1 They sent a boat and drove a bargain for thirty-six pounds for the three.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 2 The people who landed there from the boats went tramping off down the lane.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 3 Half a dozen deserted boats pitched aimlessly upon the confusion of the waves.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 4 The splashes of the people in the boats leaping into the river sounded like thunderclaps in my ears.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 5 The Wey has a treble mouth, and at this point boats are to be hired, and there was a ferry across the river.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 6 Across the Thames, except just where the boats landed, everything was quiet, in vivid contrast with the Surrey side.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 7 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. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 8 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.
9 The whole steamer from end to end rang with frantic cheering that was taken up first by one and then by all in the crowding multitude of ships and boats that was driving out to sea.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 10 I saw an abandoned boat, very small and remote, drifting down-stream; and throwing off the most of my sodden clothes, I went after it, gained it, and so escaped out of that destruction.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE. 11 There were no oars in the boat, but I contrived to paddle, as well as my parboiled hands would allow, down the river towards Halliford and Walton, going very tediously and continually looking behind me, as you may well understand.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE. 12 The respectable inhabitants of the place, men in golf and boating costumes, wives prettily dressed, were packing, river-side loafers energetically helping, children excited, and, for the most part, highly delighted at this astonishing variation of their Sunday experiences.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 13 At that the Pool became a scene of mad confusion, fighting, and collision, and for some time a multitude of boats and barges jammed in the northern arch of the Tower Bridge, and the sailors and lightermen had to fight savagely against the people who swarmed upon them from the riverfront.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 14 He sprang to his feet and saw to starboard, and not a hundred yards from their heeling, pitching boat, a vast iron bulk like the blade of a plough tearing through the water, tossing it on either side in huge waves of foam that leaped towards the steamer, flinging her paddles helplessly in the air, and then sucking her deck down almost to the waterline.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".