The inadequacy of the means for preventing it was a sufficient proof that it was considered impossible.

The sanctuaries were protected by terror more than by their walls.

Matho expected to die at every step.
However a light was flickering far back in the darkness, and they went up to it.

It was a lamp burning in a shell on the pedestal of a statue which wore the cap of the Kabiri.

Its long blue robe was strewn with diamond discs, and its heels were fastened to the ground by chains which sank beneath the pavement.