COMMON in Classic Quotes

1  The window of my study looks over the trees and the railway towards Horsell Common.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XI. AT THE WINDOW.

2  From the corner I went, under cover of a thicket of trees and bushes, to the edge of Wimbledon Common, stretching wide and far.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL.

3  Masked batteries, chiefly of field guns, had been planted in the country about Horsell Common, and especially between the Woking district and London.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIV. IN LONDON.

4  But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between Horsell, Ottershaw, and Woking, rose early with the idea of finding it.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: II. THE FALLING STAR.

5  I managed to make out the road by means of occasional ruins of its villas and fences and lamps, and so presently I got out of this spate and made my way to the hill going up towards Roehampton and came out on Putney Common.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VI. THE WORK OF FIFTEEN DAYS.

6  After getting this sudden lesson in the power of terrestrial weapons, the Martians retreated to their original position upon Horsell Common; and in their haste, and encumbered with the debris of their smashed companion, they no doubt overlooked many such a stray and negligible victim as myself.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XIII. HOW I FELL IN WITH THE CURATE.