| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 48 | 17 | What could View more quotes about stand">stand against their skills and numbers? Desperation, ugly and gloomy, fell like unlit, unwelcome night. |
| 48 | 18 | Did not shadows encroach even upon Home Stones? And Cos remained inert, indifferent, disinterested, perhaps even intimidated by the marauders, perhaps even in league with them. |
| 48 | 19 | Who could help villagers but villagers themselves? To whom else could they look? Then, second, a startling torch, an unexpected, glad victory, suddenly flamed in the darkness. |
| 48 | 20 | The battle of Zeuxis proved the marauders could be not only withstood but defeated. |
| 48 | 21 | No longer were they deemed invincible. |
| 48 | 22 | Too, by this time, the great bow, if only in stealth, was becoming known in the villages. |
| 48 | 23 | Had such a weapon not proved its formidable worth at Zeuxis? Might not it do so again?" "Yet," I said, "villages are proud, muchly autonomous, and seldom do they see beyond their own fields". |