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| 16 | 12 | The View more quotes about pirates">pirates turned, startled, puzzled, to regard the source of the sound. |
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| 16 | 9 | "Then, Lads," cried Policrates, "take Victoria! She is yours!" Then, at that very instant from atop the frame building housing the office of the wharf master the alarm bar began to ring. |
| 16 | 10 | I saw a single man on the roof, striking it with a great hammer. |
| 16 | 11 | It rang again, and again. |
| 16 | 12 | The pirates turned, startled, puzzled, to regard the source of the sound. |
| 16 | 13 | Almost at that very moment, from the seemingly deserted buildings of Victoria, running and screaming, charging, brandishing an incredible assortment of chains, tools and weapons, there issued hundreds of the outraged citizens of Victoria. |
| 16 | 14 | Archers sprang into view on the rooftops. |
| 16 | 15 | Showers of arrows sped like dark, linear hail over the heads of the charging citizens, striking into the startled, suddenly reeling, disordered crowds of pirates at the foot of the concourse. |