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| 21 | 317 | Each of the Hundreds that View more quotes about entered">entered turned to its own destination, taking different streets and turns, some dismounting and climbing to command the roofs with their small bows. |
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| 21 | 314 | Almost instantly there was a wild cry, the war cry of the Tuchuks, and the first five kaiila leaped from outside the gate onto the top of the wagon, finding firm footing on what I had taken to be simple rain canvas, but actually was canvas stretched over a load of rocks and earth, accounting for the incredible weight of the wagon, and then bounded from the wagon, two to one side, two the other, and the middle rider actually leaping from the top of the wagon to the dust beyond the harnessed bosk. |
| 21 | 315 | In an instant another five and then another and another had repeated this maneuver and soon, sometimes with squealing of kaiila and dismounting of riders as one beast or another would be crowded between the gates and the others, a Hundred and then another Hundred had hurtled howling into the city, black lacquered shields on the left arms, lance seized in the right hand. |
| 21 | 316 | About us there were the stamping paws of kaiila, the crying of men, the sound of arms, and always more and more Tuchuks striking the top of the wagon and bounding into the city uttering their war cry. |
| 21 | 317 | Each of the Hundreds that entered turned to its own destination, taking different streets and turns, some dismounting and climbing to command the roofs with their small bows. |
| 21 | 318 | Already I could smell smoke. |
| 21 | 319 | Under the wagon with us, crouching, terrified, were three Turians, civilians, a wine vendor, a potter and a girl. |
| 21 | 320 | The wine vendor and the potter were peeping fearfully from between the wheels at the riders thundering into the streets. |