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Examples
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Behind her, a trickle of smoke and ash coiled into the shuttle through a series of rock-torn gashes.
Firestorm L.A Graf 2000
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She had forgotten the tears of a few minutes before, forgotten that twenty pairs of searching youthful eyes watched her every movement and mentally criticized her, from the masses of long hair to the rock-torn boots on her feet.
Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912
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The fellow's seal-like ability as a swimmer was, of course, well known to me, but I must confess I trembled for his life in such a weltering whirl of rock-torn sea as boiled among the crags at the base of that precipice.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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