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CHAPTER XIV THE BARSOOM!
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The city was already in flames in many places, and though the people fought valiantly1 to extinguish them, it seemed to me that they but spread the more rapidly with each succeeding minute. And then, as suddenly as it had commenced, the bombardment ceased. Nah-ee-lah and I crossed over to the outer edge of the terrace to see if we could note any new movement by the enemy, nor did we have long to wait. We saw a hundred ladders raised as if by magic toward the lowest terrace, which rose but a bare two hundred feet above the base of the city. The men who carried the ladders were not visible to us when they came close to the base of the wall, but I guessed from the distant glimpses that I caught of the ladders as they were rushed forward by running men that here, again, Orthis’ earthly knowledge and experience had come to the assistance of the Kalkars, for I was sure that only some form of extension ladder could be successfully used to reach even the lowest terrace.
When I saw their intention I ran quickly down into the palace and out upon the terrace before the gates, where the remainder of the guard were stationed, and there I told them what was happening and urged them to hasten the people to the lowest terrace to repulse3 the enemy before they had secured a foothold upon the city. Then I returned to Nah-ee-lah, and together we watched the outcome of the struggle, but almost from the first I realized that Laythe was doomed4, for before any of her defenders6 could reach the spot, fully2 a thousand Kalkars had clambered to the terrace, and there they held their own while other thousands ascended7 in safety to the city.
We saw the defenders rush forth8 to attack them, and for a moment, so impetuous was their charge, I thought that I had been wrong and that the Kalkars might yet be driven from Laythe. Fighting upon the lower outer terrace far beneath us was a surging mass of shouting
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valiantly
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daggers
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匕首,短剑( dagger的名词复数 ) | |
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massacre
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circumference
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crater
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holocaust
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horrified
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invaders
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pointed
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cylindrical
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survivors
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hip
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frustrate
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undoing
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pinnacle
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suffocating
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mishaps
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profusion
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exclamation
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intercept
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apprise
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decided
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plummet
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