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| 18 | 611 | In View more quotes about perfect">perfect order they stood in line within the parapet on the delta wall. |
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| 18 | 608 | Then, swarming over the delta wall, were hundreds of men. |
| 18 | 609 | "Rencers!" I cried. |
| 18 | 610 | But each of these men, over his back, carried a peasant bow. |
| 18 | 611 | In perfect order they stood in line within the parapet on the delta wall. |
| 18 | 612 | As one their arrows leaped to the string, as one the great bows bent, and I saw Ho-Hak on the height of the wall bring down his arm with a cry, and I saw, like sheets of oblique rain, the torrent of gull-feathered shafts leap toward the keep. |
| 18 | 613 | And I saw, too, on the wall, with Ho-Hak, Thurnock, the Peasant, with his bow, and beside him, with net and trident, Clitus. |
| 18 | 614 | There was a great screaming from the siege ladders, and I heard men crying out with death, and terror, and heard the scraping of the ladders and then their falling back, showering bodies on those crowded below, waiting to scale them. |