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I did it to keep them quiet; I was weak enough to compromise between a fox hunt or fudge; so I said you'd lunch with them.. Will you?" "Certainly. . . . And, Nina what sort of a man is this George Fane?" "Fane?" "Yes the chinless gentleman with gentle brown and protruding eyes and the expression of a tame brontosaurus." "Why how do you mean, Phil? What sort of man? He's a banker.
"The British Empire," I said, "is like some of those early vertebrated monsters, the Brontosaurus and the Atlantosaurus and such-like; it sacrifices intellect to character; its backbone, that is to say, especially in the visceral region is bigger than its cranium. It's no accident that things are so. We've worked for backbone.
When the mighty brontosaurus came striding into camp, she regarded it as an acquisition, I considered it a calamity; that is a good sample of the lack of harmony that prevails in our views of things. She wanted to domesticate it, I wanted to make it a present of the homestead and move out.
He would not have been surprised to see a brontosaurus peeking coyly down at him from twenty feet or so of neck. It was just the sort of place any self-respecting brontosaurus would have wallowed in. But at last they won free from that place of cold and dank odors. Passing through Chalmette, they struck the main highway. From then on it was simple enough. St. Bernard Highway led into St.
The Bramhallites enjoyed my impersonation. "N-now, Moles White, I mean how much b-b-bank do you want? Two shillings? B-bank won't stand it. Take three halfpence take it, Moles, and toddle away." There were roars of laughter, and a grin from White like the smile of a brontosaurus. "N-now, Doe, you don't want any this week you've come to pay in some, I suppose. You oh, damn!"
There was brontosaurus, and atlantosaurus, and hydrosaurus, and iguanodon, lizards, you know, not like these little black fellows that run about in the pulverized feldspar here, but chaps eighty or a hundred feet long, and twenty or thirty high; and turtles, as big as a house." "How did they get there?"
The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust, and in one place, where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof, the thing itself had been worn away. Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus. My museum hypothesis was confirmed.
I suppose no human eye sees anything abstractly, but only in relation to other things known and observed. With more than half the world in its grip, the towering wave of green bore no more resemblance to its California prototype than a brontosaurus to the harmless lizard scuttling over the sunny floor of an outhouse.
From them come most of the petrified remains of that great army of extinct reptiles and mammals the three-toed horse, the sabre-toothed tiger, the brontosaurus, the fin-backed lizard, the imperial mammoth, the various dinosaurs, some of them gigantic in form and fearful in aspect that of late years have appeared in our museums and that throw so much light upon the history of the animal life of the globe.
Ihjel yawned, put away the report he had been reading, and started for the control room. He shuddered when he passed the room where Brion was listening to a playback of his Disan efforts. "Turn off that dying brontosaurus and get strapped in," he called through the thin door. "We're coming to the point of optimum possibility and we'll be dropping back into normal space soon."
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