... Tarzan ofthe Apes (1912)
• A Princess ofMars (1912)
• John Carter and the Giant ofMars (1940)
• A Fighting Man ofMars (1930)
• The Master Mind ofMars (1927)
• Swords ofMars (1934)
• The Warlord ... surface ofthe coin.
The card might represent the section ofthe wall that turned and the
silver dollar the section ofthe floor. Both were so nicely fitted into the
adjacent portions ofthe floor ... for the source or meaning ofthe wail. And indeed
the latter proved to be the truth, for this strange growth upon the crani-
ums ofthe plant men of Barsoom represents the thousand ears of these
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attack...
... bars ofthe cage smacked against the cement wall ofthe pit,
John Carter's arms shot out with the quickness of a striking snake.
His fingers closed in a grip of steel about the ankle ofthe ... necks. They sat at a table
where they had been eating, and the food was still before them. They
had been the prisoners, the slaves ofthe rulers ofthe long-dead city. The
dry, motionless air combined ... and lowered them so
that the cage tops were a little below the surface ofthe ground inside the
pit. Then he refastened the ropes and stood for some time on the brink
looking down on the helpless...
... of Mars, with Dejah Thoris, his mate, led
in the dancing, and if there was another couple that vied with them in
possession ofthe silent admiration ofthe guests it was the resplendent
Jed of ... replied another of those upon the roof
of the palace, "for it will not be long from the moment her cables part be-
fore her crew dons the leather ofthe dead; but yet, Tanus, I believe they
will ... into the water on either side of marble steps. A glass
dome let in the sun-light, which flooded the interior, glancing from the
polished white ofthe marble walls and the procession of bathers...
... ofthe Apes (1912)
• A Princess ofMars (1912)
• John Carter and the Giant ofMars (1940)
• TheGodsofMars (1918)
• A Fighting Man ofMars (1930)
• The Master Mind ofMars (1927)
• Swords of ... companion when the lesser thern had quoted the
words of Thurid and scoffed at them: "And what think you ofthe ridicu-
lous matter ofthe light? Let the light shine with the intensity of three ... up the center ofthe stream, which was much narrower than
the Iss.
As they came nearer I heard the voices of Thurid and the Father of
Therns raised in argument.
"I tell you, Thern," the...
... On the ground in front of him the ants were still swarming. Hun-
dreds of them were coming from the ant hill and were flying off. There
were thousands of them. Eventually, in the recesses of ... was doing the shouting. The
sphere was finished, done for. It was out ofthe fight, rolling down the
vast hill ofthe sky, it would smash on the planet below.
They were following it.
There was ... attention to the conversation.
But all the time they were stealing glances at the ship. With half their
minds, they seemed to be listening to what was being said. But the other
half of their minds...
... reposed the bodies ofthe ape and the man, each of which
possessed half the brain ofthe other. Here I was forced to leave Valla Dia
for the time, that I might hasten to the office and perform the ... wastes of interplanetary space. There was an instant of extreme
cold and utter darkness, then—But the rest is in the manuscript that,
with the aid of one greater than either of us, I have found the ... the minutest detail the
nerve or tissue structure ofthe body. I learned also the secret ofthe few
drops of solution which, added to the rewarmed blood before it is re-
turned to the veins of...
... DEPARTMENTS One of £10; two of £5; two of £2 10s.; ten of £1; fifteen of 10s.; thirty of 5s.
GIRLS' DEPARTMENTS One of £5; two of £2; eight of £1; fifteen of 10s.; thirty of 5s.
The following ... Bancroft, for
instance, writing ofthe Maya races ofthe Pacific, tells us that "before planting the seed they held a festival in
honour of their gods, Ekchuah, Chac, and Hobnil, who were their ... solemnize it, they all went
to the plantation of one of their number, where they sacrificed a dog having a spot on its skin the colour of
cacao. They burned incense to their idols, after which they gave...
... first dead ofthe two… .
The most dramatic ofthe fifty appearances was certainly that of the
wasp that visited the British Museum about midday, dropping out of the
blue serene upon one ofthe innumerable ... altogether, through the park and vil-
lages and then along the green glades ofthe Hickleybrow preserves. The
trees were all dusted with the green spangles of high spring, the hedges
were full of ... at the bar
and drinking his hot gin and water, with one eye roving over the things
at the back ofthe bar and the other fixed on the Absolute, missed the
psychological moment.
“I thuppothe there...
... On the ground in front of him the ants were still swarming. Hun-
dreds of them were coming from the ant hill and were flying off. There
were thousands of them. Eventually, in the recesses of ... had gone and the cold had come. He could see Sarkoff's body
lying beside one ofthe drivers. The two other men were across the room.
A door to the stern compartment was there. They were crumpled ... setting up a device of some kind. Others of their
species had joined them until there were possibly thirty or forty present.
Through thethe gaping hole in the hull, still others could be seen...