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Sentences ending with earthquake

I suppose it will, but then through some convulsed crisis, shattering all around it like an earthquake. [14]
Traversing a drift, we came to the Spanish line, passed five sets of timbers still uninjured, and found the earthquake. [5]
I thought it was an earthquake. [5]
For a long time it had a habit of trembling, as if in an earthquake spasm, but with a shivering motion very different from that produced by an earthquake. [4]
I waited for the earthquake. [5]
Then he suddenly started, staggered backwards, uttered a loud choking, gurgling, nameless cry, and fell back on the floor like a mass of rock shaken from its foundations by an earthquake. [10]
A man can shake it so that the movement shall be shown in a vessel of water nearly seventy feet below the summit, and higher up the vibration is like that of an earthquake. [6]
There she was, perceptibly swaying, as though the floor under her were rocked by an earthquake. [9]
The barouche does not look as fine, now, as it did earlier-but that was before the earthquake. [5]
The world was never lost by one earthquake. [11]

Sentences containing earthquake two or more times

If I had another cold in the head, and there were no course left me but to take either an earthquake or a quart of warm saltwater, I would take my chances on the earthquake. [5]

More example sentences with the word earthquake in them

You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
Satan said we would have a storm now, and an earthquake, if we liked, but we must stand off a piece, out of danger. [5]
It was one which was long called the "great" earthquake, and is doubtless so distinguished till this day. [5]
At such times, when one's consciousness of outer things is dormant, an earthquake might continue for some minutes without one realizing it. [9]
And you'd have to be a Wobbler, whereas anybody that is an expert in reading character can see at a glance that when you set your foot down once, it's there to stay; and earthquake can't wobble it. [5]
Its fall represented the tumbling walls of life, was the earthquake which shook his world into chaos. [11]
They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand. [5]
So, having seen the earthquake, we climbed out at the Union incline and tunnel, and adjourned, all dripping with candle grease and perspiration, to lunch at the Ophir office. [5]
The gentlemen of the Earthquake will, of course, take pleasure in making the correction. [5]
The "curiosities" of the earthquake were simply endless. [5]
Then there was that other enormous incident which made a man to be swallowed by an earthquake, then belched out again into the sea and picked up and restored to life again, and to live for many years. [11]
Think of the surly indifference of the storms that swept the forest and the waters, the earthquake chasms that engulfed him, the inundations that drowned him out of his miserable hiding-places, the pestilences that lay in wait for him, the unequal strife with ferocious animals! [6]
The sufferer rose superior to the terrors of the earthquake, and said to his wife: "Now that is something like! [5]
We wondered how such a solid mass of masonry could be affected even by an earthquake, and could not understand what agency had made Banias a ruin; but we found the destroyer, after a while, and then our wonder was increased tenfold. [5]
There must be something vitally wrong with an instrument which failed to register the great earthquake shock of June the seventh! [9]
If an earthquake should suddenly sink this temple and all its votaries into the bowels of the earth, with all its nervousness and all its electricity, it is appalling to think what would become of the business of the country. [4]
Such another destruction of mantel ornaments and toilet bottles as the earthquake created, San Francisco never saw before. [5]
An earthquake could not have disturbed her outer, matter-of-fact calmness. [9]
The ship is made to struggle with the elements, and the giant has been tamed to obedience, and is manacled in bonds which an earthquake would hardly rend asunder. [6]
It doesn't take long for an earthquake to do its work--it's seconds then. [11]
There is nothing like listening to an artist--all his passions passing away in lava, smoke, thunder, lightning, and earthquake. [5]
We always smash into it with an earthquake of applause. [5]
Dada looked on intensely disgusted, and only shook her head when one or another of her companions was sure she felt a shock of earthquake or heard the roll of distant thunder. [10]
It is as if a mighty earthquake had spent all its terrible forces upon this one little spot. [5]
A month afterward I enjoyed my first earthquake. [5]
Immediately below us I could make out scars like earthquake cracks running across the meadows--the front trenches. [9]
Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother's side! [5]
She never loses her head,--I don't believe she would in an earthquake. [6]
Nobody else had heard anything about it and no one said earthquake to me afterward, but I saw it and I wrote it. [5]
The words she had heard had shaken the depths of her soul like an earthquake. [10]
He made several grimaces which gave me a better idea of the Lisbon earthquake than any I have ever got of it from paintings and descriptions. [5]
It was a good mountain, and a good farm, but it wasn't any use; an earthquake came the next night and shook it all down. [5]
There was an earthquake zone in her being which might shake down the whole structure of her existence. [11]
That was the earthquake that rocked the planet. [5]
Even the playful earthquake is better contemplated at a dis---- However there are varying opinions about that. [5]
There was great difference of opinion, at first, as to the course or direction the earthquake traveled, but water that splashed out of various tanks and buckets settled that. [5]
The uneducated foreigner could not even furnish a Santa Cruz Punch, an Eye-Opener, a Stone-Fence, or an Earthquake. [5]
The Honourable Jacob Botcher, who had made a trip to Ripton and had cited that very decided earthquake shock of the Pingsquit bill, had been ridiculed for his pains, and had gone away again comforted by communion with a strong man. [9]
The Imperial travellers and their companions listened to the famous colossus of Memnon, of which the upper portion had been overthrown by an earthquake, and three times in the dawn they heard it sound. [10]
Simplified spelling brought about sun-spots, the San Francisco earthquake, and the recent business depression, which we would never have had if spelling had been left all alone. [5]
This conduct of a substance that we have been taught to regard as inflexible impairs one's confidence in the stability of nature and affects him as an earthquake does. [4]
By and by, a loosened mass of the hanging shelf we sat on tumbled into the lake, jarring the surroundings like an earthquake and delivering a suggestion that may have been intended for a hint, and may not. [5]
He broke into a convulsive sort of a canter, which had three short steps in it and one long one, and reminded me alternately of the clattering shake of the great earthquake, and the sweeping plunging of the Ajax in a storm. [5]

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