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Siege

Book 1. (37 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	44	On the twentieth day of the siege there was great rejoicing in the camp of Pa-Kur, because in one place the wires had been cut and a squad of spearmen had reached the main siege reservoir, emptying their barrels of toxic kanda, a lethal poison extracted from one of Gor's desert shrubs.	10
4	139	I supposed the city might be under siege and Torm would fail to notice.	10
15	7	Within the city the Initiates, who had seized control shortly after the flight of Marlenus, would have already tapped the siege reservoirs and begun to ration the stores of the huge grain cylinders.	10
15	8	A city such as Ar, properly commanded, might withstand a siege for a generation.	10
15	9	Beyond the walls were Pa-Kur's lines of investment, set forth with all the skill of Gor's most experienced siege engineers.	10
15	10	Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range, a gigantic ditch was being dug by thousands of siege slaves and prisoners.	10
15	22	Here and there among the tents siege towers were being constructed.	10
15	27	Over these bridges the siege towers would be rolled to the walls of Ar; over them his tharlarion cavalry would march; over them his horde would flow.	10
15	29	One aspect of the siege which I knew would exist but which I obviously could not witness would be the sensitive duel of mine and countermine which must be taking place between the camp of Pa-Kur and the city of Ar.	10
15	31	Some of the most hideous fighting in the siege would undoubtedly take place far under the earth in the cramped, foul, torchlit confines of those serpentine passageways, some of them hardly large enough to permit a man to crawl.	10
15	37	I reasoned that Pa-Kur had nothing to fear and consequently chose not to employ his siege slaves and prisoners in unnecessary and time-consuming works.	10
15	38	Still, it seemed that he had committed an error, if only according to the manuals of siege practice.	10
15	54	Over the compound, as if it were a small city under siege, was stretched a set of interlaced tarn wires.	10
15	179	They will never withstand a well-mounted siege.	10
15	199	"But," said Marlenus, frowning, "if the siege is lifted, the Initiates will be left in power".	10
16	12	In this disguise I freely wandered about the camp, observing the siege operations, the appointment of the compounds, the marshaling of troops.	10
16	13	Occasionally I would climb halfway up one of the siege towers under construction and observe the city of Ar and the skirmishes that took place between it and the first ditch.	10
16	15	When this occurred, inevitably the spearmen and lancers of Pa-Kur, following the lead of siege slaves through the maze of stakes and traps, would engage the men from Ar.	10
16	17	Sometimes the forces of Ar would drive the men of Pa-Kur back against the defensive stakes, and once they drove them to take refuge across the now constructed siege bridges spanning the great ditch.	10
16	22	On the ninth day of the siege the sky belonged to Pa-Kur, and the forces of Ar no longer emerged from the great gate.	10
16	23	All hope of lifting the siege by battle was gone.	10
16	25	On the tenth day of the siege small engines, such as covered catapults and ballistae, were flown across the ditches by tarn teams and soon were engaged in artillery duels with the engines mounted on the walls of Ar.	10
16	26	Simultaneously, exposed chains of siege slaves began to move the stake lines forward.	10
16	28	It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges.	10
16	37	Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back.	10
16	49	Then, in the fourth week of the siege, my heart fell.	10
16	55	Also, Pa-Kur was not so much a fool as to bring the tributary Home Stones to his camp and risk disuniting his horde before the siege was completed.	10
16	62	The probability of Ar's resisting the siege was minimal.	10
16	66	"The siege might be lifted," I said, "if a force could take Pa-Kur by surprise, a force of some thousands of warriors attacking from the unprotected side of the camp".	10
16	90	Tell them to raise the siege.	10
16	104	It would be suicide to attempt to cut my way in, but Pa-Kur was in the environs of Ar, directing the siege operations, and I might, with luck, pass myself off as his messenger; who would be bold enough to deny entrance to one whose helmet bore the golden slash of the courier? Without hesitation I cl...	10
17	17	The siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall.	10
17	18	It was being methodically razed in seven places, to allow for the passage of the siege towers to the second wall.	10
17	57	A levy of seven thousand young men would be taken to fill the depleted ranks of his siege slaves.	10
18	1	In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea...	10
20	15	The large contingent of mercenaries who had flocked to his banner were kept as work slaves for a period of one year, to fill in the vast ditches and siege tunnels, to repair the extensive damage to the walls of Ar, and to rebuild those of its buildings that had been injured or burned in the fighting...	10
20	27	The free cities of Gor appointed Kazrak, my sword brother, to be temporary administrator of Ar, for it was he who, with the help of my father and Sana of Thentis, had rallied the cities to raise the siege.	10

Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	142	It was a document pertaining to what Cabot called the Counter-Earth, the story of a warrior, of the siege of a city, and of the love of a girl.	10
2	61	It was the weapon I had carried at the siege of Ar.	10
5	65	"Did I not serve the Priest-Kings," I asked, "at the siege of Ar?" "The Priest-Kings used you for their ends, as it pleased them to do".	10
5	85	"I followed you at the siege of Ar," he said.	10
7	34	It was obvious that Thorn, unlike my old enemy Pa-Kur, who presumably had perished at the siege of Ar, was not a man above sensual vices, not a man who could with fanatical purity and single-minded devotion sacrifice himself and entire peoples to the ends of his ambition and power.	10
8	109	Since the siege of Ar, when Pa-Kur, Master Assassin, had violated the limits of his caste and had presumed, in contradiction to the traditions of Gor, to lead a horde upon the city, intending to make himself Ubar, the Caste of Assassins had lived as hated, hunted men, no longer esteemed mercenaries ...	10
14	55	Yet it was perhaps more, for as I stood by the bird, I felt almost as though I had come home to Ko-ro-ba, as though I stood here now with something in this gray, hostile city that knew me and mine, that had looked upon the Towers of the Morning, and had spread its wings above the glistening cylinder...	10

Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	35	"And the siege of Ar," I asked, "and the Empire of Marlenus?" "They provided a suitable test," said Misk.	10
16	184	"Why," I asked, "was I returned to Earth after the siege of Ar?" "To fill you with hatred for Priest-Kings," said Misk.	10
27	258	And when the swift living blade of Sarm was still a full yard from my throat it met the lightning steel of a Gorean blade that had once been carried at the siege of Ar, that had met and withstood and conquered the steel of Pa-Kur, Gor's Master Assassin, until that time said to be the most skilled sw...	10
35	2	I had joined a group of men from Ar, some of whom remembered me from the Siege of Ar more than seven years before.	10

Book 4. (16 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	86	The city had never fallen, and had not been under siege in more than a century.	10
15	1	Harold Turia, to some extent, now lay under siege, though the Tuchuks alone could not adequately invest the city.	10
15	14	There was no problem of water in the city, incidentally, for Turia's waters are supplied by deep, tile-lined wells, some of them hundreds of feet deep; there are also siege reservoirs, filled with the melted snows of the winter, the rains of the spring.	10
15	17	He lacked siege engines, and the men, and the skills, of the northern cities.	10
15	78	In these days of siege and war there were more important matters to attend to than the branding and collaring of female slaves.	10
16	104	The siege is over.	10
16	179	"Indeed, I can remember you, though as Tarl of Bristol, from the siege of Ar".	10
20	158	As we sped high over the prairie I wondered at how it was that Kamchak was withdrawing the wagons and bosk from Turia—that he would so soon abandon the siege.	10
21	13	I wondered that such men as Kamchak and these others would so willingly abandon the siege of Turia.	10
21	46	To my great surprise the gates of Turia stood open after the withdrawal of the wagons and the lifting of the siege.	10
21	173	During times of danger or siege, of course, none but military personnel or civilian defenders are permitted on the walls.	10
21	203	It was almost certain they would be flying within minutes after an alarm was sounded, even though they need be summoned from the baths, the paga taverns, the gaming rooms of Turia, in which of late, the siege over, they had been freely spending their mercenary gold, much to the delight of Turians.	10
22	2	One makes a pretext of seriously besieging a city, spending several days, sometimes weeks, in the endeavor, and then, apparently, one surrenders the siege and withdraws, moving away slowly with the wagons and bosk for some days—in this case four—and then, the bosk and wagons removed fr...	10
22	30	Within he undoubtedly had ample food and water to withstand a long siege.	10
26	393	"He died in the siege of Ar".	10
28	59	"But," I protested, "there have been many things of much greater importance than those in these years—the Siege of Turia, the Taking of the City, the Election of the Ubar San!" "We choose most to remember Tarl Cabot," said Kamchak.	10

Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	3	Not for many years had the black tunic of the Assassins been seen within the walls of Ar, not since the siege of that city in 10,110 from its founding, in the days of Marlenus, who had been Ubar; of Pa-Kur, who had been Master of the Assassins; and of the Koroban Warrior, in the songs called Tarl of...	10
21	151	It was my own, carried even at the siege of Ar, so many long years ago.	10
21	229	I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had brought once more to the gat...	10
24	5	But it was my old sword, the fine, familiar steel, remembered even from the siege of Ar, many years before, that I dropped into the scabbard.	10

Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	296	In the long years past of the siege of the city the siege of Ar of her spires and towers of undaunted Ar Glorious Ar I sing.	10
3	13	Incidentally, when the island is to be moved under siege conditions, divers leave the island by means of the wells and, in groups of two and three, attempt to cut a path in the direction of escape; such divers, of course, often fall prey to underwater predators and to the spears of enemies, who thru...	10
8	5	I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc...	10
8	189	In my scabbard was the short sword, carried even at the siege of Ar.	10
9	109	Further, of course, it is next to impossible to bring large bodies of armed men through the delta of the Vosk, or, under the conditions of the marsh, to supply them or maintain them in a protracted siege.	10
15	127	The time that the fortress might still stand was now most adequately to be charted by the depth of its siege reservoir, and by the fish that might swim within her barred sea gates, and the mouthfuls of bread yet stored in her towers.	10
15	294	I sing the siege of Ar of gleaming Ar.	10
15	311	And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...	10
18	514	At my side I now wore the sword that I had brought originally to Port Kar, that which I had carried so many years before, even at the siege of Ar, and in Tharna, and in the Nest of Priest-Kings and on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, and in the streets of great Ar itself, when I had seemed to serve ...	10
18	523	We heard the striking against the walls of the keep of siege poles, like ladders with a single upright, rungs tied transversely on the single axis.	10
18	546	I threw a man whom I had struck, even before he died, over the parapet, striking another, who, clinging desperately to the siege pole, carried it back in a long arc with him as he fell.	10
18	592	Again we heard the striking against the walls of siege poles.	10
18	607	We heard the men climbing closer on the siege poles.	10
18	614	There was a great screaming from the siege ladders, and I heard men crying out with death, and terror, and heard the scraping of the ladders and then their falling back, showering bodies on those crowded below, waiting to scale them.	10

Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	480	This house has withstood a siege of thousands, within the last two years, in the time of the warrings of the Ubars and the Council of Captains, and the great engagement between the fleet of Port Kar and that of Tyros and Cos, on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of A...	10
18	17	What should I do? What can I do? My old sword, the blade carried even as long ago as the siege of Ar, hangs still in my chambers, in its worn scabbard.	10

Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	84	I recalled that I, or what had once been I, had fought at the siege of Ar.	10
1	91	He had fought in the siege of Ar.	10

Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	292	It was also believed that if he had stood siege in his kasbah, in time Hammaran would have been forced to retire.	10
11	293	It is difficult to maintain a lengthy siege in the Tahari.	10
24	20	Such a siege might last for months.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	128	It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ...	10
7	28	The horde of Pa-Kur, as it is spoken of, had set siege to glorious Ar.	10
11	437	It is common in a Gorean fortress, if it is not under siege, for the evening to be a time of pleasure for the men.	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	204	"An interplanetary force," she said, "unknown to the fools of Earth, lays siege to this solar system.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	314	Much of it is more akin to the raid than to the siege or the open conflict of large bodies of men over large areas.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	297	"It would take a hundred siege ships, and ten thousand men to take the stronghold of Policrates," he said.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	341	The citadel of Ragnar Voskjard had been fled by its defenders, after the news of the battle at Victoria reached them, they knowing themselves too few to defend it against a concerted siege.	10

Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	108	When a city is under siege, particularly if the siege is prolonged, even free women will often have their hair shorn, contributing it to the supplies for municipal defense.	10
47	2	It was now the third day in the siege of Council Rock.	10
47	327	It was his intention, however, I gathered, to participate in the anticipated resolution of the siege, in his forces' climactic victory.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	3	They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own...	10
19	13	It is usually strung only in times of clear municipal peril, as when, for example, the city may be expecting an attack or is under siege.	10

Book 21. (12 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	209	From these engines, hitherto employed only in siege warfare, now become a startling and devastating new weapon, in effect, a field artillery, tubs of burning pitch and flaming naphtha, and siege javelins, and giant boulders, fell in shattering torrents upon the immobilized squares.	10
3	189	It was he who had won the day on the fields of both Piedmont and Cardonicus, who had led the Forty Days' March, relieving the siege of Talmont, who had effected the crossing of the Issus in 10,122 C.	10
3	201	Most impressive to me, perhaps, was Dietrich of Tarnburg's coordination of air and ground forces, and his transposition of certain techniques and weapons of siege warfare to the field.	10
3	208	He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals.	10
3	212	Even mobile siege towers, pushed from within by straining tharlarion, pressing their weight against prepared harnesses, trundled toward them, their bulwarks swarming with archers and javelin men.	10
4	52	They know little, however, of politics, or of siege work and the taking of cities.	10
4	181	"Surely we should study siege work," smiled Hurtha.	10
15	206	Torcadino is Cos's major depot for supplies and siege equipment.	10
15	322	"But you are depending on Ar to raise the siege, surely," I said.	10
16	1428	I could see, some two hundred yards or so away, pennons of Cos, marking presumably the first row of siege trenches.	10
16	1479	A long plank had been laid across the first of the siege ditches.	10
26	1916	Similarly, if one lives in a well-walled, well-defended city, one which is likely to resist attack and siege, such as Ar, one is less likely to risk the slaver's noose.	10

Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	148	Goreans generally do not employ slaves for such labors as road construction, siege works, raising walls, and so on.	10
20	242	That particular chain, I had heard, was employed in the north, currently digging siege trenches for the Cosians who had invested Torcadino.	10
23	96	I had feared that we might be bound for Torcadino, a city currently under siege by Cosians, and their allies, where, employed in the siegeworks, digging investing trenches, raising earth walls, and such, labored the "black chain of Ionicus," that chain for which I had aided in the "enlistment" or "r...	10
24	613	"It is not like we were working on siege trenches or repairing the walls of a beleaguered city," she said.	10

Book 23. (39 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	157	"I had hoarded it from the beginning of the siege, even buying it up when it was cheap, early in the siege, when it was still thought that Ar, any day, would arrive with her banners fluttering in the wind, dispelling the Cosians like the sun the fogs on the river!" "For gold then?" I asked.	10
1	462	It could be done, of course, by men working under a shed, to protect them from missile fire, arrows, lead sling pellets, and such, or, say, more safely, and less exposed to sorties, by siege miners, through a tunnel.	10
1	464	There are, of course, various other approaches to such problems, for example, attempting to bridge the moat, perhaps using dugout pontoons, having recourse to rafts on which one might mount siege ladders, and even attempting to fill it.	10
1	466	There is usually a large amount of supplies laid in, often enough for one or two years, and water is generally available in siege cisterns within, if not from rain or the moat itself.	10
1	468	Maintaining a siege indefinitely generally requires an extensive and efficient apparatus of logistics, arranging for the acquisition, transportation, and protection of supplies.	10
2	68	"They brought with them the devices for siege work from Brundisium," he said.	10
2	99	I had been in Torcadino several weeks ago, indeed, at the very moment when the city, housing Cosian siege engines and supplies, serving as a depot and staging area for the eastward advance of Cos, had, in a daring stratagem, been seized by Dietrich of Tarnburg with no more than a few thousand mercen...	10
2	140	This being the case, however, why had the army of Ar not kept to it, on its presumed journey to raise the siege of Ar's Station? The most likely hypothesis seemed to me to be that it was making its way not to Ar's Station but to Brundisium, where, months ago, the Cosians had landed.	10
2	141	This suggested that either Ar's Station was to be sacrificed in these harsh games, or that it was the thinking of Ar's commanders that a move to Brundisium would lift the siege of Ar's Station, the Cosians there perhaps then being withdrawn to protect Brundisium.	10
2	155	Perhaps, for some reason, the forces of Ar were intending to relieve Ar's Station from the west, thus interposing themselves between the siege forces of Cos and their likely routes of escape, either substantially west by southwest to Brundisium or more to the southwest, toward Torcadino.	10
2	168	If the forces of Ar do not soon raise the siege, I think she must succumb".	10
2	195	I had gathered, however, that the siege at Ar's Station might be approaching a critical point.	10
5	500	The siege at Ar's Station, I had gathered, might be approaching a critical juncture.	10
6	884	"You are on your way to the Cosians' siege camp at Ar's Station," I hazarded.	10
8	776	Such, as I have mentioned, particularly in times of siege, though there is always a market for it on Gor, is highly prized for the making of catapult ropes.	10
10	19	This was the most advanced of the Cosian siege trenches.	10
10	56	A trench back, one of the siege trenches, I had sold her.	10
10	91	The siege had been long, and bitter.	10
11	188	"While Cos is at Torcadino, and Ar's Station under siege?" "You see the absurdity of the report," said Aemilianus.	10
11	198	"Even though you are isolated here, and invested," I said, "surely you must understand that the siege of Ar's Station can be no secret.	10
11	210	Such forces would not be needed to raise the siege.	10
11	221	"The Cosian siege train was captured within Torcadino," I said.	10
11	225	She could not proceed without the siege train and it would take some months to replace it".	10
11	299	"Do you really not know how long and bitter has been this siege? Do you not know how lengthy and terrible has been the fighting? Do you not know the losses of Cos, as well as ours? Do you really think we do not know what fate would await us if we opened the gates?" I was then held even more sternly,...	10
15	542	"The first is that you feared that the high castes and the richer castes, such as the Merchants, might be less likely to be spared by the enemy, that they might be the subject of more resentment, perhaps because of envy, or perhaps that they would be particularly sought out for vengeance, on the sup...	10
15	1018	As they are used here, one would commonly think of them, and speak of them, as towers, here, siege towers".	10
16	29	The siege towers were still some hundreds of yards away.	10
16	50	If the wall is a land wall, it can, with luck, topple a siege tower.	10
16	59	It also takes great courage, incidentally, though it is much easier to do, to climb a siege ladder, particularly when the walls are heavily or stoutly defended.	10
16	60	It is better, I think, for the individual attacker, particularly if the walls are high, over twenty feet, say, to try to enter over the bridge of a siege tower or, even better, through a breached wall or gate.	10
16	62	The siege towers were still at least two hundred yards away.	10
19	40	Dietrich of Tarnburg, for example, though one often thinks of him in terms of innovations such as the oblique advance and the use of siege equipment in the field, is also, in my opinion, based on my studies of his campaigns, for example, in the commentaries of Minicius and the "Diaries," which some ...	10
20	30	One does not keep secret the siege of a city such as Ar's Station.	10
21	50	Her blond hair which had been closely cropped, if not shaved, early in the siege of Ar's Station was now growing out.	10
21	398	"But it is true, is it not," he asked, "that you did this only late in the siege?" "Yes," she said.	10
21	485	Also important, of course, at least in the eyes of some, might be her failures in the defense effort, her refusal to be shorn, contributing her hair for use as catapult cordage, in spite of the desperate need for such materials, and the fact that it was only after the imposition of a severe penalty ...	10
21	1452	It had been there, staunch and defiant, throughout the siege.	10
24	59	The nightmare of the siege was over.	10
24	196	Then, as they lacked siege equipment, they did not proceed directly to Ar's Station, but went into winter quarters".	10

Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	166	I had sold them one morning, in the siege trenches.	10
1	351	This hatred, which seems almost pathological, is doubtless the consequence of his experiences in war, and particularly during the siege of Ar's Station.	10
3	81	There was, of course, a simple possible explanation for this inactivity, the cruelest consequence of which, to date, had been the failure to relieve the siege at Ar's Station.	10
40	74	It was later determined that these were the results of the destruction of the Cosian siege materials, the war engines, the wagons and supplies, which had been captured in Torcadino".	10
40	76	As it had turned out, however, Ar had sent her major forces northward, had failed to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and then, supposedly pursuing the Cosian expeditionary force in the north, which had destroyed Ar's Station, had come to disaster in the delta.	10

Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	312	She had not relieved the siege at Torcadino nor that in the north, at Ar's Station.	10
2	61	During the siege of Ar's Station its Home Stone had been smuggled out of the city and secretly transported to Ar for safekeeping.	10
2	65	This supposed treachery of Ar's Station was then used, naturally, to explain the failure of Ar's might in the north to raise the siege.	10
3	1044	She could never withstand a concerted siege.	10
4	66	Indeed, there were even rumors circulating that the gates of the city would soon be closed, and even sealed, reinforced against siege weapons.	10
4	73	Furthermore, it had had the winter to restore its siege train, the original train burned in Torcadino, fired by Dietrich of Tarnburg, and, because of its recent success in the field, west of Ar, it could draw on thousands of square pasangs for its logistical support.	10
6	182	I myself could think of at least three, the failure to meet Cos at Torcadino, the failure to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and the unprepared entry into the delta, in putative pursuit of the Cosian expeditionary force in the north.	10

Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	358	For example, our shorn hair may be sold to jobbers who deal with the manufacturers of artillery and siege equipment.	10
38	113	"In the north, Ar's Station is under siege".	10
38	117	"The siege of Ar's Station, on the large scale of things," said the pit master, "seems surprising.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	16	"A siege, at least," said Lord Grendel.	10

Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	93	Indeed, I had learned that songs were sung of him, of him and of a siege, long ago, of Ar.	10
43	55	Those who are not promptly taken into custody, running into the arms of enemy soldiers, fallen into fragilely roofed siege ditches, rather like capture pits, finding themselves unable to scale walls of circumvallation, caught in slave wire, taken in slave snares or slave traps, and such, may be soug...	10

Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	382	I supposed this would be siege hammer, or possibly a hand ram, swung by one or more men.	10
27	115	"I have learned," said Turgus, "from Lord Nishida, that this holding can withstand a siege of thousands, and has done so more than once".	10
27	153	"Let us commemorate the beginning of a siege," laughed Aeacus, lifting his hand, as though it held a goblet.	10
27	159	"How long might a siege last?" asked Aeacus.	10
36	7	I had gathered that the movements of the forces of Lord Temmu were much restricted in the islands, with the result that an overseas trade, as it might slip through the blockades of Lord Yamada, might provide an access to goods otherwise less available, in particular, weaponry, missiles, cloth, leath...	10

Book 33. (49 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	179	One would need, of course, some sort of communication between the two houses, which would be easily enough supplied before the siege in virtue of strangers, wanderers, peddlers, merchants, and such, and, during the siege, by envoys, negotiators, messengers, and such, for example, Tyrtaios.	10
46	14	It was estimated, given the hardships of the early spring, the rigors of the first siege, the threat of the second siege, the overwhelming superiority in numbers enjoyed by Lord Yamada, and the fearful advent of the iron dragon in the skies over the holding of Temmu, that better than two hundred mer...	10
54	183	There have been numerous instances not only of the clash of armies before walled, besieged cities, sometimes almost daily, often involving challenges and conflicts of champions, but there is always the danger of destructive, nocturnal raids, designed to burn tents and spread panic, or, often, to dis...	10
1	14	Both Lords Nishida and Okimoto were daimyos of the shogun, Lord Temmu, master of Temmu's fortress, now for several months under siege.	10
1	157	The situation of the holding of Lord Temmu, surmounting cliffs landward, almost in the clouds as seen from below, rendered siege towers impractical.	10
1	303	It was essentially a siege weapon.	10
1	374	"Lord Yamada must have the majority of his land forces, thousands, committed to the siege".	10
1	427	"If we attack behind the lines of Lord Yamada," I said, "if we threaten treasured assets, palaces and warehouses, and cut the lines of his supply, the siege, if not lifted, might be imperiled.	10
6	133	It seemed unlikely on the part of a siege master.	10
7	89	The slaves had been sequestered in the indoor housing area, as noted, where they would be safer, but also, by the edict of Lord Temmu, given the rigor of the siege and the scarcity of resources, and the need for the strictest of disciplines, had been denied to the garrison.	10
7	217	"You are angry?" "Would that the siege might be broken," I said.	10
9	23	The siege was done; gold lay in the clouds; officers sought to muster and organize men, but already hundreds of Ashigaru, and men, even of two swords, were hurrying up the long trail.	10
9	42	* * * I supposed that after the months of the siege, the inactivity, the waiting, the watching, the routine patrols, the endless drills, and such, the eagerness, the unruliness, the excitement, the greed of hundreds of the men of General Yamada, rushing as they could up the steep trail from the whar...	10
9	123	Thus had the siege begun.	10
9	132	"But the siege has not been lifted," said Torgus.	10
10	32	It is not only the prisoners of a siege, confined in a holding, who may suffer such an ugly durance, but also their jailers, if no food is brought to them.	10
10	42	Soon, if all went well, the siege must be lifted.	10
10	137	"It is my understanding," I said, "that the major forces of General Yamada are committed to the siege".	10
10	241	"The lifting of a siege," I said.	10
11	119	"The siege is lifted," said Tajima.	10
11	137	"The cavalry brought an end to the siege," said Tajima.	10
11	155	"Many Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, after the siege was lifted, were fallen upon by peasants".	10
11	175	Following the disasters of the mutiny at sea, the ambush following the first landing, the fate of the exploratory force, the raid on the first encampment, and casualties of the siege, there were something less than thirty-five hundred men, Pani and barbarians, at the disposal of the house of Temmu.	10
11	204	"The siege is lifted," I said.	10
11	214	"They are pleased, of course, that the siege is lifted".	10
11	232	"Is he, or Lord Yamada, mad? The siege is lifted.	10
12	314	"Lord Temmu is pleased, of course," said Daichi, "with the provisioning of the holding, the termination of the siege, the freeing of the northern fields".	10
24	177	"A siege might last years," I said.	10
27	105	The contents of that pen might have been rather special, being white-skinned slaves obtained for rice in the north, during the siege of the holding of Lord Temmu.	10
33	12	"I am Kazumitsu," said he who seemed most prominent amongst the now visible participants in this recently concluded, small siege, "special officer to Lord Yamada, Shogun of the Islands".	10
44	36	"Why should he not fear the cavalry? It lifted the siege, it ruined camps, it shocked troops into disarray, it disrupted supply lines, it burned storehouses, it spread havoc throughout villages, towns, and fortresses of Lord Yamada, it forced the withdrawal of his army, to protect the core of his ho...	10
44	50	"It could withstand a siege for thousands of years".	10
44	255	Indeed, they were beginning to prepare the trenches and redoubts which would serve for a siege.	10
45	187	"Yamada is in the great siege camp, at the foot of the holding," said Tajima.	10
47	23	"The siege is laid.	10
47	157	The daimyos of Lord Yamada were apparently north, with his generals, supervising the siege.	10
53	63	"Yamada's armies," I said, "his camps and siege works".	10
54	172	"There, in the distance," said Pertinax, "it is the holding of Temmu!" "Below," I said, "is the south siege camp, that to the south of the holding".	10
54	184	To be sure, in the present instance, siege towers were impractical, given the height and steepness of the escarpment surmounted by the holding of Temmu.	10
54	188	In short, under familiar circumstances, the almost impregnable security of the holding and the relative slightness of its garrison, one would expect a prolonged siege, perhaps for years, until hunger and thirst would force either the garrison to capitulate or the enveloping forces to withdraw.	10
54	191	As earlier, the cavalry had forced the lifting of the siege, so now, it seemed, the iron dragon might render it unnecessary, demolishing the holding.	10
54	193	"At low altitude," I said, "I am going to circle the south camp, and the nearby siege works, three times".	10
54	223	That being the case, why might not the iron dragon strike? Surely Lord Yamada would not care for the inconvenience, the delay, and the economic hardships of maintaining a second siege, perhaps lasting years, to obtain a prize which would be destroyed before it could be grasped.	10
54	289	After the attack on the south camp and the siege works associated with it, I had circled about the mountain of the holding, burning hundreds of tents, blasting earthen ramparts, and pouring fire into better than a hundred trenches.	10
57	63	Whereas the forces at the disposal of Lord Temmu were small compared to those which had maintained the siege in the north, the variables involved in the equations of war had changed dramatically.	10
61	154	What had begun as an unopposed march to claim an uncontested and inexpensive victory had suddenly, within an Ahn or so, turned into an apparently desperate situation, sustaining a possible siege without the benefit of suitable defenseworks against a foe which might be present in overwhelming numbers...	10
61	561	"Perhaps you recall," said Lord Okimoto, "the straits of the former siege, when desolation and starvation prowled about our gates".	10
61	635	I had expected to find a slave, one not much different, if at all, from those who had been bartered for a fukuro, or so, of rice, during the miseries of the siege.	10
61	1101	"In the siege," I said, "most slaves, all but you, as I understand it, were bartered, most for a fukuro of rice, some for two".	10

Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	189	There are, for example, racing and hunting tharlarion, and tharlarion bred for battle, some of which, ponderous, and armored, can shatter lines and topple siege towers.	10
26	209	Although I never saw them I also understood that at various points about the city there were large underground cisterns, designed to supply water for months in case of a siege, in which case it was supposed that the Lena and Dacia would be dammed, diverted, or fouled, and the harbor blockaded.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	270	Later some must know the broad-winged tarn, others the craft of siege work, mining and ascent, the management of ladders and the planning of waves of attack.	10
36	95	How could it have been damaged, so twisted and torn, with no siege, no attack? Why has it not been repaired?" "Strange traffic is abroad," said Renata.	10
42	224	By such a route, a relieving force, the lifters of a siege, men not crowded in hurrying canal boats, might approach, almost at a run, the landing of the holding of Bosk of Port Kar.	10

Book 36. (42 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	102	It might also be mentioned that the ship catapult is, as would be expected, much smaller and lighter than the common siege catapult whose projectiles, commonly large boulders, are designed to crash through stone walls.	10
35	158	Consider the corsair fleet, in its full strength, seven ships with crews, supplemented with mercenaries, accompanied by the Brigand Island, itself not only a transport for additional mercenaries, but conveying an arsenal of supplies and siege equipment".	10
35	194	"We are too few to lift a siege," said Thurnock.	10
36	223	The remark about breaching walls suggested the use of siege equipment.	10
37	38	"Such as siege equipment?" said Clitus.	10
40	84	This force has siege equipment and plenitudes of ammunition.	10
41	6	Several times in the early days of the siege, the enemy had attempted to apply a tactic brilliant in the manuals but hazardous in the field.	10
41	12	Second, they were of an ideal size and weight, if not shape, for use with heavy siege engines.	10
41	26	We had had, in the fifteenth and sixteenth day of the siege, heavy rain.	10
41	36	As of now, the twentieth day of the siege, no major assault, with a massed infantry, had been made on the walls.	10
41	41	On the eleventh day of the siege, on a gouged street, near the rubble of houses, Thrasymedes, seeing the startled faces of others, had spun about.	10
41	68	It is now, as mentioned, the twentieth day of the siege.	10
41	70	On what we might call the first day of the siege, the seven ships of the corsair fleet closed the harbor at Mytilene.	10
41	78	On the fourth day of the siege, Thrasymedes and the council attempted to negotiate a withdrawal of the corsairs, offering them fifty stone of gold for their departure and a pledge never to return, and then, later, a hundred stone of gold for their simple departure.	10
41	91	Shortly thereafter they were shackled and put to work, with mercenaries, on the first and, later, the second, of two siege ditches, by which the town was then twice encircled.	10
41	92	On the eighteenth day of the siege, the work done, within sight of the walls, they were decapitated.	10
41	93	It was toward noon, the tenth Ahn, on the twentieth day of the siege, a bright, windy day, that Thrasymedes joined Thurnock, Clitus, and myself on a ragged, uneven portion of rebuilt wall, now, at this point, only some fifteen feet in height.	10
41	95	We were looking toward the many tents of the main encampment of the mercenaries, some two hundred yards behind the second of the two siege ditches.	10
41	96	From our location we could see that all three of the enemy's siege engines had now, for only the third time, been brought together, almost side by side.	10
41	172	"That is a great advantage of siege towers," said Clitus.	10
41	174	"They have no siege towers," I said.	10
41	177	"And even so," I said, "siege towers can be at but one place at one time and, at that place, and time, can be faced".	10
41	178	"The combination of siege towers with massive scaling is difficult to deal with," said Clitus.	10
41	180	"If one masses defenders to confront the siege tower, one commonly thins defenses elsewhere on the walls".	10
41	183	"The enemy," said Thrasymedes, "has brought his three siege engines together".	10
41	189	"I do not think the enemy wants a prolonged siege," I said, "one that, as far as it knows, might last months".	10
41	222	"To be sure," I said, "but the siege engines might do as much".	10
43	146	Mercenaries, it seemed, as I had expected, were more interested in preserving their goods than in rushing off, possibly at the risk of their lives, to investigate what might be amiss with ponderous siege equipment.	10
43	149	Their leadership's recourse to siege engines, that walls might be demolished, and mining, that the town might be taken from within, both suggested that scaling, which in many cases, at least where larger numbers were involved, would have been a commander's first choice, was here an undesired alterna...	10
43	150	Yet, assuming the unwillingness of the enemy's leadership to maintain a lengthy siege, it seemed he would have little choice now but to order a scaling attack, despite the risks involved.	10
44	128	"Did not the end begin with the first day of the siege?" asked Thurnock.	10
44	132	"Supplies are short, the town is twice invested; already we have endured several days of siege; how many more can we stand?" "Do not feed too eagerly on the bitterness of despair," I said.	10
45	52	As we had feared, of course, the failure of their assaults on the town did not result in their withdrawal but rather, in their reconciliation to the possibility of a lengthy siege.	10
45	53	We in Mytilene, of course, realized, as the enemy presumably did not, that the siege could not be too lengthy.	10
45	143	"He no longer need fear a long siege".	10
46	138	"What does it mean?" "It means," I said, "that the siege is over".	10
47	1	How the Siege Came to an End The rising of the Peasants rendered the issuing forth of the men of Mytilene and their allies unnecessary.	10
48	10	"Understanding the obvious peril of Mytilene, its isolation and subjection to siege, I hoped to rally relief," said Aktis.	10
48	167	"Thank, too," I said, "yourself, the brave and august Thrasymedes, Administrator in Mytilene, and the noble citizens of Mytilene who withstood the terrors of a long and hard-pressed siege, even the harrows of incipient starvation".	10
49	42	Mytilene is free, the siege lifted, the garrison relieved.	10
59	64	I remembered the siege of Mytilene.	10
59	202	This would be most easily managed if some of the corsairs had managed to reach the coast of Chios near Mytilene, and then fallen into the power of locals, or the armed Peasantry, which had lifted the siege of Mytilene.	10