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It robs the air of sweet silence, it substitutes for the gentle concord of stillness the wailings of the so-called ‘blues singer,’ the whinings of foggy saxophones, the screeching of untuned fiddles, the blasts of head-splitting horns, and the battering of earshattering drums.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fierro v. City of Williamsport: 2007
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A low rumble slowly builds into an earshattering explosion, folowed by silence.
Don't Panic Gaiman, Neil 1993
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