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1  Practically he had already sunk to the level of an animal.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT.
2  Most of them were excited and animated by their strange experience.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
3  It would seem that a number of men or animals had rushed across the lawn.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
4  It has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
5  The fighting-machines were coordinated and animated to an extraordinary pitch, but nothing to compare with this.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
6  In this way the curious parallelism to animal motions, which was so striking and disturbing to the human beholder, was attained.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
7  Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
8  In man, in all the higher terrestrial animals, such a method of increase has disappeared; but even on this earth it was certainly the primitive method.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
9  So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VII. HOW I REACHED HOME.
10  Let it suffice to say, blood obtained from a still living animal, in most cases from a human being, was run directly by means of a little pipette into the recipient canal.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
11  There is many a true word written in jest, and here in the Martians we have beyond dispute the actual accomplishment of such a suppression of the animal side of the organism by the intelligence.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
12  Among the lower animals, up even to those first cousins of the vertebrated animals, the Tunicates, the two processes occur side by side, but finally the sexual method superseded its competitor altogether.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
13  And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
14  I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VI. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS.
15  I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VI. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS.