seisms

Those book moments of breathing life, essential parts of plot, seisms of character, are too rare to wait for, but when they do happen, happen and break forth with a wind or a sigh, a sigh that could just as well be a wind, they are worth all the time taken in coming.

\"I Want to Know Why\" (Sherwood Anderson) dudemanflab 2007

It called for mines to find a way of monitoring seisms to prevent any loss of life.

IOL: News 2010

"isms" and seisms; by those who thought they had bright ideals and purposes, and by those who had purposes without ideals; when we consider all these obstacles to success, what wonder is it that we have been called "poor, bleeding Kansas," and regarded with successive pity, admiration and dislike?

The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses 1893