Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 6 | This permits a considerable momentum to the attackers without being so steep as to endanger the surety of their footing. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 3 | The View more quotes about towers">towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width. |
| 17 | 4 | They were out from the wall, back from it, some seven feet. |
| 17 | 5 | The lower sills of the bridges, from whence they would swing down, clapping, thundering, on the crenelation, were about four or five feet above the height of the wall. |
| 17 | 6 | This permits a considerable momentum to the attackers without being so steep as to endanger the surety of their footing. |
| 17 | 7 | There was no accident about the height of the towers. |
| 17 | 8 | A simple geometrical calculation gives the height of the wall. |
| 17 | 9 | We could now hear little movement within the towers, scarcely the clink of arms. |
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The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width.
They were out from the wall, back from it, some seven feet.
The lower sills of the bridges, from whence they would swing down, clapping, thundering, on the crenelation, were about four or five feet above the height of the wall.
This permits a considerable momentum to the attackers without being so steep as to endanger the surety of their footing.
There was no accident about the height of the towers.
A simple geometrical calculation gives the height of the wall.
We could now hear little movement within the towers, scarcely the clink of arms.
- (Renegades of Gor)