imagery in the most dangerous games
''to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.''
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"The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea dosed over his head. ."
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"There was no sound in the night as Rainsford sat there but the muffled throb of the engine that drove the yacht swiftly through the darkness, and the swish and ripple of the wash of the propeller. "
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"An unbroken front of snarled and ragged jungle fringed the shore. "
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"He saw no sign of a trail through the closely knit web of weeds and trees"
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