The War of the Worlds
BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS ...
CHAPTER ONE UNDER FOOT In the first book I have wandered so much from my own adventures to tell of the experiences of my brother ...
The War of the Worlds her. Such vague anxieties keep the mind sensitive and painful. I grew very weary and irritable with the cu ...
out again, the country northward was as though a black snowstorm had passed over it. Looking towards the river, we were astonish ...
black dust. That pall of cindery powder made me think of what I had read of the destruction of Pompeii. We got to Hampton Court ...
many feet across. I did not know what these were—there was no time for scrutiny—and I put a more horrible interpretation on them ...
house standing in its own grounds, and so emerged upon the road towards Kew. The curate I left in the shed, but he came hurrying ...
I suppose it was nearly eleven o’clock before we gathered courage to start again, no longer venturing into the road, but sneakin ...
We then crossed to a place where the road turns towards Mortlake. Here there stood a white house within a walled garden, and in ...
have never heard before or since. So close on the heels of this as to seem instantaneous came a thud behind me, a clash of glass ...
brickwork, slid down with a rumbling sound. Outside and very near was an intermittent, metallic rattle. ‘That!’ said the curate, ...
towards the house was broken into, and since the daylight shone in there, it was evident the greater part of the house had colla ...
fixed on the faint light of the kitchen door. I could just see the curate’s face, a dim, oval shape, and his collar and cuffs. O ...
CHAPTER TWO WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE After eating we crept back to the scullery, and there I must have dozed again, for ...
The War of the Worlds I touched the curate’s leg, and he started so violently that a mass of plaster went sliding down outside a ...
side save towards the cylinder. Over that aspect we hung now on the very edge of the great circular pit the Martians were engage ...
tentacles it was fishing out a number of rods, plates, and bars which lined the covering and apparently strengthened the walls o ...
my mind, the pamphlet would have been much better without them. At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a ma ...
was the single tight tympanic surface, since known to be anatomically an ear, though it must have been almost useless in our den ...
of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exist in the Martians. They were heads—merely heads. Entrails they ...
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