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| 4 | 8 | It writhed in my View more quotes about hand">hand like a snake, its pods gasping. |
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| 4 | 5 | Two fangs had struck into my calf. |
| 4 | 6 | An ost, I thought! But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sounds of the bladderlike seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs. |
| 4 | 7 | I reached down and jerked the plant from the soil at the side of the road. |
| 4 | 8 | It writhed in my hand like a snake, its pods gasping. |
| 4 | 9 | I jerked the two fanglike thorns from my leg. |
| 4 | 10 | The leech plant strikes like a cobra, and fastens two hollow thorns into its victim. |
| 4 | 11 | The chemical responses of the bladderlike pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it. |