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tsunami
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  • She died in childbirth shortly after the green tsunami carried away Mudflat City.†   (source)
  • He got up under No. 30 and for the next few seconds the nose tackle looked like a man riding a tsunami: arms flailing madly, legs kicking wildly.†   (source)
  • But in the midst of this whole visual tangle she gets one image printed indelibly on her retina: the gunmen going down like a treeline in a hurricane, and for just an instant, a line of dark angular things silhouetted above the maze as they crest it like a cybernetic tsunami.†   (source)
  • A tsunami of bearded rebellion crashed down upon the poor king and carried him off, flailing helplessly, and spat him out on the shores of India, then Italy, and at last Switzerland, where he crawled from the muck and died a disillusioned old man in exile.†   (source)
  • He's constantly on call, a bag packed on top of the wardrobe; there's an earthquake in Iran or a tsunami in Asia and he drops everything, he grabs his bag and he's at Heathrow within a matter of hours, ready to fly out and save lives.†   (source)
  • And you, Sarah Jacobi"—he pointed to a woman with white robes and spiky black hair—"you were sent to Antarctica for causing the tsunami in the Indian Ocean."†   (source)
  • The media-at first a wave as unwelcome as a tsunami-became something ordinary on the streets of Sterling.†   (source)
  • He had on jeans and no shirt, which, frankly, was almost as distracting as the mega-tsunami.†   (source)
  • Alec's weathered face as he explained to them that after surviving such massive sun flares, their biggest and most immediate worry now was the surge of a tsunami.†   (source)
  • Only it wasn't a steamroller this time, more like a tsunami.†   (source)
  • I think of Bryn, out in L.A., unaware of an earthquake going down here in New York that's sending a tsunami her way.†   (source)
  • He remained committed to learning the truth, but now instinct warned him that he should allow the revelations to wash over him in small waves instead of in one devastating tsunami.†   (source)
  • Dad needed time to recover from Tsunami Trish.†   (source)
  • The initial meteor showers, quakes, and tsunamis only caused part of the damage.†   (source)
  • I think of women naming the atrocities committed against them by the Taliban in Afghanistan or women telling of the systematic rapes during the Bosnian war or just recently in Sri Lanka after the tsunami--women lining up in refugee camps to name their nightmares and losses and needs.†   (source)
  • Later reports on shock wave from seismic labs and on tsunamis from oceanographic stations were consistent.†   (source)
  • Live near a coast and she will send tsunamis to erase centuries of work.†   (source)
  • The same damage had happened to the bridges as in SF, and even most of the ferries were destroyed by the combination of the plasma wave and the very small, very intense tsunami that had been kicked up by the strike which centered more or less on the Chelsea Piers.†   (source)
  • Jean and George had witnessed the whole sequence of events when the tsunami hit the island.†   (source)
  • A tsunami warning system helps to protect Hawaii.
  • Most cities and towns were abandoned in the wake of the Red Tsunami.†   (source)
  • The tsunami had destroyed towns and cities up and down the Japanese coast for hundreds of miles.†   (source)
  • And the Red Tsunami roars in fast once you're exposed, unless you have immunity.†   (source)
  • The mind was the last thing to go, washed away in the red waters of the Tsunami.†   (source)
  • "But I'd like to avoid getting all my friends drowned in a tsunami as soon as we leave Boston."†   (source)
  • Earthquakes and tsunamis had obliterated the coasts.†   (source)
  • But the anger that swamps it is a tsunami taking over every cell in my body.†   (source)
  • So, you know, a kid skips a stone at the beach, and somewhere across the planet, a tsunami happens.†   (source)
  • We read that more lives had been affected and more damage had been caused by the floods than the Asian tsunami, our 2005 earthquake, Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake combined.†   (source)
  • There was a… field surge… more like a tsunami than a tide… the Sphinx… the artifact Rachel was in… was totally inundated.†   (source)
  • He told Dr. Sato the story about what had happened in the tsunami, how Mom and Harry and Ojisan had been swept away from him.†   (source)
  • Tsunami!†   (source)
  • The buildings were slapped together, made out of hand-sawed lumber and salvaged tin, one main ward for the infected and a smaller shack for the two doctors who tended the dying before they, too, were sucked down by the Red Tsunami.†   (source)
  • The Red Tsunami.†   (source)
  • Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the tsunami crash against the Graves, washing all the way up to the base of the lighthouse.†   (source)
  • Sun flares and a tsunami.†   (source)
  • The tsunami looming over Joe in dark hours was of an entirely personal nature, however: the loss of his family, towering so high that it blocked the stars and prevented him from seeing the future.†   (source)
  • He coughed, sending another tsunami of pain across his chest, down his side, to curl anaconda-like around his stomach.†   (source)
  • The rest of the room was decorated the same way, with posters proclaiming the end is nearer than you think and one that said simply mega tsunami: one wave, total annihilation.†   (source)
  • I knew that across town something bigger than the mega-tsunami had hit and was already reverberating, sending Shockwaves that would eventually ripple out to meet me.†   (source)
  • A tsunami?†   (source)
  • There was a point where the events of your life became a tsunami; Lacy knew, because she'd been washed away once before by grief.†   (source)
  • Stockpiled in anticipation of winter, but the Red Tsunami caught them first and drowned them in their own blood.†   (source)
  • Tsunami.†   (source)
  • Shaking uncontrollably, I wonder if they've finally broken me; after surviving the tsunami that took my home, the plague that took my family, the death camp that took my hope, the innocent little girl who took my bullet, I am terminal, done, finished, and was it ever in question, never if but always when?†   (source)
  • When I walked into the living room, the announcer on the TV was talking about the mega-tsunami, describing in detail how all it would take was one volcano blowing to set off the chain reaction of events that would end with that big wave crashing over our extended coastline.†   (source)
  • "Tsunami," Bert said.†   (source)
  • EMPs and tsunamis and plagues and aliens in disguise and brainwashed kids and now kids with bombs inside them.†   (source)
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