Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 74 | Between the View more quotes about towers">towers men hurried cutting ropes, and, where they could, thrusting back the ladders with the long-handled tridents. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 71 | Their bodies, lacerated, impeded the flow of their fellows. |
| 17 | 72 | Pikes thrust forth from behind the parapet, and at the sides, and over the planks, of the dropped bridge, where it projected beyond the crenelation on which it rested. |
| 17 | 73 | While these things were going on hundreds of grapnels had looped over the wall and the ropes on them strained with swiftly climbing men, and the uprights of hundreds of ladders, like a forest, set themselves against the walls. |
| 17 | 74 | Between the towers men hurried cutting ropes, and, where they could, thrusting back the ladders with the long-handled tridents. |
| 17 | 75 | Oil was poured on screaming men ascending. |
| 17 | 76 | Bodies aflame leapt from wood and rope. |
| 17 | 77 | But Cosians came over the wall. |
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Their bodies, lacerated, impeded the flow of their fellows.
Pikes thrust forth from behind the parapet, and at the sides, and over the planks, of the dropped bridge, where it projected beyond the crenelation on which it rested.
While these things were going on hundreds of grapnels had looped over the wall and the ropes on them strained with swiftly climbing men, and the uprights of hundreds of ladders, like a forest, set themselves against the walls.
Between the towers men hurried cutting ropes, and, where they could, thrusting back the ladders with the long-handled tridents.
Oil was poured on screaming men ascending.
Bodies aflame leapt from wood and rope.
But Cosians came over the wall.
- (Renegades of Gor)