In the Morning of Time

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts. In the Morning of Time

In the Morning of Time

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IN THE MORNING OF TIME

CHAPTER I

THE WORLD WITHOUT MAN

CHAPTER II

THE KING OF THE TRIPLE HORN

CHAPTER III

THE FINDING OF FIRE

CHAPTER IV

THE CHILDREN OF THE SHINING ONE

CHAPTER V

THE PULLER-DOWN OF TREES

CHAPTER VI

THE BATTLE OF THE BRANDS

CHAPTER VII

THE RESCUE OF A-YA

CHAPTER VIII

THE BENDING OF THE BOW

CHAPTER IX

THE DESTROYING SPLENDOR

CHAPTER X

THE TERRORS OF THE DARK

CHAPTER XI

THE FEASTING OF THE CAVE FOLK

CHAPTER XII

ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS

CHAPTER XIII

THE FEAR

CHAPTER XIV

THE LAKE OF LONG SLEEP

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

Published by Good Press, 2019

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But it was little like a failure he looked, the giant who now heaved his terrible, three-horned front from the lilied surface of the lagoon wherein he had been wallowing, and came ponderously ploughing his way ashore. As he emerged upon dry ground, he halted––with the tip of his massive, lizard-like tail still in the 21 water––and shook a shower from the hollows of his vast and strangely armored head.

His eyes, coldly furious, and set in a pair of goggle-like projections of horn, peered this way and that, as if suspecting the neighborhood of a foe. His gigantic snout––horned, cased in horn, and hooked like the beak of a parrot––he lifted high, sniffing the heavy air. Then, as if to end his doubts by either drawing or daunting off the unknown enemy, he opened his grotesquely awful mouth and roared. The huge sound that exploded from his throat was something between the bellow of an alligator and the coughing roar of a tiger, but of infinitely vaster volume.

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