The War of the Worlds
approach the Martians nearer. There were three policemen too, one of whom was mounted, doing their best, under instructions from ...
droning of the pit, the beam swung close over their heads, lighting the tops of the beech trees that line the road, and splittin ...
CHAPTER SEVEN HOW I REACHED HOME For my own part, I remember nothing of my flight except the stress of blundering against trees ...
feeble- ness and anguish, and the near approach of death. Now it was as if something turned over, and the point of view altered ...
familiar. And that behind me! It was frantic, fantastic! Such things, I told myself, could not be. Perhaps I am a man of excepti ...
‘Quite enough,’ said the woman over the gate. ‘Thenks"; and all three of them laughed. I felt foolish and angry. I tried and fou ...
My wife at least did not find my experience incredible. When I saw how deadly white her face was, I ceased abruptly. ‘They may c ...
overlooked the fact that such mechanical intelligence as the Martian possessed was quite able to dispense with muscular exertion ...
cigarette, regretting Ogilvy’s rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. So some respectable dodo in t ...
CHAPTER EIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT The most extraordinary thing to my mind, of all the strange and wonderful things that happened upon t ...
The War of the Worlds authentication from him and receiving no reply—the man was killed—decided not to print a special edition. ...
impact of trucks, the sharp whistle of the engines from the junction, mingled with their shouts of ‘Men from Mars!’ Excited men ...
on it all night under the stars, and all the next day. A noise of hammering from the pit was heard by many people. So you have t ...
Several officers from the Inkerman barracks had been on the common earlier in the day, and one, Major Eden, was reported to be m ...
CHAPTER NINE THE FIGHTING BEGINS Saturday lives in my memory as a day of suspense. It was a day of lassitude too, hot and close, ...
the troops would be able to capture or to destroy the Martians during the day. ‘It’s a pity they make themselves so unapproachab ...
and, looking along the road towards the bridge, I saw one of the Cardigan men standing sentinel there. I talked with these soldi ...
‘Octopuses,’ said he, ‘that’s what I calls ‘em. Talk about fishers of men—fighters of fish it is this time!’ ‘It ain’t no murder ...
people on the outskirts of Horsell lock up and leave their houses. I got back to lunch about two, very tired for, as I have said ...
heroism came back. It hardly seemed a fair fight to me at that time. They seemed very helpless in that pit of theirs. About thre ...
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