1 Heat, and invisible, instead of visible, light.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD. 2 As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS. 3 They wanted a light railing put up, and help to keep the people back.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON. 4 Before I could distinguish clearly how the man lay, the flicker of light had passed.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 5 My wife stood in the light of the doorway, and watched me until I jumped up into the dog cart.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 6 Slowly a humped shape rose out of the pit, and the ghost of a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 7 Then, by the light of their own destruction, I saw them staggering and falling, and their supporters turning to run.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 8 The flickering light was blinding and confusing, and a thin hail smote gustily at my face as I drove down the slope.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 9 All this had happened with such swiftness that I had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 10 I wished I had a light to smoke by, little suspecting the meaning of the minute gleam I had seen and all that it would presently bring me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 11 The sun, shining through the smoke that drove up from the tops of the trees, seemed blood red, and threw an unfamiliar lurid light upon everything.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 12 For some minutes I lay there in the rain and darkness watching, by the intermittent light, these monstrous beings of metal moving about in the distance over the hedge tops.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 13 Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 14 It was starlight and I explained the Signs of the Zodiac to her, and pointed out Mars, a bright dot of light creeping zenithward, towards which so many telescopes were pointed.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 15 Suddenly there was a flash of light, and a quantity of luminous greenish smoke came out of the pit in three distinct puffs, which drove up, one after the other, straight into the still air.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 16 This intense heat they project in a parallel beam against any object they choose, by means of a polished parabolic mirror of unknown composition, much as the parabolic mirror of a lighthouse projects a beam of light.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD. 17 An almost noiseless and blinding flash of light, and a man fell headlong and lay still; and as the unseen shaft of heat passed over them, pine trees burst into fire, and every dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames.
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