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Updated: June 12, 2025
They were described as "vast spiderlike machines, nearly a hundred feet high, capable of the speed of an express train, and able to shoot out a beam of intense heat." Masked batteries, chiefly of field guns, had been planted in the country about Horsell Common, and especially between the Woking district and London.
Some of the days have been intensely hot, but the British Tommy unfastens his coat and leaves his shirt open at the chest, and with the sun bronzing his face to a deeper, richer tint, marches on, singing a cockney ballad as though he were on the road to Weybridge or Woking.
Then I shifted my position to a little knoll that gave me the advantage of a yard or more of elevation and when I looked for him presently he was walking towards Woking. The sunset faded to twilight before anything further happened. The crowd far away on the left, towards Woking, seemed to grow, and I heard now a faint murmur from it. The little knot of people towards Chobham dispersed.
You speak as if a man ceased to live just because he is married. What has changed you? 'I'll tell you what has changed me, said he, looking up. 'My wife has changed me. 'Oh, bother your wife! A look which was new to her came over his face. 'Stop that! said he sharply. 'Oh, no harm! How has your wife made this wonderful change? His mood softened as his thoughts flew back to Woking.
The morning after our arrival we were sent in groups by lorry to Woking to get fitted out with civilian clothes; we were allowed to keep our greatcoats, boots, socks, tropical shirts and shorts and then we were let loose in this large army clothing store.
We were closing on the Little Village, with her three million people spread out at ease inside her ring of girdling Main-Traffic lights those eight fixed beams at Chatham, Tonbridge, Redhill, Dorking, Woking, St. Albans, Chipping Ongar, and Southend. Leopold Vincent's new company looked, with small pale faces, at the silence, the size, and the separated houses.
The two men shook hands. "I played golf with you once at Woking," Norgate reminded his new acquaintance. "I not only remember it," Prince Edward answered, "but I remember the result. You beat me three up, and we were to have had a return, but you had to leave for Paris on the next day." "You will be able to have your return match now," Mrs. Benedek observed. "Mr.
Stobb, a big, cheery-faced man, who looked like a highly respectable publican, turned to Brereton with a smile. "It was a very easy job, sir," he said. "I found out all about the lady and her connexion with Woking in a very few hours. There are plenty of folk at Woking who remember Miss Pett she gave you the mere facts of her residence there correctly enough.
"A very curious case. It reminds me of something Smith said to me about bad law making hard cases. It was jolly lucky the findings of the Court were held up all that time. If the C.-in-C. had confirmed them and the sentence had been promulgated, Stokes would now be doing five years at Woking. Whereas, there he is back with his old battalion, holding a D.C.M., and not reduced by one stripe."
The line on the London side of Woking station was still undergoing repair, so I descended at Byfleet station and took the road to Maybury, past the place where I and the artilleryman had talked to the hussars, and on by the spot where the Martian had appeared to me in the thunderstorm.
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