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| 10 | 43 | Even a will of the View more quotes about might">might of that of Lord Yamada would be unable, indefinitely, to hold thousands of starving men in place. |
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| 10 | 40 | Our work was often marked by hundreds of birds alighting on the spilled stores, who would soon compete with returning draymen, who would gather what rice they could and carry it away to their villages, where it might be concealed from the tax collectors of Lord Yamada. |
| 10 | 41 | We would depart, smoke in our wake, leaving behind us the scramblings of hungry men and the cries of clouds of small birds. |
| 10 | 42 | Soon, if all went well, the siege must be lifted. |
| 10 | 43 | Even a will of the might of that of Lord Yamada would be unable, indefinitely, to hold thousands of starving men in place. |
| 10 | 44 | He would have no alternative but to withdraw. |
| 10 | 45 | I looked about myself. |
| 10 | 46 | Many of the scattered draymen were visible in the fields, several yards off, watching us. |