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  • "Throck," I said, wasting no time in preliminaries.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • It was Dr. David Throckmartin -- "Throck" he was to me always, one of my oldest friends and, as well, a mind of the first water whose power and achievements were for me a constant inspiration as they were, I know, for scores other.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • It was Dr. David Throckmartin -- "Throck" he was to me always, one of my oldest friends and, as well, a mind of the first water whose power and achievements were for me a constant inspiration as they were, I know, for scores other.

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • "Throck," I said, wasting no time in preliminaries.

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • Continuing on with Mason & Dixon, I have followed the Durham lad Jeremiah Dixon into the local "Ale-Grotto of terrible Reputation" the Cudgel and Throck, where he is reluctantly drinking with his old teacher William Emerson and the Jesuit Fr.

    languagehat.com: MORE PYNCHONIAN VOCAB. 2005

  • Throckmartin — “Throck” he was to me always, one of my oldest friends and, as well, a mind of the first water whose power and achievements were for me a constant inspiration as they were, I know, for scores other.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Throck,” I said, wasting no time in preliminaries.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • When Christ was crucified the veil of the Temple was rent, and “the earth shook and the rocks were split; and the tombs were opened” (Matthew 27: 51; Throck - morton, pp. 154-55).

    MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

  • Throck, 'he went on half earnestly, half laughingly,' the purely scientific part of me is fighting the purely human part of me.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • Yet these were what in closest embrace lay on Throck-martin's face!

    The Moon Pool 1919

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