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| 10 | 21 | The only closer entrenchments were sapping trenches, partly View more quotes about covered">covered with wood, leading directly toward the walls. |
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| 10 | 18 | She trembled. |
| 10 | 19 | This was the most advanced of the Cosian siege trenches. |
| 10 | 20 | Even the openings to the mines, now gated, and closely guarded, were further to the rear. |
| 10 | 21 | The only closer entrenchments were sapping trenches, partly covered with wood, leading directly toward the walls. |
| 10 | 22 | These were used not only for attempting to undermine the walls, but also for providing cover to men advancing for assaults. |
| 10 | 23 | The sapping trench, of course, requires much less labor on the part of the besiegers but, too, it is less difficult to detect and stop than the mines. |
| 10 | 24 | The mine, of course, need not stop at the wall, but can proceed within the city and when opened, pour soldiers out, behind the walls. |