All 5 Uses of
scrutiny
in
The War of the Worlds
- …BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS CHAPTER ONE THE EVE OF THE WAR No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.†
Chpt 1.1
- He was immensely excited at the news, and in the excess of his feelings invited me up to take a turn with him that night in a scrutiny of the red planet.†
Chpt 1.1
- I did not know what these were--there was no time for scrutiny--and I put a more horrible interpretation on them than they deserved.
Chpt 2.1 *scrutiny = careful look or inspection
- In the triangle of bright outer sunlight I saw the Martian, in its Briareus of a handling-machine, scrutinizing the curate's head.†
Chpt 2.4
- Be that as it may, for many years yet there will certainly be no relaxation of the eager scrutiny of the Martian disk, and those fiery darts of the sky, the shooting stars, will bring with them as they fall an unavoidable apprehension to all the sons of men.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something