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| 56 | 157 | "Piteous, trusting fools!" Those who had View more quotes about emerged">emerged from the trenches were allowed to climb almost to the very rim of the vale before the orders were given and they were incinerated on the slopes. |
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| 56 | 154 | Here and there, on one side or the other, some Kurii, and some humans, perhaps some twenty or thirty, emerged from the trenches and, weaponless, arms lifted in surrender, began to climb upward, toward the perimeters of the vale. |
| 56 | 155 | "Come back!" called Lord Grendel, and others, but their cries, if heard, were unheeded. |
| 56 | 156 | "Fools, fools," said Lord Grendel. |
| 56 | 157 | "Piteous, trusting fools!" Those who had emerged from the trenches were allowed to climb almost to the very rim of the vale before the orders were given and they were incinerated on the slopes. |
| 56 | 158 | The light then began to dim, and soon, again, Cabot, and other humans, found themselves in practical darkness, save for some fires on the slopes, brief, soon-extinguished fires, marking places where the grass, here and there, in half circles of some yards, had been ignited by sheets of blazing, discharged weaponry. |
| 56 | 159 | "They realize now," said Lord Grendel, "that we will not surrender". |
| 56 | 160 | "Their chains will remain empty," said Statius. |