"Nothing I have ever written was given the slightest deliberation. It was there in the typewriter and it came out, a t…"

"She was unbinding her turban... He watched, not breathing, a presentiment of something horrible stirring in his brain…"

"Death in your eyes, Earthman. Nothing in your mind but murder. Can that brain of yours comprehend nothing but battle?…"

"The stone walls were incised with those inevitable, mysterious symbols which have become nothing more than queer desi…"

"Now she took the sword back into her hand and knelt on the rim of the invisible blackness below. She had gone this pa…"

"It was a long way down. Before she had gone very far the curious dizziness she had known before came over her again, …"

"All about her, as suddenly as the awakening from a dream, the nothingness had opened out into undreamed-of distances.…"

"She half expected, despite her brave words, to come out upon the storied and familiar red-hot pave of hell, and this …"

"And not until then did she remember how fatal it is said to be to accept a gift from a demon. Buy, or earn it, but ne…"

"She turned her face up to the strange stars and wondered in what direction her course lay. The sky looked blankly dow…"