Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 39 | 59 | Then from View more quotes about behind">behind the wall, suddenly, large stones were being cast down upon the disconcerted, apprehensive besiegers. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 39 | 56 | Similarly, at first, some supposed that these things were alive which struck their fellows. |
| 39 | 57 | Certainly they flew through the air, swiftly, almost invisible, until they struck, and were feathered, as birds. |
| 39 | 58 | There was then a paucity of clear targets, as Kurii crouched down behind hurdles formed from their ladder poles, and some behind the large log, which had presumably been intended to batter at the walls or gate of the diminutive citadel, and some huddled behind ramparts raised of their fellows' bodies. |
| 39 | 59 | Then from behind the wall, suddenly, large stones were being cast down upon the disconcerted, apprehensive besiegers. |
| 39 | 60 | Roars of rage and pain greeted this barrage of weighty stones, a directed rain of gigantic rocks, any one of which, flung with the strength and force of a Kur, might have felled a tharlarion. |
| 39 | 61 | Too, there was a cry from the wall, as of elation, as it had become clear that succor, however minimal, might be at hand. |
| 39 | 62 | This cry, if nothing else, seemed to break the spirit of the besiegers, and determine them to action, for they then began to spring up, and mill about, uncertainly. |
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Similarly, at first, some supposed that these things were alive which struck their fellows.
Certainly they flew through the air, swiftly, almost invisible, until they struck, and were feathered, as birds.
There was then a paucity of clear targets, as Kurii crouched down behind hurdles formed from their ladder poles, and some behind the large log, which had presumably been intended to batter at the walls or gate of the diminutive citadel, and some huddled behind ramparts raised of their fellows' bodies.
Then from behind the wall, suddenly, large stones were being cast down upon the disconcerted, apprehensive besiegers.
Roars of rage and pain greeted this barrage of weighty stones, a directed rain of gigantic rocks, any one of which, flung with the strength and force of a Kur, might have felled a tharlarion.
Too, there was a cry from the wall, as of elation, as it had become clear that succor, however minimal, might be at hand.
This cry, if nothing else, seemed to break the spirit of the besiegers, and determine them to action, for they then began to spring up, and mill about, uncertainly.
- (Kur of Gor)