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| 17 | 244 | The View more quotes about spear">spear, given the trembling of the ladder, from the movement and weight of the men upon it, and its twisting, slid loose from its precarious anchorage in the upright's edge, and the ladder, twisting, plunged forward again, again crashing against the wall. |
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| 17 | 241 | I thrust again, this time against the edge of the right upright. |
| 17 | 242 | The ladder moved out, turned slightly. |
| 17 | 243 | It was some two to three feet from the wall. |
| 17 | 244 | The spear, given the trembling of the ladder, from the movement and weight of the men upon it, and its twisting, slid loose from its precarious anchorage in the upright's edge, and the ladder, twisting, plunged forward again, again crashing against the wall. |
| 17 | 245 | I wished that I had had one of the tridents or one of the sharpened, steel crescents fixed on a metal pole, useful in such work. |
| 17 | 246 | The fellow who had had the shield now again climbed toward me. |
| 17 | 247 | This time I managed to get the spear into the center of the right upright. |