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| 16 | 29 | The View more quotes about siege">siege towers were still some hundreds of yards away. |
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| 16 | 26 | I looked over the wall and noted that the long, rolling, shedlike structure was quite near, beneath which the battering ram, on its ropes, was slung. |
| 16 | 27 | It had not been visible from the cell, as I had speculated, as it had been obscured by the gate's west bastion. |
| 16 | 28 | Some of the ladder men and grapnel crews were already probing the walls. |
| 16 | 29 | The siege towers were still some hundreds of yards away. |
| 16 | 30 | A quarrel sputtered against the interior of an embrasure, chipping it and glancing away, upward. |
| 16 | 31 | As I went toward the gate's battlements a grapnel looped over the wall gracefully and fell behind the walkway. |
| 16 | 32 | Considering the arc, its width and height, I assumed it had been lobbed there by an engine. |