Excerpts from the Book 'Allan Quatermain':

... for mercy but it is of no use, the black Fate thunders on and in its season reduces us to powder. 'Poor Harry to go so soon! just when his life was opening ...
... me smelt horribly, I really began to enjoy myself. The moonbeams played upon the surface of the running water that speeded unceasingly past us towards ...
... and down he went to the bottom, leaving nothing but a train of bubbles behind him. Alas! when our time comes, most of us like him leave nothing but ...
... common justice. My life was an old and worthless one, hers was young and valuable. Her death would pretty well kill her father and mother also, whilst ...
... house before they kill me.' 'Eh?' said Sir Henry and Good simultaneously. 'That you don't.' 'No, no,' said Mr Mackenzie. 'I will have no man's blood upon ...
... to fly. I cut short his career with a bullet, and Umslopogaas brained his man, and then the panic spread to the others. 'Bewitched, bewitched!' they ...
... kissed us all and thanked us. I congratulated her on the presence of mind she had shown in shooting the Masai with her Derringer pistol, and thereby saving ...
... turn the canoe as far from it as possible, and held on grimly. My eyes seemed to be bursting from my head, and through my closed lids I could see the ...
... the shore, his little boat skimming away before the wind like a swallow. As she passed across our bows the man turned to attend to the large sail, and ...
... enemy to pass. The third entrance consisted of a flight of ten curved black marble steps leading to a doorway cut in the palace wall. This wall was in itself ...
... gone, the officer whom Nyleptha had addressed came forward and with many tokens of deep respect led us from the hall through various passages to ...
... at a speed sufficient to take one's breath, and which, till I got accustomed to it, kept me in momentary fear of an upset. As for the wretched ...
... up almost out of sight when followed by the hawk. Still better sport is offered by a variety of solitary snipe as big as a small woodcock, which is ...
... and at last to settle on her throne. Allan Quatermain Chapter 17 The Storm breaks And now it was that the trouble which at first had ...
... have grown grey together, and there is that between us that cannot be seen, and yet is too strong for breaking' and he took his snuff-box, which was ...
... own country, and so I set to work and read the service, from 'Dearly beloved' to 'amazement', as well as I could and when I came to 'I, Henry, take ...
... down, slowly indeed, but irresistibly from the positions they had so gallantly held all day. At last it was our turn to attack. On we moved, over the ...
... when viewed from the distance. But is it not thus with all the affairs and doings of our race about which we blow the loud trumpet and make such ...
... himself together and sprang straight at Nasta's throat, as I have sometimes seen a wounded lion spring. He struck him full as his foot was on the topmost ...
... by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led ...