Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 38 | One of Pa-Kur's View more quotes about towers">towers was undermined, and it tilted crazily and they crashed into the dust, amidst the screaming of its doomed occupants. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 35 | Through small postern gates other defenders rushed against the towers on the ground, only to be met by Pa-Kur's clustered support troops. |
| 16 | 36 | From the height of the walls, some two hundred feet above the towers, missiles would be fired and stones cast. |
| 16 | 37 | Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back. |
| 16 | 38 | One of Pa-Kur's towers was undermined, and it tilted crazily and they crashed into the dust, amidst the screaming of its doomed occupants. |
| 16 | 39 | Another was captured and burned. |
| 16 | 40 | But five more towers rolled slowly toward the walls of Ar. |
| 16 | 41 | These towers were fortresses in themselves and would be maintained at all costs; hour in and hour out, they would continue their work, gnawing at the walls. |
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Through small postern gates other defenders rushed against the towers on the ground, only to be met by Pa-Kur's clustered support troops.
From the height of the walls, some two hundred feet above the towers, missiles would be fired and stones cast.
Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back.
One of Pa-Kur's towers was undermined, and it tilted crazily and they crashed into the dust, amidst the screaming of its doomed occupants.
Another was captured and burned.
But five more towers rolled slowly toward the walls of Ar.
These towers were fortresses in themselves and would be maintained at all costs; hour in and hour out, they would continue their work, gnawing at the walls.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)