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| 8 | 31 | It is a machine, View more quotes about thought">thought Cabot, but where is its operator? Is it remotely controlled? The metal beast had, like the river tharlarion, a long tail, in this machine of diminishing, overlapping plates. |
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| 8 | 28 | It crawled slowly onto the dais, on which it crouched. |
| 8 | 29 | Its mouth, which it opened, as though yawning, was spiked with rows of thick, nail-like metallic teeth, some inches in length. |
| 8 | 30 | Cabot could see no face within the opening. |
| 8 | 31 | It is a machine, thought Cabot, but where is its operator? Is it remotely controlled? The metal beast had, like the river tharlarion, a long tail, in this machine of diminishing, overlapping plates. |
| 8 | 32 | It also had hornlike projections aligned on its metal spinal column. |
| 8 | 33 | Cabot conjectured the jaws could shake and cut a normal river tharlarion in two, that the tail, with a swift blow, might shatter stone or fell trees. |
| 8 | 34 | The two Kurii who had parted the curtains for the entrance of the metal beast now crouched near it, on the dais, one on each side. |