It's when a fellow gits the skunk of the fear of death in his nose that he makes his supreme fight.Bowen Tyler
Every plant and flower and vegetable and animal has been so refined by ages of careful, scientific cultivation and breeding that the like of them on Earth dwindled into pale, gray, characterless nothingness by comparison.Bowen Tyler
I was the only member of the party who suffered the slightest inconvenience from the new arrangement—an arrangement which condemned me to celibacy.Bowen Tyler
So we crept near, with rifles ready; but there was no carnivore in sight as we sprang suddenly around the thicket's edge.Bowen Tyler
It gives me sorrow to record the fact that Caprona was once more plunged into scandalous inter-tribal war by these unhappy occurrences.Bowen Tyler
I had seen but a vanishing glimpse of the wonders of Caprona; I had but started upon a series of exciting adventures in this land of perpetual noon.Bowen Tyler
We had eaten and rested, and I had slept, much to Ja's amusement, for it seemed to him that sleep is a most ridiculous habit.Bowen Tyler
I am in the remarkable position of one who had read a wonderful and thrilling story and then had been instantly plunged into the life, the reality of its pages.Bowen Tyler
Only in the terrace directly beneath us condensed volumes writhed and tumbled, folding upon themselves, melting, disappearing, reappearing, and once in a while popping uppish in the air.Bowen Tyler
We had intended marching on into the heart of the country in a short expedition of exploration, but Plesser begged us to hasten toward the coast, as he felt much safer there.Bowen Tyler