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| 45 | 186 | I then View more quotes about screamed">screamed and covered my eyes, for the ax of the first guard, in the grasp of Tiresias, from behind, from where he had come about the boulder, smote down on the second guard, hemmed in by the narrow passageway. |
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| 45 | 183 | He came toward me a pace or two. |
| 45 | 184 | Then, suddenly, he lifted his head, and those wide dark nostrils distended. |
| 45 | 185 | I was sure he smelled blood. |
| 45 | 186 | I then screamed and covered my eyes, for the ax of the first guard, in the grasp of Tiresias, from behind, from where he had come about the boulder, smote down on the second guard, hemmed in by the narrow passageway. |
| 45 | 187 | The blow, I took it, was not a good one, as Tiresias could not see his target, though he must have been aware, reasonably closely, of its position. |
| 45 | 188 | The blade missed the center of the head, and clove downward, through the side of the skull, close to the left ear, and continued through the shoulder, and half into the ribs. |
| 45 | 189 | I am sure the ax had been well sharpened for an execution. |