Then going through some small strange motions
A moderate incline runs towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we clattered. Once the lightning had begun, it went on in as rapid a succession of flashes as I have ever seen. At first I took it for the wet roof of a house, but one flash following another showed it to be in swift rolling movement.
I realized that the crest must be within the range of…
At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road.
Audio Post: A sigh of satisfaction
The nearer moon, hurtling suddenly above the horizon and lighting up the Barsoomian scene, showed me that my preserver was Woola.
The man liberally provides the brains
I believe I have broken a finger here against his cursed jaw ain’t those mincing knives down in the forecastle there, men?