1 I thought the unscrewing might be automatic.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON. 2 We heard guns firing at Hampton Court station, but we thought it was thunder.
3 I turned with the rush of the people, but I was not too terrified for thought.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 4 This was thought to be due to the falling of burning pine trees across the line.
5 About eleven, as nothing seemed happening, I walked back, full of such thought, to my home in Maybury.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON. 6 The fellow thought he was a lunatic at large and made an unsuccessful attempt to shut him into the taproom.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR. 7 I saw and thought nothing of the other four Martian monsters; my attention was riveted upon the nearer incident.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 8 Moved by a sudden thought, I looked northward, and there I perceived a third of these cloudy black kopjes had risen.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY. 9 I paced the rooms and cried aloud when I thought of how I was cut off from her, of all that might happen to her in my absence.
10 The thought of the confined creature was so dreadful to him that he forgot the heat and went forward to the cylinder to help turn.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR. 11 Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most, have thought that another meteorite had descended.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR. 12 The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE. 13 He thought of all those silent, expectant guns, of the suddenly nomadic countryside; he tried to imagine "boilers on stilts" a hundred feet high.
14 The fact is that we had absolutely incompatible dispositions and habits of thought and action, and our danger and isolation only accentuated the incompatibility.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: III. THE DAYS OF IMPRISONMENT. 15 No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR. 16 My brother thought that was hopeless, seeing the fury of the Londoners to crowd upon the trains, and broached his own idea of striking across Essex towards Harwich and thence escaping from the country altogether.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON. 17 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. Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.