| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 852 | I View more quotes about again">again heard the terrible, startling scrape of the spear blade diverted by the seven-layered, metal-bound boskhide shield. |
| 13 | 853 | Twice more the attacker pressed in, and each time, again, the shield turned the blow, once but inches from my body. |
| 13 | 854 | My captor was trying to close with him, to bring him within the range of his own steel, his now-drawn, swift, unadorned blade. |
| 13 | 855 | Again the spear struck, but this time my captor took the point in the shield. |
| 13 | 856 | I, bound, saw, suddenly, the bronze point, a foot of it, inches from my face, explode through the hide. |
| 13 | 857 | I screamed. |
| 13 | 858 | My captor then wheeled away, the other, his blade now drawn, trying to press close. |