He momentarily expected to feel the sudden crunch of one of these voracious monsters "rising" him from the depths beneath.
It is evident that these monsters are trying to drive us into some secret place, and it is well-known that they are in league with Zog the Terrible, whom they serve because they are as wicked as he is.
The monsters made no attempt to follow them, but they burst into a chorus of harsh laughter which warned our friends that they had not yet accomplished their escape.
Its appearance directs one's thoughts back to the monsters of prehistoric times, and the fat meat is highly esteemed by the Dayaks.
They are considered good antohs, but if one of the monsters devours a man arrangements are made to kill it, though otherwise the natives prefer not to do so and do not eat it.
The three weeks' swim in 3 suggests Beowulf's swim of a week and his fight with the sea-monsters (Beowulf 535 ff.
Two monsters of terrible aspect, whose joy was the burning of villages, and whose delight was the killing of human beings, guarded the entrance of that cave.
It was evident that the monsters had no conception of the presence of humans.
It was known now that the swarm of monsters had originated in the Great Victoria Desert, one of the worst stretches of desolation in the world, situated in the south-east corner of Western Australia.
You have seen more--you have looked at themonsters themselves.
Men will struggle and fight with their puny weapons, but these monsters will win, and they will have their way with us.
The propellers struck them and snapped short, and as the planes went weaving down, the hideous monsters leaped into the cockpits and began their abominable meal.
The moon was completely hidden, and only a dim, nebulous light showed the repulsive monsters as they flew within a few feet of the heads of the fugitives.
Hovering overhead, the eight huge monsters dropped lightly to the ground beside the three.
None of them, fortunately, fell into either of the three shells, but the mass of struggling monsters in the water was hardly less formidable to the safety of the occupants than that menacing cloud overhead.
Tommy struck the soft sand, sat up, half dazed, saw his shell lying a few feet away from him, and retrieved it just as a couple of the monsterscame swooping down at him.
In time, if left alone, the monsters would grow larger shells, become invincible again.
Within the space of an hour, by the time the first shafts of sunlight began to stream into the room, there was to be seen only the massive, rounded shells of the monsters as they squatted in the sand.
The monsters had begun to grow new shells, and the news had excited a fresh wave of apprehension.
There are always boys and carts and birds, and all sorts of monsters on the road.
It seemed impossible that creatures so tender could live in the savage sea, where hungry monsters roamed incessantly in search of prey.
They do not seek to destroy his principles and assert their own; the stranger monsters of the suburban street do seek to do this.
It is permissible to present men as monsters if we wish to make the reader jump; and to make anybody jump is always a Christian act.
An instance of this occurs in the picturesque grouping of the monsters and personified abstractions about the gates of Hades (Æn.
At length Tundale found himself outside the monster, and languidly opening his eyes saw the angel, who bore him to a broad, stormy lake, wherein were monsters innumerable, seeking to devour the wretched souls.
This lake corresponds to the sea haunted by strange monsters which swarm about the hero’s curach in the early Imrama and in the modern romantic folk-tales.
There were monsters in human form far more fearful to be encountered; and at that moment not very distant from the spot where the lovers had made their rendezvous.
The monsters were at that moment in the act of setting fire to the mansion.
It must be understood that Medusa was the only one of these dragon- monsters whose head Perseus could possibly cut off.
They gradually learned that there were no sea serpents ormonsters that would devour foolhardy mariners.
There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
But these here spoken of are called giants, as being not only tall in stature, but violent and savage in their dispositions, and meremonsters of cruelty and lust.
How should any hold Those precious scriptures only old-world tales Of strange impossible torments and false gods; Of men and monsters in some brainless dream, Coherent, yet unmeaning, linked together By some false skein of song?
That the monsters of the river do not swallow him, that the waves of the river do not drown him, that Pharaoh's executioners do not kill him!
They are monsters and demons, vampires, created from dreams of intoxication.
They looked to the King or chief, or some champion, to kill these monsters for them.
There is a perfect series of gradations connecting them with the various forms of double monsters united by homologous parts.
Through vast craters and muddy shell holes and over trenches the monsterswaddled along, scattering death and destruction as they advanced.
Leading the way, these monsters waddled through the village, shattering barricades, crushing their way through masonry and creating general alarm among the German troops, who saw these formidable war engines for the first time.
There was something uncanny about these steel-scaled monsters that slid over the ground as it were on their stomachs, balanced by a flimsy tail supported on two wheels.
Now a roach, either at the end of my line or on the table, happens to be my aversion, and finding that I was perpetually deceived by the avidity with which the scaly monsters seized my fly, I soon wound up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monsters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
