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CHAPTER XX IN THE ATMOSPHERE FACTORY
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For two days I waited there for Kantos Kan, but as he did not come I started off on foot in a northwesterly direction toward a point where he had told me lay the nearest waterway. My only food consisted of vegetable milk from the plants which gave so bounteously1 of this priceless fluid.
Through two long weeks I wandered, stumbling through the nights guided only by the stars and hiding during the days behind some protruding2 rock or among the occasional hills I traversed. Several times I was attacked by wild beasts; strange, uncouth3 monstrosities that leaped upon me in the dark, so that I had ever to grasp my long-sword in my hand that I might be ready for them. Usually my strange, newly acquired telepathic power warned me in ample time, but once I was down with vicious fangs4 at my jugular5 and a hairy face pressed close to mine before I knew that I was even threatened.
What manner of thing was upon me I did not know, but that it was large and heavy and many-legged I could feel. My hands were at its throat before the fangs had a chance to bury themselves in my neck, and slowly I forced the hairy face from me and closed my fingers, vise-like, upon its windpipe.
Without sound we lay there, the beast exerting every effort to reach me with those awful fangs, and I straining to maintain my grip and choke the life from it as I kept it from my throat. Slowly my arms gave to the unequal struggle, and inch by inch the burning eyes and gleaming tusks6 of my antagonist7 crept toward me, until, as the hairy face touched mine again, I realized that all was over. And then a living mass of destruction sprang from the surrounding darkness full upon the creature that held me pinioned8 to the ground. The two rolled
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bounteously
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adv.慷慨地,丰富地 | |
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fangs
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n.(尤指狗和狼的)长而尖的牙( fang的名词复数 );(蛇的)毒牙;罐座 | |
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lighting
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caress
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devour
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mighty
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exhausted
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inmates
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apparatus
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beheld
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isolated
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divulge
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v.泄漏(秘密等);宣布,公布 | |
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divulging
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retired
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adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的 | |
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talisman
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dagger
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winding
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thither
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recess
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rambling
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