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Updated: May 19, 2025
Even the voice of the city seemed moderate, subdued. In silence the massive gates studded with sharp-toothed elephant-spikes swung open. With a grunt, Ram Nath cracked his whiplash and the tonga sped into the city. Amber bent forward. "What's the name of that gate, Ram Nath if you happen to know?" "That," said the tonga-wallah in a level voice, "is known as the Gateway of Swords, sahib."
And as when two lions have snatched away a goat from sharp-toothed hounds, and carry it through the deep thicket, holding the body on high above the ground in their jaws, so the two warrior Aiantes held Imbrios aloft and spoiled his arms.
In the walls wasps built terra-cotta warehouses in which to store the semi-animate carcasses of spiders and grubs; a solitary bee constructed nondescript comb among the books, transforming a favourite copy of "Lorna Doone" into a solid block. Bats, sharp-toothed, and with pin-point eyes, swooped in at one door, quartered the roof with brisk eagerness, and departed by the other.
Lovingly he bade his wife farewell; softly he whispered a prayer to the unseen powers above; and as the flickering flames of the fatal brand died into darkness, he gently breathed his last. "Then sharp-toothed remorse seized upon Althea, and the mother love which had slept in her bosom was reawakened.
Wherever it was, it could be found. In the meantime, his manoeuver had given him what he wanted more space in which to fight two men. With a sudden movement Shaw picked up the silver-framed photograph, and ostentatiously blew the dust off it. This done, he held it out and looked at it admiringly. "You will stay here, but you will not be alone," he promised, with his wide, sharp-toothed grin.
And as they fall, they are attacked by certain Rakshasas in the form of sons, grandsons, and other relatives, that withdraw their hearts from acting for their own emancipation. "Ashtaka asked, 'For what sin are beings, when they fall from heaven, attacked by these fierce and sharp-toothed Rakshasas? Why are they not reduced to annihilation?
Is there not something in our soil and climate exceptionally favorable to weeds, something harsh, ungenial, sharp-toothed, that is akin to them? How woody and rank and fibrous many varieties become, lasting the whole season, and standing up stark and stiff through the deep winter snows, desiccated, preserved by our dry air! Do nettles and thistles bite so sharply in any other country?
Now where there are seeds and insects there will be birds and small mammals and where these are, will come the slinking, sharp-toothed kind that prey on them. Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you. Painted lizards slip in and out of rock crevices, and pant on the white hot sands.
Why should her lover, who had saved their lives who had plucked the eight thousand tons of steel fabric from the sharp-toothed rocks time and again why should he be lying dead, disfigured by savage spite, while those to whom he had rendered such devoted service were coolly discussing his fate and speculating on their own good fortune? That thought maddened her.
But under the luster of the waning moon Thebes lost its outlines and became a city of marbles and shadows and undefined limits. On the western side the vision was interrupted by a lofty, sharp-toothed range, tipped with a few scattered stars of the first magnitude.
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