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| 41 | 169 | "It requires View more quotes about great">great courage to cling to a ladder with one hand and try to defend oneself with the other, against burning pitch, axes, jabbing blades, cast stones, and such. |
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| 41 | 166 | "That may not be as easy as you think," I said. |
| 41 | 167 | "They have still not mounted a massive attack with scaling ladders," said Thurnock. |
| 41 | 168 | "They are not eager to do so," I said. |
| 41 | 169 | "It requires great courage to cling to a ladder with one hand and try to defend oneself with the other, against burning pitch, axes, jabbing blades, cast stones, and such. |
| 41 | 170 | Most such assaults are turned back with a great loss of life. |
| 41 | 171 | That is one reason towns and cities have walls". |
| 41 | 172 | "That is a great advantage of siege towers," said Clitus. |