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| 27 | 76 | For a View more quotes about moment">moment I could not believe that it was real or alive. |
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| 27 | 73 | I had little doubt but that these Priest-Kings were the most highly regarded musicians of the Nest, that they should be chosen to play together on the great Feast of Tola. |
| 27 | 74 | The antennae of the thousand Priest-Kings seemed almost motionless so intent were they on the beauties of the music. |
| 27 | 75 | Inching forward I saw, on the raised platform at this end of the room, the Mother. |
| 27 | 76 | For a moment I could not believe that it was real or alive. |
| 27 | 77 | It was undoubtedly of the Priest-King kind, and it now was unwinged, but the most incredible feature was the fantastic extent of the abdomen. |
| 27 | 78 | Its head was little larger than that of an ordinary Priest-King, or its thorax, but its trunk was conjoined to an abdomen which if swollen with eggs might have been scarcely smaller than a city bus. |
| 27 | 79 | But now this monstrous abdomen, depleted and wrinkled, no longer possessing whatever tensility it might once have had, lay collapsed behind the creature like a flattened sack of brownly tarnished golden ancient leather. |