Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 1422 | Too, View more quotes about numerous">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. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 16 | 1424 | Their effects are often devastating. |
| 16 | 1425 | The slots through which the poles are thrust may serve also, of course, as arrow ports. |
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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.
Their effects are often devastating.
The slots through which the poles are thrust may serve also, of course, as arrow ports.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)