Both Uses of
inkling
in
The War of the Worlds
- I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- It was the coal cellar of the place, and when I saw the work he had spent a week upon—it was a burrow scarcely ten yards long, which he designed to reach to the main drain on Putney Hill—I had my first inkling of the gulf between his dreams and his powers.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(inkling) a slight indication, suggestion, or understanding