Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 40 | 24 | It had been death to man those engines. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 40 | 21 | The View more quotes about shield">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. |
| 40 | 27 | Too, roofing, where practical, if not sheathed in metal or coated in wet hides, would succumb to the canisters of pitch and fire, lit and cast by our tarnsmen. |
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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.
Too, roofing, where practical, if not sheathed in metal or coated in wet hides, would succumb to the canisters of pitch and fire, lit and cast by our tarnsmen.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)