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| 18 | 274 | There was View more quotes about suddenly">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. |
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| 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. |
| 18 | 275 | Cabot lunged to the side, to his right, as another spear struck into the stone behind him, marking it as though struck with a hammer. |
| 18 | 276 | One of the Kurii was now ascending the slope. |
| 18 | 277 | Cabot thrust at him with the pointed stick but the Kur grasped it and drew on it, and Cabot released it, lest he be dragged from the ledge. |