1 A mile from Edgware the rim of the wheel broke, and the machine became unridable.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 2 Enormous quantities of a ruddy-brown fluid were spurting up in noisy jets out of the machine.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 3 Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 4 Five of the machines had been seen moving towards the Thames, and one, by a happy chance, had been destroyed.
5 A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON. 6 Its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine, in spite of its metallic glitter.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE. 7 The second handling-machine was now completed, and was busied in serving one of the novel contrivances the big machine had brought.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 8 And suddenly I heard a yell, and saw a long tentacle reaching over the shoulder of the machine to the little cage that hunched upon its back.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 9 The front tire of the machine he got was punctured in dragging it through the window, but he got up and off, notwithstanding, with no further injury than a cut wrist.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 10 But the Martian machine took no more notice for the moment of the people running this way and that than a man would of the confusion of ants in a nest against which his foot has kicked.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 11 Between sunset and starlight this dexterous machine must have made more than a hundred such bars out of the crude clay, and the mound of bluish dust rose steadily until it topped the side of the pit.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 12 The thunderclaps, treading one on the heels of another and with a strange crackling accompaniment, sounded more like the working of a gigantic electric machine than the usual detonating reverberations.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 13 All night long the Martians were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT. 14 With two spatulate hands the handling-machine was digging out and flinging masses of clay into the pear-shaped receptacle above, while with another arm it periodically opened a door and removed rusty and blackened clinkers from the middle part of the machine.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 15 At first, I say, the handling-machine did not impress me as a machine, but as a crablike creature with a glittering integument, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actuated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of the crab's cerebral portion.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE. 16 At the same time four of their fighting machines, similarly armed with tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried wearily and painfully along the road that runs northward out of Halliford.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY. 17 And while upon this matter of detail, it is remarkable that the long leverages of their machines are in most cases actuated by a sort of sham musculature of the disks in an elastic sheath; these disks become polarised and drawn closely and powerfully together when traversed by a current of electricity.
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