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a loud crash a trembling of the entire
But just as we did so, there was a loud crash, a trembling of the entire vessel, a curious pause, and then another awful crash.
— from The Beautiful White Devil by Guy Boothby

as little ceremony as that of throwing ears
On such occasions I have seen the person appointed to chop up the frozen meat scatter the pieces among the expectant crowd with as little ceremony as that of throwing ears of corn to the hogs in a pen.
— from Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350 by Lucien M. (Lucien McShan) Turner

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