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| 20 | 99 | In drunken, dizzy circles, screaming, bewildered, View more quotes about helpless">helpless, the bird fell, while I, for my life, desperately clung to the thick quills of his neck. |
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| 20 | 96 | Protesting, screaming, the great bird began to reel helplessly downward. |
| 20 | 97 | Its vast wings futilely, wildly, struck out, uncoordinated and frenetic, like the limbs of a drowning swimmer. |
| 20 | 98 | It seemed the very air itself refused any longer to bear his weight. |
| 20 | 99 | In drunken, dizzy circles, screaming, bewildered, helpless, the bird fell, while I, for my life, desperately clung to the thick quills of his neck. |
| 20 | 100 | When we had reached an altitude of perhaps a hundred yards from the ground, as suddenly as it had come, the strange effect passed. |
| 20 | 101 | The bird regained his strength and senses, except for the fact that it remained agitated, almost unmanageable. |
| 20 | 102 | Then to my wonder, the valiant creature began once more to climb, determined to regain the altitude he had lost. |