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| 18 | 271 | When the View more quotes about first">first sleen again attacked, Cabot struck it back with the butt of the primitive weapon. |
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| 18 | 268 | It slipped back, but seemed impervious to pain. |
| 18 | 269 | The first beast leaped upward, gained a purchase on the slope, and joined Cabot on his narrow ledge, until it was thrust back, over the edge, bloodied, with the stick, to slide to the foot of the slope again. |
| 18 | 270 | The second sleen was thrust back again, its chest blooded. |
| 18 | 271 | When the first sleen again attacked, Cabot struck it back with the butt of the primitive weapon. |
| 18 | 272 | Both sleen were then at the foot of the small escarpment, turning about, tails lashing, each again then looking upward. |
| 18 | 273 | The ledge is defensible, thought Cabot, wildly. |
| 18 | 274 | There was suddenly a flash of darkness to Cabot's left, and a sharp, sliding, grating sound, as one of the great spears struck against a projecting outcropping, and was then arrested, snapped in two, by the wall behind him. |