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| 16 | 22 | View more quotes about another">Another askari, at his side, armed with a lance, gripping it with two hands, shouted, too, ready to support his fellow. |
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| 16 | 19 | Then, thrashing, squirming, hissing, it backed off in the shallow water. |
| 16 | 20 | I saw its eyes and snout, nostrils open, almost level with the water. |
| 16 | 21 | "Away! Away!" shouted the askari, in the inland speech, brandishing his torch. |
| 16 | 22 | Another askari, at his side, armed with a lance, gripping it with two hands, shouted, too, ready to support his fellow. |
| 16 | 23 | Interestingly the incident did not much affect the work in the area. |
| 16 | 24 | From where I stood I could see hundreds of men, workmen and askaris, and many rafts, some weighted with supplies, others with logs and tools, some with mud and earth we had dug out of the swampy terrain, mud and earth which would be used to bank the flanking barricades, that the area in which we worked might be drained, that a proper channel might later be excavated. |
| 16 | 25 | "Are you all right?" I asked Ayari. |