"Torkar Bar has already placed a great debt of gratitude upon my shoulders," I replied, pointing to the carcass of the creature from whose heart he was dragging his long spear.
In this section of Kaol we are all armed with a long sith spear, whose point is smeared with the poison of the creature it is intended to kill; no other virus acts so quickly upon the beast as its own.
Warlord of Mars
Twice he had been on the point of springing
upon the man, but both times the other's eyes had met his and something which he was not able to comprehend had stayed him.
The Monster Men
I was among the number, but when after strolling about for some time we lighted a fire and sat down to enjoy the repast which we had brought with us, we were startled by a sudden and violent trembling of the island, while at the same moment those left
upon the ship set up an outcry bidding us come on board for our lives, since what we had taken for an island was nothing but the back of a sleeping whale.
Arabian Nights
The fabulous wealth of the fabled city had been almost constantly in his mind since Waziri had recounted the strange adventures of the former expedition which had stumbled
upon the vast ruins by chance.
The Return of Tarzan
For to know much of other men's matters, cannot be because all that ado may concern his own estate; therefore it must needs be, that he taketh a kind of play-pleasure, in looking
upon the fortunes of others.
The Essays
All eyes had been
upon the figures of the girl and their jeddak, and loud was the hideous laughter that rang out in appreciation of the wit of the green emperor's reply to his prisoner's appeal for liberty.
Thuvia Maid of Mars
"How could one hide so much as two hundred pounds
upon his person?"
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Perry says that the force of gravity is less
upon the surface of the inner world than
upon that of the outer.
At the Earths Core
There is no pass at the further end of the valley, and it is a perilous place should an enemy come
upon us."
The White Company
Back and forth they swept across the rolling land until at last they came to rest
upon a point near the center of the landscape and close to the green-fringed contours of the river.
Tarzan the Untamed
Sola and I had entered a building
upon the front of the city, in fact, the same one in which I had had my encounter with the apes, and, wishing to see what had caused the sudden retreat, I mounted to an upper floor and peered from the window out over the valley and the hills beyond; and there I saw the cause of their sudden scurrying to cover.
Princess of Mars
A hundred men surged
upon the platform, and a hundred blades rattled and clanked to the floor at my feet.
The Gods of Mars
For all the duration of the storm she rode, a helpless derelict,
upon those storm-tossed waves of wind.
The Chessmen of Mars
He tossed
upon his bed of grasses, sleepless, for an hour and then he rose, noiseless as a wraith, and while the Waziri's back was turned, vaulted the boma wall in the face of the flaming eyes, swung silently into a great tree and was gone.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar