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1  The majority of people in London do not read Sunday papers.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
2  The afternoon papers puffed scraps of news under big headlines.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
3  A boy from the town, trenching on Smith's monopoly, was selling papers with the afternoon's news.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT.
4  The Sunday papers printed separate editions as further news came to hand, some even in default of it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
5  After a while I left them, and went on to the railway station to get as many morning papers as I could.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
6  "Fresh attempts have been made to signal, but without success," was the stereotyped formula of the papers.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
7  People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise of our nineteenth-century papers.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
8  Those who did took some time to realise all that the hastily worded telegrams in the Sunday papers conveyed.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
9  At all the street corners groups of people were reading papers, talking excitedly, or staring at these unusual Sunday visitors.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
10  My brother felt no anxiety about us, as he knew from the description in the papers that the cylinder was a good two miles from my house.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
11  Even the daily papers woke up to the disturbances at last, and popular notes appeared here, there, and everywhere concerning the volcanoes upon Mars.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
12  About eleven, the next morning's papers were able to say, a squadron of hussars, two Maxims, and about four hundred men of the Cardigan regiment started from Aldershot.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT.
13  For my own part, I was much occupied in learning to ride the bicycle, and busy upon a series of papers discussing the probable developments of moral ideas as civilisation progressed.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
14  About half past four I went up to the railway station to get an evening paper, for the morning papers had contained only a very inaccurate description of the killing of Stent, Henderson, Ogilvy, and the others.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
15  The morning papers on Saturday contained, in addition to lengthy special articles on the planet Mars, on life in the planets, and so forth, a brief and vaguely worded telegram, all the more striking for its brevity.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.