1 He succeeded in getting some food at an inn.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 2 In the afternoon he made a feeble effort to get at the food.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE. 3 I divided the food in the pantry, into rations to last us ten days.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE. 4 I told the curate I was going to seek food, and felt my way towards the pantry.
5 He would neither desist from his attacks on the food nor from his noisy babbling to himself.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE. 6 In the end I planted myself between him and the food, and told him of my determination to begin a discipline.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE. 7 Our bodies are half made up of glands and tubes and organs, occupied in turning heterogeneous food into blood.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE. 8 Then he would suddenly revert to the matter of the food I withheld from him, praying, begging, weeping, at last threatening.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: IV. THE DEATH OF THE CURATE. 9 There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant prices, and the three of them contrived to eat a meal on one of the seats forward.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 10 With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VII. HOW I REACHED HOME. 11 A number of people now, like my brother, had their faces eastward, and there were some desperate souls even going back towards London to get food.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 12 He had eaten no food since midday, he told me early in his narrative, and I found some mutton and bread in the pantry and brought it into the room.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 13 By midday they passed through Tillingham, which, strangely enough, seemed to be quite silent and deserted, save for a few furtive plunderers hunting for food.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 14 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. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VII. HOW I REACHED HOME. 15 My brother, very luckily for him as it chanced, preferred to push on at once to the coast rather than wait for food, although all three of them were very hungry.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 16 He ate more than I did, and it was in vain I pointed out that our only chance of life was to stop in the house until the Martians had done with their pit, that in that long patience a time might presently come when we should need food.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 17 And while within we fought out our dark, dim contest of whispers, snatched food and drink, and gripping hands and blows, without, in the pitiless sunlight of that terrible June, was the strange wonder, the unfamiliar routine of the Martians in the pit.
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