| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 20 | 287 | She View more quotes about knew">knew these were not wild tarns, because of the orderly approach, the measured, three-dimensional spacing of the birds. |
| 20 | 288 | She caught, in less than an Ehn, a glimpse of saddles and shields, of lances, of helmets. |
| 20 | 289 | "Tarnsmen," she gasped. |
| 20 | 290 | These were no irregulars, or guerrillas, no motley assemblage of defiant, desperate, courageous patriots. |
| 20 | 291 | These were surely no allies of Portus Canio and his tarnsters. |
| 20 | 292 | These were professional soldiers, uniformed, organized, disciplined, well-armed. |
| 20 | 293 | Two tarnsmen of the flighted squad wheeled from their formation, and began to approach the loose, leaderless line of six tarns, which had been the fourth through the ninth tarns in the original train, the fourth through the seventh with baskets, Ellen in the last basket, that carried by the seventh tarn, and the eighth and ninth without baskets. |