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| 22 | 183 | The bone View more quotes about head">head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood. |
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| 22 | 180 | It circled the craft its mouth hot with blood flowing into the cold water. |
| 22 | 181 | It was then I retrieved the harpoon again from the water by its line, for it had been once more struck away from me. |
| 22 | 182 | I set the light harpoon into the notch on the throwing board and, even mittened, an instant before the beast turned toward me, grunted, snapping the throwing board forward and downward, speeding the shaft toward the enraged animal. |
| 22 | 183 | The bone head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood. |
| 22 | 184 | The line snapped out from its tray darting under the water. |
| 22 | 185 | In moments the harpoon shaft and foreshaft bobbed to the surface, but the bone harpoon head, its line taut, turning the head in the wound, held fast. |
| 22 | 186 | I played the line as I could. |