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| 8 | 82 | When approached, they would disappear View more quotes about beneath">beneath the ice, for it was they who were being approached. |
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| 8 | 79 | And tarns who cannot fly will, after a time, die. |
| 8 | 80 | I could see, some hundred yards off, dark on the ice, the bodies of two sea sleen. |
| 8 | 81 | There must be a breathing hole there. |
| 8 | 82 | When approached, they would disappear beneath the ice, for it was they who were being approached. |
| 8 | 83 | On the other hand, some, seen first beneath the surface, a detectable, sinuous, twisting, moving body, a foot or two below, would suddenly emerge, beside the ship, snouts raised above the surface, with an explosive exhalation of breath, and then a drawing inward of air, these come to open water about the ship, to breathe. |
| 8 | 84 | It was they who approached. |
| 8 | 85 | It was eerie to look into the large, round, dark eyes of a sea sleen, peering at one from the icy water. |