Hg Wells. War of the worlds (№ 442331)

At that moment I experienced a feeling alien to people, but well known to animals subject to us. I experienced what a rabbit feels when he returns to his hole and suddenly finds that the diggers have dug his dwelling to the ground. Then for the first time I vaguely felt what later became quite clear to me, which had been oppressing me for many days - a feeling of dethronement, the conviction that I was no longer the king of the Earth, but an animal among other creatures under the heel of the Martians.