The War of the Worlds
report, the situation was of the strangest and gravest description, but the public was exhorted to avoid and discourage panic. N ...
to secure copies. Certainly this news excited people intensely, whatever their previous apathy. The shutters of a map shop in th ...
The War of the Worlds My brother turned down towards Victoria, and met a number of such people. He had a vague idea that he migh ...
that way. Then we heard the guns at Chertsey, and folks coming from Wey- bridge. So I’ve locked up my house and come on.’ At the ...
promenaders, albeit they talked in groups, and along the edge of Regent’s Park there were as many silent couples ‘walking out’ t ...
the door; ‘the Martians are coming!’ and hurried to the next door. The sound of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Str ...
‘What the devil is it?’ he asked. ‘A fire? What a devil of a row!’ They both craned their heads out of the window, straining to ...
Ham—people were rubbing their eyes, and opening windows to stare out and ask aimless questions, dressing hastily as the first br ...
Kingston, and Wimbledon, and are advancing slowly towards London, destroying everything on the way. It is impossible to stop the ...
CHAPTER FIFTEEN WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY It was while the curate had sat and talked so wildly to me under the hedge in the fl ...
It was this howling and firing of the guns at Ripley and St. George’s Hill that we had heard at Upper Halliford. The Ripley gunn ...
wide of the Martian on the ground, and, simultaneously, both his companions brought their Heat- Rays to bear on the battery. The ...
batteries about Ditton and Esher. At the same time four of their fighting machines, similarly armed with tubes, crossed the rive ...
solitary possession of the darkling night, lit only as it was by the slender moon, the stars, the afterglow of the daylight, and ...
The War of the Worlds they dream they might exterminate us? (At that time no one knew what food they needed.) A hundred such que ...
above, with one solitary star, and the white mist spreading wide and low beneath. And there had been no crash, no answering expl ...
Moved by a sudden thought, I looked northward, and there I perceived a third of these cloudy black kopjes had risen. Everything ...
country. And the touch of that vapour, the inhaling of its pungent wisps, was death to all that breathes. It was heavy, this vap ...
Once the tumultuous upheaval of its dispersion was over, the black smoke clung so closely to the ground, even before its precipi ...
Upper Halliford, whither we had returned. From there we could see the searchlights on Richmond Hill and Kingston Hill going to a ...
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