1 The artilleryman hesitated at the gate.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 2 "This isn't a war," said the artilleryman.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 3 The artilleryman looked at me for a moment.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 4 The artilleryman paused and laid a brown hand upon my arm.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 5 The artilleryman jumped down the bank into the road and saluted.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 6 "No, sir," and the artilleryman began a vivid account of the Heat-Ray.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 7 The artilleryman agreed with me that the house was no place to stay in.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 8 "It's bows and arrows against the lightning, anyhow," said the artilleryman.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 9 The artilleryman began to tell me of the sort of people who still remained in London.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 10 After an interminable string of games, we supped, and the artilleryman finished the champagne.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 11 At last, after nightfall, the artilleryman made a rush for it and got over the railway embankment.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 12 And just as I was beginning to face these things, the artilleryman stopped digging, and looked at me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 13 I and the artilleryman, seated on the step of the drinking fountain, made a very passable meal upon what we had brought with us.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 14 For a while the imaginative daring of the artilleryman, and the tone of assurance and courage he assumed, completely dominated my mind.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 15 Even the birds were hushed, and as we hurried along I and the artilleryman talked in whispers and looked now and again over our shoulders.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 16 The second monster followed the first, and at that the artilleryman began to crawl very cautiously across the hot heather ash towards Horsell.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 17 Then the Thing shut off the Heat-Ray, and turning its back upon the artilleryman, began to waddle away towards the smouldering pine woods that sheltered the second cylinder.
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