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... story, an English gentleman narrates the events of a violent and fast paced Martian invasion. The frightening images of people fleeing from gigantic tripod machines and the prospect of life under Martian rule have served as a bottomless well of inspiration for popular culture. The novel has served as a template for many derivative or inspired works, including comics, coun...

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...use turned and glided back to where the God of Light sat in splendour. He held his tripod in one hand and his bow hung over his shoulder. His own l...

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...ed against the background of the gabled house-turned-law-office. Lights mounted on tripods glared over the lawn and sweeping driveway. Cop cars ja...

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...Identify yourself," said Gabriele and then quickly began to move the canvas, tripod, brushes, and paint into her bedroom. The painting wasn't complet...

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...idors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire, that pro- jected its rays through the ... ...king hue from the many tinted windows through which stream the rays from the tripods. But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, ther... ...ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitabl...

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...he city of Ilius, you shall have the next best meed of honour after my own—a tripod, or two horses with their chariot, or a woman who shall go up into... ...tonement. I will tell them in the presence of you all. I will give him seven tripods that have never yet been on the fire, and ten talents The Iliad ... ...u what he has said in his tent that he will give you. He will give you seven tripods that have never yet been on the fire, and ten talents of gold; tw... ...fs of Pytho. Cattle and sheep are to be had for harrying, and a man buy both tripods and horses if he wants them, but when his life has once left The ... ...hey and their chariots with them had gone to the games and were to run for a tripod, but King Augeas took them, and sent back their driver grieving fo... ...weep over you both night and day.” Then Achilles told his men to set a large tripod upon the fire that they might wash the clotted gore from off Patro... ...that they might wash the clotted gore from off Patroclus. Thereon they set a tripod full of bath water on to a clear fire: they threw sticks on to it ... ...t blaze, and the water became hot as the flame played about the belly of the tripod. When the water in the cauldron was boiling they washed the body ,... ...m busy with his bellows, sweating and hard at work, for he was making twenty tripods that were to stand by the wall of his house, and he set wheels of...

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...nd telling. In the midst of you all I will name the excellent gifts; seven tripods untouched of fire, and ten talents of gold and twenty gleaming cald... ...ocky Pytho. For kine and goodly flocks are to be had for the harrying, and tripods and chest nut horses for the purchasing; but to bring back man’s l... ... mortal men.” Thus spake noble Achilles, and bade his comrades set a great tripod on the fire, that with all speed they might wash from Patroklos the ... ...th all speed they might wash from Patroklos the bloody gore. So they set a tripod of ablu tion on the burning fire, and poured therein water and took... ...nd took wood and kindled it beneath; and the fire wrapped the belly of the tripod, and the water grew hot. And when the water boiled in the bright bro... ...ound she sweating in toil and busy about his bel lows, for he was forging tripods twenty in all to stand around the wall of his stablished hall, and ... ...treus’ son. Forth with as the word was spoken so was the deed done. Seven tripods they bare from the hut, as he promised him, and twenty bright caldr... ...dly round the turning points, and some great prize lieth in sight, be it a tripod or a woman, in honour of a man that is dead, so thrice around Priam’... ...she called to her goodly haired handmaids through the house to set a great tripod on the fire, that Hector might have warm washing when he came home o...

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...sharp and bright. And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine trees, and sm... .... But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand. Then suddenly the trees in the pine wood ahead of me were par... ...through them; they were snapped off and driven headlong, and a second huge tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, headlong towards me. And I was gall... ... cylinder under cover of a metal shield. Later this shield staggered up on tripod legs and became the first of the fighting-machines I had seen. The g... ...es to the south. It would seem that a leg of the 72 The War of the Worlds tripod had been smashed by one of the shells. The whole of the second volle... ...hree of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their tripod sup- ports were almost entirely submerged. Thus sunken, and seen in ... ...achines, and there his knowledge ended. He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether mis... ...til the force of its machinery was exhausted. They glittered now, harmless tripod towers of shining metal, in the brightness of the rising sun. All ab...

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...t of their own accord furthered their passage, winning as guerdon a mighty tripod of Apollo. For tripods twain had Phoebus given to Aeson’s son to car... ... should never be ravaged by the attacks of foemen. Therefore even now this tripod is hidden in that land near the pleasant city of Hyllus, far beneath... ...hen straightway Orpheus bade them bring forth from the ship Apollo’s massy tripod and offer it to the gods of the land as propitiation for their retur... ...se of oars. And eagerly they sped on; meanwhile T riton took up the mighty tripod, and they saw him enter the lake; but thereafter did no one mark how... ...but thereafter did no one mark how he vanished so near them along with the tripod. But their hearts were cheered, for that one of the blessed had met ...

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... The next rich honorary gift be thine: 178 The Iliad of Homer Some golden tripod, or distinguished car, With coursers dreadful in the ranks of war: O... ...s of the purest gold, And twice ten vases of refulgent mould: Seven sacred tripods, whose unsullied frame Yet knows no office, nor has felt the flame;... ...s of the purest gold, And twice ten vases of refulgent mould; Seven sacred tripods, whose unsullied frame Yet knows no office, nor has felt the flame;... ...ring billows blew. That day no common task his labour claim’d: Full twenty tripods for his hall he framed, That placed on living wheels of massy gold,... ... wice ten bright vases in the midst they laid; 363 Pope A row of six fair tripods then succeeds; And twice the number of high-bounding steeds: Seven ... ...he mighty dead; Where high rewards the vigorous youth inflame (Some golden tripod, or some lovely dame) The panting coursers swiftly turn the goal, An... ...l tent. The attending heralds, as by office bound, With kindled flames the tripod-vase surround: To cleanse his conquering hands from hostile gore, Th... ...m the ships proceeds A train of oxen, mules, and stately steeds, Vases and tripods (for the funeral games), Resplendent brass, and more resplendent da... ...he first in pride! To vile reproach what answer can we make? A goblet or a tripod let us stake, And be the king the judge. The most unwise Will learn ...

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... the imperial guest: T wo lavers from the richest ore refined, With silver tripods, the kind host assign’d; And bounteous from the royal treasure told... ...he beaker crown’d, Fair in the midst, with gilded cups around: That in the tripod o’er the kindled pile The water pours; the bubbling waters boil; An ... ... let him not remove, Large, and expressive of the public love: Each peer a tripod, each a vase bestow, A general tribute, which the state shall owe.” ... ....” Then on the sands he ranged his wealthy store, The gold, the vests, the tripods number’d o’er: All these he found, but still in error lost, Discons... ...hout some pledge, some monument of love: These will the caldron, these the tripod give; From those the well pair’d mules we shall receive, Or bowl emb... ...nd dumb for ever be thy slanderous tongue!” He said, and high the whirling tripod flung. His shoulder blade received the ungentle shock; He stood, and...

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...ity in the whole world; he gave Menelaus two baths, both of pure silver, two tripods, and ten talents of gold; besides all this, The Odyssey – Book I... ...ng to Jove, or to any of the gods.” Then Arete told her maids to set a large tripod upon the fire as fast as they could, whereon they set a tripod ful... ...blaze, and the water be came hot as the flame played about the belly of the tripod. Meanwhile Arete brought a magnificent chest her own room, and ins... ...ce; let us now, therefore, present him further, each one of us, with a large tripod and a cauldron. We will recoup ourselves by the levy of a general ... ...ne will send us away empty handed; every one will give us something—a bronze tripod, a couple of mules, or a gold cup.” “Menelaus,” replied Telemachus...

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...d a profusion of banners. Upon pedestals along the sides of the vessel are tripods in which incense was burned, and underneath them are garlands of fl... ...d allusions military and funereal. A great eagle of course tops the whole: tripods burning spirits of wine stand round this kind of dead man’s throne,...

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...them, and a supper. But their reputation was chiefly raised by sending the tripod to them all, by their modest refusal, and complaisant yielding to on... ...s, Milesians, bought the draught at a venture; the net brought up a golden tripod, which, they say, Helen, at her return from Troy, upon the remembran... ...n there. Now, the strangers at first contesting with the fishers about the tripod, and the cities espousing the quarrel so far as to engage them- selv... ...rwards sent to Delphi. This is the general report, only some, instead of a tripod, say this present was a cup sent by Croesus; others, a piece of plat... ..., whose elation exposed them to envy; third and last, that he left certain tripods in the temple of Bacchus, offerings for his victory in conducting t... ...icence. Panaetius, again, shows that Demetrius was deceived concerning the tripod by an identity of name. For, from the Persian war to the end of the ... ...the gold that covered it; and a shrine in the temple of Bacchus, under the tripods, that were presented by those who won the prize in the shows of pla...

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...e bent; the handle this, and that the spout: A pipkin* there, like Homer s tripod, walks; Here sighs a jar, and there a goose pie talks; Men prove wit...

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...of scaffolding, and wildernesses of bricks, and giant forms of cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were a hundred thousand shapes and ... ...cation of his wisdom—upon a principle which was the main leg of the Bunsby tripod, as it is perchance of some other oracular stools—looked upon one an...

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...g on a velvet bed, beneath curtains; per- fumes are exhaling from a golden tripod by her side: he will be tempted to take the tassels of the cord that...