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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: neck met his left shoulder. If I could get a bullet through
there it might reach his heart. The bullet didn't reach
his heart, but it stopped him for an instant.
It was then that a strange thing happened. I heard a
great hissing from the stands occupied by the Mahars,
and as I glanced toward them I saw three mighty
thipdars--the winged dragons that guard the queen, or,
as Perry calls them, pterodactyls--rise swiftly from their
rocks and dart lightning-like, toward the center of the
arena. They are huge, powerful reptiles. One of them,
with the advantage which his wings might give him,
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