Lair of the White Worm Quotes

“She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants.”
― Bram Stoker, Lair of the White Worm

“In the dawn of the language, the word 'worm' had a somewhat different meaning from that in use to-day. It was an adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon 'wyrm,' meaning a dragon or snake; or from the Gothic 'waurms,' a serpent;”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“After all, he was only a man, with a man's dislike of difficult or awkward situations.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“Mr. Salton had all his life been an early riser, and necessarily an early waker.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“She asks Mimi and me to tea this afternoon at Diana’s Grove, and hopes that you also will favour her.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“That combination of forces—the over-lord, the white woman, and the black man—would have cost some—probably all of them—their lives in the Southern States of America.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“several people have disappeared, without leaving the slightest trace; a dead child was found by the roadside, with no visible or ascertainable cause of death—sheep and other animals have been found in the fields, bleeding from open wounds.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“Adam went quietly on with his breakfast.  Killing a few snakes in a morning was no new experience to him.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“I suppose you know that when you are after tiger, it is a point of honour not to shoot at anything else, as life may depend on it.  I could easily have spined this monster, but I felt that I must not—so, with regret, I had to let it go.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“Adam, from the moment of their eyes meeting, felt as if they were already friends.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“We have the well-known legend of the 'Worm Well' of Lambton Castle,”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“sand.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“Adam nodded.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“have always suspected suicide, though no pistol was found near the body.  He may have discovered something—God knows what!—so possibly Lady Arabella may herself have killed him.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“and they open their hearts to him.  It seems that this Oolanga is quite a great person in”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“Now,” said Sir Nathaniel, anxious to restore peace, “have you found out anything yet regarding the negro?  I am anxious to be posted regarding him.  I fear there will be, or may be, grave trouble with him.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“when the struggle for existence was so savage that no vitality which was not founded in a gigantic form could have even a possibility of survival.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“the elephant had stepped across the body of a snake which was dragging itself through the jungle.  ‘So far as I could see,’ he said, ‘it must have been eighty or one hundred feet in length.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm

“we shall be getting close to the old Roman county, and you will naturally want your eyes.”
― Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm