"And, truly, if I do
say that it was somewhat as that I had seen a monstrous slug-thing,
surely I should use wise and proper words to make known to you this
horrid brute."
"And truly it moved a little with the head, this way and that,
stretching through the dark and the shadows, as you shall see a slug to
move, and with no speed or sound, and nowise seeming heedful of aught.
But yet did I fear that it smelled us, if this might be; and this, as
you shall think, to be a very natural fear."
"Yet had those Slugs that we did see, been black and
shining, for the most, as I have told;"
"And the Monster Slug came onward, and as it did go, it set the stalks of
the eyes in among the boulders, as that it did search;"
"The Slug-Beast set out a big tongue among
the boulders, after that it did peer thereunder; and the tongue did be
very long, and white, and something thin-seeming; and the Monster lapped
inward in a moment a great snake from among the boulders, and the tongue
did hold upon the snake, as that there did be surely teeth or roughness
upon the tongue;"
William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land
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