The Spokesmen must vanquish the Martians or perish!"
"But they are savages, these unpure Martians," the boy cried.
"Meet the Martians when they arrive and destroy or drive them back!
In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers.
When they have laid waste the Earth, the Martians have but to finish the fight!"
But the Martians cannot consolidate any position on the Earth without coming to handgrips.
The Moon-cubes are destroying the dwelling of our people, and the Martians are to destroy the people who have fled!"
She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.
As though trained for years in this particular evolution, the green Martians melted like mist into the spacious doorways of the nearby buildings, until, in less than three minutes, the entire cavalcade of chariots, mastodons and mounted warriors was nowhere to be seen.