Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 459 | The View more quotes about ground">ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 456 | I trod the wet gravel toward the left side of the wagon bridge. |
| 1 | 457 | I paused there to look across the moat. |
| 1 | 458 | It was some forty feet in width. |
| 1 | 459 | The ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it. |
| 1 | 460 | In this wall, at its foot, there were openings every twenty feet or so to allow for water from the outside to drain into the moat. |
| 1 | 461 | This pitch of the land, too, incidentally, makes it difficult to drain the moat. |
| 1 | 462 | It could be done, of course, by men working under a shed, to protect them from missile fire, arrows, lead sling pellets, and such, or, say, more safely, and less exposed to sorties, by siege miners, through a tunnel. |
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I trod the wet gravel toward the left side of the wagon bridge.
I paused there to look across the moat.
It was some forty feet in width.
The ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it.
In this wall, at its foot, there were openings every twenty feet or so to allow for water from the outside to drain into the moat.
This pitch of the land, too, incidentally, makes it difficult to drain the moat.
It could be done, of course, by men working under a shed, to protect them from missile fire, arrows, lead sling pellets, and such, or, say, more safely, and less exposed to sorties, by siege miners, through a tunnel.
- (Renegades of Gor)