to place his home stone at either Ubar's Builder One or Ubara's Builder One, it would take three moves to do so.	10
4	379	He could place the home stone, of course, in two moves, if he would place it at Ubar's Tarnsman One, or Ubar's Scribe One, or Ubar One, or Ubara One, or Ubara's Tarnsman One.	10
4	380	But these placements permitted within two moves left the home stone too centralized, too exposed and vulnerable.	10
4	382	Already, though he had red, Centius of Cos was moving to place his home stone.	10
4	385	On his own eighth move Centius of Cos advanced his Ubara's Builder to Builder Two, to clear Builder One for placement of home stone.	10
4	386	On his ninth move Scormus of Ar, following suit, advanced his Ubara's Builder to Builder Two, to open Builder One for the positioning of the home stone on the tenth move.	10
4	388	Centius of Cos placed his home stone at his Ubara's Builder One.	10
4	392	Scormus of Ar, on his tenth move, inexplicably to many in the crowd, though he possessed yellow, a move behind, placed his home stone at Builder One.	10
4	405	The attack, of course, was not on the Ubar's side but on the side of the Ubara, where Scormus had placed his home stone.	10
4	406	Moves which had appeared to weaken red's position had served actually to produce an incredible lead in development; moves which had appeared meaningless or defensive had actually been deeply insidious; the timorous feint to the Ubar's side by red with the Ubara and Ubar had, in actuality, prepared a...	10
4	423	One of the men of the party of Cos which had now returned to the stage stood on the table of the game, the yellow home stone in his grasp.	10
4	443	He reached toward the man on the table who held aloft the yellow home stone.	10
4	449	Centius of Cos held, clutched, in his hand, the yellow home stone.	10
6	197	"Before I send men against one such as he," said the officer, "it will be to defend a home stone".	10
6	657	"You are free," she said, "protect me!" "What is your home stone?" I asked.	10
6	685	"I have no home stone," he shrugged.	10
7	34	The sword of the warrior, commonly, is pledged to a home stone, that of the assassin to gold and the knife.	10
8	188	Did they not know that they, not having a home stone, were subject to any man's collar? She looked at me.	10
30	124	"What is your home stone?" I asked.	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	474	It was in that same year, incidentally, that Port Kar had first had a home stone.	10
4	66	I could not yet see the golden rim of Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the home stone, rising in the east over the city.	10
10	65	He had, too, pressed his thumb against the coin, on both sides, feeling the ship, and, on the reverse, the sign of Port Kar, its initials, in the same script that occurred on her home stone.	10
34	319	Not only are they free, but they may even share a home stone.	10
48	256	In having been enslaved she has lost all claim to her former home stone.	10

Book 14. (11 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	421	I think the best explanation for the Gorean political arrangements and attitudes is to be found in the institution of the home stone.	10
11	422	It is the home stone which, for the Gorean, marks the center.	10
11	425	For the Gorean the home stone would mark the point of the circle's center.	10
11	426	It is the home stone which, so to speak, determines the circle.	10
11	429	If you have a home stone, I need not speak.	10
11	430	If you do not have a home stone, how could you understand what I might say? "I am from a place called England," said the girl.	10
18	177	She resided now in Vonda, in a tiny, dingy holding, where she, as a citizeness of that city, would have, at least against foreign creditors, the protection of its home stone.	10
22	2	"It is nothing," said the Lady Florence, "for we are sharers of a home stone and are, too, fast friends".	10
22	99	"Let us all, together rejoicing," called out the Lady Melpomene, "prepare to lift our cups to our lovely and generous hostess, she with whom I share a home stone, my dearest friend, the Lady Florence of Vonda!" The Lady Melpomene reached for her cup.	10
22	202	"Would you rather this be done on the platform of public shame in the great square of Vonda, where you might bring shame upon the home stone?" inquired the prefect.	10
27	134	Hopefully, however, they share a home stone with her master, which gives her perhaps the only safety and security she can rely upon.	10

Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	57	The home stone of Port Cos, significantly, was not the home stone of Cos.	10
29	58	Ar's Station, on the other hand, did not have its own home stone, but its home stone remained that of Ar.	10
4	195	Her home stone was not that of Lara, times were troubled, and Strobius was master in his own inn.	10
4	470	Sometimes the manhood robe is associated, as well, with the ceremony of the home stone.	10
10	135	"And I have no home stone.	10
10	243	"I was saying," she said, "that I have no money, and that I have no home stone.	10
10	323	"Beast!" "Remember," I told her, "you have no home stone".	10
10	326	"I know! I have no home stone! You might just tear the sheet from me.	10
11	496	"Does she have a home stone?" she asked.	10
29	56	Most importantly, from the Gorean point of view, when the colony is founded, it will have its own home stone.	10

Book 16. (12 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	1185	"What you do not know," said Tasdron, "is that long ago, over a century ago, this stone, unbroken, was the home stone of Victoria".	10
20	583	This is thought to be owed to the home stone.	10
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".	10
20	782	Similarly, my duties as an officer and a citizen, the sharer of a home stone, were not implicated in the matter".	10
20	1189	Since that time Victoria has not had a home stone.	10
20	1190	What had once been our home stone served then as nothing more than a pledge symbol amongst the buccaneers of the river.	10
20	1193	That, then, shall be the new home stone of Victoria".	10
20	1197	"No longer may it serve as a home stone".	10
20	1805	The slave has no home stone.	10
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...	10
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.	10
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.	6

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10
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.	10
5	10	Some of them, I suspected, might even be men without a home stone.	10
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.	10

Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10
54	311	It now, in the Gorean fashion, for the first time, tended to be identified with a home stone.	10
54	312	The community could now, if it wished, the home stone moving, even migrate to new lands.	10
54	313	In Gorean law allegiances to a home stone, and not physical structures and locations, tend to define communities.	10

Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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.	10
16	193	"What is your home stone?" he asked.	10
16	302	You apparently have no home stone.	10
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.	10

Book 20. (59 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	21	I myself, whose home stone was already placed, preferred a much earlier and more central placement of the home stone.	10
1	11	He positioned his home stone.	10
1	15	The home stone must be placed by the tenth move.	10
1	19	He was also fond of placing the home stone late, usually on the ninth or tenth move.	10
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.	10
1	38	Samos, his home stone positioned, looked up.	10
1	434	"I had placed my home stone," said Samos, turning his attention to the board.	10
1	438	I considered the board and the placement of his home stone.	10
1	1013	This movement of the Builder produced a discovered attack on his home stone by my Ubara's Initiate.	10
1	1015	The Initiate's attack, of course, continued the threat on the home stone.	10
1	1035	"It is capture of home stone in four," I said.	10
1	1037	He removed his home stone from the board, resigning.	10
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.	10
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.	10
12	28	"If you do not defend, it will be capture of home stone on the next move".	10
12	30	His home stone was at Ubar's Initiate One.	10
12	33	No Builder move could now protect the home stone.	10
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.	10
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.	10
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.	10
12	59	Ubar's Initiate Nine, that square from which I might effect capture of home stone, was now protected by his Ubara.	10
12	67	"You may now protect your home stone," I said, "but only at the cost of your Ubara".	10
12	68	I would now move my Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, threatening capture of home stone.	10
12	118	I had waited a very long time for this victory, and I would savor every move until capture of home stone.	10
12	230	When I move him to Ubar's Initiate Nine you can prevent capture of home stone only by giving up your Ubara.	10
12	238	"Threat to home stone," he said.	10
12	239	To be sure, his Ubara now threatened the home stone.	10
12	241	"Threat to home stone," he said.	10
12	244	Further, when I remove it from the board, my Rider of the High Tharlarion is but one move from capture of home stone".	10
12	245	"Threat to home stone," he said.	10
12	249	I could not move the home stone to Ubar's Builder One because that square was covered by his Scribe at Ubara's Scribe Four.	10
12	250	"My Rider of the High Tharlarion is but one move from capture of home stone," I reminded him.	10
12	254	One must, as long as it is possible, protect the home stone.	10
12	255	"Threat to home stone," he observed.	10
12	256	His advancing Spearman, a mere Spearman, now forked my home stone and Builder.	10
12	261	I could not move my home stone in front of the Spearman, even if I had wished to do so, because of his Scribe's coverage from afar of that square, Ubar's Builder One.	10
12	263	I now began to suspect that what I had thought had been a rather weak, easily averted threat of capture of home stone, the earlier alignment of his Ubara and Scribe on that crucial diagonal, might actually have had a somewhat different, more latent, more insidious purpose...	10
12	264	Similarly, even if his Scribe had not been placed where it was, it would not have been rational in this specific game situation, though it would have been a possible move, to place my home stone at Ubar's Builder One.	10
12	265	If I had done so this would have permitted the diagonal move of the Spearman to his Ubar's Initiate Ten, my Ubar's Initiate One, at which point it would doubtless have been promoted to a Rider of the High Tharlarion, thusly effecting capture of home stone.	10
12	266	The defense of my Builder, on which I was relying, would in such a case have been negated by the placement of my own home stone, which would then have been inserted between it and the attacking piece.	10
12	271	I needed only a respite of one move to effect capture of home stone.	10
12	272	"Your home stone is under attack," he reminded me.	10
12	279	I moved my home stone to Ubar's Initiate Two.	10
12	285	If he did advance it in that fashion, promoting it presumably to a Rider of the High Tharlarion, to bring the home stone under immediate attack, and prevent me from advancing my own Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, finishing the game, I would take it ...	10
12	289	If he did this, however, it would give me the move I needed to effect capture of home stone, by advancing my Rider of the High Tharlarion to the coveted Ubar's Initiate Nine.	10
12	293	This placed it behind my home stone.	10
12	295	"Threat to home stone," he then said.	10
12	303	I could not move the home stone to either Ubar's Builder One, Two or Three because of the coverage of these squares, all of them being covered by his Builder at his Ubar's Builder One, and Ubar's Builder One being additionally covered by his Scribe, that posted at Ubara's...	10
12	306	"Capture of home stone," he said.	10
12	308	My home stone had been maneuvered to Ubar's Initiate Two.	10
12	386	I thought perhaps they might be Kaissa puzzles, in which a forced capture of home stone in some specified number of moves must be detected".	10
18	7	"He now has only his home stone, isolated in a gauntlet of enemies".	10
18	14	"Capture of home stone," announced the player.	10
21	545	"But I respect the home stone of Ar, as that of other cities".	10
22	314	On such festivals as the Planting Feast it was even she who was sometimes permitted to honor the home stone, sprinkling upon it the richest Ka-la-na, and the finest of Sa-Tarna grains.	10
22	317	"Then she fell into disgrace, having been enslaved, thereby no longer having a home stone.	10
22	320	"In recent years, freed, but with no home stone, in disgrace and seclusion, she has lived in Ar".	10
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.	7
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...	7

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	32	She had, it seemed, for whatever reason, presumably opportunism or greed, betrayed the pledge of her home stone.	10
21	164	"I do not think she has a home stone," I said.	10
21	165	"Gnieus Lelius permitted her to kiss the home stone," he said.	10
23	43	"Are you supposed to be carrying the home stone in your pouch?" "There could be trouble," I said.	10
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".	10
26	1002	"Are you not going to take me home?" "Can you find your way home from here?" I asked.	6

Book 22. (17 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	170	It is generally accepted in Gorean tradition that the home stone of Ar is the oldest home stone on Gor.	10
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 ...	10
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.	10
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...	10
20	157	Some think that out of such crises came the invention of the home stone.	10
20	158	There are, of course, several mythical accounts of the origin of the home stone.	10
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".	10
20	167	"Whose home stone is it?" asked the people, "yours or ours?" "Ours," responded Hesius.	10
20	205	He thinks of his caste as "the ox on which the home stone rests".	10
26	87	Some I am freeing, because they are from Brundisium, whose home stone, before my outlawry, was mine.	10
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.	10
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.	10
29	186	That home stone is then no longer his.	10
29	192	"What then is your home stone?" he asked.	10
29	195	"You do not have a home stone," announced the leader, with a grin.	10
29	197	"And meat, much meat!" "You do not have a home stone," grinned the leader.	10
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.	10

Book 23. (17 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	845	The rape of a free woman on Gor, however, it must be understood, if one shares a home stone with her, can be a very serious offense, even involving exile; in such a case, it is interesting to note that the woman often chooses to follow the man into exile, even though she ...	10
1	57	"I carry a home stone in this wagon".	10
1	59	They would not choose to do business with one who carried a home stone, even though they were three to two.	10
1	225	If one shares a home stone with the victim, of course, the punishment is often more humane.	10
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.	10
1	392	Those with a home stone in their keeping are commonly formidable adversaries.	10
1	394	Warning them that he carried a home stone indicated that the driver suspected their intentions.	10
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.	10
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.	10
20	24	"Its home stone survives".	10
20	36	"So," said Aemilianus, "though I did continue to hope, I would not risk the home stone.	10
20	90	Warriors, it is said in the codes, have a common home stone.	10
21	1366	One who is willing to betray her own home stone would presumably not hesitate to betray someone else's.	10
24	24	To be sure, the home stone, somewhere, supposedly, survived.	10
24	262	"The home stone has reached Ar," he said.	10
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.	10
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...	10

Book 24. (16 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	478	"That is a den of cutthroats and pirates!" "In Port Kar," I said, "there is a home stone".	10
19	148	But let us hope they share a home stone.	10
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...	10
19	497	"What is your home stone?" she asked, suddenly, fearfully.	10
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!...	10
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.	10
26	65	In the same ceremony the young women of Tharna are also brought into the presence of the home stone.	10
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".	10
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.	10
28	80	This may be the only time in the life of a citizen of the city that they actually touch the home stone.	10
28	121	"Her home stone survives," said another.	10
35	27	"It is the city of my home stone," said Plenius.	10
36	150	The streets are, after all, the streets of their city, and their city is, after all, the place of their home stone.	10
44	140	"We do not share a home stone," I said.	10
48	471	On the other hand, there was now a home stone in the city.	10
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...	6

Book 25. (52 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	104	Given the anger in Ar at Ar's Station, and the fact that the home stone of Ar's Station had been sent to Ar, supposedly, according to the rumors, not for safekeeping, given the imminent danger in the city, but in a gesture of defiance and repudiation, attendant upon the s...	10
9	190	The home stone is safe! The Central Cylinder stands! How shall we make amends to our Cosian brother? What gift would be great enough to thank him for our home stone, our lives and honor? What sacrifice would be too much to express our gratitude...	10
28	18	Even a remote hut, far from the paved avenues of a town or city, may have a home stone, and therein, in the place of his home stone, is the meanest beggar or the poorest peasant a Ubar.	10
28	26	In this primitive sense the home stone is simply that, and irreducibly, the home stone.	10
28	107	But, too, I speculated, there would be those of Ar to whom the home stone was a home stone, and not a mere rock, not a piece of meaningless earth.	10
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...	10
28	19	The home stone says this place is mine, this is my home.	10
10	17	Certain youths refused then to participate in the ceremony and certain others, refusing to touch the surrogate stone, uttered the responses and pledges while facing northwest, toward Cos, toward their home stone.	10
23	21	"That was a nice blow," said a fellow nearby, turning to me, "the concept of a stone jard and likening the home stone to unfit mineral carrion".	10
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...	10
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.	10
2	98	The home stone of Ar's Station, as I have suggested, was in Ar.	10
4	1	Within Ar "Revile the home stone of Ar's Station while you may," said the guard to a tradesman.	10
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.	10
4	86	"No one must be permitted to again revile the home stone of Ar's Station!" said Marcus.	10
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.	10
4	91	"I do not think you are likely, at this time," I said, "to seize the home stone by force.	10
4	97	"It is not your home stone," he said.	10
7	169	"Talena intends to sacrifice herself for us, for the city, for the home stone!" wept a man.	10
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...	10
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.	10
8	135	"The home stone of Ar's Station is no longer exhibited publicly," said Marcus, gloomily.	10
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.	10
9	390	"Conspiracy, seditious assertions, betrayal of the home stone, support of the wicked regime of Gnieus Lelius, former tyrant of Ar".	10
9	395	"In not opposing such wicked policies, you betrayed the home stone of Ar," said Talena.	10
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
10	9	"The major blow," said he, "was doubtless the movement of the home stone to Telnus".	10
10	12	Later, however, when the ceremony of citizenship, in which the home stone figures, was postponed, speculation had become rampant.	10
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.	10
10	15	At last, in view of the distinct unrest in the city, and the possible danger of riots and demonstrations, a communication was received from the Central Cylinder, jointly presented by Talena, Ubara of Ar; Seremides, captain of the guard; Antonius, executive officer of the High Council; Tulbinius, Chi...	10
10	67	"If you find yourself spitted in the Anbar district that will not much profit the home stone of Ar's Station," I said.	10
10	68	"You told me that the home stone of Ar's Station would be exhibited again," he said.	10
10	75	"At least those of Ar know where their home stone is," he said.	10
10	131	"Doubtless it was encouraged by its success in the matter of the home stone," said Marcus.	10
10	232	"There is no home stone in Ar," he said.	10
10	443	Also, given the xenophobia common on Gor, often obtaining among cities, the distrust of the stranger, the contempt for the outsider, and such, there is a special ease in a master's relating to a foreign slave, one with whom he has never shared a home stone.	10
10	499	"Has this anything to do with the recovery of the home stone of Ar's Station?" he asked.	10
11	459	"What of the home stone of Ar's Station?" he asked.	10
11	470	"And if the home stone of Ar's Station is again displayed, what then?" he asked.	10
12	141	How is it possible that a free man could come to care for a slave, a collared, half-clad curvaceous little beast who desires only to serve him, and love him, and please him, as her master? How incomprehensible! Why rather, does he not piteously sue for the inestimable regard of a lofty, noble free w...	10
13	219	In spite of the hardships they had endured and the risks they had taken on behalf of Ar, both for the home stone and city, they had been held in contempt.	10
14	668	"There is now a home stone in Port Kar," I said.	10
14	695	Too, I recalled some would take the oath of citizenship only facing their home stone, now in far-off Cos.	10
14	716	"But by that time hopefully you will be free of the city with the home stone of Ar's Station".	10
15	9	This afternoon, on the Avenue of Turia, a cart, putatively carrying the records of the veterans of the delta, supposedly on its way from the house of records to the war office in the Central Cylinder, had been surrounded by a group of youths, crying out against the veterans of the delta, almost as i...	10
16	289	"And in this campaign of vilification will be brought forth once more the home stone of Ar's Station?" "Exactly," I said.	10
16	293	"But I do not think it has to do with the home stone of Ar's Station".	10
16	299	"How do you plan on attacking the place of the home stone's display, if Seremides chooses to expose it once more to the abuse of Ar?" "He will," I said.	10
17	493	"Because," I said, "it is he who is going to obtain for you the home stone of Ar's Station".	10
18	38	"It is the ox on which the home stone rests".	10
18	392	"You know that Ar refused to support Ar's Station in the north and that her loyalty to the state of Ar cost her her walls and her home stone?" "Yes," he said.	10
22	388	"Take me home! Take me home!" she wept.	6

Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
40	211	"By the home stone?" "By the home stone itself!" said the pit master, angrily.	10
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...	6
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...	6
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.	6
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.	6

Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	750	"A home stone, Master?" "Commonality of home stone extends beyond concepts with which you are familiar, such as shared citizenship, for example.	10
17	722	Too, even if we had once shared a home stone, you are now without the rights of the home stone, having been enslaved.	10
18	219	His home stone was the home stone of Ar.	10
19	7	"Is your home stone the home stone of Ar?" inquired Portus, suddenly, fiercely, of Selius Arconious.	10
21	240	Could you not note its direction? Did I not hint such things to you? Why did you not listen? The home stone? The home stone of Ar is no more than a piece of rock".	10
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.	6
30	806	I have at last come home, come home to myself, to the deepest truths of my being.	6

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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

Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	1663	As he was of the Peasants, I supposed his home stone, the community stone, so to speak, not that of his domicile, would be that of some village in the environs of Ar.	10
2	11	What are we worthy of, we, we without home stones? To such as those with home stones, of what value could such as we be? I touch my collar, and suspect.	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	99	Two-strap! Into the clouds, to vanish! home, Fellows, home!" Ichiro winded his horn, with the piercing note of assembly, and the riders, as one, wheeled their sky mounts toward the mountains.	6

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	57	Men who had betrayed home stones, men who had abandoned them, men who had, by deeds or words, dishonored home stones, men who had lived for years, lost and separate, alone and miserable, without home stones, looked s...	10

Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
44	141	"He who defeats himself," I said, "regardless of caste, dishonors his home stone, and he who dishonors his home stone has no home stone".	10
48	31	To attack one home stone is to attack all home stones.	10
48	32	To defend one home stone is to defend all home stones".	10
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.	6