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| 31 | 650 | His View more quotes about action">action, as sudden as it was, took the black-tunicked men by surprise. |
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| 31 | 647 | It is an alert weapon, responsive to the trigger; its opportunity need not be more prolonged than the movement of the target across a passageway; it is a patient weapon; it can wait quietly, motionlessly, for a long time, for its target to appear. |
| 31 | 648 | The two new bowmen set their feet in the bow stirrup, grasping the cable with two hands, one on each side of the guide. |
| 31 | 649 | Suddenly, crying out, realizing somehow, in some dark part of that simple brain, in some instinctive fashion, that he had not a moment to spare, risking all, heedless of his back, swinging the stone about his head, the peasant, chains flying about his ankles, charged toward the bowmen. |
| 31 | 650 | His action, as sudden as it was, took the black-tunicked men by surprise. |
| 31 | 651 | They fell back before him. |
| 31 | 652 | The one bowman, his foot locked in the stirrup, looked up only in time to see the great stone whipping toward him; the other was protected by his fellow who received the blow, but, he, too, his foot in the stirrup, fell awkwardly to the side. |
| 31 | 653 | He cried out in pain. |