Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 17 | He lacked View more quotes about siege">siege engines, and the men, and the skills, of the northern cities. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 14 | There was no problem of water in the city, incidentally, for Turia's waters are supplied by deep, tile-lined wells, some of them hundreds of feet deep; there are also siege reservoirs, filled with the melted snows of the winter, the rains of the spring. |
| 15 | 15 | Kamchak, on kaiilaback, would sit in fury regarding the distant, white walls of Turia. |
| 15 | 16 | He could not prevent the supplying of the city by air. |
| 15 | 17 | He lacked siege engines, and the men, and the skills, of the northern cities. |
| 15 | 18 | He stood as a nomad, in his way baffled at the walls raised against him. |
| 15 | 19 | "I wonder," I said, "why the tarnsmen have not struck at the wagons—with fire arrows—why they do not attack the bosk themselves, slaying them from the air, forcing you to withdraw to protect the beasts". |
| 15 | 20 | It seemed to be a simple, elementary strategy. |
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There was no problem of water in the city, incidentally, for Turia's waters are supplied by deep, tile-lined wells, some of them hundreds of feet deep; there are also siege reservoirs, filled with the melted snows of the winter, the rains of the spring.
Kamchak, on kaiilaback, would sit in fury regarding the distant, white walls of Turia.
He could not prevent the supplying of the city by air.
He lacked siege engines, and the men, and the skills, of the northern cities.
He stood as a nomad, in his way baffled at the walls raised against him.
"I wonder," I said, "why the tarnsmen have not struck at the wagons—with fire arrows—why they do not attack the bosk themselves, slaying them from the air, forcing you to withdraw to protect the beasts".
It seemed to be a simple, elementary strategy.
- (Nomads of Gor)