But the wireless, asked Momulla. What has the wireless to do with our remaining here? Oh yes, replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the...
As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the...
But life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.
She faced the fearful reality of choosing between the final alternatives–Nikolas Rokoff on one hand and self-destruction upon the other.
Sentimentalists have words: love, loyalty, friendship, enmity, jealousy, hate, a thousand others; a waste of words – one word defines them all: self-interest.
With man it is different. When he comes many of the larger animals instinctively leave the district entirely, seldom if ever to return; and thus it has always been with the great anthropoids. They fle...
To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.
There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here
Tarzan looked across at his companion in misery. While there is life, he said, there is hope, but he grinned as he voiced the ancient truism.Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick returned the other's...
Jane saw the little note and ignored it, for she was very angry and hurt and mortified, but—she was a woman, and so eventually she picked it up and read it. MY
I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.
I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but...
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle....
Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.
For instance, there is a tribe in the vicinity of Lake Rudolph that will eat no sheep or cattle, though its next neighbors do so. Near by is another tribe that eats donkey-meat—a custom most revolting...
Emerging, as we had, from the dark and gloomy bowels of the earth, the scene before us presented a view of wondrous beauty, and, while doubtless enhanced by contrast, it was nevertheless such an aspec...
But when I saw these sleek, shiny carcasses shimmering in the sunlight as they emerged from the ocean, shaking their giant heads; when I saw the waters roll from their sinuous bodies in miniature wate...
As he emerged again and crossed through the dining-room he saw that Murray had regained consciousness and was sitting at a table wiping the blood from his face with a wet napkin. As Murray’s eyes fell...
As a matter of fact I presume I gave little attention to seeking an excuse, for I love a good fight too well to need any other reason for joining in when one is afoot. So