| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 56 | I View more quotes about stood">stood in the small craft, shielded by rushes and sedge. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 53 | The officer, angrily, was shouting the length of the barge to its oar-master, who now stood on the tiller deck, looking back toward the other barges, his hands on the sternrail. |
| 8 | 54 | On the high, curved prow, to which was bound, naked, the lithe, dark-haired girl, there stood a lookout, he, too, looking backward, shielding his eyes. |
| 8 | 55 | Below the prow, in the marsh water, the slaves in the punt stopped cutting at the sedge and marsh vine that blocked their way. |
| 8 | 56 | I stood in the small craft, shielded by rushes and sedge. |
| 8 | 57 | My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body stood at right angles to the target line; my head was sharply turned to my left; I drew the sheaf arrow to its pile, until the three half-feathers of the Vosk gull lay at my jawbone; I took breath and then held it, sighting over the pile; there must be no movement; then I released the string. |
| 8 | 58 | The shaft, at the distance, passed completely through his body, flashing beyond him and vanishing among the rushes and sedges in the distance. |
| 8 | 59 | The man himself did not cry out but the girl, bound near him, screamed. |