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| 1 | 158 | Trails leading to the valley View more quotes about below">below were narrow and easily defended. |
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| 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. |
| 1 | 160 | This trail, too, now barricaded, would be easily defended. |
| 1 | 161 | The site of the holding, atop the cliffs, over the centuries, had apparently been variously fortified and commanded. |