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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: she had known he had disarmed her and thrown her
to the back of his lidi, which had been lying down
close by waiting for him. By the time the thag had
ceased bellowing the fellow had got well away upon
his swift mount. By holding one palm over her mouth
he had prevented her calling for help.
"I thought," she concluded, "that I should have to
use the viper's tooth, after all."
We reached the beach at last and unearthed the
canoe. Then we busied ourselves stepping a mast and
rigging a small sail--Juag and I, that is--while Dian
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