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War of the worlds, excerpt
by h. g. wells
when i returned to the common the sun was setting. scattered groups were hurrying from the direction of woking, and one or two persons were returning. the crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky—a couple of hundred people, perhaps. there were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. strange imaginings passed through my mind. as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice:
"keep back! keep back! "
a boy came running towards me.
"it's a-movin'," he said to me as he passed; "a-screwin' and a-screwin' out. i don't like it. i'm a-goin' 'ome, i am."
i went on to the crowd. there were really, i should think, two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another, the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active.
"he's fallen in the pit! " cried someone.
"keep back! " said several.
the crowd swayed a little, and i elbowed my way through. everyone seemed greatly excited. i heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit.
"i say! " said ogilvy; " keep these idiots back. we don't know what's in the confounded thing, you know! "
i saw a young man, a shop assistant in woking i believe he was, standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again. the crowd had pushed him in.
the end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within. nearly two feet of shining screw projected. somebody blundered against me, and i narrowly missed being pitched onto the top of the screw. i turned, and as i did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion. i stuck my elbow into the person behind me, and turned my head towards the thing again. for a moment that circular cavity seemed perfectly black. i had the sunset in my eyes.
i think everyone expected to see a man emerge—possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man. i know i did. but, looking, i presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks—like eyes. then something resembling a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me—and then another.
a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i heard inarticulate exclamations on all sides. there was a general movement backwards. i saw the shop man struggling still on the edge of the pit. i found myself alone, and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off, stent among them. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring.
a big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. as it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather.
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the crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky—a couple of hundred people, perhaps. there were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. strange imaginings passed through my mind. as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice
which word best describes the tone created by the sentence structure of this text?
anger
caution
frenzy
sorrow

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