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Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as the ship’s chronometers, and
“I believe I will try it myself,” said the Woodman, and shouldering his axe, he marched up to the first tree that had handled the...
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“But how can we escape?” he asked, suddenly. “They are invulnerable, they are pitiless.” “Neither the one nor, perhaps,...
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Image source A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey road, Woking, saw a star fall from heaven into the pine woods to the northwest....
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Image credit Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea; the bleak rustlings of the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate shiftings of...
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“We may have quartered through the earth’s crust and come out upon some tropical island of the West Indies,” I suggested. Again...
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Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by; for everyone knew she had been the means...
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Image credit – © Jorge Feteira Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his deformed lower jaw, that so much invested...
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I thought that for some reason these were to be spared, but such was far from the case, for as the last Mahar crawled to her rock the queen’s...
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Mr. Fogg took out the twenty guineas he had just won at whist, and handed them to the beggar, saying, “Here, my good woman. I’m glad that...
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Any crow of sense could see that you are only stuffed with straw. Then he hopped down at my feet and ate all the corn he wanted. The other birds,...
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And this it was, this same unaccountable, cunning life-principle in him; this it was, that kept him a great part of the time soliloquizing; but only...
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It was too big a subject for me, and I said so, but Perry seemed to enjoy nothing better than speculating upon it, and after listening with interest...
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The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he did not...
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Rains and spray had damped it; sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly. But heedless of all this,...
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At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy’s rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians...
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If you live among us you will doubtless see the manner of their worship, which is strange indeed, and most unpleasant for the poor slaves they bring...
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“The great ones even come to our islands. It is there, far from the prying eyes of their own Sagoths, that they practice their religious rites...
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In a few moments, with cries and oaths, a bomb appeared on the poop-deck. The bomb was Captain Speedy. It was clear that he was on the point of...
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Sarkoja was at this time Tars Tarkas’ oldest and most trusted female. As such she was a mighty power behind the throne, for no warrior had the...
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Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as the ship’s chronometers, and
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