Carthoris could not but notice the fact that though the city had been but a short time before surrounded by a
horde of bloodthirsty demons yet none of the citizens appeared to be armed, nor was there sign of soldiery about.
It was while seeking entrance to the city of Kaol that I discovered the green
horde lying in wait for your troops."
Achmet Zek drew to one side of his
horde, speaking to his men in a low voice.
Time and again warriors had put out in their canoes to intercept him, but each time the hideous
horde had swept into view to send the terrified natives shrieking back to the shore to lose themselves in the jungle.
He was destined to play a large part in my life, and for that matter he already played a large part in the lives of all the members of the
horde. He it was whom I shall call Red-Eye in the pages of this history--so called because of his inflamed eyes, the lids being always red, and, by the peculiar effect they produced, seeming to advertise the terrible savagery of him.
He has only to call upon his Mahar allies to receive a countless
horde of Sagoths to do his bidding against his human enemies.
"Thou canst not well go unless thou takest thy
horde with thee out of England, but even that may be possible; who knows other than God?"
The ape-man saw that to charge that wild
horde, armed as they were with guns, and barricaded behind the locked gates of the village, would be a futile task, and so he returned to Waziri and advised him to wait; that he, Tarzan, had a better plan.
He believed that he was going to his death, for mighty as were his thews he knew that in the face of the
horde they would avail him little, yet he saw no other way than to sit supinely by while the girl went to her doom, and that he could not do.
"That you will be thrown to the wild calots [dogs] in the great arena as soon as the
hordes have assembled for the yearly games."
Some may gradually become pastoral
hordes, like those rude and migratory people, half shepherd, half warrior, who, with their flocks and herds, roam the plains of upper Asia; but others, it is to be apprehended, will become predatory bands, mounted on the fleet steeds of the prairies, with the open plains for their marauding grounds, and the mountains for their retreats and lurking-places.
There were two men and four females in the party and their ornaments denoted them as members of different
hordes, a fact which tended to puzzle me infinitely, since the various
hordes of green men of Barsoom are eternally at deadly war with one another, and never, except on that single historic instance when the great Tars Tarkas of Thark gathered a hundred and fifty thousand green warriors from several
hordes to march upon the doomed city of Zodanga to rescue Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, from the clutches of Than Kosis, had I seen green Martians of different
hordes associated in other than mortal combat.