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| 18 | 87 | The View more quotes about height">height, he hoped, and her silence, would protect her from predators, of various sorts. |
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| 18 | 84 | He had then, turning her again to her belly, with one strand of the double-braided leash, fastened her hands, already bound, closely against her belly, and knotted the holding strap behind the small of her back. |
| 18 | 85 | With the second strand of the leash he improvised a sling and, with one loop under her arms and the other behind the back of her knees, and she behind him, he began to climb the tree. |
| 18 | 86 | On a high branch, some seventy or eighty feet above the ground, he sat her back against the trunk of the tree, and, with the second strand of the leash, fastened her in place, by the feet, belly, and neck. |
| 18 | 87 | The height, he hoped, and her silence, would protect her from predators, of various sorts. |
| 18 | 88 | The branches would be likely to break beneath a larl and the sleen, a ground animal, is reluctant to climb. |
| 18 | 89 | She might hope that hunting humans might not look upward. |
| 18 | 90 | She regarded Cabot piteously, and squirmed a little, helplessly. |