Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | 90 | The next morning some four hundred male citizens of Mytilene abandoned the town of their Home Stone and, rejoicing at their deliverance from danger, and encouraging others to follow their example, exited the great gate. |
| 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. |
| 41 | 92 | On the eighteenth day of the siege, the work done, within sight of the walls, they were decapitated. |
| 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. |
| 41 | 94 | Our footing was on a broad, wooden scaffolding, formed from timbers of demolished houses. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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The next morning some four hundred male citizens of Mytilene abandoned the town of their Home Stone and, rejoicing at their deliverance from danger, and encouraging others to follow their example, exited the great gate.
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.
On the eighteenth day of the siege, the work done, within sight of the walls, they were decapitated.
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.
Our footing was on a broad, wooden scaffolding, formed from timbers of demolished houses.
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.
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.
- (Avengers of Gor, Chapter )