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| 8 | 58 | The shaft, at the View more quotes about distance">distance, passed completely through his body, flashing beyond him and vanishing among the rushes and sedges in the distance. |
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| 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. |
| 8 | 60 | There was a splash in the water. |
| 8 | 61 | The slaves standing in the punt, the two with their poles, the other two with their glaves, cried out in fear. |