He called but she did not answer; he quickly tore away a strip of the canvas to let in some light; the zaimph was gone.
The earth trembled beneath thronging feet.

Shouts, neighings, and clashing of armour rose in the air, and clarion flourishes sounded the charge.

It was as though a hurricane were whirling around him.
Immoderate frenzy made him leap upon his arms, and he dashed outside.
The long files of the Barbarians were descending the mountain at a run, and the Punic squares were advancing against them with a heavy and regular oscillation.

The mist, rent by the rays of the sun, formed little rocking clouds which as they rose gradually discovered standards, helmets, and points of pikes.

Beneath the rapid evolutions portions of the earth which were still in the shadow seemed to be displaced bodily; in other places it looked as if huge torrents were crossing one another, while thorny masses stood motionless between them.