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1  Beyond were the pillars of fire about Chobham.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
2  No doubt its impact had caused a flash of fire.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON.
3  It was the strangest spectacle, that black expanse set with fire.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
4  This jet of fire had become invisible about a quarter past twelve.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
5  It was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
6  The heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR.
7  Apparently the Martians were setting fire to everything within range of their Heat-Ray.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
8  I heard the crackle of fire in the sand-pits and the sudden squeal of a horse that was as suddenly stilled.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
9  Neither could I see the nearer fire, though the reflections of it danced on the wall and ceiling of the study.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
10  Except the lodge at the Orphanage, which was still on fire, none of the houses had suffered very greatly here.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
11  Then I perceived this was a wrecked train, the fore part smashed and on fire, the hinder carriages still upon the rails.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
12  He was turned aside by the fire, and hid among some almost scorching heaps of broken wall as one of the Martian giants returned.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
13  Thick streamers of black smoke shot with threads of red fire were driving up into the still air, and throwing dark shadows upon the green treetops eastward.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
14  I saw that the driving clouds had been pierced as it were by a thread of green fire, suddenly lighting their confusion and falling into the field to my left.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
15  At the same moment the gun exploded behind him, the ammunition blew up, there was fire all about him, and he found himself lying under a heap of charred dead men and dead horses.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
16  An almost noiseless and blinding flash of light, and a man fell headlong and lay still; and as the unseen shaft of heat passed over them, pine trees burst into fire, and every dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
17  People rattling Londonwards peered into the darkness outside the carriage windows, and saw only a rare, flickering, vanishing spark dance up from the direction of Horsell, a red glow and a thin veil of smoke driving across the stars, and thought that nothing more serious than a heath fire was happening.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT.
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