Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 1425 | The slots through which the View more quotes about poles">poles are thrust may serve also, of course, as arrow ports. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 16 | 1426 | Individuals behind us were still coming through the gate. |
| 16 | 1427 | I then turned my eyes forward. |
| 16 | 1428 | I could see, some two hundred yards or so away, pennons of Cos, marking presumably the first row of siege trenches. |
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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.
Individuals behind us were still coming through the gate.
I then turned my eyes forward.
I could see, some two hundred yards or so away, pennons of Cos, marking presumably the first row of siege trenches.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)