Wells


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prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels

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Wells, there is one thing I should like to ask you--that is, if it is not against professional etiquette.
"Excuse me, Wells." He went hurriedly out into the hall.
The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets.
Well, I'll explain if you'd like to make certain it's all straight.
"Well, it is possible, no doubt," said I, with some reserve.
Those waterless wells, too, those flickering pillars.
I am used to Tunbridge Wells, where we are all hopelessly behind the times."
"Suppose," said Ojo, "you wait here and let me do the climbing, for it's on my account we're searching for the dark well. Then, if I don't find anything, I'll come back and join you."
"Well, she thinks too much of herself to associate with those she works with, in the office here, for instance.
To everything cleanly am I well disposed; but I hate to see the grinning mouths and the thirst of the unclean.
'Well, that's something,' the affianced replies, half grumbling.
Then they were told that there was to be a collection for a pious object in church; well, they pulled out their halfpence and gave them, but what for they couldn't say."
Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he had grown deaf in his later years, but he occasionally hummed a psalm, which harmonized well enough with my philosophy.
My master knew very little about horses, but he treated me well, and I should have had a good and easy place but for circumstances of which he was ignorant.
She began to cry and a still greater sense of pity, tenderness, and love welled up in Pierre.