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| 11 | 1867 | Its View more quotes about major">major purpose presumably had to do with the rapid, perhaps secret deployment of troops among levels. |
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| 11 | 1864 | I was descending in the tube and the rectangle of sky above me shrunk and disappeared, and, in a moment, even the dimness of light was gone, and I spun about, turning, crying out in misery, spiraling downward through the darkness. |
| 11 | 1865 | The descent had been cleared, I had heard, to the "depths". |
| 11 | 1866 | Thus, it seemed, there might be different levels accessible from this tube. |
| 11 | 1867 | Its major purpose presumably had to do with the rapid, perhaps secret deployment of troops among levels. |
| 11 | 1868 | Too, obviously it might serve for an emergency evacuation of the surface. |
| 11 | 1869 | It was more protected and less susceptible to fire than ladders and stairwells. |
| 11 | 1870 | It gave a possibility, too, for the immediate securing of loot. |