"It was quite dark when he went by the towers of Tor, where archers shoot ivory arrows at strangers lest any foreigner…"

"I imagine that as one penetrated out from some enormous forest of the tropics, the wild beasts would become fewer, th…"

"Indeed when we trace it all back to its origin we find at the beginning of this unhappy story a man who was only an e…"

"Once, as Mung went his way athwart the Earth and up and down its cities and across its plains, Mung came upon a man w…"

"Then said the people to the prophet: “Shall not black hills draw round in some forsaken land, to make a vale-wide cau…"

"And cities arose and shed their houses in dust, and ever the desert returned again to its own, and covered over and h…"

"How much do you know?" she said. "Do you know that dreams are illusion?"

"I hope that when London is clean passed away and the defeated fields come back again, like an exiled people returning…"

"All we who write put me in mind of sailors hastily making rafts upon doomed ships."

"What should a man do with the sword of Welleran?"