The Dawning of the Age of Man

I then gave Lys a piece of dried meat, and sitting inside the entrance, we dined as must have some of our ancient forbears at the dawning of the age of man, while far below the open diapason of the savage night rose weird and horrifying to our ears. In the light of the great fire still burning we could see huge, skulking forms, and in the blacker background countless flaming eyes.

The Land That Time Forgot (1918) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Context: Tyler and Lys shelter for the night in a cliffside cave.

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Source: Chapter 8

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