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metronome
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    In the back of my mind, I could still hear the hacking of the tree, a metronome fading away like a ticking clock vanishing in time.†  (source)
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    The toy man had a broken nose slanted to the left: an offbeat metronome caught forever at the start of an upward stroke.†  (source)
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    Moreover: I was not used to European hotels where you had to ring to get in after a certain hour, and when at last I splashed up sneezing and bone chilled to find the glass door locked, I stood for some indefinite time rattling the handle like a zombie, back and forth, back and forth, with a rhythmic, locked-in, metronome dumbness, too stupefied with cold to understand why I couldn't get in.†  (source)
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    It was our metronome, our pulse.†  (source)
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    The drumming wing-whir of the slowly moving overhead fan is metronomic, enhancing to the concentration—and from the fourth and fifth rows of pews, you can feel the air moving regularly against your face.†  (source)
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    So they had gone at their subjects with metronomes, serpents, Brechtian vignettes at midnight, surgical removal of certain glands, magic-lantern hallucinations, new drugs, threats recited over hidden loudspeakers, hypnotism, clocks that ran backward, and faces.†  (source)
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    My heart had kept pace to the metronomelike rhythm of a monitor's steady beep.†  (source)
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    A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?†  (source)
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    The metronomic beat of the clock speeds up, and I rise toward the surface.†  (source)
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    In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.†  (source)
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    He ran steadily, mechanically, his barrel legs pumping like a metronome.†  (source)
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    Imagine, if you will, a land in which carpetbaggers swarmed not for a decade or so but for millennia and you will come to understand just one aspect of a Poland stomped upon with metronomic tedium and regularity by the French, the Swedes, the Austrians, Prussians, Russians, and possessed by even such greedy incubuses as the Turks.†  (source)
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    There was a boy who used no canvas, but did something with bird cages and metronomes, and another who discovered a new technique of painting: he blackened a sheet of paper and then painted with a rubber eraser.†  (source)
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