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盡情叼去 Seven Suits Carried Off
呼的一翅，飛向前，掄開利爪，把他那衣架上搭的七套衣服，盡情叼去，徑轉嶺頭，現出本相，來見八戒、沙僧。呼的一翅，飞向前，抡开利爪，把他那衣架上搭的七套衣服，尽情叼去，径转岭头，现出本相，来见八戒、沙僧。
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呼的一翅，飛向前，掄開利爪，把他那衣架上搭的七套衣服，盡情叼去，徑轉嶺頭，現出本相，來見八戒、沙僧。
呼的一翅，飞向前，抡开利爪，把他那衣架上搭的七套衣服，尽情叼去，径转岭头，现出本相，来见八戒、沙僧。
With a rush of wings he flew forward, spread his sharp talons, and took the seven suits of clothes hanging on that rack — carried off the lot of them, turned straight back to the ridge top, resumed his own shape, and came to Eight Rules and Sha Monk.
爪 is zhǎo, the literary reading, where the base gives the colloquial zhuǎ. The chapter settles it internally: its other two 爪 — 鋼爪 two lines above and one more later on — both base as zhǎo without help. Only 利爪 misfires, and it is the same character doing the same job. 盡 is fixed to jìn, exhaustively.
Forty-one characters, one sentence, and the whole raid is over. Fly in, take the clothes, fly out, change back, report.
The economy is the point. The chapter has spent sixty characters describing the eagle and one sentence using it. Everything Pilgrim has done since he arrived has been like this: find out first, then act quickly and without violence.
And the talon word finally misbehaves. Two lines ago the same character in the same sense came out right on its own; here it does not. Nothing in the writing distinguishes them — it is the company each keeps that decides it, and only reading the line catches the difference.