| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 78 | Its View more quotes about head">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. |
| 27 | 82 | Her antennae seemed unalert and lacked resilience. |
| 27 | 83 | They lay back over her head. |
| 27 | 84 | Her eyes seemed dull and brown. |