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Mr. WITLER'S "wocal wagaries" (as his son called them) when he _was_ roused, were something tremendous, earthquaky, appalling!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893 Various
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And that gave me an odd little earthquaky feeling in the neighborhood of the midriff, for I knew then that my secret had been no secret at all.
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912
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They are generally two stories high; for in an earthquaky country like this, where terra firma becomes terra shaky, the people are not encouraged to erect buildings twenty stories high, as in New York and Chicago.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics Oliver Optic 1859
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The last sound that readies our ears ere we doze off into forgetfulness, is the slow, lumbering, earthquaky advance of a huge outward-bound wagon.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Various 1836
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‘Certainly, sir — all ready — not too fast — legs shaky — head queer — round and round — earthquaky sort of feeling — very.’
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