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1  We pushed through these towards the railway without meeting a soul.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
2  The window of my study looks over the trees and the railway towards Horsell Common.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
3  Few people, excepting the railway officials, connected the breakdown with the Martians.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
4  Henderson went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR.
5  At last, after nightfall, the artilleryman made a rush for it and got over the railway embankment.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
6  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.
7  The nature of the accident he could not ascertain; indeed, the railway authorities did not clearly know at that time.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
8  The light upon the railway puzzled me at first; there were a black heap and a vivid glare, and to the right of that a row of yellow oblongs.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
9  From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
10  He had been consumed with thirst until he found one of the water mains near the railway arch smashed, and the water bubbling out like a spring upon the road.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
11  There was a light down below the hill, on the railway, near the arch, and several of the houses along the Maybury road and the streets near the station were glowing ruins.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.
12  We saw as we crossed the railway bridge that a growing crowd of people had assembled in and about the railway station, and the swarming platform was piled with boxes and packages.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
13  Down the hill I saw a bevy of hussars ride under the railway bridge; three galloped through the open gates of the Oriental College; two others dismounted, and began running from house to house.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS.
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  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. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.
16  Among these were a couple of cyclists, a jobbing gardener I employed sometimes, a girl carrying a baby, Gregg the butcher and his little boy, and two or three loafers and golf caddies who were accustomed to hang about the railway station.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON.
17  We were far beyond the range of the Heat-Ray there, and had it not been for the silent desertion of some of the houses, the stirring movement of packing in others, and the knot of soldiers standing on the bridge over the railway and staring down the line towards Woking, the day would have seemed very like any other Sunday.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
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