Shuddering

The busy chatter of

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The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy’s face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, … Read more

I am SHADOW, and

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I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal.\” And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the … Read more

And because our reason

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And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to … Read more

Listen to th\’ wind

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Listen to th’ wind wutherin’ round the house,\” she said. \”You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight.\” Mary did not know what \”wutherin’\” meant until she listened, and then she understood. It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house, … Read more

Turbulence.” This is what

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Turbulence.” This is what pilots announce that you have encountered when your plane strikes an object in midair. You’ll be flying along, and there will be an enormous, shuddering WHUMP, and clearly the plane has rammed into an airborne object at least the size of a water buffalo, and the pilot will say, “Folks, we’re … Read more