Let's try and dazzle some of them." "I hope it won't be a case of the moths and the candle!" said Zaidie.
"They don't seem to have taken much interest in us so far.

Perhaps they haven't been able to see properly, but suppose they were attracted by the light and began crowding round us and fastening on to us, as the horrible things do with each other.

What should we do then?
They might drag us down and perhaps keep us there; but there's one thing, they'd never eat us, because we could keep closed up and die respectably together." "Not much fear of that, little woman," he said, "we're too strong for them.

Hardened steel and toughened glass ought to be more than a match for a lot of exaggerated jelly-fish like these," said Redgrave, as he switched on the head searchlight.

"We've come here to see strange things and we may as well see them.