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Examples
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All the Sundays, you comprehend, upon the sands -- _poum poum!
Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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There was absolutely no sound, except the sound of the steamer's tiny engine -- poum-poum, poum! poum-poum, poum! like the faint tapping of a geisha's drum.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Gregory of Tours relates, that among the precious articles which Childeric fent to Tiberius Conftantine, emperor of the eaft, there was a gold bafon enriched with ftones, which weighed fifty poum During thefe tranfactions in Thuringia, the king of Paris revenged the infult ", and cruelties committed on his fifter by her hufhand Almaric*.
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