Theme: anxiety
The War of the Worlds / Isolation and Fear
After eating we crept back to the scullery, and there I must have dozed again, for when presently I looked round I was alone. The thudding vibration c...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Communication and Time
But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a steamer, he would have...
Dracula / Fear of Intrusion
Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, ...
The War of the Worlds / Gathering Storm
“We are in the midst of it,” I said, “quiet as it is. That flicker in the sky tells of the gathering storm. Yonder, I take it are the Martians, and Lo...
The War of the Worlds / Anxiety and Normalcy
He was now very anxious on my account, and disturbed at the evident magnitude of the trouble. His mind was inclined to run, even as mine had run on Sa...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Technological Tension
According to my idea, the _Nautilus_ would attack the ship at her waterline, and then it would not only be possible, but easy to fly. At three in the ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Geological Curiosities
As a true nephew of the great Professor Hardwigg, and despite my preoccupation and doleful fears of what was to come, I observed with great interest t...
The War of the Worlds / Martian Invasion
And from this paper my brother read that catastrophic dispatch of the Commander-in-Chief: “The Martians are able to discharge enormous clouds of a bla...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Trust and Suspicion
“‘In my own bureau.’ “‘Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night.’ said he. When I was a youngster I have opened it myself ...
Frankenstein / Creative Duality
Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete. I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now bu...
The War of the Worlds / Survival Under Siege
A man, knee-deep near the towing path, shouted inaudibly to me and pointed. Looking back, I saw the other Martians advancing with gigantic strides dow...
Dracula / Desire for Urgency
This did not at all satisfy him, for he said quickly:-- “But I fear, Dr. I desire to go at once--here--now--this very hour--this very moment, if I may...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Perception Versus Reality
"Are you ill, Henry?" continued the Professor in an anxious tone. All now seems well," I added, looking around me with strangely puzzled eyes. "All ri...
The War of the Worlds / Martian Threat
That night another invisible missile started on its way to the earth from Mars, just a second or so under twenty-four hours after the first one. I rem...
The War of the Worlds / Control and Chaos
I am not an expert driver, and I had immediately to turn my attention to the horse. When I looked back again the second hill had hidden the black smok...
Dracula / Vulnerability and Anxiety
She seems not too well herself, and doubtless she fears to worry me. I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelv...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Race Against Time
Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time? But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communi...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Knowledge and Chaos
Among these he rummaged and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a...
The War of the Worlds / Encounters with the Unknown
But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks—like eye...
The War of the Worlds / Technological Innovation
These last had brought with them certain fresh appliances that stood in an orderly manner about the cylinder. The second handling-machine was now comp...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Anxieties of Adventure
Fogg, I suppose, is anxious to catch the steamer for Yokohama?” “Terribly anxious.” “You believe in this journey around the world, then?” “Absolutely....
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fear and Instability
"What fear you now?" "What do I fear now!" I cried in fierce and angry tones. "Do you not see that the walls of the shaft are in motion?