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  • His neck was thick and short, and his head habitually stooped; his face bloated, with the lower lip projecting, and large eyes protruding, one of them having a cataractal appearance.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832 Various

  • They had scarcely hidden themselves, and removed all signs of their presence to Jack's satisfaction, when the storm which had been threatening for so long a time burst with terrific fury, the air being continuously a-glimmer with the flickering and quivering of lightning flashes, while the very ground beneath their feet seemed to quake with the deafening, soul-shaking crash of the thunder; and the rain, breaking loose at last, descended in such cataractal volumes that, even partially sheltered as most of them were by the dense foliage of the scrub amid which they cowered, every soul of them was wet to the skin in less than

    The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection Harry Collingwood 1886

  • à voir dans _le gargouillement et la transsudation de ce dégorgement cataractal_.

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

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