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| 1 | 156 | View more quotes about several">Several times, at night, enemies from below, dark-clad, agile night fighters, had forced pitons into the cliff, but these had been broken free during the day, by Ashigaru, lowered from the walls above. |
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| 1 | 153 | "We can see little," said Lord Okimoto. |
| 1 | 154 | Surely there had been no signal arrows from the lower posts, no torches, no cries of warning. |
| 1 | 155 | "The fog will soon lift," said Lord Nishida. |
| 1 | 156 | Several times, at night, enemies from below, dark-clad, agile night fighters, had forced pitons into the cliff, but these had been broken free during the day, by Ashigaru, lowered from the walls above. |
| 1 | 157 | The situation of the holding of Lord Temmu, surmounting cliffs landward, almost in the clouds as seen from below, rendered siege towers impractical. |
| 1 | 158 | Trails leading to the valley below were narrow and easily defended. |
| 1 | 159 | On the seaward side, a single, narrow, walled trail ascended tortuously from the wharves below to the courtyard of the holding. |