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There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.
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There and was
There was more to this than Jones had told him.
There was no one but me.
There was a ragged volley.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
There was no chance.
There was no moon.
There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.
There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.
There was to be no gunplay.
There was a light in Black's front room, but drawn curtains prevented any view of the interior.
There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.
There was raw fury in his eyes, and the veins of his neck were swollen.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
There was not enough room to make the usual vertical bomb run.
There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.
There was no time to pick out a penny ; ;
There was a blur just under my focus of vision, a crash ; ;
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
There and shattering
There are many passages in which the argument simply consists of a succession of epigrams, which do indeed effectively explode on impact, shattering conventional trains of thought, but which, like most epigrams, leave behind among the debris in the reader's mind a trail of timid doubts and qualifications.
There is the possibility of the front lens element on the lamp head cracking from thermal shock ( though not completely blowing out or shattering ).
There is -- predictably -- pain, but once you've made it a few steps past the threshold, you realize it wasn't glass after all, only air, and that the shattering sound you heard was your own heart breaking.
There and cracking
There was a keening of wind, and a cracking of the frozen ground.
There have been lawsuits over cracking software.
There are many password cracking software tools, but the most popular are Cain and Abel, John the Ripper, Hashcat, Hydra and ElcomSoft.
There were serious concerns about the solid rocket motor, when several motors suffered cracking of the propellant, thought to occur due to the hot / cold cycling year after year.
There are many documented issues with accelerator products in this category causing cracking and damaging the archivability of the medium.
There is some circumstantial evidence supporting this as well: A number of diplodocids have been found with fused or damaged tail vertebrae, which may be a symptom of cracking their tails.
There are three other bands on the barrel and cap as vestiges of traditional fountain pen design, which used these rings to limit cracking.
There are two kinds: steam cracking and catalytic cracking.
There, at " PC Bruno " outside Paris, they resumed cracking Enigma ciphers through the " Phony War " ( October 1939 — May 1940 ).
There were also problems with the shells cracking under the pressure of overtightened lugs and exposure to freezing temperatures.
There have been many examples of such pipes and acetal fittings failing in properties in the USA as a result of chlorine-induced cracking.
) There are only two ways to collect the super berry, homing berry, mega homing berry, and gold berry: ( 1 ) by finding the actual berry somewhere in the level or ( 2 ) collecting purple tokens, turning a seed purple, cracking it open, and obtaining the resulting berry that way.
There are some cracking storylines lined up for her.
There is information, however, that Erik Tews ( the man who created the fragmentation attack against WEP ) is going to reveal a way of breaking the WPA TKIP implementation at Tokyo's PacSec security conference in November 2008, cracking the encryption on a packet in between 12 – 15 minutes.
There and sound
There have been a number of sound plans proposed.
There was a new sound, a sound as piercing as the Rebel yell, yet different.
There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.
There was no sound and apparently no movement in the room except the noiseless pulsation of the red light on the wall.
There was a sound like the one you produce by flicking a watermelon with your finger, only louder, and Pops fell forward from the waist and then over sidewise.
There also came a brief contretemps with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during a quiet moment near the conclusion of `` Do It Again '', and she made the tart observation that `` I never saw so much moving about in an audience ''.
There was considerable contrast between this Mulligan performance and that of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, who are able to generate a tremendous sound for such a small group.
There are many kinds of transduction process that convert energy from some other form into sonic energy, producing a sound wave.
There is one fundamental equation that describes sound wave propagation, but the phenomena that emerge from it are varied and often complex.
There is also a long-model cornet, usually with a smaller bore and a brighter sound, which is closer to a trumpet in appearance.
There are many deductive systems for first-order logic that are sound ( all provable statements are true ) and complete ( all true statements are provable ).
There is some variation in the acoustic properties of the mew between different felid species ; extreme examples include the whistling sound made by cougars and the mew-grunt of lions and tigers.
There were many in Hollywood who considered sound a threat to the industry and hoped it would pass quickly ; McBride notes that " Capra was not one of them.
There are also more exotic varieties, such as guitars with two, three, or rarely four necks, all manner of alternate string arrangements, fretless fingerboards ( used almost exclusively on bass guitars, meant to emulate the sound of a stand-up bass ), 5. 1 surround guitar, and such.
There are numerous regular sound correspondences between Hungarian and the other Ugric languages.
In The Grammar of Science, Preface to the 2nd Edition, 1900, Karl Pearson wrote, " There are many signs that a sound idealism is surely replacing, as a basis for natural philosophy, the crude materialism of the older physicists.
There in 1992, with fellow Detroit native Robert Hood, he set up the record label Axis, and later, sub-labels Purpose Maker, Tomorrow, and 6277, all aiming for a more minimal sound than most of the techno being produced in those years.
There is a heavy use of assonance, the reuse of vowel sounds, and a reliance on alliteration, repetition of the first sound of a word, within the poem including the first line: " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ".
There is some indication that Sandawe ( about 40, 000 speakers in Tanzania ) may be related to the Khoe family, such as a congruent pronominal system and some good Swadesh-list matches, but not enough to establish regular sound correspondences.
However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, " There is no noise, only sound.
There often are multiple audio outputs, so that each sound or group of sounds can be routed to a separate output.
There he was trained to use sound as a diagnostic aid.
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