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| 18 | 141 | At that View more quotes about moment">moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 18 | 138 | Ripping savagely with his steel-shod talons, slashing with his scimitarlike beak, my sable war tarn in a matter of seconds left the attacking tarn a shuddering heap of feathers. |
| 18 | 139 | With one of the great steel-shod talons on the body of his fallen foe, my tarn emitted the challenge scream of his kind. |
| 18 | 140 | The other tarns, poking out of the tarn cot, seemed to hesitate and then to notice the open door into the cylinder. |
| 18 | 141 | At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder. |
| 18 | 142 | He stood framed for a moment in the doorway and shouted, a shout half of discovery, half of mortal fear. |
| 18 | 143 | One of the starved tarns, with a leap and stroke of his wings, lunged upward, catching the man in his beak. |
| 18 | 144 | The man screamed horribly. |