Milan/Arnav Flashcards Flashcards by Milan Gupta

A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear…bulged

Narrator 1C5, F&F, Superiority of Martians

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a kind of fascination paralysed my actions…I was a battleground of fear and curiosity

Narrator 1C5 F&F

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a man with a microscope might scrutinise and study the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

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A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and smashing them aside…
a walking engine of glittering metal

Narrator 1C10 F&F, O&C, Apocalypse

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a mounted policeman came galloping through the confusion with his hand clasped over his head, screaming

Narrator 1C6 O&C

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a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel. …. the fear and empire of man had passed away.

Narrator 2C7 Superiority of Martians, O&C, Empire

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a sort of metallic spider with five jointed, agile legs…its motion was so swift, complex, and perfect that at first I did not see it as a machine

Narrator 2C2 F&F, Superiority, Technology

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legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current

Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

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A sudden chill came over me…ungovernable terror gripped me

Narrator 1C4 F&F, Apocalypse

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an uncountable redness mingling with the black of the scorched meadows

Narrator 2C1 Nature , Apocalypse

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Are we such Apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martian’s warred in the same spirit?

Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man, Empire

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as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

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blackened as far as one can see, and still giving off vertical streamers of smoke

Narrator 1C2, Apocalypse, Superiority of Martians

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blank incongruity of this serenity and the swift death flying yonder

Narrator C2, Arrogance of Man, Apocalypse

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brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers and hardened their hearts

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

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even the railway organisations, were …. guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.

Narrator 1C16 O&C

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extraordinary intensity of its immense eyes - were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous

Narrator 1C5, F&F, Superiority of Martians

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He was as lacking in restraint as a silly woman… this spoiled child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious

Narrator 2C3 O&C, religion

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how can God’s ministers be killed?

Curate 1C13 Religion, Superiority of Martians

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I believed that the destruction of Sennacherib had been repeated, that God had repented, that the Angel of Death had slain them in the night

Narrator 2C8 religion

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I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things

Narrator 1C4 F&F

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I was explainin’ these is vallyble.

vs “Death!” I shouted. “Death is coming! Death!

Narrator 1C12 Money, O&C, F&F

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infinite complacency, men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter

Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man, Empire

intelligences vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us

Narrator 1 C1, Superiority of Martians

Flourishing overhead before it descended and smote me out of life

Narrator 1C7 religion

It is still a matter of wonder how the Martians are able to slay men so swiftly and so silently

Narrator 1C6 F&F, Superiority of Martians

it was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind

Narrator 1C3, Nature, Apocalypse

it was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat

Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, F&F, Religion

a stampede - a stampede gigantic and terrible - without order and without a goal....the massacre of mankind

Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

Its bows and arrows against lightening

Narrator 1C12 Superiority of Martians

Just like parade it had been a minute before—then stumble, bang, swish!

Artilleryman 1C12 Superiority of Martians, O&C, Empire

Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. … It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race

Artilleryman 2C7 O&C, Science/Darwinism

London about me gazed at me spectrally. The windows in the white houses were like the eye sockets of skulls...terror seized me

Narrator 2C8 Apocalypse, F&F, nature

Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal

Narrator 1C11 Superiority of Martians, Technology Apocalypse

peculiar V-shaped mouth...gorgon group of tentacles

Narrator 1C4, F&F

scarlet and crimson trees towards Kew—it was like walking through an avenue of gigantic blood drops

Narrator 2C6 Apocalypse, nature

selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran - a grotesque mingling of profit and panic

Narrator 1C16 O&C, arrogance of mankind

slain...;slain as the red wed was being slain; slain....by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.

Narrator 2C8 religion

so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity

Narrator 1 C1, Arrogance of Man

sticking into the skin of our old planet Earth like a poison dart, was this cylinder

Narrator 1C8 Technology, Apocalypse

such an extraordinary effect in unmanning me it had that I ran weeping silently as a child might do

Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, Society, O&C

The crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky

Narrator 1C4, Nature, Apocalypse

the first breath of the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets. It was the dawn of the great panic

Narrator 1C14 O&C, Apocalypse

The Martian's took as much notice of such advances as we should of the lowing of a cow

Narrator 1C9 Superiority of Martians

the strangeness of its coiling flow… the houses of the village rising like ghosts out of its inky nothingness

Narrator 1C15 O&C, apocalypse

there might be other men on Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome missionaries

Narrator 1C1 arrogance of man, Empire

They must have bolted as blindly as a flock of sheep...two women and a little boy were crushed and trampled

Narrator 1C6 O&C

cut every telegraph, and wrecked the railways here and there. They were hamstringing mankind

Narrator 1C17 Superiority of Martians, O&C

They were heads—merely heads...a mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being

Narrator 2C2 Superiority of Martians

this mysterious death - as swift as the passage of light - would leap...and strike me down

Narrator 1C5 Superiority of Martians, F&F

three puffs of green smoke, the deep humming note, and the flashes of flame

Narrator 1C6 F&F, Apocalypse, Superiority of Martians

In one night the valley had become a valley of ashes...countless ruins of shattered and gutted houses and blasted and blackened trees

Narrator 1C11 Nature, Apocalypse

we're down….We're beat. We're beat. It never was a war, any more than there's war between men and ants

Narrator 2C7 Superiority of Martians, O&C

we have sinned, we have fallen short

Curate 2C4 religion

with a sort of wonder that, in spite of the infinite danger ... we could yet struggle bitterly for that horrible privilege of sight.

Narrator 2C3 F&F

woe unto this unfaithful city. Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe!

Curate 2C4 religion |biblical - unfaithful and used by Jesus to show separation from God. AO3