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| 18 | 336 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes, too, when the tarns were in the feeding area, she would throw the meat upward, between the bars to them. |
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| 18 | 333 | He is only a tarnster, a driver! A lowly employee of my master! Let him roll and twist, and mutter angrily, in his blankets. |
| 18 | 334 | Let him stew, and cry out, and suffer! He cannot have me! I am not for such lowly sorts! Suffer, Selius Arconious, suffer! You cannot have me!" In the barred feeding area, the gate shut against the housing for returning tarns, Ellen put the basket of meat on the floor, and, moving about, and climbing, ascending, placed the meat, piece by piece, heavy strip by heavy strip, on the hooks in the wall. |
| 18 | 335 | From those hooks, sometimes as they fluttered in the feeding area, feet from the floor, it would be torn by the feeding tarns. |
| 18 | 336 | Sometimes, too, when the tarns were in the feeding area, she would throw the meat upward, between the bars to them. |
| 18 | 337 | In such a case they tended to seize it in the air, with their beaks. |
| 18 | 338 | If a piece fell to the floor, they would hover above it, seize it in their talons, and then crouch over it, holding it in place with a taloned foot, while tearing it to pieces with their beaks. |
| 18 | 339 | "We all fear tarns," Portus Canio had told her once, on the platform. |