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They both love to write in simple expressive Saxon; both love to touch their imagery in epithets rather than in formal similes; both have a delicate perception of rythmical movement, and thus Mr. Turner has occasional lines which, for phrase and music, might be ascribed to his brother ....
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There is generally a slightly flexible, rythmical movement of the arm and hand.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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The dense ranks of tribesmen were silent at last, and only the rythmical thud of hoofs sounded with a muffled beat against the soft shifting sand.
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It has been repeatedly pronounced inert, but is beyond all question a minor sedative of charmingly soothing properties, giving sleep, as I have sometimes witnessed, out of the very midst of intolerable rythmical neuralgic suffering -- in one case the first sleep the patient had enjoyed since leaving off opium.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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A rapid whirr due to the engines, and a rythmical clatter due to the relief valve on one of the port engine cylinders not being screwed down hard enough, and therefore lifting a little in its seat at each stroke, made the most of it.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
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As these regular rythmical pulsations recur the blood is forced forward through the heart into the head where it bathes the organs there.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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"It seemed to make them very happy, and appeared to be at least an innocent Christian dissipation ... the dusky figures moved in the rythmical barbaric dance the Negroes called a 'shout,' chanting, often harshly, but always in the most perfect time, some monotonous refrain."
The Religion of the American Negro Slave: His Attitude Toward Life and Death G. R. Wilson 1923
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The last named instrument is made by placing a board on a rice mortar; the women gather around it with their wooden pestles and beat a rythmical [sic] tattoo.
The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition Fay-Cooper Cole 1921
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Lastly, in the many beautiful passages of "Les Martyrs", or of his description of travels, he furnishes models of a magnificent prose style, full of color, rythmical, well-fitted to reproduce the most brilliant aspects of nature and to express the deepest emotions of the heart.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Then abruptly his voice fell, his muscles relaxed, he resumed the rythmical whetting with the stone.
The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909
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