| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 34 | 155 | Then, View more quotes about suddenly">suddenly, as though struck from the inside, it screamed and fell, rolling, on the ice. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 34 | 152 | I rose unsteadily to my feet. |
| 34 | 153 | It tried to take a step toward me, and then its face contorted with excruciating pain. |
| 34 | 154 | It lifted its paw toward me. |
| 34 | 155 | Then, suddenly, as though struck from the inside, it screamed and fell, rolling, on the ice. |
| 34 | 156 | Twice more it cried out, and then lay, motionless, but alive, on the ice, on its back, looking up at the moons. |
| 34 | 157 | The digestive juices, already released into the true stomach, continued with their implacable chemical work. |
| 34 | 158 | Bit by bit, loosened molecule by loosened molecule, in accordance with the patient, relentless laws of chemistry, the sinew slowly dissolved, weakening the bond which held the compressed, contorted, sharpened baleen, until the slender bond broke. |