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| 39 | 41 | View more quotes about immediately">Immediately several of the Kurii began to scan the shrubbery and trees about. |
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| 39 | 38 | * * * * One picks one's targets carefully. |
| 39 | 39 | Eleven Kurii fell before the grunting and twisting of one alerted a fellow to a shaft's successful flight. |
| 39 | 40 | He roared a warning to the others. |
| 39 | 41 | Immediately several of the Kurii began to scan the shrubbery and trees about. |
| 39 | 42 | One Kur, ascendant on one of the poles against the wall, turned about, and, doubtless assisted by the height from which he made his observation, detected a movement in the foliage, one perhaps some seventy-five yards away. |
| 39 | 43 | Cabot, however, at the moment of becoming aware that his assault from the rear was discerned, looked for those individuals most ideally positioned for surveying the terrain, those not on the ground, and so the perceptive Kur on the pole, scarcely raising his paw to point, fell from the pole some twenty or so feet to the ground, one of the birds of death, so to speak, nesting in its chest. |
| 39 | 44 | A second and a third similarly perished, and then the Kurii best situated to make the determinations germane to the matter, those on the poles, leapt to the ground, preferring, if nothing else, to reduce their imminence as targets of choice. |