"Be quiet, you little monster!"

But no! a monster more hideous, hardened and savage, than the blackest spirit of the pit, knocked him down from the car, and ordered him away.

In a car shaped like a motor-boat and as low to the ground Mr. Charley Cox turned in and with a great throttling and choking of engine drew up among the dim-eyed monsters of the grove and directly alongside an eight-cylinder roadster with a snout like a greyhound.

The distorted shadows of the twain, dancing on stair and wall with the wavering lamp-shine, seemed phantoms capering in an infernal revel, and he glanced back ever and anon weening to see himself dogged by some frightful monster, but he saw only the silver hair and sable velvet of the dignified old man.

They knew him, these hell-hounds of the sea, and from out their mouths I knew him also for what he wasa cruel, cold-blooded monster, yet a genius in crime, and a natural leader of such men as these.

When the party arrived at the borders of the wilderness which the wolf frequented, Gushtásp left his companions behind, and advanced alone into the interior, where he soon found the dreadful monster, in size larger than an elephant, and howling terribly, ready to spring upon him.

The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax.

"The king was thereupon commanded by an oracle to array his daughter in bridal robes, and set her upon a high mountain, so that she might be wedded to a horrible monster.

Lower down the ice looked like animals, so twisted was it into fantastic shapes; fierce sea monsters with yawning mouths seeming ready to devour; bears and wolves, whales, gigantic elephants, and snowy tigers, tropic beasts looking strangely out of place in this arctic clime.

Mark made one or two feints of pushing her in, but at last held her firmly by the waist, while she looked in vain for the fabulous monster below.

The old chief was launching his kiak into the seething waters, and to Ted it seemed incredible that he meant to go in that frail bark in pursuit of the mighty monster.

One kind is never more than two inches long, others are vast monsters.

They looked again but could see no savage animal attacking their comrade; nor was there any vast disturbance in the water, as though some marine monster might be trying to drag him down; besides, such things as alligators or sharks were utterly unknown up here in the Adirondacks.

Visions of palaces under ground, of gigantic monsters, of sculptured figures, and endless inscriptions, floated before me.

Johnson was in the habit of sometimes reading in the King's Library, and it came into the head of his majesty that he should like to see the uncouth monster upon whom he had bestowed a pension.

Again it was the old story of a rash lover laughing at death, seeking the grim monster who seemed to avoid him.

Men of the neighboring hamlet had gathered, to watch the foreign monsters play at this new, fantastic game.

He's a formidable monster, what?" "I am not afraid of him," said Avery, with her cheek against his black head.

"Consent ever to belong, bodyand soulto be touched, polluted, desecrated, by that inhuman monster; sold to him, to a creature without pity, whose heart is a toad, a venomous creeping thingsold to him for this life, and to the vengeance of God hereafter; bartered, traded, and told that I am so vile and lost that the very price I am offered is an honour to me, being so much more than my value."

That foul, deformed monster, is he dead? MUCEDORUS.

Of what potency the fearful rites and masked mysteries of shamanism, when daily that living wonder, the steamboat, coughed and spluttered up and down the Yukon in defiance of all law, a veritable fire-breathing monster?

The fluent and polished gentleman in chargewho has a dyed mustacheassures us that we have nothing to fear from this 'once ferocious monster of the tropic jungle, with his bestial craving for human flesh,' but that seems a mere matter of form, with the hand-organ going in our ears" "Really," Miss Lansdale beganor tried to.

The beautiful girl looked upon this heartless monster, as ugly and deformed in body as he was in mind, with absolute horror.

"An enormous monster has fallen upon us," said the Arab.

"Butbut did you see his face, boys, after he heaved the stump up? Ijust pick that stump up, will you?" They went to the misshapen, ragged monster and lifted it, puffing under the weight.