Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 95 | Their View more quotes about backs">backs strained, turning the windlass, winding that huge torsion-powered device taut. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 92 | Some defenders leapt back to the wall, and the bridge, cut in pieces, sagged behind them. |
| 17 | 93 | Cosians, sweating, their eyes wild in their helmets, reaching out from ropes, and ladders, struggled through, and over, the crenels. |
| 17 | 94 | The crew of one of the engines had set another great stone into its shovel. |
| 17 | 95 | Their backs strained, turning the windlass, winding that huge torsion-powered device taut. |
| 17 | 96 | I saw one of them, a quarrel in his back, fall away from the windlass. |
| 17 | 97 | Then, suddenly, a lever thrown, the mighty arm of the engine went forward again and a great stone burst against one of the towers. |
| 17 | 98 | It was half turned and tottered, but did not fall. |
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Some defenders leapt back to the wall, and the bridge, cut in pieces, sagged behind them.
Cosians, sweating, their eyes wild in their helmets, reaching out from ropes, and ladders, struggled through, and over, the crenels.
The crew of one of the engines had set another great stone into its shovel.
Their backs strained, turning the windlass, winding that huge torsion-powered device taut.
I saw one of them, a quarrel in his back, fall away from the windlass.
Then, suddenly, a lever thrown, the mighty arm of the engine went forward again and a great stone burst against one of the towers.
It was half turned and tottered, but did not fall.
- (Renegades of Gor)