It was at ten o'clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle. . . . I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second. I seemed to reel; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and, looking round, I saw the laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me. Then I noted the clock. A moment before, as it seemed, it h

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"to-day"= today
"first of all"= first ever.
"Time Machines"- time machine.
 ". . ."= .
"and almost immediately..."= and almost immediately afterword.
"falling;"= falling,
"round"= around
"exactly as before"= exactly as it was before
"my intellect" = my mind
"Then I"= Then, I