Few western wonders are more inspiring than the beauties of an Arizona moonlit landscape; the silvered mountains in the distance, the strange lights and shadows upon hog back and arroyo, and the grotesque details of the stiff, yet beautiful cacti form a picture at once enchanting and inspiring; as though one were catching for the first time a glimpse of some dead and forgotten world, so different is it from the aspect of any other spot upon our earth.
Dear old Woola,” she said; “no love could be deeper than yours, yet it never offends. Would that men might pattern themselves after you!
If man spoke only when he had something worth while to say and said that as quickly as possible, ninety-eight per cent of the human race might as well be dumb, thereby establishing a heavenly harmony from pate to tonsil.
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.
Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She.
We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness.
It is quite simple, being nothing more than a radium generator diffusing radio-activity in all directions to a distance of a hundred yards or so from the flier. Should.
I saw that argument was useless and said no more; there is no use arguing with a man who can multiply anything by the square root of minus one.
Why does The Sheik, my father, not love me, too?
Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her.
I am like my father – witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths – the trees, the flowers, the sward – all must have read the love that has filled my heart since first my eyes were made new by imaging your perfect face and form; so how could you alone have been blind to it?
She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.
Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.
I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently,” said the captain.
Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea.
My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination – it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.
The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman’s brain.
We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.
I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people.
I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga.