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| 17 | 1096 | There were more than three View more quotes about hundred">hundred such steps, or rungs, after she had begun to count. |
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| 17 | 1093 | She was then steadied on the shoulder with one hand and he began to move upward, climbing, surely ascending a ladder or ladderlike device. |
| 17 | 1094 | He stepped carefully, and doubtless utilized his free hand to steady them in their upward movements. |
| 17 | 1095 | When Ellen became alarmed at the height to which she was being carried, she began to count the steps, or rungs, one after the other. |
| 17 | 1096 | There were more than three hundred such steps, or rungs, after she had begun to count. |
| 17 | 1097 | She could feel wind whipping about at this height, and twice the fellow carrying her stopped in his climb when the wind was particularly fierce. |
| 17 | 1098 | She feared they might be swept from the steps or ladder. |
| 17 | 1099 | Voices from below were now far away, and, in the further ascent, they could drift up but faintly, if at all, from the streets below. |