SURREY in Classic Quotes

1  Far away and blue were the Surrey hills, and the towers of the Crystal Palace glittered like two silver rods.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: VIII. DEAD LONDON.

2  Across the Thames, except just where the boats landed, everything was quiet, in vivid contrast with the Surrey side.

The War of the Worlds By H. G. Wells
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: XII. WHAT I SAW OF THE DESTRUCTION OF WEYBRIDGE AND SHEPPERTON.

3  Going on along the Strand to Trafalgar Square, the paper in his hand, my brother saw some of the fugitives from West Surrey.

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

4  Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most, have thought that another meteorite had descended.

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

5  Certainly, unless death had overtaken them suddenly, my cousins and she would have fled thence; but it seemed to me I might find or learn there whither the Surrey people had fled.

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

6  The shutters of a map shop in the Strand were being taken down, my brother said, and a man in his Sunday raiment, lemon-yellow gloves even, was visible inside the window hastily fastening maps of Surrey to the glass.

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