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| 9 | 75 | For some View more quotes about moments">moments looters, unapprised of what ensued on the level; continued to hurry upward, and enter the courtyard, but, momentarily, there was confusion at the threshold as terrified men turned to flee back through the opening. |
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| 9 | 72 | "Death!" they cried. |
| 9 | 73 | At this signal hundreds of hitherto prostrate Pani, armed, sprang up, and began to fall on the looters, many of whom had cast away weapons, that they not be encumbered in bearing away their booty. |
| 9 | 74 | At the same time more than a thousand mercenaries streamed forth from the barracks, sheds, ancillary buildings, and the castle itself, crying out a hundred war cries from a hundred cities. |
| 9 | 75 | For some moments looters, unapprised of what ensued on the level; continued to hurry upward, and enter the courtyard, but, momentarily, there was confusion at the threshold as terrified men turned to flee back through the opening. |
| 9 | 76 | But a line of Pani interposed themselves and a dozen others cut men away from the threshold and swung shut the gate. |
| 9 | 77 | In moments hundreds of looters were encircled, crowded together, in the center of the courtyard. |
| 9 | 78 | Nodachi then, I am told, cleaned his swords and returned them to his sash, and went to the side, where he sat, cross-legged, and silent. |