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| 17 | 54 | At View more quotes about both">both these bridges the charge was arrested by the bristling points of a braced, pike wall, two men to a pike. |
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| 17 | 51 | Questioned, eagerly had I assented to its use, pleased to have the unexpected and welcome aid of such an object. |
| 17 | 52 | Nets, too, of course, are used at sea in the repulsion of boarders. |
| 17 | 53 | Similarly, nets, often small and silken, but sturdy and cunningly weighted, are used in the taking of women. |
| 17 | 54 | At both these bridges the charge was arrested by the bristling points of a braced, pike wall, two men to a pike. |
| 17 | 55 | At the fishermen's bridge the net was cast, but its weights were not now stones. |
| 17 | 56 | Rather was it weighted with two logs which, as it settled upon its catch, were toppled over the parapet. |
| 17 | 57 | At the bridge of the huntsmen loops of tarn wire were cast over the armed, halted efflux which the foe, to his horror, trying to extricate himself, felt draw tight and then he, too, snared, was dragged from the bridge. |