Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 1423 | Such View more quotes about poles">poles, with little danger to the defenders, at sufficient heights, where sufficient leverages can be exerted, address themselves to the enemy's ladders. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 1420 | The walls, from this close to them, the fall sun bright on them, seemed very high and formidable. |
| 16 | 1421 | No common scaling ladders could ascend them. |
| 16 | 1422 | Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness. |
| 16 | 1423 | Such poles, with little danger to the defenders, at sufficient heights, where sufficient leverages can be exerted, address themselves to the enemy's ladders. |
| 16 | 1424 | Their effects are often devastating. |
| 16 | 1425 | The slots through which the poles are thrust may serve also, of course, as arrow ports. |
| 16 | 1426 | Individuals behind us were still coming through the gate. |
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The walls, from this close to them, the fall sun bright on them, seemed very high and formidable.
No common scaling ladders could ascend them.
Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness.
Such poles, with little danger to the defenders, at sufficient heights, where sufficient leverages can be exerted, address themselves to the enemy's ladders.
Their effects are often devastating.
The slots through which the poles are thrust may serve also, of course, as arrow ports.
Individuals behind us were still coming through the gate.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)