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| 44 | 36 | A citizen View more quotes about passed">passed us on the narrow parapet, carrying a basket filled with chips of wood, minor kindling, fuel for braziers set intermittently along the parapet, from which protruded the handles of irons. |
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| 44 | 33 | I was silent. |
| 44 | 34 | "He fled," said Thurnock. |
| 44 | 35 | "'Withdrew'," I suggested. |
| 44 | 36 | A citizen passed us on the narrow parapet, carrying a basket filled with chips of wood, minor kindling, fuel for braziers set intermittently along the parapet, from which protruded the handles of irons. |
| 44 | 37 | These irons, red-hot, were used in repulsing attackers. |
| 44 | 38 | These irons, more commonly used for driving animals and criminals onto the sands of arenas in large cities, such as Ar, were formidable defensive weapons, thrust into the faces, eyes, and bodies of men trying to climb over the wall onto the parapet. |
| 44 | 39 | These devices, together with war torches, torches mounted in the sockets of thrusting poles, proved their worth in battle. |