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| 19 | 223 | It was my View more quotes about intention">intention to gather some dry rence and light it with the fire-maker, a simple device, little more than a wheel and flint, from my pouch. |
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| 19 | 220 | But its attentions seemed much fastened upon me. |
| 19 | 221 | One might have thought it a sleen, a creature famed for its tenacity. |
| 19 | 222 | Let it meet then, I thought, one of man's most dangerous allies, the mystery of flame. |
| 19 | 223 | It was my intention to gather some dry rence and light it with the fire-maker, a simple device, little more than a wheel and flint, from my pouch. |
| 19 | 224 | However, it began to advance, quickly, its jaws open. |
| 19 | 225 | I withdrew, stumbling, back, into the rence. |
| 19 | 226 | It began to pursue me, sometimes hovering, its wings beating over the rence, flattening the stalks, forcing them to the water, agitating the water itself, producing waves fleeing before that force. |