She was quite silent for a minute or two
I and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians
How surprised he’ll be when he finds out
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected
Can you catch the expression of the whale?
So he got out of the fury of the panic, and, skirting the Edgware Road, reached Edgware about seven, fasting and wearied, but well ahead of the crowd.
Idly digging his toes in the sand
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected. Granser babbled on unnoticed.
What art thrusting that thief-catcher into my face?
I believe I have broken a finger here against his cursed jaw ain’t those mincing knives down in the forecastle there, men
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“The woodtick sucks the blood of the dog, but the germ, being so very small, goes right into the blood of the body, and there it has many children. In those days there would be as many as a billion—a crab-shell, please—as many as that crab-shell in one...
For a minute or two she stood looking at the house,
The three boys were now hard at it; and quite a knocking and hammering arose, in which Granser babbled on unnoticed.
No one in Weybridge could tell us where the headquarters
Byfleet was in a tumult; people packing, and a score of hussars, some of them dismounted, some on horseback, were hunting them about. Three or four black government waggons, with crosses in white circles, and an old omnibus, among other vehicles, were being loaded in...
Everything is so out-of-the-way down here
The three boys were now hard at it; and quite a knocking and hammering arose, in which Granser babbled on unnoticed.
The station generally occupied by the pilot
But there was not much chance to think over the matter, for Captain Peleg was now all alive.
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“I will not go,” said the stranger, “till you say aye to me. Do to me as you would have me do to you in the like case. For YOU too have a boy, Captain Ahab—though but a child, and nestling safely at home now—a child of your old age too—Yes, yes, you...
And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth
Image Credit N o one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns...
The man liberally provides the brains
I believe I have broken a finger here against his cursed jaw ain’t those mincing knives down in the forecastle there, men? look to those handspikes, my hearties. Captain, by God, look to yourself say the word don’t be a fool; forget it all; we are ready to...
Always the same impassible member
Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as the ship’s chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity even to go upon the deck, he passed through the memorable scenes of the Red Sea with cold...