So passionate, so ravenous was its hunger for him that it forgot its wonted cunning: its usual trick was to flee until it exhausted man or woman or any other pursuer whereupon it would turn and devour them; now gluttony drove it to hurry: it raised its head straightway, breaking the dazzling effect of the neck, and uttered such a monstrous, howling cry that it sounded as if more than a hundred hounds were baying inside its belly.