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1  It was the dawn of the great panic.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
2  Plenty of Londoners did not hear of the Martians until the panic of Monday morning.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
3  At the sight of the sea, Mrs. Elphinstone, in spite of the assurances of her sister-in-law, gave way to panic.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".
4  The fear I felt was no rational fear, but a panic terror not only of the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
5  He came sliding down the rubbish and crept beside me in the darkness, inarticulate, gesticulating, and for a moment I shared his panic.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.
6  As yet the flight had not grown to a panic, but there were already far more people than all the boats going to and fro could enable to cross.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
7  No doubt, ran the report, the situation was of the strangest and gravest description, but the public was exhorted to avoid and discourage panic.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
8  So he got out of the fury of the panic, and, skirting the Edgware Road, reached Edgware about seven, fasting and wearied, but well ahead of the crowd.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.
9  One or two trains came in from Richmond, Putney, and Kingston, containing people who had gone out for a day's boating and found the locks closed and a feeling of panic in the air.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
10  In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon was a number of poor vestiges of the panic torrent that must have poured Londonward on the Sunday night after the fighting began.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL.
11  He was also told that the Midland Railway Company had replaced the desertions of the first day's panic, had resumed traffic, and was running northward trains from St. Albans to relieve the congestion of the home counties.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".