There was then no delay, so that greater hosts came heap-meal from the nations which we mentioned before ; and the folk which came hither began to wax and spread so much that they were a great terror to the same inhabitants of the land …

They were emboldened by their success.

All is continuous, as Thirdness, generality, a temporal and mediary collusion of the values of the possible (as Firstness) and the singular (as Secondness).

They might have been lifted bodily out of an indifferently written American crime novel.