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When they had all been happily smashed or drowned, the devil skipped lightly over the channels he had cut and sought his family, though with a subdued expression of countenance, for his tail his strength and pride was bruised and broken beyond repair, and all the little imps that he fathered to the world afterward had little dangling tails like monkeys' instead of megatheriums', and in time these appendages disappeared.
But when people had dinner-parties it was nearly always Megatheriums; and Ichthyosaurus, because his fins were a great delicacy and his tail made soup. 'There must have been heaps and heaps of cold meat left over, said Anthea, who meant to be a good housekeeper some day. 'Oh no, said the Psammead, 'that would never have done. Why, of course at sunset what was left over turned into stone.
That's what I can't understand in your selections; with Megatheriums to burn, why save leopards and panthers and other such every- day creatures?" "What kind of a boat do you suppose I had?" cried Noah. "Do you imagine for a moment that she was four miles on the water-line, with a mile and three-quarters beam?
This excavation was composed of several hundred divisions of all sizes and shapes. It might be called a hive with numberless ranges of cells, capriciously arranged, but a hive on a vast scale, and which, instead of bees, might have lodged all the ichthyosauri, megatheriums, and pterodactyles of the geological epoch.
When Diotti and old Sanders left the house they walked rapidly down Fifth Avenue. It was after eleven, and the streets were bare of pedestrians, but blinking-eyed cabs came up the avenue, looking at a distance like a trail of Megatheriums, gliding through the darkness.
You find the stone bones of the Megatherium and things all over the place even now, they tell me." "Who tell you?" asked Cyril; but the Sand-fairy frowned and began to dig very fast with its furry hands. "Oh, don't go!" they all cried; "tell us more about when it was Megatheriums for breakfast! Was the world like this then?" It stopped digging.
"If a thousand megatheriums were let loose upon the world, in twenty-four hours they would all be in museums." I have just returned from a little ceremony of which I think that the readers of these pages will be pleased to have some permanent record the uncovering of the medallion portrait of Keats, which Mr.
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