The War of the Worlds
Laleham. The generators of the Heat-Rays waved high, and the hissing beams smote down this way and that. The air was full of sou ...
down the towing path, licking off the people who ran this way and that, and came down to the water’s edge not fifty yards from w ...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE After getting this sudden lesson in the power of terrestrial weapons, the Martian ...
twilight, every copse, every row of suburban villas on the hilly slopes about Kingston and Richmond, masked an expectant black m ...
could be seen from the hills about Merrow, and even, it is said, from Banstead and Epsom Downs. And while the Martians behind me ...
quite desolate under the hot blue sky, with the smoke and little threads of flame going straight up into the heat of the afterno ...
I do not clearly remember the arrival of the curate, so that probably I dozed. I became aware of him as a seated figure in soot- ...
I stared at him and made no answer. He extended a thin white hand and spoke in almost a complaining tone. ‘Why are these things ...
‘The smoke of her burning goeth up for ever and ever!’ he shouted. His eyes flamed, and he pointed a lean finger in the directio ...
‘This must be the beginning of the end,’ he said, interrupting me. ‘The end! The great and terrible day of the Lord! When men sh ...
The War of the Worlds ‘I saw it happen.’ I proceeded to tell him. ‘We have chanced to come in for the thick of it,’ said I, ‘and ...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN IN LONDON My younger brother was in London when the Martians fell at Woking. He was a medical student working f ...
interested, but there were no signs of any unusual excitement in the streets. The afternoon papers puffed scraps of news under b ...
night. The nature of the accident he could not ascertain; indeed, the railway authorities did not clearly know at that time. The ...
The habit of personal security, moreover, is so deeply fixed in the Londoner’s mind, and startling intelligence so much a matter ...
papers printed separate editions as further news came to hand, some even in default of it. But there was practically nothing mor ...
ceased. My brother could get very little precise detail out of them. ‘There’s fighting going on about Weybridge’ was the extent ...
My brother could not tell him. Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground ...
watching a curious brown scum that came drifting down the stream in patches. The sun was just setting, and the Clock Tower and t ...
express train, and able to shoot out a beam of intense heat.’ Masked batteries, chiefly of field guns, had been planted in the c ...
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