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| 37 | 543 | I saw View more quotes about poles">poles lifting and splintering. |
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| 37 | 540 | Half of its head thrust into the pit, after her. |
| 37 | 541 | Then it screamed, too, a shrill scream, and, withdrawing its head, it began to cut and tear at the roof of the pit. |
| 37 | 542 | I saw a talon emerge through the sod roof. |
| 37 | 543 | I saw poles lifting and splintering. |
| 37 | 544 | In this moment, its attention fastened on the girl, on tearing away the obstacle which lay between him and her, I thrust through the smaller opening and, with a swirl of rope and two hitches, fastened the hobbling log on its right leg. |
| 37 | 545 | I then screamed and thrust at it, and it spun about. |
| 37 | 546 | I fended its beak away with my forearm. |