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| 24 | 765 | Some, View more quotes about kneeling">kneeling, crying out, sobbing, clasped their hands together, lifting them to the men. |
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| 24 | 762 | One tried to stand, just a little, her knees flexed, her hands and arms raised to fend blows, but she was then, blow by blow, stroke by stroke, returned to her knees, and then when another blow fell she cried out for mercy, and threw herself to her belly, her hands over her head, sobbing. |
| 24 | 763 | She had now learned what the whip could feel like. |
| 24 | 764 | Some of the women knelt, holding out their hands for mercy, but the lash fell upon them, too, and they put down their heads, sobbing, bending over, almost double. |
| 24 | 765 | Some, kneeling, crying out, sobbing, clasped their hands together, lifting them to the men. |
| 24 | 766 | But the lash fell. |
| 24 | 767 | And then they were a small, writhing knot of terrified women, each trying to hide behind the other. |
| 24 | 768 | The whip, hitting at the edges of the group, the left, the right, forced it in upon itself, and then, sobbing, cowering, they huddled together, tiny, within the ring of angry men. |