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| 17 | 241 | I View more quotes about thrust">thrust again, this time against the edge of the right upright. |
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| 17 | 238 | The spear, pressed, slipped, with its dull point, and scratched free of the rung. |
| 17 | 239 | The ladder crashed forward, against the wall. |
| 17 | 240 | I thrust at it again, and the top rung broke. |
| 17 | 241 | I thrust again, this time against the edge of the right upright. |
| 17 | 242 | The ladder moved out, turned slightly. |
| 17 | 243 | It was some two to three feet from the wall. |
| 17 | 244 | The spear, given the trembling of the ladder, from the movement and weight of the men upon it, and its twisting, slid loose from its precarious anchorage in the upright's edge, and the ladder, twisting, plunged forward again, again crashing against the wall. |