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1  This jet of fire had become invisible about a quarter past twelve.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
2  It may be the gases of the firing caused the Martians inconvenience.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
3  We heard guns firing at Hampton Court station, but we thought it was thunder.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
4  The heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR.
5  But my brother's attention speedily reverted to the distant firing in the south.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".
6  It was probably her not firing that enabled her to get so near the enemy as she did.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".
7  About eight o'clock a noise of heavy firing was distinctly audible all over the south of London.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
8  "We can't possibly stay here," I said; and as I spoke the firing reopened for a moment upon the common.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
9  It was this howling and firing of the guns at Ripley and St. George's Hill that we had heard at Upper Halliford.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY.
10  Some of the passengers were of opinion that this firing came from Shoeburyness, until it was noticed that it was growing louder.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD".
11  Almost immediately unseen batteries across the river to our right, unseen because of the trees, took up the chorus, firing heavily one after the other.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
12  The heavy firing that had broken out while we were driving down Maybury Hill ceased as abruptly as it began, leaving the evening very peaceful and still.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
13  At that time firing was going on across the common, and it was said the first party of Martians were crawling slowly towards their second cylinder under cover of a metal shield.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
14  They come from Molesey and Weybridge and Walton, and they say there's been guns heard at Chertsey, heavy firing, and that mounted soldiers have told them to get off at once because the Martians are coming.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
15  About six in the evening, as I sat at tea with my wife in the summerhouse talking vigorously about the battle that was lowering upon us, I heard a muffled detonation from the common, and immediately after a gust of firing.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
16  When, half suffocated, I raised my head above water, the Martian's hood pointed at the batteries that were still firing across the river, and as it advanced it swung loose what must have been the generator of the Heat-Ray.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
17  Then, with a whistling note that rose above the droning of the pit, the beam swung close over their heads, lighting the tops of the beech trees that line the road, and splitting the bricks, smashing the windows, firing the window frames, and bringing down in crumbling ruin a portion of the gable of the house nearest the corner.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD.
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