Gliding forward, she tried to seize the African; but he eluded her grasp, just missing, in doing so, falling into the mysterious hole.

As he swayed back to firm foothold, he turned his own gun on her and shot.

Instinctively Adam leaped at his assailant; clutching at each other, they tottered on the very brink.
Lady Arabella's anger, now fully awake, was all for Oolanga.

She moved towards him with her hands extended, and had just seized him when the catch of the locked box--due to some movement from within--flew open, and the king-cobra-killer flew at her with a venomous fury impossible to describe.

As it seized her throat, she caught hold of it, and, with a fury superior to its own, tore it in two just as if it had been a sheet of paper.