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| 27 | 2889 | There, as men View more quotes about looked">looked about, startled, he seized up from the thick grass a closed holster and, in a moment, had freed the sixth pistol from its sheathing. |
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| 27 | 2886 | "No!" whispered the spokesman. |
| 27 | 2887 | The dagger paused, wavering, the energy of the arm behind it revealing itself in the conflicted hesitation of the blade, narrow, bright, quivering, arrested by a sudden monitory glance from the officer. |
| 27 | 2888 | In this moment, Mirus, within the cover of this distraction, all eyes on the officer, the spokesman, the threatening soldier with the dagger, with a flash of robes, threw himself across the grass, toward the place to which the slave had earlier seen him glance. |
| 27 | 2889 | There, as men looked about, startled, he seized up from the thick grass a closed holster and, in a moment, had freed the sixth pistol from its sheathing. |
| 27 | 2890 | Even Tersius Major, who held a weapon, was taken aback. |
| 27 | 2891 | Mirus now faced the group, the pistol, removed from its hiding place, ready in his hand. |
| 27 | 2892 | The slave had no doubt that he was adept with the weapon. |