Nearer and nearer she came to where Tarzan of the Apes crouched upon his limb, the coils of his long rope poised ready in his hand.
Screaming with rage she suddenly charged, leaping high into the air toward Tarzan, but when her huge body struck the limb on which Tarzan had been, Tarzan was no longer there.
I leaned far out over my horizontal limb and chattered down at him.
I no longer cared to play, but crouched trembling close to my limb. A second arrow and a third soared up, missing Broken-Tooth, rustling the leaves as they passed through, arching in their flight and returning to earth.
Satisfied by his scrutiny, my light limbed companion swung himself nimbly upon it, and twisting his legs round it in sailor fashion, slipped down eight or ten feet, where his weight gave it a motion not un-like that of a pendulum.
To my surprise and joy, however, he recovered himself, and disentangling his limbs from the fractured branches, he peered out from his leafy bed, and shouted lustily,
The bull struck full upon the small of his back across the limb, hung there for a moment with the ape-man still upon his breast, and then toppled over toward the ground.
Tarzan had felt the instantaneous relaxation of the body beneath him after the heavy impact with the tree limb, and as the other turned completely over and started again upon its fall toward the ground, he reached forth a hand and caught the branch in time to stay his own descent, while the ape dropped like a plummet to the foot of the tree.
Together we wormed our way along the waving pathway, but when we reached the end of the branch we found that our combined weight so depressed the
limb that the cave's mouth was now too far above us to be reached.
"Mos feerd for to ventur pon dis
limb berry far - tis dead
limb putty much all de way."
The anterior and posterior
limbs in each member of the vertebrate and articulate classes are plainly homologous.
As for the legs, they were four straight
limbs cut from trees and stuck fast into the body, being spread wide apart so that the saw-horse would stand firmly when a log was laid across it to be sawed.
May the heathen ruler of the winds confine in iron chains the boisterous
limbs of noisy Boreas, and the sharp-pointed nose of bitter-biting Eurus.
Among the topmost leaves, which scantily concealed the gnarled and stunted
limbs, a savage was nestled, partly concealed by the trunk of the tree, and partly exposed, as though looking down upon them to ascertain the effect produced by his treacherous aim.
``Here is no danger impending,'' said Waldemar Fitzurse; ``are you so little acquainted with the gigantic
limbs of your father's son, as to think they can be held within the circumference of yonder suit of armour?
