| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 57 | 194 | View more quotes about ropes">Ropes were cast down from the corsair ship, which were grasped by struggling men. |
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| 57 | 191 | "Back, back," cried a mercenary officer on our deck, looking behind him, and men began, sustaining our determined, fierce attack, to back away. |
| 57 | 192 | Some lost their balance and fell backwards into the sea. |
| 57 | 193 | Others threw away their shields and weapons and leapt from the Tesephone to the water now separating us from the corsair ship. |
| 57 | 194 | Ropes were cast down from the corsair ship, which were grasped by struggling men. |
| 57 | 195 | One man, screaming, was pulled away from a rope by a shark. |
| 57 | 196 | This was surprising as sharks are not normally found in deep, open water, far from the shallower water housing the banks of flora fed upon by smaller fish. |
| 57 | 197 | The shark in question was presumably one the few who will follow a ship in open water, sometimes for days, feeding off garbage cast overboard. |