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1  Leatherhead is about twelve miles from Maybury Hill.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
2  Yet, save ourselves, there did not seem to be a living soul on Maybury Hill.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
3  A moderate incline runs towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we clattered.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
4  About eleven, as nothing seemed happening, I walked back, full of such thought, to my home in Maybury.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON.
5  Since then he had been skulking along towards Maybury, in the hope of getting out of danger Londonward.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
6  In another moment we were clear of the smoke and noise, and spanking down the opposite slope of Maybury Hill towards Old Woking.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
7  In front was a quiet sunny landscape, a wheat field ahead on either side of the road, and the Maybury Inn with its swinging sign.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
8  Down the road towards Maybury Bridge there were voices and the sound of feet, but I had not the courage to shout or to go to them.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
9  Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians' Heat-Ray now that the college was cleared out of the way.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
10  The heavy firing that had broken out while we were driving down Maybury Hill ceased as abruptly as it began, leaving the evening very peaceful and still.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
11  There was a light down below the hill, on the railway, near the arch, and several of the houses along the Maybury road and the streets near the station were glowing ruins.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
12  Then I heard midnight pealing out from Pyrford Church behind me, and then came the silhouette of Maybury Hill, with its tree-tops and roofs black and sharp against the red.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
13  At first I regarded little but the road before me, and then abruptly my attention was arrested by something that was moving rapidly down the opposite slope of Maybury Hill.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
14  Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got into my blood, and in my heart I was not so very sorry that I had to return to Maybury that night.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
15  That night nearly forty people lay under the starlight about the pit, charred and distorted beyond recognition, and all night long the common from Horsell to Maybury was deserted and brightly ablaze.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD.
16  The line on the London side of Woking station was still undergoing repair, so I descended at Byfleet station and took the road to Maybury, past the place where I and the artilleryman had talked to the hussars, and on by the spot where the Martian had appeared to me in the thunderstorm.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: IX. WRECKAGE.