The Chessmen of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 8 · 4,261 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Mars (Planet) — Fiction · Science fiction

Words worth knowing: relegate · ofttimes · caparison · diagonal · inlay · buoyancy · meager · unbelievable

Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at the dishonored head of my defeated king.

While thus profitably employed I heard the east door of the living-room open and someone enter.

I thought it was Shea returning to speak with me on some matter of tomorrow's work; but when I raised my eyes to the doorway that connects the two rooms I saw framed there the figure of a bronzed giant, his otherwise naked body trapped with a jewel-encrusted harness from which there hung at one side an ornate short-sword and at the other a pistol of strange pattern.

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