Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 26 | When it came time for Pa-kur to attack, bridges would be constructed over the ditches. |
| 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. |
| 15 | 28 | Light engines, mostly catapults and ballistae, would be transported over the ditches by harnessed tarn teams. |
| 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. |
| 15 | 30 | There would be numerous tunnels being worked even now toward the walls of Ar, and, from Ar, countertunnels to meet them. |
| 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. |
| 15 | 32 | Many of the tunnels would be collapsed and others flooded. |
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When it came time for Pa-kur to attack, bridges would be constructed over the ditches.
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.
Light engines, mostly catapults and ballistae, would be transported over the ditches by harnessed tarn teams.
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.
There would be numerous tunnels being worked even now toward the walls of Ar, and, from Ar, countertunnels to meet them.
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.
Many of the tunnels would be collapsed and others flooded.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter )