Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 30 | 76 | View more quotes about similarly">Similarly the ship, when fitted, will be equipped with the usual implements of offense, catapults and such. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 30 | 73 | Here we have an extreme instance of that. |
| 30 | 74 | Consider the difficulty of scaling the walls of a city, particularly if the city were at sea. |
| 30 | 75 | And the timbers, particularly at the bow, and in the vicinity of the waterline, are layered horizontally, and interlaid with sheets of metal, to a depth of five feet. |
| 30 | 76 | Similarly the ship, when fitted, will be equipped with the usual implements of offense, catapults and such. |
| 30 | 77 | Too, it will have a crew of a thousand or more". |
| 30 | 78 | "So many?" I said. |
| 30 | 79 | "We will have here," said Aëtius, "a fortress, a floating city, with hundreds of defenders, swordsmen, spearmen, archers, and such, who will have the advantage of height". |
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Here we have an extreme instance of that.
Consider the difficulty of scaling the walls of a city, particularly if the city were at sea.
And the timbers, particularly at the bow, and in the vicinity of the waterline, are layered horizontally, and interlaid with sheets of metal, to a depth of five feet.
Similarly the ship, when fitted, will be equipped with the usual implements of offense, catapults and such.
Too, it will have a crew of a thousand or more".
"So many?" I said.
"We will have here," said Aëtius, "a fortress, a floating city, with hundreds of defenders, swordsmen, spearmen, archers, and such, who will have the advantage of height".
- (Swordsmen of Gor)