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And it took toll of their bodies in odd, exhausting forms of labour, which were swift to weed out the unfit. The men at the windlasses spat into their horny palms and bent to the crank: they paused only to pass the back of a hand over a sweaty forehead, or to drain a nose between two fingers. The barrow-drivers shoved their loads, the bones of their forearms standing out like ribs.
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