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| 9 | 171 | One would not then View more quotes about need">need the strength of a man, or of the titanic beast I had seen. |
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| 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. |
| 9 | 170 | Perhaps, too, there was some way in which weights could be engaged from the outside, by means of which the task could be easily accomplished. |
| 9 | 171 | One would not then need the strength of a man, or of the titanic beast I had seen. |
| 9 | 172 | But I had not heard the use of such a lever, or the specific engagement of such weights. |
| 9 | 173 | Another reason I thought there might be a man about is that the authority accorded to women usually derives from men and, in the final analysis, is backed by men. |
| 9 | 174 | Too, might not two women such as I, performing their lowly labors, be being supervised by a man? Perhaps they were even chained to their carts. |