| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 15 | 981 | View more quotes about hitherto">Hitherto the trumpets had been followed by great cheering. |
| 15 | 982 | "They have had their fill of shouting, and such," I said. |
| 15 | 983 | "They come now to finish the matter". |
| 15 | 984 | Light-armed troops hurried forward, slingers and archers, and javelin men, to keep defenders back, as they could, from the crenels. |
| 15 | 985 | Under their cover the ladder brigades followed and the grapnel men; behind these came scalers, crouching, protected under the shield roofs of infantry men. |
| 15 | 986 | "The wall will be attacked at several points," I said, "to spread the defenders". |
| 15 | 987 | She suddenly gasped. |