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1 It would seem that a leg of the tripod had been smashed by one of the shells.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY.
2 But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
3 They glittered now, harmless tripod towers of shining metal, in the brightness of the rising sun.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON.
4 Later this shield staggered up on tripod legs and became the first of the fighting-machines I had seen.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
5 He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effect.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
6 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.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
7 Keeping his footing on the heaving deck by clutching the bulwarks, my brother looked past this charging leviathan at the Martians again, and he saw the three of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their tripod supports were almost entirely submerged.
The War of the WorldsBy H. G. Wells ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".