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1  To my disordered imagination it seemed the colour of blood.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: V. THE STILLNESS.
2  It had a greenish colour, and caused a silent brightness like summer lightning.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT.
3  The digestive processes and their reaction upon the nervous system sap our strength and colour our minds.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
4  Apparently the vegetable kingdom in Mars, instead of having green for a dominant colour, is of a vivid blood-red tint.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
5  The nursery grounds were everywhere crimson with the weed, a wide expanse of livid colour cut with purple shadows, and very painful to the eye.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: IX. WRECKAGE.
6  He remained standing at the edge of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR.
7  Contrasting vividly with this ruin was the neat dresser, stained in the fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured supplements fluttering from the walls above the kitchen range.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: I. UNDER FOOT.