Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide

Chapter 34

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mother-of-pearl, page 422. j. In order to allow time for the consternation ... to evaporate, page 424.

In the third chapter are the following:

a. Knotty question, page 426. b. Like a line of forked lightning, page 427. (This whole paragraph is a wonderfully beautiful description.) c. Rose like slow smoke, page 427. d. In feeble wreaths, page 428. e. Shrieks resembling those of human voices in distress or pain, page 428. f. None like the ordinary forms of splintered ice, page 428. g. _Deceitful_ shadows, page 428. h. Lurid lights _played_, page 428. i. Ice _yawned_ into fresh chasms, page 428. j. Fell _thundering_ across his path, page 429. k. Rays _beat_ intensely, page 429. l. Its lips parched and burning, page 430. m. Long snake-like shadows, page 430. n. The _leaden_ weight of the _dead_ air pressed upon his brow and heart, page 430. o. Shaped like a sword, page 431. p. Like a red-hot ball, page 431. q. They shook their crests like tongues of fire, page 432. r. Flashes of _bloody_ light gleamed along their foam, page 432. s. An icy chill shot through his limbs, page 432. t. The _moaning_ of the river, page 432. u. _The Black Stone_, page 432.