It sent him into the trees again--into the lower terrace where he could watch the ground below and catch with ears and nose the first intimation of actual contact with his
quarry. Nor was it long before the ape-man came upon Bara standing alert at the edge of a moon-bathed clearing.
No; stay with him, and we'll jog along to the
quarry." He chuckled.
It was in the
quarry alone that he could effect this object, without ascending to the summit of the mountain.
And then he woke again to his detested fate, and found himself sitting, humped together, in a windy combe of
quarry refuse - darkness thick about him, thin flakes of snow flying here and there like rags of paper, and the strong shuddering of his body clashing his teeth like a hiccough.
Asmunsen's narrative of his tribulations as a
quarry owner.
His judgment told him the natural trail for a
quarry to follow, so that he need but note the most apparent marks upon the way, and today the trail of Toog was as plain to him as type upon a printed page to you or me.
When he emerged at the
quarry he felt secure, and so he picked up his nimble heels and flew.
I had seen jaloks hunting in packs, and I recalled now what for the time I had not thought of--the several that ran ahead and turned the
quarry back toward the main body.
No hour had passed since Bara had come this way; the time could be measured in minutes and so the great lion redoubled the cautiousness of his advance as he crept stealthily in pursuit of his
quarry.
Tarzan followed close above his
quarry, waiting for a clearer space in which to hurl his rope.
Carefully I crept forward toward my unsuspecting
quarry, coming undetected to the concealment of a bush not more than twenty feet from him.
We went to the
quarry from whence the stones of Baalbec were taken.