Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 149 | The pounding of the ram View more quotes about below">below continued. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 146 | It is better for the attackers, usually, to have the tower isolated, back from the wall, and to be able to control its bridge without concern for the defenders. |
| 17 | 147 | Thus they may lower it when they will and raise it when they will, perhaps after a retreat, transforming the tower then into what, in effect, is a small, inaccessible, impregnable keep, with its moat of space, a keep, however, whose bridge might then, suddenly, at any moment of the day or night, drop again, once more disgorging its onslaught of attackers. |
| 17 | 148 | I saw a fellow, aflame, running below, beyond the wall, then he fell and rolled in the dirt. |
| 17 | 149 | The pounding of the ram below continued. |
| 17 | 150 | It had a different sound now than before. |
| 17 | 151 | I did not understand why. |
| 17 | 152 | Men leaped back from towers to the wall, their work done on them. |
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It is better for the attackers, usually, to have the tower isolated, back from the wall, and to be able to control its bridge without concern for the defenders.
Thus they may lower it when they will and raise it when they will, perhaps after a retreat, transforming the tower then into what, in effect, is a small, inaccessible, impregnable keep, with its moat of space, a keep, however, whose bridge might then, suddenly, at any moment of the day or night, drop again, once more disgorging its onslaught of attackers.
I saw a fellow, aflame, running below, beyond the wall, then he fell and rolled in the dirt.
The pounding of the ram below continued.
It had a different sound now than before.
I did not understand why.
Men leaped back from towers to the wall, their work done on them.
- (Renegades of Gor)