Oroid

And eventually they would have to become normal Oroid size, or even smaller, in order to get into the city unnoticed.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

Evidently he was thinking of Lylda's fragile little body, and certainly if most of the Oroid women were like her, labour in the fields would be for them quite impossible.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

They were, at this time, perhaps six times the normal height of an adult Oroid.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

As they walked onward through the apparently endless and unchanging forest, surrounded by what the Very Young Man called their "guard of honor," they were joined from time to time by other Oroid men, all of whom seemed to know who they were and where they were going, and who fell silently into line with them.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

His appearance was not that of an Oroid, for beside his greater height, and more muscular physique, his skin was distinctly of a more brownish hue.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

"I suppose that is the best translation of the Oroid word; we have a word that means about the same thing."

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

You have met them all calmly; you have fought them all justly, like a woman -- a brave, honest Oroid woman, who can wrong no one.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

To one of normal Oroid size it would have been unnoticeable -- a space hardly so great as the thickness of a thin sheet of paper.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

The Oroid shouted to them in his own quaint tongue, words of a soft, liquid quality with a wistful sound -- words wholly unintelligible to the adventurers.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922

His hair was cut at the base of the neck in Oroid fashion; it was black, with streaks of silver running through it.

The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings 1922