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I think it probable that some had been fired at me when I had struggled with the spear for I saw at least one new, irregular scratch in the stone near where I had labored. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #258)

For an instant I was not clear that it would fall. But then men were screaming and leaping from it, up and down its length, and I saw it turn on one upright, doubtless more from their movements and the shifts in weight than from anything of my doing, and then it fell back, and I heard it snap and break. At the same time I drew back, as a pair of quarrels flashed past. I think it probable that some had been fired at me when I had struggled with the spear for I saw at least one new, irregular scratch in the stone near where I had labored. Yet, oddly enough, though there must have been noise, I had not even noticed it at the time. It was only now, oddly, in recollection that it seemed to me I might have heard something there, cutting at the stone, and other things, too, like hissed whispers about me. A young fellow, one of the two of an age to be lads whom I had seen on the wall, appeared on the steps leading to the upper battlements. - (Renegades of Gor)