Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 51 | This View more quotes about device">device also, however, tends to be ineffective except under rather optimum, special conditions. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 48 | It is used from walls, dangled down, and then drawn up with a winch. |
| 16 | 49 | If the wall is a harbor wall it can capsize a ship. |
| 16 | 50 | If the wall is a land wall, it can, with luck, topple a siege tower. |
| 16 | 51 | This device also, however, tends to be ineffective except under rather optimum, special conditions. |
| 16 | 52 | For example, very few captains are likely to get their ships within range of a derrick grapnel. |
| 16 | 53 | Would you? I watched the rope on the grapnel for a moment and noted that although it was taut it did not exhibit the differential tensions which it would if it were being climbed. |
| 16 | 54 | I pulled it loose then and, letting its tautness do the work, let it fly back over the walkway and the crenelation. |
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It is used from walls, dangled down, and then drawn up with a winch.
If the wall is a harbor wall it can capsize a ship.
If the wall is a land wall, it can, with luck, topple a siege tower.
This device also, however, tends to be ineffective except under rather optimum, special conditions.
For example, very few captains are likely to get their ships within range of a derrick grapnel.
Would you? I watched the rope on the grapnel for a moment and noted that although it was taut it did not exhibit the differential tensions which it would if it were being climbed.
I pulled it loose then and, letting its tautness do the work, let it fly back over the walkway and the crenelation.
- (Renegades of Gor)