1 My terror had fallen from me like a garment.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VII. HOW I REACHED HOME. 2 They are dangerous because, no doubt, they are mad with terror.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VII. HOW I REACHED HOME. 3 I looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS. 4 It filled me with indescribable terror to think how swiftly that desolating change had come.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VI. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS. 5 Then it was, and then only, that he realised something of the full power and terror of these monsters.
6 He made a sudden movement backward, and I, fearful that we were observed, crouched in a spasm of terror.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 7 He gave a cry of terror, sprang sideways, and rushed on before I could gather my wits sufficiently to speak to him.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 8 For so it had come about, as indeed I and many men might have foreseen had not terror and disaster blinded our minds.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON. 9 The fear I felt was no rational fear, but a panic terror not only of the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 10 At that the captain on the bridge swore at the top of his voice with fear and anger at his own delay, and the paddles seemed infected with his terror.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 11 My brother supposes they must have filled outside London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 12 All that crowd did not escape; three persons at least, two women and a little boy, were crushed and trampled there, and left to die amid the terror and the darkness.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD. 13 The common round the sand-pits was dotted with people, standing like myself in a half-fascinated terror, staring at these creatures, or rather at the heaped gravel at the edge of the pit in which they lay.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS. 14 I do not know what they knew of the things happening beyond the hill, nor do I know if the silent houses I passed on my way were sleeping securely, or deserted and empty, or harassed and watching against the terror of the night.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM. 15 He saw anger change to terror on the face of the poor wretch on the ground, and in a moment he was hidden and my brother was borne backward and carried past the entrance of the lane, and had to fight hard in the torrent to recover it.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 16 If one could have hung that June morning in a balloon in the blazing blue above London every northward and eastward road running out of the tangled maze of streets would have seemed stippled black with the streaming fugitives, each dot a human agony of terror and physical distress.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVII. THE "THUNDER CHILD". 17 Glancing northwestward, my brother saw the large crescent of shipping already writhing with the approaching terror; one ship passing behind another, another coming round from broadside to end on, steamships whistling and giving off volumes of steam, sails being let out, launches rushing hither and thither.
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