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| 10 | 428 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps we might feel small before the mountains, in their vast, mute grandeur, but men, here, had made themselves a part of this, making for themselves a lair, an aerie, in this very magnificence, like eagles. |
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| 10 | 425 | I could not see the windlass. |
| 10 | 426 | The rope ascended through the aperture and went over a pulley, attached to what was apparently a tripodlike arrangement of beams. |
| 10 | 427 | Above the platform the walls of the citadel reared up, toward the clouds. |
| 10 | 428 | Perhaps we might feel small before the mountains, in their vast, mute grandeur, but men, here, had made themselves a part of this, making for themselves a lair, an aerie, in this very magnificence, like eagles. |
| 10 | 429 | I was drawn upward through the rectangular aperture and found myself suspended, a bit below the pulley, some ten feet above the platform. |
| 10 | 430 | I dangled there. |
| 10 | 431 | The jailer had stepped from the stirrup to the platform as the stirrup had cleared the aperture. |