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Each beam, in its brackets, stretched across the portal and was anchored, on each side, within a brick-lined bracing, part of the wall itself. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 42, Sentence #35)

"How stupid are those of Mytilene," said another man. "Talk not," said the first voice. "Move the beams, both! Now!" The enemy was uneasy, milling near the gate, while some four or five men addressed themselves to the first beam. Each beam, in its brackets, stretched across the portal and was anchored, on each side, within a brick-lined bracing, part of the wall itself. I waited until the first beam, in its brackets, was thrust aside, fully to the right, deep into its brick-lined bracing. When the second beam was moved to the left, fully within its own bracing, the portal would be cleared, and the two heavy leaves of the gate could be swung inward. When I heard the second beam begin to move, slowly, and heavily, in its brackets, I called, "Lamps!" At this point a dozen men on the wall above the gate thrust the wicks of tharlarion-oil lamps into the flames of their then unshuttered dark lanterns, and lowered the lamps, on their cords to a height of some eight or ten feet above the ground. - (Avengers of Gor)