1 I was a battleground of fear and curiosity.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 2 Perhaps I was too tired to be very fearful.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON. 3 Lives insured and a bit invested for fear of accidents.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 4 Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON. 5 There were fear and pain on their faces, and fear behind them.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 6 It was as if that mighty desert of houses had found a voice for its fear and solitude.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON. 7 Very likely that's why the cylinders have stopped for a bit, for fear of hitting those who are here.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. 8 She had been growing increasingly hysterical, fearful, and depressed during the two days' journeyings.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 9 I felt no fear, only a wild, trembling exultation, as I ran up the hill towards the motionless monster.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON. 10 He made a sudden movement backward, and I, fearful that we were observed, crouched in a spasm of terror.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 11 We lit no lamp for fear of attracting the Martians, and ever and again our hands would touch upon bread or meat.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 12 With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VI. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS. 13 For a time we did not see how this change affected our position, save that we were relieved of our fear of the Black Smoke.
14 The fear I felt was no rational fear, but a panic terror not only of the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 15 At that the captain on the bridge swore at the top of his voice with fear and anger at his own delay, and the paddles seemed infected with his terror.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 16 The arrival of a second fighting-machine drove us from our peephole into the scullery, for we feared that from his elevation the Martian might see down upon us behind our barrier.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 17 In the silence of the night, with that sense of the nearness of God that sometimes comes into the stillness and the darkness, I stood my trial, my only trial, for that moment of wrath and fear.
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