All 11 Uses of
emerge
in
The War of the Worlds
- I think everyone expected to see a man emerge—possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man.†
Chpt 1.4
- After the glimpse I had had of the Martians emerging from the cylinder
Chpt 1.5 *emerging = coming out
- Stent and Ogilvy, anticipating some possibilities of a collision, had telegraphed from Horsell to the barracks as soon as the Martians emerged, for the help of a company of soldiers to protect these strange creatures from violence.†
Chpt 1.6
- By Byfleet station we emerged from the pine trees, and found the country calm and peaceful under the morning sunlight.†
Chpt 1.12
- After a fruitless struggle to get aboard a North-Western train at Chalk Farm—the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there ploughed through shrieking people, and a dozen stalwart men fought to keep the crowd from crushing the driver against his furnace—my brother emerged upon the Chalk Farm road, dodged across through a hurrying swarm of vehicles, and had the luck to be foremost in the sack of a cycle shop.†
Chpt 1.16
- I went through a shrubbery, and along a passage beside a big house standing in its own grounds, and so emerged upon the road towards Kew.†
Chpt 2.1
- I also weighed very carefully the possibility of our digging a way out in a direction away from the pit, but the chances of our emerging within sight of some sentinel fighting-machine seemed at first too great.†
Chpt 2.3
- Within that noisome den from which I had emerged I had thought with a narrow intensity only of our immediate security.†
Chpt 2.6
- And as I emerged from the top of Baker Street, I saw far away over the trees in the clearness of the sunset the hood of the Martian giant from which this howling proceeded.†
Chpt 2.8
- I hurried through the red weed that choked St. Edmund's Terrace (I waded breast-high across a torrent of water that was rushing down from the waterworks towards the Albert Road), and emerged upon the grass before the rising of the sun.†
Chpt 2.8
- In that case the cylinder might be destroyed with dynamite or artillery before it was sufficiently cool for the Martians to emerge, or they might be butchered by means of guns so soon as the screw opened.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(emerge) to come out, or to appear