Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 1420 | The View more quotes about walls">walls, from this close to them, the fall sun bright on them, seemed very high and formidable. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 1417 | "Pass," he said. |
| 16 | 1418 | In moments we were past the great gate, and blinking against the sun. |
| 16 | 1419 | I looked back. |
| 16 | 1420 | The walls, from this close to them, the fall sun bright on them, seemed very high and formidable. |
| 16 | 1421 | No common scaling ladders could ascend them. |
| 16 | 1422 | Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness. |
| 16 | 1423 | Such poles, with little danger to the defenders, at sufficient heights, where sufficient leverages can be exerted, address themselves to the enemy's ladders. |
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"Pass," he said.
In moments we were past the great gate, and blinking against the sun.
I looked back.
The walls, from this close to them, the fall sun bright on them, seemed very high and formidable.
No common scaling ladders could ascend them.
Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness.
Such poles, with little danger to the defenders, at sufficient heights, where sufficient leverages can be exerted, address themselves to the enemy's ladders.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)