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  • Before the newspapers or the public could suitably protest, crowds of men were at work day and night in the business heart of the city, their flaring torches and resounding hammers making a fitful bedlamic world of that region; they were laying the first great cable loop and repairing the La Salle Street tunnel.

    The Titan 2004

  • Practically everyone had, and there were some moments of bedlamic confusion: they had not only objections but very strong ones at that.

    Seawitch MacLean, Alistair 1977

  • Before the newspapers or the public could suitably protest, crowds of men were at work day and night in the business heart of the city, their flaring torches and resounding hammers making a fitful bedlamic world of that region; they were laying the first great cable loop and repairing the La Salle Street tunnel.

    The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

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