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| 2 | 28 | Their View more quotes about naked">naked feet slipped in the dirt and they pressed ever more tightly against the heavy, obdurate bars. |
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| 2 | 25 | The Initiate folded the towel carefully and replaced it on the pedestal. |
| 2 | 26 | "Let the gate be opened," he said. |
| 2 | 27 | The slaves obediently pressed their weight against the timber spokes of the two windlasses and they creaked and the chains tightened. |
| 2 | 28 | Their naked feet slipped in the dirt and they pressed ever more tightly against the heavy, obdurate bars. |
| 2 | 29 | Now their bodies humped with pain, clenching themselves against the spokes. |
| 2 | 30 | Their blind eyes were fixed on nothing. |
| 2 | 31 | The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the wood of the bars; the backs of their garments discolored with a scarlet sweat. |