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On this account, whatever might have been the cause of the earthquake, whether volcanic or electrical, the movement assumed every possible direction vertical, horizontal, oscillatory, vorticose, and pulsatory; producing every variety of destruction. In one place, a city or house was thrown down, in another it was immersed.
But this does not measure the amount of oscillatory motion induced by the respective pulls. For this, both should operate against a spring. A small beetle can escape from under a piece of cardboard a hundred times its weight. Pushing its head under the edge and using it as a lever, it straightens itself on its legs and moves the board just a little, but enough to escape.
Old Jolyon spoke; it was he who had started the discussion. "Four hundred fiddlesticks! Don't tell me you gave four hundred for that?" Between the points of his collar Swithin's chin made the second painful oscillatory movement of the evening. "Four-hundred-pounds, of English money; not a farthing less. I don't regret it. It's not common English it's genuine modern Italian!"
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