... 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. Therewere 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 theirminds, they seemed to be listening to what was being said. But the otherhalf of their minds...
... 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, forinstance, writing ofthe Maya races ofthe Pacific, tells us that "before planting the seed they held a festival inhonour of their gods, Ekchuah, Chac, and Hobnil, who were their ... solemnize it, they all wentto 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 hedgeswere full of ... at the barand drinking his hot gin and water, with one eye roving over the thingsat 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. Therewere thousands of them. Eventually, in the recesses of ... had gone and the cold had come. He could see Sarkoff's bodylying 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 theirspecies had joined them until there were possibly thirty or forty present.Through thethe gaping hole in the hull, still others could be seen...
... and so down the alphabet) offerslittle in the way of a convincing account ofthe nature ofthe “premodern,”at least in the case of South Asia. The actual modernity of a number of phe-nomena ... for the production of praéasti until the ninth, when the elaboration also began of what, by the end ofthe thirteenth, would bea complete array ofthe elements of a literary culture. When the ... into the ambit of Sanskrit culture. Whether these new-comers, the çakas (Indo-Scythians) in particular, initiated these processes12 introduction The Language ofthe Gods in the World of MenSanskrit,...
... 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 these10attack ... the countless ages but a single soul hasfled?"Go back the way thou camest, to the merciful maws ofthe children of the Tree of Life or the gleaming fangs ofthe great white apes, for therelies...