Pt. III, st. 19
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside in its career; a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it, and the clattering tumult of its passage mingling with the riot of the thunder.”
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H. G. Wells
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The War of the Worlds
Book I, Ch. 10: In the Storm
The War of the Worlds (1898)
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