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| 9 | 142 | Also, it did not View more quotes about seem">seem to me practical to try to enter the city during the daylight hours from the harbor side because of the besiegers. |
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| 9 | 139 | I had also considered trying to enter the city through its main gate, in the confusion, when it opened for sorties by the defenders. |
| 9 | 140 | There had been no sorties, however, for twenty days. |
| 9 | 141 | That in itself was an index of the straits of the defenders, their will and numbers. |
| 9 | 142 | Also, it did not seem to me practical to try to enter the city during the daylight hours from the harbor side because of the besiegers. |
| 9 | 143 | Similarly, during the night hours, it seemed the defenders might be unusually alert. |
| 9 | 144 | I did not, of course, know any appropriate signs and countersigns. |
| 9 | 145 | One might well be set upon as soon as one tried to haul oneself unto a wharf. |