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| 34 | 157 | The digestive juices, View more quotes about already">already released into the true stomach, continued with their implacable chemical work. |
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| 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. |
| 34 | 159 | The beast screamed again. |
| 34 | 160 | Thoughtlessly the beast must have devoured fifteen or twenty of the hidden traps. |