shadow

This annoyed him: not so much because the shadow was gone, but because he knew there was a story about a man without a shadow.* It was known to everybody at home, in the cold lands; and if the learned man now came there and told his story, they would say that he was imitating it, and that he had no need to do.

He had placed the light directly behind him, for he knew that the shadow would always have its master for a screen, but he could not entice it.

"Forgive me," answered the shadow, "that it is I; and if I please thee not --well, O Zarathustra!

On every surface have I already sat, like tired dust have I fallen asleep on mirrors and window-panes: everything taketh from me, nothing giveth; I become thin--I am almost equal to a shadow.

From the distance and the elevation of the highlands where I stood the Pellucidarian noonday moon showed half in sunshine and half in shadow, while directly be-neath it was plainly visible the round dark spot upon the surface of Pellucidar where the sun has never shone.

But I was not long in coming to a realization of the cause of the shadow.

True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows?

The hand of the shadow emerged from beneath its mantle and descended upon the arm of Phoebus with the grip of an eagle's talon; at the same time the shadow spoke,--

At this name, the shadow's grasp shook the arm of Phoebus in a fury.

Lloyd blunders up against the shadow with his perfect opaqueness.

I escaped Lloyd's shadow only to fetch up against the rainbow flash."