These grew momentarily louder, and soon I saw him approaching, my father--at least, by all the evidence of the times, I am driven to conclude that he was my father.
He was not an extremely prepossessing father, as fathers go.

He seemed half man, and half ape, and yet not ape, and not yet man.

I fail to describe him.

There is nothing like him to-day on the earth, under the earth, nor in the earth.

He was a large man in his day, and he must have weighed all of a hundred and thirty pounds.