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| 33 | 565 | The View more quotes about body">body was bent over, like a mountain of fur, and its mighty legs were coiled beneath it. |
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| 33 | 562 | At that moment I heard a horrifying roar, husky, piercing, claimant and enunciatory, as if a larl might speak, or a storm possess a throat, a sound I shall never forget, and a huge form dropped down from the rafters, struck the flooring, and then crouched in place, surveying us. |
| 33 | 563 | The light of the lantern was reflected from two large eyes, as though the doors of a furnace might have been flung open. |
| 33 | 564 | The jaws opened, and I glimpsed fangs. |
| 33 | 565 | The body was bent over, like a mountain of fur, and its mighty legs were coiled beneath it. |
| 33 | 566 | These mighty appendages, I gathered, had cushioned the shock of its descent. |
| 33 | 567 | With what force it might spring forward! I could not move. |
| 33 | 568 | Almost at the same time I heard a shriek of dismay from the beast in the crate, and was aware, a moment later, of two other large, hirsute forms descending, forms in the darkness, away from the lantern, one leaping from the first level to the flooring, and the second swinging down from the second level to the first, and then swinging lightly to the floor. |