| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 47 | 361 | Then the two View more quotes about beasts">beasts, as though they had satisfied themselves, squatted down, their hind legs under them, facing one another. |
| 47 | 362 | To a superficial observer, they might have seemed somnolent. |
| 47 | 363 | But I could sense the ripple of muscle, the tingle of nerve, beneath the fur in those mighty bodies. |
| 47 | 364 | They were somnolent as a gun is somnolent, one with a finger tensed, poised, upon its trigger. |
| 47 | 365 | Suddenly, as one, both beasts leapt at one another, and seemed, grappling, biting and tearing, claws raking, almost as if they were a single, blurred animal cutting and tearing at its own body. |
| 47 | 366 | There was a scratching of claws on the stony trail. |
| 47 | 367 | They rolled and tore at one another and blood, from drenched fur, marked the stone, leaving the pattern of the fur. |