Apocolypse Flashcards
“It was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind” - 1C3
“The crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky” -1C4
“sticking into the skin of our old planet Earth like a poisoned dart, was this cylinder” - 1C8
“the air quivered again with the distant thud of their guns” - 1C15
“slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.” -2C8
“Valley of ashes” 1C12
“blackened as far as one could see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke” - 1C3
“the first breath of the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets. It was the dawn of the great panic” - 1C14
“The sun sank into the grey clouds, the Sky flushed and darkened” - 1C17
“…an unaccountable redness mingling with the black of the scorched meadows” 2C1