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Quotation from Stickeen by John Muir
“The joy of deliverance burned in us like fire, and we ran without fatigue, every muscle with immense rebound glorying in its strength”
Stickeen, The Story (Project Gutenberg #11673)

The race across the remaining ice toward the shore after the crossing.
Citation: "The joy of deliverance burned in us like fire, and we ran without fatigue, every muscle with immense rebound glorying in its strength" — John Muir, Stickeen, The Story (Project Gutenberg #11673). (id stickeen-q4)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
