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  • The train wreck is modern in the sense of impressive digital imagery and bone-rattling sound, but it's also a classic genre device, a mysterious event witnessed—and, in this case, filmed—by kids who soon find themselves pursued by menacing forces.

    'Super 8': Old Format, Fresh Thrills Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • The response details an aggregation of long cold bone-rattling flights spent hanging half out of a bomber in a transparent egg full of panic and engine noise amid the flack and fighter fire and how in dreams he would spin in the egg spitting bullets ack ack ack until he shot the propeller off the plane he was in.

    History Channel stephen hastings-king 2012

  • COLUMBIA, Mo. — A monster winter storm took aim at a third of the nation Monday, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England, followed by a wave of bitter, bone-rattling cold that could affect tens of millions of people.

    Blizzard 2011: Monster Snow Storm Takes Aim At One-Third Of U.S. The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • And just as in the dream when he woke before he struck, the rope caught, strained against the anchor, his harness jerking him to a stop with a bone-rattling jolt.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • As thrilling as the games turned out to be, the NFL's championship weekend did produce one intense disappointment: The world won't get to see any more of San Francisco's bone-rattling defense.

    OK, Now That Was a Defense Reed Albergotti 2012

  • COLUMBIA, Mo. — A monster winter storm took aim at a third of the nation Monday, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England, followed by a wave of bitter, bone-rattling cold that could affect tens of millions of people.

    Blizzard 2011: Monster Snow Storm Takes Aim At One-Third Of U.S. The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • And just as in the dream when he woke before he struck, the rope caught, strained against the anchor, his harness jerking him to a stop with a bone-rattling jolt.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • In New Jersey, meanwhile, the winter has brought forth one horrific blizzard after another, with pewter-shaded skies and bone-rattling winds.

    Which Situation Is a Winner? Jeff Pearlman 2011

  • United's first session of training camp this morning at Greenbelt Sportsplex, an indoor facility just outside the Beltway that shielded the club from the bone-rattling cold.

    D.C. United opens training camp Steve Goff 2011

  • The Steelers put a platoon of five big bodies on the line of scrimmage with two bone-rattling linebackers behind them, ceding to Tebow and his receivers the advantage of man-to-man coverage with only one deep safety available to avert disaster.

    How Tebow Beat the Steelers Reed Albergotti 2012

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