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| 16 | 128 | On their throats were View more quotes about heavy">heavy collars of black iron, the perforated ends of each curving about the neck to come together in front, in such a way that the collar curved closely about the neck behind the two perforated ends, and the two perforated ends extended forward. |
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| 16 | 125 | She put her fingers to her throat. |
| 16 | 126 | No longer did it wear the thin, flat, light, graceful, lovely metal band with which she had become familiar, which she had scarcely been aware she had worn, until perhaps a sharp word or a stroke of the switch had recalled to her attention its significance. |
| 16 | 127 | She looked at the other girls. |
| 16 | 128 | On their throats were heavy collars of black iron, the perforated ends of each curving about the neck to come together in front, in such a way that the collar curved closely about the neck behind the two perforated ends, and the two perforated ends extended forward. |
| 16 | 129 | These jutting ends then, with their matching apertures, were hammered flat together. |
| 16 | 130 | Through the matched apertures a dangling iron ring had been closed. |
| 16 | 131 | Thus, in a sense, the collar was doubly closed, having not only been hammered shut, but also secured with the ring joining the two ends of the metal. |