The War of the Worlds
headlike hood turning about exactly like the head of a cowled human being. A kind of arm carried a complicated metallic case, ab ...
there, frantic for the most part and many burned and scalded. He was turned aside by the fire, and hid among some almost scorchi ...
trampled bushes and broken rose trees outside the window grew distinct. It would seem that a number of men or animals had rushed ...
Beyond were the pillars of fire about Chobham. They became pillars of bloodshot smoke at the first touch of day. ...
CHAPTER TWELVE WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON As the dawn grew brighter we withdrew from the window f ...
kindness to the right sort of wife,’ he said, ‘to make her a widow"; and in the end I agreed to go with him, under cover of the ...
The War of the Worlds soul on Maybury Hill. The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose, by way of the Old Woking roa ...
After a time we drew near the road, and as we did so we heard the clatter of hoofs and saw through the tree stems three cavalry ...
‘No, sir,’ and the artilleryman began a vivid account of the Heat-Ray. Halfway through, the lieutenant interrupted him and looke ...
sun- light. We were far beyond the range of the Heat-Ray there, and had it not been for the silent desertion of some of the hous ...
The officers who were not actively engaged stood and stared over the treetops southwestward, and the men digging would stop ever ...
soldier had left him, and he was still standing by his box, with the pots of orchids on the lid of it, and staring vaguely over ...
swarming platform was piled with boxes and packages. The ordinary traffic had been stopped, I believe, in order to allow of the ...
There was a lot of shouting, and one man was even jesting. The idea people seemed to have here was that the Martians were simply ...
invisible to us. Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard wil ...
ghostly, terrible Heat-Ray I had already seen on Friday night smote towards Chertsey, and struck the town. At sight of these str ...
splashes of the people in the boats leaping into the river sounded like thunderclaps in my ears. People were landing hastily on ...
was riveted upon the nearer incident. Simultaneously two other shells burst in the air near the body as the hood twisted round i ...
The War of the Worlds aside, blundered on and collapsed with tremendous force into the river out of my sight. A violent explosio ...
movements, it was as if some wounded thing were struggling for its life amid the waves. Enormous quantities of a ruddy-brown flu ...
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