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1 " Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She "
― Edgar Rice Burroughs , Thuvia, Maid of Mars
2 " It is quite simple, being nothing more than a radium generator diffusing radio-activity in all directions to a distance of a hundred yards or so from the flier. Should "
3 " Her queenly head was poised haughtily upon her smooth red shoulders. Her "
4 " I am like my father—witless in matters of the heart, and of a poor way with women; yet the jewels that strew these royal garden paths—the trees, the flowers, the sward—all must have read the love that has filled my heart since first my eyes were made new by imaging your perfect face and form; so how could you alone have been blind to it? "
5 " To face that savage mountain of onrushing ferocity, to stand unshaken before the hideous fangs that he knew were bared in slavering blood-thirstiness, though he could not see them, required nerves of steel; but of such were the nerves of Carthoris of Helium. "