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| 18 | 267 | The other View more quotes about sleen">sleen was at Cabot's feet, snapping, when Cabot thrust the homely spear through its spread jaws, the point tearing through the left cheek of the beast. |
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| 18 | 264 | They both looked upward at Cabot, their eyes alight with anticipation. |
| 18 | 265 | The two catches, and then the safety catches, were freed, with four snaps, and the two sleen sprang forward and began to scratch their way frenziedly up the short, steep slope. |
| 18 | 266 | One sleen fell backwards, twisted wildly in midair, snarling, and fell to the ground at the foot of the small escarpment, and turned to climb again. |
| 18 | 267 | The other sleen was at Cabot's feet, snapping, when Cabot thrust the homely spear through its spread jaws, the point tearing through the left cheek of the beast. |
| 18 | 268 | It slipped back, but seemed impervious to pain. |
| 18 | 269 | The first beast leaped upward, gained a purchase on the slope, and joined Cabot on his narrow ledge, until it was thrust back, over the edge, bloodied, with the stick, to slide to the foot of the slope again. |
| 18 | 270 | The second sleen was thrust back again, its chest blooded. |