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| 10 | 306 | I lay trembling in the View more quotes about dirt">dirt, helpless, the man's foot on my back. |
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| 10 | 303 | I also heard a sudden, shrill, terrifying, piercing scream. |
| 10 | 304 | It was not a human noise, but the cry of something terribly large and fierce. |
| 10 | 305 | It could only be, I conjectured, some sort of giant bird. |
| 10 | 306 | I lay trembling in the dirt, helpless, the man's foot on my back. |
| 10 | 307 | I would learn it was indeed a large bird, one called a "tarn". |
| 10 | 308 | And, I would later learn, it was not even a warrior's mount, bred for swiftness and aggressiveness, a war tarn, but a mere draft tarn. |
| 10 | 309 | I had been gagged, and hooded and manacled, and put on my belly, because the first sight of such a beast, at close hand, I was told, not unoften, in its size and ferocity, and terribleness, produces a miasma of terror in a female, and she is unwilling even to approach it, whips being often necessary. |