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They visited Sydney and other civilized ports, where their fine physique, bold bearing, and strangely tattooed faces, heightened the interest felt in them as specimens of their ferocious and dreaded race. Stories of the Maoris went far and wide of their fierce fights, their cannibal orgies, their grotesque ornaments and customs, their lonely, fertile, and little-known country.
She put her hand on the latch and found that the door was now unlocked. 'But where is the fearful part of it, Winifred? I said. 'I am not a cannibal. 'You ought to marry a great English lady, dear, and I'm only a poor girl; you seem to forget all about that, you silly fond boy. You forget I'm only a poor girl just Winifred, she continued.
Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it for an instant, and then holding it to the light, with his mouth at the handle, he puffed out great clouds of tobacco smoke. The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me.
"Our veracious Hao-man, most solemnly asseverated the entire and literal truth of all these particulars, and declared that the island before us was the veritable cannibal Angatan, the singular black rock enabling him, as he said, to identify it beyond all doubt.
"Don't you think you would be welcome in matting, with an orange cowry round your neck?" Norman, however, took a private opportunity of asking Harry if he was aware of what he was undertaking, and what kind of people they should meet. "All English people behave much the same in a room," said Harry, as if all society, provided it was not cannibal, were alike to him.
The pumpkin-headed man welcomed his visitors joyfully and offered them several delicious pumpkin pies to eat. "I don't indulge in pumpkin pies myself, for two reasons," he said. "One reason is that were I to eat pumpkins I would become a cannibal, and the other reason is that I never eat, not being hollow inside." "Very good reasons," agreed the Scarecrow.
"In the name of Heaven! who is he?" said Morton, in a whisper to Poundtext, surprised, shocked, and even startled, at this ghastly apparition, which looked more like the resurrection of some cannibal priest, or druid red from his human sacrifice, than like an earthly mortal.
The segments of the perianth also closed on the pistil, but more slowly than the stamens. These insects were not uncommon beneath stones. I found one cannibal scorpion quietly devouring another. Shelley, Lines on Mt. Blanc. I have lately heard that Capt.
These paths, always of single-file narrowness, tortuously winding to avoid fallen trees and bad ground, never straightened even when obstructions had rotted and gone, branching and crossing in endless network, penetrating jungles and high-grass prairies, passing villages that were and villages that had been, skirting the lairs of savage beasts and the haunts of cannibal men, beset with drought and famine, storm and flood, were threaded only by negroes, bearing arms or bearing burdens.
Oh no, one cannot eat flowers if they choose. I give it up." "Well, then, watch," and lifting the cover slowly, three cunning white rabbits poked their little twitching noses over the edge of the basket. Phil gazed at them delightedly. "And you call those little darlings something to eat, do you?" "If you choose, yes." "As if any one could choose to be such a cannibal!
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