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us such a fearful inarticulate shrieking as
Hard upon his words had followed the rattling clangor as the great anchor was let go; but horribly intermingled with the metallic roar there came to us such a fearful, inarticulate shrieking as to chill one’s heart.
— from The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer

us such a fearful inarticulate shrieking as
Hard upon his words had followed the rattling clangour as the great anchor was let go; but horribly intermingled [253] with the metallic roar there came to us such a fearful inarticulate shrieking as to chill one's heart.
— from The Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

uninterrupted stream and from its standing approximately
When the aspirator (Chapter II., Note 16 ) has pumped out the air, which will be seen by the mercury running out in an almost uninterrupted stream, and from its standing approximately at the barometric height, then it may be clearly observed that gas passes through the india-rubber.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

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