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| 19 | 140 | "His stroke can descend like lightning, cutting in two a grain of sa-View more quotes about tarna">tarna placed on the forehead of a man, without creasing the skin," said another. |
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| 19 | 137 | "The sharpness of his blade, unmoving in the water, can divide a floating blossom," said a man. |
| 19 | 138 | I had seen that sort of thing, and did not doubt it. |
| 19 | 139 | It was not unusual for silk to fall, parted, from a shaken blade. |
| 19 | 140 | "His stroke can descend like lightning, cutting in two a grain of sa-tarna placed on the forehead of a man, without creasing the skin," said another. |
| 19 | 141 | This was possible, I supposed, but I would not have cared to be the fellow involved in the demonstration. |
| 19 | 142 | "One stroke can cut through seven bodies," claimed another. |
| 19 | 143 | If we were talking of the bodies of men this was unlikely. |