And then it was that I first perceived the danger in which I stood; for there was no hope of kindling a light, and I doubted now whether even in the light I could ever have done much to dislodge the great slab of slate.

The fish also exhibited contractures of the pectoral fins and abnormal eye positioning suggestive of extropia.

their indefeasible power of predeclaring the eternal destiny of every living layman

From the beginning, the child called Margar was shockingly like him. She developed stiltish legs and dangling arms, flat brown hair, and eyes that loomed in her face as though not quite fixed there – too big for the fine bones, too searching.