All 5 Uses of
debris
in
The War of the Worlds
- A cash box had been hastily smashed open and thrown under the debris.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- I have a dim memory of the foot of a Martian coming down within a score of yards of my head, driving straight into the loose gravel, whirling it this way and that and lifting again; of a long suspense, and then of the four carrying the debris of their comrade between them, now clear and then presently faint through a veil of smoke, receding interminably, as it seemed to me, across a vast space of river and meadow.†
Chpt 1.12
- 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.†
Chpt 1.13
- The detachment of the plaster had left a vertical slit open in the debris, and by raising myself cautiously across a beam I was able to see out of this gap into what had been overnight a quiet suburban roadway.†
Chpt 2.2
- One of its gripping limbs curled amid the debris; another limb appeared, feeling its way over the fallen beams.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
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(debris) pieces of something that has been destroyed; or trash that is lying around