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| 9 | 166 | I had View more quotes about tried">tried the bars some days ago, to lift them even an inch or so, before they would strike the bolt, or locking device, but had been unable to do so. |
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| 9 | 163 | To be sure, she did speak, in response to a pleading question from me on the day following her issuance of my directives, as I lay in the position indicated, facing the back of the cell, one additional word, "No". |
| 9 | 164 | I did not know whether or not there was a man in the vicinity. |
| 9 | 165 | I supposed that there might be, as the bars had been lifted easily. |
| 9 | 166 | I had tried the bars some days ago, to lift them even an inch or so, before they would strike the bolt, or locking device, but had been unable to do so. |
| 9 | 167 | The beast, that with six legs, had lifted them with its snout some three or four inches before they had struck the bolt or locking device. |
| 9 | 168 | The strength of two women, combined, did not seem to me likely to be able to accomplish the task, or, at any rate, as smoothly as it had been done. |
| 9 | 169 | To be sure, there might be a lever or some such device outside which was unknown to me which would have put the task within even my strength, unaided. |