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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Roman god Vulcan.

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  • Eldgos á Eyjafjallajökull / Vulcanic eruption at Eyjafjallajökull creative expression the vimeo experience mrowell To Watch

    Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 on Vimeo 2010

  • Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth.

    Ulysses 2003

  • In Luther we see now, throughout his whole method of polemics, as we shall see still more later on, a mighty, Vulcanic, natural power breaking forth, but always regulated by the humblest devotion to the lofty mission that his conscience has imposed upon him.

    Life of Luther Julius Koestlin

  • Vulcanic lake, the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • It is here the place of the Chorus to state that these: ideas were in the air at the time; sparks of the Vulcanic smithy at work in politics and pervading literature: which both Alvan and Clotilde might catch and give out as their own, in the honest belief that the epigram was, original to them.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • It is here the place of the Chorus to state that these: ideas were in the air at the time; sparks of the Vulcanic smithy at work in politics and pervading literature: which both Alvan and Clotilde might catch and give out as their own, in the honest belief that the epigram was, original to them.

    The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • It is here the place of the Chorus to state that these: ideas were in the air at the time; sparks of the Vulcanic smithy at work in politics and pervading literature: which both Alvan and Clotilde might catch and give out as their own, in the honest belief that the epigram was, original to them.

    The Tragic Comedians — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • His still, Vulcanic face hiding its burning brightness like a forge, he moved with ostentatious deference towards the scuttle, as if so far to escort their exit.

    The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

  • Here there would be a red Vulcanic glow in the interior of a shop where the furnace fire was flaming up about the pots and pans of cookery; and at the street front, at the window, the moonlight glinting white from the edge of a dish, or glancing from a pane of glass; and then again reflected from the still waters of a canal.

    The End of a Coil Susan Warner 1852

  • Vulcanic Ash cloud Above Holland (iceland Vulcano eruption) + beautiful sunset

    WN.com - Articles related to Air France complains daily loss of 35 million euros 2010

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