1 The driving clouds of the gathering thunderstorm mingled there with masses of black and red smoke.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 2 The beech trees below the house were burning while I did this, and the palings up the road glowed red.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 3 The hood bulged, flashed, was whirled off in a dozen tattered fragments of red flesh and glittering metal.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 4 From Ripley until I came through Pyrford I was in the valley of the Wey, and the red glare was hidden from me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 5 My wife pointed out to me the brightness of the red, green, and yellow signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 6 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. 7 Mrs. Elphinstone suddenly cried out at a number of tongues of smoky red flame leaping up above the houses in front of them against the hot, blue sky.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 8 He was immensely excited at the news, and in the excess of his feelings invited me up to take a turn with him that night in a scrutiny of the red planet.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 9 Thick streamers of black smoke shot with threads of red fire were driving up into the still air, and throwing dark shadows upon the green treetops eastward.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 10 The towers of the Oriental College and the pine trees about it had gone, and very far away, lit by a vivid red glare, the common about the sand-pits was visible.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 11 Nothing was burning on the hillside, though from the common there still came a red glare and a rolling tumult of ruddy smoke beating up against the drenching hail.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 12 Then I heard midnight pealing out from Pyrford Church behind me, and then came the silhouette of Maybury Hill, with its tree-tops and roofs black and sharp against the red.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 13 One of our chimneys cracked as if a shot had hit it, flew, and a piece of it came clattering down the tiles and made a heap of broken red fragments upon the flower bed by my study window.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 14 These continued intermittently for the space of a quarter of an hour, sending chance shots at the invisible Martians at Hampton and Ditton, and then the pale beams of the electric light vanished, and were replaced by a bright red glow.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY. 15 Close on the heels of that came a violent rattling crash, quite close to us, that shook the ground; and, starting out upon the lawn, I saw the tops of the trees about the Oriental College burst into smoky red flame, and the tower of the little church beside it slide down into ruin.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IX. THE FIGHTING BEGINS. 16 People rattling Londonwards peered into the darkness outside the carriage windows, and saw only a rare, flickering, vanishing spark dance up from the direction of Horsell, a red glow and a thin veil of smoke driving across the stars, and thought that nothing more serious than a heath fire was happening.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT. 17 For a day and a half he remained there, weary, starving and sun-scorched, the earth under the blue sky and against the prospect of the distant hills a velvet-black expanse, with red roofs, green trees, and, later, black-veiled shrubs and gates, barns, outhouses, and walls, rising here and there into the sunlight.
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