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The men who carried him to the nearest house noticed that he weighed more than any dead man they had ever known, almost as much as a horse, and they said to each other that maybe he'd been floating...
He had the smell of the sea about him and only his shape gave one to suppose that it was the corpse of a human being, because the skin was covered with a crust of mud and scales. (2)
He looked so forever dead, so defenseless, so much like their men that the first furrows of tears opened in their hearts. (7)
The men who carried him to the nearest house noticed that he weighed more than any dead man they had ever known, almost as much as a horse, and they said to each other that maybe he'd been floating...
The first children who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an empty ship. (1)
