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| 57 | 48 | Into such realms arrows do not fly; no View more quotes about steel">steel blade can halt the coming of darkness, the fall of night. |
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| 57 | 45 | The dice of the future had rolled awry; the very cards of destiny had proved unpropitious. |
| 57 | 46 | It was as though a thousand castings of the bones and shells had uniformly rattled, in a thousand holdings, a knell of doom against the house of Yamada. |
| 57 | 47 | Terror had been cast into the hearts of thousands of brave men, men who would face a common, charging, comprehensible foe with readiness and resolve, with bow and lowered glaives, but who had no heart to withstand the singular and incomprehensible, the mysterious, unnatural, and weird. |
| 57 | 48 | Into such realms arrows do not fly; no steel blade can halt the coming of darkness, the fall of night. |
| 57 | 49 | Daimyos deserted the shogun, withdrawing their men, hurrying to their own holdings. |
| 57 | 50 | Units melted away; supplies were abandoned. |
| 57 | 51 | The road to the south was filled with disorganized, routed troops, with stragglers and refugees. |