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| 3 | 173 | I View more quotes about hoped">hoped to draw the center man forward, to where he might, if I should move to the right, block the man on his own right, or if I moved to the left, block the man on his own left. |
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| 3 | 170 | I caught the scimitars of three on my blade and leaped back. |
| 3 | 171 | They separated, intelligently, and, crouching, edged toward me. |
| 3 | 172 | I backed away, crouching. |
| 3 | 173 | I hoped to draw the center man forward, to where he might, if I should move to the right, block the man on his own right, or if I moved to the left, block the man on his own left. |
| 3 | 174 | But he hung back, the two on the sides creeping forward. |
| 3 | 175 | Whichever man I attacked need only defend himself; the other two would have a free instant, that of his defense, to make their own strokes. |
| 3 | 176 | These men were not common street thieves. |