Never had I dreamed of such blind and desperate courage as was now displayed before my horror-stricken eyes.

Each sought to outdo the other.

They had managed to throw ropes around the monster's neck, by which he was held close to the galley.
His fierce movements seemed likely to drag us all down under the water; and his long neck, free from restraint, writhed and twisted among the struggling crowd of fighting men, in the midst of whom was the Kohen, as desperate and as fearless as any.
All this had taken place in a very short space of time, and I had scarce been able to comprehend the full meaning of it all.

As for Almah, she stood pale and trembling, with a face of horror.

At last it seemed to me that every man of them would be destroyed, and that they were all throwing their lives away to no purpose whatever.