Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 73 | While these View more quotes about things">things were going on hundreds of grapnels had looped over the wall and the ropes on them strained with swiftly climbing men, and the uprights of hundreds of ladders, like a forest, set themselves against the walls. |
| 17 | 74 | Between the towers men hurried cutting ropes, and, where they could, thrusting back the ladders with the long-handled tridents. |
| 17 | 75 | Oil was poured on screaming men ascending. |
| 17 | 76 | Bodies aflame leapt from wood and rope. |
| 17 | 77 | But Cosians came over the wall. |
| 17 | 78 | "We cannot hold them!" cried a man. |
| 17 | 79 | Fellows came then from below. |
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While these things were going on hundreds of grapnels had looped over the wall and the ropes on them strained with swiftly climbing men, and the uprights of hundreds of ladders, like a forest, set themselves against the walls.
Between the towers men hurried cutting ropes, and, where they could, thrusting back the ladders with the long-handled tridents.
Oil was poured on screaming men ascending.
Bodies aflame leapt from wood and rope.
But Cosians came over the wall.
"We cannot hold them!" cried a man.
Fellows came then from below.
- (Renegades of Gor)