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| 2 | 1085 | It was not View more quotes about simply">simply that he was brave, and had hunted such animals, but, as I later understood, that he was familiar with the habits of such beasts. |
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| 2 | 1082 | He did not admonish me. |
| 2 | 1083 | I was not punished. |
| 2 | 1084 | He had not acted as though he particularly feared the beast. |
| 2 | 1085 | It was not simply that he was brave, and had hunted such animals, but, as I later understood, that he was familiar with the habits of such beasts. |
| 2 | 1086 | The beast had not been hunting us. |
| 2 | 1087 | Commonly such a beast scouts prey, surreptitiously, and then, unless suspecting a trap, as with a tethered victim, perhaps a staked-out girl, used as a lure, makes its swift, unexpected strike, its kill charge. |
| 2 | 1088 | The beast had been on another scent, probably that of tabuk, a small, single-horned antelopelike creature, its common game, and, on its trail, we had constituted only a distraction. |