1 My cousins' man lit both lamps.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 2 Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VII. HOW I REACHED HOME. 3 A man stood with his back to me, talking to him.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 4 It was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 5 There in the darkness a man blundered into me and sent me reeling back.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 6 A sapper told me it was done by a man in a ditch with a flag on a long pole.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 7 Before I could distinguish clearly how the man lay, the flicker of light had passed.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 8 I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 9 He saw this one pursue a man, catch him up in one of its steely tentacles, and knock his head against the trunk of a pine tree.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 10 I saw a young man, a shop assistant in Woking I believe he was, standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS. 11 We went down the lane, by the body of the man in black, sodden now from the overnight hail, and broke into the woods at the foot of the hill.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 12 They listened, rapped on the scaly burnt metal with a stick, and, meeting with no response, they both concluded the man or men inside must be insensible or dead.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR. 13 The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 14 When it came, I saw that he was a sturdy man, cheaply but not shabbily dressed; his head was bent under his body, and he lay crumpled up close to the fence, as though he had been flung violently against it.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 15 Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 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. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 17 Then suddenly the trees in the pine wood ahead of me were parted, as brittle reeds are parted by a man thrusting through them; they were snapped off and driven headlong, and a second huge tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, headlong towards me.
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