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Near me, Thurnock fitted another arrow to his string. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 44, Sentence #25)

In this way many ladders never reached the walls, sometimes because enough of their bearers were killed or wounded, or, more often, because many men, after a time, declined to bear the ladders forward. Twice, from the wall, we saw a mercenary slain by an officer, presumably in connection with some such reluctance or noncompliance, and twice we saw the officer die; in one case, men gathered about him, closer and closer, despite his protests, and, later, when the men dispersed, the officer's bloodied body lay behind, crumpled and inert; in the other case, the officer was simply cut down from behind by one man, while others looked on. Far to the right I heard a wild, eerie scream where a large bucket of flaming pitch, by means of its socketed rods, was tipped over the parapet. Near me, Thurnock fitted another arrow to his string. "The wall holds," I said. "It is like shooting penned verr," he said. "Yet," I said, "I would have more skilled archers, such as you and your caste brother and friend, Aktis". - (Avengers of Gor)