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  • Incontinently the mounting waves of the song broke upon his appearing, and flashed up into a foam of shouting.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Incontinently full of grace, like thin old wine-skins overfilled, they felt they must burst if once they came into contact with hard fact and sane direction.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • Incontinently those at the opening of the hut vanished; my Ape-man rushed out; the thing that had sat in the dark followed him (I only observed that it was big and clumsy, and covered with silvery hair), and I was left alone.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • Incontinently the little kinetoscope was dropped, Graham was invited to stand in front of the machine and the tailor muttered some instructions to the crop-haired lad, who answered in guttural tones and with words Graham did not recognise.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Incontinently a mass of cloudy uneasiness, that had been partly dispelled during the day, reappeared and concentrated rapidly into definite suspicion.

    The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

  • Incontinently he was flying head over heels through the air at the rate of dozens of miles a minute.

    The Man Who Could Work Miracles Herbert George 2003

  • The sow has Most Incontinently farrowed in the pantry.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • Incontinently did the good men dispeed themselves of the Cid, and they went into the city, and gathered together a great posse of armed men, and went to the place where

    Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Various

  • Incontinently he dropped his sword point, and with a shrug of the shoulders, said:

    Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

  • Incontinently the old woman tumbled backward down the steep steps, to land below on head and buttocks.

    The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

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