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| 17 | 139 | Some of the View more quotes about bridges">bridges, but most not, were raised and lowered by ropes. |
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| 17 | 136 | On the east, and nearer the center portions of the wall, four of the towers were aflame. |
| 17 | 137 | Not seventy feet away, a rope severed, men plunged screaming to the earth below. |
| 17 | 138 | Along the wall, at two of the towers, men chopped away at the housings for the chains which controlled the bridges. |
| 17 | 139 | Some of the bridges, but most not, were raised and lowered by ropes. |
| 17 | 140 | One whose ropes had been cut had its bridge hanging down, against the front of the tower, useless. |
| 17 | 141 | Cosians were trying to run planks out from the tower, to span the crevice between the tower and wall. |
| 17 | 142 | I did not doubt but what, sooner or later, the towers might be brought flush to the wall. |