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| 17 | 20 | There was a supporting beam, too, braced at its View more quotes about lower">lower end against the upright and at its upper end against the outjutting beam. |
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| 17 | 17 | I was then, in any case, it seemed, without money, without credentials, fair game for the slaver's block. |
| 17 | 18 | It was hot standing on the cement platform, my wrists in loose, but unslippable shackles, chained over my head. |
| 17 | 19 | My shackle chain went through a ring, itself suspended from another chain and ring, fixed in an outjutting beam, extending forth at a right angle from the sturdy upright. |
| 17 | 20 | There was a supporting beam, too, braced at its lower end against the upright and at its upper end against the outjutting beam. |
| 17 | 21 | The entire structure was quite strong and solid. |
| 17 | 22 | It would have held, I was sure, a dozen men. |
| 17 | 23 | At the front of the outjutting beam, a piece of paper containing a legend, or advertisement, was nailed. |