| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 75 | Inching View more quotes about forward">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. |
| 27 | 80 | Even with the abdomen empty her legs could not support its weight and she lay on the dais with her jointed legs folded beside her. |
| 27 | 81 | Her coloring was not that of the normal Priest-King but darker, more brownish, and here and there black stains discolored her thorax and abdomen. |