swiftly-turned-on

Updated: May 7, 2025

A third time he howled, and the forest cringed under the reply. Then at last the shadows between the ranked tree-trunks took unto themselves life, and eyes, eyes in pairs, horribly hungry, cruel port-holes of brains, with a glary, stary, green light behind them, suddenly appeared everywhere, like swiftly-turned-on electric lamps.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild