Lean, tall figures loped along the near flank, screaming, occasionally stabbing with javelins.
It was over in less than thirty seconds, and Mid/4 Onishi gritted his teeth as one armored figure loped over to squat beside him with a toothy grin.
The squat figure loped out of the trees, using his knuckles to help himself bound across the grass.
At first I think it is a mirage: a lone figure, shimmering in the heat, loping through the emptiness of the Namib desert.
He nearly swallowed it when another figure loped silently up the red carpet.
"There he goes now," said one of the men as the figure of a rider shown dimly in the starlight loped easily away toward the south, "an' he's goin' toward town."
Over the soft rounded green shoulder of a distant slope had loped a tall black naked figure, bearing on its shoulder an equally naked white form.
A manlike figure was loping along parallel to the road about a hundred paces back in the forest.
Here and there monstrous figures loped through the lichen-covered rocks.
Somewhere behind him the huge figure loped.