"Out of the chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap"

"Out of the chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap"

"moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chines boxes..."

"moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chines boxes..."

"Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff. He felt the trembling in his arms, and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle"

"Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today. This makes Africa seem like Illinois."

"He indicated a metal path that struck off into green wilderness, over streaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms."

"They sat in the ancient wilderness. Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood."

"Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity."

"The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever."

"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever."

"Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats of delirium and night fever."

"I've hunted tiger, wild boar, buffalo, elephant, but now, this is it," said Eckels. "I'm shaking like a kid."

"In the mist. There he is. There's His Royal Majesty now."

"The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs. Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door..."

"The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs. Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door..."

"It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest."

"It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest."

"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior."

"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior."

"Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior."

"And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys..."

"And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky."

"Its mouth gaped, exposing a teeth of fence like daggers."

"Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger."

"It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight."

"It could reach up and grab the moon."

"The rifle in his hands seemed a cap gun."

"Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins."

"In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move."

"A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood. The Monster roared, teeth glittering with sun."

"Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch."

"The Monster twitched its jeweler's hands down to fondle at the men, to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat."

"The Monster twitched its jeweler's hands down to fondle at the men, to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat."

"Its boulder-stone eyes leveled with the men."

"They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris."

"Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell."

"Somewhere inside, a sac of fluids burst. Sickening gushes drenched the hunters. They stood, red and glistening."

"Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen, every thing shutting off, closing up forever."

"It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time, all valves being released or levered tight."

"Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror."

"After a long time, like a sleepwalker he shuffled out along the Path."

"It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time."

"They moved silently across the room, taking their guns with them, toward the Machine, toward the silver metal and roaring light."