Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 11 | When completed, it would be View more quotes about fifty">fifty or sixty feet wide, and seventy or eighty feet deep. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 8 | A city such as Ar, properly commanded, might withstand a siege for a generation. |
| 15 | 9 | Beyond the walls were Pa-Kur's lines of investment, set forth with all the skill of Gor's most experienced siege engineers. |
| 15 | 10 | Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range, a gigantic ditch was being dug by thousands of siege slaves and prisoners. |
| 15 | 11 | When completed, it would be fifty or sixty feet wide, and seventy or eighty feet deep. |
| 15 | 12 | In back of the ditch slaves were piling up the earth which had been removed from the ditch, packing and hardening it into a rampart. |
| 15 | 13 | On the summit of the rampart, where it was completed, were numerous archer blinds, movable wooden screens to shield archers and light missile equipment. |
| 15 | 14 | Between the ditch and the walls of the city, under the cover of darkness, thousands of sharpened stakes had been set, inclined toward the walls. |
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A city such as Ar, properly commanded, might withstand a siege for a generation.
Beyond the walls were Pa-Kur's lines of investment, set forth with all the skill of Gor's most experienced siege engineers.
Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range, a gigantic ditch was being dug by thousands of siege slaves and prisoners.
When completed, it would be fifty or sixty feet wide, and seventy or eighty feet deep.
In back of the ditch slaves were piling up the earth which had been removed from the ditch, packing and hardening it into a rampart.
On the summit of the rampart, where it was completed, were numerous archer blinds, movable wooden screens to shield archers and light missile equipment.
Between the ditch and the walls of the city, under the cover of darkness, thousands of sharpened stakes had been set, inclined toward the walls.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)