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1  The oscillatory motion was imparted to this by one tentacle of the handling-machine.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.
2  Every now and then I paused, rigid, to hear if the Martian had thrust its tentacles through the opening again.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE.
3  The greater part of the structure was the brain, sending enormous nerves to the eyes, ear, and tactile tentacles.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
4  In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
5  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. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
6  The tentacle was now some way, two yards or more, in the room, and twisting and turning, with queer sudden movements, this way and that.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE.
7  And suddenly I heard a yell, and saw a long tentacle reaching over the shoulder of the machine to the little cage that hunched upon its back.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.
8  Another steely tentacle directed the powder from the basin along a ribbed channel towards some receiver that was hidden from me by the mound of bluish dust.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.
9  I half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS.
10  It was only as I clambered among the ruins that I saw, with a start, this mechanical Samson lying, with its tentacles bent and smashed and twisted, among the ruins it had made.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON.
11  The tentacles swayed and struck like living arms, and, save for the helpless purposelessness of these movements, it was as if some wounded thing were struggling for its life amid the waves.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
12  It seemed infinitely more alive than the actual Martians lying beyond it in the sunset light, panting, stirring ineffectual tentacles, and moving feebly after their vast journey across space.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
13  Most of its arms were retracted, but with three long tentacles it was fishing out a number of rods, plates, and bars which lined the covering and apparently strengthened the walls of the cylinder.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
14  As it dawned upon me first, it presented a sort of metallic spider with five jointed, agile legs, and with an extraordinary number of jointed levers, bars, and reaching and clutching tentacles about its body.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
15  As I looked, the handling-machine, with a faint and musical clinking, extended, telescopic fashion, a tentacle that had been a moment before a mere blunt projection, until its end was hidden behind the mound of clay.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.
16  Then I saw through a sort of glass plate near the edge of the body the face, as we may call it, and the large dark eyes of a Martian, peering, and then a long metallic snake of tentacle came feeling slowly through the hole.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE.
17  At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a machine, but as a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
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