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| 16 | 5 | View more quotes about slowly">Slowly, as I watched, I saw the shape of a sleen emerging, almost as though it had been hidden in the ivory, the snout and legs, and the long, sinuous shape. |
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| 16 | 2 | Once in a while he would stop and turn the ivory, and look at it. |
| 16 | 3 | Sometimes he would whisper, "Who hides in there? Who are you?" Then he would begin to carve again. |
| 16 | 4 | Then, suddenly, he said, "Ah, sleen!" I watched him flake and trim ivory from the horn. |
| 16 | 5 | Slowly, as I watched, I saw the shape of a sleen emerging, almost as though it had been hidden in the ivory, the snout and legs, and the long, sinuous shape. |
| 16 | 6 | Its ears were flat back against its head. |
| 16 | 7 | Often the red hunter does not set out to carve something, but rather to carve, patiently waiting to see if there is something there, waiting to be released. |
| 16 | 8 | It is a little like hunting. |