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Lair of the White Worm QUOTES

Lair of the White Worm QUOTES

1 " She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

2 " Adam nodded. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

3 " That combination of forces—the over-lord, the white woman, and the black man—would have cost some—probably all of them—their lives in the Southern States of America. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

4 " Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

5 " I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

6 " We have the well-known legend of the 'Worm Well' of Lambton Castle, "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

7 " sand. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

8 " In the dawn of the language, the word 'worm' had a somewhat different meaning from that in use to-day. It was an adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon 'wyrm,' meaning a dragon or snake; or from the Gothic 'waurms,' a serpent; "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

9 " the elephant had stepped across the body of a snake which was dragging itself through the jungle.  ‘So far as I could see,’ he said, ‘it must have been eighty or one hundred feet in length. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

10 " I suppose you know that when you are after tiger, it is a point of honour not to shoot at anything else, as life may depend on it.  I could easily have spined this monster, but I felt that I must not—so, with regret, I had to let it go. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

11 " when the struggle for existence was so savage that no vitality which was not founded in a gigantic form could have even a possibility of survival. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

12 " Adam went quietly on with his breakfast.  Killing a few snakes in a morning was no new experience to him. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

13 " The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

14 " Now,” said Sir Nathaniel, anxious to restore peace, “have you found out anything yet regarding the negro?  I am anxious to be posted regarding him.  I fear there will be, or may be, grave trouble with him. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

15 " and they open their hearts to him.  It seems that this Oolanga is quite a great person in "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

16 " She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

17 " Mr. Salton had all his life been an early riser, and necessarily an early waker. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

18 " After all, he was only a man, with a man's dislike of difficult or awkward situations. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

19 " we shall be getting close to the old Roman county, and you will naturally want your eyes. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm

20 " several people have disappeared, without leaving the slightest trace; a dead child was found by the roadside, with no visible or ascertainable cause of death—sheep and other animals have been found in the fields, bleeding from open wounds. "

― Bram Stoker , Lair of the White Worm