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| 35 | 97 | The slightest View more quotes about mistake">mistake in judgment, as to position or leverage, and I would plummet within the shaft, helpless, until I struck its bottom, however far below it might be. |
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| 35 | 94 | I had no rope. |
| 35 | 95 | I slipped into the shaft, sweating, my back against one side, my two feet against the other side. |
| 35 | 96 | Thus began a slow and tortuous descent, inch by inch. |
| 35 | 97 | The slightest mistake in judgment, as to position or leverage, and I would plummet within the shaft, helpless, until I struck its bottom, however far below it might be. |
| 35 | 98 | It took more than a quarter of an Ahn to descend the shaft. |
| 35 | 99 | The last twenty feet I slipped and, pushing and thrusting, fell clattering to its bottom. |
| 35 | 100 | The grille at the lower end, some seven feet above a steel floor, and opening into a hall, was not fixed as solidly as the one above. |