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  • Their peculiar hooting invariably preceded feeding; it had no modulation, and was, I believe, in no sense a signal, but merely the expiration of air preparatory to the suctional operation.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Their peculiar hooting invariably preceded feeding; it had no modulation, and was, I believe, in no sense a signal, but merely the expiration of air preparatory to the suctional operation.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • Here, the resistant medium brings about a darkening of our field of vision, while the lightness-effect springs from a direct meeting of the eye with light, and so with the suctional effect of negative density.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Natural phenomena brought about by the suctional effect of the earth's levity-field.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • If, on the other hand, the edge is in the wake of the transverse impulse, then a kind of dynamic vacuum arises in that part of space from which the beam is deflected, with the effect that the Dark-ingredient, imprinted on the light within the prism, is drawn into this vacuum by following a kind of suctional influence.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Although it remains true that the suction arising from the diminished air pressure over the hole cannot account for the intense increase of ebullition in the hole itself, not to speak of the participation of the entire region in this increase, there is the fact that the whole event starts with a suctional effect.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • It became a question, then, of finding a chimney which, with small dimensions, should have great suctional power.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various

  • Their peculiar hooting invariably preceded feeding; it had no modulation, and was, I believe, in no sense a signal, but merely the expiration of air preparatory to the suctional operation.

    The War of the Worlds 1906

  • Clouds of roseate vapour, ascending to the dome of the canopy, partially obscured the sumptuous contours of these celestial invaders; while a soft crooning sound, indicative of utter contentment, or as Professor Nestlé of the Milky Ray has more prosaically explained it, due to expiration of air preparatory to the suctional operation involved in the use of the Red Weed, added an indescribable glamour to the enchantment of the scene.

    The War of the Wenuses 1900

  • Their peculiar hooting invariably preceded feeding; it had no modulation, and was, I believe, in no sense a signal, but merely the expiration of air preparatory to the suctional operation.

    Chapter Two: What We Saw from the Ruined House Herbert George 1898

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