swamp-growths

Updated: May 6, 2025

At the edge of the jungle he was joined by another monster, like himself, but smaller probably one of his mates and together they disappeared, with heavy crashings, in the rank tangle of the swamp-growths. The man-creature descended from his refuge, carrying in one hand a heavy fragment of branch, which he held awkwardly, as if not over-familiar with the idea of an artificial weapon.

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts - In the Morning of Time