Perhaps I need this rest, but, so far as my feelings are concerned, I wish the wolves would come on and make a final rush.

Their silence and invisibility are pretty hard on the nerves." He examined the bow carefully again, and put six arrows on the floor of the cave beside him, with the quiver just beyond them.

Tayoga sat immovable, his rifle across his knees, ready in the last emergency to use the bullet.

Thus more time passed in silence and without action.
It often seemed to Robert afterward that there was something unnatural about both time and place.

The darkness came down thicker and heavier, and to his imaginative ear it had a faint sliding sound like the dropping of many veils.