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| 19 | 500 | View more quotes about might">Might that not be a disguise for roving tarnsmen, who might then jettison the baskets and wing their way free to whatever mischief they might portend? "Untie the slave," Portus called to Selius, "and put her in the last basket". |
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| 19 | 497 | Draft tarns are usually controlled from the basket. |
| 19 | 498 | They may, however, be controlled from the saddle. |
| 19 | 499 | Ellen supposed that a tarn progress of this sort, tarnsters abasket, might attract less attention than one in which tarnsters might be in the saddle. |
| 19 | 500 | Might that not be a disguise for roving tarnsmen, who might then jettison the baskets and wing their way free to whatever mischief they might portend? "Untie the slave," Portus called to Selius, "and put her in the last basket". |
| 19 | 501 | Selius turned Ellen to her belly and bent to free her of her several-times-looped, narrow pinions. |
| 19 | 502 | He unbound her ankles first and then, kneeling across the backs of her thighs, undid the thongs which confined her wrists. |
| 19 | 503 | She continued to clench the folded tunic between her teeth, not having been permitted to release it. |