Leaving only the vast moving shadow, extending, deepening... and always moving nearer.
9 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:10:56 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- They can outrun the crawlers. But if they get trapped, it's either the ants or the crocodiles.
- Look! Look! Look over there on the horizon. There are your ants! Look at 'em!
- It was a sight I will never forget.
- And all the green herbage on the entire slope was being mowed as by a giant sickle...
- Leaving only the vast moving shadow, extending, deepening... and always moving nearer.
- We can't last against that. Look at them!
- Well, I... No! They haven't gotten to us yet... and they never will.
- The hostile army was approaching in perfect formation.
- No human battalions, however well-drilled, could ever hope to rival the precision of that advance.
[...]