1 I suppose the time was then about four or five o'clock.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE. 2 The time then must have been somewhere about six o'clock.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR. 3 People were fighting savagely for standing-room in the carriages even at two o'clock.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 4 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. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON. 5 About three o'clock there began the thud of a gun at measured intervals from Chertsey or Addlestone.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 6 He dispatched a telegram, which never reached me, about four o'clock, and spent the evening at a music hall.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON. 7 And all being quiet throughout the afternoon, we started about five o'clock, as I should judge, along the blackened road to Sunbury.
8 About one o'clock in the afternoon the thinning remnant of a cloud of the black vapour appeared between the arches of Blackfriars Bridge.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 9 It was about two o'clock when my brother, having paid their fares at the gangway, found himself safely aboard the steamboat with his charges.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 10 We got to Leatherhead without misadventure about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I took supper with my cousins and commended my wife to their care.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 11 By ten o'clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 12 But three certainly came out about eight o'clock and, advancing slowly and cautiously, made their way through Byfleet and Pyrford towards Ripley and Weybridge, and so came in sight of the expectant batteries against the setting sun.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY. 13 I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but I was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train from Waterloo; and as it was then about a quarter past five, I went home, had some tea, and walked up to the station to waylay him.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON. 14 I suppose it was nearly eleven o'clock before we gathered courage to start again, no longer venturing into the road, but sneaking along hedgerows and through plantations, and watching keenly through the darkness, he on the right and I on the left, for the Martians, who seemed to be all about us.
15 About five o'clock the gathering crowd in the station was immensely excited by the opening of the line of communication, which is almost invariably closed, between the South-Eastern and the South-Western stations, and the passage of carriage trucks bearing huge guns and carriages crammed with soldiers.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContext Highlight In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.