Then they wheeled the telescope upon its pivot eastward, and met our own moon coming up, as if in a grand jealousy, to assert herself within her small domain, and put out faint, far satellites of lordlier planets.

" Then pivoting silently upon their heels they passed out of the cellar.

Gene stepped back half a pace, then pivoted swiftly and ran to the power breakers on the far side of the room.