Leaping and clawing, they mowed down the warriors with their powerful paws, turning for an
instant to rend their victims with frightful fangs.
Tarzan recognized the ear-marks of the witch-doctor and awaited Numa's charge with a feeling of pleasurable anticipation, for the ape-man had no love for witch-doctors; but in the
instant that Numa did charge, the white man suddenly recalled that the lion had stolen his kill a few minutes before and that revenge is sweet.
The banth toppled sideways at the same
instant that it attempted to spring; a raking talon passed close to Gahan's head at the moment that his sword lunged through the savage heart, and as the warrior wrenched his blade from the carcass it slipped silently over the side of the ship.
In my innocence and my joy I rather blessed the fire for showing me her true self and my own; and there I stood, loving her openly with my eyes (not to lose another
instant), and bursting to tell her so with my lips.
And as I saw Juag's predicament I saw, too, in the same
instant, a way to relieve him.
His grasp relaxed, his feet slipped, and in an
instant he was a crushed and mangled corpse upon the sharp ridges beneath him.
And now for an
instant the men stood, their rifles slack in their hands, and watched the regiment dwindle.
Of a sudden it turned into an apartment on the right of the corridor, and an
instant later as I rushed in I found myself facing two of the Mahars.
In an
instant the little room was filled with howling, fighting men.
He was, upon the
instant, another creature--wary, alert, ready.
The other thern was engaging me at the time, and I was forcing him back--touching him here and there with my point until he was bleeding from a dozen wounds, yet not being able to penetrate his marvelous guard to reach a vulnerable spot for the brief
instant that would have been sufficient to send him to his ancestors.
I saw his wild endeavors to regain his equilibrium; I saw him reel drunkenly for an
instant upon the brink of eternity and then, with a loud scream, slip into the sea.
