The Return of TarzanThis book follows Tarzan after a brief and harrowing experience among men, returns to the jungle, where he becomes involved in a search for Opar, the city of gold. |
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A. C. McClurg Abdul adrea ape-man Apes Arabs arms arrow asked beast beneath boat Bou Saada Bouira Busuli cabin Caldwell Cape Town civilization Clayton close countess cried D'Arnot dark dead dear death deck desert Djelfa door douar dropped enemy eyes face fear feet fight followed forest Gernois girl Greystoke hand Hazel head heart hour hunt instant Jane Porter jungle Kadour ben Saden Kerchak kill knew knife later laughed lion looked Lord Manyuema mighty Miss Strong Monsieur Flaubert Monsieur Tarzan Monsieur Thuran morning never night Nikolas Numa Olga once Opar Paulvitch priestess replied Tarzan Rokoff Russian savage sheik shoulder side Sidi Aissa Sidi-bel-Abbes slowly smile spahis spear spoke stood suddenly Tantor Tarzan saw tell Tennington terrible thing thought tree tribe turned village voice wait wall warriors Waziri whispered wild wish woman wondered
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Page 30 - ... the sum total of human knowledge that a single individual might hope to acquire even after a lifetime of study and research; but he learned what he could by day, and threw himself into a search for relaxation and amusement at night. Nor did he find Paris a whit less fertile field for his nocturnal avocation. If he smoked too many cigarettes and drank too much absinth it was because he took civilization as he found it, and did the things that he found his civilized brothers doing.
Page 184 - Then she looked for the other boats, but as far as the eye could reach there was nothing to break the fearful monotony of that waste of waters — they were alone in a small boat upon the broad Atlantic.
Page 341 - It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart — kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever." Tarzan of the Apes needed no second invitation. He took the girl he loved in his strong arms, and kissed her not once, but a hundred times, until she lay there panting for breath; yet when he stopped she put her arms about his neck and drew his lips down to hers once more.
Page 30 - Tarzan spent the two following weeks renewing his former brief acquaintance with Paris. In the daytime he haunted the libraries and picture galleries. He had become an omnivorous reader, and the world of possibilities that were opened to him in this seat of culture and learning fairly appalled him when he contemplated the very infinitesimal crumb of the sum total of human knowledge that a single individual might hope to acquire even after a lifetime of study and research; but he learned what he could...
Page 16 - ... existence. In the jungle one would scarcely stand supinely aside while another took his mate. It is a silly world, an idiotic world, and Tarzan of the Apes was a fool to renounce the freedom and the happiness of his jungle to come into it.
Page 262 - As the ape-man and his companions stood gazing in varying degrees of wonderment at this ancient city in the midst of savage Africa, several of them became aware of movement within the structure at which they were looking. Dim, shadowy shapes appeared to be moving about in the semi-darkness of the interior. There was nothing tangible that the eye could grasp — only an uncanny suggestion of life where it seemed that there should be no life, for living things seemed out of place in this weird, dead...
Page 15 - but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess — money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal bound by silly customs that make them slaves to their unhappy lot while firm in the belief that they be the lords of creation enjoying the only real pleasure in existence. In the jungle one would scarcely stand supinely aside while another took his mate. It is a silly world, an idiotic...
Page 266 - ... courtyard of the temple. Here he saw his captors. There must have been a hundred of them — short, stocky men, with great beards that covered their faces and fell upon their hairy breasts. The thick, matted hair upon their heads grew low over their receding brows, and hung about their shoulders and their backs. Their crooked legs were short and heavy, their arms long and muscular. About their loins they wore the skins of leopards and lions, and great necklaces of the claws of these same...
Page 3 - If civilization had done nothing else for Tarzan of the Apes, it had to some extent taught him to crave the society of his own kind, and to feel with genuine pleasure the congenial warmth of companionship. And in the same ratio had it made any other life distasteful to him. It was...
Page 109 - Here were people after his own heart! Their wild, rough lives, filled with danger and hardship, appealed to this half-savage man as nothing had appealed to him in the midst of the effeminate civilization of the great cities he had visited. Here was a life that excelled even that of the jungle, for here he might have the society of...