Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 40 | 23 | The View more quotes about enemy">enemy artillery, where it was not burning, had been deserted. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 40 | 20 | Too, it is difficult to defend oneself from low-flying tarns, attacking in concert, from two or three sides at once. |
| 40 | 21 | The shield, whatever its attitude, can protect from but a single bearing. |
| 40 | 22 | The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore. |
| 40 | 23 | The enemy artillery, where it was not burning, had been deserted. |
| 40 | 24 | It had been death to man those engines. |
| 40 | 25 | Bodies, bristling with arrows, lay about them. |
| 40 | 26 | Most such devices, given their height, or the angle of their fire, could not be well defended from above. |
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Too, it is difficult to defend oneself from low-flying tarns, attacking in concert, from two or three sides at once.
The shield, whatever its attitude, can protect from but a single bearing.
The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore.
The enemy artillery, where it was not burning, had been deserted.
It had been death to man those engines.
Bodies, bristling with arrows, lay about them.
Most such devices, given their height, or the angle of their fire, could not be well defended from above.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)