Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The Time Machine by H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 I I I I I THE ... ...id Filby. ‘Of course a solid body may exist. All real things—’ 4 The Time Machine ‘So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an instan- taneous cu... ...own,’ said the Medical Man. ‘Easier, far easier down than up.’ 6 The Time Machine ‘ And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the ... ...h fell upon the model. There were also perhaps a dozen candles 8 The Time Machine about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sco... ... hands together above the apparatus, ‘is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singu- larly ... ...t you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. This s... ... of a time traveller. Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear. Have...

Full Text Search Details
...sued, judgments signed, declara tions filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty’s liege s... ...nto sassages as easy as if it was a tender young babby. Wery proud o’ that machine he was, as it was nat’ral he should be, and he’ d stand down in the... ...olet; and yet it had something of the character of each and every of these machines. It was painted a bright yellow, with the shafts and wheels picked... ..., pack’d up and all, by this time.’ What sort of cumbrous and unmanageable machine, Sam Weller imagined a habeas corpus to be, does not appear; for Pe... ...asement windows in the attic storeys, and the whirl of wheels and noise of machinery shook the trembling walls. The fires, whose lurid, sullen light h...

Full Text Search Details
...They were retiring again, holding the enemy back. He was in the rear—three machine-guns. The country was all pleas- ant, war had not yet trampled it. ... ... seemed to touch right upon the soul. He kept up the rapid activity at the machine-gun, sweating. But in his soul was the echo of the new, deep sound,... ...ly at their ease. They pounce on the youths who try to evade their ticket- machine. They push off the men at the end of their distance. They are not g... ...during these performances pitch darkness falls from time to time, when the machine goes wrong. Then there is a wild whooping, and a loud smacking of s... ... with chaff, more like,’ she retorted. ‘It’s as bad as feeding a threshing machine, to have to listen to some folks.’ ‘ As bad as what?’ said Albert. ... ...sessed young man walked in with his kit-bag, and put his cap on the sewing machine. He was little and self- confident, with a curious neatness about h...

Full Text Search Details
...aped and pasted, their tongues kept up such an accompaniment to the sewing-machine that Charity’s silence sheltered itself un- perceived under their c...

Full Text Search Details
...stand the reasons that led a man who had become the pivot of the financial machine of Limoges to repulse the various propositions of marriage which pa...

Full Text Search Details
... ery day take new pains to make them both familiar, will be, I may hope, a machine in such working order as that they can keep it going. I know I need...

Full Text Search Details
... tion, he was aston-ished beyond measure at such persistency. They must be machines of steel. It was very gloomy struggling against such affairs, woun... ...attery addressed them. The youth pitied them as he ran. Methodical idiots! Machine-like fools! The refined joy of planting shells in the midst of the ... ...s forward way. The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its com-plexities and powers, its grim processes, fasci- na... ... this crowd and marched along with it. The torn bodies expressed the awful machinery in which the men had been entangled. Orderlies and couriers occas... ...ch a possibility. His education had been that success for that mighty blue machine was certain; that it would make victories as a contrivance turns ou... ...r torrent was choked with the bodies of horses and splintered parts of war machines. It had come to pass that his wound pained him but little. He was ... ...Its foliages now seemed to veil powers and hor-rors. He was unaware of the machinery of orders that started the charge, although from the cor-ners of ... ...h other in all manner of hoarse, howling pro-tests. But the regiment was a machine run down. The two men babbled at a forceless thing. The soldiers wh... ...a din fitted to the universe. It was the whirring and thumping of gigantic machinery, complica-tions among the smaller stars. The youth’s ears were fi...

Full Text Search Details
...n excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butchers, bakers, and grocers, as heart could desire. ... ...town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing machine, dress, linen, and all appliances; and the charge for the whole is ... ...f weariness for their money; and we have also an association of individual machine proprietors combined against this formidable rival. M. Feroce, our ... ...g the English language), on the wooden 45 Charles Dickens horses of which machine grown up people of all ages are wound round and round with the utmo... ...snuffle (and no wonder!) deep down under the pink hood of a little bathing machine, and can never peruse even so much of his lineaments as his nose? W... ... high, I saw the proprietor in bed in the shower bath. As to the bath ing machines, they were (how they got there, is not for me to say) at the top o... ...WHEN D ON D IEGO De—I forget his name—the inventor of the last new Flying Machines, price so many francs for la dies, so many more for gentlemen—whe... ...less knives, clogged and sticky, but persistent—and is pressed out of that machine through a square trough, whose form it takes— and is cut off in squ... ...rking clothes, all splashed with white,— where it passes through no end of machinery moved sieves all splashed with white, arranged in an ascending sc...

Full Text Search Details
...ll have a glance at the manufacturing district some day. You shall see the machines they work with. Y ou shall see the miserable lank-jawed half-stewe... ...slept here in my room above, where I don’t often sleep, for the row of the machinery—it ‘s like a steamer that won’t go, though it’s always starting y... ... a working member of Parliament, is occasionally reminded that this mortal machine cannot adapt itself in perpetuity to the long hours of labour by ni... ...ough the Psalms. There was a creak at intervals, leading him to think it a machine that might have run away with the winder’s arm. The earl’s humour p... ...aptain Beauchamp quotes you too. It seems that you once talked to him of a machine for measuring the force of blows delivered with the fist, and compa...

Full Text Search Details
...as Hela, has died out into the clanking of a World-MA- CHINE. “T ree” and “Machine:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to ... ...e:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to be no machine! I say that it does not go by wheel-and-pinion “motives” self-inter... ...jennies, and parliamentary majorities; and, on the whole, that it is not a machine at all!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world tha... ...l!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world than these poor Machine-Sceptics: the old Heathen Norse were sincere men. But for these poo... ...g-down of cant; a saying to oneself: “Well then, this world is a dead iron machine, the god of it Gravitation and selfish Hunger; let us see what, by ... ...lot- box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building, or other machinery whatsoever can improve it a whit. It is in the perfect state; an ... ...sh, that Great Men could again appear in the world! Nature, turned into a “Machine,” was as if effete now; could not any longer produce Great Men:—I c...

Full Text Search Details
...t I have been more touched than I can say by your grief. That is a wonderful machine, but it is cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the angui...

Full Text Search Details
... in vain, convinced him either that this universe was one grim, piti- less machine, grinding down humanity by mere law of ne- cessity, or if they woul...

Full Text Search Details
...d disorganisation. Even four years of victorious warfare would dislocate the machinery of any great nation’s life; and four years of desperate resista... ...forestry, engineering, and the whole harmonious running of the vast national machine? The answer is the last the American business man is likely to th...

Full Text Search Details
...ontinents and seas, that he was unable as yet to emulate; from vast modern machineries and facilities whose acquaintance he had still to make, but as ... ...ce of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would be full of machinery, which was the Book I, Chapter 1 11 antidote to superstition, wh... ...to the stale summer day, rattled down at the turn of some crank. There was machinery again, just as the plate glass, all about him, was money, was pow... ...mselves were the immensity of the result; they were one with perfection of machinery, they had constituted the kind of acquisitive power engendered an... ... causes, and Mr. Verver grew in time even a little amused at the amount of machinery Mrs. Assingham had seemed to see needed for pointing it. She was ... ...ose tacit and abstemious presence, never betrayed by a rattle of her rusty machine, a room in the attic and a plate at the side table were decently us... .... If the Princess moreover had failed of her occult use for so much of the machinery of diversion, she would still have had a sense not other than sym...

Full Text Search Details
...dness of the Wood, and having no other Way, made me a long while upon this Machine, for I work’d it effectually by little and little into the Form of ... ...y common there; besides that, my Grindstone was very large and heavy. This Machine cost me a full Week’s Work to bring it to Perfection. April 28, 29.... ...ion. April 28, 29. These two whole Days I took up in grinding my Tools, my Machine for turning my Grindstone performing very well. April 30. Having pe...

Full Text Search Details
...in my house when a workman could not readily be got, and to construct little machines for my experiments, while the intention of mak ing the experime... ...hlet, and working it up into his own, and mak ing some small changes in the machine, which rather hurt its operation, got a patent for it there, and ... ...g. He procur’d an elegant apparatus for the purpose, in which all the little machines that I had roughly made for myself were nicely form’d by instrum...

Full Text Search Details
...nd flying far beyond folly, have dared to resuscitate the theory of animal machines. The “dog’s instinct” and the “automaton-dog,” in this age of psy-... ... science, sound like strange anachronisms. An automaton he certainly is; a machine working independently of his control, the heart, like the mill-whee...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE .............................................................................................................................................. 4 OF THOSE CALLED ...........................................................

Full Text Search Details
... University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE ...................................................................... ... the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling 1895 THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE Hit a man an’ help a woman, an’ ye can’t be far wrong anyways. —Max... ...eordie tramp—one of those lumber- ing, dish-bottomed coal-barges where the machinery is tied up with a string and the plates are rivetted with putty. ... ...ing dishgraceful!” ‘The fork av his hand was black wid the backspit av the machine. So he tuk the orf ’cer bhoy’s revolver. Ye may look, Sorr, by my f... ...When due and sufficient reasons have been given, weighed and approved, the machinery moves forward, and the dreamer of dreams and the seer of visions ...

Description Details
...erican humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur....

Full Text Search Details
...y that he had been sitting with his nether extremities in some complicated machinery, a threshing-machine, say, or one of those hay-making furies. But... ...em waits the jest of the unexpected treadle. You try at least to walk your machine in an easy manner, and whack!—you are rubbing your shin. So out of ... ...rlock is presently explaining, by the help of the minor injuries, that the machine ridden is an old-fashioned affair with a fork instead of the diamon... ... at first, rises a vision of a nightly struggle, of two dark figures and a machine in a dark road,—the road, to be explicit, from Roehampton to Putney... ...him. “Why, cycling, of course.” “Y ou’re never going to ride that dreadful machine of yours, day after day?” said Miss Howe of the Costume Department.... ...river’s inexperience and offered such advice as occurred to him. “Have the machine thoroughly well oiled,” said Briggs, “carry one or two lemons with ... ...ourself to death the first day, and sit upright. Never lose control of the machine, and always sound the bell on every possible op- portunity. You min... .... It’s one of the worst things you can do to run over a dog. Never let the machine buckle—there was a man killed only the other day through his wheel ... ...cculent respiration of the pipe. Hoopdriver rode off into Dreamland on his machine, and was scarcely there before he was pitched back into the world o...