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| 16 | 15 | Showers of arrows View more quotes about sped">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. |
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| 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. |
| 16 | 16 | But a moment later the charging citizens, like thundering, horned kailiauk, like uncontrolled, maddened, stampeding bosk, pikes and spears leveled, chains flailing, swords flashing, boat hooks, and axes and shovels upraised, struck the dumbfounded, disarrayed throngs of astonished buccaneers. |
| 16 | 17 | A cheer rose spontaneously from my throat. |
| 16 | 18 | "Fight!" I heard Policrates scream. |