A small window shotshootan oblique square of whiter light upon the cluttered floor .
But the creatures ranrunoff a second time , before I could seize them ; whereupon there was a great shoutshoutin a very shrill accent , and after it ceasedceaseI heardhearone of them crycryaloud _ Tolgo phonac _ ; when in an instant I feltfeelabove a hundred arrows dischargeddischargeon my left hand , which , prickedprickme like so many needles ; and besides , they shotshootanother flightflightinto the air , as we do bombs in Europe , whereof many , I suppose , fell on my body , ( though I felt them not ) , and some on my face , which I immediately coveredcoverwith my left hand .
A week before , a great meteor had shotshootthrough the night , blood-red and bearded , drawing a slow-fading fiery trailtrailacross the heavens ; and the moon had risenrisethat same night blood-red , and upon its disk there was drawndrawin shadow a thing most marvelously like a scalping knife .