| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 219 | Had I not defeated it? Had I not, at View more quotes about least">least, discouraged it? Should it not now, in all propriety, take wing and seek the assuagements of its hunger elsewhere, in the rich feasts offered by the delta. |
| 19 | 220 | But its attentions seemed much fastened upon me. |
| 19 | 221 | One might have thought it a sleen, a creature famed for its tenacity. |
| 19 | 222 | Let it meet then, I thought, one of man's most dangerous allies, the mystery of flame. |
| 19 | 223 | It was my intention to gather some dry rence and light it with the fire-maker, a simple device, little more than a wheel and flint, from my pouch. |
| 19 | 224 | However, it began to advance, quickly, its jaws open. |
| 19 | 225 | I withdrew, stumbling, back, into the rence. |