Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса / Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars

The creatures were about ten or fifteen feet tall, standing erect, and had, like the green Martians, an intermediary set of arms or legs, midway between their upper and lower limbs. Their eyes were close together and non-protruding; their ears were high set, but more laterally located than those of the Martians, while their snouts and teeth were strikingly like those of our African gorilla. Altogether they were not unlovely when viewed in comparison with the green Martians.

The cudgel was swinging in the arc which ended upon my upturned face (дубинка поворачивалась по дуге, конец которой приходился на мое обращенное вверх лицо: «которая оканчивалась на…») when a bolt of myriad-legged horror (когда стремительное, как молния, воплощение ужаса с мириадом ног; bolt — молния) hurled itself through the doorway full upon the breast of my executioner (метнулось через дверной проем прямо на грудь моего убийцы; executioner — палач; убийца). With a shriek of fear the ape which held me (с криком ужаса обезьяна, которая держала меня) leaped through the open window (выпрыгнула через открытое окно), but its mate closed in a terrific death struggle with my preserver (но ее напарник сошелся в ужасной смертельной схватке с моим спасителем; preserver — хранитель, спаситель), which was nothing less than my faithful watch-thing (которым оказался не кто иной, как мой верный сторожевой зверь; nothing less than — не что иное как); I cannot bring myself to call so hideous a creature a dog (я не могу заставить себя назвать столь ужасное существо собакой).

cudgel ['kAdZ(q)l], executioner ["eksI'kju: Snq], terrific [tq'rIfIk], hideous ['hIdIqs], creature ['kri: tSq]

The cudgel was swinging in the arc which ended upon my upturned face when a bolt of myriad-legged horror hurled itself through the doorway full upon the breast of my executioner. With a shriek of fear the ape which held me leaped through the open window, but its mate closed in a terrific death struggle with my preserver, which was nothing less than my faithful watch-thing; I cannot bring myself to call so hideous a creature a dog.