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| 12 | 52 | One can lose one's footing, View more quotes about particularly">particularly in heavy weather, or when the platform is iced, and slip between the platform and the ring, which is waist high. |
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| 12 | 49 | The rain became heavier. |
| 12 | 50 | The glass of the Builders was on its strap, across my chest. |
| 12 | 51 | As most of the lookouts, I had fastened a safety rope about my waist. |
| 12 | 52 | One can lose one's footing, particularly in heavy weather, or when the platform is iced, and slip between the platform and the ring, which is waist high. |
| 12 | 53 | I felt the first rattle of hail. |
| 12 | 54 | We had had two hail storms of great severity when farther north, storms such as those which, in the Barrens, north and east of the Voltai, sometimes decimate flocks of migrating birds, striking them from the sky, flocks which, obedient to their hereditary imperatives, refuse to land and seek shelter. |
| 12 | 55 | Sails had been quickly reefed, lest, by a rare, larger stone, they might be cut. |