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  • They'll have seismic probes on the surface, too.†   (source)
  • Her memories of the night before were distinct, then blurry: there was the snow, and the long ride to the clinic through the empty streets, and David stopping at every light while she fought against the rippling urge, seismic and intense, to push.†   (source)
  • And it should have been her who defended the graffitists, daredevil kids who put color and spunk into the seismic blur of a rush-hour Monday.†   (source)
  • Workshop is to be put on total lockdown—all residents are to proceed to nearest seismic shelters without delay.†   (source)
  • Sukeena and I toured a ruin, an old port city now inland by a quarter mile, rocked above sea level in a seismic shift two thousand years earlier.†   (source)
  • Living underground requires a seismic psychological shift.†   (source)
  • It was as if the seismic geologists of the world were forgotten, their discoveries unfounded.†   (source)
  • Later reports on shock wave from seismic labs and on tsunamis from oceanographic stations were consistent.†   (source)
  • The seismic records show about four thousand seven hundred.†   (source)
  • Yes, the seismic shocks had cracked New Salem's dome.†   (source)
  • Something about seismic activity around Iceland, like when that island poked up back in the sixties.†   (source)
  • Some far-off seismic rumble, he thought at first.†   (source)
  • He had a belt on that was twice as thick as the cinch of a horse, boots with leggings and spurs and iron on the heels, and his presence gave the quaking impression of a seismic tremor.†   (source)
  • The moment had not been as he had foreseen it; rather than a seismic tremor in his heart, it was a calming blow, and a great relief that what was bound to happen sooner or later had happened sooner rather than later: the ghost of Miss Barbara Lynch had entered his house at last.†   (source)
  • A seismic voice, a volcanic breath.†   (source)
  • Nigromanta took him to her room, which was lighted with false candlesticks, to her folding cot with the bedding stained from bad loves, and to her body of a wild dog, hardened and without soul, which prepared itself to dismiss him as if he were a frightened child, and suddenly it found a man whose tremendous power demanded a movement of seismic readjustment from her insides.†   (source)
  • Besides, since it had been originally designed to look for seismic events, Jones suspected it of a tendency to interpret anomalies as seismic events.†   (source)
  • It overcame the difficulty seismologists had discriminating between random noise that is constantly monitored on seismographs and genuinely unusual signals that foretell a seismic event.†   (source)
  • "The (almost) solid Earth—" The gate robot took into account tidal distortions but could not anticipate minor seismic variables.†   (source)
  • When that baby goes off, I will have arranged for it to be the worst seismic disturbance in the memory of man.†   (source)
  • The short, bewildering war had followed, the war of which no history had been written or ever would be written now, that had flared all round the Northern Hemisphere and had died away with the last seismic record of explosion on the thirty-seventh day.†   (source)
  • Working with natural materials, we would know boundaries, thicknesses of various layers within the crust; and we could check these against what we had learned from the seismic waves of earthquakes gone by.†   (source)
  • If you study the International Union of Geology and Geophysics publication, Active Volcanoes of the World, and if you map out all those which are no longer active, you will note certain volcanic and seismic belts.†   (source)
  • From the reports of eyewitnesses it transpires that the seismic waves were accompanied by a violent atmospheric perturbation of cyclonic character.†   (source)
  • The observatory of Dunsink registered in all eleven shocks, all of the fifth grade of Mercalli's scale, and there is no record extant of a similar seismic disturbance in our island since the earthquake of 1534, the year of the rebellion of Silken Thomas.†   (source)
  • (particularly) human females extending from the age of puberty to the menopause: inevitable accidents at sea, in mines and factories: certain very painful maladies and their resultant surgical operations, innate lunacy and congenital criminality, decimating epidemics: catastrophic cataclysms which make terror the basis of human mentality: seismic upheavals the epicentres of which are located in densely populated regions: the fact of vital growth, through convulsions of metamorphosis, from infancy through maturity to decay.†   (source)
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