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1  "This isn't a war," said the artilleryman.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL.
2  I recall particularly the illustration of one of the first pamphlets to give a consecutive account of the war.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: II. WHAT WE SAW FROM THE RUINED HOUSE.
3  The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve and destroy brain, had still to develop.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VIII. FRIDAY NIGHT.
4  There's the ants builds their cities, live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until the men want them out of the way, and then they go out of the way.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL.
5  At any rate, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the war, no bacteria except those already known as terrestrial species were found.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: X. THE EPILOGUE.
6  The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: I. THE EVE OF THE WAR.
7  Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got into my blood, and in my heart I was not so very sorry that I had to return to Maybury that night.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.