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A stillness, menaceful and brooding, weighted the landscape.
Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911
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Then for the third time was Hilary unable to reply, but the voice answered for him, in stern and menaceful tones: "Who can tell us that more certainly than Lucifer who fell from heaven?"
A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909
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In the strong light of the morning sun the shadow of that mountain is cast over the great sea of ocean further than a swift ship may sail with a fair wind in two days and two nights; and a man placed on the peak shall see that shadow suddenly rise up from the sea and stand over against the mountain, dark and menaceful, like the lost soul of a mountain bearing testimony against its body before the judgment-seat of
A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909
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