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| 16 | 143 | I View more quotes about tried">tried to abrade my ankles against the steel. |
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| 16 | 140 | I looked down at several of the heavy, tapering heads projecting from the water, at the eyes like filmed stones. |
| 16 | 141 | "Taste blood," I encouraged them. |
| 16 | 142 | I thrust back against the blade. |
| 16 | 143 | I tried to abrade my ankles against the steel. |
| 16 | 144 | I knew that the fastening of those jaws, in a fair bite, could gouge ounces of flesh from a man's body. |
| 16 | 145 | Too I knew that the eel seldom takes its food out of the water, that such strikes, in all probability, had not been selected for. |
| 16 | 146 | Accordingly, the only inward compensation for the refraction differential would presumably have to be learned by trial and error. |