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| 11 | 162 | "Then, one day, when it was to be fed, it View more quotes about reached">reached through the bars and seized a keeper's arm, and broke him against the bars, and tore at his belt, where dangled his keys, but others intervened with spear butts, striking at the beast, and it, roaring, tore away the keeper's arm, and fed on it, and the keeper died moments later, of shock and loss of blood". |
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| 11 | 159 | "Clearly," she said. |
| 11 | 160 | I was not sure of that. |
| 11 | 161 | "It then seemed docile, and bided its time," she said. |
| 11 | 162 | "Then, one day, when it was to be fed, it reached through the bars and seized a keeper's arm, and broke him against the bars, and tore at his belt, where dangled his keys, but others intervened with spear butts, striking at the beast, and it, roaring, tore away the keeper's arm, and fed on it, and the keeper died moments later, of shock and loss of blood". |
| 11 | 163 | "It was reaching for the keys," I said. |
| 11 | 164 | "No," she said, "it only seemed so, as it was naught but a mindless, violent beast". |
| 11 | 165 | "It later escaped?" I said. |