excerpt from the book..There was about that figure something uncanny and terrible. There, inthe hot midday hush, something was happening to it which men would saycould not happen; and men, seeing it, backed away in alarm. Quickly theydispersed. Soon there were only white, frightened faces peering frombehind buildings and trees.Before their very eyes the giant was growing.When he had first emerged, he had been around eleven feet tall, and now,within three minutes, he had risen close to sixteen feet.
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