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1  He was dirty and white in the face.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
2  When I saw how deadly white her face was, I ceased abruptly.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: VII. HOW I REACHED HOME.
3  He extended a thin white hand and spoke in almost a complaining tone.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE.
4  Then suddenly the white flashes of the Heat-Ray came leaping towards me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
5  A man in a blue and white blazer addressed my brother, full of strange tidings.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.
6  It was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
7  But all I saw was the deep blue sky above, with one solitary star, and the white mist spreading wide and low beneath.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XV. WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN SURREY.
8  Farther on towards Weybridge, just over the bridge, there were a number of men in white fatigue jackets throwing up a long rampart, and more guns behind.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
9  Three or four black government waggons, with crosses in white circles, and an old omnibus, among other vehicles, were being loaded in the village street.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
10  And then, within thirty yards of the pit, advancing from the direction of Horsell, I noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
11  The little group of black specks with the flag of white had been swept out of existence, and the stillness of the evening, so it seemed to me, had scarcely been broken.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
12  Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: V. THE HEAT-RAY.
13  When for a moment I raised my head to take breath and throw the hair and water from my eyes, the steam was rising in a whirling white fog that at first hid the Martians altogether.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
14  Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman's basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints of the limbs as the monster swept by me.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: X. IN THE STORM.
15  One of the ladies, a short woman dressed in white, was simply screaming; the other, a dark, slender figure, slashed at the man who gripped her arm with a whip she held in her disengaged hand.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.
16  Dense black smoke was leaping up to mingle with the steam from the river, and as the Heat-Ray went to and fro over Weybridge its impact was marked by flashes of incandescent white, that gave place at once to a smoky dance of lurid flames.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.
17  A great bank of dust, white and luminous in the blaze of the sun, made everything within twenty feet of the ground grey and indistinct and was perpetually renewed by the hurrying feet of a dense crowd of horses and of men and women on foot, and by the wheels of vehicles of every description.
The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XVI. THE EXODUS FROM LONDON.
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