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| 18 | 273 | Other View more quotes about women">women chose not, either from fear or prudence, to risk this dangerous run. |
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| 18 | 270 | Some fellows near the wall urged the women and children to stream behind these, trying to reach the piers. |
| 18 | 271 | Crouching down many did, and, it seemed, all with children. |
| 18 | 272 | I saw the one woman, still clutching the child in her cloak, darting from shield to shield. |
| 18 | 273 | Other women chose not, either from fear or prudence, to risk this dangerous run. |
| 18 | 274 | I saw some looking up, in fear, at the ropes, still dangling there, and pull away their veils, thrust back their hoods and put their hands to the collars of their robes. |
| 18 | 275 | A woman clutched at me, then sank to her knees beside me, holding me. |
| 18 | 276 | I looked down, angrily. |