Even before the rending sound which followed Meriem knew that she had misjudged the strength of the
limb.
Irus began to be very uneasy as he heard them, but the servants girded him by force, and brought him [into the open part of the court] in such a fright that his
limbs were all of a tremble.
Toby's animating 'come on' again sounded in my ears, and dreading to lose all confidence in myself if I remained meditating upon the step, I once more gazed down to assure myself of the relative bearing of the tree and my own position, and then closing my eyes and uttering one comprehensive ejaculation of prayer, I inclined myself over towards the abyss, and after one breathless instant fell with a crash into the tree, the branches snapping and cracking with my weight, as I sunk lower and lower among them, until I was stopped by coming in contact with a sturdy
limb.
Now, Jup," cried Legrand, evidently much excited, "I want you to work your way out upon that
limb as far as you can.
The
limb upon which I found myself ascended at a slight angle toward the cliff, and as I followed it I found that it terminated a few feet above a narrow ledge which protruded from the cliff's face at the entrance to a narrow cave.
He could drop twenty feet at a stretch from
limb to
limb in rapid descent to the ground, or he could gain the utmost pinnacle of the loftiest tropical giant with the ease and swiftness of a squirrel.
Now I will make a jest of thee and a sorry jest withal, for I will quarter thee
limb from
limb, after thou art hanged.
As Tarzan approached, the beast turned, snarling, toward him, struggling to extricate itself; but one great
limb across its back and the smaller entangling branches pinioning its legs prevented it from moving but a few inches in any direction.
He came through the trees, leaping from
limb to
limb and from tree to tree; and he came swiftly.
Down in the courtyard half-clad wretches, their bare
limbs all mottled with blood-stains, strutted about with plumed helmets upon their heads, or with the Lady Rochefort's silken gowns girt round their loins and trailing on the ground behind them.
The bones of a
limb might be shortened and widened to any extent, and become gradually enveloped in thick membrane, so as to serve as a fin; or a webbed foot might have all its bones, or certain bones, lengthened to any extent, and the membrane connecting them increased to any extent, so as to serve as a wing: yet in all this great amount of modification there will be no tendency to alter the framework of bones or the relative connexion of the several parts.
Above them, lightly balanced upon a leafy tree
limb, a gray-eyed youth watched with eager intentness their every move.
