"TALL AND UPRIGHT, WITH THE PALE, ASCETIC FACE OF A SAINT" (p. [28]).
"CREATURES SO OLD AND DECREPIT THAT THEY SEEM TO HAVE GATHERED MOSS LIKE STONES LYING FOR EVER IN THE SAME PLACE" (p. [29]).
"WHEN FOUND IN SUCH NUMBERS THEY ARE MOSTLY HEWN OUT OF WOOD" (p. [34]).