Once it fell about the short neck of Horta, the boar, and his mad lunge for freedom toppled Tarzan from the overhanging
limb where he had lain in wait and from whence he had launched his sinuous coil.
Instinctively I crouched down upon the thick
limb. Broken-Tooth stopped teetering, but the branch would not stop, and his body continued bobbing up and down with the rustling leaves.
In the mean time I cautiously transferred myself from the
limb down which I had been slipping to a couple of others that were near it, deeming two strings to my bow better than one, and taking care to test their strength before I trusted my weight to them.
Tarzan secured the rope to a stout
limb and descended to a point close to Taug.
Leaping from
limb to
limb the girl fled through the jungle while close behind her came the two great apes.
I did not venture out upon the
limb for fear that I might be discovered and our retreat in this direction cut off; but instead hurried to retrace my steps to Tars Tarkas.
In a few minutes the voice was heard again, announcing that the seventh
limb was attained.
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.
They always bury it under a ha'nted house or on an island, or under a dead tree that's got one
limb sticking out.
Analogous laws govern the construction of the mouths and
limbs of crustaceans.
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." Then he spurred his horse forward and said no more to Stutely.
I moved, and could not feel my
limbs: I was so light--almost I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.
