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Definition of Quakes
1. quake [v] - See also: quake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quakes
Literary usage of Quakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology by Clarence Edward Dutton (1904)
"... Aleutians—On the Alaska and California Coasts—Tectonic Nature of the quakes
in those Regions—Southern and Central Mexico—Volcanic Nature of their quakes ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Terrible Earth-quakes and Tempests in China. N the Citie of Cantan in the middest
of the River which is of fresh water and very broad, is a little He, ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Terrible Earth-quakes and Tempests in China. [|N the Citie of Cantan in the
middest of the River which is of fresh water and very broad, is a little He, ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Terrible Earth-quakes and Tempests in China. PN the Citie of Cantan in the middest
of the River which is of fresh water and very ..."
5. Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest HENLEY (1901)
"EPILOGUE EPILOGUE INTO a land I Storm-wrought, a place of quakes, all
thunder-scarred, (Helpless, degraded, desolate, /Peace, the White Angel, comes. ..."
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