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| 1 | 41 | In an View more quotes about instant">instant he released me, apologizing profusely even before recognizing me. |
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| 1 | 38 | I rushed over to him and without thinking seized him by the shoulder. |
| 1 | 39 | What happened next seemed almost too unbelievable to comprehend. |
| 1 | 40 | He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood. |
| 1 | 41 | In an instant he released me, apologizing profusely even before recognizing me. |
| 1 | 42 | In horror I realized that what he had done had been as much a reflex as the blinking of an eye or the jerking of a knee under a physician's hammer. |
| 1 | 43 | It was the reflex of an animal whose instinct it is to destroy before it can be destroyed, or of a human being who has been tooled into such an animal, a human being who has been conditioned to kill swiftly, savagely, or be killed in the same fashion. |
| 1 | 44 | I was covered with sweat. |