I was standing on the edge of the conning-tower, when a heavy palm suddenly struck me between the shoulders and hurled me forward into space. The drop to the triangular deck forward of the conning-tower might easily have broken a leg for me, or I might have slipped off onto the deck and rolled overboard; but fate was upon my side, as I was only slightly bruised.
b) To vomit.
Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster fathers sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mothers arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
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