| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 20 | 608 | The "leech View more quotes about death">death" is not a pleasant one. |
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| 20 | 605 | She shrank back, as she could, in terror. |
| 20 | 606 | These creatures are utilized in some manner by the caste of physicians, not for indiscriminate bleeding as once on Earth, but for certain allied chemical and decoagulant purposes. |
| 20 | 607 | Such creatures may also be used, of course, for less benign purposes, for torture, the extraction of information, punishment and, in the extreme, executions. |
| 20 | 608 | The "leech death" is not a pleasant one. |
| 20 | 609 | These creatures are not to be confused with the leech plant, which supplements its photosynthetic activities with striking, snakelike, at passing objects. |
| 20 | 610 | It has paired, curved, hollow, fanglike thorns, associated with a pulsating, podlike bladder. |
| 20 | 611 | The leech plant can draw a considerable amount of blood in a short time. |