But the rest was bad enough to make me bite frantically on the tow, and I think in a little my sharp front teeth would have severed it.

All this discomfort prevented me seeing what happened.

The wood, as I have said, was thin, and through the screen of leaves I had a confused impression of men and horses passing interminably.

There can only have been a score at the most; but the moments drag if a cord is gripping your throat.

When Laputa at length untied me, I had another fit of nausea, and leaned helplessly against a tree.
Laputa listened till the sound of the horses had died away; then silently we stole to the edge of the road, across, and into the thicker evergreen bush on the far side.