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| 19 | 769 | View more quotes about once">Once my hand slipped inside the lower jaw and I managed to withdraw it only an instant before the upper jaw, like the lid of a box, snapped shut against the lower. |
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| 19 | 766 | My arm slipped down through the skin. |
| 19 | 767 | I feared I might rip free and fall to the marsh below, sometimes a hundred feet below, sometimes as little as thirty or forty feet. |
| 19 | 768 | The creature tried to bite at me, to pull me from its wing, and I kicked at it, and thrust at its jaws, pushing them up, away. |
| 19 | 769 | Once my hand slipped inside the lower jaw and I managed to withdraw it only an instant before the upper jaw, like the lid of a box, snapped shut against the lower. |
| 19 | 770 | Then the ul was spinning erratically again, and we were turning head over heels. |
| 19 | 771 | I then managed, hanging there, swinging, when it again achieved some stability, to transfer the sword to my left hand, under the wing. |
| 19 | 772 | With my left hand I thrust the blade again and again into its left side. |