Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 40 | 25 | View more quotes about bodies">Bodies, bristling with arrows, lay about them. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 40 | 28 | Too, a pasang from the beach we could see two galleys aflame, and others had withdrawn from our path. |
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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.
Too, a pasang from the beach we could see two galleys aflame, and others had withdrawn from our path.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)