They moved all together, as if guided and led by intelligent beings; and they advanced towards the spot on which I stood.
"I saw, too, that they were the _soldiers_.

I knew these from the workers, by their larger heads and long horny mandibles.

I knew they could bite fiercely and painfully.
"The thought filled me with horror.

I confess it, I never was so horrified before.

My late encounter with the lion was nothing to compare with it.
"My first impression was that I would be destroyed by the termites.