Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 40 | 26 | Most such devices, View more quotes about given">given their height, or the angle of their fire, could not be well defended from above. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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| 40 | 28 | Too, a pasang from the beach we could see two galleys aflame, and others had withdrawn from our path. |
| 40 | 29 | And so it was that at the mouth of the Alexandra, mighty, its passage now uncontested, as tarns returned to the ship, one by one, canvas fell from the yards, took the wind, and the ship of Tersites, her wings spread, set her prow westward. |
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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Too, a pasang from the beach we could see two galleys aflame, and others had withdrawn from our path.
And so it was that at the mouth of the Alexandra, mighty, its passage now uncontested, as tarns returned to the ship, one by one, canvas fell from the yards, took the wind, and the ship of Tersites, her wings spread, set her prow westward.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)