1 Here and there was a burning bush or tree.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT. 2 There, among some young pine trees and furze bushes, I stopped, panting, and waited further developments.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS. 3 The tops of the pine trees and the roofs of Horsell came out sharp and black against the western afterglow.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 4 And far away towards Knaphill I saw the flashes of trees and hedges and wooden buildings suddenly set alight.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 5 At the first glance it was really no more exciting than an overturned carriage or a tree blown across the road.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON. 6 The early morning was wonderfully still, and the sun, just clearing the pine trees towards Weybridge, was already warm.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR. 7 Through the aperture in the wall I could see the top of a tree touched with gold and the warm blue of a tranquil evening sky.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE. 8 He saw this one pursue a man, catch him up in one of its steely tentacles, and knock his head against the trunk of a pine tree.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 9 It was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the few scattered pine trees.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: III. ON HORSELL COMMON. 10 In the sudden thud, hiss, and glare of the igniting trees, the panic-stricken crowd seems to have swayed hesitatingly for some moments.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: VI. THE HEAT-RAY IN THE CHOBHAM ROAD. 11 The Thing itself lay almost entirely buried in sand, amidst the scattered splinters of a fir tree it had shivered to fragments in its descent.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR. 12 After a time we drew near the road, and as we did so we heard the clatter of hoofs and saw through the tree stems three cavalry soldiers riding slowly towards Woking.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON. 13 I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: IV. THE CYLINDER OPENS. 14 Patches of bush and isolated trees here and there smoked and glowed still, and the houses towards Woking station were sending up spires of flame into the stillness of the evening air.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 15 In a few minutes there was, so far as the soldier could see, not a living thing left upon the common, and every bush and tree upon it that was not already a blackened skeleton was burning.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW. 16 An almost noiseless and blinding flash of light, and a man fell headlong and lay still; and as the unseen shaft of heat passed over them, pine trees burst into fire, and every dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. WellsContextHighlight In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY. 17 Then, with a whistling note that rose above the droning of the pit, the beam swung close over their heads, lighting the tops of the beech trees that line the road, and splitting the bricks, smashing the windows, firing the window frames, and bringing down in crumbling ruin a portion of the gable of the house nearest the corner.
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