| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 649 | Then I View more quotes about suddenly">suddenly gasped with fear. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 646 | I was startled. |
| 8 | 647 | I was terrified. |
| 8 | 648 | I stood behind the bars, unable even to move. |
| 8 | 649 | Then I suddenly gasped with fear. |
| 8 | 650 | My hands were clenched on the bars. |
| 8 | 651 | Moving from the right toward the left, some yards above the level of the ledge, some seventy or so yards out from it, I saw a gigantic hawklike creature, a monstrous, titanic bird, of incredible dimension. |
| 8 | 652 | It must have had a wingspan of some forty feet in breadth! It is difficult to convey the terribleness, the size, the speed, the savagery, the power, the ferocity, the clearly predatory, clearly carnivorous nature of such a thing! But the most incredible thing, to my mind, was that I saw, in the moment or two it was in my visual field, that this monster was harnessed and saddled, and, astride it, was a helmeted figure, that of a man! I almost fainted behind the bars. |