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The Narrator

  • Ungovernable terror gripped me

  • I gripped my wife’s arm

  • Holding my breath until movement was agony

  • With one last touch of humanity I turned the blade back and stuck him with the butt

  • I had still kept a vague hope

  • It may be that the destruction of the Martians is only a reprieve

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The Artilleryman

  • I drew him

  • Began to sob and weep like a little boy

  • Followed me, almost mechanically

  • Birds have shadows these days

  • The useless and mischievous deserve to die

  • Strange, undisciplined dreamer of great dreams

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The Curate

  • His face was a fair weakness

  • They are invulnerable! They are pitiless!

  • ‘Be a man’ said I

  • Woe! Woe! Woe!

  • A man insane

  • Frothy repentance for his vacant sham of gods service

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The Martians

  • Pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects

  • Heaved and puled convulsively

  • Invincible, inevitable sword of heat

  • Brains wearing different bodies according to their needs

  • swift, complex, and perfect

  • Doomed, dying and rotten

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Fear

  • Ungovernable terror gripped me

  • They are invulnerable! They are pitiless!

  • Began to sob and weep like a little boy

  • Stirring, slipping, running, pouring en masse

  • The fear and empire of man had passed away

  • Would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country

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Societal Collapse

  • It was no time for pugilistic chivalry

  • The pinnacle of the mosque vanished

  • Some gnawed at their hands in thirst

  • The useless and mischievous deserve to die

  • Nations, civilisation, progress, its all over

  • Woking station was still under-going repairs

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