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  • Its normally decorous sound had been turned up to an earpiercing clangor like that of a warship's tocsin, and that, Arrhae knew, was something H'daen would not normally tolerate.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • Its normally decorous sound had been turned up to an earpiercing clangor like that of a warship's tocsin, and that, Arrhae knew, was something H'daen would not normally tolerate.

    The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000

  • Identifying marks, small quarter-moon-shaped scar on the left earlobe caused by an infection from earpiercing, appendectomy scar; nail missing on the second digit of the right foot.

    Death on the River Walk Hart, Carolyn 1999

  • A woman customer, who'd been paying for her gas, let go an earpiercing scream.

    Fat Tuesday Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1997

  • Here the parrot broke forth into prolonged and earpiercing shriekings, flapping its wings violently and nearly tumbled backwards off its perch.

    The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891

  • Let's look at four recent games that should have become a party but ended with a earpiercing whistles and booing …

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts 2009

  • I’ve got a tattoo and an extra earpiercing…what does that say?

    Generation Gap | Mind on Fire 2007

  • Its normally decorous sound had been turned up to an earpiercing clangor like that of a warship’s tocsin, and that, Arrhae knew, was something H’daen would not normally tolerate.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Its normally decorous sound had been turned up to an earpiercing clangor like that of a warship’s tocsin, and that, Arrhae knew, was something H’daen would not normally tolerate.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Its normally decorous sound had been turned up to an earpiercing clangor like that of a warship’s tocsin, and that, Arrhae knew, was something H’daen would not normally tolerate.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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