As the limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.
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There, among some young pine trees and furze bushes
A sudden chill came over me. There was a loud shriek from a woman behind. I half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. I saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces...
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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. We called germs micro-organisms. When a few million, or a billion, of them were in a man, in all the blood of a man, he was...
My effort was crowned with a success which it seemed to surprise.
But how puny and harmless they now looked beside this huge and terrific incarnation of hate, of vengeance and of death. The man himself, for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds. Sometimes the memory of the past is very strong...
I sat down on the bed, and thinking about this harpooneer
In a few minutes there was, so far as the soldier could see, not a living thing left upon the common, and every bush and tree upon it that was not already a blackened skeleton was burning. The hussars had been on the road beyond the curvature of the ground, and he saw nothing of...
The Encounter is the story of a baby spider who is wandering…
After breakfast, instead of working, I decided to walk down towards the common. Under the railway bridge I found a group of soldiers–sappers, I think, men in small round caps, dirty red jackets unbuttoned, and showing their blue shirts, dark trousers, and boots coming to the calf. They told me no one was allowed over...