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| 17 | 542 | But then my sword was out of the View more quotes about sheath">sheath and delicately, turning each bone with the tip of the blade, I placed the side marked with the highest number on each of the bones facing the ceiling. |
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| 17 | 539 | I looked from face to face, and then I shook the knucklebones and scattered them, the four of them, on the stones at my feet. |
| 17 | 540 | It had been a low cast, not high. |
| 17 | 541 | Several of the men laughed with relief. |
| 17 | 542 | But then my sword was out of the sheath and delicately, turning each bone with the tip of the blade, I placed the side marked with the highest number on each of the bones facing the ceiling. |
| 17 | 543 | The men looked on angrily. |
| 17 | 544 | One or two of them muttered in rage. |
| 17 | 545 | On their knees from the gambling, they looked up at me, in fury. |