All 8 Uses of
inhabitant
in
The War of the Worlds
- That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- He was full of speculation that night about the condition of Mars, and scoffed at the vulgar idea of its having inhabitants who were signalling us.†
Chpt 1.1
- The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose, by way of the Old Woking road—the road I had taken when I drove to Leatherhead—or they had hidden.†
Chpt 1.12
- The respectable inhabitants of the place, men in golf and boating costumes, wives prettily dressed, were packing, river-side loafers energetically helping, children excited, and, for the most part, highly delighted at this astonishing variation of their Sunday experiences.†
Chpt 1.12
- On Wednesday the three fugitives—they had passed the night in a field of unripe wheat—reached Chelmsford, and there a body of the inhabitants, calling itself the Committee of Public Supply, seized the pony as provisions, and would give nothing in exchange for it but the promise of a share in it the next day.†
Chpt 1.17
- I have an impression that many of the houses here were still occupied by scared inhabitants, too frightened even for flight.†
Chpt 2.1
- To the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet——†
Chpt 2.4
- Here the scenery changed from the strange and unfamiliar to the wreckage of the familiar: patches of ground exhibited the devastation of a cyclone, and in a few score yards I would come upon perfectly undisturbed spaces, houses with their blinds trimly drawn and doors closed, as if they had been left for a day by the owners, or as if their inhabitants slept within.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(inhabitant) a person who lives in a particular place