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| 44 | 488 | Some of the larger View more quotes about stones">stones even did their work more than once, striking men or kaiila from the trail at one point and then, bounding downward, striking the face of the rock here and there, to shatter into yet more men at a lower point in the ascendant trail. |
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| 44 | 485 | Then began the lethal hail of stones, hundreds flung from above, dozens rolled and toppled over the edge. |
| 44 | 486 | These stones, striking down, could not fail to find marks. |
| 44 | 487 | They plunged into the seething mass at different points on the trail. |
| 44 | 488 | Some of the larger stones even did their work more than once, striking men or kaiila from the trail at one point and then, bounding downward, striking the face of the rock here and there, to shatter into yet more men at a lower point in the ascendant trail. |
| 44 | 489 | Some finally plunged, rolling and bouncing downward, into the Yellow Knives far below on the grass. |
| 44 | 490 | Yellow Knives raised their shields but this did little good for the potency of the stones lay primarily not in their capacity to cut or penetrate but to transmit their considerable force, bluntly, crushingly, suddenly, to the target surface. |
| 44 | 491 | Arms were broken in the shield straps. |