I and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians‘ Heat-Ray now that the college was cleared out of the way. At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her…
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„I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever raises a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. So, what’s all this staring been about? It is worth sixteen dollars, that’s true; and at two cents the cigar, that’s nine…
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„The Lakeman now patrolled the barricade, all the while keeping his eye on the Captain, and jerking out such sentences as these:—’It’s not our fault; we didn’t want it; I told him to take his hammer away; it was boy’s business; he might have known…
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Presently it swung full upon us and—stopped. The tension on our nerves was near the breaking point, and I doubt if any of us breathed for the few moments he held us covered by his glass; and then he lowered it and we could see…
read more →And as the day advanced and the engine drivers and stokers refused to return to London, the pressure of the flight drove the people in an ever-thickening multitude away from the stations and along the northward-running roads. By midday a Martian had been seen at…
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„What can I do for you?“ she inquired softly, for she was moved by the sad voice in which the man spoke. „Get an oil-can and oil my joints,“ he answered. „They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I…
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
read more →Image Credit. When the amphitheater had cleared I crept stealthily to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza and in an untenanted portion of the great dead city I had little trouble in reaching the hills beyond. For two days…
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The boat was now all but jammed between two vast black bulks, leaving a narrow Dardanelles between their long lengths. But by desperate endeavor we at last shot into a temporary opening; then giving way rapidly, and at the same time earnestly watching for another…
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