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"A few millimeters of glass, luckily
very strong, separated our faces from
their gleaming, beady eyes, their
sharp claws and teeth.  Their odor
filled the tower, poisoned our lungs,
and rasped our nostrils with a
pestilential, nauseating smell."

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"...I could feel tears stinging in my eyes
as I saw this fine ship headed for her
doom."

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"The ship was a writhing mass-a starving army
coming
toward us aboard a vessel gone mad!"

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"A few millimeters of glass, luckily very
strong, separated our faces from their
gleaming, beady eyes, their sharp claws
and teeth. The odor filled the tower,
poisoned our lungs, and rasped our
nostrils with a pestilential, nauseating
smell."

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Chase Schaltenbrand "Separated our faces from their gleaming, beady eyes, their sharp claws and teeth.Their odor filled the tower, poisoned our lungs, and rasped our nostrils with a pestilential, nauseating smell."

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Chase Schaltenbrand "Separated our faces from their gleaming, beady eyes, their sharp claws and teeth.Their odor filled the tower, poisoned our lungs, and rasped our nostrils with a pestilential, nauseating smell."

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"...sweeping through them like a sickle through wheat."

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"As the light turned, it successively
blinded thousands of rats crowded
against the glass, while the dark side of the lantern room gleamed with thousands of points of light, burning like the eyes of jungle beasts in the night."

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On page 2 the narrator states, "Picture a grey cylinder welded to a
solid black rock by iron rods and concrete rising from a small island 20 odd miles from shore."

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"Picture a gray, tapering cylinder, welded to the solid black rock by iron rods and concrete." (page 3)

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One page 6 the author states, "...his sharp cry will bring hordes of his
fellows to swarm over you, tear you, and not cease until your flesh has been stripped from the bones."

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"She was a beautiful ship of some four
thousand tons, a fast sailor that had
carried cargoes to every part of the
world, plowing the seas unceasingly."

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On page 8, the narrator says, "Their odor filled the tower, poisoned our lungs, and rasped our nostrils with a pestilential, nauseating smell. And there we were sealed alive in our own light, prisoners of a horde of starving rats."

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On page 8, the narrator says "Their gleaming, beady eyes.  Their sharp claws and teeth"

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"Belly up mouths gaping, they
arrived in swarms and scooped up
the rats, sweeping through them like a sickle through wheat."

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"When they were
discovered, nothing
remained but three heaps
of bones, picked clean by
the birds."

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"To the last  rat, ourbesiegers
deserted the swam out, and
boarded the barge reeking with the
scent of freshly cut meat. The tug
tragged the barge about a mile from
shore, where the fireboat drenched
the barge with gasoline."

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"The air was foul; even the heavy
smell of oil within our stronghold
could not dominate the fetid odor of the beasts massed around us."

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"All I can remember is wading through them up the stairs." (Page 10)

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"Their teeth grated as they pressed against the glass of the lantern room, where they could plainly see us, though they could not reach us. A few millimeters of glass, luckily very strong, separated our faces from their gleaming, beady eyes., their sharp claws, and teeth. Their odor filled the tower, poisoned our lungs, and rasped our nostrils with a pestilential, nauseating smell. And there we were, sealed alive in our own light, prisoners of a horde of starving rats."

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(Page 3) "Imagine a gray., tapering cylinder, welded to the solid black rocks by metal rods and concrete..."

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".. we found ourselves, bleeding from innumerable bites, our clothes shredded, sprawled across the trapdoor in the floor of the lantern room-without food or drink."

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On page 12 the narrator says, "His arms swing like those of a windmill, he quickly spelled out: Don't give up, hang it there a little longer! We'll get you out!"

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"Now, ships were a rare sight in our waters, for our light was a warning of treacherous reefs, barely hidden under the surface and running far out to see."

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"Not those poor specimens of rats you
see ashore, barely reaching the length
of a foot from their trembling noses to
the tip of their skinny tails, wretched
creatures who dodge and hide at the
mere sound of a footfall." page 6

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Page 14: "The air was foul: even the heavy smell of oil within our stronghold could not dominate the fetid odor of the beasts massed around us."