“The great hall was instantly atwitter. Some cried ‘Hoax!’ or ‘Charlatan!’, but the Professor fiercely hushed them all. ‘My men are dead,’ he cried with evident emotion; ‘and you cry hoax? This specimen,’ he went on, his voice audibly trembling, ‘is only the first of the many I shall destroy.’ ” — The Hunt for the Piranhamoose, or, Beasts of the Devil, 1881

“The great hall was instantly atwitter. Some cried ‘Hoax!’ or ‘Charlatan!’, but the Professor fiercely hushed them all. ‘My men are dead,’ he cried with evident emotion; ‘and you cry hoax? This specimen,’ he went on, his voice audibly trembling, ‘is only the first of the many I shall destroy.’ ”

— The Hunt for the Piranhamoose, or, Beasts of the Devil, 1881

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