"Oh, yes," she exclaimed, "I recognize the flavor of my
nocturnal beverage which refreshed me so much, and seemed to ease my aching brain.
I will tell, too, of the great nocturnal white thing--to this day we do not know whether it was beast or reptile--which lived in a vile swamp to the east of the lake, and flitted about with a faint phosphorescent glimmer in the darkness.
In spite of the danger from dinosaurs (which is not great save at night, for, as I may have said before, they are mostly nocturnal in their habits) I have twice in the last three weeks been over to our old camp in order to see our negro who still kept watch and ward below the cliff.
The soft padding of unseen feet, the rustling of leaves and grasses to the passage of fierce beasts, the sheen of opalesque eyes flaming through the dark, the million sounds which proclaimed the teeming life that one might hear and scent, though seldom see, constituted the appeal of the nocturnal jungle to Tarzan.
Instantly the great bull was awake and bristling, sensing danger from the nocturnal summons.
Instead of being
nocturnal in its habits, as other toads are, and living in damp obscure recesses, it crawls during the heat of the day about the dry sand-hillocks and arid plains, where not a single drop of water can be found.
Then he turned towards the night breeze which bore towards him, he seemed to think, the distant song of the nightingale; and, after having laid in a due provision of melancholy, another
nocturnal malady, he retired to rest thinking, with regard to his own love affair, that perhaps four or even a larger number of eyes, quite as ardent as those of De Guiche and Buckingham, were coveting his own idol in the chateau at Blois.
As it was--and especially after the object of her
nocturnal visit to Mrs.
For an instant my hand touched against human flesh, and then, as I lunged headforemost through the darkness to seize my
nocturnal visitor, my foot became entangled in my sleeping silks and I fell sprawling to the floor.
The Victoria ascended to a height of five hundred feet, and, during her
nocturnal trip of about sixty miles, the gentle slumbers of an infant would not have been disturbed by her motion.
During this period Tarzan paid many
nocturnal visits to the village, where he often renewed his supply of arrows.
The atmosphere enveloped the disc with a fluid mantle; vapor deposited itself in the shape of clouds; this natural screen tempered the ardor of the solar rays, and retained the
nocturnal radiation.
As I expressed some surprise at this piece of
nocturnal gymnastics, he begged me to notice carefully the exterior disposition of the chateau.
These phases of the walk remained written on John's memory, each emphasised by the touch of that light hand on his arm; and behind all these aspects of the
nocturnal city he saw, in his mind's-eye, a picture of the lighted drawing-room at home where he had sat talking with Flora; and his father, from the other end, had looked on with a kind and ironical smile.
"Then, strengthening himself with the heavenly viaticum,* he prepared for the entrance into another life, and asked how near the time was when the brothers were to be awakened to sing the
nocturnal praises of our Lord.
