 Martians do not seem to have had any sense of smell, but it had a pair of very large dark-coloured eyes, and just beneath this a kind of fleshy beak. In the back of this head or body— I scarcely know how to speak of it— was the single tight tympanic...  The War of the Worlds - Page 197by H. G. Wells - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1898 - 482 pages
...surface since known to be anatomically an ear, though it must have been almost useless in our denser air. In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender,...tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. There is a picture of one of these interesting persons, whose internal economy is also carefully described.... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 740 pages
...bodies - or, rather, heads - about four feet in diameter, each body having in front of it a face. ... In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost...tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each' (Bk. n, chap. 2). by length than by stress - as a matter of movements in space than footsteps hitting... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - Social Science - 1992 - 196 pages
...but it had a pair of very large dark-coloured eyes, and just beneath this a kind of fleshy beak. ... In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost...tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. (1964, p. Ill) He adds later that "they were heads—merely heads. Entrails they had none. They did... | |
 | Physical sciences - 2000 - 104 pages
...be anatomically an ear, though it must have been almost useless in our denser air. In a group around the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles,...these Martians for the first time they seemed to be endeavoring to raise themselves on these hands, but of course, with the increased weight of terrestrial... | |
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