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| 18 | 209 | As shields were View more quotes about turned">turned and lifted quarrels sped down from the walls and men screamed, twisting, hit. |
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| 18 | 206 | At the same time a hundred ropes, along the wall, were thrown downward and men, one after the other, began to lower themselves to the landing. |
| 18 | 207 | The women and children then, suddenly, screaming, panic-stricken, fled away from the walls. |
| 18 | 208 | The shield wall was disrupted, the frightened women and children rushing through it, tearing at it, plunging toward the walkway behind us. |
| 18 | 209 | As shields were turned and lifted quarrels sped down from the walls and men screamed, twisting, hit. |
| 18 | 210 | "Forward!" I cried, seizing up the shield of a fellow fallen. |
| 18 | 211 | "To the wall!" Behind us we heard the screams of women and children, crowding toward the walkway. |
| 18 | 212 | We heard, too, the sounds and screams of those swept, as by a flood, from the landing, and from the sides of the walkway, striking into the water. |