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| 7 | 912 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes even I was grateful for the guards, and for the height and sturdiness of that massive wall within which we were sheltered. |
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| 7 | 909 | Sometimes we heard even, to angry cries, and the cracking of whips, cries of weariness, and misery, and effort, of such as we, cries mingling with the sounds of the tightening and slackening, and tightening, of harness, the groaning of heavily laden wagons, the creaking of large wooden wheels turning slowly on pavement. |
| 7 | 910 | At such times you may well understand how it was that we within the wall, in the garden, in our delicate, pampered beauty, our light silks, our golden collars, might exchange frightened glances. |
| 7 | 911 | Our lives would have been quite different, it seemed clear, if we were on the other side of the wall. |
| 7 | 912 | Sometimes even I was grateful for the guards, and for the height and sturdiness of that massive wall within which we were sheltered. |
| 7 | 913 | Only too obviously might there be perils, and fearful severities, outside the wall. |
| 7 | 914 | I was not insensitive to such things. |
| 7 | 915 | Indeed, I was much afraid of them. |