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The whole vast forest is stirred by a thrill of brotherliness THE TOADS [_Out of sight._]--roak CHANTECLER The echo alone now repeats FAINT DISTANT VOICE --oak CHANTECLER Gone!

—Chantecler Play in Four Acts

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See the quotation. The [steel] bar, if it was not burnt up in the fire, would be so full of the imperfections technically called “seams” or roaks as to be perfectly useless. Michaelis, tr. of Monthaye's Krupp and De Bange, p. 21.

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The whole vast forest is stirred by a thrill of brotherliness THE TOADS [_Out of sight._]--roak CHANTECLER The echo alone now repeats FAINT DISTANT VOICE --oak CHANTECLER Gone! — Chantecler Play in Four Acts
The leader was called "Tos-ard-e-roak," which Joe says, from the sound, he thinks means Lieutenant Back. — Schwatka's Search