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  • The one exception is the use of the platoon early warning system (PEWS) which will replace the patrol seismatic intrusive device

    FM 44-48 Appendix B - Observation Techniques United States Army 1993

  • The fat man laughed, the ripples of his stomach being positively seismatic.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • Out sprang a tall officer from the open carriage, and in a second, it seemed, transferred the panic-stricken horsewoman from the seismatic saddle to the safety of his own seat and the ministrations of the two young women and the gray haired civilian who were the latest arrivals.

    Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Charles King 1888

  • He invented the thing which records the seismatic disturbances, for the peoples of the earth.

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) Mark Twain 1872

  • He invented the thing which records the seismatic disturbances, for the peoples of the earth.

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

  • The hills were quite destitute of timber, and were composed of huge masses of rifted granite, which could only have been so riven by seismatic action, which at one time must have been exceedingly frequent in this region.

    Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

  • Though a most romantic region, its toils and dangers legion, my memory oft besieging, what time cannot restore; again I hear the shocks of the shattering of the rocks, see the wallabies in flocks, all trembling at the roar, of the volcanic reverberations, or seismatic detonations, which peculiar sensations I wish to know no more.

    Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

  • Occasionally one would hear the metallic sounding clang, of some falling rock, smashing into the glen below, toppled from its eminence by some subterranean tremour or earthquake shock, and the vibrations of the seismatic waves would precipitate the rocks into different groups and shapes than they formerly possessed.

    Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

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