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Then with a hoarse intensity of anger came a low heavy booing, "Boo! boo oo!" a note stupidly expressive of animal savagery. "Toot, toot!" said Lord Redcar's automobile in ridiculous repartee. "Toot, toot!" One heard it whizzing and throbbing as the crowd obliged it to slow down. Everybody seemed in motion towards the colliery gates, I, too, with the others. I heard a shout.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet

We had taken over the various "great houses," as they used to be called, to make communal dining-rooms and so forth their kitchens were conveniently large and pleasant places for the old people of over sixty whose time of ease had come, and for suchlike public uses. We had done this not only with Lord Redcar's house, but also with Checkshill House where old Mrs.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet

I was still meditating a tremendous retort, an indictment of all Lord Redcar's class, their manners, morals, economic and political crimes, when my trouble with Nettie arose to swamp all minor troubles. Yet, not so completely but that I snarled aloud when his lordship's motor-car whizzed by me, as I went about upon my long meandering quest for a weapon.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet

I had not the heart nor desire to help in the wrecking and burning of Lord Redcar's motor. Section 4 In the night, fever, pain, fatigue it may be the indigestion of my supper of bread and cheese roused me at last out of a hag-rid sleep to face despair. I was a soul lost amidst desolations and shame, dishonored, evilly treated, hopeless. I raged against the God I denied, and cursed him as I lay.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet

A dark, quiet crowd, that was greater each day, a crowd more than half women, brooded as a cloud will sometimes brood permanently upon a mountain crest, in the market-place outside the Clayton Town Hall, where the conference was held. . . . I consider myself justified in regarding Lord Redcar's passing automobile with a special animosity because of the leaks in our roof.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet

But they came out in a sort of semiofficial strike from all Lord Redcar's collieries beyond the canal that besets Swathinglea. They did so without formal notice, committing a breach of contract by this sudden cessation.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet