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| 17 | 634 | The View more quotes about bloody">bloody metallic configuration burst through again and this time, as soon as it had entered, before it could swing back, I rolled a rock from the debris between it and the lower edge of the rupture. |
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| 17 | 631 | "Hold the ram!" I heard, from outside. |
| 17 | 632 | But it must come again, at least once! Men hesitated to rush forward. |
| 17 | 633 | I then saw the great iron head seemingly become smoothly larger and larger as it swept forward. |
| 17 | 634 | The bloody metallic configuration burst through again and this time, as soon as it had entered, before it could swing back, I rolled a rock from the debris between it and the lower edge of the rupture. |
| 17 | 635 | There was a grinding of iron and rock as it swung back and then reared up, against the top of the rupture, and was still. |
| 17 | 636 | The men on the ropes had not the leverage to swing it back, though they could try to pull it back. |
| 17 | 637 | They would, of course, attempt to swing it in further, gain leverage, and then try to draw it back again. |