With the eye of an expert Ngurn examined the particular
head he was at work upon.
But if no other will oppose her, I myself and Joan Top here will have the honour of the victory." Having thus said, she flew at Molly Seagrim, and easily wrenched the thigh-bone from her hand, at the same time clawing off her cap from her
head. Then laying hold of the hair of Molly with her left hand, she attacked her so furiously in the face with the right, that the blood soon began to trickle from her nose.
"I can see it now, the water-tank, the mainmast, the gang hanging on to him, the hatchet descending on the back of his
head, and all under the blazing sunlight.
The creature who carried the bodiless
head now set its burden upon the ground and the latter immediately crawled toward one of the bodies that was lying near by.
"Not at all beautiful, you understand, but you have a certain style of prettiness that is different from that of any of my thirty
heads. So I believe I'll take your
head and give you No.
He continued gibbering and chuckling dementedly, to twist the bushman's
head back and forth and to feed the smudge with punk-wood.
"When we get our Magic Belt," he made reply, "our King, Roquat the Red, will use its power to give every Whimsie a natural
head as big and fine as the false
head he now wears.
As quick as lightning the man's
head shot forward and his neck stretched out until the top of the
head, where it was flat, struck the Scarecrow in the middle and sent him tumbling, over and over, down the hill.
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed `Off with her
head! Off--'
Other
heads, thoroughly sun-dried and smoke-cured, were found in abundance, but, with two exceptions, they were the
heads of blacks.
The two sofas were now bound firmly together with ropes and clothes-lines, and then Nick Chopper fastened the Gump's
head to one end.
I will confer upon you the
head of a fox, so that you may hereafter look as bright as you really are."
