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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and lower toward the defending forces of the therns.
Volley after volley they vomited upon the temple guards;
volley on volley crashed through the thin air toward the
fleeting and illusive fliers.
As the pirates swooped closer toward the ground, thern
soldiery poured from the temples into the gardens and courts.
The sight of them in the open brought a score of fliers
darting toward us from all directions.
The therns fired upon them through shields affixed to their
rifles, but on, steadily on, came the grim, black craft. They
were small fliers for the most part, built for two to three men.
The Gods of Mars | 
