termight

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The new termight had a gigantic growth on its head.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
The termight stepped back and seemed to regard Gren.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
The termight scurried back into the hole, palling the stone into place with never a backward glance.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
Once declared enemies, now termight and human faced each other almost in kinship, as though the teeming millennia of change had wrought a bond between them.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
Despite this fearsome burden, the termight seemed active enough.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
A leapycreeper flailed the rough bark in a frenzy of greed, attacking the termight column.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
The darkness was broken suddenly as the termight pushed up a flat stone that covered the tunnel mouth and crawled into daylight.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
Yet his feeling was not that he had behaved stubbornly in remaining behind on the termight castle, but that they had behaved foolishly in not offering to accept his lead.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
Only the termight with the growth accompanied Gren now; the others moved off in military order without looking back.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962