Edgar Allan Poe ever conjure up a picture more ghastly than that of a Penrhyn diver, caught like a rat in a trap by some huge man-eating shark, or fierce kara mauaa — crouching in a cleft of the overhanging coral, under the dark green gloom of a hundred... In the Strange South Seas - Page 242by Beatrice Grimshaw - 1908 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
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...animate nature in its most desperate crises. Miss Grimshaw may well inquire: "Did Schiller or Edgar Allan Poe ever conjure up a picture more ghastly than that...cracking eyeballs, while the threatening bulk of his deadly enemy looms dark and steady, full in the road to life and air? -A minute or more has been spent... | |
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...of a Penrhyn diver caught like a rat in a trap by some huge, maneating shark or fierce kara mauua, crouching in a cleft of the overhanging coral, under...green gloom of a hundred feet of water, with bursting !ungs and cracking eyeballs, while the threatening bulk of his terrible enemy looms dark and steady,... | |
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