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... the young man with the flaxen beard, evidently puzzled. “He means send an electric telegram,” volunteered the third, a pleasant-faced youth of ninete... ...s and streets were beaten tracks of motionless earth, jostling rivulets of vehicles between narrow footways. But this road- way was three hundred feet... ...hin, and on the upper edge a little stud 45 H G Wells like the stud of an electric bell. He pressed this and a rapid clicking began and ceased. He be... ...ew, shouting as they passed, shouting as they receded, until the globes of electric light receding in perspective dropped down it seemed and hid the s... ...abble Machines and pre- vent the people gathering that they turned off the electric- ity—and put this damned darkness upon us. Do you mean to say—?” “... ...ess. He watched them ap- proaching, drawing nearer past first this blazing electric star and then that; the minatory roar of the crowd over whom their... ...f narrow rubber-shod ve- hicles, great single wheels, two and four wheeled vehicles, sweeping along at velocities of from one to six miles a minute. R...

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...d braced them to the sticking-place; and thrilled abroad over France, like electric virtue, as a word spoken in season. But the Commune, enrolling in ... ...ut- let of the Town, in a tumult and turmoil without measure. All sorts of vehicles, few horsemen, innumerable foot-people, were crossing each other o... ...s and peas- ants, women and children, crushed and jostled each other, amid vehicles of all forms: ammunition-wagons, baggage- wagons; carriages, singl... ... for a year, ’ have got to Paris. National Convention packs them into post-vehicles and conveyances; sends them swiftly, by post, into La Vendee! Ther... ...as Tallien’s Bourdeaux Troop; like sympathetic clouds in an atmosphere all electric. Ronsin, they say, admitted, in candid moments, that his troops we... ...h its pitchy black, and its tumult of dazzling jagged fire, in a world all electric: thou wilt not undertake to shew how that comported itself,—what t... ...hose cynosure also is Robespierre. Thus then, we perceive, this confusedly electric Erebus- cloud of Revolutionary Government has altered its shape so... ...ltered its shape somewhat. Two masses, or wings, belonging to it; an over- electric mass of Cordelier Rabids, and an under-electric of Dantonist Moder... ...ince Pharaoh’s Chariots, in the Red-sea of water, was there wreck of Wheel-vehicles like this in the Sea of Fire. Desolate, as ashes, as gases, shall ...

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... four-wheeled traffic. Bank Holiday times always bring out old stored-away vehicles and odd people; one saw tricars and electric broughams and dilapid... ...ays bring out old stored-away vehicles and odd people; one saw tricars and electric broughams and dilapidated old racing motors with huge pneumatic ty... ...inding rivers interrupted at intervals by the banked-up ponds and weirs of electric generating wheels. It was dotted with bright-look- ing, steep-roof... ...ed enclosures like gardens and rickyards and great roofs of barns and many electric dairy centres. The uplands were mottled with cattle. At places he ... ...Once or twice as the rope dragged over cables he found his hair erect with electricity, and once he had a slight shock, and sparks snapped about the c... ...against a telephone pole, and for a tense instant he anticipated either an electric explosion or a bursting of the oiled silk, or both. 61 H G Wells ...

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...gs that would have amazed their ancestors. They began to construct wheeled vehicles much more easily and cheaply than they had ever done before, to ma... ...Street indeed, but the old playing fields are unaltered except for the big electric trams that go droning and spitting blue flashes along the western ... ... H G Wells dining-room sideboard like a palace with a large T antalus, and electric light fittings of a gay and expensive quality. There was a fine bi... ...sfaction in taking girls for drives in dog-carts and suchlike high-wheeled vehicles, a disposition that died in tangled tandems at the apparition of m... ...about friendship, and lost her thread 129 H G Wells and forgot the little electric stress between us in a rather me- andering analysis of her princip... ...ok- shelves and bookcases and every sort of convenient fitting. There were electric heaters beside the open fire, and every- thing was put for me to m... ...ide the open fire, and every- thing was put for me to make tea at any time—electric kettle, infuser, biscuits and fresh butter, so that I could get up... ...endid dreams? Were they really the obstacles, might they not be rather the vehicles of the pos- sible new braveries of life? 2 2 2 2 2 The faults of t...

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...fierce contempt, and charged with thought, as a Leyden jar is charged with electric- ity. This look, no doubt, discomfited the master, who, indig- nan... ...the incident of that day was cer- tainly the germ of the work, just as the electric shock always felt by Mesmer at the approach of a particular manser... ...six, lying, but not always sleeping, in a cot by his mother’s bed, saw the electric sparks from her hair when she combed it. The man of fifteen made s... ...t be in fact a capillary system, either absorbent or diffusive, and wholly electrical? Whether the fluid phenomena of the Will, a mat- ter generated w... ...st pain to the pain of the moment. “And then, to what, unless it be to the electric fluid, are we to attribute the magic by which the Will enthrones i... ...opium? How imagine that we shall be able to feel when we are bereft of the vehicles of sensation? Why must God perish if matter can be proved to think...

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...them…. 15 H G Wells S S S S Section 5 ection 5 ection 5 ection 5 ection 5 ELECTRICITY, though it was perhaps the earlier of the two to be studied, in... ... the common life of men a few decades after the exploitation of steam. T o electricity also, in spite of its provocative nearness all about him, manki... ... for incalculable ages. Could anything be more emphatic than the appeal of electricity for attention? It thun- dered at man’s ears, it signalled to hi... ... to the existence of this universal presence. And even then the science of electricity remained a mere little group of curious facts for nearly two hu... ...produc- tion, and its first general use was to replace the steam-engine in electrical generating stations. Hard upon the appearance of this came the D... ...alues. These glaring factories working night and day, these glittering new vehicles swinging noiselessly along the roads, these flights of dragon-flie...

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...them and distrib- uting from them, innumerable minor systems, clean little electric tramways I picture them, will spread out over the land in finer re... ... minor high roads such as this one we now approach, upon which independent vehicles, 33 H G Wells motor cars, cycles, and what not, will go. I doubt ... ...n so little as yet—a mountain slope, a twilit road, a traffic of ambiguous vehicles and dim shapes, the window lights of many homes—fills me with curi... ...urposes and for urban and inter-urban commu- nications will all be managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political ... ...ion that so soon as it passes out of the experimental stage, the supply of electrical energy, just like drainage and the supply of water, will fall to... ...ably control areas as large sometimes as half England), they will generate electricity by water power, by combustion, by wind or tide or whatever othe... ...on, by wind or tide or whatever other natural force is available, and this electricity will be devoted, some of it to the authority’s lighting and oth... ...ner, and Whitehall, and the great multitude of people, the great uproar of vehicles, streaming in all directions, is apt to look a world altogether to...

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...s. He told himself that he felt not only better but hungry, and pressed an electric button in the wall near the side- board three times to let the kit... ...eflected upon the matter now, scowling abstract- edly at the button of the electric bell, turning the whole business over in his mind, he remembered t... ...ing love-making.” He turned about on the instant, and striding over to the electric bell, rang it again with all his might. “When that feemale gets up... ...ivering, he hurried into his clothes, and, having pushed the button of the electric bell to announce that he was ready for breakfast, immediately plun... ...ade a horrible din as they jarred over the unevenness of the pavement. The electric car line, the city’s boast, did a brisk business, its cars whirrin... ...em about their fat necks, to keep out the dust. From the axle trees of the vehicles swung carefully covered buckets of galvanised iron, in which the l... ...utheast. As Harran and Presley went along the county road, the num- ber of vehicles and riders increased. They overtook and passed Hooven and his fami... ...r the flat expanse of stubble, curved the interminable lines of horses and vehicles. At a guess, nearly five thousand people were present. The drive w... ... white tails and twinkling legs. The out- side wings of the curved line of vehicles began to draw in a little; Osterman’s ranch was left behind, the d...

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...netrating odor of an ill-trimmed lamp, burning cheap paraffin. Lighting by electricity had then been perfected for fifteen years, but still the larger... ...the greenish pallor of incandescent mantles and the high cold glare of the electric arc. The interlacing railways lifted bright signal-boxes over thei... ...t Monkshampton I went about through pale, white, unfamiliar streets, whose electric globes had shadows on the path. Lit windows here and there burnt r... ... Anglian poppy-land.” Then more mean houses, the gaunt ungainliness of the electric force station—it had a huge chim- ney, because no one understood h... ...ted streets and squares littered with crumpled figures, through which such electric cars as had no automatic brakes had ploughed on their way until th... ...as smeared with tar, all our gas works and petroleum stores, all our horse vehicles and vans and lorries had to be erased… . But I have said enough no...

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...us is the Laystall, especially with its Rags or Clothes-rubbish, the grand Electric Battery, and Fountain-of-motion, from which and to which the Socia... ...rom which and to which the Social Activities (like vitreous and resin- ous Electricities) circulate, in larger or smaller circles, through the mighty,... ...f Fantasy, flames forth that fire-development of the uni- versal Spiritual Electricity, which, as unfolded between man and woman, we first emphaticall... ...ual Air-maiden, incorporated into tangibility and reality, should cast any electric glance of kind eyes, say- ing thereby, ‘Thou too mayest love and b... ...uld one day, leaving “the outskirts of Æsthetic Tea,” flit higher; and, by electric Promethean glance, kindle no despicable firework. Happy, if it ind... ...way be fixed under lock and key, but must flit, spirit-like, on impalpable vehicles, from Father to Son; if you demand sight of them, they are nowhere...

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...t the most exciting novel conceivable on the little table that carried his electric standard. He joined the fingers of his opposed hands very carefull... ...n if the night is dark. By-the-bye—about the light—” “Full moon,” said the electrician. “I looked it up.” They went back and consulted with Cossar. He... ... upon which young Redwood was soon to crawl—stretched to the grill-guarded electric radia- tor that was to warm the whole place. A man from Cossar’s h... ...nd tip the men a sixpence); there were roads and tracks for big motors and vehicles—roads made of the inter- woven fibres of hypertrophied hemp; there... ...call ‘em the Great Unwashed—You know. We’ll alter all that. And we’ll make electricity light and cook and clean up for them, and all. Fancy! They make... ...ake a nice reser- voir, and we could make a big place here to generate our electricity and have it all simply lovely. Couldn’t we, brother? And then p...

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...thout volition as it were, as if indeed the ship’s popu- lace were but the vehicles of some vocal current electric, with one voice from alow and aloft... ...f indeed the ship’s popu- lace were but the vehicles of some vocal current electric, with one voice from alow and aloft came a resonant sym- pathetic ...

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...and sat smoking and meditating. He did 21 H G Wells not even look up when vehicles passed. It was perhaps ten minutes before he roused himself. “What... ...; how he joined in the talk about flying-machines and the possibilities of electricity, witnessing that fiying-ma- chines were “dead certain to come,”... ...y, witnessing that fiying-ma- chines were “dead certain to come,” and that electricity was “wonderful, wonderful”; how he went and watched the bil- li... ...iffraff, kept getting in his way and annoying him, although he sounded his electric bell, and said, “Wonderful, wonderful!” at every corner.... 41 H ... .... The riders of the tandem bicycle began to run it up hill, past the other vehicles. But our young people did not wait for further developments of the...

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...crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purifica- tion for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly c... ...We lost a great deal of companionship when the late public-houses turned their lamps out, and when the potmen thrust the last brawl- ing drunkards int... ...s own affairs. Mr. Testator took his coal-scuttle in one hand, his candle and key in the other, and descended to the dismallest underground dens of Ly... ... and the young priest (who joined us at Calais) are soon asleep, and then the bird and I have it all to ourselves. A stormy night still; a night that ... ...f a massive bunch of keys, and that, when such a thing is wanted, he comes telling his keys like Blue Beard, and opens such a door. Impassive as the l... ...h shows, are non- existent; if the cemetery be far out of the town, the coaches that are hired for other purposes of life are hired for this purpose; ... ... news as the great gooseberry, that a costly police-system such as was never before heard of, has left in London, in the days of steam and gas and pho... ...ich I will now explain. It in- volves the title of this paper, and a little fair trying of teeto- talism by its own tests. There were many people on f...

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... once the room which he was to inhabit, and he was well satisfied with it. Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded communication with the lower sto... ...fforded communication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg’s bedchamber, both beating ... ...re of this interruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons dra... ... a famous meteorologist, would have passed away like a luminous cascade of electric flame; but in the winter equi- nox it was to be feared that it wou...

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...ople came out in their gayest dresses; the richer people in their smartest vehicles; Cardinals rattled to the church of the Poor Fisher men in their ... ... dome seemed to grow transparent as an egg shell! A train of gunpowder, an electric chain—nothing could be fired, more suddenly and swiftly, than this... ..., and tearing to and fro in carriages. Some of these, the common Vetturino vehicles, are drawn by three horses abreast, decked with smart trappings an...

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...t had vanished in full flight as it were, notwithstanding the long line of vehicles hug- ging the curb at a walk, the whole lofty vista of the avenue ... ...ree graving basins carved out of solid rock, its wharves, its jetties, its electric- light plant, its steam-power houses—with its gigan- tic sheer-leg...

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...e of the most entrancing and bewitching and moving and eloquent of all the vehicles invented by man for the con veying of feeling; but it seems to me... ...r a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiri tual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the... ... one of the first things he would do would be to take hold of one of these electric wires and tie himself all up in a knot. Now the surer thing and th... ...nd he would find, for his instruction, that the coiled patriarch shuns the electric wire; and it would be useful to him, too, and would leave his educ... ...tart a cautious and gradual curve, but your squirmy nerves are all full of electric anxieties, so the curve is quickly de moralized into a jerky and ...

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..., and instituted the lines of coaches called the “turgotines,” all the old vehicles of the former company flocked into the provinces. One of these sha... ...ugged natu- ral pavement, they become so impracticable that the small- est vehicles can only be drawn over them by two pairs of oxen or Breton horses,... ...my hair.” But she pulled it down a score of times with motions that seemed electric, as though some stormy thoughts were min- gling still with the art...

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...ns, as he leaned back, gave out a breath of her scent; and in the glare of electric light at the station he saw at his feet a rose which had fallen fr... ...e blistered wall-paper, the dusty wax bouquets under glass globes, and the electric lighting so contrived that as you turned on the feeble globe hangi... ...had been extracted, for some ceremonial purpose, from a museum of historic vehicles. And in an instant it flashed on Lansing that this lady had been t...