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... Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The War in the Air by H. G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A A... ...emed to matter to Mr. Bert Smallways that a newspaper placard proclaimed:— GERMANY DENOUNCES THE MONROE DOCTRINE. AMBIGUOUS ATTITUTDE OF JAPAN. WHAT W... ...gain the little town was very small and travelling, with the rest of lower Germany , in a circular orbit round and round the car— or atleast it appear... ...ense scale the great discover- ies of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the... ...oard a British brig in the tim- ber trade that put out from Boston without cargo, chiefly, it would seem, because its captain had a vague idea of “get...

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...ke the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fire revolver....

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....’ Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick fol- lowed with a small pin-fire revolver. The children had disco... ...nd, Amomma trotting patiently behind them. ‘Mf!’ said Maisie, sniffing the air. ‘I wonder what makes the sea so smelly? I don’t like it!’ ‘You never l... ...n omitted. Maisie, white to the lips, thrust her cheek forward with a fine air of indifference, and was duly pecked by Dick, who tramped out of the ro... ...he went down to the shipping to make friends with the captain of a decayed cargo-steamer, who landed him in London with fewer pounds in his pocket tha... ...y describe, and you need as much room to turn in, on paper, as a P. and O. cargo- boat. But continue, and be swift. I’m going to bed.’ ‘H’m! h’m! h’m!... ...m Lima to Auckland in a big, old, con- demned passenger-ship turned into a cargo-boat and owned by a second-had Italian firm. She was a crazy basket. ... ...d that you left it out.’ ‘I left it out because Nilghai taught me what the Germany army learned then, and what Schmidt taught their cavalry. I don’t k... ...ok towards himself. ‘From the anatomy of the an- gels, it has been made in Germany.’ He opened in mechanically, and there leaped to his eyes a verse p...

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...ir houses on terraces around its ampitheatre of hills, and breathe the sea air laden with the fragrance of their splendid gardens. Here these bold spe... ...ll shed- ding its last gleams; there was not a cloud in the sky; the balmy air caressed the earth, the flowers gave forth their fra- grance, the steps... ... there really was one in Frankfort) had lately painted as an ideal head of Germany. Wallenrod invested enough money in the French funds to give his da... ...akes are neither costly nor difficult to handle,” remarked the daughter of Germany. “But the dogs?” cried Dumay. “Lovers have philters even for dogs,”... ...eeks took on a soft color; and she became the beautiful and noble image of Germany, such as we have lately seen her, the glory of the Chalet, the prid... ...n imagine the impatience in which Modeste lived for the next few days. The air was full of tongues of fire. The trees were like a plum- age. She was n... ...ased opium at low prices, and from thence to Canton where I deliv- ered my cargoes to the companies who control the trade. My last expedition was to t... ...ming back on the ‘Mignon,’ a fine ship of his own, which together with its cargo is worth, he tells me, eight or nine hundred thousand francs. But he ... ..., where young girls suffocate themselves, where the man of genius with his cargo of thoughts teeming with humane beneficence goes to the bottom,—all s...

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...usive of Rus sia, Norway, and Sweden. It would contain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or I... ...ombined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Aus tria, Italy, and T urkey; and almost all this wide region i... ...re they entered the realms of spring. The hazy sunlight, the warm and drowsy air, the tender foliage, the opening flow ers, betokened the reviving li... ...horns. They floated and sailed from the upper rivers to New Orleans, changed cargoes there, and were te diously warped and poled back by hand. A voya... ...you are, gentlemen. Leave him to me; he’s my meat.” Then he jumped up in the air three times and cracked his heels together every time. He flung off a... ...d says, “You lay thar tell his sufferin’s is over.” Then he jumped up in the air and cracked his heels to gether again and shouted out— “Whoo oop! I’... ...o it; and in the matter of profanity he was sublime. When he was getting out cargo at a landing, I was always where I could see and hear. He felt all ... ...nted to ask a question, but I was carrying about as many short answers as my cargo room would admit of, so I held my peace. All I desired to ask Mr. B... ... to that watch—see how strangely things happen! I traced it around and about Germany for more than a year, at considerable cost in money and vexation;...

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... Grand Duke of Baden, a stately man in uniform, who wore the hand- some brass-mounted, steel-spiked helmet of the army on his head. Last came the Empr... ...ed and comfortable, gives a cordial good night, while the students stand bowing and uncovered; and then he moves on his happy way homeward with all hi... ...ts fight duels in the room which I have described, two days in every week duringseven and a half or eight months in every year. This custom had contin... ...egan to rain blows down upon each other with such light- ning rapidity that I could not quite tell whether I saw the swords or only flashes they made ... ...understand why the opposing sword was not beaten down under the assault. Presently, in the midst of the sword-flashes, I saw a handful of hair skip in... ...- sional victim—the end of a broken sword flew five or ten feet and buried itself in his neck or his heart, and death ensued instantly. The student du... ...ere not always idle; every now and then we heard a succession of the keen hissing sounds which the sword makes when it is being put through its paces ... ...He used to go on the highway and rob rich wayfarers; and other times he would swoop down from his high castle on the hills of the Neckar and capture p... ...pture passing cargoes of mer- chandise. In his memoirs he piously thanks the Giver of all Good for remembering him in his needs and delivering sun- dr...

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...mithsonian Institute) could send the writer a photograph of a heavier-than-air flying machine actually in the air. There were articles in the monthly ... ...he engaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (which country had been too un- enterprisin... ...nt Ader. M. Ader was probably the first man to get a mechanism up into the air for something more than a leap. His Eole, as General Mensier testifies,... ...ria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no e... ...possibility of an “inconclusive peace” which so many people seem to dread. Germany, I believe, is going to be beaten, but not completely crushed, by t... ... peace vanishes. But it will be a Roman world peace, 17 H G Wells made in Germany, and there will have to be several more great wars before it is est... ...Is Coming? their own; and thousands of privately owned trucks, which carry cargo only one way, block our sidings. Great Britain wastes men and time to...

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...shed the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the second. “For whom is this, Miss Jemima?” said Miss Pink... ... was very rich, she had built for herself a most magnificent castle in the air, of which she was mistress, with a husband somewhere in the background ... ...re it, and as soon as she could speak, said, with a comical, good-humoured air, “I ought to have remembered the pepper which the Princess of Persia pu... ...ers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Y oung Dobbin had no peace afte... ... the ships in the river, where the transports were already taking in their cargoes preparatory to dropping down the Thames. 272 V anity Fair CHAPTER ... ...f the invalid. When he met Miss Briggs coming home from the library with a cargo of novels under her arm, Mr. Crawley blushed in a manner quite unusua... ... the news of the Battle of Austerlitz sent all the English diplomatists in Germany to the right about) that I first saw Colonel Dobbin and his party. ... ...f to Chutney at the Club to say that the Service was highly appreciated in Germany, that he was going to show his friend, the Count de Schlusselback, ... ...ixteen good quarters of nobility and re- lated to half the royal houses of Germany. Pumpernickel stands in the midst of a happy valley through which s...

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...arent glow, As if her veins ran lightning; she, in sooth, Possess’d an air and grace by no means common: Her stature tall — I hate a dumpy wom... ...thquakes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air balloons, and of the many bars To perfect knowledge of the boundles... ...with thoughts she could not smother She seem’d by the distraction of her air. ‘T was surely very wrong in Juan’s mother To leave together th... ... ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends... ...tly was put Upon the pumps and the remainder set To get up part of the cargo, and what not; But they could not come at the leak as yet; At... ...Noah’s ark went cruising here and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a car... ... vessels, now and then, And sometimes caught as many as he wish’d; The cargoes he confiscated, and gain He sought in the slave market too, a... ...make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Germany, the Pegasus he ‘d prance on Would be old Goethe’s (see what ... ...who cared not a tobacco stopper About philosophy, pursued his jaunt To Germany, whose somewhat tardy millions Have princes who spur more than ...

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... you wanted to draw anything out of it. In a word, he was a learned miser. Germany has not a few professors of this sort. To his misfortune, my uncle ... ...round me like those motes of mingled light and darkness which float in the air around the head when the blood is rushing upwards with undue violence. ... ...iolence. I was a prey to a kind of hallucination; I was stifling; I wanted air. Unconsciously I fanned myself with the bit of paper, the back and fron... ...ir. “Now I’ll read it,” I cried, after having well distended my lungs with air. I leaned over the table; I laid my finger successively upon every lett... ...g to Rejkiavik coal, household goods, earthenware, woollen clothing, and a cargo of wheat. The crew consisted of five men, all Danes. “How long will t... ...re obliged to secure as fast as possible every article that belongs to our cargo. Each of us is lashed to some part of the raft. The waves rise above ... ...pest had but sent the raft a little more east, we should have passed under Germany, under my beloved town of Hamburg, under the very street where dwel... ...s is a clever fellow, and I am sure he must have saved a large part of our cargo. But still let us go and make sure.” We left this grotto which lay op... ... this discovery was very great, not in France alone, but in England and in Germany. Several savants of the French Institute, and amongst them MM. Miln...

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...ric town, whence the view on every side is perfectly enchanting, where the air is deliciously pure, the vegetation splendid, and the residents, in har... ...Fontenelle preached as the religion of the invalid; and, above all, to the air of Sancerre and the influence of its fine eleva- tion, whence a panoram... ...f to further instalments, which compelled him to live for six years on the air as it came, to use his own expression, he was able to purchase the esta... ...ound, in the certainty of being able to get to Saint-Thibault to see off a cargo of puncheons, and return an hour later to find the discussion approac... ... This social phenomenon, I am told, may be seen in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany; but in France, as in every country where there is but one capital,... ...e was full of expedient. Every Wednesday he introduced some celebrity from Germany, England, Italy, or Prussia to his dear Count- ess; he spoke of her...

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...of the state, and worse in the belly. The idea of a sovereign pervades the air; the name we have; the thing we are not so sure of. And the process of ... ...erate and questionable deeds. Upon this scale, commercial sharpness has an air of patriotism; and I can imagine the man, so far from haggling over the... ...w thought one tyrant might be better than three, and any one preferable to Germany. On the 5th November 1885, accordingly, Laupepa, Tamasese, and fort... ...tracted him; and when he was picked out for secret duty, to be the hand of Germany in Samoa, there is no doubt but he accepted the post with exhilarat... ...e outrage, was outside the king’s jurisdiction by treaty; by the choice of Germany, he was not so much as allowed to fly his flag there. And the denia... ...pounds of lead and pounds sterling of money continued to be blown into the air without cessation and almost without result. Colonel de Coetlogon, an o... ...o accept himself the duty of “controlling” the discharge of the Richmond’s cargo. Hand was unable to move without his consul; and at night an armed bo... ..., and arrived at last in the desolated port with a welcome and lu- crative cargo of pigs. The admiral was glad to have the pigs; but what most delight...

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... what is passing under our very eyes. But here, as in so many other cases, Germany, learned, indefatigable, deep-thinking Germany comes to our aid. It... ...truction, we were to have a science of Affirmation and Reconstruction; and Germany and Weissnichtwo were where they should be, in the vanguard of the ... ...endered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air? Their solid Pavement is a Picture of the Sense; they walk on the bosom... ...,—tears streaming down his cheeks, pipe held aloft, foot clutched into the air,—loud, long-continuing, uncontrollable; a laugh not of the face and dia... ...r-locked, snow-and- rosebloom Maiden, worthy to glide sylph-like almost on air, whom thou lovest, worshippest as a divine Presence, which, indeed, sym... ...y blood and hos- pitality, with the Counts von Zahdarm, in this quarter of Germany; to which noble Family I likewise was, by his means, with all frien... ...blown Egg-shells!—Did Nature, when she bade the Donau bring down his mould-cargoes from the Carinthian and Carpathian Heights, and spread them out her...

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...Candles of the rest; in a word, I made about 220 Pieces of Eight of all my Cargo, and with this Stock I went on Shoar in the Brasils. I had not been l... ... necessary for my Plantation, and which were of great Use to me. When this Cargo arrived, I thought my Fortunes made, for I was surprised with the Joy... ...tage; so that I might say, I had more than four times the Value of my first Cargo, and was now infinitely beyond my poor Neighbour, I mean in the Advanc... ...e; and when it was over, that went away too. While I sat thus, I found the Air over cast, and grow cloudy, as if it would Rain; soon after that the Wi... ...CRUSOE trembl’d, just as it had done before in the Earthquake, and all the Air look’d, to my Apprehension, as if it had been fill’d with Flashes of Fir... ...re we are all made by some secret Power, who form’d the Earth and Sea, the Air and Sky; and who is that? Then it follow’d most naturally, It is God th... ... Enemy, and at one blow cut off his Head as cleaverly, no Ex ecutioner in Germany, could have done it sooner or better; which I thought very strange,...

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...” cried the man in the skiff. “What’s the matter? and why have you such an air of sadness aboard?” “A great misfortune, M. Morrel,” replied the young ... ...specially! Off Civita Vecchia we lost our brave Captain Leclere.” “And the cargo?” inquired the owner, eagerly. “Is all safe, M. Morrel; and I think y... ... poor Captain Leclere — “ “What happened to him?” asked the owner, with an air of consid- erable resignation. “What happened to the worthy captain?” “... ...If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the cargo — “ “Is all safe and sound, M. Morrel, take my word for it; and I adv... ..., the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo. I believe, if she had not been laden, and I had been her master, he ... ...rapping, black-eyed Catalan, with a red complexion, brown skin, and fierce air, whom she calls cousin.” “Really; and you think this cousin pays her at... ... had, who so nearly became King of France, and whose cousin was Emperor of Germany.” “On my word, I think you are right, Lucien,” said Albert absently...

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...t is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand. One afternoon in the beginning of October when the... ...n, the poor, and the rain, her mind was like a wound exposed to dry in the air. 7 Virginia Woolf At this point the cab stopped, for it was in danger ... ... that indicated huge squares of domestic comfort, lights that hung high in air. No dark- ness would ever settle upon those lamps, as no darkness had s... ...ted. They heard of the Euphrosyne, but heard also that she was primarily a cargo boat, and only took pas- sengers by special arrangement, her business... ...upon her from the decks of great liners, and she was pronounced a tramp, a cargo-boat, or one of those wretched little passenger steamers where people... ...de- served the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when...

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... away in the 4 The Duchesse de Langeais loneliest valleys, hanging in mid-air on the steepest mountainsides, set down on the brink of precipices, in ... ...ts galleries and terraces whither the townsfolk come 5 Balzac to take the air among their flowers of an evening, above the houses and the tops of the... ... a certainty with the vague reminiscence of a sad, deli- cious melody, the air of Fleuve du T age. The woman he loved had played the prelude to the ba... ...ttle boys grow up into men, and men are un- grateful beings. When I was in Germany, did I not hear young de Horn say, after supper, `If my mother had ... ... ing for the wreck of a galleon which foundered thereabouts in 1778 with a cargo of treasure from Mexico. The people at the inn and the authorities as...

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... while I go by the name of a man.’ Mr. Richmond succeeded in preserving an air of serious deliberation under the torrent of this tremendous outburst, ... ...he trick. My father related all this with such a veritable matter-of- fact air, and such liveliness—he sounded the chase and its cries, and showed Kin... ... ‘I’d go through a regiment of sabres to get at you.’ ‘But smell the night air; how sweet! oh, how sweet! No, not kiss me, if you are going to leave m... ...uses me, is that an accident? There’s a cause for every disaster: too much cargo, want of foresight, want of pluck. Pooh! when I’m hauled prisoner int... ...he said, as he shook my hand. I thought it amazing he should guess that in Germany. ‘Do you know where he is, sir?’ I asked. ‘We saw him,’ replied the... ...ared at hearing that we knew only the word ja, for it made our presence in Germany unaccountable. ‘The most dangerous word of all,’ said Colonel Goodw... ...d her father’s arm. ‘At once, if you like,’ said he, jumping up erect. ‘In Germany was it?’ I persisted. She nodded gravely and leaned softly on my ar...

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... figuratively speaking, pack my bag, rush away from Sulaco for a change of air and write a few pages of the “Mirror of the Sea.” But gener- ally, as I... ...y and black vapours that travel out slowly to seaward and vanish into thin air all along the front before the blazing heat of the day. The wast- ing e... ...t bursts suddenly into flame and crashes like a sinster pirate-ship of the air, hove-to above the horizon, engaging the sea. At night the body of clou... ...hip, one of the few European ships that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account o... ...r that call. The superintendent ordered her out of the harbour at once. No cargo could be landed, of course, and the passengers for Sulaco naturally r... ...no after the func- tion on shore. Captain Mitchell had himself steered the cargo lighter, all draped with flags, which, in tow of the Juno’s steam lau... ...e goes with curiosity to call upon remarkable persons. He visited mines in Germany, in Spain, in Cornwall. Abandoned workings had for him strong fasci... ...opinion was that war should be de- clared at once against France, England, Germany, and 336 Nostromo the United States, who, by introducing railways,...

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...ere just like the peasantsat home or those I saw com ing through France and Germany, with short jackets, and round hats, and home made trousers; but ... ...t on the eastern side. There were dark, rolling clouds overhead, and in the air the heavy, oppressive sense of thunder. It seemed as though the mount... ...Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.”As he was speaking, he p... ...the cock coming up with preter natural shrillness through the clear morning air. Count Dracula, jumping to his feet, said, “Why there is the mornin... ...he is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a small amount of cargo, a number of great wooden boxes filled with mould. This cargo was... ... keep accurate note henceforth till we land. On 6 July we finished taking in cargo, silver sand and boxes of earth. At noon set sail. East wind, fres... ...3 Chapter 17 quiries as I wanted. It was now my object to trace that horrid cargo of the Count’s to its place in London. Later, we may be able to dea... ...wn everywhere that men have been. In old Greece, in old Rome, he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chermosese, and in Chi...

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...hips that sailed from Salem and Newburyport. He had brought to port many a cargo which crowned the edifice of fortunes already almost colossal, but he... ...fresh complexion, however, was always suffused with an 10 Roderick Hudson air of apathetic homesickness, and she played her part in American society ... ..., was narrow; the jaw and the shoulders were narrow; and the result was an air of insufficient physical substance. But Mallet afterwards learned that ... ...rnamented with parterres bordered with high box hedges. The mansion had an air of antiquated dig- nity, but it had seen its best days, and evidently s... ...ing Rome. They would go north and travel. They would go to Switzerland, to Germany, to Holland, to England. Roderick assented, his eye brightened, and... ...d visits; his companion had no plan save to ramble through Switzerland and Germany as fancy guided him. He had money, now, that would outlast the summ... ...o confoundedly all of one piece; he won’t throw over- board a grain of the cargo to save the rest. Fancy him thus with all his brilliant personal char... ...y, and he was meaning to take a summer’s holiday; going to Switzerland, to Germany, to Paris. In the autumn he was to return home; his family—com- pos...