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| 29 | 232 | We saw the View more quotes about fingers">fingers, like iron hooks, disappear into the hide of the fish, and then, he stood, rearing up in the sand, lifting that great weight, and shook it, and the fish spun and rolled, and fell again into the sand, the skin, in a swath a foot wide, excoriated. |
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| 29 | 229 | His hands groped, feeling the abrasive surface. |
| 29 | 230 | We watched him. |
| 29 | 231 | He lifted his hands, his fingers like the talons of a tarn, and then, suddenly, struck down into the side of the fish. |
| 29 | 232 | We saw the fingers, like iron hooks, disappear into the hide of the fish, and then, he stood, rearing up in the sand, lifting that great weight, and shook it, and the fish spun and rolled, and fell again into the sand, the skin, in a swath a foot wide, excoriated. |
| 29 | 233 | Twice more he performed this feat and twice more great swaths of the excoriated hide were flung to the side. |
| 29 | 234 | "Now," said Labienus, "it should be easier to reach the meat". |
| 29 | 235 | "Yes, Captain," whispered the fellow with the knife. |