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| 1 | 160 | This trail, too, now barricaded, would be View more quotes about easily">easily defended. |
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| 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. |
| 1 | 162 | Doubtless its lines, appointments, battlements, keeps, and structures, in number and nature, over the years, had changed, had come and gone, but the mountain, with its proud, summoning escarpment, had endured. |
| 1 | 163 | As the remote, precipitous, unapproachable crag might commend itself to the wild tarn so too would this place commend itself to tarns amongst men. |