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| 57 | 65 | View more quotes about scarcely">Scarcely had I cried than the plank screens, hitherto unnoticed, were raised and set. |
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| 57 | 62 | Freed of the grapnels, the two ships, responsive to the physics of the sea, once more rocked apart. |
| 57 | 63 | "Archers, shields!" blared a hand-held speaking tube on the corsair ship. |
| 57 | 64 | "Screens up!" I cried. |
| 57 | 65 | Scarcely had I cried than the plank screens, hitherto unnoticed, were raised and set. |
| 57 | 66 | Across the water, the speaking tube fell to the deck and Thurnock refitted another arrow to his string. |
| 57 | 67 | Quarrels like a rain of metal struck the shaken screens. |
| 57 | 68 | Had it not been for the screens I fear the deck would have been raked with death. |