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| 16 | 169 | It View more quotes about began">began to tear then at the ropes. |
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| 16 | 166 | My left ankle was clasped in the clenched jaws, with those teeth like nails. |
| 16 | 167 | I feared I might lose my foot but the heavy ropes, doubled and twisted, and knotted, like fibrous shielding, muchly protecting me, served me well, keeping the teeth in large measure from fastening in my flesh. |
| 16 | 168 | The beast, suddenly, perhaps puzzled by the impeding cordage, shifted its grip. |
| 16 | 169 | It began to tear then at the ropes. |
| 16 | 170 | Its mouth must have been filled with blood-soaked, wirelike strands of rope. |
| 16 | 171 | The blood doubtless stimulated it to continue its work. |
| 16 | 172 | Its tail thrashed in the water. |