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| 50 | 6 | And if a View more quotes about contact">contact of this size had been made with a reef, there would have been a hideous tearing and splintering of wood, like thunder at one's ear drum, a swift inrush of cold water rising to the gunwales. |
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| 50 | 3 | There had been no sound of alien oars, no warning, no cries. |
| 50 | 4 | "Reef!" called Thurnock. |
| 50 | 5 | But these waters were free of reefs. |
| 50 | 6 | And if a contact of this size had been made with a reef, there would have been a hideous tearing and splintering of wood, like thunder at one's ear drum, a swift inrush of cold water rising to the gunwales. |
| 50 | 7 | "We are aground!" cried Sakim. |
| 50 | 8 | But ground seldom rises and shakes, recoiling. |
| 50 | 9 | The contact had been made neither with rock or wood, not with stone, nor beach, nor grating sand. |