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| 42 | 7 | I did not View more quotes about think">think I could last long in waters of this temperature. |
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| 42 | 4 | In swells we would be lifted twenty or thirty feet into the air and would then swirl downward into the troughs, to be lifted again and slide downward again, and again. |
| 42 | 5 | My body began to numb in the water, and my legs and arms began to lose feeling and stiffen, and my arm slipped from the neck of the beast and I was separated from it, surely for yards, and then I felt it beneath me, rising up, and my body was gripped, firmly, gently, in those wide jaws, and lifted up, and my head, gasping, my eyes lashed with wind and salt water, was above the surface, and I breathed. |
| 42 | 6 | It seemed somehow, in these moments, the beast had renewed its vitality, and had come alive again. |
| 42 | 7 | I did not think I could last long in waters of this temperature. |
| 42 | 8 | My head above the water, the jaws released me, and I clung to the fur at its neck. |
| 42 | 9 | My fingers seemed to stiffen and freeze, and lose their strength, but they were clenched in the fur, fastened there, like cold hooks in that cold, soaked fur. |
| 42 | 10 | We would die together. |