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| 8 | 948 | It would not be, View more quotes about presumably">presumably, for such a purpose that I had been evaluated, and acquired. |
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| 8 | 945 | Perhaps they helped to preserve order here. |
| 8 | 946 | I did not wish to be fed to one! But then I had presumably not been brought here, with such secrecy, over such a distance, merely to be fed to such a beast, no more than to that gigantic, carnivorous, hawklike creature, that titanic bird I had seen. |
| 8 | 947 | No, that would make no sense. |
| 8 | 948 | It would not be, presumably, for such a purpose that I had been evaluated, and acquired. |
| 8 | 949 | But for what purpose had I been evaluated and acquired? I did not think it would be merely for the usual purposes for which one such as I might be obtained, say, being purchased off a sales block or being obtained in barter or trade. |
| 8 | 950 | They had been very particular in their requirements, requirements which, incidentally, might be difficult to satisfy conjointly, not being likely to be found combined in any single item of merchandise. |
| 8 | 951 | They had wanted an Earth female who would have an adequate, or better, facility in their language, that of the rights holders, but who would be, in effect, almost completely ignorant of this world and its ways. |